Gais's Animagus form was a sleek, athletic Wampus Cat.
It was one of the four Fantastic Beasts that represented Ilvermorny.
The Wampus Cat had large, round eyes with vertical pupils, and a beautiful coat striped like a leopard's.
Her body was over thirty inches long, with a tail more than ten inches long, making her larger than an ordinary house cat.
After transforming into a Wampus Cat, Gais barely hesitated. With an elegant push of all four paws, she raced toward the blue Swedish Short-Snout.
Seeing a tiny creature charging toward its Dragon Egg, the Short-Snout felt provoked.
Shaking its head, it opened its enormous jaws and spat streams of blue flame like flowing silk haphazardly at the approaching feline.
The Wampus Cat nimbly dodged the jets of blue flame, then the claw strikes that followed...
The arena was utter chaos, and the spectators simply did not have enough eyes or voices to keep up.
Up in the air, Shawn watched the situation below without much alarm.
An Anti-Apparition restriction had been placed over the arena to prevent the Champions from taking a shortcut with Apparition.
But with his access privileges and Purple Shadow's help, Shawn could still intervene at any moment.
His gaze and most of his attention were focused on Harry and Draco.
Besides being pursued by the Opaleye, the two also had to contend with rocks and flames hurtling toward them from elsewhere.
And they had to face the fiercest dragon of all, the Hungarian Horntail.
At that moment.
Harry and Draco ducked, narrowly avoiding the Hungarian Horntail's sweeping tail and its bronze spikes.
The gale stirred up by its long tail whipped their hair about as it gouged a long, deep trench in the earth behind them.
Boom!
Draco scrambled to his feet and hastily wiped