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Flirting with the Quaffle; closed
Topic Started: Oct 23 2011, 09:41 AM (1,903 Views)
Briar Rowan-Cullen
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Briar was thinking when he said a full moon was necessary. she hadn't even had one proper transformation yet and she was already finding things that she wouldn't be able to do, and having to lie. she hoped that she would get used to it. she wondered how she would be feeling in a couple of days time. maybe if she wasn't too bad they could try in the day. but she had read (yes she had volunteered to read something) that she would probably be feeling really ill. she was thankful that on the said afternoon she didn't have class in the afternoon so that she could spend some time alone feeling ill without having classes forced upon her.
she listened to the process, it sounded easy enough, but it seemed like like old magic to her. the sort of magic that people practiced hundreds of years ago, before the more modern spells were invented. before witches and wizards went into hiding. she actually surprised herself with these thoughts as she hadn't thought she had taken anything in from history of magic, apparently she had. "that sounds good. maybe some other time. though" she said changing the topic back from dates which was starting to make her feel uncomfortable to the process. "thats Is a nice quartz, so what other colours are there?" she asked, if blue was water, there would probably be red or orange for fire, and green or brown for earth, but air she wasn't sure about. was it white?
she watched him do barrel rolls. he seemed good enough at them. she found them really useful, great for dodging, good for confusing opponents, but not so good for knowing where you are after a lot of them. "Careful, or you may get dizzy, and i don't want you falling off." she said flying a little lower just in case.
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Minoas listened to Briar's advice of not overdoing it with the barrel rolls. He stopped abruptly, everything was turning around but he kept flying without losing the control of his broom. "There is blue for water, red for fire, yellow for earth, green for air and purple for quintessence or spirit." he recounted all five basic elements. "Of course there is light and darkness but that's chosen during your lifetime by yur actions. You have all the elements in you. Some of them are just stronger in you. I would say that for me water, air and quintessence are the most vibrant. Of course I hope that my morality will make the light element in me stronger than darkness." he said as he started flying fast then stopping abruptly, resuming again and again that task. "Just by knowing you, I can say that air is a strong element in you. People that haven't embraced the element of air are never fond of flying anyway. Or people who haven't embraced water element are usually having nausea on a vessel or hate water." he explained the balance and the effects that the elements are having on an individual.

As he started flying normally again, he had a nice idea for their practice. "I have an idea. What about doing the beater for a while, sending towards me bludgers. That would help my skill of avoidance. You'll be casting them towards me and I'll be avoiding them while I'm holding the quaffle." he made a suggestion that was sounding pretty amusing.
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Briar was glad that he had stopped. his turning was making her feel dizzy. and a little light headed. she was usually there rolling with the best of them, flying as fast and reckless as she could. today though she didn't want to, she wasn't feeling particularly well. "so you can work out the main element of someone from watching them" she said part in question and part in statement. "I will probably be air or fire, and maybe earth but i am not that stable, and maybe spirit but i don't know quite what that is." she said swooping around him. tutting him off, something that chasers had to get used to, the opposing teams always had a tendency to get in the way when they weren't wanted."so what does Quintessence do?" she asked, she could work out the others.
she heard Minoas' suggestion she had actually thought about that earlier. she flew to the ground and stumbled slightly as she landed. her ankle was stiff, and she was feeling a little nauseous, but she ran over to the store cupboard, pausing briefly to take a few mouthfuls of water. she took out a beaters bat and a few of the black balls. "Are you ready" she called ready to let them go.
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"True but it's not always that easy. I wouldn't know if mine was water or air cause I'm feeling quite close to both of them." he said as the clearest way to find out was the initiation that he had described her. He was waiting for her next question. He had asked it as well when he was younger before his initiation. The specific element sounded really different and at the same time mysterious. Water, fire, air and earth were more understandable than quintessence."There is actually a huge debate between elemental magis about that particular one. My grandfather has told me that some believe that quintessence is the element of aether. Aeather is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. It's an area of debate between wizards and witches in my country whether this material exists or not. Quintessence is more accepted as the energy element.
Wizards and witches under that element are natural talents in charms and spells based on electricity. They can cause thunderstorms, lightnings and are also exceptional in healing arts. My mother and most healers are of the quintessence element."
he explained broadly about that peculiar element as his grandfather did as well when he had asked.

