Heats-Duelling-March 10th 2009

[cenizobelle]

[cus i've waited so bloody long for you guys to do the sei/jaxio/tobi/leon match i just cba to wait a second longer]

The crowd cheered and eagerly eyed the remaining duellers.

Prof Robin smiled and mistook their enjoyment in seeing people beaten up as enthusiasm.
"Alright, next up is.....
Carm Sennla, Slytherin 2 and Robyn Zealey, Slytherin 1
versus
Sola Brand and Deron Puddlefoot Ravenclaw 3
Take your places please, and get ready to duel!"

They took to the stage, Sola and Deron exchanging a grin at the shortness of their opponents.
Carm and Robyn also exchanged a grin; with their 'secret methods' this would be a doddle.
They bowed and held their wands tightly.

"Begin!"

I burst of bright green light flew out of the end of Robyn’s wand as she accompanied it with some words of gobbledygook. Carm grinned as Deron tried to shield against it, but it just went straight through it. The attack hit Deron in the chest and he stumbled backwards, a confused look on his face, then his eyes glazed and he fell backwards unconscious. Robyn smirked. ‘That didn’t take long. One down, one to go.’ Carm thought.
‘When I first got hit by a body strike, it didn’t knock my unconscious . . . ’

Sola glanced at Deron and quickly sent a freezing spell towards Carm and Robyn. They were hit and froze for ten seconds, giving Sola just enough time to revive Deron. He stood up quickly and dodged one of Carm’s cobalt blue strikes. Sola and Deron were retreating slightly, sending charm after charm at the two Slytherin’s. But none of them seemed to get to them. Eventually Carm was hit and her legs flew from beneath her as she soared to the edge of the stage.

Robyn raised an eyebrow. They were doing better than she thought they would. Then the corner of her mouth lifted into a smile and she sent out a sudden rupture of light, that knocked both Deron and Sola to the floor. She grinned and looked at the two teachers as they called a stop to the match.

Mason and Robin exchanged a quick glance before announcing the winner. There had been some questionable moves in there, but perhaps they were just new to duelling.
"Well done Carm and Robyn, good try Sola and Deron, you did great."
The losers grinned at their favourite teacher [as of now] and retreated to the friendly laughter of their classmates.

[Tessiec]

"Wo......." Kik gawped "The most I could ever do is turn their tongues green!"

[.magnarock.]

Mason finished rummaging in the hat.
"Next up iiiis:

Jaxio Quintus [S3]and Sei Carters [G2]"
A loud murmur went up from the crowd, who would be facing them?

"Versus Leon Lowburry

and Tobi Thompson [G2]"
The pairs faces paled momentarily and a peal of laughter went up from the audience.
"Now, calm down all of you lot! Duelers get onto the stage please!"

Take to the stage if you please!

The four climbed onto the stage, Tobi and Leon no doubt receiving nasty glares from Jaxio. They grinned at each other, a ‘lets give our bestest shot!’ look.
Jaxio cracked his knuckles, Sei attempted to smile over at them; all the time he had spent around Jaxio meant it came out more like a sneer.
They gulped and exchanged an ‘oh poo; this is going to hurt a lot’ look.

Robin and Mason looked at each other, both wondering whether the rather short -and to put it gently not particularly good at the lessons involved- pair would be in too much danger going up against the notorious bully and frequent top of the year dueler, Jaxio.

[bit from melykins plz!]

[.magnarock.]

[or not! eesh, it's been like four days]

The pairs bowed to each other, although Jaxio’s was considerably smaller and less bothered than the rest.
"Begin!"

Leon and Tobi simultaneously failed to cast 'floppindo' and produced small spurts of orange ticker tape which fell to the floor, much to the hysterics of the crowd. [Im stealing jaxio for a few minutes] Jaxio sniggered at their lame attempts and dodged out of the way of a slow moving bubble from Leon whilst Sei got some practise at protego, a spell which he could never make last for a few seconds, whilst Tobi launched varying degrees of harmless charms.

"This'll be over the second we start trying." He commented, effortlessly blocking a somewhat stronger spell.
"Protego. Pardon?" Sei said, turning his head in Jaxio's direction to hear better.
He rolled his eyes, disliking not having been heard. "I said- They won't last a second when we start sending spells at them."
"Oh. Yeah. Hahaha." He laughed.

Over the other side of the stage, Tobi's brain was working overtime.
"I was sure it was floppindo, Leon."
"Mm! Me too. It's something like that anyway." He replied before attempting a hex he'd looked up in a book once, leaving Tobi to his recollections.
"Flop, flep... fippydo... flipando.. flopengo..flamingo? haha. no. flippingo, grr."
A bright flash of light heading their way alerted both of them and they cast the one spell they had decided would be priceless to them in a duel.
"Protego totalum!"
The spell bounced off harmlessly leaving the two looking highly delighted and somewhat surprised.
"Yeah! Hi five!"
"Woop!"
"We rock!"

