3rd throwdown | of future and revenge

[overexertion]

Solo practice; Closed to Nagisa; morning

[Sousuke had felt restless in the early hours of the morning so he had decided to leave for the Quidditch fields to practice some. It was the perfect way to get his mind off things - even when his mind was full of quidditch related angst.

Unfortunately, practice wasn't going very well. After being in the air and practicing some swings for a while, he had felt a jolt of pain and had to make an emergency landing on the ground. There he was, lying and staring at the morning sky and breathing heavily.]

Library; right after classes

[As opposed to the last time we heard of him hanging out in the library, this time Sousuke is actually studying. With career counselling nearing and his condition not getting better, he needs to start figuring out what to do with his life and actually study to be able to choose something he decides.

On the floor there's a letter from his father with attached pictures of famous aurors and some articles that "might interest him". Clearly it's decision making time when the head of Yamazaki family starts making more and more attempts at pushing Sousuke to the "right path".

After some time, Sousuke will just give up on trying to remember any more transfiguration things and eventually just naps.]

A corner in a hallway; late evening, before curfew
Warning for violence

[Sousuke had been cornered by three guys - one of them who was a guy he had punched and sent to hospital wing two years ago (there were stairs involved) and the other two were apparently his very good friends; the ex beaters of the Slytherin team. Even if he was at a disadvantage, he didn't seem all that worried.]

Is today some sort of a closet cleaning day for all bent up revenge and hate feelings?

[The first had a good reason to be angry still (even if Sousuke had been made apologize), the second was thrown out of the team because Sousuke came back and the third was take off the team because Sousuke brougth Baldur in. Some very good reasons to be angry.

It seems it was also a good reason not to talk and get their fists to do the talking. Sousuke mentally shook his head and dodged one of the punches by moving out of the way and another by blocking it with his hand. The third guy he just chose to trip as he approached.]

Guys, none of us really want detention right? So just back off.

[They could just walk different ways? No? Fine. He could use this as a chance to relieve some frustration as well. Sousuke lets himself deliver a punch to one of the guys who was already attacking again. Of course, he can't defend himself from all sides so he's prepared to get at least one punch on himself.

A punch, not a spell that knocks him down on the floor. Hey, that's cheating in a fist fight. Sousuke's not fast enough to react and get up before he even gets kicked on the side. Oh great. He does react and kick at one of the guy's feet to knock him down and as he's getting up, he'll tackle another. That's two down - now where's the third-

Ah. Right there, shooting another spell at him. What's going to hit him next...?]


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[Anything in between, before or after events.]

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Hallway

[enchantressofore]

[ Dinner was good, and thankfully talking with Sano had gone well as well. It made her feel pretty good about everything, but... Well, it apparently couldn't last.

She hears something off, and it doesn't take her long to find the source. She doesn't even need to light up her wand to see what's going on, or that it's Sousuke in the middle of it all. ]

Get away from him!

[ Her heart's pounding in her throat, worse than it had been with Rin, and she recognizes at least two of them as having harassed Rin before, but now the calm approach isn't going to work. She needs to act!

As soon as the words are out she shuts off her thoughts, trying to get in-between them and Sousuke so that, if successful, she can throw up a Shield Charm to keep it from getting worse. The real question is how successful she is in that attempt however, considering just how badly it can go wrong. ]

[overexertion]

[The shield charm is super effective - spell rendered useless. Sousuke's glad to have an ally by his side, even if he's not very keen on Adela getting into trouble because of him. One of the guys he tackled down recognizes this girl right away and attempts at attacking - only to get Sousuke's elbow in his face, knocking him effectively out. That's one out of three, at least.]

Don't do anything rash, Adela.

[Sousuke gets up from the ground. As he does, the third guy in the situation is already sending out a disarming spell at Adela which Sousuke notices a little too late.]

Behind you!

[enchantressofore]

Too late for that advice, Sousuke.

[ The warning is too late however, and she makes a startled noise when she gets winded and her wand suddenly goes flying. In fact the disarming spell knocks her to the ground, and as soon as she can she tries to scramble back to her feet to get her wand back.

She needs to be in front of Sousuke for the shield charm to protect him though, and she needs to get there fast. It's unreasonable for someone to get in trouble for breaking up a fight and using only purely defensive spells though, right? ]

[overexertion]

[Sousuke's already so used to trouble he might as well go all out and do things that aren't defensive spells only. So he'll take out his own wand and point it at the guy that used the disarming spell.]

