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Y14 Gryffindor Quidditch Tryouts; 2nd Years and Up please
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Damian Metzger
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[justify]Needless to say, Damian was not too thrilled about having no one step up to the plate. He didn't expect the beaters to really do anything because if one did, they would be short a beater. Damian's inner thoughts went on in his mind, and the two obvious chasers in his mind that were going to remain were none other than Aphrodite Snow and Briar Rowan seeing as last year, they were the only ones that were even playing right. He would have been able to see the beaters in action, but Hufflepuff took that. Finally, when Simon stepped up, but she did not have any experience. However her idea, though it was smart, Damian didn't see it happening. He flashed a kind smile to the sixth year, "I can train you in that position. Quite easy actually. But alternating between, it would cause unneeded time outs, and it would be too big of a risk. We might really need one in a brutal game, if you know what I mean." He looked to the other team members before he said, "Okay, Varius and Longbottom, take to the skies with your bats and get to work. Easy enough for you two." Damian used his wand to release the bludgers, as the black spheres took off to the sky. He released the snitch for Slick, and said, "You just catch it all you can, Slick." Damian bent down and he picked up one of the quaffles and he tossed it to one of the chasers, "Stratis, Rowan, Snow and Haze, you should know the drill, just use the North hoops. Though sad to say, one of you will end up an alternate." And finally, he had the other one in his hand. He was not going to be able to practice today, but he would deal. Right now, he had to train Simon. Surely one on one training with a Prefect would not discourage her. Damian mounted his broom and he went up to the sky, expecting the sixth year to follow suit, toward the South hoops. This was going to be tricky. He would have to play a Chaser, and watch the other chasers to decide on which one would end up on the bench. But he would definitely take it easy on her (especially considering that Damian was definitely not cut out for the Chaser position).[/justify]
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Sidda watched as Damian snapped into captain mode and ordered everyone into their positions. Sure, he hadn't quite understood what she meant by "alternating" - she'd meant that they were a Chaser for one game, Keeper for the next - but that was okay. She was a given on the team now - and she'd get to play every game, unless she got injured. Grabbing her broom, she mounted and lifted off, chasing after Damian. As she flew to catch up, a thought crossed her mind. Keepers often had to reach for the ball and be able to guard a large area at once - and she wasn't exactly big. Okay, so she was tiny - five feet tall exactly, and scrawny to boot. The first-years were taller than her. 'Oh, well - it won't be the first time I have to prove that dynamite comes in small packages!' she thought. She met Damian at the South posts, going to hover by the hoops. No point wasting time - she'd have to train extra if she wanted to be a decent Keeper. "You're Chasing and I'm Keeping, right?" she called to Damian. Hopefully she wouldn't make a fool out of herself in trying this, but it couldn't be too hard - just like intercepting a pass as Chaser, right? Right?
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[justify]Hopefully this year, they would be able to play more than just one game. Damian prayed that they would come together as a team but they had not the previous year, which was why he was so upset. If it weren't for Ariah being sick, and their seeker flunking out for some reason, or whatever, they would have lost, and it would have been a blow-out. A boy could get angry, but that was last year. This was a whole new year, and he was really excited to have a good size team. He hoped that when a game comes, they all work together as a team this time around. Damian remained still on his broom, tossing the quaffle up and down. He nodded, and he just said, "Remember to keep your eyes on the quaffle. It's like being a Chaser, only you stick to one area, and catch a lot more. And you don't have other Chasers trying to steal the quaffle. Like the Keeper on the Ravenclaw team said, just keep your eye on the scarlet ball. And as a chaser yourself, you can probably predict their moves better than a regular keeper." Damian was hoping this would boost her confidence up. Damian scooted back on the broom, flying backward. He hoped that he wouldn't hit anyone in reverse. He threw the quaffle at a moderate strength, toward the middle goal. It was almost obvious where it was going.[/justify]
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Briar Rowan-Cullen
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Briar felt guilty when Sid stepped up for the job, a moment of selfishness n her part had let her friend play a position that she wasn't used to. deciding that she would talk to Sid about it later. she took a second red ball and smiled at the other chasers, "ready to fly. Good luck everyone" she said kicking off. she headed for the sky and headed to the north hoops. "okay so there is four of us, so two on two half pitch, you must take it to the half way line after a change of possession. Nevaeh, and Aphrodite do you want to go together, and I will go with Minoas." she said taking control. she hoped that next year she would be captain. she waited to see if the others would agree with her pairings and her training plan, she thought that they were fair pairings as the girls had played together before and she had played with Minoas a few times too and she hoped that she could help him show off some new moves. she looked to see how well Sid was doing. she seemed to be doing okay, and she was certain she would improve with practice. if she wanted to she would practice with her friend in the evenings sometimes if she wanted to.
