Chapter 65 - World cup Finals (2/2)

Ludo cleared his throat, ”that's a wonderful performance. Now, kindly put your wands in the air for the Irish National Team Mascots”.

Now, what seemed to be green and gold comet came zooming into the stadium and after making one circuit around the field once, it flies into the sky and bursts and a huge image of Leprechaun formed in the sky.

Then, slowly, it dissolved into thousands of actual leprechauns who threw out something while they landed on the ground. Thousands of galleons seemed to fall from the sky into the stands and the field. Everyone enthusiastically caught the gold coins especially Ron who don't know that they are actually Leprachaun gold which will disappear after a few hours.

”And now, ladies and gentlemen, kindly welcome the Bulgarian National Team”. As the crowd cheered, seven scarlet robed players entered the stadium, ”Krum, Krum...”, Ron and Harry were cheering along with the audience while standing at the very top box of the stadium. Then, Ludo Bagman, the commentator shouted, ”now, here comes Ireland”.

Aidan leads the seven of them in a V shape while the spectators erupted in cheers, ”Ireland, Ireland, Slytherin, Slytherin...” Seeing the audience going out of control chanting Neal's name, Harry and the others were overwhelmed.

Harry asked, ”Is he that popular?”. Fred replied, ”of course he is, you didn't read Daily prophet all these days, right? They call him the best chaser in the world, although many would still argue about it. Aside from him, Krum is undoubtedly the best seeker in the world. Well, everyone is betting only one thing. Will Krum catch the snitch first or will Ireland make 160 point difference first”.

As Ludo screamed, ”they are off. Neal has the possession of Quaffle. I need to mention one special thing though. Until now, no one managed to steal the Quaffle away from Slytherin's possession. And the first goal has always been in the very first minute. Will Bulgaria break that myth?

Merlin's here it is, the burst speed passes of the Ireland chasers. Flash Cutter Slytherin evaded Dimitrov and passed to Troy, no wait, it's already in Slytherin's possession. Everyone who has a hard time following, please look at it with Omniculors”. Harry looked at the match through Omniculars and set in slow motion. ”Wow, what a high pace match. Neal has improved tremendously. I wonder if winning the Quidditch cup is possible for Gryffindor?”.

Then, Ludo screamed, ”and Slytherin scores. Ten zero to Ireland. Once again, Ireland opened the score with just 30 seconds into the match. That continuous lightning cut and burst skill combo made Slytherin's attack unstoppable”.

Fifteen minutes later, as Ireland pulled ahead by 10 goals, the Bulgarian team started to use a few underhanded tactics. Krum used Wronski's defensive feint against Aidan and made him fall on the ground.

It is a dangerous tactic done by a seeker to use a fake dive and made it seems like he's catching the snitch. As the opponent team seeker also followed you from behind, the seeker will immediately change his direction at the end and make the opponent team's seeker crash on to the ground.

Then, later, the Bulgarian Beaters who got control over the bludger began to target Neal along with using elbow attacks. Because of his high reflexes, Neal managed to escape and started scoring the goals even faster with Troy and Mullet's help using Hawkshead Attacking Formation.

Neal flew in the center slightly ahead of Troy and Mullet. As the opponents came forward to defend, Neal simply threw the Quaffle behind without even looking. While both Troy and Mullet used burst skill on their Firebolts and went forward, Neal's broom moved at the same speed in reverse as he caught the Quaffle. Then he used the flash cut while dodging the surprised opponent passing it to Troy who then passed it to Mullet.

As Dimitrov elbowed her, she loses the Quaffle while everyone is shouting it's a foul, Neal quickly caught the Quaffle before Ivanova from Bulgaria catches it. As Ivanova tried to block in the front and the other chaser Levski block in the behind, Neal tried to pass through him with a flash-cut but his move was anticipated by Ivanova and guessed the right side. To his surprise, Neal smirked while he changed his direction to the left in the middle of accelerating to the right side and passed through him and enter the scoring area and then scored the goal”.

Half an hour later, Ludo screamed, ”Krum gets the snitch but Ireland Wins with a score of 320-160. Krum saved the team's dignity which was almost crushed by Ireland today, good lord, I don't think anyone of us was expecting a match like this. Good job, Krum. Once again, great applause to Neal Slytherin for showing us a wonderful match today.

As all the spectators screaming, ”Ireland, Ireland, Slytherin, Slytherin...” the Irish players were dancing gleefully in a shower of gold descending from their mascots around Neal who was looking at the crowd and waving his hands with a big smile on his face.