Emmylou looked around at her surrounding with wide eyes. It was so beautiful, she really didn't know what to look at first. She was just so excited to be here. The sixteen year old bounced around like a little kid who had, had way too much candy on Halloween. She did have too much candy before she even got to the train station well not too much candy for her but too much candy to some other people. You could swear that hyper was her middle name. Where had Cinna gone? Where was Kace...with Puck? Now she was getting ideas only because Cinna had planted them there. Emmylou shook her head, she knew Kace would never do anything like that, he loves her and she loves him. Emmy frowned and looked around for people that she knew. Where was Bart? Maybe someone would just walk up to her? She shrugged and put a smile back on her face. She didn't need her boyfriend to have fun on this field trip, she had her friends here too and her cousin!

Mitchell was a pro at magical travel now. Being seventeen, he considered himself a full grown expert. Portkeys and apparating were different, yes, but he prided himself on being able to keep his cool while looking cool at something that most people were not graceful at.

He sidestepped his way over to his girlfriend. He had hands if she needed help up.

His eyes then wandered to what he assumed was the tour guide. ... which... didn't seem to be speaking English. Um. What?

Everything was spinning and then, Hugo fell on the ground. Hard. "I hate portkeys" he had always had a bad time with this stuff. At least he wasn't puking like Flamsteed. He got up and shook off the dust from his clothes.

Soooo.....where were they again? Scotland. Right.

"What are we doing today?" Hugo asked to the tour guide. It better be something fun. Extremely fun. "Do you think we will see the loch ness monster?" said to Dante. That would be cool. Marigold, I see you. Hugo sat down beside Dante, took out his bag of sour gummy worms and waited for the instructions.

Abby felt her world was spinning and then suddenly she fell to the ground and she laughed when she landed and thought travelling by portkey was fun but she didnt want to do it again for a while and she looked about to see what was going to happen next

"Everyone take a firm hold!" Leo instructed the student’s standing around him before they all grabbed onto the orange blanket and were off. Immediately they were subjected to the uncomfortable stomach twisting experience that reminded Leo none too happily why he chose to travel by other modes of transportation. Somehow he managed to land on the open grassy field without bruising himself too bad. A quick glance around showed him that his group had all made to Loch Ness too, a big relief.

SPOILER!!: Tour Guide Scott

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Originally Posted by Scott Maclaren

Even after a few landed, the man was sure to wait because you just couldn't be sure. Satisfied with what he saw, the man finally approached the group with a wide grin and a loud clap of his hands to announce his presence.

"G'mornin', nice t' see so many 'o you!" Had they mentioned the group being this large? Ah well, it didn't matter, he was being paid by the head. "Fer those 'o you tha' don' know, my name's Scott Maclaren an' I'll be yer Tour Guide 'o sorts fer this trip. Ye excited?"

Pushing to his feet, Leo was busy dusting grass of his clothes when their tour guide showed up. The Scottish accent was quite thick but he could still make out what the man was saying. Going over to the man he extended his hand with a smile pursing his lips. "Good morning, I'm Leobald Kitridge, one of the adult supervisors for this field trip. We've been exchanging letters." It was nice to finally get a face to put to the name of the man he had been owling frequently with to set things up.

Eyes trailing over the student's milling around and to Javy and Airey he said "I think I speak for all of us when I say that we are all super excited to be here and ready to get started. Do we need to make any preparations for the tour?"

SPOILER!!: Airey

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Oh boy. Oh man. Oh yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup. NOPE!
No more space ice cream before portkeying. Ever.
Having landed with a surprising grace on his feet, the astronomer only had the chance to offer the tour guide fellow cursory salute before he bolted for the nearest bush and shoved his head in it.
BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERG.

Leo was about to ask if all the students that had taken the portkey with Airey had made it there when the space man bolted for the bushes. Turning to Javy he asked "Think one of us should go after Airey?" Even if vomiting was something you generally didn’t want to do with an audience. He felt for his colleague.

