Cam stared at Jake, what was wrong with his little chubby fingers? He cleaned them, like, a few days ago so there was only confusion that got Cam to frown. Now he was backing away, why the heck was he backing away?! Staring at his fingers again he used his robes to wipe all the dirt off and then showed his hands to Jake to tell him how clean they were. Not the cleanest, but not the dirtiest too. "Jake, seee? No need to worry since my hands are toootally--," he closed his eyes once his friend took out his wand.

Was he going to murder him?! Or maybe try that cleaning spell Nancy did back at the library to his hands.

But he took it all wrong, he completely forgot about the stinkin' badge he was wearing on his robes and found out that Jake was about to hex or curse him. After opening his eyes, he felt pain on his right cheek of his face. It stung, like the way a bee had stung you but much, much more pain. "O--Ouuuch!"

A single tear came upon from his eyes, his cheek hurt like crazy. So with his now-green wand, he pointed it straight at Jake still with his tears. He looked at Shana who was hiding behind him. WHAT?! She was in Slytherin, like him, why the heck was she hiding behind his enemy?! He was too careless though to even check if she had a badge since all of his attention came to Jake. Not fair, not fair, not fair!

"Tergicrur!" he yelled or tried to yell (still in the tears) and cast the knee-reversal hex on him. Cam didn't care if Jake already did the shield, he had to at least try.

DIE. DIE DIE DIEEE!

"ACK!" Jake yelled as he felt a most painful sensation in his knees. Oh, how it hurt! Jake tried to take a step and promptly fell flat on his face.

"Shana," he groaned, realising that the girl had to be a little scared of the crazed Cameron to be hiding behind Jake of all people. "Get back a little... PROTEGO!" he cast in front of her, stopping any stray things from hitting her. It was between him and Cameron right now. *Growl*. If Shana wanted to enter the duel she could, but would be on Cameron's side, so he set up a sheild charm behind himself.

"Quit crying, Cameron!" Jake yelled over. "Forrester don't like 'em tearful!" That was true, he'd criticised Jake for it when he hadn't even been crying. Hmph!

Jake's frustration against that man suddenly burst out of him, and he sent a finger-removing Jinx straight at Cameron.

Scooting along the floor to get behind a suit of armour, Jake had enough time to cast a quick "Protego!" though he knew it wouldn't last for long.

Cam wanted to smile and smirk but he couldn't since of the little red thing that was still on his face. It made him continue crying, despite the fact that Jake ordered him to stop crying. So what if his Head of House didn't like crying people? He was NOT a crybaby anyways, he was just CRYING for this particular reason and kneeew that if it it hadn't been a spell and a regular injury, he wouldn't cry at all. Well it kinda' did matter since... he didn't want Forrester to think he was some sort of a crybaby, right?

Right.

Jake had his knee-thingies reversed and pointed at him and wiggled his finger to show that it was completely hilarious. "HAHAHAHA!" But luckily, Cam had seen Jake cast another jinx or hex again and got ready. Ohmegosh, I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared. He wasn't really a scaredy-cat either, was he?

"Protego!" he yelled out and then wanted to smirk again after thinking that he made the shield already. But the finger pointing at Jake... HIS POKING FINGER... HIS POKING FINGER WAS MISSING. Cam held his arm and started to cry even more, not because of the stinging hex but because he lost his one and only poking finger. His other finger was definitely not the same.

"YOU STINKIN'... FREAKIN' MEANIE!" he insulted and had to his wand with his other hand (he just couldn't use his wand without his finger somehow) with the tears streaming down his eyes. THE TEARS. He muttered the toe-nail growing hex against Jake, and at the same time made the X-formation with his wand.

Shana began to step backwards.She was sertainly staying out of this one.She smiled at Jake and then at Cameron.She gulped.She gave them the serious look her mother used to give her when she thought she was going to go too far with a trick.She sighed.EEP!She screamed she looked like her mother and not in a good way.Then began to wonder wether this was going to get serious,Cam had already lost his poking finger and seemed very upset about.

She looked at Jake...then looked at Cam.Then took a few more steps backwards.

Jake just looked at Cameron as the boy started freaking out over his idiotic finger. PAH! Jake should have been HAILED for that deed! Nobody likes to be poked, and Jake had removed Cameron's poking finger. Get in there.

Ducking down, Jake heard the CLANG as Cameron's spell hit the suit of armour, and looked around at Shana, who was looking at his all weirdly. "What?" he asked. They'd signed up for this, used only the spells they were allowed to use, and not broken any rules. In fact, Jake had been generous in not trying to get Shana as well.

"Finite..." Jake muttered, poking his wand at Shana to get rid of the sheild, and then at his knees. They hurt, quite alot, but they were the right way around. Jake got up and walked stiffly down the corridor. "Good job," he muttered, wanting to leave the Dungeon corridor before any more Slytherins came out and tried to get him.

