Crud. Arya the enemy was fast, and Destiny had not expected her to dodge the spells. Sure, the Furnunculus had hit, but what good did that do? Her shield was up! At least she could tell the shield had weakened, which maybe meant her shield charm wasn't so strong. That could be useful to know later on.

It was such a good thing Destiny had her shield up, and the first spell had hit the shield and completely broke it. Shocked for that quick second, Destiny looked down at her vulnerable self, not realizing the family of raccoons were coming towards her. About to make another shield, Destiny felt a sharp pain at her ankles, and noticed the Momma raccoon gnawing away like her leg was tree bark. 'OUCH!' she yelled kicking her leg which made the raccoon fly right into the langlock spell. Bahaha! Now the racoon couldn't talk.

Great. Now her leg was bleeding.. OMG it was blood! Usually she would be sick, but right now she was angry. Angry at Ayra and angry at the raccoons. Who the hell makes raccoons attack!? Destiny probably had rabies now, and if she started foaming at the mouth she would know. As another raccoon closed in on her, she quickly bent down, picked it up by it's tail and threw it right at Ayra.

That's right. The raccoon was screeching through the air right towards her opponent. Maybe it would gnaw her face off..or something like that. The pain in her ankle was..painful, no other way to describe it, and the blood was slowly making a puddle on the ground.

Okay, okay. This was it now. Destiny quickly glanced at the raccoon that was still flying in the air. If it didn't gnaw her face off, it could be used as a distraction and maybe Ayra wouldn't be able to put a shield up. Pointing her wand, Destiny gave a few rapid flicks, 'Petrificus Totalus! Stupefy!'

She then muttered a quick 'Protego.' and watched the spells and raccoon fly through the air.

Arya watched as Destiny's shield broke and she was attacked by the racoons with a small smirk. It was quite humorous and she wanted to laugh at the girl, but there would be time for that later. Now she had to win the duel.

If she knew Destiny would throw a racoon at her, she wouldn't have made them attack her. Though Destiny was a Slytherin, so she should've assumed the worse. She spun atempting to get out of the path of the flying racoon but was unsucessfull. Flying racoon, that was a new creature for the books, right next to flying squirrels, how lovely. The racoon land on her head and didn't hesitate to attack, biting the girl hard on any place he could get a grip. He got a few bites on her head, riping her pink bandana before sinking his teeth into her forehead.

As Arya screamed in pain as she grabed the creature by the leg and yanked him off her face, leaving a deep gash on the left of her forhead. Through the whole process the first spell Destiny sent had shatted her shield, not having enough time to dodge the second she fell to the ground with the craized racoon in her hand, gnawing on her left arm as she felt the spell fly over her. Pointing her wand at the creature she screamed "Immobulus!" and let loose her grip on him, her arm searing in pain.

She could feel the blood running down her arm and face as she rose to her feet, wiping the blood that ran down her face out of her eyes. The only good that had come out of that was not being hit by the spells and he wand hand was still uninjured. Ignoring the pain coming from her head she pointed her wand at the girl and said "Rictusempra!", then took a few steps to the right holding her bloody arm close."Obscuro!" She knealed low to the ground, teetering slightly from the pain before sending another spell, "Engorgio!" to the last racoon as it made its way over to Destiny, making the baby coon about the size of a cocker spaniel.Lets see Destiny throw him! Lastly she threw up her shield, making it extra strong for the next attack.

Destiny's eyes had widened when the raccoon had actually landed right on Ayra's head. It was such a sight, that if she had a muggle camera she would have been snapping away. The scream that the Hufflepuff had let out was actually horrible and Destiny might have felt a tad bit bad for her, until she saw the growing puddle of blood on the ground caused by her own raccoon attack. The only emotion she felt after seeing that was anger.

The raccoon almost did what Destiny wanted it to do. Instead of gnawing off her face, it had scratched her face. Close enough, and the Slytherin was proud of her raccoon throwing skills. She frowned as the raccoon was immobilized and more spells were coming towards her. Her shield was already up, and there would be no tickling of the Destiny right now.

The second spell however, had hit and she remembered the day in DADA when she had duelled Gold. She had lost that duel because of the same obscuro spell, but it was not going to happen again. If she just stayed calm, like Gold had told her, the spell would lift soon and she could see again. Destiny took a few deep breaths and put her shield charm up, just in case Arya had plans for when she was blindfolded.