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Heidi nodded, she grip her Sienna Storm mounting the broom she took for the skies directly right away. she was excited to be back in the ear, more excited than last year. she already felt like she could handle her balance better and the way she took off went along smoothly since she been off a broom for some time. She rolled her blue-green eyes to her partner in crimes of the pitch, he was still down below. No matter, she wield her bat right in front of her as her eyes went up searching for those heavy buldgers. Seeing one coming from the west side of the pitch, Heidi pulled her back bat, aim, and swung as hard as she could to send the bloody ball somewhere else. The ball smack against the surface of her bat, and went in the direction she favor. Wonderlust. She flew few inches up higher, wearing a grin to display satisfaction in her actions. Off to save a few butts, she swung her self a little and dove down to search for more hits with her bat.

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There was a moment of silence after the captain pointed out that there were far too many chasers and the team lacked a keeper. Minoas studied the expressions of the rest of the lions as he was having his own thoughts. He had never tried before guarding the goal posts. In fact he had been practising solely for a chaser, both alone and with Briar. When the girl bravely enough, spoke up, she made a good suggestion. Minoas wanted to speak up and accept that offer but he wasn't feeling pretty confident for that. Whe he was feeling that something was out of his league, he usually wouldn't try it. In addition, the last thing that the young gryffindor wanted was for his team to lose because of his inability to guard the hoops.

Minoas wished to everyone good luck and followed Briar who was in charge of the chasers. When she announced the pairs he felt more confidence boosted within him. "Ok let's do this!". He mounted his scarlet streak and hovered a few feet above the ground, waiting for further instructions.
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[justify]Even when the Captain consulted with the chasers over the Keeper position, Rakas took this time to eat a cauldron cake while wondering if this red hair was going to remain forever. Professor Hensel was not really clear on that from the potion exploding, but Rakas didn't care. It was awesome looking. Then Damian ordered everyone to their positions, while the beater was still eating! Rakas hurried before he finished the rest of it, and he mounted his Streak. With his bat in hand, Rakas soared to the skies with his broom. Poor boy could never remember when a girl or someone was speaking to him. He had a short attention span, and when he got to eating cauldron cakes, he had a one track mind. He leaned forward after spotting a bludger, and he brought his arm back, and took a giant smack at it. CRACK! It soared away from the pitch, and Rakas beamed. He looked around for the other beater before he found her. He flew in her direction before he waved to her. "Sorry it took a bit!" He was too embarrassed to really tell anyone, he was eating cake so he was late. But it seemed like his hyper activity was back in command. He went around the pitch, to protect others from beating pummeled by bludgers.[/justify]
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Georgiana was running late, not being quite herself today just getting over what the muggles called the flu. She was feeling alot better after resting but when she learned the tryouts for Gryffindor were today and not the next day she got herself up and ran out the door. "Damian, sorry for being a few minutes late. Georgiana Night here to go for my usual spot of keeper," she said as she flew up next to the captain. Georgie was a bit paler then normal but she knew a great player wouldn't let anything stop her from playing her game. Looking over at the person in the hoops she hoped the person wouldn't be serious competition for her, she had the spot since her second year when her then boyfriend Logan convinced her to try the game. That year she learned that it was harder then she thought but she was a pretty decent player and she loved the game.

Looking around she noticed alot of familar faces, not many have graduated out of the school yet and she was glad that the team was still mostly here. Georgie also hoped that she could maintain her spot on the team. She wavered in her spot in the air waiting for a reply from Damian knowing he was busy drilling the other players, who mostly seemed to be chasers.
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Sidda nodded as Damian explained the Keeper job. It didn't sound too hard. She could do this. She ducked as a Bludger soared over her head, then saw the ball flying towards the middle goal. Easy. She darted right, catching the ball, but then overshooting slightly. Turning back to the middle post, Sidda tossed the ball back to Damian, shouting, "Oh, come on! Don't go easy on me - I can take it!" Sidda was new to the job, but her competitiveness was coming out and she wanted a challenge. Just then, another girl flew up to where she and Damian were and said that she was the keeper. There was a moment of silence where they all just hovered there, and then Sidda spoke up. "Awkward..."

