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Y13 Gryffindor Qudditch Try-outs!; Second years and up, pleases.
Topic Started: Jun 23 2011, 01:44 AM (1,401 Views)
Damian Metzger
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[justify]Hearing some more voices, Damian turned his eyes to see their former keeper return and he beamed. Damian was awfully glad to see her. "Okay, then, you take the hoops, Georgiana. Glad that you are back." Damian's teal eyes then wondered over to watch the rest of the team try out. If anyone wanted a spot on the team, they had better get their rears here soon. Damian thought that they needed a few more players. And then his eyes caught the actions of LeAnn, and he rolled his eyes a bit. They might be distant cousins, but hell, she was meaner than a striped snake, like his sister. However he was going by skill, not by personal grudge.[/justify]
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[justify]Rakas grabbed his broom, mounted it and he listened to what the Captain said. He smirked a bit, before he raced off to do those two laps around the pitch this time rather than last year, with one arm. It was rather easy for the young Gryffindor because he was good at flying. Rakas made sure he was a good twenty feet in the air. Leaning forward on his broomstick, he raced forward to get the tryouts done and over with. Rakas finished one lap, so the other he wanted to go just a little faster. He leaned forward once more, and he gained some speed. He seemed to be doing a lot better than the previous year because he had been without his bat. He had it this time, and Rakas felt like someone had a weight lifted from his shoulders. Rakas finished his lap, and he continued to hold his bat. He clinched it with his right hand, and he took to the skies again. He wished the other one going for beater some luck, as well as some others that were trying out because Rakas was a friendly boy.

Rakas caught the sight of one bludger, and he swooped in, in an odd angle, and almost flipped over the side of the broom to whack it as hard as he could away from the chaser. Rakas swung back around, rightside up and he continued to fly around the pitch. His right arm started to ache from that first hit, but that was a sign for him. A sign that he needed to work harder and get this thing done! Rakas soared around the pitch once more, hitting another few bludgers including keeping the youngest ones from getting hit. He flew over, and saw another one. His emerald green eyes narrowed and he leaned forward. Rakas was a fifth year now and this one seemed to be going after a chaser trying out. He had hit this one, and this time the bludger went straight into the ground. Rakas was going to grab another bludger but then he saw someone fall down on the ground. Rakas smiled lightly, and he soared down to land, before he inquired from the girl that was trying out that fell onto the ground, "Hey, you all right?" Rakas had the beater's bat over his shoulder before he made sure that his broom was not going anywhere.
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Georgiana Night
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Georgiana beamed back at the team's Captain, she was happy to hear that he was glad to have her back for another year, it meant alot for the young girl. She had tried her hardest to learn the spot last year and managed to do quite a good job in her opinion and prehaps the Score boards as well, and after practicing for the summer she figured she was even better. "Right-O Captian Cheerio," she said her American humor coming out before she took off towards the hoops. Georgiana explained the Captain's orders to the Chasers that were up in the sky, they no longer had to take turns at the Hoops. But with four chasers up there it wasn't a fair number against her but she was sure she could take them on and urge them all to keep practicing passing and going for the hoops. Stopping most of the throws at her three hoops a few slipped her reach by a few inches those from the more experienced players who'd been on her team all last year. It fun to be practicing on the Pitch once more and she even spotted the Snitch hovering around the hoops every once in awhile. She wasn't sure who was suppose to be looking for it but whoever was wouldn't beat the Captain for the spot on the team, she knew that much about the sport, it made her hope one day she could earn the title and have her spot granted to her each year she was.
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When Briar that saw one of the girls had crashed into the goal she stopped worrying about the try outs and made sure that she wasn't hurt. "Are you okay Heidi?" she said remembering the girls name from when she had introduced herself earlier. when she was certain that the girl was not injured she got back onto her broom. she took off again
she shot into the air before slowly arching around to face the goals again. she caught the quaffle, and then zigzagged forward. this time she was keeping the quaffle for herself. she dodged a couple of players, she wasn't sure who they were or even which position they were going for, they were just a blur. she ducked under someone, and rose up again by time she had reached the goals. the scarlet ball was tucked under her left arm, she swerved slightly to the right to give the impression of going to the right hoop, however at the last moment she flicked he ball sideways, backhand almost towards the left goal. it was a powerful shot, and accurate. she had been practicing a lot of different moves over the summer, and this was one of her favourites.
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Riley nodded her head when Damian asked her to take the hoops. She had seen the previous Keepers, so she had some understanding of how to protect the hoops, but she was definitely nervous because it wasn't something she was particularly good at. Riley hopped on her Streak and flew around the field a couple of times, a smile growing on her face, happy to be in the air again. Riley laughed gleefully as a younger girl flew past her speedily, making it a race. She grinned at Nevaeh before leaning forward and speeding on her broom, racing the girl around the field.
After getting the feel of flying back, Riley shot off to the hoops, watching the girls pass the quaffle carefully. She cocked an eyebrow in confusion as she saw the same younger girl that made it a race playing with the ball. She huffed slightly, wishing that she had given Nevaeh a chance to show her skills too. However, before Riley even got a chance to get her thoughts back into keeper-mode, the girl had thrown the ball through the hoops. Riley huffed in frustration, she hadn't even been able to stop the ball! Keeper was definitely out of the picture for her. Riley nodded her head, letting the girl take over the hoops, before she saw another younger girl fall to the ground. Riley immediately flew to the girl, who stood up saying she was alright. A sigh of relief came out of Riley's mouth before she flew back up, catching the Quaffle that Nevaeh threw at her. Riley threw the ball around a couple of times, throwing to the hoops as well, before throwing it over to her Prefect-partner Briar. She watched as Briar sped around the field, a smile on her face, happy to be playing quidditch again.
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[justify]As Danielle saw a girl, spin out and fall Danielle flew over. She smiled as she said she was okay. She flew back up, to her spot. As the girl, who introduced herself, as Georgina, had told them the instructions, she smiled and said, "I guess we are ready, lets start it!" She threw the Quaffle towards the hoop. A lot of the time was back and forth between the the four chasers, and one keeper, but as Danielle hovered over someone, the quaffle came rushing at her, she caught it, but spun out of control, and dropped the quaffle, and was hanging on her brooom by one hand. "No one help me. I can get out of this." Danielle said, in a serious tone. She wanted to help herself. She pulled up her other arm. Grabbed the broom. Now she was hanging by two arms. She tried to pull herself up. Slipped. She tried again, and surely enough, she was safely back on her broom. "Phew." Now she quickly went for the Quaffle she dropped. She got it and flew back up, and she went in a zig-zagged fashion. Laughing she dropped the Quaffle, This time on purpose, she went for it, pretending she did on purpose, she got it but as soon as she got it, she threw it under the keeper, and into the hoop. "Yay!" She smiled.[/justify]
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Georgiana Night
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The four chasers flew back and forth in front of her tossing around the Quaffle working on passing for the most part as she flew side to side slightly keeping her eyes on as many of them at a time as she could to watch their different plays, it was nice to be playing with real players once again. Trees never quite compared to actual players that moved.

