SPOILER!!: Lux
Awww, AJ was complimenting her spell work. That made Lux smile. "Thanks! Yours is great too." Look at her turn that lizard into a water goblet! Poor little creatures. She felt bad for using them in that way, but it was necessary for them to be able to get a drink.
Following her partner's lead, Lux dipped her goblet into the pond, filling it with water. Honestly she was so thirsty that she didn't even care how clean it was. Fortunately it looked pretty pure. Tasted good too!! "Aaaah, much better!" Now they were ready to head further into the 'jungle'. Too bad they couldn't rest under a tree and get some shade from the humidity. This couldn't be good for her hair...
Walking further along the path, Lux was surprised when she eventually reached a rickety old bridge. Okay, this wasn't going to be good with her fear of heights... What was it with Professors and wanting to terrify her?
Feeling slightly faint, she averted her eyes. "We need to fix the bridge so we can cross..." The only question was HOW. Racking her brains, Lux considered somehow using the trees nearby...but that seemed like a lot of work. There had to be a way to do it that was much simpler. Suddenly it hit her!! "Oooh, I know!!!" But instead of sharing her idea, she decided to let AJ do it this time. Her partner was smart and could come to the same conclusion as her.
The water and the rest felt so good. In fact, AJ would be A-okay with just camping out here for a while. If it weren't for those jerks in that water that would gnaw into her she would jump in and really cool off. There wasn't a spell that came to mind that would freeze the fish to where she could do that though. Better not try it out since her partner needed her whole to finish this little obstacle course of Bellaire's.
Time to move on. Her and Lux both had their fill of water, and honestly AJ was excited to see that they would be faced with next. Even though the lion was drained, she would not be stopped.
Mosquito bites were the absolute worst! As she followed her partner along their trail she scratched herself all over. Looking down she noticed that a spot on her arm was actually starting to bleed. The pain was a welcome sensation over the itching. AJ would take it.
Soon they came to a bridge, and call her crazy but Lux didn't seem to like this obstacle at all.
"You okay?" AJ needed her partner's head to be in the game, but at the same time Lux was a friend and AJ wanted to reassure her that everything would be okay.
"Just don't look down," she said with an encouraging smile. It had to be the height thing that was getting to her. The fourth year had no problem at all with heights, and she would try to do most of the work for them so Lux wouldn't have to.
"It's definitely too spaced out to jump over it." And Lux didn't look like she would attempt that anyways.
"We obviously need to make more boards." But how?
"I got it! We can just double them. Gemino should do the trick." Just as AJ was about to raise her wand to give the spell a go she heard a booming voice that belonged to none other than the transfiguration teacher herself.
Break? Was this a trick? Soon a breeze hit her face and her hair blew out behind her.
"I can breathe again." The muggy and humid air was replaced with cool and refreshing air.
"Maybe we should take advantage of this break and keep moving?" Or relax and enjoy it. It was only going to last for ten minutes. It was her partners call.
AJ shoved her hands into her pockets and breathed in deep. Her hand felt something hard. Did she stash a chocolate frog in there and forget about it? AJ pulled out a bottle and examined it.
"What's this?"