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Hufflepuff Fifth Year |  Post #2 - Gnomes, Sam and Skylar Little Fox | ½ of Lauralie | Ravenclaw with a Hufflepuff heart and a Gryffindor soul | #HouseNATARIANA
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Originally Posted by GNOMES!  Standing still was not going to help, kid.
Two of the gnomes ran right in the direction of one of the older girls (Rhea) who was making life easier for THEM by not moving. They ran around the others and, cackling, gave a great big LEAP OF FAITH and....
.... CLING.
Straight for her legs. .... Faaaaaaaantastic.
They would go for the easy targets, wouldn't they?
Rhea's brain kicked into gear at the last second and, just as the two gnomes leapt towards her, she tried to evade them by diving to the side. She managed to dodge one of the gnomes' attacks, watching as it tumbled face first into the grass, but the other one was clinging to her ankle. And all she could do was stare. They were weird creatures, gnomes. But she knew that it could scratch or bite her at any moment so she tried to focus.
She kept her wand out of reach of the gnomes as it was, with the exception of her fists and legs, her only defence.
SPOILER!!: Sam Quote:
Originally Posted by hermygirl So. Many. Gnomes.
No wonder the box had been shaking, with that many of them in there. Sam couldn't help but take a moment to wonder if that was more or less ethical than using a rope or vine. Of course, by the time she'd shaken her head of her thoughts, the gnomes were much closer than they'd been previously, and she gripped her wand tighter in her left hand.
And it seemed a fellow Ravenclaw, Rhea, was in trouble. Sam closed the distance between them, already visualising a vine in her mind and starting the wand movement. "Irretio!" She didn't pause to see if it'd worked before moving onto the other gnome. If nothing else, maybe it'd bought the younger Claw some time to have another go of her own.
Circle of her wrist and lift up. "Irretio!"
It was a good job someone had faster reaction times than her.
She watched as Sam, a Ravenclaw in the year above her, attempted to take out the gnome that wasn't attached to her leg.
That was all well and good but that gnome wasn't the one that she was the most concerned with right now. She tried to cast the spell herself, visualising the vines growing out of the ground and ripping the gnome from her leg, - "Irretio!" - but that was far from what happened. Roots did indeed grow but, instead of ripping the gnome from her leg, the vines wrapped around her leg and the gnome, effectively trapping it.
.... OUCH!
She'd definitely been bitten. Or scratched. Or something.
And it hurt.
SPOILER!!: Skylar Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Oh forget it. Time to practice was OVER because those gnomes were at it already, jumping around, causing mischief, clinging to her peers legs... "Rheaaa..." Sky started toward seeing one on her fellow fifth year, but then backtracked when Sam came to her rescue. No need to double-attack, was there? Besides, she wasn't even sure that she could properly conjure the vines to entrap the potato heads...
... but she was going to try. Because she had to; her defense grade depended on it.
"Irretio!" She called, encircling her wand at one of the creatures climbing up one of the rocks and flicking it upward. Please, please, maybe, let it work? And if it didn't, well, hopefully the creature wouldn't start on some kind of revenge because she really did NOT want to get bitten. Even if it would mean getting that saliva sample she was curious about ...
And then Skylar got in on the action, too.
Well, that was Rhea assumed was happening based on the fact that she'd recognised the voice that had called her name. But she couldn't even look up at her to check because the pain in her leg was demanding all her attention.
Glaring, she cast a stunning spell at the stupid gnome. At least now it was incapacitated. |