Eyes still clinched tightly due to fear of the unknown, Anna wiggled her legs around and around in the water. They felt weird for some reason. Faster, maybe. Of course that was due to the fact that her feet were now webbed, though. She didn't even have to consider that one. She really should open her eyes, though. There could be...anything...staring her right in the face, and she wouldn't even know it because she wasn't looking. Thoughts of the grindylows they'd discussed in Defense Againt the Darks Arts crossed her mind, and her eyes immediately shot open. No grindylow. Whew. There was, however, a large lily pad about a foot in front of her. It was interesting to see the bottom half of the plant instead of the top half. She should probably move away from it, though. If someone tried stepping on it, would it...hit her in the head? Eep!

She darted out of the way, her eyes flashing wide open at how fast she'd moved. She glanced down to study her webbed hands and feet. They looked...duckish. Ewww. That thought sort of scared her. She didn't like being duckish. She wanted Cale. He was always around when she got frightened. Cale wasn't here, though. She reached up and tried to feel for her gills, but webbed hands weren't really good for that sort of thing. An hour, though...she only had an hour. She had to get a move on. She slung her webbed limbs forward then quickly moved them back again, pushing her way through the water with a speed that she actually found to be quite nice. Swimming through this pond might not be so bad after a while. I mean, there weren't any grindylows or anything around, right?

What if... he wasn't able to get out of the stooopid maze?!

Cam panicked, walking in circles for about ten seconds and then continuing the path where the flowery maze led him. EEEEEEEEEEEK. If I get eaten by plants over here... I'm TOTALLY suing Bunzz as a ghost. HMPH! Oh wait... BunBuns, he almost forgot! She was a professor--he knew that but he also had a theory... a theory that Bunzz wasn't even human at all but simply a CREATURE IN DISGUUISEEE! He was PROBABLY right by the way because... just lookit the way she acts.

So basically, Bunz and POSSIBLY even Kazi were creature-professors in disguise to little Cam and that they ATE LITTLE WIZARD BRAINS for BREAKFAST! He twitched again--he'd been twitching so much lately actually. And then he got an idea.

Professor Bunbury was not human. Maybe communicating with her unhumanly-like would help him find his way.

"AWWWOOOOOooooOOOOooo!" he screamed out loud, hands in the form of a cup just right above his mouth to project his voice even louder.

Then... maybe Bunz would howl back. Right? RIGHT!

Plymouth crawled around - on hands and knees - after the fourth year Hufflepuff. He just wanted to make sure that the Puffy was okay...

WHEW. Good thing. The little Puffy made it so Plymouth could go start over and collect and play with the Gillyweed himself. He didn't really WANT to get out of the maze though. He liked it in there. It was plant-filled and happy-making!

But, Plymouth knew better than to dally.... too long, that is. He got seated, legs crossed, in a particularly tangly bit of brush and picked each little gillyweed tail out. He made a little pile on his knee and hummed happily as he worked. He was trying to remember the words to that Happy Working song that they'd learned last term...

So they were doin’ a maze eh? Cy loved stuff like this, so his young brown eyes lit up with a certain jubilation. Maze… gillyweed… pond… finish. Ohhh he was SO winning this. One problem though, he still really couldn’t identify Gillyweed.

AH, and that is where an idea hit him.

The first year ran over to his spot where he was sitting; he again eyed that Willow picture and laughed. He proceeded to rip out a picture of gillyweed from his Herbology textbook. Cy proceeded to fold it up and pocket it. He then ran over to the entrance to the next greenhouse, saluted the Professor, and made his way on into the labyrinth.

A fierce face now was plastered across the Aussie’s face, it was time to DO WORK. He made his way into the darkish maze, bushes, hedges, weeds, branches… EVERY WHICH WAY. He whipped out that nifty picture of the gillyweed. The place was actually really cool, who knew plants could take all these shapes and forms. Luckily, the small first year was short enough to evade all of the higher branches without ducker (he’d SWORN a few of them had taken a swing at him though… ever since then he’d had his wand out).

The fact that he wand was out was probably NOT a good thing. Cy was awful with charms, so anything he’d try to use would most likely blow up in his face.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

The first year was suddenly on the ground for an unknown reason. After hitting the ground floor, he sat bolt upright, looking for the cause of such a disturbance. “Trip me again mate, and I’ll BLOW yeh’ head off!” He said, to absolutely no one in particular. Cy walked another two feet before something grabbed at his foot again and he stumbled. Pointing his wand at the culprit (it was a crazy vine) he screamed “DIEEEEEEEEEE!!!”. However, no spell came from his wand and the vine retreated back into the shrubbery.

