Something startled Zhenya awake. She hadn't realised she had been sleeping. It couldn't have been too long, though, because she didn't feel stiff and sore. She'd rested her head back to have a break and had accidentally closed her eyes. Silly. She put the piranha goblet down next to her, pointed her wand and said "Aguamenti," and filled it up with water. She drank it all, then put it back into her robes and got up. Why had she woken up? The answer was obvious when she stood up and looked down.

A snake.

Zhenya gulped. What on EARTH? But it obviously wasn't too hard to understand. There had been a giant spider, a broken bridge, and piranhas. Surely a snake wouldn't be any more of an issue?! The snake was in an odd contortion. Zhenya realised that it had rested along her head, so the snake's body had curved around her head and shoulders. The thought gave her goosebumps and a cold bead of sweat ran down her back. She walked backwards very softly. She wasn't scared of snakes, exactly, but she wasn't particularly fond of them either. She didn't know much about different breeds of snakes, so what if this one was dangerous? The spider could have eaten her, similar to the piranhas, she could have fallen off the cliff had she not realised the bridge was broken, so she wasn't going to put anything past this jungle. Her wand still in her hand, she seventeen year old raised her hand, pointed her wand at the snake, "Vipera Evanesca," she said, quietly but confidently, and waved her wand. *POOF*, in a cloud of black smoke, the snake had disappeared. She exhaled with relief.

And on she went...

Though she did notice that some of the trees and bushes were getting closely packed and hard to navigate. A few branches felt like they were slapping her in the face, and it wasn't until she was poked in the eye by a particularly small twig that she decided she HAD to do something. "Mobiliarbus," she said to some of the shrubs which had been tripping her up, and they lifted off the ground, moved backwards and plonked back down. "Mobiliarbus," she said, pointing her wand at the bigger trees. They wouldn't move though. Maybe their roots were too stubborn. What else could she do? She gave up and walked on a few more metres but stopped again. Her hair was a twiggy mess, she had some small scratches on her face, and her eye was still watering. How could she use transfiguration here? "Avifors," she said, pointing her wand and doing the wand motion to a smaller tree right in front of her, with a particularly long twiggy bit. The tree disappeared, and a raven replaced it. It was odd looking though, it was all furry looking, and... were its wings made of leaves? Zhenya shrugged and moved on, the bird following her along. Surely it would give up soon? "Avifors," she said, pointing her wand at a shrub she was about to trip up. It, too, transformed into a bird and followed her with the other one.

And it was all going really well... until she almost died again.

"WOW!" she got out, moving her body weight backwards, which toppled her down onto her backside. It was... well it was a cliff. Right there. She almost fell into it. She looked up to see how far it was between them and saw... Professor Bellaire? Zhenya waved, feeling a bit ridiculous. Actually, what she wanted to do was bugger off back the other way, brush her hair, wash her face, wash and iron her uniform and polish her shoes before Professor Bellaire really got a good look at her. She didn't have a mirror but she had a good imagination as to what she looked like.