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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Charlie Upstead
Gryffindor
Second Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Regulus Prince
Slytherin
Fourth Year

Ministry RPG Name:
Daxton Prince
Mysteries

Ministry RPG Name:
Nikolai Kaiser
Minister's Office

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He was angry but calm, util the other boy raised his hand and wiggled his fingers right at him. Clenching his jaw, Tak could feel as his hatred for Daxton Prince began to bubble up in his stomach. He could have pulled out his wand and attacked him right there and then, if not for common sense and basic street smarts.

Common sense told him that Prince was doing this on purpose.

Street starts told him that all the odds were stacked against him, if he really wanted to win a fight. Why was that? Simple, Tak's best strength was his speed. He was fast. But he wasn't that powerful, and Daxton Prince, well, he fought dirty. This was a fact. So if they came together once against fist against fist he'd have to face off against the taller boy in a dirty fight. That seemed hard enough, because speed could only get him so far. But there was another factor. It wouldn't just be fist against fist this time. They were at school, magic was allowed. And he had no idea how strong the smug boy was in magic, but a voice in the back of Tak's mind told him that Daxton probably knew his stuff.

Taking a deep breath the Slytherin forced his anger down as he gazed up. Opening his mouth, he let a single word ring out loudly. "Why?"
Daxton lowered his hand again, looking down at the Slytherin boy with his calculating gaze; he was playing a dangerous game here, and he knew it. He was, essentially, relying on this boy believing he, as a fourth year, was particularly adept at magic, and using that fact to inform his decision on whether or not to cast an offensive spell. As it happened, Daxton did know his stuff. He knew more theory about magic than most his age, specialising in a certain few subject areas. But knowing his stuff, and being able to cast it... those were two very different things.

Non-verbal as he was, Daxton had been attempting for his first three years at Hogwarts to cast spells non-verbally too, and had ignored all instructions to make an attempt at speaking the incantations. Up until the end of his third year, he had had limited, though not entirely absent, success. But now, in his fourth year, there had been some sudden and extensive developments. His non-verbal magic had suddenly started improving at a remarkable rate, but when it came to combative magic, there was only one spell Daxton had managed to fully master, due in part to the fact that most of his practicing duelling spells was done while hiding in corridors, casting at unsuspecting passers-by. Even then, he did not consider that to be a true practice; not enough that he would be certain to use those spells to overpower someone in a duel.

So he was, essentially, falling back on nothing more than a bluff with Asakura, at least until he could be certain he would win in a duel. Until then, Daxton was at least not afraid to fight, and fight dirty, in a good, old-fashioned fist fight. Those always got his blood pumping faster anyway.

Still, he watched Asakura closely, paying particularly close attention to his hands, ready for any sudden movement. None came.

What did come, was a simple, one-word question. A question Daxton had no hope of answering.

Why? Why what? There were a great many things that that question could be addressing: Why was Daxton on the statue? Why was he waving? Why had he beaten the snot out of Asakura the first time they had met? Why did anyone think that this statue was a good hiding place for a 'secret' passageway?

Plenty of potential questions, none of which Daxton could really answer, even if he had known exactly what kind of question Asakura was asking. So he made a choice between his only two options, and simply shrugged. A vague answer to a vague question.
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