Astronomy Tower

within seconds, her eyes and narrowed on crouch, her wand being pulled from its resting place on her ear as she marched over to him. 'Stop. killing. people. You want t fight? fine. fight me.'

Crouch turned to look at Krystal with a look of pleasant surprise, "Ah I remember you. You caused me a deal of grief in the past. Looks like I'm finally going to rectify it."

'You can try, Junior. But even if you do manage to kill me, i will stop you from hurting anyon else.'

"Manage?! Are you implying I'm inept at murder?! Well time I showed you who was good at it!" He aimed his wand straight at her with a large smile on his face.

A loud blank and a flash of light came out of the tip of his wand but nothing harmful, followed by the cackles of Crouch over his 'prank'.

'Wow, impressive. Is that meant to scare me or something? if you want some help, this is a stunning spell.' She shoots one at him. 'See, red light. hurts. understand?'

He waved his wand and deflected the spell away from him and looked at her disappointedly, "Has anyone ever told you need a sense of humor?!" 

"Legillimens!!"

She stepped to the side. 'Almost daily. doesnt change anything though.' she shrugged, pushing the thought of her firned away, the one that always told her to lighten up she was here, he wasnt.

'Conjunctivitis'

Crouch ducked quickly to dodge it as he shot a crucio at her, "Pink eye? Is that really the best you have? I suggest you give me something a little more on par with what I'll do to your friend, the mercenary after I'm finished here..."

she ducked. 'if you ever even ty to hurt him, i will happily break every law and hunt you down to kill you. just so you know. and do you mean something like htis? Confringo'

He tried to hold it back, but the force of the spell shot him backward, hitting a stone wall. "Oh.. now we're talking..." He looked at her proudly, "This may be fun, I want this to last... let's take our time."

"INCENDIO!!"

the spell hit her sleeve and it started to smoke before lighting completely. she hissed, quickly pitting it out- but the skin under it was red and burnt. 'Nice. Junior. Petrificus Totalus'

He quickly apparated behind her, "Boo... CRUCIO!!"

She dropped to the ground and screamed in pain, a few tears escaping from her eyes.

Crouch looked down at her with a crazy grin, pointing his wand at her head, "Say cheese..." 

"CHEESE!" Two separate spells hit Crouch at the same time, knocking him back away from Krystal.

Her two saviors turned out to be none other than Joachim and Sawyer. 

Joachim ran up to Krystal to help her up, "Come on sweetheart, we're not out of this yet."

'You came.' She said as she shakingly got to her feet. 'Thank you.'

"Don't thank me until we won..." He supported her up. 

Sawyer smirked at her with a dangerous edge on his face, "Well when i heard Joachim was going up against a psycho, I told him 'Count me in, I'm always up for a scrap!"

Crouch stood up with fury in his eyes over the surprise attack, "You idiotic little nobody. When I'm done with everyone here, you and your inn are history."

"Well, guess we gotta make sure you don't do everyone in then!" Joachim told him back in a rare display of bravery but he covered it with his own selfish reason, "Don't want to lose my business."

'Not such an easy win now, is it, Junior?' Krystal grinned. 'thing about us, about the side of good, is that we are loyal, and we will always help our own. Who stands by you when we three fight side by side?'

"I don't need anyone's help. I have enough power to kill everyone here single handedly. Only fools rely rely on others for power. Make no mistakes, the odds of my victory are no more decreased than the odds of the sunrising tomorrow..."

'You can dream. we will not let you win.'

Sawyer rushed forward, "Less talk! More fight!" He raised his fist to punch Crouch but the dark wizard pointed his wand at him with a casual ease "Sectumspra!"

Blood bursts out of the boy as he yelled out in the fiercest agony possible as he fell to the ground.

"Sawyer!!" Joachim yelled in concern as he ran over to his friend. "Shit man! Why did you do that?!" 

Even through horrendous pain, Sawyer smiled at him, "Just... sounded like a good idea..."

'Joachim, you keep crouch busy. Ill help Sawyer.' She knelt beside him, her wand over his body as she muttered everything she knew to stop the bleding

"Oh yes, a common street crook to take out one of the dark lord's finest, I see this ending well for you..." Crouch told them both with lazy sarcasm.

'Joachim is a thousand times the man you could ever be, Junior. Maybe not in spell strength but in everything else.' She said absently

"Well he'll certainly be in a thousand more pieces than I will be at the end of this..." Crouch laughed as he aimed a crucio at the boy.

Joachim however ducked and rolled away, "Don't count me out yet buddy..." The two began to fight but Joachim was clearly out of his depth against Crouch.

Sawyer looked up at Krystal, "You really like the boss dont ya?"

'More than he will ever know, sawyer.' she kept looking up towards the fight, worry in her eyes.