Beating the Bludgers

[Kage]

Kage strode calmly through the morning mists into the center of the Quidditch pitch, a large chest under one arm and his broom, a firebolt, under the other. He dropped the chest into the dew-tipped grass, causing it to start shaking angrily. Kage mounted his broom and took off into the air. After a few practice laps, he looked back down at the shaking chest with a grin. He plunged both hands beneath his robes, one hand removing a Beater's club, the other removing his wand. He whispered a spell and brandished his wand at the chest, causing it to unlatch and a pair of bludgers to fly into the sky. Kage laughed as they homed in on him and he swung his club...

[Autumn]

Autumn walked through the damp grass feeling the blades tickle her legs and feet though her newer flip flops that she'd received from Jade on her birthday. She had her broom in her right hand as she stopped at the pitch seeing someone was already there.

She looked up seeing the boy release the bludgers and swing at them. She stood in the middle of the pitch watching the boy as she leaned her broom against her as she tied up her long hair. She braided it quickly and loosely along her back and kept it there with a hair tie.

[Kage]

Kage started whacking at the bludgers with wild abandon as two more Bludgers rose from the chest and flew to him. He whacked one bludger into another, making a bizarre ricochet that sent both bludgers through two of the three goals on the end of the pitch nearest him. Kage whacked another in the opposite direction, leaving the fourth...

Kage looked around wildly, where the bloody hell was that bludger? He caught sight of it and nearly fell off of his broom with shock, it was speeding towards Autumn's back. Kage opened his mouth to yell a warning, but no words seemed to want to come out. 'Crud. Well, no guts no glory.' He thought with a smirk before plunging into a near-vertical dive.

When he was ten feet or so from the ground, he leveled out, now traveling so fast that his eyes moistened. He twisted and dove off his broom, tackling Autumn about the middle and sending her into the grass a mere second before the bludger would have nailed her right in the center of her back.

[Autumn]

Autumn wondered for a quick moment what he was doing, then realized with shock. She tensed as he took her around the middle holding her breath. She flung her arms around his neck as the skidded across they ground.

She let out a shaky breath and opened her eyes that had been squeezed shut. As Autumn looked up she saw that it was Kage hugging her around the middle. She buried her face in his shoulder breathing deep, trying to calm herself. "Thank you Kage." She felt so embarrassed.

[Kage]

Kage realized that the bludgers were still out there. He turned his head and saw that another bludger was heading towards them. He rolled with Autumn a couple feet, the bludger burying itself in the earth. He rolled with Autumn twice more, dodging two more bludgers. Damn.... once again he'd lost sight of the fourth one. He rolled so Autumn was on top of him, since it was easier to search the skies that way. Predictably, the final bludger was heading for them, straight as an arrow. Kage rolled slightly to one side and hurled his club. The impact of the short piece of wood caused the bludger to alter course far enough to miss them by scant inches. "Good god.... what was I thinking?" He said.

[Autumn]

"I don't know what you were thinking but at least you think quick." Autumn said pulling out her wand. She pointed it at a bludger and yelled a spell for it's return to the chest. She repeated the spell three more times, again almost getting hit by the forth and clung to Kage.

She locked the chest from on top of Kage not wanting to move. "Thank you again Kage." She tried to calm herself again. Regaining her normal breath after a moment, "I owe you one. No at least one." She gave a shaky quiet laugh.

[Kage]

Kage laughed nervously, "Just owing me one is fine." He said.

[Autumn]

She laughed this time it wasn't shaking but clear and carefree. She rolled off him, "Sorry about that. I should have been paying attention." She looked up at the semi foggy sky as she lay on her back on the damp grass.

[Kage]

Kage didnt move, he continued to stare up at the sky. "Wow...." he said.

[Autumn]

"What?" Autumn asked turning her head to Kage.

[Kage]

"Nothing. Just saying 'wow' cuz if I knew that I'd be saving pretty girls, I'd practice with bludgers more often." Kage said with a mischevious grin.

[Autumn]

Autumn looked at Kage for a second saying nothing, showing nothing on her face. Then a slow smile crept onto her face and she started to laugh. It was small and repressed at first then quickly gained momentum and before she knew it she was laughing so hard her stomach and sides hurt.

[Kage]

Kage continued to grin widely, glad she hadnt been offended somehow. "Hehe." He said.

[Autumn]

"I'm sure there are much better looking girls that can be lured to the pitch that you can rescue from nasty evil bludgers" Autumn said calming herself. She breathed deep, "I can picture you in shinning armor saving girls left and right."

[Kage]

"Well, I'm gonna need more bludgers. And I think ur definitely attractive enough to grab ANY guy's attention, but it doesnt matter what you have out here, its what you have in here, and here, that counts." Kage tapped her head, then her ribs, since tapping her chest would be kind of awkward.