Grabbing another packet of green sand, Ethan jabbed it with his wand, "Fingere Elementi!" and another green sphere was born. Still deciding on what planet to hit, the boy moved to another position where he saw a bunch of red planets floating together. Now that'll be an easy, EASY target.

Planting his feet on the said spot, "Locomotor planet!" his green creation floated in front of him, following the movement of his wand. He waited for a certain planetoid to align with a planet, and as soon as he saw one, he flicked his wand only to get distracted by a darting blue sphere that was sure to explode on his face. Ethan ducked, as the blue planet exploded behind him. He got back up just in time to see a red sphere...or maybe spheres blast into smithereens.

Of COURSE Ethan had a plan. Of course!

And......... SLAM went the helmets. Grayson looked at Ethan's determined face, his own look of determination crossing his face. It was as if the kid was the Captain and he was a mere hot teammate and they were about to go into battle. Which, fyi, if they DID, they'd totally win and do it with STYLE. Just saying.

ANYWAYS. Battle plan. Yeah. Grayson growled in the most menacing way he could muster. "Aye aye Captain! We'll give them something to cry about, you mark my words." As for pairing up, the guy could NOT tell who was who apart from staring at their robes. And some people would be a bit mad at him for doing that, you know? Couldn't let his creeperness show THAT much, jee--

WHAT.

WHAT?!

Now they were THIRD?! What in the name of Merlin was going ON?!

Yeah. Fine. Something needed to be done about this. Green planet? You're gonna go and hit something now. Aiming his wand over towards the yellow planet orbiting near the outer edge and, hence, closer to him, the boy called "Locomotor planet!" Fly little green planet, FLY! Go and hit that ye--

.......................

...............................

Okay. Red confetti. The green sphere!planet had a mind of its own.

Aw yeah! Toby was on a roll right now. He'd had a good string of hits and it was urging him on to keep going. Hadn't even been pelted by an asteroid or anything in ages. Or a few minutes at least.

The Hufflepuff retrieved another bag of the yellow 'sand' and found another place in the circle.

"Fingere Elementi," he cast, jabbing his wand at the back and this time focusing on the magic again as it warped into a cool little planet. It was a shame, really, that they were destroying all of these... but the topic of the lesson [i]was [/]geocide after all.

Okay. OKAY. Okay. Let's do this.

"Locomotor Planet." Nyoooom.

Toby sent his little yellow planet back into the fray, realising at the last second that he hadn't actually chosen a target yet. With a bit of quick thinking, he made the planet circle the 'sun' for a couple of moments while he hastily chose a decent shot (which was... tricky, because of concentrating on two things at once......... but he managed it).

Finally finding a shot that could work, Toby circled his planet around once again and flicked his wand, making it fly straight at a pretty hefty looking asteroid. His planet has been building up speeding, so the momentum sent it easily away, and it crashed into a nearby blue planet which exploded into smithereens (and glitter and confetti).

ALRIGHT! Now he'd gotten one of each colour, apart from yellow. AND five hits in a row. Dare he go for six?

"Fingere Elementi!" After getting another bag of green sand, Ethan managed to produce another green planet for their House. Seeing the green trimming on Grayson's robes, the prefect jogged to where the fifth year was. "Doesn't matter now which planet to hit. We have at least five more minutes. Go, go, go!" The green planets must survive!

Ethan sauntered back to his predetermined spot, and waited for a sure shot. Again, it didn't matter now if he was to hit a red planet or not. What mattered now, was to lessen everyone else's planet. "Locomotor planet." As soon as he saw an alignment, Ethan flicked his wand, and kaboom goes a blue planet.

Next one, please.

Surely they were running low on time now right? She wasn't exactly sure but they had to be. There was explosions of colored planets everywhere as well as glitter littering the floor.

Quickly grabbing up a bag of green sand she jabbed her wand at it. "Fingere Element". She spoke firmly the sand taking shape right before her eyes. Grinning slightly she walked several paces around the room looking for the perfect target (planet).

Spotting a lone slow moving yellow planet she aimed her wand and called out, "Locomotor planet!" With a slight flick of her wrist downward her green planet arched through the air this time hitting it's target sending yellow glitter everywhere.

As the glitter rained down everywhere she made her way to get another bag of sand.

