Latest Site Notices

PadfootAndTheWolf · 07-10-2012, 11:41 PM

Divination Lesson Three
In the Forbidden Forest

If you had missed the last minute parchments placed in the notice boards of the four Common Rooms, then your climb to the Divination Tower classroom would have been for naught seeing as Professor Elwood had a sudden change in curriculum and had moved the day's lesson to the Forbidden Forest.

The early spring day and weather had seemed to want to cooperate with the choice of an outdoor lesson with the temperature being fairly warm and the sky clear all but a few fluffly white clouds. When you cross the sloping lawns and reach the edge of the forest you see the blonde Divination Professor sitting cross-legged on the grass and you should join her while you wait for your classmates to arrive.

OCC: Note you are NOT to post your charrie entering the forest without the Professor's permission and anyone doing so will have points taken for not following directions. The lesson should start in approximately 7 hours but won't fully continue until tomorrow.

PadfootAndTheWolf · 07-16-2012, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa was totally embarassed when the Professor not only admonished for yelling but also deducted house points from her. "I'm sorry for yelling, Professor. My judgement hasn't been really good lately. I'll go look for wood lice right now." Alyssa told the Professor before walking away really fast to look for the only food that would appease the Bowtruckles.

Now that the girl had stopped screaming in the midst of Bowtruckle attack and agreed to go help her fellow classmates look for wood lice, Callie was able to focus on the larger situation--the actual attack.

"Thank you Alyssa."

Quote:

Originally Posted by Destiny

Ohhh..

Waylon KNEW he forgot to give Callie something! How he forgot, though, he had no idea. He was out all that morning collecting them. He even woke up early and everything! Labeled the buckets, too!

He could just put all the blame on Cece. If she hadn't barged into his hut the way she had, rearranging his pictures, he would have never been distracted. And it wasn't like the Healer would ever know anyway. Hehe. So, leaving her back at his hut once the Patronus arrived, Waylon made his way into the Forbidden Forest, his two lidded and labeled buckets in his hands. It took him nearly no time at all to find where the class was and.. what do you know? There really were Bowtruckles.

Staring at the little creatures for a moment, he popped open one of the buckets full of wood lice and held it out for Callie to take. Was she mad!? "I forgot to give these to you. Sorry."

Was he forgiven!?

"It's about bloody time Waylon, seriously!" She said as the Groundskeeper had made his way into the clearing and was thankfully not a larger beast coming to eat them all.

She was ready to take the buckets from him and throw them into the trees but she thought that would be a tad much and no doubt wasteful if they Bowtruckles hadn't seen them go by. "So we need to start feeding them, like now." Callie said, slightly more calm since he was here. She wasn't too angry since he brought the lice late rather than never.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BOWTRUCKLES!

The soft ones may have thought that the two Bowtruckles in the clearing now were the worst of it--far from true. Not far away a whole horde of them were beginning to assemble, ready to protect their trees.

Two more Bowtruckles jumped from the tree canopy above and landed right infront of the lady soft one and one of the little boy ones with circles on his face--the harder to poke.

"Ra!" Said the fat one, as he poked two of his sharp fingers into the hem of the lady's skirt.

The smaller one ran at the boy screeching for lice and for the love of his trees.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Professor Elwood was getting upset. And Vickers gets upset when she gets upset. Although there was a part of him that wanted to butt in and say they weren’t STICKS they were legit CREATURES but she gave the next instructions about looking for wood lice.

He winced unconsciously. Its LICE. He’s ~~semi~~OC. No other explanations necessary.

He tried to inch his way towards her when the Bowtruckles started to get aggressive. That fat one scratched Professor Elwood! Hastily he rushed forward only to be stopped by a smaller one screeching in front of him. ”I didn’t break any of the tree branches! I picked these up from the grass.” he said showing the sticks and dropping it in front of the creature as if returning them to it.

Wait why is he reasoning with the woody creature?

Just then he saw the Groundskeeper come in with buckets of ~~creepy crawly teeny tiny~~ lice. He has to get to the Professor. "Groundskeeper Murdoch, if you don’t mind?..." he called out as he decided to bring out his wand—a risk he knows, given what he saw of one creature going after Elijah’s HAND—and levitated that one open bucket towards the edge of the forest AWAY from ALL of them, and purposely smacking that fat bowtruckle harassing the Professor to get its attention "YOU! Look, theres your lunch right there...." he called out as he hovered the bucket enticingly before dropping it at the foot of that far tree. Leave the Professor alone yeah? He looked down at his own smaller, screeching creature. "Look lunch! Right there! See?" he said point POINTING at the bucket, whilst iiiiinching his way to where the Professor was standing.

"Ah! Get off of me!" Professor Elwood had almost lost what composure she still had during all the chaos when a rather fat Bowtruckles came over and started slashing at her ankles and skirt.

Suddenly Vickers was once again stepping infront of her to try and keep the things off of her, despite them wanting to attack him aswell. She watched as he levitated some of the wood lice out of Murdoch's buckets and sent them off into the woods. They would probably go too. He was a smart one, such a Ravenclaw.

Her knight in....blue-trimmed robes, Sir Vickers Bowtrucklebane. Go him!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

This was just TOO much!

There were more and more bowtruckles coming and they were all so wild. All Renesmee could do was stare as her state of shock began to grow on her more than before. She could barely blink now and her senses started to slowly switch off too.At first it was only her hearing that switched off. She hadn't heard a thing Kurumi nor the Professor had said, and their information seemed sort of vital at a time like this. It would have surely calmed her down, yet the panic inside her was still growing.

Her head wasn't much of a help either, it felt heavy and it was hard for her to concentrate on any sort of logical thinking. Soon another one of her senses started switching off. It was her eye sight now. Everything around her became a blurred visson and Nessie could barely make out any of the figures beside her. She could barely even recognise what figures were the bowtruckles and what figures were her fellow students. It just kept worsening.

THUD!

A few moments after the blurry-ness that's when almost everthing shut off. One second Renesmee was up standing and the next she fell to the forest's ground with a small bang. Unconciousness had over come her and so she could not move.

Oh no a child was fainting. ~~Hopefully she wasn't near any of the things incase they wanted to poke some eyes or something.~~ Maybe they thought she would be just a log.

She would head over to save her just as soon as she could.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

Callie's patronus had certainly gotten William up and out of his hut, worried as he was about the little creatures. He was more concerned about what the students were going to do to the bowtruckles than what the bowtruckles were doing to the students. They were just bowtruckles, after all; innocent little tree guardians. More bark than bite.

Heh.

Still, William came jogging into the forest with a sense of urgency in his step. "Callie! Waylon!" he called out as he neared the LOUD group of Hogwartians freaking out. "What's goin----" OOOF! The tall man TRIPPED and FELL over what he thought was a log. Scrambling to get off the ground before any bowtruckles attacked him, William got to his feet and glanced down at the thing he'd tripped on.

A Hufflepuff! ACK! "Callie, one of your kids is out cold..." William didn't like to shout, but now uh... seemed like the perfect time. Frowning and glancing around at the group, Willy noted that Waylon had at least brought a bucket of food for the bowtruckles, even if the creatures hadn't noticed it. William shook his head and whipped his wand out, casting 'Sonorous' on his voice so that it was magically magnified. Some of the students were doing a good job of remaining calm while the others were just... not. Maybe they needed some direction.

"EVERYONE... FREEZE," the Care of Magical Creatures professor's voice came floating into the clearing. "Drop any sticks you have and gather in the center of the clearing, near the professors. Levitate some of the groundskeeper's wood lice OUT of the bucket and TOWARD the treeline, away from your peers. If you have a bowtruckle on you, try to remain calm and get some woodlice to distract it."

