Gripping her broom as if her life depended on it, Kurumi slowly brought her gaze down from focusing on a cloud that was looking more and more like a kneazle each minute - or perhaps that was her wishful thinking kicking in. She WOULD much rather be on the ground digging through buckets of mystery goo like they had done last term in Care of Magical Creatures than on a broom to be sure.

"I-I-I'm alright," she said nodding her head slowly before taking a peek down. Oh....she was still only about three feet off the ground.

He he he...

But then her he he he-ing came to a stop when she saw Selina. It wasn't that she wasn't grateful to see her friend who had helped her so much during the summer - and not just with Flying - it was more of she was utterly embarrassed that even after everything Selina had taught her she still couldn't bring herself to hover more than five feet above the ground.

"H-H-Hello Selina," she whimpered leaning forward a bit on her broom. "L-L-Lovely weather we're having..."

Cassie finally made it down to the pitch, duffle bag in hand, a rather very stylish duffle bag at that and her jogging shorts and trainers. Yes, she was not one to do anything without at least putting together a nice outfit to match the occasion. She was on a mission today though, she actually wanted to learn to fly, because well...Cassie Storm was going to be trying out for the hufflepuff team. She knew she could do it once she got the basics down pat. After all, how much different from dancing could it be?

After fetching a broom from the broom closet, she scanned the sky and the ground even for her little attendant boy. She needed to at least know know how to mount a broom before she officially started training with Treyen. Alex could help her warm up and stuff.

When Cassie finally spotted him, she flailed her arms around to get his attention. Apparently he was engaged in conversation with a little boy, but she needed himt noooooow to help her or else she would suck when Treyen was ready to start the training.

Selina put both of her hands on her legs to rest and got comfortable on the broom. She leaned back a little on the broom and said, "Kurumi, remember what I told you this summer? If you're stressed on the broom you'll never be able to control the broom. Assert your power, take control. And also... look down." Slowly throughout the entire pep talk Selina had been flying higher and higher with Kurumi so she wouldn't freak out at the sudden change in latitude. Now they were quite high in the air, almost level with the bleachers on the Pitch.

William aoomed back and forth again preteneding to cath the Quaffle. He will get really good this because no one is talking to him. He still would like a practice teamate.

"Don't worry, mate. You ain't got a chance." he said but his smile faded. He was getting serious now. there were a lot of people here and Jacob felt if he failed to Simon, he'd be a laughing stock. Nope... He wasn't going to lose at anything to the seventh year.

Jacob watched as the boy pointed out the path. He gave a small laugh. "Alright." this was gonna be fun... he was going to wipe the floor with the gryffie captain.

With that Jacob decided that playing fair was NOT going to be a part of this, and with out even letting Simon know when to go, Jacob leaned forward and shot into the course.

Alex raised his eyebrows with a grin. Daichi signed up for the Team? Perhaps they would both make the team. He chuckled and shrugged his shoulders. "Well then, if you want to make the team you're going to need some practise kiddo."

He nodded his head when he heard about the plushed duck that the boy so desperately needed. "Perhaps there's a way to fix that, Aaron, the captain is a nice guy." he assured Daichi.

"Now, what position do you want?" he asked leaning forward on his broom to look at him.

His attention was drawn to something flailing down on the ground. He squinted his eyes and grinned when he recognized her. Hiss boss was there. Alex flew down there, slowly and with a small wave of his hand.

"Why hello there, found your way down to the pitch did you?" he teased smirking as he circulated above her head.

Ivan turned his head as Fin caught up and shrugged, "Might make for a better look." He laughed as he flew along the pitch. Hearing Finn's question he turned to look at his friend as he flew off. Should he be glad she hadn't seen that?

He sped up to catch Finn but he wasn't really focusing on that instead thinking about Dora. She saw him as a superhero and she wanted Prince Charming. Maybe this was a waste of time. Catching up to Finn again he looked at him. Well he wasn't really one to ask about dating since he fell for someone at every turn. "I invited Lexi out here. Don't know if she's coming or not though."

Now this was Oakey's kind of place, He loved Quidditch more than anything in the world. Harvey had taught Oakey everything he knew about the game even more so than magic itself. He stood there in awe this was the place Harvey's parents had played on opposite teams mind you, but still played. It was Oakey's dream to follow in Harvey's footsteps...No, to pick up where he left off. After Harvey's accident that forced him to retire, Oakey would play and play and play until he was just as good and join the Cannons just as Harvey did a week ago and finally get the Cannons a winning season.

