ROUND 3 DUELS - GROUP 1

~Arriving to the arena, Fated's blue eyes widen seeing that he has many opponents. He studies them all very carefully as he slowly walks towards them.

~Herby; he recognizes her and remembers her lucky tutu. She's quite ambitious and he knows to be on guard for her random attacks~

~Shifting his gaze to the next person, he smirks seeing that it is none other than his fellow Slytherin Stealth. Fated is aware of the dirty tricks that Stealth pulls and will make sure to keep his eye on him.~

~With a slight chuckle he notices that Waterlily is also one of his opponents. He nods slightly thinking of a particular strategy that may come in handy when facing her.~

~Then he pauses a moment as his blue eyes fall onto duck and rip; the two sisters that he's aware of having cunning, clever moves. He makes a mental note to himself to watch out for them.~

~The last of his opponents, jennifer; catches his eye. He's well aware of her determination and hard work. She will not be an easy opponent.~

~Now aware of the opposition that he will be facing, Fated stops and stands just a few feet from the 6 people that he will be dueling with. He takes a dueling stance, his fingers rubbing together slowly as he reaches into his robe and curls his fingers around his perfectly crafted yew wand that holds the entertwined heartstrings of three dragon species. He slides it out with his eyes never leaving his opponents.~

~He waves it in a slow, Z-pattern. "Pureblood Protection" He mutters as he casts a protective shield around himself. This is a necessary spell for he will need all the help he can get. Facing six other people at once will be tough, but Fated is determined not to lose. He points his wand at the group gathered before him. He waits for the right words to come to him before he let's them leave his lips.~~
"Appello Aranea!!" (summon spider's web)He shouts with a strong determined tone to back up the incantation.

A large sticky spider web wall appears directly behind the six unsuspecting duelers.
But Fated isn't done yet. Swishing his wand in a couple of quick spiral motions he speaks yet another spell. "Durus Ventosus!!" (strong winds) Several strong gusts of wind blow the six opponents right into the sticky web behind them.~~

~Fated smirks. He watches to see who will be able to escape his sticky web first~~

::Struggling in the sticky threads that Fated so sweetly blew them all into, Jen gave a huge sigh of relief. 'At least it's just a web and not a spider to go with it.' she thought to herself, 'Come on Jen, think think, what gets rid of spider webs?' Getting an idea, she gripped her wand and pointed at the web around her, "Profusum Incendia." A steady stream of fire shot out of her wand burning up the web and quickly giving her back her freedom.::

::Dusting herself off, she moved to help the others still in the web but stopped herself. "Wait, we're all against each other in this one. At least there aren't any fellow Huffies in there." Glancing at the others sadly she looked away while they were still trapped with the burning web closing in on them caused by both her and fated spells::

"Now where were we Fated? For now it's just you and me." She said with a smile as she raised her wand up in a defense stance. " Extremus Servo!" Causing the most powerful of all shield spell cover her body. She pointed her wand at Fated and waved it swiftly. "Huminus Phasmatis!" [Causing figured of silvery ghosts of past muggles erupt from her wand and surround Fated. They do not disappear except on her command.] "Just what Purebloods hate the most, to be surrounded by muggles." For good measure she send a few sucession of spells in his direction. " Rigor Virga. [spells that transform parts of your body into stiff sticks of wood.] Careful where that spell might hit!" Jen called out with a smirk as she watched the spells fly through her silvery muggles and aim for Fated.::

::Herby slowly enters the arena, as the light from the sun gently hits her face. It almost looked like she was an angel, stepping into darkness. Herby glances around and sees her opponents.::

::Herby noticed who she was duelling, when her eyes widened.::

“Stealth??” :: Herby screamed, as she was trying to hold back from hugging him.::

:: Herby saw Stealth’s eyes widened, as a smirk formed on his face, with a slight wink. Herby blushes as Stealth does his little wink, and feels all warm and fuzzy inside.::

I know I love my Slytherins, but I must keep…..my….head….on… :: Herby thought as she was interrupted, by her starting at Stealths new robes.

He looked great before, but now…he… OMG… I’m doing it again… What is wrong with me? :: Herbys mind started fighting itself.::

:: She was unaware, what Fated was doing, until it was to late. Before she knew it she was stuck to a stick thing called a web. Looking surprised that Fated would start this early, was kind of rude.::

“Haven’t you heard that ladies should always go first!” :: Herby yelled at Fated as he started laughing and grabbing his stomach.

