Jaren's eyes were tearing from both the pain that was involved and what felt like he'd gone and rolled his eyeballs around in the sand--apparently someone hadn't exactly kept the Great Hall's floor clean of bits of dirt. Still, half-blinded by tears, he managed to slip his shoe back on before wiping his eyes off the sleeve of his shirt. He appeared to be muttering a string of curses under his breath all the while, pausing only to ask Professor Zoa a question.

"As anyone ever manage to splinch internal organs?" He muttered in a voice that was surprisingly calm despite what he'd just been through.

That question made Zekke grimace and he groaned. "With my luck, I might end up leaving behind my -"

He coughed and shook his head. "Nevermind. And I don't even want to imagine what it would feel like to apparate and leave behind my liver or a kidney or... something."

Before Jaren's comment about internal organs, he had been ready to try apparating again, but now that his mind was filled with all sorts of unsavory images, he was fearful of what he might leave behind.

He dug into his robe pocket and procured a little vial of something which he took a sniff of and and put away. Lavender essential oils weren't only handy for Potions you know...

He also found a small vial of purified water labeled H2O, which he had originally been saving for some experiment or another, but never remembered to use. He uncorked it and took a cautious sniff. Water couldn't go bad, could it?

Wordlessly, he offered the small vial of water to Jaren and with it, he offered a clean handkerchief. Maybe he could put it to use and wash his eyes out.\

And not that he was trying to stare, but after taking a gander at Nadia, who had seemed to have been fated to his same earlier fate...

He went over and shrugged off his robe and silently offered it to her.

Nadia walked back into the Great Hall, looking all but as if beast with huge, clumsy pawns had fixed her. She rubbed her arms now the pressure was gone and walked in, looking around. At least things seemed to have went to normal. And good thing, too. Now she considered with enough bloody reaching her head, the prospect of having eyeballs rolling, not to mention the happening, well...

Good thing she hadn't panicked by then.

And also, luckily, she heard not Jaren's questions. She didn't need the mental image nor the fear, thank you very much. She was better off, if not a bit mad about her recent failture. You don't want to know where her bra had ended up. One shoe had been on her head all the time, the other stuck on the pants sleeve and she hadn't even realize! Seemly people didn't realize, Zekke's rob did hide that part. (ooc: heh, you are a bit late Steph =P)

So, with her mind distracted in that, she couldn't quite apparate again. She just stared hard at the loop... and nothing else.

"You all right?" Zekke whispered to Nadia and offered her his vial of lavender essential oil to smell.

He wondered if Nadia had splinched anything of her person like he and Jaren had. Splinching only clothes was better... usually.

Nadia titled her head, and since she had been still clunching her wand, pocketed it at last when turning to Zekke. "Yeah, all right... what does that do?" she asked, refering to the oil. She still was a bit embarrassed by her previous predicament but frustrated over all to show it.

"It shouldn't be that hard," she said staring at the loop again. "It isn't! I mean, distance and location, I have a mental map of the whole school if the apparation area allowed it, and I have determination like with other spells and the deliberation is just saying 'now'. So, destination, determination, deliberation and --WHOOPS!"

She started that weird spinning like she was in those knife-thrower rotating board of a circus act. And on and on and when the levitation stopped she found herself doing unwilled cartwheels and rolling all the way to the right wall, directly and smashing into that.

Zekke was about to follow Nadia's example and give apparating another shot, but at Nadia's 'thunk' against the wall, he abandoned his attempt in favor of keeping her company.

He offered the oil again, saying that "Lavender oil helps to relax the body and clear out the mind. Just aromatherapy is all. There's nothing else in it but the essence of lavender. I wonder if our trouble is all because we're nervous. I mean, we ARE apparating... we're just... not quite doing it properly... somehow."

Kate nodded at the question. "It's happened before, but it's very rare. Internal organs are more likely to go along with you than extremeties if you're not concentrating enough. I'd imagine leaving one's eyes behind will be the most serious splinching we'll see here this year, but I suppose you never know." Kate was distracted at that moment by Nadia slamming into a wall. "Excuse me, Jaren. I think I need to attend to Nadia."
Kate hurried toward Nadia, and offered her a hand to get up. "Are you all right?" Kate asked with concern in her voice.


OOC: Nadia, I didn't realize your clothing mishap was quite as bad as it was. Sorry for not taking care of it IC, I just assumed it was something you would take care of rather than having me take care of it. Sorry.

ooc: *pets you* Nah, it was just that it was a bit embarrassing for Nadia to be walking with her clothing all in the wrong places Don't you worry, Zoa had more important things to be taking care about.


"Alright," Nadia responded the question, "Just, the world... stop spinning..." This was so embarrassing. And what she had just said. She was in pain, headache, because of how supremely dizzy she was, but the physical pain was nothing to the embarrasment. So was the case, Nadia started giggling as she was trying to get up.