The 'lab' was over, but Jake cast another sheild charm to get back to the classroom. Sure, the school task was over, but this had shown Jake that he always had to be on his guard.

Sighing slightly, Jake began the momentous climbing of the stairs, back to the classroom. He couldn't help but smirk. Hufflepuffs never had that many stairs to take to get to the entrance hall... All random thoughts taken care of, Jake left.

NUUU. His spell failed, he really wanted to see if Jake's toe-nails grew up to the size of a giant. That would've been fun to see especially if that boy really did wear purple shoes. Oh of course, he'd read several articles that colored shoes were... for people that had already-long toe-nails. Right? But the tears on his eyes, he wiped it with his robes. And then his robes became wet from his hands. MEAN. TOOPID. JAKE.

With his poking finger gone, he glared at his friend and then back to Shana who was taking a few steps back. She could have helped and if she did... some sort of a spell then he was suuuure that his finger wouldn't have been gone. He didn't realize his lost finger was on the ground, but the dungeons were a bit too dark for anyone to find it. With a shrug, his hand went to Shana's. Ugh, he forgot about the cooties. Hesitantly taking it back, he followed Jake and sighed.

"C'moooon Shanah. Let's go to the space rocket AKA DADA!" OK... Random.

Shana smiled at Cam and Jake.She gave a little giggle when Cam sort of went to grab hold of her hand.She stood still for a bit.Okay Cam Im coming.The boy seemed very excited about getting back too the DADA classroom.She began too follow them up the stairs and back to the DADA classroom.

Henrick padded down to the dungeons, swiftly trying to make it to the common room. Almost there, almost there, almost there, almost there, he thought to himself. He stopped, turning, and backed up almost touching the wall. He looked over his shoulder so much, he might as well've been walking backwards. A bit farther, and he lost it completely.

He charged on to the common room, pushing against the cold dungeon walls to turn, and hooking his hands around corners. He leapt the last few feet, desperate to get to the Slytherin Common room.

Seated on the cold floor of the corridor was a tiny redheaded girl, her wand being twirled in her hand as she looked nervously down at a tiny chest. It was almost as if the chest could bite her! And for all she knew, it could. Well, not bite her, but harm her. She was meant to practice a spell on it and Merlin knew Bella struggled with her spells.

With a little sigh, she locked the chest with the padlock she had gotten in the Charms classroom and pointed her wand towards it. "Alo - alohomora!" She whispered in what almost seemed like a sneeze. Nothing happened. The chest didn't even bounced. Boohoo.

Determined to make it, she gripped the wand tighter and thinned her green eyes in concentration. She could do it, she could do it, she could do it. "Alohomora!" She said, a bit more firmly this time and watched, satisfied, as she padlock opened with a click. "YAAAAAAAAAAAY!! I did it!"

"Excuse me," Anna said, walking up to a group of students standng around in the corridor. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm looking for my friend Seymour Addams. Have any of you seen him?" She glanced around as she talked, hoping to catch Seymour coming in or out of his Common Room. If she couldn't find him today, she'd write him a letter. That was the only choice left. She glanced towards the Slytherins in the corridor. "Have any of you seen him in the Common Room? If so, could you please tell him Anna Greingoth is looking for him? I'd really appreciate it..."

Evolette was walking through the corridor, when she spotted something one didn't normally see so close to the Slytherin Common Room; a Gryffindor Prefect.

"Anna?" she asked, walking up behind the girl who seemed to be addressing a small group, but talking to no one in particular, "Do you need something?" she asked. "You're not lost, are you?" she added, with a chuckle. Laughing at your own joke was not something Evolette was accustomed to, but the situation had called for it.

Anna turned around at the sound of someone calling her name. "Oh, Evee! I'm so glad I found you...or, well, you found me!" Anna exclaimed, walking over to meet her friend halfway. "I'm looking for Seymour Addams. Have you seen him around? It's quite important that I find him, you see. I've been searching for him all over! Do you think you could keep a lookout for him in your Common Room and give him a message for me? Could you tell him that I said hello, and that I'm looking for him, please?" she asked. It'd be really nice if Seymour walked up right about now. It sure would make things a lot easier. How on Earth was she supposed to gain his forgiveness if she never saw him?

Tucking her hair behind her ear, Evolette waited patiently to hear what Anna had to say. Seymour Addams? Never heard of him. But, she was certain she could have someone point him out to her. Why not help out Anna?

"Sure." She shrugged, "I was just on my way in there now. I'll keep an eye out for him." she assured the girl. Poor Anna looked a little distressed, "So, you can calm down a little at least." she added, smiling, "Eat some chocolate or something." Seriously, her excitement was swirling around the room.

"I promise, I'll pass on the message." she said, giving the Gryffindor a small wave before heading into the common room.

