Chapter 92
The crowd screamed... yelled... gasped like a single many-headed ent.i.ty, as Harry did whatever he was doing to get past the Swedish Short-Snout. Krum was still staring at the ground. Fleur had now taken to holding Ryan tightly to calm down as he kissed her forhead. And Bagman's commentary made everything much, much worse.... for viktor he heard: "Oooh, narrow miss there, very narrow"... "He's taking risks, this one!"... "Clever move and it's all over!" "Very good indeed!" Bagman was shouting. "And now the marks from the judges!"
But he didn't shout out the marks; Ryan supposed the judges were holding them up and showing them to the crowd.
"One down, three to go!" Bagman yelled as the whistle blew again. "Miss Delacour, if you please!"
Fleur was trembling from head to foot; Ryan told her to breathe gave her a confident smile and said "Harry did it right you can too." she smiled back with a more confident look gave him a kiss and headed out. Ten minutes later, Ryan heard the crowd erupt into applause once more.... Fleur must have been successful too. A pause, while Fleur's marks were being shown... more clapping... then, for the third time, the whistle. "And here comes Mr. Krum!" cried Bagman, and Krum slouched out, leaving Ryan alone.
He felt much more aware of his body than usual; very aware of the way his heart was pumping fast, and his fingers tingling with excitment... yet at the same time, he seemed to be outside himself, seeing the walls of the tent, and hearing the crowd, as though from far away."Very daring!" Bagman was yelling, and
Applause shattered the wintery air like breaking gla.s.s; Krum had finished – it would be Ryan's turn any moment.
He stood up, noticing dimly his heart was bearing way faster than usual but he was calm he was excited he had been waiting for an epic fight like this.He walked out through the entrance of the tent, the excitment rising into a crescendo inside him. And now he was walking past the trees, through a gap in the enclosure fence.
He saw everything in front of him as though it was a very highly colored dream. There were hundreds and hundreds of faces staring down at him from stands that had been magicked there since he'd last stood on this spot. And there was the Horntail, at the other end of the enclosure, crouched low over her clutch of eggs, her wings half-furled, her evil, yellow eyes upon him, a monstrous, scaly, black lizard, thras.h.i.+ng her spiked tail, heaving yard-long gouge marks in the hard ground. The crowd was making a great deal of noise, but whether friendly or not, Ryan didn't know or care. It was time to do what he had to do... to focus his mind, entirely and absolutely. He was was the first spell put of his wand was one that makes music super loud it started playing thunder struck by acdc the next was a bright light that made everyone and the dragon shut their eyes and when they opened them again standing where Ryan was before. was a ma.s.sive monster none of them had ever seen before it looked like a cross between a wolf and a dragon. It was one of Ryans favorite monsters from monster hunter in his past life. he stood 8 foot tall with a body length of 14 feet horns to tail he was on 4 legs his body color was blue with dragon like scales and golden colored spikes, claws and horns he had white silver fur running down his back he weighed more than a ton of pure rippling muscle he had sharp draconian eyes and a mouth full of sharp fangs with electricity running all over his body in a song of crackles and screeches as thunderstruck still played in the background he had chosen a zinogre from monster hunter as his animagus of choice. The crowd was shocked then they went nuts Noone had seen this form before not even the girls or Harry. Bagman was screaming in the back ground "Oh my lord a 14 year old magical animagus this is a first of its kind there has never been a report of a magical animagus ever before this is history folks!" the girls had sparkling eyes especially Luna who thought this was one big Pokémon battle but then they realised what he was about to do with the battle music still playing the Hungarian horntail roared at him "ROOOOOOOAAAARRRR!!!!!" he responded in kind "AWWROOOOOOOOOO" then pushed off his back legs toward it as hard as he could and smashed into the dragon with a whirl of claws and fangs lightning and fire the fight was on. it was a b.l.o.o.d.y brawl of claws ripping off scales and fur It sounded like thunder in the arena as everything was torn apart the egg lay forgotten. there were blasts of fire and the static of lighting going off Ryan was slamming his claws off the face of the Dragon dodging fire blasts watching out for the spiked tail it was brutal but his heart was just bursting with adrenaline this is what he was waiting for after 6 minutes of fierce beating they were both b.l.o.o.d.y and Ryan had come put on top managing to climb on the dragons back and smash it over and over into the ground before it pa.s.sed out. he then picked up the egg from the edge of the arena and strode out before reverting to his regular human form covered in gouges and b.l.o.o.d.y scratches and burns but he had had the best fun ever and the crowd was still going nuts they had never seen anything like it. his score was at number 1 by far.