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Post by Kim Sullivan H4 on Sept 11, 2004 18:17:26 GMT
Kimberly ran down the grass with her broom in her hand, the broom itself was nearly as tall as she was. Today was to be their first team practice and Kim was rather anxious to get it started, it had been a few months since she last flew. Her mother simply refused to let her fly at home, she had said there weren't enough charms in the world to keep Kim out of muggle view. Kimberly objected and said she wouldn't be seen but her mother simply refused.
In any event, Kim soon found herself running into the Quidditch stadium. As she slowed down and walked to the middle of the pitch she looked around but was all alone. Setting her broom down on the grass, Kim sat down next to it and waited for everyone else to show up.
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Post by KiylaJohnson on Sept 11, 2004 19:29:19 GMT
Kiyla hurrried to practice clutching her broom. She couldn't wait to start flying again. She missed it so much. When she was at home her Mum forbid her to do it in fear of being exposed. She nearly skipped into the stadium she was so excited. She arrived in the stadium to see Kim already there. Kiyla didn't really know Kim that well she just knew she was the capitian of the team. Holding her broom tighter she walked over to Kim and sat down next to her sitting her broom down as well.
"I can't wait until we start practicing." Kiyla said thinking aloud then looked embarrassed when she realized that she talked.
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Post by Nokomis Astarra H5 on Sept 11, 2004 20:02:03 GMT
It wasn't too much later that a rather skinny Hufflepuff made her way onto the field. She had changed out of her school uniform, and now doned a pair of jeans and a Hufflepuff yellow t-shirt, her chin legnth brown hair done it slightly uneven pigtails down by her neck.
She had spent most of the summer wit her feet planted firly on the ground. It wasn't until about a month before school started that her father, to her delight, gave her a Cleansweep 11 as a birthday present. After that, with only a little begging, and convicing that they lived far enough from the city, her mum had let her do some low flying. She was glad for it now. She was the youngest member on the team and knew she would need all the pratice she could get.
As she neared the center of the field, she saw that Kim was already there--she had expected that though. She woudlnt have been suprised if the fourth year had been sitting there for an hour waiting for pratice to start. She was suprised to see that Kim wasn't talking up a storm as usual though.
She also saw Kiyla, and smiled at the girl who she had a new found kinship with.
"Hi Guys"
She said, as she
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Post by Valerie Rice on Sept 12, 2004 0:45:58 GMT
Valerie walked into the locker room wearing her Quidditch robe. Walking straight to her locker she picked up her broom and goggles. Removing her wand from her robe pocket she walked over to the corner where sat a few Quidditch trunks. Pointing her wand at the trunk she lifted it into the air and it floated in front of her as she walked out onto the pitch. There she found Kim, Nokomis and Kiyla. It was good that they were going to start practicing so soon, with three new chasers on the team they would need a lot of practice if they wanted to win the cup this year. "Hi" Valerie said as she set down the trunk and opened it up, kneeling down she opened the compartment that held the snitch and carefully pulled out the tiny gold ball. Holding it in her hand like a fine crystal, Valerie sat down and waited for the rest of the team to show up.
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Post by Ivy Tunstall on Sept 12, 2004 11:44:38 GMT
Ivy lingered in the dormitory, leaning on the windowsill and gazing out across the lake. Part of her was eager to get out and start practising right away, but another part was all too reluctant to go. Doubts pranced about in her mind. How would it go? Would she fit in? Would she mess up the first time? What would the others think of her?
It was hardly as if she didn't know the people on the team already. Kiyla was her best friend, for goodness sake. She was getting to know Kim and Nokomis on friendly terms and Valerie Rice had seemed amiable enough at the start of term feast.
Ivy sighed and straightened up from the window. She was already wearing her yellow Quidditch robe, which she had had trouble purchasing on her tight school budget. She took her Nimbus 2001 out of its packaging carefully, then made her way through the crowded Hufflepuff Common Room, hurrying down the stairs to the huge doors at the school's entrance.
Ivy paused for a moment longer as she stepped out into the sunshine. She hadn't flown much at all. Then the braver part of her took over and she made her way to the Quidditch stadium with long strides.
Slowing her pace slightly as she neared the stadium, Ivy saw that four members of the team were already there. She could make out Valerie, Kim and Kiyla from this distance and squinting slightly the other person just had to be Nokomis.
Ivy grinned and hastened towards them. "Hi people," she said, plonking herself down on the grass next to Kim.
