Leaning forward on her broom Emily urged it forward. Speeding past her peers, inclining to avoid them she did her lap of the pitch. She was eager to get a quaffle in her hand.... it was time to go home.

The lap didn't take long, she zoomed back toward the boxes on the ground, the quaffle was calling out her name...

Nika was impressed with herself. Not only did she manage to stay in the air, but she was able to do it while whacking things. That's a very big leap. Nika looked around for the next animal thing. OH Spider. EWWWW SPIDER! Nika loves animals, but spiders are just gross. She didn't fear them, but she wasn't very fond of them. "TAKE THAT SPIDER!" Nika gave it one strong whack in the very center of its head. "HA!" Hitting stuff is a check.

This was it.... the quaffle grab.

Gliding smoothly parallel with the ground Emily approached the wooden box of quaffles.

She wasn't going as fast now. Namely because she didn't want to crash into the box of quaffles.... or the ground.... or Vindictus.... or her peers....
She wasn't a professional, so she didn't think it wise to risk doing a high-speed manover like that.

Still she had a descent speed going. Scooping down she scooped up one of the old red quaffles and tucked it under her arm.

Home sweet home baby... home sweet home.

Nika smiled confidently and threw her fist into the air. All her fears of falling where gone and they where replaced with a new attitude of fun. Flying did feel pretty awesome once you get past the falling down option. Nika swooped down with a lot of speed. "WOOOHOOOO!" This is fun. She dropped her bat in the box and looked up at the sky. Such a perfect day.

Now Emily was in her element...

Fast broom, quaffle and target.

Target practice was always her favourite kind of practice. Being a chaser it came naturally to her.

Speeding towards the target Vindictus had conjured Emily took aim and fired.

*DING*

Success! ... and THAT was why Ravenclaw won the Quidditch cup. All those training sessions had paid off.

Grinning Emily dipped her broom and went to retreive the quaffle.

Selina flew around in the sky as the balloons around her head vanished. One of the more random tasks she had been asked to participate in for a final exam. Vindictus never could let himself fall behind though. The next part of the exam was equally if not more outlandish than the last, yet somewhat entertaining.

Lifting up her bat she made sure she found the butterfly. Once it was in plain sight Selina whacked the bat and aimed right for the butterfly... she missed. She was a Chaser after all and being a beater was Simon's specialty.

Her second try proved successful and she kept an eye out for the next item.

Kurumi felt a bit relieved when all the balloons went away. One A thousand less things to worry about smacking into. But, that relief soon had it's bubble burst when Professor Vindictus spoke.

Soon, there were GIANT pin...pinyacth...pinyata...pin-somethings flying around the pitch. Not just flying like gliding through the air like a bird, they were shooting around like some menacing giant fly.

Kurumi whimpered as she looked down at her bat and then at the pin-naninani closet to her. It didn't look scary...but, she had some personal feelings against whacking a butterfly with a bat. She had grown up being told that butterflies as souls of the living and the dead...and here she was being told that she had to whack it.

Sighing, Kurumi tried her best to keep up with the butterfly-thing and managed to get within touching distance. She leaned forward a little, nearly falling off her broom in the process, but was able to see that the giant butterfly was made out of paper.

Well, hitting a paper butterfly wasn't the same as hitting a real one...especially if she did it gently!

Just as she was about to take a whack at the butterfly, the butterfly swerved to the right. Kurumi followed it and took another swing at it.

*THUMP*

She managed to clip its wing. That counted, right?

Dipping lower Emily intercepted the quaffle as it plummeted down toward the pitch.

Emily suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of sadness... she had reached the end of her time at Hogwarts... quidditch was over and she was looking at starting work once she graduated. There would be ... no more.... quidditch.

She wasn't good enough to play professional quidditch, no matter how much she would want to. So now she had to come to terms with the fact that she may never hold a quaffle again... well with the exception of quick games of backyard quidditch.

Reaching the wooden box on the pitch Emily reluctantly dropped it in as she zoomed over the top, toward the goal post at the north end of the pitch.

She wiped a stray tear from her eye as she went.

As Selina looked around for the next item she saw the pig in the air. It looked so helpless and inanimate. So of course Selina had no problems destroying the poor thing. Although the decorations on the pig would be destroyed Selina knew better than to oppose Vindictus. He could taketh away points as much as he giveth them.

So raising her bat again Selina aimed for the pig. For a moment she thought that she saw a look in its eye not for her to whack it. It was only a moment because then the pig was knocked down several hundred feet. Her best shot so far.

Once Emily reached the goalposts at the north end of the pitch, she hovered around the tallest one, sitting on her broom relaxed she unfastened one of the small purple draw string bags from the goal post and weighed it up in her hand... what was it? she wondered.

Having completed the task Emily hovered by the goal hoops, waiting for her peers to complete the task and join her. In this time she imagined what Vindictus might have in store for them next? Seeker practice? catching golf balls? who knew....

