Kurumi continued to make her way towards Treyen when her broom suddenly kicked forward and Kurumi's forehead made contact with the handle, making a loud SMACKing noise.

Rubbing her forehead to try and dull the pain a bit, Kurumi's eyes widened when she saw that Treyen was slowing down. Wait...he was slowing down and she was speeding up...this wasn't going to end well, was it?

"WOAH! STOPSTOPSTOP!" she squeaked shaking her broom's handle a bit. However, the broom seemed to think that this meant speed up.

William is with team two. He has a broom that is well broken down. He flies tr team one. Wobble, wobble, wobble. William is hanging on for dear life. He tries to fly his broom straight at team one. William and his broom fall to the ground. He gets on his broom again.

OH.

This was ridiculous! Why on Earth was his broom slowing doooown? He was completely focusing on making it zoom faster and he was failing at it. At least he wasn't chasing after a snitch, which made it all so much better, truth be told.

Until he noticed that Kurumi's broom had done the opposite.

O____o

Treyen never even got the chance to chose a target to knock off when he was becoming one! "Tell it to go faster! See if it works!" he exclaimed, noticing that his own broom seemed to gain a bit more speed, but if this kept on going, then Kurumi will be knocking him off his broom.

William sees the Gryffindor captain from the other team. Hopefully he can show the his fancy moves. Willaim gets up on his broom again. He whizzws past the Gryffindor captain. Then the broom acts like a muggle car. The broom sputtered and sputtered. William pretended to put gas in his broom and it stayed up.

Kurumi's head smacked into the broom's handle again and she thought that she saw about a dozen golden snitches flying around her head...oh...nope, completely wrong. It was the sparkle from Treyen's teeth as he called out to her.

Momentarily in a daze, and not just due to Treyen's sparkling aura, she attempted to find her footing. Once her feet were back in her footpegs, Kurumi cast a quick violet gaze over at the boy.

"G-G-Go faster..." she whispered shutting her eyes tight.

She didn't speed up...nor did she slow down. Instead her broom began spiraling through the air. Her head hit something...she wasn't sure what it was she had hit, but her head was throbbing and she was still spinning out of control.

The First Mate kicks off from the ground, on a flying contraption that he considered was well beneath him, as he thought nothing would be better than captaining his own ship. He spotted the Glick and Sherman somewhere on the ground with an unidentified woman. Curious whoever this one was. But it was chaos amongst the children and in a way he welcomed it, zooming and around them like live dodge balls.

He was this close to giving up and simply try to zoom down and land as nicely as he could on the ground, but he changed his mind when he heard Kurumi's voice. Right. That's why he was staying in the air.

But her voice triggered something else, because now his broom seemed to act on her command? At least it acted on someone's command. He was zooming faster and faster and sooooo close to her that he thought he was going to end up being the one knocking her off her broom, but all he felt was something on his elbow...did he...hit her? Hopefully not, but she was spinning out of control soon after that, and his broom was zooming faster and faster towards the other direction, until he decided to make it stop and the thing made up its mind and turned around instead.

Awww, poor broom, really, the thing was too stressed out.

So as long as Kurumi didn't decide on running against him, then they'll be okay.

Bumping people off their brooms sounds fun! But isn't it dangerous not to charm the ground? That is so un-Vindictus! And what in Merlin's hat with these people starting to talk like pirates again?!

Aiden slowly soars up the sky. Her broom is unstable after the previous game they played. She tightens her grips on the broomstick so she won't fall before someone from the opposite team bumps her off. That'd be really embarassing!

Looking around the pitch, Aiden searches for unvigilant opponents to knock off.

Rose got on her broom and flew into the air. She spied around for Simon, the Gryffindor Team Captain, she spotted him, and waved at him, before whizzing for him. Her broom went fast and completely at her comand. At first. When she got nearer to Simon, her broom kicked out altogether! Rose felt herself falling, and just as she would've hit the ground she made one last attempt to pull up. It worked. 'Ar! Cap'n are these here brooms mad!?' Rose shouted over to the Captain... Barnabus was he?

