He gestured at the ground, and a snowball rose from his feet, already fully formed; he swung his arm and hurled it at Adrien, who only managed to dodge it narrowly. A second and a third snowball appeared - Adrien dashed behind a tree for cover, with one of the snowballs hitting him on a leg on the way there. He tried to reply to Val's attack the best he could, but, for each snowball Adrien could make with his hands, Val had already flung five at him.

"No cheating!", Adrien laughed from behind the tree.

"Oh, but this is not cheating - it's all skill", Val said with a smirk; and, with that, a dozen snowballs rose from the ground, spun around him, then pelted the tree behind which Adrien had been hiding - making it shake so hard that some snow fell from the branches onto Adrien's head.

"Hey!", Adrien laughed, shaking the snow off his hair. "Cheater! Cheater! You're such a cheater!", he sang from behind the tree. "Really! How unfair is that: the master sorcerer hitting his poor, helpless apprentice with magic he hasn't even taught him yet! Come on!".