Hehe. Dani let out a little laugh and smiled at the Professor as she followed him. Then she took a few steps away to get the proper distance and pulled her wand out of her wrist holster before bowing. "Me first? Or you?" She grinned. As long as she got her turn, she didn't care. She held her wand out in a quick shielding position even though she knew she wasn't allowed to block anything anyway.

All the niceties were taken care of, she waited to see if he'd strike first.

"If you'd like, I can show you how it's done," he smiled kindly at the nervous boy. "Are you ready? It's not a bad curse, only mildly uncomfortable and I'll take it off as soon as you've had a chance to experience it. Just... no trying to block me," he winked and wagged a finge at the boy.

Without waiting for a reply, Headmaster Bontecou soundlessly performed the charm that would lock the poor boy's tongue to the top of his mouth.

"Thank you, Professor Bunbury," she replied, happy to have finally located a partner. This little duel should be quite interesting. Professor Bunbury was a fellow Pink Lady, and for that, Anna looked towards her with a great deal of respect. She was also a really good professor, one who knew a great deal about Herbology and always held such interesting classes. Those were all such positive ways of thinking about her, though. How in Merlin's name was she supposed to focus on the intent of Langlock with so many positive thoughts swimming around in that head of hers?

She needed to think a little more carefully. Hmm...there was that moment during her sixth year when the professor literally tried to steal Cale away from her. Granted, the professor had greatly regressed due to that whole ordeal with the ghosts and the mirror, but still, it'd happened, and it could be used as motivation for the intent. Then...ohhh, then there was that whole Colin MacKenzie Meet and Greet. Now that should give her enough motivation to really cast one heck of a major Langlock. She did a quick bow, turned and walked back ten steps, then whirled around. In a split second her wand swished and flicked, and she called out, "Langlock!" Her spell, of course, was directed right at Professor Bunbury.

Constantine look at the girl who called for his attention. "Oh, sure," he nodded, getting up off his butt. He held his wand in his hand and backed away from her for a little bit, giving a bow. "Why don't you go first?"

Celandine twitched, her wand hand clearly reacting to the hex being cast her way, but she managed to let the hex hit her and...

"Ngyuhh? Hlluhhmlluhheee, Guh Juh!"

She opened her mouth so that Herminny could see that her tongue was stuck to the top of her mouth. It had hit nicely.

"Well since we're just feeling the effects of the Langlock curse at the moment. I think I will go first so that you know what it feels like. It doesn't hurt just slightly uncomfortable. I will lift it as soon as you have experienced and then you hit me with it." Marcus moved back a little and raised his wand. "Ready?"

She spotted Jake and he didn't have a partner. She walked over to him. "Want to be my partner?" She asked him. Her and Chris couldn't be partners.

Dani was distracted for a moment by her boyfriend. Was he still her boyfriend? She wondered why he wasn't participating. "Hiiii Jake!" She said loudy in his direction.

She turned back to the Professor, blushing. "Sorry." She pulled her wand back up to the ready. "Ok." She was nervous, but her eyes still sparkled with the confidence that some percieved as cocky. It wasn't often she let someone strike her without blocking or striking back. And now her boyfriend was going to see her with her tongue glued to the top of her mouth. Dang it.

Try and block the Headmaster? NEVER! Jack would be too chicken to even dream of attempting such a thing. He stood there, bracing himself for the words to annouce the spell.

But instead, there came no words. He did it silently. EEEEP! Jack barely had a split second to panic as he saw the professor's wand move, and then, his tongue shot up and glued itself to the roof of his mouth.

It was definitely a very strange feeling, he concluded. His natural instinct was, of course, to move his tongue around, but there was no budging it. Obviously Bontecou knew what he had been doing (well DUH) and as he moved his tongue around more and more, the weirder it began to feel. And he panicked just a bit--it felt like his tongue was more easily swallowable this way.

"Ehhh urrrrrrunnneeeh!" he tried to speak and say "I surrendor" but, of course, it came out as a bunch of jibberish nonsense. Hopefully he'd get the gist of it!

