I am soooo sorry its been so long...i was going to put this up like two weeks ago, but my computer deleted nearly all of it =-[ and then i forgot about it on thursday and didn't remember on friday until like 11:00, so i decided to wait and put it up for Halloween. HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! sorry bout the long delay. =-[ but i hope you still will read =-]
Chapter 15
The First Task
"Welcome to the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament! Our competitors are Kaitlyn Quirke from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Amy Pease from Salem Witches Institute, Tyler Lawely from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, and Aleksander Borev from Durmstrang Institute. During the task, they will be dueling one another. The objective is to get a chip from each of the stations A, B, C, and D positioned around the edges of the arena. Once the champion has collected all of the chips the will bring them to the center of the arena to be removed from the duel.
"Each judge, Professor McGonagall, Madame Mallery, Professor Patil, Professor Poliakoff, Mr. Lupin and I, will give each champion a score out of ten based on their performance taking into account the accuracy of their spells, the level of both the defensive and offensive spells, and their time. Points will be taken away for effects of spells lasting longer than forty-five seconds before the effects are canceled. No illegal spells as well as a number of banned spells such as 'stupefy' will be allowed. We have a couple of Aurors here to help recognize the use of the spells, if used. Using a banned spell once will allow you to get at most five points per judge, a second offense you will have a maximum of two points per judge, and a third offense will result in disqualification from this task. The use of most illegal spells will result in possible disqualification and possibly other punishments from their ministry depending if it is illegal where they live. There are a couple of spells that are illegal in only one of the countries therefore they will be able to receive two points on first offense and a disqualification on the second, however if the spell is illegal where you live could still result in further punishment. As each champion completes the tasks they will be given a clue as to what the next task is going to be, the first person to complete the task will be given the easiest clue and the last person will be given the hardest clue.
"Now will you please give a round of applause for your champions!" As he said this, the champions walked into the circular arena and each took their places in between two of the stations. "Now on the count of three," he shouted his voice now even more magnified so the champions could also hear him, "Three…two…one…!"
And they were off; all of the sudden there was colored light flying every which way, colliding, and rebounding off of things. However no one seemed to be going anywhere.
"They aren't doing themselves much good just standing there now are they…now there's an interesting tactic, however moving together while allowing your self to easily get chips also allows your competitors to easily get them," Lynch shouted his voice going back to a magnification where only the stands could hear him. "They have now all gotten a chip," Amy was at station A, Aleksander was at B, Tyler at C, and Kaitlyn at D. "Interesting idea from Tyler, taking a defensive stand. However he still needs to get his chips at some point. Now, where did Kaitlyn go?" She seemed to have disappeared, but if you looked closely you could see rippling air moving around the edge of the arena moving toward where Tyler was at station C. "There she is, good idea using a disillusionment charm. She has now attacked Tyler from behind with a jelly legs jinx and grabbed a chip, but oh I think he has got her back. Yes, yes he has." Tyler removed the jinx set on him, figured out where Kaitlyn was, removed the disillusionment charm she had placed on herself and sent a Leg-Locker Curse back at her. "And now Aleksander and Amy are in a fierce duel. It appears that Salem really knew what they were doing entering the tournament; Amy is holding her ground against Aleksander, actually, she seems to be wining and gaining some ground! Oh, look Kaitlyn and Tyler have taken her distraction to their advantage and are now going for station A. Butt, oh wow! Nice Shield by Kaitlyn, I wonder if that was intentional…" Amy had seen Tyler and Kaitlyn running for the station and sent some spell at them, it seemed to have got Tyler slightly, but Kaitlyn put up a shield charm that ricocheted most of the spell off to Aleksander. The spell seemed to be a combination of Tangerella and Impedimenta, which was quite amusing. "Both Amy and Kaitlyn are taking the boys' predicaments to their advantage, by grabbing another chip." Amy went to station D and Kaitlyn got the one from A. "Amy is now attempting for a third chip, but Tyler stopped her. What was that?!" Aleksander had overcome the tangerella-like spell and shot a yellow-colored spell at the ground right next to Kaitlyn. She was now unable to move more than three feet from where she had been standing. While Kaitlyn struggled with her predicament, each of the other three went to get another chip (Amy from C, Tyler from A, and Aleksander from D) before resuming the duel. "And the points now lay Amy and Kaitlyn three and Tyler and Aleksander two. We are now 4:13 into the first task. Kaitlyn has eleven seconds left to figure out how to remove the charm before she is penalized." She was trying several different spells while moving aside and blocking spells that that came at her, because the 'bubble' while proving highly effective against physical attacks gave no protection against spells. "Five, four, now there's an idea! Kaitlyn has removed herself from the jinx with two seconds to spare." She propelled her self out of the top which obviously was unprotected from physical attacks. "Oh, too bad Aleksander wasn't paying attention, but nice impedimenta from Kaitlyn." She hit him with it just before he was going to block a spell from Tyler. Then, Tyler took off for station D hitting Aleksander with another jinx as he did so while Amy and Kaitlyn raced toward station B. Kaitlyn got there first and was guarding it from Amy. Just after Tyler got his chip Aleksander recovered from the impedimenta and hexed Tyler into the center of the ring where he was an easy target for all. Once he had done that Aleksander ran to station C. "The points are now, Amy three, Aleksander three, Tyler three, and Kaitlyn four. However Kaitlyn is no closer to finishing, because she must guard the station she is at or fear that she may not win it."
