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Term 49: May - August 2018 Term Forty-Nine: A Hoard of Trouble (Sept 2095 - June 2096)

 
 
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A set of paths link the Courtyard to almost every area of the Grounds. Walking upon these stone covered paths, lined with all sorts of trees is a lovely way to clear your mind after a long day of classes. This is a quiet area of the Grounds with the soft sound of leaves rustling in the wind or lightly crunching below your feet.

Take a walk with a friend, find an unoccupied bench to read a book, climb one of the many trees, smell the roses or play hide and seek in the thick vegetation. Be sure not to trample any of the flowers unless you personally want to hurt Mr. Baldvinsson’s feelings.

Doesn’t the air just seem fresher around here somehow?
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Julie Bellaire was considered a calm, collected source among her peers and by her teachers. She had been called mature, level-headed and intelligent more times than she could count- so why- why in merlin's name was she running toward danger rather than away? She was no messiah-complex Gryffindor, no bleeding heart Hufflepuff and no know-it-all Ravenclaw hell bent on recognition- no, it was worst than all of those. She was a slytherin, a Slytherin whose loyalty had sent her dashing through the castle in search of loved before they were ripped apart.

She had already been accosted, her attire (a special dress made for her Big Day™ and a pair of absolutely impossible to run in Gucci Slingbacks which she had abandoned) was dirty and ripped but she had emerged unscathed and was running back toward the castle from the other side when she saw the group.

Merlin, there was so many of them. Unearthly pale and horribly fast- they were heading for a group of three- two holding Beaters bats from what she could see in the dim night and there was another- Blonde and tall and- It was Derfael, definitely Derfael. She sped up, wand out as her feet moved with all the quickness years of running had gifted her.
The slytherin willed her legs faster, her mind racing- The shock had worn off now and only the terror was left behind, white hot and fueling her on- stupidly- Mairwen and Blaise would have been nothing but disappointed but she couldn't sit by, and she couldn't turn the other why, not when- Oh merlin, that was Abra, and Bel with the beater bats. She was close enough to see that now, but not enough to start firing spells-her aim was good but then she'd never casted while running like her life depended on it and couldn't risk missing and hitting one of her friends.

Faster. She thought, almost pleading. Faster.
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Derf was tempted to cast Lumos, to help illuminate the pathway a bit more...but he was also anxious about that giving away his precise location. Moonlight or not, he had a TINY bit of coverage where he was. And somewhere in the distance he heard a voice shouting a word that confirmed his fears.

But he hardly had time to linger on that when he heard more voices. His voice, and suddenly the Hufflepuff was spinning around on the spot and foolishly turning his back to the approaching horde. He was suddenly brought back to being that helpless first year, watching Simon and Abey pulled away by the Monster into the Portal, thinking they were as good as dead. And while Abey had asked him not to think of him as one of his fragile creatures, seeing the state his...well...his something was in right now made that rather impossible. This time, this time he wouldn't let Abey down. This time he would do everything he could to keep him safe.

Which of course meant he did something stupid to start.

"NO! TURN BACK!" he shouted, seeing not only Abey but Bel come into focus now as well. "IT'S NOT SAFE!"

Stating the obvious much there, Derfael?

And by this point he really should have just cast Lumos. His shouting was counterproductive to any sort of self preservation measures he had been previously taking. And maybe, just maybe he was hoping to draw more attention to himself....so his friends could get away.

"INFERI!"

Suddenly it all made sense. That BOOK had been missing for years now, the one on the Darkest of Dark Arts and that INCLUDED inferi and necromancy, surely. IT ALL HAD TO BE CONNECTED! IT WAS THAT AMERICAN SCHOOL USING THE SAME TACTICS AS THE 2014 WORLD CUP AND TRYING TO INTIMIDATE THEM WITH INFERI! THE TREASURE IN THE LAKE WAS A TRIGGER AND BUYING TIME AND THEY HAD ACTIVATED THE BIND RUNES BY REMOVING IT FROM THE LAKE AND THIS WAS THE GRAND MATER PLAN ALL ALONG!

Okay, that was an outlandish claim but he was beyond distraught right now.

IN ANY CASE! HE WAS GOING TO WRITE ANOTHER VERY HARSH AND COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS LETTER on his own letterhead again ABOUT HOGWARTS NOT TAKING THAT MISSING BOOK FROM THE RESTRICTED SECTION MORE SERIOUSLY!

"Make torches out of your bats!" he suggested a few seconds later as he scrambled closer to them.

BLAZE IT!

As much as it HURT to say that because...burning quidditch supplies and all. He barely heard the call from Skylar on the other side of the herd - though he couldn't really SEE her either and the gleam from the moonlight reflecting off some of the helmets made making out shapes generally difficult by default. But he did have his wand out already, at least, so she could say he was following instructions.

And then Julie was running in their direction as well, and he was tempted to shout at her to turn back too. He wasn't sure how many of the inferi there were and there was only a handful of them, students, so what could they hope to accomplish really? He was dodgey with his own spell work, let alone under pressure like this.

"Maybe we can slow them down....a flaming barricade or something..." ...and then retreat to the safety of the castle.

