A Nexus Devil

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ShareJake's eyes widened in shock as his surrendered enemy was immediately engulfed in flames and from his corpse arose a giant snake made of pure fire! It was giving off a tremendous amount of heat!

"Hahahahaha!" Nott Sr. laughed hysterically as he threw away his wand that was still connected to the cursed fire.

He didn't even have close to enough magic to control it at the moment, and since it had just devoured the soul of a wizard, the cursed fire would be even stronger!

With the cursed flames between him and Jake, the final remaining Death Eater turned and fled deeper into the forest!

Jake, meanwhile, finally snapped out of his shock at the sheer brutality he had just witnessed. 'The man just sacrificed his comrade (literally) to escape like it was nothing…'

Now free of its caster, the giant flaming snake of FiendFyre was free to rampage! It immediately locked onto Jake in front of it, and the cursed flames blazed towards him, eager to devour his soul next!

"Fucking hell!" Jake cursed to himself as he flared his magic to its peak once again and channeled it all through his spell circle as he unleashed the biggest wave of ice he'd ever cast at once!

Even with the spell circle reducing the amount of magic for casting, Jake felt his reserves noticeably plummet as his wave of frost was unleashed towards the cursed fire!

Magical fire clashed against magical ice and for a moment, it seemed like the two spells were equal in power. However, the FiendFyre was burning through all the magic it had absorbed from the wizard it just devoured while Jake was constantly supplying his own wave of frost with his own.

In the end, Jake's own magical reserves won out as his ice finally overtook the fire and snuffed it out.

Jake was upset though that that murder had escaped deeper into the forest. 'Wait!?' He thought to himself.

'Wasn't that the same direction the giant spiders came from?' The man had also discarded his wand so Jake figured he was also as good as done for.

Now safe and with all threats to him gone, Jake let out a somewhat tired sigh at the amount of magic he just had to spend to save himself…and also the forest probably.

Jake quickly collected his bearings and immediately left the section of the forest that bore signs of the short battle. He headed back towards Hogwarts.

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Jake made it back to the castle shortly after and headed towards the Great Hall for dinner. As he opened the doors and strode in, he was immediately met by shocked gasps from all around.

"What the hell happened to him!"

"Is he okay!"

"He's covered in blood!"

Shocked students from all houses took in Jake's appearance. Jake himself finally took in his own appearance and cursed himself for his own stupidity!

His robes were shredded and tattered, and he was covered in blood splatter…probably from the guy he killed. Although he reasoned some of it could also be giant spider blood.

McGonagall, sitting at the head table, was shocked and horrified at seeing the state of one of her lions! She immediately moved towards Jake as fast as her old legs could carry her. Dumbledore wasn't far behind her either.

"Mr. Gremory, are you alright?" She asked sincerely.

"Ah, yeah, I'm okay," Jake sighed. He'd probably just traumatized the whole school, hadn't he… "Some stuff happened."

McGonagall scoffed. "Some stuff happened indeed! Come along now! We're going to the infirmary immediately."

With no room for questioning, she grabbed him by his tattered sleeve and hauled him out of the Great Hall. All the students immediately whispered to each other, speculating about what happened to Jake to make him look like that.

"All of you, please return to your meals. This matter will be handled," Dumbledore stated to all the students before he too left the Great Hall and followed McGonagall and Jake to the infirmary.

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POV: Nott Sr.

"Ha…ha…huff," Nott Sr. panted out as he ran through the woods away from the flames he'd cast. He had no doubts in his mind that shortly, this whole forest might very well be on fire and he needed to get as far away as possible.

He managed to escape from that demonic brat, though, and soon he'd have his revenge, on him and on Malfoy for sending them after the red-haired monster…

Nott Sr. eventually wore himself out as he had to come to a stop and rest his panting form against a tree. Wizards and running did not go well together!

His magic had slightly recovered by this point, but in his own idiocy, he'd thrown away his wand so he wouldn't be able to Apparate out of the forest!

*Rustle-Rustle-Crunch* Nott's panting immediately stopped as he heard rustling and movement from the treeline nearby. And then he started hearing…skittering!

"Human-meat!" From the treeline emerged half a dozen Acromantulas and Nott cursed internally! "Hungry," one of the arachnids hissed out.

"Noble spiders!" Nott spoke aloud, his voice laced with fear. "I too am of noble lineage just like yourselves."

"Eeeeeeaaaaatttt him."

"And if you let me go," he stuttered in full-blown panic, "then I promise to personally bring many different kinds of meats and animals to your colony as repayment for your noble understanding…."

"Meat?" One of the spiders questioned.

"Yes, yes, meat. I will bring you a bunch of meat!" Nott Sr. declared. He was internally thankful these beasts seemed so easily tricked. As if he'd ever actually repay them! Unfortunately for him, his elation was quickly snuffed out.

"...No," the spider hissed. "You meat!" And then all six giant spiders pounced on the man…

A scream was let out deep in the forest, but no one was around to hear it.

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