Heya everyone, I’m Mell and I’ll be writing these duelling articles for you guys! Also the Peverell Cup started before I was hired, so I’ll write about the matches still remaining.


Duellers: Ella (artistwitch) and Disa
Referee: Memrah


Both duellers follow their referee Memrah up a flock of wooden stairs. They seem fairly unstable, but you can trust the referee…hopefully. Minutes and minutes kept passing by as the stairs started to seem endless. Awhile later, both duellers were greeted by the platform that was surrounded by ancient buildings of sandstone bricks. All seems good, except the fact there is a large gaping hole in the middle. As the duellers walk around the square hole and get into position, they got ready to descend into discord. (I mean literal discord, this is a RTD duel that’s happening in the website discord.)


Disa, respecting Ella before chaos occurs, bows before casting. After that respectful bow, Disa was finally ready to act. “Odioquis!” they shout, with an image of a distracted Ella tripping into that seemingly dangerous hole in the middle. But instead of Ella doing a backflip into the hole, Disa forms a cover that shields the hole. It does have a fancy pearl color to it. This cover would be a good decoration for a fancy party, but not duelling.


Ella also decides to be respectful to Disa, along with Memrah and the Die. As they bow they think they should start with something to ‘shock’ the audience, so once they stand up they yell “Apello Fulgar!”. BOOM! Suddenly a lightning bolt hits Disa and sends an electrical shock through their body. They seem a little charred on the inside and outside after that ‘shocking’ experience.


In school, you learn that electricity can transfer itself quite quickly in water, that was Disa’s thinking after getting hit by a bundle of electricity. Trying to conjure a whip of water with a burned hand, a small wave of water emerges and it squiggles quickly over to Ella and tries to lash out at them. It’s quite weak and gives Ella a nice bath instead of a few bruises. Hey, at least they don’t have to take a bath now!


Now Ella is now getting obsessed with electricity and decides that electric shocks are the way to go. “Validus Ingis!” they shout, but instead of sparks sprinkling down, a powdery substance that looks like pixie dust rains down like confetti. During this moment, Memrah is having an existential crisis about what fandom this duel is in now.


As Memrah’s crisis starts to calm down, Disa starts to use their noggin. ‘Ice is slippery and ice is the frozen form of water, so if Ella trips on it they’ll fall into this gaping hole!’ This was their reasoning for casting a spell they were planning. “Aquilo!” Disa casts. As ice starts flowing from their wand, Disa’s opponent now starts having trouble balancing, and starts slipping on the ice and falls! Ouch! Luckily for them, they landed on their bum, and not in the hole. And they only had to get a few broken ribs, some cuts and bruises here and there, and some cool blue icy hair to survive that fall!


“REVENGE!” is what starts raging inside of Ella’s head as they start getting ready for their next attack. Locomotor Wibbly is what Ella will use to give Disa their own medicine! The medicine does work, and Disa’s legs starts fumbling around. One way, another way, as they try and keep their balance, their wand gets lost from their grasp granting Ella another turn.


Now immobilizing Disa seems to become the priority of Ella as they conjure the spell Incarcerous. With Ella determined, the spell comes out quite strong but nearly misses Disa as it hits one of a fence pole. Ropes start twirling around it to make a nice design. It’s quite pretty, but I don’t think it’s time for appreciating it during a dramatic duel.


No one notices the fence pole, but the revenge never stops! Disa summons the spell Terratremae to get Ella’s balance thrown off and getting smashed onto the wooden boards. An earthquake is what Ella thought about as they start conjuring it, but nothing comes out. No earthquake, no shaking boards, and no movement. Nothing at all!


But it seems like Ella is getting more ‘heated’ in this duel. They shout “Obruoseripigcio!” to release the snakes of fire! But it seems like the fire snakes are too lazy to come out of Ella’s wand, since it’s a nice ‘hot’ day outside for them. So in all, nothing happened as well.


After those to failed spells, Disa decides to give up ‘Try to make Ella fall into the hole’ tatic and decides to try a more ‘colder’ perspective. “Glacio Impulo!” they yell, and sudden sharp ice shards start raining above Ella. They cause many cuts and a lot of discomfort. I guess this is a reminder to stay inside when hail happens.


What’s the opposite of ice? Fire! That was the idea the with given by the crowd to Ella. “Pergalidus Ignis!” is what Ella said before sending a great sword of fire towards Disa. It hits Disa on the right side, and burns the whole side of Disa’s torso. A disgusting sizzling sound was heard as it cooks their insides, before Disa pulls it out and throws it off the platform. Ouch…!
At least Disa is lucky enough that fire cauterizes wounds.


