Ariella wandered onto the pitch, a broom from the shed in hand. She was so excited to get to fly again...especially at Hogwarts! She mounted her broom and took off, feeling the wind whip her hair. She loved the exhilaration of flying. Even though she had done it countless times before, she still got the same rush.

Jacob easily swerved around some students.. Jacob was no longer checking of Simon. His own path was all he cared about. As Long as he stayed in the lead, Jacob was happy. There would be hell to pay if Jacob lost... even by a tiny bit.

But suddenly a kid, flew in front of him, and Jacob had to almost stop in order to not to hit them. When he finally shook off the shock, Jacob remember what he was doing and quickly flew around the kid and back on path, but simon had already taken a lead.

He shot off to catch up "Damn It! Get back here!" he yelled at the other Captain. dang kids getting in Jacobs way. Just Back off... No one should get in his way anymore, or he'd run fly through them. And injuries were bad, especially if it was going to be someone who tried for his team.

Maybelle rolled her eyes slightly. "Oh, well be right back then." She said skipping off toward the broomshed.

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Maybelle came back with a broom this time. "Okay, I'm ready now...I hope." She told Isobel. "Well...I hope you know what you are getting into...I'm going to be a LOT of work..." She said. "Well, I guess to be in Quidditch...or to even try out...I guess I'll have to learn how to fly..." She said.

So he had a lot of experience, that was good. Well... experience flying, not exactly Quidditch. Isobel landed on the ground and picked up a Quaffle that she had brought with her.(OOC: I don't know where she'd get it, just go with it.) "So, shall we practice." When she heard a yell she looked up, startled, and saw two boys zooming across the pitch. So, they were the captains of the other teams? They were much older than her. "Maybelle, you just fly right now, okay? You can join us with the quaffle after you get accustomed to flying."

Well, it was a start, so Vashti managed a smile again. And clearly Louisa did, in fact, know more about flying basics than she'd let on earlier...even if the broom didn't actually come up. Ah well.

Vashti shrugged. "Yeah, it's not always necessary to do it that way," she said. "I think that's only needed when you're first starting out. You don't have to put it on the ground and demand it to come up every time you want to fly. Just hold it in your hand and mount it." This she demonstrated - or, well, it probably really wasn't a demonstration since Louisa surely knew how to mount a broom, simple as it was, so it was mostly just her getting ready to take to the skies once her friend was ready to do the same.

" Want to practice with me? Wiliam asked Ariella. " We will be great temates for Gryffindo when we make the team" William said to Ariella.

Simon was far enough out of the away to avoid the near-collision and continued on and taking the lead from the Ravenclaw. "Yeah...sure," he yelled back shaking his head as Jacob tried to get him to slow down, the Gryffindor weaving around one of the towers that made up the stands. There was no way he was gonna back down just for that requestion especially after his fellow captain had tried to cheat his way by just taking off with no start.

"Think of it as payback," he added with a chuckle once they were on the same side of it again as he finished the straight away and headed into the curve of the figure eight. The momentum bound to help both of them pick up speed as long as it was take right.

Tayla rushed out to the Quidditch pitch after grabbing a broom from the shed. She breathed in the cool air and tried to remember everything her Mum taught her. "I want to make you proud, Mum," she said softly. Her Mum used to play as keeper for the Gryffindor team. Tayla wanted to join the team, too, as a chaser. She needed to practice before the try-outs.

Tayla mounted her broom carefully, inhaled and exhaled in excitement, and kicked off from the ground. She was a good flyer, just like her Mum. "But I wish I had my own broom!" she thought aloud, still grinning as she felt the wind in her face. "Please oh please let me in the Gryffindor team..." she prayed.

Selina was sitting and resting with no hands on her broom while she spoke to Kurumi. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Simon and Jacob racing one another trying to out fly the other. "Show offs," she muttered under her breath. She turned her attention back to Kurumi who was talking about the weather, obviously still on edge about being so high. Selina barely noticed the height she flied so often.

Again she heard the Captains yelling bloody murder back and forth at one another. She turned her head to watch and saw Simon taking the lead. A soft smirk graced her lips- he would be in the lead. But then she saw something that troubled her. She cupped her hands over her eyebrows to block out the sun to see better. Jacob was flying very dangerously around a bunch of first years who seemed completely on edge. What was he doing? Didn't he realize how dangerous he was flying?

Then he make a quick turn to follow Simon's lead and headed straight toward Kurumi and Selina. Her hands stayed over her eyes to continue to block out the sun leaving no hands on her broom stick. All that she was holding onto with the broom was her legs. But she had flown enough to be comfortable in that position.

They were moving faster and faster and when she realized that Jacob was flying right at her both of her hands grabbed the end of Kurumi's broom and pushed her far away. Because Kurumi was holding fast to her broom from their first meeting Selina knew she would be fine. But then Jacob flew by so fast and Selina's only impulse was to save Kurumi that she did not hold onto her broom. The speed and closeness of the broom knocked her off her broom.

