Just in the nick of time Adi had gotten that Henshu spell right. Of course he'd need to do more practice until he fully got the hang of it but for now he would leave that alone as they continued onto the new spell.

This one sounded...dangerous. Dangerous in they way that if the chains were to hit anyone...Adi would need to keep his eyes open for any stray chains that might head his way. Anyway, it was time to start practicing again, starting with the incantation. ''Ligatenous...Ligatenous...Ligatenous...Ligatenou s...'' The Puffer paused before continuing. He seemed to have no problems with this incantation. ''Ligatenous...Ligatenous...Ligatenous...''

Lux listened intently as the Professor gave them the next set of instructions. Everything seemed simple enough, but she wanted to first try the pronunciation before even attempting to try it out on a dummy. She had a feeling that her main issue with spells was confidence, but that didn't mean she wanted to risk causing an accident with a chain if she did not cast correctly.

"Ligatenous... Ligatenous... Ligatenous..." she said aloud, hoping that she was doing it correctly.

Once she was feeling confident enough, she headed over to one of the dummies and pointed her wand at it. "Ligatenous." Nothing happened. Whaaaa. She needed to concentrate more.

Trying again, she focused really hard on making a chain to wrap around the dummy before pointing at it and saying the Ligatenous spell. A chain appeared and wrapped itself around the dummy.

Yes! It really was a confidence issue!

Sander paused midway through casting the first spell when the Professor told everyone to pause while she demonstrated the second spell. The wand movement was a simple point and the spell incantation was Ligatenous.

Sander practiced the incantation, since pointing was something that came naturally to him. "Ligatenous...ligatenous...ligatenous," Once he was familiar with the incantation he walked over to the dummies at the back of the arena, to begin practicing the spell.

So instead of ropes it would be chains. Sander found that intriguing. What spell would be used to break the chains?

So before he started to actually cast the spell, he raised his hand,"Professor would we still use Diffindo to break the chains or would Relashio work better?" Sander knew he was running ahead of the class but he was really interested to know.

Plus if his spell worked in the dummy, he needed to know how to get the chains off. Would just terminating the spell work just as well?

Looked as though he had perfect timing. Michael did his utmost best not to laugh at her predicament but he couldn't stop his lips from twitching as she grabbed hold of his arm.

"Not a problem." He was happy tp help out. And then he watched as she demonstrated how to do the spell and he had to marvel at how effortless she made the wand movement look. For some reason he couldn't get the twist right.

As for the incantation and the intent, he had no problems with that but he listened carefully anyway. And then she was looking at him and Michael did laugh this time. "Maybe you should think about being a teacher."

He chuckled again before giving his wand a twist and then horizontal flick towards his shoe while adding an incantation to the mix. "Henshu." He waited a moment before trying to lift his shoe and found that it was kinda stuck but there was still some slight movement. "Oh well, I'm still not going anywhere in a hurry." He grinned at Little Bunny just as the Professor was instructing them on the next spell.

"Do you know how to get out of this?" He whispered to her.

She grinned with a single laugh and shook her head at his suggestion about being a teacher. "No way. I don't have very good Karma in that department." Not after sending off more than a handful of tutors swearing they'd never come back to the manor. Heh.

Oh look! He got it. Sort of.

"It's better than nothing." Or too much. Ahem.

When professor Romanos explained the second spell, her first thought was trying it on Train Boy here. He was the closest, obvious, no? Her eyes flitted to him briefly, then back at Romanos. Yep, good target. Unfortunately, the spell was not to be used on students.

Turning back to him, she nodded. "You cast Finite," she whispered back. Pointing her wand at her own feet she did just that. "Just...careful not to slip." Because of that same reason she was staying as still as a snowman before attempting the next spell.

No. Sudden. Movements. Wayne.

Lex had stopped practising long before the Professor interrupted to move them into the next spell. Both her feet were making peace with the floor, leaving her not slipping and breaking what might possibly be a fragile back. She didn't know what to expect anymore. Her joints seemed to be going out of sorts and after Professor Airey's performance, she wasn't too keen on being the encore.

The next spell sounded much cooler than incarcerous. Chains? How freaking awesome was that?? Of course the girl was already mentally choosing victims but all hopes died and she became deflated the moment she heard they were practising with the dummies.

Sigh. It was probably for the best. Her shield charms had improved but she wasn't sure by just how much so unless she was practising with a younger kid--which she would pass on thanks--it might not end so good. Dummies it was. "Ligatenous...Lig-at-en-ous....Li-ga-te-nous.....Lig-a-tenous...."

So pumped for chains.

Oh? This quiet girl had a fiery streak? "You're going to have to tell me more about this bad Karma later." He laughed while wiggling his finger at her. That would be interesting to see.

