Hecate arrived at the stands with Lucille in hand. She was wearing her regular robes, but she wore a Slytherin badge that said 'We're Always Gonna Win, We Are Slytherin!'**

Where were those girls?

She sat in her regular seat and watched the students.

Presley was there...at the pep rally. Not that she wanted to be, she just hadn't been able to say no to Beatrice's expectant face when she came into the dormitory. Presley was still so very upset about Luna moving away. But it wasn't her decision to make.

She plastered on a bright smile, and jumped up and down "Whoo!!!! Go RAVENCLAW!!!" Why were there so many people here from Slytherin and Gryffindor? Didn't her own house know there were points to be won? Granted Ravenclaw was in second place, but Slytherin was beating them be about 800 points. It was ridiculous. So happy or not, Presley would fake it for the points and for her house. Now if only she could find anyone with artistic talent to paint her face...

While she was a student, she had never been into Quidditch. Fina generally had kept to the books - her studies. But recently, as in the last year, mostly due to some of her students posing an interest, she had TRIED to figure out the sport. Show support for them, of course. Which explained why when she heard there was going to be a pep rally to increase the school spirit prior to the Quidditch Championship Match, she had to leave her office and come down to check it out. After all, her house - both former and the one she happened to be Head of House for - was playing for the Quidditch Cup.

Not to mention the weather was rather cooperative today and the Arithmancy professor wasn't one to deny herself from sunny days.

Gazing around for a bit, she noticed a vast array of Lions and Snakes there, the male Lions who seemed to use the nice weather as an opportunity to be bare chested. Brave of them, but they were Lions. Shaking her head disapprovingly, her hazel eyes finally found a small gathering of Badgers who'd shown up - mostly younger ones - Janice, Nessie, Alyssa, and Minnie - where were her prefects? Her captain? Maybe they were going to make a special appearance later. Giving the four Badger girls a friendly smiled, her eyes found some of her colleagues instead.

And some of her fellow colleagues had shown up - Althea, Seren (wait, was she hanging out over with the GRYFFINDORS?!), Edvard (what WAS he wearing?!, Hecate, Dash. Ah... Dash... nice safe person to sit near, wasn't he?

"Morning, Dash." Wait. What was with the cupcakes? Perhaps she should have chosen Hecate or Althea. Except that the former was Head of the opposing house and the latter, well, Fina wasn't really sure of their standing.

Maddy had been practicing this spell for over a week to get it perfect for the pep rally. She got out her wand and cast the spell A Giant silver and green snake made of glittry lights appeared and slythered arround the pitch, then it vanished in a puff of smoke and the words "Slytherin is gonna win!" Appeared! Maddy began to cheer as loud as she could with the rest of the croud.

Gryffindors there!!! And...Bentley & Lafay (can't miss) XD
 

As the shirtless Josh Carter stood there among the members of his pride, his dark brown eyes were, of course, mostly on the huge cake and the delish looking cookies. Where else he could look at? Okay, maybe he had eaten stuff before coming there to fight for his house but those just....made him feel hungry all over again.

Then someone spoke up his name in a greeting and he could move his gaze towards that direction...finally looking at somewhere else. Huh? The scarlet and gold food made him kinda got mesmerised for a moment but after a blink of two he was all okay. ''Hey Selina!!'' he greeted the redhead lioness back with a happy wave. Kurumi was going to do him? Ha? Do what? His gaze moved on Kurumi, possibly the skilled baker of those cake and cookies, and she seeemed to be busy with...painting a younger lion. Oh...yeah. Paint. He wanted some RED on himself. Not a bad idea at all.

''WE WEAR RED. WE FIGHT TO THE END. WE WEAR RED TO HIDE THE BLOOD OF OUR VICTIMS!!!''

Oh Merlin....that was something. Speaking...metaphorically of course or whatever. He had better not to scare the little guys though so well...he turned his attention on someone who was seemingly cheering for Gryffindor.


''PROFESSOR BENTLEY!!'' The lion boy, surely the biggest male lion of the pride, exclaimed making his way towards the Herbology professor. ''Glad to see you here cheering for us!'' Normally that was not something he expected from Ravenclaws, they had been all hostile him so far, even one once stupefied him for nothing at all, yet this was Bentley. She was different. She was nice.

Then...

THERE WAS HIS MISTRESS!!

Giving Bentley a quick wave, the shirtless Gryffindor boy made an attempt of approaching the Potions Mistress in the crowd giving her a warm smile.