Eh. Whatever.His planet could do whatever it liked as long as it got the job done and didn't hit any of the green planets. Just saying.

Fuelled with enough motivation to supply his dorm with power, Grayson headed up to the front of the classroom to grab himself another green bag. "Fingere Elementi!" JAB! Maybe he was getting better with the spell or maybe the bags simply liked listening to him. Whatever it was, he was glad that the bag hadn't dwindled in transforming into a green planet. Good. Kinda needed to get this done. Ten minutes left and all.

Heading over towards an empty space -- which was hard to find with the number of people running around and the planets flying around -- Grayson watched keenly for a target. Should he aim for one of the planets in the inner circle? Yeah? Would provide a challenge and all, which he LIKED as long as there was the chance of success.

His blue eyes locked on a blue planet near the inner orbit of the huge fake!sun. There. THAT one was going to be destroyed. Raising his wand, he aimed right for that speedy little bugger while saying, "Locomotor planet!"

.............. missed. Missed. MISSED.

UGH.

Now the green planet was whizzing away as if it was some sort of wild toddler on the run. JEEZ. Come back here and explode the blue planet PROPERLY.

Man, it was HOT under the chest armour. Toby was pretty sure he was sweating bucketloads, probably from all the being knocked down and getting back up and moving around and... GOSH. He'd definitely sleep well tonight. Even if he would be aching a lot little bit from all the hits he'd taken.

Flagging a little, the Hufflepuff went and retrieved more bagged up planet dust. He held it out in the palm of his hand and pointed his wand at it once more.

"Fingere Elementi." Jab.

If anything, Toby thought as he watched the bag float and begin to transform, he had this spell more or less mastered now. Something about Astronomy spells, like charms...... and fire spells, just seemed to be the sort of stuff Toby found easier to learn and more-or-less perfect.

POP! The planet was formed, floating there all nice and yellow above his outstretched hand. He admired it for a moment, just... because, before looking up to try to find a target that he could hit. Hmmm... what house still had the most planets out there...?

"Locomotor Planet!"

WHAM!

Toby didn't see it coming at ALL. One second he was flicking his wand to send the yellow orb off in search of an asteroid, and the next thing he knew, he was hit AGAIN. Someone's stray planet, that must have been the result of a mis-hit, had come OUT OF NOWHERE and SLAMMED straight into him. It got him on his armour, but knocked his wand arm as it did so, and somehow managed to slam straight into where he'd been hit earlier. It sent Toby reeling, and he FLAILED HIS ARMS in the air looking like some sort of human windmill, before falling on his back once more. The planet he'd just created went straight into the middle of the room and dropped to the floor before rolling towards the 'sun'.

Ooft. That one had really taken the wind out of his sails. And his lungs. Yowza.

The Hufflepuff sat himself back up again, one hand resting over the armour at his midsection. All good, nothing broken of course, thanks to the nifty armour provided by Professor Airey. Still, maybe it was time to sit out.

Toby used a nearby desk to heave himself back to his feet and looked around for the professor himself, before deciding that the best course of action was to go and wait it out over by Airey's desk. As he caught sight of the Starman himself wandering around, Toby gave him a grin and a SALUTE. 'Cause he was okay, see?

"I'm good. I'm okay."

He would just... wait here. It was probably wise, too, being that apparently he simply was not alert enough today. But Toby was perfectly content to watch the rest of the madness. After all, he'd hit FIVE planets, and he had only been hit FOUR times. That was a pretty good balance, y'know? A definite win for Tobias Tempus. He'd take it.

Could he Accio his planet back or what? He kinda wanted to. And kinda wanted to try AGAIN with that planet but if it wanted to zoom away and cause havoc, then it was its own loss.

Shrugging, Grayson was about to head over towards the front when....... oh hello. They had five minutes left? ALREADY? But he kinda didn't want this class to end. Not YET, anyways. "Plan to hit as many of the other house planets as possible? Take the others down?" Needless to say, he LIKED that plan. Just go ahead and channel your inner super!villain. What a brilliant activity, man.

Giving Ethan a nod in approval when the boy hit a blue planet, Whitty headed back to the front to grab himself another green bag. "Fingere Elementi!" JAB! The planet and the boy walked over towards the space he had been standing in before, in case Prefect Holmes had something else to say. This was all about strategy, yo.