He glanced down at the little girl he'd tripped over too. "And we might need the Healer, Professor Elwood." William removed the charm from his throat and bent down to scoop up Nessie, carrying her over toward his professor friends. "I think this one fainted, though I dunno why..."

She was out cold before he'd tripped on her, he might add.

Just as she was looking for a clear path over to the fallen Puff, William decided to show up. She gave him a glare but it was immediately replaced with a look or horror as he stumbled over poor Nessie. "William! Oh my, is she ok?!" she shouted and then listened and watched as the man took charge and instucted the students to do as he said.

Good thing, she hadn't the slightest clue as to what to do. The lice were here and it seemed she had two more knights, Waylon and William.

"Yes, everyone do as Professor Williamson says and begin levitating wood lice near the Bowtruckles and then out of the clearing." She took her own wand and began to do the same as the other adults and kids began to pull in closer to the center.

Oh and the Healer, right. Another artic fox Patronus was sent out towards the castle.

SPOILER!!: Kurumi, Elijah, and Bowtruckles

"Mr. Wilde another five points from Hufflepuff! Now get over here to get some lice and stop attacking that Bowtruckle!" Callie shouted at the Hufflepuff boy who had been arguing with Prefect Hollingberry on his treatment of the beast.

She would have taken another 5 points for shouting but everyone was doing it now, including herself and William so it was sort of a mute point now. "Kurumi, please head this way and keep levitating woodlice." Callie was much calmer now that she had some help, despite the growing headache that was Elijah.

Quote:

Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

It was chaos! Cassia was glued to her ground. She was watching what was going on without having a thought of what was she supposed to do. Well, she knows that they stopped collecting sticks! The first year thought of going and hide behind Professor Elwood, she's the professor, she must know what to do! And being small has great advantage of being able to move smoothly and without being noticed by the creatures that appeared out of the blue.

Before getting to hide behind Professor Elwood, some of the creatures landed before her. Turning around and getting AWAY because obviously their Professor is a target, now. The Slytherin darted her eyes around the surrounding area and found it best for herself to hide!

Again while everyone was busy doing whatever they were doing, and discussing the issue. Cassia headed to a far bush but she made sure that she could watch what was going on in case they had to flee! Checking around her for no creatures. She crouched placing her tiny body among the branches.

She noticed that the ground keepers came but she couldn't know what did he do or want. Well, she was staying until the matter is solved for she isn't fond of little jumping creatures.

"You, in the bushes! Get over here, we need more people to levitiate the wood lice into the forest to lead the creatures off." She waved her hand at the Slytherin girl hiding to bring her over lest they accidentally levitate wood lice on her.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Spike rolled his eyes at the Professor. Didn't she know such creatures lived in the forest? Even if she did, shouldn't she have foretold the events of the lesson, and been better prepared? He shook his head from where he stood by the birch tree, his curls bouncing. She even managed to insult them along the way, calling them sticks. She'd better hope the bowtruckles hadn't caught on to that...

And then, she jabbed her finger in his direction, not even calling him by name, to tell him to find woodlice. Oh, he didn't need telling, Professor. "It's Spike," he mumbled, however, "for future reference." She should know the names of the Prefects, right?

Grumbling, he headed over to a log, and peered inside. Any woodlice to be found here?

Spike reached his hand into the damp log, and giggled as critters tickled it. So...maybe divination had improved a little bit, but no thanks to the Professor.

He pulled out his hand, and carefully pulled away a spiderweb that had gotten caught on his wrist. No spider though. Pout. However, there were three wriggling woodlice in his palm. Result! Not exactly many, but it was a start...

Not that it'd matter, as it seemed the groundskeeper had appeared with supplies.

Spike was distracted from the groundskeeper's supplies by a movement on his trousers. It seemed he had a friend, and he gave the bowtruckle a crooked grin.

"Hello fella," he greeted friendily, as the bowtruckle seemed to make himself comfortable on his shoulder. "Are you hungry?" he said, holding out the three woodlice he'd just discovered. They wriggled in his palm. "Freshly caught too. I can go find some more if you'd like."

Yep, Spike was quite happy trying to befriend a bowtruckle. More than happy, actually. It was Spike's nature to want to get on with all creatures, and he rarely saw bad in them. One only had to look at his collection of pets. It'd been a while since he'd gotten himself a new friend, and this bowtruckle seemed quite happy up there perched on his shoulder. Spike often had a tarantula in his hair...why would he find a friendly bowtruckle on his shoulder any different?

Spike was just about to find his new mate - well he hoped the bowtruckle was a new friend - some more snacks, when he heard shouting.

What the...?

He GLARED at the Huffie. GLARED.

"That's not good, not good at all," he muttered to his bowtruckle, hoping that the lil' fella would see Spike was a NICE human, and not start pulling on his hair or scratching him to pieces.

"Don't!" he cried to the Huffie, wincing as the poor bowtruckle clung on. "Listen to Kurumi, and take a deep breath. They don't understand that we mean no harm to their territory." He glanced up at the bowtruckle on his shoulders. "We need to show them that we respect them. And thank them for they do in the forest... They're only protecting their homes."

Spike? Oh that was his name. Alright, good to know.

She had been busy levitating the creepy-crawlies when Callie noticed the Ravenclaw Prefect had a Bowtruckle on his shoulder and was feeding it. That was nice. But then he was arguing with Kurumi and Elijah about the other boy's treatment of the Bowtruckles.

"Spike over here, I've taken care of it. Help us lead the others away please." He was good with creatures, right?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah was already engorssed in her search for fairy's eggs, lookiong under leaves when Mordoch arrived. She had already raided two fairies nests and therefore had hundred eggs in her hands. She went up to the teacher with her loot. "I hope this will do for now, there are many more leaves with eggs there" she said, pointing to a cluster of trees on the right hand side. "Should I look for me or will the supplies Mr. Murdoch has be enough?" she asked sweetly. There were many more casulties from the trees by now, the girl Nessie had been knocked unconsious while many more students were being attacked. Sarah knew she had to stay calm. She took took some more fairy eggs from under a leaf and made sure to show the bowtruckle it by swinging it in front of its face. She then started to walk away urging the bowtruckles to follow her if they want more.

"What? Oh the fairy eggs. Good job Sarah, feed them a few but lets put the rest back where you found them that way in a few days or weeks we can have some more fairies here." She didn't want to kill the baby fairies did she? It was a good find though, which she was happy that the Gryffindor had done.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa kept looking under rocks and logs until she found a swarm of wood lice hiding under a log among the rotted leaves. She found a bottle in her bag and scooped up as many as she could, before quickly walking back to the clearing....where she saw that Mr. Murdoch had already arrived with them.

But for some reason, the Bowtruckles didn't seem to be interested in them at all. She could see that they were more interested in clinging onto the legs of those who happened to be holding the twigs from the branches they had collected.

She walked up to the Professor ahd said,"Professor here are the lice I found. Maybe it would be better if I lay them near a tree, nearby instead of dropping them where they would only get trampled by everyone. Maybe the Bowtruckles will hopefully see that food has arrived and leave everyone alone."

One thing Alyssa knew that there was too much screaming and moving going on. So she whispered out to everybody in the clearing. "Could everybody, like...try to stop yelling at each other and panicking and try to stay still. I know its hard to do, but it seems the more you react to the Bowtruckles, the more they react back....and if you are holding onto any twigs right now. Drop them. Drop them all!!"

Belatedly remembering what Professor Williamson said about not panicking and working together as a group, which in this instance no one seemed to be observing either, Alyssa wondered what she could do to help, especially now like that it seemed that more Bowtruckles were arriving.

Then she thought of an idea. Chances are that it wouldn't work, but it still was worth a try. She gathered up a stack of twigs and poured some of the lice on it. Then taking out her wand, she cast the levitating charm on it, saying,"Wingardium Leviosa" sending the stack of wood covered with lice up floating into the air.

