Emily zoomed off after the quaffle Ellie had thrown up the pitch, she took hold and placed it under her arm. Zigzaging through beaters and bludgers Emily headed towards goal, looking about her for anyone that wanted possession.....
In a game they would have to pass effectively, especially if they wanted to beat Hufflepuff in the final.

Vashti was glad she'd passed the quaffle because the bludger she'd spotted in fact was heading for her. She shot up a couple feet to avoid it, a move that might have made her lose the red ball if she'd been holding in, and watched from that height as Spike shot the ball and scored. Awesome!

Seeing Ellie throw the ball back into play, Vashti started after it but turned her broom to avoid colliding with Emily, who had gotten to the quaffle before her. She made a small arc to turn herself back in the direction of the goal hoops, flying down the left side of the field and keeping her eye on the ball in Emily's hand in case she decided to pass.

Emily saw Vashti out of the corner of her eye, she was in a better possition so Emily passed the quaffle to her.

She dipped a little lower before accelerating towards the goals, making sure to stay outside the goal scoring area.

Seeing the quaffle flying toward her now, Vashti reached her arm out and caught it. She tucked it under her arm and continued her path to the goal hoops. Her eyes scanned Ellie and the hoops quickly, trying to think of a way to score. She decided against doing the same as Spike had done - Ellie would probably expect it this time - so she opted for a simple, swift shot at the left hoop.

While everyone rushed toward the Quaffle, Ellie took the chance to steal a glance at the bludgers. One was....just passed the scoring aread. Check. And two... two was far enough away that she shouldn't be worried. This was good. She turned her attention back to the red ball.

Once again, her eyes followed it as it passed from Emily's hands to Vashti's. And it looked like Vashti was going to take the shot, based on her proximity. Ellie gripped the handle of her broom more firmly, so her hands wouldn't slip and cause the broom to veer off in an undesireable direction.

The ball went left, and Ellie pulled her broom right. She elevated higher and threw her right hand in its path, and pulled it close to her.

Blocked.

She tossed it back into play.

Jacob watched all the strategies together "Formation! Form-a-tion!" Jacob broke it down for them, they needed to learn to work together with set strategies. They needed to focus and-

Bludger!

Jacobs mind was immedietly taken off the Chasers, like a dog taking its attention from a ball to food. He chased after the destructive ball.

Once in position, Jacob found his target... Amadeus. He went into a back swing, and hit the ball as hard as possible into the 7th years direction. Jacob was still testing the kid, even after several monthes of practice, Jacob still wanted to see Deus' habits when it came to bludgers.

Dodge or Return?

Come on, Deus. Give him your best shot.

Amadeus shrugged, cocking his head to the side. Well, after that fiasco last time, I don't particularly want to put Vashti in the line of fire again, He thought. "Fine, fine," He called out, taunting his team mate in a playful way. "I thought you could handle it, but I guess not." Shrugging once more, he flew off, suppressing the smile that longed to come to his lips. Deus liked Spike: he was the feistiest, most intelligent first year he had ever come across.

Taking off towards the chasers once more, Amadeus figured that it would be better to try to protect them if any bludger headed their way. Maybe next practice, they would be more receptive about actually being targeted. His team mates were going to have to get used to it, especially when the opposing team's beaters would be mercilessly taking aim at them.

Looking around, he looked lost momentarily. Where had those blighters disappeared to? Bludgers definitely weren't as hard to spot as the snitch, so why was he having trouble-

WHOOSH.

Something rather hard and large grazed his ear, causing it to throb a bit uncomfortably after a moment. Turning around, the seventh year spotted none other than his captain, and a smirk came to his face instantly. Hadn't Spike suggested for him to pick on someone his own size? The other bludger zoomed in his general direction and he took a swing with all of his might in the captain's direction. Time to see if Captain Blunt was as stealthy as people described him to be.

Emily went after the quaffle once more, making a loop-de-loop to avoid Deus and his bludger. Noticing that Jacob was yelling out to the to get in formation, she turned her head about to see her teammates. Weaving between other players Emily looked for the oppotunity to pass, she didn't think she'd be able to take it all the way to the hoops. This had to be a team effort.

Formation? Exactly what formation did Jacob want them to get into? There were tons. Sigh. Vashti would just try and go with whatever her fellow Chasers were doing.

