That night found Selena, Callie, Eric, and Ben outside next to the lake. Two circles had been drawn in the sand and two fighters stood in each. Callie and Eric in one, Ben and Selena in the other. The setting sun set the water on fire, illuminating the tense figures as they stared at each other, waiting for the first move. A red jet shot out at Callie and she dodged, swinging in the kick at Eric, Selena, and Ben were still motionless, staring the other in the eye, waiting for ones patience to snap.

"Come on Callie, you're barely even putting up a fight!"

Eric was thrown back as a yellow jet hit him in the chest, he landed on the feet and smiled, his foot mere centimeters from the line.

Callie gave him a sly grin and twirled her wand, a ball of fire shot out towards Eric, he dodged, but the fire expanded into a wall, encircling him with its deadly flames. He took a step back and hissed as the fire seared his leg, running and diving forward, breaking to wall and rolling to a stop in front of Callie where he kicked out, sending her to the ground, but she caught herself, falling into a split and waving her wand over her head, Eric was once again thrown into the air, flying out of the circle and hitting a tree with a sickening thud, blood gushed from his head and he muttered a healing spell quickly, but that was all the time Callie needed, she leaped over and pushed him to the ground, straddling his back and holding his head in her hands, turning it dangerously to the side.

"Damn, you even beat me when you're not trying! My ego is definitely bruised."

Callie just stood up and whipped her hands off, rolled her shoulders and walked over the other ring where Selena was standing, one foot on an obviously unconscious Ben's back.

"Well, it's you and me then, I'll try not to hurt your pretty face."

Callie rolled her eyes,

"Trust me, it's your face that's in danger."

Both girls faced off, Callie sliding a foot back into her signature pose, Selena slid her foot out in front of her, one arm extended over her head, the other straight forward.

"Good luck."

"I won't need it."

With that both girls leapt, crashing into each other in mid air, Callie bent forward, avoiding a vicious swing from Selena and whipped out with her leg, barely missing the beautiful girl in front of her. Selena rolled back and dove in again. (A/N: I'm not great with description, so you're just going to have to imagine a really awesome fighting scene.)

Callie preformed an amazing high kick, knocking Selene to the ground, Selena rolled over and grabbed Callie's leg, pulling it off the ground, Callie did a back flip and landed in a split, rolling to the side as Selena kicked out. Both girls jumped to their feet, Selena running and jumping, did a flip and went to kick Callie, but Callie grabbed her leg and swung her around, letting go and watching in satisfaction as Selena flew out of the boundaries and smashed into a rock, multiple cracks were heard and blood spurted out over her body. She grimaced and bowed her head in defeat, Callie walked over, and picked her up, nodded at Eric, who hoisted Ben up, and walked over to the castle, intent on bringing their friends to the hospital wing, Dakota would have a cow if he heard they had been fighting again.

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"Oh my!"

Callie rolled her eyes as the stunned patron hurried over to them, her mouth open in shock.

"WHAT HAPPENED HERE?! What did you two do?"

Callie just gave the woman a cold look and walked over to one of the beds, dumped Selena on it and walked back to the horrified woman,

"She has four broken ribs, fractured hip and cracked skull, when she wakes up tell her she needs to think her moves through better before she executes them."

Madame Pomfrey stared, stunned at the ruthless girl before hurrying over to Selena who was swearing quietly under her breath.

"I can't believe she beat me again! God!"

Callie gave a small cruel smile and exited the room, nodding at Eric who was dumping Ben on one of the beds.

Once outside the doors she let herself change back, feeling the bloodlust leave her, replaced with never ending numbness.

She walked over to the window and looked out at the grounds, seeing the sun had set and it was now pitch black, but her eyes didn't really depend on the light to see. She could make out every shape on the lawn, Hagrid's hut, the forbidden forest, the lake, the giant squid, even the solitary owl flying up to the owlery. Her arm gave a sharp burn, drawing her attention to the dark tattoo; she cursed and took off, running straight for the headmaster's office.