GAME 2 - Falpanderions vs Oldies Kicking Ninja Attackers

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This game is starting today 4th June and will end 14th June!

Below will be a schedule you must follow in this game. According to
that schedule in those days you must play according to that country
twist!

4th - 5th - China: A chained Chinese Fireball is placed in the middle
of the field! Be careful, he huffs, he puffs and he bites!

6th - 7th: Russia: The field is now in a large cave, in the ceiling there are thousand of icicles that keep falling!

8th - 9th: Turkey: Out with your brooms! This time your flying on carpets!

10th - 11th: Texas: Nothing fancy here, except you must wear cowboys hat and you must not drop them! No charms allow to make the hats stick better!

12th - 13th: Indonesia: The field is a huge rainforest, tall trees, unexpected animals, all obstacles you must overcome!

Remember to keep checking this schedule to see if you're playing according to these twists on the right day!

You're allowed to catch the snitch, on the second day of each country. That is, 7 possible times to catch it!

Please all remember, this is a group sport, make it fun for others, do
not act all mighty power! You'll be judged on the following things, not
snitch catching or goals scoring:

Skill shown
Team work
Maneuvers
Knowledge of the game
Creativity
Initiative
Reliability of team

Good luck teams!

(OKNA BEATER CAPTAIN)

The first time the world would see her team in action. She couldn't help a smile from gracing her lips, even though she'd been trying to seem adult and in charge on the day of their first game. She looked around at her team mates, all stuffed into the locker room in their beautiful teal, black and silver robes, shin, elbow and wrist guards laced up, brooms and bats held tightly. They were ready. She clipped her bat to her belt, exhaling slowly.

"We're here," Elana said as though she herself didn't believe it. "China. Quidditch in China. We've trained, we've committed, we've strengthened ourselves and our team as a whole. This is our first - " she winked here, silently referring to their apparent ability to simultaneously play two games at once " - chance to show everyone here what we've got." She took a moment's pause, taking a deep breath, and then continued quickly, "Guys, that Fireball is not going to want us flying around up by his head. I've read that these dragons are particularly aggressive, so let's just try not to aggravate her too much, okay? I want us all getting out of here in one piece; no one likes visiting St. Mungo's."

She took another look around at her team, a small satisfied smile on her lips, and nodded towards the door. "All right. Let's go!"

Elana led the way out of the locker room and into the warm Chinese summer. The oriental stadium was beautiful - the only thing ruining the image was the firetruck-red dragon in the center snarling at the emerging team. Elana couldn't keep the picture of her team disappearing in shot of flame from the dragon out of her mind. She shook the image from her head as she swung a leg over her Woodburn 38S2 and kicked off from the soft ground. She unclipped her beloved bat and began looking for a Bludger.

(OKNA Beater)

Jenn hurried out onto the field after Elana. For some reason, she always seemed to be hurrying everywhere. Surely everyone else was just overly early as there was no way that she could be late ALL the time. She shook her head. No of course not.

Squishing another dumpling in her mouth, she hurried to chew it before the game started. Although she knew it was always a bad idea to eat before a big game, Jenn found that she just couldn't help herself! I mean they were in China for goodness sake! While she was here, she was planning to eat as much as she can and go look for some TVB stars as soon as possible. With that thought in mind, she half turned around to give Swifty a wave. The other girl had already promised to show her around as they went star hunting.

Jenn let out a sigh as she heaved the Beater bat onto her shoulders. She had never actually played this position before, but surely it couldn't be that hard right? All you really had to do was watch out for bludgers and hit them away from you. Piece of cake. That was until she got out to the field and saw the giant fire breathing dragon sitting in the middle of the field.

"Seriously? Seriously?!" She raised a hand to her eyes as she looked around the stadium. "Who's idea was this? Raist! I know it was you!" Unfortunately, at that same moment, she saw Elana in the air already looking for the bludger and starting the game. Jenn had no choice but to hop on her broomstick and do the same. Or at least try to. Her Woodburn 38ES buckled a bit and started weaving in the air at the additional weight of the bat. Or so Jenn hoped that was the reason and not all the food she ate earlier. She grabbed her broomstick with her left hand and tried to steady it. After a while, she was able to get it under control.

This game surely wasn't going to be easy.

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[Faplanderions Chaser]

Quidditch have been something so dear to Sashi. She've been so interested and in love with the game per say. But with all her love and passion to play she haven't been able to play one - until now. She have signed-up a position for the World Cup Quidditch Tournament, and today is her first ever match!

She woke up early and prepared everything she needed. Uniform, hand&knee gloves, three different kinds of glasses (goggles, sunglass goggles and a transparent one), coat, all with a Volturi touch, and of course, her brrom - the Pulsar. After that, taking all her stuffs in her bag she headed straight to the locker room and changed.

