The warriors sailed past each other, weapons crackling, each landing on the other’s tree.
They stood, each with their back to their opponent, for a very long time.
They both crumbled at the same time, falling through the bamboo to the soft dirt of the Tangled Green below.
Luna scrambled to her feet, trying desperately to control her breathing, her wands at her side. Her whispy blond hair stuck to her face, her bright blue eyes wide and alert
A long slash and a bright scorch mark had split her kimono through her abdomen, but she knew she got the Dark witch at least as badly.
The bamboo trees swayed, and there was silence for a moment.
Luna jumped up into the trees as a green bolt of light rocketed through the forest, missing her by inches. She floated gently onto a bamboo leaf ten feet above the ground.
“Stupefy!” Luna cried as she landed, shooting a bolt of red light where she thought Hermione had fired from.
The bolt exploded harmlessly into Tangled Green, and then a line of white light slashed through the bamboo chute Luna was standing on, and she felt backwards towards the ground.
Luna landed in a crouch, her wands ready, when the bambo chute wrapped itself around her, pinning her arms to her body crushing the life from her.
“Repulso!” Luna gasped, and an invisible wave of force blew the bamboo to tatters.
Luna rose to her feet without seeming seeming to move, just drawn up eerily from a prone position until she is standing.
For a long time, there is no sound but the whisper of the wind.
Then something came charging for Luna from the trees.
“Stupefy!” she cried, and fired a red burst of light into the chest of a baboon with demonic wings, causing it to crumple and smash to the ground. Another flying monkey made a dive from her other side, but the Jedi witch raised her other wand and conjured the cyan saber, bisecting the creaturing and turning it to ash and brimstone.
A Dark, high-pitched cackle echoed around the Tangled Green.
“Luuuunaaaa,” Hermione taunted from somewhere in the crowded bamboo forest. “Come out and plaaaaay!”
A glowing sphere of orange light hurtled through the woods, exploding at Luna’s feet, but she was too fast. In a flash she was up in the air again, cartwheeling over Hermione’s head. She aims both her wands downwards.
“Incendio!” Luna roared and gouts of flame rocketed downards. The Dark Witch pointed her wand above her head and conjured a shield charm, the flames licking harmlessly against the top of the shield like an invisible umbrella.
By the time one of Luna’s bare feet hit the floor, she was firing multicolored jinxes wildly at her target.
Hermione leisurely deflected them with her wand, then with a flick she transfigured a broken bamboo chute into a writhing python.
The python leaped for Luna's throat, and she bisected it with one of her wandsaber blades. She fired a bright orange jinx form her other wand, but Hermione cartwheeled over the jinx and then launched herself at Luna.
Sparks and plasma explode around the clearing as the witches wandsabers clashed.
Luna attacked with a whirlwind of strikes too fast to see, forcing Hermione back step by step. Bit by bit, Luna gained ground, the tips of her wandsabers slipping through Hermione’s defenses, leaving little scorches in her schoolgirl outfit. The Jedi is faster, better trained, but Hermione is stronger.
With a howl of frustration Hermione pushed towards Luna with an open palm, and Luna sailed backwards as she was struck with a telekinetic Force.
The Jedi Knight landed in a combat stance, her wandsabers crossed in front of her, and blew a strand of platinum blonde hair out of her face.
“You don’t have to die here,” Luna offered in a cracking voice. “I don’t want to kill a Hermione.”
The Dark witch just cackled. “It’s great fun though!” she said with an earnest look. “I’ve killed two Hermione’s already. Two Hermiones, a Ginny, and a sparkly vampire just because he looked like Cedric Diggory.”
Luna’s eyes narrowed. “Harry never would have summoned you.”
Hermione shrugged. “Maybe he didn’t. Maybe you did, subconsciously. Maybe you always thought I was little too quiet, a little too squeaky clean,” Hermione said as she grinned. “Maybe you were paranoid of the innocent little Hermione Granger. Maybe you were…” Hermione pointed her wand towards her own head, making small circles in the air. “Loony.”
Luna whirled both her wands in front of her like a double barreled shotgun. The tips glowed bright red.
“STUPEFY!” she screamed, her voice cracking as she sent a softball sized sphere of red light rocketing towards Hermione.
