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SPOILER!!: Benzi, Toby, & AJ....OH MY! Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_faerie  Benzi was two seconds from succeeding to pin his dummy to the wall - that's his story and he's sticking to it - when he smelled fire. Fire?! Confused, the sixth year did a sweep of the ever transforming room before his eyes landed on Toby and his smoking dummy. ... He looked like he was handling it, no help needed there.
Then Flamsteed told them to stop but his dummy was NOT YET attached to the wall so he paid the professor little attention, twisted and jabbing his wand outward as he began to cast the recently learned spell for what felt like the fiftieth time when the sight of his hand stopped him cold.
o_O There was way too much hair there. And... why was he feeling tingly? Everything was strangely warmer now. But there was mist? Why did his clothes feel weird? Perplexed, Benzi tuned in to Flamsteed just as he was explaining about the cookies. The professors had SLIPPED THEM SOMETHING. Note to self: never eat anything innocently offered by Professors. Especially cookies. Especially from Flamsteed, Culloden or Dakest. Specifically Dakest. And of course Culloden, he was the Potions professor. C'mon Benzi. Should have seen this coming.
Okay so according to Flamsteed he'd be getting mildly more aggressive and mildly more agile which essentially meant that he'd just be himself, but mildly pumped up. Cool. Testing out these new powers abilities, Benzi put his wand back in his new wrist holster and bounced around for a bit, getting the feel of the fur - surprisingly, he found he rather liked said fur - and the new found springiness. Not too bad. He could get used to this.
Now for a target. His sharper eyes did a sweep of the room and found four students who were still bald and human-like. And the three professors. One of whom was running and screaming... to Toby. Both of which had wolves hot on their heels. Looked like a party to him!
Using the mist to his advantage, Benzi ran through the shadowy bits towards the Astronomy professor, intending to JUMP!ATTACK him on his way to Toby. In his excitement, Benzi MIGHT have almost collided into a tree on his way. Good thing he had heightened reflexes.
When he was close, Benzi smirked and almost surprised himself when his throat emitted a low growl. Ooookay, werewolf Benzi. Raising both his hands, Benzi stayed low and SPRINTED FORWARD, heading towards a FULL ON collision course with Flamsteed. Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Oh no. Oh no. Ohnooooooooo. WHERE WAS THE DOOR? HE'D LOST THE DOOR.
HOW DID ANYONE MANAGE LOSE A DOOR?????
The trees in the room were enough to mess with Toby's perception of the layout, and the mist made it even harder to remember where things were. It was easy to forget they weren't actually out in a forest somewhere, surrounded by werewolves (especially when you had a suggestible brain like a CERTIAN HUFFLEPUFF) and Toby had very quickly become disoriented.
The sound of his name being squealed hollered made Toby automatically look back, because that was AIREY and he needed HELP. Even though Toby was full to the brim with PANIC and DREAD (not that he would admit that), he could never turn down a plea for help.
Of course, when he looked, Toby saw not one... not two... but THREE student!werewolves. He couldn't be TOTALLY sure who they were, given 1. the mist, 2. the werewolf hair, and 3. the fact that he was running for his life everyone's safety. The POINT WAS that the student closest to him was taking a swipe.
Toby gave a HIGH-PITCHED YELP and darted out of the way. He had nothing he could really do, being sans wand AND exit route. But he DID have the candy. And Airey DID need help. So Toby, in a moment of pure panic, did the only thing he could think of doing and grabbed a handful (aka, most of the contents of the bag) before chucking it right at the attacking werestudents. #SUPERTOBES TO THE RESCUE.
Only... he realised how that may have been a stupid and potentially useless (not to mention sticky) move about a second after it had happened. But it was just... the candy was the cure, and so therefore it was a defense, and SO THEREFORE he'd just... thrown it at them.
It had made sense at the time.
Um. OKAY. SO. HE WAS JUST GOING TO. ATTEMPT TO CLIMB THIS TREE AND WAIT THERE AND NOT CRY OR PANIC. YES. Where was Airey. Toby looked around for him. THEY COULD SCALE THE TREE TOGETHER. STAY UP THERE. LIVE AS NON-WEREWOLF TREE FOLK. IT WOULD BE OKAY. *PANICKED BREATHING*
.......... Still he braced himself as he scrambled at the trunk of a nearby tree, trying to climb it, certain of his imminent demise. Any moment now, a werestudent would surely slam into him and change him into a werewolf, and then it would all be over. Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixStar You know what this werewolf wasn't going to do? Hide. That was lame werewolf business and she wasn't about that life. There were like what? Five whole trappers? Probably more, but you know... werewolves had this in the bag. She wasn't going to get to convert any of them to the dark side sitting behind a tree, now was she?
AJ lunged out from behind the tree and growled deep. Yeah, the potion was mild, but AJ was in complete character. They could thank Glendower for all of her lessons.
"GRRRRR..." Airey caught her eye. Somebody had him running and ---
Yodeling? It definitely wasn't the normal girly man screeches. Whatever noise was coming out of his mouth she cared nothing about. Wanna take 15 points from her and her house? Well, then you were going to get werewolfed! Her super canine-y teeth were bared and she was still running on all fours because that was expected of a werewolf. AJ used to play crab soccer in primary school so she was actually quite speedy.