Seemingly hours passed (not really), and Cy managed to reach 5 dead ends and ended up on his bum on three more occasions. He was covered in dirt and he looked like a kid that was raised in the jungle.

THEN HE SAW IT!! IN THE LOW SHRUBBERY! He whipped that picture out of his pocket and stared it down. Yes, yes, this was gillyweed. So all he had to do was bend down, tear it off the bush thing, store it for later use, and bobs your uncle. Cy cracked his knuckles inside his dragon hide gloves and reached down to grab it off. After one big THRUST he tore the thing off and tumbled backwards at the force. “AVAST YE!!!!!” He yelled out, hopping to his feet. “Thought you could hide could you, you nasty little dingbat. Cyrus the great has you know. YOU-ARE-DOOMED!” He informed the gillyweed such, and nodded promptly.

ALAS, he had detained it. The first year knew good and well though that this tiny amount wouldn’t be sufficient enough to swim across a decent sized pond. He stored it in his pack for later use, and set off to find some more.

Cedric frowned,cause he isn't the first to try the gillyweed.He wonder if Campy finally saw the giant squid,that he kept calling when he and him were talking at the cliff.He turned to Prof Annie,He really like to call professors by their first names but when he try it to Prof Annie,He nearly get into detention.

"Can I try it now?"He uttered a bit shy addressed to Prof Annie,His fingers were twitching back and forth.He want to try the gillyweed so badly,he wants to see the merpeople and other extraordinary creatures below the water.

Ooh a maze. interesting. Vanessa grinned as she waited for her turn, and when it was she stepped forward towards the maze. Yey.
"eeeh." she spoke as she stepped around the plants, looking for the gillyweed. The plants looked a little slipperly, and she dearly hoped that she wouldn't fall over.
As she carriedon walking along the maze, she thought that she spotted some gillyweed on the floor. "ooh!" she smiled, and went to bend down before...."EEEEEEP" The seventh year flailed her arms before falling down.

Maze?! Hopefully, it wasn't like the maze that Harry Potter had to go through, although, as they were talking about him and Cedric Diggory only moments a go, it seemed right that it was similar to the Tri-wizard tournament maze. Oh lovely. Miles put his dragon hide gloves on and started waking slowly into the maze. Miles needed to find Gillyweed, and quickly. It looked like ... rat's tails, and behaved in a rather cute way, though clingy too. "Got ya." He smirked as he came across some attached to a rather pretty flower. Poor flower, haveing that ball of yuck clinging to the side of you.

Carefully, Miles got on his knees and grabbed the gillyweed gently, this would be ok, as long as the gillyweed wanted to leave it's host plant. Hopefully. He untangles a few of it's rat's tails when they started to latch onto the plant again. "Oh no you don't!" He growled, taking offence as it was quite difficult to detach it. Once he'd got all the tails away from the host plant, he stood up and began walking again. As Miles began walking through the maze again, he spotted Vannie .. on the floor? "Vanz?" He asked walking quicker to reach her. "You alright?" He helped her up quickly. "This is really no time to be having a rest." Miles winked at her, he was sure that she wasn't doing that.

Satine was on the move again...with her purple heels thrown over her shoulder and her dirty new outfit....she let her wand fall out of wrist holster and she did a little flick to make her deep purple hair roll up into a bun and out of the way...she wandered around for what felt like forever and a day and then finally reached a turning point....left or right or forward....she weighed her options carefully...left looked dark and menacing...right looked like a steep climb up...and forward just looked like it went on and on forever....she decided to choose the most effective way...she turned around in a circle three times...and stopped hoping no one had seen her innovative way of decision making...

When she opened her eyes she was pointing towards the right...the steep climb...she looked down at her bare feet and let out a sign...o woe is me...she thought and headed up the steep incline...once on top of the steep climb she could see all around her and over the walls of the maze...if she had known a flying spell or if she knew that she could summon a broom...she would've flown over the walls...she could now kind of lay out her path...right...left...straight...curve...left...ri ght...she tried to make a mental note...she continued down this path until there was the first right...and then the first left...maybe this wouldn't be so hard after all...well that was unless she forgot the directions...as she went she began picking a variety of gillyweed and saw a particularly beautiful purple flower and put it in the middle of her bun for decoration.

With his picture well and truly ripped to shreds and he, feeling far better than he had five minutes ago, he set off once more in search of that gillyweed stuff they were supposed to collect.

Where had he come from again? Back there? Or maybe to the right? Oh great, now he could potentially backtrack! Well, the thorny bush was there, so he must have come from that direction, right? So the logical way to go would be north. Probably. He didn't know. He wanted to just sit in his safe open part of the greenhouse -- although, the grass was probably already planning on ways in which to tickle torture him!

