Chapter 282 - 282. Battle Of A Thousand Beasts
Panic ensued as soon as they saw Magnus leaping over their heads and attracting all the hungry wolves behind himself. They panicked, and some staunch believers of Magnus cried, blaming their own cowardice and weakness.
They could not understand how a 14-year-old wizard would fight a thousand werewolves. Even less, they could understand where Magnus gets his courage from.
Dumbledore was scared completely in his heart. He cared not for his life anymore, Magnus was one of his remaining family, the most precious one. He wanted to help Magnus grow into a mighty and just wizard. But the boy puts his life in danger too many times.
Ragnar meanwhile didn't even flinch for a second and charged towards the Death Eaters. "STOP THIS CRYING! MAGNUS WILL WIN! AND WE SHALL GIFT HIM THE HEADS OF ALL THESE DEATH EATERS! ATTACK!"
With all werewolves gone, they were free to move again. The odds for Death Eaters turned once again as they found themselves at a disadvantage.
Emma saw the whole scene from the sky, her heart erupted into fear. She immediately rushed with her broom towards the forest to help Magnus.
*BOOM*
Her broom caught fire. Down on the ground, a crazed Witch was laughing, "HAHA... Where do you think you're going? Let him become werewolves' food."
Voldemort had already passed his order, they were to hold on here for as long as possible, so as to give the werewolves time to kill Magnus. He also acknowledged that stopping Dumbledore was more important right now. But he did send Lucius after Magnus to make sure that the boy died.
"HAHAHA... I won, Dumbledore. There is no way that boy will live." Voldemort laughed evilly.
Voldemort took him head-on in a spectacular battle. Meanwhile, the professors and Magnus' people were mercilessly killing the dark wizards. The strongest people in Voldemort's army were Death Eaters, everyone else was just your average wizard.
Meanwhile, in Order of the Phoenix and Army of Merlin, a lot of members came from good families, hence they were trained very well. At the same time, Magnus' army was better because they were really trained to fight, unlike Voldemort, who didn't care about training.
Ragnar was leading the charge against these minor dark wizards. "KILL THEM! SHOW NO MERCY!"
*SLASH*
Ragnar beheaded a dark wizard and immediately threw a bomb on the ground. It covered everything in smoke around them. Ragnar, who had already drunk the vision altering potion, saw everything through the smokescreen.
Like a smart predator, he started slicing all dark wizards near him. One or two death eaters were also caught in this. It was a total massacre.
The army of Merlin finally got the chance to show their power and what they trained for. They worked as one big unit instead of going individually. Their tactics were simple, each two wizards were to focus on one enemy. They would continuously bombard spells and soon send the killing blow.
Something like this had never been seen before in the history of Magic. Never until now, a group of wizards acted like muggle armies. But here they saw it, how effective it was.
Voldemort saw his people dying very quickly and he panicked that this would make his plans foiled. "SPREAD AROUND!"
His order was fast and decisive. The strength of Magnus' army was when they fought together. So it was better to force them to spread around, decreasing their chances of overpowering.
Ragnar, who was busy until now in killing his enemies, finally saw the golden goose, the one he had been chasing after for the past years. Rodolphus was in front of his eyes, and anger erupted. But he remembered Magnus' advice to be rational and not let the hate take over.
He quickly moved to meet him. *BOOM* He threw 10 grenades at the same time. They were meant to stun Rodolphus.
"YOU! I AM NOT GONNA KILL YOU! I WILL TORTURE YOU VERY SLOWLY!" Ragnar's crazed face and his bloodied clothes, along with the nun dress, created a really big mental pressure.
Ragnar knew that he needed to neutralise him as soon as possible. For this, he used the Boggart locket. As long as Rodolphus gets scared even for a second it would be enough.
He silently moved close to him and activated it. In an instant, Rodolphus screamed, "AAAAAA..."
Ragnar had no idea what he was afraid of, now he knew. It was a naked angry Voldemort, pointing his wand at Rodolphus. The real magical wand, not the biological one.
This was his chance and Ragnar jumped over.
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Forbidden Forest,
Magnus continued to run deeper inside the forest, as far away as he possibly could. The angry growls and howls of countless werewolves were already audible behind him. Mixed with nature's sounds and air brushing the trees, it felt even more terrifying.
Magnus was a human, it was night and he was in a jungle, his speed was obviously going to be slower than the animals.
