Dylan was now ready to attach his rocket to the launcher thingy whatever it was cause thats what they had to do. Now him too excited about launching these things he didnt even think about gravity, what does gravity have to do with him sticking the bottle onto the launcher? well what happens if you turn the bottle upside down to connect it to the launcher? yes you guessed it... out came the water that he filled a second time. Now he was not too happy that he hadn't thought about the water coming out if he had done that, he stomped his foot and at that moment.....

BOOM!

He was suddenly covered in water from somewhere, he heard a boy say oops and he looked at him still shocked as he looked to see where the water must have come from and saw the evidence of the destruction of the guy's rocket. Now in normal cases the person getting soaked would be really angry at the person who soaked them. Now Dylan is not exactly your normal person sure he was surprised at the water but he started smiling "COOL!!!" he said all excited. He loved explosions and this one was his first since he arrived here, now he wanted more explosions. "You don't by any chance have another bottle somewhere that you can do that again.. do you?" cause he would love to see another explosion for sure!

He then again got his bottle and started to fill it up with water so that he could launch it, NO! he was not going to explode his rocket cause he wanted to see it reach the sky not the ground like this exploding-guy's rocket. "Aguamenti!" he filled the bottle to half way and this time having learnt his lesson he put the rocket on the ground and stuck the launcher on top of the bottle. He put the launcher on the ground and saw that it stayed so that worked at least, now to do the embarrassing bit... the flapping.. just to get his rocket into the air.

Since Nigel was now done with filling his rocket with water. He needed to attach his bottle rocket to the launcher. But Nigel had no idea how to do that. Was there a spell needed to stick it to the launcher. or did he just have to put his rocket on top of the launcher. Nigel was getting more confused. He need to look around and see what other people were doing.

When all of a sudden he hears a loud bang and sees that it was Elijah's rocket that caused the noise. Nigel wondered what he had done to cause his rocket to explode. At least none of the scraps had hit him.

Now he had to get back to his rocket. He quickly connected his rocket to the launcher not caring if he did it correctly or not.

Laura decided it was time to practice the wand movement. "This is ground control t-minus 1 minute and counting, please be advice, if anything goes wrong abort the launch, I repeat if anything goes wrong abort the launch." Laura was having loads of fun here. "This is Hyde1 I understand." Laura giggled, now then this was getting to the best bit, the Launch.

"This is ground control, we are less than 1 minute too launch." Laura was now practicing the wand movement whilst flapping her arms, it was weird but hopefully it would work. "This is ground control to the ground crew, please clear the launch site." Laura smiled. "this is hyde1 we are all systems go, pre-flight check is complete, are we going for launch?" this is ground control. "All system are fine, everything is a-okay, we are go for launch." Laura smiled, she was getting excited now. "EVERYONE WE ARE GO FOR LAUNCH!" Laura was really excited now. "T-Minus 40 seconds and counting."

The brunette was about to return to her task, though her ears were still ringing when she heard a Gryffindor boy (MagicalWorld) beside her ask the troublesome Hufflepuff if he could create another explosion. DUMBLEDORE'S PHOENIX! Didn't they realize they were becoming a nuisance to those who were trying to accomplish the activity. Okay, maybe she had been acting like a no-care-body a while ago. But that wasn't the point.She's acting as if she hasn't been laughing her head a few minutes then.. She had been trying her hardest to launch her rocket. And they were going to set off bottles? "Are you guys out of your minds?" she muttered before shifting back her attention to her bottle rocket.

Hmm.

She shouldn't waste her time. And with that, she began to utter the incantation, "Explaeris!" traced a circle over the bottle, and FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! FLAP!

...air then filled the bottle....and slowly it began to expand....

FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! MOOOOORE FLAPPING!

Argh. Her arms were getting tired from all the flapping but seeing that her rocket was about to take off, she endured it.

FLAP! FLAP! FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!

....
.......SWOOOOOOOOOOSH! ZOOOOM!

And the rocket was off.

The Ravenclaw then smirked.