Georgiana watched the youngest chaser as she hung from her broom and saved herself from falling. As the girl got back up and retrived the ball she kept her eyes on her and her periferial vision on the others who didn't seem to be apart of any of the girls plans. She wanted to make a shot with involving the rest of the team. Georgie shook her head as the girl dropped the ball again then started a zigzag back up. The young girl throw the ball to one of the outer hoops but didn't manage to watch fully thinking she had gotten it in but Georgiana turned around with the Quaffle in hand and tossed it over towards Riley for her to catch with a smile on her face. The fakeout failure played out better then she thought it would, it was one she practiced with her brother over the summer making him think he had made it in when she actually caught it instead.
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"Yes I'm fine, I'm fine the drop was just few feet in the air." she told her teammate who happen to crowd the young lioness after that frightful fall. "I'm not good at playing but I figure I give a try captain since I seen a few tournaments of my own up close" she told nobody in particular. She went by a tree and sat down through the rest of try-outs. She gave it her best shot, there's nothing more she could do except practice here on out.

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[justify]     Aphrodite Snow dashed through the empty corridors at lightening speed, her long honey blonde hair tied into a ponytail flowed graciously behind her. Today was the tryouts for the Gryffindor Quidditch team and Aphrodite was aware that she was probably late for the tryouts. But she had run into some serious issues in the hallway earlier involving her older brother and some of his obnoxious friends. They caught up a ton of her time and she hoped that the Captain would still allow her to try out when she arrived at the Pitch. Aphrodite had a lot of talent when it came to flying and she wanted so badly to be on the team and support her house. Flying a broomstick was something Aphrodite tried to learn at an early age because she wanted to better than her brother Romaine. And as the fate's would have it, Aphrodite felt that she was much better than her brother ever was and ever would be. Now she wanted to put her talent to use and have a little fun while doing this. Krystin suggested the girls get involved with activities and stuff last year but Quidditch wasn't allowed. She even begged Damian to let her try out because she knew she had what it takes to come out on top. But she was told no. This could be another possibility for her outcome this year as well because she knew that Damian didn't like her too much. Thanks to that time he got her into trouble for flying through the corridors. Finally she was out of the castle and onto the pitch! She could see various students clad in red already on their brooms and flying around. This made a flurry of butterflies flutter around inside her stomach. She really hoped she was able to try out. The young Gryffindor knew she could do well if she was given the chance. Hopefully Damian's dislike for her wouldn't count against her or anything. She approached Damian with her brand new broom in her hands and bit her lip. "Sorry I'm late. Had a little bit of a problem getting down here and stuff. I'd like to try out for Chaser, though." Aphrodite told Damian curtly. Her dark blue eyes briefly meeting with his before she received an okay to go ahead and get started with her tryout. Because she had been late she knew she would have to step things up just a little and pull out every little trick she possibly could. Girl or not, she knew how to play and she knew how to fly. She would prove that much to Damian.

