We weren't sure where to look, until we saw the sky turn red. Then we knew to look everywhere. All around the school, cloaked figures became visible just outside the shield and began to destroy it by casting various potions and spells on it. As they appeared, the general air of panic began to grow. However, none of us were fools, the Seventh years flew up to the wall of the school and immediately began to try to strengthen the wall, though they might as well have tried to drink the ocean with all the damage 4 Pillars was doing. Everyone else was filing to go inside, when Luke ran out with Headmistress McGonagall at his heels. The Headmistress yelled out orders.
"All students fifth years or older file into the Defense Against the Dark Arts room for immediate battle preparation! Fourth years and under file to the main towers and wait for instruction!"
Everyone scurried to their respective location. I followed Luke to the room, where he was taking out some strange weapons I had never seen. He leaped to his podium, stepped on top of it, and began to speak.
"Alright, as you are aware, we are under attack. Efforts are being made to contact the Wizard military, but we think that this attack has been well planned, and help will neither be notified nor arrive on time. It is up to us."
Luke waved his wand, and specialized weapons appeared in lines on the desks.
"I wish I had been given more time to teach you the best way to use these, regrettably I have not been given that privilege. Luckily, you hardly need much know-how to use these if you have been paying attention in class, just utilize these the way you would a wand."
On the desks were strange contraptions that looked similar to guns, but instead of hollow barrels and areas that held bullets (don't expect ME to know what those are called), they had slots for inserting wands. Luke continued talking.
"These attachments do to your wand what upgrading a muggle wand, or gun, would do. They amplify your wand in different ways, with different effects. For example…"
He picked up a random attachment and inserted his wand, then pointed his (grenade launcher gun wand?) at a target on the wall and fired. It destroyed the target, the wall behind it, and still managed to blow pieces of the wall around. He then put the gun on the desk behind him and clapped his hands.
"Everyone pick an attachment! The attachment should have a little picture and some stats showing how the attachment works, so you know what you are getting."
Everyone looked at the attachments and made decisions based on their preferences. I picked up an attachment that said "M392" on it and chose a small bayonet tip for it. Scorpius chose a sniper attachment, Lorcan and Lysander both took out attachments of their own that mimicked high range magnums. Albus chose a full auto machine gun (dang!) and most people took the equivalent of an M4. I walked up to Luke.
"Wait, you've injected your wand, how do you make use of that?"
Luke smirked.
"That's the beauty of it, I could choose any I wanted, however…"
Luke put the grenade launcher down and took out some gauntlets.
"These have ten attachments, but people won't know that. I will be using a gun on the battlefield, but I won't need it."
Shivers temporarily took me over as I realized that he had the equivalent of ten guns on him at all times, and he wasn't really on our side. Luke showed no signs of noticing my concern, and instead turned to the crowd.
"Alright, if you've chosen a weapon attachment, get to the wall, and we'll get moving to the battlefield."