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When Tuesday, 29 MAR @ Noon EST to Thursday, 31 MAR @ Noon EST
It was the week after the Quidditch Cup Championship game and three days after the disgusting Herbology lesson. But Vindictus was outside and in his familiar stomping grounds, and thus felt more at ease. Everything and anything flying-related came to him with perfect ease (unlike trying to decipher the Herbology lessons contained in the teacher's text).
A rack of brooms, a box of bats, and a bin of restrained Quaffles awaited the class.
Would they even dare to attend in fear of being eaten by the unknown?
Vindictus knew that things were getting out of hand. "OKAY - this is about sharing your custom creations and not picking on someone's family," he warned to Rex.
"Now each of these creations are unique and show the personality of the creator, unfortunately, the brooms aren't legal to be flown so I'd suggest you use these decorated brooms for decorative purposes only."
Now for the fun to begin.
"I would like for each of you to grab a broom off the rack and a bat. Once you have these items, please line up about arms width apart."
Rex put down his decorated broom. He picked up the broom like the professor asked him. He also got a bat. Rex lined up." I am ready to fly" Rex told the professor.
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Chloe felt a bit confused about the first thing Rex said and her face showed it's in response but as her went on what her said made more sense. "Oh, ok, I was just gonna say you could have all those things on your broom reduced in size and stored in your pocket and still, eat, drink, and dance when you land. But I guess that is not the point. And the Dallas Cow Boys that is American football team. Cool, I don't know much about football or football but I can say it looks like you are representing well cause your broom looks awesome.
" Thanks, I dould put everything in my pocket" Rex told Chloe. " I think it way me down more on this broom" Rex said to Chloe." Thanks for telling me my broom looks awesome.
"Since you're all a bit stressed out, I thought I'd make the practical portion of this exam easy," Vindictus began. "Flying and hitting something at the same time takes skill . . . and some of you are pretty handy at that."
Wink.
"I want you to take off and fly around this empty stadium. When an object suddenly appears, you've gotta fly towards it and smack it real hard with the bat without falling off your broomstick."
Smirk.
"This doesn't mean that you get to hit anyone who happens to be in your way - just hit the items when they appear. And don't forget to remain alert for anything unexpected."
He reached into his pocket and pulled out his silver officiating whistle.
TWEET!
Luin took her broom and kicked off of the ground as she heard the whistle. She flew up a few feet and worked to get her balance on the broom. As she did so she looked around her, waiting for the objects to show up. She started going a bit faster, trying to cool some of her jitters before more of the task started. She stayed away from most of the other students, wanting to not accidentally run into them instead of what she was supposed to.
Totally annnoyed by the fact that they weren't going to be using their own brooms, and also quite warying of the fact that Rex was giving Sierra hell, and not in a cool way; she was a snake yes.......but he was pretty sure she knew about her own family......
Yes, with all that bubbling in side, Patroclus was actually excited to get to whack somethings.
He was a Chaser yes; the highest score in the school... but he was sure he would be just as good at Beating. Jacob's skills would have surely rubbed off on him.
So mounting up on a school broom, his Firebolt wouldn't not have been happy if he had seen him; Patroclus took to the sky, his right hand holding onto the club, his left along with his knees controlling the broom.
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Did he hear that right? They arent going to be using their customized brooms? Well....
... THATS.JUST.AWESOME!
Salander looked at his customized broom before leaning it against one of the broom racks. He had no real intentions of flying it at all-- if anything he wanted to find someone else to ride it for him. He was in it for name recognition of creating the fastest broom known to Wizardkind. More profit in that, rather than flying towards your death and not enjoying any of the insurance money.
They do have insurance in the Wizarding world right?
He took up one of the bats and mounted a school broom, looking at it warily. Many of his fellow students laugh at these things for sluggishness. Well he sure wasnt laughing. If anything these things were still too fast for him to handle confidently.
And now they were to make like a Quidditch Beater and take to the skies?
He looked around, seeing that many of the students were already flying. He gulped silently, tightened his grip on the bat and took to the air slowly, gradually gaining in altitude.
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They weren't going to use their customised brooms? Spike pouted. He'd been so excited about the fact he'd had to bring it today...and it was only to present it to class. And it wasn't even legal to fly his own design. Sigh.
He brightened considerably at the thought of actually going up in the air though, especially with a bat. He took one, and weighed it up in his left hand before fetching himself a broom from the rack too.
This was going to be fun.
The whistle blew. Spike kicked off the ground, and let himself gradually gain height as he tested his balance with the bat. It was easier said than done, and he hadn't actually tried to swing the bat at anything yet. Nevertheless, he leant forward to increase his speed and kept a wary eye out for objects and other members of the class.
Okay, some they were not allowed to use their deorated brooms at all, thts a bummer but it certainly is a good thing consiering what some people came up with. But now the time had come took finally take took the skies. Chloe grabbed a regulation broom and a beaters bat. Then once given the word she kiched off the ground and began took circle the stadium on the look out for her classmates as not took bump into them and the items to hit, no sign yet.
