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Hermione POV:

"What nonsense is she spouting again?" Percy gave a call, noticing Bellatrix watching us vividly from the side like we were a show with the season finale, or more accurately, our finale. Our spells had begun to lose strength again, each time we cast one, it seemed to be weaker than the last.

"Don't listen to her," Harry said. "She's a lunatic, whatever she says is probably something she made up. People like her make things up all day just to get others killed,"

"Still mourning I see," Bellatrix sneered. "If I wasn't permitted to kill you all, then I promise you I would have already reunited you and your precious godfather. Though, that doesn't stop them from killing you,"

"Annabeth," Ron called. "Sword! Get your sword!"

"The spells!" Annabeth retorted. "They aren't working very well! Whoever is nearby just try casting it with me, maybe that way it can transform sooner,"

I gave a quick shot before rolling over, almost having my head burned off in the process. These ones can actually breathe fire? Really!?

"If you stayed back there for another few seconds, it would have been much more to my liking," Bellatrix mused before the hellhound at her side started to tug at the bottom of her robes. Her eyes lit up and her fingers began to twidle as she gave a lick of her lips before gulping. "Very good indeed, yes, good job," Her head nodded constantly.

"See," Ron murmured. "She's a maniac, probably more maniac than before,"

However, Bellatrix didn't bother making another snide remark at this stage. Whatever the hellhound was doing or telling her obviously gave her some sort of incomparable excitement. Giving a small gesture with her wand, one of the bulls turned towards her, the radiation it had had died down making it seem like regular bronze and it's size had also shrunk somewhat. Without saying anymore words, she took off into the forest quickly, the shadows concealing her movements though the sounds of clomping could still be heard until they gradually disappeared.

"You don't think if we did that, it'd work?" Ron mimiced the movements Bellatrix made earlier before giving a sigh. "Yeah, I guessed that it wouldn't,"

There was a shing sound from the side. Taking the sword in her hand, Annabeth dodged to one side. "I can kill it again like the last one, but since this one's burning skin attribute is working unlike the last so I can't use the same method,"

"What about Bellatrix?" Harry asked. "Don't you think we should go after her? Who knows what she's doing here,"

"I set out a signal sometime ago," I said. "In the meantime, we can use the Water-Making Spell to cool off the skin if Annabeth needs to hold onto it anytime,"

By now, the bull was still rampaging around. Annabeth was on one side, while Ron, Harry, Percy and I were on the other. Looking towards us, she nodded. All of us used the water-making spell. A sizzling sound erupted when the jets all hit the colchis bull, the water rolling around it's body in large clumps or small droplets at the side. Annabeth seized the opportunity when the colchis bull started rampaging towards us to thrust her sword into what I assumed was one of the bull's most vital areas as it had immediately reared upwards in pain. However just when she had been dragging the sword through it's body, flames suddenly flew out from it's nostrils and mouth setting the surrounding trees on fire, This forced Annabeth to go back, however her sword had made a deep cut into the neck of the bull where some sort of oil or fire-like substance flooded out like blood.

"That's a lot of fire it breathes," Ron remarked. "The centaurs are not going to be happy about this,"

"We aren't in their territory right now," I replied. "but I understand your meaning," The fire had been spreading quickly and it seemed that surrounding us was a large expanse of flames. The forbidden forest was always thick with trees, and the fire seemed to be leaping on one to another. The colchis bull's fierce rampaging only added to this spread. Beating it's legs up and down, and charging around. Fire bloomed from it's nostrils and mouth into a burning blaze around us. Quickly, I pointed my wand to the side. "Vermillious!" I cried out. Percy and Annabeth were mainly handling the colchis bull while Ron, Harry and I were restricting it and trying to put out some of the fire at the same time. Seeing that situation wasn't very good at all, I didn't hesitate to call for help again. As for when it'd arrive, I wasn't sure. It hadn't been too long since the first one, but extra pairs of hand would really be helpful at that moment.

"Do you think we can get rid of the bull?" I asked.

"Possibly," Annabeth answered. "Depends,"

"Depends on what?" Harry asked.

"Depends on how we do things," Annabeth shot Percy a look. "The fire is really strong, however, it is also heavily injured."

"So we extinguish the fire,"

"And we finish the job. The sword is still in it's body. If I can grab the hilt, I should be able to slice through the rest of it. That would be the simplest way for this to end,"

"But the fire is already spreading to the rest of the forest," Harry said. "Our magic can make a lake appear out of nowhere, especially when our good pal here is making things difficult. Focus on it or focus on the fire, it would be restrictive if we did both,"

"Focus on the bull," Ron suggested, another burst of water flew out extinguishing the fire that had appeared as well. Following his lead, the rest of us went back to the original plan of constraining the bull for Annabeth. Although, it was much more difficult than before now that there was a fire in the situation as well. However, our plans didn't disappoint and Annabeth was able to finish off the colchis bull which soon thumped to the ground, showing signs of fading into yellow dust as well. As soon as it did fall, the rest of us directed the water to the fire around us. It didn't catch onto places too close to us after we adjusted to one side and mainly stayed on the plants, however, it seemed to have already burnt much of the area.