Now, when you are blind, your other senses heighten. They did, and Destiny's ears twitched at the sound of the next spell Ayra had let loose. Engorgio. What in the name of Merlin's chocolate cupcake was she thinking with that spell. The Slytherin did not feel anything growing on her and her shield was still intact. Smiling slightly, she looked in the direction she thought Arya was at, 'HA! You're engorgio spell failed!' But, as soon as the words left her mouth, she felt breathing.

Oh Merlin. Turning as slowly as possible to face the breathing, the blindford had come off and she stood face to face with the biggest raccoon ever. They should be illegal, seriously. Professor MoraganLawson would not think that was funny. Destiny was sure that if raccoons could growl, this one would. Letting out a yelp, the Slytherin fell on the ground and started to crawl away. It was going to eat her, and eat her good!

'Duro, duro, duro!' she pointed her wand at the raccoon hoping to turn it to stone. She needed to say all those duro's or the raccoon would have eaten her already. Now that the mostercoon was taken care of, she could finish off Ayra. And what other way then sending the monstercoon on her? 'Piertotum Locomotor!' she pointed back at the stone raccoon. Learning that spell last term was great, and who would have thought she could use it one day in a duel? She sent the statue over to the Hufflepuff and made it stop in front of her, 'Expulso!'

KABOOM monster raccoon statue.

Even through the pain of her head and arm, she was able to smirk at Destiny's comment as she watched the giant racoon intently. But to her dissapointment Destiny turned the creature to stone, again somthing she wasn't expecting nor hoping for. She wanted to see the girl attacked like she was.

Then she used a spell Arya didn't know but soon found out the effects as the stone racoon came to life and ran straight for her. Arya took a few cautious steps back not sure how to defend herself against the stone creature. Poor little racoons were getting beat up and deep down it broke the girls heart, but she had to win. She was glad her shield was up and strong as the stone coon stood before her. When Destiny sent another spell her way, she did all she knew to do and jumped back. Little did she know the spell was for the coon.

She was mid jump when the coon exploded, the force of the explosion sending her flying backwards. She slamed into the tree behind her, and fell on her knees to the ground. Reaching up with her bloodied hand, she pulled the now red bandana off her pounding head. It pained her back to do so, now sporting a huge bruise and severe abrasions.

Teetering as she stood, it took her a few seconds but she gathered her thoughts, intent on bringing Destiny as much harm as she had done to her. Spoting a rotting tree stump that stood inbetween the two she pointed her wand at the dying plant. "Wingardium Leviosa" Arya Let the stump hover in the air as she blocked out the searing pain to bring all her focus on the tree stump. It wasn't easy for the child to preform the spell on such a large object, especially in her current state. With a hard flick of her wrist she sent the stump flying in a high arc so that it would land on Destiny. But she wasn't done, nope not yet."Geminio!"She watched as the stump duplicated itself, then with one last deep breath she kept her wand on the flying stump and said, "Incendio! Incendio" setting both on fire. That's just what the Slytherin deserved to.

Her legs wobbled a bit as she strengthed her shield and cast one last spell Destiny's way,"Locomotor Mortis!". She took a few weak steps to keep moving but found it was becoming to much of a struggle, only draining her of what little energy she had. So instead she just stood still and focused on her shield, remembering what Sir Lawson had taught her.

Still lying on the ground, Destiny smirked as she watched Arya not know what to do to defend herself from the raccoon statue. How could you defend yourself from that? Even Destiny didn't know and most likely there was no way to defend yourself. The raccoon did exactly what it was supposed to do and although none of the spells were directed to Ayra, she still got hurt. Destiny had a good chance of actually winning this, and that thought changed her smirk into a smile.

The smile had lasted about a second and Ayra was back up pointing her wand. But the wand was pointed to the tree stump, and Destiny tilted her head in confusion. What was she going to-- Merlin! The stump was levitating and what happened next was not expected at all. The stump was flying towards the Slytherin and with the blink of an eye, two were headed her way.

Magic Mother of Merlin, Destiny was going to die. Yes she was. Staring wide-eyed as the now burning stumps came closer and closer, Destiny jumped to her feet and did the first thing she could think of and that was to extinguish the flames. Pointing her wand she gave two quick flicks towards the fire, 'Aguamenti.' The flames doused but that did not stop the stumps from a-coming. The stumps did stop the leg locker curse, and if the stump had legs, it would have surely fell over.