His wand was raised and the Slytherin aimed, once again, at a blue planet near the fake!sun. Whether it was the blue planet he tried to blow up from before or not, he didn't know. What he DID know was that he was going to blast one of these buggers before the end of the lesson. He HAD to. It was a matter of PRIDE, HELLO.

"Locomotor planet!" FLICK!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

Come ooooooon. It LOOKED like it was going to hit it, which made Grayson widen his eyes in excitement. Freaking YE--

.................

A hit and an explosion of red glitter later, and the expression on the fifth year's face deadpanned. SERIOUSLY? They were having a laugh, weren't they?

Grumble.

His Snakes were doing REALLY WELL with this activity. It was as if they were wired to do it. You know, destroy the planets...and CONQUER. Ethan was distracted for a moment, as he took a breather, and watched the others.

Heh. They were definitely doing better than the rest. Win or lose, he was one proud prefect. But, wait! The game is not over yet!

"That's the plan, yes. Make your targets random so that they won't notice our planets." Because he saw a pattern earlier, and when they ganged up on the house with the most planets, they tend to retaliate early on before they could even say kaboom. Assessing the situation, it seems that his new plan was working.

Ethan watched as Grayson took a shot...and well, there goes another red planet. "Good job, Gray. Keep that up." The prefect patted Grayson's back and went on to retrieve another bag of green sand, and prepared for his next attack. "Fingere elementi!" Jab. "Locomotor planet." He saw an alignment once more, and flicked his wand towards it.

Come onnnnn...red planeeeeeeeetttt...

MISS.

Ethan deadpanned as his wand arm fell on his side. His first miss.

What the actual...

HMPH.

Jasmine looked at Thornton and said, "You absolutely can do it". Quickly grabbing a few more blue bags, Jasmine set it up for a re-try. "You can do it if you believe you can do it. Picture it happening in you mind and when you say the incantation, say it like you mean it. You're the boss." Then Jasmine looked directly into Thornton's eyes and said,"You can do it!" "I know you can do it. Now try it again. Believe" if it was possible for one person to will another to do something, Jasmine was going to try.

"Fingere Elementi!" Lightly jabbing her wand at the bag of green sand in her hand Hady made her way around the room. This time at random she selected a faster moving red planet off to her left.

Shifting slightly to get a better angle she flicked her wrist and responded with the well known spell. "Locomotor planet." There went her green planet!

Come on, come on! Hit it! Yes! Red glitter and confetti exploded into the air as her little green planet crashed into the red one.

Beaming proudly she looked around at her fellow snakes whom appeared to be doing much better. Maybe they would win this?

Well, considering that since the last update the red ones had grown considerably, and she wanted the green to win over them, then she supposed it was time to focus on making them disappear.

"Fingere Elementi!" Another bag turned into a green sphere, and it was time to EXTERMINATE, erm, make the red count go low and all. Sorry, bestie. Aiming first, then, while also dodging--Tobias? Why was he getting hit? He was supposed to hit planets and asteroids, not the other way around? Both eyebrows were raised as he fell. WHAT EVEN?!

But he was okay, and rather far away for her to help out, anyway, so she focused on the task at hand. The Astronomy activity. Long story short, "Locomotor planet!", she tried her best so her planet would redirect this silly asteroid, but THE THING DECIDED TO HIT A BLUE PLANET INSTEAD!

Oh, well, that wasn't bad. Smirk.

Thornton sighed as Jasmine went to claim more blue bags. She was not going to let this go, was she. He grabbed the frisbee-esque planet fail and frowned at it over before tossing it away from him. But because it was a flat disc, it actually flew a bit, threatening to nail a student in the back of the head. Oops.

Thornton turned away from it quickly, resolving to pretend he'd known nothing about it.

When Jasmine returned with the bags and the pep talk, Thornton couldn't look away. This girl was intense. And now Thornton was worried about letting her down. What reason did she have to believe in him?

He sadly poked at the bags with the tip of his wand, really not wanting to try again, but feeling obligated to do so. This was too much. Hogwarts was too much. Spells in Astronomy. What was he going to do when it was time for charms? OR TRANSFIGURATION?

