Zhenya listened to Raven's suggestions and closed her eyes for a few moments to breathe and center herself. When she opened them she pointed her wand at Raven.

She felt much more confident now, because the first time had not succeeded - so it didn't matter if this one did or not. "Expelliarmus!" she said loudly and confidently.

Kurumi smiled as Kennedy deflected her spell - as was to be expected, but she hadn't been counting on him countering INSTANTLY!

Eyes wide, Kurumi's first instinct was to duck and cover, but her wand hand acted on its own, making an arcing movement ending with a quick horizontal slash. Realizing what her body was doing, Kurumi's brain registered the rest. "Protego!" JUST in the nick of time, Kurumi's magical shield went up and blocked his spell. The rush of adrenaline had her ears pounding and she took several deep breaths before speaking.

"A l-l-little bit of a warning would have been nice," she laughed shyly.

Or...was that his way of challenging her to a little duel right here and now? Hmmm...

"Expelliarmus!" she said, countering with her own.

Kennedy smiled sheepishly while he rubbed the back of his neck. "I...thought you were ready," he chuckled. Maybe next time he should say; let's duel? Technically it wasn't a REAL duel, but he liked the challenge. It was almost like a duel the only difference was that they could only use two spells.

WOW!

He quickly did an upward arc flick with his wand and said, "Protego!" She...she was fast as well.

Hehe! This is what he's talking about!

Suddenly more awake and alert, Kennedy backfired with the disarming spell. "Expelliarmus!" Now, he just had to watch himself to not get too carried away and use a different spell than the ones they were allowed to use.

"Sounds good to me", Alex said. She continued to practice the upward arching movement, but this time with her wand. She tried to focus and added "Protego" to the routine. Alex noticed a little something coming from her wand, but did not think that it would stop Silvia's Expelliarmus spell. "Let me know when you are ready to start practicing the two spells together", Alex told Silvia.

A sharp red light had appeared from Zhenya's wand and shot Raven. Her wand was flew away and fell down to the ground.

"You did it! Good job!" She said happily. Then she took her wand and continued the practice.

"Okay. Now I'll attack you and you can practice the shield charm. Are you ready?" she pointed her wand to Zhenya and

"Expelliarmus!"

Since it was obvious she wasn't going to send an attack he would. He did a quick "Expelliarmus." He then waited a few seconds for that to go by. Then he did another quick "Explelliarmus."

Ella watched as Messer was able to produce his shield before she was able to disarm him. She was impressed with the speed at which he performed the charm and smiled at him. "Wow Messer, that was great!" She hoped she would be able to produce the shield in the same manner and as fast as he was able to. "So I guess it's my turn now?" she asked her partner. She held her wand at the ready, looking at Messer with a confident smile. Confidence was key after all, wasn't it? "Alright, I think I'm ready! Try and disarm me!" she called, ready to act.

This was such a mess up. Ness bit her lip nervously as she looked at the two girls standing beside her. What to do? What to do? She honestly didn't know, which was why she was greatfull that someone else seemed to have been needing a partner too. Giving the Gryffindor student, and the Professor a small nod she showed her approval.

Now to get to work, she turned back to the Gryffindor captain and a small smirk lit up on her face. According to Adam, this Selina girl didn't like him much anymore, and according to him this girl had even punched him once, which Nessie thought was rather funny. Well if this girl did seem to have punched Adam, she must have been strong...which meant she must have been good at magic too right?If she was good...this duelling would be rather challenging, but then challenges we're supposed to be exciting..were'nt they?

"So umm..shall we begin?" she asked the redhead a little nervously.

"Thanks Ella." Messer grinned widely. He was really surprised that he managed to perform the Shield Charm before his partner's spell hit him. "Yes. Its yours now." he told Ella.

"Are you ready?" he asked while pointing his wand toward Ella and did the 'D' movement with his wand, he said "Expelliarmus!" A jet of light come from the tip of his wand toward the other first year. His eyes glued to the light hoping that it doesn't vanish into a thin air like before.

She felt the spell hit her and her wand go flying out of her hand in a neat arc towards the Captain. It was hard to be disarmed so easily, but it was for the lesson, no? And she hadn't been disarmed in a while, so that was a nice refresher. Hehe.

"Nice. I say we disarm you once before going back to the shield, since we did it wrong before."

Right. Maybe Kurumi should take back her comment earlier about Kennedy being an inner Puff? Kurumi had to laugh to herself though, thinking back about how they had been last term during Dueling Club all awkward and stuttering through their spells. Now, well, they were going at it with no restraint - besides only being able to perform two spells.

Kurumi tisked softly when Kennedy blocked her spell, but he WAS a snake after all. Ambition came with reflexes...or something. She was just going to pretend that that made sense. This time, she knew Kennedy would throw a spell back, so before he had even finished saying the words, Kurumi threw up her shield, "Protego!" and waited for the spell to hit before pivoting quickly to the right. ""Expelliarmus!"

Justin smiled widely at her. She was much better than him at spells but he'd do his best regardles of that fact. " Alright, Girlie. You asked for it. " he chuckled . Then he started back to the spot he had been standing, when over his shoulder without her seeing , pointed his wand and still able to trace that D motion. He whispered, " Expelliamus."

'You have?' Daisy was pretty sure she hadn't used the disarming spell much before, except for when her brother helped her once. 'I've had a little practice from my brother, but really not much.' She chuckled, 'it takes me time to learn these things, but once i've got them, they stay,' she grinned, looking down at her trusty wand which was probably the only reason she didn't fail every single class. She liked that wand a lot, and was always careful with it.

Daisy gaped at LuLu for a second, but grinned when she saw she was ok. 'I thought I'd used the wrong spell by accident then,' she said, bracing herself for LuLu's turn.

