There was laughter from the Slytherin team and spectators both at this, but it suddenly died in all their throats when they noticed Wendy's hair was now flapping around wildly and dust was rising from the ground around her as a small whirlwind seemed to have sprung up out of nowhere around her.
...
"If there's one thing that I don't like," Wendy murmured, her quiet voice still somehow audible to everyone even so. "It's a bully picking on younger children. Especially friends like Luna. I don't normally get angry like Natsu-san or Gajeel-san… but you've gone and done it."
"What the hell are you d…" Montague started, but was interrupted when Wendy thrust her arms out to either side of her body and generated a magic circle under each palm.
"Arms! Vernier! Enchant!" Wendy cried, her young eyes blazing slightly before she suddenly burst forwards across the short gap between them, her fist enshrouded in wind as she delivered a powered-up punch right to Montague's chest that lifted him right off the ground and sent him flying backwards to crash into his fellow Chaser, Adrian Pucey, both of whom skidded across the ground and rolled to a groaning stand-still.
"Bloody…!" Malfoy cried and leapt backwards and out of the way as Wendy turned around to face him. The third Chaser of the team, Cassius Warrington, yelled in sudden anger and pulled out his wand, charging in towards Wendy and throwing two Stunning Spells at the young girl. Wendy didn't know what those flashes of red light were going to do if they hit her of course, but she was not stupid enough to stand there and find out. Instead, she zig-zagged past them at blazing speed and sank her foot into Warrington's gut, bowling him over backwards with a thumping crash that laid him out, winded and bruised, on the ground.
Malfoy swore and immediately mounted his broomstick and kicked off and away, not wanting to risk being on the ground with this girl who was blatantly far, far tougher than she looked. The other four members of the team had evidently felt the same way. Crabbe and Goyle both looked rather stumped, as if they just couldn't fathom the fact they were apprehensive to approach a little girl for fear she might knock them over - that had never happened to them before.
"Just leave us alone!" Wendy called up after them. "I don't want to fight, but I will if you make me."
Bletchley growled and wheeled around low on his broomstick, drawing out his wand and yelling, "Impedimenta!" firing off the freezing jinx right at Wendy, assuming he was safe from such a height. He was wrong, and Wendy proved it to him by diving forwards and rolling to avoid the jinx and then jumping, literally leaping up twenty feet into the air with a wind-powered bounce to kick up at him. Bletchley was so shocked by this that he didn't act in time and was kicked right off his broom, which went spiralling out of control while he tumbled to the floor. Fortunately for him though, Wendy caught him on the way down and slowed his fall with the aid of her winds, but not enough to stop the landing from incapacitating him.
Malfoy immediately rose much higher, reaching for his own wand and trying to come up with something that would work, but Crabbe and Goyle seemed to have their own plan and had zoomed up to meet the Bludgers that were still whizzing around the pitch looking for a target. The black balls came whizzing down towards the two Beaters as if they had been fired out of cannons but Crabbe and Goyle displayed considerably more agility in the air than they did on land and swerved around them, smacking them with full force down towards Wendy…
…who caught one of them in her bare hands thanks to the effect of Arms and used it as a bludgeon to slam the other one into the ground.
As the Slytherins watched, gobsmacked, Wendy had a momentary flicker of realisation that she was acting surprisingly like Natsu. Usually when it came to battles she preferred to stay on the sidelines and power up the others, maybe throw in a breath attack every so often when there was an opening to. But she was a Dragon Slayer and was not to be underestimated, and this time none of her friends were present. She was fighting alone, and she knew it. It was a fact that was driving her to fight harder.
It was then that she realised that Crabbe and Goyle had opted for another approach and were shooting in towards her from opposite directions with their bats raised, seeking to hit Wendy with them instead of the Bludgers this time. But Wendy tossed the Bludger in her hands aside and spans around, sweeping her hands through the air and yelling, "TENRYU NO… YOKUGEKI!"
The massive flurries of wind that she expelled from her arms engulfed Crabbe and Goyle before they knew what was happening and they went crashing into the ground and rolling across the pitch for some way before being brought to abrupt stops by a wall for Crabbe and one of the Quidditch hoops for Goyle.
