The Dragon's Evolutionary Counterattack.
Clearly, this had caught both professors off guard.
But neither of them was the type to panic.
"Scatter!"
Grindelwald roared, vanishing from where she stood in an instant. Dumbledore Apparated as well, narrowly evading the devastating dragon breath. Of course, in the Dragon's eyes, their Apparition was nothing more than the laughable struggle of prey.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
It violently whipped its head around. Its enormous head, covered in newly grown scales, smashed toward where Grindelwald had appeared with agility utterly disproportionate to its size! The moment Grindelwald reappeared, she saw a mountain-like head crashing down on her! Her pupils contracted sharply. With no time to Apparate, she could only thrust both hands forward—then the black Fiendfyre, compressed to its absolute limit, transformed into a massive shield before her!
Boom—!!!
The Dragon's head slammed into the Fiendfyre shield!
"Damn it!" Grindelwald's body shot backward like a cannonball, snapping three massive trees before embedding deeply into the trunk of the fourth. Blood flowed from the corners of her mouth, nostrils, and eyes. Her arm bones crackled with a sickening sound, clearly broken.
Yet the Fiendfyre shield had actually blocked the Dragon's charge! Though only for a brief instant, that instant was enough. "I'm here!"
Dumbledore's attack arrived in that instant. He did not attack the Dragon's scales—he knew that would be useless. His target was the Dragon's newly healed eye!! The Elder Wand blazed with dazzling golden light, and a beam as thin as a hair yet condensed to the utmost precision pierced directly into the Dragon's left eye! Rather than attempting to penetrate through it, the beam exploded inside the eyeball itself!
The Dragon let out a shrill scream! Its left eye burst apart once more, blood and bodily fluid gushing out and splattering across the