AN: I'm sorry this chapter's a bit shorter, but I wanted to finish at a certain point. I hope you enjoy it anyway!
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In Which Leo Is Knocked Unconscious
Again, the spell did absolutely nothing, it didn't turn him to stone, didn't even freeze him, in fact if anything it made him warmer. Leo snickered "Third time lucky?"
The witch snarled at Leo and flicked it in a different pattern. A stream of ice erupted from the wand, and sped toward Leo, but he threw a ball of fire at the ice, and they collided with a burst of steam. Leo dived out of the way in case she sent anymore follow up ice, and shot another fireball at her side. Sure he could melt the ice if he wanted, but it was easier to just move out of the way. When the steam condensed again into snow and fell to the ground Leo could see the surprise on the witch's face.
"Not a son of Adam indeed."
The witch had stopped shooting ice at him, and was now looking at him with curiosity, though Leo was sure he'd be able to make her hate him with a few sentences. He was quite good at that. But hey, he might as well make some conversation, besides; he was quite curious where she came from. The fox had mentioned along the walk that Jadis (the witch's real name) was not originally from Narnia that she was brought into Narnia on the first day, when Aslan sang the world into existence she was already there. He was wondering if she was from his world, maybe a relative of Khione they had the same attitude and powers, though if Jadis needed a wand, then maybe she was a demigod daughter of Boreas, who had gotten a little lost.
Leo opened his mouth. "So you control snow right? Would you happen to know someone called Boreas? Khione?"
The witch frowned again "I have heard of no-one by those names, though I am intrigued to know yours, boy who is not a son of Adam." Well she wasn't a demigod then, unless she didn't know her heritage, in which case... He wasn't going to tell her, she was bad enough already.
"Fair enough, I'm Leo Valdez. Fire-user, blacksmith and inventor..." The witch's eyes were scheming, and No. Leo was going to nip that in the bud straight away; he'd already had enough of being played by ice witches. Once was enough and he was no longer into that cold beauty, they were just manipulative schemers anyway.
"...and not at all interested on joining you in enslaving a nation for your own power hungry desires, especially as you almost stoned my only friend, in this country anyway, I've had enough of snow controlling witches, Khione saw to that."
The change of the witch's expression was so quick it was scary, from a slightly amused curiosity to a burning hatred, which Leo was thought was an ironic description, as burning was probably something that didn't happen often around the witch. It seemed like she had learned her ice wouldn't work on him and though he would no doubt have tried to bewitch him onto her side, his last statement had put an end to that plan, so Jadis was going for the kill now.
She drew a sword made of steel and silver from a sheath below her furs, and with surprising dexterity, as the furs had to be slowing her down a bit, lunged in his direction. Fortunately Leo didn't have furs slowing him down, and was able to dodge out of the way, summoning a long screwdriver from his tool belt, a non- celestial bronze screwdriver (he didn't know if it would hurt her, though she certainly wasn't mortal). It wasn't a sword, and quite frankly he wouldn't be able to kill the witch with it, unless he managed to skewer her straight on. But the screwdriver was about 60 centimetres long, and strong enough to withstand and push back against a sword blow- long enough to give him a chance to leg it anyway. Despite all his bravo, falling from the sky and getting zapped with ice had really drained his strength. Main plan now was to get away with his life.
The witch's surprise at the screwdriver stopped her in her tracks for a second, but sure enough the sword swung at him again, and he met it with the screwdriver, or at least tried to. For Hephaestus's sake, she could give Hercules a run for his money in strength! While he was distracted, Jadis pressed forward, swinging the sword again. Leo swung sideways, knocking the sword away from his neck, and putting two hands on the screwdriver like a golf club, he swung wildly at the witch's sword, which actually bent!
The sword was made of steel, so Leo was proud of himself for managing to make it look less like a sword, and more of a cutlass, until the witch drew another sword, and swiped at his neck with that one as well.
"Come on! That's just cheating!" Leo brain sparked, but two can play at that game... He swung his screwdriver again, and at the same time shot a bolt of fire straight at the witch's face. She dodged, but it left a long burn across her cheek-bone.
The witch gave an inhuman screech, and swung her sword so that it cut through the screwdriver, leaving it a foot shorter, then with the back-cut of the same blow, jammed the pommel of the sword into Leo's temple.
His world went black.