Chapter 345: Against the Bad Old Man (Edited)

The roar of the huge tiger exploded in everyone's ears. Hermione, Ron, and others who had been in the stands heard this familiar roar, and their hearts suddenly clenched. Neville was even more startled, and then his feet went slack, he slid straight to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by an indescribable feeling of oppression, a large white tiger burst through the rain curtain and crashed into the group of Dementors like a meteorite before everyone's horrified eyes.

The white tiger moved through the group of dementors, and kept waving its two glowing red front paws, knocking down all the dementors in front of it like bludgers, and with its whip-like tail, crushing some of the unfortunate dementors and sending them crashing to the ground.

The Dementors let out terrified, deafening screams and, as if they had no intention of fighting the white tiger Fish became, floated away from the ground one after another, wanting to escape into the sky.

"Roar~!!!"

Fish let out another roar, his left paw smashed into the ground, splashing countless water and dirt, followed by a surge of earth, a large number of roots sprouted from the ground, like a monstrous python of various shapes, curling upwards from the ground and entangling the Dementors that had not yet flown high.

But the nature of the Dementors' bodies was such that they could "slip" through the gaps even when entangled in the roots.

It's just that the tattered black cloaks on them weren't so lucky, they were torn to shreds, revealing their disgusting bodies, many of them dented and twisted by the [Root Entanglement].

The Dementors didn't like the idea of their bodies being exposed outside of their black cloaks, but now was not the time to worry about that, as the group of naked monsters wanted to get away from the terrifying white tiger as soon as possible.

Seeing that the [Root Entanglement] hadn't worked, Fish lowered his body and leapt into the air, throwing himself at one of the Dementors before it could fly high enough, then opened his mouth wide, about to bite the opponent's neck.

At that moment, a silver light lunged at him from the side, and Fish stopped immediately, left the Dementor he lunged at and quickly dodged it to the side.

"Roar?"

(=?ω?=)

Fish was slightly puzzled when he saw the silver phoenix that had stopped in front of him, looking like Fawkes.

If he remembered correctly, that magical phoenix had just been summoned by Dumbledore, so why did he stop it?

Yes, unlike the time on the train, this time as a tiger, Fish kept his sanity.

He turned his eyes slightly to Dumbledore, behind the phoenix, only to see the mean old man staring at him with a serious grip on his wand.

Oh...

The kitten probably figured that maybe Dumbledore thought he had turned into a tiger and lost his mind, like last time, but....

What was the point of saving the Dementors?

The big cat cocked his head to one side, unable to understand why the old bad guy had done it.

In fact, Dumbledore was doing it because he didn't want Fish to get in trouble with the Ministry of Magic, just hurting the Dementors was fine, but reducing their numbers would make him look bad in front of Fudge.

Another thing was that he didn't want Fish to bite something as nasty as a Dementor, and Fish was about to bite the neck, which was close to the head, so if the Dementor took the opportunity to do a "Dementor Kiss", the cat would be in danger.

That's why Dumbledore anxiously controlled his Patronus and forced Fish away from the Dementor.

But as far as Fish was concerned, it was best not to dwell on things that made no sense, the cat wasn't going to dwell on such frivolous matters.

It's just that the Dementors have all fled to heaven because of the bad old man's intervention, which made the big cat very unhappy....

Nothing is going right today!

?(=`ω′=)?

Fish tapped the ground with his claws in irritation, managing to make Dumbledore and the others more nervous.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall had questioned several people about the incident in the carriage, without missing a single detail, so they had managed to take Fish's irritability as a sign that he was about to attack the others.

So Dumbledore decided to make the first move, raising his wand and delivering a stun spell on Fish.

Leaning to the side to avoid Dumbledore's red light, the big cat's pupils contracted sharply.

How dare you do that to Fish?

"Roarrrrrr~!!!"

(=`Д′=)

The angry big cat opened its mouth and roared loudly, using the spell it had awakened after turning into a big cat.

[Intimidating Roar: By roaring, it intimidates the enemy.]

When he transformed into a tiger, he automatically changed from [Animal Affinity] to [Animal Intimidation], and with this roar alone, the young wizards present had weak legs like Neville, and had to support each other to stand their ground.

Several of the professors were also slightly pale, and Snape came to feel the same sensation he had felt when facing Voldemort.

Only Dumbledore looked at the enraged Fish with an expressionless face and continued to wave his Elder Wand, firing spells at Fish and controlling the Patronus to lunge at Fish again.

Whether it was the [Moonlight Rain] that had put out the fire earlier, or the last time he had transformed into a white tiger on the train, he had simply blacked out and remembered nothing.

Dumbledore guessed that such a spell was beyond the kitten's current range, and that using it too much would probably be a burden to Fish himself.

So, for the safety of both the other students and Fish himself, he had to calm Fish down as soon as possible.

But he couldn't risk Hermione trying to stop him again, so he had to force him to calm down.

Fish didn't know what was going through Dumbledore's mind, all he knew was that the mean old man had not only stopped him from hitting the Dementors, but had cast a spell on him....

When it came to fighting, the cat had never been afraid of anyone.

"Roarrrrrr~!!!"

?(=`Д′=)?

A red light erupted from Fish's paws, knocking the spells and the silver Fawkes out of the way, before pouncing on Dumbledore.

Dumbledore waved his wand and created a dozen clay dolls to block the cat's path, just as he had done the last time he had fought Fish.

But unlike the palm-sized clay dolls, this time they were all over six feet tall and could be quickly assembled even if they were crushed by Fish's claws.

Are you the only one who can call a helper?

"Roarrr~!"

Fish immediately activated the [Summon Ally] spell, which he hadn't used since his awakening, and summoned the bewildered Fluffy from the Forbidden Forest.

Fish still remembered Professor McGonagall's warning and that there was not enough water, so he did not summon Uroboros and Kanaloa....

When Fish first used this spell, he actually failed, but as time went on, he gradually figured out how to use this spell.

And, as he spent more and more time with them, Fish could feel that it was getting easier and easier to summon these big guys, who were close to him, and he could summon them at longer distances.

The cat hadn't tested the distance, but he had no trouble summoning Kanaloa from the Black Lake in Hogsmeade.

"Roar~!"

"Woof~!" ×3

After a brief exchange of words, Fluffy and Fish, who had changed forms, were able to tear the clay puppets to pieces, as they could not recover as quickly as the two beasts could destroy them.

After finishing off the pesky clay puppets, the cat and dog pounced in unison on Dumbledore.

Fluffy didn't know the Hogwarts headmaster, he only knew Fish now, even Hagrid had to take a back seat.

After all, Hagrid had only had him for a year or so, and after the Philosopher's Stone incident, Fluffy had gone to the Forbidden Forest to rule himself.

So when Hagrid shouted at him from the stands, the three-headed dog, who had already changed his ways, ignored him.

Luckily, Dumbledore, the headmaster, was strong enough to restrain Fish and Fluffy, but even so, he was forced to use 'Apparition' to avoid the melee.

Of course, that had to do with the fact that he had been merciful.

But Dumbledore knew this was not the way to go, so....

He soon came up with a good idea.