Kalla had her eyes closed... and she was counting to 10. 1 - 2- 3 -4- 5- 6-... Yeah. No. It wasn't working. WAS NOT WORKING.

She turned to look at the bundled up child and without pause she reached her hand out and FLICKED what she was sure was his nose. "Didn't your mother teach you not to speak to people that way? How very rude of you!"

Yeah. She thumped his nose like he was a bad PUPPY. BAD PUPPY!

There could've been a steady stream of steam rising from around Cutty if that were actually possible. He was fuming. True, the layers of scarf about his face had blunted the hit somewhat-though NOT entirely! But they also had what he felt were adverse affect of not allowing his teeth to clamp around the girls finger. And if he weren't so mad at his mother at the moment, her remark might have had more impact.

He heard another student, with vividly red hair invite him over to sit near her, but there was principle involved here. "But I was here first!" He protested toward the girl (Marissa), not wanting to give up and preferring to be stubborn.

He turned back towards the larger girl and pulled down his scarf long enough to launch a loogi at her. If the older girl wanted to be near him so bad then it was time to get acquainted.

Oh. Hell. No.

No.

Kalla had her wand gripped tightly in her hand and momentarily considered shoving it up his nose. But she was too busy retching. RETCHING. After a moment she flicked said wand at the glob of spit and SNOT that had landed on her leg and levitated it RIGHT BACK IN HIS FACE.

"If you value your life and limbs you'll NEVER EVER do that again." And for good measure she flicked a spell at him to HOPEFULLY glue his tongue to the roof of his mouth. Yeah. TAKE THAT LOOGI SPITTER. Disgusting.

DISGUSTING.

She felt like gripping his ear and twisting it like she did her cousin.

"Ok. Suit yourself." Marissa said to the boy. "But if I were you I wouldn't want to be sat upon by fat people." she added and laughed as he hocked a loogi at
the girl.

Adelaide mindlessly nommed away on her sugar quill, trying to figure out what was going on below. And then there was someone shouting for someone named Belle. Really, really loudly. In a very familiar voice...

She looked around to see who was looking for a Belle so badly...when she spotted that Tessa was the one who had been shouting. "Are you talking to me?" She had no idea where the girl got Belle from.

She figured she might as well join them. Addi didn't have any issues with younger students. She climbed up to sit next to them. "Where'd you get Belle from?"

Minerva smiled at Wade as he did decide to join them and she was glad he knew Claudette easier that way she felt. “Doing great” Of course she was doing great didn’t he see Ethan sitting right next to her.. FANTASTIC DAY RIGHT THERE! “How are you?” She glanced at the arena, “Yeah I guess it’s exciting. Doesn’t seem like to much going on except them working out problems. We probably should watch closely, maybe learn a few things.” She smile and winked at Wade a bit, they would be down there soon enough so teammates unit and all that jazz. “Well hopefully she’ll be here soon. I’ve forced you two to spend so much time with me, it feels weird without both of you.” She laughed a bit. Looking down as he said it was starting again Min nudged Ethan, “This round is Herbology.” That would probably take his focus from her, but oh well she could just enjoy his arm around her.

Min shrugged as Ari said she ate, “No that’s fine. I can wait until later unless E or Claudette want something.” She looked to those two when Ethan said he could go. “Sure we can get something. I can’t let you starve sitting here.” she chuckled knowing he was always hungry unless something had changed while he had been off at Uni. Glancing back at Ari, “Going to cheer loud for Kat?” did you cheer at these things? Minerva wasn’t even sure. “She wasn’t too nervous was she?” Terrified sounded about the way Min was going to feel in front of everyone.

Minerva glanced back at Claudette as she tried to decide who she was cheering for, “Honestly Claudette it really doesn’t matter you don’t have to fret over it.” She didn’t want the girl to think to hard or anything when she saw her glancing back and forth. “Both sounds great.” She chuckled, but eyed her own boyfriend when the question turned to him. He did go to Beauxbatons for while didn’t he. Min tend to forget that for some reason anymore, he had just fit so nicely into Hogwarts and into her life that she liked thinking he was there the whole time, but plant boy best be saying Hogwarts especially when this blonde was going to be part of it. “So classes going alright Claudette? Not having any trouble, are you?” She did worry about her friend hoping she was getting along alright. She listened as she talked to Wade, oh the prefect event, “Did you have fun at least and two, how did you get two?” Had they talked about this, Minerva couldn’t remember.

