Norah skipped as well as she could in her protective gear to snag another bag of yellow sand. She carried it to a new spot around the solar system to prepare for the ANNIHILATION of everyone MUAHAH. Seriously, why hadn't she thought of this whole evil thing before hand? It was waaaayy too much fun to be ignored. She zeroed in on her future ammunition and pointed her wand at it. "Fingere Elementi!" Another perfect yellow sphere spun into existence. Now, who should she target next?

Ethan waited…and waited to observe things first before wearing his protective armour and helmet. He saw his Slytherins get down to business, and was right next to Hufflepuff. Time to make a move, yeah? He’s got a plan up his head, but it was too late to discuss it with his bros. He can’t see them clearly with their helmets on. The prefect knew he’d bump into Grayson, or Cutty in a while so for now, he decided to help out a tiny Snake—Brooklyn. The scary little first year.

Getting a few green packets off the box, he pocketed the rest and held up one in front of him, “Fingere Elementi!” A nice jab, and a green planet was born. He wasn’t going to use Jeffrey as a cue ball. Not today, at least. “Why don’t you give it another shot, Brooklyn?” Aim for the Huffies? YEaaaaaaah!

The game is FREAKING ON!

Gryffindors were in last place was the only thing that registered in her head. AJ didn't like to be in any place other than first place, but to be dead last? That was unspeakable. Where were the rowdy planet flinging lions? No matter. At the end of the day AJ could only control herself, and she was going to sling as many planets as she could.

Thanks to her boyfriend, the hufflepuff house was her target, and would be until they went DOWN. AJ watched the asteroids and waited for the perfect time to send her own planet flying. She didn't want to just make a hit, she wanted to see yellow confetti and glitter.

Now was her chance. "Locomotor Planet." It was as if everything was in slow motion. Her planet pinged the asteroid and it was slowly but surely making its way to a yellow planet. Was it going to hit? It had to hit. She took her time, and concentrated this go round. BOOM!!! Yellow glitter and confetti everywhere. The only thing that would have made this moment any better would be if the glitter landed in Adi's face. Oh yeah, this was competitive AJ, not the sweet little girlfriend of Adi.

She swiveled her head to find Adi, and without saying a word she gave him a wink. That little gesture would say it all. IN YOUR FACE.

Almost seconds after her little moment of accomplishment, Brooklyn had to quickly swerve her wand as she suddenly found Ethan, the prefect she’d talked to at the feast and who’d told them about how the squid didn’t eat people, coming over to her. She didn’t want her slightly lopsided planet hitting a prefect, or at least one from Slytherin. She didn’t see a reason to be worried about it hitting any of the other prefects. She simply watched him with wide blue eyes as he’d created a planet once he’d stopped next to her, noting how his seemed to happen a lot faster than hers had. She still didn’t know if hers would last through another shot, anyhow, but she’d seen the bags get hidden in his pocket. Maybe she’d be able to get him to let her have one if hers exploded on impact.

“I was going to,” she said, as he’d spoke to her. She wasn’t just going to stand there with the lopsided green sphere floating by her waiting for her direction. “Locomotor planet,” she cast again, flinging her wand hand toward the asteroids and the planets beyond, watching her green planet fly, a bit wobbly, toward the gray spheres again. As she’d suspected, it sort of disintegrated as it collided with the asteroid, but that still flew toward another yellow planet and collided. The explosion happened slower this time, as if the yellow planet was trying to resist, but it still died in the end.

“I need a new planet.”

We see you, AJ. Adi knew she'd go right back at aiming at yellow but he was being mature unlike her. He resisted the urge to stick his tongue out at her. Instead he just flashed her a smirk. Her House was loosing anyway. No time to focus on the Lions. But he did shuffle back closer to her to say, "I don't have to wish. You know it's true.''

“Fingere Elementi!” Adi said, after retrieving another bag of yellow sand. Hallo, yellow Planet! You ready for some action? Because Adi was targeting green once more. Yep.

An aim, and a miss. That was how her last attempt ended. No surprise, as Ophelia usually had quite awful aim. However, no more! Because not only was she going to aim it correctly, the firstie was going to hit a planet. Determination. The eleven year old had a lot of that. She got it from her parents, who apparently passed it down to all five of their children. It was a great trait, though it made fights UNBEARABLE because everyone was determined to win. And stubborn. The whole Clarke clan was a determined and stubborn bunch. So sorry, fourth place wasn't happening. This child was going to do better than that. The game was as on as a game could get right now. Except for the whole friendly competition aspect, which hardly mattered right now. There was other stuff going on. Like flinging planets at stuff and hoping that it actually hit!