Malfoy blanched and stared in shock, unable to comprehend what he was seeing, but this was the point where several of the people in the stands seemed to come to their senses. Some of them turned to run but some of them drew their wands and began firing an assortment of curses and jinxes right at Wendy.
But Wendy saw the flashes of light coming out of the corner of her eye and danced backwards at high speed, the effects of Vernier still very much in evidence. Sucking in a lungful of air she blew it back out again fiercely in a breath attack that swept up across the stands, low over the heads of the students - meant more as warning shot than anything but still reducing the top three unoccupied rows of the stands to splinters in the windy maelstrom.
All this was something that caught even Luna's full attention, and she'd now gone past curiosity and into amazement. She stared at the girl who must have been two years younger than her in astonishment, in awe of the destructive power she seemed to be able to wield. How come she'd never heard of anything like this before?
Malfoy though quickly saw an opening while Wendy's back was turned and cried, "Petrificus Totalus!" launching a full Body-Bind Jinx at her from behind.
This might have worked if he had learned to cast spells non-verbally.
But Wendy's keen hearing heard his shout and she cartwheeled to the side, staring up at the blond boy with eyes as hard as flint. She then realised that she'd found herself next to a fallen broom and stared at it for a couple of seconds.
Should she?
Why should she not?
The Sky was her domain after all.
But she'd never used a flying broomstick before. She didn't know what she was doing.
But, moments before she grabbed it, a ridiculously loud voice echoed suddenly around the pitch. "WHAT IN BLAZES IS GOING ON HERE!"
Wendy clapped her hands over her ears and fell to her knees, wincing slightly, and looking up to see a woman in long robes with short greying hair and goggles on her forehead looking around at the scene in disbelief, her eyes locking on Wendy with an angry glare, and her wand pointed at her throat to magnify her voice.
"Oh, good afternoon, Madam Hooch," Luna said conversationally as she stepped over to the adult woman. "My friend Wendy was just fighting off a bunch of bullies for me. And quite fantastically too, I should probably say."
"Lovegood, who is this girl?" Madam Hooch blinked owlishly. "She is not a student - if she was I would recognise her from flying lessons. And what was happening - I could see some kind of windstorm going on and…"
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Wendy immediately bowed her head so low it went past her knees. "I… I think I got a bit… carried away…" she said, sheepishly. Wow… she got carried away? Her? That wasn't like her at all… but she actually felt rather proud of herself despite her embarrassment and dismay.
After all, as Natsu always said, going overboard was what Fairy Tail did best.
But it was this point where she was suddenly hit from behind by an Impediment Jinx from Malfoy and was suddenly frozen in place.
"Draco!" Madam Hooch gasped. "What do you think you're doing!?"
"Protecting the school, Madam," Malfoy replied quickly as he swooped in to land not far from Wendy, pointing at her accusingly. "That girl is dangerous! She was using some kind of strange magic to try and kill us in an unprovoked attack. Look at the damage she's done!" he gesticulated wildly to the remains of the stands that had taken a hit from her breath attack.
But even as Hooch looked and Luna opened her mouth to object to Malfoy's words, they all became aware of Wendy… mumbling something… and her body beginning to glow a bright yellow colour.
"Anomaly… Resistance… Enchant… Re-raise!"
And she abruptly unfroze and swung around towards Malfoy, sweeping her hand through the air to generate a wind gust that knocked him over onto his back.
"That's a lie," Wendy turned back to look imploringly at Hooch. "Please, I didn't come here to cause any trouble. I'm here to see the Headmaster. I got lost and was found by some of the merpeople that live in the lake and they're the ones that brought me here. They said the headmaster would be able to help me find my friends."
"Madam!" Malfoy cried as he pushed himself to his feet again, noticing the brush of his broomstick had been partially squashed in his fall. "Did you just see what she did? We have to call in the Ministry to…"
"I saw it with my own eyes quite clearly, thank you, Mister Malfoy," Hooch said in a clipped voice, staring at Wendy up and down in confusion. "And I will make my own judgement on how to proceed if you don't mind. So, little one… you want to come up to the school to see Professor Dumbledore?"
"Yes please," Wendy nodded enthusiastically.
"Well I'm sure you can understand my reservations against allowing you into a place filled with students based on what you've managed to do to the Quidditch stadium."
Wendy flushed and looked down at her sandals. "I'm sorry…"
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