;time skip;
Luke and the gang are on their way outside. After whole day of studying, they needed to went their energy by throwing some levitating rocks into the lake.
It has been around two weeks since Luke started sneaking into God-room. For first few nights he tried to test the limits of it and he was partialy succesful. But after seeing no end to what he could try, he decided to continue his experiments later. Now he needed to learn oclumency while he has time.
It was a good thing he began reading that occlumency book. It seems that learning it was much harder then the fics taught him.
(10 days and all i learned is the meditation technique and i am not even that good at it.) Luke learned the first step of learning oclumency which is meditation. However he could not get inside his head no matter what he did.
"Luk..."
(I even fall asleep half the time.) He discovered that if he meditated right way, as instructed in the book, he could do it instead of sleeping. (The feeling is so similiar to sleeping that it is hard to identify into which one i am slipping. *sigh.* It seems that this will take me a long time. I am not gonna let anybody read my mind to learn it faster.)
"Luke..."
Luke thought about it a little bit. (Maybe i can try to use the hat? It already read my mind anyway and it seems that it did not snitch.) After deliberating further he decided to keep this as a plan B. (If i do not see any progress in the next month i will look for alternatives. I just need a small sign that i am actually progressing.)
*Thump* Suddenly a big meatty hand slaped him on the back. *Cough cough* "Who wants to kill me?" Said Luke while turning around.
"Finally. Jesus you were really deep in that strange place you call your mind." Beth stood in front of him grining. "You know, when you invite somebody to hang out, you should pay them attention. Besides today was your last day of detentions. Smile!"
"Ah yeah sorry... Wait a second! I did not invite anybody. You all just decided to pester me today. I told you i am just gonna train again." After Luke seen that nobody is really interested he stopped asking them. If you force somebody to do something they don´t wanna do, they are gonna halfass it anyway.
"Luke don´t be so butthurt about it. You may be training freak but we still like you and want to hang out with you." Said Jordan rolling his eyes.
"Besides if we left you alone all the time you would never have any fun." Said Cedric jokingly.
"First of all what is wrong with training? I mean magic is amazing. And second of all i just don´t wanna force you to do something boring. You know i have no problem with staying alone for a little bit." Said Luke. "I mean times fly by when i am throwing those rocks around."
*Snort* "Luke we like spending time with you. Stop beeing such an emo just because we declined to go once." Said Angelina.
Yeah all this is happening because after a week of Luke persuading them to go, Jordan said that today he wants to do something fun instead. When Luke saw everybody agree he never asked them to go with him again.
"Yeah Luke it was Saturday. Who wants to work on Saturday? We just wanted to chill in the castle and play some games." Said Jordan.
"I... I am not emo!... Now shut up if you wanna go with me." Said Luke and turned his head to the side while closing his eyes.
*Hahah* Everybody laughed including Luke. Cedric got his arm over his shoulders and they all went to the lake.
;1 hour later;
*Splash* A big boulder just landed in the water.
*Whistle* "That was a big one. You really made a good progress. At the start you could not even shake a boulder that size." Cedric praised Luke.
"Thanks."
"Well as interesting as this is, it seems it is not as interesting as it was." Said Beth dumbfounding everyone.
"I mean i am getting bored." She explained.
The lazy trio noded with sage like expresions.
"I told you not to come. Your complaining is ruining the atmosphere for me." Grumbled Luke out loud.
"Awww how cute. We made a littwe Luky angy." Said Beth in cutesy voice. When she saw Luke´s cold gaze she stopped. "I mean why don´t we make this more fun?"
"Yeah we could play that game we did in our room the other day." Suggested Cedric.
"What game?" Asked Jordan.
Cedric looked at Luke who was looking back at him. Luke nodded. Cedric took it as his signal to start talking.
"Well we... boxers... smelly sock... dodge... " After he finished with his story it was very quiet.
Everybody was looking at him as if he was wierd. When he looked at Luke he saw him holding his head while muttering "dumbass..."
"What?" He asked bewildered.
"That is disgusting boys... and really weird..." Said Beth while shaking her head.
*Sigh* "Cedric you could have kept the details to yourself." Said Luke.
"Oh..." Cedric realized his mistake and his cheeks got a little red. "Well that is not important. So what do you say? Wanna try it?"
"...As long as you keep your smelly sock then we could." Said Jordan.
"Hihihi... Luke´s boxers..." Angelina seemed to be in her own world. Everybody just left her alone for a moment while they came up with the game.
;later;
Since rocks are too dangerous to throw at each other our group decided to move closer to the forest so they could use cones from the trees.
"Rules are simple. (((Similiar to the volleyball)) Those branches in the middle are our net. ((((They were around 130 cm high.))) The opposite team will try to throw their cones at your side and you to theirs. Once the cone is on the ground the team that made the shot scores.
There is 50 cones. Each scoring is 1 point. The first team to score 100 points wins.
If you throw the cone outside of those lines on the ground it counts as if the enemy team scored.
Shooting at the enemy team members directly is allowed bellow the neck, but no ball shots.