Walking over to the bags as best as she could in the ill fitting armor, the Ravenclaw picked up a baggie of blue sand and thought over the spell again. Ya know, the one she casually messed up in while in ACTUAL CLASS. So that was good. Yeah, that was just peeerrrfffecct. But this time, she was going to get it right. That old Clarke determination was showing through again, and the shorter girl was not going to anything stand in the way between her and a beautiful blue orb thing. Looking the baggie over with her deep brown eyes and picking a good stance --was stance important here?-- the young girl got to work, cracking her knuckles quickly. Because it hurt if you didn't crack them. And the child was not in the mood to have her hands hurt while she was trying to play a game. Nuh Uh.

"Fingere Elementi!" Holy Merlin, it was working! She had a planet! A pretty, blue planet. See, the kid knew she could do it. It would just take some work. Pushing her blonde hair over her right shoulder, the kid began to look for some Hufflepuff orbs to shoot down. Wasn't hard, considering that the house was doing REALLY well right now. Like really, really well. She was kind of staying away from the Hufflepuffs right now. That is, assuming that they were really good at knocking down other planets. Anything else was fine.

Cool, activity time!

David headed over to put on the chest armor and helmet but was totally listening to Flamsteed's instructions at the same time. Use created planets, smash them against the asteroids, hit all the planets that aren't red. Pretty simple it sounded like.

With the helmet and armor on, he moved back several steps from the asteroids, standing by his desk that was now against the wall. It would be easier to use his already-created planet first than create a whole new one, yeah? So that was what he was going to do.

And as soon as they were given the go-ahead to start, he eyed the other planets and asteroids, trying to calculate how to hit an asteroid so it would hit the planet he wanted...a slow planet, to narrow it down. And to make it a little easier for now.

"Locomotor planet!" he cast at his first planet, pausing for a brief moment and then sending it flying at an asteroid.

WHACK!

And the asteroid went flying...

RIGHT into a green planet!

BOOM!

SCORE!

"I'm fine, I'm okay," Toby nodded to... Marigold? It sounded like Marigold, but whoever had spoken had already moved on. He just focused on wheezing breathing for now.

Toby, being the wise little Hufflepuff that he was, took a second to just chill there on the floor, so he could get his breath back and stare down the traitor planet. Once he felt ready to get back into the activity, he clambered up to his feet (with some difficulty, because he was kind of small and the protective gear was bulkier than he was used to and sort of) and headed back over to grab a bag of the yellow stuff.

Heading back to where he'd been standing before being cruelly and abruptly betrayed by his last planet (Persephone wouldn't do such a thing, but she was being protected from the battle), Toby lay the bag out on the palm of his hand and point at it.

After a moment to check there were no asteroids flying at him, he cast the spell.

"Fingere Elementi." Jab.

And then with the melty floaty transforming aaaaaaand POP! He had a planet.

OKAY. Time for another shot.

Ethan watched as Brooklyn took another shot, and was successful. Merlin, this kid is something. The prefect grinned as a plan formed inside his head. Brooklyn was better with aiming, seeing how determined she was to destroy the planets. Ethan decided to give all the younger Snakes all the fun this time, and turn ALL the other colored spheres into SMITHEREENS. Hehehehehehehe.

"You can have mine." he said as he held up his newly created planet and handed it over to the little girl. "Go on." As Brooklyn did her thing, Ethan got another green packet and turned it into a green planet. Brooklyn, or ANY of his Slytherins were welcome to get his green planet to flick and destroy the other planets. Mwehehehe. "Fingere Elementi!" Oh yes, he'd be supplying ALL his Slytherins with green ammos just to win this game.

Take that, Puffers.

Okay, time to actually HIT something. Because last time was a swing and a miss for Ophelia, and the firstie did NOT want the most awesome class ever being soiled by her awful aim. Looking at her beautiful planet, the little Ravenclaw looked for some Hufflepuff planets. Sorry, not sorry.

Finding them was easy. The hard part was letting go of something you made. It was almost sad to see it go like that. But, you gotta do what you gotta do, and what the eleven year old had to do right now was destroy the solar system. Which sounded incredibly violent in retrospect, but whatever. Destroying things, blaming one of her older siblings, just the Ophelia business. Sighing once at having to destroy the one perfect planet she happened to make, the tanned kid pouted as she got ready to do the spell.