Facing a mirror hanged in her locker she cheered herself, "This is it! My very first match! Go Sashi! You can do it! Falpanderions' a class of it's own! Get that quaffle and shoot, don't fall!" She beamed, now she's a bit fine, she even felt better. "My team mates will always be at my side, well we're a team I'm not on my own, so no worries!" With a deep breath she went out of the grounds.

Entering the pitch a Chinese Fireball welcomed her sight. "Chinese!" she squealed. "I love Chinese! Yay!" The Chinese look of the pitch shrinked off her nervousness, she's so comfortable with everything Asian, and Chinese, it's so her other personality. "Chinese Fireball! Oooohh..scary. Well, team. Watch out for that one, they are aggressive, well, at least if we sorta keep our distance with her we'll not get into trouble. So be careful!" she pointed out to her team mates.

Sashi mounted her broom, she wore her sunglasses goggles and kept the other two clipped under her robe. Seeing their opponents, Sashi greeted them in Chinese. "Ni hao! (Hello!)"

And as she reached Elana's side she greeted her as well, "Ni hao peng you! (Hello friend!) Ni hao ma? (How are you?) I bet this'll be a great match....Though a better one if that fireball's mouth is taped." she added.

(OKNA BEATER CAPTAIN)

Elana smiled at Sashi in welcoming, but before she could reply the pitch around them started to swirl. Unnerved, she gripped her broom even tighter with her hands and legs until the swirling settled and they were now in an enormous cave. She took a curious look around, and, sure enough, everyone was still there; the stands lined the walls of the cave, the goal posts were the same distance apart as they always should be, and all of the players who were there were still in the air. Taking a look up, Elana saw that the ceiling of the cave was decorated with glistening icicles. But they weren't, apparently, too stable. In the few moments she was looking up three giant icicles plummeted through the air to the ground, crashing and shattering spectacularly. She gulped; it wouldn't do to get hit. There was the scoreboard, and above the scores it read "РОССИЯ - RUSSIA". Ah, to be in Russia, the home of her ancestors! She pouted slightly; she would've loved to stay longer and see the sights, never having been there before. But she had taken some classes in the language...The ref was now rising with the crate of balls, and she said quickly to Sashi, "Привет! Я являюсь большим, и это похожо, что игра собирается начинаться. Всего наилучшего." (Hi! I'm great, and it looks like the game is about to start. Best of luck!)

Elana zoomed over to center field where the ref was hovering. The ref blew her whistle and released the balls. Elana caught a tiny glimpse of the golden snitch before it zoomed away, watched the Quaffle be thrown high into the air and start to come down... - but that wasn't her position today! Two huge, black balls were now ricocheting around the cave, sending down more and more icicles, and it was her job to send them at the opposing team. Sorry, Sash, she found herself thinking as she took off towards a speeding Bludger.

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[Falpanderions Chaser]

Whoah! Sashi exclaimed as she nearly lost her balance and fall off of her broom. Managing to get a tight grip on her broom she looked around to see what's happening. The pitch is swirling. Confused and nervous, she held her broom even tighter. "Goodness! I forgot that we'll be on different places!" The Chinese themed pitch vanished and walls that seems to be of caves took its place. Icicles were everywhere, and as she gets a bit amazed with it's sight some started falling landing sharp on the ground and made a loud crashing sound. Gulp! I think this'll be more difficult.

Seeing the referee releasing the quaffle she dodged towards the ground, a bit far behind Elana, and reached it. "Nice! Hello quaffle, I'm Sashi, nice to meet you," she said to the quaffle, as if it can really talk to her. Off she went straight to their opponents hoops. But wait, she's stuck in that cave with two opposing beaters, so she thought she have to be more careful. "Goody, goody, goody! Please don't let those bludgers beat me," she prayed.

Seconds later, she heard a thwack Sashi looked at her back and saw that Elana sent off a bludger staright to her. "Oh, shoot! I don't want to start hating a bludger, for Quidditch's sake!" Sashi started to fly in a quick-turn zigzag, she flew to left then quickly to the right. The bludger is somewhat chasing her and it seems that she's going nowhere. Change course! she thought to herself. She held her broom tighter with her left hand and hugged the quaffle with her right. Waiting for the right moment to do a trick she looked back and counted. Three..Two..One! Just in time she managed to pull her broom and flew upward making a big curve backwards making the bludger pass below her. "Woohoo!" she exclaimed and she flew again off to their opponent's hoops.

But in the middle of her flight, the scene once again swirled and changed, the Russian theme turned into Turkish, and surprisingly her broom yanked crazily, without second thoughts she hold the quaffle tighter than her broom making her fall. She shut her eyes and let herself fall freely all the way to the ground, and toing! She bounced. Feeling a bit different that she's now not falling, and at the same time not hurt, slowly she peeped and saw that she's floating.