Concentrating hard on the spell, she floated the stack of wood over to the angry mob of Bowtruckles and brought it down to their eye level. Now all she had to do was hope and pray that the Bowtruckles would see the wood stack AND the wood lice and follow it.

She was hoping to float the twigs up to a tree and leave it on a branch and hopefully they would climb up and forget about the 'stupid' humans taking their twigs without their permission.

"Good work Miss Potter, keep it up." Callie looked at the Hufflepuff girl who seemed to be in a better form now that she was calmed down and able to work on righting the situation.

**BOWTRUCKLES!** · 07-16-2012, 09:17 PM

Food was flying EVERYWHERE.

O_O

Bowtruckles looked up from the small soft one's legs and arms that they were biting and scratching to see woodlice brought by the grown man soft ones and they immediately began to hop into the air and try and grab it, with most of them slowly, yet surely, leaving into the woods where they had come from.

The one that had been blasted off of a stick by the one soft one with long-ish hair (Elijah) flew through the air and gobbled up a few lice before hitting the ground and skipping off into the woods but not before dropping a small golden, yet tarnished, locket to the ground that hadn't been noticed before. When you get a closer look at the piece of jewelry a small word can be made out in curvy caligraphy: Amarantha.

Whatever that meant.

As the small horde of Bowtruckles left some turned back around to shout Bowtruckle insults at some of the intruders before disappearing into the woods once more. Even the little one that was sitting on the Nettle-headed one's shoulder (Spike) slowly slumped down and finished nibbling at the wood lice it had recieved and waved, sort-of before walking off.

Once the wood lice had mostly been distributed out of the clearing the last Bowtruckle hopped into the nearest tree and it was quiet again.

TakemetotheBurrow · 07-16-2012, 09:18 PM

O__O

Ella had been talking quietly to the bowtruckles, arms raised in surrender, as she noticed Nessie faint! EEP! They weren't that scary, were they! They were just little stick things! The second year frowned and went to stand by the older girl, not wanting anything to harm her. Both fortunately and unfortunately (for Nessie), Professor Williamson was storming onto the scene and tripping right over the badger! Oh Merlin! Ella hoped he hadn't hurt her...But HEY! IT WAS PROFESSOR WILLIAMSON! *INNER FLAILING* The second year hadn't seen him since he was all frozen like a popsicle. Beam.Beam.Beam. It was good to see him out and about and acting like the looney professor he usually was.

Doing as instructed, Ella back into the middle of the clearing and held her wand out in front of her, pointed at the wood lice inside the bucket that Mr. Murdoch had brought ~~a little too late~~. "Wingardium Leviosa!" The small blonde said, watching with hopeful eyes as a bunch of wood lice began floating in the air. YES! She'd done it! She then moved her wand so the lice moved towards the tree line. "That's it, Bowtruckles. Go on and eat the erm...lovely wood lice." And they would, wouldn't they?

And it seemed to work as the bowtruckles were calming down a bit. THANK MERLIN. Now they could get back to normal, yeah?

*Holmesian Feline* · 07-16-2012, 09:30 PM

Alright so the task at hand had seemed perfectly mundane and Gideon was doing his best to contribute, collecting a few branches on his own. However it certainly wasn't to remain that way as the class had seemed to awaken quite a few creatures. Bowtrickles to be precise there to go after them for taking the branches. Right...they were protective of their trees, that bit of information being something he seemed to remember at that point in time.

Gideon didn't need his fellow prefect's instructions to stop to do so seeing as he had a pretty good idea that if they continued what they were doing, it was only going to make the creatures more upset. So far so good in the ability to not getting singled out by the bowtruckles but he lowered his collection back down onto the ground to appease them. Maybe just maybe Professor Elwood should have checked with the groundskeeper or COMC professor about what might happen when she instructed the students to do what she asked them to.

Of course all control seemed to fail as students got excited or rather bothered by the bowtrickles and the sixth year tried to remember what to do to calm them. Kurumi seemed to know that as well as first she mentioned wood lice and fairy eggs and then Professor Elwood seemed to catch on.

Right...need one of those two things.

Gideon looked around for the eggs and lice as he started to walk, wary of any creatures who might look like they were ready to go for him. Hearing another adult voice, the Gryffindor looked over only to spot the groundskeeper arriving in response to the patronus with just what they needed...LICE. And then a loud voice exclaiming they were to stop what they were doing and gather back towards him. Professor Williamson had arrived to join the party. The prefect obeyed, making his way over to the three adults and the buckets, his wand already out once he arrived.

"Wingardium Leviosa..." he cast at the creatures, managing to leviate a handful from their previous homes. "Fixate..." the woodlice freezing momentarily. "Locomotor lice...." Gideon cast finally, slowly moving the bowtruckle's food out towards the edge of the clearing, doing his best to be careful of other people.

Magical Soul · 07-16-2012, 09:55 PM

....okay eww? This would be a great time to conjure one of the hairnets and put them on before some of the woodlice would take refuge and turn into hairlice. No, Louisa did not care about bowtruckles or those freaking out, she was highly conscious of the fact that she had a lovely long dark and thick enough hair instead. And she needed to protect the hair. Quickly throwing whatever she had gathered, like Williamson and Elwood instructed, and wrapped her hair into a tight bun up on her head, and bent down using one of the wooden sticks to hold it up there tight and steady - emergency girly issue resolved.

Moving on...

Louisa took her wand out and very confidently waved it at the bucket that held the -shudder- woodlice, levitating some and with one sharp motion with the wand, they were shot toward the treeline hopefully without smacking into someone on their way over there. The seventh year repeated the process again, bending down and gathering her sticks as she worked this time. And slowly walking closer to the professors where all the sticks were supposed to be gathered. She was more focusing on the levitating-shooting-woodlice though... which were now literally flying everywhere thanks to a bunch of others levitating them. EWWWWW!

With a screwed up face, the girl threw her sticks onto the pile and squatted down. She was NOT going to stand when there were third years using the levitation spell on WOODLICE. Nope. Not a chance. From where she positions herself, she went on with the work... a bit with difficulty now that she was barely seeing anything from higher than two feet. Heh.

Steelsheen · 07-16-2012, 10:21 PM

SPOILER!!: Elijah

Did she say something? Not that something he wanted her to say about him. Tooootally the opposite. And the Curly!Puff wasn’t helping with him trying to ignore his Kurumi!angst by continuously harping about it, like scratching a wound thats struggling to heal.

***

Then chaos ensued. In the middle of the Forbidden Forest. Oh yeah it just keeps getting better and better.

He turned his head towards Elijah, the Ravenclaw’s features contorted into disbelief and a silent scream. Stop yelling fool! Bowtruckles would be the least of their problems when the whole Forest population zeroes in on where they are. Oh yeah a knockback jinx while the creature you’re trying to knock back is on your wand hand. Yes brilliant! Now its plain to see why he wears the yellow robes.

People fainting, hiding behind bushes, verbalizing what he just did (

) egg-collecting (

), freezing-- WHAT?

His attention is pulled towards the sudden appearance of the Dragon Keeper. Alright! Instructions on how to save their skin….

.... which carried on with what he did earlier. So that wasn’t a mistake? Huzzah!

But there was soooo many bowtruckles now he wasn’t sure if hoisting all the buckets towards the treeline would be the best way to get all the bowtruckles cleared out. What if the creatures miss the flying buckets? What if some are just dense like that?

