AN: This chapter is in Bill Weasley's POV, I've never written anything from him before, so I hope I did alright with his thoughts. Warnings, I decided to give this chapter a horror movie like feel to it, so there is fighting, bad language, gruesome descriptions, and spiders, lots of them, it's not too graphic or detailed, but warning you anyway.
Disclaimer I don't own HP or Marvel.
Chapter 48: Little Hangleton.
Bill Weasley has no idea who the hell Axl Rose was or why Tony Stark felt the need to call him that instead of his actual name, but going by the nicknames he called his fellow Avengers, it most likely had something to do with American Muggle Pop Culture, Bill just didn't get the reference, he's heard Tony call Sirius Black Houdini and Bill knew who that was, he can remember the summer after he turned eleven, the year before he started Hogwarts, for that whole summer his father had a fascination with the Muggle escape artist Harry Houdini, "how did he do it?" Bill would hear him ask his mother, "How did he make such a great escape without magic? Fascinating." He figured Tony called Sirius that because he was good at escaping, having both escaped Azkaban and the Avengers themselves. Bill even got the nickname Tony called Harry, Oz, from The Wizard of Oz due to his father's obsession with Muggles. Bill remembers his father had all kinds of Muggle storybooks, and he used to read them as a child. The Wizard Of Oz had been his favorite, so much so that when his father heard that a Muggle theater was playing the movie for its many-year anniversary, his dad had taken him to see it.
That was kept from the younger children because, by the time Ginny was born, they could no longer afford such things, a fact Bill sometimes felt guilty about; he and Charlie had a much better childhood than his younger siblings. Because fewer children meant more money, they got by decent enough when the only children they had were Bill, Charlie, and Percy. Not that Bill didn't love his younger siblings, he did very much, but sometimes it secretly irked him that his dad let his love of Muggles stop him from getting a higher position at the Ministry, one that could help better provide for his large family. That and his parents' pride annoyed the hell out of him. Bill had offered to help pay for Ron's school things when he started Hogwarts since he was making enough to more than support himself, but their parents had refused, saying it was not his responsibility. He made the offer again when Ginny started Hogwarts, and likewise, his parents refused his help.
Anyway, Bill's mind was wandering from its original thoughts, and that was why Tony insisted on calling him Axl Rose, and who the hell was Axl Rose? He had previously believed Tony's Thunderstruck nickname for Thor had been due to him being the God of Thunder, but after spending hours with Tony Stark, helping him invent magic detectors, he now knows Thunderstruck mostly came from a song by one of Tony's favorite Muggle bands, Tony loved to blast music as he worked, and Bill was quickly growing fond of Muggle rock music, it was nice hearing songs that didn't talk about cauldrons and dragons, and whatever else. The point is, Bill figured Axl Rose was a muggle rock band that Tony hadn't listened to yet, or maybe a song; Bill just didn't understand why Tony called him that. It was a mystery that wasn't worth worrying over since they had more important things to do now.
Like keeping his mind focused on the quest he was on. He, Remus, Tonks, and the Avengers, all except Thor, had just gotten off the Quinjet, which was parked in an empty field just outside of Little Hangleton, the English village Voldemort's mum was from. They were here to see if there were any Horcruxes here, Loki was sure Voldemort would have hidden one in the old Gaunt house. Yesterday, Remus told the Avengers Harry's whole backstory, from Loki abandoning him with Sirius to Sirius allowing the Potters to adopt him because he thought Harry would have a better life to how Harry became the Boy-Who-Lived. Bill had been surprised they hadn't heard at least some of the story yet, and Bill's respect for them grew a little because they'd been willing to put their lives on hold to help a kid they barely knew and hadn't even known that he was famous.
"Does anyone else find it ironic that we are helping an evil dude who just tried to take over the world a few years ago to stop another evil dude from taking over the world?" Clint asked.
"Anyone else think Loki is just using us to get rid of Voldemort so he can try to take over the world again?" Tony answered.
"Come on guys, Loki isn't that bad," Tonks said, "I think he's kind of cool."
"Didn't he admit to killing your aunt recently?" Bruce asked; what sounded like jealousy could be heard in his voice.
"Walburga Black?" Tonks made a face, "Great aunt, actually, and please, don't remind me that I'm related to that bitch."
