Curse Duel #2 - Cutty Mordaunt & Benzi Rider
 

H: 400, m: 400, f: 25
 

Alright. Time to get this party started. Cutty held his ivory looking aspen wand and put a finger to the tip. "Commander Bond, I've been expecting you." The Slytherin childman held the wand across his chest and bowed toward Benzi Rider. This meant beginning the duel.

"Serpensortia." He said, conjuring the thin little gray snake. He needed something fast and wanted to get Benzi's defenses going if this was to be a worthwhile venture for the two of them. It was a close tie as to who wanted Benzi to become an auror more; himself or Cutty. And so Cutty had decided that despite Rider being his best mate, there would be little to no mercy. An easy feat for a sociopath who did NOT take his healing potions that morning. Thus, the black mamba, the fastest snake in the world and deadliest on the Continent, joined their little soiree. Mordaunt hung back to hone in on Benzi's reaction.

h: 400 m: 400 f: 30
 

H: 400, m: 375, f: 25
 

The reaction was immediate, and ...the sort of thing a Benzi Rider would do. Throw things in your face. Still the writhing and highly irritated ribbon beast whipped at Cutty as it sucker punched him and then passed. The last coherent thought Cutty had was, 'This is what it was like to be Eden McGee' as his brain turned toward the nonsensical.

It was like someone had given him an elixir of Alice. And inviting little bottle that enticed one to 'drink me' and left the taker in a psychedelic haze. Never knowing what was real and what was concocted. Everything seemed much more vibrant, but also misshapen. Not unlike a funhouse. A funhouse...Is that where they were? He was dueling Benzi. In a funhouse. No. No, definitely not. It HAD to be the men's loo. There was garass here. Garass. Green, slippy-fnippy garass.

Feeling rather elated. Cutty held his hands out at the side of his face in a teasing gesture toward Benzi Rider. Or he meant to, but the motor skills were affected and all that happened was a rather large step to the left and a raspberry.

h: 400 m: 355 f: 30
 

H: 370, m: 360, f: 25
 

Cutty was blowing the raspberry as the jelly fingers curse flew his way. In his excitement, he began to play an imaginary piano. Because he thought he'd been hit and he wanted the combination of uncontrolled fingers plus Rachmaninoff, but instead all he got was silence and grass. This caused him to SLAM the key cover on the piano SHUT.

There was no piano, though, sooo...

Cutty thought he was daydreaming when he felt his wand leave him. He tried to grip it. Catch it in the air as it left him, but it was gone, having nested itself somewhere in the grass. It was not alone. The conjured mamba moved quietly and quickly, her body undulating over the hilt of the young wizard's rapierish wand and heading for the direction of the disturbance. Territorial. It was at this time that Cutty, walking through the dueling space, began to come to and Benzi would have two snakes in the grass to deal with.

"We should go swimmin', mate." he said excitedly as if there weren't one of the world's deadliest snakes darting between them. "There's probably a pewl in here." He finished pretending to look for said pool whilst under the influence of the jelly brains jinx and spotting his wand.

h: 400 m: 305 f: 30
 

H: 330 M: 345 F:25 [I vote for Finals! :)]
 

To say that the effects of the jellybrain jinx had completely worn off wouldn't be entirely accurate. It was however dissipated enough that Cutty could start to get a better gauge of the situation around him. He understood that they were dueling and that Benzi had hit him with something which caused him to feel quite confused and almost out of it. It was sort of a feeling of elation or was that excitement? Or was it both?

He didn't really have time to sort it out as another spell was heading his way. And that one he knew well the effects of. The dark haired manboychild dove for his wand whilst his opponent uttered the very long spell needed to rid them of the snake. He fired back at the oncoming confundus with the arrow shooting spell absorbing the hit with one of them.

Benzi was at close range now, though so that opened possibilities. Cutty returned to his perennial favourite when he shot off, "Glacius." Bensicle. If the spell hit, he was gonna lick Benzi just to tease him about it later.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, there would be no Bensicle and no licking. The grandfather clock went off in the corner of the room, tolling the end of the rather interesting duel.

With it, the blue shield curtain went up between the two boys, dissipating Morduant's ice spell with a fizzle and hiss. The shield dropped in a shower of silver flecks as Sabel moved up to the two kids. "Keeping it interesting, as always, Mr. Rider. Mr. Morduant." An unreadable look for both of them.

Suppose he had to announce a winner, didn't he? Raising his wand, Sabel shot off a brief gold spark above Rider's head. "Winner. Benzi Rider!"

Lowering his wand, Sabel glanced between the two boys, and gave a quick wave of finite to Morduant, just in case some spell effects were still lingering. "Well done."

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OOC: Thanks so much for dueling! It was an awesome read! Duel is now officially over.

Thanks for your feedback! In consideration of feedback and time constraints, we are going to do a final round of duels between students. However if you would like to duel a Professor from the club, please VM or PM me (and I will check with the chosen professor) :) This will be a 'for fun' challenge duel, if you decide to do so (and should not replace the duel with the student you are paired up with, so please consider your own time constraints/options).