Echo went up to the Charms classroom for it was ready for her next challenge. Somewhat confidant from her scores from the last test she made her way to the door. Grabbing the piece of paper that was there she read her instructions. "all of this doesn’t seem too hard" she actually didn’t mind this task, better than cleaning up a baby that’s for sure. Echo actually had nightmares about that one. Shivering the thought away she put the instructions back on the table. Making sure she had her wand in her robe and double tied her string around her neck she wanted to make sure that it didn’t fly away on her.

Yeah she was going into a maze but who knew how the weather was going to be, leave it to the Professors here at Hogwarts to always throw them curve balls. Looking down at her watch she waited for the go ahead and she entered. "only 45 minutes… better get a move on" Wand in hand she stepped through the door as saw the maze, it was just like their class they had recently. But she didn’t have a partner this time.

The wand she needed to figure out which way was east…… and the only spell that she could think of was the four point spell, it would tell her which way was north… but from there she would be able to figure out which way was east. There were a few entrances so hopefully there wasn’t more than one eastern entrance.

Laying her wand flat on her hand she said "Point Me" and her wand started to twirl. It stopped suddenly and it was pointed directly at her. Turning with her wand in her hand she was now facing backwards and the door she had just come in was gone. "great…" okay so now that she was north she knew which way was east…. To her right. Keeping her wand out in case she needed it quickly again she made her way into the maze, while glancing at her watch.. 5 minutes down 40 more to go.

Echo was making sure while she was walking that she was going in the right direction, but she had to stop. There was a basket that was in the corner… and items laying around "remember there are items that I need to put in that basket" she thought while thinking about her instructions, Luckily for her the basket was open so she didn't have to deal with that.

There was a candle, a candle holder and a book. "those are some odd things to have in a basket but who am I to judge" wait… Echo stopped going for her wand… portkeys…. She really hoped that once she had these in her hand that they werent a portkey. It was the worst way for her to travel, it messed with her hair so much that she would rather get dirt all over her from the floo network.

Might as well get this over, time was moving along and she needed to finish this. "Accio candle" she said while watching it zoom over to her, she scooped it up with her free hand and closed her eyes at the same time… peeking one open she was still there… phew… not a portkey. "Accio candle holder" she did the same thing…. It zoomed she closed her eyes, but she was still safely there.

One more to go. "Accio Book" she didn’t want to ruin her method now as she fully opened her eyes she was glad that they werent portkeys. Sighing a big breath of relief, she put the items on the ground, now all three of these items needed to be in the basket. She swished and flicked her wand and said "wingardium leviosa" three different times and floated the items into the basket. She was happy that this task was done now

20 more minutes to go… where was time going… she really needed to get moving now, Jogging she kept making sure she was headed in the correct direction. Twigs were snagging at her wild hair and robes, but she didn’t care she still needed to do a few more things in her short amount of time.

She was running so fast that she slipped…. Slipped on something on the ground, that she couldn’t see… right… this was the party that she was supposed to be cleaning up… all this plasm thing that she cleaned to clean… Now this was a spell that she knew, Echo hated the dirt and always cleaned everything. "Scourgify" pointing to the mess on the ground. She actually had to do it a few times to make sure everything was gone, Running now she was almost done…. "Your welcome" she yelled out… she didn’t see any ghosts but they better be grateful that she had cleaned up their mess, where was a house elf when you needed one.

15 more minutes to go, thankfully that last part didn’t last too long. Running faster now she found herself back at the beginning…. Or was she… wait… her instructions told her of this.. Putting her bag down she ran around to look for this parchment searching the ground… "there it is" she yelled as she ran over to it to pick it up. It was blank…. Ughhh she forgot that she needed to reveal the words… Sitting down because she was out of breath she had 10 more minutes to go…

TICK…….TOCK…..TICK….TOCK

Why couldn’t she think of the spell….. Crossing her legs she let her mind relax for she was freaking out, there was a time crunch and she needed to finish. Her hands in her hair, her eyes closed she tried to think about her classes…. When did they learn that….. "ughhhhh" she said out loud as she was still trying to think of it.

TICK……TOCK…..TICK…..TOCK"

She could hear her watch…. The ticks were starting to drive her crazy….. Now she only have 5 more minutes… "whats the charmmmm" and two minutes to spare it popped up in her head. "Aparecium" she said quickly… she hoped that there wasn’t any more tasks to do because she only had one more minute left… looking down at the paper it said that she was finished. She cried, she actually cried. She almost thought that she wasn’t going to finish this task, she thought she would have to quit… but she didn’t. Getting up off the ground she wiped her tears away, blinking.. She was in the charms classroom again and she was free to leave..

Her head down she grabbed her bag and made her way to her common room, her hair hiding her face. Echo didn’t want anyone to see her like this..