"This is so cool!" Alice shouted.
"Yeah, and we're winning," Loran snapped.
"Chill Loran, breathe," I advised her.
"What do you think Kaitlyn should do?" Anthony questioned.
"Great idea!" Lynch shouted, "Kaitlyn has put a shield charm around both stations A and B, the last station for our champions."
"That," I laughed.
"Oh, too bad Amy realized what she did. Nice jinx by Tyler!" He had blocked both of the girls with an impedimenta jinx, then using the propelling charm Kaitlyn had used to remove herself from Aleksander's spell, he jumped over them both. But before he could get there, Aleksander shot a spell at him as he ran through the middle to station A. "Ouch, if only he had paid attention. That looked like it hurt!" Aleksander had run strait into Kaitlyn's shield charm, getting himself thrown onto his back. "Amy has retrieved her final chip from station A, and is now in a fierce duel with Kaitlyn who has a huge advantage; she could simply just back right into the middle. She seems to have realized it and…so it seems has Aleksander." He sent the same jinx he used before on Kaitlyn around the middle of the arena blocking it from being reached. He also seemed to have place a shield at the top, because when Amy propelled her self up there, she bounced right back off. "And Tyler has retrieved is final chip, so now everyone one except for Aleksander has gotten all of their chips. And he doesn't seem to realize that the only thing blocking him is a simple shield charm." Kaitlyn then launched herself into the air and removed the shield charm just before landing on it. "What a move!" But while Kaitlyn, was falling Amy sent a strange purple hex at her, so she didn't seem to be able to control her movements as well. Luckily, she had aimed her self well and simply fell right into the middle where she could be removed from the game. "Now that was uncalled for! But, congratulations to Kaitlyn all the same. Ah it seems Aleksander has discovered what had stopped him and is now able to retrieve his fourth and final chip from station B. Interesting, it seems Tyler and Amy have called a truce; they are both running for the middle." Once they shot themselves into the air, Tyler shot an impedimenta jinx at Aleksander, which he blocked…poorly; he still got hit but not very strongly. Tyler attempted to knock Amy of course by kicking him, but she managed to grab his foot and actually knock him off course. "Amy is now the second person to complete the task, Tyler has just jumped up and in completing the task third just before Aleksander got up. He ran at the center removing his 'bubble' and completing the task in 9:22. Kaitlyn's completion time was 8:26, Amy finished at 8:59, and Tyler at 9:09. Now if you will give um a moment to calculate the scores."
"That was SO cool!" Hugo shouted.
"I know I'm so glad it's happening this year!" Anthony replied.
"I wonder what spell it was that Amy used on Kaitlyn," Alice said.
"Yeah, I hope…"
"Why do you even care?" Loran snapped.
"Chill! Just 'cause I want Beauxbatons to win (because I go there!) doesn't mean that I don't care if people get hurt!"
"Sure, that's likely."
"Seriously, why are you trying to make me look like that bad guy; all I did was wonder if your champion was okay?"
"Yeah, because you're little Miss perfect and can't do anything wrong!"
