Duelling Tournament: Final Round

Duelling Tournament: Final Round

Welcome to the final round of the duelling tournament! This duel will involve all four participants, but they will be working for themselves. It's you against everyone else!

Instructions

This duel involves all four participants, but you will be working alone. It's you vs. everyone else.

You may post as many times as you like, but no double posting!

You may use both spells created by you and known spells from HP.

You will not be marked purely on how long your posts are, 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

Good Luck!

Participants
RhiannonMei
stephy
Raistlin the Wizard
dragonweaver
Herbaceoustraitorous

Dragon brushed her hair out of her face and into a tight pony tail as she stood by the door as if she was trying to see through it. Raising her wand, she cautiously muttered ::mélange dedans :: (blend in). The spell was like one of the sneak suits in the series Uglies where the characters blend into whatever is around them making them invisible. She swished her wand again and clad herself in another spell just in case. ::bracelet d'avertissement :: (warning bracelet) with that, a chain, only visible to herself, appeared on her left wrist. The bracelet currently had 4 charms dangling from it. One was chaped like a lightning bolt that would light up only if a spell was coming towards her. The doll charm was a 3ft proximity charm to see if anyone was near her. The charm shaped like a cage was to warn her of traps and the last one was to warn her if her invisibilty spells or sheilds ever fall apart without her notice. Putting ::charme muet :: (mute charm) on the braclet so it won't clang and make noise when she shook her hand, she lifted her wand and muttered ::fourmis en bois :: (termites) and a stream of wood eating ants appeared on the door. Within a few seconds the door was complety gone. In its place was just a hole to the interior of the room. The termites streamed towards the wall but to her shock and amazement, as soon as they hit the wall, the poor little ant was complety swallowed up, gone forever in existent.

She mourned for the poor transfigured ant for about 5 seconds before getting over it. "Focus." she chided herself as she cast a mute charm just in time to silence her thought. Dragon pointed her wand at the last three termites that was holding on to a small piece of the door frame for dear life and foced them to go into the room. As soon as they made contact with the floor, they were completely devoured up like quicksand. Jumping back in horror, she glanced around the room. Someone was there and had set the traps. She scanned the room and checking that her blend in charm was still activated she paroidly cast :: anti l'humain découvrent:: (anti human discovery) so that charms like Homenum revelio will not affect her...but that doesn't me it won't affect whoever is inside. ::Homenum revelio:: she said and waved her wand at the four corners of the room. And there! There was a dim shape of a human in one of the corners...the northeast one. Frowning at the floor, she paused, her foot in mid-air as she remembered what happened to the poor ants. Retreating her foot, she watched as her cage charm flashed purple and tapped her wand against her dragon hide boots thoughtfully. Squatting at the fine line between the door frame and the room, she suddenly thought of something. Maybe it was because she was thinking of the Uglies series again, or maybe she was just watching a rerun of the movie 'The Rise of the Silver Surfer', but she grinned at transfigured a moldy bread crumb that she had found in one of her pockets (don't ask) and into an invisible hoverboard/surf board with a whisper of ::planche de surfing de vol plané::

Well, technically, she first transfigured the bread crumb invisible then into the board...but that's not important right now. Dragon squinted at the hazy figure at the corner and dimly wondered what spell she could use to get rid of the dangerous wall and floor as she hovered a few feet away from the air. Putting an invisble bubble shield around herself with ::sheild de bulle ::, she found her balance on the board and muttered :: séjour dessus:: (stay on) so she won't fall unless she voluntary did so. 'Hm...so the opponent is in the corner and there are probably more people to come...let's see. Ah, June, Raistlin, and Stephy are my opponents.' she thought to herself and then grinning she flicked her wand at door, sealing with a metal one with a muttered ::porte de garde :: (guard door). Whoever is the next person to come in will have trouble getting past her metal/iron door that shoots fire out of spikes and and floor and wall that this invisble opponent had thought of. 'Use everything around you' she chanted under her breath as she remembered her friend's advice. 'Let's see, my opponent is in the corner so...' ::Dugbog apparaissent :: (Dugbog appear) she chanted and 5 of the creatures appeared on her board. She gave each of them their own invisibility spell and a hovering spell and instucted them "Keep the person at the corner" she told them and waited a few feet away after firing a vine spell ::charme de vigne :: at the person that if hit, the person will find him or herself warped up with plants like is like the Devial Snare. Keeping an eye on the door and the hazy figure, she waited to see what the Dugbogs would do.