"Do you think Loki killed her like he said he did?" Steve asked.
"I think if Loki says he killed someone, it's best to believe him," Remus answered.
"True," Tony said. "Sirius probably told Loki of his mom's abuse. We've all seen how protective of Sirius Loki can get."
"I think it was something else that set Loki off," Remus said, "When Regulus died, Sirius had gotten an owl from his mum begging him to come to his brother's funeral; Sirius agreed to go, but it was a trap the moment Sirius stepped into Grimmauld Place, he was ambushed, Walbuaga and a few other family members attacked him. Sirius was lucky to escape alive, he was in bad shape when he showed up at James' and when Loki arrived looking for him, she took one look at Sirius and demanded to know who did it, James told her, she left, and didn't return for hours, that next morning Sirius' father Orion, arrived home to find his wife and half his family members dead."
"Damn," Tony said.
"I believe Cygnus and Druella Black were among them," Tonks said, "Mum said they were just as dark as the rest of the family, believable since they did spawn Bellatrix."
"I don't blame Loki," Bucky said, "If anyone hurt someone I cared about like that, I'd kill them all too."
"Bucky," Steve chided, Bucky shrugged.
"What? It's true, I don't even have to be screwing them to be that protective over them." Bucky said, "You all for insists, you're my family now; I'd kill for any of you guys."
"Wow, thanks, buddy, you make us feel appreciated." Tony joked while Steve gave Bucky a disapproving look, and Clint started laughing.
"Ha, I just remembered, isn't Orion, Sirius's middle name?" Clint said, "He's Sirius Orion Black, making his initials SOB, and he's literally a SOB, a Son of a bitch." Tony snorted.
"You'll have to mention that to Sirius," Remus said, smiling, "I don't think he's realized that and Sirius will find it hilarious…." he trailed off, and his smile dropped and a look of disgust crossed his face.
"Is something wrong?" Natasha asked.
"That bloody smell," Remus said, covering his mouth and nose with his hand.
"What smell?" Bruce asked. They had just entered the village and stopped at the end of the road; something wasn't right. It looked deserted. From where they stood, they could not see or hear a single living thing, not even a stray cat, and there were no sounds of barking dogs. Surely, even a small town like this would have a few residents with pet dogs. Wasn't there always that one neighbor who had an annoying barking dog they couldn't keep quiet?
They started walking down the road, going further into the town, and the smell Remus mentioned reached Bill's nose, it smelled of rot and decay.
"Merlin," Remus said, "That smell is worse now." He looked as if he might get sick. Bill felt bad for the guy. If the smell was bad to them, it had to be double as bad to Remus, with his heightened senses from being a werewolf.
"Here, this might help." Natasha pulled a bandana out of her pocket, rolled it up a little, then turned to Remus and tied it around his head, covering his mouth and nose, leaving the bottom loose enough that he could talk.
"Thank you," Remus said, sounding grateful. Bill suspected that Remus didn't mention to Sirius that he volunteered to take Thor's place in the Horcrux hunt. They've all noticed that Sirius could be a bit protective of Remus, something Bill was sure got on the werewolf's nerves sometimes.
"Where the hell is everyone?" Clint demanded, looking around as they walked down the street. There wasn't a soul in sight, no people walking down the road, no vehicles passing, no birds flying from tree to tree, not one person or animal.
There was rubbish littering the streets from overturned bins, cars parked in almost every driveway covered in what looked like webs or dust as if no one had driven them in a couple of months. Some even had windows busted out; it was the same for the houses; they gave off an empty feel, even though the sky was overcast, blocking most the sun, not a single light was on, not even a porch light, lawns were overgrown, flowers were dead, no one had bothered to rake the leaves in their yards, and no one has bothered to come out and clean up any of the rubbish, not even to pick up their bins, that looked to be tossed and thrown all over the place. There was no sound of life coming from the homes either, no televisions or radios blasting, no sounds of children playing, sibling fights, no couples having lovers quarrels, no laughing, talking, not even the sound of a baby crying.
"Do you know what I don't like about this?" Tony said, "I get not seeing cats or dogs if everyone up and ran off for some reason, they'd take their pets with them, but as someone who's lived in New York for most my life, there is one thing I don't get."