Locked in on a Hufflepuff planet. It was right near her, it was now or never. Wow, she sounded exactly like an army general from those stupid war movies her dad and brothers were always watching. They called it bonding, her mom and sisters secretly called it 'an excuse to get out of housework.' Anyway, enough dilly dallying. READY, AIM FIRE! And yes, she was doing this without any test runs first, because sometimes in life, you have to take chances... and this chance just happened to be moving a magical planet towards other magical planet in hope that one will knock the other out of their solar system and help your house out.

"Locomotor planet!" Bye, bye, little guy. Watching intently with her deep brown eyes, the kid couldn't help but be happy when she got a hit. Oooh, yellow confetti and glitter. Sooooo pretty. Seriously, excited over here! Her streak of awful aim was over! Quick, who had a trashcan? She had to throw a paper in!

Now that her planet was gone, wobbly green pumpkin that it had been, Dot was sort of sad. Very sort of sad. She'd made her very own first planet, and it was gone now. Heartbreak.

Aaaaand now she was over it. Dot retrieved another bag of sand, still green and sagging and heavy, and brought it back to her spot in the line. This time, just like the professor said, she was NOT going to snag her wand in the plastic bag. And maybe her planet wouldn't be so wobbly.

"Fingere Elementi," she jabbed her wand at the sand, and was VERY happy when she not only didn't break the bag but managed to create a mostly-normal looking green planet. OKAY SHE WAS RELOADED.

Did Airey ever say that the winning house was going to be getting some sort of prize or something? AJ couldn't remember if he had specified or not, but that didn't make her intensity any less. There was no comment from her boyfriend about her hitting one of the yellow planets, and she knew that he noticed. It would have been kind of hard not to. When he made his presence known AJ just snorted. "You're kidding yourself, Rehman." What he was saying really was true. You didn't have to go telling all you knew though.

This would be the fourth planet she had made so far, and she was actually getting pretty good at the spell. It was a super nice feeling when things worked how you wanted them to. “Fingere Elementi!" Jab, jab, jab. There you have it folks. There was another red little planet ready to take out a different colored one.

She hadn’t expected it to be that easy. Brooklyn wasn’t about to turn down the offer of Ethan’s newly created planet though. It saved her the trouble of having to cast that spell again, anyway, and meant she’d be able to aim for more of the other house-colored planets. She already had an idea, after all, after seeing the Gryffindor boy destroy one of their green ones. Retaliation was nowhere near a foreign concept to her, and there had been a moment of thought as to if it would be better to sacrifice the planet currently in her possession courtesy of her prefect and send it straight or the Gryffindor boy. Except that wouldn’t help Slytherin win.

Making sure no other green planets got destroyed would, and therefore she chose a different tactic. Probably not what Ethan would have wanted, but he hadn’t told her she needed to keep exploding yellow planets. Revenge was more fun, and she eyed a red planet floating nearby, half hidden by an asteroid. “Locomotor planet!,” she finally cast, pointing her wand at the planet in her hand and then toward said asteroid, watching as the green blur hit the gray in a direct hit, followed by the asteroid bouncing off into the red planet and causing a spray of red glitter and confetti. That and a grin on her face.

Some little kid in green robes was standing next to him. Here to learn from someone smart? Grayson didn't blame her. He watched as she aimed her planet and...............

.................... Oh it was a hit! For the REDS. YES!

"Brilliant!" Unknown tiny midget person. He WOULD have said more but all too soon, it seemed, Flammy-o was talking and telling them that......

.............. What?

WHAT?!

The Puffers were WINNING? The boy stared in disbelief at the Professor and then over at the middle of the classroom where the orbs were. It was hard to count when they were moving around and with the number of planets flying around, which he found out all too soon. Still. Let the Huggers and Finders get all the points? OVER HIS DEAD BODY.

Surging with more motivation, Grayson headed over towards the front of the classroom and grabbed another green bag. Fine. FINE. "Fingere Elementi!" he called, jabbing his wand at the bag. Once again, it turned into a green planet that floated in the palm of his hand.

Right. Okay, they needed a PLAN. And who always had a plan at a time like this?

Ethan Mordaunt, THAT'S who.