"I was cartwheeling," she said, rather redundantly and while clunching her injured head. She suddenly was looking up at the professor, hand in place, and couldn't believe it but she was laughing. "I was cartwheeling! And I rolled over the floor!" She couldn't whip that silly grin from her face, couldn't, and yet it wasn't the happy laughter of the cheering charm, but uncomfortable laughter. Nadia wasn't acting crazy either. Just so terribly embarrassed.

She snorted.

"I travelled all around the - all though the room," she said between breaths, "the Great Hall," and she thought she would be explode right there in gasp of laughter. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she tried again and waved a hand then using that same hand to cover her mouth to stop laughing. "I better not be bleeding." And for some reason that was enough to set her off and laughing unable to stop again.

Zekke stared at Nadia for a moment and decided that... Well, he wasn't sure what he decided to be quite honest. And thus, he just watched as Nadia went off in gales of laughter.

"..."

Jaren did his best to ignore Nadia's mild accident on cartwheeling under pretense of attempting to rinse out his eyes with the vial of water Zekke had offered him. It worked rather well, actually--just about as well as one of those Muggle eyewash stations they had in Muggle Chemistry labs, and less messy.

When he was done he stoppered the vial and made a mental note to rinse out the contents and refill it before returning it to Zekke.

He'd be ready to try again...in a moment.

Perhaps apparating had a tendency to make one... giddy? Feel peculiar? Be hyper?

Really, who knew, and this was the only worry that kept Zekke from indulging in a chocolate frog right on the spot despite the fact that he was getting to be ravenously hungry.

If apparating made one odd in the head, then adding chocolate - sugar - couldn't possibly be a good idea, right?

After snorting and chuckling and gasp-laugh breathing a couple of times more, she was soon returning to normal. She tried appologizing to the professor for having worried her, though now she was sure the professor wasn't that worried. Even when Nadia hadn't stopped being it. In fact, Nadia was wondering if the professor might be mad at her for having that laughing attack of sorts.

So, appologizing to the professor once more, attempting for all ways to do so muttely so not to give herself space to start another laughing fit (mind, at this point laughing was more embarrassing than anything, she looked to be under a ticking spell! She was sure, if it had been her the one to loose her eyeballs, she would too be laughing about it too, minutes ago).

She regarded Zekke with the same sheeppish smile and wondered why he was looking at her that way. She finally dropped her hand from her head, revealing a purple-looking bruise, and woobled into a standing position. "Yes, what can I do for you?" she asked Zekke.

Kay stood up and rubbed her rear. "I wouldn't be surprised if my backside is black and blue!" she said to herself. "Need to clear my mind...focus on the task at hand...eeww! Who's eyeballs are those?" she grimaced and watched the entire situation with Jaren and his eyeballs.

Now determined more than ever to concentrate, Kay was about to attempt apparation again when she heard Nadia slam into the wall. "Concentrate!" she muttered to herself and closed her eyes. "Try to block out distractions." She took a few deep breaths. "Destination, determination, deliberation...destination, determination, deliberation," she repeated over and over trying her best to calm her nerves. "Okay, I'm ready," she said and stood near her hoop.

"Destination...Determination...Deliberation!"

Crack!

Kay felt as if she were spinning around and opened her eyes - she was 6 inches closer to the hoop! She patted herself to make sure that everything was in place and thankfully it was. Her legs were a bit wobbly and she began to sway back and forth.

Kerplop!

She fell backwards and landed with a hard thud on the floor. "Oww! That definitely will leave a mark. Too bad we can't use a cushioning charm on the floor or the walls," Kay said.

Feeling ready to give Apparating another try now that the chaos had died to a minimum level, Jaren approched the area where his eyes and shoe had been sitting only moments before (try not to think about that...) he focused once more on the task.

The point was that he had to make himself feel very much like jumping into the hoop, so...

Crack!

Jaren opened one eye to make sure he could still see with it, than the other before looking downwards. He had definately made it in a hoop this time, in one piece...only...

He looked around.

He was in Nadia's hoop, across the hall from his.

"Whooops." Zekke muttered under his breath at Jaren's predicament. At least he was in one piece?

"Nadia, you have one heckuva blooming bruise on your head!" He lightly touched where her bruise was and raised an eyebrow.

Without much thinking about it, he cast Ennervate on her in case she truly had been stunned from the impact.

"Are you all right?" His eyes narrowed in concern.

Nadia looked up. She had only been reaching the place, back to position, when somebody had apparated in her loop. An irrational part of her brain tried to explain it too fast and for a second she thought she was going to "yay" and congratulate herself on seeing the loop occupied.

Er, good thing she stopped herself from making worse her situation of embarrassment. In all honesty, she didn't thought she could laugh any more. Groan more like.

So her only reaction was more of a welcoming, "Hi, what's up!" She turned around to Zekke who mentioned something about a 'heckuva' and wondered who was in worse state, of her or him, when he tried Ennervate her even after Nadia had spoken to him. "I'm alright. Are you alright?" she narrowed her eyes.

Destination, determination, deliberation.