"No rats?" Steve asked, looking at a pile of rotten food spilling out of an overturned rubbish bin. "This trash has rotten food; this whole place looks abandoned, just perfect for rats and mice and other wildlife to move in and take over."
"Exactly," Tony said, "I would bet the entire Stark fortune that these houses have stocked kitchens and pantries, outdated and rotten by now, but animals don't usually care about that sorta thing."
"Is this a ghost town?" Tonks asked, looking around.
"If it's a ghost town, it hasn't been for long. A few of these cars are fairly new," Clint said.
"And ghost town doesn't explain the no rats thing," Bucky said.
"Alright, Jarvis, talk to me," Tony said. There was a short pause then.
"Little Hanglton is a small English village not known to many outsiders, as there is no tourist attraction or anything to draw anyone in. At the last census, the village had a population of 1,005, down twenty percent. Nothing is online about any abandonments or disappearings; everything points to there supposed to be 1,005 people living in this town."
"This is so weird," Tonks said.
"Guys, you don't reckon Voldemort came in and killed everyone, do you?" Clint asked the question Bill had been wondering.
"Merlin, I hope not," Tonks said.
"That would explain the absence of people, but what about animals?" Natasha asked, "Rats aren't the only thing missing; there are no birds or squirrels either."
"And no bugs." Bruce said, "Where are all the flies? Shouldn't this trash attract them as much as rats?"
"Let's just find this Gaunt house, get the Horcrux, and get out of here," Steve said, "I don't have a good feeling about this; something isn't right."
"It feels like someone is watching us," Bucky said, looking around like he was trying to spot someone.
"Yeah, me too," Steve said; the two gave each other a look, then Bucky pulled his gun from around his back, and Steve reached behind him, grabbed his shield, and hooked it to his arm.
"I've had that feeling since arriving here," Remus said. He lowered the bandana from his nose, lifted his head, sniffed, made a face, and then sniffed harder as if trying to sniff past the awful smell, then frowned, covering his nose back up, tilted his head sideways, and closed his eyes. His ear lifted a little as he listening for something. For what Bill had no idea.
"The smell of rotten food and death is too hard to get past," Remus said. He paused momentarily, "But I hear no sounds of human life other than ours. However, I hear a faint sound of a many heartbeats that isn't human or any other animals I know of unless it's a magical creature."
"How do you know it's not human heartbeats?" Bucky asked.
"The pace and patterns of the heartbeat are different for each creature." Remus said, "For example, a dog's heartbeat is typically faster than a human's and beats constantly, whereas a human takes a second or two between each beat."
"I didn't know you had such heightened senses when not a werewolf," Tonks said.
"I didn't either, until recently," Remus replied. "I've been reading up on how to tap into the werewolf sense in human form."
"It's because of what Loki said, isn't it?" Natasha asked. Remus hesitated for a moment, then gave a nod. Bill had no idea what she was talking about but figured it wasn't his business, so he didn't ask.
"I'd like to know what you meant about smelling death?" Bruce asked. Remus gave him a look.
"There are two rotten smells, the rubbish, and food spilled out of the bins lying everywhere." Remus said. "And the smell of decaying….well, I'm sure you get what I mean."
"So, the people that live in these houses-"
"Are likely still there."
"Let's not think about that," Clint said. "Let's go find what we came here for and get out of dodge."
"This magic detector isn't picking anything up yet," Tony said. He had the magic detector that he and Bill created in his hand. It was a small round device that looked like a cross between a compass and a sneakascope. It had a tiny arrow inside that would point in the direction of any magic detected while it let off a whistling sound. The closer you got to the magic it detected, the louder it got.
"Might be too far away," Bill suggested.
"Jarvis."
"The Gaunt house is a small house around the block, continue going straight until you come upon a left turn, then take it, and keep going straight to the end of the street, cross a small road, the house is on the other side, the only one on that side.
"Alright, team, you heard Jarvis, let's go," Tony said, and he walked straight. No one spoke as they followed, with Steve and Bucky continuously looking around, making Bill nervous. The further they got down the road, the more Bill suspected Remus was right because no one had appeared yet, and no one peeped out of any windows. Bill was starting to conclude what the decaying smell was, and he didn't like it. They came to the end of the street right before the turn down the road that led to the Gaunt's house and saw a car turned over on its top in someone's front yard, and the boot opened, with what looked like groceries spilled out, Bucky walked over to get a better look.
