As he stepped inside the DADA practice room, Josh was quite enthusiastic and excited to at least have a real practice. 'Finally the action begins'. He was about to face his first experience of wizarding world fights for he'd never outfaced anyone or anything with magic before. With a quick glance firstly he memorised what kind of objects were around and their exact location within the room, a pretty useful tactic he learned from his Muggle dad who was a cop. A table, countless papers and some books on it, cages, more books, lamps; generally these except a liquid-like looking green thing which he had no idea about what it could be on the floor away from him near one of the cages . Than his black eyes met another pair of weird shaped, non-human, evil looking ones. The creature, winged and rather big was standing at the other side of the room. ''Hello ugly thing' I'm Jos...'' he could not complete his introducing of himself as he saw a large lamp flying towards him, hit the wall behinf him breaking into pieces. So that thing had no idea about the rule of 'respect your opponent' in offical fights. As a second lamp was flying towards him he quickly stepped right, grabbed a book and charged towards the creature. ''You stupid thing.'' Josh glared at it ''You'll now see how to throw thnigs right and this is going to be fun'' he was about to throw the book at the blue creature but another hit behind his back which hurt a lot ''Owww!'' he stopped and looked around. There were more of them! He saw three and did not bother to check since they all threw things at him, using his sports skil he tried to dodge them but could not escape from some hits of books at his right arm and bottom. ''I'm changing my mind'' he shouted out to noone ''This is going to be a trouble''. They were throwing more and more objects at him gradually increasing the force and Josh was running away tying to dodge as many objects as he could. While running to the right side of the room he kicked the table and hid behind it, his heart pounding half of excitement and half of physical effort. Books, papers and lamps continued flying over him as he crawled behind the table. What would dad do? What would dad do? 'You should stop asking that dad is a Muggle, you are a wizard! So fight like a wizard, you are probably looking like a coward now. No Muggle fighting would be useful against magical creatures you are here to practice the spells, yes the spells! Smart boy, the spells!'

Than looking determined he drew his wand out and peered at the Pixies behind the table. They were still throwing things and one was flying towards there, obviously spotted him from up there, it was holding a huge book and preparing to let it off on his head however acting quick he aimed his wand at the evil creature and shouted out the spell with a rage to stop it immediately ''Pertrificus Totalus!'' . The spell hit the creature and it fell on the floor unable to fly, making the others jump. Josh jumped on his feet and laughed at the pixie's sight ''See this? You should have stayed away from me! Ugly!'' . He dodged another book and a lamp, another book, jumping over the pixie body he aimed at the other who was about to throw another book ''Expearmus!'' Nothing happened. The book was coming towards him. Had to run. His face turned to the other side to look for where to run. No, another one! BAMM! The thick book smashed on his face making his nose hurt...a lot. Widening his eyes with pain, he looked at the creature standing close to him and taking something else to attack. Fury and anger started to rise inside him as he felt something wet inside his nose. ''Expelliarmus!'' he yelled at the creature and the lamp it was holding flew away from its thin fingers, he turned to the other ''Locomotor Mortis!'' it halted where it stood. Turned to the other again which was picking up another object ''Expelliarmus!'' the lamp flew off. He heard the annoying sound their wings made when they fly, behind him turned his back and shouted ''Pertrificus Totalus!'' it worked well on the flying ones and did again. Content with his work he glanced at the body some, blinking but unable to move. He remembered the cages then. Stopping them was not enough. He had to lock them into the cages and how... A book slammed the wall before him and he turned his back ''Stop throwing books at me! I hate books!'' Another book, darn. But this time, looking firm he did not bother to dodge. He was a wizard, yes, and using magic was pretty useful when fighting as well as defending. He took another aim at the flying book before him with his salamander scale core wand and uttered the spell he heard from his mother and memorised to use since it'd be a nice one to use in pranks. ''Diffindo!'' Yay! It worked well. The book was tore into pieces which flew lightly all around the room. 'Let's hope the professor wont be annoyed by that' ''Pertrificus Totalus!'' . When the last one, finally thudded on the floor Josh made his way towards it kicking the piles of books and papers off his way, grabbed it from its cold, bare arm and dragged into the cage slamming its little door behind. Than the other two, they were still lying on the floor and he dragged the closer to the cage too, stuffing it inside. He sighed and took a deep breath. Now there was only one but... he looked around. Where was it? Where...? What the...? Ah! In a sudden something pulled him from his robes, his wand out his grip and he found himself kissing the papers on the floor and he understood that the wet thing he felt in his nose was blood since some of it dropped on the papers. Then the creature grabbed his ankle and started to drag him around the room like he did to the other pixies. It was cracking weird sound as it moved like it was mocking the boy. ''You think that funny!'' Josh tried to kick the creature off while looking around to see where his wand was. Now he was facing the bad side of a wizarding fight : you simply had nothing to do without the wand. His heart started to pound faster and he was in more trouble as the creature moved its wings to fly taking him off. Still trying to kick it, he kept looking around and finally was able to see where his wand when his eyesight on the room extended as he ascended a little with the creature. Luckily it did not look to have enough grip to carry him and when Josh managed to kick it from its chest, it quickly dropped him and jumping on feet he charged towards the corner where his wand was. Once he had his wand all the party was over. He threw himself to the corner, handed his wand, turned back and took an aim at the flying creature ''Perti...'' he took a deep breath as the pixie was coming towards him ''Pertificus Totalus!'' . His last spell hit the creature and Josh let his breath out with relief as its body met the floor. Grinning proudly at his work, the Gryffindor boy, grabbed this one from the arm as well and closed it into the cage near its friends. ''The partey is overr!'' he laughed out and brushed his hair some.

''Mission done, Professor!'' he said cheerfully once he was out the room and left the class whistling his favourite melody.

occ : i missed the class because i was out, but wanted to prepare the homework.