Moving a bit closer to Ethan she was going to enjoy this time. Anytime was special to her. “So what do you think they’ll do for the Herbology? I know you are great at it, but if there are evil plants I don’t think I could have sat here watching you do a dangerous task.” She couldn’t help it, those flesh eaters were still horrible in her eyes even if she had made progress with the others. Smiling she leaned kissing him on the cheek, “Hogwarts was your final school and I’m still here of course you are routing for them.” She laughed jokingly, but not. She beamed at his guess, “You know me so well, you’re right. I’m actually being paired with Wade, so it should be great.” She glanced at Wade smiling.

She turned her focused on the only one that said about food, “Well we can go if you want, but I think Kat and Alexa started, so if you want to stay we can wait. I’ll leave that up to you. I’m good either way.” She was content sitting with his arm around her squinting to see whatever was going on down below. “School going alright?” She figured it was since she usually talked to him in their mirrors, but she figured she would ask anyway.

She still wasn't fully here yet, though as she sipped her hot chocolate she noted Ethan's cousin, the crazy girl from the carriages, and gave a faint smile and a raise of her cup, yup hello crazy!claw. she stretched her shoulders and made baby!dino noises as she did before she saw Ethan peek over from Min's other side. How long had he been there? Seeing him there with her made her miss Oakey just a bit more but she was happy min got to see him, that was good for her.
"Hey Ethan." she smiled at him a better smile than his cousin got from her anyway. " I'm well thanks, just classes and Quidditch." same routine different year really. Nothing new,
wake up, run, classes, food, practice, classes, sleep, wake up and repeat.
Been her routine for the past few years she was use to it, really.
then Min was going on about kat and cheering " eh, let's see how awake i am." Ari let out a yawn while she covered her mouth, how people did this morning thing she didn't know. " nervous," she gave a shrug "i just got a pillow to the face and a 'you better show up logan' she lovely really." just splended really.

"HA!" Was all of the laughter Cutty could draw out before his own glop of loogi was thrown right back into his face. Then, before he knew it, his tongue had felt like it was magnetized to the roof of his mouth, then perhaps glued, because there was nothing he could do to get it free from it's new position. He uttered some uncomfortable sounding noises and squirmed in his seat, his attention now back on the older girl who'd done the wand work.



Cutty shut his eyes fast as he felt the slimey goopy substance his his face. He reached up a sleeved arm and wiped away what he could of it, the pulling back of his arm revealing a very angry looking boy indeed.


This.


Bird.


Was soo lucky he wasn't as advancing in magic as she was else he would've let her have it. For now, all Cutty could do was stay fast to his spot. It was his and he was NOT giving it up now. Especially not now.

Well, this had been a good show. Anastasia was awfully proud of her Hogwartians, and her staff for having chosen them. They'd outshined both Durmstrang AND Beauxbatons in ALL categories.

She was sitting rather smugly there in the stands, arms folded across her chest as it were. Now they only had to wait for the judges to stop their judging and announce the Round One winner: Hogwarts. Hem hem.

Making her way back to the stands with food, Charlie passed the Headmistress, and held in a giggle at the smug look on her face as she stopped near her. "Hello, Professor Truebridge," she smiled, feeling odd looking down on the most important Professor, but still not possessing the confidence to take a seat near her.

"We've done really well, today, haven't we?" Yes, bacon!boy and Lex especially... but maybe Charlie was biased in the way of the people she knew the most. "What do you think the judges will say?"

Would she jinx it by saying that she was sure that Hogwarts had won?

"Oh, hello," Anastasia looked up from her intense staring!down!ofthejudges! to give the girl before her a polite smile. "We HAVE done STUPENDOUSLY well today." She made sure to say that NICE and LOUD ENOUGH for certain people to hear and take note.

"I think the judges will give Hogwarts nearly perfect scores, really. Don't you?" They had certainly earned them! Was this girl one of the participants for the later rounds? Bunz squinted at her but didn't really find her familiar-looking. Hmm.