With all the rockets about to blast off. Nigel knew he had to get the spell down fast. Due to the fact that he wanted to see if anymore of them exploded like Elijah's. Nigel just did not want to be hit by an debris. That would mean a trip to the healer and Nigel did not want to go see the Healer.

Okay, the spell was Explaeris. "Explaeris, Explaeris, Explaeris, Explaeris." Nigel said under his breath just to get the spell right. He had to remember that or something could go wrong.

Nigel was not going to practice the wand motion. He thought it would make him look crazy if everybody saw him flapping his arms with his wand out. He did not want to weird nickname just because he was following instructions. Since he had done all the instructions all that was left to do was launch his rocket.

Cassia stood up and glanced at the launcher , she noticed that few students had already launched their rockets. The second-year was so excited to get her rocket launched though she wasn't sure about it considering she was no good at casting spells and a total new one too! That old woman should have told the charm's professor to teach the students the charm first. But apparently the old woman was too busy collecting images of old and bold studmuffins as she told them. Cassia never found them studmuffins-ish…she thought they were desperate people who were trying to find explanations for obvious and natural things. Pffft….why were they learning about them again?

Anyway, Cassia was curious to launch her beautiful rocket which she made with her bare hands……and her wand…..and with the help of the older lioness but still Cassia worked hard. And it would be nice to see something you made flying. Her grandmother would be proud of her and surprised especially that the grandmother always said that Cassia was hopeless. Ehh….Well, she just made a rocket and was going to launch it so is that hopeless? NOPE!

Picking up the wand Cassia squared her shoulders getting ready for the big show. If only she had been taller to look fierce and you know cool . Well, short people could be cool too and she was just going to prove this by launching her rocket up in the air!
Repeating the spell in her head ,Cassia opened her mouth to say it but…..SPLASH!

Cassia froze open-mouthed with the wand aimed at the rocket. She swallowed hard, did her beautifully-made rocket just explode? She braced herself and risked a look at her precious rocket. Oh thank goddness! Her rocket was perched on the launcher adorably. Cassia beamed at that. But wait, then what exploded?

She looked where the water came from and found that it was the older Hufflepuff student. The one with no taste who likes the professor," Um…are you ok? You know just the rocket exploded right?" Not your brain? Which wouldn't be a loss.

His explosion seemed to have angered certain people who had been nearby. She began SHOUTING at him... or at least he thought she was...? She seemed angry enough but all her shouting was muffled, his ears still trying to mend the effects of being so close to such a loud bang. He simply raised his thumbs up to the girl and trrrieeed to say to her, "It's okay! I'm fineeeeee," because OBVIOUSLY she must have been shouting at him scared for *HIS* safety. "Don't need to worry about meee," he thought he said... he couldn't hear it either way. This was weird.

SPOILER!!: Dylan and Beezus

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Originally Posted by MagicalWorld

Dylan was now ready to attach his rocket to the launcher thingy whatever it was cause thats what they had to do. Now him too excited about launching these things he didnt even think about gravity, what does gravity have to do with him sticking the bottle onto the launcher? well what happens if you turn the bottle upside down to connect it to the launcher? yes you guessed it... out came the water that he filled a second time. Now he was not too happy that he hadn't thought about the water coming out if he had done that, he stomped his foot and at that moment.....

BOOM!

He was suddenly covered in water from somewhere, he heard a boy say oops and he looked at him still shocked as he looked to see where the water must have come from and saw the evidence of the destruction of the guy's rocket. Now in normal cases the person getting soaked would be really angry at the person who soaked them. Now Dylan is not exactly your normal person sure he was surprised at the water but he started smiling "COOL!!!" he said all excited. He loved explosions and this one was his first since he arrived here, now he wanted more explosions. "You don't by any chance have another bottle somewhere that you can do that again.. do you?" cause he would love to see another explosion for sure!

He then again got his bottle and started to fill it up with water so that he could launch it, NO! he was not going to explode his rocket cause he wanted to see it reach the sky not the ground like this exploding-guy's rocket. "Aguamenti!" he filled the bottle to half way and this time having learnt his lesson he put the rocket on the ground and stuck the launcher on top of the bottle. He put the launcher on the ground and saw that it stayed so that worked at least, now to do the embarrassing bit... the flapping.. just to get his rocket into the air.