”If only you had your lucky tutu, oh… thats right, I destroyed it last time” ::Fated yelled towards Herby with another evil grin.::

:: Herby watched in desperation as Jen got herself out of the sticky mess, and started to duel Fated by herself. Herby thought it wasn’t a great idea, as Fated has several tricks up his sleeves. Feeling like she should help, or attack someone, she yells::

:: Surgelé Pois (frozen peas):: This causes the web around Herby to become….well…peas.. Finally Herby was release, and a bit cold, as she carefully got away from the peas which were now rolling on the ground. As she got away from the web and pea mess, Herby yells::

“Maximum Protection Protéger” :: This causes a shield to form around Herby, but not just an ordinary shield, one that is a maximum protection shield. With a glistening shield around her, she decides to see who to attack. With Fated busy and Jen, unaware that she was free, Herby decided to attack her. With wide eyes Herby yells::

“Violette Sludge” :: This causes the ground which, Jen was standing on to become a purpled sludged mess. Herby watched as Jen was slinking and so was her shield. With satisfaction Herby decided to glance around and see what part of Fated’s body was hard like wood. Of course this only brought tears to Herbys eyes.::

::WL sneaked out from the web by flying, invisible on her Firebolt 158. She then floated above herby, jenn and jesse and cast a Bone Removeing Curse she learnt in Egypt on all three of them.

"Ortho-Extraho!"

It was a curse that could slice through any shield, armour, scales and leathery skin to remove bones.

It was a bit painful, but she had to use it. They needed Skelegro. Fast. Because they could actually suffocate from not having any ribcage.

She kept a mirror around her that would reflect any spell and floated, watching carefully around, to see how they would react. If they didn't recover soon, she would have to join the fray and heal them. But for now, she would wait.::

Stealth hangs suspended in the web.

"I hate it when this happens..."

He thinks for a moment, then...

"Vent arctique!" (arctic wind!)

A very localised and very cold wind blows over the web where he is stuck. The web becomes brittle on freezing and he breaks away from it.

The ground is a sticky purple mess, but Stealth ignores it.

He fires a number of spells in quick succession:

"Lapin de houblonnage!" (hoppping rabbit) at Fated, who looks really quiet cute as he starts to hop around like a demented bunny.

"Cassez le miroir! Mauvaise chance de sept minutes!" (break the mirror! seven minutes bad luck!) at WaterLily, whose spell reflecting mirror then breaks. She then trips over teh broken frame. Bad luck!

"Fièvre de danse!" (dance fever!) at Jen. She starts to boogie uncontrollably. She also starts to sweat as this spell causes a temporary but uncomfortable increase in body temperature. Very distracting.

"Dessus de rotation!" (spinning top!) at Rip, who starts to spin rpund crazily.


"Caneton de bébé!" (baby duckling!) at Duck, who iis transformed into a very cute little fluffy duckling, who waddles off somewhere making a "wak, wak, wak, wak" noise.

Now, who is left? Ah yes, that sneaky Herby....

"Tutu modelé par saule!" (willow patterend tutu!) at Herby, who now finds herself wearing a willow patterned tutu, which may not prove to be as lucky as her lucky one.


You may think that there is madness in Stealth's methods - but there is really method in the madness....

(Seven minutes bad luck??! He was the one who broke it!!! Oh well...thank god for the amulets I'm wearing!)

::WL fakes tripping over the broom to take the attention off her and sees from her vantage point up in the air, that Stealth has indeed had some bad luck because Herby has just attacked him.

Jesse was bouncing around like a kangaroo for goodness knew why so his bones must have grown back. Same with Jenn...hmm...she was dancing really well. Just seemed a bit sweaty.

"Gaajar Halwa!" [carrot pudding] She creates a lump of pudding that comes out of her wand and buries Jesse under it. Since he is still in a bunny mode, he starts to eat it and soon falls down unconscious because of the weight of his big belly due to eating a tonne of such a rich, oily, sweet indian dessert.

Still invisible, she casts another spell, "Bada Barish!" [big rain] and suddenly, a huge monsoon cloud builds up and it starts flooding the duelling arena. Everyone floats along, but sputters as the water is so violent.