Concentrating hard on those three words, Alex tried her best. But she was getting nowhere fast. The first time all she did was spin around in the same spot, which made her even more dizzy and tired than she was before. For a second she thought she was going to actually throw up -- but nah. It was probably just the weird sensation everyone got while trying to Apparate.

Destination, determination, deliberation.

Foucs. If she could just focus. The girl repeated the words over and over in her head. Destination, determination, deliberation.

What the --?! She scanned the Great Hall and noticed that was rather far away form the hoop, only ... where the heck was her arm?! Obviously in the spot where she had Apparated from before.

"My arm!!" she sqeaked and pointed to it, hoping a Professor would notice. "Professor!"

:Kelli looked around, then at her hoop:

Alright. I can do this. Destination, Determination, and Deliberation.

:She took a deep breath, stared hard at the loop, then closed her eyes:

:a loud crack, and she opened her eyes:

Alright well not that worst thing that could happen...

:she looked around and noticed she hadn't moved an inch. she was a little woosy though, and felt that she had just spun in about 100 circles:

Kate walked over to Alex, and with a bang and a cloud of purple, her arm was reattached. "Keep trying, dear. You'll get it soon enough."

Destination, determination, deliberation.

This was turning out to be a lot harder than what she first thought. Foucs Alex. You need to focus. She needed motivation. When noticing that Jaren was already doing it on only his third or fourth try, she bit her lip. Well, Jaren was older -- but at the same time, she didn't like it when she couldn't do things that other people could.

Destination, determination, deliberation.

CRACK!

She wasn't where she was before, that's for sure. For some odd reason, she was staring Jaren in the face. What in the world ...? WAIT! I'm in Nadia's hoop! ... Nadia's?! Knowing only too well that Jaren didn't like his personal space intruded, she quickly jumped out of the hoop and went back to her spot, to try it again.

At least she finally managed to Apparate -- so she was getting better. Now, only if she could do it in the right hoop.

"Ouch!" Nabiya cried out as she landed on her bum once again. "that's 16 today!" she grumbled to herself, standing up once again and glaring at her hoop and the space inside it.

"Dumb, Dunce, Dungbrain..more like it.." she mumbled to herself. She was getting really stressed out by her constant failure at this, and seeing her other classmates succeeding wasn't helping much, even though they did leave most of their parts behind.

Okay...concentrate...clear your mind...breathe in.. she thought to herself. Breathing in and out slowly with her eyes shut she struggled to maintain her sanity.

Looking intently at the space within the hoop, Nabiya thought Destination... and concentrated on the inside of the hoop, Determination...and thought and wished with all her might to be inside the hoop and Deliberation...and thought of doing it!

Opening her eyes slowly she stared at her feet, she was standing an inch away from the hoop. "Yes!!" she cried! "I may not have made it inside the hoop, but this is better than anything I've done before!"

Going back to her original spot, with more hope now that she had managed to move she started the entire process again, this time ending up in the hoop, but with both shoes still at the starting point and also her socks!

"Professor...err..you dont have to help me with this..but I almost did it!" she said unsurely to the passing professor.

Jake stood there.. he tried clearing his mind but quidditch kept poping in his mind. He concentrated..
Destination
Determination..
Deliberation
CRACK!!
He opened his eyes and saw total darkness.. He tried to inhale but didn't get anything. He tried to move his body but he was surronded by a stiff substance. HE WAS IN A WALL!! He moved his hand rapidly which was still outside the wall.. He started to feel lightheaded from the lack of O2.

Terry clears her mind and stares at the hoop. Destination, that is where she wants to aparate to. "Determination, I am going to aparate inside the hoop." She stares at the hoop visualizing it in her mind. She sees only the hoop. Her one purpose in life is to be in that hoop. Terry thinks about nothing else but being in the hoop. She tunes out the world around her. After saying one, two, three out loud; she turns around feeling her way into nothingness. Her mind is deterimined she's going to aparate into the hoop. Everything is going great until Terry looses her footing and falls on her backside. "Not again," she curses to herself. "Six tries and I'm no closer to being in the hoop than the first time." She looks around at the other students. At least they are getting part of the way there. This is hopelss. Terry sits there and stares at the hoop for a few minutes.

Next to her, Terry was sitting on the floor. "Hi Terry, I managed to get off the floor after so many tries! and it feels good! a bit..tingly though.." Nabiya said conversationally.
Stepping out of the hoop and putting her socks and shoes on, Nabiya went back to the starting point, determined to get in the hoop with all parts present this time.
Suddenly, she heard a commotion coming from somewhere behind her, Nabiya turned around quickly and saw that a boy had apparated into a wall! "Oh my...Professor! help! someone apparated into that wall!!" she shouted.

ooc: Owch. Is that even possible?!

Jaren jumped back slightly at the sudden appearance of Alex in the same hoop, only because he decided it was best to get out of the hoop and back to his original spot.

There were a few shouts about a boy Apparating into a wall, which Jaren ignored simply because it was either not possible in his mind, and also because there was nothing he could do about that except alert the Professors in charge.