[ooc]Just to let you guys know, I'll be away for a few days, with no internet access :( so during that time feel free to god-mod (to an extent). I don't mind whether Sidda sticks as Keeper or goes back to Chaser, but just feel free to mention her doing either and fitting in with everyone else. Sorry and thanks ;) [/ooc]
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[justify]Simon had caught the quaffle with ease. She was looking to be a good keeper. Once he had the quaffle in his hands, Damian laughed as he told her with honesty, "I am not a good chaser, so I'll attempt to do better." However just before he was going to toss the ball to her once more, their old Keeper, Georgiana Night, came along wishing to try out. The expression on his face was priceless, because they had waited around for a bit, before they started try outs. She looked sick so he was not going to say much. Rolling his eyes, he told Night, "Okay, go to where the Chasers are. I am still going to train Simon here to be a Keeper as well." Damian did not know what he was going to do about this. Showing up late was definitely not a good sign, and if this was an actual game, they could have forfeited by the time she had showed up. Not going to let his irritation get in the way, he smiled lightly at Simon before he turned his broom around, and he shouted to the chaser, "All four of you, work together as a team! No exceptions!" He did not really like them pairing off like that. Reason being, there would be three actually playing in the game. If two paired off, one would be left out of the loop. They all would have to work together for plays. Damian turned back to Simon before he gave her a gentle smile, "Ready?" His smile turned into a smirk, and he went on to train Simon to what he believed would be an excellent Keeper.[/justify][ooc]Okay, Hannah. I'll just have Damian keep training her, and I assume, she will be good at the position. After try-outs, that is when I'll be making my ultimate decision on what is going to happen on the team.[/ooc]
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Georgiana tried not to let any jealously blocked her mind as she listened to Damian's instructions. "No problem," she replied polietly and quietly giving the girl infront of the hoops one of her usual bright smiles before flying over towards the chasers. She noticed Briar flying among the four chasers and smiled at the older girl glad she was there. Even though Georgiana was more of a quiet team player, though completely opposite of herself out of the pitch, she enjoyed listening to the older girl lead the chasers. There were only two positions on a Quidditch team that didn't envolve needing partners, the Keeper and the Seeker, however they both benefitted from the other positions, beaters could put a hault to a seeker getting the snitch before their own team's seeker could, and chasers helped to block the chasers on the other team. Her mind began to focus on the task she was given and any jealousy she felt over Damian's annoyance with her and training the other girl instead went away. "Briar, tell me what you wa-nt me to do," she said yelling out to the older girl ignoring the crack in her voice as she did so. She hovered in the air infront of the hoops opposite that the team's captain was at, which gave the four chasers pretty mnuch alittle more then half a field to fly around in. Seeing the four chasers infront of her didn't scare her away from her position, she was just glad she wasn't facing four Slytherin chasers, those guys were pretty rough on the field. Her cheeks gained alittle color as the wind hit her face and warmed her skin up just alittle, it was nice to finally be outside instead of sitting in the hospital wing like she had been the past few days.
