Arabella-Marie turned on her broom and raced down the pitch again to the opposite hoops at the other end of the pitch and stopped when she got there she was short of breath but she knew that she had to keep practicing if she was to make the team

Vashti was itching to hop on the broom and start flying. Maybe she could get a lap around the pitch in before Louisa came? She was really considering it...

But Louisa showed up before she actually got the chance. Probably a good thing because once she got on a broom, Vashti wouldn't be getting off any time soon, which probably wouldn't help Louisa all that much.

She was smiling as she turned toward Louisa - and faltered at the sight of the treatment of the broom. "Don't just drag it around like that!" she said, frowning. "That's completely disrespectful." Brooms ought to be treated with care, otherwise they wouldn't work very well. Maybe that was why Louisa had been having trouble before.

Vashti nodded at the good weather comment. It was part of the reason why she'd suggested they start practicing today; it wouldn't be very wise to start teaching someone to fly in bad weather. Teaching in an immensely crowded area wasn't wise either - which was why she was glad there weren't too many people flying around at the moment.

"No, it's really not that crowded," she replied with a shake of her head. But, after a moment's pause, she added, "Y'know, if you don't want to practice, that's fine. Just let me know now because this won't go well at all if I have to force you."

William got on his broom. He has the Nimbus 2000. He will be trying out for kepper. He pretends the aufllle is coming at him. He zooms in front of it and then cathes it. He does this several times on both sides.

After signing up for the Slytherin team, Daichi wondered what he had done. He NEVER had flown before in his life! What had he been thinking?! Yes he wanted to be on the team badly but that he had actually signed in..he couldn''t believe it.

Daichi stood in the middle of the pitch, a school broom in his hand and he gulped. Flying couldn't be so difficult right? He had seen tons of games together with his big brother. He just needed to do what they did. He mounted the broom while biting his lower lip. Ok Daichi just keep your breathing normal and everthing is going to be okay. He slowly kicked his feet off the ground and he soared up in the sky. "WAAAAAAH!" He yelled as he flew straight to a boy ..or girl? He didn't know. "WATCH OOOUUUUT!"

Alex was doing exactly what he had told himself he would be. Practising for the tryouts and not thinkint about Chandler, Fee or Ellie. He didn't really mind the people who were on their brooms, he was just minding his own business. But a shout broke through his concentration and he frowned looking around. The words "Watch out" is never good to be hearing when you're on the Quidditch Pitch.

He was just about to turn his head around to see who was going to get hit when something hit him instead.

...

Great.

The collision caught him off balance and he struggled with his broom to keep it steady in the air and not falling off. Falling from that height down on the ground wasn't something he normally did. Well, apart from on the matches when he needed to make a goal or something. He couldn't afford breaking something right before tryouts.

"Hey!" he said as soon as he'd gotten control over his broom again. He glared at the person who had almost knocked him off his broom, before he saw who it was. DUCKLES! His expression immediatley softened when he recognized the little firstie and he flew a bit closer. "Call out a little sooner, next time deal?" he sighed. "You alright?"

Daichi had closed his eyes and prayed whoever it was had heard him. But a second later he smashed in to something and he opened his eyes with a gasp and his broom started to spin and jerk violently. The first year grabbed the broom as if his life depended on it. Somehow, he managed to stay on his room and after checking if he was ok he looked at the person he had hit. Oh no! He was glaring at him!

Daichi gulped as he watched how the boy flew closer. Prayed that he wouldn't hit him. But when he came closer he saw who it is and sighed in relief. Alex would't hurt him, right?
"I-i-i'm reeeeeeaaaaalllllyyy sorry!" He called out and bowed his head multiple times. Daichi nodded his head, yes he was fine.. Even if he had fallen off his broom and had broken his arm he would say he was fine. Anything! That would keep him away from the Hospital Wing.

Surprisingly, now that he had calmed down, Daichi noticed that he was actually hovering above the ground. "Look! I can fly~!" he said cheerfully but then made a movement that the broom flew forwards a bit and he grabbed the broom with a startled expression again.

Tryout sign-ups were going good, a few members who were on the team the year before or even previous years and a lot of newbies to round out the numbers. Simon had even had a smirk when he saw that Kurumi had indeed given in and signed up. Maybe just maybe it would get her one step closer to getting more confident on the broom even if she only got as far as the try-out stage. The captain had his broom with him to see about flying but headed up to the stands for a bit and when he saw a figure already there, he moved closer, the seventh year greeted by his fellow captain as he got near.

"Guess we thought alike..." Simon mused turning to glance as a flyer came past the two of them. Again he added to himself but at least it wasn't a class...no need to distract them at risk the trouble of Vindictus.

Jacob had been watching many of the Ravenclaws intently, he had several bad impressions already... especially that Vashti... and was that Finn? They were trying to teach some other students. Wasn't that Vindictus' Job?

Then again, he didn't disapprove, of course the people would come to HIS team for private lessons. They were the best after all.