They were surrounded by...burnable things, after all.

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Walking the grounds and their many pathways after dark was a habit born from Celestia's days as a Gryffindor student here. She was always determined to seek adventure, and she had never been able to truly think closed up in the castle. With the end of term approaching fast, Celestia had a great deal of thoughts swirling around in her mind. Honestly, the loops that her thoughts followed were almost enough to make her start believing in wrackspurts.

She had been aimlessly wandering the grounds for at least a couple of hours by now and so she had no knowledge of the horrible events transpiring at the lake. In fact, the night seemed as ordinary as any could at Hogwarts -- until she smelled the decay. Good Merlin, had something died around here? It was completely, totally irrational -- surely creatures died on these grounds all the time -- but a sense of fear slid down her back, giving her the sensation that someone had dropped an ice cube down the back of her robes. Celestia took two more normal strides before she was running, running as fast as she could towards that smell -- just to be sure, just to soothe her own paranoia...

She was still a little ways away from the group of students (Derf, Abra, Bel) when she heard one of the boys scream out the word "inferi".

No. That wasn't possible. He couldn't be right; how in Merlin's name could Inferi get onto the grounds? As Celestia closed the distance between herself and the small group of students, however, the smell seemed to thicken the air. Soon she was right beside them, struggling not to pant too much, and feeling her eyes widen to the size of large dinner plates as she took in the rotting flesh; the Inferi seemed to have come straight out of one of her nightmares of old. The professor allowed her eyes to quickly rove over the scene, and she was able to see Julie approaching the group. She couldn't see Skylar from this vantage point, and hadn't arrived in time to hear the girl's shout.

Celestia drew her wand and moved to stand in front of Derf, Abra, and Bel. These evil things were not going to get these kids on her watch! "Wands at the ready, all of you!" she told them steadily. "Be ready to cast Incendio if they get by me..." She wondered if she would do better to send the students off to hide -- but where would they hide out in the open like this? The forest was never safe, and the castle... Surely the Inferi hadn't reached the castle.

The Transfiguration professor crouched in a defensive stance, still in front of the group of students, and prepared to conjure as much fire as she could muster once the Inferi were close enough.
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The skeletal figures move surprisingly fast, away from the fire and crowd of people, using the pathways of the school grounds to navigate further. Long corpse like fingers slowly curl around branches to move past them. The horde of bony creatures drag themselves through the vegetation with their already torn attire further shredding on the bushes. Some have their mouths gaping open, chins dropped down to their bony chest, all with white lifeless eyes and all moving in the same direction as they push on, seemingly unstoppable.

The silhouettes of what appears to be ancient Viking helmets are gradually more difficult to notice due to the night air settling around them. A revolting stench linger around them as they move forward, away from the fire, light and resistance by the lake and towards the cold, dark safety of the pathways.

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Humans. The gaunt creatures slows for a moment as big, white eyes take in the scene. For a few seconds there is silence as they come to a stop. Then slowly they move sideways, spreading out as more of them join behind them. Wands are pointed towards them, but no further threat yet. One of the creatures tilt its head, the neck letting out a disgusting cracking sound.

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Quinn stopped and turned back to look at Rylee just a moment. "Nothing would have happened to Reese if I didn't tell him I was running away. Only me." Reese would have gotten over it eventually, and he and Rylee would be together and Rylee wouldn't hate her.

She glanced back down the path in the direction she had started, then sighed and sat down. "Look, I'm sorry, okay. It's just when things get..." Quinn's voice trailed off in a strangled noise. She was no longer looking at Rylee, but behind her. "In....In..."

It was a little bit of fear keeping the word from getting out, but more the shock and surprise of seeing the undead invade the school. "Rylee, move! Inferi!" In a flash, her wand was in her hand, but....what spells are effective against inferi?
"Nothing wou-" Rylee frowned ever so slightly. Did Quinn not realize how upset and angry Reese would have been had she run away and not told him? Nothing good would've come from that. Shaking her head she looked at Quinn. "Well don't go doing that, okay?" Even if she was upset about it all she didn't want anything bad to happen should Quinn go running off on her own.

Once again there was another 'I'm sorry' being given. She knew she was and was more than ready to wave it off again when the look on Quinn's face showed something wasn't right. Why was she stammering like that? Rylee blinked in confusion. "In- what? What's the matter?"

Move? Why was she being told to move?! The second years brain focused on that for a split second longer than necessary before Quinn's shouting of 'Inferi' broke through her thoughts.

Wait. WHAT?!

"Inferi?" Looking over her shoulder wondering for half a second if somehow this could be a joke, Rylee was on her feet in an instant. Her eyes widened in shock and fear at the undead decending upon them. Pulling her wand from her robes she moved to stand just in front of Quinn, friends or not it didn't matter. She was older and protecting Quinn was what she was going to do even if she herself was terrified.

Everything seemed to be happening at once. Her violin was left in it's case on the bench, her wand raised and aimed at the Inferi, hand shaking slightly as she tried to think of spells that would work. What would work?! What was strong enough?!

"Fire! Quinn cast incendo! Inferi hate warmth!" Yes! She had read about this before somewhere when reading about different creatures and dark creatures and the like. After what happened with the Grindylow she had wanted to learn how to defend herself.

