Only a few of the once vast horde of Inferi attacking the humans remain. Their fallen comrades scatter the pathways, leaving only charred carcasses and piles of body parts (some of which still moving) behind. What they lack in numbers, they make up for in anger. The holdouts continue their attack with renewed fury.

The creatures take advantage of one boy's (Abra) moment of distraction to claw him across the back, but the injury is only a taste of what they can do. The disembodied leg hits one of the corpses in the abdomen. The force is enough to rip the creature in half, and it crashes into its comrades, causing them all to fall in a tangle of detached limbs and bones.

Another group is about to finish off the other boy (Derf) as the boulders hurtle ever closer to them. The boy's spell hits, but the transfigutation is incomplete, resulting in a pair of deformed rock-dogs as ghastly as the Inferi themselves. The doglike creatures snarl as they ram the Inferi, knocking them aside. The corpses blink in confusion and struggle back to their feet, but before they can launch another attack...

Every pair of white, lifeless eyes, including those of the detached skulls on the ground, turn toward the castle, as if some invisible presence is calling them. Then, just as suddenly as they appeared, the Inferi slink away, finally admitting defeat.