Angel ran for the ball and she got it now... it was time for her to run towards the goal because she was playing striker... she ran towards the goal doing some twist and turns to try and some flicks past a couple of people but she knew it was important not to give the ball away.

She got towards the goal and decided that she would twist to the left and pass it too a team mate hopefully so that they could score hopefully they would... but when she twisted she felt some pain in her leg for no reason what so ever but she wasn't going to tell anyone because there was no need. "Come on guys we can do this." Angel beamed.

Toby was used to taking up a goalkeeper position in Quidditch and all, was used to having to hang back and watch the action and sort of hope that the ball would come his way whilst simultaneously feeling pleased that his team was playing well enough that he didn't really need to do so much. Usually, though, he was on a broom, and could sort of circle the hoops, whereas right now this whole STANDING thing just wasn't doing it for him.

So Toby jumped.

On the spot.

Over and over.

And over.

He kept his eye on the ball and tried to watch its progress. A couple of times it had come close but those defenders were really on the ball (heheh) with clearing the ball from the scoring area. Every now and then there would be too many people in the way and his view of the ball would be blocked for a second, but for the most part Toby's attentions were TOTALLY FOCUSED for once; it was the effect that sports had on him. Same happened with video games.

That Gryffindor girl had it right now, and Toby kept looking between her face and general body language, and then the ball, still bouncing away. Soon it would just be him and the ball.

And he was ready.

And there was a lot going on. First the ball started with the RavenPuff team, and then over SlytherDor and then back to O____O.

Yeah, he was pretty glad about the decision to be goal keeper right about now. There was just a lot going on and it was so much easier to understand when he was sitting in front of the goal trying to figure things out himself.

But to keep on his toes, he occasionally did the bouncing thing, you know, incase the ball took a wrong turn and got too close for comfort? Zander would be there!! TO THE RESCUE!

Except, now that Gryffindor had the ball, he was on momentary standby. Again.

But he was still here and protecting the goal!! Constant vigilance!

Kace was ready for this, when the teacher called out they were playing he grinned and he ran up the field since he was the mid fielder after all. He saw Eden kicking the ball and he ran to go a grab it. He ran and ran and finally CAUGHT IT!


OMFHHH!!!


Man that was a hard KICK! He was impressed with Eden's kicking skills. Once he caught the ball, he ran towards the goal. He saw Zander keeping the goal warm but then he came across a few of the lions defense. He was caught in quite a pickle. He wondered who he could pass too so he could get by them? He needed to think fast and he passed it to his right hoping an open beagle would be there.

So Lux kinda hadn't been doing anything so far this match. Since the ball never came close to her. But she was watching and so ready to score for her team.

THE LIONS AND SNAKES WERE GOING DOOOOOOOWN.

Though part of her still felt bad about going against her number one House, it wasn't her fault that the Professors loved pitting the Badgers and Lions against each other.

Spotting Kace pass the ball to the right, she swooped in and gave it a mighty KICK. Hopefully she would make this a score for the Beagles.

LET THIS BE A GOOOOOAL!!!

Soon enough Benny caught the football coming towards the Gryfferin goal, kicked first by a Ravenclaw girl and then passed onto first one and then a second vaguely familiar Hufflepuff. He did his best to watch the badger carefully and intently as he moved around the defense area. So he was able to notice when Lex kicked finally the football as if aiming towards the goal.

Taking a chance since the ball was currently on open ground in front of the goal, the Gryffindor fourth year moved to intercept it. This was what he was supposed to be doing....right. Kicking it to claim control of the ball for a little while staying in the vacinity of the back portion of the field, he finally kicked it in the direction of a few of his teammates. Hopefully one of them would manage to catch possession of it and move towards the Ravenpuff side once more.

Zhenya watched as Ben kicked the ball again, away from the goals. She ran towards the ball and kicked it down the court towards the RavenPuff goals. Please let a Lion or Snake get to the ball!

