Barry gave a sly smille even Cela couldn`t distract him from this now, well perhaps she could, but it was something else "Don`t expect me to be easy on you" he said drawing his wand and he stood back to back to Chalice took three steps and then said "Now we duel! Remember the sheild charm!" he called as he sent the jelly legs jinx over his head.

"Protego!" Chalice yelled as Barry jinxed her. Just a minute too late, she fell to the ground. "Impedimenta!" she shot at him.

Kayla walked into the duelling arena, dumped her bag on one of the benches and strode into the middle of the arena, wand in hand. She checked her watch and realised that she was a little early but she was excited about this duel. Copernicus, had been the only person to give her some real competition and so that is why she had asked him to partner her as part of their homework.

Kayla turned to face Copernicus and she smiled, "No you're right on time and you can just call me Kayla." Being called Prefect Winters all the time seem to unnerve her a little. "I am rather looking forward to this re-match myself" she agreed. "And it is I that should apologise to you, I was way out of line with what I said" Kayla moved forward and held out her hand, "No hard feelings?"

Kayla returned his shake and opened her mouth to say something but decided against it. "As you wish" she replied. Yep liking someone was never just that simple. She took a step back from him, "Yes we are and it's actually not as hard as I thought. So long as you concentrate, it's really quite simple and effective. So do you want to defend or attack first?"

Kayla raised her wand and stood in her defensive stance also. "Yeah riiiight" she scoffed, giving him a small wink. She made a small X movement, concentrating on sending the trip jinx to Cope's right.

Ah...he's still as good as ever. "I see you got your wand fixed" she remarked never taking her eyes off Cope for a moment, watching where he directed his wand next. "Protego" she murmured, casting the shield charm directly at the oncoming hex and was pleased to see that she had successfully blocked his hex with only a two foot radius.

Giving her wand a quick wave and directing it at Cope's knees, Kayla sent the Sponge-knees curse towards him.

Kayla was concentrating so hard that she thought she might just pop a vessel from the strain of it. Copernicus, had managed once again to block her curse and she was rather pleased that this was turning into a real competition.

"My grandmother taught me lots of things" she answered, watching Cope's wand at all times. He pointed to her left and she was almost tempted to release her grandfather's wand from her wrist sheath but decided that would probably be cheating. She waited on tenterhooks for his next spell and when it came it was heading for her right hand and she quickly changed direction of her wand movement and cast the shield charm just in time. But it was larger than her first and decidedly weaker but it held nevertheless.

Flicking her wand towards Cope, she aimed at his heart. "Confundo" she cried and just like he did, she changed direction at the last minute and flicked her wand towards his head.

Kayla too cast a shield charm at his oncoming one and although she was focused, his shield was really strong and it shattered hers and pushed her back a couple of steps. She growled softly in frustration and concentrated really hard as she cast another shield charm to block his oncoming hex. This time her shield blocked his hex and it remained tightly in that one spot.

She waved her wand again and sent a stinging hex to his left and then with another quick flick of her wand she sent the babbling curse to his right.

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"Perhaps" Kayla agreed. But he was going to have to carry her out of here before she gave up this duel. And although she hated her grandmother and everything she had done, it was her voice that echoed instructions in Kayla's head at that very moment.

She moved forward and raised her wand and cast her shield in that one spot that his spell came to her and she pushed the shield back towards him with all her force and she raised her wand one again, pointing it towards his stomach and cast the hurling hex towards him. With a quick X motions of her wand, she sent the jelly-legs jinx to the left and just as quickly again she sent another babbling curse to his left.

"Oi Kettleburn, that's cheating!" Kayla exclaimed as she watched him duck her spells. So obviously the homework part of this duel had just gone out the window and quite frankly she couldn't be happier, now she could really move around. "Impedimentia" she cried, slowing down both of his spells, she deftly moved aside. Pointing her wand at the ground near his feet, Kayla sent the reducto spell at the floor and then she crouched low as well and flicked her wand casting the hair thickening charm at him.

Bugger!! He had blocked her spells once again, he was the most competitive person besides herself that she had ever met aaaaaand it was bloody fantastic!!

Wait! What? A truce? Kayla lowered her wand a fraction and she eyed Copernicus warily wondering if he was underhanded enough to hex her while her defences were down. OMG!! He wanted to talk to her about the Toussaints, oh well now this was very interesting indeed. "Truce it is then" she said walking over to him slowly and eyeing him with curiosity. "What is it you want to know exactly?" Oh please, please don't ask her for advice on how to woo Cela, because Nico would definitely throttle her if he found out.

Oh yes this was going to be one of those conversations. "Er...well yes sort of." Oh that it explained it all Winters. "She asked me what it was like to...um...kiss..."Kayla was about to say Nico and then thought better of it..."someone and I sort of gave her an explanation and she compared it to candy." She was pretty sure that's how the conversation went. "Don't tell me she asked you the same thing?" When that girl did her research on something, she went all out.