Alright time for the activity and he was liking the idea of this. He like the idea he could blow things up and create things. I mean what boy wouldn't? He got out his bag with the yellow sand since it stood for the puffs. He got his wand from his robes and said, "Fingere Elementi!" and now his planet was already done.

It actually looked better than his first one he made. Now he had two planets for ammo. Now which one to hit? He grinned and decided he would hit some green ones. He got himself into the aiming position.

Alright, time to make another planet so he could MAKE ANOTHER ONE EXPLODE YEAH.

David hurried over to grab another bag of red sand then ran to find a nice empty spot along the perimeter to make sure he'd have a clear view once he was ready.

Holding up the plastic bag, he pointed his wand and jabbed in the bag's direction as he said, "Fingere Elementi!" And thankfully, the plastic started wobbling and melting away almost immediately, and the red sand molded into a not-totally-perfect-but-good-enough sphere shape.

Awesome.

Nowww which planet would he try to hit next, hmm???

Dot inched right up to the border, until she was practically nose to nose with the asteroids. This was actually really hard, now that she thought about it, because she had to line up the asteroid with a planet, and they were moving differently, and she had to hit her planet to the asteroid at just the right moment.

And this all for a girl who struggled a bit at gobstones. Dot raised up her planet with a "Locomotor planet," and then she flung her arm in the direction of the asteroid she'd spotted. It was perfectly lined up with a yellow planet out there. Perfectly.

The good news? Dot's planet hit the asteroid, and the asteroid hit her yellow planet, sending it up in a cloud of glitter. Oggie woudl be thrilled to know she was working on her beater arm. The bad news? Her wand went too, fling under the asteroids and skittering along the floor to rest well out of her reach.

"My WAND."

Unfortunately, when her mini Mars hit the little yellow sphere, it also collapsed into a shimmering shower of red glitter. Damn. Zero boomerang effect. Luckily, though there were plenty of bags of planet material left, so Heather grabbed another bag of the red and aimed her wand at it. "Fingere Elementi!" Her nose was assaulted by more of the burning plastic smell as the bag melted and her planet formed. Good, another mini Mars good to go. Hufflepuff was going down now. MWAHAHAHAHA!

Okay, let's be honest. Lotus didn't exactly understand what needed to be done, except that destruction was going to happen and it was all for good fun. She could do that. And they had to get protective gear. Got it. She did as told.

Will that prevent her from possibly getting glitter on herself? Probably not, but who cares, right?

She had her GREEN planet all done, thankfully she didn't get attached to it so fling it into an asteroid (right?) wouldn't be much of an issue. As long as she kept on hitting yellow planets, then it was all good. AH...

...but as soon as the seventh year was about to redirect her planet, someone was in need of help. A Slytherin.

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Dot inched right up to the border, until she was practically nose to nose with the asteroids. This was actually really hard, now that she thought about it, because she had to line up the asteroid with a planet, and they were moving differently, and she had to hit her planet to the asteroid at just the right moment.

And this all for a girl who struggled a bit at gobstones. Dot raised up her planet with a "Locomotor planet," and then she flung her arm in the direction of the asteroid she'd spotted. It was perfectly lined up with a yellow planet out there. Perfectly.

The good news? Dot's planet hit the asteroid, and the asteroid hit her yellow planet, sending it up in a cloud of glitter. Oggie woudl be thrilled to know she was working on her beater arm. The bad news? Her wand went too, fling under the asteroids and skittering along the floor to rest well out of her reach.

"My WAND."

Nothing that a simple summoning charm couldn't take care of. So, a single flick of the wand and one 'Accio!' later, she had the girl's wand in her hand. "Try to get a firm grip on it, yeah?" Because losing your wand was rather embarrassing. A nod later, she was handing the wand over to the rightful master.

Meaning, the girl.

BACK IN THE GAME.

Toby had found himself a nice decent-sized gap in the circle of students which was still pretty close to where he'd been originally standing (so Persephone knew he was near, see?). The change of position was refreshing, and he was already to have another go at this activity with all he could throw at it.

