Post by TrishyKay on Aug 5, 2005 2:12:10 GMT -5
The nasty rain that had been pounding the castle windows all of Tuesday night finally let up early Wednesday morning. The Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor had been postponed due to the disgustingly muddy state of the Quidditch pitch, but Friday morning dawns sunny… and very hot.
The school makes their way down to the pitch, mumbling about the heat and wiping sweat off random places on their bodies, while the teams get ready for the match. In the Hufflepuff Locker Room, Trish and Natalie nance around waving a big banner that says, “Get ready for total… domination” and chanting the tune to the song that Sparky Palastri did his routine to in Bring It On, a popular Muggle movie. In the Gryffindor Locker Room, Mae is whining about her current boy problems to a very bored looking Liz, who looks like she is about to fall asleep.
As the stands fill up and the sun beats down heavily on everyone, FailureByDesign slinks her way on to the field in a black and white striped shirt underneath her black robes. Her attire makes her seem like she’d be about to melt, but Trish must have placed a cooling charm on her clothes, because she looks happy and ready to referee.
“WELCOME!” a voice suddenly shouts, “To the 3rd Quidditch match of the season, between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. Can anyone guess who I am?” A few names are muttered amongst the people in the stands, but the voice says, “TIS I! Lighty. And my sidekick Nikki is here to help me keep on track. And here the teams come!
On the Hufflepuff team, we have Btvsna as Seeker, SqueePhrek as Keeper, TrishyKay and PrettyBaby24 as the Beaters, and sister991, BookwormBabe521, and Horrorgirl03 as the Chasers.
On the Gryffindor team, we have tomfeltonsgirl as Seeker, eregnault85 as Keeper, sassyangel03 and AlexiaBell as the Beaters, and Murphy, DreamClouds, and hOtT_dAnCeR17 as the Chasers.” Lighty says.
Jenn and AlexiaBell shake hands, and a few seconds later, Desi blows her whistle. The 14 players mount their brooms and push off the ground. Desi then winks at Trish and Jenn, and heaves the Quaffle, Bludgers, and Snitch into the air. Horrorgirl03 immediately takes possession of the Quaffle and battles her way through the outstretched arms of the 3 Gryffindor Chasers. Murphy grabs the tail of Horrorgirl03’s broom and yanks her back. Belle’s head snaps forward and she loses the Quaffle. Desi blows her whistle right away and gives Hufflepuff a penalty shot. Horrorgirl03 grabs the Quaffle that is thrown to her and makes her way to the Gryffindor hoops. She takes a deep breath, but right when she tosses the Quaffle, tomfeltonsgirl screams loudly and Horrorgirl03 fumbles it in surprise. It drops slowly toward the ground before Murphy swoops down and grabs it. Tomfeltonsgirl, who had pretended to fall, attempts an evil smirk but only manages to make herself look like a creep. “CHEATING! THEY CHEATED!” Natalie screams at Desi, but Desi has to let tomfeltonsgirl off because she has no proof she cheated. Mae flies off with a stupid look on her face, and decides to chase a few butterflies. Too bad she doesn’t realize that Jenn and Trish won’t let her screw with their team. The 2 Hufflepuff Beaters nod at eachother and fly toward tomfeltonsgirl, who is flying in a large circle with a blank look on her face. They close in on her, and a Bludger miraculously appears right next to Trish. Trish whacks the Bludger with her Beater’s bat and it sails into Mae’s back. The force of it sends Mae spinning around her broom, and as Jenn and Trish fly past her, Jenn elbows her sharply in the side. Desi, who was watching this with great interest, suddenly turns her head and continues her refereeing duties, acting like she didn’t just witness a foul. Trish and Jenn swoop away and give eachother a Huffie High Five while Mae rubs on the area where Jenn elbowed her.