If Ryden cried easily, she'd have been bawling now. Her baby - her beloved broom - was completely WRECKED. After much persuading, kicking, pulling and merlin knows what else, she managed to raise herself to the height at which the rest of the players were.

NOW. Where was that Gryffindor? Eyes searching the field, Ryden blinked as she saw the girl's supposed boyfriend THROW her at Vindictus. ... Er, ok. Rolling her eyes, she focused on a random student and edged her broom forwards.

>__<

Only to have it racing backwards, towards the goalhoops behind her. "STOPSTOPSTOPSTOP!!" she yelled, smacking the handle with her hand as she tried to make it halt. It did not. Perhaps she could use this? Concentrating, she tried to navigate the broom BACKWARDS, and found to her delight that she had swerved exactly the right amount and was now racing back towards the crowd.

Twigs and bottom first. Hmpf. Stupid broom.

Rose steadied herself on her broom and checked for any damage. It seemed fine! So what was wrong with it? It must have been a one off... She saw a random person on Team One and flew towards them. When she got nearer, her broom went in the other direction completely! 'NO! Come on go back, I want to do well in this Exam!' she pleaded with her broom. It turned back, but only allowed her to go by the girl, not at her.

Louisa's heart was starting to race.. and flying high above had nothing to do with it. Something fishy was going, evil. It was an awful practical joke from those students to speak the way the Professor does! And they were...like... vicious.

Once that blond girl barked at them to move it and all, the thirteen year old mounted her broom, a lump in her throat as she scanned the scene for an opponent. She was going to die. Even if it was a fake death those crazy people planned for, she was going to die. And she was scared TO DEATH! Hmph!

Her Ravenclawish freaked out mind didn't miss the fact that most of her opponents were... crazy and willing to bite her if they were close enough. Logically, she headed towards the least weird and crazy of them all that she knew..

..except that her broom was bumping. She did have bumping brooms before and to be honest she never flew up without bumping or rolling in her place for a few minutes, but this time.. it was like.. err.. her brand new Cleansweep didn't want to elaborate!

Forcing the broom forward, her white sheet like face still on, Louisa extended her hand to get hold of the back of the boy's broom and shake it. Only if she made it in time. Oh and no, she wasn't bumping into him it may knock her off the broom.

Rose brought her broom round. She tried to go forwards, only the broom wanted to go backwards!? Well, she'd have to improvise... She turned her broom around and started flying, whilst looking behind her to see what she was doing. When she was nearly going to hit someone, the broom decided to go forwards again!? Rose let out a quiet scream of frustration.

EEEEEEKKK.

Perhaps if she just let go? Gripping the broom hard with her legs she let go of the broom with her arms and felt her stomach drop as she plummeted down to the ground with tight, nauseating spins. One hand going to her nose that was not up for this much movement, the other grabbed the broom and PULLED.

... And it obeyed. Calmly, as if nothing had happened, her broom began climbing upwards towards her teammates, in the right direction and without too much wobbling. Er. . . Ok?

Out of the corner of her eye Ryden saw that most of the students there - if not all of them - were having severe broom troubles as well. Oh, that other Gryffindor girl, the one from Astronomy, was here too... EEEP. NO, BROOM, NO. Eyes widening as her broom sped up, Ryden yelled and bellowed at it to go slower and MOVE off the path it had locked itself onto.

The path to the girl called Kurumi. "STOP, NO, STOP IT, SHE'S ON MY TEAM - GET HER! GET THE OTHER GRYFFINDOR! THAT MAD ONE, NO BROOM STOP STOP STOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!!"

Rose hit her broom, and it collapsed. She held on, and hoped for the best... Goodbye, Cruel world! But, the moment didn't come. She opened her eyes and she was in the air again. She let out a gasp of relief. She looked for someone on Team One. She found a Hufflepuff, and whizzed towards him. As she got near him, her broom turned and went for the stands. She tried to turn but it wouldn't let her! At the last moment the broom turned, and she was safe again.

