Chapter 19: Quidditch Free-For-All
That morning Cho woke Chanse up, at seven, for Quidditch practice, "Chanse wake up. You need to get ready for practice...and hurry; I want to be on time, please."
"Ok, ok." Chanse rolled out of bed and got in the shower.
About twenty minutes later, Chanse came out of the bathroom, dressed, and hair done. "Let's go." Chanse said as she walked across the room and grabbed her broom.
"I'm not ready yet." Cho yelled from the bathroom.
"I couldn't tell." Chanse laughed, to herself, as she walked out onto the balcony. Chanse looked up at the sun, slowly, as she was standing on the balcony, she looked out, and around at all the students sitting, in the courtyard, or flying around. "Go Ravenclaw!"
Chanse looked down, in the courtyard, and saw Stewart Ackerley, was screaming, "GO RAVENCLAW!" as he walked around the courtyard.
Chanse laughed and shook her head, and looked down at Stewart. "Hey Stewart!" Chanse yelled down, and Stewart looked up. "Go Stewart. Represent Ravenclaw!" She laughed, and watched Stewart continue yelling.
Chanse looked up in the sky, and watched all the students casing each other around the courtyard, on their broomsticks.
"Chanse let's go!" Cho yelled. Chanse turned around and looked back at Cho, who had her broomstick, in her hand, and was waiting in the doorway.
Chanse ran over to Cho, "Ok let's go." Chanse and Cho walked down, to the commons room, and waited, till the last team member came down.
When the whole team was down there, Roger took roll, and when he was finished he began to talk, "Well, as you all know today is the Quidditch Free-For-All." The team started to shout with excitement, "Calm down...As you all know this is where all the houses play each other. And for those who are new," Roger looked over at Chanse, and smiled, "or those who have forgotten, what happens in the Free-For-All, listen up...
There are four rounds, the first three rounds are twenty-five minutes long, and only have quaffles and bludgers in the round. The seekers become Chasers for the first three rounds.
Then last round is played as a regular Quidditch game. At the end of the first three rounds, the team with the lowest score is eliminated. The two teams with the highest scores play it out in the end, as a regular Quidditch game. The rules are still the same as regular Quidditch, and each team has a total of two time outs, per round.
Oh I can't forget each team is paired up with another team as an alliance. But with this alliance, if you're paired with a good team, you are allowed to score on them, but as soon as you do, your alliance is broke off, and it becomes two teams alone, and two teams in an alliance.
I suggest we keep our alliance this year, even if it against Slytherin. Because last year we broke our alliance in the first round, by scoring on our partner is Slytherin," Roger glared at Terry.
"What? It was an open goal, so I took it." Terry shrieked.
"I don't care. This year we're keeping the alliance...No matter what!" Roger sternly said back to Terry. "So are there any questions?"
Roger looked around at his team. "Ok no questions then. We're going to go downstairs, into the courtyard and plan our attacks on the ground first, and then we will head up in the sky and run the plays, with no balls." Roger looked around at his team, "Let's do this...Everyone's hands in."
The team made and circle and put their hands in the middle. "RAVENCLAW!" They all screamed as they threw their hands in the air.
Roger turned around and led his team out of the house, down the hallway, down the rotating stairs, and out into the courtyard. Roger led the Ravenclaw team all around the courtyard, they all were in a single file line, and were walking around the courtyard chanting, "Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw..." And even a few of the Ravenclaw house members joined in on the line.
Chanse was chanting, 'Ravenclaw', as loud as she could, but then she stopped quickly and looked up in the sky. She saw the Slytherin team practicing, and watching Ravenclaw, walk around. 'They're good.' Chanse thought.
Chanse looked at the Slytherin team run plays, over and over, do it exactly how they were needed to be done. She looked at all the players, and then she saw Tom Riddle, watching the Ravenclaw team.
Chanse watched him fly over to Marcus Flint, and started talking to him. Chanse watched them talk and Marcus would point at Ravenclaw team members, and some of the Slytherin member.
Chanse watched them, and tried to figure out what they were talking about, but she couldn't make, anything, out. She looked over at Tom, who, the whole time they were talking, was staring at Lisa Turpin, who was screaming at the top of her lungs.
Chanse quickly pushed her way up towards Lisa. She finally reached her and she stood directly behind her. Chanse tried not to look to suspicious so she started to sing the chant, but she never took her eyes off of Tom.
She continued to watch Tom and Marcus, and she stopped singing when Marcus handed Tom something. Chanse moved her head around to see what was handed to Tom, but she couldn't see anything, but she could see that Tom was still watching Lisa.
Chanse looked down at the ground for a spilt second but then her head began to hurt. She turned around and looked up in the sky and saw a bludger coming straight towards Lisa's head. "Watch out!" Chanse screamed as she pushed Lisa out of the way.
*BAM*
Chanse caught the ball, and everyone stopped chanting, running around, and flying, and looked over at Chanse. But the whole time everyone was looking at her, she was staring up in the sky at Tom, who was glaring back down at her.
Chanse looked at Tom, cocked her head to the side, dropped the bludger, and turned around and helped Lisa up. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah. Thanks." Chanse nodded, and then looked back up at Tom, who went back to practicing.
The Ravenclaw team came running over to Lisa, and Chanse, "Are you guys ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Lisa said as she wiped dirt off her robe.
"Chanse?" Cho asked as she tapped Chanse, who was busy staring up at the sky, "Chanse?"
"Oh...yeah." Chanse looked over at Cho, "I'm fine. Bludgers haven't hurt me yet; I don't think this one is going to hurt me." Chanse laughed. "Now Ravenclaw, let's go kick some Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Gryffindor ass!" Chanse screamed. The Ravenclaw team yelled and hooted with excitement.
"Over here team!" Roger yelled, as he walked over to the fountain.