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[justify]     Aphrodite didn't pay much attention to whom was trying out for what, but when she heard that one of them had to step forward and take the Keeper position Aphrodite wrinkled her nose. Hopefully none of them expected her to do it. Chaser was the position she was good at and it was going to be the only position she was willing to do. The other positions were too hard or not thrilling enough to keep her interested in the game. Anyone who did try to nominate her would be smacked upside the head too. Aphrodite was nice but she wasn't nice to the point where she was going to let idiots walk all over her. Aphrodite readied her broom to attempt and show off her Quidditch skills and but then Briar came over and tried to instruct the Chaser on what they should do. Instantly the younger cub frowned and gave the girl a dirty look. Just who did she think she was? She was not the captain! Aphrodite snorted and crossed her arms over her chest. The inner lion of hers brought out her temper a little. Aphrodite hated listening to anyone wasn't in charge. Besides, shouldn't they be working as a team? That's what they were right? A team? "Who died and put you in charge?" Aphrodite asked Briar before she heard Damian address everyone saying that they needed to work together as a team. Giving the older girl one last look she mounted her broom and shot off into the skies. It wasn't like she meant to be completely rude, but she didn't like the girl trying to act like she was in charge when she wasn't. It was like she was assuming she was. Aphrodite waited for the other Chasers to get into the sky as well so they could work out what they needed to do.[/justify]

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Briar saw Georgina night, the girl who had played keeper for the previous years arrive. she was a little late but thankful to have her on the pitch as it may mean that Sid would come back to chaser, however apparently Damian wasn't happy with her for being late so he wanted to train Sid up a bit. She listened to the goings on, and realised that Georgina would be coming with them. she also heard Damian shout that he wanted all four of them to work together. "Alright boss, i just thought that you wanted to see both attack and defence" she shouted back explaining her reasoning for the decision however before she heard his reply she had two people coming over to her Georgina asking what she should do and Aphrodite asking why she was taking control. "Georgina, you are keeper so if you go to the goals and try and stop us scoring" she said to the first girl, then turning to the other chaser she raised an eyebrow, "no one, Just Damian was busy and no one else was doing it." she said, Aphrodite was lucky that she was in a good mood today as it was a few days after her first full moon, otherwise the werewolf girl may have lashed out a little stronger, not with the same force as the first girl. she turned to the rest of the chasers. "okay everyone has to touch the ball before it goes in, Aphrodite you start" she said, that was a good way to stop ball hoggers (mainly herself) from going strait to the goal, and she didn't want anyone to be left out. she passed the ball to aphrodite and waited for her to begin.
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[justify]Unfortunately, things were not going as smoothly as Damian would have hoped. What was it, a full moon tonight? Were people really wanting to get at each other's throats so easily? Damian wished that things would have gone as they had last year and the year before that, working as a team rather than having someone else - on how he felt - change it up which of course caused some conflict. When he heard Rowan's reasons for deciding that, Damian was not watching the Quaffle when thrown back to him, and he dropped it. Damian needed help because he was going to lose his temper. Damian flourished his wand and he summoned the Quaffle back up to him. With the quaffle under his arm, he told Simon that he would be back. With his streak in gear, he soared toward the Chasers, before he said, "Okay look, I don't know what's going on, but I have not had this issue. I want you all to work on teamwork, because of what I saw last game. There were none. Rowan, I don't need to see either offense or defense. I just want to see teamwork. Offense and defense are for practices later. Snow, retract your claws until after the try outs, please." Damian was feeling a little overwhelmed, and it was evident in his eyes. The emotions were stressed and aggravation. His tone was soft, tired and just wanting to connect with everyone. He had no negative tones in his voice, none whatsoever, and he did not have an attitude. "The next person to get an attitude with another or says anything negative to another will be benched and or sent off the pitch. I really don't have time to play referee and train someone else at the same time. That goes for everyone, no matter if you are new or have been on the team for some time. Everyone is equal, understand that." He looked toward the other Keeper before he smiled faintly. She looked a little better than before, but he did not want her working too hard while she was sick. "Are you guys ready to work on teamwork now, without getting on one and another's nerves? We are all in it for the same thing, to beat the other houses." Damian asked in a soft tone, but his expression did not lack any sort of joke.[/justify][ooc]Haha dramaaaa[/ooc]
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Briar saw the Captain come and fly towards them, her emotions were already starting to heat up from the Snow girls comments. however she tried to calm them down as she needed to be on the team again this year, and she was sure fighting with one of the other chasers wasn't a good way to do it. she pulled the white sleeves down on the long sleeved shirt she was wearing under her gryffindor top, she hoped people thought that she was wearing the top for the cold, it wasn't, she could face cold like this in just a singlet, it was to hide she marks on her arms from a few nights prior. hearing the captains words she lowered her head and backed up a couple of feet, sinking a little as she did. she was one to get very into the sport, and very competitive. she realised that she had taken the alpha position and she needed Damian to remind her that it was not her place to take. she realised that she needed to save her competitiveness for when they were actually playing the other teams. "Sorry Damian, I didn't mean to take your job or over power your decisions" she said much of the fight in her being released. she was actually impressed at how well he had handled the team. if she had been in that position she wouldn't have been able to stay that calm or controlled. "so what exactly do you want to see us do as a team?" she asked. deciding that she had better do what the captain wanted and not what she wanted.
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