All spell in French. Translated by http://world.altavista.com/tr

(um just to say, i'm invisible so how could you see me?)

Dragon watched as the vines started to extend around Stephy as she looked towards the door in confusion. The door seemed to have something white covering it. She hovered a bit closer and realized it was ice- someone was at the door. ::voyez par la frontière :: (see through boundary) she chanted and the door became transparent to her eyes. It was Raistlin and it seemed like the wizard was chanting something making the door crash down with some chinese fire spell. She twirled her wand nervously when she realized that Raistlin had covered the whole room with ice. She shuddered and watched suspiciously as the wizard sat down and began playing an stringed instrumnt with a bright bubble around him. The song that he was singing seemed stangely calming as a lullaby. Dragon shook her head in confusion and covered her ears to block out the sound, but it didn't work. Gritting her head she rubbed her eyes and cursed Raistlin sleepily under her breath in ten different languages not caring that no one could hear her since she still had her mute charm activated. Darn it, the song seem to be affecting her brain directly, not her hearing. 'Brain, brain waves - that's it' she thought to herself and while fighting the tune. :: feignez la magie de sommeil:: (pretend sleep magic) she muttered and rubbed her slightly numb foot. As soon as the spell covered her body she yawned and her sleepyness melted away. According to a paper she had written for Muggle Studies, when sleeping, it seems that human brain waves become slower. The spell that she had cast makes any outside sources (like spells or watchers) think that she has fallen into a deep coma since the spell completey cuts of her body (like the brain waves, temperature etc.) with the outside world. It will seem to Raistlin that she was now sleeping on top of her board...if he could actually see her that is.

She giggled to herself at the mental picture of snoring on a surf board and wobbled a bit as she rubbed her foot that was slowing getting some feeling back. 'And now for giving something back' she thought to herself and chanted ::quand quelque chose est donnée, donnez-l'en arrière :: (when something is given, give it back). It was a very complicated piece of magic that she had only prefected after many years of practicing. It allows her to shoot whatever spell, hex, charm etc. back to the caster by a magical mirror that was slowly appearing in front of her. Grasping the two handles on the side, she waved to herself in the reflection before mentally hitting herself in the head and muttered "Focus" to herself. Letting go of the left handle, she faced the mirror to Raistlin she tapped it with her wand in her right hand and shouted :: donnez le dos de Raistlin ce qu'il m'a donné:: (give Raistlin back what he gave me) and a beam of light woven with the strands of melody of the song with threads of the effects: the numbness, sleepyness flew to the wizard on the stool and enclosed the wizard along with the bubble. Blinking at the bright light, Dragon moved a bit farther away and waved her wand for the last difficult piece of the spell. 'He just had to make it more difficult' she thought and glared at the bubble that was keeping her bubble from getting in. Thank merlin that her spell was powerful enough so it won't get absorbed. ::champ loin mais revenu à la maison :: (sweep away but come back home:: she yelled and her bubble went into Raistlin's bubble. Her spell was also one that took her quite some time to learn to preform correctly. It was spell that directs other spells to always come back to it's original destination, like a bomerang- except it won't come back to her.

In a flash, her bubble that was just sucked into Raistlin's bubble appeared again - but now it was now inside Raistlin's bubble since that was its original destintion: Raistlin. The shield bubble that the wizard had was just an obstacle. But since she had just used the demension sucking bubble thing (whatever it's called) as an advantage, using it to surpass itself. The spell was now inside Raisty's shield and with a filck of her wand she let go her hold of it and it covered Raistlin, making him pink from head to toe. "Pretty in Pink." she muttered to herself and watched to see if her spell had worked...but then she should stop doing stuff in defense and do some real attacking - but first she had to fix the door and the temperature. It was freezing cold in here. :: un changement de température plus chaud:: ( temperature change) she muttered and pointed her wand at the walls and floor. The ice melted and puddles formed on the floor where the ice while a drip of water hit her hair from the ceiling. ::l'eau sèche:: (dry water) she said and the water slowing dryed up, leaving the room nice and dry. "And now for the door." she told herself. "Let's see, last time I tried to keep the duellers out and that didn't work...so this time I should do someting a bit different..." trailing off she smirked suddenly and flew to the empty door frame and was midly surprised the door frame was actually still intact. ::tunnel de la crainte :: (tunnel of fear) she chanted while wondering if she should stop going to that many carnivals. A door apeared looking harmless like any other regular wooden door, but whoever comes in the room next, will open it to see a tunnel with with some illusions of their worse fear - kind of like a boggart. After that was finished, she placed the magical 'giving back' mirror carefully into one of her endless pockets and flew back to the center of the room. True, the room was now empty of a dangerous floor, but she was just starting to get the hang of the whole flying thing.

