"Well I guess, but I'm not the greatest Duelist or anything." Penny shrugged.
"Says the girl who threw how many fireballs at me during the Dueling Club?" Harry teased and Penny flicked another mana ball at him. Harry swatted the ball away with his hand and stood up. "I do believe that was a challenge!"
"Maybe it was." Penny sniffed in a faux pompous manner.
"Alright! Free for all!" Tonks cheered with a laugh as she picked up Gabby, making the seven year old giggle happily, and quickly took the young girl further away to a safe distance that she could watch from. The Metamorph reached out with her man and Transfigured a low stone wall from the dirt. She place Gabby behind the wall and told her, in the limited French she had, to not come out from behind it until they were done. Gabby had happily nodded along to the request, eager to see more Magic.
"I apologize, but Fire is all I can conjure Wandlessly, so I'll be using my wand." Fleur twirled the focus between her fingers before gripping it firmly.
"That's more than fine, Fleur." Harry smiled at his blue eyed friend. "I'm sure Penny will be tossing around enough fire for all of us."
"Just keep digging that hole deeper, Harry, just keep digging." Penny nodded at him with a grin that promised 'retribution'.
"Ready?" Tonks began.
"Set." Harry continued.
"Go!" Fleur finished and raised a strong Protego with her wand.
"Catch!" Tonks laughed as she yanked up some stones from the ground and Transfigured them into rubber balls. The balls were blasted towards the other three at speed.
"Nope!" Harry raised his own Protego followed by Penny and the rubber balls all bounced off the Shield Charms.
"I've already got all three of you on the back foot!" Tonks chuckled before using the spell Harry had shown her, Similitudo, to make an illusionary mirror image of herself. The two Tonks split up to confuse their 'opponents'.
"So you think." Penny retorted as she moved to her left and conjured fireballs that she sent towards both Tonks. One raised and moved her arms snuffing out the fireballs heading her way. The other moved her arm and the fireballs passed through her making the illusion vanish.
"Do not forget about me." Fleur smiled as a barrage of snowballs pelted towards the other three. Tonks used Levitation to alter the course of any snowball headed her way. The Auror didn't even have to move to avoid the barrage. Penny transfigured the dirt into a thin wall in front of her and shielded behind it. Harry used the Immobulus Charm to stop any snowball that got to close. When the barrage ended he had almost a dozen snowballs frozen in midair.
"You can have these back." Harry grinned as he turned the snowballs into water and launched them like water balloons in the girls' directions.
"Ha!" Tonks mocked as she exerted her will on the conjured water and made it disappear. Penny simply willed her dirt shield to move and she easily blocked the water balls. Fleur used an Evaporation Charm and the water balls were gone before they reached her.
Penny crumbled her dirt shield into sand and then whipped her hand into the air. "Sand Veils All!" The blonde intoned and a strong wind whipped up and caught the particles. In a matter of seconds their 'battlefield' was covered by the mini sandstorm.
"Well there goes my hair!" Tonks 'complained' loudly.
"Down!" Harry stated with an echo of power in his voice. All of the sand whipping through the air was suddenly forced to the ground and held there by Harry's will. "You didn't think I'd figure out a counter for that spell of yours? I'm hurt Penny."
Ropes shot across the 'battlefield' and moved as if they were alive. The source was Fleur's wand as she conjured more and more to try and bind all three of them. Tonks, Harry, and Penny all waved their hands unleashing Cutting Charms against the writhing ropes. Fleur watched as her constructs disappeared after being sliced to pieces. Without missing a beat the platinum blonde flicked her wand and then made multiple swirling motions with it. The ground warped as it was transfigured and a large bear made of dirt and rock formed. It let out a soundless roar before charging the three of them.
"Beasts huh?" Tonks questioned before raising her arms and framing the charging golem with her hands. "Cube." The golem bear slammed into a nearly transparent wall. Bouncing backwards from the sudden stop made it collide with a wall behind it. Below it, above it, and on all four side were strong walls of magic, like inverted Shield Charms, but stronger. "Capture complete!" The bubbly Metamorph laughed.
"Am I the only one that doesn't have a named spell of his own?" Harry 'lamented' loudly before moving his arms in large circles a few times. Water formed into two large spheres and then merged into a single large ball of water. With a chop from his hand a thin, fast moving, line of water left the ball and sliced clean through the 'Cube' and the bear golem instantly.
"How'd you do that?!" Tonks demanded with an almost pout on her face. "I worked hard on that spell!"
"Oh Harry, you know we can just…just…why can't I 'Finite' your conjured water?" Penny questioned as she failed to make the water vanish.
"This isn't Conjuration; I simply gathered this water together from the air." Harry stuck his tongue out at the Prefect with a smug grin. "Cool off time!" Harry made the large ball of water blast forward like a rain shower. All three girls raised Protego to keep from getting soaked by the downpour. As soon as the water stopped, Fleur made her move. Flames leapt from her left hand and formed into a bird-like shape. The fire bird 'flew' into the air above the 'battlefield' and flapped its wings to unleash a constant stream of small fireballs.
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