"Ah, man, there's all kinds of rotten food that smells awful," Bucky said as he moved up to peep in the car. "Umm, guys, there's a body in here."
"What?" Steve asked, "Are you sure they are dead?"
"Well, considering they aren't moving or breathing, and half their face has rotted off, I would say I'm almost positive they are dead," Bucky said.
"They're dead. The smell tells me that, I don't have to listen for a heartbeat," Remus said. "Like I said, we are the only alive humans here."
"Is that….is that legs?" Tonks asked, pointing towards the house door. Bill stepped over to look, and sure enough, there was legs lying just inside the doorway.
"I'll just go check it out," Bill said, heading towards the house.
"Bill, be careful," Tonks said, worry in his voice for her friend. She's known Bill for a while now; they were in Hogwarts together, though he was above her in years, and she was in Hufflepuff and good friends with his brother, Charlie Weasley.
"I'll go with him," Bucky said and walked behind Bill, who pulled out his wand and headed up to the front porch. The front door was hanging off its hinges, and the legs lying there had no other body parts attached to them. It was just legs in a puddle of blood that had been ripped from their body.
Bill stepped over the legs, careful not to step in the puddle of blood; Bucky followed him inside. They looked around; there were holes in walls, pictures knocked off, broken knick-knacks and trinkets laid all over the floor, and the couch was turned over on its back and covered in what looked like a giant spider web.
"Hello," Bill called out, holding up his wand, "anyone here alive and need help?"
"Remus said there isn't." Bucky reminded him. Bill looked at Bucky for a moment. While at Grimmauld Place, he noticed Bucky had grown fond of Sirius and Remus, took what they said at face value, no questions asked. Bill could understand why the two last Marauders might be known to keep things from you, though mostly just secrets about themselves. Sirius and Remus, as far as Bill knows, aren't ones for telling a straight-out lie, at least none that'd get someone killed.
"I know. I guess I'm just hoping Remus was wrong." Bill said.
"Yeah," Bucky mumbled, frowning at a trail of blood on the floor that led into the kitchen, then started following it, Bill now walking behind him.
"Fuck." Bucky cursed when he entered the kitchen and looked to the side. They found the rest of the body that the legs belonged to; it was scattered all over the kitchen, arms, hands, skin, bones, and a skull; there were pieces everywhere and blood almost on every surface. There was a giant spider web in the corner. This time, the spiders were still in it, tarantella-sized spiders crawling all over the web and kitchen.
"Let's get the hell out of here," Bill said, turning and leaving the kitchen.
"Right behind you, buddy," Bucky said, following Bill out of the house and back onto the street.
"You guys do not want to know what we-" Bill trailed off at the sight of his teammates staring up the road, shocked looks on their faces, Steve holding his shield in front of him, Tonks and Remus with their wands out, Natasha had her hand on her gun hooked to her side, and Tony now had the visor down on his helmet and looked ready to fight.
"What?" Bill asked as he and Bucky turned to look and their eyes widened at what they saw.
"Holy shit," Bucky said.
That whole street was covered in giant spider webs, ever house, car, lawn, and trees. The only part bare was a small path in the street that went straight ahead and led to an old, run-down shack at the end of the road. The worst part was that if you looked close enough, you could see skeletons caught in the web, along with hundreds, possibly thousands of tarantula-sized spiders.
"Acromantulas," Remus said, "baby Acromantulas, which means full-size ones are here somewhere."
"What?" Bruce asked. "That's not their full size? Wait, what are Acromantulas?"
"Giant venomous man-eating spiders." Remus and Bucky said simultaneously, and Tonks shivered and closed her eyes.
"It feels like they're crawling all over me." She said and brushed off her arms as if they were crawling on them.
"Are you going to be okay?" Bruce asked, concern in his voice.
"Yeah, just give me a moment," Tonks said.
"Good, because that's the street we must go down," Tony said.
"What?" Tonks cried.
"That small house at the very end must be the Gaunt House," Tony explained, "That's where the magic detector says the magic is coming from."
"Wonderful," Tonks mumbled.
