Quite a number of things had occured. The merfolk had ignored his questions and a loud booming voice had joined them - probably this Aornos guy, or whoever he was. He ordered the grindylows to start knawing at their ankles and the unpleasantries started there.

His theory on the politeness of the British merfolk was confirmed when the battle that commenced. They also appeared to be one of the dullest crayons in the box as they recycled phrases over and over and over. No point giving him a headache with their shrieking if they're just gonna repeat themselves!

He removed his wand from his robes once more and began attacking alongside his fellow students, sending the scarlet spell in the direction of many a grindylow. It wasn't until Professor Vindictus had arrived that a genius plan was concocted and he summoned for a broom also.

"Headmaster," he shouted through the blasts, awaiting his 'ride', "I think... my... treason theory... might be a bit... STUPEFY!... redundant now."

Varius hadn't even thought twice about whether or not Professor Bunbury had been serious and opened his mouth, releasing a number of shrieky words towards the merfishes. They clearly weren't co-operating afterall.



A school broom arrived for him and he whipped his leg round it, rising into the air. The only problem with this marvelous idea was that Varius was not the best of fliers and tended to lack balance -- something he was just gonna have to learn to sort out like... RIGHT NOW. And in true Mermish-fashion he repeated his previous statement, adding one which Anna had cheered earlier.

ooc: I apologize if I missed anything while I was catching up (6 pages!). I did read through, but didn't see anything else regarding the headmaster so I'm just going with it.

The headmaster had no idea what they were shrieking about and he seemed to have lost his translator. Of course, that was all a moot point when one of the merwomen threw her spear at him. He easily deflected the hit with some martial arts he picked up, but the spear toss had certainly distracted him enough for the merwoman to make her move with the grabby hands. She was on him before he could fully recover from the spear deflection. "Madame!" he protested, grabbing at her slimy wrist with one hand and jabbing his wand into her belly with the other. "I realize I'm an attractive man, but really this was entirely unnecessary. Now I don't want to hurt you, but I inisist you let go immediately or I shall have to take drastic action."

He was far too distracted by his own little battle to see what was going on with the others. Of course, the fact that the merwoman's hands had managed to knock his glasses off and had fingers over his eyes didn't help with that, either.

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SWAT!

At the foolish looking boy and the ugly (by merperson standards) girl (Plymouth and Evolette) on the broom with the harness.

CACKLE SHRIEK CACKLE SHRIEK!

SWAT!!!

At the Redhaired Harpy-adult person, she would make wonderful Grindylow bait!

FEEDING TIME!!!

If Plymouth had not buckled up, he would have most definitely fell right off his broom. Couldn't the merperson have just a LITTLE compassion here??? Wasn't it bad enough that Plymouth's ankle was ew and he was on a broom and people were yelling and.... now the big ... fish ... thing was trying to FORK HIM?

"You could put an EYE out with that thing, Lady THING! Go pick on someone your own size!" Plymouth glared (oOoOoo) at her, but then the whole broom went WOBBLE.

Plymouth could only hope that Evolette McKenna was holding on. And, tight.

Plymouth didn't have a free hand to hex the stupid scaley woman fish and last time he'd kicked at one of the things they tried to eat his foot... so... he just BLEW at them. HARD. HUUFFF and PUFFFFFF. Maybe she'd dry out, right? "You'll not be forking Evolette McKenna, LADY!" Blowblowblowblow. "She's too pretty!" Clearly. He veered his broom, nearly fell off again, and took himself and his rider higher and farther down the hall and hopefully out of harm's way.

Thankfully, Plymouth hadn't seen the bird yet - otherwise all bets were off and it's likely he'd have just died of terror. One crisis at a time!

One of the mermen screamed out loudly once again -

Varius wobbled about on his broom, keeping careful balance and holding on with two hands at all times, apart from when casting spells and the attacking fishes. Then one of the men began shrieking again, "SIR!" he flew slowly over to his Headmaster who seemed to be in a bit of a pickle having lost his glasses and being attacked by a merwoman! "STUPEFY," he sent in her direction.

"SIR! He is saying, the king person wants in your office..." pfft and who said this translator responsibility would be hard? "Do you have anything valuable to them inside?" He knew the office contained some rather bizarre and rare artifacts.

Ewwwwwwww!

Now this MerLady-thing was trying to swat at them with her giant fork, as Plymouth had called it at one point. Holding onto his arm, Evolette leaned over the side just a tiny bit, enough to see the Merwoman, but not enough to throw Plymouth off balance. "STUPEFY!"

"STUPEFY! STUPEFY! Fly Plymouth! Fly!"

EEEEEP. They were SO not going to die like this. She was way too pretty to die so very young.

Time for some of that flying stuff he had learned he thought as he saw the grindylows appearing more unstable than ever. Completely ignoring the screeching sound this time (seriously his hearing was so bad he'd probably never hear properly again) his bad arm holding his wand so he could keep his broom steady as he flew in a circle, casting he stunning and relashio charm at the grindylows. He knew he probably should fly off towards the hospital room, or at the very least give up on the fight but he wasn't about to give up yet.

