The Triwizard Tournament {Repost}

[Cheshire1996]

Collette held her breath as the Common Welsh Green gave an irritable snort. It certainly wasn't a pleasant noise, and Collette doubted it was friendly. She looked around and weighed up her options. If she performed a similar spell to Pyotr's she wouldn't score as well, but confusing the creature was certainly the best way to go about things.

The French girl muttered a few words to herself and with a flick of her wand a wall of mist descended on the arena, although it was still possible to make out the silloutte of both Collette and the dragon, it would hopefully slow down the dragon's progress. The dragon gave a roar, obviously making a connection between the strange creatureplaced before it and the sudden blanket of fog.

Not wishing to wait for the fog to clear Collette stumbled backwards, hurrying in the direction she knew the egg could be found in. The dragon's faint shale dissappeared for a few moments as it began to search for the intruder. It stopped a few meters away from Collette, and she could make out the shape of a head looking around. With a quiet wave of her wand the girl summoned voices from the other side of the arena. The dragon's head snapped backwards and it turned to go an seek out the creator of the mysterious noises.

Collette gave a sigh of relief and continued to edge towards the egg.

[spirit_queen]

Wendy was slightly irritated by this spell; now she couldn't watch what was going on. XD

[Cheshire1996]

The fog was starting to fade, Collette had to move more quickly if she wanted to reach the egg. In a few moments however the arena was in full view. There was a stretch of around ten meters between Collette and the egg.

The dragon turned and with a roar it came thudding towards the intruder who was after it's egg. Collette gulped, she had been hoping that the fog would last longer. She was out of brilliant ideas, she couldn't outrun the dragon, but she certainly couldn't stay where she was.

"Rictusempra," she commanded, pointing her wand at the dragon. The dragon skidded sideways, and began to shake it's head in a form of desperation. Collette took it the tickling charm had worked, and turned with relief to claim the egg. The dragon followed clumsily, still put off by the strange tickling sensation that was preventing it from moving too quickly. Collette had the advantage of speed now and she was off like a rocket. She sprinted towards the egg with a drunk looking dragon staggering after.

With a sque of glee Collette leant down and collected the prize, the egg. The girl tried her best to clap her hands togetehrwas was already jumping in excitement, giving the impression if some sort of strange tribal dance.

[Miranda_]

Michelle was watching from the stands; she wasn't too sure about the French girl's spell, but she was glad that she hadn't harmed the dragon, at least.

The judges then gave out the scores. Professor Dippet gave out a seven, but Ivan Jaska gave out a six. He hadn't been impressed at all by Collette's method; he felt it was too similar to Pyotr's.

[Cheshire1996]

Collette wasn't really paying attention to the scores, although she wanted to win, she was just glad she'd made it out alive.

[spirit_queen]

Felice didn't want to show favoritism as such, but she was glad Collette hadn't panicked and managed a back-up spell; she gave the girl a seven.

[Miranda_]

This meant that the scores were as follows; Draven with twenty six, Pyotr with twenty four, and Collette with twenty. The judges came into the tent where the Champions were, giving them time to have any injuries seen to.

"Well done, all of you," Professor Dippet said. "You will have a long time to work on your next task; your clue is the golden egg you have with you now. You must work out the secret your egg holds in order to complete the next task, which will take place in February."

Draven was relieved; this meant that he didn't have to worry about the egg for the moment, and could even leave it til after Christmas if need be, and concentrate on his studies.

[spirit_queen]

Pyotr was equally relieved; he didn't want to have to make any more rushed decisions when it came to the tasks again. Now he could take it easy, split his time between this egg and its 'secret' and... well, mostly his budding relationship with Faina. Thinking of her made him blush just a bit.

[Cheshire1996]

Collette shook the egg slightly and frowned, she wasn't a very patient person and there was no doubt most of her time would now be spent gaining a sense of frustration whenever she tried to find it anything from the egg.

[Miranda_]

The next event was the Yule Ball. Soon, term would be over and many students who'd normally go home had signed up to stay at Hogwarts over the holidays so that they'd be able to go to the ball.