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"Annie, relax." Ethan told her mildly, "I can always take you to visit the reserve at the end of term break if you like. You wanted to collect some rare plants in the area anyway if I recall correctly." He looked up from the dragon and shot a look at Iliana, getting more and more creeped out by the behaviour of their co-workers.

Making a decision, he flicked his wand and cast a dragon patronus, sending a message and possibly inadvertantly startling a few students in the process.

Ethan looked over at Jake and Iliana, frowning slightly. He didn't want the kid to have to leave, hopefully he'd get over his fear.

Bunbunz turned her head a little when Ethan mentioned her name. He was always so chillll like dude. "OKAY!" she whispered waay too loudly, proceeding to nod like her head was about to fall off.

She absentmindedly wondered where the silver dragony thingamabob was going...huh, what was that spell again? Partridge? Padlock? Patronus?

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He'd actually been on his way down to the grounds to see the dragons when the patronus arrived. That was a lucky thing because otherwise it may have taken him a day and a half to get there, but he'd already been in sight of the door to the outside world so, here he was just ten minutes later. Beautiful. But, he couldn't be distracted just now. "You rang, Truebridge?"

But never mind spells, the nerdycute Headmaster was there! Annie sat up straight on the bench, trying to look like she was paying attention and following the school rules and all that junk.

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"I did." Ethan nodded and cleared his throat, "I'm glad you could come down and help harvest the venom." He looked around the class and shot a significant look at the Headmaster, "And I'm sure Annie, Less and Tony are glad you are here too."

He looked out at the professors bouncing amongst the students, clearly hyped up on sugar. "We can get started soon, the students are just sketching the dragon." Ethan nodded towards a spare spot by Iliana, hoping that the Headmaster would be able to observe certain unusual things.

Stroking the dragon gently, Ethan administered some more potion as the juvenile vipertooth stirred slightly under his fingertips.

EEP! Why was he singling her out? Was it the hair? Just cos redheads are a little rare....no reason to discriminate...

Annie crossed her arms and scooted over, possibly nudging Jake off the end of the bench. They had to have room for Mr. Professor Headmaster Man.

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What? Why was Headmaster Bontecou in here? Prof. Truebridge told him to come?

Oooooh...lookit! Why the potion? Hmmmm....Good. Keep your focus on the sketch...

She smiled to herself when it was sort of done..."Is this alright, Professor?" she asked, showing the little parchment, "You can check this out, too" she said, gesturing Bunbury to come along and see it...

Photos!: Dragon and Bunbunz!

Annie sneaked a peek at Kaika's beeeyootiful drawing. "Heeheheeeee," she tittered at the rendition of herself and the dragon. "No really, can we feed it?"

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Giving Ethan a mortified look, Iliana couldn't believe her ears. Suddenly, she was struck by an idea. She leaned over to Bunbury and whispered. "Would you like to see her breath fire? I bet if we stay very quiet... she just might." She hated to be deceitful, but at this point what choice did she have.

Leaning back into Jake's hold, Iliana squeezed his hand and began to rock him ever so slightly from side to side. She hummed a comforting tune softly, waiting to feel his body start to ease up. She looked down, happy to see that he was relaxed enough to start sketching and whispered, "Its going to be alright, Jake."

Iliana let out an audible sigh of relief when she saw the Headmaster step into view. Having him here, could only mean one thing. That things would get back to normal. After all, she couldn't imagine the other professors would continue their cruel joke while in his presence. Smiling gratefully up at him, Iliana scooted over to make some room and said, "Good afternoon Headmaster. Glad you could join us."

"OH YESSS!" Annie fist-pumped with glee. "I'll be quiet. Don't wanna wake the dragon, ya know." She beamed and folded her hands in her lap neatly, being as polite as possible - 'speshully since the Headmaster was sitting laik, righthere!

"Helpful as always, Kayla. Your helpfulness is only exceeded by your kindness." Helios couldn't be bothered to address the prefect directly, he only had eyes for the dragon.

Slowly though, he took her advice and a seat. No more day dreaming, Helios. It's dragon time.

Lina sat and worked on her sketch of the peruvian vipertooth. However, no matter how she tried, it kept coming out as something... cute. She erased and tried to draw something more vicious, but it just didn't seem to be coming out right.

Oh, no. Oh, no...oh, no...oh, no. This was not good. Little Miss Bossy, Know-it-All, Smary Pants didn't know how to draw, and the entire class would soon find out. Glancing at her drawing, Anna winced. It was the most pitiful excuse for a dragon she'd ever seen. Her classmates' pictures looked so detailed and so true to the nature of a real dragon. Anna's looked like a cartoon. Not even a cartoon. It looked like...

this.