"Bloody freaks. How did they learn to do that so well?" Jaxio cursed.
"I thought you were only supposed to say Protego?" Replied a slightly confused Sei, "Does that mean you can change any spell like that?"
"Yes, probably." Came the short answer. "How come you haven't tried to hurt them yet?"
"We're supposed to hurt them?"
"Yes." It took a great deal of restraint on Jaxio's part to not call him idiot, stupid, or worse. He instead reminded himself that the duel could easily be won and it would only take a little reassurance and tact.
"But, because it's a duel it's completely fine. They can ask us to stop at any time, and they get healed up afterwards."
"O-o-ok." Sei replied, happier about the concept of 'hurting' his friends now.

Tobi and Leon had both launched a spell at the pair. Jaxio dodged skillfully and Sei decided to put his latest brainwave into action; a stronger protego- seing as his lacked everything in every way. Jaxio had heard some of the thought process and was now thinking to himself smugly: bwahaha, this is where the duel gets good. I feel sorry for those dumb freaks on the recieving end of this
"Protego tréan!" Came the shout, accompanied with a swinging flourish of Sei's wand.
A spout of bright orange hurtled towards Tobi, a gasp going up from the crowd. As he turned to face the duel from his most recent hi-five with Leon, -celebrating his rememberance of 'flippendo!' Tobi saw the jittering light a second before it fizzled where their barrier was and then burst through with a small explosion to hit him square in the chest. He took a heavy step backwards to steady himself and frowned.

Jaxio was also frowning; although Sei's spell had countered the midget freak's one, it had also seemingly hit him and had no effect. Things which had no effect and were related to Sei had almost always meant trouble on their few practise duels.
The crowd was also murmering, what a strange orange spell, and what babble had the freak boy from G2 shouted?

Tobi brandished his wand vigourously and shouted "Flippendo!"
A large ball of energy flew towards Sei at an incredible speed. Leon looked gobsmacked, Jaxio was questioning Sei about what he had done and ignored the silly midget shouting silly midget things.
A sort of sixth or seventh sense made Sei turn his head in Tobi's direction just in time to see something huge flying towards him.
"Agh!?" He yelled as it hit him in the center of his face. There was a dull thud and he keeled over with a swish.
Jaxio gawped.
Leon gawped.
Tobi gawped.
The crowd gawped.
Robin dismayedly handed two galleons to a very smug Mason.

Tobi's wand was on the floor next to Sei's head and a red bruise was forming on his forehead as he lay, completely out of it on the floor.
Jaxio turned to face the pair and with half a dozen rapidly exectuted hexes, jinxes and other spells, Tobi was on the floor, a swarm of bees buzzing at him and his body bound completely, and Leon was writhing on his back like a dog and trying to scratch the hundreds of bites popping up over him.

"The winners are, Jaxio and Sei. Very very good try Tobi and Leon." Mason said and un-did some of the more severe of Jaxio's spells so they could move freely.
Jaxio had brought Sei to and was trying to decide whether he was more stunned at the midget, or more cross at Sei for being knocked out like that. Somehow he found himself being very calm and consoling him.
"Don't worry about it. We're through, you can make it up next time."
"I will, sorry again. I'll do loads next round."

The duelers left the stage and blended back into the crowd as the next pairs took their places.

[.magnarock.]

[ok, so mel is busy today or something i think and no one else has been on for a while, so here's a squick summary of the duel between Venn Dhatri and Cenizo Kyli.]

It was very close and both sides were fairly evenly matched, Cenizo wasnt on best form but managed to do some damage. Venn was very on the ball and was the last on her team standing, unfortunately she knows no healing magic and was unable to help Dhatri who was bound magically by Kyli. The winning team then cast some very powerful spells at Venn which she defended and deflected until they managed to catch her out.
The winners were Cenizo and Keli in case you hadnt guessed.

[cenizobelle]

[ zomg alice ur right! i do have to write another duel! ich forgets ^^ and i luv the lil bet between mason and robin xD -lol- ]

"Last up is Rachel Bay and Hunter O'Flanagon, Hufflepuff 4 versus Matthew Benson and Zoey Blake, Gryffindor 4." Mason announced.
All four stepped onto the platform and bowed.
"Begin." was said by one of to two teachers and the pair sent charm after hex after spell at each other. And becasue i'm lazy and i cba to write all of the duel i'm just going to say that Rachel fell to the floor after being hit by a weird, freaky spell from Zoey and Hunter bent down next to her to see if she was okay, then Matty hit him with flippendo, and Zoey and Matthew won.
"Well done everyone!" Robin said cheerfully.

Mason and Robin stepped up onto the stage applauding the duelers.

"Now, some of you will be very disappointed that you couldn't go into the next round, but we're giving you all five extra marks on your end of year exams as a consolidation prize and to say thanks for joining in and giving it a go."

Robin took over, "We hope to see those of you who are in the next round tomorrow on the third. We'll be doing the second and third rounds at lunch and then after school, and the finals on Saturday before you break up."

The crowd dispersed to go back to their regular routines.