Ehh... maybe Bart didn't look too please about being grabbed. Heh. "Sorry. I just grabbed the first person my hand could find.'' Else he would have been tumbling around the place. "Yep, I'm alright. Portkeys can take a while to get used to, I guess.'' Balance wise he meant though Bart had handled it like a pro.

Adi nodded understandably at Zhenya. "Unfortunately for him, Professor Airey has it worst.'' He pointed to the newly arrived Astronomer who was barfing up all of that ice cream now. "Don't ruin the suit, Professor!'' he called loudly to the man. Poor Airey. Anywayyy, back to the Slytherin seventh year. SEVENTH year O_O Like, whyyyy was Zhenya a seventh year too? Hmph. "Oh, they weren't that bad. I'm kind of nervous for Runes and Astronomy results though.'' Runes was his weakest subject and Astro... well, some of the questions were challenging for him. "And you've got NEWTs this year so good luck. I can be your study buddy if you need one.'' Studying was not a hobby of his buuuut he can help out a friend, right?

Out of the corner of his eyes Adi saw Hayden landing on her back. Was she hurt? Is that why she was lying there completely still? Adi was about to go over to her but she climbed to her feet. Phew! She wasn't hurt after all it seemed. "Heya, again, Hayden! You alright?" He just had to be sure because if she wasn't, he'd be rushing her off to the three chaperones. Yep, ALL of them. Awh, everyone was asking him about OWLs. Such nice friends he had. "Not too bad. Except for Runes and Astronomy. I'm kind of nervous for those results but CoMC was awesome! We had a Hippogriff to work with and that was the BEST practical exam ever!'' Everyone knew of his obsession with the great winged creatures.

Heeeeeaaaave a Henric to his feet, that's what Adi did. "You should probably ask Mr K or Flamsteed or Thompson... or one of the older students to help you get the mud off.'' Adi was still underage so he was no good in using magic out of school but all that would change in about half a year time. He laughed at Henric's enthusiasm despite being mud covered. "Maybe next time you'll land in a puddle of water. Hey, Look! Leah's laughing at you.'' Smiiiiiiirk! Of course Leah wasn't there but this soon to be sixth year could NOT resist teasing his soon to be fourth year friend. So now that Henric seemed to be alright, Adi turned to properly greet their tour guide. "Hello, Mr Scotty,'' he echoed Henric with the nickname. What? Adi did like giving people nicknames... if they were okay with it. Hehe. "Come on, let's go back to the group.'' The other Puffer had landed a bit away from everyone else. "Hopefully someplace where we can start exploring right away!'' Then another thought occurred to him. "Or maybe he's taking us to dump our gear first.'' NONONO! Exploration first! Hehe.

Ahh good, their guide was approaching right on time as everyone was dropping in. "Good day.." Javier gave Sir Scotty a friendly wave before Leo continued their introductions. "Quite." Excited, yes they were he added. "Where we are staying isn't too far from here, correct?" It would be good to deposit their other belongings safely before the great exploration. Speaking of 'we' where was Airey? His blue eyes surveyed over his group that had arrived safely before a familiar sound queued in.

Yep. That right there kids is why you don't eat shortly before traveling. "I'll check on him." Javy went on over to the bush with the strong odor of unloaded food contents."Star Man.." You okay? Obviously, he wasn't so instead he asked more discreetly. "Everything coming out okay?" Patting his upper back a little roughly. He forgot his own strength sometimes among his friends. Anyways, for everyone's sake he whipped out his wand to banish the vomit eliminating most of the smell until the Star Man was finished. Carry on kids.

Josette turned her head when he had asked if everything was okay. She quickly looked over herself to check again before she nodded. "I-I think so, m-maybe a b-bit dizzy, b-but I'm alright.." She quickly asked, "A-Are you feeling a-alright?" Before she could get an answer he was tugging her along to the side, which made her question it, but when she started seeing other students landing around them it made sense. "T-Thanks.."

Even after he had tugged her along, he was still holding her hand, but she still didn't mind. It was nice. She could feel her cheeks getting warm at the thought once more, but she tried her best not to think about, otherwise it would get worse. All thoughts aside though, she did however found herself scanning her surroundings once more, just to make sure there were no signs of....certain people...

