First Slytherin Practice

Cocking his head in a position that indicated curiosity, Henric Lee took hold of his broom, slid his leg over it expertly, and kicked off the ground whilst pointing it upwards. The broom shot up, then Henric tilted the front down at the last minute, and the entire body of the broom swung down again; grasping hold of the shaft firm with one hand, he positioned the broom back and forth with relatively ease, then tested it from left to right. Once satisfied he could move in all directions properly and accelerate well at the same time, he held out his hand and swept over the ground like some overgrown hawk. He snatched hold of the quaffle in his outstretched hand, turned his broom away, and spun the red ball in his hands, smiling politely all the while.
 
Adira rolled her eyes when Isabella had a problem with her talking to Larissa and Hoshi, she knew that as soon as she had the chance she would swap Adira in for someone else "sorry CAPTAIN, we were just talking about quidditch, after all we are here for quidditch" she said as she threw her leg over her broom and kicked off allowing her to hover for a moment, she didn't know what they were all complaining about, Hoshi, Larissa and Herself were just joking around about being on opposite teams. she heard the Snow boy talk and she rolled her eyes again "i believe we are acting like a team, hello we are talking about quidditch" she said as she pushed her broom forward so she could go up a bit higher, she held her beaters bat in her hand and swung it for a second before she cracked her neck. "well what are we waiting for, we are here to PRACTICE" she said as she shot a glance over to Snow boy.
 
Hoshi laughed at both Adira's and Larissa's comments when Isabella came over and told them off. "Whatever you say O Captain my captain." She said sarcasticly while rolling her eyes. She looked over at the Snow boy and sighed. "We're just goofing around, it's just practice after all." She said srugging her shoulders. She wished to beat Henric with her broomstick because of that smile but just as he had overlooked her she made like she hadn't even seen him.

She climbed skillfully on her broom, her bat in hand and her eyes glittering with the promise of violence. It would help her temper some which seemed to be flaring at odd intervals lately. She poised herself in the air, looking as elegent as eagle and twice as deadly while she waited for the bludgers to be let go.
 
Toni watched as more people arrived on the quidditch pitch. She remained silent for the most part as the captains talked. This Slytherin also made note on the working of the team. How it would be so much better without Hoshi and her gang she thought trying to ignore that part of it completely.

Team A Keeper She thought making a mental note of that. With this Toni swung her leg over the broom carefully and gracefully as she kicked off into the air hovering as she waited for the rest who still had their feet on the ground.

As this Slytherin hovered, she began to fix her hair making sure she looked perfect in every way. Just because this was a Slytherin quidditch practice didn't mean Toni couldn't look her best. Flashing a smile to the students below she tried to imagine all the quidditch plays in her mind hoping that the workings of her team would go without flaw.
 
Adira stopped flying up and turned around again to look at the people who were still on the ground and some who were still in the air. "Ok let me make this clear, and put this out in the open, and i don't really care what you think after this" Adira said with complete seriousness in her voice. "you all don't like Hoshi, Larissa and myself, and we may not like you" Adira rested her bat in her lap for a moment before she began again "and i know most of you are thinking that the team would be so much better without us here, well here is the thing. we ARE here, We CAN play quidditch, we ARE NOT going to go anywhere, and just because you don't like us doesn't mean that we are bad quidditch players" Adira took a deep breath for a second and continued
"and you all have no right to treat us like the worst thing that has happened to the team. you can complain about us talking and things like that, because i honestly don't care, but as soon as you start saying that we are the worst part of this team you WILL regret it"
Adira looked at them all with her emerald green eyes. she really didn't care what they thought around school, but when it came to quidditch, Adira honestly couldn't take much more of there complaints.
Adira spun her broom around and flew up a bit higher she knew that some of them may think she was a freak for saying that, but atleast they knew where she stood.
 
After hearing that the boy was willing to switch positions with her and getting the instructions to get into the air Sophia completely tuned out the rest of the team. These young girls were an absolute nightmare and the seventh year knew it was going to take every ounce of patience and self control she possessed just to get through this practice, let alone a whole season of this. While thinking to herself about the fact that she was going to be flying and playing Quidditch. If these dolts can fly as well as they prattle. In any event Sophia was going to fly, which she had not done in a bit.