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Originally Posted by xXxPandora

The brunette was about to return to her task, though her ears were still ringing when she heard a Gryffindor boy (MagicalWorld) beside her ask the troublesome Hufflepuff if he could create another explosion. DUMBLEDORE'S PHOENIX! Didn't they realize they were becoming a nuisance to those who were trying to accomplish the activity. Okay, maybe she had been acting like a no-care-body a while ago. But that wasn't the point.She's acting as if she hasn't been laughing her head a few minutes then.. She had been trying her hardest to launch her rocket. And they were going to set off bottles? "Are you guys out of your minds?" she muttered before shifting back her attention to her bottle rocket.

Hmm.

She shouldn't waste her time. And with that, she began to utter the incantation, "Explaeris!" traced a circle over the bottle, and FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! FLAP!

...air then filled the bottle....and slowly it began to expand....

FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! MOOOOORE FLAPPING!

Argh. Her arms were getting tired from all the flapping but seeing that her rocket was about to take off, she endured it.

FLAP! FLAP! FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!

....
.......SWOOOOOOOOOOSH! ZOOOOM!

And the rocket was off.

The Ravenclaw then smirked.

His hearing started coming back to him in time to hear a little ickle Gryffindor go on about how COOL it had been. Elijah smirked, pleased to have at least make someone's day. This Gryffie was SOOOO much better than that useless flapper he had hired earlier. "I'm glad you had fun," he chuckled, trying to get used to HEARING again, "Although, I don't think we should explode any more rockets... Professor Burbage may already be out for my blood enough as it is..." he ruffled the ickle's hair. Elijah liked this kid.

He did not like the 'Claw who came up moaning, however. "Calm down, calm down," he said, waving his hands at the girl as if to try and relax her. "We areeen't going to be exploding any more rockets," right now, anyway. Elijah would make sure to find Beezus later and send an exploding rocket at her face when they were out of class. HMPH.

SPOILER!!: Cassia

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Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

Cassia stood up and glanced at the launcher , she noticed that few students had already launched their rockets. The second-year was so excited to get her rocket launched though she wasn't sure about it considering she was no good at casting spells and a total new one too! That old woman should have told the charm's professor to teach the students the charm first. But apparently the old woman was too busy collecting images of old and bold studmuffins as she told them. Cassia never found them studmuffins-ish…she thought they were desperate people who were trying to find explanations for obvious and natural things. Pffft….why were they learning about them again?

Anyway, Cassia was curious to launch her beautiful rocket which she made with her bare hands……and her wand…..and with the help of the older lioness but still Cassia worked hard. And it would be nice to see something you made flying. Her grandmother would be proud of her and surprised especially that the grandmother always said that Cassia was hopeless. Ehh….Well, she just made a rocket and was going to launch it so is that hopeless? NOPE!

Picking up the wand Cassia squared her shoulders getting ready for the big show. If only she had been taller to look fierce and you know cool . Well, short people could be cool too and she was just going to prove this by launching her rocket up in the air!
Repeating the spell in her head ,Cassia opened her mouth to say it but…..SPLASH!

Cassia froze open-mouthed with the wand aimed at the rocket. She swallowed hard, did her beautifully-made rocket just explode? She braced herself and risked a look at her precious rocket. Oh thank goddness! Her rocket was perched on the launcher adorably. Cassia beamed at that. But wait, then what exploded?

She looked where the water came from and found that it was the older Hufflepuff student. The one with no taste who likes the professor," Um…are you ok? You know just the rocket exploded right?" Not your brain? Which wouldn't be a loss.

Oh look! Another person who was concerneeedd for him. How nice. "Yes, I am fine. Don't worry about me. Still has handsome as ever," or so he hoped... he hadn't seen himself in a mirror... What if the rocket had blown HALF his face off... O_____O

He took that opportunity to look around him at all the other students who were, like him, drenched after his little... disaster. Elijah gave a shy smile as if to say sorry. The fact that he, the gorgeousness of all gorge (that was if his face HADN'T been blown off), was looking in their direction in the first place was compensation enough.