She was gaining on the boy.. only a few inches a way from his broom's brush end when the broom decided to take a break..

..and stop. Louisa froze with the broom, suspended in midair, not so high above the ground luckily, and with a stretched right arm. Anyone looking at the posture would think it was a statue for a fallen Quidditch player back in time.

Blink..blink..

Huh? What the hell happened? She thought the whole world froze, Louisa straightened up holding the broomstick with both hands and looked around her. Nope. Everyone was shouting at the top of their lungs and moving save for her br--

WHAAAOOO! The broom was descending, head first, toward the ground, "WAAAA!! NOOOO! HEEEEEEELP!" Louisa joined the shouting people of team one, instead of sounding so bald and rough she was whining and screaming like a girl..a babygirl.

"MERLINE! GO UUUUP!" Vashti's instructions shot through her head as she moved the broomstick upward with all her might, shutting her eyes in case she fell to the ground...and died.

Rose fulled her broom around again. 'Right, what is up with you? I'm getting a broom in the summer, so I don't have to use school ones again!' she told herself. She decided that she wasn't going to get anyone, but she might as well try! She pulled her broom around, found someone on Team One and flew at them with all of her might. She got so close she brushed against them. But didn't knock them off of their broom. Which sucked. It knocked her off though! She fell to the ground holding her broomstick and at the last minute, the broomstick flew, her hanging on to it with one hand, and brought her to the ground. 'Thank you!' she told the broomstick in her hand. 'Hey, Captain, do we get points for knocking ourselves off?' Rose asked Barnabus grinning

Rubbing her head a bit, Kurumi focused long enough to see Treyen rubbing his elbow. Oh, so that had been what she had smacked into. "S-S-S-Sorry!" she shouted flailing her arms a bit and trying her best to bow in apology while on her broom. The broom took this to mean that she wanted it to begin a swan dive towards the pitch.

Forget trying to knock other people off their brooms, she was doing a fine job trying to accomplish this on herself.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

While in mid swan dive, Kurumi heard someone else shouting and her stomach tied in knots. It was the Ravenclaw girl that had gotten all snooty at her during Astronomy. Kurumi silently wished that her broom was zooming towards the ground faster so that she could put herself out of her misery now instead of collide midair with the older girl. That CERTAINLY would cause her to meet her doom, right?

Eyes wider than a saucer, Kurumi could do nothing but hold on as her broom went zooming down. At this rate, it looked as though the handle of her broom was going to make a tail on collision....

Nose bleeding freely now, Ryden could taste the blood as she frantically tried to swerve the broom another way, but if anything, that only made it go faster. And if she missed the girl she would end up mowing the grass on the pitch. At least Vindictus would appreciate that - she'd be a good fertilizer.

EEEEEEEKK.

They were BOTH going to fall to the ground. That girl with her dive and herself with her head on collision course. Yelling, spitting, yelling again, Ryden felt her broom quiver and blanched. It was rising. A LITTLE. BUT IT WAS.

BUT SHE WAS STILL GOING TO CRASH INTO HER. AND THEN THE GROUND. Five seconds... four... three... two... Ryden had an idea! ... one... With a mighty roar, Ryden simultaneously ripped out half the twigs from her broom AND caught hold of the other girl's broom shaft, causing herself to wildly rock from side to side but AWAY from the ground, her broom seemingly disoriented by this blatant mutilation.

And she was still holding the girl's broom. With her bloody hand. Er. . . "S-sorry 'bout dat," Ryden stammered, her heart beating loudly inside her chest, her head throbbing and her nose... still not working.

Ugh.

.. but she didn't.

Louisa felt her broom flying still after a few seconds of closing her eyes. That mean it didn't collide with the ground. SLowly, she opened her eye lids slightly and saw that she was going forward to a random person. She didn't recognize her/him since their back was to Louisa but she gasped and moved her unsteady broom to the right.

