Hesperia #Wattys2015

Witches Duel

My brain was going to explode.

Ignis Pila was the spell to summon fire, Aqua Mare was for summoning water, Terra Dirtè was to manipulate trees and dirt, Ventus was for wind... and that was only elemental magic.

With so much information being pushed into my brain daily, from spells, to self-defense, to history, to math... it was so much work. Like - could that actually be possible? For someones brain to explode because I was seriously considering going to the hospital just as a precaution.

Sure, I was probably being dramatic - that was my thing after all. But everything was beginning to get to me, so much stuff to do and so little time.

"Okay Bella," Marcus told me, it was now Monday afternoon and after an exhausting seven hours of school I had found myself at Greenmore for my daily training as per usual. For the last two hours, Marcus and I had been working on physical combat as in, no magic - something I was somewhat good at.

"I want you to turn your back to me and close your eyes," He instructed. "I'm going to come up behind you - surprise you, and I want you to defend yourself alright?"

I nodded my head, nerves beginning to build up inside me. Besides magic, doing my physical training with Marcus always had the ability to make me extremelly anxious. It wasn't that I didn't like it - in fact I really did, I took self defence classes from the ages of fourteen to sixteen but it was just the fact that I was doing it with Marcus the one thousand year old Vampire/Warlock or whatever a guy witch is called with super strength and speed... not to mention he was the hard ass from hell.

"Promise you won't kill me?" I asked for reassurance as I snapped my eyelids shut and turned my back to him. "Because if you do, you should know I will be royally pissed. And I will spend the majority of my time as a ghost haunting you mister - think The Conjuring, it'd be worse."

I heard Marcus chuckle. "I won't kill you," He replied and I could practically hear the eye roll - if that was even possible. "It's too much effort and killing you would pretty much mean the world's doomsday - I'd rather not be the cause of that."

"Wise choice," I nodded.

I waited a few minutes for an attack and as I did quickly slung my long chestnut coloured hair that was braided over my shoulder. Last time we did one of these and I was fighting with Marcus he grabbed my hair something I did not appreciate.

Finally a good five minutes passed and I let out a long and irritated sigh. "Are we going to do this or - "

Suddenly I could feel one arm snake around my waist and other was around my neck. He wasn't choking me too harshly - thank god - but I knew if I didn't react on reflex he would.

Immediately, I stomped on his foot with the heel of my converse and tucked my chin in between my neck and his arm managing to grasp an airway something very crucial in a situation like this. I proceeded to bend down and twist out of his choke hold, holding his arm in the perfectly easy position to be able to break it. But I stopped just in time and turned to look up at Marcus.

"Well?" I smiled, releasing his arm.

Marcus nodded his head, a hint of a proud smile playing at his lips before he turned away and went to reach for our water bottles. "That was good," He told me, handing me my water. "But you need to react a bit quicker, if someones coming up behind you and start choking you, you need to get out of that hold quicker."

Gee Marcus, you don't say?

But instead of saying that little quip, I nodded my head silently and took a good long swig on my water, all the while keeping my eyes locked on Marcus as he turned away from me to grab his work booklet filled with god-knows-what nonsense he would need to teach me next.