spells in french

June calmly walked towards the duelling room, fingering her wand as she went. This was it, the final round. Stephy, Dragon, Rai, and Herby were her opponents, and June hoped that she would do well against them. Finally, she reached the door.June doublechecked that she had her potion, necklace, and bracelet with her before she slowly turned the handle. She was late, so she assumed that plenty of people would be there already. June creaked the door open and blinked. This didn't look like the room.... She cautiously stepped inside and gasped as the darkness around her shaped itself into a tunnel. What... what was happening?

Everything was dark... suddenly, a light seemed to slowly appear and June's jaw figuratively hit the floor at what she saw. "M-Mummy?" she whispered, staring aghast at the scene in front of her. "D-daddy? Leenie? Bailey?" Her legs felt weak and she staggered across the tunnel and collapsed on her knees. They - they couldn't be... not here, not in this duel, they were supposed to be at home! SAFE! At bloody home! Just hesitantly reached out a hand and jumped as she touched skin that was as cold as marble. No... no... This was impossible. "M-mummy?" she whimpered, all thoughts of the duel gone. "MUMMY!!!!!!" she screamed, shaking her mother's limp hand. "Wake up! Wake up, damn it! Wake up!!!" She shook her mother again. She looked so pale... so very pale.... and her eyes... all glassy and... and... like a doll's! "MUMMY!!!!" she shrieked again, tears falling fast from down her face. "STOP it! This isn't funny! Stop playing games!" June sobbed as her family just lay there, just... just... dead. She clapped a hand over her mouth and sniffled as she stared, not really seeing the scene before her.

This was IMPOSSIBLE! This absolutely couldn't be happening! Elfie and Amy would have never allowed this! This was all a trick, it had to be a trick, damn it, it couldn't NOT be a trick! June shakily got to her feet. This couldn't be happening, it had to be an illusion.... "ENNERVATE !!!!" she shrieked, pointing at her family. "ENNERVATE ENNERVATE ENNERVATE!!!!!" Grasping at straws, June slashed her wand and screamed, "Ostendo sum illusione (reveal illusion)!!!"

Everything disappeared. June stared in shock as the tunnel and the bodies completely disappeared, leaving her in the middle of a large room: the duelling room. She could see Rai to her left, strange creatures to her right, and pools of water everywhere. Her eyes blinked with tears that still streamed from them, and June turned around, searching for the other duellists. She knew that Rai wouldn't have cast that spell; it wasn't his style, and plus, he looked preoccupied. But... with what? June looked quizically at him. He was playing some type of instrument... a lyre? The music was absolutely beautiful... and he was crying. June knew of Rai's use of mythology in his spells, and wondered if it was merely coincidental that she thought he resembled Orpheus at that moment. June knew that myth well, about how Orpheus had been such a great musician that he could make even the stones weep. June slowly began to smile at the music. She stood still, enjoying its soothing melody... Her eyelids felt heavy... she was so sleepy... Wait.

WAIT! Why was she so... sleepy? She'd made sure she'd gotten in a full night's sleep after that last duel. What... she yawned. What was happening? Was it the music? Was it some other spell? "κερί μελισσών (beeswax)," June said lazilly and waved her wand. Instantly, wads of beeswax molded itself into her ears, and June couldn't hear a thing. Yet... she was still so sleepy... Pointing towards Rai, wondering if he was working this magic, she slowly said, "Discordante onda (discordant waves)." She'd learned that when discordant waves mixed, it broke up their power. If the magic was truly coming from the lyre, then the discordant waves would break them up, allowing June to stop falling asleep. She stifled another yawn. Was it working? She felt a bit more awake... "Vitesse réveil (speed awakening)," June said to speed up her awakening. She blinked rapidly as she felt energy rushing back into her body and smiled. It had worked! To make sure that it would continue to, June waved her wand around her and said, "Soutenir vague (maintain waves)."