"Oh, thanks, Evolette," Anna said, smiling warmly at her friend. "He's really a nice young man. I'm sureif you're as nice and polite to him as you are to me, he'll be a pleasure for you to talk with." Anna laughed softly as Evolette instructed her to relax. Relax...yes, that's what she needed to do. Getting herself more worked up over this would get her absolutely nowhere. "Ohhh...right. Relaxing, got it!" she replied. "Chocolate...and, yeah. Thanks once again, Evolette! See ya around!" Anna watched until Evolette was out of sight, and then she turned toward the students she'd addressed earlier. "Seymour Addams...if you see him, tell him I'm looking for him! Until then..." Anna trailed off, waving at her fellow students while heading back down the corridor.

Remus had a free period so he slipped down the dungeon steps and began searching. In his pocket was the lock he needed to practice unlocking for his Charms homework. He had a special plan for it and well his prank. He knew most first years would need to gp back to the dorms to drop of books before their athletic hour, and Remus' plan was to place the lock on a set of double doors that lead to the Slytherin Common Room. His plan wasn't to lock the Common Room just the hall needed to get there.

Remus knew that most first years would have a really hard time trying to unlock the lock even if they knew the spell, Alohomora. He would hid in an unused classroom near by and give the firsties a bit of a hard time before actually unlocking the lock. Since Remus had long ago master the spell his aimed was to make the homework as fun as possible.

Arriving at the doors, he pulled them shut and using the clasp that was already on the door he slid the lock into place and closed it. Now he went into the classroom and set up a study area so it would look as if he was simply studying in a quiet place. He laughed as he listened for his first victim.

It seemed like Remus waited for over an hour without one Slytherin firstie coming. He would stick his head out from time to time but nothing. Finally he decided to just practice the spell and move on.

Taking his wand out and with a wave of it, "Alohomora," he order. He heard a click and watched as the lock fell open. He smiled. He walked over and click it closed. He then step back and repeated the process.

"Alohomora," he called and once again a click and the lock dropped open. He began to try and perform the spell from greater distance, so with each successful spell he began to take one step back. One step, two, three, four steps back and each time the spell had the same result, the lock opened. He then increased the distance until he was nearly 20 feet from it. He waved his wand and clearly spoke the spell. The lock gave a shudder but still opened.

Amanda headed down into the dungeon corridor, keeping her wand out. She wasn't sure if anyone was going to jump out and attack her again, so it was best to keep her wand out. She continued down the corridor, looking all around her.

Shana skipped out of the slythie common room.Looking for something fun to do.Pfft! What am I meant to do! She grumbled to herself.Everyone had boyfriends and where too busy with them.She sighed and went to lean against the wall,mabye she would meet some new people.This was were she'd met Cameron thanks to Jake.She'd met alot of people near here.

Amanda walked past the wall and noticed someone there, she pointed her wand at them. "Who's there?" She said, a bit creeped out since she couldn't really see much down here.

Shana eyes went wide as she saw a wand being pointed at her.Erm..Ermm Shana,Shana miller.She was fearing for her life.What if it was Lord V.Arghh! She screamed and Flailed down the corridor as fast as she could and slipped over and skidded into the common room with a thud.

Amanda rolled her eyes and put her wand away, maybe that wasn't necessary but she didn't know that it was Shana down here. "Sorry about that Shana, its Amanda. I didn't know that it was you down here and I'm taking precautions now ever since that student lied dead in front of the Front Desk in the Library." She said and went over to Shana, trying to get her to calm down.

Shana was heavly breathing as she tried to get up.Hey Amanda.Sorry about the over dramtic-ness I thought you were Lord V.I have a tenace to be over dramatic somtimes.Shana blushed and continued to get to her feet.She struggled because her leg was hurting.She lifted up her trouser leg and saw a cut.She wiped away the blood.And smiled at Amanda.

"It's alright, I understand. Its not safe anymore to be in the corridors, especially with he who must not be named wandering around the school." Amanda said seriously. It was true though, the safest place to be was probably your common room.

Shana put her trouser leg down and got up she walked over to Amanda.She hugged her.She acctually more than hugged her she clinged to her for safty.She didn't want to get killed.Amanda Im too young to die.She shrieked.Ermm could we go into the girls dorm ? I want to show you something.Shana did want to show her something and plus that was a safe place to be.

"Calm down Shana, no one's going to kill you. They'll have to go through me first." Amanda said, trying to make Shana relax. "That's a good idea, let's go then." She said and headed into the common room with Shana still clinging onto her.

Casper did not like the dungeons. Not one bit at all. He only came down here to collect moss from in between some of the rocks in the walls in the older, less populated areas of the castle. Casper's supply of green paint was running out already and he had to start making his own. Again.

As Casper pulled chunks of moss and mildew from the walls and put them in his pockets, he couldn't help but think that if his mother could see him with grit under his nails and fungus in his robes, maybe she would finally agree to send him his supplies.