...particularly her father.

Angel was shaking, she was scared, very scared... could she find Benny please? She didn't like traveling by portkey it was weird and very scary... maybe next time Benny would wait for her before he used a portkey... she hoped that things would get interesting soon so she could forget about that very scary experience and hopefully she could spend some time with everyone including the Librarian she hadn't spoken to him much for ages and she wanted him as a guide that was okay right?

Porkey was not the way she planned on traveling, she really just didn't care for it. She would rather walk a thousand miles. Porkeys were not her favorite, clearly. It wasn't the queasiness, or the ungraceful landings which she had certainly gotten better at landing over the years. She just didn't care for it.

Flailing around she felt her feet hit the ground. If she wasn't such a balanced person she probably would've fell over. She stood up straight and looked around. Everyone okay and accounted for? Her people were okay. She spotted Emmy and pulled her over toward Bart.

A tour guide, Eh?

Scottie boy had a accent, right? Anyway. Look. There was Mitchie... And awww Marigold. What were they doing first she couldn't wait to see what all was in store for them. And Wow wee would you look at that view? Lookatit!

Abby saw that her sister Angel was shaking and said to her "Hey Angel i guess you didnt like travelling by portkey, i thought it was pretty fun actually"

Dexter's feet hit the ground with a hard THUD, and he staggered a little on impact, but otherwise just about managed to keep his balance. He looked around over the heads of some of the other kids in an attempt to get his bearings and... field? ... Right. Thrilling.

Thankfully they had a little time to recover from that experience, and so Dexter dropped the orange blanket and backed away a little from the big clump of kids to try and breathe some fresh air. Portkeys weren't so bad. He never really understood how they made anyone upchuck.

... Like Flamsteed.

"Eurgh," Dexter said as he caught sight of the Astronomer vomiting into the bushes. He made a disgusted sort of expression and looked AWAY; portkeys didn't make him sick, but seeing other people throwing up might. Shudder. He was going to go stand waaaaaaay over here.

Near... the tour guide? And Kitridge again. Dexter nodded at both of them and greeted the new guy with a, "Sup?"

Well looked like Professor Airey had a worst landing than him. He actually looked like he was going to throw up. Sucks to be him right now. Though looks like Professor T was going to deal with that mess.

Huh, The Loch ness Monster?

Well since magic is real and yetis and dragons are too. Why not the loch ness monster. Made sense to Dante.

"I hope so. You know for sure if it is real or not?"

Still maybe that will be one of the things they see on this trip. Other than Mr. Scotty talking all scottish and whatever.

Caleb did NOT like traveling by Portkey, but at least it was quick and relatively painless - unless you were Flamsteed, of course. He seemed really sick over there...was he ok? Hmm. This field trip was off to a great start, it seemed...

OOOH LOOK, a tour guide! Caleb had been so stressed for the past...well, YEAR, if he was being totally honest with himself...because of OWLs that he had made up his mind that he definitely deserved all of this. He was ready to have some FUN! And hopefully, aside from Flamsteed puking in a bush, it would be nice and drama free. It was...wishful thinking, he knew, but seriously, he just needed a nice vacation, free of monsters or zombies or whatever the heck else happened on these things...

She wasn’t wheezing or anything. Nope, it wasn’t as if she had had to dust off her back…not at all. She had landed perfectly, or well that was the dream. In reality, she had practically slammed into the ground and was just simply trying not to cough.

Looking over to Emmy she just grinned. “Hey Emmy,” she winced and plucked some grass out of her hair. “Did you have a nice summer so far?” She asked kindly and grinned over to her…well, it was more of a grimace from the stiffness.

SHE WAS BEING PULLED

What was this madness?! The short, tiny sixteen year old looked at the person who was pulling. Oh, it was just Cinna. No surprise there. "Why are you pulling me? You're gonna break me." Emmylou cracked a little smile. But where was Kace? Would it be wise to have Cinna near him? She wasn't really sure about that yet. "Where are you dragging me to?" She looked around at the people, Bart.

