"Why not?" Nia replied, her eyes narrowing in focus. Oh yes, now Becca had smothered her face in cake, Nia was going to take this VERY seriously. And she had a Chaser's aim. Becca had better watch out.

She glanced between the others. Ellie's shot had just missed, and JD looked like he was planning a move. And Becca was between the sofa and the stairs up to the dorms. And the cake was in between them all.

"You reckon?" Nia asked Becca, raising an eyebrow questioning. "I'd say otherwise." She nodded knowingly, hoping that Ellie and JD (and anyone else) would side with her. Because in theory, Becca was half trapped. Would she honestly leg it upstairs and risk getting cake on everyone's stuff?

Nia's eyed locked with the Seventh Year, and she tried to guess what the girl had planned. She knew that it was the eyes that gave away weaknesses. In battle you looked at the eyes, never the weapon. And with that thought, she readied her own weapon. The cake. Slytherin stand, if anyone was interested. She lightly tossed it up and down in her hand, trying to look menacing.

Strategy? She'd sort that in a minute. For now she was gonna be spontaneous. Cos something told her Becca wouldn't expect that. Nia was a meticulous planner. "Whoooaaaaaarrrrrr!" Nia shouted as a kind of battle cry as leapt over a sofa towards. As she swung her legs over, she released the first slice of cake. Game ON!

The funny thing about war is that you can never really be sure what to expect. Allies could become enemies. Your head could get blown off in an instant. Your mom could end your game early and say it's too dark to play outside anymore. Or you could have two of your friends come charging at you like raging lunatics.

With no time to think, Becca spun around and dashed up the stairs, taking two stairs at a time. As she arrived at the top, she slipped out her wand and pointed it over the banister, instantly summoning a plate of cake from the table. As it zoomed toward her, she realized that was kind of an awful idea. She backed up fast and squeaked out just in the nick of time, "Finite!" Then she caught the plate and set a mattress down at the top of the massive slide, ready to make another run(slide?) for it. Not before she would cake the first pursuer to reach the top, though.

His eyes narrowing at Ellie...was that a challenge? A devilish grin flickers across his face. "Hmmmm...." Flicking a piece of cake off his nose, he leaps up and races to the cake table arming himself.

His eyes following Becca...and Ellie's movements, he makes his move nice and quick on his feet. Coming around the opposite side of Ellie where she'd least expect it, he jumps in front of her with a piece of cake, smushing it into her cheek. Oops, he meant face, but well missed. Well he got her anyway.

Seeing as Becca was now on a mattress, he places himself off to the side of the slide, with his other cake ready. Daring her to come down the slide.

Apparently Ellie and Nia charging at full speed with cake in hand was a tad daunting, as Becca had turned quickly and was taking a hasty retreat. Nia glanced up as she realised Becca was racing up the stairs to where the mattress surfing was set up. What was she upto?

A movement above her head caught Nia's eye too. Floating cake? Huh?! And then it headed towards Becca. Aha. That was her way of getting a supply of ammunition, was it? Well two could always play at that game.

Nia turned from the stairs and ducked behind a sofa, and peeped round to check on Becca's status. All seemed to be good, so the Captain sneakily summoned a piece of cake to her hidey place. One for hand, one to be levitated. Cheating much? No, using initiative. Nia grinned beneath her cake face mask.

"Wingardiam Leviosa!" Nia cast on the cake quietly - letting it rise to the height of the back of the sofa before she stood. And then, as a distraction from floaty cake she ran up the stairs with a loud battle cry. She risked a quick glance at the airbourne cake, getting it into position right above Becca's head. Was the girl aware of it? Probably. But it'd have to be one or the other - cos now Nia was ready with her throwing arm too. And Ellie was there as well. Did Becca stand a chance? She couldn't focus on all that at once, surely. And if she caught Nia, then Ellie could go on through and take the hit. Win-win, right?

Though, who knew what Becca might have up her sleeve...

Ellie was standing in the middle of the room, now. STARING up at Becca. She thought it funny, actually. Becca had had this brilliant plan, hadn't she? Only... she was cornered.