She knew there was no way to dodge both stumps but if she could dodge one, that wouldn't be so bad, right? Right. She gave her still pointed wand a flick and swish, and muttered 'Reducto!' The stump closest to her exploded into tiny pieces, covering Destiny with little wood shavings. Before she could even cough out the wood that landed in her mouth the other stump had collided right into her, throwing her up against a nearby tree. Merlin that had hurt. She could feel a few broken ribs and blood and wood was rushing out of her mouth. She was glad Ayra had picked a rotted tree stump, for if it wasn't she would have most likely died. What would her mother think if that had happened?

She leaned against the tree for a what seemed like hours taking shallow breaths. She didn't think she could finish, but she had no choice. There was NO way she would be beaten by a first year. Pushing off the tree, Destiny wiped some of the blood away from her mouth, not realizing the tears streaming down her face. Ayra would pay.

She just needed to think of something, and the whole fire Ayra used on the stumps gave her an idea. Taking a few wobbly steps closer to the Hufflepuff, Destiny pointed her wand at Ayra, double casting should work better, right? 'Aguamenti! Frigus! Aguamenti! Frigus!' Yeah, how would she like to freeze?

As she watched the four spells fly towards her opponent, Destiny did something she told herself never to do. She lifted her wand a little higher, purposely aiming for Ayra's face and took slow wobbly steps closer. The closer she got to the girl, the angrier she became, which was perfect for the spell that left her mouth, 'Crucio!'

Arya was now kneeling on one knee gathering her strength as she watched Destiny atempt to defend herself against the two blazing tree stumps. She knew it was impossible for the girl to defend herself against the two. As the wood chips bounced off her shield, she flinched as Destiny was slamed into the tree. Even though that's the result she was going for, Arya couldn't help but have some sympathy for the girl.

Her muscles tensed as Destiny leaned against the tree, wondering whether the girl would give up or continue to fight through the pain. To her disappointment Destiny choose the latter. The first two spells bounced off her shield weaking it in the process, making way for the last two. The water didn't bother her, it actually cooled her off and washed away the blood that ran from her gashes, only to make room for more. It mixed with the blood on her pajamas and in her hair causing both to cling to her body. But the second spell wasn't as friendly, making the girl feel as if she were in arctic waters. She shivered violently wishing now wishing that her jammies came with sleeves or some sort of protection from freezing cold water she was drenched in. Her breathing slowed and her skin had paled from the freezing, causing her movements to slow.


Now she knew the girl would be upset about being thrown into a tree, but she didn't realize that she would so angry as to use an unforgivable. Moving as quickly as her freezing body would allow her, she dodged the spell with seconds to spare. Her teeth clenched in anger as she dug her feet into the ground, nearly loosing her balance with her violent shivers and pounced on Destiny. As the fell to the ground, she gave the girl a extra hard shove before rolling off of her a few yards away. Laying on the ground covered in dirt she atempted to gather her thoughts but found the task almost immpossible with her freezing body temperature and throbing head.

Laying on the ground she pointed her wand at the Slytherin, "Diffindo" she said with a ragged breath before adding "Stupefy". Noticing a pile of sticks not to far off, she turned her wand to them, "Wingardium Leviosa" as they rose off the ground she flicked her wand so that they flew over to Destiny then cast "Glacuis" freezing the sticks so they were like flying daggers. She then lowered her wand so that it was almost touching the ground infront of her. Arya cast "Siccus aerous" causing a cloud of dirt and leaves to rise between the two. Having no strength to rise from the ground she cast her shield along with yellow butterflys for added protection. Then she lay still, hoping Destiny would assume she had kept moving like she had been doing all throughout the duel.

Destiny smirked as her first two spells had come in contact with Ayra's shield and weakened it soooo much that the next two made contact with the girl. She had to admit, the water looked awfully soothing but that wiped from her head as she saw the freezing charm hit. Arya looked cold, and it served her right for sending those flaming tree stumps on Destiny. Sure, a little bit of cold and water would not do to much harm to the Huffie, it wasn't winter anymore and it was only used to slow her down a bit. The crucio was meant to cause the real pain...

