Neither the professors nor the students had expected this to happen. All that remained around them were flames that had not yet gone out, while Kyle had vanished.
Even Kyle himself had not expected Fawkes to suddenly appear and bring him to...
Wait, where was this?
Kyle looked at the towering trees around him, finding them strangely familiar.
This was probably a forest, though he had no idea exactly where. All he knew was that it definitely was not the Forbidden Forest.
Wait, a forest?
A possibility suddenly occurred to Kyle.
Fawkes would not have brought him here for no reason. Someone must have sent it, yet Fawkes had been inside his trunk and had not come into contact with anyone.
That meant only Dumbledore could have done it... a phoenix could sense Dumbledore's condition and appear when he needed it.
And Dumbledore had gone because of Voldemort... Oh, this couldn't be Nurmengard, could it?!
Kyle's heart skipped a beat.
Nurmengard was surrounded by forest as well, and now that he looked more closely at the trees and the surroundings... they increasingly matched his memories of Nurmengard.
Back then, he had been chased through trees like these by Rosier and the others for an entire night.
"No way..." Kyle turned, intending to ask Fawkes what was going on.
But the phoenix had already vanished. All Kyle saw was a person falling from the sky, plummeting straight toward him.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" Kyle had no time to think and instinctively swung his wand.
The fallen leaves on the ground piled up in an instant, forming a thick, soft cushion that caught the person falling from above and kept him from crashing directly into the ground.
He was a very old wizard. Kyle's mouth twitched as soon as he got a look at