Chapter 20

At first, Ginny's mind didn't register the words Cassie spoke. She just stood there, staring at Vider. Before anyone knew it, Vider had withdrawn her wand, whispered a locking spell on the door and immediately pointed her wand at Ginny's throat.

"Well...I guess the cat's out of the bag" She said.

Ginny still said nothing. Draco was about to move in when Vider warned him.

"Careful Ice Prince, don't want you're little princess to get hurt, now do you?" Vider glared at him. She moved to stand behind Ginny, her wand never leaving Ginny's throat.

"Because before either one of you can set one foot in our direction, this little princess is going to get it" Ginny had snapped out of her daze and began to think of a way to get out of this situation..

There was none without having to take the risk of hurting anyone...so she tried talking.

"Vider! This isn't you! Snap out of it, you know this isn't what you want to do" Ginny tried desperately. At first Ginny thought it wasn't going to work, but a few seconds later, she could see the wand of Vider wavering a bit; like she was hesitating or something.

NOW! Ginny thought.

She stomped her foot on Vider's and Vider cried out in pain. Elbowing Vider in the stomach, Ginny turned around. Draco had also come in action and grabbed both of Vider's arms. Vider struggled and managed to get one hand loose. She scratched Draco with her nails and he released her.

Cassie tried to stun her, but missed. Ginny, Draco and Cassie now came advancing towards Vider, who was backed up in a corner. It was three against one and the odds were against Vider. Vider saw this and chose to do a spell that was beyond her level, but was able to because of the curse.

"Fighem Yavuz!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. A Blue orb came out of the tip of her wand. It was like a giant bubble. It came with incredible speed and hit Ginny before she knew it. It didn't hurt her, but Draco and Cassie were blown away from it, against the wall. The orb was now surrounding only Ginny and Vider.

"What the hell did you do?" Ginny yelled at her, furious. Draco had gotten quite a blow to the head from the wall. Ginny tried to get to him, but got a painful shock every time she wanted to step out of the orb.

"It's no use" Vider piped up. "This orb has you and I trapped until finished"

Ginny raise her eyebrow in question. "Finished what?"

"Our duel"

"Sorry Vi, kinda busy, I'll take a rain check"

Vider smirked. "No can do! This is an ancient spell. Not recorded anywhere. When performed, two people will be trapped in this orb and fight. It will only go away when one...contestant has won"

"I never agreed to this duel!" Ginny sneered. She was running out of patience. Draco needed to go to the hospital. Cassie was smart, but healing was never her thing.

"There's no choice in the matter" Vider said. "Now...I will allow you to choose the weapons" The wand Ginny had in her hand flew away, out of the orb, where she could not each it.

Ginny looked at the wall with weapons. She hadn't really gotten much training in all of those, but swords were her talent. She picked her favourite sword up and turned her attention to Vider.

"Good choice" She said while picking up a sword of her own.

Standing against each other, Ginny prepared to bow. But Vider didn't feel such respect was necessary and charged at once. Because of this Ginny could only defend, not attack. The first blow came from the right and Ginny blocked it with her sword. Wasting no time, Ginny immediately swung her sword the other way, but Vider dodged.

Both of them backed up, panting from the tenseness of the situation. Adrenaline was coursing through Ginny, making her hart pump fast in her chest. She glanced in Draco's direction and saw that Cassie had ripped off Draco's t-shirt, just to try and make the bleeding stop.

Returning her attention to Vider, they fought again. This time though, Ginny actually hit Vider, but only made a cut in the arm. Vider didn't even wince, but just came at her again.

It looked like Vider was going to attack high so Ginny brought up her sword. But it was a mistake. Vider quickly changed her direction and shoved the sword deep trough Ginny's hip.

Ginny dropped the sword, bringing her arms to her to her side and crying out in pain. Vider pulled the sword back and Ginny fell down; tears of pain, unable to stop them, streamed down Ginny's face. Faintly she heard Draco yell, but the orb muffled the sound.

"A disgrace you are" Vider sneered. "So easily defeated, so easily fooled"

Now WHERE did I hear that before? Ginny tilted her head sharply and hissed: "Lucius Malfoy!" She couldn't say much more as blood was seeping from her hip, but the message was clear. She now knew that it was Lucius who had put Vider under Imperious.

Vider's face looked shocked for a moment, but an evil grin came back.

"Ah...smart little Gryffindor"

Ginny couldn't reply. Pain was overwhelming her to the point where she couldn't focus on the voice that was directed at her. She could hear the sound, but could not make out the words. She knew she was going to loose consciousness soon.

Looking up, she saw Vider raising her sword for the final struck...

And here is where her savoir once again comes in. Draco had seen everything and couldn't stand to watch any longer. Even though his elemental-power isn't as trained as Ginny's and thus weaker than hers, his willpower mad it enough to burst a temporary whole in the orb. Almost immediately after he came through it closed again. Draco, seeing Vider raising her sword, extended his hand. He willed, with whatever he had whatever power he may or may not possess, that the sword would not come down.

Just as Vider was about to struck, something happened. (Surprise, surprise) The sword stopped an inch away from Ginny. It was sort of hanging in the air and no matter how Vider tried; the sword would not come down.

Vider was so focused on the sword; she wasn't paying attention to anyone else. Ginny, using very ounce of strength she still possessed crawled away from the sword and used wandless magic to Stun Vider, now that she was distracted. Vider fell down, but so did Ginny.

All Ginny remembered, was the concerned voice of Draco and then no more...


Authors Note: Well that was chapter 20! I hope you all like it. Let me know alright? Thanks for all the reviews! I really like all of them :D :D