''Professor Lafay!'' *gasp* ''Professor Lafay...'' and before he could say anything, the badge she was wearing took his attention and he, of course, read what it said. ''Ah? You are so sure that you are gonna get the cup?''

*wink*

As if things couldn't get worse. Seren had sort of hoped that her Gryffindor cheering would go unnoticed. Obviously not.
Offering Indy a sympatheitc smile, she figured the girl should know the truth. Nodding her head in Kurumi's direction she said, "Blame it on the Prefect." Because this was clearly her fault.

But it was all in good fun, and even though she was a Ravenclaw through and through, there was no reason why she couldn't get in and support the other houses too. It was all a bit of fun.



That look! On Kurumi's face! ... it was evil. Innocent, but evil...

Narrowing her eyes at the Gryffindor Prefect, Seren examined the plate of cookies. There was something not quite right about them, but it seemed harmless enough. And as soon as the Prefect took a bite of hers and added to the chanting, any trace of disappointment was forgotten. It really was all in the name of fun.

"Gryffindor, we’re a force you can’t ignore!"



Turning at the sound of a familiar voice booming in her direction, Seren found herself confronted with a rather loud, rather masculine and very very topless Josh Carter. Did this boy ever wear a shirt? Or was it only for special occasions?

Alas, it was a festive time, and so she wasn't about to frown and chide the boy for..... being topless... as weird as it was.
"Yes, I am... well, I hadn't planned to. But I suppose there's no harm in spreading the cheer."
Being a neutral party member at the school she could afford to dip her hands in every cookie jar. Literally.

But no sooner had the Lion been swept up in her attempts to cheer for the red and gold, then he was off to greet the Potions Mistress.



Hhhmm perhaps she would wander over to the Slytherin camp and sample one of Dash's cupcakes. Just so long as it didn't turn her into a Snake then it couldn't be any more surprising than the Gryffindor Pride cookies.

Alyssa smiled when she heard Kurumi ask Minnie why they started and ended the chant with the word Willow. 'Good question, Kurumi She often wondered that herself. Maybe it was supposed be We-oh and she had thought it was Willow. But now that she thought of it, The Whomping Willow was big , powerful and good at beating stuff away. So yeah using the word Willow in their chant, was kinda fitting. She believed that her house team was powerful and would fight to beat anybody. They weren't giving up without a fight. So Willow it is.

Can't quote everyone, will be back into the groove now. ;)
 

Auggie was so pumped for this!

After being finished up being painted by Kurumi, Auggie jumped around where he stood with the letters he was assigned to help spell out Lions with the other Gryffindor boys they were with. They were by far the most school spiritied in his opinion. Looking around he continued to cheer and yell. "Gryffindor's are the best, there's not competition from the rest!"

Then someone joined them at Kurumi's cookie tray that suprised him, "Professor Bentley? How are you?" he asked brightly, a tad more conscience of his shirtless status around the professor.

LET'S GO SLYTHERIN!! Snakes Join in!
 

Ariana arrived to the stands a little later than hoped but she had to do her face pain al green & silver & grab those pom-pom's professor Lafay gave them. Ariana ran up into the stand with the most slytherin & started singing the chant sierra taught her & the other 2 girls on the top of her lungs. hoping some other's would catch on soon!


"We're never gonna stop, stop, st-st-st-stop,
We'll always be on top, top, t-t-t-top,
We're serpents 'til we drop, drop, dr-dr-dr-drop,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!

In Quidditch, we're the best, best, b-b-b-best!
Better than all the rest, rest, r-r-r-rest!
Don't put us to the test, test, t-t-t-test,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!"


Ariana Sang this over & over! She loved being in Slytherin!

ooc: this chant goes to the tune of 'We R who We R' By Ke$ha.

A pep rally! How muggle!Harlow excited. She had never been to a pep rally, but it sounded like a lot of fun, and plus she got to paint her hair and that was always a great day if you asked her.

However right now the tiny Slytherin was teetering under the weigh tof the platter of Slytherin cupcakes she was carrying.

Harlow had spent half the night down in the kitchens with the house elves. She had made a hundred green cupcakes in the shape of a snake with with silver icing. "I got cupcakes!" She cried making it over to Kennedy. Her cloud of hair was painted silver and green for the occasion. She had thought about painting her face, but her mom would never let her wear makeup so she gathered that face painting fit in the makeup department.