Petrificus Totalus!

[The spell is actually dodged and returned with a stunning spell that Sousuke luckily dodges - to get hit by a disarming charm. Luckily it only throws away his wand, so he can attempt a punch at the guy as a revenge.

Hey Adela, remember the rumors? Here's your confirmation on how Sousuke works.]

Corner in the hallway

[fireredspear]

Protego!

[The sudden exclamation would come as a surprise, but it's definitely more effective than jumping between and screaming. Having heard the ruckus and hearing the voices he knew all too well, Sano didn't think twice about checking. And boy, good thing he had.]

Wrong move, lad.

[He says to the former beater.]

From behind and aiming with a wand at someone who hasn't his out yet, is a coward's way. Afraid you can't beat him without tricks and the help of other two people?

[His voice is calm, but his forehead is creased with a frown and his eyes are narrowed to slits, the tip of his wand shining slightly, as if from barely held back spells. Then he glances at Sousuke, locking his eyes with the boy's.]

I thought I told you something about this as well.

You lads have ten seconds to explain yourselves.

[overexertion]

[Of all the teachers to see the situation it had to be Sano, huh? The three attackers all back off to the same place, after Sousuke let one of them actually get up, looking angry and making angry looks at Sousuke who was still chilling on the ground. Chilling, because he feels like he did nothing wrong.]

He started it out of nowhere! We were just returning to dorms.

Yeah right. I was merely defending myself from an angry mob.

[While looking a little excited and maybe grinning a little, but it had been self-defense. For the most part.]

[fireredspear]

[The corners of Sano's mouth are turned as far down as they have never been before. He can tell they're lying, unashamedly invading their mind to access the entire incident. He looks completely calm, but it has more the impression of a calm before a storm, like the heavens will split apart in divine punishment any moment now.]

Don't bullshit me.

[Not that he'd trust them across the way, if he didn't have his abilities. The one good thing about this entire clusterfuck? He finally caught them in the act.]

There's no excuse for an act of cowardice. If you have the time to feel inferior and plot plans how to get back at someone who surpassed you fair and square, you have the time to improve your skills as well. But then you wouldn't be the cowards you are. You won't escape a suspension this time, I promise you as much. I got me eyes on you for some time now. I need to thank you for providing me with a reason.

And YOU!

[Sano turns to Sousuke again. Defending yourself in all honor an respect, but no matter how he twists and turns it, he knows it wasn't pure defense. He has seen the punch Sousuke had thrown in their memories, he can feel the indifference towards the other Slytherins, and a certain kind of annoyance and frustration.]

It stopped being defense with the first punch you've thrown. If you're man enough to fight, you're man enough to bear the consequences. Y'all will follow me into me office now.

[overexertion]

[The three guys go quiet over Sano's words and just look like they'd rather be anywhere else but here. Well, Sousuke can't blame them. Sano's pretty scary when he's angry since he usually wasn't.

That's why even Sousuke needs to jump mentally a little at being addressed. He's been on the other end of his yelling before and he's pretty sure Sano looked at how things went by now. Must have been convenient to have legilimency when you were a teacher.

Sousuke finally got up and gave a small shrug, mostly to hide the small nervousness from the other three present.]

I wasn't going to try avoiding the consequences.

Dorms

[olympic_shark]

[Rin is in their shared room, lounging on his bed, reading a book and relaxing - he's been doing his homework until now, and trained his occlumency a little - when he hears the door open. He recognizes the gait, so he doesn't look up immeditely from his book, there's this really nicely written romantic scene that he wants to finish.]

'Bout time you got back. It's past curfew, you're really pushing it.

[Not that Rin has any room to talk, but... He closes his book to greet his friend properly, only for his eyes to widen in shock, the book falling out of his hands onto the ground.]

Merlin's bloody nose, what happened?!

[There are bruises on the visible parts of Sousuke's body, and his friend looks like he's in a lot of pain. The broad shoulders are slumped, and the aqua eyes reflect next to anger and frustration something like sadness... Rin is at his side in an instant, trying to see if there's any way he can help Sousuke.]

Who did this?