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Post by Valerie Rice on Sept 12, 2004 16:54:28 GMT
While she held the tiny snitch, Valerie saw the last chaser, Ivy join them. There was no reason to prolong the start of practice any longer as all the new chasers needed to get some playing time fast. Looking over at Kim, she was sitting rather quietly by her broom, most likely she was lost in another day dream. With the snitch still in her hand, Valerie stood up and picked up her broom. When she was on the Quidditch field she was filled with confidence, the kind of confidence that had eluded her throughout her academic life at Hogwarts. "Lets start" she said as she put the snitch back into it's compartment and picked up the red quaffle. "How bout some two on two until other show up. Nokomis and I against Ivy and Kiyla, Kim you can defend the western hoops, we'll play on just half the pitch." She then tossed the quaffle to Ivy, "you can start." Valerie then picked up her Nimbus 2000, put on her goggles and then kicked off from the ground and waited for the others.
( We're going to use the real Quidditch rules, so make sure you read them. I'll use 2-2-2 for my chaser points )
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Post by Kim Sullivan H4 on Sept 13, 2004 13:36:56 GMT
Kim was snapped from her state by Valerie talking and tossing a quaffle. They were going to play some two on two! Yay! Kim loved two on two she didn't have to worry about bludgers or the snitch, just the quaffle! Quickly standing up she grabbed her broom and mounted it as Valerie told her to defend the western hoops. "Huh?" Kim said but Valerie had already taken off. Looking at the goal hoops Kim didn't know which was the western hoops, to her they looked exactly the same but maybe one was named western? Not quite sure what she was to do Kim kicked off from the ground and zoomed away towards the eastern goal hoops and hovered in front of them waiting for the others to start the game.
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Post by Ivy Tunstall on Sept 13, 2004 16:15:17 GMT
Ivy faltered as Valerie threw the Quaffle to her. 'Come on,' she urged herself, 'now isn't the time to chicken out.'
She mounted her broom with haste and kicked off from the ground. This felt... weird. She hadn't flown for ages. But still.
Ivy glanced around. Kim seemed to no longer be dreamy, but she did still look very confused. She waited for Kiyla and Nokomis to ascend, willing herself to stay in the air and not mess up.
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Post by JordanCortes on Sept 13, 2004 21:09:41 GMT
Jordan ran outside and slipped as she ran and fell over her loafer. She hadnt changed into ther quidditch robes or anything, she was still in her school uniform, and not only that but she wasnt ready to practice at all. She quickly dove into the locker room pulled her uniform over her head and threw on her quidditch robes. She grabbed half of her hair, put it in a pony tail, and put the other half in a pony tail. She grabbed her broom from the closet and ran outside onto the field. She jumped on her broom and soared to the practice. She looked at her team mates and said,
"Sory!" Before realizing she had forgotten the club. she cursed herself silently and flew back to get it. When she reached the pitch again the practice was in full gear. She sighed as she flew back in and started looking for the bludger. You couldnt miss it, this big black ball zooming at all the players...heehee if you thought about it, it was sorta funny.
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Post by KiylaJohnson on Sept 13, 2004 23:26:49 GMT
Kiyla cautiously mounted her broom. She kicked off from the ground and soared in the air near Ivy. She looked over at Ivy and gave her a nervous grin then a thumbs up hoping she could calm Ivy and herself down. She sat on her broom a breeze flowing now and then waiting for Nokomis to mount her broom and join them.
"YOu can do this. YOu can do this. Do NOT make a fool of yourself." Kiyla told herself silently as she waited.
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Post by Nokomis Astarra H5 on Sept 13, 2004 23:50:46 GMT
Her blue eyes widened at the request....two on two? She had never played with anyone else before...and never in a...game like situation.
She gulped loudly before mounted her own broom, a still almsot new cleansweep 11--which was the best that her father could affort. One swift kick and she was in the air, flying off so she hovered near Valerie. She wanted to tell the older Hufflepuff that she was rather clueless, but instad she just bit her lip and looked over at Ivy who still held the quaffle
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Post by Ivy Tunstall on Sept 14, 2004 21:02:12 GMT
Ivy looked uncertainly around, not sure what to do. They were all in the air now, but she wasn't sure whether she should start yet, or should still be waiting. Jordan had arrived, so she didn't know if that changed anything either.
Ivy glanced down at the red ball struggling in her hands. She wondered whether she would make any embarassing mistakes with it this time. Ivy looked over at Kiyla, who had looked as if she was trying to reassure both Ivy and herself a while ago, and gave her an uncertain smile.
Should she risk shouting across the pitch. The dominant quiet side in Ivy forbade it, but a new sort of nature seemed to have taken control up here. She shouted across the pitch to Valerie,
"Do we start?"
Ivy blanched at herself. 'You fool, keep quiet,' she thought.