"Okay, here's the plan, Axl Rose, you're the Curse Breaker, you focus on getting into that house and find the Horcrux," Tony said, "The rest of us, we'll focus on keeping the monsters at bay if they show up."
"Hopefully, they don't," Tonks mumbled, looking slightly pale.
Everyone agreed, and they headed down the street. The smell of dead bodies lingering made them all feel nauseous, and Tonks was using one hand to cover her nose while holding her wand tightly in her other hand. She looked terrified as she tried to ignore all the baby Acromantulas. Natasha, on the other hand, didn't seem bothered by them as they walked past. Like Tonks, Remus was holding his wand and looking around for any adult Acromantulas.
They kept quiet and alert on their way down the road, keeping a watch around them, even though they didn't like to see the few bodies they passed. The Acromantulas must have killed or eaten the whole town. Those poor people, Bill didn't want to think of what horrors they went through. It must have been terrifying.
Tonks suddenly screamed, and Bill jumped, startled, and looked her way to see she had her leg caught in a rather large and thick spider web. Bruce went over to try and help her get out.
"Watch out!" Remus suddenly yelled as a full-grown Acromantula appeared, crawling over a car and heading straight at Tonks and Bruce. He pointed his wand at it at the same time Tonks did.
"Descendo,"
Both magic users cast the same spell. It hit the Acromantula as the thing reared back to bite Tonks, and it was knocked over a house. Then more appeared, crawling over cars, jumping down from roofs of houses, smaller ones coming from trees. They were surrounding them.
"That's proof enough for me," Remus said, "Voldemort has a Horcrux in that house. Bill, fight your way to it; we'll keep these things busy; once you have the Horcrux, we'll get out of here."
Bill took off running towards the Gaunt house. He used whatever spell he could to blast the Arcomantula away from him. Behind him, Tony took to the air, shooting lasers. Clint was shooting arrows at them, and Natasha was shooting at them with her gun. However, it didn't do good unless she got them in the eyes or somewhere equally vulnerable. Bucky was doing the same, but his gun was more powerful and was doing a bit better than Natasha's. Remus and Tonks were doing the same as Bill, throwing whatever spell or hex they could think of.
"Confringo."
Bill cast the spell at an Acromantula, and it exploded, guts and body parts going everywhere, which was extremely gross. He heard Tonks scream again, and Bill stopped in his tracks and turned around to see Tonks hanging from a tree, a web wrapped around her leg, as the Acromantula pulled her up towards it. She was using her other foot to try and kick it.
"Hey, let her go," Bruce said, sounding angry. Then, one spider's pincers pierced Tonk's leg, and she screamed in pain. Bill stood there watching in shock as Bruce growled, then started turning green and growling.
"They've done it now," Tony said, as the Hulk now stood where Bruce was a moment ago.
"Mine." Hulk cried. He reached his arm out and wrapped it around Tonks' waist, and gently pulled her away from the Acromantula, then sat Tonks on the ground, then turned back to the Acromantula and flattened it with one punch.
"Wicked." Tonks cried, "I was hoping to get to see Hulk." he turned to her, grunted, and then ran down the road, smashing and tossing Acromantulas.
"Reducto,"
Bill looked over to see Remus had knocked a spider away from Natasha, who was on the ground. She slid underneath another one, there was a loud bang, as she shot it in the gut. The thing dropped dead on top of her. Remus reached over and lifted it off Natasha, then reached down for her hand and pulled her to her feet.
"You okay?" Remus asked, checking Natasha over. She looked amused by the attention but said she was okay. After watching how those to act with each other at Headquarters, Bill believed they had feelings for one another. They just hadn't acted on those feelings yet.
"Hey, Axl, now's the time to get in the shack and get the Horcrux," Tony said, floating in the air next to Bill. He looked around and noticed the Hulk had scared off most of the Acromantulas, and the ones still there were hiding behind cars, and likely there were some behind the houses too. The giant man-eating venomous spiders were scared of the Hulk.
Bill turned and ran the rest of the way toward the Gaunt House, Tony behind him. He stopped at the front door and waved his wand around. There weren't any enchantments or wards, so Bill opened the door and walked in.