Feeling overwhelmed, Thornton pictured the planet he knew he would never be able to make and angrily and sarcastically muttered "Fingere elementi" while continuing to jab at the bags. He was not really intending to cast, though his poking and his muttering had coincided, and the image of the planet in his mind was clear, even if it was what he thought he could never accomplish.

And *pop*... there the planet was. But instead of being delighted, Thornton threw his wand to the ground. "I.. uuugh. I don't even know what I did."

Kace saw all the planets being hit and missed. It just looked crazy in this classroom. He saw a green planet somewhere and decided he wanted to hit it. He grinned and said the charm, "Locomotor planet!" and then he saw it being flung and it hit a RED one instead!

Huh....not one he was aiming for but HEY he hit ONE. He smiled and saw all the yellow glitter on the floor from his planet hitting the red one. He wondered if he could do it again. Oh of course he could, his aim seemed spot on today. He got out a yellow bag of sand and created the planet, "Fingere Elementi!" and now it looked like a great yellow sphere. He needed to help the puffs win or get some points. He needed to decide which to hit. He heard the blue was in second. He needed to hit blue next.

On his way back to the table of packed coloured sand, Ethan caught sight of Toby hitting the floor and…well, losing his planet. Erm…whoops? Ethan calculated that it was his green planet that had hit the older boy. His last shot was a miss, and looking back at Ethan’s position, Toby was standing directly across him.

Getting another green packet of sand, “Fingere Elementi!” a jab, and a nice looking planet was in his hand. “Everything all right, Tobias?” Ethan asked as he examined his planet, then looked at the boy. Merlin, he looked like he had mopped the entire floor of the classroom. Was he sick? “Locomotor planet.” Biting his lip, he patiently waited for a red planet. He must get another red planet down before the activity was over. He saw an opportunity, flicked his wand, aaaaaaand kaboom goes the red planet.

Ethan grinned at his accomplishment, and was about to reach for another packet when a ROGUE flat alien planet hit his exposed arm. “OUCH! Mother of Merlin, what the bloody hell was that…?” he rubbed his arm as he looked down at the floor and saw a misshapen planet. It was blue, and it screamed Ravenclaw.

Grreeeeeeat.

Marigold decided she was GOING to hit a planet and it was GOING to be a BLUE ONE. Determined, she said "Locomotor planet." She eyed a Ravenclaw planet, then, keeping the blue in the corner of her eye, moved her wand backwards away from it. More power, yeah. Then, with one large wand movement, she RAMMED her yellow planet into the blue one. Hurrah! Go her. Success. At last.

Suited up in her helmet and armor, Sophie... took the approach of watching first. Carefully. She was in full control of the little blue planet she'd made, but she tucked herself off to the side, watching everyone else's methods and... failures. Merlin. She was grateful that Flamsteed had them put on the armor and such for her poor boyfriend was taking quite the beating - as were many of her friends - and Soph would have been more concerned if they hadn't had protective gear on, but for now, she couldn't help but laugh a little at them and duck when a stray asteroid bounced her way.

It was all in good fun, wasn't it?

She observed techniques carefully, though, and found what kind of methods people used to make a hit - whether they were careful and considerate or just let their own planet go flying and hope for the best - and realized... she should be GREAT at this, really. She had dynamite aim both from being a Chaser AND from Gobstones, so... this activity should have been her cup of tea.

Fearlessly - and finally - joining in with everyone, Soph recast, "Locomotor planet," on the blue planet she'd created, kept a keen eye out for the planets of the house that was most in abundance - Gryffindor's - and waited... waited... waited... FLICK!

The planet shot right at an asteroid at an angle, and the asteroid... missed the red one she'd been aiming for, but BLASTED A GREEN ONE. Ha! Well. At least it hadn't been one from her own house, right?

She'd gotten very, very lucky with that, really. But not a bad first attempt, she supposed.

Round two with the green planet. She was coming back to finish it off, obviously. Maddie wasn't one to leave a job unfinished, not if the job interested her. So after grabbing another sand bag and turning it into the ball with the help of the handy dandy Fingere Elementi , the brunette turned her attention to the planets left for her to destroy. She was looking for the perfect target, of course.

Oh and look at that, someone's planet had hit Ethan. Maddie smirked because it was blue. Ravenclaw attack? She doubted it was on purpose as the skateboarder was generally likeable and not likely to get on anyone's bad side. Probably a rogue hit. No biggy.

