Fights, Magic and Surprises

'spells'

Town

While Harry was running around trying to get people to come to the safety of the hall, Sirius, Vern and Athen were getting ready with Lightstall's fighters. Men and women came from all over the town, some looked at Sirius suspiciously but didn't say or do anything. They were all bringing old swords and battered shields, old or makeshift spears or pikes and a few eve bought pitchforks. Vern got everyone's attention and began, "Listen guys we have to get ready, those rats want to kill us, our children, wives, sisters and brothers, are we gonna let 'em!?" All the townsfolk yell NO, Athen takes over, "These snakes made a big mistake when they decided to attack us today, they made a bigger one when they decided to watch us from the hill. We know their numbers, we know our town and I'll be damned if I let these little shits take what's ours. ARE YOU WITH ME!?" the townsfolk are getting worked up into a ferver, banging their spears and swords against their shields, the ones that don't are banging their weapons against each other. Vern and Athen start posting fighters in points they should be able to hold, making poor shield walls that should still hold with the spearmen to choke point them in, with the swordsmen in the third line. Athen asks Sirius to lead the group defending the left of the Hall, Sirius accepts.

Harry had managed to get nearly all the people who would be hiding into the Hall, the only one left out was a small girl who's stuck on a roof. Harry runs over to the building and says, "Come on, you've got to get down, jump I'll catch you, okay?" The little girl squeaks and shakes her head, then points behind Harry and he notices that three bandits had split off from the main group on the hill, probably to get two hostages. Three horsemen were rushing towards him, about four hundred metres away, Harry draws his wand, three hundred and fifty, Harry casts a quick stunner with a muttered, "Stupefy" the bandit dodges the red jet of light, three hundred, they pick up pace. One of the bandits throw a javelin, it goes too high to hit Harry, he quickly realises the intended target and casts a quick banishing charm with a yelled "DEPULSO!" the charm lands true and sends the javelin rocketing into the air away from the town. They started running faster and are closing ground faster, two hundred and ten, Harry casts bombarda at the ground in front of them and does a quick mass transfiguration turning a lot of the sand kicked up into pins and needles then banishes them at the bandits. Harry then decides to cast a spell he still hasn't perfected but he feels it is necessary, the smoke screen charm, Harry takes a breath to calm down, then calmly intones, "Fumos duo!" A large amount of smoke pours from Harry's wand and completely obscures the bandits from view.

Harry turns to the small girl and says, "This is gonna feel funny okay? I promise that it won't hurt." Harry then intones, "Wingardium Leviosa." All of a sudden the girl is gently lifted from the room and placed softly in front of Harry. Harry says gently, "Come on, we have to get you to the Town Hall, let's hurry." The small girl looks nervous but nods and they run to the Hall.

They get to the steps of the Hall to see Vern and Athen giving out last minute instructions, Vern turns slightly and his eyes widen considerably, he lets out a strangled shout of, "ROSE!? What are you doing out here, get into the Hall." The newly named rose nods and says, "Okay Daddy." Then runs off into the Hall, Vern turns to look at Harry and smiles weakly saying, "Thank you for finding my daughter but you should get into the Hall too, we'll come get everyone once this is all over." Harry goes to say something, stops, then sighs and nods jogging to the Hall. When he gets to the doors he looks back and yells, "Good luck!" Harry closes the doors.

The moment the Hall's door closed, the bandits charged.

With Sirius, left street to the hall

Sirius looks out down the street, sighs, looks at the men with him and thinks, 'A lot of these men are going to die, die because they are woefully unprepared for bandits.'

Down the other end of the street Sirius can see horsemen preparing, there's a few footmen behind, things aren't looking too good. Plus side, only six horsemen, downside, about twenty footmen, each with a sword and light armour, some with spears. The only good things for the defenders, they have numbers, it's their town and quite possibly the biggest trump card, if need be, they have a wizard. Of course they don't know that. The men look nervous, they probably should be, Sirius is nervous, not for the same reason however, he heard Harry yell, heard him cast felt it even. Sirius knows that they won't be able to keep magic a secret, not at least, not anymore.

Sirius sighs and says, "One of you lads pass me some stone or wood, large branches if you would, or lots of medium sized stone." They look at him funny, understandable, they still pass him wood and stone. Sirius takes out his wand and starts to silently cast, more specifically he starts transfiguring wood and stone into metal shields. They won't last too long, he explains it to the men, they nod glad to have a bit of protection anyway. With the pieces left over, Sirius creates wooden stakes that should give the horsemen pause allowing them a slight advantage. Sirius says, "Lads I've done as much as I can to prepare us, get behind these spikes, spears and shields at the front, when the horsemen charge hold against them, take them down quickly. We can't afford to waste time or allow them to fell even one of us. When the horsemen are dealt with form back up into a wall, swords and shields behind them, when I say spear line break in the middle and then swords push through, understand?" The men nod and a few say, "Understood" Sirius smiles, he'll do his best to save his men, to make sure that no children are fatherless because of his mistake, not again.

A/N: I change what I said about uploading schedule, it will either be fortnightlyor whenever I feel a chapter is complete, that'll be around 1k words for now, getting progressivelylonger. So I was debating about Harry and Sirius either being immune to The Doom or fixing it, what do you think?