They stood, each with their back to their opponent, for a very long time.
They both crumbled at the same time, falling through the bamboo to the soft dirt of the Tangled Green below.
Luna scrambled to her feet, trying desperately to control her breathing, her wands at her side. Her whispy blond hair stuck to her face, her bright blue eyes wide and alert
A long slash and a bright scorch mark had split her kimono through her abdomen, but she knew she got the Dark witch at least as badly.
The bamboo trees swayed, and there was silence for a moment.
Luna jumped up into the trees as a green bolt of light rocketed through the forest, missing her by inches. She floated gently onto a bamboo leaf ten feet above the ground.
“Stupefy!” Luna cried as she landed, shooting a bolt of red light where she thought Hermione had fired from.
The bolt exploded harmlessly into Tangled Green, and then a line of white light slashed through the bamboo chute Luna was standing on, and she felt backwards towards the ground.
Luna landed in a crouch, her wands ready, when the bambo chute wrapped itself around her, pinning her arms to her body crushing the life from her.
“Repulso!” Luna gasped, and an invisible wave of force blew the bamboo to tatters.
Luna rose to her feet without seeming seeming to move, just drawn up eerily from a prone position until she is standing.
For a long time, there is no sound but the whisper of the wind.
Then something came charging for Luna from the trees.
“Stupefy!” she cried, and fired a red burst of light into the chest of a baboon with demonic wings, causing it to crumple and smash to the ground. Another flying monkey made a dive from her other side, but the Jedi witch raised her other wand and conjured the cyan saber, bisecting the creaturing and turning it to ash and brimstone.
A Dark, high-pitched cackle echoed around the Tangled Green.
“Luuuunaaaa,” Hermione taunted from somewhere in the crowded bamboo forest. “Come out and plaaaaay!”
A glowing sphere of orange light hurtled through the woods, exploding at Luna’s feet, but she was too fast. In a flash she was up in the air again, cartwheeling over Hermione’s head. She aims both her wands downwards.
“Incendio!” Luna roared and gouts of flame rocketed downards. The Dark Witch pointed her wand above her head and conjured a shield charm, the flames licking harmlessly against the top of the shield like an invisible umbrella.
By the time one of Luna’s bare feet hit the floor, she was firing multicolored jinxes wildly at her target.
Hermione leisurely deflected them with her wand, then with a flick she transfigured a broken bamboo chute into a writhing python.
The python leaped for Luna's throat, and she bisected it with one of her wandsaber blades. She fired a bright orange jinx form her other wand, but Hermione cartwheeled over the jinx and then launched herself at Luna.
Sparks and plasma explode around the clearing as the witches wandsabers clashed.
Luna attacked with a whirlwind of strikes too fast to see, forcing Hermione back step by step. Bit by bit, Luna gained ground, the tips of her wandsabers slipping through Hermione’s defenses, leaving little scorches in her schoolgirl outfit. The Jedi is faster, better trained, but Hermione is stronger.
With a howl of frustration Hermione pushed towards Luna with an open palm, and Luna sailed backwards as she was struck with a telekinetic Force.
The Jedi Knight landed in a combat stance, her wandsabers crossed in front of her, and blew a strand of platinum blonde hair out of her face.
“You don’t have to die here,” Luna offered in a cracking voice. “I don’t want to kill a Hermione.”
The Dark witch just cackled. “It’s great fun though!” she said with an earnest look. “I’ve killed two Hermione’s already. Two Hermiones, a Ginny, and a sparkly vampire just because he looked like Cedric Diggory.”
Luna’s eyes narrowed. “Harry never would have summoned you.”
Hermione shrugged. “Maybe he didn’t. Maybe you did, subconsciously. Maybe you always thought I was little too quiet, a little too squeaky clean,” Hermione said as she grinned. “Maybe you were paranoid of the innocent little Hermione Granger. Maybe you were…” Hermione pointed her wand towards her own head, making small circles in the air. “Loony.”
Luna whirled both her wands in front of her like a double barreled shotgun. The tips glowed bright red.
“STUPEFY!” she screamed, her voice cracking as she sent a softball sized sphere of red light rocketing towards Hermione.