whoop whoop. the quidditch player zoomed into the middle of the field where most others were and

WHOOSHH

the air against her face and flowing through the gave the girl a rush as for a moment she forgot she was taking a final here

"oh." she said as a few rocks BANGED against the side of her cauldron Final right. the girl zoomed forward and

CLANK

a rock fell right into her cauldron again. WHOOP! she pumped her fist into the air

Rock count: Seven!

Pao zoomed off across the pitch because he noticed that it was getting a bit too crowded where he was. I don't need anyone knocking into me and making me spill. Now that he was starting to get a decent amount, he had to be careful. "I really don't want to have to start over a third time." That would be... perhaps grounds to give up.

Unfortunately, he didn't see as many rocks on hitting the ground on this side. Which is probably why there's less people over here. So he was going to have to go chase one down. Pao risked a glance up at the sky. Like a rocket, he streaked off to get under the one he'd targeted. THUD! He watched it land right in front of him. Just missed.

Chancing another glance, he spotted one near the goal hoops. Accelerating, he thought he could get this one. Stupid school brooms... worst acceleration EVER! As he neared the place he thought he needed to be, he checked the sky for impending doom objects. There it was... he braked hard. With a loud DINK! sound, he knew he had met with success. "Eight!"

Did Ella just frown at him?

Hmpth, Theo was in THAT much of a bad mood after losing his rocks, he frowned right back at her. Rude... As for Alec, well, Theo was NOT a happy bunny with that Hufflepuff. Maybe he could just give the seeker a nudge later, and see what it felt like to have someone ELSE lose your rocks for you.

Back to the task on hand. And it was getting boring very quickly.

Theo competitively raised the cauldron into the air, closing his eyes for a moment. He flew a whole half of the pitch and two CLUNKS were sounded. TWO? Is that all?

He should have six by now.

WHOAHHH Slow down there logan. In the rush of flying the girl forgot she was in a CLASS and could hurt someone with the speed she was going. though HER broom went much faster she assumed she was going MAX SPEED for this gruddy school broom and she didn't need to get in trouble. She decided to simply Cross the feild and see what was going on over there. she took her time though she was in no rush. she began the trek along the field but not before a PLUNK was heard. Way to rack up the Stones logan

Fly Fly Flyyy She wizzed across the feild with ease and about midfeild she heard YET ANOTHER stone fall into her cauldron. the girl knew this was PURE LUCK.

Laura suddenly saw something great and so she zooomed after the cluster of rocks there were four altogether.

*ding*

Great she had got the first one, Laura could have done the loop-de-loop but she would lose all her rocks then and be back to square one.

*ding*

Laura had scored her second rock, there was two more to go.

*ding*

Laura had got there just in time by zooming really fast, there was one more but could she get there in time, she hoped that she could but she had this funny feeling she wouldn't be able to get there intime.

*clang* *clang*

Laura looked at the rock and sighed it had it the top of her cauldron and then rolled down the outside of it, so that one didn't could she had been so close to getting it, that wasn't fair at all.

HE WAS ON FIYAHHHH.

And even if he did get into a tizzy, Theo was going to grab hold of his broomstick for dear life. There was no WAY he was going to lose these rocks again. A further three clunks went into his cauldron, like a boss. He even added a strut sort of posture to his broomsticking.

Only Theo.

His only problem was dodging other students. There weren't AS many people on the pitch during Quidditch, so the boy wasn't exactly used to all the extra bodies. He swerved here and there, missing rock opportunities. Then it hit him that he shouldn't move. Why should HE move? People should move FOR him. But he adopted that attitude at the wrong time when he KERPLUNKED with another broomstick.

...
.......

Ella's broomstick. The pair banged foreheads at first, and maybe Ella had a really hard head, but it sent Theo spinning for a moment.

Or maybe the touch of her forehead was just too spellbinding.

Anyway - he blacked out for at least three seconds, which was enough to send him hurtling to the ground. He landed on his back with a THUD. Seriously, his head ached, so he just stared at the sky, pondering life. BUT OH WAIT - ELLA.

WHERE WAS ELLA?

Laura saw a rock coming down and decided it would be time to have some fun and see if she could actually play tennis whilst being on her broom, she waited for the rock to get within reach and then.

*bang*

Laura hit the rock with her hand but she had misjudge it because it went sailing over her cauldron and went down, this wasn't fair, she was sure that she could play tennis, maybe she should try again, but she wasn't for a bit because her hand was hurting a bit now.

Weeeeeeeeeee.

Oh Hai Theo.

She flew past the younger snake as he seemingly just sat there like waiting for rocks to come to him. NOT gonna happen kingsley..