That obstacle out of the way, the memories instantly rushed back to her. The tunnel... her family... the illusion. She shuddered involuntarily. It had been horrible, facing that. Not even bothering to put a shield around her, June whirled around, her previous anger coming back to her. "How dare you?!" she shouted pointing her wand around her. Pointing at the wooden creatures, June hissed, “Brûler, brûler, brûler (burn)!!!” , pointing at the creatures. She glared maliciously as fire consumed them and her eyes flitted around the room, searching for the person responsible for that horrid illusion. “Homenum revelio,”she cast, and smiled evilly as shadowy figures began to solidify around her. She counted them: Two. "Voir (see)," she murmured and blinked as the shadowy figures flickered for a moment, revealing Herby in a tutu and Stephy, before they once again became mere shadows. June was almost certain Dragon was here as well; it wasn’t like her to be late. Meaning that somehow she was invisible to June’s revealing spell.

Her eyes narrowed as she searched the room. She remembered Dragon’s dementor from last time, and shuddered as those memories combined with her most recent ones. June glared around the room. It’d be just like Dragon to have made that tunnel… June raised her wand and made a large circle with it, before jabbing in the middle of the imaginary circle. “ Solliciter l’une moi souhaiter à trouver (seek the one I wish to find),”June hissed and watched carefully as a spark of light flew out of her wand, hurtling throughout the room. Finally, it stopped in midair and June smiled grimly. “ Démasquer (expose)!”she cried, pointing at where her dot had landed.

June slowly took a deep breath. What was happening? Her vision was flickering... and it definitely wasn't part of her seeing spell. She clenched a hand into a fist and squeezed her eyes shut. After a few moments of frantic thinking, she opened them once more and found that it was still dark. Wait... she'd opened her eyes, right? June couldn't understand what was happening. First she had followed her dot to find Dragon... and now she was blind. Bloody hell. "Voir (see)," she muttered, waving her wand at herself, expecting her sight to immediately return. Damn it. She exhaled a shaky breath and waved her wand, trying again. Still, it didn't work. What. The. Opposite of Heaven.

June narrowed her eyes. She knew the spell couldn't be permanent, and assumed that it would end by the end of this duel. So... what to do now? June had often wandered around her house with her eyes closed, using her other senses to find her way from room to room, but she knew that it was too dangerous to bump around the walls in a duel. She hesitantly took a step forward but tripped, one hand splayed outwards to catch herself. She didn't fall. Well, not really anyway...

One second, June found herself leaning against a wall, and the next, she discovered herself cocooned in the stone. ... Ehh??? June took a shuddering breath; her head hadn't been cocooned. This duel was just getting worse and worse! She knew that she couldn't destroy the wall... but what could she do to escape? In her first duel, June had merely stayed inside the house Dragon had made, knowing that nothing could hurt her there. She could, of course, use that same logic now, but she felt too vulnerable. Plus, she'd soon get bored.

Narrowing her eyes in concentration, June said, hoping her wand still worked, "Elementare successione (primary succession)." She had learned in Herbology that primary succession was when soil was made from bare rock. It took thousands of years, but June's spell sped up the process, which involved the weathering and erosion of rock and the eroding properties of lichen. Though June was a bit more than slightly freaked about being eventually covered in moss, she was willing if it would get her out of the stupid stone wall. June waited as she hoped that the spell was working. If it was, then lichen and mosses would now be covering the stone that cocooned the front of her, using their acids to break it down.

'Oh darn' she thought to herself as she saw that June had appeared from the tunnel looking very...annoyed off. 'Oh well a duel is a duel, I'll apologize later' she told herself and watched warily as June jabbed the air. Suddenly a spark flew out of the gryffindor's wand and towards her. She cursed as June eyed her position and muttered a spell. Her charm bracelet rattled slightly warning that her invisibility was wearing off just added to her frustration. Glancing a around she saw that Stephy's hazy figure as she noticed that fire was buring the vines. Just when she was going to do something (she wasn't really sure what) to June for destroying her invisibility charm, she had her wand half raised before she saw a streak of light coming from the corner that Stephy was at. 'What was that?' she asked herself and quickly used that as a diversion and recast the invisibilty spell -which wasn't really worth it since June could pinpoint her again. With her charm in place she felt a bit safer and glanced at June. 'What was she doing?' she asked herself as she watched June walked a bit...blindly. She glanced at Stephy's corner and wondered what exactly was the spell that one of her oponents had cast. ::danno anti umano :: (anti human harm) she muttered and pointed her wand at herself. Now, whatever spell that Stephy had used to blind June won't affect her.