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Whoo, her guess had been right: They were all going to play Beaters today! Fun! She hadn't played Beater since that one time in her first year because afterwards she discovered the awesomeness that was the Chaser position, so she was probably a little rusty, but it couldn't be too hard, right?
Vashti mounted her broom, holding onto it with one hand while the other gripped the bat, and kicked off the ground as soon as she heard the whistle. She gained a little height as she started to circle around the pitch, smiling at the feeling of the wind rushing past her. It always felt amazing.
But she couldn't just focus on that and let her guard down right now. She needed to watch out for whatever it was they were supposed to hit. What was she supposed to look for though? Surely not bludgers...
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Epiic. They were gonna get to use the bats. Yup. Finlay was pretty happy. Sure he didp prefer playing chaser, but beater was just as epic. Was pretty good when you got angry quite often too. After grabbing a broom, and a bat, he mounted the broom, and took off. Glad to be in the skies again. After not playing in the championship game he had missed it quite a bit and was glad to be in the air again now, with the wind whistling past. Yup....he loved flying.
He also loved hitting things too. So....this was going to be epic. As long as he didn't like get hit in the face with anything. [s]Or no slytherins elbowed him in the face.[/b]
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Vindictus pointed his wand to the sky and suddenly it was filled with colorful balloons floating all over the place.
"You need use the bat to pop five balloons!" he shouted from his place on the ground and since he had his wand out, he accio'd a bag of popcorn and a cold thermos of pumpkin juice from the kitchens.
Snack time!
The Task
[x]Pop 5 balloons with the bat
[x]One balloon per post (5 posts total)
[x]Title each post 'Balloon 1', etc.
[x]Next item(s) will appear 12 hours from now
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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater
Vindictus pointed his wand to the sky and suddenly it was filled with colorful balloons floating all over the place.
"You need use the bat to pop five balloons!" he shouted from his place on the ground and since he had his wand out, he accio'd a bag of popcorn and a cold thermos of pumpkin juice from the kitchens.
Snack time!
The Task
[x]Pop 5 balloons with the bat
[x]One balloon per post (5 posts total)
[x]Title each post 'Balloon 1', etc.
[x]Next item(s) will appear 12 hours from now
Emily grinned broadly as the sky was filled with various coloured balloons. It was magical, beautiful... wonderful. This was a sensational exam exercise.
Leaning forward slightly on her broom, Emily surged forward, adjusting her brooms angle swiftly she began to incline, a bright red balloon in her sight.
The question in her mind was... how do you pop a balloon... with a bat? Surly it would just... bounce off.
Emily raised her bat-arm to hit the balloon. Swinging it down with perfect precision and timing to hit the balloon over the top....
And.... it just bounced downward, sailing through the air gently.
MERLIN!
Turning sharply Emily dived, she had an idea.
Adjusting her grip on her bat, she raised her arm and aimed it at the balloon for the second time. This time she flicked her wrist sharply on impact.
*POP*
The balloon burst, and the shrivelled remains fell to the ground.
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Simon and the rest didn't have to wait long for their first opponants, the multicolored balloons appearing swiftly throughout the air and scattered around the airbourne students. Just barely hearing the instructions shouted by Professor Vindictus, he set about completing the assigned task. A orange balloon nearby, the sixth year angled his broom to fly closer, his bat out as he swung. Not once but twice for his first attempt meerly moved the balloon away from the displacement of the air by the bat's movements. Trying again he was greeted by a more satisfactory sound then the woosh of air.
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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater
"You need use the bat to pop five balloons!" he shouted from his place on the ground and since he had his wand out, he accio'd a bag of popcorn and a cold thermos of pumpkin juice from the kitchens.
Snack time!
But... wasn't this a... beater thing?
...
Helena didn't like this. She didn't want this. But she was there. She'll have to do everything, right? So, still hovering above the ground, she leaned somehow, so the broomstick flew higher. Once she was a liiiitle bit higher, she flew after a blue baloon and...
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...balloons? That's all they got to hit with these bats?!
"Well, at least it's an easy task," Sierra thought to herself. Maybe. She wondered if the balloon would just bounce off her bat once it was hit. She'd have to hit it fairly hard to get it to burst. She smiled a wicked grin and, holding out the palm of her left hand, smacked the bat gently into her palm.
Showtime.
She zoomed forward, eying a red balloon that seemed to be just within her reach. Her left hand tightly gripped the handle of her broom, as her right hand held the bat high, ready to smack the balloon. Her arm reached back, and then she thrust it forward, coming into contact with the balloon. Just as she'd thought it would, it bounced right off, running into a yellow balloon and bouncing right back toward her. She smacked it again, and this time it popped. She smirked at the remains as she flew off toward her second balloon.
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Four more baloons to go... pop, or whatever.
Helena flew over towards a few baloons, trying to find one, but... "Aaaaah!"
She ran into a few baloons and she couldn't see anything anymore and... Pop! Hehe. She also managed to hit a yellow one. But she still didn't like this whole... thing.
