Liam stood out on the Quidditch pitch in the mid-morning sun, watching the grass moving like waves in the wind. He felt his hair being tossed around in the breeze, occasionally seeing a crimson strrand move across his sight. He took a deep breath, enjoying the feel of the cool air in his lungs. He looked down at his watch, a present from Dream. It was still about ten minutes until the time that he and Mark had set. It was to be nothing more than a contest between friends, but whether or not it was just for fun, Liam took any type of competition seriously at heart, no matter how much he joked. His muscles were relaxed but ready to spring into motion at a moment's notice. He ran a finger along the smooth finish of his wand. All he needed now was his opponent. And to set the rules of the duel.

"Ought to be interesting," he said, seemingly speaking to the wind, "No matter how it turns out."

Mark had been down on the ground all morning. He had a favourite spot, near the lake where he often went to play around with his elementalist skills but today he had gone down to warm up his wand work and spell casting. He knew it was just a friendly duel between house mates but him and Liam barely took anythink lightly and a wizard duel was at the top of the list.

Looking up at the clock tower he cracked his knuckles before smiling to himself 'this should be fun...for me at least'[I] he thought confidently to himself with a chuckle before setting off towards the quidditch field.

As he approached he saw Liam stood there already waiting, "Hope i havnt kept you waiting buddy. I'd hate to be so rude this early in procedures." he called cheekily with a wink.
He walked untill he was stood probably no more than twenty feet froom liam before continuing. "We gonna lay down afew ground rules then matey? this is just a bit of friendly competition afterall right?" he finished with a challenging stare.

Emma quickly walked down through the halls, towards the quidtich pitch. She knew what to expect when she got there, Mark had told her that he and Liam were dueling. In short jean shorts, and a red AIDS benefit that had Desi(red) written across, she walked out on to the pitch. Walking over to the stands, she sat in the front row, watching both boys carefully, noticing that Mark stopped 20 feet before Liam. This will be interesting. she thought to herself.

Melie rushed through the corridors of the castle trying to get outside as quickly as she could, she was running behind and she didn't want to miss the start of the duel between her boyfriend and her best friend. Melie had arranged to meet Emma there as well and the two were going to tease the boys as they watched. Melie stepped out in the sunshine and slipped her black sunglasses over her eyes and ran to the pitch. She was wearing her favorite green flip flops, a tight yellow t-shirt and green cargo capris. She arrived and saw that it hadnt started just yet and she walked over to where she saw Emma and sat down slightly out of breath.
"Hey Emma, I didn't miss anything did I?" Melie asked as she looked at the guys standing there.

Emma waved to Melie as she came over and asked if she had missed anything. "Umm..nope. All they have really done is just stand there." Emma said softly, with a small giggle. "And it kind of looks like they wont get near each other." she added. She didnt want to be to loud, and interupt them, so she sat on the bench, her knees up to her chest with her arms wrapped around them. "So when did you find out that this was going on?" she asked.

"Ground rules eh?" Liam watched Mark across the pitch intently, trying to size up his friend. He knew Mark well, but he had never really watched Mark's spellwork. And as far as he knew, Mark had never seen him in action either so they were going into combat basically blind as each other's capabilities. Just the way Liam liked it. "We'll obviously stick to non-lethal, and preferably not too damaging spells. Boundaries will be the pitch itself. First one incapacitated or to surrender loses. Seconds or none?"

Logan sauntered out to the quidditch field when rumors of a duel started to flood through the school. He had on his Chudley cannons shirt, and a new pair of jeans from his mother as a means of an apology for a small spat they had had a week before he left. He saw Emma and Mel off to the side ready to watch their boyfriends. Grinning he walked over to the two girls. "Anything good happen yet?"

Melie watched Mark and Liam on the pitch and she could see that Liam was saying something but she couldnt hear what it was.
"Liam told me about it after he and Mark decided to do it," Melie said answering Emma's question. Just then Logan showed up and asked the same question Melie had asked emma. Melie gave a small and told him, "Absolutely nothing has happened, just a bunch of jabbering on both their parts. Wanna sit with us and tease them?" Melie asked Logan.

"Hey Logan." she said with when her roomate came over and sat down with her and Melie. "Decided to come and see a little --" she said, but stopped half way through when she realized what Liam had said. Turning to Melie, she asked.."Did you hear that? He said first one incapacitated.". Looking over at Mark, she gave him an encouraging smile. Surely they will play fair and clean. she told herself.