Watching Nia levitate a piece of cake to Becca's level, the first year smirked. So now there was cake for Becca ready upstairs, and several pieces waiting for her at the end of the slide. This girl had better have a better plan... Or not, for her, JD, and Nia's advantage.

And then she was SMACKED in the face again! She turned and saw JD, "What was THAT!?" she laughed, "We were getting BECCA first!" She gestured up to the top of the slide and reaverted her attention there. She would get him back. Yeah. She would.

But first. And yeah, FIRST. She was getting that tricky seventh year!

"It's called being innovative." he adds chuckling at Ellie's reaction. His eyes twinkling in laughter, he knew if he had waited, it would have been harder to catch her.

Poised with his plate of cake all ready to hit Becca in the face, he looks up the slide at Becca at the top. Waiting...waiting for just the right moment. Someone should go up the stairs...yeah that's it, someone waits at the bottom someone up the stairs, blocking her way to get away easily...

One second they were all in a teary, emotional group hug and the next they were throwing cake at each other.

This was why Vashti loved them. They were just too awesome.

"WHOOOO CAKE FIGHT!" she cried, dashing for the cake table. Taking a couple plates of cake, she threw one at Mina and another at Jacob, determined to make sure that NO fellow teammate was not covered in cake...from the cake fight, specifically. The cake that had already covered Jacob didn't count because they weren't having a cake fight then.

Sadly, Vashti herself hadn't yet been hit by any cake, but surely that woould all change soon. And if not, then she'd do it herself. But not now because smashing your own face into cake just wasn't as fun as being hit with it.

Seeing Nia, Ellie, and JD ganging up on Becca at both ends of the slide, Vashti grabbed another couple plates of cake and ran up the stairs to join Nia at the top. Oh yes, Becca was cornered. What was she going to do? Hmm?

Becca SAW JD and Ellie at the bottom of the slide, and Nia's piece of cake floating up at her. She was also completely aware of Nia running up the stairs with a separate piece of cake in hand. Hmm. How to properly execute this...

When Nia got to the top of the stairs, Becca tried to look like a trapped puppy about to be caught by the dog catcher. She let the girl come a few steps closer... then a few more, and she added in a whimper... before she completely charged the captain and tried to shove her onto the mattress and send her down the slide with great momentum. "Get her team...!"

...Maybe?

If Becca thought those puppy eyes were gonna have any effect on the Captain she was wrong. Very wrong. And the whimper? It was just too much, it really was. Nia was about the break into laughter when the Keeper charged at her. And tried to shove onto a mattress.

She wasn't gonna get away with it that easily. Oh no.

The distraction meant Nia let the cake levitating above Becca's head drop. Preferably onto the girl's head, but Nia didn't bother to check. She had other business. If the Captain was going to be forced down the slide, Becca was gonna enjoy the ride too. Nia went over onto the mattress a little too easily for her own liking, but didn't really care since she'd pulled Becca with her. And now their combined weight was letting gravity do its thing down the slope. She couldn't tell if they were gonna take Vashti with them, but the more the merrier, right?!

"Weeeeee!" Nia said with a grin, before smirking. "Uh-huh. Get her!" Nia shouted pointing at Becca, before ducking down out of the way. If the team had any sense, they'd totally side with the Captain. Right? And Becca was right on target with a cake date from at least two at the bottom.

Aww, Becca whimpered like a puppy! A cute, adorable, little pup- MEEP!

One second Vashti was standing there with two plates of cake in her hand, the next she was pulled onto the mattress with Nia and Becca. And her cakes? One smashed her in the face and the other... Well she wasn't sure what happened to the other one - hopefully it had hit someone in the face - but she couldn't look with cake covering her face, including her eyes, which made the ride down on the mattress slide all the more fun.

"WHEEEEE!" squealed cake-faced!Vashti.

As she leaned forward to push Nia onto the mattress, she heard the cake splat just inches behind her. Becca: 87, Cake: 0. The next thing she knew, Becca was on the mattress now, too. "Uhhhh...?!" She felt something else hard land on the mattress and looked over to see a cake-faced Vashti push them over the edge. As they started their slide down the slope, Becca took the piece of cake in her hand and promptly decorated the side of Nia's face with it. There. "You look pretty," was the only thing she said before she had to make another split-second decision.