Oh and there was that hufflepuff girl. SHRUG. She zoomed a way aways from them when she heard a commotion.

she turned around Just in time to see theo ... FALLING!?

she zoomed over to where he was "what did you do?" she asked the girl. she didnt even look to see if the puff was still in the air so If she fell Ariana had no idea of it. and yeah she ASSUMED it was the puffs fault even if it wasnt.
the puffs we're into conspiracies this year she just KNEW it. One of the reasons why she wanted to feed most of them to that evil plant. where was that plant right now?

CLANK

a stone landed into her cauldron but she didn't take notice to it. Kinsley was down and it didn't seem comfy the way he landed wither. She flew down and hovered over him a bit "You alright?" was he even awake!?

Laura looked around she wanted a group of rocks but at the minute she couldn't find any so it would have to be one rock that would have to do, she zoomed around the pitch but wasn't getting anywere, she stopped and decided to wait and see where the next one was, she raced off towards it and.

*clang*

Laura had caught another rock, she just had to try and get another 11 now, she really was going to try and do her best to get to 25 rocks, though this game was harder than she had thought it would be.

Ella was just y’know, minding her own business whilst catching rocks and stuff, when she saw some meany BARRELING towards her broom. Like…RIGHT towards it and fast. BLINK.

It was a birdddddd….It was a planeeeee….Noooo! It wasssssss…

…..
…

“Theoman?” Her voice was a whisper as her head was kind of pounding at the moment. SHEESH! Wasn’t West the headbutter in their bromance? Ella wasn’t aware that they’d changed roles for the day. She also wasn’t fully aware of the fact that she was on the ground. BLINK. She’d fallen?...When had that happened? Hmm.

Sitting up the fourteen year old rubbed her throbbing forehead, using her good eye looking around to see where her fallen EX Partner in Crime fighting was. And her rocks…her precious ten rocks that she’d caught purely by luck! They were all gone. FROWWWWWN. WIBBLE. POKER FACE.

“Are you alive?” She whispered to her friend. …If he was alive, she was SO going to kill him for this.

And then that ARIANA girl was accusing HER of being at fault for the crash. REALLY? The third year stood up and walked all wobbly-like over to where the girl was hovering, the girl's feet hanging in the blonde's face. Ella wanted really badly to put on her sassy pants and tell this Snake off but truthfully she felt like she was going to puke.

...so she did

.....right on that Ariana's shoes.

Brain. Ache.

His eyes drooped open towards Ariana, who was floating above him like a pretty butterfly. Wait, what? Logan wasn't pretty. Bleugh, she was a team mate. Team mates weren't pretty.

"Yeah, just peachy." The second year held up a pathetic thumb up, then flopped his hand back onto the floor. "Ouch." Even that hurt.

Oh, THERE she was.

Theo smiled in response to Ella's voice, because that meant she was okay. And she didn't even sound angry at him! These were all good signs. "Yea, I'm alive. Are you alive?" Or maybe this was just a dream. He still hadn't moved his head to look at Ella, just sat there staring at the flying rocks above him.

But the thing that made him look around, was a splash of something that landed on his nose. It smelled a little funky.

o________O

O________________________________O

Theodore jolted straight to his feet and rubbed Ella's droplet of puke off his nose. Gross, gross, gross, gross, the GROSSEST of gross. He hadn't even spared a thought for Ariana's shoes.

Puke..... what a turn off.

Alec had this insane mad urge to do a loop-de-loop in the air. But... that could cause all the rocks to fly out of his cauldron, right? And he didn't want that because... well... catching the number of rocks he had caught at this point was quite a feat. Yeah. Especially after those two collisions.

...

Those were not nice. Poor Pao and Theoman. Though, he probably felt a bit more sorry for Pao because... well... Pao hadn't shouted at him afterwards.

Shouting was scary and mean and scary.

But speaking of collisions... there seemed to be more happening. Alec slowed down to a halt and hovered in the air, his sparkling blue eyes surveying the sight below. Oh... Ella was there... and Theoman... and wasn't that that older Slytherin girl? Ariana or someone? Yeah.... frown. That didn't look so... erm... great.

Especially since Ella just puked on Ariana's shoes. Ew.

CLANG! CLUNK! CLANG!

Oh right. ROCKS. He was meant to be catching those, right? RIGHT. He could... worry about... people later. The fourteen year old reluctantly tore his eyes away from the ground and zoomed off towards a small rock. It seemed to glint and SHINE like... well... like the Snitch! Or maybe that was just the sun's doing... yeah...

...

And... CLUNK!

AWESOME. Now he had... *insert mental counting action here* ... Ten? Yeah? He only had fourteen left to go! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.

he's alive good. Ariana looked down at him. "you sure you'll be alright?" cause if now uhm there were rocks to catch. and then he was giving her a thumbs up. yeah so he was just fine.. right... why was he looking at her like that though.. Ariana went up just an inch or two mehh weirrrdddd

And Then it happened............. Ellasaurus Happened..... All Over her SHOES..