Wand hand still shaking she took a small step back. "Incendo!" she cast as confidently as possibly aiming at the Inferi coming their way. Though she could hear shouts coming from somewhere down the Pathway she wasn't able to see who else was around or if they were being surrounded as well and honestly her focus had to be in the here and now.
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It was all happening very fast. Too fast. One moment, he and Bel had been meandering their way in the general direction of the broomshed to return their bats and the next: an Inferi horde. Coming straight at them.

"N-no," he squeaked out again, this time in response to Bel's question. While not a Brit himself, he was fairly sure this situation was closer to genuine mortal peril than it was quirky British behaviour. He shot a glance across at Bel, swallowed a lump in his throat, and raised his own beaters bat, holding it tightly in a white-knuckle grip as he drew his wand with his other hand.

There was more yelling, this time from the figure nearby, and naturally Abra finally recognised who it was. There was, however, no time for awkward Derf feelings or angst or any of it. Now he just wanted to hug him, make sure he was unharmed, but there wasn't time for that either. Actually, there wasn't any time for anything at all, because a lot was happening, and very, very quickly.

Derf talking, the sounds of footfalls - Julie's, but Abra was still stood transfixed, and so did not see her - yells from all directions, another figure - Professor Grimsbane - putting herself between them and the undead army. And then, only moments after he himself had come to a standstill, he saw the Inferi stop dead (pun incredibly unintended), the moonlight striking down through the trees and dappling them in a way that made them look even more grotesque. Abra, heart hammering wildly in his chest, hardly dared to breathe as he stared at the Inferi and the Inferi stared at them...

... and then-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" He couldn't help it, a scream escaped his lips without his exact say-so, as the horde rushed at them, terrifyingly fast. Abra could see them even in his periphery, advancing from all angles; he spun around in an about-face and brandished both wand and bat at the outstretched arms closing in around them. "Incendio!"
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Wands at the ready? Set the beater bats on fire? How about none of the above because Bel didn't actually have her wand with her? She registered familiar faces; friends, peers, professor, little kids, and not so familiar faces; inferi, but Bel wasn't really processing much else. People were talking all at once, and also, there were inferi.

She did heft the bat though, as Inferi can at them, and swung hard at the head of the first one to come in range of her.

Inferi heads were probably more like rotten melons than iron bludgers, right?
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The Hufflepuff did not even register that the Transfiguration professor had joined them for in the next moment the inferi were moving...SURROUNDING them. His feet moving on their own accord, Derf flung himself towards his friends just as Abey started firing off Incendio and just barely managed to avoid the swing of his bat too.

Sorry professor...they weren't going to wait to cast Incendio. Not that Derf had even heard the instruction to begin with.

"INCENDIO!" he commanded, shooting off a jet of flame to the approaching corpses in front of him as he spun so his back was half pressed to Abey's and quickly glanced around to make sure Bel was close by in a loose back-to-back formation so they could defend one another.

"JULIE!" Derf shouted, seeing the creatures encroaching around her and reaching his hand out for her to yank her closer to the group.

His veins were bulging in his arms and neck as tension filled his body. Breathing rapid and shallow which caused him to feel a bit lightheaded. Teeth grit like a rabid dog (throwback to you, Mr. Charms professor!) with trembling hands as he gripped his wand tightly and sent off another Incendio towards more approaching bodies. His heart, the way it thumped in his chest like a wild stallion, thankfully drowned out the heinous noises - the creaking limbs, the screeches, the breaking of bones - as everything around him seemed to be moving in fast forward yet at a standstill at the same time.

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Celestia's heart seemed to be pounding at almost triple its normal rate; she could feel the thumping in her throat as the icy sensation that had started down her back seemed to spread throughout her body.

The seconds seemed to both slog along at a terribly slow pace and yet time was passing too quickly. She thought that she could hear girls' voices shouting (Rylee and Quinn) nearby, but she couldn't tell how close the girls actually were to the rest of the group. She fervently hoped that they were far enough to simply run away.

For Celestia had already regretted not shouting at the students behind her to run themselves as the Inferi spread out and surrounded their little group faster than she had expected. The professor didn't waste another second on her thoughts, but neither did she cast her spells aloud. She simply brandished her wand at the nearest two Inferi like a whip and a stream of flames spread from her wand tip in the shape of a rope that she attempted to coil around both of the Inferi at once. Her intention was to bind them together so that they'd burn together.

Abra's scream caused Celestia to do something rather foolish; she whipped around, briefly facing only the students, to see if he'd been injured or if some new horror had come up on his side of the group. By the time she was turned in his direction, however, the Gryffindor was already casting Incendio and Celestia could release the breath that she hadn't even realized she'd been holding.

She spun back around to face the front and cast a nonverbal Incendio at more approaching Inferi. Good Merlin, there were so many of them! She was at a loss for how to get them out of this, except to keep burning the wretched things and hope that the fire would attract help from her coworkers. Surely this was the only place on the grounds that the Inferi had assembled.