Zoom!

Daisy laughed softly as her wand flew out of her hand as her partner effortlessly casted the spell. 'We're both getting quite a lot better... Do you think we're allowed to do any other spells?' She asked LuLu.

Gideon relaxed and let out a breath as the spell hit its target and he watched Vickers' wand fly from his hand. It was certainly better then pushing the Ravenclaw back himself which was an effect if not focused correctly. "Thanks," he said, straightening to a normal stance as his partner retrieved his wand from where it had rolled.

When asked if he wanted to repeat the action, the Gryffindor meerly shook his head. "Nae...I'm good," he answered not needing to test the spell anymore since it had been successful the first time around. "Ye can work on disarming me this time," he added taking a deep breath and preparing himself for what was to come.

He did feel kinda bad that the shield charm hadn't be allowed at first but now it was. Maybe he would just allow the spell to hit him on premise? Give the Ravenclaw a boost of confidence. He raised his wand slightly in offense but not too threatening since he wanted his partner not to be too nervous when he cast.

It was clear this uuh, fourth, year wasnt going soft on Olivia. She would rather it be that way anyway, because Olivia was one of those kids that diddnt like being underestimated for their hight!
hhmmm, her opponent blocked Her spell, Olivia kept a poker face. She raised her wand and did an upside down "u" shape with her wand. Protego! her shild charm was strong enough to block expelliarmus.

Why was the boy looking at him weird? Lewis had thought that repeating what he was saying was a good thing with this one. He had thought he liked him because of it. What was going on!? Had he done something wrong?! WHY?!

Without realizing it, his lower lip had moved to form a little pout as he turned back to the boy again after listening to the professor. Err, yes. Obviously he wanted to work with him. Seeing as the boy apparently didn't like him when he repeated his words, Lewis settled with just nodding and muttering a "Yeah" into his general direction.

Lewis held up his wand and waited a little, just looking at him. Should he just...go first? They should probably practice the first spell first and then add the Shield Charm. "I'll start, 'kay?" He didn't have anything to lose anyway, right? So, clearing his throat he pointed his wand at the Ravenclaw Prefect and making a "D"-motion with it said, "Expelliarmus!" Hopefully he hadn't startled him with just starting like that.

Alyssa decided that while Oakey was waiting to decide which spell he wanted to do now, she would practice both spells on her own. First she would use perform the Disarming Charm. Pointing her wand at no one in specific, she formed an invisible d and said, "Expelliarmus." She kept practicing that spell a couple of times, her wand movements forming an invisible d and saying "Expelliarmus".

Now for the Shield Charm. She didn't have a chance to perform it for herself yet, so all she could do right now was to practice the wand movements and the incantation for it. She pointed her wand straight in front of her and with a quick arcing flick followed immediately by a quick horizontal slash, Alyssa said the words, "Pro-TAY-goh". Immediately a bluish thingy formed in front of her and quickly expanded sideways to form a wall in front of her. After a few seconds, the 'bluish' wall disappeared and Alyssa performed the spell again.

Concentrating on the incantation and what she intended to do, Alyssa performed the shield charm movement with an arcing flick followed by a quick horizonal slash and said, "Pro-TAY-goh". Again a bluish light streamed out from her wand and formed a bluish wall in front of her.

Jordan rushed over to Ariana, "Ariana, are you okay?" he asked, "I'm so sorry about that!" he offered her a hand up. "Come on, try it again... You'll be fine at it!" he said.

Oakey stood ready. Wand pointed out and fixed it on Alyssa's person. Expelliarmus! he cast at her.

The spell shot from his wand at a blazing speed. The light looked it's strongest yet! Oakey watched as it came closer and closer to Alyssa who wasn't paying attention to him and was focused more on practicing the spells at the Moment. Alyssa! Oakey shouted to grab her attention as the spell was about an arms reach away from her.

Alyssa hadn't realized that Oakey had made his decision and that it was her turn to practice on the Shield Charm as she had been practising on her own. She only heard the words, "Expelliarmus" and Oakey yelling out her name in warning.

Instinctively her reflex actions kicked into gear, and without thinking about it, Alyssa quickly turned around, swished her wand in an arcing flick, followed by a quick horizontal slash and said,"Protego". As like before, when she was practicing the shield charm by herself, a bluish light flew out from her wand and formed an invisible barrier in front of her, expanding out sideways. She saw Oakey's disarming spell hit her bluish wall and bounce off.

"Sorry Oakey for messing around. Thank goodness my instincts took over. I'll pay more attention from now onwards."she called out to him in a way of an apology.

Minerva didn't know what happened. One moment she was laughing about how Justin couldn't catch her off guard to standing there without her wand. "What.. how.. what happened." then she turned to a laughing Justin. "Oh I see how it is." she walked over and picked up her wand as she stood back up she made her wand movement "Expelliarmus"

Nate decided to send another expelliarmus at her just for some extra fun. He pointed his wand at hers and said "Expelliarmus."

"Nice to meet you too!" She made a note of the girl's name now. She'd never met anyone named Vashti before.

What spell did she want to practise? that was a good question. "How about shield charm now?" It was a simple spell and very effective. She was rather fond of it honestly.

It's Okay Alyssa. He called back to her. Try it one more time if you want Oakey was surprised with his housemates quick reflexes. They were going to come in handy during a close duel. Here I go again! Expelliarmus! Oakey had his wand back in his right hand. The stream of light came out and it looked this time that it wasn't as weak as his first right hand casting of the spell.

ZHENYA DID IT! She squealed and jumped up and down. "YAY!" she said.

But wait.. "Attack me?" she looked around, forgetting the spell.
"SHIELD" she yelled pointing her wand at Raven. Her wand flew out of her hand..