There was a smattering of planets still left, a group of which were right in his eye-line. Even some yellows, too, but Toby was still going to aim at them. By this point, he just wanted to make a confetti and glitter explosion happen again, no matter what the colour. He wasn't bothered who won, as long as they were having fun, right?

With that in his mind, Toby stood up a little straighter and sort of rolled his shoulders and tilted his head to each side, like an athlete limbering up. He raised his wand, and cast the spell.

"Locomotor Planet!" Flick.

nyooom.

Away the planet flew, slamming straight into that asteroid belt like noooooooobody's business, and sending one of those bludgers asteroids at the group of planets left in the middle. It all happened so fast that there wasn't much to really see; one second, WHAM, and the next, SLAM! An explosion of green confetti and glitter told Toby he'd gotten another hit in.

Or.............. it might have done. Except that when his ammunition!planet had crashed into the smattering of asteroids, Toby had completely unwittingly drawn his arm back, forgetting to cancel the spell again. It crashed into another asteroid that headed straight his way, so no sooner had he witnessed the confetti and glitter explosion than...

WHAM!

This time the asteroid clocked him straight on noggin, right on the side of the head where the helmet and the faceguard met. It was really a wonder that Toby hadn't seen it at all.

The Hufflepuff staggered backwards, head reeling more from the noise than anything, though that one had kind of hurt. He just kept staggering back until he was up against the desks, and rested there. Just for a while. Or until the end of the activity. He was find. He'd just............... chill. For a while.

Whew.

Norah glared around at the other students. NOW they were all targeting her house! HER house! Nuh-uh. Not cool. She donned her fighting stance and jabbed forcefully at her newly created planet. "Locomotor Planet!!!" she cried, directing her wand at an asteroid to her left. The asteroid was sent forcefully at a cluster or planets, taking out a green one with a shower of sparkles. Take THAT Slytherin.

READY FOR MORE BLASTING!!

Alexa walked even further from her desk, trying to get in the right angle for her shot. The right angle was what would earn her the shot afterall. 'Sides, it was getting harder to get in a shot over here with all these people suddenly swarming. Where did they even come from. What would it take for a girl to get some private blowing up time around her? She wasn't about that extra lessons life. Astronomy was great but she had a bunch of other big fish to fry and hardly enough time.

This...seemed like a good enough spot...--and there was the perfect target, all shiny and green and ready to be exploded.

Lex took aim, even bothered with crouching and squinting a bit to be sure she never missed. The green shun from where she could see and this only served to enhance her aim. "Locomotor Planet--!" WHOA. Alexa found herself swerving just a little as someone walked right into her. Merlin's BEARD, were the explosions messing with their brain's reactionary function????

Needless to say she didn't hit her green target and she might have been steaming even MOAR if the asteroid that went astray didn't ram right into a yellow planet. Alright. She'd take it, but just this once.

Now that that was dealt with, Lotus was more than free to let her green planet go, yes? Yes.

Basically, what she needed to have in this game was good aim. Quidditch hasn't been in her life for over a year now, but she didn't need practice, and her targets ALWAYS got hit. Right, Nigel? All she had to do was position the green planet in a way that an asteroid would willingly and flawlessly go into a yellow planet for ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION.

Ahem.

For... temporary disappearance.

"Locomotor planet!" she exclaimed, careful enough not to trip into some unsuspecting student, not because of the student, but because it may make her own planet miss the asteroid that would eventually hit a yellow one.

And so it did! Her planet changed the asteroid's direction and sent it straight to one donned in yellow.

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

Dec cackled to himself at Grayson's reaction to planet Haze bumping him in the face. Look at him getting all bothered! PFFFFHAHAHAHA! He sent a small salute to the ball now rolling away on the ground after sacrificing itself in the name of Anti-Grayson. Your service was appreciated.