He was looking for an open area where he could fight them, as fighting in the dense forest would give many opportunities to werewolves to climb trees or sneak attack him.
"GRRRR..."
After searching for a while, he found a decently open area in the middle of the forest. It was not very big but still enough. The werewolves slowly started to appear. One by one, countless werewolves surrounded him.
The jungle also became completely silent with that. No animal made any noise, all except the beasts surrounding Magnus. It was like a bad orchestra destroying the serenity of the calm night.
In all honesty, Magnus really had slight ting of fear in his heart. "I hope I don't die today."
Not waiting for them to pounce on him, he waved his wand and shouted, "FIENDFYRE!"
Magnus had full mastery over this spell, he was generally very good with fire. His wand spewed flames in the form of a Chinese dragon. The huge dragon circles around Magnus and burned any werewolf that could be caught in it.
"AAAARRRRR..." they cried in pain and fear.
Too much light was not pleasing to their eyes it seemed. So Magnus doubled down and even started burning the forest behind them. This way, all of them were trapped... with him.
"ZZZZZ..." He saw his wand lighting up chaotically. With a sigh, he quickly threw it away onto the werewolves.
*BOOM*
It blasted like a bomb, destroying the limbs of many and ending their lives. At heart, Magnus felt pain. ~All of them are actually humans... but they chose to follow the Dark Lord.~
"HAHAHA... THEY SAID IT RIGHT! A cornered lion is a dangerous lion." All of a sudden, one of the werewolves, who looked particularly taller and vicious, spoke.
Magnus recognised him, this was Fenrir Greyback. (A/N: In this fic, I have made the werewolves actually look like humanoid wolves with all their fur. I don't know why they made it look so weird in the movies.)
Magnus, in a show of confidence, talked back, "Haha, it's you all who are cornered."
Fenrir scoffed. He was taught by his lord how to deal with Magnus, what was his weakness. "Are you sure? Do you really want to kill them? Don't you want to know how we found these many of them? They all aren't from the jungle, boy.
"Most of them lived underground, in the sewers under the Diagon alley and Knockturn alley. They dreamt of a better life, a day when the ministry would think about them. But it was my lord who offered them a better life. THEY GOT NOTHING TO LOSE!"
Magnus grimaced as he listened. He couldn't help but curse in his mind ~Trully, the Magical world is the enemy of Magical world itself.~
"If I must... then I will kill. Long before I had already accepted my fate, that I would go to hell after my death. There is no turning back now." Magnus prepared his sword, Hope.
"Hehe... big words from a little boy. ATTACK!" Fenrir ordered the hoard of werewolves.
Magnus immediately created fire from his back body to keep all werewolves away from there. And those that started to come to his front, he chopped them down.
"FORGIVE ME!" he muttered as he beheaded one. Why was he not using magic? Well, werewolves have inherent magical immunity to some degree. These were considered as XXXXX beasts/beings after all, on the same level as Cuddles and a dragon. Due to this, Magnus would have to waste too much magic on each werewolf.
"AAAAA..." Magnus mustered all his strength to slice them up. He had to be very careful, as even a single bite could end his fight. But many scratches had been inflicted upon him.
Some even came from behind, as some werewolves, although stayed away from the fire, tried to at least injure him with quick jabs. Magnus bled that night, from his face, his arms, his legs.
But more bled the werewolves, as their corpses piled upon one above another. A pool of blood started to form underneath them, with the pungent smell of blood filling the air, reminding them that this was do or die. "FENRIR! YOU WILL DIE TODAY!"
Magnus launched at Fenrir, who had also taken the field to lead the werewolves. Out of 1200, Magnus had only killed 50 so far.
It was going to be a very long night, the bright moon was going to be the witness. Magnus tried to keep his composure as the "Battle Of A Thousand Beasts" was long from being over.
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A long distance away from where Magnus was fighting, Lucius entered the jungle to find him and inflict the killing blow himself. He was using point-me charm to search
He was slowly moving in the right direction too. However, he was stopped by an unlikely opponent.
"I will not allow you to pass." Severus appeared from a tree's shadow.
Lucius was taken aback and chuckled, "You filthy half-blood, have you forgotten your mother is with us. A wave from me and she will become food for the sexual fantasies of many depraved men and beasts. And then I will beat you to death, in front of her."
Severus with an unwavering will, didn't move. He took out his wand, "And if I don't do this, I will be a living dead, with no dignity, honour and integrity."
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