Chapter 8.2- Doom Days

 She was barely able to track it as it covered the space between her friend’s wan and his target in less time than it would have taken her to blink. The lighting bolt hit the Hellhound and forced it backwards, sending it skidding backwards at last a dozen feet. Just as her vision returned to normal, the smoke cleared up and the beast stood on all fours, shaking its head like it was clearing fogginess from its brain. That was the only effect it had from taking one of the most powerful spells she’d ever seen dead on. This time, even Harry joined in the run as the Hellhound got on its feet again and began moving.

The golem interspaced itself between the bast and its target but it only lasted for a quick second before it was sliced to bits. And then the hellhound was forced to change directions as the floor before it shifted into a sludgy mud. Several smaller dogs rose out from the mud, solidifying themselves in seconds and diving at the beast with abandon. The hell hound tore the first two to shreds with its claws before it perceived that it was surrounded and then took a deep breath in. When it breathed out, it summoned an actual inferno that left naught behind of the mud dogs. It was unable to return to the attack however, as a giant raven of all things dove down right at it.

This transfiguration, she could tell, was not Harry’s. Cedric was visibly directing the bird in its approach as it dodged out of the way of the Hellhound’s grasping claws and dove down again. This time, it lasted for naught a second longer than the second it started its dive as it was instantly incinerated by a blast of fire that stretched several feet long. Another blast of fire followed the first as the Hellhound swept the sky with flames as Cedric’s one incinerated bird had multiplied into dozens. That was an advanced use of the Gemini charm, she observed. Especially because the charm was linked to the bird’s destruction from what she could see.

She suddenly heard the sound of singing, and turned to Delacour who seemed to be dragging her wand from one direction to another in a seemingly random pattern that nevertheless seemed to be aesthetically pleasing. Harry’s mud rose from the ground and rushed towards the hellhound and this time, it was much slower as it breathed out a sea of flames that dried and caked the mud in seconds. The Beast took two acid green spells from Krum’s wand in quick succession and she gasped as it shook them off with a snarl that displayed teeth that looked as sharp as swords.

Delacour’s singing rose in pitch as the Hellhound began rushing forwards again. Cedric called forth another assortment of creatures, this time monkeys that ran across the ground in a scattered fashion while Krum sent spell after spell at the beast and Harry began weaving his own wand motions for a more complicated spell. The monkeys did not survive long as the Hellhound breathed out a massive gout of flames and then swept its head back and forth to ensure all of them got caught in the flames. It had stayed still to do so, and so both Harry’s and Krum’s hit it at the same time.

Harry’s spell was a mass of black shadow that seemed to constrict the beast in place. Krum’s lance of red energy seemed to sear the beast’s fur as it drilled into it.