Ella felt hopeless. Yup. ALL HOPE LOST. She had to outrun an acromantula. AN ACROMANUTLA! How in Merlin's beard was she meant to do that when her body felt like this? And yeah, okay, the thing was a magical illusion but still. She was more scared of failing this little test Bellaire had set up. The Head Girl absolutely hated to fail. She couldn't fail. No, strike that, she wouldn't fail. She just...she needed to rely on her brain. Her old brain. Her very old but still capable brain. YES! Botros was older and he was one of the smartest people Ella knew so yeah, this was doable. It was.

Taking a shaky breath, the blonde held her wand firmly and tried to ignore the rustling in the bushes as she started navigating through the room. Her eyes were downcast and searching for something as she ran and the eighteen year old just prayed that she'd find one. She also prayed that she wouldn't succumb to the pain she was feeling in her knees as she ran. She couldn't do that. Nope. And she really needed a rock. A larger one would be better but any would do as the noise she'd heard in the leaves earlier seemed to be getting louder...and closer. Come on, there had to be rocks in here somewhere!

She was moving a bit quicker now but still trying to be light on her feet when she felt her toe hit something, sending her off-balance. She nearly let out a squeak but slapped her wandless hand over her mouth in time to prevent that. Good thing too as she could still hear movement behind her. Was that clicking getting louder too? MEEP! It totally was. Oh no, okay, she needed to focus.

Glancing down quickly, Ella found that she'd run into exactly what she'd been looking for. A rock! A ROCK! It wasn't big at all but she wasn't exactly in a setting that allowed her to be choosy so she wasted no time pointing her wand at it. She needed to concentrate and get this done. She didn't have much time.

She'd had the chance to use this spell in Transfiguration before. During their circus lesson, yeah? She'd been one of the lucky ones able to get a rock to make her own little dragon and she was going to do that again right now. ...Hopefully. And she'd use that dragon to distract the Acromantula long enough for her to make it to the ravine. This had to work. It had to.

With a slashing movement at the target, Ella said clearly and with conviction, "Draconifors!"