A Nexus Devil

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"I can't believe we've been seeing this guy as our rival for the past four years," Ron said. "Now I feel kind of embarrassed for us."

"Jesus Christ, this guy's a moron," Jake said to himself as he watched Draco get attacked by his own snake.

"Ow, Jake!" Serafall yelled from the audience.

"Sorry," he called back to her. He had forgotten that the Lord's name hurts devils...

At this point, Draco had completely forgotten about the duel. He had already dropped his wand on the ground and was using both hands to try and tug the snake, which was thoroughly latched onto his leg, off of him.

Throughout all this, he was also bawling his eyes out, with tears running down his face.

Jake just looked at the ice bat in his hand before looking back at Draco. He shrugged to himself and then reeled his arm back and hurled his bat forward.

With a mighty thunk, the end of his bat slammed right into Draco's forehead and immediately knocked him out as he collapsed to the floor. The cobra, which was still latched onto him, noticed that its enemy had stopped moving.

Assuming that it had succeeded in killing him, it released its fangs from his leg and let out a mighty hiss in triumph over its defeated foe's corpse.

While all this was going on, the members of the Slytherin house kept their heads down in shame. They were extremely sad and ashamed that Draco was a member of their house at this point. They didn't know if he could bring them any lower.

Professor McGonagall walked over to Malfoy's body on the ground and waved her wand, vanishing the poor Cobra back where it came from. "And that'll be minus 50 points from Slytherin for his language during that whole duel!" She declared loudly.

Draco's housemates just glared at his unmoving body in response to that. He had pretty much sunk any chances they had of winning the house Cup this year…again. When he regained consciousness and made it back to his common room, he was not in for a good time...

Jake, figuring that his duel was over, just headed towards Serafall. They might not be dating for a few more years, but if she was leaving that night, then he wanted to spend some more time with her before she left. "Wanna go for another walk?" He asked. Serafall nodded and they left the great hall together.

Jake sat at the breakfast table, his demeanor tinged with a hint of melancholy. Serafall, regretfully, had departed from the school grounds and returned to the Underworld the previous night.

Today, the Hogwarts students were joined by members from the other two tournament schools for breakfast. The Ravenclaw and Slytherin tables were once again filled with foreign students, yet Jake noticed that Fleur and Victor weren't present.

Presumably they were still healing from their injuries from the first challenge. They both got pretty banged up after all.

Meanwhile, the Hogwarts students were eagerly gossiping with students from the other schools as they shared tales of the "epic duel" that took place last night between the Hogwarts champion and a young Slytherin contender.

Well the Ravenclaw students were at least, for the Slytherins it was so embarrassing that they just wanted to forget it ever happened!

Throughout the morning, Harry made numerous attempts to uplift Jake's spirits by speculating about the nature of the upcoming second task in the tournament.

Harry entertained the idea that it might involve brooms and flying, while Ron believed it would entail an adventurous scavenger hunt through the Forbidden Forest. Hermione just sat there reading her book, she had an exam coming up in three whole weeks after all!

Exasperated, Jake finally addressed Harry, saying, "Harry, please, for the last time, I have no interest in practicing flying on your broom. I am perfectly capable of flying on my own."

Ron, not knowing about Jake having literal wings, leaned in and whispered eagerly to Jake, "Do you have a magic carpet or something!? I've always wanted to try flying on one, I hear they're absolutely wicked! But sadly, they're illegal." He pouted, displaying his disappointment.

Interrupting her reading, Hermione set her book down and scoffed. "They're illegal for a reason, Ron! Magic carpets, like the ones in Aladdin, have minds of their own.

If they develop an aversion to their riders, they have been known to intentionally fling them off, where they will fall to their almost imminent deaths!" With that revelation, a fragment of Jake's childhood innocence was shattered...

Jake felt a tap on his shoulder, and he turned around in his seat and spotted Luna standing right behind him, holding Blaze in her arms. "Oh hey there, Luna," Jake smiled at her.

Luna gave Jake a dreamy smile back. "Come on, Jake," she said. "We've got a place to be very soon. And you know what they say about people who are late."

"That they're the protagonists of the story," Jake said jokingly, to which Luna just gave him a pout.

Blaze chirped happily as Luna tugged on Jake's sleeves, forcing him to stand up. The Golden Trio, who were just watching this play out in front of them, just shrugged, chalking it up to the typical weirdness that was Jake's life.

Harry, for once, was just happy that the weirdness wasn't revolving around him. "Come along, Harry, you're needed too," Luna interrupted his thoughts.

'Never mind then,' Harry thought to himself as he sighed and stood up too. Ron and Hermione just gave him confused looks.

"Wait, where are you three off to!?" Hermione asked, 'They weren't going to go and break more school rules, were they!?'

She thought to herself. She was lucky enough that they didn't get punished for the mermaid incident because there was no physical proof that they caused it, but she had noticed that McGonagall had been glaring at the three of them a lot more recently!

Hermione was saddened that even her wise professor didn't believe in the trio's innocence….

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