Fedir had sat in silence during his entirety in the grandstands. After a long day of watching is alma mater's dismal performance, he and the rest of the judges to their leave to discuss the results and score each task. Returning to the grandstand with an official looking piece of parchment clutched between his black gloved hands, the tall man took out his wand and held it against his throat.

"Results for first round of competition are in. First place, Hogvarts School of Vitchcraft and Vizardry vith 91 points. Second place, Durmstrang Institute vith 68 points. Third place, Beauxbatons Academy of Magic vith 64 points." The parchment in his hands was then folded up and placed in his breast pocket. "Next round of competition vill be held late spring. Hrandstand vill close soon. Everyone valk back to Hogwarts in orderly fashion. Students from Durmstrang Institute and Beauxbatons should speak vith respective Headmasters about lodging arrangements."

And now the Ukranian was done speaking and gave those still in the grandstands a respectable bow to signal as such. His wand returned to its holster and he began to make his way out of the stands immediately.

Second Place. That was not good enough for Mischa. He was still angry at himself for his stupidity in the final task. But this made him only more determined to do his best in the upcoming rounds. Yes. He will do better.

Hogwarts certainly was worthy competition but they should not expect to be in first place again. Mischa calmly made his way towards Headmaster Zitnik. He needed to find out about where he'd be staying.

BAM! FIRST PLACE! "THAT is how we DO IT!" the Headmistress found herself shouting in a most UN-ladylike way. Oops, had she actually said that out loud? She flashed a smile to both Sputnik and Benzo and then stood up politely. What she meant to say was...

"Well done, Hogwartians."

Then she collected her purse and belongings and waltzed out of the grandstands. Back to the castle, children!!!!!!!

Calista was absolutely BEAMING!

She had sat there with bated breath as Mr. Summers and Mr. Odessa worked on deciphering the runes from the inscription on the wall. Abraham had done well on picking them for their finesse with runes. The blonde was also very proud of them for their work with the Runic spread, she hadn't even gone over that with them in great detail yet they had definitely done better than the other schools' representatives. *cough cough*

Finally after what seemed like forever the judges had agreed and...HOGWARTS WON! The Ravenclaw Head of House jumped to her feet and whooped and clapped like the rest of the Hogwarts residents and waved excitedly to the Slytherin and Hufflepuff boys who had represented her's and Botros' subjects as well as the school so well. She would have to figure out a treat for them or something.

THIRD PLACE! THIRD PLACE! Headmistress Enzo couldn't believe her ears. Under her breath she muttered agitatedly in small gasps of breath. "C'est incroyable. Ils doivent avoir une erreur de calcul. Mes élèves étaient compétents. Ils valaient plus que une troisième place." Flashing a glance over at the joyful Hogwarts headmistress she stood up from her seat and marched out ov ze grandstands not stopping to congratulate ze other woman. She vas going to write to ze head of ze Ebweqbsc about zis. Someone must have a made a 'uge error.

Karina scowled as the scores were announced. Second place? They would have to do better, much better. She would have to do better. Especially since they only obtained second place by FOUR POINTS. She took a deep breath from her seat before standing to follow Mischa to where Headmaster Zitnik was. Cool, calm, collected, and dangerous. That's the name of Karina's game.

Seren was beyond pleased, beyond thrilled... she was, ecstatic!

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" she'd cheered upon the announcement of the results. It had been better than she'd expected, though she was confident Hogwarts would do well, 91 was exceptionally well. Their students went above and beyond... and the visiting students, well, they had some work to do. Perhaps the competition was already in the bag?



Emily applauded, silently, as the results were announced. This really had been a decent use of her time. Internally she was brimming with pride, being alumnus and all. Though she didn't know the students, nor the professor's (it seemed), she was still pleased to have come to support them.
The Durmstrang girl... was disappointing. With all that attitude she'd expected a fight. Such a shame.

Nevertheless, now that it was all over, Emily rose from her seat and blended in with the crowd leaving... the sooner she was out of here, the better. Kids were irksome.

She had been perched on the edge of her seat all the time and luckily caught herself whenever she was about to fall. Ahem. Wouldn't want to make a fool of herself with cute new guys around. Not that she was looking, she was focused on what was going on in the arena. Yup, totally. Who cared about the people with accents sitting here and there. She might have glanced around out of curiosity.