So instead he picked up several long-ish sticks and gritted his teeth, struggling to keep his screaming OC squeamishness as he drew near the lice-filled buckets. He dipped the sticks into it and allowed the lice to crawl all around it, levitating one stick and dangling it temptingly at a group of snapping Bowtruckles “Hey look what I got…. Yeah.. yeah?.. you like that right? Go fetch!” he said, levitating that stick towards the treeline then dropping it on the forest floor. He repeated this a few more times. Clenching his jaw tightly to keep himself from getting sick, he levitated one lice-covered stick after another out of the buckets, hover over the bowtruckles then bait them out of the clearing.

Just goooo Bowtruckles. Or you'll have Vickers' breakfast as an extra with your lunch.

Aaaaaaand they were gone... bowtruckles hopping and slinking off one by one until it was only them Wizards and Witches left in the forest. From where he stood he saw something dull catching whatever light filtered from the trees. "There's something there." he pointed at the location of what looks to be some kind of dully shiny thing. He looked around their class "Anybody dropped their stuff?" a likely scenario given the panic that just occured.

Leeness · 07-16-2012, 10:22 PM

SPOILER!!: Vickers Bowtrucklebane *DIES*

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

Now that the girl had stopped screaming in the midst of Bowtruckle attack and agreed to go help her fellow classmates look for wood lice, Callie was able to focus on the larger situation--the actual attack.

"Thank you Alyssa."

"It's about bloody time Waylon, seriously!" She said as the Groundskeeper had made his way into the clearing and was thankfully not a larger beast coming to eat them all.

She was ready to take the buckets from him and throw them into the trees but she thought that would be a tad much and no doubt wasteful if they Bowtruckles hadn't seen them go by. "So we need to start feeding them, like now." Callie said, slightly more calm since he was here. She wasn't too angry since he brought the lice late rather than never.

"Ah! Get off of me!" Professor Elwood had almost lost what composure she still had during all the chaos when a rather fat Bowtruckles came over and started slashing at her ankles and skirt.

Suddenly Vickers was once again stepping infront of her to try and keep the things off of her, despite them wanting to attack him aswell. She watched as he levitated some of the wood lice out of Murdoch's buckets and sent them off into the woods. They would probably go too. He was a smart one, such a Ravenclaw.

Her knight in....blue-trimmed robes, Sir Vickers Bowtrucklebane. Go him!

Oh no a child was fainting. ~~Hopefully she wasn't near any of the things incase they wanted to poke some eyes or something.~~ Maybe they thought she would be just a log.

She would head over to save her just as soon as she could.

Just as she was looking for a clear path over to the fallen Puff, William decided to show up. She gave him a glare but it was immediately replaced with a look or horror as he stumbled over poor Nessie. "William! Oh my, is she ok?!" she shouted and then listened and watched as the man took charge and instucted the students to do as he said.

Good thing, she hadn't the slightest clue as to what to do. The lice were here and it seemed she had two more knights, Waylon and William.

"Yes, everyone do as Professor Williamson says and begin levitating wood lice near the Bowtruckles and then out of the clearing." She took her own wand and began to do the same as the other adults and kids began to pull in closer to the center.

Oh and the Healer, right. Another artic fox Patronus was sent out towards the castle.

SPOILER!!: Kurumi, Elijah, and Bowtruckles

"Mr. Wilde another five points from Hufflepuff! Now get over here to get some lice and stop attacking that Bowtruckle!" Callie shouted at the Hufflepuff boy who had been arguing with Prefect Hollingberry on his treatment of the beast.

She would have taken another 5 points for shouting but everyone was doing it now, including herself and William so it was sort of a mute point now. "Kurumi, please head this way and keep levitating woodlice." Callie was much calmer now that she had some help, despite the growing headache that was Elijah.

"You, in the bushes! Get over here, we need more people to levitiate the wood lice into the forest to lead the creatures off." She waved her hand at the Slytherin girl hiding to bring her over lest they accidentally levitate wood lice on her.

Spike? Oh that was his name. Alright, good to know.

She had been busy levitating the creepy-crawlies when Callie noticed the Ravenclaw Prefect had a Bowtruckle on his shoulder and was feeding it. That was nice. But then he was arguing with Kurumi and Elijah about the other boy's treatment of the Bowtruckles.

"Spike over here, I've taken care of it. Help us lead the others away please." He was good with creatures, right?

"What? Oh the fairy eggs. Good job Sarah, feed them a few but lets put the rest back where you found them that way in a few days or weeks we can have some more fairies here." She didn't want to kill the baby fairies did she? It was a good find though, which she was happy that the Gryffindor had done.

"Good work Miss Potter, keep it up." Callie looked at the Hufflepuff girl who seemed to be in a better form now that she was calmed down and able to work on righting the situation.[/QUOTE]

Elijah had been THIS close (See how CLOSE that is? Seeeeee? Well, if you don't let me tell you, it was SO close) to turning round and shouting at the Professor taking points off of him. Sure, he may have jinxed the little beasts but at least he had done something. She was the Professor! She was supposed to be doing HER JOB. Hmph.

SPOILER!!: LITTLE BEASTS

Elijah felt RELIEF as the little pest that had been on his arm jumped off eventually and freed him from further assault. He noticed, however, a locket that seemed to have come loose from the larger bowtruckle. He walked over to it, picking it up from the ground with his much less-damaged left hand, turning it in his fingers. It was pretty expensive looking and would probably only make him look more attractive. He quickly put it around his neck, more concerned for his hand at the moment.

"Can some adult who DOES know what they are doing," yeah, that dig was at YOU Elwood, "Look at my hand please? Tell me it won't scar! I can't have an unattractive hand attached to this gorgeous body."

Steelsheen · 07-16-2012, 10:46 PM

And just as he pointed int out, Vickers watched Elijah pick up that locket, turn it over in his hand and wear it on himself.

He drew near Elijah just as he was hearing him whine about his hand. "Is it bleeding a lot?" because if it isnt then chances are its just a scatch Curly!Puff. Then he angled his head at the locket around his neck. "Were you wearing that before? I dont remember you wearing any... fancy jewelry." Fancy as in girlyyyyy

Leeness · 07-16-2012, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

And just as he pointed int out, Vickers watched Elijah pick up that locket, turn it over in his hand and wear it on himself.

He drew near Elijah just as he was hearing him whine about his hand. "Is it bleeding a lot?" because if it isnt then chances are its just a scatch Curly!Puff. Then he angled his head at the locket around his neck. "Were you wearing that before? I dont remember you wearing any... fancy jewelry." Fancy as in girlyyyyy

Oh! GOOD! Vickers was here. His bro. "Vee, did you just hear Professor Elwood!? Your lover? Yeah, well she took FIVE points from me! For trying to protect myself, can you believe it!?" he complained to his friend.

"Oh my hand?" he asked, as Vickers questioned whether or not it was bleeding, "I think it is a little. I mean, it isn't DRIPPING blood or anything, I think the little buggars sliced me open a tiny bit is all. It freakin' stings though! Like a bad papercut." He held out the maimed hand to the 'Claw, "You have a look, you are probably the smartest person I know. Will it survive? Just tell me straight, Vee, does this thing need...." GULP "... amputated?"

Vickers also seemed to notice the locket Elijah had retrieved from the bowtruckle. "Oh this," he indicated, bending his chin as far down as possible, looking the jewelry over in his left hand again. "That little BEAST that had latched itself to my hand dropped it. I think it is only fair that I keep it considering the damn thing HURT me. Like a sort of battle trophy, yeah?" he began to laugh. The whole thing seemed so silly in retrospect. Then he remembered his hand again...

"But my hand? It doesn't need amputated?" he asked again, a little more panicked this time.

FireboltAvis88 · 07-16-2012, 11:05 PM

Alyssa was glad that the Bowtruckles were finally gone. She had noticed that a Bowtruckle had dropped something shiny as it was leaving and was going to see what it was before Elijah went over and picked it up...and put it around his neck.