Being that he had to serious-up for this activity, he slowed down his laughter and accio-ed another yellow filled bag to cast a spell on. "Fingere Elementi!" A jab and Haze No. 2 was born.

No? No strategy then? That suited him JUST FINE. It meant he could do his own thing then, and bully whoever was bulling him/them/Gryffindor. Yep. He didn't much like the sound of the standings either, it was so SADDDD...

But nevertheless, he had a planet!munition... just waiting to be hurled into space. In a way, it was like playing asteroid bowling... cause you were essentially knocking down pins INTO orb!planets... so yeah. It made sense to him

"Locomotor planet!" he declared, motioning for his planet to ATTACK the nearest asteroid and hoping that it would hit something useful. And it DID!!!

The yellowy gold glitter was evidence of his success. Sweeet.

He needed more planets. STAT!

Pleased with her first success, Lux beamed as she went about making another planet. This time hers would be yellow because of official House representation reasons. At least she got one red one out there, and it had smashed into a blue one. Hah! Nothing against the Ravenclaws, but she would be aiming for them and Slytherin.

Tapping the bag with her wand, she called out, "Fingere Elementi!" This time the POPing sound didn't startle her because she was ready for it. Time to make more pretty planets explode.

Alright, Caleb had a nice pretty green planet - he almost didn't WANT to fling it into the massive collision occurring in the middle of the classroom right now, but you didn't win house points that way! Caleb took his wand and pointed it straight at the planet he'd created and cleared his throat.

"Locomotor planet!" he exclaimed, watching as the planet started to float and move along with the movement of his wand. Perfect...now to find a planet...he decided to go for the blue ones floating around...because why not?

Norah scurried to grab a yellow bag. She had to movemovemove with all these people targeting her house! They had to win. Badgers RULE. She pointed her wand at the bag and said "Fingere Elementi," aware that her voice had gone completely shrill in her excitement. And boom, she had a planet.

C'MON, MOVE IT PEOPLE. What the Puffs REALLY needed was a cheerleader. Pumping her fist in the air, she twirled and tried to do a high kick but was inhibited by her clunky armor and ended up on the floor. She jumped up as fast as she could, dusting herself off as she went. Maybe there was no time for cheerleading.

She'd created a green one before, and she'll be creating a green one NOW. Just because it made absolute sense. And so she took another green bag, while avoiding a planet... OI! Those aren't for people, you know? She was being careful, but the helmet made things difficult to see, including planets going around.

Not waiting any longer, the Hogwartian aimed her wand at the bag and with a jab motion said, very clear, "Fingere Elementi," only to see the bag disappear and the green dust swirl into yet another spherical object worthy enough of being called PLANET.

LOL, not even Pluto had the honor.

Er, anyway. Green planet floating, ready to target...

This was perhaps the most fun he'd had in a while, or at least, where lessons were concerned this was pretty much THE BEST THING EVER. Would they all let them play games and destroy things?

Though, he wasn't ONLY destryong things, he was CREATING things too, and so that's what he had to work on now.

Quickly sprinting to the box, Zeke made the executive decision to stuff his pockets with as many red bags as he could carry, and leave some for whoever else, but HE needed them. HEAPS of them. If he was going to take down the universe!.. ahem, save for the pretty RED orbs floating about.

Focusing intently on one of the bags, Zeke jabbed his wand at it, "Fingere Elementi!"...

...

But it did nothing.

DAMMIT!!! HE JABBED!

Composing himself, conscious of time running out, Zeke tried again, only this time more successfully. "Fingere Elementi!" With a new mini planet at his disposal, all he needed now was a target.

Bouncing Haze No. 2 in his hand, he peered around for the target. LOLOL, who was he kidding?? He wasn't about to do calculation and stuff for this. EFFOORRRTTT.

"Locomotor planet!" Dec casted, lazily flicking his wand to send Haze No. 2 into battle. Wherever the wind blows, eh? He watched his planet bounce from asteroid to asteroid like a pinball. HOLY MERLIN, his heart stopped for a second there. Haze No. 2 barely whizzed by a yellow planet. Nope. Nope. He didn't want to bring down his own house, like his FELLOW PUFFER OVER THERE.