Oakey was a completely different person when he was on a broom. If you believed him when he told you his bad luck was a curse, you'd better believe this curse didn't exist around a Quidditch field. Oakey's confidence increased ten fold.

Daichi's mouth fell open in surprise when Alex said he knew the captain but he quickly closed it when the broom flew again. Oh man why did he sign uuup?! "I know i know" he answered when Alex said he needed some practise. "I'll do my utmost best at classes and train as much as i can..but.." he looked down , noticing how high they were he gulped. "I want Mr.Duckles.. you think i can make it on the broom? Like with tape or a stickening charm but wouldn't a stickening charm get sticky? and then it won't EVER come off again! I can't walk around with broom in my hands! that will look weird!" Hmm yes, Daichi thought that having a broom in his hands was weirder than having a plushed duck.

"I want to be a chaser or beater" he said as he saw someone else flying towards Alex and him and he laughed when the girl was flailing her arms to get Alex's attention. He stayed quiet when they started to speak to each other. Wait...did Alex came with her? Was he standing in the way? Daichi bit his lip, not knowing what to do. "i-i'm in the way , aren't i?" he asked carefully.

Cassie frowned when Alex finally flew over. Was he taunting her? She thought he was with all that flying around her head business that he was going on with, shoving his flying in her face. He would fetch her strawberries and grapes for days for this. Yes and he would have to rub her feet again too.

"Alex come down here and stop your mucking around up there you little show off. At least come down and show me how to fly like that."

She half smiled have frowned at his comment.

"Yes I found my way here, I'm not dense you know."


Cassie's attention was drawn to the little cutie Alex was with. Aww too cute. She wondered if he was or a puff or not, since he was cute she assumed that he was. ^.^

"Oh gosh no little one, you're not. Alex here is going to teach me how to fly on this thing." She said indicating the broom that she had in her hand.

Maybelle walked to the pitch. Isobel hopefully would help her with this whole Quidditch thing...so she at least didn't embarrass herself. She looked around for Isobel. Looking around for Isobel, Maybelle stood out of everyones way.

Isobel had only been on a broom a couple times all summer. When her siblings had played, she had been the person with the whistle. The referee; or whatever they called in in Quidditch. She should probably know what it was called, she was the Hufflepuff captain after all.

Isobel mounted her broom and flew a little ways up in to the air. It felt so good to fly again after being off a broom for so long. She looked around and saw two familiar faces. Oakey; the boy who had slipped in the common room, and Maybelle. She flew over to them and hovered close to the ground. "Hey guys," she said. She had seen both their names on the sign up sheet.

Maybelle looked and saw Isobel. "Hi Isobel." She said. Well...there was one problem...Maybelle doesn't exactly OWN a broom. "Umm....there is a tiny problem..." She said...not exactly knowing to bring her own broom...well, she didn't even own a broom. "How am I supposed to practice without a broom?" Maybelle asked Isobel...feeling completely idiotic.

Oakey looked over at the older girl who had admitted to not having a broom And you know first years like myself aren't allowed to bring their own brooms to the school he added. Shame too, I've got this really nice American model that my foster father got me for my 9th birthday. Maybe he could convince someone to let him use it.

Isobel gave Maybelle a 'look.' "The broomshed," she said. "You should have gotten one before you came here. Go get one." She made a shooing motion with her hands. "You can bring it next year," Isobel said sympathetically to Oakey.

Oakey returned from the broom shed with one of the many brooms stored away in them. this particular broom wasn't like his at home but it'll do. Oakey mounted before Isobel could begin her training he zoomed around on the broom going back and forth between both goal posts and looping around a few of them. He then pulled up next to Isobel with the biggest grin on his face. I missed this so much he said to her.

"There's not really one specific way to hold a broom," Vashti explained, still frowning a little. "You just shouldn't drag it on the ground like that. It doesn't exactly improve the broom's ability to keep you up in the air." And while the charms on the broom were strong enough to withstand a little bit of dragging, she doubted they would continue to be very strong if the broom was constantly dragged all over the grass, dirt, rocks, and so on. Plus it just made the broom all dirty, and who wants to sit on a dirty broom?