"Uh....Elijah are you sure you want wear that? It looks pretty old and unless it's yours, I think that you should turn it in to Professor Elwood. You don't know where the Bowtruckles got it from. It could be bad mojo." Alyssa whispered to her fellow Hufflepuff.

The locket did look old and the word Amarantha on it sounded familiar to her. She just couldn't place where she had seen it before.

oh its Erik ok · 07-16-2012, 11:13 PM

Wow Nigel thought. This had gotten really out of hand. Nigel did not know what to do before but was glad he dropped his sticks and went to the middle of the clearing like he was told, when everybody started helping.

He tried to do his best to levitate some of the wood lice to help out Professor Williamson. And was successful.

Once he finished levitate the lice and the bowtruckle went away. He wondered what kind of locket Lee was wearing and where he got it.

He did not look like the kinda of person who would wear that type of jewelry.

But Nigel did not really care about Lee's jewelry taste, he just wondered what else could go wrong with this lesson.

sweetpinkpixie · 07-16-2012, 11:22 PM

Kurumi's eyes narrowed a bit more when Elijah was now shouting at HER. Kurumi's hand on her wand and was very VERY tempted to make him the first Hufflepuff of the term that she silenced. She had done it four times last term and was clearly falling behind in her schedule. At least Spike chimed in.

And honestly, Elijah, your method of screaming wasn't helping either. So there.

Kurumi's attention snapped back around, the glare still very much on her face and softened just a little when she saw that it was Professor ~~worthless~~ Elwood and she was ACTUALLY making sense this time. Kurumi turned her head so she was looking just at Elijah and couldn't help but stick her tongue out at him. She would have said I told you so, but the bowtruckle scratching her leg was becoming more and more persistent so she resisted for now and waddled over to the bucket where after a swish and flick she cast a silent Hover Charm and guided it so that she could tempt the little guy off her leg.

And then her little Gryffindor heart skipped a beat when she saw who had arrived and Kurumi almost got sparkles in her eyes. PROFESSOR WIIIIIIIIIIILLIAMSON! If Kurumi were the sort to fangirl, she would have right now...and maybe even did so a little internally but the bowtruckle on her leg was proving to be a bit too much of a distraction to fully appreciate the man's heroic arrival.

And this was also why she missed him tripping over Nessie but DID see him holding the fallen Hufflepuff - which made Kurumi feel immensely better because she had been worried about her friend.

It seemed like the bowtruckles were slowly beginning to make their way back towards the forest now, which was good, but just getting them there and them actually finishing collecting sticks was an entirely different matter, wasn't it? Not that she would ask Professor Elwood this - the woman clearly didn't know anything. So, Kurumi instead kept her mouth shut, with LOTS of internal grumbling, and continued to levitate wood lice towards the forest until all the small creatures were gone.

Once things had calmed down, Kurumi became a little more aware of everything that was going on - including the rather comedic exchange between Vickers and Elijah. Vickers earned a smile...while Elijah another rather pointed look.

Steelsheen · 07-16-2012, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leeness

Oh! GOOD! Vickers was here. His bro. "Vee, did you just hear Professor Elwood!? Your lover? Yeah, well she took FIVE points from me! For trying to protect myself, can you believe it!?" he complained to his friend.

"Oh my hand?" he asked, as Vickers questioned whether or not it was bleeding, "I think it is a little. I mean, it isn't DRIPPING blood or anything, I think the little buggars sliced me open a tiny bit is all. It freakin' stings though! Like a bad papercut." He held out the maimed hand to the 'Claw, "You have a look, you are probably the smartest person I know. Will it survive? Just tell me straight, Vee, does this thing need...." GULP "... amputated?"

Vickers also seemed to notice the locket Elijah had retrieved from the bowtruckle. "Oh this," he indicated, bending his chin as far down as possible, looking the jewelry over in his left hand again. "That little BEAST that had latched itself to my hand dropped it. I think it is only fair that I keep it considering the damn thing HURT me. Like a sort of battle trophy, yeah?" he began to laugh. The whole thing seemed so silly in retrospect. Then he remembered his hand again...

"But my hand? It doesn't need amputated?" he asked again, a little more panicked this time.

Merlin's bushy beard! He called Elwood his what?????

Really must he have to e.nun.ci.ate that? Smack in the middle of the entire class who are more than likely looking and listening to him because of that strange trinket hanging on his neck?

Granted, in the ruckus Vickers missed the point deduction on Elijah but oh yeah he knows about it now. "Let me look at your hand then..." he said through gritted teeth as he grabbed the Curly!Puff's hand so tightly he was pretty sure whatever pain the other lad felt it just doubled. Amputate? Was that a wish? Because he would looooove to do the honors now. Pushing his glasses up annoyingly he peered down at the Hufflepuff's hand. He was right about the papercuts, but sheesh they were so tiny hardly any blood has broken the surface "Dont' worry you'll live.... once we attach a hook to the stump." he grumbled as he dropped the Hufflepuff's hand without much fanfare.

Unbelievable. That was the obvious expression on Vickers' face once he heard Elijah explain about the locket. "So you just picked up some strange locket off the forest floor and wore it around your neck? You ever heard of cursed lockets mate?" he muttered then listened to Alyssa speak. Then caught Kurumi's smiling at him. He smiles back of course ~~the sorry sap~~. But yeah annoyed look back to the Curly!Puff "Yeah... I think you better tell the Professors what you found?... and take that thing off your neck?" he winced gesturing at the dull-shiny thing hanging against the yellow robes.

Leeness · 07-17-2012, 12:11 AM

SPOILER!!: Healer Vanderbilt

Elijah couldn't help but feel as if Vickers was angry with him. He couldn't tell if it was the glaring, the speaking through gritted teeth or whether or not it was just a feeling or a vibe that Elijah was getting from him. "Hey, bud, are you angry at me or something?" he enquired, totally oblivious as he handed his arm over for inspection from the 'Claw, to which Vickers grabbed it a. Little. TOO. HAAAAARDDD.

"OW!!!!" yep the 'Claw was mad at him. "VEE! BRO! NOT COOL!"

He grabbed his arm back and caressed it, trying to put on a brave face and pretend the pain wasn't bothering him. Breaking down because of pain was an unattractive trait, afterall. But then Vickers said that thing about the stump...

He didn't even react. He wasn't sure if the boy was being serious or not, but why on Earth would he JOKE about something like that!? His eyes started to get a little watery at the thought of losing his hand in replace of a HOOK! He all of a sudden felt extremely faint...

SPOILER!!: GLARUMI

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi's eyes narrowed a bit more when Elijah was now shouting at HER. Kurumi's hand on her wand and was very VERY tempted to make him the first Hufflepuff of the term that she silenced. She had done it four times last term and was clearly falling behind in her schedule. At least Spike chimed in.

And honestly, Elijah, your method of screaming wasn't helping either. So there.

Kurumi's attention snapped back around, the glare still very much on her face and softened just a little when she saw that it was Professor ~~worthless~~ Elwood and she was ACTUALLY making sense this time. Kurumi turned her head so she was looking just at Elijah and couldn't help but stick her tongue out at him. She would have said I told you so, but the bowtruckle scratching her leg was becoming more and more persistent so she resisted for now and waddled over to the bucket where after a swish and flick she cast a silent Hover Charm and guided it so that she could tempt the little guy off her leg.

And then her little Gryffindor heart skipped a beat when she saw who had arrived and Kurumi almost got sparkles in her eyes. PROFESSOR WIIIIIIIIIIILLIAMSON! If Kurumi were the sort to fangirl, she would have right now...and maybe even did so a little internally but the bowtruckle on her leg was proving to be a bit too much of a distraction to fully appreciate the man's heroic arrival.