Seeing Emily take the Quaffle once more, Vashti flew after her but guided her broom to a little lower height so that she was soon flying below and to the left of Emily. She continued to keep her eye out for bludgers as she called, "I'm open!"

Emily heard Vashti's voice slightly below her, instinctively she threw her the quaffle then circled around to get into a better position.

The wind whipped at her face, sending shivers down her spine... not cold shivers... it was one of those exhilirating shivers that made your skin crawl and your hair stand on end.

Jacob was gonna have fun with mister Kipling today. Oh, yes. So much fun, his ear will be the least of his worries if he doesn't watch the bludgers at all time.

Jacob allowed a smile to creep across his face, as the boy took sent the other bludger at him.

He lost no time... Jacob flew full speed directly at the bludger that was threatening to hit him any second. Playing chicken with Bludgers was so much fun... but a split second before the head on collision, Jacob swerved out of the way.

But Jacob was Chicken yet, He went in a full circle and when he reached the Bludger, his bat was ready. The ball collided with the bat, causeing it to shoot back at Deus.

"Is that the Best you got?!" he yelled at the boy, trying to provoke him.

Jacob would have been watching the chasers, but he needed to work on Amadeus' aggression first.

Once again Vashti extended her arm to catch the quaffle, but this time she almost dropped it. Almost. She managed to keep ahold of it by using both hands, and once she had a good grip, she tucked it under her arm and took off for the hoops, gaining height as she went forward. She glanced to either side every few seconds, keeping an eye out for both bludgers and for an open Emily or Spike to pass to.

Amadeus nodded, but his being impressed at his captain's moves dissipated as the fifth year prodded him on. What was he playing at? His temper simmered ever so slightly under his facade of level-headedness. Two could play at that game of one-upping each other. As Vashti zoomed by and through the line of fire, the seventh year zoomed towards the bludger that Jacob had just shot towards him. This time around, he chose to take wide aim at the speeding bullet of a ball; Merlin help any chaser who got in the way of his bat.

With a CRACK, the bludger went flying right back at Jacob, zooming a few feet over the head of Emily as the ball sped off in a line, as straight as an arrow. "Come on." He muttered, urging the bludger to make contact.

A huge grin made its home on Jacobs face.

Deus seemed to be getting a tiny bit fustrated... Yes! Get fustrated, Get angry! Use it!

Jacob casually held out his bat and hit the bludger straight up in the air. Like it were just a soft ball and they were playing hacky sack... just with bats instead of legs.

Jacob pulled his handle up and chased after the bludger... a good 20 feet over Deus, Jacob took a mighty swing and knocked the bludger down at Amadeus.

"My grandmother could play better than you!" oh yes, he was taking the nasty, degrading captain approach. What ever it take to actually get the kid to hit Jacob.

"Come on! Hit Me!" The smirk was now permanent on Jacobs face, now just holding back mad laughter.

Amadeus was ready to go for it this time, his bat gripped tightly in his right hand as his left tightly gripped the polished wood of his broom. There would be no dodging, no fear of getting hit. It would take fierce intensity, such as this, to get a good crack at the bludger that soared in a spiral pattern straight at the blonde boy. His captains taunts made him bite his lip; he could give no cheek to his superior, but he could give him a bludger-sized bruise.

Zooming head on, his calculating mind quickly attempting to gauge the best angle to whack at it, he was a mere few feet from it when he gritted his teeth and took a huge whack at it, one that left his arm feeling sore, as if he had just pulled a small muscle. But no matter: making contact was all that mattered. Deus breathed heavily, tracing the path of the bludger as it shot up towards Jacob.

Emily zoomed towards the scoring area just to the right of Vashti. Noticing she wasnt in any danger of being hit by a bludger Emy called for the quaffle.
"Im open! she yelled over the rushing noise of the wind,concentrating on the red object under Vashtis arm.

Hearing some shouting going on, Vashti took a quick glance behind her to see Jacob and Amadeus having...some kind of bludger fight? Hmmm.

She was jolted back to the task at hand by Emily's voice. Seeing her open and closer to the hoops than she was, Vashti threw the quaffle towards her, hoping she would catch it because Vashti's attention was now on this interesting bludger match between Deus and Jacob.

Jacob had now forgotten the chasers completely. He was going to get hit by deus today... Even if they went into the night Jacob was going to be hit by amadeus.

Jacob tossed his bat from hand to hand. Come on deus, show me what you've really got.