     Tightening the grip on the large red bow within her hair for spirit affect, Aphrodite mounted her broom and didn't waste a second in kicking off the ground and skyrocketing into the sky. Like a fiery dragon chasing after it's prey. Once she was a fair distance up in the sky Aphrodite settled to a stop and lifted one of her hands off the broom, she used it to give a thumbs up for someone to throw a Quaffle up into the air. Once it was released for her she shot out and immediately her smaller hand latched onto it like a pile of feather's did to glue and tucked it under her arm so she could fly with it. She leaned forward with her broom and shot off towards the hoops. Her eyes were dead set on getting the Quaffle through the middle one this time. The young cub narrowly avoided the bludgers and other players but still was able to get near the hoops. The objects around the pitch were her weak point. She had a tendency to crash. Aphrodite shifted the Quaffle into her hand and threw it viciously towards the center hoop. It flew in with great ease and Aphrodite smiled before she pumped her fist into the air once. This was only allowing Damian to see that she was pretty good at shooting without messing around, which was probably the most original way to do it. Just plain ol scoring. As the Keeper started to get ready again Aphrodite once again found herself gaining the Quaffle and flying around with it. Once or twice she found herself nearly dropping the Quaffle or running into bludgers, but she hoped it was nothing too serious. The next thing she tried involved her flying at the hoops and pretending she was going to throw it in one hoop, but really was aiming for another. The first time it failed, much to her dismay but Aphrodite wasn't going to get discouraged and was eager to try it again. The Keeper was talented so she knew she needed to keep her eye out. This time as she flew at the Hoop her fingers gripped so tightly at the Quaffle that she swore she was going to give herself marks. Finally she reached the hoops and pretended to throw it in the Hoop again and when the Keeper tried to block it she threw it right in the center, scoring once again. 'I'm surprised I haven't been knocked off my broom yet or anything.' Aphrodite thought with a simple roll of her eyes. Her hands gripped the edge of the broom and she flew off at intense speed to try and get the Quaffle back. Aphrodite ended up getting it once but when she dropped it she knew it would be a bit before she had the chance to get it once again. Gosh dropping the dang Quaffle was so embarrassing!

     Aphrodite flew around the pitch a couple of times to show off that she knew how to fly without falling and hurting herself, for now. But the second time she rounded the pitch she noticed the Quaffle and flew towards it. Once again her small fingers grasped a hold of it. Aphrodite smiled and tossed it up and over another player but made sure to speed up so she could fly over and grab it once again. That was the only trick she knew and it wasn't very cool. But she was still young and planned to work on her skills more and more. Aphrodite shot a few more goals, she missed some and she managed to score some too. She wasn't a titan when it came to Quidditch, but she knew she wasn't bad. But the young Gryffindor was worried that she may not make it at all. There was a lot of good people trying out today. And Aphrodite knew that she wasn't well liked. So she would just have to hope that she had done well enough. Without another thought Aphrodite finished her tryout and landed on the ground elegantly. "And you said I didn't know how to fly." Aphrodite winked at Damian before she started to comb through her wind tossed blonde hair. That was fun, she just hoped it would be good enough. If not there was always next year. [/justify]

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Looking up, she noticed, and it turns out that the keeper had caught it! "That was really good! Nice job!" She smiled towards the girl. She had to hand it to the girl, that was pretty good, as that move was one of Danielle's good moves. She thought, that was good - a good keeper, helps make an awesome team! As the other players went, she decided, she wanted to go again, so when she got the Quaffle, she did a quick, throw around, throwing it back and forth, in her hands getting ready for her move. She spiraled up, and threw the Quaffle around her. As it made its 5th lap around her, and threw it right towards the hoop. If a fakeout didn't work, maybe distracting will. She though.
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Damian MetzgerSeeker and Captain
Georgiana NightKeeper
Heidi LongbottomBeater
Rakas VariusBeater
Riley SparklesChaser
Aphrodite SnowChaser
Briar RowanChaser
Danielle WarbeckAlternate Chaser
Nevaeh HazeAlternate Chaser
LeAnn AdamsAlternate Beater
James SlickAlternate Seeker
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Briar landed and waited for the captains decision. she was happy that she had made it on the team again. she wanted to play quidditch professionally, and being on the school team would hopefully help "thank you damian." she said jumping up and down, she had a lot of energy now that the try outs were over. and did a couple of cartwheels. exited to be on the team again.
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Half expecting to be sorted an the alternative line up, a shock ran through the veins of Heidi as she heard the new line up for this year. She made it, for the love of all good she made the team this year. After a year in France and such, Heidi concluded that did her good by making the team. Picking up her broom, she congratulated everyone who made the cut and alternative spots too. "Thanks Damian, I'll try staying on my broom more often" she said to the captain and the rest of the lots that were still there.

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Georgiana was relieved when the try-outs were complete, though she didn't have any competition this year it was interesting to see all the others competing against each other but still managing to work with each other. She was happy that the girl Heidi got on the team despite her fall, afterall Georgiana hadn't even known what the compete rules of the game were when she tried out so she knew how it felt not to do so well. Though it was very similar to the version of Quidditch that the Native Americans played on the reservation back home. "Thanks Damian, I'm excited for another year," she said with her bright smile on her face.
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