Balloons? Balloons were the best thing he could come up with. This wasn't even Vindictus worthy... Atleast put something interesting inside, like Rabie infected Raccoons or something like that... Evil Squirrels... but really? Just popping Balloons?
Jacob Didn't he waste his energy he flew towards the nearest balloon and with his bat extended out, Jacob Gave the balloon a hit just enough not pop it, but not to waste any of Jacobs Precious energy.
He Quickly flew a round trying to find one that other people weren't already targeting.
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Helena was starting to feel tired. It was difficult... for a first year like her. She was good at learning and stuff like that. Not at practical stuff like flying. But she still had three more baloons to hit.
So... flying around the others and around the baloons, she spotted a purple one, reached over and hit it, making a loud 'pop' sound. Two more to go.
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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater
Vindictus pointed his wand to the sky and suddenly it was filled with colorful balloons floating all over the place.
"You need use the bat to pop five balloons!" he shouted from his place on the ground and since he had his wand out, he accio'd a bag of popcorn and a cold thermos of pumpkin juice from the kitchens.
Snack time!
The Task
[x]Pop 5 balloons with the bat
[x]One balloon per post (5 posts total)
[x]Title each post 'Balloon 1', etc.
[x]Next item(s) will appear 12 hours from now
Nika frowned. Hmph. So her plan of staying out of the way and not using her bat is a no go. She was still hovering only a few feet above the ground. Well this is just great. Flying only for her third time is going to be mission impossible. Nika looked at the bat in her hand and practiced swinging it in the air while flying. She almost lost her balance, but luckily she regained it. There should be a law about swinging while flying. "Okay Nika find a balloon." She picked a pretty green one and tried to fly up to it the best she could. As soon as she went to swing the balloon had shifted positions. Nika held one hand on the broom as tightly as she could. She chased the balloon around a small area of the pitch. Finally she was able to corner it and WHAM! One down four more to go. "This is not going to be easy!"
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Still flying around, Helena kept scanning the sky for other baloons to hit. She didn't know why, but she wanted a red one. So red baloon, here she comes!
The girl flew towards the first red one she spotted and hit it with her bat. But... she couldn't slow down. The broomstick was flying faster and faster and...
... slower. She remembered how to slow it down. Fortunately.
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Nika was relieved that she was even able to pop one balloon. For all she knew she would be here for eternity trying to finish the task. Nika let out a small sigh and searched the pitch for another colorful balloon. They were every where, but Nika wanted to pop the ones that were the closest to the ground. That would mean that she wouldn't have to fly as high. Nika found a bright pink balloon hovering by itself not too far away. Her new victim target. Nika fly up behind it trying her best to keep steady. Once she was close to it she pulled out her bat and held on to it tightly. She made sure to keep one hand wrapped around the handle of the broom as she lifted the bat over the balloon.
She took most of her strength and smacked the balloon, but it just bounced off. HMPH! She flew up behind and tried again, but it just did the same thing. After what seemed like ten more tries the balloon finally gave out and popped. "About time!"
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Guiding his broom into a turn, Simon went after his next target...a bright blue one this time set up against the clear sky. He knew had to try harder this time not wanting to repeat his previous mistake of moving to slow in his swing. Coming up as close as he could without dusturbing the air around his balloon, the captain took a hard fast hit . The boy smiling as he was rewarded by the bursting of his target into royal blue remains going out in all directions before flittering to the field below as Simon took off again.
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Ooooh the last baloon!
And this one was going to be a white one. Just because Helena wanted that. So she flew slowly towards it, but when she reached over to hit it, she almost... fell. But nooo, this could not be happening again. Nope. She just... lost her balance. But she was alright and...
Vindictus pointed his wand to the sky and suddenly it was filled with colorful balloons floating all over the place.
"You need use the bat to pop five balloons!" he shouted from his place on the ground and since he had his wand out, he accio'd a bag of popcorn and a cold thermos of pumpkin juice from the kitchens.
Snack time!
The Task
[x]Pop 5 balloons with the bat
[x]One balloon per post (5 posts total)
[x]Title each post 'Balloon 1', etc.
[x]Next item(s) will appear 12 hours from now
Wait, what? Balloons?
But that was...so not Vindictus.
Either Treyen had gotten used to the mad man that he was while teaching Herbology or...he never expected the man to give them balloons to pop. Which, by the way, shouldn't be an easy task.
And if his sight was correct, Vindictus was eating popcorn?! Dude! Treyen wants popcorn.
Er, yeah, balloons.
He started to chase a green balloon for some weird reason and then aimed the bat at it, but failed miserably to pop it, however, the red one behind him HAD popped before he aimed the bat at the green one.
Well, Treyen was taking that red former-balloon as the first popped balloon. Totally.
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Balloons? Well at least it wasn't anything that could hit back or knock them out, she supposed. She didn't really want to have to go to the hospital wing when it was so nice out. So she wasn't going to complain.
With her bat held tightly in one hand, Vashti set her sights on a bright yellow balloon and directed her broom towards it, raising her bat arm as she drew near...
WHACK!
Pop!
Oh yeah, one balloon down! She glanced around for another...
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