Kurumi looked over her shoulder and uttered a silent apology to it for whacking it. It had looked so cute and innocent floating around in the sky. Sure, she had thought of them as menacing flies earlier, but it wasn't all that bad.

Kurumi then turned her attention to the pig and began coughing as she swallowed and laughed at the same time. Wasn't there an expression relating to pigs and flying? She swore that she had heard someone mention it before.

Putting thoughts about pigs flying out of her mind for the moment, Kurumi gripped her bat and took off at casual pace after it. A few strands of its weird grass skit ripped off and flew into her face and one even found its way into her mouth.

Spitting it out, Kurumi tightened her grip on the bat and leaned forward a bit to increase her speed.

*TWACK!*

She connected with the pig's snout.

Man, Vindictus was totally chilling down there!

Lucky.

Actually, no, lucky them that were up in the air smacking things away.

And...say what, Vindictus? The butterfly? But the butterfly didn't hurt anyone. Neither did the balloons, but still. Whatever. It was time to get those piñatas that Saylen would love, to the ground. All shattered. Perfect.



And...those things were faster than the balloons, that's why Treyen was zooming faster and trying very hard to avoid some of his classmates, and NONE of his teammates. Where on Earth were his teammates?

Anyway, he searched for the butterfly as he zoomed past some pigs and spiders. Awesome. NOT. But soon he found it, and once he'd gotten real close to it...he moved his bat to the back, and then straight to the front...smacking that thing in the middle and then watching it fall.

Man. This felt good.

Rex took his bat and seeing the butterfly move around and he finally hit the butterfly. Rex swwops down and drops his bat in the box. Rex circles the pitch. Rex swoops down low without touching the ground and grabs the Quaffle from the other box.

Kurumi looked, no, glared at Professor Vindictus who might as well been sitting on some exotic beach drinking some fruity beverage with one of those paper umbrellas sticking out of it. Kurumi was slightly tempted to hit the pig thingy towards him, but thought the better of it. No sense in getting a detention with this man who was clearly losing his mind.

Slouching her shoulders a bit, Kurumi eyed the area for the next thing on the list of things to whack. The one she had been fearing the most...and THERE it was...

Looming in the air like the black plague was the 8-legged creature Kurumi feared almost as much as she feared cockroaches. Sure, its big pink eyes and doopy smile were probably cute to others, but to Kurumi, it was taunting her saying look at me! I can disguise myself as something cute BEFORE I SUCK OUT YOUR SOUL! Female spiders do devour male spiders after they succeed in courtship. Whose to say they don't also suck souls?

Palms sweating a bit more than was necessary, Kurumi threw her shoulders back and was ready to whack this spider into next week.

*crr-aaack*

Kurumi really told that spider who was boss...and took of one of its legs in the process. Now it was just a 7-legged-freak.

As he'd guessed, all the pigs were nowhere to be found now, but there were tons of butterflies everywhere. Or, perhaps, this was the butterfly area, and he just had to get back to the piggy area, no?

Either way, Treyen zoomed back to where he'd come from, except, he couldn't remember the exact direction, but he still managed to avoid hitting Kurumi with his bat when he'd left his hand out.

Oops.

"Sorry Kurumi!" yes, because the girl was NOT a piñata.

But, look! The pig! THE pig. Treyen smirked and got his bat ready.

SMACK!

The pig was flying DOWN. In defeat, broken, in half. Treyen had so totally won.

Kurumi watched as the leg from her spider fell to the ground and landed right next to Professor Vindictus. Should have hit him and his fruity drink. That would show him to sit their in his chair looking pleased with himself!

Just as Kurumi was about to guide herself down to the ground and put her bat in the marked box when there was a flash of someone with a sparkly smile and a bat that came centimeters away from her face. Kurumi snapped her head so quickly that she soon found herself dangling halfway off her broom.

This was all Treyen's fault! Didn't he realize she was enough of a train wreck flying around by herself without someone else creating a distraction.

"I-I-I-I-It's ok-ok-okay," she stammered trying to kick her way back onto her broom. It took a few tries, but she did finally manage to do it.

Now, back to dropping off her bat....

Kurumi zigzagged her way through the air until she hovered over the box and dropped it nearly into it.

Whaaaat?!

So, Kurumi almost fell from her broom, but that couldn't possibly have been because of him, right? Probably because of his smile, but not him, nor the bat he was holding, yes?

Er, he watched her gaining control of her broom and sighed in relief, then his face was turned to the front just in time to....CRACK! A spider had decided to next in his handleeeee! The handle had made a hole right in the middle of the spider, and it wouldn't get off.

Well, well, time for the bat to finish it off, no?

And with one sweeping motion, Treyen sent the spider in pieces to the ground. Hehe. At least none of the pieces fell near Vindictus, though.

Ok now everything is in full swing as pinatas go breaking and careening about. At this point the Slytherin lad wanted to get back down on the ground-- the air is far too busy for his liking.