"Carpets!" she exclaimed. "Thank you Rai! I always knew you still love us!" She shouted up to the skies. She hold the front edge of the carpet and once again flew off to their opponents' hoops. "Whew! That was really close, I thought St.Mungo's will be my next stop." she told herself. "Now off to that hoop quaff!" And there, she flew straight in front of the middle hoop and threw the quaffle. "Please, shoot!" she prayed.

(Okna Confused Chaser)

Elfie stood at the sidelines with her...flying carpet!

"I havent learnt how to ride a carpet yet!!" she cried before being swept off of her feet by the purple rug, sending her backwards and clinging to the edge with dear life.

The carpet was out of control. Where was the brake? How was she meant to stear?

Too late...suddenly she found herself heading straight for a huge tree that for some reason was growing in the middle of the stadium! Flying faster and faster, her legs dangling over the side, until she hit the tree, the carpet slinging itself around the trunk as she slipped towards the ground.

"I need L plates!" She cried before crashing onto the ground, a crunch of a bone breaking under her, "I need a doctor!"

(OKNA Chaser)

"Woah." June grimaced. Articulate, June, really articulate. Sadly, 'woah' was the only expression coming to mind at the moment. The air was dry and hot, disturbed only by the occasional breeze... but that wasn't what had shocked June. What had shocked June was the flying carpet now hovering in front of her. The flying carpet! A carpet that flies! Hopefully by now you get the idea. A carpet that flies and is banned most places except for... oh. Well, that explained it. The flags being waved by the spectators proudly pronounced: TURKEY and June could only shake her head in amazement.

June stared at the carpet, wondering how to... well... fly on it. It's not like this was included in OKNA practice sessions! After a few moments of fruitless contemplation, June sighed, rolled her eyes, threw caution to the wind, and proceeded to run towards the carpet before jumping on it. Whoomph! June gasped as she landed. Though the carpet wasn't hard by any means, the force of the landing still knocked the wind out of her.

Once June was suitably settled on the carpet (which was absolutely gorgeous and patterned in her team colors, might I add), the carpet began to rise in abrupt starts and stops. June leaned down and clung to the carpet for dear life. "An instruction manual would be helpful," she muttered before she looked down at the carpet and stated as firmly as possible, "Stop." Surprisingly, the carpet did and June breathed in relief before the carpet suddenly zoomed forward, knocking her back to lie on it. "Umm..." she said frantically, "slow down! Slow! Gently!" For a moment it seemed as if the carpet wouldn't respond, but it gradually began to slow down. "Uh, good carpet," June said as she scanned the air around her.

Suddenly, her stomach clenched as she leaned closer. Was she really seeing that? As she leaned, June's carpet began to fly in that direction, gaining speed as June realized that she just might be able to control this thing. "Faster!" she hissed, "Faster!" The carpet obeyed and finally June stopped in above a crumpled figure lying at the foot of a tree. Floating downwards, June confirmed her previous suspicions. It was Elfie, her fellow Chaser. Elfie, who looked in pain and whose arm was jutting out at a strange angle. June turned and waved to a distant figure in Mediwizard robes. "Hey!" she called, standing and waving frantically. "Over here! You're needed over here!" June looked down at Elfie and the words poured out of her all in a rush. "It'll be okay, I promise, we've been through worse injuries before, right? Hang in there, he'll be here soon, it'll all be okay. Think of Aimee, think of Aimee, alright? You're going to be fine and just rest and no matter what happens, we'll work it out and we'll win this game!"

(OKNA BEATER CAPTAIN)

As the swirling began again and Russia turned into Turkey - their brooms into carpets - , Elana beamed at the new-coming members of her team, Elfie and June. But she couldn't give them a warmer welcome, for she had no clue how to control a flying carpet! It was still speeding along, and so she tried what she'd heard June do. "Slowly please!" she cried, and the teal carpet slowed to a gentle speed. "Much better," Elana said, re-situating herself on the carpet. She sat cross-legged in the middle of the carpet, bat held in one hand and a fistful of carpet in the other. She was about to go on the search for another Bludger when she heard a cry.

"I need a doctor!"

Elfie! "Turn, carpet, get down there! Stop the game!" The ref heard her and blew the whistle, signaling a time out. The carpet obeyed her directions and slowly made its way down to the base of the tree where Elfie lay, June standing beside her, and a Mediwizard was on his way towards. Elana hopped off of the carpet, landing with a dull thud on the Turkish ground. "Oh, Elfie, you're going to be all right!" Elana said, kneeling beside her. "Is there anything you can do now, sir?" she asked the Mediwizard.

"The most I can do is bandage it, unless she wants to be done playing," the Mediwizard said. "Ferula." A splint and bandages appeared around the elf's arm.

"Thank you!" Elana exclaimed, giving the Mediwizard a hug around the middle. She extended her hand towards Elfie to help her up. "Ready to play?" she asked, grinning. "Or if you don't feel up to it you can sit out for a while," she added quickly.

