Da Taa

[.magnarock.]

[Saturday]
[November 1st]
[Gryfindor vs Slytherin match]

[.magnarock.]

[just because i'm lazy, slightly ill, and cant be bothered to write any other introductions]

"Right team, we know we can do this!" the gryffindor team were standing in a circle around Harry, as he gave his traditional pep talk. Kyli felt a feeling not disimilar to butterflies in her stomach. Harry carried on, "We're going to hve to work hard to beat Slytherin, but we've easily got the best team- we can beat this lot"
"We'd better" scowled Molly, "I can't stand losing to those jerks"
"Exactly!" said Harry, enthusiatically, "Let's just go out there and play like Wimbourne Wasps!"
"They suck!" hissed Kyli.
"What are you on about?! they'e awesome!" cried Mattie.
"They're terrible!" Dan cut in,
"They're not!"
"THEY ARE!"
"Magpies all the way!!!!"
"THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PEP TALK! NOT A FREAKING DEBATE!!" roared Harry. The others shut up, and the butterflies returned.
"Magpies suck". But before Kyli could correct Mattie, a loud whistle was heard.
"Right guys- this is it!" said Harry, and they made their way out onto the pitch.


Narik walked into the Slytherin changing rooms. "Right guys." he said cheerfully. "We've got a brilliant team this year. We're going to get the good head start that we missed last year, and kick Gryffindor's puny arses!"
Everyone cheered loudly smiling. [cept jaxio, who was smirking] Robyn grabbed her broom and muttered a few words. It shuddered slightly, then relaxed in her grip. She nodded, satisfied, then smiled again. She was going to be playing Quidditch again! Brilliant.

The whistle blew. "Okay everyone, grab your brooms, and lets go out and win!" They all stood up and walked to the door. Narik went over to Robyn. "It can be quite nerve racking going out there your first time." he said. Robyn nodded. "But just play like you do in practice and we're sure to win." She nodded. "Oh, but make sure you give us chasers a chance to score first!"
The door opened magically and the team walked across to the centre of the pitch. "Captains, shake hands!" ordered Madam Pinch. Narik walked up to Harry. They shook, but as usual, were trying to crush the others hand.
"Everybody mount your brooms!" Pinch shouted. The Slytherin team mounted, flying up in a blur of green, (Robyn being the fastest) were quickly followed by the Gryffindor's. Kay flew as fast as she could to the goal posts, and the game commenced.

[mely]

Kyli's heart leapt as she felt the wind soar past her ears. For a moment she heard the roar of the crowd below, but the next minute it had slipped from her consciousness, her sole focus being on the game. Good start, Gryffindor were in possesion. She soared through the air to draw parralel with Dan, calling across the wind for the quaffle. He threw it, and she caught it neatly in one hand, the other being used to steady her broom against the buffeting wind. Then a burst of speed and pass to Harry... her heart sank as she realied, all to late, that she'd over-shot the pass. Harry lunged for it, but it was too late. A flash of green and Slytherin was in possesion.

Jaxio sped forward, truimphant with his interception. His robes billowed out behind him as he sped towards the hoops, desperate to score the first goal of the season.

Kyli's face darkened as she recognised the interceptor. Her broom spun round at her command, and she was hurling forward in pursuit.

The chase was on.

[mely]

Mattie circled, scowling round the pitch. Every flash of gold set his heart beating slightly faster at every glint of gold, and his breath releasing with at the discovery that it was jsut another false alarm. That slytherin seeker was seriously distracting, flitting back and forth. He wished she's just, well, flitt off.

[mely]

Jaxio sped towards the goals. He smirked at the thought of Kyli streaming after him, unable to catch up.... and then out of the corner of his eyes he noticed her drawing level. sh[zz]. He attempted to put on another burst of speed, but it wasn't enough, and next thing he knew Kyli had swerved round in front of him, forcing him to make a sudden, unnatural halt.

She was grinning wildly, marking his every moment, ready to dodge after the quaffle for the intercept. I'm not letting you out Jax

Jaxio sneered at her, but mentally paused to try and work out the best way to offload.

you've never beaten me before and you know it
first time for everything

The mental conversation was so fast it took place in a second or less. Long enough for Jaxio to decide. With a swift movement, he hurled the quaffle with his left arm. Quick, surprising. But neither quick nor surprising enough. Kyli was after it like a shot, and caught it with an ease that made Jaxio blush slightly with the humiliation.

Kyli looked around for someone to pass to, desperate to get away from the hoops. She caught sight of Harry and raised an arm to throw it to him, but in that instant she noticed with horror the bludger speeding towards her. Instinctively, she yanked her broom downwards, and a collision was avoided. But the speed had dislodged the quaffle in her hand, and next thing she knew Zada had caught it, was speeding towards the hoops, had fired... had scored!!!

There was a roar from the crowd, but Kyli didn't noticed, too busy was she trying to will a bolt of lightening to strike Jaxio dead. Right about now.

[cenizobelle]

“10-0 to Slytherin!” There was a roar of cheering from the green and silver end. Robyn did several tight loops to celebrate, then went back to searching for the little golden ball.

Zada cheered happily then started chasing Kyli (along with the rest of the Slytherin chasers) who had the ball and was heading towards Kay. [the keeper ^^]

Sawyer hit a Bludger badly, and Kyli dodged it easily, but Morfin’s was gaining on her slowly.

