practising

[Stefan Glass]

Stefan was out in the forest letting out some of his agression. he was doing this by taking his anger out on a tree using the bow his dad had given him for his birthday. after a hour or so he got bored and started practising his cheerleading as he knew he had to catch up on what he had missed over the years. he heard someone approach he grabbed his wand and said nox.

 

[Roberta Esperon]

Roberta was sneaking again out of the castle late at night. If this already was a broken rule, what about entering the forbidden forest? It was dangerous and silly at the same time but she was a daredevil. She wasn't up to no good tonight. She actually wanted to practice a spell that she was trying to master. Common room was not a good idea and generally the castle was patrolled by prefects and caretakers. The forest seemed a quite, lonely place for that. She was dragging along with her a stuffed dummy. It was looking quite hilarious with its sewed mouth and button eyes. Looked more like a voodoo doll casted with an engorgio spell.

She finally managed to enter the forbidden forest unseen, sweeping the dead leaves on the ground with her dummy. The moonlight wasn't strong enough to penetrate the thick foliage and she took with difficulty her wand out of her jeans' pocket while she was trying to lean the dummy against the trunk of a tree.

Lumos , a small sphere of light appeared on the tip of her wand and the place was illuminated for a couple of meters from here. She continued dragging her dummy deeper in the forest, holding with her teeth her illuminated wand, when she heard a strange noise behind her. She dropped immidiately the dummy on the ground, leaving a cloud of dust and dirt and she took her wand in her hand, casting light on the direction she heard that noise.

'Hello? Who's there?' she asked and slowly she came closer to the source of the sound.​

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[Stefan Glass]

stefan quickly hid behind a tree and loaded a arrow into his bow. whoever this was if they werent nice they would be sorry. "Im stefan Glass who are you?" He said not revailing him self untill they reponed. when he realised it was a student he took the arrow of the bow and revealed him self."So what brings you out here gryfindor."

 

[Roberta Esperon]

She wasn't expecting another student that late in the forest. He had to give him some credit for that. The voice of a guy came behind a tree. He introduced himself without revealing himself. Roberta was now close enough that the light from her wand covered the trunk of the tree, behind which the guy was hiding. She didn't responded to his question of who was she. What if were those Slytherins again? She wasn't letting her guard down this time. The stranger behind the tree finally revealed himself.
It looked like a first year, like her and he was holding a bow. Roberta raised her eyebrows in surprise as the guy knew in which house she belonged.

"How do you know that I'm Gryffindor?" she asked suspiciously, not lowering her wand yet.
She didn't know if she had to trust him already and tell him why she was there.
"I haven't come for hunting at least like you." she said sarcastically, pointing with her eyes at his bow.
She was wondering what he was doing there but her sarcastic comment might bring the answer.
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[Stefan Glass]

"I happen to be in one of your lessons." he said to her. "Hey im not out here hunting ok this is my own way of releasing anger." he said to her. he let a arrow loose over her head and knocked an apple down. he went over and picked up the arrow and took the arrow off it and said. "For you my friend."

 

[Roberta Esperon]

"Oh right. Sorry I'm not really paying attention during classes." she admitted. How come she hadn't noticed him before. The guy was quite cute after all.
When the arrow darted over her head she instinctively lowered her head and casted a glare at Stefan.
"Hey, if you want to have a kill today try a werewolf. They are more dangerous than me." she joked with a smile.
She took the apple that he offered to her, knocked by his shot.
'Thank you.' she said and she felt her ears turning red. Thankfully, her long hair was hiding them.
"I'm Roberta by the way." she introduced herself now that she had lowered her defenses.
" I came here to practice a bit." she pointed at the ridiculously funny looking dummy, resting on the ground.
" Why are you angry?" she asked him but she regretted. She didn't want to intrude his personal issues.​

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[Stefan Glass]

"if i wanted to kill a werewolf i wouldnt do it here on school ground." he joked "ahh you see you miss people like me when you dont pay attention roberta" he said jokingly "So what are you practising out here then roberta?" he asked trying not to pry into her personal life. "I am quite angry over some thing thats happened between me and my aunty." he told her not caring whether she was paying attention or not.

 

[Roberta Esperon]

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<COLOR color="#37AAE0">Roberta wear her mischievous smile. The guy looked quite confident for himself but he was funny at the same time. She liked funny people a lot.
"Maybe next time, I'll be more motivated during classes." she joked back, tossing the apple in the air and catching it back.
Roberta turned and looked at the dummy, lying down. She picked it up and struggled to lean it against a tree.
"Well I was thinking practicing some self protection. Here I have more chances with me, not to be discovered." she explained, catching her breath. She should have learnt a spell to make lighter that dummy.
"Are you good at spells?" she asked him, trying to readjust the dummy on the trunk so it wouldn't fell over.
Stefan had said the right words. Trouble with family. She could totally connect with him. She never had the best relationship with her mother. They were in a constant fight. At least, Roberta was.
"I'm sorry for that but I can understand you. Always something is happening between me and my mom." she revealed to him.
She had no problem to say that to a person that had met few minutes ago.
"You were used to live with your aunt?" she asked him.​

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[Stefan Glass]

"Hahaha maybe you will." he said jokeingly "every one says that im good at spells but i dont think that i am." he said to her "I can give the spell your trying to do a whizz if you want." he said tryin to help her. "i lived with my aunt till my dad moved places. but hes not my real dad im adopted as i lost my parents a couple of years ago."