Glad that Briar found his suggestion a good one, he watched her from his broom goind down to the store cupboard. He could swear that he had seen her stumbling in the process but he thought that it was just his idea. Soon he saw two bludgers, shotting into the air and Briar returning on her broom, holding a beater's bat.
"Yeah, I'm ready...although you look kinda of intimidating with that bat there." he joked as he body lowered closer to the broom
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"so the quartz only confirms it, you can guess fairly accurate otherwise" she stated smiling. she would be happy with a guess she decided. as she wasn't planning to dedicate her entire life to elemental magic, it would be more fun to her anyway. "so quintessence is energy, both electric and foe healing. and if it exists it makes up the rest of the universe in a matter called aeather" she repeated. summarising what he had told her.
she set the bluddgers off and was ready to have a little fun. "I am not the one you have to worry about at least at the moment. its the bludgders that are the pain. one of them broke my shoulder last year" she said. it had been a rogue bluddger, enchanted to come after her. "okay so just try and dodge the bluddgers and score a goal, i will be taking both beater and keeper" she shouted hitting one of the black balls towards him, she could have been a beater if she had wanted to. she could hit the balls well and hard and often when she was angry or upset she would head down to the pitch and let as many of them go as she could find and spend half an hour hitting them like crazy, it was surprisingly calming, and a good way to vent.
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Minoas kept nodding to each single word she was saying. She had tottally got everything he had told her about the elements. "Yeah, you can pretty feel which elements are dominant in you. I for example love the sea and swimming so it's water. Obviously, I'm not afraid of hights and I like flying so it's air as well." he said pointing out the broom he was riding and the height between his hovering body and the ground. "And I'm quite interested in healing arts so maybe the next one would be quintessence. Earth and fire must be my bottom two. Usually you have one dominant, two more that are following and the last two." he added briefly. "So from just knowing you a bit, I would guess that you are fire, with next two being air and earth or maybe quintessence." he suggested, just guessing from Briar's personality and her likes.

His bubbly mood vanished immidiately when Briar referred to her broken shoulder caused in the past by a bludger.
He tried to swallow the lump that formed in his neck and concentrated on the rushing bludgers, zooming towards him. It was a powerful hit from Briar's bat. The nasty bludger was approaching faster than he though, as he was flying holding the quaffle tightly in his embrace. He leaned to his right to avoid the bludger that passed a few inches next to his embracing arm. He heard its mischievous squeals as it was passing by and Minoas sped up ready to face the next bludger before his attempt to score.
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Briar smiled it seemed like she didn't need to do the ritual. she could just guess herself. full moons would be hard for her, to complete it anyway without trying to attack someone. "thats what i would have thought too". she said swooping around a little and passing him the ball for the last time.
she saw his expression change when she mentioned her shoulder. "I was basically asking for it i had set like 20 bluddgers loose so it would have been a surprise if i hadn't got hit a few times flying that much." she said, sort of twisting the truth slightly. she had done that but that wasn't when she had broken her shoulder, but it may have aided to it. She watched the bluddger she had hit fly towards Minoas fast. she hadn't meant to hit it that hard, or accurately to begin with, thankfully with her breath caught in her throat she saw him dodge it, "sorry i didn't meant to hit it that hard" she called. she was a good build for a beater. strong across the shoulders and arms (and pretty much anywhere else), but as much as she enjoyed hitting the bludgers, she preferred the chase, it had an urgent feel to it, almost like hunting. "good dodge" she shouted flying around chasing after one of the bluddgers. she found one and hit it at Minoas again aiming this time, just in front of him so that it would be passing his line of flight just when he reached the intersection.
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Leaving behind him the first bludger he heard Briar apologising for her hard hit. "No apologies. This is a real game situation. Slytherin beaters wont send the bludgers to stroke me." he said as he continued flying towards the goal posts. He felt relieved when Briar made clear that the accident with the bludgers occured outside an actual game but during her free time practices. "Twenty bludgers?! Now that sounds like someone was realy angry and wanted burst out her nerves." he said just before Briar praised him for his dodge.