And he was on his way to do just that when something large and black swung right in front oh him "Whatthe--" he squawked as he leaned suddenly to his right, the broom banks to his side and nearly threw him off the cushioned saddle. He looks back up and sees the silhouette of -- a big black Spider.

He flies towards it as fast as he could (which truly it isnt), draws his arm back like a knight wielding a sword and swings....

*CRACK*

The Spider falls.... the Slytherin wins.

Thinking that her defeat of the scary spider made her safe, Kurumi once again found herself clinging to her broom when more bits and legs flew all over the place. Peering around her flailing legs, Kurumi saw that Salander and Treyen had both worked their magic on their pinayatatas.

Why did it seem like this term she was getting nightmares from classes more often that not? What was going to happen when she began studying for new OWLs...and what about NEWTs?! Her head was spinning already.

Kurumi managed to fling herself back on her broom, and was about to say something when Treyen's sparkly smile put her thoughts to rest.

Instead, she lowered her body onto her broom until she was practically lying flat on it and slowly made her way forward - trying to avoid more exploding spiders. Every now and again, a leg or a pink eye would land on her robes or get caught in the tail of her broom, but she did her best to remove those quickly and efficiently.

Yeah, baby! No more of those piñatas from Saylen!

He'd managed to destroy them with the mighty Beater's bat. Or, yeah, whatever, it wasn't much of an accomplishment anyway.

But Treyen was now done with task one of getting rid of those piñatas, therefore, he wouldn't be needing the bat anymore, so, in his attempt to head back to wherever the box was located, hopefully near Vindictus because he wanted popcorn, the boy flew by Kurumi.

"Kurumi! You okay?" he exclaimed, zooming away from the girl and finally dropping the bat on the box. Vindictus' popcorn...forgotten.

Completing her circle of the pitch and managing not to fall off, Kurumi looked down when she heard Treyen speak to her. Wow...that was a loooooooooong way down.

"I-I-I-I'm alright," she said semi-lying through her teeth as she forced herself to smile. You know, just trying not to get attacked by exploding spider bits and stay on my broom. But he didn't need to hear that detail. "T-T-Treyen?" she asked as she slooooooooowly guided herself down to the pitch and hovered about two feet over the ground. "Which one of these balls is the Waffle?"

She leaned forward and reached down to touch one of the balls.

Wait...waffle didn't sound right...She remembered Selina lecturing her about waffles some Quidditch ball in the Gryffindor common room.

Lying flat on her broom again, Kurumi reached both hands down - one over each side of her broom - and grabbed a red leather-covered ball.

"Is this a Waffle?"

GASP!

They were going to play with a Quaffle too?! YESSSS!

But first they had to whack those overgrown piñatas. Easy enough, surely. Even if they moved around. They were freakishly large – they couldn’t be that hard to hit.

Vashti’s arm was getting a bit tired though. How did anyone carry this sort of thing around during an entire Quidditch match and smack those Bludgers all the time? She really didn’t know and was once again glad she was a Chaser.

Turning her broom once more, she shot off towards the giant butterfly and didn’t raise her bat until she got within a few feet of it. No need to get her arm too tired – then she wouldn’t be able to hit at all. Besides, she wasn’t sure which direction to strike until she was near enough to know where the crazy piñata was going.

It tried to fly over her….

THWACK!

The bat smacked the butterfly's underbelly, perhaps making the tiniest dent in it. Vashti sort of wished she could’ve made a bigger impact on it, but that was good enough.

Now for the giant pig.

Rex gets the Quaffle. Rex aooms to the target. He throwa Quaffle hard at target. Ouch! He misses his shot. Rex zoooms right in front of target and walla, he hits it. DING!!! Rex retrieves the Quaffle.Rex goes to the North End and grabs a purple bag. Next balloon target will be pig.

Pinatas? Spike's eyes lit up. You hit them, and then they burst and sweets fell out, right?

Mmm. Sugarrrrr.

Though, Professor Vindictus didn't mention anything about falling candy, so maybe these were the special flying practice variety. And wouldn't break or something. Pout.

Hovering on hs broom, Spike watched the moving pinatas, waiting for a couple of the others to take their hit on the butterfly. He didn't want to have to feel rushed in his own attempt, as something told him flying might be one of the only finals he stood a chance of doing well in. He wanted to be able to give it his best shot.

Raising the bat in his hand Spike leant forward on his broom, picking up speed as he started after the butterfly. It immediately felt different going after something that was continuously moving as opposed to just drifting occasionally like some of the balloons were. Judging his aim, Spike swung back his arm and hit the butterfly with a THWACK!

Heh. Barely a dent.

Now, where was Mr. Piggy?

Kyle held tightly onto her bat, with a quick hard swing she smacked the first pinata. The little butterfly ripped open with ease - she was happy with her move there - a one fell smash and it ripped open. Good for her.

She looked around for the others, but smiled as she glanced down at her custom broom. It was lit up like no other - after all night light was a broom made for night flying with customizable colors. It also was ten times faster than a firebolt - so pretty fast.