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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 12:54:20 GMT -5
Draco sneered over at her, but really he hoped she was all right. He preferred to irk people, especially those he had no personal vendetta against, but not necessarily hurt them.
Clutching his wand tightly in his hand, he squinted his eyes against the light and called out to her.
"Hey, who the hell are you anyway?!"
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 15:07:22 GMT -5
Alenia's head dropped. She wheeled and hovered, staring intently on the guy now fifteen feet beneath her. Her anonymity was the only thing that kept her from having to worry about some bizarre vengeance call, of course, why would he need vengeance. Again Alenia grimaced at the thought of being saved by a Slytherin, Draco Malfoy no less. That's all she needed, some jerk hunting her down so she'd repay the favor, lending money or something stupid.
The bludger he had kicked slowly made it's reappearance in the distance. She summoned her club and watched it progress. It was back on the pitch in seconds and she allowed it to get closer to her before moving. She swatted it effortlessly away with the bat and looked down at Malfoy.
"What's it to you who I am or am not? Planning on reporting me or something?"
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 15:23:44 GMT -5
Draco posed his question, then stood and waited on her answer, though he had to stand for a while, watching her wack the oncoming bludger.
"Reporting you? Nah, not my style," he said with a smirk.
"I just like to know the names of all the filthy blood traitors that happen to come my way. You actually don't have too bad of a swing, so I expect to see you on the pitch when I catch the snitch for Slytherin's victory. Don't let me down.."
Draco gave a faked smile and started to walk back around the side of the bleachers, where he had left his Nimbus 2001.
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 16:26:46 GMT -5
Alenia scoffed, don't let him down? Blood traitor? If she wasn't so sure that she'd definitely kill him with the next spell she used, she might've fought him. Though she knew, no matter the situation, it wasn't always right to strike back. Sometimes words can cause as much harm as a wand.
Then agin, she spoken already quite a bit.
Alenia slid her wand into her palm and whispered a jinx, the first one that came to her mind. A tripping jinx. The words slid out of her mouth and her jinx almost seemed visable as it floated towards malfoy. She hid her wand back up her sleeve and pretended to focus on the bludger, all the while watching Malfoy.
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 16:40:57 GMT -5
As he was walking, Draco felt himself unmistakably wobble, and the next thing he knew, he had fell straight to the ground.
He was, of course, confused as to what had just happened, but the truth of it soon dawned on him and he jumped back up. Draco Malfoy was not one known for being able to hold his temper, and he soon made this evident.
"ACCIO NIMBUS" he cried, as her broom shot towards him, with her atop it.
"I'll make you pay for humiliating me when my back is turned!" Draco flicked his wand once more, hitting her with a confundus charm, quickly followed by a banishing charm, and watched as her and the broom started to shoot away.
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 17:46:59 GMT -5
Alenia had no idea what was going on anymore. Her eyes were blurry and she couldn't think straight. She was aware of herself moving, but against the normal direction, she wanted to go forward, towards something, but what? She couldn't tell anything apart, she just wanted to stop moving. She looked down and saw that she was flying backwards on a broom. It was weird, she felt disoriented and she just wanted to stop moving. She didn't quite understand why she was up in the air, or what she was doing going backwards. Her head spun, she rolled, falling sideways off of the broom, the broom kept going farther and farther away, but she was moving downward.
Her eyes cleared, and her thinking process booted back up. She was falling, and falling fast. She must have been far up, because the ground still had a while to meet her. Why was she falling? She couldn't quite grasp it, then she remembered, the pitch, her broom. 'Damnit, that jerk. Confunding me!' She couldn't remember the words she needed. Something to make the broom meet her. She was getting frustrated, if only she could get the rest of the charm to wear off faster. 'Think, think. I need to summon, summon, summon. What are the words. Something "A". Accord, acumulate, acorn. Damn, wait.; "Accio broom!" The nimbus 2000 stopped, but it didn't appear to be getting any closer. It was still fighting the banishment charm. Alenia looked back down, the ground was far too close. "Accio Broom!!!" She cried frantically. The broom edged in her direction, but it was slow progress and she didn't have much time to spare. She pointed her wand at her chest. "How do I slow myself down, what're the words. Arrest somthing. Arresto "M".' "Arresto momentum" Her body slowed, the ground was still coming, but the impact wouldn't kill her.