Apparently he was totally fine. Cassia nodded ," Glad to hear that. And I'm sorry about your rocket," She said apologetically, Cassia would've flipped if she had lost her rocket. "You see that what you get for drawing professor's pictures on your work." She said whisperingly making sure not to be heard by the Professor. Because that would totally cost 1000 points or Cassia would be launched instead of the rocket. Who knows what the Professor would do!



Anyway, back to her awesome rocket. Cassia shuddered from the now damp robes but it was ok she could forget about them because she was about to do some very important and cool thing. As she turned back to her rocket remembering that she now should do the flapping thing. Her wand aimed at her rocket she cleared her throat and spoke "Expla….." She trailed off. Frowning, Cassia lowered her wand , what was the spell again? She had just been trying to memorize it and it's so hard when you have a lousy memory like Cassia's. she shot the huffie a look meaning thank you for interrupting and wetting me!

Now she had to remember the spell! Wait she did write it down didn’t she? Oh she'd love herself a lot if she did. Though, Cassia already loved herself . However, the second-year doubted herself of you know thinking ahead and writing down important stuff.

The twelve years old reached for her bag and sat cross-legged near the rocket as she dug into her bag for an expected note with the incantation. She wouldn't ask the professor right away because that would be so not cool and now that she was a second year she couldn't risk looking un-cool. She had looked un-cool as a firstie enough times. History!

Sarah, still drenched then realized that with the water came the fact that she had not maintained her spell casting and was to start again. She took out her wand and tried in vain to wipe it dry on her wet robes. Yet soon it got dry and she set to work (the wand was not damaged). She traced a circle by her rocket, said the words and began to flap. Flap, Flap,Flap,Flap,Flap... she did rather feel like a penguin, yet the launcher nor the rocket seemed to mind as it began to inflate. Flap,Flap,Flap... her arms were aching, it was a great workout though and this was building her endurance.... Flap, Flap, Flap and then....
Swooosh.... the rocket made its great escape into the atmosphere. It flew towards the heaven and Sarah watched as it disappeared from sight. First it got smaller and smaller and smaller.... soon it was but a speck in the opalescent sky above. And then, like the runaway balloon that she had seen once in the air (her mother told her that some muggle child probably had a birthday party and had baloons filled with helium, and someone must have let go, so the balloon flew away).
And then there was nothing. She then turned her attention to the activity around her. Turning to the teacher she said "Madame. I got slightly wet, perhaps I or someone else can preform a hot air charm to dry myself and perhaps the others off." She hoped she wouldn't get punished for saying that.

Instead of giving Kurumi and audible okay to move onto the next step, the redhead just gave her best friend a curt nod. She was fully welcome to blow off Latin if she so well pleased. It was not like Selina could make her best friend want to talk about it... obviously. The sixth year was okay with not talking about Latin. Yep. She was not upset at ALL. Nope. OKAY! SHEWASVERYUPSETABOUTHERIGNORINGLATIN!

...not like Kurumi cared.

Putting this aside, she put drew her wand out of her holster and focused on the rocket. She was about to wave her wand when she noticed that Kurumi had not taken hers out. The prefect had just said the spell and flapped her arms. OH yeah, it was the rubbish Latin spell's fault that this whole spell was messed up. Well, that was what the Professor got for using faulty Latin.

So she put her wand away and said clearly, "Explaeris!"

... flap... flap... flap... Flap... Flap... FLAP...FLAP.... FLAP....FLAP FLAP...FLAP FLAP.... FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAP!!!!

Her rocket started to rumble, but before anything could happen... Burbage broke. And her attention was diverted to the points nonsense and the weepy puff making a big deal out of a nonissue. No skin off Selina's back though, it wasn't her house.

The redhead turned back to Kurumi who had been flapping much longer than her... when she saw that her rocket had not taken off. The redhead marched over to the rocket and leaned over it to check what the problem was, "Hey Kurumi? I think your rocket is broken..."

