Chapter 43: ………… Here.

"Hmm, what should I have for dinner today?" Padma asks from my side.

"See if poison is an option."

That comment earned me an elbow to the gut.

"Have whatever you want. I am going for pudding and cake."

"For dinner?"

"Yes. Pudding is one of the only things worth eating on this table."

"Okay…. Hey what ARE you gonna make Parvati do?"

"Remember those spells you refused to allow me to do on you?"

"Like the one which grows horns?"

"Yep, now I have someone who can't say no to those spells." I say with a harmless smile on my face.

".....Is it bad that I want you to mess up?"

"Normally, yes. In this case, I want myself to fail. And I will."

We both have our 'friendly' smiles on our faces that cause our year-mates to sit a bit further away.

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(Next day- Saturday 12th October. I checked the calendar. )

"Okay, that's done. *Sigh* if this one doesn't work, I am going to pull out your hair."

"What did I do?" Padma questions.

"Nothing, I just want to pull out hair and better yours than mine."

"If this doesn't work, forget my hair, worry about yourself. Because I have been with you for 3 hours now and all you do is draw on rocks and then throw them into the lake."

"That's not true......… in a way...… I mean yes, I may look like am drawing on rocks. But it's more than that. I am trying to inscribe runes here. And every time it is either a millimetre off or just not enough power or just something. I don't know what and I am on the brink of madness here."

This thing is seriously driving me crazy. Just how hard is it to draw a single rune for explosion?

"Well, get it done. I am getting hungry here."

"I know." Go- Morgana I hate this bitch. But I can't say anything either because she is here because I asked her to.

"Whooo. Alright, last try. I made it a perfect carbon copy of the one in the book. And fork it to 'don't supply more magic than necessary'. I am going all in."

'One way or other, this is going to be the last.'

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Padma questions.

"No idea. We are going to find out."

"Alright then." She backs away a bit.

I hold the stone in my hand and concentrate on the symbol drawn. Keeping my hand on top of it, I think of my magic flowing into it. I feel it filling up and reaching the capacity, but I don't stop there. Every time I either fill it a little less, a little more or even just right but it just doesn't work. So this time I continue to feed it more power.

'Let's see how you don't explode this time.'

"Ansh"

'Ughh. What now? Ignore her.'

"Ansh"

'Ignore her.'

"ANSH!!"

"What the heck do you want WOMAN??!! Can you wait a few seconds?"

"Throw that stone away!!"

"Why would I throw it aw- Oh fudge"

I look at the stone in my hands and it is cracking in places with purplish light coming out.

'That's not good.'

"Throw it you doofus."

"Ah, I….. Where!?"

"Anywhere!! Just throw it."

"...... Here."

....... I panicked.

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GIVING IT TO ME!!?"

"I don't know. I couldn't decide where to throw it to."

"So you want me to BLOW UP??!!"

"Padma!!!! Shout at me later and just hurl that thing somewhere, the cracks are growing."

"AAAAHHHH" with a Warcry, Padma hurls the stone over the Black Lake.

'I couldn't have thrown it that far myself.'

".........…"

".........…."

"That one was a dud too?" How come there's no explosion?

"Good! If it exploded, it could have exploded at our faces."

"Still..."

"Why you stupid….idiot…..stupid monkey. I said throw it, not pass it." Every word was accompanied by a smack to the head.

"Sorry, sorry. I panicked and the-"

The world around me starts spinning.