"What In merlin's beard are you doing!?" she said kicking her feet sending the puke flying on the girl AndKinsley "Have you LOST your mind." then theo was jumping up as well..

EW EW EW EW EWWWW HER SHOES! it was IN her shoes EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Theo was alive. That was good because that meant she could kill him again. Mhm. She was so going to kill him…just as soon as her head stopped pounding…and her stomach stopped churning…and he stopped asking if she was alive too…D’aww!!! That was quite nice that he cared! BEAM!

Yup. It was that easy to get back on Ella’s good side!

“I’m alive.” She answered back quietly, one hand on her forehead the other now on her tummy. It was all twisty and turny and ouchy. Meh.

O_____O

So…in hindsight, Ella wished she’d left the pitch before throwing up on her friend and the mean Snake girl. Unfortunately for everyone involved, her legs were a little too shaky for that to have happened. Plus that girl totally deserved puke shoes. SHE DID.

And then her puke was being kicked all over...right.

The fourteen year old looked incredibly embarrassed for all of TWO seconds and then stumbled back a few steps AWAY from the puke, plopping down on the grass. “I think…I’m ill.” Obviously. “My tummy hurts.”

PLUNK.

Seriously?...SERIOUSLY? Looks like getting hurt was the key to getting rocks in this game. At least for Ella…

As Belle luckily got two rocks in her cauldron. She was ready to do some quidditch moves that she missed. Belle saw the stadium was getting packed. Belle wanted to go somewhere less crowded.

As she flew, she dodged a few students that made the rocks in her cauldron almost fall, but she had good balance. Belle spotted some rocks on the ground that students did not notice. Her seeker skills coming out.

Then Belle swooped down and picked up two rocks.

SWISH AND GRAB!!!

"YESS!" Belle said fist pumping and then she placed the rocks in her cauldron. She was happy she got two of them. Then she heard the CLANG and BANG as she put the two rocks into her cauldron.

OHMYGOD...

"STOP KICKING IT AT ME, LOGAN!" Like, seriously? If Ella had a problem with Ariana that required her to puke on the girl, no point in involving him in it! Theo was quite civil with both girls, actually!

Okay.... he did feel disgusted by Ella puking everywhere... but when she slumped on the floor and looked sad, Theo crouched down in front of her, wincing at his headache as he did so.

"Are.... you okay? Do you want me to get Vindictus? Or the healer? Or....." No, not Harvey. "I could just sit with you, if you want." Screw the house points.

AND THEN BOOM, A ROCK.

Oh gosh.

"Yeah. Fine." Anya said rubbling her forehead a little. You know... except for the fact that her face probably had that GIANT red spot.

Ooomph. She was being draaaaaaaaaagged. "Noooo. I don't want to do it right." She was perfectly happy minding her own business and protecting her face.

She watched him with a raised eyebrow. She rolled her eyes in response. "Yeah. Completely." She said looking up. She then tilted her head ever so slightly to the right. Then again to the left.

"Hey! Lookie there! I got two more too." she said with a laugh. She fought the urge to stick her tongue out at him.

"What are the chances Blakey just give me his cauldron. He'd probably still have time to get another 24 rocks so we'd he'd end up passing... twice."

Or, you know, once. Because she'd take one of his rock collection bundles.

Gripping tighter to her broom she leaned forward and zoomed across the pitch. At the moment she was going a bit too fast for anything to really get caught in her cauldron but that was fine because at the moment she was looking for somewhere that had less people trying to kill her.

When there was no where left to go she flew up, higher and higher, trying to dodge any stones that might have wanted to smack her in the face.

Once enough altitude was gained she levelled out and hoovered for a bit. The annoying sound of rocks hitting against her cauldron was starting to drive her wild. She didn't know how much more of this taunting she could take!

In the cauldron. IN. Was that really so hard to grasp???

OPPS! Was that puke going all over them heh SORRRYYYYY

"Oh Opps Sorry Kinsley." yeah a sorry for HIM but not miss pukey over there untill.. she seemed to have collapsed on the ground claiming to be ill "Oh.. Are you alright..umm." yeah ariana didn't know this girls name so Um it was "do either of you need me to get the professor or the healer?" she asked the two of them.. mehh Pukee in her Shoesssss and she didn't have her wand on her.. who took their wand flying.. or else she'd just cast the scougify spell and be done but ugh no. she hovered over to them

CLUNK

"really.. Now's not the time roc.."

PLUNK

"now is NOT the time dumb rocks." thought she DID appreciate them falling into her cauldron.