Should she make a run for it? Or dive behind Vashti and let them get her instead?

She opted for option: other - she do anything to protect her adorable, clean face. So, naturally, Becca dove onto her stomach and dug her face into the mattress, clinging to the nearest edges for dear life. She was NOT going to get up. Her face was perfect and it was going to STAY that way!

Hopefully.

Haha. Fabulous! She was coming down the slide! And Ellie could barely see for laughing sooooooo hard! But she wasn't about to give up her guard. And when the mattress had reached the bottom, she threw both cakes. Then collapsed on her knees in a giggle fit. She was completely unsure who she hit.

And at this point, she really didn't care.

But she needed to compose herself soon. So she could tackle JD!

The levitating cake had missed. Nia knew that much, as she'd just had it splat on the stone ground. Bother.

"Thanks," Nia said, the sarcasm evident in her voice. Cue eye roll. She took the lump of icing and cake off, and flicked it from her fingers directly at Becca. So far it was two nil. Not good. And now Becca looked like she was going to burying herself in the mattress. That was SO not gonna be allowed to happen. Nia needed the girl up, if the others were to get her at the bottom. And then she had an idea.

Okay, so she didn't know it would work, but it was worth a go. Nia was out of cake to throw, and was covered in the stuff anyway, so why not? She sat up and wriggled her fingers. It was totally TICKLE TIME. Hehe. Nia was GOOD at tickling. Lots of practice. And only had one safely covered vulnerable spot of her own. Fingers crossed that Miss Becca Parker was ticklish. Cos it was such a shame the girl hadn't joined them in the cakey face look yet. She was totally missing out.

It was about time she was forced to face up and let Ellie and JD finish the job. Hopefully tickling would be a full on distraction.

Becca thought her plan was GREAT! She would just cling to the mattress and protect her face until Vindictus would come over and save the day. He was still in the general vicinity, so maybe he would declare that Becca had won and have them let her go. That would be fantastic, right?!

Just as she was imagining the sweet scent of victory, someone was asking for DEATH. It wasn't just mediocre tickling that Becca could fight through and hold strong in her mission - whoever it was continued to hit the perfect spots, sending her squirming and laughing all over the place. Her face still buried in the mattress, she only lasted a few more seconds of torture before surrendering to the Evil Tickler's plan by trying to crawl away to freedom, completely weak and vulnerable.

Tickling was the most awful thing in the entire world.

Diving into the mattress head first cakes flying, he jumps into the middle of the tickling, getting his hands into their sides wiggling like crazy. Who knows where the cakes landed.

Giggling helplessly he looks around at his team, they were AWESOME and he loved them all. He couldn't wait to see what the next term would bring. Looking over at Ellie laughing on the floor, he smiles to himself. Aiming for Nia's feet, he giggles helplessly again.

Ellie recovered, and was wiping away her laughing tears from her eyes, when she saw Nia tickling Becca. FANTASTIC idea! Kudos to Nia.

She shakily stood up. And that, my friends, was when Becca began to crawl away. And her face... WAS OPEN TO DA WORRLLLDDD! Baahahahaha! Ellie wasted no time in sprinting to the table, grabbing two more cake slices, and running to the end of the slide. To the helpless, pitiful Becca.

Only Ellie didn't pity her. Ellie had no emotion for her. All she saw was her clean face. And that was just unacceptable. So she SANDWICHED Becca's head in between two plates.

Yeah, that's right. This would mean cake and frosting in hair, in ears... And for good measure, the first year dragged one plate from the side of her head, to her face. So, yeah, that would pretty much mean that her pretty little face was wearing frosting as makeup.

MWAHAHA.

And Ellie collapsed onto the mattress, aiding Nia in the tickle attack. She could tickle, too. Just ask her little brother. And Nia and JD couldn't cover all of Becca's vital parts on their own. No way.

Whilst in the midst of tickling, Nia caught sight of one of JD's cakes in the air. Ack! She rolled out of the way, releasing Becca from the tickling in the process as the cake landed with plop right where she'd been.