...but targets were rather easy to find if you knew what you were looking for...

...like yellow planets.

Technically, Lotus should be aiming to knock out the blue ones, no? That's as close to being a Beater at Quidditch as it could possibly get. But for some reason the thought didn't even cross her mind. Weird, no? So, after dodging someone else's wand, and completing forgetting she couldn't be harmed cuz protection, yo!, she tried to get in line with the yellow sphere of her choice.

There were plenty to take down, though, but this one was closer.

Once it was all lined up, she aimed her planet at the asteroid, "Locomotor planet!" and REDIRECTED it towards... OOOH, so close! The asteroid ALMOST took down a red planet, but DIDN'T. It didn't, okay? Sorry, Gryffindors. No harm done. None at all.

Okay, everything was good. The yellow planet she'd originally wanted gone was now gone.

Time to send her second mini Mars out into the fray. And of course, she was still aiming for the yellow spheres. Simply because Hufflepuff was ahead and Gryffindor was last and that just couldn't happen. So taking aim, Heather cast the spell "Locomotor Planet!" and off her mini Mars went. Only, this time, instead of hitting one of the yellow spheres, it hit an asteroid. Which then sent the asteroid careening into one of the stupid yellow spheres, sending glitter flying. Not the one she'd been aiming for, but that was okay since it was still a yellow.

"Bingo!" Yes, she was rather proud of herself.

Gwen felt a little better when Zeke didn't get it right away either. She was worried she might be the only first year that wasn't good with spells because everyone else seemed to get it right away.

Gwen nodded at Professor Airey's advice. "Thank you very much Professor Airey!" She gave him a big smile. She was ready to try this again.

She looked down at the red bag again, a look of serious determination on her face. Holding her wand as firmly as she could she got ready to try again. "Fingere Elementi!" She jabbed at the bag and the...POP! She bounced with excitement as the little red orb appeared in front of her. Look Zeke! Look Professor Airey! She did it!



Now they were going to make it move? Gwen was so excited. She was going to make a real moving planet. Well sand ball thing but this was astronomy. It was a planet.

She held her wand firmly again, not wanting that to be the issue for this one not working. She pointed it at the little red planet and said, "Locamotor planet" very forcefully. Rats. Nothing again. She blew a strand of hair out of her face and tried again. And again. And finally she got it.

Zoom went her little planet around her. Zoom, zoom.



ZOOOOOOOOooooooommm.

Oh. They were doing things again. Gwen quickly ran up and get her helmet and armor before skipping back to her seat to put it on. She listened as he rambled on a bit again, but she was pulling on her armor so no note taking was happening. Gwen backed up as she was told and watch the planets go around the room.

AND NOW THEY WERE GOING TO BE SHOOTING PLANETS AND DESTROYING THINGS!!! Best. Class. Ever. She was soooooooooo ready for this. She even had her game face on.

Gwen started to move around the classroom with her little red planet. She found a spot and started to aim at an asteroid that was almost in direct line with the yellow planet. She lined up and "Locamotor planet!" She crossed her fingers and was excited as it soared towards an asteroid...and then it went under it and just smashed into the ground. Pout.

Angel was locked on and fully loaded. "Great job AJ" Angel smiled at her sister. "We are clear for launch." Angel said to herself... this was going to be amazing and hopefully this time she wouldn't be distracted by the hunk of a man that was called Ben.

Angel looked just in time to see Ben miss. "Unlucky Ben." Angel was going to encourage him all the time... seriously it was about time that his luck changed. "Your doing great." Angel said truthfully.

Angel then pointed her wand at her orb. "Three... Two... One." Angel concentrated in her mind. "Locomotor Planet!" Angel aimed for one planet but it hit an asteroid on the corner sending the asteroid towards the blue planet which exploded sending confetti and glitter everywhere. "B4 hit" Angel giggled referring to the battleship game.

