Sighing with a relief, as she munched on the peanuts from the flight attendant, Liz looks out the window, as they took off one last time.

This will be a quick, up and back down she thought, considering San Jose was just about 293 miles north of Los Angeles.

I guess I could have taken a bus or train, but this was just easier...

Taking out her ticket, and itinerary, Liz looks them over. Let's see maybe I could get a taxi, from San Jose International Airport to the Wrestling match. Taking out her money, she counts it and finds she still has $110 left.

Reluctantly, Anna stepped on the airplane and took several long glances around. She'd never been on such a thing before, and quite frankly it confused her greatly. "Erm, why couldn't we just apparate?" Anna fussed, glaring at the rows and rows of seats they were to ride in. "It would have been sooo much easier. Psh...these muggles and their unusual manners of doing things!"

Shaking her head, Anna turned to Cope, who had the tickets in his hand. "Which seats are we in? Oh, and please tell me they serve pumpkin juice on planes! I am sooo in need of something to drink," she said. Argh. She was starting to get cranky. If she didn't get to that concert soon, she'd seriously go insane. At least she had a pretty dress, some cute heels, and a clutch bag, though. Frowning down at the bag full of clothes, Anna shoved the purse in Cale's direction, placing it in his hands. "Here. You hold the clothes for a while!"

"Just right here," he pointed to the seats, letting Cale take the window and Anna the aisle. Plymouth across the aisle from her and Copernicus at the other window. "They'll bring us drinks once the flight starts, but... you realize this will take us hours and hours? I hope you don't get tired of wearing those little pointy shoes." He fell into his seat.

Without another word, Anna plopped down into her seat, her head immediately hitting the back of it. Man, she was T-I-R-E-D! At least they had a long flight ahead of them, though. Anna planned to get a little cat nap in before they arrived at the HP Pavilion, or whatever it was those muggles called it. Suddenly, Anna's head shot up off the seat and she glanced from boy to boy to boy. "Dudes! HP Pavilion...they named it after Potter!" she exclaimed, smiling briefly before laying back on the seat again. "I need pump-kin juiiiceee!" she said, drawing out the words a bit.

Cale smiled and settled into the seat next to Anna, and he too grinned with delight at the comfort of the seat. He was beattttt! All this running around had made him so tired, he was ready to just take a nap.

"How long is it to California?" he asked, closing his eyes and resting his head back against the headrest. He could already feel himself drifting off to sleep...

"Ten hours?" Cope laughed and put his head back, his eyes closed. "That lady with the cart of drinks is coming soon." He opened his eyes and pointed to where the lady was. "She's like the trolley lady!" He glanced out the window at the clouds below.

Smiling at Cale as he settled in to the seat next to her, Anna scooted over just a bit, getting as close to Cale as she could without it being considered against school rules. She thought back to the time she'd decided to sit on Cale's lap on the Hogwarts Express on the way home from school. At first, she'd thought it to be pretty innocent, but apparently it wasn't very inncoent at all. Needless to say, they'd both gotten into a bit of trouble. Yikes...

Anna leaned back and tilted her head to where she could watch Cale for a while. She shrugged when he asked how long the flight to California would be. "I don't know," she whispered. "I've never been to America, much less California..."

"Ten hours?!!?" she shrieked, a bit louder than she'd intended. "Oops...sorry. I didn't mean for that to come out at the top of my lungs." Anna sighed and got comfortable in her seat. If she was going to be on this plane for ten whole hours, she may as well fall asleep or something. "Trolley? Think they have chocolate frogs?" Anna weakly asked, yawning as she talked. Chocolate frogs sounded nice...and pumpkin juice, too. "Oh, and this one's for you," Anna added, taking out the potion bottle full of the liquid that would make her green-headed. Tilting her head back, Anna swallowed it quickly before she could change her mind.

At some point, Copernicus fell asleep, which was good. The time passed quickly and he awoke, drooling on Plymouth's shoulder, just before landing. Unfortunately, his hair was crazy sticking every which way instead of all nice like Paris had left it. He wiped his eyes and chin and leaned forward to speak to all three of them.

"Let's catch a taxi on this end and take it all the way to the pavilion. I don't think we want to trust an unfamiliar public transit system."

Many, many, many hours later, Anna woke to the sound of Copernicus mumbling about something from his seat. "Cope," she grumbled, squinching up her face and rolling over to sleep some more. At some point throughout the flight, she and Cale had started holding each other's hand in their sleep. Awww, how sweet. Anna squeezed his hand tightly and the tried to fall back asleep. A few of Cope's words reached her ears, though, like "taxi" and "Pavilion." Anna's eyes popped open and she pushed Cale lightly to wake up.

