Progress

The Final Task is drawing near and Reima has been trying his hardest to train Ciri and Fleur. While both were already adept at spell casting he'd been trying to improve their athletic capabilities as being able to dodge the spells that'd be thrown at them should the plan go balls up will be invaluable.

These four months had been incredibly productive, he'd not had to try train Harry any longer since he'd decided to try and distance himself and so Reima was left with Ciri and Fleur, something he wasn't complaining about. After a heavy day of training it wouldn't be weird for him to be "compensated" at the end of it, though Snuffles prided herself in getting in the way. He' also managed to completely clear out the "Come and Go Room", gaining a few interesting artifacts from his troubles along with an ungodly amount of books.

Fleur had become slighter taller and more muscular during her time with him, she was stronger, faster and even her control over her allure was better. Overall he judged she'd be alright during the task.

Ciri on the other hand hadn't changed all that much, this was probably due to her already being around 20 years old. The only thing that really changed was her skills, she'd increased the variety of spells she was able to use with but began to specialise with her affinity to air. Neither Fleur or Reima had any idea what uses it'd have as fire, water and earth based spells were far more common. Ciri managed to impress them with a spell similar to the cutting spell, the only exception being that it was wind based, this also complemented her Pyromancies as well. It'd only been an accident when she'd conjured a Combustion Pyromancy along with her Air Slice spell immediately after it. The two spells combined caused the a deeper cut in the statues they were using as target practise and it even melted the "wound". This had given Reima a couple idea's and it wasn't hard to work out blasting a fireball with wind made it more powerful and violent, if less longlived.

One thing was bothering Ciri though, her progress towards becoming an Animagus was slow and she hadn't even been able to transform a pinky, she was calm about it but admitted she resented the fact that he was faster than her by atleast a few months, maybe even more depending on how her progress is. He wondered if they'd have to continue her training back home.

Reima was the one who changed the most however, as his Witcher mutations increased his rate of growth he'd grown to 6.4ft. He towered over Ciri and Fleur like Hagrid would an adult. His build got broader as well making him have to adjust some of his clothes and armour, this was easy as all he needed to do was apply some souls to the Armour Smithbox and Voilà, new appropriately sized clothing.

His growth wasn't really noticed by everyone else apart from his girls as teens grew relatively quickly and it wasn't out of the ordinary for a Wizard or Witch to have incredible growth periods out of no where.

He continued to practise but was hesitant to play around with his Humanity based abilities, excluding the Dark Hand he hadn't tried to create any new abilities, only skimming through the spells he'd found in the Abyss named Dark Orb, Dark Fog and Black Flame, the latter of them being the most interesting to him despite never working up the determination to try it out.

Nerissa was also getting the most out of her training, becoming almost ninja like in her movements. Perhaps it was due to her time spent as a rabbit but when she walked around with bare feet Reima was hard-pressed to hear her, something that was even more impressive when considering he was a powerful being with incredible senses. She'd also gotten a little taller and finally reached 5ft, despite her incredible speed and strength her body didn't show any musculature at all, instead she looked like a regular little girl... With the exception of red eyes and fangs of course.

With Nerissa he'd really been trying to increase her variety of skills, he didn't think she'd be able to go toe to toe with one of the older vampires with centuries of experience and so made her practise in her particular abilities, mainly her blood manipulation. As much as he'd like to claim responsibility for her progress he hadn't really done much except suggest ways of utilising it. She'd managed to create chain, swords, spears, and even bows with arrows. The strong ability she'd learned included Iaito.

She was striking against a steel soldier while Reima was giving her suggestions based on the various spells her already knew. He wondered if she would be able to produce a large amount of blood, solidify it and then reverse it mid strike.

Nerissa hadn't disappointed him as she'd come up with something on her own, she covered Iaito with a large amount of blood before crystallising it, causing it to look like a huge ruby spike. She then jabbed it at the steel soldier, however mid strike she'd transformed the ruby into blood and manipulated it to surround the soldier. She then forced the blood into it's ears, mouth and nose, Reima took a step back in surprise as it huge red shards exploded out of the steel soldier... He suspected most enemies in this world wouldn't be able to defend against such an attack, especially due to it being a stab feint into the move.

All in all Reima was happy with everyone's progress, with not long before the Final Task he knew they'd be targeted in some manner. It was lucky he stayed away from the drama involving Crouch's death as he reckoned he'd somehow be blamed for it, despite no evidence for it, scape goats seemed to be the Ministries most effective way of keeping control of the public after all.