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[Falpanderions Seeker]

Bella walked onto the field dressed in her brand new team robes. She had, ofcourse made a few alterations. She had kept the black cape pretty much the same, but only cause it looked pretty awesome already. The red striped with black t-shirt she had been given had be altered to a tight low cut mid drifft singlet of the same design, showing off some of her better features. And Bella had thrown out the loose baggy black pant and thick leather boots. I mean what on earth could be done to make them look nice? Instread Bella wore a short black miniskirt, and had added 3/4 length black tights at the last minute when she realised that skirt plus flying high in the air would equal some sort of censor needed for small children. Instead of the boots she had gorgeous brown leather strappy heels on.

She arrived slightly late and saw the game was in action! Bella sighed, time to find the snitch then... She wasnt really a seeker by preferece. It was sort of a back up and to be completely honest, to say her skills could be improved was [utting it nicely. Despite all that, Bella mounted her broom to do her best for her team... except her broom, well wasnt a broom. ''What the...?'' Bella asked no one inparticular. Since when did they ride carpets in quidditch matches? She was sure that she had carried in her broom, and even Bella couldnt make such a silly mistake. Well she could make that mistake but (thankfully) it wasnt Bellas fault as everyone else seemed to be riding carpets too.

Bella sighed and mounted her black silky one somewhat akwardly and flew into the air.

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[Falpanderions Chaser]

Sashi's rejoicing for the Ding! as she got points for her team when she heard the ref's whistle for a time out making her turn and look at what was happening. She saw their opponents scrambling under a tree, worried and curios she too flew her carpet onto the place and see Elfie on the ground being cured by the Mediwizard. "Oh, thank goodness we have Mediwizards. Better, Elfie?" she asked Elfie. "Well, I hope you are," she added with a smile.

Few moments later she was destructed by something that shadowed her. She looked up and saw Bella, their seeker for this game. "So, good luck to us all then," she told the other team as she flew on Bella's side. "Hey!" she greeted Bella with a high-five. "I never knew you'll come with a skirt. Good thing you didn't forget to put on your tights," she told her with a giggle. "Ready to heat up this match? Good luck with your snitch snatching!"

[Falpanderions Chaser]

Elladora was flying (quite literally) through the locker rooms on her broomstick, worried of how much of the game she had missed. However, upon entering the field, there was no longer a broomstick underneath her, but instead a flying carpet! Elladora had to quickly readjust her position so she was sitting on her knees and gripping the front end of the carpet that she had folded over itself. (She was assuming it worked the same as in Aladdin. Luckily, it worked. GAME 2 - Falpanderions vs Oldies Kicking Ninja Attackers 436937

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After adjusting to the flying carpet, Elladora looked around for the match status. It appeared to be that Sashi had just scored, and the other team should have possession. Elladora looked around and waved hi to Sashi, also spotting Bella in a very cool outfit. "Hey, guys!" she greeted.

She looked at Bella's outfit then down at her own. "I should attack mine with a sewing machine when I get home..." she said. "Let's get back in action and score some points. Bast of luck, Bella!" Elladora tugged on the carpet a bit and ascended into the air, taking a switchable postition so she could get on the offense.

[Falpanderions Seeker]

''Hey Sashi!'' Bella repied, hi fiving her team mate back, ''Well i got told we could alter or uniforms, and those pants? Made me look and feel like i was wearing a circus tent! And besides i like always wear mini skirts or short shorts, but i figured that i'd wear a skirt today, you know being first game of the season and all'', Bella continued flipping her long blonde hair over her shoulder, ''Its a pity there a no cute boys here though... And I totally neary didnt put tights on until I like walked out and was like omg i cant be hundreds of feet up in the air in a skirt!'' Bella laughed. She then realised she was probably talking to much, but she was always like that. No need to add that no matter how much luck Sashi gave her she would still be hopeless at snitch catching.

''Hey Elladora!'' Bella greeted another team mate who had just arrived, please that they now had two players cappable of scoring points. True the other team also had two chaser and thier beaters too, they were somewhat outnumbered but Bella was confident in her friends abilities. ''By the way do you have a ic name or something that I should call you cause Elladora is awefully long. Its nice though so if you dont thats fine too'', Bella shrugged. And you dont have to do that, I mean I did cause I always attack things and well the uniforms didnt really suit my style but it looks nice on you so I wouldnt worry. But if you want I could help you'', Bella offered. It was true that the uniform looked great, and Elladora and Sashi wore it well, but Bella wouldnt mind helping make any ajustments Elladora wanted help with. Team spirit was the way!

Bella continued to look around the pitch for a glimer of gold whist she hovered in mid air, searching, sofar fruitlessly, for the golden snitch.

[Falpanderions Chaser]

Sashi giggled with the thought that Bella nearly forgot to wear thights, as well as her thinking that it's a pity there were no cute boys around. "Well, at least you DID not forget, we actually cannot tell if there isn't any cute boys in here. There maybe some, who's probably watching the game. You know," she winked at Bella.