Focusing on the task at hand again, the second year trained her eyes on the green objects left in the air. A few were moving too quickly for her liking but there was one relatively close that had a few asteroids in its direct path. That meant Maddie would have something to aim for, a something that was likely to hit the target she wanted it to.

"Locomotor planet!" Maddie's little lump was directed towards the asteroid she wanted and with a flick of her wand, was sent circling in that direction. It made contact, not squarely as she'd hoped but with enough force to do the job. And a few seconds later the asteroid made contact with the green planet, wiping it out. Maddie smiled to herself, satisfied. Another one bites the dust.

Timing for hitting the blue planets. He got his wand at the position and said the spell, "Locomotor planet!" and then he flung his planet at the blue one coming towards him and he HIT it!! Wohooo!! He smiled but then he saw on his robes, he got sand all over. He got yellow and blue sand. Well now he looked liked he came from a glitter party. He wiped it off from his robes but some of it wouldn't come off. He probably should hit it soo close to him. He wondered how his other friends were doing. He wondered if Lux, Bay, Emmy or Cinna hit anything yet? Ah well time to focus on who his next target is...

YEAH! They were winning! Or close to it at least. Pointing his wand at the slightly weird looking planet he had created Kyroh concentrated. He knew the spell he a-s suppose to say, and he knew what they were doing. But he didn't know WHICH colour he wanted to hit. Hufflepuff? Uh, no Toby was there. Maybe Gryffindor? YEAH! Gryffindor WAS the one that was beating them after all! Spotting an astroid nearby he locked in.

READY-AIM-FIRE""Locomotor Planet!" Kyroh flicked his wand quickly and the planet went SOARING right toward the astroid! Wait no....above it. Way about it. It was too hight - why was it so-oh- the planet collided with the ceiling exploding upon impact.

"Oops." The second year giggled. IT WAS ALRIGHT! STILL COMING AFTER YOU GRYFFINDOR!

Now Gryffindor was beating them? Man, how the tables have turned. The time was almost up, and even though Ophelia didn't want to stop playing, she supposed they should talk about their scientific findings or whatever. Because that's what always happened back home. Or hopefully they wouldn't do that, because that was always the part of the lesson where the eleven year old zoned out and thought about something else. And astronomy was actually pretty fun, she would hate to zone out.

Wait, did she just say a class was fun? Who WAS this child and what had she done with the youngest Clarke sibling? Ophelia usually hated organized forms of learning, much preferring to be like a monkey and learn things on her own out in the woods. But now she actually LIKED class? This was strange. This was alien! Hehehe, planet jokes. But seriously, this generally didn't happen.

Walking over to the bags for what seemed like the billionth time, Ophelia grabbed the blue bag and got some remaining sand out of her blonde waves. How did it even get up there? Stupid exploding sandbag. Making her look bad and stuff. Booo.

Anyway, planet time. Just like she did a billion times and was about to do for the billionth and first, it was time to make a planet, and destroy that stuff in the middle. And this time it was a Gryffindor planet she was aiming for. A little variety, ya know? Good for the soul. Kept the mind young. And kept her happy.

Red planet spotted. Taking the usual planetary stance, Ophelia held up the bag of sand and held up the wand, trying to ignore everything happening around her. Which was a liiiitttllle difficult, mostly because of all of the action. But anyway....

"Fingere Elementi!" Look at the beautiful planet in her hand! Yeah, now where was that red planet again? She looked and looked, but the child couldn't see the distinct planet she had laid eyes on. Crap. That was her favorite one! Oh well, there were a lot of planets around here, she would just have to choose another.

Finding another red planet, Ophelia got ready and held her wand up again.

"Locomotor planet!" And it missed the red! It hit a green though. Which was OKAY, but not the thing that she wanted. Whatever, still hit something. And it was better than the attempt at making the planet where she got blue sand everywhere. Ugh, the firstie would SO be finding sand everywhere tomorrow. Grooooss.

Now, Caleb COULD have tried to take out the Gryffindors, who apparently had the most planets spinning around - but he wasn't going to go that route. He was going to be a total Slytherin and take out the yellow ones first! Knock Huffie off the board totally, and THEN he could go ahead and focus on Gryffie. Hehehe. Cue evil finger drumming!