(Ooc: Liam, im not sure if you use Wiki or a different site but i find this link very usefull when finding good spells to use here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spells_in_harry_potter enjoy, its the only favour you'll be getting :P )


Mark grinned at Liams reply. "Yeah non lethal sounds about right, and yeah no leaving the pitch...intentionally at least." he added thinking up some wicked plans in his head. Mark based his dueling capabilities on a varied and sometimes unexpected combination of particular spells. He's singular spells wernt the strongest in the world but his spell linking was second to none....in is own opinion at least.

Just then he noticed Em, Melie and Logan out the corner of his eye. He looked over and winked at Em before turning his attention to Melie. "Dont worry i'll try make sure you get him back in one piece." he called somewhat cheekily. Then twiddling his wand between his fingers he turned back towards Liam and flicked his wand in his own direction. "Geminio" (Ooc: Description: Creates a duplicate of any object cast upon) The spell created a double of himself that mirrored his actions exactly. The idea was to lower the changes of Liam casting a sucessfull spell against him.
"Game on!" he said with a wink as his double imitated him perfectly.

Scarlett slipped silently into the stands just as Mark doubled Liam's trouble. She nodded to herself thinking it was a good idea. Scarlett scooted along a bleacher so that she sat next to Melie. She dusted off the spot so that it would get her black and red striped skirt dirty. As she sat she pulled her capelet closer around the arms of the black sweater she wore, there was a chill in the air that belied the spring day it was. Scarlett had been hearing about this duel for weeks, but when she found out it was going to happen she rushed here. She didn't like to see friends fighting each other even if it was just for fun.

Cassie was super excited for this ever since she heard about it. She had been in her dorm all day making a sign. She rushed down just in time to see it begin. She had on a pair of green shorts and a white tank top with her hair let down. She finally made it to the pitch and sat next to Emma and Logan. "Super excited" she said laughing. She held up her sign. It was glittery red and gold and had GO MARK on it.

Emma smiled to herself, happy to see that Mark had remembered Gemino. She then saw Scarlett walk in and it looked like the girl was freezing. Being just about to say Hi to Scarlett, she felt someone sit down next to her. Turning around, she saw Cassie with a sign. "Hey Cass!" she said with a grin, looking at the sign. She then gave her friend a quick high five, while saying.."I love your sign."

Cassie nodded and yelled "GO MARK" then accepted Emma's high five. "He is the potionsprofessor you know...and well Ya know. I prefer to be on his side when I need to do...stuff" she replied giggling and waving the sign again. She wmirked at emma.

Emma grinned, "Of course, something had to be in it for you." pausing, she looked over at Liam and Mark. So Cassie was kissing up. Pretty smart, she would probably get some extra supplies for potions. Looking back at Cassie, she said.."It is a good idea, but I dont know how many points you will get. He doesnt even let me have anything." she said with a grin.

Melie smiled at Scarlett when she sat down next to her.
'hi Scar," Melie said giving her a quick hug wondering which of the guys she was going to support. Melie saw Cassie with her sign and wasn't suprised she was supporting, considering she was most likely jealous at how much better Liam had played recently in the quidditch match. "So Cassie's declared who she's supporting, and its obvious for me and Emma, who are you guys gonna cheer for? Gotta pick a side" Melie said with a grin at her friends. Melie hoped that Scarlett would stick with family, and cheer with her for Liam. Melie noticed Mark use Gemino and knew that this was going to be an interesting duel, she was anxious to see what Liam would do.

Liam listened to Mark verify the rules, and jump into action, casting a Gemino spell on himself. 'Bloody duplicating spell,' Liam thought to himself. He worked over in his mind how to get around this particular obstacle.

He did not know what Mark's capabilities as a dueler were, but he knew what his strengths were. He had an edge on agility against most people, thanks to his gymnastics training. He was not bad at chain-casting, but not perfect by any sense of the imagination. He figured he might have a slight edge in the fact that he seemed to cast spells fairly powerfully, since he fed his magic off of emotion. Well, apparently this would be the test of that. Suddenly, he realized the solution to his little issue of two Bats.

"Finite Incantatem! Finite Incantatem!" He fired spells at each of the Marks. He figured that the one that was the clone would disappate, then he would just be down to the one issue. What he would do then... well, he'd make that up as he went along.

Chase moved in to watch as well. Moving into the row behind Cassie and to the side a bit, he whispered into her ear quietly. "What've I missed?" He asked smiling slightly. He had heard the spell Liam had cast, but he wasn't sure if he had missed much else.

Mark was aware that one of the stands was filling up nearby and it actually put a smile on him face rather than making him nervous, but he had the feeling it would do the same for Liam, they both some what enjoyed to be in the Lime light that was for sure.