Celestia turned her back to the Inferi once again as Derfael shouted out Julie's name -- but she didn't look hurt, the Hufflepuff seemed to already be drawing the girl closer to the rest of the group. Good. As she was assessing this situation, though, her eyes landed on Bel's beater bat and she noted the lack of a wand in the Hufflepuff girl's hands. Cursing Merlin's pants under her breath, Celestia swiveled to face the Inferi still marching toward her and fire off several more Incendio's in their direction. At the same time, she groped in her robes with her left hand for something she could use until finally, her sweaty hand grasped a hair pin. The professor wasted no time in pulling it out and Transfiguring it into a flaming torch like the ones that adorned the walls of Hogwarts Castle. Celestia carefully turned her body sideways so that her wand arm was still spewing flames in the Inferi's direction, while the newly formed torch was outstretched in her other arm -- she was careful to avoid letting the flames snare students' robes or hair from behind as she called loudly, "Bel! Take this!"

She was allowing her attention to waver dangerously, but there was really no choice. These students were her responsibility and it would be a miracle if one of them survived without any fire at all. She refused to consider the possibility that they wouldn't survive this night even with fire as she held the torch out to Bel.
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They were everywhere. an actual horde of wicked, hungry teeth, clawing, rotting fingers and lightning quick limbs- all the better to-

She gagged, the stench of death and decay overwhelming her as the Inferi tightened their ranks at an alarming rate, closing them in like pigs to a- no- Her eyes shot to Abra as his scream rent the air sending a chill harsh as an arctic wind through her, she hurried on, trying to focus on her dirt covered feet hitting the ground again and again and not the monsters just behind her- she daren't look- That would be all it took0 one look- one second of distraction and it would all be over.

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"Derf-" She cried out in relief, her hand clasping tight around his as she practically flung herself into their midst. Julie's calves burned, begging for a rest even as she sharply turned on her heel to face their threat.

"INCENDIO." Julie shouted out, her instincts taking over- Blood boiling, she lips curved in a grimace of twisted fear and anger. Knuckles white, the Slytherin's grip was tight around her wand, but tighter still around Derfael's hand, apparently her hand had no intention of leaving his anytime soon. They needed more people- they were outnumbered by a figure Julie didn't want to count. Where was everyone? Where was the headmistress and how in merlin's name had the Inferi gotten past the wards-

"There's too many of them-" She called out to Grimsbane, not taking her eyes off the creatures before them.
"We need help." and now, like right now. "Send a patronus- sparks- SOMETHING-" now before things got worst- because it could get worst.

Were she not completely terrified and in full on survival mood Julie might have felt some admiration for Bel's calm aura- but she was, as mentioned before, too terrified to notice.
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The Inferi's numbers were practically suffocating. Celestia knew that but the reality had taken a while to sink in. Only Julie's voice penetrated the fog of fear and guilt invading her brain. Sparks were useless; these flames would be sure to attract anyone near enough to see sparks.

But a Patronus... Yes, why hadn't she sent hers out immediately? Inwardly berating herself for her own stupidity, Celestia wasted no more time. As soon as she sent another rope of fire speeding towards yet more Inferi in front of her, she took a deep breath -- and almost choked on the stench coming from the nasty things. Fortunately, it had been a long time since Celestia had needed her voice to cast this spell: Expecto Patronum!, she thought desperately as she envisioned a happy end-of-term feast becoming a reality.

A silver, ghostly Jack Terrier dog shot out of Celestia's wand and raced for the castle as though it had wings. The professor hoped that someone would answer it NOW, all the while still holding out her burning torch to Bel.
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She frowned and whipped her head around at the general direction the sound had come from and as she started heading that way a dog-ghost appeared.

She shook her head because she didn't think there were dog ghosts at Hogwarts - or anywhere else, for that matter - and blinked at the thing, realising it was a Patronus. Well, duh. Of course it was. And the message sounded just as horrified as the scream she had heard just a few seconds ago.

The third year wondered for a fraction of a second if any of this was real, but her impulsive nature got the best of her and she had pulled out her wand and was running outside before she could think twice.

The screams and shouting were getting louder as she rushed towards the pathways and suddenly the stench reached her before she could see what was happening. She slowed down for a moment, honestly thinking she was going to vomit, but now the heat of so many fire spells being cast made her heart race as if she had just ran a thousand miles.

Good Merlin, it was all real and it was far from looking like it was some DADA lesson. She finally got close enough to see Inferi - ACTUAL INFERI, WHAT - surrounding a group of people who were mostly shooting Incendio at them.

"Merlin..!" She said under her breath, gripping her wand tight as several thoughts crossed her mind. Surely no one would die, they were at Hogwarts. Right? Right??? Dying was something old people did, not young people like them. They could fight those things, surely!??

Pointing her wand towards the group, Anna had to stop herself from casting Incendio from the outside of the circle. If her spell hit any of the living people that would be terrible and the last thing she wanted was to accidentally hurt someone while trying to help.

Biting her lip, she moved to the side trying to find a better angle to shoot spells directly at the awful creatures and them alone. The fact some of the Inferi were so close to her peers was unsettling, and before she could find the perfect angle - if there was such a thing in that situation - Anna found herself sending Knockback Jinxes at the Inferi closest to the group.
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The rest of them keep on coming. Several Inferi surround the adult human, grabbing her from behind. Once they take her out, disposing of the children will be too easy! The other creatures round on the smaller humans, grabbing arms, legs, and any other body arts they can get their cold clammy hands on to drag them down.