In a short while, Ella came in to the feild. "Hey! How are you? I thought you'll not make it, but glad you did!" she greeted Ella. In the middle of their conversation the scene have started to change again, their surroundings swirled, trees and bushes have been replaced by cactuses of different sizes. Their carpets turned back into brooms! "Yay! I missed you broomy! Though I think I'll be missing carpy - the carpet - too. Oh well. Let's get back into business!" Sashi was ready to ascend when something blocked her sight. "Hey! What's this?!" she asked holding and feeling whatever the thing is by tapping lightly her head. "What is thi- A cowboy hat!! Cool!" She exclaimed. She removed her hand off the hat making the hat fall onto her head blocking her sight once again. "What the...? Why didn't we undergo fitting for this?! Mine is too large for me!! No fair!! This is a sabotage!" she complained to everybody but nobody in particular.

{Faplanderions Beater}

Emmalynn flew onto the feild, and, upon entering, a huge cowboy hat was magically placed on her head. Lucky for her, it wasn't a bad fit.

With her beater's bat in hand, she attempted to soar up to her teammates, but the hat started to fall off! Quickly, she stopped and replaced it. Utilizing some quick thinking, she decided to make a strap for her hat. Hopefully this isn't against the rules... she thought as she ripped part of the hem of her robes off. She quickly wrapped it over the top of her hat and tied the ends together under her chin.

"Okay. Back to business," she said, soaring into the air. She smacked a beater out of her way as she made her way to Sashi. "How's the game going?" she asked.

(OKNA Chaser)

June sighed with relief as the Mediwizard began to heal Elfie; it looked like her friend would be alright, though not totally able to play. The referee nodded once when she saw that Elfie was going to be alright, and he blew his whistle, signalling for the game to continue. June rose up into the air, scanning all around her and noticing how various players had entered the game, though only for the other team. Oh well... she hoped that more of her own team members would get here eventually.

Suddenly, June yelped as she felt her carpet disappear from under her and she began to plummet toward the ground. Before she had fallen more than a foot, however, her flailing limbs hit and wrapped around her broom. Shaking and struggling to breathe deeply, June slowly righted herself on her broom and looked around. The stadium had whirled once more and signs all around proclaimed that she was now in Texas. Wondering if the carpet-to-broom transformation was the only change, June felt something fall on her head. She reached up, grabbed it, and pulled it off. She raised her eyebrows when she saw that she held a cowboy hat. "Uh, thanks?" she said, slightly confused. "I guess they hope we don't get heat stroke or something..."

Shrugging, June was about to put on the hat again when the referee's magnified voice proclaimed (quite loudly, by the way), "ALL COWBOY HATS MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES BY PLAYERS!" June hurriedly put her hat on, rolling her eyes at the referee. The hat fit snugly on her head, but June wondered how she was supposed to keep the hat on while flying at high speeds. Even now with her just flying slowly away from Elfie, the hat was in great danger of being flung to the winds. Reaching into her pocket, June pulled out a handful of bobby pins and proceeded to attempt to attach her hat to her head. When she finished, she felt her head carefully and sighed. It wasn't that bad, but it definitely wasn't good either. June hoped she wouldn't be pulling any sudden drops because then this hat might just fly away.

Turning her attention back to the game, June saw the referee about to throw the quaffle back into play after the time out because of Elfie's injury. She saw some of the opposing Chasers forming what looked like a formation, but she couldn't be sure. After all, they didn't have the quaffle yet so they could be doing anything. About the quaffle... Reminded about the incredibly important red ball, June leaned down to her broom, bending her head so she was lookiong towards the ground. She began to fly very quickly in the general direction of the referee, but her sight was impaired. Now the wind was pushing against her hat and keeping it on her head, but if she lifted her head, June was almost certain that she'd find her hat fighting to get away from her hair.

After a few minutes, June slowed down and raised her head, putting one hand on the hat. The referee had thrown the quaffle in the time she'd taken to fly towards him and the quaffle was now falling straight for the ground. June grimaced as she began to descend towards it. Not only did she have to think about keeping the quaffle from anyone else, but she also had to think about keeping the annoying wide-brimmed hat on her head! Finally, she came to a temporary solution.

As June angle her broom down, she changed her and her broom's position so that if she looked ahead beyond her broom handle, she would see the quaffle once it came into view. This would have to be done quickly; if she flew too slow, then her hat would fall off. She needed to fly fast to keep the wind's pressure pushing her hat upwards onto her head as she flew almost straight down. Gaining speed, June eventually saw the quaffle come into view. The instant that happened, June began to move her broom so that instead of flying straight down, she and the quaffle would collide, hopefully resulting in catching the ball.