She was gaining on him. Erm.. umm.. she needed her hands since biting was most likely frowned upon. Right? Right. Definitely should keep her canine teeth to herself.
Standing up again like a sane person (as sane as you could be with fur and dog teeth) she started to swat in his direction. Slow down. It was hard work trying to turn a moving target into a werewolf, okay?
IT WAS RAINING POP ROCKS! THIS JUST IN! IT WAS RAINING PO---
"Mr. Toby! Don't waste it!" he cautioned while flailing his arms about and whacking a few bits of candy out of his face - WHICH, for anyone watching, had now STUCK TO THE ARM OF HIS SUIT! Thankfully, he was a bit too preoccupied by a Werejack (Miss Wojack as a werewolf) chasing after him to notice.
And in the next instant there was another one hurtling themselves in his general direction. A Mr...Rider if he was not mistaken. The astronomer was just BARELY able to spin out of harm's way, and hopefully the two would not collide...although that WOULD make trapping the pair of them easier if they had and say, oh, were temporarily stunned or something. Just no concussions, please. Should said collision actually take place.
And his spin nearly made it so that he trampled Miss Valentine, although his limber gangly limbs managed to avoid her swiping as well. Just barely.
SPOILER!!: Sophie! Quote:
Originally Posted by feeheeheeny ...Oh sweet Merlin.
As she finished up with her dummy decided to wait for further instructions - she'd done what she'd been asked to do, and that's all she cared about - Flamsteed took over class, and... as he did so, she realized... people were... growing hair. All over. Fairly rapidly. It was actually a slightly funny sight, but it was more alarming than anything and had her checking her arms and hands for excessive hair, too.
But none came. And soon enough, the majority of the class looked like hairy beasts, and she did not. Notable was that Tobes didn't either... but Dot had hair and so did AJ, so it wasn't the troublemakers who were spared. And then Flamsteed explained it and her MOUTH DROPPED and she turned to look accusingly at Culloden - HE had been in on giving people tainted cookies, hadn't he? And he hadn't even WARNED her or tried to get her to not do it - he was going to LET HER TURN INTO A WEREWOLF WITH THE REST OF THEM. But... in a roundabout way, Flamsteed had looked out for her, hadn't he? Maybe he yelled at her in the FIRST PLACE because he knew it would kill both her spirit AND Tobes' spirits, and then they wouldn't want the cookies. So maybe that had been entirely strategic on the Astronomy professor's part. Maybe he wanted his favorite students to feel too bad about themselves to eat the cookies so they'd be on the trapper side with him.
For the first time since she was tickling Tobes, Sophie Brown smiled.
But the fact of the matter was that everyone WAS a werewolf except for a handful of them since Flamsteed hadn't made enough people want to cry today, and the trappers were severely outnumbered. As the mist began to thicken while instructions were being given, Sophie dropped straight down to the floor on her hands and knees, made a beeline for the door while she could still see it, and continued crawling with her bag of pop rocks that way until she reached the door at which point she sat on her bum right beside the doorway, her back against the wall. This way, if she got ambushed, she could leave. And by being curled up on the floor hiding in the mist, that was the best way to stay out of sight from the werewolves - how many of them would really be looking on the floor against a wall? - and help people back to normal as a sneak-attack. They'd be appreciative, surely, Sophie thought, for when Flamsteed announced it was GAME ON, growls and snarls and inhuman noises were happening all over the place. They probably didn't like that at all, did they?
This was kind of a cruel game.
And as it began, she heard Flamsteed's shrieks, though she couldn't see him anywhere. She couldn't see anyone through the mist, actually, only faint outlines of bodies as people ran around throughout the center of the room. She could hear Culloden and the occasional casting of the spell from another trapper, but for the most part, it sounded very much like she was in a zoo - a pen full of wolves. It was actually pretty unnerving, especially combined with the grey haze in the room.
Strategic was her approach, though, as she only had to watch for people coming to her from the front, as her back was against the wall. And the pseudo!werewolves would have to crouch to touch her in her sitting position, too, which would buy her more time to shoot her spell at anyone who tried to turn her into a werewolf.
So there she was. Curled up on the floor by the wall, just watching and listening and taking it all in. She didn't care much for being a werewolf today, so she hoped her fellow trappers in higher spirits would make this activity end a little faster, but she kept her wand in one hand and her bag of pop rocks in the other just in case she needed to take some initiative if anyone walked too close to her.
She hoped Tobes was okay.
While the astronomer DID feel guilty, sort of ...since the two HAD been asking for it with their behavior, what he couldn't understand was why the pair of them were forgoing teamwork and allowing themselves to become black holes to their teenage angst.
Although, in all fairness, Mr. Toby had picked up his game a little with that candy throwing and was now in the process of climbing a tree. A concept that he was actually disappointed in himself for not doing in the first place. Aerial attacks towards there pseudo-werewolves on the ground? Seemed like a stellar idea to him!
"That doesn't look like running TOWARDS something, Miss Brown," he said as he sprinted on past here with the pack most likely still following. "TOWARDS SOMETHING, MISS BROWN! TOWARDS SOMETHING!"
Like him, he was currently running towards a tree...and possibly also towards Sabel (whose shape he could just barely make out in the mist). Needed to have each other's backs a bit more in this, Team Trapper that is.
With another few random zigzags, the Astronomy professor vanished from sight, somewhere behind a tree and shrouded in misty mystery.
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