Sebastian Saru had been right. The Bloody Marys were as fast as dragons, and catching up with them was no easy task.
Only someone as proficient in Apparition as Annie Saru, or someone with a way to increase their own speed, stood a chance of catching them.
Wizet fell into the latter category. After transforming into an Obscurus, he maintained roughly the same flight speed as the two Bloody Marys, probing their reactions.
The Bloody Marys reacted much the same way. When Wizet flew alongside them, they showed no aversion to his presence;
when Wizet blocked their path, they simply flew around him, making no attempt to attack;
even when Wizet withdrew his Obscurus form and blocked the Bloody Marys with his own body, they still chose to evade him rather than attack.
Through the curtain of rain, both Wizet's Obscurus form and the two Bloody Marys became far harder to make out.
Had Wizet not tested the Bloody Marys several times, Annie Saru and the others would have struggled to tell them apart.
A residential neighborhood lay not far away, with clusters of dark magic creatures floating in the air.
Although they could not yet stop the Bloody Marys from devouring those creatures, Annie Saru and the others cast the Patronus Charm with all their might, trying to slow the process.
They knew full well that once the Bloody Marys had devoured every last one of those dark magic creatures, the consequences would be unthinkable.
Yet Wizet chose that moment to return to the ground. With a wave of his wand, he released a magical energy field that kept out the pouring rain.
Although Annie Saru and the others were curious about his intentions, they had more pressing matters to attend to. They steadied themselves and focused on