"We're here?!? Oh my gosh, we're here?!?" Anna shrieked. "I haven't even repaired my hair or anything! Oh my gosh, I'll be right back!" Jumping up from her seat, Anna dashed to the plane's tiny bathroom, popping out fifteen minutes later all dolled up and ready for the concert. Walking back to the gang, Anna smiled politely and said, "Alright, a cab it is. Come on. Let's get out of here." As soon as they were able to exit, Anna dashed to the door of the plane and hopped off, ready to find that cab Cope had mentioned.

Cale had fallen asleep a few seconds after Copernicus announced it would be ten hours to America, and when he opened his eyes, he looked out the window and saw they weren't moving anymore. That was weird, planes didn't stop in mid-air, did they?

He looked up and saw that people were starting to get off the plane. He wondered where they were--were they in California? He assumed so, since everyone was getting off at this stop, and a few people were talking about going to the beach. None of the other places he knew had beaches, he was sure.

That was when a blind panic settled over him when he realized Anna wasn't sitting next to him. And Copernicus wasn't there either. They were both gone. OH NOES OH NOES OH NOES OH NOES! They had left him there!

Standing up so quickly he forgot he was taller than the space between the seat and ceiling, he banged his head rather loudly on the luggage rack above his head. Waiting for all the people to get off the plane, he grabbed his stuff and hurried out onto the terminal.

The airport was BEYOND busy, and a sick feeling washed over him when he realized he wasn't going to track them down anywhere in this busy airport. Gulp. The only way he could hope they would meet up again would be to find the way to the concert...all...by...himself.

That was it. He was done for. He'd NEVER find the concert on his own!

Feeling incredibly helpless, Cale took out his map and located an exit, deciding to best way to get around would be to hire someone who knew the way around this city. So, a cab was his first choice, of course! He wandered out of the airport, fishing around in his pocket for cab fare as he walked out the door.

.... a little out of sequence ....


Plymouth Morgan did not enjoy flying. It was HIGH. It was FAST. And it was scary. He stayed very, very quiet. Uncharacteristically quiet. Deathly quiet. He let Copernicus sleep on him while he looked straight ahead and gripped the arm rests. Plymouth kept thinking how he didn't get to kiss his momma good bye...

.... and then they arrived and Plymouth hugged alll the flight attendants, thanking them on behalf of his momma.

Plymouth left the airport with the others.


WOOO BRITNEY! WOO AMERICA!

"Yup[, I am bound for San Jose. Shall we go together then? I have been to California once and I hope we won't get lost in the way to the Pavilion." he said with a smile on his face. He was fiddling his scarf. Thanks to that Slytherin who helped her earlier.

Aha! Which seat was it again? Ack. Window seat. She didn't enjoy window seats. Hopefully Emalyn will get the aisle one and she could switch, or Melanie, or Jake. They still had a few lot minutes to make it inside, so no worries there.

Finally something else to thank her father and her muggle side of the family! If it weren't for them, then she wouldn't even know what an airplane is. Lookit! A peanuts bag! Something to spend some time in, considering neither of the Huffies that were supposed to travel together were coming in.

She should've stayed a while longer in the Transportation Center, because Jake was telling her something. She knew he was. Maybe he'll tell her later if he manages to remember.

Man, she was missing her brother, because he was always by the window.

Still, Kaika put her black hoodie on, and waited a bit. For either the Huffies or the airplane to fly away.

Abby gets on the plane and finds a seat. This isn't going to be so bad. The seat are comfortable. They even recline back. This will pobably be more fun than flying a broom. Everythings okay until the plane starts going down the runway. The engines suddenly start roaring. The plane starts head straight up. Abby's tempted to take out her wand and tell the pilot to stop the plane. She wants to get off. Then they get airborne and things kind of settle down some. Abby swears she heard some of the students say it would take 10 hours to get to San Jose. I guess that sounds right. It seemed to take the plane forever to get to San Francisco, and San Jose is suppose to be a suburb of it. Abby settles back and studies her map. She can't make heads or tails of the streets. I think that's the HP Pavilion,but I can't figure how to get there from the airport. Everything looks so small on these maps. They should really move like wizard maps do. You can just point to where you want to go, and the map shows you the way. This is ridiculous. Abby tries to fold the map up. She doesn't have much better luck with that than she does with reading it. Abby finds the seat in front of her has a pocket. She shoves the map in there. I think I'll just look out the window for a while. I'm sure there will be someone at the airport who can tell me how to get to the HP Pavilion at San Jose.

