* A/N: Now the heat is turned up, and Cho and Malfoy's girlfriend are about to get into combat. Who will win? Well, find out the answer to this question in Chapter 5: Task One-The Duel of the Enemies. This will be part of a four chapter (four part) series for each task done. That way the chapters won't be too long and dragging on (Oops, I'm already dragging on with my lecture!). Hope you enjoy!!! *

                                                           Chapter 5: Task One-The Duel of Enemies

       The next room was set up for Wizard Dueling. There were two dueling stages, both with a line of fire separating them in half. Once again, Minglewatts levitated himself up to one of the stages.
       "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "this is where you will start one of four tasks. The first task, as you can conclude, is Wizard Dueling. Now this task is for the women, so may I have one volunteer from each team?"
       Harry and the gang huddled up together to choose who would go.
       "So, which one of you three ladies want to go?" Ron asked.
       "You go, Hermione," Padma suggested.
       "Hell no," she replied in disgust. "What if they choose that gorilla Bullstrode? I mean, in second year, she had me in a headlock. Why don't you go?"
       "I can't," Padma said dumbstruck, "Why do you think I suggested you? I'm no genius in Wizard Dueling, and you practically know every spell in wizarding history."
       "Fuck this," Cho said, "I'll go. You two are lucky that I've won the 2000 British Dueling Cup and that I have a score to settle with that prissy little slut. Next time, you two are going to do something, or hopefully all three of us will have to do something."
       So Cho had volunteered to participate, hoping that Malfoy's girlfriend had volunteered as well. Sure enough she did, and they automatically walked towards each other.
       "The name's Amethyst Smargley," she said, "You might want to watch your ass, or should I promise to take you lightly."
       "Well the name is Cho Chang," Cho retorted. "I would like you to bring it on, you smart mouthed hussy. No girlfriend of some daddy boy is going to beat me. Oh and by the way, who did your hair, a Grindylow from the deepest darkest days of your period?"
       And as quick as a snap, they both withdrew their wands, pointing it straight into each other's noses.
       "Now, now," Minglewatts said, "You might want to save your energy for the duel. Now everyone take their places."
       Cho and Amethyst had taken their places on a Dueling table. They had their wands at the ready, and were staring eye-to-eye at each other.
       "Scared Chang," Amethyst sneered.
       "You wish, Smargley," Cho sneered back. (A/N: Now who ever saw "The Chamber of Secrets", do these two lines ring a bell?)
       "Please walk to your ends of the stage," Minglewatts announced. "On the count of three, begin dueling." Both of the women had walk to their place on the stage. They turned around, both having their fists clenched in the air over their heads, their wands pointing at each other.
       "1…" Minglewatts counted, "2…"
       "IVERTI STACTEN!" Amethyst shouted. Cho's feet left the ground, making her do a somersault while flying back before landing hurtfully on the ground. (A/N: Now I'm seriously getting movie flashbacks here!) Cho stood back up, fury rising through her entire body.
       "WADDIWASI!" Cho shrieked, and a chair came hurtling towards Amethyst. The chair had hit her square in the head, and Amethyst had been knocked to the floor. When she recovered, she did another curse.
       "CONJUNCTIVITIS!" she howled, but fortunately Cho had done a Shield Charm. She was lucky since she could have caught a very painful case of conjunctivitis (or what is also know as the pink-eye).
       "RICTUSEMPRA!" Cho screamed, and almost the same thing that happened to Cho had ended up happening to Amethyst, but instead she had did an axel rotation in the air before landing on the hard cold stage. She started to double up in laughter, and then choked out one more spell.
       "SER…PEN…SOR…TI…A!" A golden snake had been conjured out of thin air (A/N: Ok, now if J.K. Rowling read this, I would seriously get sued and arrested!). The serpent had then started to crawl towards Cho, and as she spotted three swords that were hanging on the wall, she had a sudden idea that was sure to work.
       "ACCIO SWORDS!" Cho said, and the swords were flying towards Amethyst, slicing her along the way to their designated target. One of the swords pierced the temple of the snake's head. As the swords had halted to a stop in front of Cho, she did a Banishing Charm to send them away.
        "STUPEFY!" she shouted once again, and then Amethyst had been knocked on conscious.
       "Well, done, young lady," Minglewatts said with applause. Cho had now stepped towards Amethyst, said "ENNERVATE!" and then quickly said "PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" Amethyst straightened out, her eyes wandering. As she saw Cho by her side, she began to mumble furiously.
       "Looks like I've won, bitch," were Cho's last words to Amethyst in her ear. She then undid the curse, stunned Amethyst again, and then shouted "MOBILICORPUS!" Amethyst's body had resembled a puppet with no strings now, and Cho had sent her back to her pitiful looking team. As she went back to her own team, they were giving her hugs and shouting hallelujahs.
       "Now we will go to our second task," Minglewatts said in a rather pleased voice, and led them to yet another corridor.


* Well, this is about it for now, so get ready for the next task in Chapter 6: The Elements Combine! ~~~*) (That lil' thingamajig of a drawing is my new falcon trademark). * HarryPotter0013