Deciding nothing could potentially go any worse than it already had, he moved north and began his watch over the plants he passed in a very 007-like manner. He took this moment to realise how smart Professor Kazimeriz was. Like, woah, smart. Like, he KNEW everything. He supposed when you got that old what was the point in living if you were incredibly stupid. Although, his meanness was probably down to that one time he did Herbology and was set out through a maze in search for gillyweed. YA HEAR THAT BUNBURY!? Your lesson plan made Kazimeriz mean! You used a time turner and conducted the lesson just so he would turn out this way! I know what your up to!!! It also didn't help Bunzface was practically flinging herself at him! Maybe that's why she made him mean -- she liked the bad boys. Rawr.

Anyway, back to gillyweed or whatever it was. He had used 'Diffindo' on a couple of the plants just for dramatic effect and to help him feel more MANLY, of course. He was feeling particularly macho... well, that was until he fell flat on his face as he tripped over a vine lying along the ground.

"GEEZ! WILL YOU GIVE ME A BREAK PLANT-THINGS!!!?"

Oh! But there, right in front of his face where he had fallen. The gillyweed stuff. He reached out to grab it off until he remembered he should do it GENTLY. Yes, gently does it. Come to papa. That's it. Easeeeee off. Just like that. You're doing great gilly-face. Just a little more. VOILA! Success. Eventually.

Now, for the exit. Where was it again?

As Satine rounded the corner, she came to a crossroads where the maze forked left and right...she thought as hard as she could about which way to go...she finally decided that right came before left from her navigation at the top of the steep area a while back...she quickly took the left but soon found herself at a thick dead end one that she knew she couldn't detangle herself through this time...turning around a little mad at herself she ran back to the crossroads and took the right fork this time...down the way she thought she could smell the lake and hear the birds so she knew she was going in the right direction...at the next intersection she took the final left and found herself on the edge of the lake.

Wow it looked a lot further than she had imagined. She could see the Professors sitting on the other side sitting in pink chairs and drinking maybe some kind of pink fruity drink. Lucky she thought. Satine looked at her stash of gillyweed and thought about how much she had eaten a few days ago in the flooded office and decided not to eat all of it...I mean she didn't want to look like Swamp Thing for forever and a day. She tied her shoes around her strap on her tank top and took a big bite of gillyweed. When she finally had gills and webbed toes and hands, she jumped into the lake with the pink Professor in her sights.

Ewww. Now she had all icky planty things on her school uniform, and her loverly shoes were covered in it too! Oh loverly. That was two pairs of shoes of hers which were ruined now. She'd most definetly need to buy some more during the holidays.
"Yeah Miles....I mean it's not like I fell over or anything." Vannie giggled, cringing as she placed her hands on the planty floor to, so that she could stand up.
"We can rest after." She grinned at her boyfriend. "See you when you get out okay?" She smiled at him, before turning around and carrying on down the maze, attempting not to fall over again.

A few metres along, she noticed what looked like gillyweed, so she bent down, more carefully this time, and looked around at the plants, deciding which one was gillyweed, and what wasn't. After doing this, she picked up what was gillyweed, before continuing along.

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He chuckled at the Professor's answer. That was so Bunbury. "Well, I hope they keep coming from there. Can I see if I can come up with some ideas too, Professor?" Hopefully she wouldn't say no.

Now he really was starting to want a drink. Even that gillywater was starting to sound good.

Couldn't Torin just sit down and watch the other struggling students too? He was blocking her view of the maze. "Sure, sure, Mr. Kane, ideas are free after all."

What kind of a weird question was that anyway?

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"AWWWOOOOOooooOOOOooo!" he screamed out loud, hands in the form of a cup just right above his mouth to project his voice even louder.

Then... maybe Bunz would howl back. Right? RIGHT!

And who was HOWLING??! Anastasia hadn't set any bears or nundus or whatever in the maze so... that meant it had to be Professor Lupa a student making all that noise.

"Move on with the maze, now, no need to scream," the redhead called out loudly. She was sure the howler could hear her.

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Cedric frowned,cause he isn't the first to try the gillyweed.He wonder if Campy finally saw the giant squid,that he kept calling when he and him were talking at the cliff.He turned to Prof Annie,He really like to call professors by their first names but when he try it to Prof Annie,He nearly get into detention.

"Can I try it now?"He uttered a bit shy addressed to Prof Annie,His fingers were twitching back and forth.He want to try the gillyweed so badly,he wants to see the merpeople and other extraordinary creatures below the water.

"Cedric, you're supposed to be making your way through the maze," Bunbury blinked at the sudden Hufflepuff on this side of the pond. "Go back to the start like everyone else and collect it as you go. You can try it if you find enough to last you through the pond. Now go. GO."

