Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi's head snapped around as another older Slytherin made her appearance. Still no Cookie Hater. That was good. "I don't know WHO started it," she shouted back over the roar of the flames. "Perhaps some of those ashwinder eggs thawed or something."

Did that really matter right now? Kurumi's thoughts were not exactly concerned with pointing the blame at someone. Especially when she had seen what she had just seen.

Before Kurumi could utter another word, she found herself being flung backwards again by an explosion that was at least ten times the power of the one from when her and Eino had opened the storeroom's door. Summersaulting a few times, Kurumi's head slammed against the wall and her vision became a bit blurry. She felt something wet trickle down the side of her head and her right arm throbbed even more.

Ash and dust were everywhere, making her already impaired vision even worse. She found comfort when Eino returned to her side. When her vision cleared and she saw one Eino standing next to her instead of six, she followed Eino's lead and removed her wand from its holster.

"EVERYONE! THIS IS NO TIME TO BE CHATTING ABOUT DRAG-- PROFESSOR LAFAY," she shouted, though her voice cracked here and there. "WE NEED TO FOCUS ON PUTTING THIS FIRE OUT!"

Had they not seen the explosion just take place?!

Nodding to Eino, Kurumi waved her wand. "Aguamenti!"

A steady stream of water erupted from her wand, but it didn't seem to have much effect. Panicking, she looked at Eino as her vision became more blurry and the throbbing in her head worsened. Her vision blurred once more, and she began coughing from all the breathing in of fumes and ash.

Reaching up, she felt the side of her head where the throbbing was worst and, when she brought her hand back down, noticed a deep crimson color.

Originally Posted by Starbreeze

Eino placed his hand around Kurumi's shoulder as he had before and tried to clear a way, but he couldn't figure out which way was the way out. He didn't visit these parts of the dungeon very often and the commotion was making confusing him further. He panicked, and his hand began to shake. He could barely hang onto his wand with his injured arm. He tried his hardest but he couldn't lift it, so he kept it pointed to the ground. "Aguamenti!" He shouted once again but a much weaker jet of water ejected now, barely sufficient to clear the way.

Still he could not see a clear way out of the dungeon. "I d-don't know where to go..." He told Kurumi with his voice breaking like he was about to cry. He had always wanted to be an adventure but this was really dangerous, more dangerous than he expected. He could barely see and he had inhale so much dust, ashes, and all the chemicals from the potion ingredients that he was coughing nonstop.

Just when he thought it couldn't get any worse, he felt something wet on his hand and when he looked at it he saw that it was Kurumi's blood. She had injured herself somewhere. "Help!" He shouted repeatedly. Was there no one there who could help them? Someone should go fetch a professor or something!