Seeing June slightly...preoccupied she muttered ::Homenum revelio:: a couple times and pinpointed Stephy and Herby. ::involucro del mummy :: (mummy wrap) she said as she swished her wand at them. A strand of white cloth that is similar to the one used to wrap mummies appear around the two duelers and started wrapping around them in lighting speed. The cloth was like any other regular cloth except it was not flammable and like a shield it withstood a lot of spells from the inside so whoever in it could not 'burn' their way out - even if they could move their hands from the tight postion.

June squeezed her eyes tightly shut and concentrated as she slowly began to move her hand. It was incredibly hard, but she was able to at least wiggle around, and that was enough for now. June's spell was doing a good job, and June was now able to barely move her wand. But... that was enough. The stone was now weak enough to break out. Flicking her wand as much as possible in her stone cocoon, June muttered, "Concutio (shatter)." She heard a sharp crack and imagined a thin line making its way down the front of her cocoon. After a few seconds, she heard a few more cracks and June gasped as she suddenly fell onto the floor, now that nothing was keeping her to the wall. To be safe, June edged away from the wall, not wanting to repeat the long process of getting out again. It had taken up far too much of her time than was acceptable in a duel such as this.

June narrowed her unseeing eyes in thought as to what to do next. She needed to find where everyone was... and she had an idea. But... it would be so much easier underwater... June held her wand flat in the palm of her hand and muttered, “Point me.” Her wand spun a few times before pointing to the direction of the door. June smiled, pointed to the door, and waved her wand in a large circle before crossing it with an X. “ Signum (seal).” The spell sealed the door, making sure that nothing could get in and nothing could get out. June bit her lip and concentrated hard, knowing that what came next would be energy-depleting. June had always felt an affinity with the elements, and especially with water. She pointed her wand at the floor and chanted in a lyrical, up-and-down rhythm that resembled the action of waves:



June was glad she was on her knees when she finished the spell. Similar to how she had felt after casting her enchantment during the last duel, June felt a whoosh of energy escape her, though it wasn’t a bad as before because this time, she had help from the gods. She had always been a lover of mythology, and she hoped that Rai wouldn’t mind if she used it in this spell, since he was the one who usually utilized it in magic. Ah well… All’s fair in love and war. June’s breath hitched as she felt water at her knees. The spell was working! Before long, the whole room would be underwater, and she’d be able to put the rest of her spell to work. “ Aer ebullio (air bubble),” June cast, pointing at herself. Immediately, her head was encased in a bubble of air so that she’d be able to breathe while underwater. And just in time, too.

The water had now reached her neck. June quickly stood and waited for the whole room to fill up. She only had to wait for a few moments before the room was completely underwater; Poseidon’s power worked quickly. June sighed in happiness as she began to swim; she had always loved the sea and felt right at home. She pointed her wand at her throat and said, “ Delfino voce (dolphin voice).” This spell gave her a dolphin’s voice, allowing her to use echolocation to ‘see’ around the room; thankfully, the spell didn’t affect her casting abilities. June opened her mouth and emitted a squeak. There! A shape!

June swam closer, keeping her wand at her side, and squeaked once more. It looked like… Dragon? And she was on some board thing… June squeaked another time to get the position right, and pointed her wand at Dragon. “ Catturare en alga bruna (capture in kelp).” As June used her echolocation, she ‘saw’ long strings of kelp grow from the floor, reaching for Dragon. The kelp was thick, rubbery, and was difficult to break. Pursuant to her spell, the kelp would try to twine itself around Dragon. June left her spell to its work and turned around the room, searching for the others that she knew were here.

Raistlin kept playing, still not knowing who the people invisible in the room were, then suddenly he saw a flash of light and something involved his protecting Stardust Revolution Bubble. The light disappeared to reappear inside his own bubble. Raistlin kept playing while thinking:

“What? How? How could that have happened? How did it find me in the infinity of dimensions? “

The light stood there surrounding him but did nothing to him.

