Flags and the Forest Capture the Flag Camp Clo

Team Leo
Mentions: Serena Towers

Emma didn't know what to expect from the game, everyone ran in every single direction, yet she had seen no one cross the midway border.  She stood slightly close to the flag, but she back away from it a few times, she didn't want to draw attention to herself. But, the flag is in plain sight. Great, she didn't have the time for overthinking the little things.

As captain, it felt a bit strange, having control over others wasn't exactly good on her. The tables had been turned, she was now 'ordering' the perfect around. She would have felt extremely better if someone had also shared the role with her, but that's the way it was specified, well, she didn't think it was. She'd just have to live with it.

She inched her way back towards the flag, her arms alternating from being behind her back to trudging along by her sides, just in case anyone tried to sneak past. There was pretty much nothing to do, but wait, and she generally didn't have a problem with that. The atmosphere was extremely quiet, that meant a few things. Either an ambush was coming, or perhaps nothing was going to happen and it was just all inside of her head. 

ACTION: Stand ground near flag

Moderator
Interactions: Edric Banes

Lucy was well into Virgo territory when she finally spotted the flag next to the Lethifold cabin. She waved at the Slytherin prefect, who was admittedly camouflaged quite well, and offered a thumbs up. "Just checking to make sure that your flag is following the rules, and it is," she called softly, deliberately trying to be quiet so that people would not hear their conversation and approach because of the noise.

She waved, turning to go back to the mid-line. Seemed that all was well on this side, though admittedly a bit quiet. Where is the rest of the Virgo team? she wondered. Or at least, where were the other defenders? It made sense that the attackers would already be moving in on Leo territory, but Edric seemed to be all by himself out here. She shrugged. Oh well. 

As she made her way back to the mid-line that separated the two sides, she paused. Annabeth seemed to have disappeared. Well, maybe she went to go check on the Leo flag. Lucy found a seat near the campfire that allowed her both to veg out but also keep an eye on this main line of skirmish. Moderating wasn't the most exciting thing in the world, but at least she was allowed to participate. That had been nice of Annabeth.

ACTIONS:

Check on Virgo's flag
Return to mid-line to moderate close calls

Blaze continued walking deeper into the forest the light breeze brushing his face. It was really quite too quite the only noise he could hear was that that of his own footsteps. At some point he was sure he heard  something but quickly brushed it off deciding he didn't need to worry. "I'm fine I don't need to freak out," he told himself perching on top of a small rock. It was meaning less if he was being honest but still even a tiny bit of elevation might make him feel more confident. 

The truth was he wasn't really confident that his team was going to win. It wasn't like he blamed  his team mates it was just his doubt in himself. It wasn't like he was self conscious or anything but still he just felt that if he was on a team he would automatically burden it. 

Despite this he kept on going deeper cause he wanted to try even if he felt as if he would fail. That was his ambitious side the side that probably made him Slytherin. Step by step deeper and deeper into the endless shrubbery looking from side to side every angle maybe entering the enemies side at some point he wasn't really sure. He walked until he was a building in the distance as he aproched he realized it was the herbology hut he had been there a few times for lessons so he knew exactly what it was. Thing was he wasn't sure if the hut was on his teams side or not for all he knew he could have walked in a circle. 

Then he saw a girl entering the clearing  it was one of his team mates. Some girl she might have mentioned her name but Blaze had most probably forgotten "Umm... Hi...," he said walking up to her. "Funny bumping into you here," he said laughing awkwardly. 

DM Post: Sorry for the delay, I had some personal issues and have been offline for the past several days.

A tiny heart beat rapidly within the arachnid. Had they seen him? He had only ran in front of them for a second, but it was a risk he loathed to take. This was his chance after all... he was the runt of the litter. In fact, "Runt" was the only name he had ever known. His older brother mocked him constantly because he was unable to bring home larger prey for the nest. He would have been killed at birth for his small size if he hadn't been so evasive- a fact which the other spiders gave him no shortage of reminders of. But today could change all of that... Today he could bring home human meat.

Of course, that all hinged on his stealth. The nest had come close to the delicacy only once in the past century when a group of young students went wandering through their territory. Yet they had managed to get away. Ever since there had been stories of the great human debacle, how the food has risen up and harmed so many innocent spiders. This was his chance to not only prove himself useful but to gain revenge for his entire colony. If the small humans didn't alert the bigger ones, they would stand no chance against Father and the larger creatures. For a moment he thought that the blonde-haired girl may have seen him, but if she did she did not say anything.

Eight legs pumped furiously as the small monster charged into the forest. He emerged a moment later with four much larger creatures in tow. While their leader was tiny by comparison- only a fourth the size of the children- the largest of them looked to be about five times the size of the average second-year. The other two fell somewhere in between in terms of scale, but were large enough to easily swallow the little one whole. Beady red eyes glinted as they dashed out of the pushes, launching themselves at the blonde pair. It was impossible not to see them now. It was feeding time.

The other student hadn't even replied when he saw them. Four large spiders rushing towards them. One of them was just huge way to large to be the spider Blaze had encountered with before. At first he thought he couldn't do a thing he just stood there paralyzed terrified that he was going to die. "So this is where I go," he told himself before remembering the forest expedition where he had actually encountered these spiders and the spell he had tried to learn. True he hadn't managed the first time but this time had to be different it had to work or else he wouldn't ever be able to learn any other spell ever again. Remembering the spell was the problem. "Come on if I don't this is the end of me," again he paused trying to remember the spells encantation but he just couldn't. Then it hit him.

Just as the spiders closed in Blaze reached for his wand they must have not realized as they continued running towards him. His hearth was beating at one hundred kilometers per hour. "I can do this!" he shouted getting ready for the worse. Gripping the handle of his wand he shouted the words "Arania Exumai!"

Action: Cast "Arania Exumai,"