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INFERI! The skeletal figures move surprisingly fast, away from the fire and crowd of people, using the pathways of the school grounds to navigate further. Long corpse like fingers slowly curl around branches to move past them. The horde of bony creatures drag themselves through the vegetation with their already torn attire further shredding on the bushes. Some have their mouths gaping open, chins dropped down to their bony chest, all with white lifeless eyes and all moving in the same direction as they push on, seemingly unstoppable.
The silhouettes of what appears to be ancient Viking helmets are gradually more difficult to notice due to the night air settling around them. A revolting stench linger around them as they move forward, away from the fire, light and resistance by the lake and towards the cold, dark safety of the pathways.
And then onwards... Onwards...
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INFERI! Humans. The gaunt creatures slows for a moment as big, white eyes take in the scene. For a few seconds there is silence as they come to a stop. Then slowly they move sideways, spreading out as more of them join behind them. Wands are pointed towards them, but no further threat yet. One of the creatures tilt its head, the neck letting out a disgusting cracking sound.
The next time they move: it’s sudden, fast and it’s towards the group.
They quickly approach from all angles, surrounding the foolish humans who chose to resist them. Long bony arms are stretching out as they close in.
Everything and everyone standing in their way will be disposed of.
Now.
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Callie Quinn stopped and turned back to look at Rylee just a moment. "Nothing would have happened to Reese if I didn't tell him I was running away. Only me." Reese would have gotten over it eventually, and he and Rylee would be together and Rylee wouldn't hate her.
She glanced back down the path in the direction she had started, then sighed and sat down. "Look, I'm sorry, okay. It's just when things get..." Quinn's voice trailed off in a strangled noise. She was no longer looking at Rylee, but behind her. "In....In..."
It was a little bit of fear keeping the word from getting out, but more the shock and surprise of seeing the undead invade the school. "Rylee, move! Inferi!" In a flash, her wand was in her hand, but....what spells are effective against inferi?
"Nothing wou-" Rylee frowned ever so slightly. Did Quinn not realize how upset and angry Reese would have been had she run away and not told him? Nothing good would've come from that. Shaking her head she looked at Quinn.
"Well don't go doing that, okay?" Even if she was upset about it all she didn't want anything bad to happen should Quinn go running off on her own.
Once again there was another 'I'm sorry' being given. She knew she was and was more than ready to wave it off again when the look on Quinn's face showed something wasn't right. Why was she stammering like that? Rylee blinked in confusion.
"In- what? What's the matter?"
Move? Why was she being told to move?! The second years brain focused on that for a split second longer than necessary before Quinn's shouting of 'Inferi' broke through her thoughts.
Wait. WHAT?!
"Inferi?" Looking over her shoulder wondering for half a second if somehow this could be a joke, Rylee was on her feet in an instant. Her eyes widened in shock and fear at the undead decending upon them. Pulling her wand from her robes she moved to stand just in front of Quinn, friends or not it didn't matter. She was older and protecting Quinn was what she was going to do even if she herself was terrified.
Everything seemed to be happening at once. Her violin was left in it's case on the bench, her wand raised and aimed at the Inferi, hand shaking slightly as she tried to think of spells that would work. What would work?! What was strong enough?!
"Fire! Quinn cast incendo! Inferi hate warmth!" Yes! She had read about this before somewhere when reading about different creatures and dark creatures and the like. After what happened with the Grindylow she had wanted to learn how to defend herself.
Wand hand still shaking she took a small step back.
"Incendo!" she cast as confidently as possibly aiming at the Inferi coming their way. Though she could hear shouts coming from somewhere down the Pathway she wasn't able to see who else was around or if they were being surrounded as well and honestly her focus had to be in the here and now.