And so started the quest for the boy, where Grayson moved amongst the crowd and peered at people until he heard the boy's voice. It wasn't hard to spot once he was nearby, since people were mainly shouting spells and whatnot and the Prefect was talking to some girl named Brooklyn.

"Hey, Ethan, are we taking people down or what?"

Angel looked at the Ravenclaw girl that her orb had nearly hit. "I'm so sorry." Angel said seriously, but then she had to stop from bursting out laughing. She had a funny feeling that the girl would realise that she wasn't that much of a valuable merchandise but it wasn't for Angel to put the girl straight so she just left it.

Angel went and got another bag of red stuff, she saw Adi turn on the red which didn't please AJ but she just left it and looked at the blue one's that was her mission at the minute.

"Fingere Elementi!" Angel jabbed her wand at the bag and smiled as the spell worked. She was fully reloaded again which was awesome and she had another mission to perform.

Okay, so, WHAT DID WE LEARN? Not to flick the wand BACK when the spell was still in effect. Because it ended in PAIN.

With this held FULLY IN MIND, Toby looked out over the planets in the middle of the room and saw a green one he thought he'd have a pretty good shot of hitting. And, by this point, there were now probably MORE greens out there than any others, so it was fine, right?

Right?

Deciding to not think about it too much, Toby just went for it and cast a spell, spotting a decently located asteroid that would help him out.

"Locomotor Planet!" And whoooooooooooosh, the yellow planet he'd just created was off, zooming into the grey area. Tobias watched, standing there quite captivated, as it made solid contact with the asteroid which then went careering off towards the middle. There was a fraction of a second where Toby was worried it would hit that one yellow planet, but it missed by about an inch and SLAMMED into the green planet, making it explode in glitter and confetti which joined the growing mess on the floor.

"Yes!" Toby couldn't help from celebrating; it had been a pretty good shot, and had all happened so quickly. But he'd been watching the process, so engrossed, that he lost sight of things around him. The distractability that might usually have helped him avoid getting hurt in this situation was AWOL, and so next thing he knew...

WHAM!

"AakjKAHSAKJKHS!" Presumably it was a stray asteroid from someone else's mis-hit, because SURELY he hadn't done the same thing, slammed him directly in the right side of his torso, spinning him on the spot before he fell back to the ground, not in any real pain, but definitely feeling it now, Mr. Krabs.



What. Even.

She still couldn't believe she hit it! Yay! Now the process needed to be repeated. Precisely if she could. If not, then it would pretty much be a guessing game from here on out, not that that was a bad thing. Guess, Aim Fire. Sounded like her really weird biography title if you asked Ophelia, but then again, no one ever asked Ophelia. Guessing was pretty much how the child got through life. Guessed what paths in the woods were safe to take. Guessed which foods she was allergic to. Guessed how much she could tick off her sisters before they went all nuclear on the kid. Guessed on every English test her mother ever gave. Life was like a guessing game to her, and Ophelia was becoming a good guesser. In fact, her favorite thing to do was walk past people and guess their backstory. It was fun to embellish it with crazy details, like their father was an emperor or their mother played the bagpipes for the Queen.

Walking back over to the bags with a little more pep in her amored step, the firstie grabbed another bag of blue sand, liking the way this one felt in her hand more than the last one. Because this one felt like victory. Not over the whole game, but victory on getting the spell right and victory over hitting an actual planet. So that kind of victory. The fun kind. The kind that she would taste, if they were making planets out of chocolate and not colored sand. Tasting sand was gross. It happened once when 'Ophie was three, and it would NEVER happen again, she would make sure of that.

Anyway, time for another ball of planetary fun. A couple of jabs with the wand and the right words and she would be seeetttt. The blonde was pumped, and not just because this activity was WAY funner than anything that happened at homeschool. Way funner. Homeschool was mostly tests and quizzes and auditory learning, not planet billiards. Unexpected and yet completely awesome. Was that going to be her motto for this class? Because spontaneity was AWESOME!

"Fingere elementi!" DRAT. Her planet wasn't as cool as the second one! In fact, it was a little lopsided misshapen. Merlin, how did she do that one? Oh well, the better to throw and hit something. Now she needed to find another yellow planet on her radar. Because last place was NOT something that was happening. Sorry, not sorry.

For a while Lex just watched everyone else. If there was one thing this observation taught her, it was most definitely that Gryffindors had shoddy aim--'cept her, she'd assume she was the exception because even if her sleep, her aim couldn't get as atrocious as some she'd seen. No, this was the special kind of uncoordinated you only saw in dreams; nightmares more like and it prompted her from her spot by her desk where she'd been leaning.