The wandless girl's bat collides with the side of one creature's head, shattering bone and esposing the innards beneath. The walking corpse feels no pain from the blow, only anger. It blinks, its white lifeless eyes turning to her as it grabs her by the neck. Any last words, humans?
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It was, Bel distantly thought, a bit like during a Quidditch match when there were so many things happening in the one moment that you really needed to be quick to keep on top of things. Except, you know, less reanimated corpses in Quidditch.

FOR the record, smashed inferi heads were disgusting. DISGUSTING. But it was nothing compared to the feeling of dead fingers around her neck, just as she was reaching for that torch, too. So instead of grabbing the torch from the professor she had no choice but to grab the arm of the inferi and try to pull its relentless grip away from her throat. Thankfully she'd not lost her grip on the beaters bat when it had splintered through the inferi's head.

Desperately, she brought the bat down on the inferi's other arm as hard as she could, every bit of strength she had, though that grip... on her throat... she couldn't even muster a scream.
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Charlie was more than excited to get out that day, considering that he'd kept his promise to do all of his homework and reward himself with a plate of freshly baked cookies, and a relaxed fly through around Hogwarts. But just like any good plan, there was always some sort of setback bound to happen. For Charlie, he ran out of polish for his broom. His beloved broom. One of the brooms in their team that brought them victory (!!!). With his broom on his shoulder, he'd checked out the Common Room for his team to see if they can spare him their leftover polish. He wasn't surprised when none of them were lounging about inside. He then went for the Great Hall, only to be met by a (cute) Patronus along the way asking for...

SAY WHAT NOW?!

Charlie could feel his stomach turn, as he approached the nearest window and pressed his face against it. No...it...just...was not possible. HOW?! From the inside, young and older students filtered in and out of the hallways with either sheer determination or pure panic. Charlie somehow felt trapped as he watched them helplessly, not having the slightest idea on what to do. He wasn't really good academically and all he knew really was how to fly on a broom and look good while doing it. Heh.

And then came the screams. That made the Hufflepuff jump back from the window and look around him wildly. He knew he had to do something. Something...with his broom? More shouting was heard, and it was the last trigger he needed to finally move and think of a plan: if he can't fight on the ground, he will have to fly above them to have the higher ground. Literally. And what better way to set those smelly creatures ablaze? Liquid chemical or potion that is highly flammable. The only muggle thing he could think of was rubbing alcohol, but just like your typical magical school, that wasn't readily available. Charlie switched to his no-maj ways, and headed straight for the Broom Cupboard with his own broom and looked for the liquid cleaning supplies and solutions. Charlie was sure it was the right kind of chemicals he was looking for to get the job done. Once he collected them in an empty pail, Charlie got his broom and had the pail full of flammable supplies hang on the handle, and flew out of the Castle in haste.

Charlie didn't know what to expect really, but he felt his Badger rage grow twice inside his chest when he saw his friends and professor surrounded by the Inferi. "NOT MY FRIENDS YOU FWOOPING CREATURES!" Charlie could see the beat up Inferi that was now holding Bel, and he did a quick swing of his broom, thwacking the Inferi's head so hard with the intent of fully dislodging it. That wasn't going to do much, maybe, but he wanted Bel to keep on hammering that arm. As much as he wanted to put it out with fire, his Captain will only be subjected to more danger if he did. Pulling up way above the Inferi's reach, Charlie began to douse their enemies with the liquid he brought from the Castle and threw the empty bottles at their heads.

"NOW! FIRE! GO GO GO!"

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They were surrounded. Inferi were everywhere.

Abra couldn't be entirely sure exactly how many people were in the group he had found himself in, or who exactly was there, and he definitely didn't have a clue of who was out beyond the wall Inferi. He was sort of, you know, too busy swinging his bat and waving his wand to really think about anything else, acting on autopilot and really taking advantage of that fight-or-flight response. "Incendio!"

Except that, actually, there was one thing that kept pushing its way into the forefront of his mind, and that was that - for the second time in his life - he now felt absolutely certain that this was it. This was the end. There was no getting out of this situation, and they were surely about to die. He didn't let up his casting or his hitting, but the thought was persistent and familiar, and it scared him worse than anything. He didn't want to die, and he wouldn't go down without fighting, but this... this was surely it. They were overwhelmed.

Hands. Dead, slimy, festering hands, grabbing at them, trying to pull them down. If he wasn't running totally on adrenaline, he would have probably puked from both fear and disgust.

Whatever was happening with those behind him, Abra didn't know, and he didn't dare turn his back on the Inferi in front of him long enough to find out. As such, he completely missed Professor Grimsbane's situation, and only managed to catch sight of Bel's predicament by the light of one of his fire spells purely because she was stood right beside him. Panic flooded through him like ice in his veins, and he raised his wand at the Inferius, automatically yelling, "INCENDIO!" even as Bel herself smacked at its arm and someone or something hit it from... above?