 

[Roberta Esperon]

Roberta felt guilty for asking him all that staff about his family in the place. She bit her lips and apologized.
"I'm so sorry for asking you. If I knew I wouldn't bring up that topic."
To make him feel better, she talked about her relationship with her dad.
"I haven't met my dad. He's a muggle, got scared when learnt my mom was a witch and abandoned us. It's not the same like losing your father but being rejected is quite hurtful too." she wasn't feeling bad for all that. If her father didn't want her she didn't want him back. She was just trying to make Stefan feel that they had a connection somehow.
"Nice to hear that. I would really use some help." she changed the topic to Stefan's spell knowledge.
"I was thinking of practicing a stunning spell. Is it a good defensive spell to start with?" she asked. She was not the best one in charms and defense against the dark arts. The only subject in which she was excelling, was transfiguration but it wasn't of much help yet.
Transforming a needle into a toothpick wasn't defensive enough.​

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[Stefan Glass]

"hey dont worry about it roberta." he said touching her face with his hand. "he sounds like an idiot." he listened to what she was saying. "hmm stunning is quite hard seeing as you have to mean it." he said but then thought of something he shouldnt even know but michael had shown him it. "Try this STUPEFY." he shouted pointing his wand at the dummy as a red beam shot out and sent the dummy flying.

 

[Roberta Esperon]

Roberta wasn't expecting what Stefan did. She felt her ears burning behind her hair and almost dropped her wand in her surprise.
"It's o-okay." she said and lowered her gaze. She felt a bit awkward. She was always confident and glib but this time she just couldn't speak. She was glad that he changed the subject to the stunning spell.
"Wow, impressive." she praised him as he casted the spell successfully. Roberta went to bring back the dummy to its prior position. She then returned back to Stefan. She pointed with her wand the dummy and mimicked his movement.
"Stupefy!" she yelled but just a faint scarlet light appeared on her wand's tip, to disappear right after.
"Hmm, you make it seem so easy. What I'm doing wrong?" she wondered as she was probably doing something wrong with her movement. It wasn't so fluent.​

 

[Stefan Glass]

Stefan watched roberta as she tried the spell. He came up be hind her and took hold of her hand "Try it like this." he said as he moved her arm in the motion that the spell requirered. He heard a crack of the branch above them he shoved roberta out of the way and dived out of the way himself. He grabed his bow and loaded an arrow. "Run roberta ill bring up the rear and bring the dummy." he shouted at her. He grabbed the dummy and put it into a firemans carry. He started running when he blacked out

 

[Roberta Esperon]

Roberta shuddered when Stefan reached for her hand. She closed her eyes as he whispered in her ear and moved her arm gently to show her the movement required.
"Stupefy".
The jet of red light emitted from her wand wasn't so intense and bright as Stefan's but it hit the dummy, making it lose its balance.
She was going to thank him when a crack above their head drew her attention. Before she was able to react, she was shoved out of the way, dropping her wand. It stopped illuminating light and she was unable to find it in the darkness.
"Stefan, are you okay?" she shouted, while she was looking for her wand, touching blindly around the ground.
When she found it she heard Stefan telling her to run away. She hadn't see what was the thing that attacked them.
She believed that Stefan was already starting running to escape and she ran too in the darkness. In her hurry she forgot to use the illumination spell, she just kept running until she tripped on a tree's root. She fell on the ground, slashing a bit her chick on the twig of a bush. She stood up slowly in the darkness.
"Lumos" she murmured breathless. Except from some fog, nothing else seemed to move around her. It was silent, she couldn't hear anything chasing her or someone running.
She wondered if Stefan was left behind. She wanted to call his name but if something was after them, it would immidiately knew her position. The light emitted from her wand was already enough.

She decided slowly to return back, carefully with her wand on the ready. She thought that she saw some movement between some trees but it was her imagination. When she arrived at the place that she and Stefan were met, there was nothing there except from the branch that had fell from the tree and Stefan's bow. She took it off the ground and looked around. No sign of Stefan or her dummy. He might have left too and in his hurry dropped his belonging.

Roberta decided to leave too. It was worthless and dangerous to stay there longer. If she had hurry, she might had found Stefan, waiting her at the ground but when she got out of the forest the grounds were empty. She decided to return back to her common room and keep safe Stefan's bow. She hoped to see him again, to return to him, his valuable belonging.​

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[Adrian Slick]

Adrian, tired from his job at the library, set out into the Forbidden Forest to rest. He had went out to the forest many times during his Ravenclaw years. Suddenly while walking, he heard a slight noise to his left. He ran over to see a Gryffindor girl and a Hufflepuff boy right in front of him. The Hufflepuff looked hurt. "Is he alright?", Adrian said, forgetting that the forest was forbidden to students. "Wait, why are you kids out here?" He waited for an explanation. The Hufflepuff might have to go to the hospital wing, and it could be this girl's fault.