The important thing, however, was that HER FRIENDS were doing absolutely AWESOME! The other two schools....oh she didn't really look much. Because who cares? Yeah?

All her friends were going to receive hugs and stuffs. And it was a relief that no one got hurt. Especially Lex with the man eating plant.

Then the judges took forever. Ehh. Come on, people.

It probably took her a bit to process the result but seeing professors clap and stuffs she shot to her feet and CLAPPED and maybe let out a squeak or two. Yeah. Those were hard to contain in such atmospheres. VICTORIOUS ones! Woooot! She didn't NOT expect that their school wouldn't win for a sec. West and Alec aced the first one brilliantly. Kat and Lex were absolutely cool. Alice and Kaiden seemed to be knowing what they were doing and went on smoothly. Psht unlike the other two schools. Whom she didn't really watch but was sure weren't as great as her friends. Yup. Not even debatable. They could go back to their schools and countries defeated. *smirk*

Although still angry and squished and jinx and covered in loogi, Cutty could feel his displeasure alleviate somewhat when the judges announced the winners. It also helped even more to hear the outrage of the losing schools support team. Especially the Beauxbaton people, as he caught one lady going on about how her students deserved more than third place and that it must have been an error. Oh, Cutty would've laughed and pointed and mentioned her denial ...if he COULD!

He stood up proudly, brushed himself off and left Kalla rather haughtily. She could have her silly seat now that the first round had finished.

Second place. Otherwise known as first place losers. Bronislava stared straight ahead, no emotion evident on her face as the results were announced, but internally her emotions were a mix of anger and disappointment. They needed to win. That was why they had traveled all this way.

But she would place the blame on no one person. They lost as a team, so the accountability would lie with all of them. The Durmstrang girl sat silently at her spot next to her Headmaster. She knew he would have some words for her and her classmates so she would sit and wait for further instruction, waiting respectfully until he spoke first. But she knew he wouldn't be even remotely pleased.

Minerva sat cuddling next to Ethan and waited... waited.. and waited for the judges to make their announcement on who one the first round. She felt so nervous for her friends, her classmates. When she saw one of the men she had said hello to when she first entered the stands get up and seem to be going to make an announcement she sat up a bit straighter.

Listening to the man her smile grew, first place in the first round. That was awesome. Way to go Hogwarts. She clapped and cheer a bit, but felt the knot starting in her stomach. She knew that meant there would be a lot of pressure to keep up the amazing performance in the second round. She had to start studying harder and be as ready as she could be. This was going to add to her time of Newt studying and classes, but she had to do it. Looking at Ethan she gave a smile, "They did great. I wish we could see better, but it was exciting wasn't it?"

Marissa saw the boy get up to leave and stood up, "Hey! Wait up!"she called out and rushed after him. She had noticed he hadn't been able to say anything since the girl flicked the loogi back at him and thought she may have jinxed him.

Second place did not please the headmaster from Durmstrang. He had not brought his students all this way just to be the first losers. He would be having a chat with his students about this once they all got back to the grandstands with him.

Looking around him to take note of his students that were already there his ears were assaulted by the shouting Headmistress Truebridge was doing. Zitnik would have congratulated her on her school's win only she didn't stick around long enough for anyone to say anything to her. Really headmistress, this is how you show good sportsmanship? Shouting and then getting up and leaving without even saying one word to the other school's leaders? Let's hope her student's are more welcoming than she is.

Turning his attention back to looking for his students he noticed Mischa was already back up in the stands along with Karina. He flashed them a disappointed look before glancing over at Bronislava. Now where were the rest of his students? He was only going to voice his disappointment once so the other three better find him quickly or they would be hearing something different from him than these three would be.

Having left the arena area to clear his head after his and Bronislava's task, since he KNEW his little screw up had been part of why they had come in second instead of first, Ström quickly made his way back to the stands when he heard the results being announced, just in time to hear the loud screaming of a red-haired woman. Must've been Hogwart's Headmisstress. Man, she was loud.

He quickly found the Durmstrang group, just in time to see that their headmaster was gearing up for a speech. He took his place just behind Karina and waited, a somber expression on his face. Headmaster Zitnik did not like to lose.