Still looking around for her boyfriend she heard her name come out of Puck's mouth. "Hi, Puck." Maybe she knew where Kace was, after what Cinna had said to Kace, Emmylou really didn't know how to react to it all but she really did just want a hug from her boyfriend. "Not really. You?" This week and start to summer wasn't the best time ever after that had happened but she wasn't going to tell anyone else why that was because it wasn't any of their business, she jus told the people that she knew that she was able to trust with the secret.

After taking the portkey and landing at their location, he looked around and saw other students made it here. He grinned and began to look for his friends which included Emmy, Puck, Cinna and possibly Bart. He was on shaky grounds with him. Anyways he began to look around and he saw Emmy was being pulled by Cinna. He gave her a quizzical look and wondered where Cinna was taking his girlfriend. He walked over and made sure he let Emmy know he arrived safely. "Hey Emmy..." he greeted her with a hug from behind. "I didn't know you came here so early. I thought you would come the same I did. I went with Puck because she was the first one I saw. I am sorry.." he said apologizing and didn't want her to get the wrong ideas. He would never date Puck either. They were like siblings and plus Emmy and him were faithful since day one. Why would anything change? He didn't want to go down his cousin Braedon's route.

Next he heard the tour guide speak and he was quite excited for the trip. He held Emmy's hand to reassure her any doubts and he nodded at Puck when he saw her.

Emmylou jumped when she felt someone hug her from behind, she looked to see who it was. Kace. She gave him a small smiled. She was still jumpy from reasons that he knew but it couldn't have slipped his mind a bit but that wasn't something that was going to slip her mind anytime soon and she was sure that that Kace must know that. "Hey Kace." She nodded. "I didn't have anyone I knew to go through the portkey with so I picked a random group." She didn't want to but she did. She looked up at Kace. "You don't have to apologize." She really didn't know what to make about what Cinna had even said to him, Emmy rested her head on his arm. She had more important things on her mind other than Cinna thinking Kace was in the wrong with him saying 'hi' to Puck first. She really didn't care but it didn't mean that it didn't hurt just a teeny tiny bit but it wouldn't hurt at all if it wasn't brought up at all.

Emmylou felt Kace squeeze her hand a bit. She knew what he was trying to say, she trusted him. He didn't need to do that but she was glad he did.

Penelope didn’t like the feeling of traveling by portkey. How was it possible for anyone to land on their feet? ”Oww…” Penelope had landed flat on her face, and it hurt. She wasn’t entirely sure if it would be wise to try to get up immediately. Her backpack would make it harder for her to get up, and she was feeling nauseous, so it might be better to just wait a moment.

Rolling on to her side, Penelope twisted around into a position where she could sit up. Ugh, now the nausea was worse. She was trying not to vomit. It looked like Professor Flamsteed was vomiting into the bushes. So far she hadn’t vomited yet, but Professor Flamsteed vomiting in the bush wasn’t exactly making her feel better. If anything, it just made her feel worse. However, she wasn’t vomiting yet, and she was hoping that she wouldn’t have to join Professor Flamsteed by the bushes.

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Originally Posted by Charely Potter

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Yep. That right there kids is why you don't eat shortly before traveling. "I'll check on him." Javy went on over to the bush with the strong odor of unloaded food contents."Star Man.." You okay? Obviously, he wasn't so instead he asked more discreetly. "Everything coming out okay?" Patting his upper back a little roughly. He forgot his own strength sometimes among his friends. Anyways, for everyone's sake he whipped out his wand to banish the vomit eliminating most of the smell until the Star Man was finished. Carry on kids.

Spitting the last of the...yes...the last of THAT out, the astronomer pulled his head from the bush with a few leaves and twigs adorning his blonde hair. "Me?" he coughed, reaching into his pocket for a handkerchief to dab his lips. "Stellar. You know...always have to make an entrance," he explained with a forced steadiness to his tone. "You wouldn't happen to have any mints on you, would you?"

All he had in his backpack was...more space ice cream...and smore kits. The ice cream had certainly lost its appeal and he OUGHT to have known better having sworn real ice cream off ages ago. Ruddy dementors. That had been the term his tie had gone missing too....did dementors LIKE ties? Had one of THEM broken into his office? Something he ought to ask Medea about when he got back, perhaps.

