In Spite of Things ;; tag kurosaki

Due to all of the things that had been going on in the Wizarding World, Alexi decided to go to the duelling arena. There were many death eaters out in the world again, and Alexi was curious to see if students were ready to defend the school if necessary. It was assumed by Alexi that the best duellers would be the ones that duelled constantly, not some quiet student who never cast incendio his entire life. So yes, Alexi was at the duelling arena, watching the nearby students cast spells at each other.

Alexi was particularly new on the staff of Hogwarts, and he didn't graduate too far from the present, so he could have pulled off the look of a 7th year student. Thus, most of the students didn't recognize him as an actual staff member and Alexi was able to watch the students fight as hard as they could. If they recognized Alexi, they would go easy on each other with more acceptable spells that wouldn't require him to take out his potion set and pour the entire set onto a wound.

Ichigo was walking around aimlessly for a good hour, after talking to the headmaster they agreed he would start classes next term. therefore he had nothing to do for most of his day except for exploring the grounds.
He finally decided he should probably sharpen some of his skills, after all to defeat that man; Ichigo had to be strong.

He looked around at all the other students fighting with all their might; he wondered what their purpose was. What their motive was to fight for their school or muggles in some cases. Ichigo chuckled to himself, some people had such useless drives. Though he supposed that's what was important to them - everyone's different right? Ichigo sighed heavily how did he ever get into this mess? Changing school? Swapping lives? what was the point in it all?

He was about to walk away, when someone in the distant caught his eye. A dark figure watching intently at the students 'fighting'. Against his earlier decision, Ichigo decided to approach the figure, while subconsciously reaching for his wand.

Alexi was looking around, and saw an interesting young person moving towrads him. He was sure that the person was a male, but Alexi wasn't focusing on how the person looked, he was focusing more on what the person was doing. First, the person was moving, but the worst part, second, he was reaching for his wand. It was a hope that this person wasn't trying to pick a fight with Alexi. Though Alexi never really did too well in defence against the dark arts, he could defend himself quite easily and if he ever got hurt, healing himself and standing back up to fight wasn't a problem. Of course, that was assuming that the person wanted to fight, and that the person wasn't amazingly gifted at the art of duelling.

Alexi was in awe, as he found out that he was moving towards the person without having had realized it. When he was close enough to the person, he could now analyze that he was indeed a male, and was indeed a student, unless the other male was a prodigy that skipped all the years of Hogwarts, which was unlikely. Alexi forced himself to stop with the little control he had, and spoke to the student, sounding calm, despite his rising heart rate. "Sorry," said Alexi, "not interested in duelling today." Despite refusing to duel, Alexi still reached for his own wand. Better safe than sorry.

As Ichigo neared the figure, he saw that in fact the figure was male around about the same age as Ichigo. But somehow Ichigo was unsure of his status...no student would watch others fighting and not join in...unless he was really bad at duelling...Ichigo smirked, decisions, decisions. Should he fight this weakling or let it be?
He mulled over the idea of fighting him until...

'Too bad...I am' Ichigo calmly replied standing in front of the man with his hand loosely holding his wand. He wouldn't have to try hard for this fight

'Too bad...I am'

Alexi sighed when he had heard this. Alexi's blood yearned for something dangerous, but he was a staff member of Hogwarts, and this was a student. Recreational duelling was not allowed, unless you were specificall assigned to train someone, and even then, this was recreational. He wondered what ideology to follow, his instincts, or his common sense. It seemed to Alexi that his common sense was, fortuneately, winning as he opened his mouth to speak. "Sorry, I'm not permitted to duel you," said Alexi. However, even as Alexi had spoken, he knew that he was still gripping his wand. What Alexi didn't know was whether he was holding it just in case the boy would attack him, or whether he wanted to make the first move.

Momentarily relinquishing all thoughts of duelling, Alexi took a moment to analyze the boy again. The boy was very aggressive, so Alexi concluded that he was in Slytherin. At the same time, the boy looked a little young, and apparently seemed impulsive, stubborn, and arrogant to have challenged someone older than him. That was both a Slytherin and a Gryffindor characteristic. However, on the boy's robe was the Slytherin insignia, silver and green, which had obvious implications. And now, Alexi had to guess the boy's youth. It wasn't easy to tell, but he was definitely not a senior, not old enough to be considered a prefect, that was for sure but how young was he?