“Could it be? If it is, it’s useless then…”

A smile appeared on Raistlin’s face, if as he was thinking that was some kind of reflection spell it wouldn’t work with the kind of magic he was doing. It wasn’t a directly aggressive type of magic, he wasn’t the one causing it, it was the lyre’s ‘sending back’ spells couldn’t send back to him what he wasn’t directly causing.

Peacefully he kept playing, the ice in the room started to melt, after it stopped fire balls were being fired to everywhere in the room, his protective bubble swallowed everyone that come in his direction into some unknown dimension.

A scream almost made Raistlin stop playing. June went inside the room screaming and babbling about her family, clearly under some kind of confusion spell. When she pulled herself together the effects of his music started to land on her, her gaze become distant, then she said something that awake her and he could feel it was interfering with his song.

“Curse her, I am not giving up that easily.”

Raistlin stopped playing. His temper was rising and the first thing to catch his attention was the bubble someone had casted around him. From one of his pockets he took a pin, a diamond pin, goblin made and especially enchanted to cut magical shields. Stretching his hand Raistlin poked the bubble lightly it burst at once.

In the meantime June had burned the dugbogs and got herself stuck in the walls.

“Now it’s the time!” he though. He knew her magic was weak now which was the perfect moment to break her spell and re-enforce the strength of the lyre. Quickly he chanted:

Orpheu Calling.mp3

“Resting in the sky.

Far above,

And looking shy.

A legend, a myth, an artist.

One no one can fight,

One no one can hide.

Orpheu, gracious Orpheu.

Her my call,

Answer my plea.

Bless me,

With your music seed!”





As Raistlin chanted, an image of Orpheu appeared above him, a face of beauty holding his lyre in a beautiful garden. A lightening come down from the image and stroke Raistlin’s lyre making it glow. The lyre was vibrating, it looked like it had a life of its own.



When Raistlin recovered himself he was now surrounded by water, the whole room was filled with water and June seemed to have set herself free. Raistlin looked at his bubble.

“Well, the protection would be useless with what I Pretend to do next so while I get rid of it, I might as well use it to do some good.”



First slowly, then increasing speed Raistlin was twirling his wand. His bubble was now twirling too, when it was spinning so fast Raistlin was blur inside it he stopped twirling his wand and shouted “STELLAR EXCTINTION!”



His bubble gain a blue brightness, and started to expand spreading it’s light through the whole room, thanks to the stardust in his bubble he had created an explosion worthy of the end of a galaxy. When the light finally dimmed the room was dry again, the walls were now also bearing several cracks.



Pulling himself together Raistlin moved on stage two of his plan. Grabbing the pin he had used to burst the bubble he made a deep cut in his wrist and let the blood poor on the lyre. As he did so the lyre gained a demonic purplish color for some seconds.







With the hand that was holding his wand Raistlin tapped the lyre and casted “Nocturne String!” the lyre began to play alone while he was still pouring blood.

Nocturne String.mp3

As the song played string rays of light spread out of the lyre. This rays were powerful lays if energy concentrated and made to cut through magical defenses, it would leave human particles alone but if it found shield on its way it will get stuck on them and make them to shreds. Had he still is bubble it would have destroyed also.

Raistlin waited to see the rays spreading around the room. He’d soon have to stop the bleeding or he’d get too weak beyond salvation.



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Spells in English as English also deserves the opportunity to have spells. xD

June opened her mouth, emitting a squeal. She was searching for Herby and Stephy, but for some reason, she wasn't finding them... yet. Suddenly, June jumped - well, as much as one can jump underwater - at the returning image of a spinning bubble in the middle of the room. What was that? June swam a bit closer and used her echolocation once more. The bubble was getting larger, and it seemed to be bright. It appeared to be spinning... and was that Rai inside? A fluttering feeling entered June's stomach and she slowly began to swim away from the bubble. But.. she couldn't resist squealing in order to keep seeing what was going on...