The only downside to thinking about flying and Quidditch was that it brought to mind images of Daniel. Trying to shove those out the noirette dropped her messenger bag on the ground, mounted her broom, and kicked off into the air. The feeling instantly uplifted the Slytherin's mood and she felt a renewed vigor that made the idea of dealing with her teammates more bearable.
 
Andrew mounted his broom after Isabella had made the teams clear. He gave a hard kick and sped into the air. Yet he wasn't that high when he heard Adira's little talk. He frowned at her but she couldn't see him as he was facing in the opposite direction. "I guess we should first concentrate on flying and we NEVER said that we think it's worst for this team if you are here" he said to her as he flew his broom in Henric's direction who currently was in possession of the Quaffel.

"Let's play now" he said as bent forward, tightening his grip around the broom as he moved closer to Henric so his fellow chaser could pass him the Quaffel and together they could make a score for team B. A bludger was moving towards Andrew's head which he hadn't noticed. The air rushed through his hair as the bludger moved closer. Luckily Andrew's hearing ability was superb and sensing the bludger moving towards him he ducked and it moved out now heading towards the opposite team's chaser.
 
Taking hold of the broom with his thumb outstretched, Henric spun away from the ground and into the air, spinning acrobatically upon the broom. Pulling it up and sidling it to the side here, Henric tossed the quaffle to Andrew when he was inches away from him, then lowered the altitude and simply hung low beneath Andrew as he sped along.
 
[Just felt I had to say this, OOC you know I really don't have a problem with you all being on the team. ^_^ ]

Isabella's chocolate brown eyes flashed in anger when she heard Hoshi saying they were just goofing around and it was 'just practice.' Practice isn't a place to goof around, she yelled to herself angrily in her head, biting her tongue from snapping at them again. Isabella paid little to none attention to Adira's little rant and smiled when Andrew responded to her so she wouldn't have to. Yes, they were a team and they'd have to start acting like one soon. Even Isabella had to remember that when it came to the goth freaks, she'd have to put aside their differences for the length of a Quidditch match. She prayed the Hogwarts ones never went as long as professional ones did - she didn't have that much self control.

As she was up in the air she pulled out her wand from her sweater sleeve and pointed at the box with the bludgers and Snitch so they could be released, Henric had already gotten the Quaffle. "Right, remember the teams you were put in and positions," she said to them all, her mood already being lifted by the mere fact that she was flying. "Team A shoots on in the North hoops, Team B shoots in the South hoops," she clarified before smiling brightly and thinking, Game on. Although she was thrilled to be playing a mock game right now, she knew this was just for them all to get the feel of playing with each other and she hoped that their future practices would consist of individual groups of players, for example all Chasers, all Beaters, etc to practice up on their skills together. She personally wanted to learn how to nail the Porskoff Ploy in which more than one Chaser was required. Putting all those thoughts aside, Isabella leaned forward on her broom and sped up happily, dodging the first bludger that came her way.

[Let me know if the link doesn't work. :) ]
 
So far most of the memebers were doing an alright job avoiding the bludgers. This was a good sigh because it meant that he wouldn't have to worry about multiple injury's incase he couldn't make it on time or the other team decided to hit a bludger their way. Theodore sped with his broom to reach a nearby bludger that was heading towards some random chaser.

Swooping around it only took Theo a minute to swing back and smack the bludger away from rough force. Once he saw it was a good enough distance he sped up to another bludger and smacked that one away with less force then trhe first, but still enough to send it flying. So far the bludgers were doing a good job of keeping Theodore busy as he flew around making sure no bludger was on it's way to hit anyone.
 
Andrew caught the Quaffel as Henric threw it towards him. Advancing with the Quaffel he moved towards the South hoop. Andrew noticed a Bludger coming his way, he decided to toss the Quaffel to Henric who could score as they were so close to the hoop now.