The team sat down and listened to Roger go over plays. "Ok everyone understand this one?" The team nodded, "Good. This next one's called Porskoff Ploy..."
Roger continued explaining his plays to the team "Ok you ready to run some of these plays?" Roger looked at everyone who was nodding, "Ok then...Chasers, Beaters, Seeker, and Keeper...let's take our positions...first play we're running is the Hawkshead Attacking Formation, with Wronski Defensive Feint...Ok, let's run it!" Roger yelled.
Roger tossed the quaffle ball to Chanse, "Ok we're going to start this out like one of the teams tried to score on Chanse, and of coarse, Chanse blocked it...Ok Chanse."
Chanse chucked to quaffle ball up to Roger, who started to walk (acting like he was flying) towards the opponent's goal. Quickly Master and Orla ran up next to Roger, and fell back, so that the three of them were now in a triangle position, "Good, Orla...good Master." Roger said as he continued to walk.
"Ok, now Cho do you know what you do?"
"Roger don't treat me like a child." Cho said as she pretend to fly down close to the ground, and then she quickly, pretended, to pull back up into the sky.
"Good, Cho...Ok well we understand Hawkshead, and Wronski. Let's now run Porskoff Ploy!" Roger yelled.
They continued to run their plays over and over again, until they had every move down perfectly. "Ok team, come in." The team ran over to Roger, and join together in a circle. "Let's try this in the sky now, ok?"
"YEAH!" The team screamed, as they all mounted their brooms and flew into the sky.
"Let's run Hawkshead," Once again Chanse tossed the ball, up to a chaser, Orla, and Roger and Master joined behind her as they flew towards the opponent's goal.
"Good, now Porskoff, with a Wronski." Chanse tossed the ball up to Master, who flew high into the sky, and pretended to be chased by another chaser. Then he threw the ball down to Roger, who flew towards the other goal.
While the chasers were doing that Cho, flew down, pretending to fly down by the ground, and then she quickly pulled up to the sky. "Good team, I think we have them down."
The Quidditch teams continued to practice till Madam Hooch walked out into the courtyard, "The Quidditch Free-For-All will be starting in thirty minutes. The stadium is now open for anyone who would like to go in..." All the students ran as fast as they could towards the stadium, and the teams gathered together, "...and all Quidditch teams please report to your locker rooms. That is all." Madam Hooch turned around and walked towards the stadium.
"Well you heard her guys...it's time." Cho said with a smile.
The Ravenclaw team lined up and flew towards the stadium, and landed outside of it. Roger took roll quickly, before they walked in, "Mandy?"
"Here." The list went on.
"Last, Chanse?"
"Here."
"Ok, well everyone's here...let's go." Roger turned around and led his team into the hallway to the locker rooms: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. The locker room hallways read.
"Down here." Roger said, as he walked down the Ravenclaw hallway.
Once they were inside, Chanse looked around and everything was blue and bronze, and ravens were on the lockers. 'This is definitely our locker room.' Chanse thought.
"All team captains please report to the front desk, to find out your alliance team." Madam Hooch said on the megaphone.
"I'll be right back, I suggest you guys stretch." Roger said as he walked out of the locker room.
Roger walked down the hallway, to the front desk, where Marcus Flint, Kevin Whitby, and Oliver Wood, were standing, "Hello boys." Madam Hooch said with a smile, from behind the desk. "Let me find the list...one moment." Madam Hooch searched through the desk pulling out files, and papers, and tossing them on top of the desk. "Here it is!" Madam Hooch exclaimed, while waving a piece of paper in the air. "Let's see..." She said as she looked down the paper.
"Here we are...Gryffindor, you're with...Slyth..." Oliver looked over at Marcus, who was glaring at him, "...wait no you're with Ravenclaw...Which means, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, is the other alliance." Marcus and Kevin looked at each other with a hatred glare, and Oliver and Roger looked at each other, "Good Luck boys."
"Thank you." The boys replied, as they all walked their separate ways, back to their locker rooms.
Roger finally reached his locker room, "So Roger, who our partner?" Orla shouted.
"Our partner is..."
Lee Jordan came on the megaphone, "Hello Quidditch fans, and welcome to the Hogwarts Quidditch Free-For-All. I'm your commentator Lee Jordan..."
"He'll tell you." Roger whispered.
"I've just been informed who the alliances are. You guys ready to hear them?"
"YES!" The Ravenclaw team screamed, as the fans just screamed.
"The alliances are...Gryffindor...and..."
"I wish he would just say it already, damn." Terry said as he rolled his eyes.
"They are..." The Ravenclaw team leaned closer to the megaphone, "Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff and Slytherin!" Lee screamed over the megaphone, as the crowd went wild.
"Yes, we're with Gryffindor!" Terry shouted with excitement.
"Ok, that's good that we have Gryffindor," Roger sat his team down, "they're a strong team, and that's something we can use to our advantage...but we ARE keeping this alliance, ok?" and said as he glared at Terry.
"What?!" Terry said, as he looked away, with a smile.
"All teams please report to your doors." Madam Hooch said over the megaphone.
"Ok team...let's go." Roger stood up, grabbed his broomstick, and led his team out of the locker room, down a hallway, to the Ravenclaw door. "Line up!" Roger yelled, at his team, who quickly fell into a straight line.
Chanse stood there, with her eyes closed, trying to clear her mind of all her thoughts, "Roger, we forgot to have someone say something for the team!" Orla yelled from the back.
"Oh, shit that's right." Roger said as he turned around, "Ok, well Chanse quickly sing us something."
Chanse opened her eyes, and her mouth, to start singing. But right as she did that the huge wooden doors slowly swung up. "There's no time. We'll have to do without it." Roger said as he turned around and walked out.
"But Roger, we need it!" Orla yelled.
"No we don't! Let's go!" Roger yelled back.
