Chapter 14- The Fight

Hermione's POV-

I was a little worried for the upcoming lesson but calmed my nerves by saying 'I could probably kick his ass' and it also helped when Hunter laughed as well.

The set up finished a few minutes ago and we were just lazing about. Hunter disappeared to pick up the scoreboard- to keep track of the possible kills- while Viper tried to hang from the ceiling. He wasn't going anywhere for a while.

We were starting out soon enough and Alex wouldn't tell me how they actually planned on showing the class different fighting styles. He only mentioned that I was fighting Viper and that was it.

I was stretching and revising all the possible ways I could be attacked from where I was standing and since I was in the middle of the room, there were a lot of options. He could easily take me down and I would be an easy target.

I moved around the room, making different assessments and plans. I thought about possible defensive and offensive tactics depending on who struck first and where. I brushed a stray curl away from my face, pinning it back to the rest.

I might have been so caught up in my thoughts that I didn't notice Viper disappear or Hunter and Alex reappear then blend into the safe spot.

"Just try not to kill each other and I'm being completely serious. Not killing shots or curses, not decapitation of anything or anyone. Stop before the actual killing blow and it counts as a point, before you can start over" Alex's words echoed through my head as I calmed myself

I took one final deep breathe, put my wand in its sheath and pulled readied my knives.

The students walked in an orderly manner. They remembered Professor Snapes demands/warning and they stopped a few feet from the partially invisible border. They all waited in excited silence for this mysterious lesson to begin. They could see one lone figure standing near the edge of the room, gleaming silver knives reflected the light in their direction.

They could clearly see it was a girl with really curly hair and it became obvious to the Gryffindors that it was Hermione. Even though they couldn't say anything about it, they had a common understanding.

"Come on Kitty, don't you wanna play" A voice said eerily and Hermione turned towards the sound, twirling her knife with one hand. She threw it in the direction of the voice.

"Of course, as you can see" She said as the knife came back when it missed its target. She cast a spell on herself and faded from view. While invisible she levitated herself to where she thought she was and conjured up a fire ball and threw it into the corner of the room. Another figure jumped down from the ceiling before the fire smashed his spot. Hermione knew it was Viper and smirked a little.

'I got you know' Hermione thought

"finite incantatem" He cast at her and Hermione screamed the spells holding her up were cancelled.

Viper cast a silent 'incarcerous', as she fell and then a "levicorpus" to keep her from smashing into the ground.

"That wasn't fair, you shouldn't even know that last spell" She said while she hung tied up and upside down in the air.

"Yeah, yeah, you're just mad that I'm winning " He said mockingly.

The current score floated up above their heads before disappearing as they prepared to start again

"No magic, this time" Viper stated, Hermione nodded and gently tossed her wand to the side. When Viper pulled out his non-magical weapon of choice, she did the same.

They bowed towards each other and a gong was hit, signally the start of another round.

She twirled her butterfly knives in her hands, warming up a bit before he struck. They circled around each other waiting for the first strike. She didn't have to wait for long as Viper lunged forward , aiming to knock down to gain the win. She quickly moved to the side, throwing one of her knives down to grab his wrist before he moved away. In seconds she had him flipped and pinned to the floor with her knife at his neck.

Some of the students clapped but others were unsure. Hermione blushed, she had forgotten that there was a class watching. She held her knife away from her, twirled it to close it and put it away into one of her hidden pockets. She helped him up when the score floated above their heads.

"It's a tie" Viper said, as he rushed himself off.

"We're getting bored over here, one last round then its over" Alex said, from his corner.

"All or nothing" Viper questioned. Hermione nodded and got into a fighting stance. She stayed standing with her butterfly in her left hand and her wand in her hair.

Once again a bell rang signalling the start of another round. She already had a plan in her head and she was a 100% sure it would work. She immediately cast a series of spells. She made the room pitch black, activated her infrared vision. She looked around and noticed that he had moved. With her specially made contacts she could find him in seconds but she wanted to draw out the fight. She silently cast a spell on him that glued him to the spot.

"That's cheating" He called out. She didn't reply knowing that he was trying to find her location in the room.

She could tell he was getting annoyed and decided to end the fight with a spell she knew," incarcerous" she cast in his direction and she heard him fall back with a *thump*

With a twist of her wand she ended the spell that made it dark and walked over to him, twirling her knife. She sat on him and held her knife up to his throat.

"I win" She said and cut through the ropes. The gong chimed and the score floated above their heads. The fight/lesson was over and Hunter and Alex appeared from their hiding spot.

"Nice fight" Viper said to her and walked out. Professor Snape led the students walking out of the class and Hunter took the wards down. She could see that Harry was waiting for her so she picked up her robe and went outside to talk to him.