"Maybe I Should Have Kept My Mouth Shut"
Harry looked around as he watched the Inferi crawling out of their graves, but he did not seem truly worried.
He even noticed a hand emerging right beneath him, trying to grab his leg, which made Harry casually lift it.
As a result, the Inferius pulled its head out.
Its face still had worms devouring the rotting flesh while its mouth snapped at the air, trying to tear off a piece of Harry's flesh.
Harry looked at the thing with obvious disgust before raising his hand.
And caused the earth around that Inferius to close around it, burying it once again.
Then, with another gesture, the soil transformed into solid stone before sinking back to where it belonged.
Draco ignored it and took advantage of Lucius' momentary distraction, as he seemed busy admiring his new power.
Draco moved his hand and the gold responded once more.
But this time they were not weapons.
This time the liquid gold transformed into hundreds of chains, which instantly moved and emerged from beneath Lucius, closing around him like a cage.
Lucius let out a disdainful smile and moved his wand, causing the chains to be stopped by an invisible force that prevented them from closing around him.
Harry raised his hand again toward Lucius, preparing to interfere with his control over Chaos Magic.
But right at that moment something else burst out of the ground, moving much faster than the Inferi.
A huge, hideous head suddenly appeared, resembling a mole with massive teeth, very similar to the one that had attacked Harry earlier at Hogwarts.
But this one looked even more grotesque, with part of its body transformed like Lucius', reddish tentacles protruding from egg-like growths on its skin, all covered in blood.
Harry stopped his movement and looked at the monster that was already right in front of him.
At the exact same moment several Inferi hands emerged beneath his feet again and grabbed his ankles, preventing him from moving.
Harry raised an eyebrow for a microsecond before casually moving his hand upward.
A stone spike immediately erupted from the ground and pierced straight through the monster's chest.
At the same time, red energy flowed through Harry's body toward his feet, and the moment it reached the Inferi hands, they exploded.
But more hands emerged, trying to grab him.
"Tsk. These things are annoying," Harry said while moving his wand and raising a wall of earth in front of him.
Trapped inside were dozens of those creatures, frantically reaching out with their hands, trying to throw themselves at him and tear them apart.
Harry closed his hand and the earth transformed into solid stone, preventing them from escaping.
But more arms continued emerging from the surrounding ground.
Only making Harry click his tongue again.
"Deal with those things," Draco said while moving his fingers once more.
And the chains suspended in the sky by Lucius began moving like whips, striking him from multiple angles, trying to break through Lucius' telekinesis.
Which wrapped around him like an invisible shield, preventing the attacks from advancing any farther.
Though this seemed to function differently from Harry's telekinesis, or Wanda's and Tommy's, who appeared to have complete control over whatever they caught.
Instead, it seemed to function more like a form of repulsion that pushed or moved things away.
Rather than stopping and controlling them.
Lucius had to remain aware of everything he deflected or blocked.
Surrounded by hundreds of chains lashing at him like whips, he was forced to descend abruptly, narrowly dodging one golden whip that almost struck his shoulder.
A small smile appeared on Harry's face.
"After all, a copy can never be the original," Harry said, noticing that Lucius' control over Chaos Magic was barely acceptable.
As though the power itself still rejected him.
Harry spread both arms before clapping loudly.
The sound echoed once again throughout the entire cemetery, causing the ground beneath him to move like water resonating with the sound.
The ripples spread outward from Harry, growing larger and larger the farther they traveled, like waves in the ocean.
They lifted every Inferius from beneath the ground, helping them emerge completely.
Or rather, forcing them out.
Among them were several creatures resembling enormous moles, though far more grotesque.
Including some similar to the one that had attacked Harry moments earlier.
With those things exposed, nothing would be able to attack by surprise.
And with them all forced out, Harry crouched down and struck the ground twice with his wand.
Causing a thick wall to rise in front of him.
Harry placed his hand against it while forming a circle with his finger.
As if drawing a magic circle.
On the other side of the wall, just like during the tournament against Luciel and Draco, an enormous dragon head made of earth and stone emerged, looking even more vivid than it had back then.
Its scales began becoming more and more real.
To the point where it looked as though a true colossal dragon was trying to emerge from the wall.
The creature strongly resembled Red's transformed form.
It opened its mouth and, without hesitation, unleashed a blood-red torrent of fire with tremendous force, burning everything in its path.
Harry glanced away and noticed that the Death Eaters were still trapped inside Lucius' illusion across the battlefield.
"Oh, right. You lot need to go back to prison," Harry said while moving his hand.
And enormous stone gravestones erupted from the ground, trapping them before sinking beneath the earth.
Lucius, who had been dodging Draco's attacks, looked toward Harry for a moment, watching how this boy controlled a power that he himself could barely manage.
And he looked at him with hatred.
Because even after devouring that horrendous monster in the past and consuming all of Voldemort's fragments to acquire his knowledge, he still could not control this new power so effortlessly.
But that only made his desire to devour Harry's power grow even stronger.
"When I catch you and devour your heart, all that control... all that power will be mine," Lucius said, smiling once more.
"Oh, sorry. My heart is already taken," Harry replied mockingly.
Lucius ignored Harry's stupid joke and waved his wand, causing Dark Magic to begin pouring from its tip.
With that, the golden whip striking at Lucius was abruptly stopped.
A black mist began crawling around him, mixing with the small red threads coming from Lucius' skin.
Draco paused his attack for a moment as he watched that mixture.
It felt wrong.
Then it began taking shape as Lucius' blood started forming veins that moved through the mist as if they were alive.
The mist slowly took the shape of an enormous serpent.
Several red eyes opened along its head.
Its jaw split into four sections.
Small tentacles emerged from its neck like living roots.
And when it opened its mouth...
"GRAAAAAA!"
A bestial roar erupted from it.
Harry turned toward the creature.
And made a disgusted face.
"Now that is unpleasant," he said.
The serpent suddenly moved.
But it did not lunge toward Draco.
Instead, it launched itself at him.
Harry turned into red mist, avoiding the bite.
The smoke creature crashed through a row of gravestones and crushed them as if they were made of paper.
Draco raised a hand and several golden stakes erupted from the ground, piercing straight through the serpent's body.
But the creature did not die.
The black smoke opened around the gold and then closed again.
Lucius smiled.
Harry regained his body several meters away.
"Are you going to keep summoning horrifying things?" he could not help but ask.
"Oh, now that you mention it," Lucius said mockingly as he let out a whistle.
One that seemed to echo not only through the cemetery, but through the nearby forest as well.
The moment the sound reached it, several different kinds of roars could be heard.
Some sounded similar to the enormous serpent.
Others were different.
There were sounds of claws scraping across the ground.
And trees could be seen falling in the distance.
Draco could not help turning toward Harry.
Staring directly at him.
As if he wanted to strangle him.
Harry remained silent while looking back at Draco.
Draco did not even need to say anything.
Harry realized it himself...
Sometimes he really needed to learn how to keep his mouth shut.