Jacobs head turned in the direction of another captain. Simon, and himself seemed to always end up here at the same time. "It seems that way." he said, but Jacobs eyes landed on the broom in the boys hand. A small smile crept across his face.

"I don't know bout you, but This is beginning to bore me" and he grabbed his broom, got up, and climbed onto the rail of the stands. With a quick glance at Simon, Jacob jumped from the stands.

After a few split seconds of free-fall, Jacob saddled the broom, and mere feet from the ground, Jacob pulled up and flew back up to see Simon. "Come on, Bennett!" he shouted. "Lets see what you've really got!" Jacobs smile only grew bigger. One on One. Captain against Captain.

Simon's eyebrow raised slightly at the smile that came across the younger boy's face, the words accompaning it making him even more curious but he didn't have to wait long for it to all be revealed. As soon as Jacob jumped up on the railing he had a clear idea about what he was gonna do and he watched his fellow captain take off into a dive before coming back to him. Hearing the challenge he hesitated for a moment wondering if there was something he was missing but it seemed as a straightforward and good-natured challenge.

"You're on Blunt," Simon yelled back in acceptance, the seventh year climbing up on the railing himself with his broom in hand. He smoothly mounted in one swift action before he took off to meet the Ravenclaw in the air.

Kyle had been flying a bit, upon seeing Simon and Jacob having a fly off. She couldn't help but smirk slightly - even though she was trying for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team - she just wanted somehow for Simon to win.

Still, she couldn't help but frown as he climbed onto the railing - having a friend in the hospital wing would not be a great way to start the term. Still, she climbed up to the top of the stands and watched. Tugging her sweater and adjusting it the girl decided to watch how the race went. She'd tell him congratulations or better luck next time later.

Jacob watched Simon jump on the rail, his smile faded slightly seeing as his challenge had been accepted... But this would be fun.

He gave a small laugh as the boy simply took off. "can't make this a show?" he asked and pointed at the other students, "you're supposed to be captain, dangerous and daring. Showing off goes hand in hand with that. But whatever." he taunted, his smile returning.

Yup, a nice good ol' fashioned race. And he was the one being challenged so " choose your course" he said and waited to see how the boy wanted to do this.

Ah so there was the expected attempt to bruise a Gryffindor's idea of courage. Simon nearly shook his head at the remark but wasn't about to show a reaction to it and to the added dig about how captains were supposed to be daring.

"Oh if you want to make it a show we can make it a show," he remarked moving closer to look him straight in the eye. "Just didn't want to show you up on the first try," he added returning the taunt before considering his options he had.

"How about a figure 8 around the pitch weaving between the stand towers and students. We can even thread the center hoops, jumping from your broom while the broom goes through the hoop and you go over it... If you want a challenge."

Louisa raised her eyebrows at the 'disrespect' word. What? Did brooms have feeling now? "How do I hold it then?" Over my head like an idiot? she thought and kept it inside. No need to insult Vashti's hobby...or whatever.

"I am not a quitter, Vashti." She seemed to say that a lot to this particular friend. Without thinking further about the reason, she threw the broom next to her on the ground and breathed in deeply. "So... what do we do first?" Louisa had her hands on her hips. She wasn't in her school robes, but was wearing a grey bluish jeans, a light blue T-shirt and a half-zipped grey jacket. She thought about bringing a helmet but decided against it at the last minute; First she didn't know where to find one, and second Vashti could die laughing and Louisa would be the reason.

Daisy ran onto the Quidditch pitch again, she had enjoyed yesterday so much, she was going to be flying a lot. Grabbing her broom, and her beaters club, she pushed off.

The wind whipped through her hair as she soared through the morning sunshine. There were quite a few people around now, so Daisy thought she better be best not to yell at the top of her voice, as she usually did. She scanned the pitch for any hufflepuffs, maybe if they had put their name down for the team, she could practice with them.....

Aiden arrives to the pitch with an old broom borrowed from the school. Too bad first years aren't allowed to have their own brooms.

As a member of an elite family, many wonders what Aiden feels or how she would react having to use the school's old, hand-down broom. Unfortunately, her typical straight face leaves no clue for them to guess.

Aiden mounts the broom, but still keeping her feet on the ground. She looks around the pitch as other students are practising for the tryouts while a lot of first years (mostly muggle-borns) are still learning how to fly a broom.

"Hope no one will hit the goal posts," muttered Aiden before kicking off the ground, soaring to sky and fly all around the pitch supplied with only her mere experiences as she trains her flying ability.

Waaiit. Ivan had been pretending. "Ivan..." Finlay shook his head, and sped off after him. That actually had been pretty amusing, but Finlay was pretty glad that Ivan could fly. It would've quite bad if Ivan couldn't fly, they would both look pretty silly. "Good thing the wind didn't change, or I might've been stuck like it." Finlay laughed, as he caught up with Ivan. Yup. He was quite glad of that.

