Gaston continued sending balls of fire from his Firestorm charm at the Inferi nearest him. Somewhere in the chaos, he registered Dorian's voice, but he dared not look back, lest the Inferi swarm him while he wasn't looking. But you have to... he thought sadly. This was the only way. Nobody else had to die...

Gaston watched, breathing a silent sigh of relief as Maddie, Nettie & Dorian took off toward the chamber, and - Wait, what? No! He gaped at Kalen in horror as he directed some of the students to stay behind with him. That wasn't supposed to happen! He couldn't have anyone die because of him! The blood running into his eye - or out of it, he couldn't tell - on the injured side of his face was making it nearly impossible to see anything to his right, but he could tell by the voices shouting spells around him who was staying. His heart swelled with pride for his brave students, touched that they cared about him enough not to let him die alone. Then as quickly as it came, the feeling vanished, and he waa gripped with fear, fear that someone was going to die backing him up. "Please... save yourselves," he begged. If he could've taken his eyes off the Inferi long enough to look at his students, they would've seen a sad, pleading look in them.

His blood ran cold as he heard Sylvie scream. He instantly knew she was injured, but before he could help her, he saw Daisy collapse out if the corner if his good eye. "No..." he gasped. "DAISY!" Panic threatened to overwhelm him. The Inferi were going to swarm her while she was down... unless he got to her first. He rushed to her side as fast as his legs could carry him, ignoring the fire spells flying as he placed himself between her and the Inferi. "Daisy, it'll be okay... You're not going to die! I won't let you die..." He felt something trickle down his face; his hand cane away wet as he wiped it away, though this t8me not with blood.

"NOT TODAY, YOU MINDLESS FLESH PUPPET!!!" He set his jaw, lips curling into a frightening snarl, as he rounded on the Inferi, wand pointed directly at the nearest one. His overprotective dad!professor instinct blocked out any rational thought. Now he was going to make them pay for hurting his students! "Incendio tria!"