Abby falls asleep for a while. The stewardess announcing the passanger should buckle their seatbelts wakes her up. She watches the muggle in the seat next to her buckle his seatbelt. Abby does the same and grabs the arm rests. I think I like flying better at night. It so much easier take all these takeoffs and landing when she's three quarts asleep. When the plane lands, Abby gets off with the rest of the students.

Tobi ran into the plane, he didn't like planes, like AT ALL. His seat was an Eisle seat. Oooh! next to Kaika!

"Hi Kaika!!" he said, his voice strained. "Looks like we're in this together."

It's a giant steal tube that is NOT going to crash into a large mountain. It's a giant steal tube that is NOT going to crash into a large mountain.

"Yep! We shall! Wheeeeeeeee!!!"Jane said smiling.

"It's a little bright here in California, don't you think?"Jane was looking out the plane window now. She felt the pinch on her skin. Maybe because she was pale to begin with.

"This should be good." Daniel giggles.]

"We should be there in a few minutes." he smiled as he looked at Jane.

Emalyn tore down the isle, checking her ticket. Where the heck was her seat? She finally saw Kaika and smiled. Whew. It was at least the right plane. She looked at her ticket again and it turned out she had a window seat (greeeattt) across the isle from Kaika. Well, at least she'd be able to look out the window. She hoped Melanie would be able to sit next to her.

She bounced in her seat, looking around energetically. Oooh, seat belt! And woah...a CUP HOLDER.

Wait, why was this so amazing? Emalyn was used to this kind of thing...it was just like a car, right?
"I'm getting too used to Hogwarts," she mumbled, setting her bag on her lap and looking out the window. She wasn't sure if this seat were a good thing or a bad thing, but either way she was in for the experience.

Picking up her bag, she exits the plane in San Jose!

Clifford has always wanted to try one of these flying machines, but AAAHHHH!!! this was just plain scary! "I don't like it," he whimpered, clinging perhaps a little too tight to Evangeline, his fingers digging into her arm. "this isn't COOL! What if it falls out of the sky!?" Panic alert.

What? What was Tobi doing? He had the other ticket? Oh, great...she was expecting Ema to be there...but, this seemed alright.

"Hey, Tobi" again, "Yeah, apparently..." and she her eyes followed the aisle in search for someone..."...where's Jake?" she asked him, considering Jake had mentioned that he was traveling with Tobi.

"So, I've been in window seats before..." lie, "...do you want to trade?" unless he didn't feel like looking out the window, not that he had to, it can still be closed, but if he didn't want to be next to a window, then was the point in changing seats.

Yes! She got in! "Hey Ema!" she smiled, the girl looked way too excited by the fact of being on a plane. True. It was her first time in one if she remembered correctly.

Yet her eyes widened as soon as the girl mentioned their school. Not something wise. "And...what exactly is Hogwarts?" she said, and winked..hoping the girl will get a clue of not to mention anything magical on their way to the concert...or in the concert for that matter.

Sakura quickly found a seat and put her handbag in the overhead compartment. While waiting for take off she examined the map of LA, it would be better to know where she needed to go before she got to her destination. Once they got in the air however she merely sat listening to the planes radio, and of course the captains instructions.

Sakura must have fallen asleep for part of it because before she knew it she was being woken up by a flight attendant that told her they were preparing to descend and could she please put her seatbelt back on. Sakura quickly did so and leant back in her seat as she fixed up her hair and makeup. This was sure to be a fun ride. Once the seatbelt lights went off Sakura stood up and grabbed her bag from the overhead compartment. She walked quickly down the aisle once more and exited the plane.

"Hey there." Emalyn smiled, playing with her seatbelt.

She clapped her hands over her mouth and then shook her head. "It's err...a meat. It's a meat. From err...Bucharest. I've gotten too used to it...We err....imported it. To um...my family...store?" it was more of a question then a real answer.

Kaika laughed, "No kidding" she said, with a nod, "I've never heard of it, must be...a yummy meal?" she added. Surely 'Hogwarts' could be a meal.

Meal. House-elves. It was all too good...and all she had in here was a bag of peanuts, a very small one by the way.

"Well, at least we'll be in San Jose in no-time...well, in some hours...but time flies when you are in mid-air" not precisely true, because it only happened during Quidditch. Playing Quidditch. Not watching it.

Tobi looked around. "Uh haven't seen him..." Where had the miniature seeker gotten to anyway?

Hmmm... Looked like Kaika wasn't a fan of the window. She didn't fool him for a second. Tobi just wasn't a fan of big flying tubes, didn't matter where he sat... So what difference did it make to him? "Sure," he said shrugging as he stood up. Maybe he would see the mountain before he crashed into it. He'd be ready for it. Make his peace...