[overexertion]

[It's not a surprise that Rin's all over him once he notices the state he's in. Sousuke was pretty much expecting that and too tired to actually try and hide something was wrong. This really had been A Day.]

Had a fight with our ex-beaters and the guy I sent flying down the stairs. It's already been taken cared of so don't even think about running off to do something stupid.

[Rin doesn't need more problems in his life.]

I didn't start it.

[olympic_shark]

Those assholes!

[Rin only needs to hear the word ex-beater for his blood pressure to shoot through the roof, and he's ready to go and give them the beating of the century, but Sousuke's next words stop him.]

Taken care of...

[His eyes widen, mind suddenly full with worries about the best way to dispose of a body.]

What did you do?

[overexertion]

It's not like that.

[Sousuke sits down on his bed, looking at Rin from there and flexing a little at some of his sore muscles.]

Sano caught us.

HALLWAY

[unbridledtiger]

[Seth is passing by with his hands shoved lazily into his pockets. His clothes were a mess and he’s left his robes in his room choosing to simply wear pants and a white button down. The only indication that he is in Ravenclaw is the blue tie around his neck that’s been pulled lose in a messy fashion around his neck. His hand reaches up to mess up his hair when the grunts of a fight pull his attention away from his destination.

He turns down the hall and see’s Sousuke and the three slythern boys mid conflict. Seth dislikes fighting and for a moment just watches. Seeing the third boy raise his wand made Seth move. He flicks his own wand out the spell slipping from his lips like warm honey.]

Expelliarmus

[He slips his wand back into his pocket waiting for the others to register that he’s there. He looks very calm for someone witnessing a fight.]

[overexertion]

[The guys definitely freeze at someone walking to the scene. It's different, since this isn't just someone they could deal with - and they would definitely not want to get caught so they begin backing off - just in case. They're not leaving immediately and they're not continuing what they're doing. They're observing.

... well two of them are. One is still locked under Sousuke on the ground and attempting at wrestling. Too bad Sousuke is quite a bit larger than the guy is so his attempts don't even move Sousuke.]

I could have dealt with them just fine.

[unbridledtiger]

[Seth seems unconcerned with the three boys. He shrugs at Sousuke, his interruption was kindly meant.]

Rin wouldn't let me live it down if I just walked by when it was three against one.

[He's already getting in trouble for his tiger stunt.]

[overexertion]

I think he'd be more worried if you got into too much trouble.

Library

[controlstheice]

[It wasn't classes, so Aidou knew that he really should not bother someone who is taking a nap, but he couldn't help but notice it looked like he had been studying just beforehand. So even though he was tired himself and all he wanted to do was just nap, he knew better.

So coughing slightly, he was standing right next to the table. Hoping to get ones attention and make them wake up.]

[overexertion]

[Just five more minutes- No, the cough is enough to wake him up, because it was a very light nap. It's not like he's really napping because he's tired; it's more because he's bored.]

Oh- hello, professor.

[controlstheice]

[It actually worked. He would have left alone realy. But he was awake now at least.]

I guess work is that boring, hm?

Library

[namemeansbeauty]

[Belle had started to take the books away quietly, knowing full well he had fallen asleep, but she still had to do her job regardless. She soon moved the book slightly that was close enough to maybe wake the other up.]

[overexertion]

[Sousuke does wake up as something moves near him and looks up all of a sudden. This time he had actually properly dozed off.]

Huh? .... oh, hello again.

[namemeansbeauty]

Hello, sorry is I woke you up, even though this isn't your dorm room.

[She had to smile slightly and be polite at least.]

Obvious one

[strawberrypenguin]

[Nagisa never had a reason to actually go to the Quidditch Pitch and today was no exception. Choosing to go just to sit in the stands till breakfast time. However when he saw Sousuke fly and saw him make an emergency landing he was quick to move from the stands and went to where he was.]

Sou-chan!

[overexertion]

[Sousuke hadn't been aware of Nagisa even being around the pitch before he yelled. He didn't bother to get up and just waited for the guy to come there, clearly tired.]

Hey. I didn't know you were out this early.

[strawberrypenguin]

I woke early, so I thought to go to the pitch and just sit here until classes.

[He wasn't part of the team, but it was always nice to simply say in he stadium sometimes. Just made him think of his friends.]

What brings you here early?