...and it was dodged at the last second! Crud. Not even having enough time to retreat back to her little spot in the arena, Destiny was being pounced on and shoved by Ayra. That only made the pain in her ribs increase and the anger rise. 'Way..to..resort..to..muggle..fighting.' she whispered now lying on her back. That should be another rule; do not act like a muggle in a wizard duel, and Destiny would have taken a note of that if she wasn't in the middle of something important.

Destiny started to sit up when she was only knocked back down by the diffindo Ayra had thrown at her. Lying back on her back, Destiny placed her hands on her stomach and felt the blood rush through her fingers. Oh Merlin. She could not look down at that, or she would lose the duel because she passed out at the sight of blood. She was already dizzy from the loss of blood from her ankle, and this was no help at all. Quickly and as quietly as she could, Destiny put up her shield charm but that was broken by the stupefy spell.

Merlin.

Moving only her head, Destiny looked around the arena and could hear the faint voice of Arya levitating something and then freezing it. She found out soon enough that they were frozen pieces of sticks. She only had time to produce a small shield that covered her face, and the rest of her body was pricked with icicle sticks. Destiny would not wish this much pain on anyone, except maybe Ayra, for she needed to feel more pain.

Rolling on her side to see where Arya was at, her vision was slightly blocked by a dirt cloud. Dirt was easy to take care of, and Destiny pointed her wand and muttered a rather inaudible 'Evanesco.' Cleaning spells DO come in handy during a duel, and she would have to thank her parents later on. When the dirt had vanished, Destiny saw Ayra lying down with a flock of yellow butterflies around her. The sight made the Slytherin chuckle, but the chuckles stopped when she felt the stabbing pain in her chest. Stupid broken ribs. They shouldn't be allowed to break and she would have to have a word with them later one. Yes she would.

Still looking in Ayra's direction, Destiny smirked as she saw that she was not moving. Maybe she gave up? She better have, because Destiny did not know how much longer she could take. She did not like all this pain at all. Pointing her wand at the Huffie, Destiny went through the list of spells she knew. She needed something to break her shield and then hit her with something that would render her useless. 'Petrificus Totalus!' followed by 'Expelliarmus! Expelliarmus!'

Hopefully she would be disarmed.. 'Accio Ayra's wand!' she mumbled before she was lying back on the ground.

The tears falling down her face again.

Because of the dust cloud Arya wasn't sure if any of her spells hit, but could hear the iced sticks pierce something and hoped that it was Destiny. The girl needed to be in as broken as she was. It pained her to take deep breaths so instead she took small ones while looking around for something, anything to use against Destiny. The cold was slowly starting to leave her but she still shook, though not as violent.

And then to her dismay the cloud of dust was cleared. The girl looked infront of her at Destiny, who was not far off, as she strengthened her shield. the butterflys did exactly what they were suppose to do in taking the hit for the first three spells. As she was about to send a stuning spell the girls way, she noticed four little eyes staring at her from behind Destiny. Her brow furrowed as she tried to distinguish what the creatures but they were well hidden in the grass. Pointing her wand at the creatures she mumbled, "Oppugno". She didn't want to use more animals to fight but didn't have much of a choice considering her current state.

As the unknown creatures made there way over, she turned back to Destiny and said, "Stupefy". She was about to send another spell when suddenly her wand flew out of her had. She watched horrified as the extension of her arm flew over to Destiny. Now she was wandless but far from being defenseless. Furious at the dirty move Destiny pulled she Mustered what little energy she had left, she used her good now wandless hand to push herself up on her knees.
"I'll...show you...muggle fighting you...coward!"Grabing the biggest rocks that were beside her, Arya began to hurl them at Destiny. Aiming for manily her wand hand and head. It pained her ribs terribly to throw them but there was no way this Hufflepuff was goin down without a fight, it was gonna take more than being wandless to stop Arya.

As she continued to chuck the rocks at Destiny with tears streaming down her face from the pain, she could now see the creatures that she summoned to attack the Slytherin. They were two fawns. Well.....she was hoping for something like a bear or cougar, but they would have to do. But don't be fooled, they fawns were looking pretty intimitating, as intimidating as two baby deers can look atleast. As they ran full speed towards the girl, the gap between them closing fast, a small part of Arya wondered how much damage they would do. She could only hope they would stomp her with thier hoofs enough to knock the girl out.