"PLEASE PLEASE!" she begged the wicked woodstick she rode, over and over again.. till the thing hit her. Figuratively speaking.

She had to make someone fall off their broom! But it was too late, the broom had already whirled and shot up in the sky zigzagging all it wanted. Giving up, Louisa wrapped her arms and legs around it and fell silent. She was tired of screaming and trying to get this broken thing to work. First thing after getting off the train, she was going to storm over to the Quidditch supply store and SHOVE the thing into the shopkeeper's face!

..if she got out of here alive, without a heart stroke.

Oh. Sigh.

Why was Kurumi apologizing for hitting his elbow? He was fairly certain that it was him who'd hit her head, therefore should be the one apologizing. He merely nodded a little bit which caused the broom to obtain the speed it had been at before Kurumi had said the word 'faster'.

Now he knew that by 'faster' the broom now understood it meant to increase its speed by the minute. He wasn't going to say it again, it could have disastrous results if he was the one saying that.

But look at that, by focusing on something else the broom seemed to be flying at a respectable speed, not for a Quidditch player, and...oh, Treyen was almost certain that Kurumi and the Ravenclaw girl (Ryden) were going to collide sooner than later. He hoped they both turned out okay, even if the Ravenclaw girl was already in a bad shape.

He was merely content enough to still be in the air, not being knocked off his broom, and trying very hard not to look towards the Ravenclaw that was entirely attached to the broomstick.

Aiden catches a member of the first team off guard. She grips the broom handle tightly and goes off full speed. She has totally forgot about the damaged broom.

As she zooms towards the Gryffindor, the broom starts to spin causing Aiden to fly upside down. "WOOAAAHHH!!!" she screams as she wraps her arms around her broom.

Merlin, please! Not now, it's too soon!

Kurumi's reflexes may have improved since she had become a Seeker, but that was only when her broom was following her commands. Now, she had no idea what to tell it to make it do what she wanted it to. Telling it to stop only made it go faster, go faster made it bounce all over the place in the air, and...well...nothing was making any sense.

Her broom came to a sudden stop, and Kurumi's chest went right into the handle, knocking the wind out of her. Her arms and legs went swinging and flailing in every which direction and her right shoe slipped off and hurtled through the air to the person nearest her - Treyen.

"T-T-TR-TREYEN!" she shrieked reaching her arm out towards him, but knowing that he was too far away for her to be able to do anything. Her other hand that had been on her handle, slipped off and...oops...her entire body went with it just as she heard the other girl apologize for...whatever it was she was apologizing for. Kurumi hadn't been able to hear it or make much sense out of it due to her being more concerned with trying to keep hold of whatever bit of her broom she could.

So, there she was, dangling in the air and her fingers slipping. Kurumi looked down and saw that the pitch was a loooooong way down....

Feel it in yer bones...

..letting her broom move her around all it wanted, Louisa kept her body wrapped around the broom but she opened her eyes to see what was going on. And it was the worst idea she'd had today. The far away ground smirked up at her as the girl's eyes widened so much that her sockets threatened to spit them out.

..and she lost it. Tears swirled inside her eye refusing to fall and her nose turned bright red.. and runny. The broom came to a halt for a second before going down, again. Louisa straightened herself very carefully, not daring to sit erectly on her butt. "J-j-j-just s-s-s-slow down.." She murmured, shaking the broom with the left strength of hers.

The brooms responded by taking a sudden stop every few ft on its way down to the ground, Louisa's stomach dancing terribly in the process and another fear crept inside the girl's head- she wanted to puke.

Cocking an eyebrow, Thea spotted Eino zooming towards her. Grinning to herself, she thought she'd stay stilll until he got a bit too close..
She could see his short hair rippling in the wind, and she realised how fast he was actually going. Hm. Eyes widening, Thea growled a bit under her breath. Grasping her broomstick with both hands, she smoothly slid to the left just as Eino was about to collide her with her..

Turning herself around, Thea squinted to try and see where he had gone...