Eh, if he really wanted the spells to work, Michael knew that he could, he probably knew more spells than the average third year thanks to his parents but he lacked the motivation when he was at school. Not to mention the distractions.

He smiled at Little Bunny. "Thanks." He flicked his wand at his foot, "Finite." And just like that his foot was free, not that it had really been stuck in the first place.

Alrighty onto the next spell. Chains. Now that sounded more like the stuff he wanted to learn. He tried out the incantation first. "Ligatenous...Liga...tenous." That wasn't too hard.

He looked over to Little Bunny and grinned. "Ladies first."

Did he feel comfortable with his performance? ... Maybe. Just maybe. He tried to move both of his feet forward again, in the same skating motion from before. Good. No more sliding. That was a great sign. He didn't want to try again with the spell and end up falling so...

... he'll move on.

Chains and not ropes. This was probably a bit more useful against that Chort creature, right? Ropes were more easily broken than chains. The idea of chaining someone up? ... No. Alec... was very uncomfortable with that, which was why he was very glad that they had to practice on dummies or the wall first. ... First. They weren't going to be aiming at each other, right?

Ligatenous. And a simple point to the target? Awesome. He didn't need to practice that wand movement. "Ligatenous... Ligatenous... Li...ga...te...nous..." Was that how it was pronounced? "Li... ga... tenous... Ligatenous... Ligatenous..."

Kace understood the spell. They were gonna learn the spell, "Henshu..." He wrote it down and it seemed foreign to him. But apparently it made your shoes glide. He couldn't wait to start the spell. Now onto pronouncing it first. He pronounced it, "Hen-sh-u....Hen-sh-u....Hen-sh-u...Henshu....Henshu....Henshu...." He got that down. Now onto the wand movements. He did the movement like a sideways candy cane. He got that down. Now onto practicing it for real.

Kace felt confident and knew he can do the spell. He did the wand movement of the sideways candy cane and said, "Henshu!" and then he pointed at his shoes and then it worked. He tried moving his shoes and he felt like he was gliding. He knew his feet needed to be stuck to the ground. He said, "Finite!" and then re did it again.

He did the sideways candy cane and then said, "Henshu!" and pointed at both of his feet. Then he felt his feet stick. He wasn't gliding anymore. He pumped his fist in victory.

Now he had to practice the second spell. This one involved chains? That shall be interesting...

Bart was still getting frustrated he hadn't done the spell yet and then his focus was taken by the professor. She was moving them on, but he didn't even have the first spell yet. Clearly something was wrong with his shoes, because he should be able to do this spell easy. He glared down at his shoes, stupid shoes. He moved watching the others as they started on the new one. As he was watching he saw someone do the other spell and watched their wand movements.

Hmm had he been doing them wrong? It seemed like it didn't it. He turned and did the candy cane shape movement with the horizontal flick instead of the vertical he was doing, "Henshu" He tried to slide but stopped. It worked did they see his shoe was sticking. This was cool.

Alrightey then. Adi was definitely ready to have a go with this spell. Pointing the wand was simple enough so no need to practice that. Eagerly, he turned to face the dummies which were at the back of the Arena.

''Ligatenous!'' Adi exclaimed and pointed his wand at a dummy. Nothing happened. There was no chain shooting towards the dummy. ''Ligatenous!'' Still nothing happened. ''Ligatenous!'' Point! ''Ligatenous!'' Point! ''Ligatenous!'' Point!

Still not a thing happened.

Beverly rolled her eyes playfully at Train Boy. Okay, why not? It probably seemed odd that she could be a menace. Tutors, they just knew how to grind her gears and, well, she wasn't a Wayne for nothing. They were known for their silent temper.

Making sure she wouldn't up and slip out of nowhere, Beverly grinned. "No problem." It felt nice helping someone else. Maybe this would even out said Karma.

While he practiced the spell so did Beverly. "Li-ga-te-nous," she pronounced. This is where language lessons came in handy, though it hadn't been one of her main focuses, but it made pronouncing easier.

"Ligatenous." She nodded to herself. Yep, sounded about right.

He had to be a gentleman. Not a bad thing, but if either were to mess up, she wouldn't mind if he did first. It was okay, though. She had to practice confidence.

"Okay, sure." She pointed her wand at one of the dummies. "Ligatenous!"

Thin chains spouted from the tip of her wand, zooming toward the dummy with purpose, but instead of wrapping around the dummy, the chains fell to the ground and disappeared. Oh Merlin.

"Don't laugh." THE SHAME.

Sander looked around for guidance. He knew that Professor Romanos would get back to him after she was done guiding the other student, so he decided that he would see how the others ended the spell. But no one was actually trying to cast the spell yet. Looking at the dummy and then at his wand, Sander shrugged.