Ella was a little startled when Theoman was suddenly crouching in front of her. Truthfully she’d expected him to run for the bath like IMMEDIATELY after she’d gone and thrown up all over everyone okay, not everyone. Taking her wand out gently, Ella pointed it at her friend and cleaned him up. She then did the same to herself. There. All clean. Wince.

“I’m not…erm…I think I…well I’m not dead so yeah, I’m okay.” You know, considering the puking and black eye and throbbing head and stuff. She was peachy keen, jelly bean. Oh and that Ariana girl was concerned now too? That was…surprisingly nice, actually. “I’m fine and erm…No…no need to get anyone.” She said to both of them, giving only Theodore a small smile and waving a hand when they offered to go for help. She was on the Quidditch team! She couldn’t let a little puke stop her from flying! What would Sir Treyen think of that? “Thanks Theo but I think…we should try and keep going, yeah?” Because as much as she thought it was really nice of Theo to offer to stay, she knew he probably wanted to get away from her right now. “Help me up?”

And when he did help, cause he was her friend AND had been the cause of all this MHM, she walked over and fetched her broom. Mounting it slowly, the blonde paused and adjusted her cauldron. She could do this. Looking back at Theo, she smiled faintly before speaking. “Be careful up there, Theoman. You don’t want to kill anyone with that forehead of yours.” Nope, that was West’s job.

...Oh and "Sorry about puking on you." Yeah, that was mostly for Ariana cause she did feel A BIT bad now.

And up she went, slowly and steadily.

Sierra was still in all her glory from having caught three rocks by pure luck alone. Wasn't that the life?! She hadn't even been trying to catch any rocks, and three had just fallen into her cauldron by luck alone. Sierra wished twenty more rocks would suddenly do the same, but she doubted she'd have much luck with that. She also didn't think Vindictus would be too amused if she just hovered in mid-air the entire lesson.

Sierra leaned forward on her broom and took off again. She was flying through the air just fine when a huge rock whizzed right past her face. She tried to steer away, but that just put her in the path of an even bigger rock. She was under attack. She eyed a few rocks all the way down the pitch and took off. She managed to get one inside her cauldron before having to dash away from yet another attack.

Merlin!

This was getting annoying.

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Rocks clearly didn't speak english. Or well if they did then they didn't speak it very well. Gosh. Those were the worst kinds of rocks. She did a small turn, humming impatiently as she waited for a rock to fall in the cauldron. She'd be on the offensive soon but for now she couldn't be bothered...

WHACK!

"OW! Lex scowled when the second rock of the day decided to hit her on the shoulder. So they would hit her but they wouldn't fall in the bloody pot?! Really?! Seriously?! Mm. Her hand flew to her shoulder and she rubbed it. Just then a shower of rocks beat down on her. She clung to to her broom and flew out of the zone--but not before having four of them randomly fall in her cauldron.

Weird....

Sure, she'd only managed to get one extra rock into her cauldron, but at least she was gaining in numbers and not losing any. She was getting closer and closer to her goal, so Sierra hoped she could at least manage to get the required twenty-five in before the whistle was blown and the final came to an end.

Another clink was heard, and a fairly surprised expression spread across Sierra's face as she realized that was the sound of another rock to add to the six she already had. So there were seven rocks now, which meant she was coming along fairly well and would probably be able to collect twenty-five in no time.

She steered the broom around and dashed off to the middle of the pitch, where it look like a pretty heaving rainfall of rocks was coming down. The pitch was so packed that it took her forever to get there, so by the time she reached the middle, she was only able to claim one more rock. Eight down, many to go.

Finally away from the menacing rocks she took a stop and tried to calculate the amount of them that she now had. It was hard work having your ears ring while you count so she hadn't bothered to try figuring it out then...wouldn't want some kind of brain overload now would she?

It was bad enough that the recent downpour was causing her head to throb slightly and she didn't need to make it any worse with numbers.

Let's see....there was that one...then that other one then--

CLANK!

Why was she not surprized that another one of those ruuuude rocks would interrupt her in the middle of her thinking? It seemed to be the one thing they were all good at. She whirled around on her broom and began whooshing through the hordes of students again. Sitting still, though it produced great results, was starting to get boring.

Sierra spent the next few minutes just circling the pitch and waiting for another heavy rainfall of rocks to come down. She saw plenty rocks, alright. It was just getting to them before the others that was slowing down the progress. There were just way too many people out here at once, and the last thing Sierra wanted to do is to end up hit by a rock from knocking into somebody.

After circling the pitch a few more times, Sierra gave up on the skirting the edge and headed back into the thick of things. She gasped as a group of Puffers nearly hit her head on. She wanted to yell at them to watch where they were going, but she had a feeling they'd never hear her. Sighhh... Why did it suddenly seem like she was getting nowhere at all? At least she hadn't lost any rocks yet...