No time. No time to look, no time to think, no time to do anything but fight.
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The irony of all this was that he was going to lose a limb to Julie and her grip. Though the adrenaline pumping through his veins hardly even made him aware of the dull throb her hand around his was producing. And, honestly, even if he could feel it right now he wouldn't tell her to stop. So instead his fingers which would have preferred to have been around Abey's curled around hers and he reciprocated the gesture - always wanting to provide some sort of comfort where he could.

The thing about his galloping heart drowning out all other noise was that Derf did not even hear the sound of his chocolate frog collecting companion join the fray - or notice that he had approached from the air because his bright blues were far to fixated on what was happening right in front of him. Nor had he noticed the appearance of a younger Gryffindor. What he DID notice, since he was standing right next to her, was an inferi make a grab for Bel's throat. "GERUFHAR!" he grunted, willing to throw HIMSELF at the inferius to knock it off balance - but that would mean dragging Julie with him and he had enough sense not to do that - but instead flourished his wand at that arm Bel was hacking at. "Diffindo!" he commanded - surely between Bel's hacking, Abey's Incendio, and a Severing Charm...

But then Derf's attention was drawn towards Professor Grimsbane and the inferi GRABBING her. Not one inferius...but INFERI.

"PROFESSOR!" Derf screamed, his hand clenched around Julie's and somewhat frozen in place beside Abey and Bel. They were going to watch her get torn apart....right in front of their eyes...and he couldn't cast Incendio at the inferi without risking hitting the Transfiguration professor...and maybe killing her himself? So instead, Derf just froze - almost brought back to that toddler version of himself who had stood by and helplessly watch his mum's flesh eater massacre the family dog right before his naive bright blue eyes.

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A blur- of light, and bodies, silvery terrier and hideous teeth, Screams and shouts, and the heat of growing flames- Julie screamed, just narrowly escaping the grasp of an Inferius much too close for her liking. She brandished her wand like a whip, her mouth a tight, unmoving line as a shot of blue flame headed for her attacker.

If you had told the slytherin six months ago she would be on the grounds fighting a horde of the undead she would have laughed you off, because yeah- sure, a lot happened here but nothing happened to her. She was lucky, too lucky to have been apart of any major disaster and yet- And yet here she was, right in the thick of it. She wanted to cry- to scream until her lungs shriveled up and jumped out of her throat- and she wanted her brother- and bentley- but most of all she wanted to wake up on her seventeenth birthday marveling at how realistic and mental her dream had been.

They needed something bigger- a bigger spell, a bigger group- fiendfyre- no- her mind crashed right there and then as her eyes alighted on the terror unfolding before her.

it was thanks to anna's spellwork- the flashing light of the knockback jinx had distracted her and sending her attention to- Grimsbane surrounded, being dragged full body by a vicious group of corpses-and- Bel-

"NO-" She yelled out, torn for over which direction to take- Bel- or Grimsbane- Both situations were direr- both were seconds away from death's door- But then, from out of the clear blue sky reinforcements in the shape of a boy on a broom with a bucket (she would think about that fact later) and dived in just in the knick of it-

Things were too perilous for a cheer, but with relief and adrenaline running through her veins Julie released Derf's comforting hand and made a rush for the Professor. "Arresto Momentum-" she shouted, putting every bit of her will power and magical strength into the spell as she aimed for the crowd who'd seized the Professor. She daren't risk a more offensive approach- least she hurt Grimsbane in the process of saving the older witch. Julie only prayed it would take full effect long enough to wrench her from the corpse's grasp.

at the very least, Derfael's fingers were now safe.
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The fires, the never-ending stench of rot that clogged her nose, and the screams that would be sure to haunt her dreams for years to come (if she survived this) had thrown Celestia into a state of confusion. Like for many of her students, her world had narrowed to attempting to set as many Inferi on fire as possible. She needed to get these kids somewhere safe. They were being overrun, this was too much for their small group; she had to do something NOW. She could hear voices shouting out incantations from outside of their little group, but that had honestly become background noise because she needed to figure out how to surround them all with flame without burning any kids when she wasn't even sure what everyone's positions were and---

As the rotting arms of an Inferius grabbed her from behind with a shockingly hard grip, Celestia couldn't help letting out a small yelp of shock and fear. Only seconds later, she was completely surrounded and from the students' screaming, someone else in their group was in trouble too. The torch that Celestia still clutched in her outstretched hand flew at the Inferius's face that was standing directly across from her, but most of her attention went to firing off Knockback jinxes at the Inferi around her. The problem was that she wasn't quite thinking straight. All she could think about was the putrid scent and the horrific sights that had suddenly become her world. She wasn't even aiming her wand too well because she was fighting, kicking, and generally struggling against the Inferius that held her -- though she'd kick any of the other Inferi who came within range of her foot.

She knew that these struggles were futile, but even as visions of her own death flashed before her eyes, Celestia's terror didn't ratchet up into blind, all-consuming panic until she heard Derfael's shout. Was he shouting because she was surrounded, or was he shouting out a desperate plea for her help? The fact that the first scenario was most likely didn't penetrate the fog of panic that had suddenly filled the professor's mind. Some sort of animalistic instincts took over as she redoubled her efforts to get away. She didn't even notice Julie's shouted incantation, or Charlie's shouts from above; they simply didn't register in her mind. She had to get away. She HAD to.