When Deus hit the bludger at his, the bat stopped in his left hand and got into a sturdy Position. The boy was still bubbling inside it it wasn't coming out through the bat. What was with boy? Couldn't he get what Jacob was trying to do?

Jacob wasn't going to go easy on the boy, but this time he had to get out of the way in order to hit it. The seventh year was getting better, but Jacob wasn't happy yet.

He smashed the bludger at deus. And shouted out towards the boy "control and strength! Learn to control yourself, your bat and yor broom, center yourself and let your strength flow through the bat. The bat will do the rest." he was teaching.

"Now Hit Me!"

Ellie was thoroughly entertained by Deus failing at whatever it was Jacob was doing to him.

She was positive she wouldn't fail. But Jacob hadn't put her as Beater this term, had he? His loss. HMPH.

Thankfully, she had no worries while watching the battle. The Beater's, obviously, had control over the Bludgers and the Chasers seemed just as distracted as she was.

And...for once...she was rooting for Jacob. If it was that kind of competition, of course. She wasn't sure, but that was what it looked like.

Looking rather sulky, he decided to go against what society had taught him to do: control his temper. If it came to it, Amadeus would take the bloody bludger in his hands and personally toss it at Jacob if these charades went on for too long. Taking a deep breath, he narrowed his eyes, concentrating on the bludger as he let it come to him. Not flying after it would save up some power for him to actually swing.

To get this right, he would have to do something innovative. Think of it as concentrating on a patronus, except channeling anger rather than happiness. As the kamikaze of a ball came closer and closer, Amadeus imagined someone's face on it, someone that he rather disliked. Looking as though he were the son of Medusa, he forgot his strategy and charged at the ball, almost looking as if he were going to headbutt it rather than hit it with his bat. Biting his lower lip so hard that he felt it might bleed, he swung with precision and almost lost his bat, his hands sweaty from the exertion as he let out a sort of battle cry. Slumping over slightly, the perspiration evident on his face, he called out, "Is that bloody quick enough for you?"

Emily caught the quaffle comfortably, leaning forward on her broom she accelerated towards the hoops. Ellie was the only obstacle in her way of scoring. She seemed to ne distracted by Jacob and Deus, so she took her chance and sent a shot to the right hoop.

The Quaffle sailed over Ellie's left shoulder.

She didn't see it at all. The Beaters....they were THAT distracting. In a game, Ellie wouldn't have been paying quite that much attention to them. But this was practice.

With the ball being neglected by the Keeper, it slowly fell behind the hoops.

Woah. Those beaters were being a bit distracting. It was quite amusing to watch, although Finn was pretty sure that they shouldn't really get that distracted by them, because like that could happen in the game too right? And getting distracted wouldn't be too cool. Finn glanced around the hoops, looking for the quaffle, which was falling down to the floor. Oh. Opps. They really were distracted. "Ellie you're losing the quaffle." The prefect laughed a bit, as he zoomed down and collected the quaffle before it could like fall all the way to the floor. And now...maybe they could be less distracted.

Although....with Ellie distracted they might have a chance of shooting.

Spike's eyes were focused on the quaffle, and solely on the quaffle. So much so, he was blissfully unaware of the beaters' ongoing battle of wits or strength or manliness whatever else it might be. And thus, hadn't been distracted by it.

Nope, all Spike's concentration was on the ball he'd been told he needed to get through the hoops. Which he saw fly over Ellie's shoulder (causing a shocked "Miss Ellie!" to escape in surprise, as he was clueless to the fact she was distracted) and then get picked up by Finn.

The awesome Finn, who'd said Spike had been epic in the last match he'd played. Epic. The memory made Spike grin. And considering he was currently in lots of space, maybe he could show Finn he made a decent chaser too.

"Hereeeee! Over hereeee!" Spike called, waving excitedly at the older boy, curls bouncing wildly. "S'mine. The quaffle. Me me!"

Ellie heard her name. Twice.

"Wha'?" She tore her eyes from the Bludger Battle and turned to Finn.

Ohhhhh. The Quaffle. Apparently not all of the Chasers were distracted.... Heh?

"Sorry." Ellie called to Finn. And then to Spike, "Sorry."

She glanced back at Deus and Jacob for a moment. But just for a moment. The Quaffle was her priority.

That's not to say that she won't be keeping tabs on the battle...just...not as obviously.