She grasped at the air and the tips of her fingers held loosely to the bottom of her broom. She was dangling mid air from her broom with only the tips of her left hand as the difference between safety and falling. But she could feel herself slipping...

A pair of tiny feet were rapidly running towards the Quidditch Pitch. A pair of wide violet eyes were in awe as the little blonde was swiftly running towards the Pitch. It was Violet, who was IMMENSELY excited! In her hand was her broom that she tied a light violet bow on the end of it. As soon as Violet was on the Pitch she looked around at all of the people who were there and it made her feel even more excited being in this new environment to her. Violet couldn't take it any longer, she placed her broom beneath her and within seconds her broom took off into the air, her hands gripped tightly on the broom keeping her balance. She smiled eagerly as the wind blew through her blond hair and didn't take her long for her to feel adrenaline rushing through her. Violet turned to see Selina talking to Kurumi and she gasped taking in a deep breath and then with one hand waving rapidly she squealed,"Selina!!! Hi Kurumi!!" She then went on,"Sely look at me!! Wheeee!!" Violet then began laughing happily as she began swirling around on her broom.

BRING IT ON! Oakey looked down for a moment to see what was taking Isobel so long to throw the Quaffle up. Oakey was almost completely knocked off his broom by two other flyers, lucky for him he was in his element and stayed on his broom the entire time. If Oakey could prove Isobel that he is a great Quidditch player he can help her over-shadow the other two players who she seemed transfixed on.

Kyle had been on the edge of her seat watching Simon and Jacob's little competition that she hardly noticed Kurumi and Selina were also flying at the same time. Then glancing up she noticed her, and the sly smile that crept across her face as Simon took the lead.

Good job Simon she thought - she was too shy and awkward feeling to say anything to put attention on herself, but somehow deep down inside of her she was roaring with excitement. Like the stands would be if it were an actual game - and they were doing splendidly.

This was exciting, riveting even and she knew deep down that she would definitely have to tell him splendid job no matter the outcome.

After flying around the pitch as fast as her broom could go, Tayla slowed down and hovered near one of the goal hoops. She stayed there, facing the pitch, watching the other students practice or play. Among the players there was a tall, lanky boy wearing Gryffindor robes. "I wonder if he's Simon Bennett," she thought to herself, remembering the name from when she signed up for try-outs. She observed how he moved on his broom. He was really good. "I won't be surprised if he is..."

Tayla decided she'd just fly around the pitch slowly for a while, observing him and the other students playing. She had a lot to learn, and she wanted to start now.

Kurumi nodded as she listened to Selina's mini lecture on flying until she snapped to attention. L-L-L-L-Look WHERE?! DOWN?! o________0 Selina hand't...she wouldn't...

Kurumi took a peek.

...she DID!

Kurumi's problem wasn't that she was afraid of heights nor was it the notion of flying - she was perfectly fine on an airplane. It was being on a broom with no security net besides the grass below you...which was now the furthest away it had ever been.

"S-S-S-S-S-S-SELINA!" Kurumi chirped leaning forward so that she could hugged the handle. "Y-Y-Y-YOU KNOW I'VE NEVER BEEN UP THIS HIGH BEFORE!"

She watched a bit as the Veela swirled around on her broom without a care in the world and her bottom lip pouted in innocent jealousy. Why was it that she couldn't feel so confident on a broom? If she were allowed to attach walls to it she would be fine. At least, she thought she would be fine that way.

In her slight panic, she just barely heard one of the two racing captains to watch out in a tone that sounded more like 'YOU ALL BEST CLEAR THE PITCH CAUSE I'M COMING THROUGH!' than a polite warning.

Then, Kurumi heard the sing-song voice of Selina's fellow second year, Violet. "H-H-H-Hello....V-V-V-V-Violet..." she smiled through chattering teeth.



All of a sudden, Selina was reaching across the air and grabbing onto her broom's handle. Kurumi's eyes widened and she was about to snap at the girl to knock of teasing her when she felt the broom shoot backwards.

Okay...NOT funny! Kurumi was going to have to have a word with Selina afterwards about not teasing her while up so high in the air, when she saw a streak of blue shoot by her followed by a streak of red. The tail of the red streak caught the tip of Kurumi's broom's handle, causing her to spin like a top.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!," she shrieked as the world around her became one big blurry mess.

At first, it was a blue blur with the occasional streak of brown that she took to be the stands. However, that brown blur was getting larger and larger quick.

Kurumi knew how to stop, for the most part, during midflight...but could the same principles be applied to when you were a spinning mess?!

" We should practice together" William said to Tayla." So what type of broom are you using?" William asked Tayla.

She wanted her to fly? Now? "But...I've never flown before." She didn't want to admit it, especially to Isobel, even though she kind of liked her now. Maybelle was...a little embarrassed. But she had never flown before, and she was scared.

"Oh hi Will! I'm not sure really..." Tayla said as her friend flew next to her. "It's either an ordinary training broom or a Shooting Star. I just got it from the broomshed. It's too bad first years aren't allowed their own broom."