Hoping her bobby pins would be enough to keep the hat on her head, June slowly reached out to the quaffle. Finally, the two met and June smiled as the ball fit in her arms like the right puzzle piece. Jerking her broom up, June swooped towards the goalposts of the Falpanderions. Her hat was indeed still on her head by some miracle and June focused on reaching the goals, though she used her peripheral vision in case a Falpanderion tried to take the quaffle away, or a bludger decided to fly towards her. Or both. It was always best to be prepared.

(OKNA BEATER CAPTAIN)

"Thanks for all of your help!" Elana said, patting the Mediwizard on the shoulder before reaching for her carpet to get back into the air. But instead of the soft fabric her hand brushed the polished wood of her broomstick - and there was something on her head! Her hands leapt up and took off what had landed onto her head, and she found a teal colored straw cowboy hat with a gold sheriff's star-shaped badge on the front. Just a bit tacky, she thought, chuckling as she popped it back onto her head. Now the trick would be to keep it on while speeding through the air...Elana took a wary look up, holding the hat on with a hand to the back of it.

"See ya'll up there," she said, tipping her hat at the others as she mounted her hors - broomstick. The Texan theme was getting to her. She kicked off, the air threatening to blow off her hat already. She slowed her broom and tightened the strap so the bead was tight under her chin, and unclipped her Beater's bat from her belt. The Quaffle had been released and June - woo! - was in possession, but there were a few Falpanderion Chasers out there. The pitch wasn't big enough for the two of us - I mean, she had to protect her Chaser. It was Beater time. Elana's hand tightened around her bat as she called, "Jenn! It's a Guardian Angel moment! Quickly!"

The Guardian Angel, a Beater play, was a protective maneuver (hence the name) in which the Beaters would revolve around their Quaffle-bearing Chaser. With the doubled protection against Bludgers and opposing players, it became quite unlikely that anything could break the barrier. It was tricky for the Beaters to keep up with the speeding Chaser while smoothly revolving, but with all of the OKNA practices the team had a pretty good idea of what to do. They could just guard on either side, but they had found that the movement befuddled the opposition - where were they going to be next?

Elana flattened herself against her broom and hastened towards June. She came up to her side and began to move clockwise around her, urging her broom faster in order to keep up with the Chaser. The Beater's broom was a bit slower than the Chaser's, but with enough encouragement it was motivated enough to stay by her. "We'll keep 'em at bay, Junebug. You just focus on your aim," she called. "We believe in you!"

(OKNA BEATER)

This was definitely not her day...er week. She had to spend most of the game in China trying to extinguish her broomtail from the fire that the dragon kept shooting at her (Oliver wasn't going to be happy about this as his brooms weren't fireproof). And he burnt all her fortune cookies! Luckily Jenn was able to savage the day as she was able to purchase a lucky love charm that she saw on the promotion billboard. She had flown up to the commentator's box to ask about it and saw that the owner was in the box with him! Although she knew Elana was going to be mad that she spent most of the game negotiating with him, she figured she could placate her by giving her the free charm that she got!

Adjusting the cool looking cowboy hat that suddenly appeared on her head, Jenn grinned sheepishly at Elana and flew over to June's other side. Hooking her leg around the bottom of her broomstick, she leaned to the left, causing the broom to dip downward as Elana flew upward. As she tucked a strand of hair that fluttered in the wind behind her ear, Jenn raised her hand to the top of the broom and pulled it upward. Spotting a bludger coming from a distance, she pushed herself upward, although it made her broomstick fall back, and she gripped the beater bat in her hands and raised it up slightly as she waited for the bludger to get a bit closer.

"Come on, come on..." Jenn muttered to herself as she tightened her hold on the bat. As it was a couple of feet away, she pulled her arm back and whacked at the bludger just as it was about to hit. Wham! Although it didn't go too far back, at least it was far enough for June to continue on safely.

(OKNA Chaser)

June looked up as Elana and Jenn flew towards her and began to revolve around her in the Guardian Angel. “Thanks,” she said to both of them and focused straight ahead on the nearing goals, giving her peripherals a break. She was pushing her broom almost to its limit right now, scoring as her only objective, and she noticed that Elana and Jenn’s brooms were being pushed to the max. Careful not to go too fast – it wouldn’t do to lose the much-needed protection – June adjusted the quaffle so that it wasn’t as tightly held against her. She was so close to the goals now and it’d be easier to score with the quaffle less protected.

Knowing that Elana and Jenn would be able to keep other players and bludgers out of the way, June focused on her job. She slowed down a little as she reached the goal posts and clutched the quaffle in her hand. The Keeper for the Falpanderions hadn’t arrived yet so June took her time, making sure her aim was perfect. Once she let go of the quaffle, she wanted to make sure that only an opposing force could keep the quaffle from entering the hoop. From within the protection of the Beaters, June raised her arm not even daring to breath in case that affected her aim, and threw the ball hard towards the middle hoop. She didn't take her eyes off of it as it soared through the air with a little spin. It got closer and closer to the hoop and June crossed her fingers.