And this was also why she missed him tripping over Nessie but DID see him holding the fallen Hufflepuff - which made Kurumi feel immensely better because she had been worried about her friend.

It seemed like the bowtruckles were slowly beginning to make their way back towards the forest now, which was good, but just getting them there and them actually finishing collecting sticks was an entirely different matter, wasn't it? Not that she would ask Professor Elwood this - the woman clearly didn't know anything. So, Kurumi instead kept her mouth shut, with LOTS of internal grumbling, and continued to levitate wood lice towards the forest until all the small creatures were gone.

Once things had calmed down, Kurumi became a little more aware of everything that was going on - including the rather comedic exchange between Vickers and Elijah. Vickers earned a smile...while Elijah another rather pointed look.

That was when he noticed the Gryffindor Prefect looking over his way, glaring at him. She appeared to be angry at him too, it seemed, after their shouting match. FINE! Everyone just HATE on Elijah! Hmph. He didn't even give her a glare back. He was still too upset at the thought of having a STUMP for a hand.

Hold. Back. The. Tears.

SPOILER!!: Alyssa

It was then that Alyssa appeared out of nowhere talking about his locket. "ARGHH! You SCARED me," Elijah was now most definitely convinced that the ENTIRE student body was out to get him.

"YES, I AM sure I want to wear it, because it is MY locket," he said rather rudely to her. It wasn't necessarily Alyssa's fault. Vickers and Kurumi had set the ball rolling with his bad mood and Alyssa was just unfortunately in the crossfire.

It was then that he noticed the inscribed word. "Hm...Ammmaaarrrantha," he spelled out. He realised people were looking, "Amarantha... after my Grandmother. It is my Grandmother's locket ya see... that was her name."

Why were people so interested that he had found this STUPID locket anywayz? Finders keepers!

SPOILER!!: Vee & Locket

Despite the fact that what Vickers said did make sense, Elijah was now annoyed with HIM because HE had been the one that sentenced him to a stump for the rest of his life (he just hoped Healer Tilstorm could work miracles) PLUS Elijah didn't much appreciate the 'Claws STUPID mood with him.

Then he noticed the exchange of smiles. Yep. RIGHT THERE. RIGGGGHT THERREE. Between Vee and Kurumi. They were smiling at each other. A lot of things seemed to be making sense. Vee must've been seeing Kurumi behind his back AND they were now both conspiring against him with this 'bad mood' act. It seemed so obvious now. Friends indeed. Well, that is what Elijah got for deciding to make friends this term. He made note that he would just continue as he had done before and be EXTREMELY attractive and good looking WITHOUT the company of people. People just got in the way.

"I think it is up to me what I do with the locket *I* found. The chances it is cursed is very unlikely," he said, sounding slightly defeated, making sure to whisper so only Vickers would hear. The others could continue thinking it was an heirloom of sorts.

FireboltAvis88 · 07-17-2012, 12:38 AM

SPOILER!!: Elijah

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leeness

Elijah couldn't help but feel as if Vickers was angry with him. He couldn't tell if it was the glaring, the speaking through gritted teeth or whether or not it was just a feeling or a vibe that Elijah was getting from him. "Hey, bud, are you angry at me or something?" he enquired, totally oblivious as he handed his arm over for inspection from the 'Claw, to which Vickers grabbed it a. Little. TOO. HAAAAARDDD.

"OW!!!!" yep the 'Claw was mad at him. "VEE! BRO! NOT COOL!"

He grabbed his arm back and caressed it, trying to put on a brave face and pretend the pain wasn't bothering him. Breaking down because of pain was an unattractive trait, afterall. But then Vickers said that thing about the stump...

He didn't even react. He wasn't sure if the boy was being serious or not, but why on Earth would he JOKE about something like that!? His eyes started to get a little watery at the thought of losing his hand in replace of a HOOK! He all of a sudden felt extremely faint...

That was when he noticed the Gryffindor Prefect looking over his way, glaring at him. She appeared to be angry at him too, it seemed, after their shouting match. FINE! Everyone just HATE on Elijah! Hmph. He didn't even give her a glare back. He was still too upset at the thought of having a STUMP for a hand.

Hold. Back. The. Tears.

It was then that Alyssa appeared out of nowhere talking about his locket. "ARGHH! You SCARED me," Elijah was now most definitely convinced that the ENTIRE student body was out to get him.

"YES, I AM sure I want to wear it, because it is MY locket," he said rather rudely to her. It wasn't necessarily Alyssa's fault. Vickers and Kurumi had set the ball rolling with his bad mood and Alyssa was just unfortunately in the crossfire.

It was then that he noticed the inscribed word. "Hm...Ammmaaarrrantha," he spelled out. He realised people were looking, "Amarantha... after my Grandmother. It is my Grandmother's locket ya see... that was her name."

Why were people so interested that he had found this STUPID locket anywayz? Finders keepers!

Despite the fact that what Vickers said did make sense, Elijah was now annoyed with HIM because HE had been the one that sentenced him to a stump for the rest of his life (he just hoped Healer Tilstorm could work miracles) PLUS Elijah didn't much appreciate the 'Claws STUPID mood with him.

Then he noticed the exchange of smiles. Yep. RIGHT THERE. RIGGGGHT THERREE. Between Vee and Kurumi. They were smiling at each other. A lot of things seemed to be making sense. Vee must've been seeing Kurumi behind his back AND they were now both conspiring against him with this 'bad mood' act. It seemed so obvious now. Friends indeed. Well, that is what Elijah got for deciding to make friends this term. He made note that he would just continue as he had done before and be EXTREMELY attractive and good looking WITHOUT the company of people. People just got in the way.

"I think it is up to me what I do with the locket *I* found. The chances it is cursed is very unlikely," he said, sounding slightly defeated, making sure to whisper so only Vickers would hear. The others could continue thinking it was an heirloom of sorts.

Alyssa looked at Elijan suspiciously. She knew that the locket didn't belong to him but was not going to challenge him on that. She just hoped...for his sake...that it was just regular non-magical non-cursed locket. But somehow she had an uncomfortable eerie feeling that it wasn't. 'Where had that Bowtruckle picked it up from? It definitely wasn't from Elijah because he wasn't wearing it before.' Alyssa thought to herself.

"Okay Elijah, it's yours. Please be careful okay. If you start feeling weird, get rid of it. There's been way too many weird things going on this term in school. I wouldn't want to see you in the hospital wing too."Alyssa told him still concerned that he was wearing that locket around his neck.

But for now, she decided to concentrate on what both Professors wanted them to do next. Would they be able to resume Transfiguration class now that the Bowtruckles had disappeared.

PadfootAndTheWolf · 07-17-2012, 02:28 AM

The Bowtruckles were finally leaving and she suffered only minor injuries, like the students and the poor Puff had fainted but was relatively ok, right? Callie looked at the students standing around her and was happy to see that everyone seemed to be accounted for aswell.

"Everyone good job helping out, you all did wonderfully. Also let's all give a thanks to Professor Williamson and Mr. Murdoch for their help aswell." She clapped her hands for the kids and the two men before continuing. "Now that we have them here, were are going to continue collecting our sticks and if we have more 'visitors' we will be able to deal with them appropriately." So yeah, back to work everyone.

"Oh and if you are injured Healer Tillstorm should be here soon." And with that their lesson could resume as if nothing had happened....wrong. She noticed that Mister Vanderbilt and Mr. Wilde were arguing about something, also bringing Miss Potter into things and getting glares and looks from other students aswell. Were these two going to keep interrupting her lesson?

She eyed them for a moment and then picked up from the other students' raised voices that the Puff had decided to wear a locket he had found. That certainly wasn't smart so the blonde Professor stormed over to the trouble-maker. When she stopped infront of Elijah she reached out and ripped the locket from his neck, snapping the fragile, old chain.