And now things got a bit hectic. So many on one mattress, and they were all giggling hard. Nia went back to tickling Becca, who'd now been caked by Ellie. Properly caked. Hair, face, ears, the works. Hoorah! "High five!" she said to the first year with a grin, her hand held ready to do just that. She then would have launched another ticklish attack, but someone was now attempting to tickle her.

She wiggled round to see who it was. "JD!" What was the boy doing to her Quidditch boots? Nia frowned and kicked around a bit. Now. To tickle JD, or to tickle Becca, that was the question.

Or neither. Nia wriggled free, and ran to get some more cake. She wanted to be prepared.

In Becca's horrible attempt to escape from the evil Quidditch Captain, she noticed little legs scurrying towards her. She looked up just in time to see the mischievous look on Ellie's face before she promptly smeared two plates of cake all over Becca's head. She gasped in the midst of her laughter caused by Nia and instantly fell onto her tummy again. "Uhh, I'M BLIND!"

After briefly wiping the cake away from her eyes, Becca rolled onto her back just as Ellie joined in and Nia resigned from the position of Evil Tickler. Once Nia had caught her, Becca KNEW she wouldn't win - but Ellie was a different story. Sure, the first year had just creamed the seventh year with extreme expertise, but that was luck. And Ellie WAS tickling her, but not as good as Nia had been. So, with mild laughter and slight squirming still taking place, Becca grabbed Ellie's hands, sat up, and knocked the younger girl over in a massive hug. "Ohhhh little baby Ravenclaw, how I just... adore... you," she told Ellie overdramatically, wiping her cake-face all over Ellie's robes in between the last three words.

"And you seem to be a lovely towel, too."

Ellie was laughing histerically. She seized tickling Becca, for a moment, to give Nia that high-five, but apparently she became pre-occupied with JD... What WAS JD doing, exactly? Eh... And she turned back to continue said tickling, when Becca had caught her hands. She was being HUGGED now?! Crazy Becca girl!

And then there was the wiping of the cake. Of course. She shoulda known Becca would have an alterior motive. "You're a lovely team mate, you know that?" she said.

Then she took a bit of frosting off her robes. The frosting Becca had just smeared there. And dabbed Becca's newly clean-ish nose with it. "War paint." she said with a nod.

She did the same to herself. Or at least tried to. Because UNLIKE Becca, she didn't wipe her face off. So it still had cake on it. But she traced lined on her cheek anyway.

Realizing as Nia was rolling toward him and seeing one of his pieces of cake land right where she had been, he groans. Laughing anyway, he almost has the boot, reaching to pull it off she kicks and up and dashes away. Erghh!

Giggling he sits himself up, and looks around at them, covered in cake rolling around on the mattress that was desperately trying to pull itself back up to the top of the staircase. He could see the edges moving upward, desperately.

Suddenly with momentum it dumps all of them on the floor and floats back to the top. He could almost hear it laughing at all of them. Him laying on his back staring up at the ceiling, he bursts out laughing even harder.

Nia brought back a plate in each hand. A lovely slab of cake sat merrily on each one. And she was holding them like a Pro. Well, she felt like she was too.

Seeing the mattress dump JD, Nia laughed. It was hard not to, with how hard the boy himself seemed to be laughing. The plates quivered in her hands - why were paper plates so flimsy? - as she did so.

"I don't know why you bothered wiping that onto Ellie's robes," Nia said softly, as she approached the two girls from behind and starting to reaching round them in a hug. A plate perfectly set up sneakily either side. "Totally ruins the effect. And the Quidditch Robes. What would Prof. V say?" She mocked a look of disappointment, and shook her head.

"...And a complete waste of time, since I'm about to do, well, THIS!" With that, she stretched her arms round, and flicked her wrist. Had Nia just gone for the two in one? Oh YES she had. A plate of cake in each face.

"Why thank you. I do what I can," she said, wiping some more cake off on Ellie's robes. There. That was a lot better. There was still cake in her hair, ear, and smudged on random places on her face, but enough of it was taken care of that she was content. "War paint," she agreed, then chuckled at Ellie trying to give herself cake war paint over the cake already on her face. "Looks good," she nodded in approval. Or something.