Then to counter Marks Gemini spell Liam shot off a couple of Finite Incantatem spells, he managed to dodge the one aimed at himself before realising that it was the other spell which was more important. It struck his double in the chest causing it to disintergrate instantly.
"Not bad i guess" Mark said with a nod of the head. Mark was using this talking as time to rack his brains for the perfect spell to use.

He quickly scanned the battlefield and apart from the stands it was very bare and flat. Bit boring for a duel he reasoned with himself before thinking of the most powerfull explosion spell he knew.
He aimed his wand over Liams shoulder at one of the empty stands. "Expulso!" he yelled, his spell hit the corner beam causing the whole thing to begin to topple over. It was heading towards where the two were standing but knowing this Mark was able to get a head start and sprint off out if the way.

'Perfect he thought, his spell would work as an offensive attack as well as giving them some scenery to play around with and hide in. As the stand leaned and began to fall Mark took the oppertunity to blast a few Craters and ditched around the pitch. They would be good for cover aswell as being perfect for some spells. Now hopefully Liam survives this falling stand so he can use his powers to spice the arena up even more.
Mark had to admit that even though the duel had hardly even begun yet it was starting to get his heart pumping slightly faster.

Scarlett accepted Melie’s hug a little lamely. “How could I choose between ‘em Melie?” Scarlett asked forlornly, but she knew who she was rooting for. “Have you ever watched a real duel Melie? Sometimes people get hurt.” Scarlett shivered a bit and settled down to watch with her fingers crossed. Though she was probably the best cheerleader in the whole school, she had never felt less like cheering.

As if to demonstrate what she had said, Mark began to make things explode. Scarlett had faith in Liam’s ability to dodge, but what if he tripped. Anything could happen and Scarlett felt the boys were playing with fire.

Liam felt a certain joy in watching Mark's double disintegrate. At least he knew which one to aim for now. Suddenly he noticed out of the corner of his eye the fact that there were more and more people showing up all the time. Emma, Scarlett, Cassie, Chase... and Melie. He grinned knowing that his girlfriend was there to root for him, until he heard Mark shout an incantation that he hoped to high heaven was not aimed at him.

"Expulso!" He watched the spell go over his shoulder by a few feet, and then realized that Mark had never been aiming for him at all... but the stands behind him! Liam looked up to see the massive structure toppling slowly towards him. He ran out from under the falling tower, watching it crash to the pitch in a massive explosion of dirt and wood splinters. Liam then noticed that his opponent had blasted pits and ditches in the field. The Quidditch player in him almost considered this sacrilege to see his beloved pitch destroyed but the dueler in him grudgingly admired the strategy.

"Hey!" he yelled at Mark. "I thought we agreed that this was a non-lethal duel? Falling towers might be lethal y'know!" Then he thought up something interesting and a mite wicked. He jumped into the wreckage of what once appeared to be the Slytherin stands. He crouched down and slammed both fists into the ground, focusing as hard as he could. The thrumming of the earth through him was louder and stronger than it had ever been. Random sections of earth leaped up out of the ground, creating mounds, walls, and trenches throughout that end of the field. He felt faint for a few seconds, his head swimming a bit. It reminded him of the first time he had ever manifested his powers. Shaking himself out of it, he climbed out of the destruction of the stands and made a break for one of his walls. He looked around the side of the wall, trying to spot where Mark had gone to.

"Shouldn't have kicked up so much blasted dirt," he muttered, unable to see as far as he would have liked. The dust would settle soon enough, but where would his opponent be?

Alexa was walking down to take a fly around the pitch when she saw a huge cloud of dust erupt. She hurried over and saw Liam and Mark pointing their wands at eachother. She definitely didn't want to get in the middle of the two, but she spotted Emma and Cassie watching and hurried over to them. "What's going on here?" She asked them.

Mark saw Liam dodge the stand (somewhat thankfully, it was only supposed to be friendly afterall!) and then watched on as he decided to do abit of decorating of his own. As Liam was hidden away creating Mounds, walls and trenches all around them Mark took the oppertunity to dive into one of the nearby ditches. He poked his head up just in time to see his adversary dissapear behind a newly errected wall. Mark twiddled his wand as he mentally trawled his arsenal of spells,

"Reducio!" he called pointing his spell at the wall Liam was now behing. The shrinking spell did its job as the mound of earth shielding Liam lowered just enough for Mark to see his house mates head addorned with his characteristic goggles, sticking up above it.

Mark then pointed his wand at his opponent about to mutter the expelliarmus spell when an idea that spread a grin across his face sprang to mind. "Rictusempra," he decided to say instead. If the tickling charm hits its mark he figured embarrasing his friend in front of a crowd would be a much more satisfacy result than mearly dissarming him!