The house smelled damp and like mold. It was just one small room that served as both the kitchen and living room, there was a small rusted staircase that led up to a second floor that Bill guessed was only big enough for one or two bedrooms. There was a small kitchen table that stood next to an old-fashioned stove, and an old cabinet sat next to it that still had old rusted pots and pans and was covered in dust, just like the floor, and there was a moth-eaten rug that ran along the old rotting wood.
"The Magic detector is going crazy," Tony said, "I believe we found the Horcrux."
"Where?" Bucky asked from the doorway. Neither had seen nor heard him follow them into the house. The others stayed outside to keep watch on the Arcomantulas.
"It's under one of these floorboards," Bill said as he started waving his wand around. "The protective charm is over the floor. I bet if I tried to bust one of the boards, it would trigger it, and I'd be cursed somehow. Just have to figure out what curse, and think of the counter curse."
The two Avengers were quiet as Bill waved his wand around the floor, mumbling Latin words, frowning in concentration.
"I got it," Bill said, "Stand back some, please, I don't know how the spell will react when I try to break it."
Tony stepped back, but Bucky was still standing by the doorway. Bill stepped back and waved his wand a few times, and sparks flew from it, the same as from the floor. There was an electricity-type sound, then a bang, and the house shook as larger and brighter sparks flew everywhere. Bill was thrown back a bit, then nothing.
"You alright, there, Axl Rose?" Tony asked as Bill climbed to his feet.
"Just fine," Bill said. He bent to pick up his wand and waved over the floor again. "The protective enchantment broke. The Horcrux under the floor, first, we have to move this rug."
Bucky handed Tony his gun, then walked over, pulled up the rug, and began rolling it up toward the stove, revealing a trap down underneath. Bill grabbed the handle and pulled the door open; hundreds of baby Acromantulas crawled out, and all over the door, lying in a crawl space was a small square box.
"Let me guess, the Horcrux is inside that," Tony said.
"Yeah, and I don't fancy sticking my hand in a crawl space full of poisonous spiders," Bill said. Bucky reached his metal arm into the crawl space, pulled out the box, sat it on the floor and opened it. Inside was a smaller, black velvet box. Bill pulled it out and opened it. Inside was a ring with a red stone with a coat of arms engraved.
"A ring?" Tony demanded.
"Must be some family relic or something," Bill said, running his finger across the stone. "It feels like it's alive, a bit creepy."
Bill laid the ring on the floor, then set the velvet box next to it, then the bigger square box and waved his wand, mumbled a spell, and duplicates of all three appeared, careful not to pick up the real one. Bill lifted the fake ring, tapped the stone with his wand, and said another spell and the stone copied the alive feel the Horcrux had, and Bill put it in the fake velvet box, then put it into the fake square box, and handed it to Bucky.
"Could you put that in the same spot the real one was in?" Bill asked.
Bucky put the fake box down in the crawl space while Bill put the real ring back in the velvet box, put it in the square box, closed the lid, then conjured a bag, sat the box into the bag, and put it on his back, and stood, Bucky stood with him, and Tony shut the trap down.
"Hopefully, if You-Know-Who shows up to check on it, that'll fool him for a bit, at least until we figure out how to destroy them after collecting them all," Bill said. "The last thing we want is for Voldemort to find out we know about and are hunting his Horcruxes this soon."
"What about the Arcomantuals, the ones we've killed?" Bucky asked.
"Acromantuals are known to eat their dead. Hopefully, by the time You-Know-Who shows up again, there is no evidence of any dead ones left." Bill answered.
"Good, now let's get out of here," Tony said. Bucky grabbed his gun from Tony's hand and was the first one out the door, with Tony following and Bill behind him. The three got outside just in time to see the Hulk being out of sight, causing the Arcomantulas to become brave again and attack or try to. The other team members were doing a good job keeping them back.
"How many of those things are there?" Tonks asked; she was standing next to Steve, who allowed her to lean on his shoulder so she didn't have to put much weight on her injured leg as she sent a spell at an Arcomantula, blasting it down the road.
That got the rest to jump into gear and start fighting like before. Tony took to the air, shooting lasers at whatever spider he could get to, and Bill began to throw every spell, hex, curse, and jinx he could think of. Bucky ran over and stood by Remus and Natasha. The two Muggles were shooting at the spiders. Remus was using magic, and Clint, who had run out of arrows, had pulled out a handgun, ready to fire if needed, as he went around collecting what arrows he could find, and Steve was taking a few out, throwing his shield, and slicing off their heads; when it didn't reach the head, it went through a leg and immobilized the monsters.
