Professor Malfoy

50 | fly high

Chapter 50
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I'm screaming, my heart is beating hard against my chest as if it wanted to jump out.

The apparition broke, I didn't even know it could do that. Before we crash on a cold ground, I only see darkness. I let out a painful grunt as I hurt my knee. I stay laying for long minutes, breathing hard. I can't seem to catch my breath.

Slowly, as I start to open my eyes, my hearing gets back to me. I realize we apparated into middle of some forest. I can hear the birds singing, the sound of the wind as it flies through tall trees towering above me.

I take a couple of breaths before I decide to sit up and immediately cuss. My body is stiff as a rock, clothes torn apart and my knee is bleeding.

A few steps next to me, I hear Draco breathing. He's laying on the ground motionless, his arm is in a weird angle and his face wounded badly. A huge scar is stretching from his forehead down his left eye. Like someone scratched him through his face.

I force my body to stand up and fight the pain. Once on my both legs, I run toward him and kneel down.

And that's when I realize we're not alone. A little further from us, there's a group of men already standing from the ground. I suppose they're responsible for breaking the apparition.

I quickly turn to Draco and start waking him up, my hands are shaking. I don't know what's going on, but I can sense the danger we're in.

"Draco, come on," I shake his body gently and when I see them walking toward us, I grab my wand from my shoe.

"Stay back!" I shout at them, stretching my arm with the wand toward them.

There's five of them, they're all three heads taller than me, older than me and probably more skilled. They're dressed in weird black clothes that look like from some kind of a cult.

"Stay back!" I shout at them again with shaky scared voice. One of them laughs and the others join him.

They're closer and closer and I don't know what to do. Draco is hurt. I've taken enough Defense classes but this is the real shit, this is life or death. I can see it in their eyes. Who even are they? What if they're from the ministry? I'm not supposed to fight against the ministry, am I?

The one who looks like a leader suddenly shouts and aims his wand my direction. I swear my body freezes instantly. I'm dead, I tell myself. I'm so dead. And I didn't even do anything!

I close my eyes and keep my wand in front of me when all of sudden, a burst of energy lifts the five of them up into the air and sends them back so they fall to the ground, some hit their bodies against the trees.

I let out a surprised sound and take a look at my wand. Did I do this or-

Turning around, I spot Draco. He's having a hard time standing in his legs. He's telling me to run.

I run to him and gently grab his wounded face into my both hands.

"Listen, you need to run, okay? Listen to me-"

I'm shaking my head, tears are in the corners of my eyes, "no, you're hurt...you can't fight them-Ah!"

I scram as a flash of green light flies above my head.

They're attacking us with death spells. When Draco realizes there's no time for me to run, he hides me behind his back and starts fighting back.

Everything happens too fast. He's doing okay for a little while, then they stand up from the ground even more powerful and start shooting spells at us every millisecond. I know it's not going to end up well unless I join Draco and stop hiding like a coward.