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Old 09-19-2017, 05:03 PM   #197 (permalink)
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The gnome was having FAR too much fun clinging onto the tall, tree-like boy (Remy) but that fun was about to end. The spell cast made the gnome fly hiiiiiiiiiiigh up in the air, above everyone’s heads, before being whipped downwards and landing with a THUMP on……

…… an unsuspecting girl’s (Junia) shoulders.

There was a loud GIGGLE as it wrapped its hairy feet around her and started TUGGING at her ear and hair. HELLO.

If she thought that her troubles were over, she was wrong. No sooner had she said her spell, two gnomes ran full pelt in her direction. The vine that shot out in their path was dodged and the gnomes came to a stop near the girl. One bent down, hands crossed in front of it. The other ran, jumped on its fellow’s hands and fleeeeeeeeew and landed with a THUMP around her middle.

CLING.


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Maybe it was the determination to get a gnome off of her or the exclamation but the Disarming Spell was more successful than the others. No sooner had the gnome reached her knee than the spell hit its head, causing it to fly backwards and away from the girl (Maddie). It sat up, confused and shaking its head, before crawling BACK to the girl.

Round 2.

The girl (Emmeline) had a lot of determination about her but she needed to work on her spellwork. The first set of vines were easily dodged by the oncoming gnome but the sparks did much more damage to the gnome. One of the sparks hit the hairs on the gnome's head and singed it. The gnome let out a loud GRUNT of fury and LAUNCHED itself at-

Or not.

The girl's second attempt at a vine were enough to make the oncoming gnome trip and fall face-down on the grass. Determined, it continued its journey to her, now crawling like an overgrown gnome-baby would.


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The dramatics from the boy (Nathan) earned himself some giggles from the two gnomes. The wrestle and the boy's size worked in his advantage and the two gnomes fell away. But they weren't going to stand there waiting to get hit.

Both gnomes started running for the boy again. A jet of water flew out and hit a gnome full in the face. The Immobulus spell hit half of the second gnome, making half of its body freeze in place while the other half able to move. But, with half its body frozen, the gnome couldn't do anything but stare grumpily at the boy and make a very rude finger gesture.

Vines shot out but instead of trapping both gnomes, it simply wrapped around the frozen leg of the half-immobilised gnome.

The other one, fully functional but still wet, jumped and wrapped both of its arms around the boy's legs again. GUESS WHO.


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Gnomes hardly ever listened to humans. Something that was shown with the way the gnome only clung HARDER onto the boy's (Ronan) leg.

CLING.

With the vine cut off, it stopped growing around the gnome's leg and the gnome was free to try and climb further up the boy's leg. But before it could get much further, the Banishing Charm hit the gnome and it flew backwards in an arch and away from the boy.

Time to celebrate? Oh no. No sooner had the gnome been cast away then another one, cast away by another student, hit the boy's back with a THUMP! and clung onto his middle. HELLO.

Vines shot out, cast by one of the older girls (Scarlett), and wrapped themselves around the gnome's legs. But because the gnome was clinging onto the boy with its hairy fingers, all it did was try to drag him down in the process.

Tough luck.


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Standing still was not going to do you any favours, kid (Jessa).

Sensing an easy target, one of the gnomes ran at her from behind in an attempt to catch her off guard. It dodged around the rolling gnome that was being followed by an older boy (Tenacius), jumped and fleeeeeeeeew straight towards her.

Not a second flew by when, all of a sudden, it sank those sharp teeth down on a spot near her ankle.


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Teamwork was always helpful, wasn't it?

The giggling, rolling gnome continued to roll, guided by an older boy (Tenacius). It knocked against legs, over some gnomes, even bounced off of the shield that was surrounding another boy (Abey) and roooooooooooolled right back to...

... the younger boy (Kyle).

The running gnome that was chasing the younger boy didn't see the rolling gnome coming for it. There was a loud CLUNK as gnome hit gnome and the running gnome was bowled down.

STRIIIIIIIKE!

The four factors of spellcasting worked in the younger boy's favour. A vine shot out of the grass and wrapped themselves around the two gnomes where they lay. But, if they looked closely, they might notice that there was still a lot of wriggle room available...


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When the girl (Etta) cast the spell, a thin, spindly vine shot out of the rock but didn't do much in her favour. In fact, all it did was attract the attention of three gnomes who now started running for the Prefect.

One made a giant leap of faith and grabbed onto her wand arm where it started swinging wildly. SWIIIIIIIIIING! The other two latched onto her legs where they started to knock and claw at her knees to make her fall over.


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The sparks from the older girl's (Kitty) wand flew out and singed the grass surrounding it. The shout only earned the girl a loud giggle from the gnome holding onto her leg. It started to climb upwards, clawing and scratching as it went.

Luckily for her, help was at hand. The gnome on her leg was immediately immobilised from the spell cast from another girl (Hattie) and stopped clawing up her leg. But the spell had also hit the Head Girl's leg and caused part of it, the part with the gnome, to freeze as well.

To make matters worse, the thin vine that shot out of the rock wrapped itself around the lower half of the Head Girl's, gnome and all.


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The frozen gnome on the girl's (Rhea) wasn't going to go anywhere on its own. Maybe the encouragement was what the girls needed right now.

A thin vine shot out from the ground and latched itself around the gnome and the gnome only. The vine tried to pull it backwards and away from the leg but it simply wasn't strong enough to do on its own. Not with the thickness of the vine that was wrapped around the girl's leg.

Teamwork, ladies.
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