Next thing she knew, both of them were being dumped off the mattress. JD went right along with them and she shook her fist at the mattress as he started laughing. "How dare you!" she told the inanimate object as it went back up to the top. She gave it a stern glance, then her face softened and she smiled at Ellie and JD.

And then she heard Nia's voice behind her. An arm was being wrapped around her as she began to reply, "Professor Vindictus would say that you-... NO!" She squeaked as she realized there was a plate of cake in the arm that was coming around to hug her. Before she could shove Nia away, the captain had already done the deed. Once again, Becca couldn't see, but she spun around, grabbed Nia's legs, and pulled her down. Hopping onto the girl's legs to prevent her from getting away and struggling to hold her down, Becca swiftly wiped the cake from her eyes and looked at Ellie. Nia had gotten her good, too. "Yo little dynamite, go get some cake! QUICK! We need to teach our captain here a lesson."

Heh.

"I'm sure you do." Ellie said, wrinkling her nose and holding back that SNORT. But it was true. Becca was a good team mate. If she were bad, this party would be a dud. And there would be no cakefight. So, yeah. Becca is an AWESOME teammate. Literally. "Good. Now we're ready." she said to the comment.

And she was just about to get up and get more cake- she still needed to get JD- when the mattress threw them off, toppling her onto the ground. Not nice, Mr. Mattress. NOT nice... And she GLARED at it as it floated back up to the top. Stupid inanimate objects think they could do whatever they want.

Getting up, she smiled at Nia. Her being attacked didn't cross her mind. You would think it would, in a CAKEFIGHT and such. But NOPE. Little Ellie was oblivious. It was the SMILE and the hugging gesture, and Nia's nice tones. Most likely. Agreeing with Nia, Ellie said, "Oooh. He gonna get you.." Smiling and going to hug her captain.

Then Nia turned the other cheek and smushed her face in cake. Awesome. The red head stood there in shock for a second. She was caught off guard. Wiping her eyes clean, so she could at least see, she turned around.

Her mouth fell open. Becca was holding Nia down. Ellie laughed. Oh? Attack time? And... 'little dynamite'? Hehe. Obeying her soon becoming favorite ever person, Ellie scampered back to the table, and piled as many plates of cake in her arms- some plates with multiple pieces- as fast as she could. Then she ran back to the two cake covered girls.

And.... DUMP. Ellie just spread her arms out and let ALLLLLLLL the cake pieces fall onto Nia. Then she promptly got on her knees and smeared the cake up and down the entirety of the body. "Tisk, tisk, captain. What would Professor V say when he sees that you've let you're guard down?" she said in a 'mock Nia' voice.

Hehehehehhe.

Jacob had taken at least a thousand and two napkins to clean off every last bit of cake on him. Now cake free he looked around... What in the world. Cake was now flying in all direction. Okay, The entire Ravenclaws team has gone completely mad. What exactly was the point of doing this after he was clean?

Jacob seemed to have gone undetected thus far, but he couldn't take any chances. He was now cake-free, and he was not going to get anymore cake on himself. He quickly, and as sneakily as possible made his way to the funiture and hid behind the sofa. If no one bothered him, and no cake flew in his general direction, he will not take part in this, and no one will have to get in the way of Jacob's master cake fighting Kung-fu skills.

Wiping the cake away from her eyes - because how was she supposed to continue the cake fight if she couldn't see? - Vashti, like the others, had been forcefully dropped by that EVIL!mattress, but she was kinda okay with it. At least it went back to its place so she could use it again if she wanted. Muahaha.

Vashti would've joined in Becca and Ellie's attack on Nia - or perhaps she would've attacked Becca and Ellie; we shall never know - but she caught a glimpse of someone trying to hide behind the furniture in the room. Oh no. No, no one was going cake free, not on Vashti's watch. Dashing over to the cake table and once again taking two plates of cake, she carefully and quietly tip-toed over to the sofa behind which that person was hiding. Then she jumped onto the sofa and shouted, "SNEAK ATTACK!" before throwing one plate of cake at the un-cake-convered "hidden" person.