The merwoman screamed an earpiecing sound. She was angry now... he had his stick on her! How DARE he!!! How dare he prevent her from doing her king's bidding. She dove quickly under the water and found his glasses. As she emerged again, she broke them against the wall with her slimey hands...



And she dove back down... He was Aornos' prey... not hers.

Dani dove toward the screaming merman on her broom, and yelled, "Stupefy!" aiming for his chest. She tried not to get too close to him. It was cocky of her, but she figured she had got him, so she turned and went after another.

Flying over, Dani placed herself between the merwoman and the now glasses-less Headmaster. "Are you okay Headmaster?" She asked him, her wand aimed at the chest of the merwoman just as Professor Vindictus had told her. She did not like the fishy people.

"Er... yes," he answered, taking the girl by the shoulder and pulling her behind him. "I'm not blind, just a bit fuzzy at the moment. Stay out of harm's way. Do you know what she shouted at me? She seems to have disappeared for the moment..."

Dani saw the piees of his glasses floating in the water. "You could uhh repair them... You are a wizard." She pointed at them. "I looked at that mermsh book in the library but I never understood it." When was behind him. "Just don't tackle them ok? They don't like that very much, they'll use their forks on you." It was a lesson she had learned the hard way, so she figured she'd pass it on.

Varius jumped and almost fell off his broom when the merwoman attacking the Headmaster began speaking. It had been more ferocious than the others and it appeared they were getting extremely angry now. "Ermm... stupid wizards," he answered the Headmaster's question since Wellie-Boot-Dani didn't know mermish... "They seem real, real angry now Headmaster..."

He chuckled. "Thanks for the tips. Instead of repairing my glasses, I think this situation calls for goggles," he said and summoned them from up above. Once he secured them to his face, he looked ridiculously over at the translator, "Ah, well I suppose we might seem stupid to them. We need to get the key from around Aornos' neck and use it, I think."

"Oh,oh yeah good point."
If we're not in the water it wouldn't hurt us.Duh.
But if we're not in the water how are we going to fight them off?

It was at that moment it all started going REALLY crazy.Grindylows were attacking from all sides.People were getting bitten on ankles and legs and the merpeople were still trying to get into the Headmasers office,even though he now had appeared to help defend it himself.Everything was happening so quickly that Sarah didn't have time to breathe.It wasn't until Professor Vindictus started flying above them shooting stunning spells at the evil fishies that she came to her senses.

Hearing that someone,not sure who as it was all a blurry mess of people and things,had accio'd some school brooms,Sarah stuck out a hand as they came flying down the corridor.Grabbing the nearest one to her she put her fear to one side and scrambled on.Luckily she had escaped major injury from the biting evilness,she was however extremely wet with heavy robes.It took a few seconds for her to get her balance and be confident enough to take one hand off the broom to cast spells.

Flying over to where the Headmaster was,Sarah called to him when he said about taking the key from the leader. "Headmaster Bontecou? How do we do that? Isn't he heavily guarded?"
Going round in circles was slightly dizzing but that was the only way she could get direct hits at the fishies. "Stupify!!!!" she must have shouted a thousand times in a desperate bid to stun them.

Laura walked into the corridor with an almighty splash. The bottom of her robe were imediately drenched, and as she looked around she saw water. But that wasn't all. Memen were there, brandishing forks and other waterly weapons towards a group of people. As she splashed over, she noticed one of them was the Headmaster, one was a Ravenclaw she recognised vaguely, though didn't know, and the others were, well, she didn't know them either.

Stopping behind them, Laura heard one of the Mermen shout something. He seemed incredibly angry, and she flinched at the sound of his voice. She didn't have a clue what it was saying, but one of the other students obviously did, as he was translating for the headmaster. "Erm, Sir?" she asked, when he mentioned a key and some guy called Aornos, or something. "Whats going on?"

One would have to be very, very hard of hearing not to hear the loud screeching that reverberated around the school. When she finally tracked the noises down, and managed to trudge through the water on the second floor, and make it to the entrance to the Headmaster's office, Angela paused for a moment as she took in the sight before her.

What..was that young Hufflepuff doing? She looked at him in open-mouthed surprise as he made screeching sounds similar to those she had been hearing.

Many of the others present were already on brooms, hovering above the creatures who were right at home in the water. And why didn't you think of that earlier? She mentally berated herself before summoning her own broom. Merpeople! Very nasty looking creatures - not at all like the Muggle fantasy stories. What were they even saying? And why were they all here in the first place?

Hovering higher, she flew towards the closest staff member that she could find. "Want to fill me in?"

