Taking on the Magical World 59 Chapter 58: Mayhem

The school immediately fell into mayhem s the creatures attacked everyone. Some student started to run around like headless chicken, screaming and pushing others around. Others started to fire off all manner of spells, and for a moment there I think that the whole school shook to its foundations. A few idiots, just stood there in shock as the swarm came through with their mouths hanging wide open.

All the Professors can out of their classrooms or the staff room that they might have been in and they tried their best to bring back even a semblance of order to the school.

Up in the ceilings, I saw that Peeves for once was not adding to the havoc, must be because he is laughing his ass off and enjoying the chaos, I reflect. As I look at him grabbing his stomach and rolling around in the sky in laughter.

I do not know if Peeves was laughing at the poor girl, who was being dragged by a group of doxies by the hair or at Filch, who was chasing a whole bunch of the little buggers away with his broom since the little pests managed to beat the shit out of his vile cat. I know for sure, that I was laughing my ass off at Ms Norris, who was a bloody mess of bruises and bite marks. Whatever goes around comes around, I think happily, as I watch Filch finally get over to his cat and start hugging it close to his chest.

If you are curious about these magical creatures, don't be, since after all, they are just an annoying pest with no magical uses, in other words, they have no practical use at all. Doxies are a sort of Fairy-like creature, and sometimes people actually mistook them for a real Fairy, but you would kicking yourself in the balls if you did. A doxy is covered in coarse black hair, and has two sets of arms and legs each. Doxies have shiny beetle-like wings, and a double row of sharp venomous teeth. At the crown of this magical creature's head is a pair of sharp pointy, barb wire like horns.

Doxies are considered pests. They can infest houses, mostly taking up residence in the draperies. That is all fine and good because a whiff of Doxycide could paralyze them for good. Alternatively, they can be dispatched with a simple Knockback Jinx, as doxies are very vulnerable to that spell.

That is except when a Doxy Queen comes into the equation, the situation gets a lot worse, really quickly. Doxy Queens are really bad news, they can lay up to five hundred eggs at once. These eggs that they lay can generally hatch in about two to three weeks.

"Hey what is up with that one, that is right in the middle of the whole swarm?" Fred asked as he points at one particular doxy that is surrounded from all side by other doxies.

"That must be the Doxy Queen," I answered Fred's question. Right now the three of us are crammed behind a single suit of armor of a Paladin at the Entrance Hall of the school. From the sixth floor all the way to the Ground floor that damn swarm chased us the whole time, bit by bit the swarm split up as we ran away but never the less the main part stuck to us.

"The real question is why the hell are they chasing us?" George whispered, as he carefully took a peek at the swarm that was only a few meters away from us.

Fred looked at me in a suspicious manner, I looked back at him with my eyebrows raised. "What I had nothing to do with this!" I said incredulity.

Fred still looked at unsure fashion, "Really? You were the only one that went near that door where those things have come out from, actually, you had your hands on the door if my memory services me well."

"First of all, these 'things' are called a doxy and second of all I only placed my hand on the door, that is all I did. The person you should be questioning is George, he saw what actually happen when we were talking and not paying attention."

The two of us turn on to George, staring at him and waiting for an answer. He quickly put his hands up and say. "All I am saying is that the door opened by itself, you should have seen it, it was creepy as hell. To make it worse, when the door opened, I saw a massive wiggling black thing, that was when my soul left my body."

"Man, you should have seen the look on your face!" I quietly add as he talkes

Fred speaks up, "Well, how I see it, this has to do with either of you guys. I do not need to be here with the both of you, you guys can deal with it since it must be chasing either one of you."

"Well, best of lucks to you," I say to him as I wave him goodbye, I turn back to George. "Hey, do want me to show you the Knockback Jinx, doxies are very powerless against that spell."

Fred quickly apologizes as soon as he hears what I have spoken of. "Listen, guys, I was just joking. I wanted to see who among the both was the one who did this."

"What do you say, George, should we throw him out of our hiding spot and let the doxies have him or give him another chance?"

Chapter end