"Protego," Jake muttered, concentrating his shield charm and moving the shield so it 'caught' the curse, for want of a better term, and purposefully sent the curse off in some random direction, where it disappeared into the trees. There was probably a poor bowtruckle out there, jumping around, looking for a counter-curse.

Bwahahaha.

So, now he'd got a decent idea of how Dylan might act, Jake backed away towards a tree, planting his back up against it so he couldn't be crept up on from behind. Heh.

"Aguamenti," he said aloud, pointing his wand to the ground, warming it up with a few spells. "Or-KID-ee-us... Evanesco..."

Once the water and flowers, bright yellow daffodills, had disappeared, Jake continued twirling his wand. All the spells he could think of using were duelling spells. He wanted to staaarrrrrrt.