"Mr. Wilde, do you understand how incrediably stupid it is to put on an object you found in the middle of the forest? Does it make sense to you that a random locket you find in the forest would be safe to wear? It isn't!" Calista looked up from the boy, shaking her head incredulously, and gestured for the two other adults to join her with the others looking at the strange artifact. Hopefully the men were knowledgable of jewelry.

"What could this mean? It says, 'Aramantha', do we have one of those here at Hogwarts? The thing looks pretty old." And it did. The gold was all tarnished and the chain was obviously frail ~~and broken now~~.

OCC: So we are going to continue with the stick collecting. If you've already started, just continue from where you were, but try to have 3 posts in by tomorrow at 10pm EST. You may still interact with the Professors and locket lookers while you work.

Destiny · 07-17-2012, 03:22 AM

And this was the reason why he didn't teach. This was the reason! Kids were crazy.

Screaming, FAINTING, and throwing off spells just over a few little Bowtruckles. Okay, so there were more than a few, but still. He wondered what they would have done if they were really in trouble. Shaking his head, just glad that none of those creatures had latched onto him, they were painful little things, Waylon handed over the open bucket of wood lice to Vickers and immediately popped open the lid to the other.

He had absolutely no idea what he was supposed to do now, but thankfully, William came when he did and.. he even managed to pick up the fainted girl. Unless the girl was just playing dead, but surely she knew that that was not the way to get those critters to leave you alone.

But back to those critters. Those same critters who just went back into the forest once everyone began working together and feeding them. Huh. That was easy and Waylon GRINNED as he realized he was the reason for them leaving. Also the reason why they were there, but he wasn't going to say that.

SPOILER!!: Callie!

And just when he thought he could leave, he caught sight of Callie RIPPING a chain off that boy with the nice hair's neck and gesturing him over towards them. And not one to pass up the opportunity of being nosy, Waylon placed his now empty bucket onto the ground and moved closer to the group.

He must have missed something. He was slow like that sometimes.

"It could mean that, whoever this Aramantha person is, is now missing their locket." he shrugged his shoulders. He had no idea if there was one of those in Hogwarts. The Professors would know more than him..

sweetpinkpixie · 07-17-2012, 03:50 AM

Kurumi knelt down to inspect her leg for a moment. It didn't look too bad, no blood or anything, it was more like how her leg look when Walnut got a little too playful and decided to attack her leg. So, nothing to worry about...and no need to see the Healer when she did show up...Nope.

Now that all the bowtruckles were gone, Kurumi breathed a sigh of relief and pocketed her wand. Yeah, way to go Professor Elwood. Now Nessie had fainted and -- NESSIE! Concern written all over her face, Kurumi cautiously approached Professor Williamson and ~~tried not to be secretly jealous of being carried by him~~ looked at her friend. "Is she going to be alright?"

And then Professor Elwood told them to go back to taking twigs and branches from the trees and Kurumi swallowed a bit nervously. Was that really such a good idea NOW? Shouldn't they give the bowtruckles time to readjust after the shock they had all just experienced? Then again, they did have more EXPERIENCED and KNOWLEDGEABLE people around.

So, eyes back on her parchment, Kurumi approached a nearby tree and checked the label. Poplar. Right, she hadn't collected that one yet so she gently snapped a branch off the tree and then made her way to the tins in the front with the three delicate woods Professor Elwood had described. With those four in hand, Kurumi added them to her pile and then made her way towards the next set of trees.

Which just so happened to be adjacent to where Elijah and Vickers were standing.

Groaning softly to herself, Kurumi knew that perhaps she had been a bit...rash... and her conscious was telling her she ought to apologize. Sigh. After snapping off branches from an Alder and Willow tree, Kurumi somewhat reluctantly approached the two boys. "Hey, Elijah...I'm....I'm sorry for snapping at you earlier..." she said, biting her lip. She just had a sore spot for creatures and had found his behavior completely offensive.

And no, Kurumi did not notice the locket nor hear any of the conversation that had been going on about it. She had been a little preoccupied with the bowtruckle on her leg.

TakemetotheBurrow · 07-17-2012, 03:54 AM

When things seemed to have calmed down, Ella turned her attention to Professor Elwood who apparently decided to take charge again. As the professor then instructed the class to thank Professor Williamson and Mr. Murdoch for their help, Ella joined in on the clapping, hers being a little louder than she had intended. What?! She was a fan of the men is all...No big deal or anything. Nope. Oh! And now they were meant to continue on gathering the sticks? Well Ella could do that, though she'd only be taking sticks already on the ground. She didn't want to anger the Bowtruckles ~~or Bentley~~ by breaking the limbs off of their precious trees.

As the small blonde approached the willow tree she had been standing at originally, she over heard Professor Elwood scolding one of the students for wearing a necklace he found in the forest. Wait! HE? Ella turned to look, eyebrows raised. Boys weren't meant to wear lockets! Smirkkk. Though it wasn't all that surprising that the FABIO wannabe had been wearing one. He was probably going to pass it off as a gift he had bought for one of the many girlfriends he claimed to have. EYE ROLL. Boys were SO weird.

Bending down, the second year began looking for a good willow branch to collect. She found a rather nice looking one just to the right of where she was standing, not too big or too small. Looking around her to ensure no bowtruckles were around to attack, Ella picked it up off the ground and looked around for the next type of tree.

Luna_Midnight · 07-17-2012, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BOWTRUCKLES!

As a Ravenclaw girl had been picking branches from the strong willow where a small nest of Bowtruckles had been a baby one leapt from a low hanging branch and snapped right onto the girl's finger.

"Ra! Ra!" It squeaked as it bit and hung on.

Nerida hadnt even moved when she felt a pinch on her finger. Glancing down she saw it was a small bowtruckle just lached on. Epp it bit her. But she didn't want to fling it goodness it hurt! She waited for the little thing to jump off of her.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

"EVERYONE... FREEZE," the Care of Magical Creatures professor's voice came floating into the clearing. "Drop any sticks you have and gather in the center of the clearing, near the professors. Levitate some of the groundskeeper's wood lice OUT of the bucket and TOWARD the treeline, away from your peers. If you have a bowtruckle on you, try to remain calm and get some woodlice to distract it."

Everyone freeze how did one freeze when something was bitting you. She didn't have any sticks in her hands those had been dropped a long time ago. She couldnt levitate anything it was on her wand hand...Sigh now it was just to wait until the mean thing jumps off.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BOWTRUCKLES!

As the small horde of Bowtruckles left some turned back around to shout Bowtruckle insults at some of the intruders before disappearing into the woods once more. Even the little one that was sitting on the Nettle-headed one's shoulder (Spike) slowly slumped down and finished nibbling at the wood lice it had recieved and waved, sort-of before walking off.

Once the wood lice had mostly been distributed out of the clearing the last Bowtruckle hopped into the nearest tree and it was quiet again.

Boy was Nerida happy when the bowtruckle who had bitten her finger jumped off and climbed back into the tree or did it leave them...Hmm well wherever it went, it was gone and that was all that mattered. Her finger hurt but she was just happy that the little thing was off!

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

"Everyone good job helping out, you all did wonderfully. Also let's all give a thanks to Professor Williamson and Mr. Murdoch for their help aswell." She clapped her hands for the kids and the two men before continuing. "Now that we have them here, were are going to continue collecting our sticks and if we have more 'visitors' we will be able to deal with them appropriately." So yeah, back to work everyone.

"Oh and if you are injured Healer Tillstorm should be here soon." And with that their lesson could resume as if nothing had happened....wrong. She noticed that Mister Vanderbilt and Mr. Wilde were arguing about something, also bringing Miss Potter into things and getting glares and looks from other students aswell. Were these two going to keep interrupting her lesson?