He saw her flying away from his goal posts, after the second bludger. Minoas sped up, it was an opportunity to score now that the golden hoops were left unguarded. But as he was approaching he listened again to the distinctive sound of a bludger. He didn't stop to find out if it was sent by Briar or it was the previous that it was after him and as soon as he was growing closer to the goal posts and the bludger was lineraly on him, he made short dive to avoid. As the bludger flew above him, ripping through the wind, he regained his last altitude.
Positioned straight in fron of the goal posts, without decreasing his speed, he attempted to score on the hoop that was farthest away from Briar.
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briar nodded this simple motion caused her head the throb momentarily but she didn't react to it. she was to busy watching the balls. no opposite teams are known to be pretty ruthless with the bluddgers but they "you are right of corse. especially the slytherin team. i get the impression that they don't like us too much" she said swerving around to get at the ball. she flew alongside minoas towards the goals, he was almost there, she was slightly distracts from his movements for a moment by a bluddger which was just flying past one of the goals. she deviated towards it. unfortunately in the amount of time it took her to hit it in the right direction was enough time for minoas to enter the shooting range at the other end of the goals. she sped towards it her arms outstretched. however she was too late, she felt it briefly brush her hinger tips before sailing through the hoop. "well done, a clear goal for you, would would certainly make a good chaser and would work well on the claws team" she said flying over for a heigh five. i will tell you one thing if you thing 20 bluddgers is hard, try taking on 20 of them without a bat for protection. now that is a workout" she said smiling at the end.
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Minoas launched his arms into the air to celebrate his second goal with a wide smile radiating on his face. "Thanks but in a real game the keeper won't be launching bludgers as well. He will be more focused on the task of guarding." he said as he was accepting a high-five from Briar. Still he was pretty proud for that goal and satisfied with his progress. It was then that his fatal flaw was triggered. When Minoas was getting confident from compliments and he was achieving a goal, he wanted to push his limits a little bit more.

He didn't know if Briar referred to the challenge of facing twenty bludgers without a bat, as a joke but his liked it now that he was feeling overconfident. "Let's try it..." he said with a daredevils smirk that was seeking for some kind of adrenaline rush.
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briar watched him celebrate his goal. he was doing well but it was just him against her, he was doing one job and she was doing two. "how about another go" she said flicking her wand and another couple of bluddgers made their way into the air. "this time to make it fairer you must score in the centre hoop." she said flying to the other side of the pitch bat in hand ready to go.
at minoas' suggestion though she stopped. dead in her tracks almost being hit by a bluddger but dodging at the last moment. she slowly turned around. "no way. I don't want to get in trouble for making you do any more reckless things. and besides I was only joking about the bat and it only works when you are feeding of anger or stress. and today i don't feel either of them, just slightly tired." she said possibly a little sharply before, hitting the bluddger that had come towards her and the one that was following it towards Minoas and continuing to the other end of the pitch. maybe after this run for goals they should have a break or call it a day. her head was now starting to hurt, she may have to head to the hospital wing early for her potion and see if this was normal and see if she could get anything for it.
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The gryffindor reminded the last time he was in trouble and the consequences of his acts. His friend was right. That was out of the question. Tha last thing that Minoas wanted was to pass the rest of his first week in Hogwarts at the hospital wing with several broken bones. "Sorry, you are right. I was exaggerating a bit." he admitted as he was taking his position at the center of the pitch. Briar was heading at the same time at her goal posts, launching two more bludgers.