It wasn't like he was going to help the Chort escape from the chains that bound it. So figuring out how to break the chains was actually a moot point right now. However, if somebody accidentally cast the spell on him, he wanted to know how to break out from it.

But that was jumping the gun, right now, Sander knew that he had to first master casting the second spell. Concentrating on what the spell was supposed to do, Sander pointed his wand at the dummy in front of him and said, "Ligatenous".

He watched for the chains to come flying out from his wand, but nothing did. He frowned and brought up his wand to see whether the chains had somehow gotten stuck in there. No nothing there. Sander sighed and ended the spell saying,"Finite" just in case the spell was working slow. He didn't want chains to come out flying without any warning.

Then he pointed at the dummy again. He concentrated harder and blocked out everything else that was going on around him. Pointing his wand, he said, "Ligatenous"

This time he heard a clinking sound before chains flew out of his wand and wrapped itself around the dummy. "Yes" Sander punched the air with his fist before going over to examine the chains.

Ben had stood up to better test out the effects of the spell on his shoes when the professor called for their attention once more to introduce another new spell to them. He himself was satisfied with what he had gotten so far out of the first one and he could always practice more outside of class. I might even be part of their homework. So he simply listened to what Professor Romanos had to say about the spell, briefly retrieving his notes to add the information to them for later. He had to admit that the use of chains seemed a bit more serious and dangerous then ropes.
Poor dummies.

"Ligatenous...Li-ga-te-nous...Ligatenous" he practiced, trying to get the pronunciatioon right since the wand movement was a simple pointing.

Tobias had been practicing, sure. After his answer had turned out to be correct, that lifted his mood a little. The third year was stood a little way out to the side of the arena, all nice and spread out. If he was to fall, there was be very little chance of falling into someone else.

So he'd been practicing the spell; the incantation, the wand movement, and then the two together. Then he'd watched those around him, to see if they were successful, and if there was anything else he should be doing.

When Professor Romanos mentioned moving on, that reminded Tobias that he still sort of needed to actually try out this spell so he could move on to the next part which was............ chains.

Okay.

Pointing his wand down at his left shoe, as that was the first one his right hand naturally aimed at, Tobias did the weird sidewards candycane movement and said, "Henshu!"

And then he tried to scoot that one foot where he stood, very gently because one or both feet could still slip on the floor.

Had it worked?

Oh. So now they got to do something other than being cowardly? Alice approved.

"Ligatenous." The incantation seemed easy enough, but she said it a couple of times just to get it rolling off her tongue right. "Lig-a-ten-ous. Ligatenous." If she knew Incarcerous, did that mean she wouldn't have any trouble with this one? Since Romanos had compared it to a familiar spell and the movement was so simple, she didn't plan on wasting too much time practicing it before actually casting.

A point at the intended target. Scouring the arena for a free dummy, she pointed her wand.

Movement down.

Chains were better than that foot grip one for sure. A tiny bit better. At least something that you could use in a duel. Be pretty painful on your opponent wouldn't it? Chains were heavy. And OBVIOUSLY West was going for a dummy not the wall. That wouldn't help with practicing aim after all.

But since it was a conjuring spell his confidence was pretty high, Transfiguration being his easiest wandwork subject and all.

He went over and claimed a dummy, examined it closely, and then took several paces away from it so that he could turn and aim. Ligatenous? He repeated it.

"Ligatenous." Okay. Ligatenous. And a point. With intent. He could do that.

Simple, then. But really, Alice's intentions weren't at all focused on the spell. Her mind was in a million different places at once- focusing on her still throbbing knee, wondering if Romanos was actually going to let them utilize these spells, Quidditch, explosions (lots of attention on this).... really, the lesson today just hadn't captured her attention.

So when she voiced a "Ligatenous!" and pointed at her dummy, nothing happened. Missing intent, missing results.

.... this was stupid. Hmph.

Michael took a couple of steps away from her so that she had some room to move and he watched her carefully as she took aim at the dummies and let fly with the spell.

His gaze went from her to the chains laying at the dummy's feet. "I'm not going to laugh. For a first try that was downright awesome." She had managed to produce chains from her wand and they had hit the intended target, it was just the last part that had failed. "I think you may have lost focus halfway through. I know how that is, you kinda get excited that you actually produced something that you forget that there is more you need to do."

He gave her an encouraging smile before turning to face the dummies and he raised his wand pointed it at the middle dummy. "Ligatenous." Chains flew from his wand, headed straight for the intended dummy and wrapped around it's head and shoulders but then seemed to lose momentum and hung limply.

Turning to Little Bunny, Michael shrugged his shoulders but there was a grin on his face. "I guess my mind was elsewhere too." He tipped her a wink before trying again.