"Me? I'm little Miss perfect?" Alice asked incredulously. "I'm not the one needing a reality check here!"
"You're right they are exactly alike," Anthony whispered.
"I know right!"
"…shouldn't even be here!"
"Okay you two, break it up!" They glared at me.
"Both of you chill," Hugo advised.
"Yeah, Alice you stay there and Loran you can come back here by us," Anthony suggested…winking?
"You can't tell me what to do!"
"No, but we are all sick of you two fighting and want it to stop!" Hugo yelled, exasperated.
"Oh sure, 'they think that,' you shouldn't speak for them," Alice snapped.
"No, he shouldn't, however, he's right, or at least I'm getting sick of it," I replied.
"Same," Anthony added.
"Me too!" Fred shouted from six rows back.
"Shut up Fred!" Hugo and I yelled.
"Fine, I won't help, gosh!"
"Finally!" I shouted back.
"And the scores have been tallied up!" Aidan Lynch's voice sounded though the stands. "In first place we have Kaitlyn Quirke with fifty points, in second we have Tyler Lawely with forty nine points, in third is Amy Pease with forty six points, and in fourth place Aleksander Borev with forty five points. Thank you all for coming out to watch and support your champions, good luck to all!"
"Awesome, Kaitlyn and Tyler won!" I exclaimed.
"Too bad Gryffindor doesn't have a champion," Hugo said.
"How come?" Alice asked.
"Because then there'd be a huge party in our common room tonight."
"Oh, there's going to be one anyway," James said. "Who cares if Kaitlyn's a Ravenclaw?"
"I knew you were going to say that, let me guess that our party will be in about five-ten minuets and then there will be a big one tonight in the Room of Requirement?"
"Yup, for fourth years and up."
"Wow, I was expecting it to be fifth and up."
"Well, that was the original plan…"
"But we knew that you three would find a way to crash it any way, so you'd be there no matter what," Fred finished.
"Oh, you're so kind."
"Yup. Well, bye, we've got ourselves two parties to plan," Fred said leaving with James and Andrew.
"Well, now we've got plans for tonight," Anthony said.
"Uh huh," Hugo answered.
"Am I allowed to come?" Alice asked.
"Sure, as long as it's okay with your head to be out then. Isn't Beauxbatons going to throw a party though?"
"Yeah, but honestly I would much rather go to one James and Fred throw than a heavily supervised, stuck up party without any food with any real sustenance to it."
"Good point."
"You guys want to go over to the lake?" Alice asked.
"Sure."
"Loran, are you coming?" Hugo asked.
"Well I was planning…"
"What about you, Amber?" I asked.
"Well, it'd be fun, but I'll go where ever Loran is going…"
"Loran?'
"Fine, we can go."
"Awesome," Hugo said.
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Dinner
"Kaitlyn's okay," James said when he finally showed up for dinner.
"That's good. What was wrong with her?" I asked.
"They weren't sure, but that's why Amy got third instead of second. Oh, and she said that she'll come to the party tonight."
"Cough, cough, love potion, cough, cough," Albus coughed. "Sorry, something caught in my throat."
"Nice," Hugo laughed.
"Oh come on he wouldn't do that, it's not allowed. He probably imperius-ed her," I joked.
"Wait, but that's illegal," Hugo pointed out stupidly.
"That's the point stupid," Fred informed him.
"What?"
"Oh my gosh!"
"She was kidding…you know, she didn't really mean that he put an imperius curse on her." Anthony explained.
"Oh…"
"Wow."
"Hey, you got everything?" James asked Fred.
"Yep, you?"
"Yeah…no, Al?"
"Huh?"
"Can I have the map back?"
"Uh…sure, it's in my dorm. Do you need it now?"
"No, after dinner's fine."
"'Kay."
"Good, so now we've got everything. Oh, are we going to invite Slytherins?"
"Eh, we should, but I don't really want to…what do you think?" James questioned.
"I guess we can, but I'm kicking them out if they get obnoxious."
"Oh like you won't be?" I asked incredulously.
"Of course we won't. We would you think that we wouldn't be? Besides, I meant like Slytherin obnoxious not just normal obnoxious."
"Okay then…"
"James, why won't your sister listen to me?"
"Because she's smart."
"Fine…be that way," Fred replied, struggling to keep a straight face.