"Professor," Anna mumbled, holding her drawing chest-level and not all the way in the air. "I've finished my drawing." There. Maybe no one heard her other than the professors. Maybe they'd just see her efforts, give her credit, and then let it all go.




con: 4/5

Chris Potter had finished his drawing and held it up for the class.




con: 3/5

Maddox was amazed by the sleeping creature. It was more beautiful then anything he had ever seen. But he couldnt just stand there gawking. He sat down, pulled out his quill, ink, and parchment, and quickly started drawing. He wasnt the best artist in the world but he did the best he could.

Once he was finished with his drawing, he sat down his quill, and held out his drawing for the professors to check.


con: 5/5

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Copernicus sketched and blotted and sketched and blotted. Ugh. He just couldn't seem to get the WINGS right. And the legs. And the head, really. It was sort of a blobby ruin of a thing, and Copernicus balled the whole paper up and tossed it in his bag before extracting a new sheet of parchment.

Really, he couldn't believe that people were being so noisy. It had obviously startled Cela, and he glanced at her briefly with a reassuring smile. "It'll eat Avalon first. He looks like a full course meal."

"I heard that." Tobi grumbled. "Shut it Kettleburn, or if Alexis puts me on Beater again this weekend, I'll be sure to knock a bludger strait into the stands."

Ohm! Just focus on your picture, Ohm...

Tobi had tried to draw the sleeping dragon, but he couldn't. It was not working. Every time he tried it looked like it was feigning sleep ready to eat a foolish passerby. So instead he just gave into his mental image of the dragon and sketched away.

It was awake and glaring at him. A Peruvian Vipertooth that could haunt your dreams, well it haunted his dreams. But then, honking daffodils haunted his dreams, so it's a relative thing, isn't it?

He sketched and wiped and started again. And sketched and wiped and started again several times before he came up with something he considered suitable.

"Okay, I think I have it," he said holding out his drawing for the nearest sane professor.

While there were quite a few professors present, that particular caveat made the pickings still fairly slim.


con: 5/5

Lucy set her quill down. She was done with her drawing. She looked around and noticed she wasnt the only one done. She raised her hand. "Professor, i have finished my sketch." she said holding it out.




con: 4/5

With a sigh, Lina finished and held up her drawing, not even looking up to see others' reactions. It was still... cute. No matter how she tried to accent the scary wings!

ooc: Sorry for the blurriness. A printer and a scanner, and only one cable. The printer is currently in use. So you get a camera picture!


con: 4/5 ITS SO CUTE

Ethan wondered if Bontecou's presence would help with whatever the strange attitude that the other professors were exhibiting.

"We can get started with the venom harvesting soon." Ethan told the headmaster. "I think some student help might be needed."


"The dragon won't wake up completely. We won't be feeding it, considering it likes to eat people and all." Ethan assured her before clearing his throat.

"Alright, I have been watching all of you throughout this class, and those that have behaved and paid attention might possibly want to help me out here. You don't have to of course, but I'd like to invite Jake Upstead, Tobi Avalon, Copernicus Kettleburn, Kaika Lockhart and Clifford Carden to give myself and Headmaster Bontecou a hand with harvesting some Vipertooth Venom."

ooc: firstly, there are other activities we will be doing so hang tight if you want to play with the dragon too , secondly I WON'T be taking volunteers for these activities, so do pay attention and continue following instructions if you want to be picked, you are all doing really well and everyone will have the chance to get involved.

Alessia sneaked away Truesnitch wasn't looking at her... calling the headmaster indeed!! She quietly made her way to the back of the dragon and giggled, "I shall call you, Nidhogg... HI HOGGY!" she said and reached out to pet the pretty dragon.

Venom harvesting? What--? That's what Headmaster Bontecou was doing here? Oooooh...interesting...and they'll be watching that? Good. Or not good. Dragons were still dangerous, but this little one didn't seem like a hassle, especially sedated.

She heard her name, and her eyes opened wide, "Yeah, absolutely" she nodded, and smiled. She didn't know how she'll be of help, but they will let her know, right?

Chris watchde queitly as some students got to go get ready to take some venom from the dragon.

Ethan's eyes were constantly on the dragon, and so he spotted Less pretty quickly and flicked his wand, "Petrificus Totalus!" There was something severely WRONG if he had to stop a professor from touching a dragon.

He moved to catch her as her body stiffened and fell, shooting a look first at the headmaster and secondly at Iliana. What on earth? Without any furthur ado, he carried her back to the seats and took the body bind off. It wasn't quite like he could tell another professor off in front of the students, but he gave her a look and spoke anyway, "If you insist on setting such a bad example, I'll have to ask you to leave." What he really meant was that he'd hex her all the way to France if she tried a stunt like that again. And he'd get Krazimeriz. Ethan was not afraid to go tattle to Krazimeriz.

Chris looked with wide eyes as professor truebridge had sustained Professor Lupa like that. Wow. He's not messing around he thought.

Lina was wide-eyed as a professor petrified another professor. Apparently, from the way that Professor Lupa was standing, she was going to try and pet the dragon! It seemed strange that a professor would do such a thing. Though with the professor frozen like that it made for an easy chance to get a good look at her. She kept what she saw in mind, and some of it made her giggle. Though the professor was released again and told off. My my! This would stick with her for a while!

