Kel grinned to himself as he followed the rest of the students to the red line. He did as he was told, tucking the bat under his arm, and then went uppp. He didn't go too high, though he wasn't too low. He'd flown before, but he was in no way veeery good. He didn't even know if he was good. All that he did know was that he liked flying.

Once in the air, he was motionless. Professor Vindictus hadn't gone any further then telling them what to do to get into the air, and he didn't know if they were suppose to fly or not, so he just stayed there. Although...it would be a good time for getting used to holding the bat with one hand, and the broom with the other. Wanting to try out his newly-found, possible ambidextrous-ness, he gripped the bat in his left hand and held onto the broom with his right.

Steady. Steady, now.

Fyo had done this before, the whole beater thing. The Gryffindor rose into the air with ease and, once sure he was both safely airborne and in full control of his broomstick, drew back one hand from his broom to grasp the bat that had, till now, been tucked under his arm.

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"Piñatas! I'll remove the charms from them at the end of class so that all of you can help break them open and see what's inside." Now he was grinning like a schoolboy. "Have at it! Fly towards the object and give it a good whack with the bat!"

Ohmygosh, piñatas!

Even twenty feet in the air, the Gryffindor's eyes widened visibly. This was SO cool. Well, what he was waiting for, then? The third year whizzed past a classmate as he flew towards the CuteFuzzyWarm things as fast as he could, raising his bat in the process. Aiming.. Aiming.. AIMED!

THWACK! The noise seemed to echo slightly in the open area, but the piñata he had aimed for did not break open. No wonder, of course, seeing that the thing was charmed. But that noise sure had been mighty!

Selena tucked her bat safely under her arm - much like she would do with a Quaffle -, mounted her broom and flew up into the air. She haven't played Beater anywhere outside Hogwarts, and this could possibly result in quite some damage to other students. If anything happens, I'll have to use my reflexes. She reasoned with herself. Although that might be busting my cover a little bit... But hey, everyone's like uber fast on a broom, right? Probably not. A Ravenclaw boy have been given a specialized training broom and was thinking of joining the Quidditch team, pfft. Next term might sound a better chance. She had to resist sticking her tongue out and making a face, which were too childish. Even if she looks like an eleven-years-old girl, it didn't mean that she have to behave as such.

Hovering in front of the duck piñata - which probably would contain candy or some sort of that, she couldn't help but smile as she remembered one of her arguments with Kat whether rubber duckies are evil. She won, of course, by pelting her entire supplies of them at the older girl and making an extremely cute puppy face in the aftermath. Selena held the bat in her right hand and using her left to control the broom.

"THWACK!"

Yep, she managed to hit it.

"Right. Just think happy thoughts," Aislynn said as she gripped tightly to her broom. She slowly grabbed the bat with her right hand. "This isn't so bad."

Aislynn leaned forward and the broom moved with ease. It was actually becoming quite fun once she got the hang of it. Right, she thought, now where are those piñatas. She realize she had soared so high she was about fifteen feett above them. She decided to dive down and "WACKED!" the pig one! But, as she was doing so, she wasn't focused and almost ran into some of the other flyers. "Sorry!" she cried out.

One piñata whacked - duckie piñata left.

Fyo watched the former fly to a height as he whacked it and, half turning in the air, switched his gaze towards the - err - duck. He had still to test that one out, and it was.. You know. Sorta cute.

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Aislynn leaned forward and the broom moved with ease. It was actually becoming quite fun once she got the hang of it. Right, she thought, now where are those piñatas. She realize she had soared so high she was about fifteen feett above them. She decided to dive down and "WACKED!" the pig one! But, as she was doing so, she wasn't focused and almost ran into some of the other flyers. "Sorry!" she cried out.

WHOA! Fyo grabbed at his broom with both hands as Aislynn flew by, nearly unsettling him in the process and, as he did so, his beater's bat fell out of his hand. OH NO!

He dived at a crazy speed, going after the thing and - thank God - managed to catch it before it came in contact with someone's broom or - more worryingly - head or, say, eye. But he had lost his balance now, and his broom was quickly spiralling downwards.

Gosh, NoNoNo, nnoooo.

Jack grinned as the piñatas appeared, taking an interest in the pig one in particular. Even though he wasn't the biggest fan of sweets, candy always tasted a lot better when it was won in a piñata. He wondered if that was indeed what Vindictus had stored inside, but knowing their professor, it could easily be anything inside.

Flying up to the pig piñata, Jack took hold of his beaters bat as he flew nearer and kept his left hand steady on the broom. It was a little difficult, since he was used to balancing and just holding his arm out to catch the snitch, and now he was holding a rather heavy bat instead. After fumbling for a second, he goot a good grip on his bat with his right hand and he wound up his arm for the kill.

THWACK!

The bat hit the pig with a loud clunking noise, probably due to the charm cast upon it, and he flew away from the pig before any swings gone a miss could possibly hit him.

Piñatas!

Kel felt...powerful with a bat and the permission to whack stuff. Well, certain stuff, but stuff all the same. He flew forward slowly, keeping his right fingers wrapped tightly around the broom handle. When he was close to the ducky piñata, he brought the bat back and...