Emma watched closely as Mark and Liam destroyed the pitch. She loved the place, and it she winced everytime something happened to it. Turning to Alexa who had just joined them, she said lightly.."Well, I guess practice for tonight will be canceled unless these boys can do a quick clean up.".

After Liam did some weird Earthquake thing, no one could see anyone for several seconds. Eventually, the dust passed and she could tell that Mark had spotted him.

Melie watched with worry as Mark collapsed the stands near Liam, she knew that Mark wasn't aiming for Liam, but she was still slightly worried that it would hit him none the less and she grabbed Scarletts hand for a second, not even realising that she had been asked a question by Scarlett. Melie saw Liam disapear into the wreckage and she could feel the ground shake and Melie instantly knew that was Liam using his ANWA. She glanced at Mark and saw that he had disapeared until she saw a flash of a spell being shot at Liam and Melie waited to see what it was and if it hit. Finally realising that SCarlett had spoken to her Melie turned and answered.
"nope, this is my first duel, what a match I chose eh? Watching my boyfriend battle my best friend, I think I'm going to have a nervous break down." Melie said with a small laugh.

Scarlett squeezed the hand that Melie grabbed. She would be freaked out too if she was Melie. "I've seen 'em. I've even had one fought over me. I really hope neither one of them hurts the other."

Scarlett had to smile when she felt the earth move under the bleacher. Liam had just unleashed his power and different earthen formations shot up everywhere. She almost released Melie's had to clap, but she saw that Mark had put Liam's wall down and was aiming at him. She held onto Melie's hand.

Melie turned to face Scarlett with an expression of slight shock on her face.
"You've been to them before and you didn't warn me what it was going to be like?" Melie asked incredulously turning back to the pitch looking for Liam. "I'm a nervous wreck here and nothing has even happened yet! I don't know how you did it then Scarlett." Melie said the whole thing without taking her eyes away from the two guys dueling on the pitch....for fun.

"Oh Melie if I had taken the rumors seriously I would have tried to stop it all together. I didn't realize all that blustering and strutting would actually snowball into this." Scarlett made an expansive gesture with her arms meant to be inclusive of the entire scene, ruined Quiditch pitch and all.

OoC: Sardine WTF? :angry: What gives you the right to just spam in our thread? We don't spam in your threads few though they be. This is so rude and i think you owe us an apology.

Emma looked down the bench where Melie and Scarlett were sitting and talking about duels. After listening to their conversation, Emma briefly added.."I have been to a few before but I have never had one RUIN the WHOLE area." she said, loud enough for one of the boys to hear it. Looking back at Cassie, she asked.."What do you think is the quickest way to clean it up?"

Alexa listened to the conversations quietly, she didn't know a whole lot about dueling, but it was sure interesting to listen to and watch. She was sure that the quidditch pitch would be back to normal in no time, at least she hoped so. She smiled "I'm sure these guys'll clean it up, right?" She asked "They can't do that much damage to each other, and they really can't do anymore damage to the pitch now, can they?"

Melie gave a small laugh at Emma's reaction to the destruction of the quidditch pitch. Loving quidditch herself she was a little saddened by the fact that they were destroying it but she firgured they'd be able to put it back right again...or at the very least Dream or the headmaster could do it.
"knowing those two, I think we're in a for an entertaining duel, and I have a feeling something is going to happen," Melie said to the others looking at them for a second and then looking back at the pitch to watch Mark and Liam.

Liam cursed under his breath as Mark shrank his hiding place, and growled as he dropped to the ground to dodge a Tickling Charm. He was going to have none of this business in his duel! He also wasn't going to give Mark the pleasure of embarrassing him in front of everyone. He launched himself into a diving roll behind one of his other earthen walls, and shot through his mental list of spells to find something to throw at his friend. He grinned devilishly as something came to him. Adjusting his wand to the appropriate arc he looked out around the wall.

"Aguamenti!" he said, aiming to fill the ditch with water. If nothing else, he was at least going to flush Mark out of his hiding place, making him easy pickings for other spells that would be a lot more fun. Liam chuckled to himself at his cleverness, hoping to high heaven that his friend hadn't come up with something more cunning even than this.

Even though Marks tickling charm had missed its target it was still good to see Liam diving for cover, he had him on the run. 'Now if only...' he began to think before coughing and spluttering and shooting his head above the water surface.

He grinned before turning to the new earth mound Liam was hiding behind. "If i wasnt a water elementist that would have been very clever!" he shouted across with a laugh. He used his powers to turn the pool into a large water ball before levitating it over to where Liam was hiding. When it had reached its target droplets began ot fall from the ball and before long a terrential downpour had started.