Bill turned back to the others and noticed Remus was holding his left arm to his stomach, he must have injured it while Bill was retrieving the Horcrux, and he had to admit he was impressed by how Remus was still putting up a good fight with just one arm.
Natasha ran out of bullets and was reloading them when she was grabbed and pulled upside down. Her gun fell from her hand, but Remus sent a spell that exploded the Arcomantula, and Natasha fell to the ground covered in guts and spider parts; smiling a little, Remus mumbled sorry and waved his wand over her, and everything vanished, then Remus stuck his wand in his pocket, then reached down with his good hand and pulled Natasha to her feet, and stood in front of her protectively, as he pulled his wand back out. While she picked up her gun and finished reloading it, then stepped out from behind him to continue fighting.
At his moment of distraction, an Acromantula came up from behind Bill and knocked him to the ground, and Bill rolled over on his back. The thing stood over Bill, looking down at him with its many eyes, its pincers moving threateningly. The thing's legs had to be a good ten feet or more, swallowing his fear, Bill could point his wand at him.
"Avada Kedavra"
The green light shot out of the end of Bill's wand and hit the spider right where its heart would be, sending it flying up, a good two feet in the air, where it landed a few feet away, on its back, not moving, dead, the killing curse had worked, Bill figured it would, as he sighed and laid there a moment, then climbed to his feet, the others had paused in their fight also, something else seemed to have gotten the Acromantula's attention, they were all staring down the road, towards the direction the Hulk went.
"Remus," Natasha asked, Bill looked towards him to see her checking out his injured arm.
"I'm fine," Remus assured her, "There should be an antidote in the potion kit in the jet."
"What happened?" Bill asked, walking over to Remus, while he pulled his arm back towards himself.
"He was bitten," Natasha answered.
"Wait, is he in danger of dying?" Steve asked, "What about Tonks, she was stung by one of those things?"
"The venom is slow-acting, we have time to make it back to the jet" Bill answered, "and the venom isn't in the Acromantula's pincers, so Tonks doesn't have to worry about that, but she still needs the wound treated or it could get infected."
"Alright, let's go now then," Steve said as he turned to Tonks, who was sitting on the ground now, and helped her up, he put his arm around her waist to help her walk.
"Hey, Tony," Bucky yelled up at him, "Remus was bitten, we need to get him back to the jet."
Tony landed beside them and looked toward Remus, who showed him his arm; the bite looked nasty. It was turning red and getting all puffy, and when Remus squeezed it, a greyish-white liquid dripped from it.
"That's nasty," Tonks said.
"Yeah, we need to get him treated, Sirius, coming after me because I let his best friend get killed by a giant spider doesn't sound appealing," Tony said. "I rather not have any cars thrown at me."
"I'm not going to die, not if I get the antidote in time," Remus said, "And there is no need to mention this to Sirius."
"But if he finds out, he'll be pissed," Bucky said, before anyone could say anymore, the ground shook, and the Hulk came running into sight, knocking Acromatulas out of his way, the rest took off crawling out of sight, as Hulk turned up the street, the way they had come, and continued running down the road, throwing spiders, or smashing cars.
"I think Mean Green is clearing the way so we can get by," Tony said.
"Let's go then," Bucky said, heading in the direction of the Hulk, the others followed after Bucky and Hulk, still on high alert, as they headed up the empty road, this time they saw Arcomantulas peeping out at them; though the Hulk was no longer in sight, the giant spiders, the few that was left, were too afraid to come out.
AN: I don't know how venomous Acromantulas were supposed to be in Harry Potter, couldn't find too much about them online, so, I figured it wouldn't kill you immediately, and assume you have to be bitten by one to get its venom in you, since in the maze in GOF, Harry was pierced by one of ones pincers and then went through everything in the graveyard, plus Barty Jr trying to kill him, then his story, then telling Dumbledore what happened in the graveyard without ever feeling any effects or even being worried about it.
I want to change the location of some of the Horcuxes and how they're protected, and I already have plane how and when the one in Harry will be destroyed, I'm looking forward to writing that part, but the others I'm not sure of yet.