Beginning of the end?

((this is just an NPC I'm using to fulfil people's requests since there seems to be a lot of people who want to get hurt or dead. The name of the character will probably change because people are all over the battle field. I hope it's okay))

Venefica Heck's speciality was torture. Not merely the mundane torture of the cruciatus curse, but the exquisite torture of taking a bundle of razor wire and charming it to behave like a wasp, or the psychological torture of making your victims choose whether to kill their families quickly themselves or have you to it more slowly.

And Venefica quite liked the battlefield, for it was a place where all of these things came into play in their own, subtle ways. She had never played with children before. Children, she thought, would be delightful to break.

The first child she saw looked like a bundle of nerves. Obviously this was no Gryffindor, used to defending their peers, nor any Slytherin who challenged the status quo. She would need something subtle to suit her delicate personality.

As Ven strode across the now pock-marked grass towards the girl, her wand waved at the plants beneath the child's feet, and soon the grass was making way as thick tendrils of vine shot out of the ground to weave themselves about her body, holding her in place to make it easier for whatever injury Venefica decided to inflict next.

Kaily had been caught off guard, she had been so careful as to not let her guard down, not even for an instant. But she had forgotten to look ALL around her. She hadn't seen the woman walk close to her, which was why she was in the predicament she was in. She was beeing wrapped by the grass. How would she get out of this? Kaily squirmed around trying to break free from the vines, but it was useless. The more she squirmed, the tighter the vines would wrap around her.

She pushed her body on one side of the vines, hoping to make it fall over to free herself. But it didnt work, instead she only succeeded in hurting herself. The vines began to cut into her skin and Kaily felt tears spring up into her eyes. She tried to fight them back, not wanting to seem like a helpless little girl; which was exactly what Kaily was. She shut her eyes tight and opened her mouth wide to scream.

"HELP! SOMEONE!"

"Oops!" Ven laughed. "Can't have that, can we?"

She reached in among the branches and caught the back of the girl's head, and then, as her mouth was open and screaming so prettily, stuffed it full of leaves.

"Engorgio," she said with relish, causing the leaves to expand within the girl's mouth, no doubt causing her to choke, to gag, and perhaps even cutting off her airway if she was really lucky.

A spell fired overhead. Whether at her or merely a stray spark, Veneficus decided this little chit didn't need her around to watch her failings.

"Oh must run. Cheerio!" she waved cheerfully to the gasping girl and set off to find another friend.

It was just as the girl was hurled into the air that Lucius Malfoy's voice rose above the clamour of spells and sparks to explain exactly what was going on and then that Damon began to reconsider his alleigance.

It wasn't that he disliked Hogwarts, or the children of Hogwarts, or even the man standing next to him. None of that really mattered. It was simply that Damon believed Malfoy to be a reasonable man who would see the advantages of having a vampire hunter in the ranks of his army, even if that vampire hunter was himself a vampire.

It was just unfortunate timing for the girl, that was all.

"I think not," he answered Angus, bearing his fangs and lunging for the man's neck.

Nester was unconscious, being dragged into the forest by Fyona, who was sort of his partner when it came to running around in the pack. Hoover was seriously hurt, blood seeping from her side, though he was still raring to fight. She would admit, had it been any other of her pack, they would have slunk into the forest and rightfully so. Hoover was a fool though, and the strongest brute of them all.

Naomi let her eyes sweep, still flanked by Carlyn and Colby. She raised her head and let out a short howl, telling her pack to go to the forest edge, the part unoccupied by spiders, and wait. She barked to Carlyn and he ran off to assist Hoover. She and Colby ran for the trees, reaching them with Nester and Fyona. They hunkered in the grass, completely hidden.

Carlyn and Hoover reached a second later. Naomi moved over to sniff at Hoover's wounds and then to lie her head flat against his side, to thank him. She settled between him and Colby and snuffled lowly. The plan was to lie low, wait for them to kill each other fir awhile. They weren't fun when they were so distracted...

Brian perked up as the man standing next to Angus decided to apparently let his vampire tendencies to get the better of him. The vampire had his back to Brian.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Brian fired at the vampire. "Angus! Move!" And now someone had to do something with both girls who were in the grip of the spiders. Bloody hell. There were times he much preferred the ancient black and white muggle movies where the good guys all were color coded with white hats and the bad guys wore black ones. It made things ever so much easier.

Having been unconscience for quite a while, Alexis now found herself on the ground. The spell that had been casted on her had apparently worn off and she had fallen to the ground. Lex had underestimated the one who sent the spells at her, she wouldn't make that mistake again. She had been stupid, and as a result she had been overpowered. The feeling of letting her wolf side take over was too much for her, she let out a low growl at herself and got up off the ground. One of her legs was weak and hurt, probably from the fall.

She heard Naomi howl and Alexis limped to the forest's edge slowly, avoiding anyone who would hurt her. Though she snapped at a few young students when they got near her. She reached where the pack was and she laid down on the grass a little distanced from the rest of them. She still wasn't part of their packas far as she was concerned, so she thought it best to stay distanced from them.

She looked at her hurt hind leg and placed her head on her front legs. Her leg stung and it was pulsing from the pain. She winced a little, but ignored it for the most part. She would be able to recover, so it didn't worry her very much.

Angus looked to see teeth aiming for his neck. He dove for the ground, somersaulting out of the way.

"Sorry, Mate. Not much in those veins but ale, I'm afraid," he said. "Sorry to be a disappointment." Then as an after thought, he turned and fired back a spell in the vampire's direction. "Expelliarmus!" Elementary, he knew, but he merely wanted the vampire off his tail. And besides, he now had a responsibility to the student he had thrown into the air who was trying to scramble to her feet to run off from a spider. "Aquamenti!" he fired at the spider to deter it.

Well, that wasn't working either. Who knew water would irk an acromantula? It turned away from Tish and intended now to try to chase Angus instead. Great. Just bloody wonderful. He watched Tish dash into the Forbidden Forest and hoped she would be safe there. At least for the moment.

A spell hit Damon's cloak, causing it to go completely rigid and Damon knew his "lapse" hadn't gone unnoticed. If he'd been hoping to play both sides in this war (and he had) all hope of that was now lost.

Dropping to the ground he scythed his leg at the other man's ankles, but the attack was dodged with some sort of backflip. Pathetic grandstanding.

At least the giant spiders conveniently got in the way when a disarming charm sent him scrambling after his wand.

James looked how the Ministry entered the fight and also Lucius Malfoy. He saw how Frank went to the list he was calling up or at least the Malfoy. The Manticore was still fighting along, stabbing Death Eaters and biting Spiders to get them away from the grounds. The animals were also helping as he needed to have more help. He looked what was happening around him as he sighed. This was something he never thought would happen.

As fast as he could, he run to the lake, ducking into it trying to have a word with the squid. He hoped if this was helping, the merpeople and the squid, could have a help in the battle. He kept talking and talking to the squid not sure if they would even agree to it, as he waited the action of the squid, but he had no time for it, so he would wait and see what they would do.

He swam right up as he looked at a spider and the fangs ready to attack him, but before he could do anything a tentacle grabbed the spider throwing it into the forest. He looked as the squid, was looking at him. He didn't know if the squid was helping, but this was a good thing.

He grinned as he then jumped on a Centaur, moving fast to Frank Longbottom and protecting himself and the centaur with spells. "Jump up, and lets get inside Frank."He said. "It is time we should save some students inside."He said. Pulling out a hand waiting if Frank takes it.