ROUND 1: GROUP 2 : Elana V Sreams of silver

Streams carefully eased the door open and slid inside the room, her flat shoes silent on the stone floor. She grinned when she realized that nobody was in the room yet. Being first gave her an advantage over her opponent, and she was going to take it.

First streams shielded herself by casting the "Proteja-me" spell. (Protect me=Russian). This shield only deflected minor spells, but it lasted a long time.

Streams noticed that there were several stone columns scattered throughout the room. She decided to take advantage of these and muttered "Viti tossiche" (Poisonous vines=Italian). Simple green vines with pretty purple flowers erupted out of her wand and wrapped themselves around the columns. They looked beautiful, but the flowers shot out poisonous darts with deadly accuracy if the vines were touched.

Next streams decided to make the room as uncomfortable as possible for her opponent, so she called out "Einfrierender Wind" (Freezing wind=German) and a bitterly cold wind blasted through the room.

Streams shivered uncontrollably, and mentally cursing herself for being an idiot, she cast a warming spell on herself by shouting through chattering teeth, "Burbuja caliente." (warm bubble=Spanish). Now the immediate area around her was toasty warm, but the rest of the room was unbearably cold.

Sighing contentedly, streams decided to extinguish the lights and she called out, "Escuridão da noite!" (Darkness of night=Portugese).

Then she tapped her foot and paced up and down the room, careful not to go near the poisonous vines as she waited for her opponent to enter.

(lol good to have you here! now this can finally get interesting XD)

streams groaned inwardly at her stupidity. She should have put up a shield to protect her entire body from the vines. Now it was too late. the vines' powers had been altered when elana enchanted them into ropes, so they weren't deadly. But they were still poisonous and streams was in terrible pain. her limbs ached and her head felt like it would explode. black stars danced before her eyes, and she felt like just giving up and sliding into unconsciousness. But that would mean elana had won.

shaking her head in a useless effort to rid herself of her horrible headache, streams realized that elana was bent over her, taunting her. Bad move. It never paid to lose control of one's emotions during a duel. elana's guard was down, and streams smiled even as her head pounded and one rope twirled lazily around her neck, trying to choke her.

gathering her strength, streams clutched her wand and slid it towards elana's legs. She whispered hoarsely "Tropece-a" (trip her) and elana tumbled over backwards, her wand falling out of her hand and rolling across the floor. She quickly followed this up with "Cegue-a" (blind her) and elana was temporarily struck blind. As elana was occupied searching blindly for her wand, her hands groping on the floor, streams sat up and muttered, "Desate as cordas!" (untie the ropes). But nothing happened. streams' energy was low and she panicked when she felt two more tendrils of rope twirl around her neck and begin to tighten.

With the last of her strength, she shouted "Desate as cordas!" and the ropes untwirled quickly, cutting her legs and arms as they did so. streams moaned under her breath. she was in bad condition and elana's blindness would wear off soon. thinking furiously, she quickly said "Faça-me invisível." (make me invisible.)

then she retreated silently to a corner of the room, careful not to make any noise. she pulled a small vial of healing potion out of her pocket and quickly drank some, making sure to leave some for later, as she didn't have much of the potion. her minor wounds instantly healed. her headache didn't completely go away, but at least her head wasn't pounding as badly as it was before.

the warm breeze seemed to tease her with its gentleness, and streams bit her lip as she concentrated. Finally she said, "Scorpions venenosos!" (poisonous scorpions) and quickly added "Faça-me imune a seu veneno!" (Make me immune to their poison!)

she watched contentedly as the scorpions headed towards elana. then streams decided to strengthen her shield and shouted, "Proteja-me de todas as coisas, físico e mágico!" (Protect me from all things, physical and magical!) This was a very complicated spell, and in her weakened condition, streams wasn't sure it would work. But hopefully it would.

streams decided to do two last things as she saw elana begin to regain her sight. elana reached for her wand just as streams shouted, "Headache do pounding!" (Pounding headache!) Now elana would get a taste of what streams had felt like only moments before.

streams added, "Pés pesados." (heavy legs.) now elana would feel as if her legs were weighed down, and this would force her to move very slowly.

streams grinned widely. she was still invisible and would remain so for a few more minutes.::

(translations in Portugese)

(haha excellent XD)

streams frowned slightly when she saw that elana had dealt with the spells reasonably quickly. Obviously elana had learned that actions spoke louder than words, because she had stopped gloating...as streams pondered this she didn't realize that her invisibility spell was already wearing off and her outline was visible. Therefore she didn't know to dodge the spell elana sent at her.

