Chapter 239: Get away from them!
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Chapter 239: Get away from them!
Lyra tried to call for them but was unable to make a sound.
"Ginny! Be careful, there are three Death Eaters here!" Neville screamed.
"There!... Diffindo!" Ginny cut open a hole in the shrubbery wall. "Wait, what did he say?"
The three girls were now able to see Lyra lying on the ground and Neville staring at them. Behind them were three creepy individuals with black robes and white masks.
"I think he said Death Eaters," Luna commented casually.
"Dangerous…" Astoria narrowed her eyebrows.
"Now what?..." the first Death Eater asked.
"Let's just kill the boy at least," another one said.
"Let's kill them all!" the third one pointed his wand at the three girls. "Avada Kedavra!"
Ginny yelped in surprise and moved out of the way of the green curse. If it wasn't for all the dodging practice they did during Harry's lessons, she might not have reacted in time.
"Dismembra!" Luna was the first one to react and she used the most potent spell she knew. The one that Harry had recently taught her.
The Death Eater who shot the killing curse was hit on his right arm by a yellow light and immediately felt the effects of Luna's curse.
"What is happening to him?!" Neville exclaimed while staring at the masked man as he began to scream.
"What curse was that?!" one of his companions asked.
"Bloody hell! His arm!" the other one shouted as he saw his friend's arm coming off its place and falling onto the ground, followed by a stream of blood.
Lyra and Neville had front-row seats to the macabre spectacle, but the girl was able to recover quickly from the shock. She took Neville and dragged him along.
"Hurry!" shouted Ginny.
Lyra and Neville passed through the opening left by Ginny's spell and they were finally out of the labyrinth.
"Blood… lots of blood…" Astoria said while looking at the wounded Death Eater.
"That was a bit more graphic than I expected…." Luna said.
"What in Merlin's name did you expect was going to happen?!" Ginny shouted.
"Like… you know… his arm coming off… but without the blood," Luna admitted.
"That's not how real bodies work…" Ginny looked back as they ran.
The two other Death Eaters had stopped chasing them in order to assist their companion, but she knew they would soon come after them again.
"We need to go find some help," she suggested.
They had come out from the back of the hedge maze and there was nothing or no one around here.
"If we make a turn to the left, we can go back to the Great Hall," said Neville.
"Yes, let's do t—"
"Careful!" Astoria shouted in a very out-of-character manner before shoving Luna away from her.
A nasty-looking curse passed between them and hit the dirt ground. As the curse made contact with the surface, it started to dissolve.
The group turned around and saw that the remaining two Death Eaters were already catching up to them.
They now had no choice but to run in the opposite direction to get away from those two.
"Wait, if we follow that dirt path, we can get to the front of the castle!" Ginny pointed ahead.
"We can lose them inside the castle!" suggested Neville.
"I think I lost my earring," said Luna.
"Luna, who cares about that now?!" Lyra shouted. "Oh! I can speak again!" she realized.
"But I will look weird with only one…" Luna pouted.
"Your priorities are so messed up…" Ginny gave her a black stare.
"Pyros!" one of the masked men threw a ball of fire that hit a nearby wall and splashed fire over them.
"Ahh!!" Ginny clutched at her shoulder when some flames fell on her.
"Ginny!" Lyra exclaimed with worry.
"I'm fine…" She did her best to ignore the pain on her left shoulder and pointed her wand back.
Some green goo appeared in the air before splashing all over the floor, right behind them.
"What was that?" Neville asked.
"Slippery charm… my brother Fred taught me that one," Ginny said.
As soon as the two men stepped over the goo, they tripped over and fell down while screaming curses.
"Nice," Astoria said.
"Awesome, Ginny!" Lyra added.
"There! I can see the front entrance!" Neville said with excitement.
The group did not slow down as they could still hear their pursuers right behind them.
"Hurry, inside!" Lyra opened the door and ushered everyone to enter.
She waited until the last person had passed before entering herself but when she was about to close the door behind her, she heard one of the men. "Bombarda!"
She was still clutching at the door handle as it exploded. With a quick reaction, Lyra used her ring shield, the one her brother had made for her.
This time, she knew how to use it and managed to create a powerful shield around herself to act as protection from the explosion.
However, the shield was only able to cover her upper body and her legs still received some cuts from the flying pieces of broken wood that came from the door.
Lyra fell to the ground and continued to roll as more flying debris passed by.
"We got you!" One of the Death Eaters immediately appeared on the other side of the entrance.
The group was not able to see their faces but by their voices alone, it was easy to tell how enraged those two were. Their jovial and mocking tone from before was now gone and was replaced by pure bloodlust.
"This game is over...no more running." The Death Eater pointed his wand at the defenseless Lyra who was lying on the stone floor of the castle entrance. "Avada Kedavra."
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