Chanse followed behind Roger, and the rest of the team followed behind her.
Once they reached the edge of the field Roger turned to his team, "Try your hardest, and well win, you don't try, we don't win!" Roger yelled, and his team went wild.
Ravenclaw mounted their brooms and flew up into the sky, towards the South end, where the Ravenclaw goals were. Chanse flew in front of her goal, and looked around at all the teams: Gryffindor was in the East side, Hufflepuff was in the North end, Slytherin was in the West side, and her and her team were in the south end.
The Chasers were shooting on the Keepers, the Beaters were hitting the bludgers back and forth, and the Seekers were flying, in circles, around the stadium.
Chanse smiled and then looked at all the fans. They were all in the bleachers screaming and yelling and even some had signs made for their house team. "Welcome to the Quidditch Free-For-All." Lee Jordan said, and the crowd went wild. "Calm down...I would like to take this time, before the games start, to introduce the team members of the teams. And if the team members wouldn't mind waving, or doing something, so that everyone knows who you are."
Lee Jordan looked around at all the teams...Ok first I would like to start with Gryffindor..." The Gryffindor house fans screamed, "The Captain, and Keeper, of the Gryffindor Quidditch team is Mr. Oliver Wood." Girls from all over the stadium screamed, and Oliver stopped and sat up straight and waved at the stands.
"Next, are the lovely Gryffindor Chasers...Miss. Katie Bell," Katie waved, "Miss Angelina Johnson," Angelina did a quick dart to the left then the right, then she laughed and waved at her fans, "and Miss Alicia Spinnet." Alicia smiled and waved. "Thank you ladies."
"Next, are the Beaters...Mr. Fred and George Weasley." The boys looked up from hitting the bludger back and forth and waved to the crowd.
"Last, but not least, the Gryffindor Seeker...Mr. Harry Potter." Harry was flying around the stadium, as fast as he could, but he quickly stopped and looked up.
"What?"
"Bloody hell, Harry wave to the crowd!" Ron yelled from the stands.
"Oh." Harry quickly waved to the crowd and continued to fly around.
Chanse laughed at Harry, and continued to block the shots from the chasers. "Next team is, Hufflepuff..." The Hufflepuff house started to sing their house song. "The Hufflepuff Captain...Kevin Whitby, he is also a Beater." Kevin spun around in circles on his broom.
"The Chasers are...Mr. Owen Cauldwell." Owen caught the quaffle and waved, "Mr. Michael Corner," Michael waved, and went back to scoring on the keeper, "and Miss. Megan Jones." Megan tossed the quaffle ball towards the goal, and waved.
"The other Beater, for Hufflepuff is...Miss Sarah Fawcett." Sarah saluted the crowd, and hit the bludger back towards Kevin.
"The Keeper for Hufflepuff...Mr. Mitchell Lock." Mitchell caught the quaffle and tossed it back to Owen, and waved.
"The Hufflepuff Seeker, has been changed from Megan Jones, do to injury. Now the Seeker is...Ernie MacMillan." Ernie blushed and smiled.
"The next team, who is Gryffindor's partner...Ravenclaw." The Ravenclaw house went wild, with screams, and yelling.
"The Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain and Chaser...Mr. Roger Davis." Roger waved. "The other Chasers are...Miss. Orla Quirke." Orla waved both her hands in the air madly, "and...Mr. Master Stebbins." Master saluted the crowd.
"Ravenclaw's beautiful Seeker...Miss. Cho Chang." Cho stopped flying around and waved. Harry quickly looked up from flying over at Cho. "Harry, watch out!" Hermione yelled from the stands.
Harry looked in front of him and saw that he was flying straight towards one of Slytherin's goals, "Shit!" Harry quickly swerved his broom around the goal.
"That was a close one Potter." Lee Jordan smirked, over the megaphone.
"The new Keeper, who's making a lot of heads turn...Miss. Chanse Jackson." Chanse hit the quaffle ball as hard as she could back at Roger, smiled and waved to the crowd.
"The last team, partner to Hufflepuff...Slytherin." The Slytherin house clapped madly, while some of the other houses booed.
"The Captain and Chaser for Slytherin...Marcus Flint." Marcus looked up at the crowd, and swished his hand in the air.
"The other Chasers are...Mr. Peter Warrington." Peter looked up and swished his hand too. "And Mr. Montague." Montague looked up at the crowd and then looked back down.
"The Beaters for Slytherin...Mr. Bole." Bole stuck his hand up in the air, and then went back to hitting the bludger. "And...Mr. Derrick." Derrick waved his hand quickly and hit the bludger back, to Bole.
"The Slytherin Keeper is...Mr. Bletchley." Bletchley waved to the crowd.
"And last, The Seeker of Slytherin is...Draco Malfoy." Draco flew past Harry, almost knocking him off, then he stopped and looked back at Harry, then he waved to the crowd.
"Well now that you know who is who, let's get theses games on their way." Lee Jordan said with excitement, "Here comes Madam Hooch, now."
Madam Hooch walked out onto the field with the Quidditch box. "You all know the rules!" She opened the box and let out all the balls.
"BEGIN!" She screamed.
Chanse watched all the house players flew around like mad.
Chanse was looking around trying to find any Hufflepuffs or Slytherins coming towards her. She was looking all around her when she finally saw a Hufflepuff, Michael Corner, coming straight towards her. She quickly took a stance, but out of the corner of her eyes she saw Montague coming up on her too.
Michael and Montague stopped in front of the first and third goals, and threw their balls. Chanse quickly darted to her third goal and hit the ball, "Orla, coming your way."
"Gotcha Chanse." Orla yelled as she caught the ball. Chanse flew as fast as she could towards the first goal, but she was too late.
*DING*
"The first point of the game was scored by Michael Corner, from Hufflepuff, on Chanse. Ravenclaw better get their act together or they'll be the first team to go."