[Falpanderions Chaser]

"Good," she told Emmalyn whom have ascended beside her, "but it'll be better if this hat fits me!!" she said in irritation of the hat. "We have a 10 point advantage," she added as she focused more now onto talking with Emma. "Shooting without an opposing Keeper is the best! I think I'll always want to be a Chaser when times are like this," she joke to Emma.

Next, she saw June, an OKNA Chaser, whizzed high above them, and was later joined by two beaters who apparently are revolving around her. "Whoah! What a move!" she exclaimed amusingly. "Let's go Emma!! I think we have to get back to business." she told Emma as she dashed up on her way to their three opponents in action.

She held her cowboy hat with her right hand, flattened herself onto the broom and tried reaching the three. Feet away from them Sashi can tell that there's no way she can get nearer to June and snatch the quaffle, but still she held her hopes an continued following. She's flying at her broom's top speed when June finally stopped, she even took her time shooting the quaffle, until she finally threw the ball. "Noooooo!!" Sashi screamed as she flattened herself even closer to her broom to try flying a bit faster as well as to stick with the broom as she clings to it tighter with her legs. She dashed passing the three, she let go of her broom, pleased that she'll make it to not fall and reached for the quaffle. "Gotcha!" she exclaimed as she caught the quaffle. Then, an "Aaaaahhh!", a "Ding!" and an "Oww!" followed.

Too fast she have flown, she didn't manage to pull her broom to a stop. Instead, her supposedly blocking of the quaffle to go through the hoop turned up side down. She hit the bottom half of the hoop with her stomach making her hang in there, while the quaffle and her broom fall down on the ground, and later she joined them in falling together with her cowboy hat - that she have tried to reach out and managed to put on her head back.

On the ground, though she did made it to wear the hat back, she ended up clutching her stomach, she is in real pain, but at the back of her mind her motivation says she have to focus with the game first. "Right! No PAIN, no gain!" she said as she stood weakly. Limping, she grabbed the quaffle and her broom. "It hurts a lot, but for the team, I have to be strong," and again she kicked off the ground and flew straight - though not as straight as she used to fly earlier on the game - to the OKNA's goal posts.

Suddenly, the scene once again swirled, her loose cowboy hat vanished and tall trees began to rise in front of her, beside her and even below her. "Good gracious! First, a loose irritating cowboy hat, and now these suddenly rising tall trees! Still irritating, if only I'm not that hurt! Ow.." she exclaimed as one rose beside her nearly making her fall again. "Girls? I think I badly need some back-up!" she shouted loud to her team mates as she flew higher hoping to escape the continuously rising trees. But as she flew, something make her broom bounce back and forth. She looked at her back and saw a monkey hanging on her broom. "oohh..ohhh..oohh...wahhh...aahhhh..ahhh!!" it shrieked. "Get off my broom!!" she ordered the monkey, but instead of getting off, it made it's way on her back. It snatched the quaffle from her and jumped onto a rising tree. "Hey!! Give me back that quaffle!!" Sashi ordered the monkey once again as she chase him.

(OKNA BEATER CAPTAIN)

Drat! Sashi had stolen the Quaffle! That would not do.

Elana turned her broom around and swept her eyes across the pitch for a Bludger, but that suddenly became harder as trees abruptly sprouted from the ground and grew to enormous sizes. She stayed still for a moment, listening for the telltale swooooooooooosh of a Bludger. However, in the jungle that noise seemed to turn into swooTHUDooooooosh as the Bludgers bounded off trees. Hearing one over to her right, Elana took off and soon had it within her sight. A bright blue macaw squawked as she darted under its perch; she shook off the feathers it dropped onto her head and continued after the Bludger.

"There you are," she sang sweetly, narrowing in on one bouncing between two gigantic trees. She inched closer, not wanting to be caught in the middle of this ping pong match gone wrong, and reached out with her bat to knock the Bludger towards Sash. With a satisfying thwack the Bludger went flying towards the Chaser.

(Sorry for the awful post, just got my wisdom teeth out and am feeling a little looooooooooooopy XD)

[Falpanderions SUPER LATE Keeper]

Kate raced onto the pitch. She was late. Super late. Not bothering to
grab her gloves as she flew through the changing rooms so fast the
things around her were a blur. Zooming up into the air, Kate flew
straight at the hoops she was supposed to be guarding she didn't know
the score, who was there or what had happened, but none of this
mattered, she had to be there. Even if it was simply to support her
team mates so close to the end of the match.

Finally settling in to her position, Kate took a look around the pitch. Emmalynn, Sashi and Bella
were her only team mates she could see on the pitch at the moment, but
that still didnt mean Kate was out of the woods yet. Looking at the
scores Kate saw something that gave her heart a leap. 10-10 This meant
they still had a fighting chance.

