Elder Blood Witcher 449 What's A Maze Without A ********

Harry had been walking through the maze for a while now, he wondered if the maze was just barren and empty as he'd not come across a single enemy the entire time he's been here... There had been a large explosion somewhere inside earlier so he a.s.sumed the other champions were having a harder time than he was.

The audience was also confused with how Harry's task was progressing, Ciri and Fleur already having come across many monsters but Harry seems to be the exception to the rule. Reima doesn't say anything as he hears murmurs from those watching that Harry's cheating somehow. He looks over to Ciri and Fleur's projectors and sees that they've just come across a minotaur...

The two girls stare up at the 10ft beast, it's head resembles a bull's complete with vicious looking horns, below that seems to be what Hercules's body would have looked like, huge, muscular and chiselled with the only other inhuman part appearing below it's knee's where it has hooves.

Fleur casts a couple Reducto's but it doesn't even seem to hurt it, instead just dissipating on it's skin.

Ciri has better luck when a wind blade cuts deeply into it's flesh, blood dribbling down from the wound, however the creature is far from dead.

Dumbledore looks at Fudge, "Where on Earth did the Ministry acquire a Minotaur!?!"

Fudge looks at him sheepishly "The Greek Ministry of Magic felt the need to contribute... I didn't refuse..."

Dumbledore can only facepalm at the man's stupidity, did he not know that Minotaurs were arguably more dangerous than Dragons? Especially in small area's such as a maze? Their magically resistant skin prevents wizards from harming them, which made him more curious at the spell Ciri Rivia had used to cut it....

Fleur was sprinting away from an enraged Minotaur, Ciri wasn't far behind as she kept casting Wind Blades to try and impede it, however it didn't seem to stop it's charge.

Fleur deciding that trying to outrun it won't do much turns to the hedge and casts a Bombarda, the Hedges retreat as part of it is blown apart revealing another route. Fleur pulls Ciri into it and the start running the opposite direction with the Hedges separating them and the Minotaur... This doesn't last long though as the Minotaur charges through the Hedge quite a distance behind them, it turns at them and begins it's charge again leaving them in the same situation as before.

Ciri stops running and turns to face the Minotaur, she then pushes the bottom of her staff into the dirt under her with a focused look. Not long after this stone spear raises from the floor and point in the Minotaur's direction as it's charging at them. Seeing what she's doing Fleur helps her out and compresses the spears to make them more durable, once the Minotaur is close enough they start running again...

The audience watches on enraptured with whether or not their trap would work... Their worries are confirmed when the Minotaur leaps in the air to avoid the spears, however when it's coming down it's belly is clipped by one of them. Cutting it open and allowing it's entrails to fall to floor, still attached to the beast. The injury doesn't seem to stop it though as it ignores the pain and continues running at them, the entrails dangling behind it as it runs.

The girls sees this and Ciri get's an idea, while she's running she transfigures a few hook-like shapes that rise out of the floor inconspicuously. They run past and the Minotaur follows, not noticing that it's intestine was snagged by the hook, causing the of it's internal organs to start unravelling out of it's body as it runs further away from the hook.

The duo doesn't have to run for much longer as the Minotaur drops to it's knees after losing a copious amount of blood and organs. It breathes heavily on it's knees, blood pouring from it's stomach wound. Ciri walks towards it, not coming into it's reach but enough to try and put it out of it's suffering. She raises her staff and casts a powerful Wind Blade at it's throat, the Minotaur doesn't even attempt to block it as it's jugular is severed along with all it's arteries.

Ludo Bagman rubs his sweaty face with a handkerchief, "That... Was a particularly brutal solution to the Minotaur, no doubt the Greek Ministry will be receiving their beast in a body bag... Hopefully it wasn't an ancient one." he says after a moment of silence.

Reima chuckles and wonders if the Minotaur was too stupid to care about it's injury or simply didn't notice. Either way it's dead now, and it looks like Ciri is severing it's head as a trophy... How she's going to get it out of the maze he has no idea.

Fleur watches in morbid fascination as Ciri beheads the creature and ties it to her belt.

Ciri "Shall we get moving?" she says with a satisfied smile.

...

Fleur nods, "Oui."

However just as they agree to continue the maze around them morphs, revealing only one path... Looking at it they see the stadium where they'd first come from.

Ciri "If we're being led back wouldn't that mean-"

Fleur "'Arry 'as won." she says, not disappointed as she knew this was Reima's plan.

They start walking back, Ciri satisfied that she got something out of the Task with her new Minotaur trophy...