"Damnit." Chanse yelled. "Times!" She screamed.
"Time out...Ravenclaw!" Madam Hooch yelled after she blew her whistle.
The teams gathered together, in their corners. "Chanse, what are you doing?"
"I dunno know." Chanse said as she looked down at Madam Hooch, who was watching her clock.
"I told you, we needed to have her sing something." Orla smirked.
"No we don't." Roger shouted
"It couldn't hurt Roger." Master said as he put his hand on Roger's shoulder.
"Fine. Chanse take the stage."
Chanse looked up at her team and opened her mouth... "I see you tryin' to hurt me bad, Don't know what you're up against, Maybe you should reconsider, Come up with another plan, Cause you know I'm not that kinda girl, That'll lay there and let you come first, You can push me out the window, I'll just get back up, You can run over me with your eighteen wheeler truck, And I won't give a fuck, You can hang me like a slave, I'll go underground, You can run over me with your eighteen wheeler but, You can't keep me down, down, down, down."
Everyone looked around at each other with a smile. "You guys happy now?" Roger asked.
"Yes thank you." Orla smiled.
"Teams return to your positions!" Madam Hooch yelled from the ground.
"Well that little time out better help Ravenclaw otherwise they are out."
Madam Hooch blew her whistle and the game continued.
*DING*
"A point on Hufflepuff, made by Angelina Johnson, from Gryffindor."
*DING*
"Another point made on Hufflepuff, this time by Orla Quirke, from Ravenclaw." Lee Jordan yelled with excitement.
*DING*
"A point on Gryffindor, made by Marcus Flint."
The game went on, two more points were scored on Hufflepuff, one more on Gryffindor, one on Slytherin, and one more point was scored on Ravenclaw.
"I think that little huddle helped Ravenclaw, very much so." Lee Jordan smirked. "Five minutes till the first team is eliminated, with the scores at four points on Hufflepuff, two on Gryffindor, one on Slytherin and two on Ravenclaw."
"End of the round!" Madam Hooch said, after blowing her whistle. "Hufflepuff you are eliminated!" She yelled.
The other house yelled, and hooted, because their house was still in. But the Hufflepuff house was quiet.
"Oh no, Slytherin might have some troubles. Gryffindor still have their alliance; Gryffindor and Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin." The Slytherin team all looked over at Lee Jordan, who quickly sank down in his seat.
"Teams you have a ten minute break before the next game starts."
The teams landed their brooms and walked back into their locker rooms, "See I told you Roger, that if we had Chanse sing the song in the beginning we would be in the lead, with zero points."
"Whatever Orla...We're doing great." Chanse listen to Roger; tell everyone what they need to work on, and how well everyone's doing. But then she got a sharp pain in her head.
Chanse shut her eyes then opened them, and she didn't see the locker room. She saw a bunch of shadows, that looked like they could be people, but they were so fuzzy Chanse couldn't tell what they were. She could see that some were standing still and others were moving around.
Then all of a sudden Chanse watched two small things run straight into two of the bigger shadows. One of the things hit one of the shadows that was just standing still, and the other thing hit one of the other shadows that was moving all around.
Chanse quickly shut her eyes again, and opened them. She saw the locker room and her team sitting around. "Chanse you ok?" Cho asked.
Chanse nodded, "Yeah I'm fine."
"Worried about the scouts?"
"Um...yeah."
"See I knew I shouldn't have told you."
"Cho..."
"But no I felt that I should."
"Cho!
"What?"
"It's ok; it doesn't bother me that much."
"Ok good."
"All teams back to the field!" Madam Hooch said over the megaphone.
Ravenclaw stood up and walked out onto the field, along with the Gryffindor and Slytherin. "BEGIN!" Madam Hooch yelled.
The three team's member flew around trying to grab the quaffle, and hit the bludgers.
Chanse was watching looking around at all the Slytherin chasers. She saw that Peter had a quaffle ball and was heading up to throw at Oliver's goal.
Oliver blocked the shot and hit the ball, towards Katie Bell, but he almost hit Tom Riddle off his broomstick "What the hell are you doing?" Tom yelled back at Oliver.
"Sorry, I wasn't aiming." Tom turned around and flew after a bludger.
The game continued on and two points were scored on Slytherin, and one on both, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Chanse continued to watch the Slytherin team fly around trying to score on Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, but they couldn't manage to score anymore points.
Marcus tried to score on Chanse, but she blocked it and hit it passed him to Master. "Oh to bad Marcus, you can't get it." Lee Jordan laughed over the megaphone. Marcus shot a quick glare at Lee, who, again, sunk down in his chair.
*DING*
Chanse looked up to see that Slytherin had been scored on; after she had hit the quaffle ball she got a bad pain in her head. She looked over at Harry, who was fine, then she looked over at Oliver, and he was fine to.
Then she looked up in the sky, and saw Tom Riddle holding a bludger. "Why's he...NO!" Chanse screamed, as she flew, as fast as she could, over to Oliver.
"Chanse! Get back in goal!" Terry yelled
"Roger cover me." Roger turned around and flew back to the goal
"I have never seen this move before...Chanse Jackson, the Ravenclaw Keeper, has left the goal, and sent Roger Davis, a Chaser normally, back in her spot."
Tom hit the bludger straight at Oliver's head.
*BAM*
The bludger hit Oliver straight in the head. "NO!" Chanse screamed, as she watched Oliver roll off his broom, and fall to the ground.
Chanse dodged bludgers left and right, to get to Oliver. The crowd was, mostly, silent as they watched Chanse take blows after blows. Nothing was going to stop her from stopping Oliver hitting the ground.
*BAM*
A bludger hit Chanse in the head and knocked her off her broom. The crowd gasped...
Chanse rolled across the ground and laid on there...motionless.