Stealth has lost a few of his branches and ducky is slightly in her element. Rip, however, is creating a dangerous whirlpool with her spinning so the unconscious and fat jesse, now tired and sleepy jenn, little duckie, stealth minus a few branches and herby in her soggy tutu are dragged into the middle of the whirlpool.

WL watches from above with an Impervious charm on herself and a shield charm.

She wouldn't get hit by lightning because A) there wasn't any, and B) there was a lightning rod in the middle of the room.

She hoped that her duelling 'buddies' wouldn't be TOO mad at her...::

Stealth was bobbing around in the water watching the mayhem going on all around and, being stuck in the form of a tree, not being able to do much about it.

He heard Herby yelling at WaterLily. He agreed, that last spell had been pretty dangerous. He thought the idea of the duel was to outwit the opponents, not to kill them. In fact, killing would have been easier.

At last he felt the effects of the tree spell begin to wear off. Just as well as he was getting waterlogged and particularly annoyed by a squirrel who had put his nuts in exactly the wrong place.

The water level was receding... He stood up and looked around. Some order was required in this chaos...

"Rond point magique - créez l'ordre du chaos!" (magic roundabout - bring order from chaos!)

In the centre of the duelling arena, a traditional fairground roundabout was formed. However, this roundabout had no animals on which riders could sit... It started to turn and an organ tune began to play. As it turned, lines of energy reached out to the other duellers and dragged them to the roundabout, transforming them...

Fated became a large bunny with a red saddle - he began to bob up and down. Ooh - he looked a bit green around the gills - well, if you eat about 10lb of garjaar ka halva, what do you expect - ewwww - all that ghee.... (sorry about the switch to Punjaabi, WL!)

Duck became, well, a bigger duck - a ride on duck - green with a blue saddle.

Rip became a large puppy with huge soulful eyes and a nice yellow saddle.

WaterLily became a lion - aww, not the fierce roar-then-I'll-eat-you lion - this one looked like it had been knitted. It had a purple knitted saddle.

Jenn became a green chinese dragon - the stylised papier mache sort used for the dragon dance at new year. A black saddle appeared on her back and firecrackers started to expolode at her feet.

There was someone missing....

Herby, still attired in her starched willow pattern tutu was dragged on to the roundabout, which was now spinning quite quickly. A leather pouch appeared on a strap around her neck. Of course - she had to take the money...

Now we needed some riders.... Stealth decided to use a tried and trusted - and very irritating spell...

"Nains rabiques sans ressources!" (Penniless rabid dwarves)

The roundabout was immediately beset by a gang of obnoxious dwarves. They fought over who was going to sit where, they tried to steal from Herby's leather pouch. One of them got hold of Fated's locket - in which he had a picture of himself. They started stealing the lightbulbs. They argued about the price of the ride, showing fake IDs to prove that they were only 5 years old and that all dwarves had beards at that age...

A final touch...

"Il y ait des bulles!" (let there be bubbles!)

And there were, indeed, bubbles. Everywhere.

Such fun!

Stealth cackled hideously until his sides hurt.

Then Fated was sick - all orange and sticky. Centrifugal force spread the sick around the floor of the roundabout and the dwarves began to slip over in it. Herby very wisely jumped on to the central portion of the roundabout, which did not revolve. The smell was unbelievable... It began to affect everyone on the roundabout who did not have a peg on their nose (Yes, Herby, who would have thought that a tutu had a pocket and that there was a peg in that pocket - very strange...)

Self censorship forbids further graphic description of what happened next. Just use a little imagination.

Stealth laughed harder and harder.

::Jen prances around shaking her head and yawning every minute. After letting her guard down for a few minutes, so many hexes had been thrown at her she couldn't even repeat them! Feeling her tired limbs almost give up, she's desperately thought of a energy booster spell to keep herself up. "Navitas Vires. [Energy Strenght given back to you]" she muttered to herself. A burst of energy zapped into her body and she jumped up in the air with happiness. "Now let's get these people back!" she said with a grin. Since Stealth turned her into a paper dragon, her specialty was to always use other's spell on her against them. If they wanted her to be a dragon, she would be a dragon. "Verto Animadverto!" [Spell become reality] She casted on herself. Her skin toughened into a powerful shade of red and yellow (her vietnamese flag colors) She stretched out her neck and let out a huge jet of redish yellow flame at everyone in the room that will not only burn them but sting like a thousand needles poking in their skin. She flew around the room flapping her wings and chasing the other duelers. Their spells just bounced off her skin as dragon skin is very tough made even tougher by her Vietnamese nature of being well tough (lol bad choice of words I know). The black saddle on her back became a backpack for her wand with a lock that could only be opened by her. Still using her normal human voice, she roared at the others, "Toi se cha bao!" (basically meaning I'll get my revenge in Vietnamese.) Still shooting flames at the duelers, she debated on which spell to cast on her next victims.::