[final score g-90 s-370, snitch-s, NV, length-long]

[cenizobelle]

Zada had now scored five times. Kyli had also scored; but only once. It was nothing to do with her. It was just Kay was good. Narik was yet to score, but Jaxio had equalled Kyli’s count of scoring once. Dan, having just scored, made the overall score 60-20 to Slytherin.

Morfin hit another Bludger at Kyli, who’d just gained possession of the ball from Zada, who was chasing her angrily. Robyn saw a glint of gold and chased after it, but it disappeared behind Jaxio when he moved in front of her. She cursed at him, and continued.

Half an hour of furious play had gone since Robyn had last seen the snitch, and she was starting to get worried. She muttered something and relaxed. It was still here somewhere, she just couldn’t see it. Okay. Start looking everywhere. She flew faster over the crowd searching in every single place. She heard a cheer as Narik scored, then Zada intercepted the ball and scored again.

Ten minutes later, there were much louder cheers as Harry finally scored. The score was now 80-30. Eight tries at scoring was enough to find the snitch wasn’t it? Robyn still couldn’t believe she was taking into account what Narik had said. He was over ten years younger than she was, and she had to follow his orders! This was stupid. She flitted [C:] nervously across the pitch and her heart leapt as she saw Mattie zooming in on the Snitch. She gave chase as quick as was possible, but she was never going to get there; time for a quick bit of ‘envious’ cheating. She concentrated for a second, just trying to remember what to do. Her mind clicked and her eyes flew open. She sped towards Mattie and made sure not to move her arms. Move your arms and be suspected of cheating.
‘Use the Body defence.’
‘No, I have to mover my hands for that you idiot.’
‘Mind defence it is then.’

She focused her mind on the space between Mattie and the Snitch. She’d never done an invisible defence so far away before and was worried for a moment that it wouldn’t work, but then she saw Mattie slow down in the thick defence, she calmed. She also slowed down, not wanting to slow her broom down in the defence. She waited for Mattie to loose sight of the Snitch; she let the defence down gradually, so Mattie sped up steadily. She also sped up, making it look as if she hadn’t done anything.

Madam Pinch was looking around, obviously very confused. She blew her whistle and the game came to a hold. She called the players in and asked each of the players what happened. They all answered truthfully, except Robyn, who copied what Mattie had said, only from her own point of view. If it looked as though she’d been caught in the defence too, it would seem like she’d nothing to do with it. Robyn though she’d got away with it, but she saw Kyli and her brother give her some suspicious looks. She looked up at the teachers’ box and was happy to see Thornton in a conversation with Saul. They seemed completely oblivious to the match.

[that bit is probably very confusing, talk to me if u don’t understand]

Pinch, finally gave up, and let the game continue. Both teams scored at least 50 points in the next twenty minutes. [score=150-80]

Another successful ten minutes and Slytherin were pulling even more ahead. They were now on 210 points and it was looking unlikely that Gryffindor would catch up now.

Robyn had spotted the snitch several times, but each case; something had happened that enabled her to loose sight of it. She knew that Mattie had seen the Snitch at least once since, she’d cheated, but he’d hesitated and had ended up missing his chance.

2 goals later and the score was 220-90. Robyn was very nervous now. Why couldn’t she reach the Snitch? And when she finally saw it again and chased it, she hardly expected to catch it. But when nothing got in the way, and she heard Mattie behind her, she knew what was going to happen. She put on an extra burst of speed, Mattie did too and unknown to them, the rest of their team had come to a standstill and were just watching. Mattie was pulling up beside her and Robyn turned her head and smirked at him. He gave her a confused look and turned to face the front and the Snitch again. Robyn barged into the side of him, throwing him off course, and putting her right behind the Snitch. Mattie tried to rescue Gryffindor’s chances of winning, but he couldn’t align his broom and chase the Snitch at the same time, and before he knew it, Robyn’s hand was clasped around the tiny fluttering ball, and her shouts of exhilaration filled the air. She did a lap of the pitch, a blur of green; then she landed stylishly in the midst of the Slytherin team, who were cheering happily. Jaxio was smirking again. [and i'll let you carry on from there mel. or if you want to change it, you can, but only the bit concerning what your characters think and do]

[mely]

Kyli was on the groud in seconds. She almost hurled her broom away in frustration, but controlled herself at the last minute. She was scowling, and when she caught sight of jaxio, the scowl instensified. She pushed her way through the group of dejected looking griffindors. Dan tried to put a hand on her shoulder but she muttered "we shouldn' have lost" angrily, and pulled away. It was their bloody keeper... and, their seeker? the mre she thought about it, the more she was sure that something wasn't quite right about that seeker.
"you've always been a bad loser Rach"
Kyli didn't turn round, "how would you know, you've never seen me lose"
"except now"
"this doesn't count. it's not like you did anything much anyway, you arrogant b[zz]d"
"tsch. tsch. temper temper"
"you know I could beat you any day"
"except today obviously"
"b[zz]ks. Your team beat us. Not you."
Kyli psuhed her way into the changing rooms, and the soud of Jaxio's voice disappeared. b[zz]d.

[cenizobelle]

[thread ended