That morning Cho woke Chanse up, at seven, for Quidditch practice, "Chanse wake up. You need to get ready for practice...and hurry; I want to be on time, please."
"Ok, ok." Chanse rolled out of bed and got in the shower.
About twenty minutes later, Chanse came out of the bathroom, dressed, and hair done. "Let's go." Chanse said as she walked across the room and grabbed her broom.
"I'm not ready yet." Cho yelled from the bathroom.
"I couldn't tell." Chanse laughed, to herself, as she walked out onto the balcony. Chanse looked up at the sun, slowly, as she was standing on the balcony, she looked out, and around at all the students sitting, in the courtyard, or flying around. "Go Ravenclaw!"
Chanse looked down, in the courtyard, and saw Stewart Ackerley, was screaming, "GO RAVENCLAW!" as he walked around the courtyard.
Chanse laughed and shook her head, and looked down at Stewart. "Hey Stewart!" Chanse yelled down, and Stewart looked up. "Go Stewart. Represent Ravenclaw!" She laughed, and watched Stewart continue yelling.
Chanse looked up in the sky, and watched all the students casing each other around the courtyard, on their broomsticks.
"Chanse let's go!" Cho yelled. Chanse turned around and looked back at Cho, who had her broomstick, in her hand, and was waiting in the doorway.
Chanse ran over to Cho, "Ok let's go." Chanse and Cho walked down, to the commons room, and waited, till the last team member came down.
When the whole team was down there, Roger took roll, and when he was finished he began to talk, "Well, as you all know today is the Quidditch Free-For-All." The team started to shout with excitement, "Calm down...As you all know this is where all the houses play each other. And for those who are new," Roger looked over at Chanse, and smiled, "or those who have forgotten, what happens in the Free-For-All, listen up...
There are four rounds, the first three rounds are twenty-five minutes long, and only have quaffles and bludgers in the round. The seekers become Chasers for the first three rounds.
Then last round is played as a regular Quidditch game. At the end of the first three rounds, the team with the lowest score is eliminated. The two teams with the highest scores play it out in the end, as a regular Quidditch game. The rules are still the same as regular Quidditch, and each team has a total of two time outs, per round.
Oh I can't forget each team is paired up with another team as an alliance. But with this alliance, if you're paired with a good team, you are allowed to score on them, but as soon as you do, your alliance is broke off, and it becomes two teams alone, and two teams in an alliance.
I suggest we keep our alliance this year, even if it against Slytherin. Because last year we broke our alliance in the first round, by scoring on our partner is Slytherin," Roger glared at Terry.
"What? It was an open goal, so I took it." Terry shrieked.
"I don't care. This year we're keeping the alliance...No matter what!" Roger sternly said back to Terry. "So are there any questions?"
Roger looked around at his team. "Ok no questions then. We're going to go downstairs, into the courtyard and plan our attacks on the ground first, and then we will head up in the sky and run the plays, with no balls." Roger looked around at his team, "Let's do this...Everyone's hands in."
The team made and circle and put their hands in the middle. "RAVENCLAW!" They all screamed as they threw their hands in the air.
Roger turned around and led his team out of the house, down the hallway, down the rotating stairs, and out into the courtyard. Roger led the Ravenclaw team all around the courtyard, they all were in a single file line, and were walking around the courtyard chanting, "Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw..." And even a few of the Ravenclaw house members joined in on the line.
Chanse was chanting, 'Ravenclaw', as loud as she could, but then she stopped quickly and looked up in the sky. She saw the Slytherin team practicing, and watching Ravenclaw, walk around. 'They're good.' Chanse thought.
Chanse looked at the Slytherin team run plays, over and over, do it exactly how they were needed to be done. She looked at all the players, and then she saw Tom Riddle, watching the Ravenclaw team.
Chanse watched him fly over to Marcus Flint, and started talking to him. Chanse watched them talk and Marcus would point at Ravenclaw team members, and some of the Slytherin member.
Chanse watched them, and tried to figure out what they were talking about, but she couldn't make, anything, out. She looked over at Tom, who, the whole time they were talking, was staring at Lisa Turpin, who was screaming at the top of her lungs.
Chanse quickly pushed her way up towards Lisa. She finally reached her and she stood directly behind her. Chanse tried not to look to suspicious so she started to sing the chant, but she never took her eyes off of Tom.
She continued to watch Tom and Marcus, and she stopped singing when Marcus handed Tom something. Chanse moved her head around to see what was handed to Tom, but she couldn't see anything, but she could see that Tom was still watching Lisa.
Chanse looked down at the ground for a spilt second but then her head began to hurt. She turned around and looked up in the sky and saw a bludger coming straight towards Lisa's head. "Watch out!" Chanse screamed as she pushed Lisa out of the way.
*BAM*
Chanse caught the ball, and everyone stopped chanting, running around, and flying, and looked over at Chanse. But the whole time everyone was looking at her, she was staring up in the sky at Tom, who was glaring back down at her.
Chanse looked at Tom, cocked her head to the side, dropped the bludger, and turned around and helped Lisa up. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah. Thanks." Chanse nodded, and then looked back up at Tom, who went back to practicing.
The Ravenclaw team came running over to Lisa, and Chanse, "Are you guys ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Lisa said as she wiped dirt off her robe.
"Chanse?" Cho asked as she tapped Chanse, who was busy staring up at the sky, "Chanse?"
"Oh...yeah." Chanse looked over at Cho, "I'm fine. Bludgers haven't hurt me yet; I don't think this one is going to hurt me." Chanse laughed. "Now Ravenclaw, let's go kick some Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Gryffindor ass!" Chanse screamed. The Ravenclaw team yelled and hooted with excitement.
"Over here team!" Roger yelled, as he walked over to the fountain.
