Chapter Eighty-Six: Dragon Fighting
A whistle was heard from somewhere, and Aki walked out of the tent at the sound of the sound, and the three opponents around him couldn't help but look at him.
Mr. Bagman read aloud the information of Edge's opponent and introduced it to the audience: "The Swedish short-nosed dragon, you see, is silvery-blue in appearance, and its nostrils erupt with a dazzling blue flame - the hottest flame of all, enough to turn wood and bones to ashes in an instant. Don't assume that short-nosed dragons have far fewer deaths under their claws than other dragons and think that they are easy to get along with, just because they have very little contact with humans. Due to its agile flight and scorching fire, the short-nosed dragon is one of the most dangerous species in the world......"
"The next one to come out is Mr. Edge." Mr. Bagman shouted.
Thousands of faces were watching him as Aitch walked through the woods, through a gap in the fence, and onto the great Colosseum.
And the Swedish short-nosed dragon, with a snort of a pillar of fire in its nostrils, shot straight at Edge.
"Oh, the short-nosed dragon is going to give our warriors a dismount!" Mr. Bagman livened up the atmosphere and caused the audience to scream.
At this time, Aitch has not yet come out of the gap, but who will talk to the dragon about the rules of the duel? Fortunately, he reacted quickly, and Aitch pointed the wand he took out on the road at the incoming stream of fire and lifted it up.
The fire, sprinkled into a shower of rain and poured down, covering the brachysaur's entire body, causing it to shrink into a ball—because it had to protect its eggs.
"Nice counterattack!" Mr. Bagman applauded excitedly, "But unfortunately, the dragon's thick skin has a strong ability to resist magic and heat, which won't do much damage to it......"
"Look, I'm talking about it...... Our warriors have angered it. As Bagman spoke, the short-nosed dragon spread its wings again, and its wicked, yellowed vertical eyes looked at Edge, and the temptation had already made it suffer a little loss and understand the wizard's mismatch.
It flew, wings the size of a small airplane. It looked down at Aitch condescendingly, and the dragon power all over its body was like a blizzard approaching, and it was overwhelming, rolling up a thousand layers of sand and swinging towards the Colosseum.
However, Aitch doesn't seem to be aware of his troubles, and calmly thinks about revenge for the short-nosed dragon's "violations".
Edge's wand pointed at the ground, and before he knew what magic spell he had recited, the audience saw a thorn as thick as a doorpost rise from the ground in the center of the Colosseum, piercing the brachynose dragon's belly.
"Roar—" The short-nosed dragon roared as it soared high and spat out a blue-blue pillar of fire towards the "provocateur" of Edge, scorching the audience and scorching the mouth.
In Edge's eyes and ears, the world seemed to be left with only the short-nosed dragon, the golden egg that rolled to the side (the ground spike made by Edge changed the terrain in the field, forming a cone-shaped steep slope, but it couldn't control the direction of the golden egg's rolling), and the dragon fire that wanted to kill him. What Mr. Bagman and the audience were shouting, he couldn't hear at all.
"Come on!" Aitch was holding a stirring stick while he boiled a potion of potion. He commanded a steady stream of flames, and in the middle of the field, between him and the short-nosed dragon, a tornado of five people tall was formed.
Knowing that its fire was no threat to Edge, the short-nosed dragon flapped its wings and unleashed a wave of air, competing with the hot current of the fire tornado, and rushed straight forward - this was to bully Edge's "weak body".
With a flick of Edge's wand, the fire tornado instantly swept backwards, crashing into the short-nosed dragon, and at the same time becoming thinner and longer, and finally vigorously trying to hit the short-nosed dragon in the head.
The short-nosed dragon also reacted quickly, and while flying, it shook the dragon's wings violently, and it leaned over, dodging Edge's fire tornado, and planned to continue attacking.
Just when people were worried about the failure of Edge's attack, the fire tornado that passed by the short-nosed dragon had a follow-up move, and it really turned into a coiled fire dragon, soaring into the air, like a difficult python, tightly strangling the short-nosed dragon's dragon wings, dragon neck, and dragon body...... Even the mouth and nose that breathed fire were blocked.
Then the audience saw a behemoth fall to the ground, this time it was a real meteorite falling from the sky, and there was even a huge, scorching "crater" on the ground.
The screams boiled over as the winners and losers were decided, wave after wave. "Look!" Bagman shouted. "Look! Our warrior, Mr. Edge, has defeated a Swedish short-nosed dragon! Oh, my God! He was only fourteen! ”
Aitch leaned over to make sure that the short-nosed dragon had fainted, and he ran to pick up the golden egg that had rolled to the edge of the Colosseum, far away and undamaged.
The dragon's keeper rushed in to check on the short-nosed dragon's injuries, and Professor Flitwick hurried up to meet him at the exit of the fence, the smile on his face visible from so far away, his mouth open but no sound could be heard, and the noise in the stands almost pierced his eardrums.
Aitch could see the five referees sitting there—on the other side in a high chair with a golden cloth dangling.
"Everybody's a ten-point system," Professor Flitwick explained, and Aitch glanced at the room to see the first judge, Madame Maxim, raise her wand in the air. A long, silver ribbon-like object erupted, twisting into a cross in the air. Then things were all right, with Mr. Crouch, Mr. Bagman, and Dumbledore winning three points in a row, as Aitch even won the dragon.
Finally, Professor Karkaroff also raised his wand. He paused for a moment, then shot the same number—five.
He insisted on facing the crowd and explained that the first task was a test of the contestant's courage, not the strength of the magic - Aitch was a bit off topic. This caused Blake, who was sitting near him, to turn his hat into a dead toad, causing a burst of laughter from the onlookers.
"Excellent, Edge." After scolding Karkaroff for his injustice, Professor Flitwick excitedly took the golden egg from Aitch and led him to a corner, where the other three could also be seen.
Fleur in the back tries to use the transformation magic to conjure up a small animal that can attract the attention of the green dragon, and then she can take the opportunity to take the golden egg. But it actually made the dragon dazed, and then it snored, and then a burst of flames shot out, and the girl's dress caught fire—she had to conjure water with her wand to put out the fire.
Krum is indeed much bolder, unlike Aitch, who is passively counter-attacking. He used a spell to hit the fireball dragon in the eye, and Aitch guessed that he was trying to blind the dragon so that he could not see him. It's just that the dragon broke half of the eggs when he trampled on them—Dumbledore had to deduct his points for that, because he shouldn't have hurt the eggs. Once again, Karkaroff was different: he gave Krum perfect marks and left an unknown number of people shouting that it was unfair.
When Harry finally completed the mission with a firebolt and got his score, the four of them returned to their tents.
"Well done, gentlemen, and this young lady." Mr. Bagman summed up the scores to arrive at the ranking, with Aitch in first, Harry and Krum in a tie for second, and Fleur at the bottom.
Then he gave his second instruction: "You have a long and good rest before the second mission, and it will take place at half past nine in the morning on the twenty-fifth of February—but we have something to test your heads during this time!" If you look at the golden eggs in your hands, you will see them cracked, and you will see the chains inside? You'll have to decipher the hints inside the egg - because the hints will tell you what the second task is and help you prepare! Is it all clear? ”
After all four confirmed that they had heard clearly, Mr. Bagman let everyone go to celebrate.