Where is thier mother?

Destiny was dead.

Not really, but she was sure death couldn't hurt so bad. Lying sprawled out on the ground, she tried to breathe. It was proving difficult with the broken ribs and with every breathe she took, the deep gash on her stomach would open up more causing more blood to pour out. The places where the stickicles (stick + icicles) hit her were throbbing as was the bite from the raccoon. She hated Ayra. Hated her so much, much more than one person should hate another. If Destiny made it out of this alive, Ayra was going to be on the tippy top of The List, even above Professor Lawson.

Destiny heard that blasted spell again, Oppugno. What would it be this time? Badgers? Even through the pain, she managed a weak smile at the thought of being savagely attacked by badgers. Didn't she go through enough of that already? No matter. She could always turn them to stone too. But it was not time to think about that right now, as spells were coming at her, and she had to think. 'Protego!' she managed to say. It was as weak as Destiny and it shattered as soon as the spell hit. And then she saw it. Destiny saw the wand flying towards her..reaching out a shaky hand, Ayra's wand landed in it. Smirking to herself, for she thought she had won, the Slytherin started to sit upright, only to be called a coward and then the pelting of rocks happened. That was a big rock too! And somehow it happened to come in contact with Destiny's face, knocking her back to the ground. MERLIN! Now she was going to have a big ole' bruise on her cheek, she could feel it appearing already.

Turning her head away from the ANGRY!PUFF, Destiny saw them. Deer. What the hell was up with Arya summoning animals? Did she know that Destiny was terrified of these things!? Probably, and that's why she was doing it.

MAGIC MOTHER OF MERLIN those deer were fast.

Ignoring the pain in her chest and everywhere else, Destiny scrambled to her feet, but not fast enough. The deer had reached her and took a nice bite out of her pyjama sleeve. Well, that wasn't so bad, at least it didn't bite her, because she would not be able to handle that. As the fawns ate the sleeve of her pyjamas, Destiny had enough time to get as far away from them as possible, which wasn't really far at all. Stupid animals, stupid Ayra, stupid duelling, stupid blood, stupid people staring at her.. She needed a way to stop the fawns from attacking since they seemed to be done eating the sleeve. Pointing both her and Ayra's wand, Destiny shouted 'Incarcerous,' which tied them up. Well, it wasn't the best thing to do, but at least the deer were not charging anymore.

Now where was Ayra?

There she was. She should have known, since the rocks were still being thrown at her. If Ayra wanted a muggle fight, Destiny would not give her one. This was a duel! But how can Arya duel when she had no wand? BAHAHAHA! Now pointing both wands at Ayra, Destiny smirked again, it was painful but she managed. 'Petrificus Totalus! Stupefy!'

And for her own amusement, Destiny sent a hair removal hex towards the girls head.

Defend yourself now, jerk.

Sitting on her throne like chair, Rosa was perched slightly forward with her old wrinkly hands grasping the arms as she watched the duel in front of her unfold.

It was quite entertaining if only they could keep their mouths closed. Back in her younger years, you wouldn't see Rosa Cavello trading insults with her opponent. That was because they didn't have time to say anything, she never did mess around when it came to defeating her victim. But alas times change and the kids of today have so much more attitude.

As she watched the two girls continue to trade hexes with each other, Rosa was slightly horrified to see one of the girls actually attack the other one muggle style. She let out a howl of protest and looked arouns for Huxley.

"What is this Huxley? Did you not explain the rules to these girls? Since when is muggle fighting allowed in a wizards duel?" Rosa let out a huff as she glared at the man. In her day the mere idea of having muggle fighting in a duel would have seen your fingers removed or worse.

She turned her attention back to the duel and her eyes narrowed at the muggle fighting girl. Rosa would bet a million galleons that the girl was a Hufflepuff, they simply had no class. And she should know her granddaughter had been a Hufflepuff and she fought exactly the same way. Which was why Rosa was betting on the other girl who had all the makings of a Slytherin.

"You there" she yelled out, pointing to Destiny. "FINISH HER!!!" She was almost tempted to add that the girl should use any underhanded tactics she could think of but she should know that already, she was a Slytherin after all.