Cora smiled. Elliot gave her more...confidence. Her advice had been useful, and Cora was ready to try again. Elliot was about to race someone Cora didn't know, and she was secretly cheering for her friend to win. But she would not say anything.

Looking back at her rocket, she decided now was as good a time as any to try to launch it. She practiced the wand movements a bit more, with slightly less exaggerated hand motions until she was ready, muttering the spell.



Cora was glad that she had made Eliza feel a bit better. She liked making people happy. "It holds water, hooray!" Cora said with enthusiasm over her friend's rocket.

"I'm a fourth year, actually. But I've been, um, home-schooled since first year so this is my second. I'm all caught up, though, really." Cora said this, which made her uncomfortable. Just because her paranoid mom kept her stuck at home for two years she had been entirely deprived of Hogwarts related things. "You're a first year, right?" Cora could tell that Eliza was younger than she was, despite the fact that she was pretty sure Eliza beat her on height. Cora was too small.

As Cora waited for a response, she decided to try the rocket for real. Taking a deep breath, Cora pointed her wand at the rocket, circled her wand in the air, and spoke, "Explaeris!" She blinked expectantly, than realized she needed the flapping, so she began flapping quickly. She had gotten over the whole embarrassment phase.

Cora shut her eyes, nervous to see what was happening to the rocket.

Orr got the bottle rocket in launcher ready and set out to say the incantation and practice the wand movement but just before she could even utter the incantation, her bottle rocket fell off the launcher.

What did she did wrong? She took out the bottle rocket out of the launcher and looked at the launcher. She didn't know what to do.

Looking around she asked out aloud, "Can anyone help me?"

Right. So this was the part where Terry actually had to do some magic? Luckily it was quite a simple spell that he was vaguely familiar with and so he didn't think he would actually need to ask someone to help him here.

He looked down at his bottle rocket and drew out his wand, taking a deep breath to prepare himself for some proper magic. This was either going to go very smoothly or end in a total disaster. "Aguamenti" the boy said firmly, doing the wand movement whilst speaking the incantation. His eyes filled with glee as the bottle filled up. He was almost too excited that it went to far. He stopped it from overfilling pretty quickly, picking it up to check that he had done it half full and that the substance in it was actually water and not some weird mysterious liquid he had managed to conjure up.

Well so far he was managing to enjoy Astronomy very much. It wasn't a subject he thought he would be good at but it was certainly very fun. And for a twelve year old boy, fun was all that mattered.

Trying not to laugh at the professor flapping away, Ness carefully took in the instuctions. She even decided to write some notes down about it just so she knew exactly what she would be doing. It would hopefully prevent any chaos from occuring.

Right. First step seemed pretty simple. All she had to do was fill up her bottle rocket with water. Something she could do easily by now. Taking her wand out, Nessie filled up her bottle saying a simple 'Aguamenti', quietly to herself. She waited for the water to fill up a little and then when she was pleased, she stopped the wand with a quiet 'Finite' and mezmorized the next instruction.

Another simple one. All she had to do was place her bottle onto the launcher. Before she did anything though, she paused and made sure there was not anything else she needed to rememeber. The spell! She needed to go over it. So before actually placing her rocket onto the launcher, Ness held her wand in her hand and at first just repeated the incarnation in her mind again and again.

'Explaeris! Explaeris! Explaeris!' It needed to stick to her brain.

The next step in Terry's mission was to somehow attach the rocket to the weird but incredibly cool muggle contraption. His bottle rocket was starting to look the part and he was incredibly eager to get it sky high, even if he had to look like a crazy duck whilst doing it.

He had the rocket in his hands and he knelt down beside the launcher to see how to attach it into the device without it falling off, especially as he didn't want it to spill water everywhere, it had taken a lot of effort to get that in there. He sat the bottle down within the launcher, the part with the wings pointing downwards. He pulled away to find that it just flopped out.

Well that was just brilliant wasn't it? At this rate he wouldn't have launched it by the end of the lesson. The second year tried again, pushing the rocket firmly in and stepping back as quickly as possible. “Stay!” he ordered it and it obeyed. Good rocket, he patted it and grinned.