(sorry if it's a bit vicious sounding, not in the best mood today and this was all I could think of.)

Stealth runs and hides with his nice new robes all charred and smoking. He swears a mighty oath...

"Drat and double drat!"

He remembers an ancient Chinese transformation spell....

"消防龍頭變貌!" (fire hydrant transfiguration!)

The magic roundabout is transformed into a revolving fire hydrant which spews out great jets of water. This puts out all of the fires started by the bad Jen Dragon. It also floods her with so much water that she loses her spark and can no longer shoot flames from her mouth.

It also cleans up all the sick.

This is the second time that the arena has been flooded - the water takes longer to run away this time - but it provides a brief respite in which Stealth can think up some more havoc and devilment.

::Jen coughed to herself. Not understanding where Steath keep getting all these Chinese spells from, she tried to blow fire at the other duelers and she flapped her wings above the water. To her surprise, water came out of her mouth. Hot boiling water shot out in a stream of steamy water. Deciding this might work she sprayed hot boiling water at the other duelers.::

When would Jenn realise that it is not on to go round flaming people and then trying to scald them with boiling water? All this heat had upset the tutu spell he had used on Herby. The willow from the willow pattern was supposed to trap her hands to stop her using her wand - not squeeze her to death!

Better deal with Boiler Girl first... An old Dutch freezing spell came to mind...

"Gevangenis van ijs!" (Prison of ice!)

Jenn was immediately trapped within a huge block of ice. Stealth thought that the others needed some coolijng down as well, so he repeated it on all of them except Herby, who was now turning the same colour as her tutu.

He tried to stop the spell with 'finite incantatem' but this did not work. He thought frantically. In the short term, there was only one kind of solution...

"Transformer à une souris et à la taille d'une souris!" (transform to a mouse and become the size of a mouse!)

Herby immediately shrank down to mouse size, becoming a rather cute little rodent with inquisitive little whiskers. Stealth picked her up and carried her over to the barrier around the arena. The rogue tutu was left on the floor, snarling and thrashing at itself. Unfortunately, the rest of Herby's clothing was left there too.

"I'm sorry about this, Herbs - it's all Jenn's fault - who would have thought that she would go fire crazy?" He noticed that the mouse had a timy little wand clutched in it's forepaw. He set her down on the barrier. "At least you can conjur yourself some more clothes. Just give me a second to create some privacy..."

"Une petite tente avec chaise et miroir!" (a small tent with chair and mirror)

A small tent appeared, it's entrance sheet drawn aside invitingly. Inside was a fin de siècle boudoir chair and a ful llength mirror. Tghe herby mouse hopped inside and Stealth closed the entrance. A series of flashes came from inside and a few minutes later, Herby emerged resplendent in new robes.

She grinned at Stealth and aimed her wand at him......

::Jenn shook her head and started thinking quickly. 'Goodness, shouldn't have let my bad mood affect the duel, now everyone's mad at me' she thought to herself. She tried to shout an incantation that wouldtransform herself but only bubbles came out of her mouth. She suddenly realized, with a fish head, she could breath well on land! As she started to get light-headed. She cast the only spell she could to help herself breath.::

"Verto Mare!" She thought with a swish of her wand. [transform sea] The entire room started to fill up with water as seaplants started to grow from the ground. She started to use her monkey legs to quickly climb from tree to tree. Figuring that Stealth and Herb could take care of `themselves because the others seemed to be unconcious, she quickly cast a quick spell around the other nonactive duelers. "Sive Noivise! [conjure floats]" Bright orange floats appeared around the other duelers and it zoomed them up to the surface for air. Unfortunatly these floats kept them up by the ceiling and wouldn't let them go. This prevented them from continueing the duel. As Jen quickly jumped from tree to tree, she waited to see what the two remaining duelers will do next.::

::Duck enters the duelling arena, slightly out of breath after having come straight here after her holiday in Devon. She took a moment to assess the situation - everyone but Stealth, Herby and Jenn seemed to be unconscious.