Minoas knew that scoring now was going to be proved a much more difficult task. Briar was going to guard the goal posts like an eagle its nest. He had to come up with something clever to have a good shot for a second scoring in a row. As he was watching the bludgers zooming towards his from the goal posts, he came up with a smart idea. He waited long enough, holding the quaffle, until the bludgers were pretty close. Moments before they were going to crush on him, he flew higher, letting the noisy balls to pass underneath him. Then he lowered back to his position and looked over his shoulder for the bludgers. After they were avoided, they kept their course up to a certain point. When they 'realised' that they were fooled by their target, they starting zooming back to him.

Minoas with a smirk, starting flying on, at the beggining slowly, letting the raging bludgers to catch up with him. As soon as they were just inches away from his broom's end, he sped up. As he was expecting the bludgers sped up as well, following his course. As he was accelerating more and more, he was casting several looks behind him, making sure that the bludgers were still after him and at the same time he was checking out the distance between him and the goal posts. When he was just a few meters away, enough for his plan to bloom, he pulled abruptly the handle of his broom upwards and shot himself to the sky. His was swift enough for the bludgers to follow him. As he was flying in a vertical circle to come back to his previous level, he saw that the bludgers were heading straight towards the goal posts and the keeper. He smirked and he sped up to follow the bludgers and attempt to score. Now that Briar was going to be busy avoiding those bludgers, he was going to have a pretty decent shot. He built up some more speed and threw the quaffle straight to the middle, taller hoop.
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was glad that he wasn't going to argue with her about the bluddgers. she didn't feel up for a fight, the last time she had played dodge had been the previous week when she had fallen out with her best friend. she now regretted her decision to leave the Margeras for the holiday but there was nothing much she could do about it. "thats alright. I shouldn't have brought it up" she said. when she reached the other goal she saw Minoas leading two of the bluddgers towards her however he wasn't paying attention to the other two. she took the bat and hit one that was near to her at Minoas hopeing to distract him.
she was surprised hat how well his trick had gone, it wouldn't work in a game of corse there were too many people but it was a clever plan. she watched as he rose into the air and let the black balls continue towards her. she was ready and hit one one way forehand, and the other in the opposite direction with a backhand hit. she then saw the quaffle heading towards the goal she had left unattended. and flew up just in time for it to hit her hard in the chest and for her to wrap her arm around it as she caught it. "smart plan, but i doubt that it will work in a game." she said a little winded. "how about another quick break" she said flicking her wand and watching the bludgers fly back to the box they had come from.
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With a quick manuveur he turned to face the goal posts again and see if he had managed to score. He hit his palm with a punch as he saw Briar blocking his shot. "Nice catch!" he shouted as his attention turned on the two bludgers coming towards him. He started flying straight on them, he was still thirsty for something dangerous. He stooped to let the first one fly above his head and avoided the second one with a barrel roll, facing the sky as he was hanging from the broomstick, watching the last bludger shooting like a dark arrow. As he took back his proper position on his broom, Briar with a flick of her wand, commanded the bludgers to return back in their box.

He nodded for the break as he was getting thirsty again. He was feeling the working out on his body, especially on his arms. He was pretty sure that it would be pretty painful the next morning. He landed down on the grass and used some water to quench his thirst. "You learnt all this on your own?" he asked his friend before gulping several sips of cold water.
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Briar saw Minoas dodge the bluddgers pretty effectively before she sent them back to the ground she leant forwards and landed half way across the pitch form where her bag lay. she walked across feeling her ankle starting to ache but ignoring it, she knew that that would happen as the moon approached. she sat down and sighed. before taking her water bottle and gulping some of its contents down. she nodded at his question. "some of it, i made up, some of it i learned during training and some of it i read in quidditch through the ages, as much as i hate reading that is an interesting book, well the bit about quidditch today, and the fouls and techniques. wherever i learned the skills from, i have spent a lot of time practising. most of the holidays except the ones last year, was on either the pitch or running." she said before reaching into her bag and pulling out a couple of plums. "do you want one?" she asked taking a large bite out of one of them.
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