That looked right didn't it?

Now that her rocket was half filled with water, she needed to attach it to one of those launchers. Silvia looked around and then wandered over to an unoccupied launcher nearby. Having stowed her wand for the moment, she kneeled down and focused on attaching her rocket. Suddenly…

What was all the commotion about? Couldn’t they tell that she was trying to concentrate on attaching her rocket properly? Then Silvia turned her head and spotted a piece of paper in the professor’s hand. Could that be…yep, it was; the gossip paper. And it seemed Professor Burbage was not particularly happy with its contents. Wait… 100 points?! What exactly could that Hufflepuff have done to deserve that? Was it really over the Aparecium? The professor really needed to learn not to take it all that seriously.

But seeing some of the other students who were closer explaining just that, Silvia turned back to her rocket. Another moment and… there! It was attached. Next step was to practice the insanely embarrassing spell. Hmm, maybe she should start with the incantation first.

Laura was ready for Launch but first she had to make sure the crew was ready. "This is ground control, we are t-minus 30 seconds and counting." Laura starting flapping her arms and doing the wand movement, Laura was loving this. "This is Hyde1 all systems are go." Laura smiled. "This is ground control we are hearing you loud and clear." Laura smiled. "Everything is A-Okay for launch." Laura smiled. "We are coming into the 10 second count down for the launch."

Okay, what was the spell again? Explaeris? Yes that was it. Silvia pulled out her wand but kept it at her side. Slowly, she repeated it over and over several times, attempting to get the pronunciation right and commit it to memory.

“Explaeris…explaeris…explaeris…”

There was a loud BANG, and Silvia felt a few drops of water sprinkle down on her. Okay. WHAT was it THIS time?!!! Couldn’t they have just a few minutes of concentration WITHOUT something or someone exploding? At least she didn't get soaked.

Silvia turned towards the source of the noise and water. Did a rocket just explode? She stared for a moment at the Hufflepuff that seemed to be the cause of it all. Couldn’t he have been more careful? She was trying to study science here! Well, at least he seemed alright and it didn’t look like anyone was hurt. Hmph, well her rocket definitely wasn’t going to explode. She would make sure that she had the spell down before she tried anything. And with that thought, Silvia turned her attention back to her own rocket.

“Explaeris…explaeris…” Then she practiced the circular motion with her wand a few times.

Laura smiled. "This is ground control to Hyde1, we are starting countdown now." Laura giggled, this was it, it was time for everyone to stand back in awe. "Ten..." Laura started to do the wand movement. "Nine..." Laura smiled, "Eight..." Laura started to flap.

FLAP........... FLAP............. FLAP............... FLAP............. FLAP.............

Laura then said the incantation. "Explaeris." Laura did the wand movement as well.. "Seven.....six....five....four..." Laura knew the time was getting close.

*FLAP* *FLAP* *FLAP* *FLAP* *FLAP* *FLAP*

Laura smiled. "Three... two... one." Laura was really happy "This is ground control it's time for lift off." Laura giggled. "This is Hyde1, Hogwarts we have lift off."

*POOOOOOOOOOOOP...........SHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!" Laura smiled as her rocket went flying off. "This is Hyde1, lift off is complete." Laura smiled, she loved this. "This is ground control to Hyde1 is everything A-Okay......." Laura hoped that everything was going to be perfect and she hoped the Professor would like what she had done. "This is Hyde1 to ground control everything is A-Okay."

Logan was walking towards Ness when suddenly he was being grabbed and pulled somewhere else. And hello, Sutton.

Beaming at her, he nodded. He had no problem with launching off with her, she was awesome and his lovely friend after all. "You are good with this sciency stuff, right?" As he placed his bag down, he thought about how she answered in class; this girl was like Hermione.

As Professor Burbage began talking, his gaze switched onto her. Taking his notebook out, he proceeded to listen to the instructions and watch the demonstration that the teacher gave them. Seemed straight forward, and he wrote the steps down just to make things easier for himself.