Meanwhile, Murphy had dropped the Quaffle, and BookwormBabe521 got it. She managed to score 3 times before DreamClouds kicked her and snatched the Quaffle away from her. Syd was very upset, until she spotted a person wearing a large sandwich board advertising a shop in the crowd. But the sandwich board wasn’t for just any shop. It was for Syddie’s Ice Cream Shoppe! Manda seems to have decided… or seems to have been forced, to wear a sandwich board for Syd’s shop on it, while Gem got the nicer task of pushing an ice cream cart with dancing cones on it behind her. North trailed Gem, shouting in a large megaphone about how wonderfully delicious Syd’s ice cream is. Syd smiles with glee and waves down at the girls. Manda makes a sour face, but waves back. Syd makes a hand signal at Manda and Manda grins evilly. Manda pulls out a snocone from the ice cream cart and throws it from the stands to Syd’s hand. Syd catches it easily, takes a bite, and shoves it in her pocket. “It seems as if Syd has stored away an after-match snack!” Lighty says, but is suddenly distracted by the actual game.
Sister991 managed to get the Quaffle away from DreamClouds, but a Bludger hits her in the leg and she drops the Quaffle into hOtT_dAnCeR’s hands. She then proceeds to speed down the pitch toward the Hufflepuff goals, but Miki blocks her throw with no problems. She circles the center hoop, and when Syd flies right up next to her, they both hover for a moment. A few words are spoken and Miki starts laughing at something Syd has said. The Quaffle is passed back to Syd, and she darts down the pitch, sister991 joining up with her about 50 feet away from the Gryffindor goal hoops. Syd pulls the Quaffle out from the crook of her arm, where she has been cradling it, and throws it straight at Liz’s face. Liz opens her mouth to yell, but is not hit by the Quaffle. She is hit by a sno-cone disguised as a Quaffle! Syd jinxed the sno-cone and got a shot with the real Quaffle through the left hoop! “WOOT FOR SYD!” Lighty shouts, “WOOT FOR ALL THINGS MISCHIEVIOUS!” Syd snickers happily as Liz wipes the ice cream off her face. “Hufflepuff now has 40 points, and Gryffindor has 0.” A large cheer comes up from the Hufflepuff cheering section, which is considerably bigger than the Gryffindor one, and coincidently has quite a few Slytherins.
The Quaffle is thrown all over the field for the next 15 minutes, Hufflepuff scoring 3 more times, and Gryffindor scoring once. “Hufflepuff 70, Gryffindor 10!” Lighty shouts above Nikki’s raucous cheering. “GO TWIM!” Nikki yells as Natalie passes the commentator’s box. Natalie gives her a thumbs up, and then scores with the help of Horrorgirl03. Sassyangel03, looking obviously agitated, swung as hard as she could at a Bludger, which hurtled toward Btvsna and almost took her head off. If Miki hadn’t been so quick, it might have. Desi frowns in Ang’s direction but Ang gives her a look as close to a death-glare as a Gryffindor can pull off. Desi rolls her eyes and wonders what’s gotten into the usually placid Gryffindor.
Meanwhile, Sister991 was heading toward the Gryffindor goal hoops when hOtT_dAnCeR came up from under her and yanked the Quaffle away from her after pinching the back of her neck. Natalie shouts an obscenity, and looks around for Trish. After spotting her and getting her attention, she points at hOtT_dAnCeR’s back and Trish nods. She hits a Quaffle with her bat and it hits the Gryffindor Chaser in the back. Natalie smirks. “Nice job, Trishy!” she yells, and mutters something about Quidditch Karma under her breath. Sassyangel03, who watched this while glowering, was unfortunate enough to get the after effects of the Bludger, which bounced off the Chaser and ended up hitting her in the head. She floated loosely in the air for a moment with a stunned look on her face, before falling the 10 or so feet to the ground. “And a time out is called by AlexiaBell, the Gryffindor team captain, because of a fall from a fellow Gryffindor player." Lighty says, with a bored tone to her voice. Murphy and Erin land next to Ang. Murphy picks up her Beater’s bat and pokes her with it. Ang’s eyes fly open and she snatches the bat back from Murphy, and then hurls it at Trish as hard as she can. Trish ducks the bat easily, and raises an eyebrow at Ang. Desi blows her whistle, calls a foul, and gives Hufflepuff a penalty shot. “WHAT!?” Ang screams, “IT’S A TIME OUT!” Desi shrugs, pulls out a copy of, “The Book of the 8,354,758 Fouls in Quidditch”, and points to it. “This book is gospel, and it says that fouls can happen during time outs.” she says, as sister991 scores. “And it’s Hufflepuff with 90 points, Gryffindor with 10.” Lighty says happily from her seat.