"We should probably go," Andrew pointed out.
"Okay, bye all," Fred replied.
"Bye."
"See ya later."
"Yep, party's at 7:00, spread the word."
"Oh, Al, I need the map," James remembered.
"Okay, I'm done with dinner anyway."
And with that the four of them left.
"Oh, so how is your mum?" Anthony asked.
"Fine, I guess, nothing new really," I replied.
"At least there is nothing worse," Hugo pointed out.
"I just wish it was Christmas and then we could go and research that Edward II dude."
"I wish it was Christmas too, but for different reasons," Hugo replied.
"…Let's go back to the common room, so I can drop off my bag before the party."
"Okay, Hugo are you ready?"
"Yeah, there will be food at the party."
"Is that all you ever think about, eating?"
"Not all…"
"But most," Anthony finished for him.
"Why am I not surprised?"
"Why would you be, you have known him since you were born."
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PARTY (around 10:30)
The party was a huge success. I'm amazed at how many people showed up on such shot notice, but then again this is Hogwarts and rumor spreads faster than anything, even light. Still, James said this was the biggest party he'd ever seen here. Andrew's girlfriend set up an automatic DJ system and they had some house elves send up food that was stored in a room adjacent to the main room and when ever one of the bowls or trays of food neared empty it was automatically refilled with the food in the other room.
"Hey Lils," Loran said coming up to talk to me.
"Hey," I replied distractedly, scanning the room for Albus. "What's up?"
"Not much, who are you looking for?"
"Albus, I want to ask him something, but he disappeared into a group a Slytherins when I when I went to talk to him, and I really didn't feel like pushing my way through a bunch of Slytherins. And now I can't find him."
"That's annoying."
"I know right, I can't find James either."
"Why do you want James?"
"The map, to check and see if Albus' left and security...James is probably neglecting his job."
"Ah."
"He's probably making out with some random girl."
"Who, James?"
"No, Albus," I replied sarcastically. "Of course James."
"Are you doing anything tomorrow?"
"I don't think do, why?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to hang out. We haven't hung out in a while."
"Sure, you're right, it has been a while. Meet at the library around ten?"
"Sure."
"There's Al," I said, "and again he disappears into another crowd, gosh!"
"There's James," Loran said pointing.
"Of course, James is flirting," I laughed. "See you tomorrow."
"Bye."
"James?"
"What?!?"
"Can I borrow the map for a bit?"
"Sure, just give it back tomorrow."
"Thanks."
"Aww, was that your little sister?" the girl flirted.
"Yeah…"
'Stupid idiots…okay, so, is Al in a corridor somewhere or not on the map at all…not on the map so he's still somewhere in here…wait a second, why is Professor Nulman coming this way? I bet one of the Slytherins tipped her off. I stopped the DJ system in the middle of some popular song, (I wasn't paying attention to what it was) and everyone looked up.
I magnified my voice and announced, "Professor Nulman is heading this way, every one scatter!"
As soon as I said that I saw at least twenty doors appear that weren't there two seconds ago. I opened the nearest one, it opened to a staircase that lead up stairs; Nulman was coming from downstairs so I ran up the passage. I ended on the tenth floor basically right over the common room, so I ran down three sets of staircases and rushed back to the common room praying that no one got caught. Hugo, Anthony and Amber returned to the common room about two minuets later, very out of breath. They weren't as lucky with their staircase, but still, they didn't get caught. Rose, Fred, Roxanne, and James arrived not long after that. No one heard about anyone else getting caught; it seemed that staircases had done their job getting us all to safety. I forgot about finding Albus with all the chaos and I didn't think about it again until I was getting ready for bed by which time he was already in his dorm.
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I thought I'd put up the scores from each judge in case anyone was interested (the order of the judges' scores will be McGonagall, Mallery, Poliakoff, Patil, Teddy, and Lynch respectivley) Kaitlyn got 9,8,6,9,9, and 9; Tyler got 9,8,6,8,9 and 9; Amy got 8,8,5,9,8, and 8; and Aleksander got 7,6,10,8,8, and 6. So, what did you think? I hope you understood the first task. If any one has ideas on the second task it would be greatly appreciated =-] I don't have many good ones. Reviews would be lovely!!!!
~You Go Girl~