She didn't want to die like this. She didn't want ANYONE to die like this.
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If Charlie was going to be really honest, he'd simply flee out of the scene and cry in a corner. But thankfully, that Badger rage inside him continued to grow as his friends and schoolmates struggled to free themselves. He knew he had to think faster and smarter as he hovered above the group.

He'd seen Grimsbane's attempt at knocking back an Inferi, and that gave him an idea. Charlie circled around the group, and aimed at the creatures who attempted to grab on one of the students, and pushed them back with a knockback jinx and a banishing spell. "FLIPENDO! DEPULSO!" his mind switched to Quidditch mode where he thought of his spell as his quaffle, and the Inferi as his goal post. He knew that was the only way to align his spell perfectly. Another fly around was made, aiming at the creatures who haven't managed to grab a victim yet, and severed their arms. That was the only way he could think of to stop the Inferis from immobilizing his friends. "DIFFINDO!"

Charlie was relentless at this point, flying around the group, out of the Inferi's reach and peppered them with the knockback jinx, and severed their limbs along the way. That should somehow stall the hoard to allow his friends to manage those that got into their tight circle.
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Anna was distracted from her Knockback Jinx casting when someone zoomed from the Castle towards the group surrounded by Inferi in a broom. That was a brilliant idea and she wished she had HER broom there with her so she could get closer to the chaos without being in danger.

The person was flying so fast and so high up that she couldn't exactly tell who it was, though the flight technique proved it was probably a fellow Quidditch player and she couldn't help but feel proud of the sport and what fellow players could do with their abilities.

If only she knew other of her fellow players were some of the ones fighting for their lives at the moment, but she was still pretty far away to see who exactly those in the group were. The Gryffindor realised her Jinxes weren't being as effective as she'd hoped, so she held her breath and actually debated whether acting Gryffindor-like and dashing off towards the group was the best decision at that moment.

It seemed like a lost cause. The group was definitely being overtaken and some of the living seemed to be going down or pretty near so. Still holding her breath, the third year hesitated for a second before running their way.

Ugh, death wish, ugh ugh ugh. But it was the right thing to do, she knew it in her bones. Ollie was definitely out there fighting too, and had Matt been there he would be in the thick of it as well, she was sure. She couldn't stay out just because she was afraid. Knowing her brothers, they probably wouldn't be afraid were they in her shoes - little did she know, though - but Anna was, in fact, terrified. All the thoughts rushing through her mind as she ran towards the Inferi and the outnumbered group of living people made her question her decision even more, but she tried to keep the image of her own brothers fighting for their lives and the lives of their friends vividly in her mind.

She was a Meriwether TOO and would make their name proud TOO!

The adrenaline rush in her was so intense that when she was a lot closer to the chaos all she could do was raise her wand RIGHT AT THE CLOSEST INFERI AND NOT TOWARDS ANY OF THE LIVING PEOPLE and struggle to catch her breath because of the awful smell. She was still outside the circle and had ZERO intentions on getting in the actual midst of it, but still. SHE WAS THERE. MERLIN. "EXPULSO!" She yelled the first spell that came to her mind that would cause the Dark Creatures to stay AWAY from her and, with any luck, push many of them back as far and hard as possible. Hopefully cause some of the Inferi to explore as well, that would be useful.

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The wandless girl's pulling does nothing to loosen the rotting corpse's grip on her neck. With a sicking CRUNCH, the bat shatters bone, and the lower half of its other arm falls limply to the ground. The angry creature's good arm clutches tighter and tighter, intending to choke the life out of the human until...

What the-? The inferius's head is knocked clean off by something whizzing by, falling with a dull thud, but its gripping arm is still intact, for now. Without its sight, the creature cannot hope to avoid the severing charm thrown at it; its remaining arm finally relaxes its grip on the wandless one as it detaches. Now headless and mostly armless, the Inferius staggers blindly, narrowly missing the fire spells aimed. It swings its bony stump of an arm in the direction of human voices. It's not giving up the fight that easily!

Several Inferi jump and grab at the boy on the broom, but he's too high to reach. Their sharp, decaying teeth gnash in frustration. They shake as a strange liquid is poured over them, splashing drops onto the humans. The group surrounding the adult move in too fast to be hit by the small human's (Julie) spell. One of the adult's kicks lands on an Inferius's spine, chopping it in half. The top half remains attached to her, arms wrapped firmly around her neck. Its head turns with a crackle of bone, white lifeless eyes staring into hers, and lets out a ferocious cry.

Some of the knockback jinxes fired hit their target, blasting a few Inferi backward in a tangle of bones... but only for a moment. The creatures blink in a daze as they hobble forward again, some missing arms and legs but angrier than ever. Seeing an easy target, several of them round on the frozen boy (Derf) and tackle him to the ground. Surely this one won't put up too much of a fight...
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All at once, the combined effort of everyone - or almost everyone, as his own fire spells somehow managed to miss their mark - helped to take down the Inferius that had its grip on Bel. Abra wanted nothing more than to check she was okay after that ordeal, but the BIG ordeal - the whole swarm thing - was still going on, and it was all he could do to try and keep the rest of the horde from coming any closer. "Incendio! INCENDIO!"

