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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
-Author notes-
Chapter 215: Prison Break
"Hey, what happened? What is all the ruckus?" Sirius called for the only remaining guard in the room.
This one pointed at him nervously. "Go back to your seats and stay there. We will handle this."
By the young man's demeanor, it was clear that he had little confidence in that last part.
Sirius ignored the guard and rushed at James. "My brother is still up there! We have to do something."
"We don't even know what happened yet. I heard one of the guards mentioning a security breach, but…" Andromeda glanced at James.
"You two stay here. I'll go take a look." James stood up.
"I don't think he is going to just let you pass." Andromeda pointed at the remaining guard, who was standing in front of the sole door that led upstairs.
"I wasn't planning on using that way to get up." James flared his magic as his eyes focused on a nearby window.
Three steel bars were the only thing preventing him from using it to leave, so James created a small flame on his hand. This one had a dark red color and looked beyond deadly to anyone watching.
The guard saw what James was doing and reacted. "Hey! No magic is allowed in here! Stop that!" He was about to rush at James, but then he saw him throw that small flame at the window.
The guard didn't expect anything to happen, since Azkaban's walls were heavily reinforced by countless enchantments woven together. And the steel bars on the window were no exception either.
What he did not expect was for the flames to melt everything in their path with barely any resistance.
"What in Merlin's name is that fire?!" the guard shouted. "W-wait, stop!" Before he could do anything about it, James flew up without using a broom and went through the hole left behind by his flames, leaving behind a very shocked guard.
"H-how did he do that?…" The young man turned to the two remaining youngsters.
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James applied a quick sticking charm on his shoes and started running at full speed, using the wall's surface as a track path.
His amber eyes narrowed when he spotted some smoke coming from one of the top floors.
Someone had demolished part of the wall.
'There are two black-cloaked figures on flying brooms next to it… Death Eaters? But who are they freeing?' This was just one more thing that was not supposed to happen yet.
He did not spot any dementors trying to stop these men, meaning that Voldemort had already placed the creatures under his control.
"Tsk!… I need to hurry." He began to chant, and his body gained a soft glow. "𐎽𐎯𐎤𐎤𐎣 (Speed)!" His muscles tensed up and he felt the power of his legs increasing fivefold.
The two masked men on the brooms finally spotted him when he was mere feet away from them.
"What the—!"
"Who is that?!" They were both shocked to see someone climbing the walls in such a way. They had been ready to deal with Aurors, but not this.
"Ferebatur." James jumped from the wall and hovered in the air before aiming his bare hand at one of them.
A burst of magic emerged from it and hit the closest black-cloaked wizard, pushing him off his broom and sending him crashing down while he screamed.
"Avada Kedavra!" The second one reacted by firing a curse at James.
"How predictable you all are…" James dodged it by rising further up and above the Death Eater. Once he was right on top of him, he responded to fire with more fire. "𐎥𐎨𐎱𐎤!" A burst of crimson flames formed in front of his hand and covered the man below him.
The fire flowed like a thick liquid and stuck to the Death Eater's skin and robes, melting everything in the process while he tried to scream.
The moment he opened his mouth to do so, hot air went inside his throat and burned his guts, allowing only a few painful noises before he lost his balance and fell from his broom.
James then turned his attention to the inside of the prison.
As his feet touched the solid stone floor, his wand appeared in his hand. "Point Me… Regulus Black."
The wand moved slightly toward the passage on his left, and that's where he went first. His priority right now was to ensure that Sirius's brother survived this ordeal. That family had already lost enough, and the war had just begun.
His legs were still enchanted, so he could run at an unnatural speed through the endless halls of Azkaban.
Noises entered his ears after a couple more seconds of moving. Yells, screams, cries… something was happening and he needed to hurry.
He noticed how quickly the temperature was descending the closer he got.
'Dementors… here they are.' He then saw them. There were at least a dozen of the nasty creatures surrounding something on the floor.
James's eyes narrowed when he recognized the robes. With no hesitation, he aimed his wand and produced a powerful charm. "Expecto Patronum!" A white stag shot out like a bullet and went directly for the dementors.
The dark creatures let out cries of agony at the presence of the Patronus.
The dementors flew away after being forced to give up their meal.
James rushed at the boy and knelt at his side. "Regulus! Can you hear me?" He checked for a pulse as his stag Patronus stood protectively at his side.
He felt immense relief when he finally noticed that Regulus still had a pulse and his cold skin was starting to regain some warmth.
"He is alive…" Had he arrived a couple of seconds later, that may not have been the case.
Now that the dementors were gone, James spotted some movement ahead of him. There were a few masked individuals helping someone escape their cell.
James did not know the identity of the Death Eaters, but he did recognize the woman they were taking out… Walburga Black.
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