Enemy capture!
 

Sophie felt the ground becoming weird and slowed down her run. She pointed her wand again at the older girl and shouted "FINITE!" why wouldn't it work?? The flag was slippery, wasn't it?? "FINITE!" she tried again, trying her best to aim at the girl's hands.

Flag! was told to move on
 

Seeing that Kurumi's Glisseo spells were being countered by the younger Puff's Finite castings, Kurumi's progress away from the Whomping Willow was a slow one and resembled more of an awkward dance. As their spells continued to cancel each other out, Kurumi began to feel very drained.

Making a sharp turn to the right and avoiding the last Finite cast at her, Kurumi leaped over one of the bushes and tumbled out of sight. Rolling to a stop and with leaves in her hair, Kurumi continued running back towards the front gate.

"Some kind of haunted shack or something." Anya said with a little shrug. "You can supposedly see the building from the town with the train station." Didn't they get to visit the magical town sometimes?

The main point was that it was a TUNNEL!

"Yeah. Hufflepuff." She said with a little nod. How did he remember all the names? It was all too complicated and old sounding. Like: something-rawr... huff & puff... something-claw... and slythie end... She'd just continue to refer to them by their respective colors.

"I do appreciate a pretty picture." Which... meant she'd like comic book art, right? "Are there lots of those little action bubble things? The ones that say things like 'BAM' and 'KA-POWIE'?" Because Anya liked when cartoons had episodes that had the action bubbles in it.

Oh! And he seemed interested in her kites! "Yeah." she said with a nod. "I've won a few competitions." With Alec of course. But she kept half the trophies.

In Jail.
 

Jezzabelle got up and gave the Hufflepuff a small smile. "I'll be fine. So where do you keep your prisoners."

Jailbreak!
 

This game was so much fun.

Back at his muggle school they had played this same game but weren't lucky enough to have this much space to play. Auggie was super excited and had been running around in a nuetral area waiting to make a decision on where to go. He had been near the Whomping willow when he saw a girl get tagged, a lion.

He must save her!!!

Auggie ran straight toward the Hufflepuff 'jail' where the lion girl was sitting and jutted his hand at her.

Free!
 

Jezzabelle smiled. She grabbed his and and smiled at the Hufflepuff's around her. "I'll see you guys around." She smiled at her savior. "Thanks. Let's go." And she ran off.

Yes!

He felt as his hand made contact with her sleeve and then he took off in the direction he came. His heart and feet where both pounding as he ran down the sloping grass lawn away from the tree towards the neutral zone he came from.

Just a few more feet....YAY! He made it back to the safe zone.

Jezz kept running until she had officially made it into safety. Thank Merlin for awesome Gryffindors.

Gustav noticed Jezz rnning towards the safe zone. He wondered if he should go after her, but he didn't think it be a wise choice since he knew he had to stop anyone tryng to get the flag.

Janice, with a left hand still affected by the gripping charm, turned her head to the direction of the Gryffindor flag. It's still there! she thought. An open opportunity and she would ran straight away.

AND THAT GUY ISN'T LOOKING!

Janice took a deep breath and ran towards it.

Minerva decided that there was enough puffs around she was going to go have some fun...

Keefer jogged over to join the Hufflepuff defense. He quickly surveyed the situation and decided to go around to the back of the massive tree. Better not to be seen and surprise anyone that tries to come in.

Sophie came running with Hufflepuff's flag held tightly on her charmed hand. She stopped to catch her breath, shaking a bit. It felt weird being on the top of the Front Gate for a few minutes with the Gryffindor waiting for her to fall down or something.

She would make sure the flag would be in a safer place now. Somewhere around the Whomping Willow, of course! Mehe!

The Hufflepuffs have successfully restored their Yellow flag! Better put it somewhere safe, Badger.

Minerva came running to the Whomping Willow out of breath. She had just helped in capturing a flag and rescued a friend. She had to sit for a second. She caught her breath quickly and got back up. She had flags to protect...Minerva saw Soph with the flag. "Let's get it hidden" she said pointing to a good spot to hide it.

Logan was kinda bored today, so he decided to take a trip to the Whomping Willow. He really liked it there, it was nice and peaceful. EXCEPT maybe when the tree went all crazy. He sat a good distance away from it and looked at it. He then laid down, putting his hands behind his head and looking up at the sky.

Flag!
 

Oakey got up as soon as he realized that he was no longer sliding! Still running he made it to the tree at full speed! HEY! WILLOW come on! HIT ME! He shouted at the tree!

And it did at that! The Whomping Willow swung one of it's branches straight at Oakey! Holding both Flag and free hand out to protect himself from the impact!

It was a hard hit and Oakey opened his eyes. He was still moving but his legs weren't going anywhere! He was riding the Willow! He stuffed the Flag between two small branches on the limb he was riding on!

As soon as Oakey got close enough to the ground he jumped and tumbled! Good now I just need to protect the Flags!

Nate was running as fast as he could to help Oakey. He finally caught up to him. "Oakey quickly I'll defend you. I won't be able to hold the slytherin off for long though."

Sophie ran towards Min, Oakey and Nate with a wide smile. "Hey, you guys!! We have our flag back!!" she said jumping up and down. "Oh!! You got another one too?? Which one??"

"I have some unfinished buisness at the slytherin base. Anyone want to come. I'll need the help. I heard a slytherin say that there prefect has a flag. I want that flag!"

Minerva jumped and gave quick hugs to Oakey and Nate. "Great work over there Oakey..Even though I almost had it."she joked. Then she hurried watching for anyone coming to try to take their flags... "Nate probably not a good idea to go after a prefect. Just stay and help defend our flag." she smiled and winked at the first year.

"Ok but stick around the flag. Don't lose site of it. If word spreads this would be like a big flower to bees. Meaning there is going to be alot of people here in the next 30-40 minutes. This might be one of the major battles of the capture-the-flag game."

Sophie was watching the other badgers, still jumping up and down in excitement. "Yeah, Nate, we'd better stay here! The Slytherins are probably coming to get their flag back!"

Kacie had been meaning to come down here to see the famous Whoming Willow. She had heard stories about it and it fascinated her so much that she just had to see it. She was careful to keep her distance, watching, and waiting for it to move. When it did she screamed out in excitement, loud enough to scare some, not noticing the boy only a few feet away from where she was standing. "OMG!!! It does move," she said. Getting so excited wasn't helping with how bad her breathing was for the last couple of days. "I can't believe it took me this long to come and see it."