Chapter 181: Waves Are Waves [bonus]
The five masked figures on the island had barely recovered from the first attack when three flaming beast came hurtling toward them.
The leader and one other Apparated instantly, their bodies twisting through space and vanishing.
The remaining three weren't fast enough. Fire swallowed them whole.
One tried to Apparate. His body had already begun to go translucent, but the Fiendfyre burned through space itself. The flames caught him mid-disappearance, half gone, half still there. The half that remained turned to ash in an instant. The other half never reformed. Apparition required a whole body. Severed pieces couldn't reassemble.
The other two thrashed inside the inferno.
Protego flared. One second... two... shattered.
Barrier charms launched, useless.
One of them dove downward, plunging through rock, boring into the earth beneath the island. The Fiendfyre followed, seeping through every crack in the stone. A charred scream rose from underground, then cut short.
The last one was consumed entirely. Nothing remained.