The team sat down and listened to Roger go over plays. "Ok everyone understand this one?" The team nodded, "Good. This next one's called Porskoff Ploy..."
Roger continued explaining his plays to the team "Ok you ready to run some of these plays?" Roger looked at everyone who was nodding, "Ok then...Chasers, Beaters, Seeker, and Keeper...let's take our positions...first play we're running is the Hawkshead Attacking Formation, with Wronski Defensive Feint...Ok, let's run it!" Roger yelled.
Roger tossed the quaffle ball to Chanse, "Ok we're going to start this out like one of the teams tried to score on Chanse, and of coarse, Chanse blocked it...Ok Chanse."
Chanse chucked to quaffle ball up to Roger, who started to walk (acting like he was flying) towards the opponent's goal. Quickly Master and Orla ran up next to Roger, and fell back, so that the three of them were now in a triangle position, "Good, Orla...good Master." Roger said as he continued to walk.
"Ok, now Cho do you know what you do?"
"Roger don't treat me like a child." Cho said as she pretend to fly down close to the ground, and then she quickly, pretended, to pull back up into the sky.
"Good, Cho...Ok well we understand Hawkshead, and Wronski. Let's now run Porskoff Ploy!" Roger yelled.
They continued to run their plays over and over again, until they had every move down perfectly. "Ok team, come in." The team ran over to Roger, and join together in a circle. "Let's try this in the sky now, ok?"
"YEAH!" The team screamed, as they all mounted their brooms and flew into the sky.
"Let's run Hawkshead," Once again Chanse tossed the ball, up to a chaser, Orla, and Roger and Master joined behind her as they flew towards the opponent's goal.
"Good, now Porskoff, with a Wronski." Chanse tossed the ball up to Master, who flew high into the sky, and pretended to be chased by another chaser. Then he threw the ball down to Roger, who flew towards the other goal.
While the chasers were doing that Cho, flew down, pretending to fly down by the ground, and then she quickly pulled up to the sky. "Good team, I think we have them down."
The Quidditch teams continued to practice till Madam Hooch walked out into the courtyard, "The Quidditch Free-For-All will be starting in thirty minutes. The stadium is now open for anyone who would like to go in..." All the students ran as fast as they could towards the stadium, and the teams gathered together, "...and all Quidditch teams please report to your locker rooms. That is all." Madam Hooch turned around and walked towards the stadium.
"Well you heard her guys...it's time." Cho said with a smile.
The Ravenclaw team lined up and flew towards the stadium, and landed outside of it. Roger took roll quickly, before they walked in, "Mandy?"
"Here." The list went on.
"Last, Chanse?"
"Here."
"Ok, well everyone's here...let's go." Roger turned around and led his team into the hallway to the locker rooms: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. The locker room hallways read.
"Down here." Roger said, as he walked down the Ravenclaw hallway.
Once they were inside, Chanse looked around and everything was blue and bronze, and ravens were on the lockers. 'This is definitely our locker room.' Chanse thought.
"All team captains please report to the front desk, to find out your alliance team." Madam Hooch said on the megaphone.
"I'll be right back, I suggest you guys stretch." Roger said as he walked out of the locker room.
Roger walked down the hallway, to the front desk, where Marcus Flint, Kevin Whitby, and Oliver Wood, were standing, "Hello boys." Madam Hooch said with a smile, from behind the desk. "Let me find the list...one moment." Madam Hooch searched through the desk pulling out files, and papers, and tossing them on top of the desk. "Here it is!" Madam Hooch exclaimed, while waving a piece of paper in the air. "Let's see..." She said as she looked down the paper.
"Here we are...Gryffindor, you're with...Slyth..." Oliver looked over at Marcus, who was glaring at him, "...wait no you're with Ravenclaw...Which means, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, is the other alliance." Marcus and Kevin looked at each other with a hatred glare, and Oliver and Roger looked at each other, "Good Luck boys."
"Thank you." The boys replied, as they all walked their separate ways, back to their locker rooms.
Roger finally reached his locker room, "So Roger, who our partner?" Orla shouted.
"Our partner is..."
Lee Jordan came on the megaphone, "Hello Quidditch fans, and welcome to the Hogwarts Quidditch Free-For-All. I'm your commentator Lee Jordan..."
"He'll tell you." Roger whispered.
"I've just been informed who the alliances are. You guys ready to hear them?"
"YES!" The Ravenclaw team screamed, as the fans just screamed.
"The alliances are...Gryffindor...and..."
"I wish he would just say it already, damn." Terry said as he rolled his eyes.
"They are..." The Ravenclaw team leaned closer to the megaphone, "Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff and Slytherin!" Lee screamed over the megaphone, as the crowd went wild.
"Yes, we're with Gryffindor!" Terry shouted with excitement.
"Ok, that's good that we have Gryffindor," Roger sat his team down, "they're a strong team, and that's something we can use to our advantage...but we ARE keeping this alliance, ok?" and said as he glared at Terry.
"What?!" Terry said, as he looked away, with a smile.
"All teams please report to your doors." Madam Hooch said over the megaphone.
"Ok team...let's go." Roger stood up, grabbed his broomstick, and led his team out of the locker room, down a hallway, to the Ravenclaw door. "Line up!" Roger yelled, at his team, who quickly fell into a straight line.
Chanse stood there, with her eyes closed, trying to clear her mind of all her thoughts, "Roger, we forgot to have someone say something for the team!" Orla yelled from the back.
"Oh, shit that's right." Roger said as he turned around, "Ok, well Chanse quickly sing us something."
Chanse opened her eyes, and her mouth, to start singing. But right as she did that the huge wooden doors slowly swung up. "There's no time. We'll have to do without it." Roger said as he turned around and walked out.
"But Roger, we need it!" Orla yelled.
"No we don't! Let's go!" Roger yelled back.
