Gritting her teeth, Lillian runs as fast as her legs can carry towards the King. If she knows how to apparate, she would have done so, but seeing apparition lessons are taught until sixth year, Lillian is left to contend with just simply running.
So she ran. The fear of someone dying under her watch prompted Lillian to move swiftly.
Bellatrix is firing spells after spells at her, but Lillian manages to evade most of them or redirect them somewhere that will not harm anyone.
"Secare! Adolebitque! Crucio!" came Bellatrix shot while different colored lights burst out from her wand.
Lillian replied by throwing spells at her as well while she runs, "Alarte Ascendare! Confringo! Stupefy!" at the same time she shouts at the people in the room, "DUCK! ALL OF YOU!" and gratefully, the defenseless bystanders were already ducking low as spell after spell comes zipping past them. The spells hit the walls or the ceiling, where chips of stones and splinters of wood came falling down as the spell hit it.
The people starts to scream in fear and panic now at the sight of the destruction that the two witches have cause. Yet Bellatrix and Lillian continue to exchange fire, despite the pandemonium around them.
Bellatrix change tactic and starts to cast spells non-verbally. Lillian answers by redirecting the first cobalt blue light that comes her way.
"Redirigere!" She yells, sharpy waving her wand to change the spell's direction. The cobalt jet of light hit the ceiling and Lillian has no time to watch what kind of destruction it has cause as she soon follows up with three more spells of her own, "Mucus ad Nauseam! Expulso! Locomotor Mortis!"
In turn, the other witch deflects all of Lillian spells with a wave of her wand, almost nonchalantly.
Lillian seethes as she hears Bellatrix's mad cackling again.
The complex, triple barrier that Lillian used to protect the King was slowly disintegrating after Bellatrix's hex had hit it, and Lillian must need arrive by his side before the mad woman gets the chance to attack the man again.
Around her, the people begins to stampede towards the door, where someone had flung it open the moment Lillian and Bellatrix start their duel.
"WHO AND WHAT ARE THEY?" She hears a woman screaming while some are shouting to the others to, "RUN BEFORE THEY GET THE CHANCE TO HARM ALL OF US!"
Meanwhile, somewhere nearby, Lillian can hear others calling out to the man behind her barrier, "BROTHER!" and "AEGON!", while some are yelling orders of, "DON'T LET ANYONE HARM HIM!" and "PROTECT THE KING!".
From the corner of her eyes, Lillian watches Bellatrix close. The woman seems to enjoy the chaos that Lestrange has sown and has not done anything else but cackle madly.
Good, Lillian thought as she ran. Let her get distracted.
There were two white-armored knights who were testing Lillian's barrier when she finally arrived. And at her sudden appearance, the white knights immediately raise their sword as she drew close.
"If you come closer mage, we will slay you where you –" the dark-haired knight began but a voice interrupts him before he can finish his threat.
"Let her come close for I need to speak to her."
Lillian looks up to see the King gazing down at her with narrowed eyes while he, too, touches the barrier that surrounds him.
"NO, DON'T AEGON! SHE MIGHT KILL YOU!"
Lillian turns and saw a silver-haired woman in armor hurriedly moving through the rush of people.
"LISTEN TO VISENYA, BROTHER!" warns another, this time it came from a bearded man as he, too, has trouble weaving through the crowd of people who were racing towards the nearest exit. "WE CAN'T TRUST A MAGE LIKE HER!"
"KINGSGUARDS! DON'T LET HER GET NEAR THE KING!" shouts the woman named Visenya.
The two knights in front of Lillian move to do just that, but once more, the King intervenes.
"Let her come near." The King repeats in a voice that brook no further argument. "That is an order."
The knights glance at each other, appearing uncertain.
"But your grace –" one of the knights begins to protest, but the King cuts in.
"Do as I say Lord Commander Velaryon." The king orders in a steely voice.
And after shooting each other a glance, the two knights finally allow Lillian to come closer to the barrier where the King stands.
"NO!"
Lillian hears the silver-haired woman shout, but the woman has no reason to worry for Lillian simply took a step forward and did nothing else.
Keeping Bellatrix within sight, Lillian asks the King: "Are you alright?"
"Yes," the man responds with a deep frown marring his brows.
"Good," she says to him, meeting his dark violet eyes briefly.
The man is tall. She shortly notes. That she barely reaches past his shoulder blades as she stood near him.
"Did you create this?" the man inquires, nodding towards the barrier.
"I did." Lillian replies, slowly moving to stand to the King's right. From there, it gives her a better vantage point of Bellatrix Lestrange, who was now eyeing the two of them with a sinister smile on her lips.
After making sure that Lestrange is not about to make a move to end them, Lillian waves her wand and silently utters the charm to strengthen the barrier that surrounds the King.
"It's a barrier to protect you." Lillian informs. "It keeps her – " she points out to Bellatrix "- from doing you harm."
However, the time for small talk is over for Lestrange finally makes her intent known to all.
By this time, the people within the throne room has been reduced mildly, but most are still trying in vain to get past the door and in search of a safer haven from there.
"You can protect the muggle King. But can you protect all these muggles here at once, Potter?" she hears Bellatrix Lestrange asks out loud.
Lillian felt an icy hand grip her heart. Then, her fear becomes well-founded when she hears the woman's next words.
"FOR I INTEND TO BURN THIS PLACE DOWN ALONG WITH YOU, POTTER!" Bellatrix suddenly declares, her eyes glinting with dangerous intent. "FIEND -"
"EXPELLIARMUS!" Lillian shouts before Bellatrix can finish.
Bellaxtrix responds by hastily casting a non-verbal spell to neutralize Lillian's disarming charm.
"IS THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT, POTTER?!" The woman taunts. "SOME BASIC SPELLS YOU LEARN FROM SCHOOL?!"
"And if I do?" Lillian fires right back. "One well-placed spell can as easily end you, you mad woman!"
She doesn't give the other woman another opportunity to cast another spell for Lillian points her wand at the far wall and yells, "BOMBARDA MAXIMA!"
Instantly, a flare of white light shot out from her wand and straight into the wall where she watches the spell work its magic.
There is a loud BOOM! and the noise within the room turns deafening as the people shout and scream the moment the wall collapses. Debris and dust rain down on the floor and over some people close to the gaping hole that suddenly appeared on the far wall, and a short distance from the main exit.
This will allow other people to escape away from there before Bellatrix burns the entire place down with Fiendfyre.
"RUN!" Lillian shouts at the people. "GET OUT OF HERE!"
At her shout, she watches as the sea of people surges towards the new escape path. The people are yelling and pushing at each other to get away from there. Lillian observes the pandemonium right before her attention is drawn to Bellatrix Lestrange, who has shouted "FIENDFYRE!" and is now pointing her wand towards the escaping people.
Lillian inwardly curses at the impending danger. However, she nearly jumps out of her skin when she hears the King calling out in a powerful voice.
"BALERION!"
At first, she thought the King has uttered a spell, for the next thing Lillian knows, there is debris raining down on the room as something huge and black punches a whole through the ceiling to intercept the dark flames that came roaring out from Bellatrix's wand.
Briefly, Lillian saw big, red eyes and deadly horns that lined the head of the huge beast a moment before the Fiendfyre came billowing straight for the beast black scales.
The King hadn't uttered a spell at all.
No.
King Aegon I Targaryen has simply called for his dreaded dragon to join the fight.
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