Suddenly, Kate saw something terrible. Sashi was in trouble. Holding the quaffle, suddenly a monkey had jumped on the back of her pulsar, grabbed the quaffle, and jumped into a nearby tree. It was lucky Kate could see clearly through the trees as they were popping up all over the pitch. Racking her brains, Kate remembered the game briefing. There would be a new theme every few days. Today was the Indonesia theme. Rainforests. Hard to navigate by foot, terrible by air. All of the vapours from the ground were rising up and clogging Kates vision. Taking a closer look in the trees, Kate saw monkeys under every single branch, and a wide range of other animals too. Including some she had never seen before in her life.

Deciding she should help, Kate tried a technique she was unsure would work. She had tried the move only once with her team mates and was unknowing to its actual final result - the last and first time she had tried it, it had landed her a black eye and two weeks in the hospital wing. But she knew it in theory. Designed to take the quaffle from an uncooperative opposition. In this case the opposition was a money - or rather lots of monkeys - and Kate was hoping the theory would work out. The Confusing Nut was the hardest move to do.

Getting into position, Kate grabbed hold of the front of her broom - the pulsar - with two hands, stood up on the broom still holding on at the end, so she created a lowercase letter 'n' and flew straight on at the monkey in the tree. "ELANA! WATCH OUT!" Kate screamed as suddenly, Elana flew straight in front of her, trying to get the quaffle. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! QUICK!"

[Falpanderions Chaser]

"Aaaahh!!" Sashi was chasing the monkey who snatched her lovely quaffle when she heard a bludger on her right and hit her leg. It made her hit a tree on her left making her fall on the ground with her other side, but before the bludger have made it to hit her she saw Kate flying, about straight towards where Elana was, but she never saw whether the two collided or what.

"Ow! Why can't I have at least a game where I'll not be injured?!" she asked as she tried getting up. Her leg hurts, and she thought it'll be a small thing, since she'll be flying and her legs can then rest. But as she stood, she limped, lost balance and fell again. "Shoot! Getting back on my broom seems to be taking ages!"

It'll have took her about nearly half an hour before she made it to get onto her broom if the Mediwizards didn't came to help her, again - as they have helped her too on their teams other match that's running at the same time with this game she's playing. "Thanks for the help, once again," she told the mediwizards before she mounted her broom once again.

"Now where is that monkey?" she asked as she flew up and searched for the monkey who took the quaffle. Flying passed about ten to twelve trees she pulled her broom as she finally saw it playing with the ball on a nearby tree. She then turned left and ceased the creature but to her surprise the monkey threw the ball to afar. Sashi gasped, she thought that the monkey might have got over playing with it and thought that it's not that much fun to be played - poor little creature he's not aware how fun it is to play with that ball and Quidditch as a whole. Sashi then grabbed this opportunity to steal back the quaffle and take it to where it should go - through the OKNA's post. She flattened herself on the broom and slowly speeds up as she zoomed to catch the free falling ball. Before the quaffle hit a tree Sashi made to get the quaffle and this time she managed to pull in to a stop. And again flew up now going straight to OKNA's goal posts. This time she thought she should fly higher than she have flown earlier. And she hugged the quaffle even tighter, just in case there'll be more monkeys on the way she'll not be bothered that they'll try to get the quaffle from her anymore, there's no chance she'll let them get it, no way.

Lucky she have been that she reached the OKNA's goal post unharmed with the quaffle safely resting in her arms despite the bludgers madly flying around the pitch hitting barks and branches here and there and some annoying birds who pecked her robe until it got rips and holes. She floated in front of the middle hoop and wasted no time to throw it hard enough to get through the hoop. The loud Ding! made her robe be ripped worth it.

I'm extending this round accordingly:

1st - 3rd - China: A chained Chinese Fireball is placed in the middle of the field! Be careful, he huffs, he puffs and he bites!

4th - 7th: Russia: The field is now in a large cave, in the ceiling there are thousand of icicles that keep falling!

8th -11th: Turkey: Out with your brooms! This time your flying on carpets!

12th - 15th: Texas: Nothing fancy here, except you must wear cowboys hat and you must not drop them! No charms allow to make the hats stick better!

16th - 19th: Indonesia: The field is a huge rainforest, tall trees, unexpected animals, all obstacles you must overcome!

[Falpanderions Chaser]

Sashi was rejoicing with the point she got for her team when suddenly the scene have started to spin and swirl. "What on Earth? Isn't the game supposed to be done by now?" she said.

And later she heard a familiar voice echoing around the pitch. It was Rai's saying that the game has been extended.

The change of scene is done, and she's now back onto the first ever view she have seen when their match against the OKNA team have started. She now back in China, and so is the Chinese Fireball planted at the middle of the field!

"And I thought I would not see you again. Oh well, it is still China! Woohoo!! Let's go Falpanderions!! Let's show some Falpanderionastic jobs in here the second time around!" she shouted as she dashed down the pitch reaching for the quaffle again.

Tough Call but:

Falpanderions - 1500 points
OKNA - 1600

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