But after that surprise attack, Disa does get a little mad and decides to get sweet revenge on Ella. Sometimes electricity causes burns which lead to Disa yelling Pettro at Ella. The spell causes a small lane a electricity, causing Ella’s hair to go up in a messy fashion.


The stakes grow higher as the duel begins to get a little more hotter. These two duellers are getting obsessed with heat, as Ella conjures the spell Incendio! The fire rages from Ella’s wand, barely hitting Disa. Instead it targets the fence pole covered in rope. It was enjoying it’s life covered in rope, but now it’s burning to a crisp as the railings start to get covered in fire as well.


As the raging blaze starts slowly approaching Disa, they decide to freeze Ella...literally. The spell Fringus Sanguis flies away from Disa’s wand and starts rushing to Ella. Suddenly Ella’s insides freeze up, and their bones and limbs start getting chilly. Looks like Ella captured frostbite! In a sense that the frost bit Ella.


Snakes seem to be an ideal pet for Ella, as now they’re trying to cast Serpelidus Inflametis to create snakes to scare Disa and to warm up Ella. Only a few wriggling snakes leap out from Ella’s wand, and start tiredly drag themselves over to Ella’s opponent. Seems like they aren’t going to do anything!


Before we carry on, I have a riddle for you guys. Disa wants to cool their burns, extinguish the burning snakes, and make Ella’s frozen insides a little more chillier. What does Disa want? If you guessed water, you’re correct! Impello Aqua are the words that flowed out of Disa’s mouth. A wave of water rushes through Disa’s and Ella’s legs, as it rushes towards Ella in a destructive manner. We could say the amount of water is a few buckets.


But the water is enough to make Ella miss the feeling of being warm. To regain the feeling they conjure the spell Sol Erumpo. Suddenly a second sun grew into size above Disa. Despite giving Disa some severe sunburns, it also dries out their clothes and reunites the fence’s fire. And yes, Ella is getting cured of their chilly body.


Disa suddenly realizes that Ella is nearing Hypothermia, and they think ‘Maybe drawing some blood from them is a way to shut them down faster!”. And hence Disa’s casting of Sectumsempra. Even though they had to bear through the pain of the sunburns, they still missed Ella by a few inches. Instead it shreds up a fence pole, and many wood chips start flying out. Luckily wood doesn’t have blood.


After the misses attempt by Disa, Ella decides that Interferus is the way to go, as they start aiming their wand at Disa. But Disa had a plan to be shielded by this disaster, by a spell by the name of Moenia Glacialis! Both spells seem to work, but as Ella’s spell hits Disa’s shield everything fizzles away. From Memrah’s brain, they conclude that the warm mist of Interferus collided into the cold mist of Moenia Glacialis. As they collided they made a small mini tornado and fizzled away into nothingness.


After Memrah’s explanation, Ella has gotten bored and needs some amusement. The perfect spell for that is Tarantallegra, so off it goes from Ella’s wand and hitting Disa. Their legs start tapping all over the place, as if they were doing a jig of some sort. The jig brings so much joy that no one notices the platform about to suffocate in the fire.


During the jig, Disa was not having any of it. They scanned the area and they panicked. The blaze surrounded both duellers and the referee! The platform starts wobbling, and Disa knew this was the last cast of the duel. To make the most out of it, Disa casts Sectumsempra. It hits Ella in the middle of the torso. It wasn’t strong, but it was a good cast.


Finally Memrah has gotten out of their joy, and realizes they were all going to die soon. So they extinguish the fire with a flick of their wand. After, Memrah leads both duellers out from the charred platform. Disa seems to be disappointed that Ella didn’t trip into the big hole in the middle, but both thank Memrah for a great and fun duel before they all apparate to the Hospital Wing.


Analysis:


Casts: Both duellers casted 11 times.


Accuracy:
Ella: 54.4%
Disa: 63.6%


Hits:
Ella: 6
Disa: 7


Average Power:
Ella: 3.9
Disa: 3.3


Ella :



1 - l
2 - l
3 - ll
4 - lll
5 - ll
6 - ll


Disa:


1 - l
2 - llll
3 - l
4 - ll
5 - ll
6 - l


The winner is:


Dramatic music starts playing.


The drumroll starts playing.


People start clapping.


It’s Disa!


This was a very exciting duel to write about! I do applaud Ella (artistwitch) and Disa for trying their best!