ROUND 1: GROUP 4 : Silverlady V Dancingsunset

Cristina stepped into the room, holding her wand casually. She smiled seeing that Dani hadn't yet arrived, then she decided to welcome her with some surprises.
She wanted to test Dani's and her own ability to cope with unusual fighting condtions so she shouted "океан" (ocean, russian), flooding the whole room to the top and making it look just like the bottom of the ocean, dark and with a sandy bottom partially covered in algae. She immediately thought "gedeeltelijke transfiguration aan een paling" (partial transfiguration into an ell) and there she was, swimming lightly around in an eel's body, with human hands (not the whole arms, just the hands) to hold her wand. She hoped for Dani's own sake that she was also good at non-verbal spells, otherwise, it didn't look good for her at all.
She thought "onderwater onweer" (underwater storm) and a mighty storm began agitating the water and rising the sand, so you could barely see. Or course, Cristina's eel body was perfectly adapted to this and could move freely.
Then she just needed to improve her own visibility and thought "maximum zicht" (maximum visibility, Dutch) and her eyes could suddenly see through all that sand as if it she were in the clearest mountain river.

Dani wasn't sure she wanted to open the dueling room door she could see water leaking out through the bottom, she took hold of the handle and yanked back and dodged out of the way as a hurricane of water spilled from the room. Last but not least to come flying from the doorway was an eel of sorts with hands, Dani almost burst out laughing but contained herself, instead she just pointed her wand at the thing that was flopping around like a fish(or eel) out of water, for in fact it was! Between Giggles she laughed out, "Serbatoio" (tank, italian) and covered the Cristina with it. "sorry," she whispered. Next with her wand she thought mentally, 'la sabbia rimuoveand the sand in the room vanished. She then cast her own element in the room. The walls were whitewashed white, along with the floor, door, ceiling, everything! It looked similar to a peice of paper as soon as she said, "fra questa stanza tutto diventerà bianco" (white wash everything, Italian) She smiled before pointing the wand at herself, "Io io divento bianco" (Myself I turn white, Italian) then the snow began to lightly fall. And the only thing you could see was Dani's pale peach face and her ocean blue eyes as she slowly conjoured the upturned tank and it's charge into the room.

The eel glared at Dani with its brownish glitchy eyes. How dare you... , it thought, destroy my wonderful habitat.... Angrily waving its wand, the eel thought "Transformeren om mij binnen een polaire beer" (Transform me into a polar bear, Dutch). Suddenly, the glass of the fishtank shattered into thousand of tiny splitters and the Cristina-bear roared.
"Rawr rawr! I think your battlefield suits me better now. Rawr! But I will improve it even more to my advantage! Rawr!"
The bear muttered "Arctische ijsje" (Arctic ice, Dutch) and suddenly, the whole room looked like the North pole! "Maak deze ijsje unmeltable!" (Make this ice unmeltable!, Dutch)
Then it was time to go into the offensive - "Ijsje bom aanslag" (Ice boms attack, Dutch). This was an unusual spell, as it shot thousands of mini-ice bombs at Dani, that would exploed as soon as the touched her and hit her with ice particles the size of dust, that nevertheless came with a violent force and could dangerously tear up her skin.
Cristina-the-polar-bear watched her attack happen, thinking about Dani's safety at the same time - it was a duel, but she nevertheless hoped that Dani would survive it relatively unharmed.

Dancing pulled up her wand sharply thinking "Blocco (Block, Italian)" The ice particles hit the invisible wall instead of her. Thinking quickly again, her mind shouted, "Temporale frenetico(Frantic storm, Italian)" High winds brust through out the room and the snow was impossible to see through. She laughed and jabbed her wand outwards, "Si geli!(Freeze, Italian)" And everything except her and a two foot radius about her froze solid. "Fracassi(Shatter, Italian)"and everything broke apart throwing ice into different parts of the room, she thought "Blocco" agian and waitted to see if her oponent had survived

Taking advantage of the snow storm, Cristina had quickly waved her wand and muttered "Lascilo viaggiare sotto la terra!" (Let me travel underneath the earth!, Italian) and suddenly dissapeared under the earth. It felt strange to be surrounded by a dark, cold substance, but it was due to the spell that she could move freely. She couldn't see anything, but there wasn't anything to see anyway. She just did a spell to protect her eyes from the earth and then used the "sensi supplementare-taglienti" (Extra sharp senses, Italian) - spell. Her body was a living thermometer and movement sensor, so she could easily tell what was going on at the surface.
She felt an unpleasant frost tickle when Dani froze everyting on top. Brrr, let it stop, she thought frowning. Then she heard the noise of cracking ice and knew she was happy to be where she was, even if it meant she had to shower extra-carefully that evening. She carelfully made her way through the earth, until she felt a change in temperature above her. She slowly stretched her hand up and felt something hard. She pressed untill she realised it was Dani's shoe - just what she had been looking for! She retracted her hand, as she didn't wasnt to risk Dani feel anything. Now was the time to act.
She whispered to whoever could hear her - some half-frozen worms probably, she didn't want to think about it - "Alzi una gabbia undestroyable della terra che otterrà più piccola con ogni alito di quello prigioniero!" (Raise an undestroyable earth cage that will get smaller with every breath of the captive one!, Italian). She grinned - again, to the worms - as she felt earth around her set into motion and raise towards Dani, trying to surround her. She heard a gasp and a yelp and wondered whether her spell had worked.