Thinking it might act as perfect cover he clambered out of the ditch he was currently in and moved to a mound closer to the one covered in rain Liam was currently hiding behind. Mark noticed a dragonfly hovering close by, not one of the lame muggle dragonflys but a magical one. capable of breathing small jets of fire. The fire breath was so small though it barely bothered humans so noone took any notice of them, but Mark had an idea to change that.

"Accio." he said holding his hand out to catch the bug as it soared towards him. He closed his hand around it and rattled in furiously, the bug inside was annoyed and began to shoot small licks of flames at Marks hands, barely noticable flames but flames non the less. Now for his master plan, he tossed the dragfly over near Liam before firing an "Engorgio" spell at the flying insect. It grew to about the size of a football, and in its angry state the flames might be enough to sting his friend slightly a cause small amounts of pain, nothing to drastic he was his quidditch teams seeker afterall!

Melie groaned when she saw Liam shoot water at Mark. Doesn't he remember that Mark's a water elementist? Melie wondered to herself as she watched Liam get drenched moments later. She was utterly confused when she saw Mark reach for the air and act like he was holding something. Finally when she saw what he was doing Melie became worried about Liam getting burned.
"Can someone remind me why I'm here again?" Melie asked her friends out loud, while hiding her eyes with her hand, peeking out through her fingers.

Emma watched eagerly, leaning forward in her seat, knowing that no matter what would happen, the boys wouldnt get hurt. "Smart." she muttered under her breath with a surprised smile as she watched the bug fly around. It was huge, making the fire it shot out also bigger. As the fire hit around the area where Liam was, the ground also caught on fire. "Ok..take that back." she added to her neighbor, hoping the fire wouldnt spread.

“Maybe so you can be hear to see your boyfriend in his last moments,” Scarlett said tartly. She felt pretty bad when she saw Liam hand Mark a huge amount of his own element as ammunition. Scarlett groaned as Mark sent the water back in glistening globulous ball to rain misery down on Liam.

But was she saw next pleased her even less. Mark looked like he was doing some sort of funny dance as he shook his cupped hands together. After the enlarging spell was cast it was obvious that he had been trying to anger some kind of fire-breathing bug that he sent toward Liam. Scarlett made a mental note to find out what kind of bug breathed fire as she prayed that Liam could remember the spell for chilling flames.

Liam cursed loudly and fluently as it started to rain on him, and he rolled out of the way and into another ditch in the field. He looked up just in time to see a dragonfly, the magic variety, the size of a football flying towards him, spitting flames in his general direction. He had no idea how Mark had managed to pull off this particular move, and grudgingly admired the tactic. Putting his head up over the lip of the trench he shot a succession of Stunners at the oversized fly, managing to bring it down but not before suffering a burn on his arm from the fire breath. Now, wet, windswept and almost made into a human barbecue by an insect, it was time to get even with his friend.

Liam put on hand to the bottom of the trench, and focused again on the earth beneath their feet. Feeling the earth throbbing beneath him he visualized the earth underneath Mark's feet sinking and turning into a quicksand pit. He felt the earth obeying his mental command and watched happily as the sand beneath Mark's feet started to give way. He didn't think that the plan would hold Mark long, he was simply hoping to get some time to regroup and think about what his next move was. He dropped down below the edge of the trench and began planning his next attack.

Emma watched horribly as Liam got burnt by the fire. Eventhough he was technically the "enemy", he was still one of her friends. She then admired his next move of creating quicksand below Mark's feet. It was a smart move, because Mark could quickly hurt himself by moving. "Do not move." she whispered outloud extremely softly, over and over again. She knew that he could not hear her, but for some reason she hoped that he would realize that the only way not get hurt more was by not moving.

Melie whipped her head around to face her cousin, mouth dropped open. She could not believe that Scarlett would say such a thing. Before she could say anything though, she could hear Emma next to her muttering something and Melie looked back to see quicksand below Mark's feet. She raised her eyebrows and nodded slightly.
"good move."

Scarlett saw the hurt look in Melie’s eyes and she quickly apologized. “I’m sorry Melie, it’s just this is so… hopeless. I can’t imagine why Liam would be fool enough to challenge Mark, and why Mark would be irresponsible enough to accept. One of them could get very hurt and it’s shapin’ up to be Liam.” Scarelett had to admit that Liam had a good idea with the quick sand. He had a strong ANWA power that would be hard for Mark to get away from what with gravity and all. Maybe he would surprise them all.