 first dummy done, stuck on the second Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Why did they always have to fight things? Brandon wanted to try diplomacy! He ducked under a tickling charm, relieved. He had been hit with one ONCE and immediately decided that his sister was right about them being awful. Dodging spells was easy when they only came every thirty seconds. The hard part was winning. He sighed as the dummy repeatedly dodged his trip jinxes. "Get back here," he mumbled, pausing to be more strategic. He ducked another spell, coming exactly thirty seconds behind the first. New plan. He tried flipendo on one side, which the dummy blocked with a shield charm. He tried it on the other side, and the dummy dodged. Then he hopped back and forth randomly, repeating the spell from several angles until one hit it. It took a bit, but the dummy was eventually overwhelmed.
Brandon 1, dummy 0? Mostly because he could cast as many spells as he wanted, and the dummy couldn't. He grinned.
The silver dummy was much harder, in his opinion. It hit him with impedimenta right in the beginning, and then once he'd figured out how to fix that, it hit him with a flipendo duo. He fell down, which hurt, but he got up since there wasn't any blood or anything. He watched carefully as the dummy moved around, trying to figure out a pattern in its movements. How was he supposed to defeat this one when he didn't know any spells above second year? It didn't knock him down again, as Brandon didn't let things hit him the same way twice in a row, but he didn't manage to hit it with anything either. He cast spells at it anyway, figuring it would slip up or repeat in a pattern at some point.
He ducked another spell. At least they were predictable with the timing of that... |