She decided to take out Stealth, he was the biggest threat. Luckily, he had his back to her and hadn't seen her arrive. With some quick thinking, she decided on the spell to use.

"Infestation des rats!" A multitude of rats swarmed over Stealth, covering him from head to toe, scratching and biting. There had to be at lease 200 of the rodents...how was Stealth going to escape them?

::Unknown to all, WL was watching as the havoc wore on...she had put a glamour on her to be able to see what was happening and plan her strategy at the same time.

Finally, getting a bit sea sick from the dinghy she was on, she waited until everyone was facing the other way and cast a charm to turn jenn back, "Transfiguro Finite", she got rid of the water by conjuring some drain pipes and quickly put a sleeping charm on everyone.

She then got up and made the temperature in the dueling arena drop to at most -50 degrees...Then, she conjured up some coats of the finest camel wool, put one on for herself and just as she was about to hand them out, she thought (HEY! This is a duel! I should not be nice!)

So she put the coats just out of their reach and woke them up again. Shivering, and teeth chattering, a huge wand battle started...::

Shivering, Stealth pointed his wand at the pile of coats...

"Pile des manteaux brûlants!" (pile of burning coats)

Stealth warmed himself by the fire - how thoughtful of WaterLily to provide fuel.

He cast around, deciding on his next target.....

::Duck wondered why Stealth ignored the rats that were crawling all over him, and then levelled her wand at her old duelling opponent, Waterlily.

"Conjurer une substance gluante!" she yelled, and watched as WL was covered in a thick, gloopy, vomit-green goo.::

Did Duck not realise that Stealth was Friend To All Rats?

What a shame!

The covert shielding spell helped, too, of course....

Now - ah yes, Fated...

Stealth lined his wand up on his house mate and fellow band member - nothing too drastic....

"Générateur personnel de van der Graaf!" (Personal van der Graaf generator)

This caused Fated to generate huge charges of static electricity every time he moved - not particularly dangerous - but the sparks gave off a serious tingle!

That just left Herby....

Stealthy strode over to her and stood in front of her. There was a moment of tension, then he saluted her with his wand and walked round behind her so they were back to back.

"I got your back, Herbs!"

::WL went green, literally at the disgusting goo that was covering her. First, clean it up, then deal with the rest of the world.

"Plus propre!" [cleaner] she cried, and the goo vanished.

She sighed in relief and saw that Stealth and Herby were now the only ones left dueling.

Jenn was...WL couldn't see her so she made sure she had an alarm boundary on her to warn her if anyperson was with spell fire range.

She couldn't see rip either but knew that both of them were somewhere. She made sure that her glasses, which had powers the same as Moody's fake eye, were switched on and could see through everything.

Duck was still a peanut butter statue so WL put a spell on her to alert her is she awoke or got free. Jesse was struggling with the electric shocks so WL put him in the same corner as duck to keep an eye on them both.

WL thought that the exploitation of the expensive coats she had bought was absolutely disgraceful! They were NICE camel leather coats...NOT FUEL!!!!

So to satisfy herself, she vanished the lump of burning coats and the arena became freezing again.

Since Stealth and Herby were concentrating on each other, she whipered in glee, "Holi HAI!!!!"

Suddenly, out of her wand spouted a waterfall of colourful water, just like out of a pichkari during the festival of Holi in India.

It fell onto stealth and herby and because of the temperature, it froze, creating beautiful coloured statues of stealth and herbie.

The finishing touch was a spray of red powder on top as it was the most widely used powder during Holi.

No wonder Holi was WL's favourite!

She then increased the intensity of the wards around her, alerting her if anyone moved, and if anyone had even started to mutter a spell, as well as the Anti-Apparition jinx. Although, as far as she knew, she was the only one who had actually taken the test, it was still a necessary precaution::

::Duck was not amused. She was a peanut butter statue. Now, how to get out of this? Whilst pondering, she had not noticed that the peanut butter had started to melt, and was sliding on the floor towards WL, causing her to slip and slide.