Chanse followed behind Roger, and the rest of the team followed behind her.
Once they reached the edge of the field Roger turned to his team, "Try your hardest, and well win, you don't try, we don't win!" Roger yelled, and his team went wild.
Ravenclaw mounted their brooms and flew up into the sky, towards the South end, where the Ravenclaw goals were. Chanse flew in front of her goal, and looked around at all the teams: Gryffindor was in the East side, Hufflepuff was in the North end, Slytherin was in the West side, and her and her team were in the south end.
The Chasers were shooting on the Keepers, the Beaters were hitting the bludgers back and forth, and the Seekers were flying, in circles, around the stadium.
Chanse smiled and then looked at all the fans. They were all in the bleachers screaming and yelling and even some had signs made for their house team. "Welcome to the Quidditch Free-For-All." Lee Jordan said, and the crowd went wild. "Calm down...I would like to take this time, before the games start, to introduce the team members of the teams. And if the team members wouldn't mind waving, or doing something, so that everyone knows who you are."
Lee Jordan looked around at all the teams...Ok first I would like to start with Gryffindor..." The Gryffindor house fans screamed, "The Captain, and Keeper, of the Gryffindor Quidditch team is Mr. Oliver Wood." Girls from all over the stadium screamed, and Oliver stopped and sat up straight and waved at the stands.
"Next, are the lovely Gryffindor Chasers...Miss. Katie Bell," Katie waved, "Miss Angelina Johnson," Angelina did a quick dart to the left then the right, then she laughed and waved at her fans, "and Miss Alicia Spinnet." Alicia smiled and waved. "Thank you ladies."
"Next, are the Beaters...Mr. Fred and George Weasley." The boys looked up from hitting the bludger back and forth and waved to the crowd.
"Last, but not least, the Gryffindor Seeker...Mr. Harry Potter." Harry was flying around the stadium, as fast as he could, but he quickly stopped and looked up.
"What?"
"Bloody hell, Harry wave to the crowd!" Ron yelled from the stands.
"Oh." Harry quickly waved to the crowd and continued to fly around.
Chanse laughed at Harry, and continued to block the shots from the chasers. "Next team is, Hufflepuff..." The Hufflepuff house started to sing their house song. "The Hufflepuff Captain...Kevin Whitby, he is also a Beater." Kevin spun around in circles on his broom.
"The Chasers are...Mr. Owen Cauldwell." Owen caught the quaffle and waved, "Mr. Michael Corner," Michael waved, and went back to scoring on the keeper, "and Miss. Megan Jones." Megan tossed the quaffle ball towards the goal, and waved.
"The other Beater, for Hufflepuff is...Miss Sarah Fawcett." Sarah saluted the crowd, and hit the bludger back towards Kevin.
"The Keeper for Hufflepuff...Mr. Mitchell Lock." Mitchell caught the quaffle and tossed it back to Owen, and waved.
"The Hufflepuff Seeker, has been changed from Megan Jones, do to injury. Now the Seeker is...Ernie MacMillan." Ernie blushed and smiled.
"The next team, who is Gryffindor's partner...Ravenclaw." The Ravenclaw house went wild, with screams, and yelling.
"The Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain and Chaser...Mr. Roger Davis." Roger waved. "The other Chasers are...Miss. Orla Quirke." Orla waved both her hands in the air madly, "and...Mr. Master Stebbins." Master saluted the crowd.
"Ravenclaw's beautiful Seeker...Miss. Cho Chang." Cho stopped flying around and waved. Harry quickly looked up from flying over at Cho. "Harry, watch out!" Hermione yelled from the stands.
Harry looked in front of him and saw that he was flying straight towards one of Slytherin's goals, "Shit!" Harry quickly swerved his broom around the goal.
"That was a close one Potter." Lee Jordan smirked, over the megaphone.
"The new Keeper, who's making a lot of heads turn...Miss. Chanse Jackson." Chanse hit the quaffle ball as hard as she could back at Roger, smiled and waved to the crowd.
"The last team, partner to Hufflepuff...Slytherin." The Slytherin house clapped madly, while some of the other houses booed.
"The Captain and Chaser for Slytherin...Marcus Flint." Marcus looked up at the crowd, and swished his hand in the air.
"The other Chasers are...Mr. Peter Warrington." Peter looked up and swished his hand too. "And Mr. Montague." Montague looked up at the crowd and then looked back down.
"The Beaters for Slytherin...Mr. Bole." Bole stuck his hand up in the air, and then went back to hitting the bludger. "And...Mr. Derrick." Derrick waved his hand quickly and hit the bludger back, to Bole.
"The Slytherin Keeper is...Mr. Bletchley." Bletchley waved to the crowd.
"And last, The Seeker of Slytherin is...Draco Malfoy." Draco flew past Harry, almost knocking him off, then he stopped and looked back at Harry, then he waved to the crowd.
"Well now that you know who is who, let's get theses games on their way." Lee Jordan said with excitement, "Here comes Madam Hooch, now."
Madam Hooch walked out onto the field with the Quidditch box. "You all know the rules!" She opened the box and let out all the balls.
"BEGIN!" She screamed.
Chanse watched all the house players flew around like mad.
Chanse was looking around trying to find any Hufflepuffs or Slytherins coming towards her. She was looking all around her when she finally saw a Hufflepuff, Michael Corner, coming straight towards her. She quickly took a stance, but out of the corner of her eyes she saw Montague coming up on her too.
Michael and Montague stopped in front of the first and third goals, and threw their balls. Chanse quickly darted to her third goal and hit the ball, "Orla, coming your way."
"Gotcha Chanse." Orla yelled as she caught the ball. Chanse flew as fast as she could towards the first goal, but she was too late.
*DING*
"The first point of the game was scored by Michael Corner, from Hufflepuff, on Chanse. Ravenclaw better get their act together or they'll be the first team to go."