WACKED the ducky. He smirked to himself when the bat hit right where he wanted it to. He'd have to use his left hand more often. He backed away from the piñata, looking to find the piggy.

Oh, good! No bludgers...that was a good sign. At least if Anna got hit now it would likely be because someone else ran right smack into her. Collection of muggle items? Like...clocks or something? Hmm. Being a pureblood witch, Anna was a bit oblivious when it came to muggles and their unusual habits and lifestyles. The directions seemed simple enough, though. See a muggle object, thwack it with your bat! Yup. She was good and ready to go. Now, where were those objects...?

Just as she thought that, two large pinatas appeared---one pig and one duck. Ha! Daphne Hopton ought to be just thrilled. Wasn't she the one who'd had a fit over the ducklings in Divination? Anna darted forward and headed right for the pig pinata. Just as she reached it, she laughed in a sort of evil manner, then hit it with her bat. She dashed away quickly en route to the duck. Being a beater didn't seem so hard after all, but then again, being attacked by a pinata probably wasn't as harmful as a speeding bludger.

Vindictus flicked his wand an another piñata appeared.

"Stop! StoP! STOP!!" Aislynn yelled at her broom, but it seemed to keep going and she was heading for the side of the castle. "AAAAAAH!!!" she began to scream.

She leaned back trying to make it stop. She dropped her bat at this point, hopefully it didn't hit anyone. She was terrified! There was a reason she didn't fly!

HELP!

Fyo almost wanted to shout that particular word out, but all he could think of, at the moment, was the wind seemingly screaming his ears, and the fact that he was spiralling downwards, broomstick and all, at a pretty great speed.

Get a grip on yourself, already.

Yes, grip. He had to do something if he didn't want to end up with a cracked skull in the next five seconds, you know. Trying to think more clearly, the Gryffindor quickly grabbed the handle of his broomstick more tightly, trying - with all the might he could muster - to pull the thing backwards, and so slow it down. Thankfully, it worked. His broom slowed down....

- And then crashed into the ground with a scrunnch.

But it wasn't a bad fall. It wasn't like he had broken a bone, or caused any damage to the broomstick. Just.. bruised his shoulder. Fyo stood up, a little shakily, and dropped his beater's bat on the ground.

At least, the bat didn't take someone's eye out.

.... His head hurt.

Lyra took off towards the pretty pinatas that Professor V had out for the students. What was even more entertaining, the students that seemed to whack themselves and not the pina-thingies! She shook her head and with the bat in her right hand, she aimed for the rather large butterfly as it spun around but didn't burst open. This was fun! This was TOTAL ACTION!

And Selena was raising her bat to give the piggy a good thwack, then...

CRASH.

A dropped beater bat, apparently, hit her on the head. "Owww..." She gave off a painful moan as the object bounced off of her skull. It hurts so much! Merlin, she swore that she could see butterflies instead of stars flying around her head - even being whacked by a full-grown pine tree does not hurt this much. (Not that she have been, Manami would tear the person who did that to pieces.)

"N-no. I hit him." She pointed at Plymouth. "I'm just horrible at this. I can't get anything but Plymouths head." Then she was distracted.

Dani laughed as Plymouth played with his new broom. She wasn't crying any longer. "Go Plymouth! And I do not leak!" She was not leaky, she was emotional. She was not a kitchen faucet.


Then there were pinatas?? She dropped her bat and just stared at them as she grabbed a broom and followed Plymouth around. He was funny and she didn't want to miss any random funny moments.

Cy wasn’t your traditional beater, but it didn’t stop the young Aussie from giving the position a fair go. Clutching onto his school broom, he weaved through the air at a rather alarming speed.

Spotting the Head Girl, he smiled wryly.

Diving, Cy flew directly in front of her and then out of her way. “WOTCHER!” He called out, laughing hysterically. OK, now it was time to find those piñata’s. Seeing the butterfly one, he clutched onto his bat and raised it in the air. The first year then flew at it as fast as he could (he did indeed look like a caveman). Taking a large, monumental swing, he whacked the piñata, over-shot a bit, flipped over his broom, and was suddenly bearly hanging onto his broom by both hands. His feet were dangling dangerously. Cy gulped as he looked down to the ground where his bat was falling. “Oops.” He said, with a nervous laugh, and hoisted himself onto the broom.

Shaking it off instantly, Cy dived down to retrieve the bat and wait for further instruction.

As more students took to the sky, Vindictus had more of the piñatas appear. The first was a giant pink shoe that almost hit Lyra in the face.



That was followed by a bunny that almost landed on Selena's head.



Then a spider came free-falling towards Dominic.



Then two parrots of various sizes dropped from the sky and both landed in the direct path of Plymouth and Dani.

Lyra was about to smack her bat at the pretty butterfly when a LARGE PINK SHOE came out of no where! She ZOOMED her broom to the left, then banking back with another sharp left turn to where the shoe was dangling, LYRA was going to make her claim.

"PINKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!" She was excited! She was thrilled! She was....crazy over PINK!

