Before Reese knew it, she completely lost control of her broom due to the fact that the Professor had just threw one of the bludger sized snowballs at her. EEEEEEEEP! Closing her eyes, she held onto the broom with all her might as it flew straight towards the ground. The broom flew into the snow, where it stayed, and the Slytherin let go of the broom and fell off face first into the pile of snow in front of her.

It didn't take long before Reese picked herself up and wiped the snow off her face. Great, now her face was even colder than it had been before. Shivering, she listened as Professor Vindictus told them to put their brooms in the broomrack. She did as she was told and when hot cocoa was mentioned, she ran off without saying a word. As she ran towards the school, all she could think about was getting into the very warm Great Hall.

Still confined inside a thickening block of ice, LouAnn tried her hardest to twist and turn her way to freedom. It was kind of hard, though, when freedom relied upon melting a large block of ice in the freezing cold. She knew---just knew she should have skipped class and just slept in. That was when she heard one of the girls mention a warming charm---oh, please, oh pleeeease cast a warming charm!

...then suddenly, LouAnn felt as if she was slowly and steadily returning to normal. Could it be? Could. It. Beeee? Someone was pulling on her ankles, although LouAnn couldn't tell just how hard they were pulling. She had very minimal feeling left in her body, so she was only slightly aware of a little tugging her and there.

LouAnn opened her mouth to return Zoe's hello, but absolutely no words came out. Her mouth moved, though, which hopefully led the girl's to believe she was still alive and hadn't kicked the bucket just yet. She shivered then closed her eyes and wished with all her might to be back inside the warmth of the castle. Maybe someone would...you know...levitate her back in. Maybe leave her in front of a fire to thaw out, hmm?

Vindictus had been watching from a distance as several students rushed over to the snowbank he pointed out to Plym and Tibi who remained immovable next to him. Then he saw LouAnn freed from the snow.

She was blue.

And stiff as a board.

Oh, noes!

"PURPLE'S TURNED BLUE! SHE'S A GRYFFINCICLE! HELP! SOMEONE USE A WARMING SPELL!" he shouted and nearly knocked over Tibi and Plymouth as he ran through the snow to where the frozen Gryffincicle lay.

As he placed his broomstick in its rack, and turned to leave, hands rather cold and cheeks rather red, Fyo's eyes widened: Not too far off, lay LouAnn, clearly not in a very good condition, and running towards her was Professor Vindictus.

"Oh my," he said, and he pulled out his wand, bounded up to LouAnn, and pointed it at her. Warm air shot out of its tip, and Fyo's pupils were as huge as galleons - Cousin Shel had told him not, not EVER, to use magic in Professor V's class without the flying instructor's permission [apparently, Cousin Shel had lost his house points for that], but Fyo did not care about that, not right now.

Because LouAnn was BLUE, so BLUE.

Tibi snapped out of his haze when Vindictus nearly knocked him over.

Huh, what? Gryffincicle? "Er, uh, sorry professor," Tibi whispered sheepishly. Why hadn't he responded? He looked over at Plymouth who hadn't either.

Gah. The cold had totally frozen his brain. Taking off a mitten, Tibi dug a finger into his ear and scooped out a substantial amount of snow for such a small space, left there courtesy of that rule-breaking gryffindor. Hm. Maybe Tibi just hadn't heard right.

"Purple!" Rafe shouted as he went over to help his friend after hearing the professor shouting. He took out his wand and cast the same hot air charm that he used on Ari to warm her up when she went into the frozen lake. He used immense amount of concentration to make sure it worked, but not too much to cause her to get over heated. He wanted to make sure she was warmed up slowly, so she wouldn't go into shock.. Some of the snow around LouAnn seemed to melt, but how was she doing?

Rafe took off his robe and wrapped it around her and began rubbing her shoulders. "Are you okay, Purp? You must be freezing." He wrapped his arms around her the best he could to try and warm her up with his body heat. He was used to the cold.