There is only few of us so there will be no ref. We will implement the honor system.
Also the most important part of this. Only Leviosa charm is allowed. No other spells or hands...
Everybody understand?" After Luke saw everybody nod. Since teams were already decided and in place he continued. "Begin.." The war started.
;After the game, in the hall, dinner time;
"First game and you already broke the rules Angelina." Said Jordan while laying with his forehead on the table.
"I said that i am sorry. Who told you to jump? It was not even my fault." Said Angelina feeling a little guilty.
"We should get some protection gear in the future games." Said Luke.
"Yes especially for that area." Said Cedric while Beth just gigled from the side, hiding her grin behind her hand.
The game was going amazing. Even though it was hard to keep count of the points, everybody was having fun. Getting hit by the pine hurt a little, but that was part of the game. You have to dodge. Everybody got hit a few times even Luke. The thing is that in the last moments of their fith game, Jordan got sniped in his peaches.
"Oh please don´t be such a baby. Your nuts saved you the game." Said Beth nonchalantly.
"Youuu." "So heartless." "I thought you were better than that." Said Jordan, Luke and Cedric.
Some guys further down the table somewhat heard what happened and shuddered at Beth´s coldness.
She rolled her eyes. "Well figure your protection as soon as you can. We will play again tommorow. I really had fun today. Also something for the head would be nice. I think we all got shot there a few times."
"Nah, only something for the eyes. I know we should not even aim there but it is training. Maybe this little pain will teach you how to dodge better." Said Luke.
"You are sick Luke." Said Jordan not looking up.
;Time skip;
Next week was very fun for Luke. Not only did he get better control at levitating stuff he even finally experienced deep meditation that the occlumency book was talking about. It was only for a few moments but it was something.
(Now if only the classes were not so boring.) Thought Luke. He was currently sitting in the charms classroom listening to the very enthusiastic part-goblin as he was checking the progress of the class.
(I hope we can finally move on from the begginers theory and the leviosa charm. I will continue practicing it. But listening to something i already know for days is annoying.)
Yes. Luke started getting bored in classes. He realized that the curriculum is really stretched over the year. (There are not even that many charms that are required from students to be learned. Well it is not like i have time to learn more spells on my own. I have full hands with the occlumency, leviosa and transfiguration. I mean i want to at least be able to levitate myself before i learn another spell. There is only so much time i have.)
The curriculum is slow because other students don´t practice on their own. They only do it in classes. Luke could not understand that. It was magic. How come it seems like a bother to everyone?
"That will be all for today. You can go." Said Flitwick since it was the end of the lesson.
"Lets go faster i am super hungry today." Said Cedric while pushing leisurely walking Luke.
"I told you that just weed for breakfest is not enough." Said Luke while leaning into the push.
"It was salad and you were right so hurry up."
As Luke and Cedric were going down the hallway near the middle courtyard while bantering, Luke saw something from the corner of his eye. (Pink?)
He turned his head seeing if he will see it again. (Was it her? Come on i just wanna see one of my favorite characters. What is with this teasing?)
"What are you looking at?" Asked Cedric.
"Nothing. I just thought i saw som..." (There! The girl running over there. It is her! Hah and she is gone.) As soon as Dora emerged from the crowd she was gone behind the corner. (Hmm already training her special agent skills. As expected of her.) Thought Luke.
"Who was that?" Asked Cedric.
"I don´t know. Just thought that a pink hair was interesting."
But before he could move on and continue his banter he heard somebody talking in front of him.
"Did you see her? I heard that she does not talk to anybody." Said random brownhaired older girl.
"What do you mean?" Said Blackhaired random older girl.
"Well did you hear what she did to her boyfriend?" Brownie asked.
"Yes. Not nice." Said Blackhair.
"Well nobody knows why but she stopped talking with her friends after. She even eats in the kitchens alone."
"No way. Should we talk to her?"
"Nah i heard that some guys tried and she just straight up jinxed them."
"Wahh scarry. Must be that Black blood getting to the surrface."
After that both girls started talking about their next class and Luke tuned them out. (Hoo so something like this was going on. Well this is an opportunity but also an obstacle. If i help her then she will be grateful and besides her friendship, she could teach me magic and stuff. But helping her will be so much pain. Is it even worth it?)
They were almost in the hall already. He could see that everybody besides him and Cedric were already at the table.
(She was okay in the movies so she will probably get out if this on her own. Hmm i will wait for some time and see what this is about later.)
"Is he doing it again?" Asked Angelina.
"Yeah he started ignoring me in the hallway." Said Cedric.
"Should i slap his back again? It worked last time." Said Beth.
"Nah leave him. Maybe if he forgets to eat now the hunger will teach him later to stop doing this." Said Jordan.
(HMMM...)
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What do you think about my simple game? I could not imagine training every day and doing nothing else. This way mc can get stronger but still spend time with his friends. Not that he will stop normal training. It will probably have more uses in the future.
Also some of my eager readers and big fans of Dora got a little treat from me. (Looking at you Fool.)
Give me your thoughts.