Ahh yes...the winner gets to pick the puffer. That is a great idea...only if Hannah won of course. She had to win, not only because she was so not wanting to talk nicely to a puffer, but she didn't like not being the best. It was as simple as that. "Game on!" She was ready for this.


Deciding it would be best to get a little more practice in she said the spell a couple of more times. You could never be too sure of yourself when there was so much at stake. Knowing Elliot she would pick out Laura or Soaps for Hannah to talk to, and she was not looking forward to that.

She recited the spell a few more times. "Explaeris...Explaeris...Explaeris!!!" She was totally comfortable with that. She said it so perfectly that you would think that she came up with the incantation herself.

As much as she didn't want to admit it she knew that she needed to practice the flapping some more. Even though she told Elliot that she didn't think it was important, deep down she knew otherwise. She was going to have to swallow her pride and just do it.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She blew the air out and started flapping like nobody has ever flapped before. FLAP, FLAP, FLAP, FLAP, FLAP, FLAP,FLAAAAAAP! Yeah, that's right! Hannah would give the birds a run for their money right now.

She turned to Elliot with her game face on. "Ready Morganzo?"

Lex watched intently as the Professor explained the spell once more. She nodded when she was through. In all honesty it didn't look all that hard...sort of...

She gave the Professor an appreciative smile then turned to her rocket once more when the Professor told her to give it a try. Making that circle motion towards the rocket she uttered, "Explaeris." This time her voice was definite and precise...filled with intent like Vivi had told her. For a quick second she forgot that she was supposed to flap afterwards but she quickly caught on.

FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP.

She watched the rocket very carefully and heard the moment it made that POP then SHOOOOOMMMMM!!! YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!

Her satisfaction subsided shortly after when she realized what she had just done. O____O....Her rocket.

"Gaaaahhhhh! What have I done?!?!" She turned to the Professor. "How can I get him back?? He's afraid of heights you know..."

Just then she heard another explosion but this was was of the more liquid variety and she found herself covered with water. Looking around she sighed, not at all surprized that Pretty Boy would have been the one to make something like that happened. "Seriously?" Now she was wet and without a rocket!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaspen." West gave his sister a tortured look. This wasn't about learning spells it was about launching ROCKETS! And she was barring his way to ROCKET success! "I aaaaaam focusing on WATER." He was! He really for truly was!

He noted that not far away Nigel wasn't having any trouble but then he was a Ravenclaw. It made sense.

Still, West tried again. He gave his sister a LOOKATMEFOCUSINGONWATER look, and then directed his wand. "Aguamenti!" A sliiiiiiiiight trickle. Then nothing.

And now the youngest Odessa was getting frustrated.

All that was left to do was launch the Rocket. But Nigel had to prepare and do a countdown. Nigel could not launch his rocket without a countdown. It just would be wrong.

Once Nigel was sure he had his rocket on the launcher and his wand point at his rocket. He started his countdown. "Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five". Nigel stopped the countdown to make sure he knew the wand movement and think about what he had to do.

He wished he had made his rocket to like a tardis. But then there would be no wings and no place the put the water. But he was happy with his batman rocket. He even had made bat wings it.

Elliot shot a wink over to Cora, "Watch me win this, Cora..." heehee...ELLIOT WAS SO GOING TO DOMINATE!

She then smirked over at Hannah...who was practicing as well...hmm. She got her rocket all ready...and she coughed. "I was born ready, sweetheart," she said nastily...

She was going to make Hannah go talk to Soapy! Yes. She had her mind made up. And she HAD to win...because Elliot couldn't possible go up to any puffer...and say NICE things...NO WAY!

"Let's go. On the count of three..." she said softly, a serious look in her eyes now, "One...two.." she smirked softly, and got her wand ready..."THREE!"

She cried, "Explaeris!" and did the little the circle thing...she then began to flap as if she were really trying to fly, she didn't CARE if she looked like a COMPLETE FOOL!

The only thing on her mind was sweet, sweet Victory. With a capital V.

Her rocket SHOT UP INTO THE AIR! Elliot watched it all the way, putting her hand over her eyes so that she was glaring directly at the sun...