Hufflepuff seemed to get a mean streak in them after that, and did anything to get their way, causing them to score 5 more times. After a fight between Jenn and Mae, where Jenn succeeded in yanking out a clump of Mae’s hair and Mae succeeded in looking like a prick, Desi gave up on calling fouls. There were too many to call. She sat back in a lawn chair, grabbed a kitty cocktail, and sat back to enjoy the match, only calling the more serious fouls.
After SqueePhrek blocked a particularly bad shot from Murphy, the Gryffindors started to realize they were being clonked into the ground by the Hufflepuffs. Their egos started to flair, and they started cheating more than ever. The score of 140 to 10 was still intact after 10 minutes, though, and the Gryffindor Chasers were all getting tired from trailing the Hufflepuffs around the field.
Suddenly, a moan comes up from the Hufflepuff supporters when Mae dive bombs a glint of gold flittering around the bottom of the center Hufflepuff goal hoop after she sees Btvsna go after it. They reach the Snitch from opposite directions and pull up sharply 3 feet apart. Mae looks over her shoulder to see if Desi is looking, and when she sees she isn't, punches Miki squarely in the face. Miki collapses backward off her broom and Mae snatches the Snitch.
“DID YOU SEE THAT!?” Lighty shouts angrily, but alas, Desi had not. She had been focused on yanking a thread from her shirt out. Desi jerked up when she hears the crowd booing, and sees the Gryffindors all landing. Mae looks pretty durned pleased with herself, as do a few other Gryffindors, but Murphy looks at her and comments on her wonderful cheating skills. “Well Steve, you cheated too!” she whines at him, but he just walks away. The Hufflepuff team lands after a few moments and Jenn approaches Desi. “Does this count?” Jenn asks her, looking very pissed off. “Um.. well… Yeah, I guess it does. It was a foul, but Mae caught the Snitch fair and square.” Desi says, and then nods up at Lighty, who is peering out her window, and Lighty sits back in her seat.
“Gryffindor wins the match, 160 points to 140 points.” A few boos are called out, but the teams have already receded into their locker rooms. A large cloud rolls over the sun and heavy rain starts to fall on the disappointed spectators.
The school makes their way down to the pitch, mumbling about the heat and wiping sweat off random places on their bodies, while the teams get ready for the match. In the Hufflepuff Locker Room, Trish and Natalie nance around waving a big banner that says, “Get ready for total… domination” and chanting the tune to the song that Sparky Palastri did his routine to in Bring It On, a popular Muggle movie. In the Gryffindor Locker Room, Mae is whining about her current boy problems to a very bored looking Liz, who looks like she is about to fall asleep.
As the stands fill up and the sun beats down heavily on everyone, FailureByDesign slinks her way on to the field in a black and white striped shirt underneath her black robes. Her attire makes her seem like she’d be about to melt, but Trish must have placed a cooling charm on her clothes, because she looks happy and ready to referee.
“WELCOME!” a voice suddenly shouts, “To the 3rd Quidditch match of the season, between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. Can anyone guess who I am?” A few names are muttered amongst the people in the stands, but the voice says, “TIS I! Lighty. And my sidekick Nikki is here to help me keep on track. And here the teams come!
On the Hufflepuff team, we have Btvsna as Seeker, SqueePhrek as Keeper, TrishyKay and PrettyBaby24 as the Beaters, and sister991, BookwormBabe521, and Horrorgirl03 as the Chasers.
On the Gryffindor team, we have tomfeltonsgirl as Seeker, eregnault85 as Keeper, sassyangel03 and AlexiaBell as the Beaters, and Murphy, DreamClouds, and hOtT_dAnCeR17 as the Chasers.” Lighty says.