Samuel didn't particularly care how the two girls fought each other so long as they brought in the money. Unfortunately Rosa Cavello had a lot of money and he didn't want to really upset her too much but at the same time he didn't feel he needed to answer to her either.

"Ah now Ms. Cavello, it adds to the entertainment, don't you think?" He thought it did anyway.

Arya was slightly dissapointed when the two fawns were tied, but glad that they were'nt turned to stone like the poor creatures before them. What little hope she still had in winning was restored when the rocks hit Destiny in the face, continueing her assault on the girl.

All this throwing of rocks was taking its toll on Arya, increasing the pain in her ribs. Then the blood on her face made finding a good rock that much harder. As she leaned over to pick up another rock, she could feel the body binding spell fly over her back. Forgeting there was another spell coming her way she rose back to her knees and pulled her arm back to throw the rock when she was hit by the stunning spell. The girl fell backwards rendered unconscious as the last hex thankfully passed over her.

Turning to see who was yelling, Destiny saw the woman in the stands pointing at her. FINISH HER. Well, sure. That was easy for her to say. She wasn't the one out there bleeding and hurt and all the other stuff going on.. Whatever. Better to ignore that woman. She could just be trying to distract Destiny and was probably betting on Ayra anyway..

Slowly turning away from the woman, Destiny saw Ayra bend over to pick up another rock, and saw the body-binding curse fly right over her. Crud!! Just about to put up her shield again, she saw it.. The Hufflepuff had rose to her knees and was hit with her stunning spell.

MERLIN!

Destiny had killed her!

She knew using to wands could kill someone, yet she did it anyway!

It could be a trick though, and Arya could jump up and use some more muggle fighting.

With one hand covering the gash on her stomach, Destiny used the other and pointed both wands at Ayra. Slowly but very shakily, she made her way over to the girl. At first glance, it did seem the Hufflepuff was indeed dead, but no. She was breathing and definitely unconscious.

That meant..Destiny had won, right?

She turned to the women in the stands, and the mean, crazy, unhygienic shopkeep with the best smile she could come up with, which was more like a grimace, but she was in pain. 'I won..right?' she asked before falling to the ground as well.

Destiny just wanted to go home.

There was a very big grin on Rosa's face as she stood up from her chair and looked at the young girl. "It certainly does my dear and you have just won me quite a lot of money."

She turned and faced Huxley still wearing that very big grin and held out her hand. "Nice doing business with you Mr Huxley, I do believe you owe me some money."

This had been a very lucrative little outing for Rosa, she had managed to pick the winner twice in a row.

That had been a very impressive duel indeed. Samuel had to had it to the younger kids they certainly knew how to put on a good show. He handed Rosa her money as he headed towards the arena.

He tapped the girl who had won on the shoulder with his wand, "Yes you won, now head back to the castle" he said as he moved onto the other girl who was lying on the ground.

Samuel gave her a nudge with his foot and then pointed his wand at her, 'enervating' her back to consciousness. "Time for you to go back to the school."

And with that done he headed back to the spectators, unconcerned about the injuries the girls had and busy counting how much money he had just made.

Head back to the castle?

Couldn't she just stay there and rest for a moment or two? Apparently not, since now she was standing up trying to walk. That was not going to happen though, for as soon as she tried to take a single step, she dropped to her knees holding her stomach once more. The paaaaain!

If she couldn't walk, she would just have to crawl then.

Nodding to herslef, Destiny tucked her own wand in her pocket and threw Ayra's back towards her. No need to have two wands, she was perfectly fine with her 'Healer's' wand.

Slowly, Destiny started to crawl as far from the arena as possible, leaving a small trail of blood behind her.

Hopefully raccoons didn't follow it..

Arya slowly open her eyes, her vision blured but the throbing pain coming from her head. She had lost, but that no longer matter cause all she wanted to do was lay in her warm bed with her kneazle and never wake.

She could barely make out the evil bartender who was now walking away. Wasn't he gonna check to make sure she was okay? As she rose the girl felt her wand thrown on her chest and whimpered when it made contact. The stunning spell had hit her hard and made it even more difficult to breath.

It took a few tries but she finally rose to her barefeet with wand in hand. Straining her still blured eyes she found her school robes and levitated to her as she was to weak to wast energy walking. Instead of puting her arms threw the sleeves she just draped it over her back with the hood up and slowly began making her painful walk to the castle.