"Damnit." Chanse yelled. "Times!" She screamed.
"Time out...Ravenclaw!" Madam Hooch yelled after she blew her whistle.
The teams gathered together, in their corners. "Chanse, what are you doing?"
"I dunno know." Chanse said as she looked down at Madam Hooch, who was watching her clock.
"I told you, we needed to have her sing something." Orla smirked.
"No we don't." Roger shouted
"It couldn't hurt Roger." Master said as he put his hand on Roger's shoulder.
"Fine. Chanse take the stage."
Chanse looked up at her team and opened her mouth... "I see you tryin' to hurt me bad, Don't know what you're up against, Maybe you should reconsider, Come up with another plan, Cause you know I'm not that kinda girl, That'll lay there and let you come first, You can push me out the window, I'll just get back up, You can run over me with your eighteen wheeler truck, And I won't give a fuck, You can hang me like a slave, I'll go underground, You can run over me with your eighteen wheeler but, You can't keep me down, down, down, down."
Everyone looked around at each other with a smile. "You guys happy now?" Roger asked.
"Yes thank you." Orla smiled.
"Teams return to your positions!" Madam Hooch yelled from the ground.
"Well that little time out better help Ravenclaw otherwise they are out."
Madam Hooch blew her whistle and the game continued.
*DING*
"A point on Hufflepuff, made by Angelina Johnson, from Gryffindor."
*DING*
"Another point made on Hufflepuff, this time by Orla Quirke, from Ravenclaw." Lee Jordan yelled with excitement.
*DING*
"A point on Gryffindor, made by Marcus Flint."
The game went on, two more points were scored on Hufflepuff, one more on Gryffindor, one on Slytherin, and one more point was scored on Ravenclaw.
"I think that little huddle helped Ravenclaw, very much so." Lee Jordan smirked. "Five minutes till the first team is eliminated, with the scores at four points on Hufflepuff, two on Gryffindor, one on Slytherin and two on Ravenclaw."
"End of the round!" Madam Hooch said, after blowing her whistle. "Hufflepuff you are eliminated!" She yelled.
The other house yelled, and hooted, because their house was still in. But the Hufflepuff house was quiet.
"Oh no, Slytherin might have some troubles. Gryffindor still have their alliance; Gryffindor and Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin." The Slytherin team all looked over at Lee Jordan, who quickly sank down in his seat.
"Teams you have a ten minute break before the next game starts."
The teams landed their brooms and walked back into their locker rooms, "See I told you Roger, that if we had Chanse sing the song in the beginning we would be in the lead, with zero points."
"Whatever Orla...We're doing great." Chanse listen to Roger; tell everyone what they need to work on, and how well everyone's doing. But then she got a sharp pain in her head.
Chanse shut her eyes then opened them, and she didn't see the locker room. She saw a bunch of shadows, that looked like they could be people, but they were so fuzzy Chanse couldn't tell what they were. She could see that some were standing still and others were moving around.
Then all of a sudden Chanse watched two small things run straight into two of the bigger shadows. One of the things hit one of the shadows that was just standing still, and the other thing hit one of the other shadows that was moving all around.
Chanse quickly shut her eyes again, and opened them. She saw the locker room and her team sitting around. "Chanse you ok?" Cho asked.
Chanse nodded, "Yeah I'm fine."
"Worried about the scouts?"
"Um...yeah."
"See I knew I shouldn't have told you."
"Cho..."
"But no I felt that I should."
"Cho!
"What?"
"It's ok; it doesn't bother me that much."
"Ok good."
"All teams back to the field!" Madam Hooch said over the megaphone.
Ravenclaw stood up and walked out onto the field, along with the Gryffindor and Slytherin. "BEGIN!" Madam Hooch yelled.
The three team's member flew around trying to grab the quaffle, and hit the bludgers.
Chanse was watching looking around at all the Slytherin chasers. She saw that Peter had a quaffle ball and was heading up to throw at Oliver's goal.
Oliver blocked the shot and hit the ball, towards Katie Bell, but he almost hit Tom Riddle off his broomstick "What the hell are you doing?" Tom yelled back at Oliver.
"Sorry, I wasn't aiming." Tom turned around and flew after a bludger.
The game continued on and two points were scored on Slytherin, and one on both, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Chanse continued to watch the Slytherin team fly around trying to score on Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, but they couldn't manage to score anymore points.
Marcus tried to score on Chanse, but she blocked it and hit it passed him to Master. "Oh to bad Marcus, you can't get it." Lee Jordan laughed over the megaphone. Marcus shot a quick glare at Lee, who, again, sunk down in his chair.
*DING*
Chanse looked up to see that Slytherin had been scored on; after she had hit the quaffle ball she got a bad pain in her head. She looked over at Harry, who was fine, then she looked over at Oliver, and he was fine to.
Then she looked up in the sky, and saw Tom Riddle holding a bludger. "Why's he...NO!" Chanse screamed, as she flew, as fast as she could, over to Oliver.
"Chanse! Get back in goal!" Terry yelled
"Roger cover me." Roger turned around and flew back to the goal
"I have never seen this move before...Chanse Jackson, the Ravenclaw Keeper, has left the goal, and sent Roger Davis, a Chaser normally, back in her spot."
Tom hit the bludger straight at Oliver's head.
*BAM*
The bludger hit Oliver straight in the head. "NO!" Chanse screamed, as she watched Oliver roll off his broom, and fall to the ground.
Chanse dodged bludgers left and right, to get to Oliver. The crowd was, mostly, silent as they watched Chanse take blows after blows. Nothing was going to stop her from stopping Oliver hitting the ground.
*BAM*
A bludger hit Chanse in the head and knocked her off her broom. The crowd gasped...
Chanse rolled across the ground and laid on there...motionless.