Jenn and AlexiaBell shake hands, and a few seconds later, Desi blows her whistle. The 14 players mount their brooms and push off the ground. Desi then winks at Trish and Jenn, and heaves the Quaffle, Bludgers, and Snitch into the air. Horrorgirl03 immediately takes possession of the Quaffle and battles her way through the outstretched arms of the 3 Gryffindor Chasers. Murphy grabs the tail of Horrorgirl03’s broom and yanks her back. Belle’s head snaps forward and she loses the Quaffle. Desi blows her whistle right away and gives Hufflepuff a penalty shot. Horrorgirl03 grabs the Quaffle that is thrown to her and makes her way to the Gryffindor hoops. She takes a deep breath, but right when she tosses the Quaffle, tomfeltonsgirl screams loudly and Horrorgirl03 fumbles it in surprise. It drops slowly toward the ground before Murphy swoops down and grabs it. Tomfeltonsgirl, who had pretended to fall, attempts an evil smirk but only manages to make herself look like a creep. “CHEATING! THEY CHEATED!” Natalie screams at Desi, but Desi has to let tomfeltonsgirl off because she has no proof she cheated. Mae flies off with a stupid look on her face, and decides to chase a few butterflies. Too bad she doesn’t realize that Jenn and Trish won’t let her screw with their team. The 2 Hufflepuff Beaters nod at eachother and fly toward tomfeltonsgirl, who is flying in a large circle with a blank look on her face. They close in on her, and a Bludger miraculously appears right next to Trish. Trish whacks the Bludger with her Beater’s bat and it sails into Mae’s back. The force of it sends Mae spinning around her broom, and as Jenn and Trish fly past her, Jenn elbows her sharply in the side. Desi, who was watching this with great interest, suddenly turns her head and continues her refereeing duties, acting like she didn’t just witness a foul. Trish and Jenn swoop away and give eachother a Huffie High Five while Mae rubs on the area where Jenn elbowed her.
Meanwhile, Murphy had dropped the Quaffle, and BookwormBabe521 got it. She managed to score 3 times before DreamClouds kicked her and snatched the Quaffle away from her. Syd was very upset, until she spotted a person wearing a large sandwich board advertising a shop in the crowd. But the sandwich board wasn’t for just any shop. It was for Syddie’s Ice Cream Shoppe! Manda seems to have decided… or seems to have been forced, to wear a sandwich board for Syd’s shop on it, while Gem got the nicer task of pushing an ice cream cart with dancing cones on it behind her. North trailed Gem, shouting in a large megaphone about how wonderfully delicious Syd’s ice cream is. Syd smiles with glee and waves down at the girls. Manda makes a sour face, but waves back. Syd makes a hand signal at Manda and Manda grins evilly. Manda pulls out a snocone from the ice cream cart and throws it from the stands to Syd’s hand. Syd catches it easily, takes a bite, and shoves it in her pocket. “It seems as if Syd has stored away an after-match snack!” Lighty says, but is suddenly distracted by the actual game.
Sister991 managed to get the Quaffle away from DreamClouds, but a Bludger hits her in the leg and she drops the Quaffle into hOtT_dAnCeR’s hands. She then proceeds to speed down the pitch toward the Hufflepuff goals, but Miki blocks her throw with no problems. She circles the center hoop, and when Syd flies right up next to her, they both hover for a moment. A few words are spoken and Miki starts laughing at something Syd has said. The Quaffle is passed back to Syd, and she darts down the pitch, sister991 joining up with her about 50 feet away from the Gryffindor goal hoops. Syd pulls the Quaffle out from the crook of her arm, where she has been cradling it, and throws it straight at Liz’s face. Liz opens her mouth to yell, but is not hit by the Quaffle. She is hit by a sno-cone disguised as a Quaffle! Syd jinxed the sno-cone and got a shot with the real Quaffle through the left hoop! “WOOT FOR SYD!” Lighty shouts, “WOOT FOR ALL THINGS MISCHIEVIOUS!” Syd snickers happily as Liz wipes the ice cream off her face. “Hufflepuff now has 40 points, and Gryffindor has 0.” A large cheer comes up from the Hufflepuff cheering section, which is considerably bigger than the Gryffindor one, and coincidently has quite a few Slytherins.
The Quaffle is thrown all over the field for the next 15 minutes, Hufflepuff scoring 3 more times, and Gryffindor scoring once. “Hufflepuff 70, Gryffindor 10!” Lighty shouts above Nikki’s raucous cheering. “GO TWIM!” Nikki yells as Natalie passes the commentator’s box. Natalie gives her a thumbs up, and then scores with the help of Horrorgirl03. Sassyangel03, looking obviously agitated, swung as hard as she could at a Bludger, which hurtled toward Btvsna and almost took her head off. If Miki hadn’t been so quick, it might have. Desi frowns in Ang’s direction but Ang gives her a look as close to a death-glare as a Gryffindor can pull off. Desi rolls her eyes and wonders what’s gotten into the usually placid Gryffindor.