She turned to her side and let her shoulder hit the ground first. Though the force at which she hit the groud was slowed, she was still sure that her shoulder would be a big bruise the next day. Grimacing she tried summoning her broom again. She wasn't going to let this slide. Her broom sidled slowly towards her, still trying to race away into oblivion. She rooted herself down and grabbed the brrom with her left hand. Immediately she felt the strong pull of the interfering charm. "Finite!" The broom stopped attempting to force itself away and floated lightly in her hand.
"Right," she mounted her broom and kicked into the air, "I'm gonna go give that jerk a piece of my mind." She moved towards the figure of Hogwarts fully taking in the force of the banishment charm. "He's gonna pay for this, pure-blood trash."
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 17:57:17 GMT -5
Draco watched until he could no longer see her, then figured it would be best to let her go buzz around confunded for a while.
He sighed and walked over to his broom, picking it up and mounting it, a moment later he was in the air. Only to see a small figure in the distance coming back towards the pitch and the castle.
Malfoy cursed and raised his wand over his head, and spat the incantation like a curse. "Solaris!"
A blinding bright flash illuminated the whole of the area, and with this, Draco spun in the air and rode his broom to the astronomy tower, landing on top and unhatching the trap door, and began his descent.
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 19:05:06 GMT -5
Alenia swore, her eyes closing tight at the brightness of the light. She hated not being able to see. Even from this far away from the pitch she still had to clasp her eyes shut. The light receded and she blinked her eyes open. The tiny speck that was in the distance had vanished, and she assumed he had seen her coming. She leaned forward to increase her speed and shot towards the pitch.
"Damnit, damnit, damnit." Alenia looked around as to some sign of where he might have gone. He clearly didn't walk back to the school, he had to have gone somewhere that he could enter the school arially. Her mind raced then it became obvious. The Astronomy tower.
She landed on the roof next to the trapdoor and smirked, the door hadn't closed completely, and she knew that Sinistra always checked the hatch before class ended. He had slipped up, now she'd get back at him.
She pulled the hatch open slowly and sidled inside, listening intently. If years of pranking had taught her anything, it was that the safest way to get around is quietly, or not at all. She stepped slowly over the threshold, leaving her broom on the roof, and tip toe-ing down the stairs. There, leaving the room, she sawy him. Without a moment's hesitation she pointed her wand from her position on the stairs and belted "Furnunculus!" Quickly she dodged back behind the column on the stairwell. Things were about to get very interesting.
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 19:56:39 GMT -5
Too say Draco was quite upset with once again being attacked from behind would be an understatement. These boils were quite painful, though nothing more so than that.
Malfoy spun and saw her standing atop the stairs and and his wand true.
"Stupefy!"
When he saw that his spell had hit home and that she was falling from the stairs, he used the same spell he had earlier to slow her falling and caught her in his arms, placing her upon the ground, and began to think for a moment. Well, the best way to get rid of an enemy, was to get them off your back, or at least turn them to your side. Draco concentrated on what he was here to do, and pointed his wand at her.
"Obliviate!"
There now, he thought, that memory charm will erase all her memories of me, and make her think that she had simply been practicing quidditch and had fallen down the stairs, bumped her head, and I had revived her.
Draco smiled at his own cleverness, and when he was done, he removed the boils from his body as quickly as he could, and aimed his wand back at her.
"Rennervate."
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 21:48:04 GMT -5
Alenia's eyes fluttered open. Her mind was blank, not unusual, she often spaced during the day. No surprise her head was pounding like it was inside out. She looked up and rolled away startled. "Who the hell are you and what do you think you're doing?"
Now she was completely lost, her last thought was the quidditch pitch, now she was seeing the sandstone walls of the Astronomy classroom. It didn't make sense. She brushed her black hair away from her face. Her left shoulder was throbbing like it had been slammed by a brick, it was almost eye watering. And who was this random blond-haired jerk staring at her, why did he seem so familiar? Also, why did she hate him right away? Then she saw it, the S on his robes, apparently she could smell a Slytherin miles away.