The Gryffindor might have aimed at a green planet just for the heck of it, until the Professor's announcement. Yellow in the lead, they could stand to lose a few planets, couldn't they?

"Locomotor Planet!" She cast, watching the green planet she'd created hurtle toward the grey asteroid which in turn smashed right into a yellow planet, floating by the way it was. Poor thing was probably trying to mind its own business and stay out of this war. Typical Hufflepuff, its days had been numbered and now it was up with a literal bang or in this case, a BOOM.

How many more of those could she blow up? Now that she'd gotten one her wand was itching for more. The focus on the shot didn't steal from the experience at all either. It was the hunt then the kill.

The Gryffindor made his way towards the sand bags and just as he was about to pick up another red one... Score update? ..... Hufflepuff in the lead? AND GRYFFINDOR LAST?! Man. It was like the housecup last term but BACKWARDS!!! No. This can not be.

With a small, angered huff Zander picked up a bag and jabbed it with his wand. "Fingere Elementi!" and another POP later, a new planet was booooorn!! Alright, now to Gryffindor to the top. You'd think with so many lions in class today that they'd have the lead in the bag. But alas, they'd catch up. It'd be awesome too. They were going to make Flailsteed proud. MHM.

Lions for the win yooooooo. Alright ahem right. Back to the game. Right.

There should have been a rule that after you blew up your planet it came right back like the training dummies in the arena so you could just get right back to blasting. This pausing in between shots to get more ammo, it wasn't working for her but what choice did she have unless she planned to snatch someone else's planet and just...roll with it. What were the chances the kid would squeal and have the Professor giving her tsking looks?

But no, it was just as easy accio-ing another sack from the table so she did and drew her wand. "Fingere Elementi."

This time a blue planet. It didn't matter so much the ones she made but she still wouldn't be sending a Gryffindor soldier out there to its doom when there were still plenty of yellow, green and blue sacks sitting idly on the Professor's desk like that. The way she saw it, her horizons were wide enough as it was.

The blue one came out as nice as the green--nicer actually on account of the colour but you got the point. A work of art.

Alright, time to shot that planet at another thing and make confetti spill everywhere. Because Ophelia was amazing at descriptions, obviously. However, this game was fast-moving, and the kid didn't want to miss a beat. Things were going on quickly, it almost made her head spin, but the girl was determined to keep up. Determined as crap.

Okay, time for planetary warfare. Because that was normal at school. Whatever, this school wasn't normal and neither was she. That might be why the firstie was liking it so far. Anyway, time to find another yellow planet. No offense to Hufflepuff, of course, but it was just the politics of this game. Like Game of Thrones, except no one's getting hurt. Well, maybe the kid who got hit in the face earlier, but he seemed to recover. Good for him. Hopefully being hit in the face with a.... something -- she didn't see-- didn't hurt too bad.

Finding the perfect planet to aim at that wasn't her own house colors, Ophelia got into a good stance and tossed her hair over her shoulder and down her back, where it fell into its normal curtain of blonde waves. Adorable. Anyway, planet time.

"Locomotor planet!" Watching the poor, misshapen planet make a weird path towards the other planet was kind of funny. Though hopefully it hit. It was agony to wait!

........

And it was a hit! She was on her game today! No more weird planets --save for Bendy over there hurtling at another houses things-- no more missing completely like she did the first time. Hopefully. Hope full that would be the case. Knowing Ophelia, she would miss completely and hit someone with her planet. And the scary thing was, it was most likely going to be her.

Watching other people get really into the game too was nice. It meant that she wasn't the only person who was slightly competitive and having lots of fun. It was good there were others. It didn't make 'Ophie seem so weird now. Not that she was the pinnacle of normal before, but it certainly stopped the blonde from feeling so weird about getting into the game a little.

And that mess on the floor looked awesome by the way. Seriously, it was like a collage of house colors, or some kind of weird modern art.

And someone was on his butt. Astroid problems. Stinking misses. Not that SHE'D ever miss of course, heh heh heh heh. But surely she hadn't missed that bad before? Because that was a pretty bad miss. Maybe she should stop being annoyed with the armor. Because if that happened with armor off, it would have been worse.

Ooooh, they were going to try to destroy other planets. That sounded like a lot of fun though Lux would have to stop making ones for Gryffindor; it wouldn't be right for her to desert her official House in a competition. Even if it was for the Lions.