He passed the Quaffel to Henric as he flew on his broomstick in an opposite direction to that which led him away from the hoop.Henric was not very far for the simple catch, once his second hand was free, he gripped his broom tightly and spun it a 180 degrees to watch Henric score.
 
Finding herself getting easily irritated by Adira, Hoshi and Larissa, she just inhaled and exhaled deeply, through her flared nostrils. She was on a team of morons who couldn't understand that Isabella and Andrew were captians and called the shots. She mounted her broom without a word, kicked off, and began flying slowly as she pulled on her glasses. Once they were on a smirk formed on the sick girl's lips, and she began speeding up, her gaze darting around as she searched for the small Golden Snitch.

Abbey's emerald streak gave her speed, and her own natural ability gave her agility, it was indeed surprising that a girl with very poor eye sight would be Seeker but her Dad had been one on his house team, and her Mom was a beater, a position she was decent enough at, but not amazing due to her upper body strength, or lack there of.

Abbey's violet eyes darted from person to person until landing on the Sterling boy who was alternate for Seeker and currently her competition. Her eyes twinkled menacingly, like her Death Eater father's would when about to go in for the kill, not that this was too her knowledge, before she snapped her neck down, following the flight path of a bludger, making sure it wouldn't hit her in her determination to catch the Golden Snitch. Boy am I glad there no longer is the Golden Snidget used, she thought, the fact that you would have to catch a bird was not a fond thought to Abbey, so the small metal Snitch would do just fine.
 
Larissa gave a small "Bravo!" in reply to Adira's 'speech'. She smiled broadly, mounted her Nimbus 2001 and kicked off with speed.
Straight away she soared towards the three rings she was guarding.
She had never played keeper before.. She was an excellent beater but she had never tried being keeper.. although... Her mind was elsewhere for a moment before she remembered what she was doing.

Larissa grasped the handle of her broom tightly but one handed.
She had to be ready to catch the quaffle.
Larissa stayed still. Eyes foccussed upon the quaffle as she watched it passed from Andrew in Henric's direction.
 
[[ i know, its just Adira getting annoyed of people always telling her that she is in the wrong ;) ]]

Adira knew that people wern't happy with what she said. she didn't honestly care, she wanted to put it out their that she honestly didn't care and they should stop complaining about her doing everything wrong just cause they hated her and get on with playing a game.
Adira turned her broom around when she heard a bludger fly towards her. Adira regripped her bat and swung it at the furious ball, Adira turned her broom around with one hand and quickly saw the bludger flying up from her hit and curving back in, Adira followed its direction and hit it with a bludger backbeat sending it over her right shoulder.
Adira turned around to see if it was going to hit anyone when she heard another ball of fury come towards her. Adira had no time to respond and quickly pulled a sloth grip roll, she held onto her broom with one hand beaters bat in the other and watched the bludger pass over her. Adira pushed her broom into action quickly pulling her self back to sitting on her broom and saw the first bludger was coming back to make its revenge on someone, Adira shot towards the bludger and slightly passed it before she let go of her broom and gripped her bat with two hands, swinging it powerfully, Adira hit the bludger with huge force watching it shoot off in another direction, giving her plenty of time to head for another one.
Adira turned her broom in larissa's Direction and quickly sped off over to her before stopping beside her and thwacking a bludger away "your welcome" she said as she dropped her altitude so she could see the game better.
 
Hoshi had put her fingers on her head but there was a half smile on her face. Leave it to Adira-chan to say what is on her mind. Hoshi thought then turned her attention on the game that was going on. She batted the bluger in the direction of the other team when it came after her own. She saw that most of them where good at not getting hit.

Hoshi watched the diffrent plays as she kept and eye on the bludgers. She leaned to the right on her broom stick the avoide someone flying over her head then saw Adira hit a bludger away form Isabella. She watched as Abby went after something gold and fast. Hoshi followed the bludger that Adira had hit then took carful aim not that Abbey which would have been would have certaly equaled a miss but at what she was sure was the snitch.
 