Then, duck realised that she was simply encased in the peanut butter, and now that it was sliding off she was free. She quickly stretched a little to get the feeling back into her limbs, then looked over at WL. ::

"Laissez tomber piano!" (let fall a piano) ::Duck yelled, and watched as a piano fell on top of WL. Duck then quickly reassessed her shield spell, content that it was sufficiently strong, and kept a watchful eye on the other members of the duel.::

::WL was getting really dehydrated. And it didn't help that she was trying to hold up a stupid piano! Thankfully, the wards around her had warned her when duck started to move and she had had just enough time to look up and then brace herself for the piano.::

::WL grunted in pain and threw the piano off her, not caring where it went.::

(Oh dear. It just happened to fall on Herby and Stealth. Hmmm...They should pay attention not make googly eyes at each other. In a way though, it was so incredibly cute! But then, I have just given them a little shade!)

::WL quickly picked up the piano and told it, sternly, "Ooper Jao." The piano shot upwards like a rocket and and crash into the star-like thing that Herby had made, making it burst into spectacular fireworks for the cute couple sitting under the shield.::

::WL looked around, her wards still in place. Duckie was in her ready position so WL walked forward, wand at her side.::

::As duckie yelled a spell, WL grinned and apparated right behind her with her characteristic soft pop.::

"Hula Hoop!" ::Duck was bombarded with Hula Hoops and suddenly started to do an uncontrollable Hula dance. WL beamed, applauded and the popped over to Stealth and Herby who were still inside their shield. Nothing could get in there, but nobody said she couldn't TRAP them in there!::

"Hi! How are you? I hope everything is fine. I'm going to leave you with some bananas, a bit of orange juice and a gobstone. See you later, hope you get out, it's fun to duel, isn't it?"

::With that, she bounced away, her usual happy-go-lucky self and stood back to admire her handiwork for two seconds. She had encased them both in a huge rubber bad cocoon and them into a cardboard box with lots of spellotape, then she put them into a hude metal safe and made the code to get out so complicated that not even that Japanese super computer could work it out...Heck even SHE couldn't remember it! Then, she had stuck the safe into a bed of concrete and covered the safe with the concrete as well...as least nobody would steal them!::

::She then wondered where jenn, rip and jesse had got to and saw that they were all still unconcious in the shade.::

::She popped back over to duck and started to confuse her by apparating all around the place, not staying in one location for more than one second. Good Sweet Merlin, it was good to apparate!::

::She made sure she knew where she was apparating to and that there was no danger of apparating into the path of a spell and made sure to take her alerting wards with her!::

Stealth could barely move. Although it was actually quite comfortable trapped under the piano with Herby, it was not actually conducive to fighting the duel.

Stealth calmed himself and turned his thoughts to his centre, entering a state of Zen like calm. Herby became a little alarmed as his breathing changed.

"Don't worry, Herby. I can't move my wand... I'm not too good at wandless magic yet, but I know a couple of moves. I need to calm myself to make this work..."

Having achieved a condition of karmic repose and true balance of his yin and yang, Stealth sent his ka, his consciousness, forth from his body.

His ka flew towards WaterLily and interacted with her psychic field, which was not affected by shielding charms or any other form of magic. The ka blended harmoniously with WaterLily's consciousness. Stealth found what he had been looking for.

WaterLily raised her wand...

"Diwali hai!" (it's the Festival of Lights!")

Yes, fight Indian festival with Indian festival, bahin beti!

The whole arena is treated to a spectacular light show, greater than any firework display imaginable. But this is not ordinary lightshow or forework extravaganza. The lights pulse in a subtlely prgrammed manner. They are hypnotic... They carry a message... Lay down your wands - resistance is futile - Stealth and Herby have won....

All in the arena, except for Herby and Stealth, who are shielded, are transfixed, fascinated like rabbits in headlamp beams. Yes, the light is so powerful that it even penetrated into the prison that WaterLily had created.

(Oooooh...He is crafty...)

::WL had picked up a sparkler and was waving it around like a wand like people normally do during Diwali, when suddenly she heard a little voice telling her to drop the wand. So she did. Except it was a sparkler, not her real wand.::

::She waited with her shields until the fireworks stopped and then got her real wand out to make some food to feed everyone.::

"STEALTH BHAIYA!!!! KHAANA TAIYYAR HAI!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANDAR AAO!!!!"