The grin only got bigger as she heard Ethan compliment her. Compliments were always welcome, after all, and it seemed he was still planning on supplying her with planets to aim at the targets. Brooklyn wasn’t about to turn that down. She hadn’t even had to ask him to do the work for her, which just meant she’d really accomplished something. She’d gotten people to do things for her, and she wasn’t about to stop. The grin only stayed on her face as he’d handed her another green orb. “Why wouldn’t I?” She always made herself proud.

Except she was distracted from aiming the planet in her hand as another boy had wandered over and tried to steal her prefect from her. That wasn’t nice. She didn’t care if he had pretty eyes, nobody stole anything from her. She eyed the new boy as Ethan had explained the situation, the planet nearly forgotten in her hand until she realized he was telling Grayson to do like he was. To find someone to pair up with, which meant he was still hers. Okay, that was better. Even though the next planet that was created had been offered to him instead of her.

Back to hitting planets. It wasn’t even that hard. There were lots to hit, and lots of the gray asteroids too. All she had to do was line them all up. “Locomotor planet,” she cast again, floating her provided planet and moving it to the right spot to collide with another asteroid. Flinging it, she watched it happen, the asteroid following the trajectory into another of the yellow planets and adding more golden glitter to the air. Next planet please…

Was Grayson going to fling the planet or not? Ethan eyed the classroom for a moment, and wondered what their current standing was now. Just as he was observing, he saw Brooklyn do her thing, and Ethan can't be more smug right now. He found himself a minion, and he will keep on praising this girl as long as she keeps on following his evilplan to conquer the classroom. Ah yes, they were doing the classic give and take...and hopefully this'll turn out to be a win-win situation.

Ethan tapped her shoulder, and gave her the planet that he originally offered to Grayson. "You're on FIYAAAH!" Ethan beamed at the first year, and got himself another green packet of sand, "Fingere Elementi!" and boom, another green planet of distraction was born.

What in Merlin's name was..... No, you know what. He wasn't going to question what Miss Wisteria was doing. He ought to know better after all these years.

The astronomer's gaze continued around the room, trying to count all of the remaining planets and --- sweet solstice. "Look alive, Mr. Tempus!" he cheered on the Hufflepuff. But seriously, what was going on with the boy today? Considering how speedy the boy had been on a broom during quidditch matches...all this was very unexpected. Not to mention concerning.

Almost as concerning as the one Ravenclaw boy who looked about ready to faint.

"10 minute warning!" he announce, tapping his sundial watch for added effect. "The tables have turned! Red planets are in abundance, followed closely by blue, then green, and finally yellow...who are just barely hanging on to existence!"

OOC: SLIGHT RULE ADJUSTMENT!

You are no longer required to make the creation of a new planet and the flinging of it towards an asteroid two separate posts. You can do BOTH in the SAME post.

Happy KABOOM-ing

This was working better than she’d expected. At least, as Brooklyn had found her shoulder being tapped and turning to find that she was being given the planet that had originally been offered to Grayson the prefect-stealer. Taking it, she beamed at Ethan. Of course she was. She couldn’t be anything but, as far as she was concerned. Except… When had Slytherin ended up almost in last place? She’d heard Professor Flamsteed’s announcement, and that wasn’t right. Yellow being in last was, but they weren’t supposed to be falling behind too. How rude. She didn’t even care about the ten minute warning. She had planets to destroy, and she expected to be provided with what she needed to do that.

“Locomotor planet!” The green planet she’d been handed zoomed toward another asteroid, hitting it squarely and sending it careening into the midst of the orbiting target planets. The only thing she cared about was that it didn’t hit any green ones. She didn’t care if it destroyed the other colors, preferably more than one. Slytherin needed to win. She refused to lose. The asteroid collided with a red planet in a shower of glitter and confetti, and she just stuck her hand out. Not her wand hand, but her free hand, waiting for another planet so she could destroy more.