A Nexus Devil

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He was momentarily impaled before being lifted off the ground by the tail's momentum, and Jake was flung away to the other side of the arena.

The majority of spectators were horrified at that hit!

"Oh my God, Jake!" Harry shouted in fear for his new friend's life from the stands.

"Somebody save him!"

"Oh God, I bet so much on him!" An asshole audience member shouted out. He received glares from the people around him, who were disgusted by his lack of care for Jake's wellbeing.

Grok, the Gringotts goblin who had orchestrated Jake's deadly situation, smiled in glee!

...As Jake lay on the ground bleeding out from a gaping wound in his torso, he finally realized something about how he'd been acting ever since he'd arrived at Hogwarts and found out he could do magic.

Something most teenagers don't realize until later in life. Something none of the other champions (except Harry) had realized either until they'd faced the first task themselves.

Jake had been acting way too arrogant and cocky. And now, here he was on the verge of death at only 16 years old...

"Roooooooaaaar!" And there was the dragon Jake was facing, a couple of dozen meters away from where Jake lay. It roared in victory for having defeated the annoying red-haired man whose spells had injured it!

"Man, what a lame way to die... *cough*," Jake mumbled from the dirt where he lay collapsed and nearly bleeding out.

*Chirp chirp!*

Flying down from the stands, Jake's tiny familiar Blaze rushed to his master as fast as its little wings could fly. Blaze landed next to the heavily injured Jake.

*Cough* "Hey, buddy. I'm a bit banged up right here, as you can see," Jake painfully chuckled to himself in lamentation.

His familiar hopped onto Jake's chest and put his little head right over the gaping wound in Jake's chest. Then Blaze started crying...

*Cough* "Hey, no need to cry for me, pal," Jake said. "I'm gonna be o— whoa!" Jake's words were interrupted as his feathery buddy's tears made contact with his wound, which immediately started healing rapidly!

Within just a few seconds, the gaping hole in his chest had completely sealed shut and healed over as if it was never there! "Whoa, that was absolutely amazing, Blaze!" Jake exclaimed as he sat up, completely healed. Blaze chirped back happily at Jake's praise!

"Oh my God, is that a phoenix!" Hermione yelled out from the stands.

"I thought phoenixes would be bigger?" A younger student questioned loudly.

"I think that's a baby phoenix. This guy literally has the luck of the angels on his side to get an actual phoenix as a familiar!" Someone shouted out.

Serafall, who was ready to storm the arena and shove some Phenix tears (not to be confused with Phoenix tears) down Jake's throat to save him, sighed in relief.

She also felt that the comment about Jake having the luck of the 'angels' was pretty ironic.

"Roooooaaaarr!" The black Horntail roared in outrage at Jake still being alive. It looked like it was getting ready to attack him again.

Jake's momentary excitement of being saved was squashed as he focused back on the dragon that was about to unleash fire upon him once again.

He scrambled to his feet, preparing to move away when suddenly, from right above the dragon, an enormous chunk of ice—over three times the size of the dragon itself—slammed down on top of the beast, instantly crushing it into the dirt!

"…"

Everyone watching was once again momentarily stunned into silence. Where the hell did that giant ice cube of death come from!?

"What the hell was that!?" Malfoy shouted in outrage. "I just lost 1000 galleons to an ice cube!?"

The dragon was thoroughly smashed beneath the massive chunk of ice. It wasn't getting back up… Jake, realizing that the dragon was truly beaten, finally felt the adrenaline that had been with him most of the fight start to leave his system.

He then felt his vision go dark as he fainted from exhaustion.

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59Chapter 15: Reflections and Revelation

Ch 15 Reflection and Revelation.

Jake was sitting by the shore of the black lake. Blaze, his baby phoenix, was sitting in his lap snoozing. A few weeks ago Jake's entire world had changed after he'd met those four hero assholes and been flung back in time to magical high school.

He basically went from an ordinary kid with nothing to his name to the descendent of some super powerful ancient king! Jake was not too afraid to admit to himself that he was too arrogant and that his magical knowledge might have been a tad bit lacking.

Jake didn't know what depressed him more, the fact that he had almost died to the dragon, the fact that he had to be saved by someone who had some unironically really cool ice magic.

Or maybe it was the fact that he was acting so boastful just like the other champions and ended up getting spanked for it in front of the whole school…

Jake's momentary pity party was interrupted when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione approaching. Jake gave the three of them a wave. "Hey guys," he said with a tone that was somewhat lacking in his usual confidence.

The other three hadn't known Jake long, but they could clearly tell that he was upset. "Hey Jake," Harry waved to Jake, "you shouldn't be too down. That entire fight with that Dragon was absolutely crazy after all!" Ron beside him vehemently nodded in agreement.

"That's right," Ron interrupted with an excited tone, "that was the coolest fight I've ever seen in my entire life! You were just throwing explosive spell after explosive spell, and that horntail was just taking them right in the face and raining fire right back down on you.

It was epic, man, truly the stuff of Legends!" Ron said enthusiastically.

Hermione spoke up, "Well… while your battle was impressive, Jake.

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