In a matter of a few seconds, total chaos seemed to erupt. A Gryffindor girl got hit in the head, Fyo had fallen to what might possibly be his death, Cy was attempting to kill Anna, and, to top it all off, MORE piñatas had appeared.

Looking around for the nearest one, Jack spotted the butterfly a few feet away, ignored by all the other students by the arrival of the new piñatas. Holding onto his broom, he swooped past Dominic in a blur and raised the bat, clinging to the broom for dear life.

As he approached the butterfly, he wound up his arm for the swing and wildly attempted to hit his target, only to miss by a mere centimeter or two. WHAM! His bat, going too fast for him to stop, ended up flying out of his hand.

Letting out a gasp, he shot forward on his broom and watched the bat hit the ground. He quickly landed and scooped it up before taking to the sky again, on the hunt for the butterfly once more.

Anna laughed rather loudly as a giant pink shoe suddenly appeared and headed straight for Lyra. She doubted her laughter could be heard from way up in the sky, but the sight she was looking at was rather amusing all the same. Anna headed towards the giant pink shoe, taking a good thwack at it when she got close enough. Being a beater was reallly awesome...maybe she could talk Jack into throwing her into that position at one point and time. It was a thought... Once she'd smacked the pink shoe two or three times, Anna steered her broom around and headed towards the spider pinata. It was slighty creepy looking, as Anna wasn't exactly a fan of creepy crawly things at all. She flew up to it, raised her bat, and...THWACK...hit it with a fair amount of force. Ha! Now...what else was out there to smack around?

Rub, rub, rub. Rubbing his shoulder somehow made it feel.. warmer. Fyo eyed it rather warily for a second or two, before bending down to pick his bat again. A lion never gives up, y'know. He just.. RAWRRRS. Err.. What in the name of Merlin was he thinking?

Settling his broom into position once more, Fyo swung one leg over it. Seconds later, he had kicked off, and his broom soared up pretty instantaneously. Hovering in the air, he gave his bat a random swing - after he had made absolutely sure there that was no one in the immediate vicinity, of course - before whizzing past a PINK! piñata. Hey, that was cool!

Aislynn stopped right before she was about to hit the wall, but she was still shaky. She decided to take things to the ground. And grabbed her broom and took it over to Professor Vindictus. Her heart was racing, she had never been more scared in her life. "This broom is faulty," Aislynn exclaimed. "It should be condemned and never flown on, for it is defective in that fact that it almost killed me!"

Her eyes widened as she shook the broom with each word she spoke. Her face was pale and she began to shake a little. She still couldn't get over what just happened. "And look over there" -- she pointed to a young Gryffindor boy who just fell and was now getting back on his broom after brushing himself off, "-- another incident," she said. "These brooms should be properly inspected!"

Aislynn felt like she was about to hyperventilate.

Plymouth didn't want to HIT things with his bat. The little pig was cute... why on earth would he want to HIT it and break it? Besides, he was finally CRUISING around on a broom without fear - taking his hand off the broom to swing a bat, seat belt or not, seemed a little advanced.


Plymouth was minding his own, peddling around on his broom, safe and steady and HAPPY ....


... when the BIRDS attacked.


Really now. Two steps forward - THREE MILES BACK - for broom experiences. Merlin. Plymouth wasn't a violent boy, not even REMOTELY. But if came down to a bird pecking his eyes out or pooping on him in a sneak attack, then Plymouth was going down swinging.

"DON'T HURT ME! I COME IN PEACE!" Plymouth batted at the ATTACK birds with his hand and the bat and even tried to kick the stupid bird. This is why seatbelts on brooms were needed. WHO KNEW when a bird would attack you and you'd need all your appendages to ward them off, right??

Hitting things. How greater can this get? She was beater, so, this was beyond fun.

But for some reason hitting birds was not too nice. Snowy came to her mind when birds were spoken about.

However, those were piñatas, not real birds. No problem with that, then...

And...simply aimed her bat at one of the bird things...failing to kill the bird, but not harming anyone around.

William was on his broom, attempting to remain in one piece as he watched everyone fly around him hitting the weird thingys that were now all over the place. He wanted to have fun too so he flew rather high into the air before leveling out and looking around for something to hit. His bludger was tucked safely under his arm, his eyes roaming for something to hit. Spotting a weird spider thing he shivered but kept his cool as he flew towards it, his bat in his hand.

Flying close to it he swung, nearly missing it but hitting the edge as he flew off hanging on for dear life as his broom went out of control spiraling. "Eeeekkkk." he almost shouted before straightening up and taking a breath. Stopping at hanging out at around five feet William looked around crossed his legs under his broom. he was so NOT moving from his spot. Every time he went to move he either spiraled out of control or ended up hanging upside down. Yeah, no thanks.

Sitting on his broom he floated there watching and waiting. Yeah no thanks.

As he let himself be sucked into a dive, Fyo caught a glimpse of Aislynn pointing towards him. Hmm, what was this? The third year slowed down, and realized that she was mentioning the fact that he had nearly been whacked off his broom. Well, that hadn't really been the broom's fault, had it? For reasons known to himself alone, the third year grinned, putting some more speed into his flight.

Which was when he nearly bumped into a piñata.