Meanwhile, Sister991 was heading toward the Gryffindor goal hoops when hOtT_dAnCeR came up from under her and yanked the Quaffle away from her after pinching the back of her neck. Natalie shouts an obscenity, and looks around for Trish. After spotting her and getting her attention, she points at hOtT_dAnCeR’s back and Trish nods. She hits a Quaffle with her bat and it hits the Gryffindor Chaser in the back. Natalie smirks. “Nice job, Trishy!” she yells, and mutters something about Quidditch Karma under her breath. Sassyangel03, who watched this while glowering, was unfortunate enough to get the after effects of the Bludger, which bounced off the Chaser and ended up hitting her in the head. She floated loosely in the air for a moment with a stunned look on her face, before falling the 10 or so feet to the ground. “And a time out is called by AlexiaBell, the Gryffindor team captain, because of a fall from a fellow Gryffindor player." Lighty says, with a bored tone to her voice. Murphy and Erin land next to Ang. Murphy picks up her Beater’s bat and pokes her with it. Ang’s eyes fly open and she snatches the bat back from Murphy, and then hurls it at Trish as hard as she can. Trish ducks the bat easily, and raises an eyebrow at Ang. Desi blows her whistle, calls a foul, and gives Hufflepuff a penalty shot. “WHAT!?” Ang screams, “IT’S A TIME OUT!” Desi shrugs, pulls out a copy of, “The Book of the 8,354,758 Fouls in Quidditch”, and points to it. “This book is gospel, and it says that fouls can happen during time outs.” she says, as sister991 scores. “And it’s Hufflepuff with 90 points, Gryffindor with 10.” Lighty says happily from her seat.
Hufflepuff seemed to get a mean streak in them after that, and did anything to get their way, causing them to score 5 more times. After a fight between Jenn and Mae, where Jenn succeeded in yanking out a clump of Mae’s hair and Mae succeeded in looking like a prick, Desi gave up on calling fouls. There were too many to call. She sat back in a lawn chair, grabbed a kitty cocktail, and sat back to enjoy the match, only calling the more serious fouls.
After SqueePhrek blocked a particularly bad shot from Murphy, the Gryffindors started to realize they were being clonked into the ground by the Hufflepuffs. Their egos started to flair, and they started cheating more than ever. The score of 140 to 10 was still intact after 10 minutes, though, and the Gryffindor Chasers were all getting tired from trailing the Hufflepuffs around the field.
Suddenly, a moan comes up from the Hufflepuff supporters when Mae dive bombs a glint of gold flittering around the bottom of the center Hufflepuff goal hoop after she sees Btvsna go after it. They reach the Snitch from opposite directions and pull up sharply 3 feet apart. Mae looks over her shoulder to see if Desi is looking, and when she sees she isn't, punches Miki squarely in the face. Miki collapses backward off her broom and Mae snatches the Snitch.
“DID YOU SEE THAT!?” Lighty shouts angrily, but alas, Desi had not. She had been focused on yanking a thread from her shirt out. Desi jerked up when she hears the crowd booing, and sees the Gryffindors all landing. Mae looks pretty durned pleased with herself, as do a few other Gryffindors, but Murphy looks at her and comments on her wonderful cheating skills. “Well Steve, you cheated too!” she whines at him, but he just walks away. The Hufflepuff team lands after a few moments and Jenn approaches Desi. “Does this count?” Jenn asks her, looking very pissed off. “Um.. well… Yeah, I guess it does. It was a foul, but Mae caught the Snitch fair and square.” Desi says, and then nods up at Lighty, who is peering out her window, and Lighty sits back in her seat.
“Gryffindor wins the match, 160 points to 140 points.” A few boos are called out, but the teams have already receded into their locker rooms. A large cloud rolls over the sun and heavy rain starts to fall on the disappointed spectators.
Being sick probably contributed to that, lol. Hmphers.
you can write well even when you dont have inspiration
You're a great fic writer so that makes me feel good. =P
<------made by cadence. Thanks Kim!!