OCC: So we are going to continue with the stick collecting. If you've already started, just continue from where you were, but try to have 3 posts in by tomorrow at 10pm EST. You may still interact with the Professors and locket lookers while you work.

Did it really make sense for them to go back and collect twigs when they had just been attacked! And her finger hurt...Luckily the Healer would be here soon. Though Nerida wasn't going to be a baby about the whole thing. She picked up her bag and looked at her parchment. She decided it would be easier to cross off if she just made another list of all the woods. After finishing she crossed off the four woods she had already collected.

She decided she would get Vine,Ivy, and Reed next seeing as they were already cut. Walking over to where they were she picked up one of each. She gently placed them in her bag with the other woods. One thing was for sure she would need to wash her bag when they were done with the lesson. Seeing an Ash tree she walked over and found a branch that could be easily torn off. It would be akward tearing it off with her left hand but it would have to do. Succsefully tearing it off she did the same with the Oak and Holly trees which were close to the Ash trees.

SPOILER!!: Woods Collected

SPOILER!!: Parchment

Talikins · 07-17-2012, 04:54 AM

Right now being unconscious could have been way better than standing up and dealing with those bowtruckles ~~and of course having Professor Wiliamson carry you was just an extra reward.~~ Renesmee wasn't able to see, hear or feel anything around that was going on. To her this whole thing was just a black out.

It took her quite a while and she had even managed to miss all the bowtruckle commotion, but soon her senses started coming back to her.

At first she could hear what was going on, and when she heard Kurumi talking she felt a little calmer as to what was going on. A few more seconds after that, she could begin to feel where she was and now she knew that she was up in somebody's arms, just not who's exactly. Then lastly her eye sight started coming back it was a little fuzzy at first, but after some blinking she could see properly. What she first saw...was well another big shock to her.

O___O

Professor Wiliamson?

He was carrying her??!! This all had to be a dream. Nessie pinched herself only to find that it was not. Oh Merlin! She was in he's hands for real!! This was even more of a shock than the bowtruckles had been, and seeing as she couldn't manage with them, she couldn't manage with this.

Within in less than a second, the fourth year's eyes shut again and she fell back into unconsciousness.

FearlessLeader19 · 07-17-2012, 05:04 AM

As soon as the Professor said they could continue collecting their sticks, Jory continued. He found the fir tree and snapped off a twig. The Elder tree was next and he had no trouble getting one of those twigs. But the blackthorn was a bit harder and the had to really stretch as the twigs were a bit higher.

The reed and Ivy trees were fairly close to each other and the Puff got those twigs with no problem. With all the students around, he had to search for the Vine tree but when he did find it, he snapped off another twig.

Next, he got the Apple and Hazel twigs.

Once in a while Jory checked the surrounds and the trees for any more lurking Bowtruckles.

BanaBatGirl · 07-17-2012, 05:51 AM

Arms still full of Puff as they were, Willy tried to focus on the various people talking at him and stuff. First, he grinned at Waylon, just 'cos he was his friend and LOOK, they were bein' cool and hanging out with Callie and bowtruckles. That was cool, right?

Then they were getting applauded, which was even cooler, and Kurumi was coming over to peek in on the little girl William had picked up. He shrugged in response to her question, nearly dropping the Hufflepuff. "Er, probably? I'm... no Healer, obviously, but it just looks like she fainted." He just happened to look down at Nessie at the exact moment that the girl re-fainted but, not knowing that was the case, nudged his head toward her. "Look, Kurumi, I think her eyes are fluttering!"

That was good, yeah? Was Cece going to show up down here anytime soon?!!

William's concerns for the fainted!Puff were quickly brushed aside as he heard a small confrontation between the Divination professor and THAT KID. Elijah. Eyes narrowing, Willy watched as the blonde snatched something shiny off his neck and then stomped back over to him and Waylon.

"Huh," he mused aloud, leaning in toward the locket as best as he could. "That name sounds familiar, though I can't place it. Maybe you should pop it open?"

Or would that upset the Bowtruckles?? "It's funny," William chuckled to himself, struck by a sudden thought, "it was like this time last year when I got attacked by bowtruckles during a lesson too! I thought one was my wand and I picked it up and then this HUGE Blast-Ended Skrewt popped up and..." he trailed off and shook his head, "it was a disaster. At least your lesson is going better than that, Callie."

Kids were still picking up sticks and all.

PadfootAndTheWolf · 07-17-2012, 06:16 AM

Still fuming a tad from the sheer idiocy that had been Elijah wearing a strange locket found in the Forbidden Forest, Calista hadn't found Waylon's joke about whoever Aramantha was, missing her locket very funny. She did however flash him a look that softened after a second. She wasn't mad at him, or really any of them, she was just glad everyone was safe. She would need to talk to Medea and hopefully become more prepared next time before entering the forest.

But all worries aside, Professor Elwood turned the golden necklace over in her hand and then faced William ~~and his fainted Puff fair maiden~~ as he mentioned the fact that the name sounded familiar. "It does? Well, is she is a student?" The name hadn't come up during her lessons or when she was marking homework but her subject wasn't a core one but neither was Care of Magical Creature--although she was sure that scary animals and stuff of the sort attracked more students than crystal balls and lithomancy. Pfft. But if this locket belonged to a student they needed to find her to return it and more importantly ask her what she was doing in the forest to lose it in the first place.

Professor Elwood was good and ready to put the thing in one of her pockets and get back to helping her students gather sticks for their Ogham Stave readings when her friend suggested opening the thing. Well...that was actually a good idea. Lockets often had things inside, so why not?

As she looked for a latch she listened to Williamson as he mentioned the creature chaos he had experienced last term and was glad she hadn't been there although it did sound eerily similar. But oooh! The locket popped open and reveled it's contents.

"Woah, she's pretty isn't she?" she said showing the picture of the girl in the photograph to her collegues. Others in the area would have seen it too, and could have easily heard the conversation going on by now. The face seemed familiar, as if Callie had seen the girl not too long ago...but that was impossible. The date. "That date says 1753 but I'm certain I've seen this girl, I didn't know her name though." Was she going crazy? Callie was getting really confused now and wished she was one of the students just getting to pick sticks up off the ground.

sweetpinkpixie · 07-17-2012, 06:38 AM

Glancing at Nessie again, Kurumi frowned slightly in concern when Professor Williamson spoke. Her hero was sort of being a let down at the moment...but then he mentioned the Hufflepuff's eyes fluttering and that caught her attention. "R-Really?!" she squeaked, bending down slightly to look a little closer at Nessie.

And then the man was going on about the bowtruckle that had shown up in his lesson last year. Yeah, but HE had been more prepared that Professor Elwood who probably would have lead them into a dragon's den and not known it until they were all BBQ-ed.

Snapping off another branch, Ash this time, Kurumi's head snapped around when SHE spoke again and was...holding a locket? Honestly, this woman was INSANE.

Kurumi was just about to ignore this all completely when she mentioned a date. Woah...wait a second, why did that sound familiar? Scratching her head with her ash stick, Kurumi tried to think about why that year rang a bell...and then it hit her. The little research session that Professor Scabior had had in the library. "1753?" Kurumi repeated, doubling back for a moment and EYEING Professor Elwood for just a moment. "That's the year that the student roll was missing..." Kurumi looked over at Vickers for a moment because he was closest to her at the moment.

As for the girl in the picture, Kurumi hadn't been able to get a decent look since she had been more focused on Nessie. But she thought that she had seen her somewhere outside of the school...

Latest Site Notices

Latest Harry Potter News

Latest FanFics

Latest Forum Posts

Latest Games

Hogwarts RPG

Wizarding World RPG

Members