Grabbing another bag of green sand, Caleb cleared his throat and jabbed his wand towards the bag. "Fingere Elementi!" he exclaimed, watching with delight as the planet started to form. He was getting good at this, despite his complete disaster of a start. Once he had the planet all created, he pointed his wand at his completed planet - Planet Caleb II of course - and took aim at a yellow planet in the middle of the circle.

"Locomotor Planet!" he exclaimed, and once he was sure that his planet was floating in front of him and he had complete control, he sent it SPIRALLING off towards the yellow planet he'd picked out. TAKE THAT BADGERS!!

Now time to aim for the green he originally planned to! He got distracted and hit the red planet by accident. Time to make a new planet. "Fingere Elementi!" and then he planet was created with the famous yellow sand standing for his house of the puffs. Now time to aim. He had the urge to sneeze and then as he was saying the spell "Locomotor Planet!" he realized his hand spazzed when he sneezed and the planet aimed for him instead and....

POOOFFFFF!

He got sand ALL over him. Woops that is what happens when you try to cast and sneeze at the same time. Bloody merlin this would happen to him. He needed to make a new planet again since due to circumstances. He got the bag full of yellow sand again and said, "Fingere Elementi!" and now his bag looked like a circular planet. Now onto aiming for green! No sneezes coming on? Ah he was all good.

He got into the position and aimed his wand and saw a green planet in his distance. He aimed and said, "Locomotor Planet!" and then he flung it and it HIT the green one! WOHOOO!! He smiled and was doing his little happy dance.

Make their targets random? WELL. That was going to be hard to do when his freaking green planets liked to collide with the red ones. Swear to Merlin, it was a Romeo and Juliet situation up in here with planets and glitter and Grayson was NOT a fan. Take the overly romantic nonsense somewhere else, please.

Still. He gave Ethan a nod to show him that he understood before saying, "Be as sneaky as possible. Don't let them know a thing about any of this." And make sure that it stayed between of them and with any other snakes willing to take part. Because they were gonna work as a TEAM. Hiss hiss.

Er. Should he tell Ethan that he had been aiming for the blue planet? Probably not. No. "Thanks, mate!" he said, proud of the patting and of the words. He walked away to grab another green bag and headed back into the chaos that was the activity of the Astronomy classroom, just in time to see.............

"Oh MAN! Those are some pesky little buggers, aren't they?" His way of comforting the dude was to obviously say bad things about the planets. Obviously. "You'll get them, man, don't you worry." Grayson certainly wasn't worried. "Fingere Elementi!" 'Sup, green planet, you wanna be the one to listen to him NOW?! Because he still wanted to explode that blue planet over there, even if it was the last thing he did.

Dramatic Whitty.

Aiming for what felt like the billionth time that day, Grayson narrowed his eyes at the oncoming blue planet. It was zoooooooooming around the corner so he was aiming somewhere off into the distance along its path. "Locomotor planet!" GO GO GO!

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOM went the blue planet and ZOOOOOOOOOM went his own green planet. It reminded him all too much of a meteoroid that was hurtling towards the Earth at top speed. Uh huh. If he imagined very carefully, he could have added in some streaks of light behind the green planet and he could have also heard the whooshing noise as it hurtled towards the blue planet and...........

SUCCESS! FREAKING YES! About TIME!

And for the first time in his life, he was HAPPY to see the blue glitter.

WHAT! Kace had just sent a yellow orb FLYING at his own green planet. Watching Planet Caleb II explode in mid air, he smirked and stared down his friend. OH IT'S ON NOW, LECIUM!

He ran and grabbed another bag of sand, determined to get as many Planet Caleb's floating in the middle of the classroom as possible. "Fingere Elementi!" he muttered as he pointed his wand at the bag. He was a bit hurried so it didn't get as big as he wished it would have, but no big deal. It would still do damage. Hehe.

Once the planet was formed, he muttered "Locomotor Planet!" and pointed at Planet Caleb III. Once it was floating, he picked out Kace's yellow planet...at least, what he THOUGHT was his planet...and shot it like a slingshot right at the orb. BWAHAHA! Take that! That's what you got when you messed with a Newell!