She was just excited to play a game.

Standing in position, Lux pointed her wand at the little red planet she had created. "Locomotor planet!" Sending her planet towards a blue one, she cheered when it was hit.

"Impressive." Oh yes, the tiny girl was a ball of determination which Ethan subconsciously was, sort of...taking advantage. They must win this game, even if it's a friendly one. Seeing that a green orb was hit, the prefect died a little inside, and looked wildly around to see who it was.

Whoever tackled the green orb was a lucky kid because they all got helmets on.

No time to waste though, he needs to supply Brooklyn more planets. "Keep on hitting the other planets. Aim for the yellow ones." he said as he handed her the planet he created. "Make yourself proud, miss." GRIN. It's time to have REVENGE. Muahaha!

That voice belonged to Grayson. Ethan was sure of it.

"Yes I have a plan!" Ethan turned and grabbed Grayson's helmet and slammed it against his. "Listen, we are at war!" Ahem, okay, maybe that was a bit too much? "I mean...we need to supply our Snakes with green ammos. Ya feel me?" Merlin's orbs. Ethan seemed to be possessed, or just too driven to win the game. "Partner up with someone who can aim, while making green planets for them." Pause. "Or, find someone who can make a planet for you and blast those blasted planets for Slytherin." Like him, perhaps? Releasing Grayson's helmet, Ethan got a packet of green sand, and turned it into a green planet. "Fingere elementi!" Ethan eyed the swirling matter turn into a sphere, and eyed Grayson. "Wanna give it a try?"

Toby was................ exhausted.

Which was new, because usually these Astronomy activities were exhilarating rather than tiring. But he wasn't about to give up yet because, though he was tired, and getting steadily tenderised by planets and/or asteroids, he was still having fun.

So, once again, Toby heaved himself back up to his feet and went BACK to Professor Airey's desk, moving........ a little slower now, and still not bouncing, but still with the same enthusiasm as when they'd started the activity. 'Cause it was Toby.

He stayed at Airey's desk while he cast the spell, however, just........ for a breather. Y'know? A little break. Stepping out of the fray JUST FOR A MOMENT. All fine here.

"Fingere Elementi," the Hufflepuff mumbled the spell, jabbing his wand at the bag of yellow sand-like substance. Once more, he watched as it warped and floated over the palm of his hand until he was left with a planet. This one was a little smaller and not as well formed as the others but that was fine too, as it was going to be lost on the battlefield anyway. Sorry lil planet dude.

With his breather over, Tobias went back to find a space around the room, near to where he'd been standing but not quite the same place, so he could get a new angle, see?

Thornton watched the Professor move away and he, admittedly, relaxed a bit. The thought of failing, again, in front of the man was almost too much. The man had been so nice and helpful to him, anxiety-inducing shimmy into the extended bag aside.

Looking to Jasmine, Thornton instinctively winced as planets exploded in the center of the room, thankful that he was away from it. Ok. He'd said he would try and she'd gone over to get a bag and everything. So he guessed he'd have to but..

OH NO.

He'd left his wand on his desk. And his desk had been pushed to the edge of the room like the others. He could see it, his bag on the seat and the wand resting on the desktop. It was just a little bit away, but with all the exploding planets, he had to be strategic. And so Thornton dropped to rest on his forearms and knees, ready to crawl underneath the desks until he got to his. "I'll, uh.. be right back," he said, hesitantly. "Don't go anywhere."

He was NOT going to make someone else do something for him if he could help it. But the planets were exploding overhead and people were flinging planets. Under the desks seemed to be the safest place to be as he crawled along. Finally reaching the desk, he groped blindly, trying to grab his wand without standing. But, he couldn't quiiiiite reach, and so Thornton made sure his helmet was secure and stoooooood up slowly.

But a rogue red planet came whizzing within inches of his head and exploded on the wall behind him. Thornton looked back to where it hit, a glittery splatter on the stone. He looked back to the center of the room to see another coming right for him.. looking down at the desk, he spotted his wand, grabbed it and threw himself on the floor, the helmet making a terrible clattering sound when it hit. Wand now in his possession, he crawled back toward the prefect.

When he finally arrived, he was out of breath. Leaning against the wall, he tipped the helmet up so he could look at her and held up his wand. "I, uh, needed to get this."

He was not quite ready, just yet, to try. "Can you show me how to do the spell again?" Stalling.