Her lips quirked as she bit back a grin when elana's spell couldn't get through her shield. But the second spell elana cast did get through, and it was then that streams realized there was a flaw in the shield. If any spell was cast twice in quick succession, it would get through the shield. How unfortunate.

Streams tossed her head, grasping her wand tightly as she began to rise into the air and she groaned inwardly as she was promptly stuck in a huge spider's web. She was about to perform a few simple spells to release herself when she saw the huge spider coming her way.

No...not a spider! She muttered a curse, streams couldn't stand spiders and even the thought of having to kill or disable one made her feel nauseous. Looking the other way, she raised her wand and shouted, "Stupefy!"

The spider's rustling stopped, and streams was certain that it had stopped moving as well. But when she turned her head she got a nasty surprise. Apparently her spell hadn't worked, because the spider had come even closer and now stuck out two very hairy legs, which it placed on her shoulders. Streams couldn't help it, she screamed.

No, no...don't panic... an inward voice cautioned her and she took large, shuddering gulps of breath, trying to calm down. Then she raised her wand again and yelled, "Alles bevriest!" (everything freeze)

She had merely meant to stop the spider in its tracks, but she was in a hurry and so she had forgotten a crucial wand movement, a sort of twirling technique. Therefore freeze took on a literal meaning, and the room turned deathly cold. Streams didn't realize this at first, because she was still encased in the warm bubble of air she had conjured earlier.

But she realized suddenly that the web was cracking...it had turned to ice and shards fell downwards, some of them sharp as glass.

The spider fell lifelessly to the floor and streams turned away, grimacing. She was still hovering in midair so she muttered, "Herstel ernst," (reinstate gravity) and she abruptly fell out of the air, landing hard on the stone floor. She winced, cursing her stupidity and feeling for broken bones, but all she had suffered were some scrapes and bumps. It was not worth using up her precious healing potion for that, so she ignored the slight but sharp pain as best as she could.

She then conjured an enchantment "Illusie van mij," (illusion of myself) that made it seem as if there were two of her. The illusion of streams she left directly in elana's path, but the illusion was slightly transparent, so perhaps elana would think that she had tried another invisibility spell. Meanwhile the actual streams tiptoed to a corner of the room and she whispered, "Mengsel moeiteloos," (blend effortlessly) and brought down her wand with a sudden swishing movement. Now streams blended into the background. She was leaning against the wall in a shaded corner and as far as she was concerned it would be nearly impossible to find her real self.

Instead, streams would amuse herself for a bit as she watched elana throw spells at the illusion of streams.

Streams stood silently for a few minutes, and elana didn't move. What was she waiting for? Moving her head a bit to the side so that she could see Elana's face, streams felt a sudden shock when she realized that elana was slowly but surely turning blue. She hadn't meant for the freezing spell to effect her as well...but now that it had happened she wasn't going to help her get out of it. "Elana's showing some house pride," streams muttered under her breath, smirking.

(translations in Dutch)

streams stood silently against the wall as elana warmed up the place. but when she saw elana throwing spells at the illusion, a small chuckle escaped streams' mouth. she quickly clapped a hand over her mouth, hoping elana hadn't heard anything. then she decided to confuse her even further and she raised her wand and brought it slashing downwards as she said quietly, "Onmogelijk gelach." (unearthly laughter)

A wicked, weird laugh filled the room and it went on and on, echoing off the walls and delighting in elana's confusion.

(translation in Dutch)