Lux thought she had the ball as good as scored, but Benny intercepted at the last moment. Okay, that wasn't cool and it didn't matter that he was Adi's best friend and dating Angel; she was supposed to score.

Heading towards the ball as he kicked it, a Slytherin girl beat her to it. Well, she wasn't going to let them score on her team. Rushing towards the ball, she blocked the girl's shot and passed the ball along hoping that another Beagle would take possession of it.

The ball was intercepted, but Zhenya kept running. She was slowly losing her breath, and would have to stop soon to have a drink, but for now she was watching the ball. Was she even doing it right? Who knew… She watched as a Hufflepuff student kicked the ball afterwards, and Zhenya jumped in front of it to stop it, then took a quick glance around to look around and noticed her team mates standing just behind the Hufflepuff girl. She kicked it towards someone, hoping the Puffer wouldn't take control of it again.

And then Lux had the ball. O____O AND SHE WAS COMING TOWARDS THE GOAL!???

How the heck did people play this game so well??? Were they all professionals in a past life or something??? Because Zander definitely wasn't and the faster Lux was going, the more worried the Gryffindor got. He couldn't let his team down and why the heck did he even volunteer to stand in goal anyways? This was a horrible idea. This was suddenly getting ready to catch the ball. This was--

Oh? Benny. Wait, YAY BENNY!!!! Letting out a loud whoop in celebration, Zander watched as the ball went the other way. HEH. And he didn't even have to do a thing yet.

But wait. Lux had it again. Oh boy oh boy.

The Gryffindor started shifting his weight from side to side in anticipation. When the ball came, he'd be ready!!! Or he'd-uh- trick himself into being ready. Heh. Yeah either one.

It was sooooooooooo tempting to call out and see if someone wanted to switch places with him, even just for a second, because seeing everyone out there playing and stuff was making Toby super eager to get some action in this game. He continued to bounce on the spot, burning energy that way, and followed the progress of the ball. Even further away, Tobias also noticed Zander standing guard at the opposite goal, but he decided not to wave hello in case it was too much of a distraction. For either of them.

Back and forth between the two teams the ball was going, and people were really getting stuck in. Toby watched as the other team too possession of the ball again and passed it off. Every time they got possession or inched closer he felt that familiar jump of excitement in his chest, 'cause it meant that the ball could fly his way at any time. Needed to be ready.

It WAS kind of easy to get carried away with the watching action of the game, but it was something Toby had a handle on.

Bounce bounce bounce...

When Zhenya kicked the ball, Adi realised it was coming in his direction. After he had stopped Lex's shot, he had been running around doing nothing helpful so he was all set to really get back into the game.

He intercepted the ball before any Snake or Lion could get to it, looked around at his team mates' positions and kicked the ball in their direction, towards the Snake/Lion goalposts. Here's to hoping a Puffer or Claw took over.

Angel was still struggling with her leg, for some reason it was giving her a lot of pain... seriously she would run it off though or in her case she would hobble it off... maybe she shouldn't have twisted so fast, though she had done it before with no trouble what so ever.

Angel saw the ball coming near her and she felt like having a shot but she decided against it for now she wanted to do a one-two with someone but who, if they could set her up more for the shot that would be amazing. She passed it forwards a bit hoping that someone from her team would get it.

Merlin this game had gone places! Alexa found herself sorta aimlessly running in one direction then the next, watching the ball as it passed from her team to the other and back again. She couldn't tell whether this was a good thing or not but for sure it wasn't by any stretch of the imagination as riveting as Quidditch. No one was getting knocked senseless by violent, blood thirsty balls, no one was really at the goal like BAM with flashy blocks and the sort. Muggles didn't know how to have real fun. This was almost lame.

Lex watched Angel get in possession of the ball once more and considering the girl was much closer than the others had been, Lex ran alongside her waiting in the event she'd pass the ball--because she was assuming that you didn't steal the ball from your own team, you know?