Okay, she had to give the annoying screechy merpeople credit for one thing. They were really focused. They hadn't even noticed her eagle, nor had the grindylows as far as she could tell. The little creepy creatures hadn't really done a whole lot for the last several minutes, which was starting to worry her a little as she hovered, keeping her eyes on the water as she tried to ignore the screeching coming from merpeople and, oddly, Varius, as well as the pounding in her head. She was determined not to fall into the water. She'd never fallen off her broom in Quidditch, merpeople screeching wasn't going to either, even if she passed out.

Thankfully, it seemed Plymouth was too distracted to notice her almost irrelevant attempt at contributing to the fight as well, because in her state she knew she wouldn't be able to deal with the guilt if she'd made him panic. Falling back as more people entered the fray, letting her eagle fade away, she watched as Madame Kohan appeared, wondering if the librarian could help them out any. At least, with the merpeople. Not with much else, although she was fairly certain the woman could fight. It seemed all the professors and staff could.

"Of course he is, but there are quite a few of you on brooms. Perhaps you can take a page from Harry Potter's book. Didn't he manage to get an egg from a dragon while on broomstick in the Triwizard Tournament?" he asked.

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She didn't have a clue what it was saying, but one of the other students obviously did, as he was translating for the headmaster. "Erm, Sir?" she asked, when he mentioned a key and some guy called Aornos, or something. "Whats going on?"

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Hovering higher, she flew towards the closest staff member that she could find. "Want to fill me in?"

He answered them both at once. "We need to get the key from around Aornos' neck!" he pointed in the direction he'd last seen the usurper.

Anna continued to hover a few feet above the water, still watching the chaos below her and trying to figure out the best plan of action. She flew towards the headmaster and listened as he discussed the way the great Harry Potter had once managed to get an egg from a dragon while on a broomstick. Wait...whaaa? They needed to steal the key from Aornos by swooping down on him via a broom? Eep! That sounded...scary.

Hogwarts had been Anna's home for seven years now, and she wouldn't leave it to be run by a greedy, selfish merdude. Maybe she should just summon the key? Would that even work? What if she accidentally accio'ed Aornos right towards her, though? That'd be even scarier than swooping down on him via broom! She could at least give it a try, though, right? "Accio, key!" she called out.

As she worked on summoning the key, a great deal of that Gryffindor bravery the Lions were supposedly known for came upon her, and she suddenly had the urge to just dive right at Aornos and give snatching that key a shot. "Hey, guys! Help me snatch that key from him!" she called out, addressing the students who were swimming or hovering nearby. She darted forward, closing in on him little by little. When she got close enough, she made a quick grab, hoping maybe her efforts would all be worthwhile, and they'd finally have the key that would unlock that sealed cave!

Dani followed Anna's lead and dove toward Aornos. She had already attempted to tackle him, so flying straight toward him wasn't as scary as it probably should have been. "Stupid Fishies!" Dani yelled, trying to distract him from Anna's attempt.

'Merlins beard, any more screeching and I'm going to permanetly lose my hearing.' Rave pulled herself up onto her broom and gazed down at the chaos below.

Sighing, Rave saw the headmaster's glasses get broken, if he was anything like her sister Sol, he couldnt see at all right now.

The head girls shout brought Rave's head around to her direction. Dive at the king? That didnt seem very... intelligent. It might work, but Rave could forsee a lot of casualties.

Suddenly an idea struck her and she yelled to the professors, in particular Professor Vindicus, since he was Quidditch official, "Can Bludgers be bewitched to target a single person?" she called. Hoping, perhaps, they could sumon the quidditch trunk like they had the brooms, and cast a quick spell on the bludgers to target the king. He would be alot easier to beat if he was distracted or injured.

Before her question was answered, the Head girl, Anna she said her name was, dove for the King. "Protego!" she yelled, hoping if Anna missed, her spell would protect her fro being attacked.

When he got back to the office, he was slightly confused. The Headmaster seemed to out there. He flew up to Anna and asked, "What's happening now, Anna?" He didn't know how much he had missed while he was in the waiting room.

"We fly into the Headmaster's office and get the key," Vindictus said and looked at the students, some of whom appeared to be bewildered at the looming task. "They'll protect their king so its up to most of us to get the fishy people distracted so that someone can get the key."

A part of her was aware that a few people were helping her, but mostly, Anna was focused on her attempt to get to Aornos. Upon hearing Rave shout the incantation for the Shield Charm, Anna whirled back around, thinking maybe she could go talk with the Slytherin girl and get some ideas on the best way to approach the merman king.

She shrugged at Torin's question, unsure herself of exactly what was going on. "We have to get the key from around Aornos' neck," she answered. "Any ideas on the best way to do that. Professor Vindictus was also sharing that the students needed to provide some sort of distraction in order for one or some of them to successfully get to Aornos. "I'm willing to go for the king, sir, if we can get the rest of them distracted enough," she said.

"Right.." Like that wouldn't be hard to do. "Couldn't we sorta do what Bunbury suggested? A little explosion? I mean.. nothing big or harmful obviously, but something that might get their attention?" He like had no other ideas and wasn't even sure how they would ever accomplish this.