Fee walked to the practice pitch.It surely was a good idea to practice a little before the try outs were.The blonde really,really wanted to be a part of the team this term and she would do anything for it. With her broom in the hand she sat down on one of the benches to wait for Emma.

The two blondes had said they would practice a little together.Last term they both had been to busy to go to the tryouts and now they wanted to be a part of it.Both in one Quidditch team that would be more than fantabulous.

"Great then!" Because as much as Louisa was stubborn, she didn't tolerate stubborn people... or brooms. She picked the broom up and mounted it awkwardly, her both hands were tightly around the broom and she glanced sideways at Vashti. "Don't you want to.. soar before me?" She forced a small smile, her legs slightly buckled and seemed rooted to the ground... no signs of them to be setting off any sooner.

" Looks like a Shooting Star to me" William told Tayla. " WEll, I did not know we could not use our own brooms" William said to Tayla. " How do they expect us to make the team and have Gryffindor win the cup?" William asked Zara.

" You are trying ourt for your Quidditch team?" William asked Fee. " Rex never saw you play Quidditch" William told Fee. " I do not think it will be fair if I make the Gryffindor team and there is a certain hot blonde from the Slytherin team distracting me from doing my job" William laughed. " I hope we both make our repective teams" William explained to Fee.

Jacob saw people falling and stumbling out of the corner of his eye, but Jacob stayed focused on the path... they'd deal with any deaths later. So he simply shouted back to them. "Don't Hurt yourselves, back there."

Yup, that was going to do so much good. Yelling at them as they fell to their deaths.

Right now all that was on Jacobs mind was taking back the lead. He followed Simon around the stands, slowly but surely catching up on the Gryffindor. He was nearly close enough to Simon in order to ram the boy, but decided it was best not to. There was no telling the risk of that to his new broom. Better just use their bodies for violent acts.

"Come on, Bennett." he started with a laugh. "You know you can't beat me." Jacob yelled as the space between them became less and less.

He was not in the way?! "YAY!" Daichi hadn't even realised he was squealing. He had held his arms up in the air but then quickly grabbed the school broom stick again. Oh maaaan. Seeing matches it looks alot easier than actually sitting on a broom. He turned his attention back to the girl as she called him little. LITTLE?! He was NOT little~! ..Yes he might be shorter than average but he was not little! Daichi pouted his lips but then his eyes twinkled when the girl mentioned that Alex was going to teach her how to fly. "Can you teach me too?! Pretty pleeeasse!" He wanted , no , needed to learn how to fly very quickly or else he would mess up at try-outs . Daichi's eyes then looked back at the older girl and smiled at her. "I'm Daichi by the way! Daichi Katharos"

Isobel gave Maybelle a 'look.' This was going to be harder than she had thought. "Okay, Maybelle...get on the broom." She said it forcefully, with authority, meaning the girl had to do it. Then she flew higher so she was across from Oakey, and she held the quaffle up. "Ready?" Hopefully he was, because she wasn't waiting for him to confirm it. She took the quaffle and threw it with all her might, so it would go a little bit passed his head.

Simon was doing his best to avoid people as they raced, not wanting to be the cause and especially not involved in a collision. Too many chances during games to deal with one during practice. Swerving around a hufflepuff he accidentally caught the tail of Kurumi's broom but not feeling it with the movement he was going, he didn't realise it.

The wind whistling as he continued to race made it hard to hear or at least make out what Kurumi yelled but as he glanced back to look at Jacob to answer his fellow captain's taunt, "Don't be so sure, " he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye. Facing forward for a moment to be careful, he looked back again to check on what he might have seen only to spot two persons in Gryffindor robes in apparent trouble.

Correction, two very familiar girls and Selina was in danger of falling!

No longer caring about the race Simon ignored Jacob and leaned himself into a turn as he rushed to his teammate's assistance. The captain pulled his broom beneath Selina so he could catch the second year who could still grab hold of her broom so it didn't fall. "I got you Selina..." he assured her so she would know to relax and sit in front of him on his broom.

Selina's hands were getting extremely sweaty. She could barely hold onto the broom as it was and now her hands were starting to slip from the handle. A grunt escaped her lips as she tried to hold on, but it was no use- she was going to fall. It was only a matter of when.

Tears started to swell in her eyes, she was too high up to make it down with a minor injury. A major injury would be lucky. This fall would break her neck and she was only twelve.

The tears began to burn her eyes and her pinky finger lost it's hold on the broom, then her ring finger. The next finger she lost would be her inevitable fall. Why was she even holding on still? There was nothing that was going to stop her from her fall. So... she let go.

She expected some kind of hard crash and darkness, but it never came. Instead she felt a solid broom beneath her body and a strong torso supporting her tiny frame. Selina opened her eyes and saw Simon behind her. She had never been so happy to see anyone in her life. In relief she leaned against him with her back and started to cry. She thought she was going to die.