She sat down and placed the platter next to her. "This is so exciting isn't it?" Nothing was happening, but she was getting pumped for something exciting. "We need a fight song. My brother told me all about them. Its what you sing for the team when they take the field. Or um the skies I guess since this is for the quidditch team." She wasn't sure how one made a fight song, but she was up for the challange.

Come On Huffies!! I know that you're out there
 

Alyssa sat and listened to the other House Teams cheering their teams on and painting their faces and changing their hair colors. Alyssa hadn't painted her face or changed her hair color because she wasn't sure whether she was playing, but she figured what the heck, she would go ahead and change the color of her hair. If she was playing, then she could always change it back. So she whipped out her wand and pointing it at her hair, concentrated on what colors she wanted it to be and said the words, "Ristaris". Immediately her hair changed from it's regular brunette to black and yellow streaks. She immediately pulled out her mirror to make sure that she hadn't messed up and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her reflection in the mirror.

'Okay now to get this cheer going.'Alyssa thought to herself. She had heard a couple of people asking why they were calling out to the Willow tree, and even though Alyssa had found a reason for doing so, Alyssa was tired of people asking. So even though it didn't rhyme with the chant, Alyssa decided to change it a little.

So she ran back up in front of her housemates and yelled out.

"Come on everybody, repeat after me. Everytime I say I line, I want you to echo it back to me, as loud as you can. You don't want the other houses to think that Huffies can't yell right? SO YELL AS LOUD AS YOU CAN, LIKE THIS!!" Alyssa knew that her voice would be hoarse by the time the rally ended, but she was proud of her House and she wanted the others in her house to feel the same way.

"OKAY LET'S DO THIS"

BAAAAADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BAAADGER (Echo Back)
EVERYWHERE WE GO-OH (Echo Back)
PEOPLE WANT TO KN-OW (Echo Back)
WHO WE AR-RE (Echo Back)
WHERE WE COME FROM (Echo Back)
SO WE TELL THEM (Echo Back)
WE COME FROM HUFFLEPUFF (Echo Back)
MIGHTY HUFFLEPUFF (Echo Back)
MIGHTY, MIGHTY HUFFLEPUFF (Echo Back)
BAAAAADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BAAADGER (Echo Back)

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! <-- Ariana's excited :D
 

Ariana Heard a fellow slytherin talking about a fight song.. Well her's wasn't about fighting but it sure was catchy!

I have a chant that a third year taught me & a few others, Professor Lafay want's us to get a lot of people singing it!

It goes like this..
"We're never gonna stop, stop, st-st-st-stop,
We'll always be on top, top, t-t-t-top,
We're serpents 'til we drop, drop, dr-dr-dr-drop,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!

In Quidditch, we're the best, best, b-b-b-best!
Better than all the rest, rest, r-r-r-rest!
Don't put us to the test, test, t-t-t-test,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!"

ooc: to the tune of We R Who We R by ke$ha

Victoria rushed up to the stands. Oh no, she better not be late for this rally. She was planning to sing the Slytherin song that she had overheard from an empty classroom that day. Oh...she better not miss it.

As climbing up the stairs, Victoria spotted Professor Lafay, the one who had spotted the singing girls and wanted them to sing it at the pep rally. Victoria wore a big smile and strode over to the professor. "Hi Professor, good day huh? Let's sing 'till our voices drop."

When Victoria opened her mouth and was about to sing, she heard a voice that sounded quite familiar. And the tune and lyrics sounded familiar too. As she turned around, she spotted one of the girls from the classroom that had been taught the Slytherin song. Victoria waved at the girl and joined the chant.

"We're never gonna stop, stop, st-st-st-stop,
We'll always be on top, top, t-t-t-top,
We're serpents 'til we drop, drop, dr-dr-dr-drop,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!

In Quidditch, we're the best, best, b-b-b-best!
Better than all the rest, rest, r-r-r-rest!
Don't put us to the test, test, t-t-t-test,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!"

Selina was too busy shouting out the Gryffindor rally cry to really pay attention to Kurumi's panic striken face. However, when the time came for a hearty Gryffindor reply of screaming their house name she heard nothing. Except her ear did pick up a sort of gangled cat screech. What in Merlin's name...?

She turned her head to the side and saw Kurumi standing there acting pathetically timid. She was dressed the part, it was time to get the roar to match her lion look! So she shouted back in Kurumi's direction, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!"



She chuckled at his comment and smiled at him, "I said... can you hear me from those lovely ears of yours?" Perhaps the whole lion ears and tail bit had been pushing things, but now that he was all dressed up he did look adorable. Then again the whole adorable thing was thrown off by the fact that he was shirtless, but those minor details were unimportant.