June flinched as she felt a shot of heat move through the water and hissed as it singed her robe. Rai was obviously up to something... but what could she do if she didn't even know what he was doing? After 'seeing' again, June gasped at how large the bubble had gotten, and how bright it now was. She brandished her wand and shouted, "Ddraig Triskele (dragon triskele)." As she cast the spell, she envisioned a glowing, silver, large symbol of three swirls that were shaped like dragon heads. The Celtic symbol represented strength and protection combined with truth, spirit, and divinity.



In the back of her head, June was berating herself for deciding to cast a powerful enchantment after already casting one, but she knew that now that the first step was taken, she couldn't stop, otherwise all the magic would be released and would cause havoc. Taking in a deep breath, June pointed her wand out in front of her, both hands clasping it tight. She didn't let herself imagine how big and bright Rai's bubble was now.... she didn't need to; it was getting quite hot now. June focused on the spell and called upon her patron goddess.





June waited and shivered as goosebumps raced up her arms. She chanced a squeal and was shocked by the enormous bubble and the light and…. She used her echolocation again. She had been right! The spell had worked! The enormous dragon triskele floating in front of her was shimmering in stuff that was still falling onto it. As June continued to use her dolphin voice, though it was wearing out her voice box, she gathered the continuous image of the shimmery dew endowed with Rhiannon’s power sending jets of light at each other, until there was a solid panel of light spreading out from the dragon triskele, wrapping itself around June.

Suddenly, June shrieked as an enormous vibration rocked the room. She curled up into a ball and shuddered with each vibration. Even to her unseeing eyes, she could sense the brightness that, she assumed, was emanating from Rai’s bubble and her own shield. Finally, after what seemed like a very long time, the vibrations stopped. She shuddered and slowly lifted her head from where it had been, against her knees. The first thing that she noticed was that she was no longer wet. There was no longer any water surrounding her. The second thing she noticed was that she was on the floor. June carefully patted her hands around herself; the floor was dry as well. June opened her mouth and was surprised to find that her dolphin echolocation still worked, despite the fact that, as June quickly found out after squeaking, the room was no longer underwater. In fact, it looked as if it had just been burnt.

Curling around June, there was a shimmery shield of moonlight, held together by the shining dragon triskele. June reverently reached out a hand to touch it, and gasped as she felt her hand reach thing air. June used her echolocation and was stunned to see that the shield had completely disappeared. She smiled a little; such power could, after all, only work once and for a short while. June shakily got to her feet, unused to the sudden feeling of air, and squeaked. She gasped in shock at the rays of light that were now coming off of Rai, or, to be more exact, Rai’s lyre. She brought up her wand wondering whether she still had enough energy to pull off even a simple ‘Protego’, but stopped. The light was already touching her… but it didn’t seem to be doing anything. She turned towards Rai with a curious look; what was he doing? June sighed and shrugged it off. Though she doubted that he was playing with light for the fun of it, it didn’t seem to be doing anything to her.

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Translations in Welsh

Dragon blinked around the room in confusion. It seemed like the whole room was filling up with water -and fast. Just when the water was reaching up to her neck she felt strands of kelp wrap on her legs and she wiggled her foot angrily. Just when she was reaching for her wand, she saw that Raistlin's bubble was shooting out strands of light that seem to cut through his own bubble. "Whoa." she muttered when one strand of light hit the plant on her legs making it fizzle and burn - even though it was in water. With nothing supporting her once two stiff legs that was forced together she wobbled slightly was just tipping forward when she saw a light cover the room and the water frozen in place. 'It’s like wet ice.' she thought as she waved her hand in the water but not disturbing it at all.

'Well, better get back to the duel' she told herself and pulled out her wand :: επιπλέον σώμα ανωτέρω:: (float above) she said and waved her wand over herself since it seemed like her board had become what it was before she transfigured it: a moldy bread crumb that was now somewhere in the water. Rolling her eyes, she reminded herself to practice stabilizing her work more properly as she felt her body rise up over the still water. Surveying the scene below she noted Stephy who was doing some kind of spell at Raistlin so she put them aside and focused on June who was not being attacked. It seemed like both Raistlin and June already done some kind of poem sort of spell which was really cool, so she should do something special too. Tapping her wand on her hand she took a piece of kelp that remained stuck to her pant leg and broke up the thin strand to four pieces while dimly noticing that the water was drying up.

