ROUND 2 : Group 3

Instructions

You have been split into three groups depending on where you placed in the last round (ie: 1st placings grouped together etc).

Each group will have one match opened for them and you will duel against all of the members of the group at the same time in a group battle.

You are allowed an unlimited amount of posts (though please do not double post) and you may use both creative spells and known spells from HP

You will not be marked purely on how long your posts are, or how many (though this will be one small factor of the marking) yet you will be marked on the following;

* Eye for surroundings
* Defensive and offensive spells (both what spells are used and how well they are used)
* Knowledge of spells
* Eye for detail (both your own posts and others posts)
* Inventiveness and creativeness as a whole
* Awareness of all members in your group


Those in this group are:

RhiannonMei
WaterLily
Fated4HP
Kit
Agatha Black

WL stepped cautiously up to the door, but hesitated before opening it. She quickly took out her wand and cast a Bubble-head charm on herself, wary of what Raistlin had done in the previous round. She bent, tied up the laces properly on her boots and cast a permanent sticking charm to keep them in place. Her waterproof gear was in place, and her hair was tied securely in a tight bun. Performing a mental check, she made sure that everything was accounted for. Amulet, ruby charm bracelet, knee support, underwear, deodorant, reflective shield, elbow guards, prescription underwater goggles and First Aid Kit. All there!

With that, WL creaked open the door and peered inside for any trace of her opponents. Seeing a pink atmosphere, WL gagged and was itching to change it into a more comfortable Gryffindor red, but that would give away her position. Thank goodness for her bad eyesight and goggles. She would have fainted as though she saw a Basilisk if she looked at the pink straight on...

Non-verbally, WL cast “Specialis Reveilo” into the room and drew in a sharp breath at the danger she could have walked into. Biting fish, poisonous confetti and some strange looking whirlwinds...

The confetti was easy enough to defend against. “Evanesco confetti” did the trick, although there were still some traces around the room. Hopefully, whoever was in the room wouldn’t notice the absence of one of their attacks.

WL came to a conclusion that her opponent was currently inside the eye of one of the whirlwinds. She quickly closed the door again and sat outside, pondering. It would be fatal to walk into that trap now. She created a one way mirror out of one of the walls so that it looked normal from the inside, but she could see in. For at least five minutes, she sat at watched for the opponent to make a move. After watching for a bit, she observed that it was the whirlwind in the centre that always moved the first, without fail, and the others moved very closely after. The other person was probably in that one. Now even if WL cast anything at the whirlwinds, the spell would probably be knocked slightly off course. Unless she put the extra power into it for it to move that extra bit faster and avoid the particles in the whirlwind. WL creaked open the door once again, making sure that the invisibility charm on her cloak was still active. Quietly, she cast an experimental charm towards the whirlwinds, a colouring charm. Unfortunately, it suddenly reflected back at her and caused her wand to turn momentarily green. Luckily, it was still invisible, and the spell light was colourless anyway.

Thinking hard, WL realised there was only one thing to do...She drew in a deep breath. Stepping out into the floor, she ignored the stabbing pains of the fish bites and ran the length of the room, casting four consecutive Reducto curses at the reflective structures around the whirlwinds. Once she was sure that they were broken, she turned on the spot and apparated directly over the middle whirlwind and aimed down at the person in the middle. A quick “Stupefy” stunned the opponent, giving time to WL to disable the other whirlwinds and take care of her bites. The stunner would only last for a few minutes, as weak as it was...but it served its purpose.

WL saw June stunned in the middle and thought about her attack as she went about with her spells. With a complicated twist of her wand, she blew great streams of air into the whirlwinds, in the opposite direction of the wind. Soon, the twisters had disintegrated; exposing three other Junes standing motionless on the floor...they must be clones, mused WL, who had also used that trick in the first duelling tournament...

WL took out her first aid kit and used one of the pain killers she’d brought, while binding her feet with a “Ferula” charm.

To take care of the fish, WL banished them all with a long sweep of her wand back to an ocean where they would be appreciated. And where there would be plenty of water they could swim in instead of targeting innocent-or-not-so-innocent people like WL.

WL looked around the pink room and decided to make things more interesting...or uglier.

Out of her wand, flew out a large amount of sand, completely covering the floor and piling up in large sand dunes. Hiding amongst those, WL made copies of an evil amulet that she carried with her, that would bring bad luck to the one WL chose. Hiding those at different depths within the sand, WL attuned them to June, and kept on moving stealthily, burying them at different intervals. She stood up briefly and cast a few “Aguamenti” charms around the place to make it both harder and easier to move around in the dunes.

Recasting her protective charms, WL hid herself amongst the dunes and waited for June to attack again. This early in the duel, a more defensive stance had served her well in the past...and it would do again...