Originally Posted by INFERI!

The adult human isn't faring much better. The legless Inferius continues its stranglehold on her until... WHACK! The girl's (Bel) bat crunches against bone. The creature's head flies off and lands on the ground, its white cloudy eyes still darting. The hands loosen grip and fall at her feet along with the rest of its torso. More Inferi quickly move in to take its place. One creature is held in place as a spell hits its feet, but it isn't deterred. It flings itself at the woman, leaving its frozen legs behind. Another is blinded by the girl's (Skylar) light spell and staggers back with an angry cry, clawing wildly in front of itself. Surely it will make contact with human flesh...

Originally Posted by NifflerFan

She was very, very wrong. Another Inferius torso came flying at her, and Celestia couldn't stop a scream from escaping her lips as the creature dug into her shoulders in order to keep itself upright. She didn't know or care what had happened to its legs. Her wand arm was shaking and her wand itself was not pointed anywhere useful at the moment. Useless. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Inferius that had been blinded by Skylar's spell began to claw wildly in front of itself; she was the only thing in front of it. Not all of its slashes connected with her flesh, but her left arm soon became a shredded mess and warm, sticky blood flowed freely.

After some indeterminable amount of time, Celestia seemed to realize dimly that she was not being held or scraped by claws anymore. The professor forced herself to lift her feet and stumble forward -- only to immediately trip over some body part strewn on the pathways in front of her. Luckily, she didn't fall on any corpse parts. Her mind was on some sort of confused auto-pilot. She made a short, sweeping motion with her wand and the parts scattered in front of her simply Vanished as though they had never been. Her wand arm had several gashes that oozed yet more blood from where the Inferi had taken hold of it -- but compared to the agony that was her left arm, that pain was nothing. Vanishing was as natural as breathing to Celestia; it always had been. Still, darkness lingered at the corners of her eyes and threatened to encroach on the world.

She. Had. To. Stay. Conscious.

She couldn't remember WHY she needed to be conscious so badly, so she simply crawled forward on the ground as best she could, leaving a slimy trail of blood that leaked onto the grass behind her. The professor didn't stop until she had come up next to one of her students (Derf), lying prone on the ground. Her eyes were full of black spots and her vision went in and out of focus, which only added to her confusion. Her left hand reached out -- of its own volition, it seemed to Celestia -- towards the boy's wrist. Check for a pulse, a voice in the back of her head whispered. Yes. She'd do that. She could feel beating under the boy's skin.