Okay, why did everything sound fatal today?

Dragon. Big. Strong. Kill.
Venom. Poisonous. Eat. Die.

Nevertheless... he had been asked to go up, and how stupid would he be to pass up that oppurtunity?

Very stupid.

So, wiping his tears away, Jake squeezed Professor Morgan's hand one last time before pushing himself up and hanging back a little. He couldn't help but notice how the others were in at least the fifth year, and he was there... being all small-like. Ah well...

He waited to see what they had to do, oblivious to anything but Professor Truebridge, Professor Bontecou, Professor Morgan and the Dragon.

Big... scary dragon.

In fact... Professor Lupa had tried to touch the thing?! Oh... how close was he to being fried Jakers? Not good...

But still... tempting. Jake took another small step forwards, away from the crazy Ancient Runes professor.

Oooooh Venom harvestiiing! Whatever that meant, it sounded awesome! And Kaika was going to help! Miranda gave her another grin, wondering how she felt. Miranda would indeed be nervous, but all super excited too!

Suddenly a sharp movement caught her eye. Turning, she saw Professor Truebridge... hugging Professor Lupa? What? No wait, he was carrying her. Ohhh why? Had she hurt herself? And what was she doing so near the dragon?

Blinking, Miranda watched as the two professors made their way back to the benches. This was so very odd. And only now did she notice that the Headmaster was there too! What in the world...

Anywho, the dragon was cute!

AHA! "Come on, Jake" she said, taking his hand and pulling the boy closer towards Prof. Truebridge, yet, keeping the distance from the dragon...

"It'll be okay" she whispered so Jake could hear...but honestly, she didn't know better than him...dragons could be slightly unexpected sometimes...or better yet, every time. But this one seemed harmless.

She placed her hand on the first year's shoulder, and simply waited.

"Sounds good to me," he grinned and donned his dragonhide gloves. It wouldn't do much against a dragon, but one could never be too careful.

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Alessia sneaked away Truesnitch wasn't looking at her... calling the headmaster indeed!! She quietly made her way to the back of the dragon and giggled, "I shall call you, Nidhogg... HI HOGGY!" she said and reached out to pet the pretty dragon.

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Ethan's eyes were constantly on the dragon, and so he spotted Less pretty quickly and flicked his wand, "Petrificus Totalus!" There was something severely WRONG if he had to stop a professor from touching a dragon.

He moved to catch her as her body stiffened and fell, shooting a look first at the headmaster and secondly at Iliana. What on earth? Without any furthur ado, he carried her back to the seats and took the body bind off. It wasn't quite like he could tell another professor off in front of the students, but he gave her a look and spoke anyway, "If you insist on setting such a bad example, I'll have to ask you to leave." What he really meant was that he'd hex her all the way to France if she tried a stunt like that again. And he'd get Krazimeriz. Ethan was not afraid to go tattle to Krazimeriz.

"Let me move her out of the way," he said and moved to take hold of Less under her armpits. He dragged her over to a soft looking patch of grass out of the line of fire. "Sorry," he said sadly and then just left her there so he could assist Truebridge. "Just let me know when and where you want me." This thing with the professors was getting a bit ridiculous.

He moved her out of the way after Truebridge did his thing.

When he took the body bind off it took a little while for her to get her motion back. The headmaster had put her away! EEEeeeeep! And once she got her voice back... She growled... and not like a human would.

She stormed past the headmaster and said "Professor. Truebridge. HOW. dare you... cast upon me." She said to him in a loud whisper. "I am a professor, just like you... and... and... and..." her eyes started filling with tears... "and..." and she burst into tears... LOUD tears...

Just... breathing was a good idea. Copernicus took deep breaths as he headed toward Professor Truebridge. And then the professor moved and there was NO ONE standing between him and the large scary dragon. Yes, fine, it was one of the most amazing sights of his life, and he'd probably wish later he'd spent more time admiring the copper sheet or the way the wings folded, but for now, he'd really like someone between him and the creature that could eat him.

He stood still and hoped the dragon would continue to sleep.

Lucy watched Professor Truebridge stunned Professor Lupa. Her eyes widen. She watched him drag her over to the benches. She nudged Herminny a little and motioned towards the two professors. She watched Professor Lupa burst into tears. LOUD tears.

Kayla had just finished her drawing of the dragon when chaos broke out. She watched as Professor Truebridge placed the binding spell on Professor Lupa and she stifled a small giggle. Not a very bright thing to do, trying to pet a dragon.

Not that anyone was probably looking now but she held up her picture of the dragon.

Vipertooth.jpg picture by mel-belle - Photobucket

con: 4/5

Letting out a timid squeak, Jake shook his head. ACK! In my own time! I'm FRAGILE! "Nooooo," he whispered, trying to back away a tad. "In a moment..."

I'm not ready... I'M NOT READY! The Professors are distracted... it'll EAT ME!