Before wizards had risen to power, these terrifying creatures at the top of Earth's food chain had been the absolute villains—the fiercest Big Bosses—in the legends of all wizards and Muggles!
Moreover, the six Dragons the wizarding families had sent ahead this time were notorious for their savagery and brutality even among Dragons.
As Vaughan climbed down the ladder beside the oak tree, he heard several werewolves wailing miserably—
A Hungarian Horntail that had originally been restrained by massive chains had somehow broken free of the chain on one foreclaw and the bit around its mouth.
The spikes all over its body stood erect, and its newly freed foreclaw clawed and slapped at the iron cages holding the nearby werewolves.
Vaughan clearly saw that one of the closer cages had already been completely flattened by the Dragon's immense strength. Sticky flesh and blood squeezed out through the warped bars.
The werewolf inside was obviously dead.
Several nearby werewolves cried and screamed in terror, but what could they possibly do against a Dragon standing at least fifteen feet at the shoulder?
Forget the fact that their wands had been confiscated—even when they had wands, they might not have been a match for a Dragon!
So, when they saw Vaughan walking over from afar—
These people, who had been utterly terrified of Vaughan two days ago, cursed him behind his back, and wished he would die, now desperately shouted as though they had seen their savior:
"Help! Mr. Weasley, save us!"
"Merlin, this is wonderful! Mr. Weasley's back—we're saved!"
Several werewolves wept with joy, and one even shouted:
"Kill it! Kill that damned lizard! It murdered your little white mice!"
Then Vaughan silenced them...
Too noisy!
The werewolves' strange behavior and the fluctuations of magic alerted the Hungarian Horntail that had broken