Finally the younger girl did pass the ball and Alexa sped ahead, trying the whole mastery of the ball thing to be sure her feet didn't suddenly trip themselves over the round object.

Back at the goal she grinned at Toby who looked all too ready for some action. This was kinda like his First Year, when she Chased and he kept and she faced it at the post. Once again, she kicked at the ball with everything she had, aiming closer to the upper left net as it turned out.

That...actually wasn't on purpose but sure!

Eden had THOUGHT she was going to help get a goal but INSTEEEAAAAD she had KICKED the ball right into OPPOSING FEETS. MERLIN. Eden ran back and forth--trying to get in at the ball--but she just COULDN'T and it was driving her NUTS MERLIN!

She finally followed up on the ball behind Alexa-but the girl was fast and was TAKING A SHOT OMG.

Eden GASPED and waved at Toby--SAVE THE BALL TOBY DON'T LET HER GET A GOAL! "COME ON TOBY YOU GOT THIS!" she yelled--encouragingly--and if he missed. Welp. Eden wouldn't be very mad--they'd just have to TRY to get a goal, yeah?!

Bounce bounce bounce...

That one Gryffindor girl looked like she was limping a bit, which immediately made Toby all kinds of concerned thanks to his caring sort of nature. He watched her for a moment while also following the process of the ball. But then ALEXA WAS HERE AND HE WAS READY THIS WAS HIS TIME TO SHINE.

The bouncing ceased and Toby stood there, arms held out, READY and grinning right back at the Head Girl. HI LEX HI.

He waited and watched, subconsciously calculating where Lex was aiming versus where the kick would be likely to send it. A split second after she kicked it, Toby leapt for the ball.

Turned out that being slightly smaller than average was a bit of a disadvantage here. Toby didn't quite get the height to CATCH the ball but he did manage to PUNCH in off course and straight up in the air, before finally as it fell. It was sheer luck more than anything; this was a lot harder when you were 5'3" and the goal was large and you didn't have a broom to fly you to where the ball was.

The Hufflepuff seemed pretty amazed that he'd caught that one, and hoped he'd keep up the dumb luck for the rest of the game.

"Sorry Lex," Toby said, giving an automatic apologetic smile before dropping the ball and kicking it waaaaay out for those on his team. The Beagles, yeah, those.

Muggle Keeping was a lot harder than it looked.

Oh oh, Lex was taking a shot.........and.........Toby got it! Toby got the save! And then in the blink of an eye the ball was sailing toward Jasmine. She blocked the ball with her body and as it fell to the ground, she began to kick it forward. Trying to push the ball in the direction of her team's goal, Jasmine avoided a couple of opponents. Controlling the ball was hard and Jasmine was looking ahead for someone to pass it to.

Everyone appeared to be covered so Jasmine tried to bide her time, waiting for a teammate to get open. Finally, she saw an opening. As one of her Beagles broke toward the goal, Jasmine delivered a well timed pass. "Shoot it", she yelled. They needed a goal in the worst way.

Kace saw Toby save the goal and he was impressed. "NICE SAVE TOBY!!"" he called out and then noticed Jasmine had the ball and he saw her passing it and it was coming towards his direction. Erghh should he catch it? He didn't see anyone else coming towards it and he caught it. He heard Jasmine make the command of SHOOT IT! He nodded in his head and kicked it towards the goal hoping to shoot it in...

He did kick it quite hard not realizing his own strength. He watched the ball fly over towards the goal post of the lions and snakes.

Angel was supposed to be playing attacker but for some reason she had found herself in her own half... well attackers did help out their defence sometimes right, and well it looked like they needed that help now... her leg was still hurting but she didn't need to think about that right now... she saw someone shooting and well she wanted to stop it before it went to the goalkeeper.

Angel just jumped into the air and headed the ball to safety... seriously she had not though about the landing when she had jump up into the air... she put her arm on her face and fell down with

*thud*

"I'm okay." Angel shouted to her team mates as she got up... she was totally going to do that again if her team needed her to but for now she was going to go back up-field where she belong.