"Sorry, I'm not permitted to duel you,"

As Ichigo heard those words he smirked. So now he had figured out that this man was probably teacher or an outsider, he considered him being a teacher but he just looked much too young. Ichigo was deciding whether to make the first move or not; if this man was a teacher he could get expelled, and that would be no help, he had to stay here long enough to get all the information he needed.
Ichigo was just about to decide to turn around but he just couldn't himself to do it. His body was already getting ready and he started to get excited.

'Ah well, lets take the risk anyway' Ichigo said confidently, one side had finally won the inner battle. Before the man could even begin to comprehend what Ichigo had said his wand was already raised and he uttered 'Flipendo'

'Flipendo'

It didn't come to mind that this student would cast a spell at Alexi without even a fair bit of a warning. All Alexi was able to do was watch for a split second as the coloured missile hit him point blank on the chest, causing him to fly backwards. He felt pain immediately on contact of the magical projectile, but felt even more pain as his body landing with a thud on the hard stone ground of the duelling arena. "Cheap shot," Alexi muttered quietly as he quickly stumbled back up.

As fast as he could, Alexi made a graceful movement with his wand, and thought the spell, locomotor mortis. When he finished moving his wand, which ended up pointed at the student, a flash of bright light came out of the wand. Directly following locomotor mortis, Alexi made two quick and powerful movements with his wand and thought the spell, protego, which provided an invisible barrier in front of his wand.

[[ooc: sorry it took so long, lack of inspiration of how my character would react QQ]]

[OOC - It's cool I've been so busy with work etc - I've had no time to come on]

'Crap' Ichigo said
Argh my stupid legs, he thought, I should just cut them off.
Ichigo raised his head as an invisible barrier had been put between them.
'A barrier? Seriously?' Ichigo asked 'We could've had more fun - why the need to spoil it?'
Ichigo looked down at his legs again - he could just cut them off but that would prove to be annoying, argh why couldn't he remember that spell?! He needed that spell fast; in order to carry on duelling, and not look like an idiot hopping everywhere.
He thought for a couple of moments and...came up with nothing
'Great! I can't even remember something that easy' he said to himself while mentally slapping himself.

[uhhhh does locomotor mortis wear off? or is there a counter spell thingy? Forgotten XD]

[[ooc: oh my god your patronus is a pikachu. Not sure if it wears off, try finite incantatem]]

"A barrier? Seriously? We could've had more fun - why the need to spoil it?"

Alexi looked at the student in awe. He couldn't quite believe that the student didn't even know how to counter a locomotor spell, considering he seemed quite aggressive and confident. Someone with confidence and aggression, but no power was always in a dangerous predicament. He was just lucky that Alexi wouldn't be able to cast any unforgivable curse properly until he was of dying age.

Alexi's protego induced barrier was kept up, not only because Alexi needed to defend himself, but because he needed to control himself from doing anything crazy. His own legs wouldn't let him walk away from this adrenaline pumping experience, but his mind wouldn't let him further indulge himself in it. "Walk away kid," said Alexi. "You don't know what you're doing."

[What's wrong with that? :p]

Ichigo racked his brains once more...
'Fini....finite incantatem' he finally said and his legs became of use again.
Hah finally he said to himself

"Walk away kid. You don't know what you're doing."

'Hahha walk away? Now?' Ichigo asked surprised
He advanced to the stranger.
'I know I know, you think I'm stupid right, battling a complete stranger and a teacher at that. You know you're way too young to be a teacher' Ichigo said to him, as he stopped before he reached the invisible barrier
'Like you'd kill anyone though, your eyes give you away mate' Ichigo said confidently as he played with his wand in his hands
'Plus I can't back down now, this is way too fun! Though it'd be better if we had swords and such, I've always been better at a battle of strength rather than wits - my memory really does suck'

He looked up staring at the stranger in the eyes

'Anyway we should carry on now' Ichigo stated
'Remove the barrier...'