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Post by Kim Sullivan H4 on Sept 15, 2004 2:12:24 GMT
Kim sat on her broom and watched the others waiting around. Down on the ground her attention was caught by someone coming towards them. Zooming down to meet the person Kim came in too fast and ended up making a hard crash landing. Rolling onto the grass and landing flat on her back, Kim got up and looked at her broom and picked it up quite confused as to what had just happened. "Jordan! You are here, I'm glad you are here we were going to start without you but then you came so that is good because we could use you to practice too see we all need to practice and you do to so umm take your bat yea." Kim then went over to the trunk and opened it, the two bludgers were still inside, though they were fighting to get loose. "OK Jordan I'm going to let one go and then you need to like keep it away from all of us ok then? When another beater comes we'll let the other one go too, OK? OK!" Kim then released the clasp binding the bludger and the black iron ball flew up into the air. "OK you go get that one and keep it away OK?" Kim then got onto her broom and zoomed back up to her goal posts.
When she got there she saw that Ivy still had the quaffle and nothing was happening. Kim didn't like that, she didn't like sitting around doing nothing it was really boring. "Hey Ivy!" Kim yelled across the pitch. "Throw the ball!!" Kim then impatiently crossed her arms across her chest as she waited for something to happen.
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Post by JordanCortes on Sept 15, 2004 20:29:30 GMT
Jordan laughed at Kim's activeness. She watched the bludger as it zoomed up into the air. She got on her broom, soared up into the air and waited for the bludger to arrive. It zoomed at her and she swung. The bat struck the bludger and it swerved back to where it came from. It curved around once more and she swung again, this time missed and instinctively dived away from the crazy bludger. She swung herself up on her broom and flew to a free area. She ducked the bludger once more and batted at it again. Sending it away, but only for a little while. She glared and flew away again, she noticed no one was doing anything. Grunting, she struck at the bludger again and yelled,
"Do something!"
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Post by Ivy Tunstall on Sept 16, 2004 21:37:57 GMT
Following Kim's instructions, Ivy threw the ball to Kiyla. They had started! she felt excited but apprehensive as well. She hadn't played in a nearing proper Quidditch game before, just played around with the Quaffle really.
Nervously, Ivy watched Jordan's progress with the Bludger. She didn't want that ball coming too near her.
'What should I do now?' she wondered. She moved forward, accelarating quickly away from Kiyla. 'Musn't get too far away,' she thought to herself, and halted.
'Now what?' she wondered.
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Post by KiylaJohnson on Sept 16, 2004 22:38:32 GMT
Kiyla tries to catch the quaffle. She was hopign and praying that she wouldn't mess up. She had never played a real game before. Kiyla told her self to keep her mind focused on getting a quaffle. The ball was getting nearer to Kiyla, Kiyla was only praying she would catch it...
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Post by Nokomis Astarra H5 on Sept 17, 2004 0:48:47 GMT
Nervous didn't even being to distribe it, and if she hadn't been forcing herself to trya nd stay focused on their game, she thought that she would quickly expelled the oatmeal she ate for breakfast.
Now Kyila was flying towards her though. Okay--she was a chaser now, and she had watched enough games last year to know that now was a time to steal the quaffle. She needed to get it, and then pass it to Valerie in order get the game really going.
She made a swoop left, towards Kyila and made a grab for the Quaffle
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Post by Head Girl Andi on Sept 17, 2004 1:55:31 GMT
(( Nokomis tries to steal the quaffle from Kiyla
Kilya's quaffle skill is +1, Nokomis quaffle skill is +1
**Dice** Kiyla 3+1=4, Nokomis 5+1=6**
Nokomis steals the quaffle.
Kiyla, from now on please wait for the dice roll before posting action. You can post trying to catch the pass, but you can't post catching it until the dice roll shows you caught it. ))
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Post by Nokomis Astarra H5 on Sept 17, 2004 2:06:00 GMT
It took her a moment to realize that she had actually been sucessfull in her attempts. She had to look down at the red ball for it to finally sink in. She grinned slightly--for once in her life she had done something right.
With a quick swoop to the right, she flew towards Valerie, making sure to get close before she threw the quaffle at the older Hufflepuff.
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Post by Ivy Tunstall on Sept 17, 2004 16:20:41 GMT
Ivy looked up, rather embarrassed, as Nokomis stole the Quaffle from the tip of Kiyla's hands. 'A great way to start', she thought, trying to get closer to Valerie and shadow her.
She was still very confused about what she should be doing, but she thought this was right. Kiyla was nearer to Nokomis so Ivy presumed she would stay with her. She looked back down the pitch, willing Kiyla to concentrate and do the right thing. Was she even doing the right thing herself?
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