Selina rolled her eyes at Carter's antics. She was really going to miss him come next year. He had the quirkiness about his personality that, when matched with another Carter Josh Carter, made for a really entertaining time. Practices, if she made the team next year, were not going to be the same without them. Although Selina could do without him flexing his hubris every five seconds now that Carter had an incentive.

She walked over to the paint and grabbed a bit to start working on him. Leave it to Carter to not come with a base coat. He was going to take in every opportunity he had to let his younger lions paint him up. Typical Carter. She dipped the large paint brush in the paint and started to do his base coat so she could add the gold text later. Honestly, if Carter did not have that smug look on his face she would have complimented him. The seventh year Gryffindor was very nicely built.

But when he poked fun at Gideon she lifted the paint brush and mischevously swatted paint on his upper cheek. Then she threatened with her brush, "Be nice..." Then she finished up his base coat and looked up at him, "Okay, turn around. I need to do your back."



When Carter said something to the affect of Kurumi covering her face Selina turned around to look at her. What was he talking about? Of course, it did not take long to pick up on her reddened cheeks and flailing arms over her face. Oh Merlin, it was just bare chests. Then again she grew up with ten older male cousins. Shirts vs. skins Quidditch was something they played very often when she was younger. She was almost mute to the whole shirtless thing but she could not deny that the Gryffindor boys had a lot to be prideful about.

"Kurumi? Are, um, you alright?"



After she checked on Kurumi, Selina continued painting Carter. All the while his smirk was ever present. But she heard another voice start screaming and she looked up from her work. It was Auggie and he was seemingly all done. He had letters and all. Good on Kurumi, it seemed she had gotten over her monitary moment of shyness.

"You tell 'em, Auggie," she chuckled.

Then she heard her song being screamed loudly from end of the pitch to end of the pitch. When she looked up... it was Kurumi... that was a beautiful sight no doubt. It seemed that the lioness had let out her inner lion!

Selina shouted back, "GO GO, GRYFFINDOR! GO, GO!"

RAVENCLAAAAAAAAAWS... all of ya! <333 And others. :D
 

Louisa was not a Quidditch fan at all. She only came to matches that meant a lot to Vashti or Kita. HOWEVER professor Vee decided to include this big game into their coursework. She bet that if that crazy captain was still in school, he'd be exhilarated to see this particular assignment.

Moving on.

The fourth year Ravenclaw marched toward the hectic stands, her eyes blinking from all the yellow, red, green and.. oh! That wasn't yellow, that was supposed to be gold. Oopsies. Heading toward the Herbology teacher instinctively, Louisa's eyes widened at the shirtless boy walking away toward the Potions mistress. She blushed slightly at the sight and quickly averted her eyes to spot another one just like him! WHY WERE THEY NOT WEARING SHIRTS? Dropping her gaze quickly, she flopped down close to Bentley when the latter started her enthusiastic cheering that Louisa hoped would be contagious for this game - when the woman cheered for... wait for it... GRYFFINDOR!

:whaa:

Louisa's head snapped up and her jaw snapped.. open. "Professor! You're cheering for them?" Squinting her eyes at the blondish and TRAITOR professor.

HEH. Apparently they needed to win back the professor's... impression. Or whatever. Louisa took her wand out and jumped to stand on her seat, "RAVENCLAAAAWS!!" Errr... and? How did people cheer? She'd never done it. Louisa froze, thinking hard about a catchy phrase to use as a cheering tool. Maybe someone else would shout something and she just should claim it? Yep. Sounds like a plan.

Alright, alright, he was done laughing at Edvard. ...For now.
Spotting Hecate arrive he gave her a small wave. "Hello." He wasn't being bright and cheery but...you know he was being polite.

"Fina, morning." He greeted with a small smile. Now that more people where arriving at the rally he could see how it could be a little bit of fun. Of course supporting house unity also meant diving school unity..."Realized that you were wrong so you decided to come support Slytherin?" Not the Slytherin Quidditch team, or the Slytherin students. Just Slytherin in general.

To ALL snakes too! ^_^
 

"Nice meeting you Angelina," he said. "Oh, great combination," he grinned. Yes, the girl had good taste. Duuuh, she was a Slytherin.... Oh boy, he snake side was really shinning today.

He dipped the brushed in silver paint and then gently traced a capital "S" on her left cheek and the right one he drew a green snake, after cleaning the brush of course. "There, you're all Slytherinized," he grinned. He wasn't sure if that was a word, but if it wasn't then it should be.