Then she realised that it wasn't really Diwali and there wasn't any food...and her big brother couldn't come out of his safe spot anyway.::

She turned around got so frustrated because she was so unbearably hungry as the duel had gone on for so long that she took her frustration out on Jesse, turning him into a Muppet - Miss Piggy or whatever she was called.::

Poor jesse, he was still getting electric shocks...

Then, she conjured up a big banquet table with all the food you could imagine on it.::

Smiling, she stuffed her face with Channa Bhatura and Gulaab Jamun and then declared, "FOOD FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

::She levitated a big platter of sweet and sour noodles and threw them at duck, making sure that the now noodle and Hula Hoop covered duck could get her back by hiding behind the platter::

Smiling and nodding to WaterLily, even though she can't see him under the piano, Stealth snags some GJs and besan barfi and starts feeding morsels to Herby, mindful of the several gazillion calories in each. Well, there's not a lot else you can do when trapped under a piano during a multiwizard duel....

[Stealth, the piano's gone...check up a few posts to see how you are...although it's true...you are trapped...]

::WL grins as Stealth and Herby seem to be getting fatter and fatter with the number of Indian sweet things they had eaten. She could see them on her little portable CCTV camera...::

(At least they would be out of the action for a bit longer...they would be too fat to move!)

If the piano has gone.....

Stealth looks up.

Indeed, the piano has gone - but what is it that is causing the heavy wooden sensation pressing down on him and Herby?

It's Malfoy's trunk!

Stealth attracts Herby's attentiojn and jerks a thumb upwards.

"What's Malfoy's trunk doing here, Herbs? Any idea?"

"Oh.... I think that might be my fault. Look..." She waved a hand generally indicating the arena. Stealth can see that there are a number of other trunks lodged in various odd places. "I was trying a new summoning charm. Well, i say new - I mean new to me. I found it in a Victorian book of spells. It was when the arena was flooded for the third time. I wanted to exchange the invisible tutu for something more appropriate. Iwanted my swimming costume, but the spell translated that to 'swimming trunks'. I couldn't have got it quite right and I ended up just summoning the trunks. Sorry!"

"That's OK, Herbs. It gave us some shelter.... Hmmmm, I wonder what sort of goodies he has stashed away in there....."

::As Stealth and Herby were having their off topic conversation, that was in no way conducive to the duel, Duck decided to take them out, whilst they were trapped beneath Malfoy's trunk.

"Battre comme le mort (batter like death)!" She yelled, pointing her wand at Stealth and Herby, and they were knocked out by an invisible force. The blows weren't fatal, but would keep them knocked out for a while.

She then turned her attention to WL, who seemed the most formidable opponent.

She decided to pelt her with jelly babies, to distract her, and shouted the spell "Volez jelly babies!". Thousands of jelly babies landed on WL, sufficiently distracting her, which allowed Duck to perform her next spell, something which would make her uncomfortable.

"Hoquetez!" (hiccups), Duck said, her wand pointed at WL, and from beneath the mound of jelly babies, WL began hiccupping violently. Now, Duck could release her most intimidating spell.

"Les neuf cavaliers de la bague!" (the nine riders of the ring). Next to WL, the nine black riders (or nazgul) appeared and surrounded WL, their swords drawn. Duck could hear WL's screams."

~Fated suddenly snapped out of his 3 pages worth of duel concentration. He knows now he has work to do. First thing was first, get rid of all the spells that were on him, and had been cast on him. "DOUBLEDOOBIESCOOPYNISHI!!!!!!!" And he vanquished all spells that had been put on him and stuff~"EXPLODO!" He blows the trunk up and it flies apart as he emerges and gets ready to duel~~He knows he had to catch up a lot. He pulled out his wand and pointed at each person.

"Dibblenots!" He shot a spell of slow motion at Ducky that's suppose to cause her to move in slow motion.
"Moosini!" blasting Stealth with a spell to turn him into a large pink cow.
"Depositer!" a flash of gold light with green sparkles flies at Waterlily hoping to turn her into a giant tapdancing carrot.
"Blininetta" surrounding herby with a veil of darkness
"Flight of Turtles!" he sends a swarm of flying turtles at Rip
And finally winking at Jenn, who is his last victim, he casts "Canatorpsis!" and Jenn is suddenly turned into a giant yellow canary bird.

