"Are you sure we'll find something here, Kali? It doesn't look all that impressive..." Harry mutters as he views Nurmengard Castle through the treeline, looking it up and down from its lowest floors to the top tower which was circled by ominous-looking black birds...
"We won't find out until we check, master." Kali remarks at his side.
"Firssst we need to deal with thossse humansss." Nanthisk states, bobbing his head at the couple guards strategically placed in and around the castle. Each man was wearing grey Edwardian-looking outfits but seemingly lacked any kind of weapon to defend themselves with...
"Can they do focus-less magic? Or maybe they have a weapon hidden?" Harry asks.
"Perhaps they are just confident with their hand-to-hand combat skills?" Kali drawls, "No, I've seen the magic users of this world hide their weapons in their sleeves, that's how most stored their wands at the North Pole."
Harry nods, "Do you have a plan?"
Kali shakes her head, "My plan was allowing you to plan this, master, show me what you can do against these mundane magicals."
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"So Angus, you said something yesterday about a 'proposal'... Did you do it or did you chicken out at the last second again?" an I.C.W guard asks his partner next to him who was wringing his hands.
"Ah, not this time Edvin... The date went amazing, dinner was fantastic, the ambience screamed romance... And then the pissing waiter spills wine all over my beloved's dress! I barely stopped her cursing the bastard, but that put me in her sights too!.." he bemoans his terrible luck.
"Friend, perhaps that girl isn't for you? If she reacts like that now, how do you think she'll be once you're married? Think she'll quell her inner-beast with youngsters runnin' around, breaking things and annoying her?"
...
"M-maybe you're right, Edvin... It's just, when I see her I get this passionate heat in my chest that won't leave. It's love, I know it is but-"
"A heat in your chest?... Er, Angus, don't be alarmed but I think I'm feeling something like that right now..." Edvin mutters as he places a hand to his chest. An uncomfortable heat was building in his stomach and rising towards his heart, he'd tried to ignore it, merely thinking he'd eaten something spoiled, but it continued to grow more intense...
"God! Can you really not feel that?" he groans, leaning against the wall as the feeling grows painful.
Angus' brows shoot to his hairline as he watches this, "N-no, I don't! Edvin! Should we take you to the hospital? I can only apparate you when you're conscious you know!"
"H-Hahh.... I... I told you you s-should practise it y-, you fool!" Edvin clutches her heart as the sensation flows through it and towards his neck, carrying on into his head and brain. "AAARGH! IT WAS ME ANGUS! I FUCKED YOUR WIFE AFTER HAVING YOU TAKE MY POST! I FUCKED HER WELL AND GOOD! THAT'S WHY SHE PAID THE WAITER TO SPILL WINE ON HERSELF YOU DAMNED FOOL!" he suddenly shouts, the whites of his eyes turning bloodshot.
"W-WHAT!? No! You're my friend, you'd never do that to me! We've known each other for years!" Angus cries out with wide eyes, wanting to deny his words despite the hints he'd gotten for weeks now.
"I AM YOUR FRIEND! BUT I WANT HER MORE!" Edvin shouts, flicking his wand from his wand-holster and pointing it towards his friend, "DIFFINDO!" he slashes his wand, causing a large cut along Angus' shoulder that immediately begins to bleed.
Angus had drawn his own wand but drops it as the spell hits, leaving him defenceless against his enraged former friend. "EDVIN! THIS IS NOT YOU! YOU'VE BEEN CURSED! YOU MUST HAVE BEEN!"
"Hey! What's going on here!" another guard exclaims as he makes his way over, seeing a bloodied guard getting attacked by another.
"Grr! I won't let you stop me from returning to her! FOR ELIA! INCENDIO MAXIMA!" he loudly casts, blasting a meter-wide gout of flame at the men, which is blocked by a Protego shield.
Flames collide against the ephemeral white magic shield, attempting to find a weak point in which to reach their target. The flames were rendered even more powerful by the man's enraged state however, channelling obsession, anger, and jealousy into the greedy flames.
"Accio Angus wand! Help with this shield or we'll both be fried!"
"Y-yes! Protego!"
Edvin growls as his attacks fail, his eyes now glowing a slight crimson. "YOU FORCED MY HAND! AVADA KEDAVRA!" he screams, firing a green spell through the Protego and hitting the I.C.W guard on Angus side, he instantly drops from the effects of the Killing Curse.
"EDVIN! NO! WHY DO THIS!?"
"BECAUSE I CAN, FOOL! AVADA KEDAVRA!" he casts again, but just as Angus attempt to dodge he finds himself locked in place by some... Roots? He looks down in shock at the thick tree roots that have grown around his foot and shin.
"F-forgive me Eli-" Angus mutters just as the green spell splashes against him, the light leaving his eyes as he dies instantly.
"HAHAHAHAHA! I DID IT! ELIA IS MINE! ALL MINE! MINE! MINE!" Edvin loudly rambles with his hands in the air, celebrating his victory... Not noticing the two surviving guards of Nurmengard looking over the second floor with their wands drawn.
"STUPEFY!""STUPEFY!"
The red bolts strike the enraged man, knocking him unconscious before he even hits the ground.
"H-how could this have happened!?" one of the remaining guards utter in horror at the scene.
"You heard him, he was fighting over a woman..." he shakes his head, "I told you before, I'm gay because of shit like this." he gestures at the corpses below.
"Whatever, let's contact home and have this sorted out before something else-"*Thud*
"Huh, what's wr-" the guard asks to the sound of his partner dropping to the ground, unfortunately finding himself staring into slitted green eyes. His magic attempts to resist the effects, but since he relied almost entirely on his wand to use it, it was far from effective in protecting his body... The Calcification Gaze turned him completely into bone in but a second.