And Kace had the ball... AND HE WAS COMING TOWARDS THE GOAL O____O

Zander looked around the field to see if anyone else from his team was coming. He needed backup and stat!! And before he could say anything, he saw Angel making her way over full speed. Just as the older Gryffindor got ready to catch the incoming ball, AJ swept through and took it instead.

Pft. It's okay guys... No big deal.

He'd get it next time. Yup. Everything is all good here.

Zander just shifted his weight as he waited for the ball again. Except, he'd rather the ball stay on the other side of the court... You know? For particular reasons because it'd be really nice if they'd be able to get a goal eventually.

Penelope had decided that she should come back into the classroom/gym, even if she wasn't going to play football. Professor Hadley might notice if she was gone for too long. She wouldn't want to miss the rest of the lesson. The second year Ravenclaw was not the kind of girl who would just leave and skip the rest of class. Cutting class was a big no-no, completely unacceptable. Even if she wasn't playing football, she could at least watch her classmates who were playing and hope the professor wouldn't force her to play. People were actually getting hit by the ball. Penelope really didn't like the idea of people kicking the ball at her. So, yeah, she was just going to stand here at the side of the room and watch.

So there was one thing Hadley was certain of ... that Angel girl? She certainly knew how to head a ball and frankly she was pretty sure she shuttered a moment until the second year bounded upright ... well then. Brave little lioness.

Pondering the game a moment, she decided she may as well go for it and add some more challenge .... especially for the ball hogs - and those who seem to think they can intercept everything ...

Without further ado, the professor kicked a second ball into play. Let's just hope she didn't accidentally kick it into someone's face ... but for good measure, right after kicking it which admittedly was probably too late, "Heads up! Second ball incoming!"


ooc: we'll wrap up the lesson in about 17-18 hours so last chance to earn some participation credit for this part of the lesson!!!

Two. Two footballs.

Two of them.

In the game.



Toby was used to a game with four balls flying around, of course, but whenever he played he only tended to have to worry about one at a time. And that was usually the quaffle. Throwing in ANOTHER one was... not a great prospect. But Toby quickly PUSHED THOSE THOUGHTS AWAY. Positive. He was remaining positive.

Well, at least BOTH of them weren't in his vicinity at the moment. All he needed to do was... watch them both.

BUT HE WAS READY. SO READY. RARRRR.

Even though it had been difficult enough with just one ball. Oop.

THINKING POSITIVE.

Ummmm, what was Professor Hadley doing?

Lux was barely able to keep up with ONE ball and now TWO were in the mix? Some of these students were REALLY fast. Correction, most of them were. No matter though because the extra challenge was welcome and she would gladly take another opportunity to shoot at the other team's goal post.

Running towards the second ball, Lux nabbed it before anyone else could and kicked it towards the goal post.

COME ON, ZANDER. MISS THE BALL!!!!

Uh, Professor say what now? Two??? AS IF ONE BALL WAS HARD ENOUGH TO KEEP TRACK OF?? It wasn't even the fact that there were two balls that could possibly fly into the net without anything he could do to stop them. It was mostly just the prospect that he had to keep up with the two of them. Whereas, every other player on the team only really had to worry about the one ball they were dribbling, or the one ball they were running after... Zander had to watch both of them.

At the same time.

Oh, Merlin. Being goal keeper was not a good decision at all.

Not to mention the fact that all his overwhelming thoughts were oh so rudely interrupted when Lux made contact with the second ball and...

INCOMING!!!! O_______________O

This was it. His first real opportunity to LUNGE!!

And before he knew it, Zander was flying towards the ball and with a nice loud WHACK it made contact with his stomach-- which was super hurting now by the way-- but uh... On the bright side... It wasn't a goal?

The sore Gryffindor picked the ball up and somehow made it back onto his feet before throwing the ball back into play. Now erm, hopefully a Gryffindor or Slytherin player would keep it away for a few minutes while he regained feeling? Please?