Yes...about that mint....

Nothing to see here students. Nothing to see.

A well-practiced tuck 'n roll followed a tumbling onto his feet. The momentum of being thrown out by the quickness of travel by portkey felt just unpleasant enough to register as pleasant to him. So when Cutty landed, feet sliding with resistance against the velocity, it was with a smile. He adjusted his backpack and caught the tail end of Professor Flamsteed bending over into the bushes. The Astronomer Royal was then straightened up and looking a little Viridios to Cutty with the leaves in his hair.

Maclaren, though. They had a local guide. They had a local guide when everybody there had been to Scotland and lived there for 3/4th of a year. Were they telling them everything? Full and upfront?

On the back of Henric's clothes were still covered with dried up mud and dirt yet he didn't mind all that much."Narh...I'm fine..I can just change later...this is nothing, we're in the vast wilderness, aren't we!" he told Adi excitedly.When Adi teased him, Henric immediately turned his head around for any sign of Leah's laughter."WHAT..wher-"he stopped when he realised there was noone behind him.Henric looked back at Adi and frowned. He should have known Adi was a mighty joker.
"Ha..ha..funny.."he muttered,absentmindedly looking back again to see if Leah had joined their group. At the corner of his eye, he saw poor Mr.Flamsteed emptying his contents by the bushes.Urgh...he hoped Mr.Flamsteed was feeling better.

Henric nodded to Adi and picked up his duffle bag that was lying on the ground so they could rejoin the group.As he was walking towards the others,he took in the sceneric view of Scotland's highlands while breathing in the cool fresh air. He hoped they would start exploring first, but he needed to change or he could get the nasty flu bug.The weather was chilly, considering it was the start of the summer season.

Henric didn't mean to call Mr.Scott by the nickname.He was just following what the others wanted to call the tour guide as a form of a friendly gesture.Besides, he really liked to call him Mr.Scotty. It just fits with the whole Scottish theme.He wondered if he wore the quilt and carried a bagpipe too,he chuckled at the thought of it.Now..that was a sight to see.

"Or maybe a castle? I always want to see one of those! I hope it's nearby, my pants is getting soggy from that mud fall," Henric said to Adi, trying to adjust his jeans.NOT...a comfortable feeling.

You could not possibly expect Leah to land perfectly on both feet after the Portkey ride. She did land on her feet, but failed to keep her balance for long before she fell onto the ground with her hands stretched out just in time. That was pretty good actually, as she did not start throwing up... like Professor Flamsteed. Looking around to check on other people who might need help, she quikly noticed Angel shaking uncontrollably.

"Hey Angel," she said when she reached her best friend. "Are you okay? Oh no, you are not." The Fifth Year answered her own question. Leah hugged Angel and patted her back to make her feel better. Hopefully she was doing the right thing.

As Ruby had always intended to live a decadent and leisurely life of glamour and excess, to her, mastering portkey travel had always been a must. And so it was that she not only arrived gracefully without any apparent vertigo, but she struck a pose, sticking her landing utterly. You never knew when paparazzi would be hanging about. 10 out of 10 for style, babes.

............. oooh nice surprises! The tour guide was hot! SIGH .TOO BAD she had a boyfriend that she was devoted to and everything. Mhmm. Speaking of.... wheeeere had he got to?

WHOOOOOOOOOO-AAAAAAAAAA

Maggie was dizzy. Like big time. She even wobbled on the spot for a moment, COMPLETELY disoriented. What was....oh. Right. That was probably the worst thing she'd EVER done ever. EVERRRR. And then Flamsteed ran off to throw up or whatever and she couldn't really blame him. Good thing she hadn't eaten anything today.

Right. Err. That.

With both Hugo and Dante on the floor, Maggie gave them an odd look before looking around to see who else was-

OMG WHAT WAS THAT ACCENT? Was this guy for real??????????????

She stared at him. Long. And hard. And then looked down at Dante. And back at the tour guide. SERIOUSLY???