Henric spun with agile grace out of the way as a speeding bludger, then dropped altitude abruptly as he noticed Andrew about to dodge the bludger. Trailing under Andrew at a deliberate slow speed to deceive others into thinking he wasn't going for the quaffel, he promptly swept up in an arc when Andrew tossed the quaffel towards him. He caught it when it was coming down, then sped upwards, gathering veliocity, before he held out his outstretched hand grasping hold of the quaffel and feinting for the top hoop, making to throw it in, then at the last minute, dropping the quaffel down, diving under to fetch it, and hurling it at the lower hoop.
 
((Sorry Guys I was on vacation))

Toni kicked off the ground flying right over to the hoops focusing herself in front of the middle hoop. That was where she always found herself when playing keeper. It made it easier for this Slytherin to go from hoop to hoop in the quickest speed. Hovering there, her brown eyes watched the other members of both team fly about the pitch, not for a moment would she let her gaurd down.

Before she knew it, Henric seemed to be coming closer to the goal post quaffle in hand. Don't mess this up. Don't mess this up She thought to herself knowing how awful it would be if she missed her first chance at keeping the quaffle out of the goal posts.

She kept her eye on the ball as it came towards the lower of the hoops. You've got this She thought as she leaned down on the broom pulling the handle gently. Unable to catch the ball, Toni swung the broom around hitting the quaffle with the back of the broom, luckily knocking it out of the way and into the hands of Isabella. For a moment, Toni tried to remember who was on her team as Chaser. Isabella was one of them, or at least Toni hoped so.

Flying back up to the middle hoop, she let out a small breathe. One save though hopefully there would be many more.
 
Sophia flew after the other team's chasers, but stayed a bit behind. She wanted to keep close to the other side of the pitch incase Isabella was able to get the quaffle, but close enough to grab it if one of the boys dropped it. She watched as the quaffle was shot and her team's keeper swatted it out of the way. Not terrible she thought to herself and turned to the other side of the pitch. Isabella had the quaffle now, and Sophia needed to be in position to catch it. She started off toward the hoops, hoping to get ahead of the other chasers while keeping an eye out for bludgers.
 
Isabella had been flying a bit higher than the rest of her teammates, as if to supervise for a bit, but as soon as she saw Henric trying to score the thirteen year old dipped her broom downward to lower herself to the same height everyone was at. She saw Toni's save, swatting the ball with the back of her broom and Isabella was impressed, though in her surprise had almost not seen the red ball coming her way. Quickly composing herself, Isabella's hands let go of her broom and only just caught the ball in time.

The Slytherin tucked the ball under her arm right away, the other arm gripping her broom as she began flying in the other direction. Isabella caught Sophia flying up ahead of the others before she had even caught the Quaffle yet so she knew Sophia was already headed in the direction of their hoops. Isabella directed her broom higher up to get away from the bludgers and opposing Chasers and as soon as she was close enough to Sophia, almost directly above her, she threw the Quaffle downward.
 
While flying toward the opposite goals Sophia made sure to keep Isabella in her peripheral vision. Being the only two chasers on their team it was imperative that they knew where each other were at all times. The seventh year had to be ready, and she was. Playing Quidditch had become like second nature to her over the years, and it was almost boring to play with such young, inexperienced players after practicing with Shane's team. It was still good to be playing nonetheless.

Spotting the quaffle coming toward her the noirette reached out her right arm and grabbed it from the air. She snatched it easily and then threw it quickly at the hoop furthest to her right. Sophia's hope was that the keeper would be so caught up in the downward motion of the quaffle from isballe to Sophia that she would not be anticipating the throw.
 
Andrew saw as Toni saved Henric's goal. "Good one" he said as he turned his broom and followed the Quaffel. Seeing it in Isabella's hands he flew by her at great speed waiting for her to make a pass. Yet to her luck she passed it down to Sophia and she aimed it at the hoop. He waited to see if the keeper would be saving it or Sophia's skills of seven years would make her a goal.

(keepers and beaters you can post here please
Yes, the seekers you could just rp searching for it and after about three or so post's find it)
 
((I thought I was on the same team as Sophia.. I'm really confused about teams now.))
 
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