Elder Blood Witcher 365 Iceing On The Cake...

Eventually she reaches the room and finds the door is already there, indicating someone is inside.

She steps forwards and tries to open it but finds it's locked? She gives it another tug and the door barely moves. Snuffles returns to her vampire form and grasps a part of it to help Ciri pull, "1, 2, 3!" She says, both wrenching the door backwards, finally opening it.

As soon as it's opened however they both start s.h.i.+vering, cool mist slowly starts draining from the room, hugging the floor and causing their toe's to lose all sense of feeling, Nerissa turns back into Snuffles and jumps into her arms to relieve herself of standing, much to the ashen haired girls chagrin. "I'm not your personal taxi youknow?" she says with mirth, causing the rabbit to flop an ear at her.

Walking inside the room they see the typical Colosseum archetecture that Reima likes to use, except that the majority of is it is frozen solid... The large yellow and orange stones comprising the stadium are coated iwth a thick layer of st.u.r.dy looking ice, in the middle of the room they see an area that's completely void of ice and instead soaking wet, as if something had caused everything to melt, even the stone had partly melted. In the middle of it sat Reima who seemed fine but had a contemplative look.

Ciri "Reima what happened?" she probes.

Reima "Err... I was experimenting with a new spell? It didn't go well."

Ciri "What kind of spell could cause all this!?" she exclaims, pointing her nose at various parts of the room.

Reima "Well, it started as an altered Apparition spell but turned into something else entirely... It kinda reminded me of how the Wild Hunt freezes stuff..." he says.

Reima didn't know what he had done to cause something like this, all he did was channel type and s.p.a.ce energy into it and "Boom", ice spell. He felt there was something more to it however as he wasn't really focused on what the spell was actually doing, more just seeing what'd happen. He'd need to test this further in the future.

Shaking these thoughts from his head he glances at Ciri and asks, "How was the wand weighing ceremony?"

Ciri shrugs, "Not much really happened, they brought in Ollivander and had him look over all of our magical Foci. The only two he really seemed at all interested in was Harry's and mine..."

Reima "Well, it's not everyday you get to examine and ancient artifact... Anything troublesome happen?"

Ciri "Apart from a random explosion?" She grins, "Rita Skeeter was annoying I guess, if I had my way i'd curb stomp that b.i.t.c.h until she couldn't remember how to write."

Reima "Just don't say anything you want to be kept secret in public, she's an Animagus and I intend to catch her. So don't try anything against her or I might not be able to do anything." he says, causing her to widen her eyes. It was really surprising, that a vile reporter like Rita Skeeter had the patience required to actually achieve her Animagus transformation, hearing her friend she did have the urge to go out and start stomping on woodland critters until she'd "scored" but knew it would probably be best left in his hands.

Soon it was time for Reima to tutor Harry and Ciri, the duo + rabbit slowly walked to the empty cla.s.sroom they had been using and immediately began spell casting. Harry was actually learning relatively quickly, he had been able to start using chantless spells with minimal wand movement which was a ma.s.sive improvement over his previous "shout casting". Truly whoever taught someone to shout your spell was an imbecile.

Harry was now able to cast the basic lethal combat spells, he did look a tad green at learning them but didn't complain as he probably remembered Reima's introduction when teaching him. Of course they didn't focus on only lethal spells, stupify had been thoroughly embedded in Harry's mind and he'd even been able cast it silently, something he probably achieved through constant practise.

Ciri was also learning quickly, much faster than she would in any cla.s.s taught by a traditional professor, this was partly due to Reima skipping over the majority of the spells theory and just going into practical. This was generally seen as unwise as some spells would be slightly chaotic but in a combat situation that might be a useful trait, creating a transfigured stone wall to block fire which happens to get up and start running at your enemies or maybe even a head exploding stupify for instance. In all honesty the thought of Harry accidentally making a Death Eaters head explode while casting a stupify made him laugh.

Of course they also sparred quite often which allowed them to mix in some "duelling" techniques, although Reima wouldn't call them that. They are more "Fighting" techniques more than anything as he thought proper footwork and spatial awareness was essential for anyone attempting to partic.i.p.ate in live combat.