Chapter 74 - The Golden egg (1/2)
The stadium filled with silence seeing a 50ft Ice knight which is twice larger than the Dragon before them and a 25ft long Horned snake hissing at the Dragon. The silence was broken by Ludo Bagman's cry, the commentator in an astonishment, ”a Giant Horned Serpent? A magical beast? Ladies and gentlemen, those who don't know the history of the Horned Serpent, let me brief you with a quick summary.
Horned Serpents are the magical snakes that are found all over the world but only a few species have the jewel in their forehead which indicated its magical properties. The shards of their horns are extremely valuable and can be used as a wand core.
Not only its horns but various parts of it are valuable potion ingredients. That's why they were hunted down to extinct in Europe and are currently found in central America. Unlike normal snakes which are ȧssociated with cunningness, they were always ȧssociated with intelligence.
But Slytherin's Animagus form is larger compared to a normal one which is only 5-6ft in length. Now, coming to its abilities, each species of it was born with a different ability. Let's see what ability Slytherin awakened”.
While Bagman giving an introduction about the species of Animagus form, the audience, especially the Slytherins erupted in cheers while many people just looked at him silently with fear. Maxime commented, ”Dumbledore, it seems your student is just as they claimed, genius of the century. A magical snake as Animagus? That's commendable indeed”.
Meanwhile, Karkaroff's face was dark as he was thinking, ”damn, I thought it was just a snake but a horned snake with a jewel? I shouldn't have thought of returning to the Dark Lord at all”. As he ċȧrėssing his left arm, Karkaroff thought, ”it's all because of this dark arm which is becoming visible and thicker by the day.
It made me anxious and chose not to involve with the boy and I have now lost my chance. If only I let Krum inform him about the task beforehand... no matter, this boy has unimaginable potential to at least surpass Dumbledore. I will have to bring him to my side at all costs”.
While the same thing is running through Lucius Malfoy's mind, Neal is busy hissing and communicating with the Dragon. ”give up the golden egg”, and the Dragon roared in response, ”You dare to order me, you filthy inferior species?”.
Neal hissed, ”it isn't yours, to begin with, why are you holding on to it?”, the Dragon roared in anger, ”all the eggs are mine”. While the audience was wondering what they are arguing about, the Ice knight beside Neal started to walk forward.
As the ground started to shake with it's each step, The Swedish Short-Snout stepped forward and stood before the clutch of eggs to protect her unborn children. The Ice Knight jumped high in the air and put the half-melted shield before him while the Dragon breathes blue fire towards it.
In the commentator box, Bagman is screaming with excitement, ”now, this is how a battle with a Dragon should be. As the Ice shield melted, the Ice Knight pierced one of the Dragon's legs with its spear. The dragon is shrieking in pain. It bit the Ice Knight's head intending to tear it away.
Even though half of the Ice knight's head is gone, it was still battling fiercely and continued to attack the Dragon. Merlin's beard! The Ice spear pierced its neck. Too bad there wasn't fatal damage. The Dragon's scales were too hard to penetrate after all.
Wow, the Swedish Short-Snout began flying in the air going out of the range and breathing out the blue fire but the Ice Knight dodged it and threw the spear but the Dragon also evaded it and once again breathes out the fire and hit the Ice Knight. The Dragon doesn't seem to stop it at all until the Ice Knight disappears.