Oooh. To impress a girl? Finlay laughed, shaking his head. "Good thing she didn't see your act then...?" Finn suggested with a laugh, before he flew off around the pitch.

'Hey, Daisy!' Rose called from the air. 'I'm practising with this as a quaffle!' Rose grinned. She chucked the ball forwards and caught it again.

MERLIN'S LIME GREEN STOCKINGS o_____O

Why had Kurumi talked herself into this? She was far from being the top flyer in her year, let alone a mediocre one, so why had she allowed Selina, and partially Simon, to talk her into trying out for the Gryffindor house team? Well, she knew one of the largest reasons why the thought had intrigued her, and THAT had everything to do with a certain someone who had disappeared from her life.

Looking up at the other students flying around on their brooms, Kurumi gripped tightly to the one she had borrowed from the broom shed and took several looooooooooooong and deep breaths.

Okay Kurumi, you can do this...just like over the summer at Selina's home. Just mount your broom, thing happy thoughts, sprinkle some pixie dust, and then she would fly.

No...that wasn't right. She was getting herself confused with one of those non-magical films she had watched as a young child.

She really ought to slap herself across the face for that one. It had to be te nerves talking...just the nerves.

Refocusing herself now, Kurumi straddled her broom, planted her feet firmly on the ground, looked straight up, and picked a single cloud in the sky that would serve as her focus point for a slow and leisurely accent.

"Here goes nothing..." she whispered as she kicked off the ground.

Janice, bringing her broomstick this time, ran straight to the Quidditch pitch after breakfast. The next thing she knew, was that she was flying.

In mid-air, she could see Hogwarts very clearly. The castle, the lake, and even the greenhouses were in sight when she was 15 feet above the ground. Then, she spotted her fellow Hufflepuff, Daisy.

"Hey! You want to play? I'm trying-out for chaser or seeker."

As Aiden trains her Seeker and Chaser skills, she saw a nervous witch who is a few years older than her looking quite nervous. She flies towards her and stops in front of the witch, but she is still off the ground.

"Are you all right?" she asks, looking at the witch questioningly.

Arabella-Marie got a ball out of her pocket and was thinking that she would maybe practice her chasing skills but with the pitch being quite busy she didnt want to hurt any of the students

Penny walked onto the Quidditch pitch right after breakfast "Ah what a perfect way to spend a Sunday" she thought....
Throwing her leg over one of the school brooms, she kicked off from the ground, hard..

It was such an amazing feeling, wind blowing through her long hair... and the view was spectacular... after flying a lap of the pitch she looked around to see if any more of her housemates were trying out for the team too - and then she spotted Janice and Daisy - her roommates !!!

Flying over to them, she asked "Hi Daisy, hey Janice - could I join you girls in a practice...I'm gonna be trying out for seeker or chaser?"

He bowed? ... He bowed?! There was no denying that Alex secretely liked people bowing to him but it wasn't necessary. "It's okay little dude." he assured him, Daichi really looked scared up on the broom, perhaps it was because Mr. Duckles wasn't there?

"Yes, you're fly-" then he watched the boy almost falling off before steading the broom again. "-ing." he finished.

Alex flew up to him, circled around the boy once before stopping in front of him again. "What made you jump up on the broom?" he asked curiously.

Selina panicked for a moment as Hugo regained his balance. For a moment she thought she would have to pull him back on like she had done this summer with Kurumi so often. But then he balanced himself and seemed fine- a little winded, but fine.

"You can't think like that ever. I mean seriously, promise me you won't? The worst thing in the world is to doubt yourself. So many people will doubt you for you. You should be your biggest fan, that way when people ever think about judging you they can never say he didn't give it his all and that he doesn't just push over."



Selina could not help notice a figure kicking off the ground and moving toward Hugo and herself. As she watched the figure that was still fuzzy to her at this height she could tell how the figure's form was very similar to her father's. The figure moved in a similar manner and motion as her Dad had always and continued to move while in the air. It was also Selina's form now that she thought about it. Her father had taught her how to fly from the time she was three so his form was now hers with a few alterations that Selina used because she was so tiny. Suddenly the figure was close enough to be clear to her eyes. It suddenly made sense as to why the form was so well trained and practiced in her father's style. Selina had taught this very style to the person over the summer, "Hey Kurumi."

Daichi still had a shocked expression on his features when the broom had suddenly jerked forward. He glanced up at Alex with a nervous smile and his knuckles started to get white from his grip on the broom.

"I.. i signed in for the quidditch team" he began and with a soft whisper he added. "withouth thinking". Daichi looked up again after Alex had circled around him and came to a halt in front of him. "But i REALLY want to be on the team! i have seen so many matches with my big brother and i'm going to train and train and train until i can do it, but .. I had to leave Mr.Duckles somewhere else, i-i'm scared without it!" He needed his plushed duck! Maybe there was a spell which he could use , no let someone else do it, that would make Mr.Duckles be apart of the broom he was going to use? Like a decoration! Oh he had an brilliant mind!