Awesome Herminny thought smiling as she saw she had sccessfully performed the curse. She took out her wand again to undo the spell saying, "finite incantatem", pointing her wand at Celadine with intention of undoing the spell. Before she was even sure if it work she added, "Iguess it's my turn", and put her wand in her holster not sure if she really was gonna be able to keep it there.

Aislynn was shocked at all the professors. Heck! Even the Headmaster was here. Wait a second, she thought to herself, Maybe they are all here to prepare us for something? Maybe they want us to be prepared if we would have to fight the merpeople?

She looked around. It appeared everyone was matched up with someone to practice dueling. All's well, she thought, I can still learn while watching.

Plymouth struck a pose got into his dueling stance, with his hand firmly planted on his left hip. "This will hurt me... more than you, Miss Avalon." Plymouth "hehe'd" one more time before...

...doing a few knee bends.


Then he rearranged his grip on the wand.


Okay. He could do this. "If you need a hug afterward, I'm okay with that."


Deep breath in, deep breath out. Plymouth closed his eyes, raised his wand and cast, "Langlock!"

Marcus was so tempted to strike while she was off waving to Jake. "Miss Devouche, focus please. You can't afford to be distracted during a duel." Without taking his eyes off the young girl, he motioned for Jake to come over to him.

Good she was ready now. He gave his wand a flick. "Langlock" he said confidently.

Smirk widening across her face, for she just knew she'd done well, Anna watched and waited for the effects of her spell to set in. Bunbury with a locked jaw! This should be amusing! Anna should insult a pair of Pradas or something, just to delight in the fact that there would be no retaliation. Ahh, good time, good times. Hopefully Professor Bunbury would know that Anna did indeed respect her (and look up to her), but this was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.

...but...but...but wait. She shielded it? That wasn't supposed to happen, though! Stick. Erm...had she just....she did! Oh, heck no! There would be no insulting of Pradas now, would there? What a meanie! Her eyes wide in shock, Anna mumbled, "I nee oo to cath Fuhnee Ecatate, peas." (OOC: I need you to cast Finite Incantatem, please.") She glanced around the classroom, hoping none of her friends or the other professors had seen any of that. How embarrassing!

"Thanks." Celandine answered, moving her mouth and tongue around as soon as it was released. Glahhh, that didn't feel so great. Didn't hurt, but didn't feel great.

"I like using Langlock against opponents that aren't able to cast non-verbals because it can actually help you win a duel if it means they can't say the incantation anymore." Celandine told Herminny, pleased that the other girl did a good job with it.

She slid her right foot back and bent it at the knee, then released her wand from her wrist holster into her right hand. "Langlock!" She spoke forcefully, the intent obvious. Cela jabbed her wrist neatly, giving her wand a little flick to send the hex shooting at Herminny's face.

"My brother uses it on me on account of he thinks I talk too much." She added.

"Is there anyone still without a partner because Professor Svensson over there looks like he could do with a workout." Marcus motioned to the Transfig Professor, while waiting for Dani.

Ced look around, Does anyone had a partner? but him, is still alone. He wonders if he can do it alone, lock his tounge then unlock it. He walk towards Marcus, wondering if Marcus had seen anybody who is available. "Hey Marcus, Have you seen someone who can partnered with me? " He asked wistfully.

She knew she shouldn't be distracted, but honestly what difference did it make? She wasn't allowed to defend herself anyway. But she nodded in acknowledgement.

Oh no. He was calling Jake over. She was about to tell him that was a bad idea, but then her tongue was stuck. Dang. She gave him a tight-lipped smile, refusing to expose her funny feeling tongue. She would not freak out. It would not happen. Suddenly she wished she knew how to use magic without speaking like she had seen some professors do. It was a strange sensation, not being able to control her tongue. She felt utterly defenseless, it was not nice. Not nice at all.

Bontecou wasn't one to gain amusement from the suffering of others, but he did wait until the kid attempted to speak before removing the curse as silently as he had performed it in the first place. "So, what do you think? A bit worse than having a dry mouth while chewing gum, eh?" he chuckled and pocketed his wand. "You know the spell, yes? Well, give it your best shot," he added, holding his hands out to prove how helpless he was at least trying to appear.