"Fyo, use a gentle warming spell so that we can start the thawing process," Vindictus said as he kneeled down in the snow next to LouAnn. "If I had my wand, I'd do it myself." He looked at LouAnn's face. Yep, Purple was definitely blue....

Fyo blinked in surprise. In his sudden shock, he had pretty much forgotten that there were other people around, including Professor V.

"Yes, sir," he said, raising his wand and doing what he had been directed to - warming spell, gentle one. "You can have my wand, if you like, professor." Of course, he doubted the flying instructor would want it. Fyo could cast a warming spell, well enough.

Ohmygosh, BLUEE eeeek.

Vindictus couldn't do anything as Rafe burst in and performed the spell that he had asked Fyo to do. Well, there was something he could do but then it would be seen by some as vindictive considering there was an upcoming game between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Still, the idea was tempting....

Shaking his head he looked at Rafe. "No more magic. YOU get the honor of getting frostbite as you carry, YES CARRY, little blue Purple to the Hospital Wing. Can you handle that?"

Hearing the sound of the whistle, Mina frowned a little. I was having fun...but I am a bit cold. Yes, the attention span of an eleven year-old was a funny thing. Gripping the broom tightly, she steered her want toward the ground. Landing gently, she swung her legs over the broom and made contact with the ground again. Shaking her head, she removed what was left of the snow in her hair and headed over to return the broom to its rightful home on the rack.

Walking back toward the field, she noticed a small group. Wonder what's going on? Slowly, she walked up to get a closer look. Yes, she was a bit nosey at times but she was interested none the less. Peeking around her professor she noticed the very BLUE Gryiffindor. "Is she okay?" she asked very quietly, so quietly she wouldn't be surprised if no one heard her.

"Sorry, professor, but you ran off and action needed to be taken quickly," Rafe said politely as possible. "I didn't realize you had asked Fyo, until after I performed the spell. My apologies. I just wanted to help my friend." Rafe wasn't ashamed at what he did. His friend needed help, it's not Rafe's fault that the professor couldn't find his wand. Rafe scooped LouAnn in his arms. He had not complaint about carrying her, it's something he had done before...hmm...this was the second damsel in distress he seemed to rescue.

"Is there anything else professor?" Rafe said as he made sure he had a tight grip on LouAnn.

Fyo raised an eyebrow at Rafe. Did the boy realized that Fyo had already performed a warming spell on LouAnn, before Rafe had burst into the scene? The spell he had performed on Professor V's order had been the second, but ... oh well. He shrugged, turning away to look into the horizon.

It had been such a long day.

OOC: Vindictus ran to LouAnn's side (he didn't run off). But let's move this to the Hospital Wing so that I can close this thread.

The nerve of the young man! "You know, I'm tempted to ground you for the remainder of the term for your cheek," Vindictus replied and stood up. Snow clung to his robes from where he had been kneeling in the snow. "Let's get little blue Purple to the Hospital Wing and allow Nurse Avalon to work her magic."

"Very well, I will do as you ask and take her to the ward," Rafe said as he carried LouAnn away from the pitch. Rafe didn't like the sound of the threat, but he wanted to get LouAnn inside as quickly as possible.

"I'm sure you'll be fine," he whispered in her ear. The snow seemed to be thicker and was around his ankles, but no complaint. This was the second opportunity to help out a beautiful girl.

ooc: so, so, so sorry. i'm delusional and completely lost track of the scene, my apologies to everyone.

Zoe was so thankful that LouAnn looked like she was going to be okay. Well not exactly okay. "I don't think blue is your color," she said smiling down at the girl. Zoe tended to make bad jokes when she was nervous and this was certainly one of those times. Other people were performing warming charms now and she didn't want to risk joining in and defrosting the girl too quickly. She didn't know what else to do except try to reassure her. "It's going to be okay. I just know it is," she was trying her best to be positive.

ooc: No problem!

Vindictus watched Rafe head off towards the Castle with human popsicle LouAnn in his arms before stashing his school brooms in a small storage area on the Practice Pitch. Once that was finished, he saw that the area was now void of unfrozen students and all he could hear was the crunching sound of the snow as he ran towards the Castle.