She reached her pocket to find her wand, but it wasn't there, it was on the ground next to the boy. What had she been doing before she blacked out? Had she even blacked out? Was she dueling this kid? Why couldn't she remember getting into the Astronomy tower? The only thought that crossed her mind was the possibility of a confundus charm. She couldn't have passed out from fear, it had to have been something this Slytherin had done. She wasn't some blue-eyed floozy, she knew he had something to do with it. "You'd better tell me what's going on kid, or I'll make you pay."
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 22:12:37 GMT -5
Draco Malfoy raised an eyebrow at her.
"What's going on? I just saved you! That's what's going on."
Malfoy looked at her like this should be painfully obvious before continuing on.
"I've really got no idea what you were doing, and if you can't remember then there's more testament to how hard you must have hit when you fell. I walked into the classroom, I was going up to the tower to fly, and I saw you come falling down the stairs, so I used a charm to slow your fall but you still hit kind of hard anyway. Anyhow, I guess this is your wand?"
Draco reached down and picked it up, holding it out to her. "Guess it fell off you when you slipped on the stairs or whatever." Draco shuffled about for a moment.
"Anyhow, I was headed up to the tower to do some flying. Care to join? Or are you going to keep making snappy remarks at me?"
Draco walked past her and grabbed the first rung of the ladder.
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 22:24:08 GMT -5
Alenia grabbed her wand looking taken aback and ashamed. It was typical of her to judge a person based on their house, then again, she had to consider how her aunt turned out. A Slytherin too, she joined the Death Eaters and drug Alenia's favorite cousin into it. They both died four years ago, for killing a muggle shop keeper.
"Look," she said before following, "Sorry. I must've hit the ground as hard as you say because I honestly have no idea what's going on. I wasn't even aware that I was near this tower. I guess I should be thankful, if you did save my life like you said."
Still not completely sure who the kid was Alenia followed him up to the roof of the tower. It was breezy and her broom was lying on the roof. "I guess I must've caught a turbulent slipstream and fallen into the tower. Fortunately you were there." She picked up her broom mounted it and looked at the boy. "After you."
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 23:33:11 GMT -5
"I never said I saved your life, merely saved you from having a worse concussion," which was true, he thought. Far worse curses would have followed if he had not made this simple peace with his memory charm.
Draco summoned his broom from the shed where he had earlier banished it to, and mounted it.
"So, you play any quidditch?" Draco asked already knowing the answer. "Maybe we could get some practice in."
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Post by Alenia on Mar 27, 2007 23:46:13 GMT -5
"Funny thing you ask," Alenia said slyly, "I'm a rather keen beater. I have to warn you though, if you want to practice, you'll have to watch out, I have a mean strike." She chuckled slightly. It was sort of weird though, she had an awkward sensation she couldn't place. Like something else had happened earlier, but she couldn't place what. It was like almost an entire hour of her life had blanked in a four second fall.
Alenia shook off the feeling and looked at the blond boy. They kicked off and she remembered something, "We're going to need the gear. I don't have my bat, or the ball chest. We'll need Hooch's permission to use it." She hadn't thought of this before leaving the roof, maybe she should've ran back to her room to fetch everything.
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Post by Nova on Mar 27, 2007 23:59:41 GMT -5
Draco gave her a sly smile.
"Actually, Hufflepuffs had practice this morning, and Ravenclaws have the pitch this evening. They usually the leave the balls out during the time in between. Where I was going anyway, like I said, I was coming up to the tower to do some flying, usually the ball case is on the field, and I can just get the snitch and chase it around and catch it over and over for some practice spotting and grabbing it. Let's go."
Draco shot forward in the direction of the field, settling down on the pitch and seeing the box of quidditch balls nearby. The bludger he had kicked earlier still laying nearby, though it had appeared someone had repaired the fire damage to the stands in his absence. Hagrid must have seen the smoke.
He grabbed up the bludger and headed over towards the box of balls, tossing the bludger and beaters bat to Alenia.
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