"Heeeeeey, Raven," he waved. Yeah, he was happy, excited, proud...all of the above. He smiled crookedly. "Thanks! Took me two hours to get it all done," he said. His curly hair was the hardest to color. Now that he thought of it, he could have used a spell instead.

He showed her his pallet of many colors and said, "Would you like any?" Yes, he came prepared because you paint your face in pep rallies, right? Er, right.

It was his dancing buddy!

"Hiiii Harlow!" he greeted with a toothy smile. And she had CUPCAKES! "Those look really good," he said, containing some drool. He was acting strange as it was, so no drooling.

A song?

Yes, they needed that. They had cupcakes, paint, posters, and now all they needed was a song. "We do." But, he was horrible at composing them. Then he saw and heard Victoria and another Slytherin girl start to sing. "They have one," he said.

"Heeeey!" he greeted the girls. "You guys have a song and we... kind of need a song," Kennedy grinned sheepishly. He didn't want to steal their song, just borrow it so Slytherin could wing this thing. Didn't everyone want that? "Do you guys a copy of it?" he asked. He couldn't possibly remember a whole chant at once.

Probably... Maybe.

Showing up probably a bit late, Nora scanned the crowd until she had seen professor Lafay and the fellow Slytherins already chanting what Sierra had taught them. Waving at both girls and at the Potions mistress, she joined them and began chanting a bit louder, hoping that more Slytherins would join.

"We're never gonna stop, stop, st-st-st-stop,
We'll always be on top, top, t-t-t-top,
We're serpents 'til we drop, drop, dr-dr-dr-drop,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!

In Quidditch, we're the best, best, b-b-b-best!
Better than all the rest, rest, r-r-r-rest!
Don't put us to the test, test, t-t-t-test,
We're always gonna win, we are Slyth-er-in!"

Gooooooo Slytherin, right?

And there was that insufferable woman... Hecate gave an annoyed nod to her, and then hoped the woman wouldn't speak to her.

"I'm not sure... But I am hopeful. We have an amazing team. And Carter... End and Victims don't rhyme..." She said patting the seat next to her. "you may join me, if you root for Slytherin... but I warn you, Lucille swings easy."

There they were... they were doing beautifully. Hecate bobbed her head and nodded to the beat they were creating.

"Scabior," She said in greeting the man. She smirked at his comment to the Hufflepuff Head of House and said, "Oh? What was she wrong about now?" She patted the other spot beside her for him to sit by her... after all he had been a snake in his youth...

Ariana Just so happened to have copies of the lyrics on her "Sure i have the lyrics here.." She said as she handed the stanger Slytherin boy about 5 sheets of paper with the lyric's wrotten on then

Minnie looked around and waved to all that waved and spoke to her. She couldn't believe how many people she knew just in one year. It was amazing and fun. Kurumi asked her about the chant and she really wasn't sure so she looked to Alyssa for the answer. Then she saw Professor Hadley and waved. She was happy to see their head of house there. Then Alyssa started chanting again and Minnie started to chant with her.

BAAAAADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BAAADGER (Echo Back)
EVERYWHERE WE GO-OH (Echo Back)
PEOPLE WANT TO KN-OW (Echo Back)
WHO WE AR-RE (Echo Back)
WHERE WE COME FROM (Echo Back)
SO WE TELL THEM (Echo Back)
WE COME FROM HUFFLEPUFF (Echo Back)
MIGHTY HUFFLEPUFF (Echo Back)
MIGHTY, MIGHTY HUFFLEPUFF (Echo Back)
BAAAAADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BADGER, BAAADGER (Echo Back)[/QUOTE]

*pokes Ravvies*
 

Still standing on the seat, Louisa held her wand high in the air and murmured the spell under her breath sending silver sparkles to be shot around, "Eagles are here! If you're a Eagles fan lets here you cheer! Stand up and shout it out! Eagles are here! Eagles are here!" Reaching into her pocket, the Ravenclaw falsely excited reached for her Patronus-like eagle and shot it through the air to soar over the crowds head for quite a bit before vanishing into thin air.

"The Eagles
Are Gonna Soar
The Eagles
Are Gonna Score
Get that quaffle
past that keeper
Get that snitch
Before that seeker.
Goooo Eagles!"

Now THAT came absolutely from a student somewhere because Louisa barely knew what those Quidditch peeps did in the game.

Salima stood up and began sinnging:
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something, please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot.
over and over and over again...