Lockhart laughed sarcastically when Lucius asked if it was to frighten him; though Lockhart had hoped it would do something scary, he also knew deep within he was

failing but he couldn't admit that could he? "I hoped it would confuse you. Who would be scared of a cloud of blue elephant?" Lockhart's laugh turned into a wide-eyed

stare of what anyone but Lockhart would call fear. The flaming elephant was hot on his sweet sexy arse. Before he had any time to react he was showered in bright

orange-yellow sparks, it would have seemed to anyone he was on fire, especially Lockhart as he dove to the ground and rolled like a lunatic, "it burns, it burns..." he

muttered, before realizing that they hadn't actually hurt him at all. He leapt to his feet. "Dramatic effect Lucius." He said with a wink, before muttering to himself, "I should

have known they weren't going to burn..." he chuckled to himself and stepped a few paces backwards, did a bit of a run-up whilst thinking of a spell to use; he leapt a

little right at the end of his run-up, his wand outstretched dramatically in front of him aimed at Lucius. "TARANTULA!" he yelled. A few gasps from some girls in the crowd of

onlookers filled the room, only to die down with the shaking of their heads.

Lucius looked at Lockhart's antics incredulously, an eyebrow cocked in disdain as he yelled "Tarantula." For a moment or two it seemed as though he wondered if it

actually was a spell. Apparently he must have realized it wasn't as he put a hand to his hip and laughed, "Oh very good!" he said sarcastically. "Invisible spider was it?"

he paused, Lockhart wondered whether he should respond or not, however Lucius spoke again. "Hmm... well I think I'll give you something more corporeal." He said and

swished his wand in a figure of eight. "Serpensortia Multiplicia!" he said and eight rather large snakes issued from his wand and slithered quickly towards Lockhart, hissing

viciously. As he watched the snakes slither towards Lockhart, as an aside to the audience who were also watching the snakes, some impressed others wide-eyed or

open-mouthed, Lucius said, "I'd hoped..." he paused for a second as another snake hissed, "for a serious duel... but it would hardly be sporting to go all out with this

great buffoon." He said referring to Lockhart. "So... I'll play with him for a little." He paused again; he had Lockhart's full attention although he was still backing away from

the snakes, apparently waiting for another spell to come to mind. "...until I get bored." He added with a smirk. Lockhart didn't look one bit troubled; apparently his theory

was that Lucius will never get bored duelling him because he is good at duelling back. He had stayed this far after all...

"Well it worked on them!" Lockhart sniggered, as he pointed to the girls who had turned around at his Tarantula spell. "Yes Lucius, it was a spell indeed; there should be

a..." he paused as he had to jump backwards as a snake had just taken a strike at him, he was lucky it missed him by inches. "As I was saying." he continued. "There

should be an invisible spider lurking around here somewhere. He looked down at the snakes, "oh Merlin... save my sexy arse please?" he muttered as they slithered in

closer to him, he was already nearly at the end of the platform as it was. He thought for a moment of another spell to use on the snakes, "this is a serious duel, Lucius; it

seems you're backing out?" he grinned and raised his wand, "A Latte Ascending Dare!" he called and sparks flew from the tip of his wand, stirring the snakes up as they

seemed to be afraid to come near it; apparently this angered them and apparently they weren't the only ones who wanted to finish Gilderoy off with what Lucius had said

to him just before. He flicked his wand slightly and smoke started to rise from the tip along with the golden sparks, "that wasn't s'posed to happen." Lockhart muttered as

he watched the smoke take form into a, judging by the steam coming out of the white mug, with what looked like coffee inside; mug of coffee. "This wasn't expected." He

muttered again. He felt somewhat relieved however that the snakes were backing away from him due to the golden sparks still spitting out of his wand, the coffee mug

just seemed to confuse them; even they didn't recognise this as Defensive magic by the looks of things. As much relief Lockhart felt; he also couldn't help the niggling

pang in his stomach that told him he'd used to the wrong spell. Still he managed to keep his brave face as though it was the right spell he'd planned to use the whole time.

Lucius rolled his eyes upon seeing the spell Lockhart had just cast, "Need a coffee break do we?" he laughed. "Very well, enough of this." He said and pointed his wand at

the snakes, "Evenesco!" he said and the snakes disintegrated. "Now... let's get a little more serious." he added and flicked his wand once more this time at the git in front

of him, "Fillipendo!"

Lockhart chuckled at this, "coffee break? Yeah sure." He said, taking everything seriously as always. He was just about to slip his wand back into his pocket when he saw

the spell inching towards him, "oh crap!" he said under his breath, as it hit him before he had time to react, he flew backwards once again, landing himself flat on his back.

"Errgghh." He groaned as he slowly rolled himself over onto his stomach and picked himself up, a little wobbly, he steadied himself. "Well Lucius, you really are quite the

knockout aren't you?" he said and laughed harder than anyone else in the room did and harder than he should have at his own joke, especially when no one even

laughed. When he finally pulled himself together after a couple of minutes of laughter, he smirked at Lucius as he remembered hearing of a spell that caused bandages to

fly at one's opponent. "This could work either way; Lucius in bandages because of my great victory or it could limit his wand use." He thought to himself and sniggered

picturing Lucius wrapped in bandages. He pointed his wand at Lucius, focused harder than he had although the duel, "FURSULA!" he shouted and watched as a jet of light

shot through the tip of his wand and created a giant bubble over Lucius, that then combusted into dust, fluff and all sorts of other fluffy materials of the sort.

Lucius watched Lockhart in utter disbelief. "What a clown." He thought to himself. Apparently he was unable to recognise this spell, as he apparently had no idea when to

react. The bubble burst over him, causing him a coughing and sneezing fit as he tried to clear away the dust with his hand. Lockhart stood rather amused of how much

Lucius now resembled someone who'd just had a vacuum cleaner bag tipped over them. "Ugh..." he coughed, "this is..." he coughed again. "Gross!" he sneezed and

coughed some more. He swished his wand, "Scourify!" he said swishing his wand around. "Evenesco!" he said, until the bubble and the dust vanished. Once it had gone,

he looked rather enraged. "Right!" he snapped. "Playtime over!" he snarled at Lockhart, who obviously found it amusing enough to snigger at him until Lucius struck a

pose and swept his wand behind him then flicked it as though he were cracking a whip at Lockhart, "Incarcerous!" the moment he said this, a flash of orange light shot

out at Lockhart along with what looked like vines, it was then realized to Lockhart these were in fact ropes, no sooner had they shot at him; they begun to attempt to

wind around him.