But as he is about to celebrate; the side effect of his own wand(have three conflicting dragon heartstrings bound together in his wand) suddenly start to manifest.

Fated's wand jumps out of his hand and turns and blasts him with a blinding flash of hot pink light...and then drops to the floor at his feet.
Fated groans and rubs his eyes, seeing spots now. And then lets out a loud shrill ear piercing scream
"AGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" And with good reason...Fated has been turned into a girl that is wearing tons of make up and a hot pink barbie dress and higheels, which he nearly breaks his neck in as he falls down to the floor crying uncontrollably.~~~

(Yes yes I know this is a duel but sometimes spells have to back fire and Fated's wand is unstable. Sorry I am too hyper...forgive me :D )

(Turning Stealth into a cow was a bit of a low trick..... Geddit? Low? Cow? Oh, please yourselves...)

Moo.

Mooooo.

Moooooooo!

Of course, being a cow, that means that Stealth had undergone a sex change. He was none too happy about this. Also, being in bovine configuration meant that he could not weild his wand. He tried asking Herby for help, being sure she would assit, despite the miniscule quantity of drool (anyway - she could now officially tell her girlfirends that she's had a guy drooling over her).

"Moo moo moo moo, moo moo!"

That plan was not working...

Stealth once again concentrated on his inner centre. The world receded from him and he gained inner peace. He contemplated the jewel on the lotus....

"Om mane padme hum!"

He chanted this phrase mentally. Gradually the pink cow transformed into a Brahmin bull!

Oh dear, this Brahmin bull was not a happy one. It was almost snorting fire through its nostrils. With a toss of its poweful head, its horns shattered the trunk and Stealth and Herby were free.

They say that revenge is a dish best served cold, but the StealthBull was not prepared to wait. Head down he charged at Fated....

::WL didn't stay a carrot for long...she popped back and grinned wickedly.

"ANGTHI!" A beautiful unbreakable ring appeared around duck, and around fated and the cow, and around herby.

::WL turned to the Nazgul and their hideous beasts born in disgusting ewey stuff and said "They have the rings. I am on your side. We must take the rings to Lord Sauron!"

::IT WORKED! Three Nazgul each went to the three rings and started to fight with the people inside them...oh dear, duckie's plan backfired!::

~Fated shreiked like a girl as the bull charged at him~ "Gah!!!!!!!!!!" He bravely tucks his tail and runs away. The bull keeps chasing after him and he does the best he can, having to stay in a ring that had been magically created out of no where. "Agh!! Nice Stealthy Good Stealthy, remember me mate? I'm your friend " He says trying to calm down the raging bull. But seeing that Stealth was out to do some punishment, Fated pointed his wand at the bull. "Reformation!" The spell returns Stealth back to his human form. ~ Fated then takes the opportunity to go after another person who is an easier target. After all he has to make himself look good so he struts over to Duck and taps her on the head a couple of times with his wand sprinkling silver dust on her attempting to petrify her. Then he grinned and pointed his wand down at his feet and a nice top of the line skateboard appeared. "I'm gonna do this the fun way!" He says jumping on it and rolling around shooting a series of sparks at his opponents. Watching them shoot back, he gets an idea. "Skatis-half pipis!!)(Skating half pipe) ANd suddenly a large group of ramps and a half pipe appear in the dueling arena. Now that Fated is in his more homely surrounding, he is ready to show them all what he's made of. He then decides to play fair for this one time and creates skates(very old worn out nearly falling apart ones) on all of his opponents' feet. "Come on guys, let's see if any of you can skate and cast spells at once!" He taunts them as he does a flip kick and skateboards up one ramp then down another. As he is showing off, he blasts Waterlily "Blab-blab-blab!" He says, as she is surrounded by a yellow beam of light, that causes her to babble nonsense nonstop. Then, doing an olly off of the second ramp, he spins around in midair, and lands beside Rip "Tea transmuto" He whispers as he skates past her. Rip turns into a tea kettle. Fated laughs nearly toppling off his board as he skates around the arena. He finds that he has an advantage.~~

Stealth looked down in disgust...

"Modernisez les patins!" (modernise the skates)

Ah - modern roller boots... Fated had obviously not realised that his housemate was a sk8terboi...

Stealth whizzed off after Fated and kept behind him and out of sight.
He did a few impressions of other people skating. It was fun!