There was something splashing him, he realised, but Abra wasn't entirely sure if it was water or some kind of... corpse fluid. The very idea actually made him gag, halfway through a spell, a spell that he never actually finished. "Incen-..."

Never finished, because Derf's shout had alerted Abra, and he span on the spot to see Professor Grimsbane's predicament at last. Eyes wide, he raised his wand and was about to join Julie in her attempts to help the Transfiguration professor, when sudden movement in Derf's vicinity drew his attention to the Hufflepuff again.

"DERF!" Abra screamed, his voice breaking as he desperately screeched his best friend's name. At once, he turned his wand on the Inferi around Derfael, and yelled, "RELASHIO!" before throwing caution to the wind. He dove forward, grabbing at Inferi and firing more Revulsion Jinxes, fully intending to try and physically haul them off of his Hufflepuff before he could be overwhelmed.
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The sounds surrounding her, the spells shooting by, and the movements of her friends- It was like someone had hit the pause button. Julie screamed, furious as her spell completely missed the horde of inferi around Grimsbane. No no no no no no no-

It was Abra's scream which brought her back, pulling her from her B.S.O.D moment and making the witch whip her head to a sight which chilled her to the bone. "Broomstick- Help Derfael-" She cried out to the boy with the bucket as she jabbed her wand f frantically, sending a huge rain of arrows to the Inferi still attacking the Transfiguration Professor.

"Bel- Quick, come here-" Julie shouted, reaching her hand out for the hufflepuff- Guilt and fear gnawing at her from the inside out. It was her fault- she shouldn't have left him- But Grimsbane- But she shouldn't have let go. Damn it all to hell, but he had just been standing there. Frozen, and she hadn't had time to think it through. H would be okay, he had to be. he Had to be.

She sent incendio, after incendio at the crowd around them, unwilling to let the creatures take more ground even as they lost what precious little they had.

Quicksand- Vines- They needed something to impede the creatures movements,. Her mind raced through options as qucikly as it could- Glisseo, no- Escarpa no, NO, they didn't need scarves-

"Glacius Tria!" She shouted with all her might, pointing at the feet of the Inferi who held tight to the professor. This time, she was much closer- possibly dangerously so but it would have to hit at least a few of them from this range- as the spell shot forth, Julie made a silent plea to any and all Gods who would listen.

Please- please-
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Her surroundings were becoming nothing more than a blurred din of noise as she struggled to physically connect with as many Inferi body parts as she could. Celestia couldn't tell what was going on, really. She heard the kids shouting but the noise sounded as though it was coming from far away. She blinked some [s]tears[/i] nervous sweat out of her eyes, but that didn't seem to help much with the black spots that were blocking out chunks of what she should be seeing.

Everything in her body felt cold, and she only hoped to Circe that all of the kids were still okay. Bel didn't even have a wand...

The professor's thoughts seemed to be coming to her in a strange order, making her situation more and more confusing. Dimly -- in the back of her mind -- she knew that this was NOT a good sign, that she needed to do something. She was the adult here for Circe's sake! But she couldn't maneuver her wand too well with those corpses draped all over her. If only she could conjure fire wandlessly... She could live with some burns if it would get her free. Celestia released her grip on the Inferius that had such a stranglehold on her neck with her wand arm; her left arm was still pulling and struggling to get the thing off.

The next step in this plan was harder to carry out. She needed some kind of spell that would go around herself and make the Inferi let go... But what was it? The incantation danced on the tip of her tongue and seemed just out of reach to her frustrated, swirling thoughts.

Finally, finally, one of her kicks -- for she was still struggling like a maniac, almost instinctively -- connected with the Inferius that held her neck. She heard a sickening crack as its lower half fell away, and for a moment, hope penetrated her foggy mind like the sun on a cloudy day. But she had forgotten: Inferi could be hardy creatures and weren't deterred by lost body parts. The loss of its lower half was probably no more than an annoyance to the filthy creature.

This was confirmed in the worst way as the Inferius kept up its stranglehold on her neck -- only now she was what was keeping it in the air rather than its own legs. As the pressure of its hands seemed to increase, pain clouded Celestia's thoughts even further. She could feel blood dribbling down her neck in a sticky river. The thought that she was probably injured other places on her body and simply running on adrenaline flitted across her mind briefly, but it made no sense to the professor. And then...

Then Celestia heard another sickening crack, and suddenly the Inferius was looking directly into her eyes. Any remaining rational thoughts that had been swirling around her mind emptied out at the sight; her blood ran cold as the soulless, empty eyes bored into her brown eyes, and Celestia returned to using both hands to try and detach the thing's arms. Any thoughts of plans or spells had drifted away to make room for a fresh surge of panic. The thing let out a ferocious cry -- Celestia hadn't even known they could make noise, and she wished that she was still living with that ignorance -- and the witch managed a small, barely audible snarl back at the creature as she bared her teeth.
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