Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

Following those thudding steps, the entire thing walked out, forcing Darcie, Daphne, and Dobby to step back into Lilith's embrace.

It was a giant armored knight, over 6 ft tall, and dragging what seemed like a broken longsword.

The entire armor was covered in bloodstains, the silver shining almost gold in the darkness.

And it reeked; of corpses and dead.

Grrr!!

Low, beastly growls came out from the knight's helmet, giving an impression that whoever was behind it had long lost the ability to reason.

The knight spun, and as its gaze landed on the three, two blue shots lit up in the dark slit of his visor.

Run!

There was no need to shout, for all of them had thought of this single word.

Everything just happened too fast for them to think about anything else.

The girls and house-elf ran, tracing their steps back to another corridor.

Behind them, the large thuds of the knight stepping onto the stone slabs on the floor had already intensified.

It was running as well, they realized, terrified.

Huffing and puffing, hearts pounding, the girls kept running, holding their hands, a black cloak rippling behind them.

Grrrrrrr!

But they were little and had no prior experience of running. Not for so long. Not for their lives.

Soon, the girls found themselves breathless, their backs drenched in sweat, their stomachs tightening with knots.

"We…" Darcie worded, catching her breath. "… can't… outrun it, Daphne."

Daphne shared her friend's worry, and then looked down, her face losing the pale color of her skin almost instantaneously. "Where's Dobby?!"

Darcie looked down as well, shaken.

The house-elf wasn't between them anymore.

She pulled the Lethifold off their backs, and what they saw left them gasping in terror.

The giant silver knight was shaking the entire corridor as it ran toward them, dragging the broken longsword on the walls.

And standing between them was Dobby, his fork raised high.

"Run, miss Darcie, miss Daphne!" Dobby screamed, his knees wobbling. "Dobby… will not let it get you!"

"Dobby!" Darcie screamed, rushing toward the house-elf and throwing her purse toward Daphne. "Daphne! Shrink!"

The knight in the silver, blood-stained armor was charging toward them like a mad beast.

Darcie grabbed Dobby's collar at the back of his neck and sent him rolling back.

Behind them, Daphne's blue eyes shone with a knowing glint.

Shaking, she opened the purse and took out a vial of Shrinking Potion.

The girls were just too close to not understand each other at one glance and with one word.

They couldn't use magic here, true enough. But Potions were different, containing magic within themselves.

Daphne threw the vial toward Darcie, who snatched it off midair, uncorked it, and sent it hurling toward the incoming monster.

Tink!

Bang!

Hope was a fickle thing.

Darcie had never thought that with her relentless pursuit of knowledge, investing her everything in learning, and trying to go farther than any witch and wizard before her, there would come a time for her to know such hopelessness.

The Shrinking Potion had indeed splattered out of the exploding vial, but it couldn't as much as leave a drop on the knight.

A magical shield flashed in front of the silver-armored knight, preventing the potion from grazing it.

It could use Magic!

The sudden realization brought the girls' morale to the bottom, making them rooted to their place.

What else they could do now? What else they had?

When the magical shield vanished, the knight stepped forward, shaking the earth beneath its giant metallic boots.

"Run!" Daphne shouted, holding Darcie's hand.

However, just as they turned around, they found their path blocked.

A wall had appeared there, looking as ancient as the others.

This?!

The girls and Dobby looked at each other.

The walls could shift! Was that why they hadn't managed to get somewhere until now?

"Miss Darcie!" Dobby suddenly screamed.

Grrrr!

The knight raised its hands, the longsword in its hand pointing toward the roof.

It let out a raging growl and the bloodstains on the armor began glowing red.

The broken sword gave out a brilliant red glow along with the stains.

"No!" Daphne screamed.

Too late!

The knight hacked, firing a bolt of red lightning toward the girls using the broken longsword.

Darcie was ahead of Daphne and Dobby, putting her closest to the incoming spell.

Her eyes reflected the redness, her heart pounded, and her throat went dry.

But as the spell was about to hit her, a blackness appeared in front of her.

Lilith, the Lethifold, surrounded the girls and Dobby, rippling furiously. The spell came and bombarded the Familiar before ricocheting off.

The knight hacked again, firing another bolt. It, too, landed on the Lethifold and got sent back. The entire corridors quaked, rubble falling everywhere.

"Lilith…" Darcie mumbled, sensing the cloak becoming thinner with every repelling of the spell.

She didn't know what the Lethifold ate, for there never came a time when she had to feed it.

Even then, she knew that this visible thinning of the cloak's thickness was nothing good.

Still, this was Darcie Malfoy. Even in this hopeless situation, her mind just refused to infer details based on the clues she had seen.

"It doesn't have intelligence," Darcie said, speaking more to herself than to Daphne. "It is casting non-verbal spells. And it smells like a corpse. It is… not a living being. 13 circles… 13 guardians…"

"It's an Inferius!" Daphne gasped.

"Daphne! Fire!"

Even in the dark, Darcie found a vial in her hands the moment she asked for them. "Lilith, open up!"

The thin black cloak parted as Darcie gulped down the Fire-Breathing Potion — a potion containing pure fire elemental essence using Asafoetida, Carnation, Dragon's Blood, and Hawthorn as the base ingredients.

Fire-Breathing Potion was one of the most dangerous potions Darcie had learned to brew under the guidance of the two ghosts.

However, as its ingredients were easily available, given her wealth, she had insisted on practicing it.

The silver-armored Knight raised its longsword again.

It was then Darcie drew a deep breath before blowing out as hard as he could.

Sizzle!

A pillar of fire, thick as an arm, blew out from Darcie's mouth.

Surrounded by the darkness, it felt like a miniature sun had risen in front of her.

From the other side, a red bolt of lightning came to meet the wrath of the fiery pillar.

Boom!

An explosion shook the entire corridor, thick chunks of rocks falling here and there.

Dust filled the corners of the corridor, and fire lingered on the walls, licking at the knight in the distance.

Grrr!

The Inferius hacked at the fire, moving away from it and growling toward the corridor's end.

Darcie, Daphne, and Dobby were lying on the ground, their eyes shut.

All over their bodies were marks of dust and bruises left behind by the rubble.

The Lethifold, now abnormally thin, stirred around Darcie as if taking a — rest.

Rest?! Why rest?

What was it waiting for?

What was it hoping would happen?

Pop!

Pop!!

Pop!!!

The sound of bones popping took over the rumbling corridor.

Daphne and Dobby were out cold.

Amazingly, there was no sign of Darcie near them anymore.

"Haa!" a long, white-haired demon drew a deep breath, cracking his neck and knuckles. "So… where were we?"

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