Με αυτό το υλικό (With this material)
παίρνω τους αντιπάλους μου (I take my opponents)
με το προϊόν (With the product)
μπορώ να ελέγξω τις ενέργειές τους (I may control their actions)
Raistlin, Ιούνιος, Stephy, και herby (Raistlin, June, Stephy, and Herby)

Then a blue glow surrounded them and four dolls were transfigured from the strand of kelp. One looked like June, one was Stephy, one was Herby in her pink tutu and the last one was Raistlin. The four dolls were kind of a voodoo doll/the imperious curse – a slightly dark spell that took a lot of energy from it. Whatever way she moved the doll, the person who looked like the doll will have to move that way as well. Rubbing her eyes she frowned at the June doll and spun her around in three dizzy circles. With Raistlin, she shook his bleeding hand a bit to help Stephy quicken the blood flow and lastly turned to Herby and Stephy. She spun both of them (like what she did with June) in dizzy circles and pointing her wand at the real people below her, she cast :: αποτέλεσμα αύξησης :: (increase result) spell at them. Now peering down below she waited to see the result.

//The water no longer exists.\\

June hummed to herself as she slowly surveyed the room with her echolocation. Suddenly, a thought came over her. I want to spin... Yes, it seems like a good idea to spin around. Getting dizzy sounds like fun, doesn't it? Come on... you know you want to! Just spin around three times and see what happens! A little voice in the back of her head was protesting quietly. Why on earth would you want to spin around? For heaven's sake, that sounds like such a stupid thing to do, especially at a time like this! Are you listening, June? June! Are you listenig to me?! But June dismissed the voice in her head. Of course she wanted to spin! Spinning was fun, especially if it involved doing it in the rain... June began to slowly spin in a circle and began to do so faster and faster.

This was fun! She laughed in delight, but it came out as a squeak, and June was given a picture of four dolls hanging in midair. One of them looked like her... June stopped having fun. What was going on? She normally didn't spin around in duels, unless there was a purpose.... But this, there was no purpose! You know you want to keep on spinning, June... The other voice in her head kept protesting, and seemed to be getting louder and louder. No! You don't! Stop paying attention to what you're being told to do! Juuunnneee..... this is insanity! Huh... it was insanity... why was she doing this at all? You know, I kind of want to stop... I mean, this is fun, but... completely and totally pointless! The voices in her head began to clamor together at once. NO! You WANT to keep spinning! In fact, you want to keep spinning faster! Like dragons do!

The other voice was screaming at her at the same time, their volumes now the same. Doesn't this just seem the itty-iest bit suspicious? Come on June... Dragons?! That reference? There is no way that you'd normally spin around in a duel without any outside influence... Wait... dragons? June made a face. Her second voice was right. Why would she spin in a duel? June concentrated. I want to stop spinning... NOW! Her spinning began to slow down. June opened her mouth and used her echolocation, looking around, remembering those dolls she had seen. Though she was still spinning, June found herself able to still move other parts of her body.

She raised her wand, squeaked once more, kinda-sorta pinpointing the location of the doll that looked like her, and screamed, "Incendio!" A jet of fire escaped her wand and, before she could see what had happened, June was whisked in another direction again. Suddenly however, her feet managed to twist together and she fell to the ground, her wand falling out of her hand. June gasped and scrambled for it, feeling along the floor until she felt its familiar feel once more within her grasp. She breathed a sigh of relief and slowly got to her feet, wondering why she'd stopped spinning. June used her dolphin voice to 'see', and blinked slowly. She had actually hit it?! She was shocked... she had actually burnt up the doll! So... somehow, someone (June was leaning towards Dragon) was controlling people with the dolls. How voodoo-ey... and freaky! June wondered how the person had gotten a lock of her hair, but magic voodoo probably didn't work like that.

June backed away from the floating dolls and raised her wand. "Locus sator (locate creator)," she cast, pointing where the dolls where, assuming that they hadn't really moved since she had last 'looked'. The spell she had just cast would form a sort of bond from June's wand to the creator of the dolls, if June used the right words. That way, spells that June cast for the creator would reach the creator through the bond. June waited a moment and, still pointing, uttered, "Per vinculum : etiam (through bond: still)." This spell, travelling through the bond, would keep its victim completely still. "Per vinculum: amber (through bond: electrify)." A bolt of pure electricity shot from June's wand, through the bond, towards its victim. Poor poor victim... But at the moment, June wasn't feeling very sorry. Pity that.