And now we're back to the "not-a-quitter" stuff. At least that meant Louisa wasn't going to give up if she didn't like this the first time around. Aaaand she'd just thrown the broom on the ground. Did they really have to start at the basic basics? Surely Louisa had attended Vindictus's flying class in her first year at least, to learn the basics of flying? Wasn't it a mandatory class for firsties? "Uh... You know how to call the broom up to you, right? And mount and all that?"

Louisa rolled her eyes when Vashti went all about 'no dragging'. "Yeah yeah." She said in a I-Don't-Care tone, crossing her arms over her chest. While her friend talked, her eyes went past her to watch the other students flying up confidently and happily.. some had some trouble but they didn't seem to hate it.

Wait.. was that a bird flying in the sky? She squeezed her eyes to see if that student actually was flying in the level with birds. Now that was insane! What if-

She broke off suddenly feeling the atmosphere suddenly going quiet. Vashti was looking at her expecting... something? Louisa's eyes roamed in their sockets looking for anything around them that could give her any idea of what was going on. Nothing.

"Umm...yeah. Sure." There, the quickest and safest reply she could come up with. "So, aren't we going to take precautions first?" Like laying down some rubber mats and wearing those heavy plastic stuff the football team usually do? Hmm?

Simon watched Jacob to see if he would take what was giving to him, the faulting smile seeming to show as if he wasn't but at his affirmative answer he was proven wrong. So much for thinking the Ravenclaw might stumble a bit when he laid out a rather complicated path well at least the last part through the goal hoops. To his credit his fellow captain seemed to be taking it in stride and he might have thought more on it but was interrupted as Jacob took off without a warning attempting a head start.

"Oh so that how its gonna be", Simon mused aloud to himself as he quickly followed suit and took off after the younger boy. He certainly wasn't going to let him win based on cheating and doing his best soon came up off of one side of Jacob as they both continued to fly the course.

Isobel grinned and watched Oakey as he flew around the pitch. She looked around; she should probably wait for Maybelle to get back. "So, you've flown a lot before?"

Vashti's blue eyes narrowed at Louisa's flippant response and had to let out a long, slow breath to keep herself from making some sort of smart remark or a threat about Louisa's broom being messed up from the dragging and causing her every attempt at flight to end badly. The girl was only a third year after all and was probably just nervous about conquering her fear/reluctance/whatever towards flying. Instead she said quite calmly, "This also won't work if you keep zoning me out."

Precautions? "Like what?" she asked.

I've flown so much, I can't keep track of it. He hovered right next to her Lowering and raising in altitude waiting to see what she had in mind

Jacobs eyes flashed to the side only to see Simon Catching up. Sure thats what happens when he trades in Speed for Handle and stability in a broom. But what ever. Simon wasn't going to win.

As he made it towards the middle of the pitch, Jacob continued on the path Simon had laid out, and Cut through the more cluttered area of the pitch to make the figure eight.

He saw the many students in groups and called out "Watch Out! Captains Comin' Through!" he yelled at the kiddies.

They didn't want to get in the way of a captains challenge, or there might be lots of injuries.

Louisa sighed. "Fiiine. I'm all sharp and glad to be here." She forced a grin that didn't last for long. They didn't have precautions for learning on brooms? Like... of course in her flying lessons, she didn't do anything but that was because Professor Vee was there all the time! She was feeling secure..

Another look at Vashti she saw the beaming in her friend's eyes when she got here. She did really want to teach her and Louisa wasn't making the task any easier. She sighed after a moment and waved the thought away, "Nothing. Let's just get started." She held her left arm above the thrown broom and ordered. "UP!" More like a military thing. The broom rolled over without leaving the ground.

The third year's eyes widened. "Such rudeness!" And who cared if the broom didn't shot up on its accord? "Can't I just lift manually?" She addressed Vashti while her eyes still on the still broom.

His eyes met Jacob's briefly as the younger boy glanced backwards as if to check on him, though his focus was for the most part on what lay in front of both of them. There where too many fellow students around to not pay attention. Simon followed him step by step, trying to pick up speed to catch up further but he could only manage it gradually with his caution.

Hearing his fellow captain's yell he certainly hoped those who heard followed the Ravenclaw's advise. The Gryffindor having to duck low to avoid one of them himself as he followed close after before leaning in and shooting forward once the path was clearer soon back on Jacob's tail.