Okay, so that foot was well and truly henshu'd, and now Tobias was regretting the fact that he hadn't gone 'skating' around the arena first. Except not really, because he just wasnt feeling it. Like right now, what was stopping him from doing the skating thing like he was on a skateboard? But he didn't do it. Instead...

"Henshu!"

And weird sideways candy cane movement.

That done, Tobias took a few tentative steps, trying to glide his feet across the floor a bit. But they only scuffed, so that was that spell done.

Next up, the chains.

Conjuring was easy. And satisfying. He felt comfortable with the incantation, and he was pretty good with incarcerous so he was confident he could manage this too.

He focused on the Dummy and put all his irritation at all this so-called Defense stuff into it as he cast with a strong point of his wand, "Ligatenous!"

The chains burst forth and wrapped around the dummy.... twisting into a knot of chains and locking tight.

Vesper is so pleased with herself! The first spell had been a success, obviously. With it being a Charm, the confidence had been there...and that probably helped with the efficiency a bit. Was the whole 'Staying positive' thing real? With casting spells? It would make sense if it were...

Stepping around some more, Ves paused to strike a yoga pose. Being able to do this on the slick floor proved her spell's success further and she was ready to move on. Professor Romanos looked like she was about to give more instructions so...perfect timing was perfect?...and perhaps Vesper had been too eager to hear the next instructions because when she did...she actually toppled over.

Conjuring...?

Oh, hell.

Rubbing at her wrist that had just made hard contact with the floor, she peered around curiously at those in her class. There might have been some wincing, too, but she wasn't a whiner...and didn't intend to make a huge deal out of it. Dora would fix her later...but yea. Back to those instructions. A CONJURING SPELL. Like...........Transfiguration...conjuring...Ugh. The Ravenclaw could already feel sweat gathering on her forehead and her palms getting clammy.

She....couldn't do transfiguration. No matter how hard she tried, it never seemed to work out for her. What...was she going to do? AND WHY DID SHE FEEL LIKE CRYING?! What was this?...Embarrassment. Already. Yep.

Shakily moving towards one of the practice dummies, Ves raised her wand. She...of course, was going to try. The steps weren't hard. Point and say the spell. That was literally it...right? "L-Ligat...Ligatenous." The heat in her face could only mean that she resembled an inflamed tomato at the moment...GOSH, Transfiguration had been dropped for a reason. "Ligatenous!"...

Clear head. Clear head. Focus on the dummy. Picture the chains. The gray chains. Like the color everyone's hair was, except maybe their locks would be white soon, was that the new trend? Alice most definitely didn't want to jump on the bandwagon and dye hers like all the people participating in this fad were, 'cause it was weird and she very much liked not resembling a hag. Speaking of hags, were they ever going to learn about those in cla-

.... right. Focus. "Ligatenous!"

The links appeared out of nowhere, and in the blink of an eye, her dummy was wrapped up and locked into a bundle of steel.

Could she sit down now?

He was pleased with his results but not surprised. Transfiguration had always clicked for him, its logical approach meshed with the purely creative element of conjuring just worked right with his mind. The chains on his dummy kept on tightening for as long as he was focusing on it. Cool. Splintering wood would happen any second the way this was going... except he looked around, dropping his attention from the chains in favour of looking at Ves... who looked a little.... uncomfortable. He casually went over to her.

"Hey Ves." And quietly, because... y'know, didn't want her to get embarrassed in front of everyone. "You're overthinking it. Psyching yourself out. You can do it. Just relax okay? Forget about everyone else... and focus. K?" He gave her a quick smile and then hummed the beginning of a particular song, one he knew she'd recognize. Use the music, Vesper. Focus.

Vesper was doing a fantastic job not acknowledging the fact that others could be potentially watching her fail. She was never one to try and stand out, anyway, or be too seen. So, she'd relaxed somewhat...and had even been able to frustratedly laugh off the failure...

That was...until West stepped into her line of vision. Was she blushing again...? The heat in her face seemed to tripled and she couldn't quite meet his eyes. "Hey, West.".....And...if it were possible, she felt more embarrassed now than she had earlier. The professor would've been fine. It was in her job description to see her students fail and help them...but West was going to help her...

Vesper didn't know whether to be extremely happy, cry (from embarrassment), or...ermm...hide (from confusion and embarrassment)...and they were whispering sorta. She was grateful West seemed to understand her need for some semblance of privacy. He was sensitive to that sort of thing..."I can never seem to get these types of spells worked o-...."

Was he humming The Chain to her? O.O

"W-what helps you focus?" Yes, Ves was forcibly pushing her mind into a different direction. No going near dangerous territory. Nope...and really, it was hard to use the music...with how the music was...being presented to her.