Seated near Professor Bunbury, Fyo saw a Hufflepuff come over - strangely enough, the guy's name was Cedric and, for reasons anyone good at History of Magic would know, that alone was enough to spook Fyo a little. He frowned very slightly, wondering why the 'Puff had not entered the maze.

Oh well, leave it. The third year strained his eyes towards the bank, still waiting for more students to make their way out of the maze - hopefully, alive. "Professor, is this the last part of the lesson?" he asked, a little not hopefully - he really didn't want this class to attend anytime soon, it was such fun!

After walking through plant bunch to plant bunch, Chris Potter thought he was lost. He was sure he had seen that tangle before. Then he saw it. The pond he was searching for. He took off running towards it. Bad idea. He went rolling along the ground after a root caught his foot. When he stopped moving and flew face-first into the ground he said. "Owww!"

He got up, brushed some dirt off his robes and the stood up. The pond was lost from his view. "Well crap. I lost it." He began to walked slowly into the head high plants taking one step at a time, until...

Squish!

"Looks like I found the pond." He said sarcastically as he pulled his now soaked foot out of the water. He pulled back the surrounding reeds and bushes to get a better access point into the pond. He then pulled out the Gillyweed from his pocket and looked at it nervously. He had never used this plant before, but if it wasn't enough he could swim very good anyways.

He placed the amount of plant he had picked into his mouth and began to walked into the water. 'Well I will have to do a drying charm on my clothes now. There's no way Im walking up to the castle wet in December!' he thought to himself. When he was about waist deep in the water, he felt a itching feeling at his neck, which could only mean one thing, Gills. he quickly submerged himself into the water. Just in time too, because Chris was now breathing underwater like a fish. He kicked his new finlike feet and hands yuck and began to swim across the pond.

He swam through the mirky dark water, and had almost made it to the other side when his foot got caught in a water plant at the bottom of the pond. A flash of a Grindylow went through his mind as he grabbed for his wand. But just a plant. 'Thanks Professor Lawson for making me paranoid. Well hey, at least I was prepared.' he thought to himself.

He finally reached the other side and climbed out of the water just as he was returning to normal. He saw Professor Bunbury sitting at the edge of the pond and walked over to her. He didnt know what else to do after he was finished. "Hello Professor Bunbury. Im finished with the maze. Good job on creating it." he added with a smile.

Okay, so the first part of the lesson was complete. He just needed to find his way to the exit and deal with some pond thing and the gillyweed helped him with that, right? That's why he had it?

He set off, deciding to take the north direction again because it hadn't failed him yet. The plants here were much prettier with pinks and purples flooding his eyes. But prettiness meant nothing! He would never forget that nose-snapping flower from earlier on! Never. Maybe he could send them to someone as a Christmas present or something? That would be highly entertaining.

He continued along the path and the pretty pinks and purples began to fade... those nice flowers... they were dragging behind. Instead he was faced with rather bare and grey looking bushes and flowers. Definitely ones that were likely to NOMNOMNOM all over his body parts!!! And he was blonde! Blondes tasted better, right? Totes!

Hurrying his pace, as he didn't want to be in this section any longer than he had to, he made his way towards a much brighter sector at the end of the path. However, something tapped the right of his shoulder. Turning round to see who might have followed him he saw nothing. "H-he-hello?" he called out to the blank darkness.

Nothing.

Deciding to move forward once more, throwing a glance behind him every now and then, he set off for that pretty colourful future to this gloomy, dark, dingy present when something tapped him again, this time on the left shoulder. Snapping his head round in time he managed to see the vine sneak back into a bush, "HEY! YOU!!!" He ran towards it, grabbing the tip and PULLING.

"OHNOYOUDONT! You can't tap people and not at LEAST say hello," he heaved and heaved and probably would have gnawed too if the fear of catching some fungus wasn't existent. But, no matter how much he pulled, the vine was not budging and he decided to give up, this time sprinting to the colour. Pretty, pretty colour.

Eventually he reached it (after being tapped another couple of times) and was pleased to see the pond they were supposed to be searching for right in front of him and Bunbury and some other students waiting on the other side of it. Did they all have to WATCH him? This was embarrassing enough. Removing the gillyweed from his pocket he... wait? What did he do with it again?

Five minutes into the task, Kiri was lost. Well, she wasn't lost as such, more... geographically challenged. The plants all looked the same to her, but she'd backtracked one or two times and passed the same bush - she was lost after that, though. No way she'd find the door back to the other greenhouse. She sighed and plodded on. It was becoming increasingly humid, she was sweating in her winter clothes.

She wiped her brow, and when her hand came down, Kiri spotted, a few metres away, just above the ground, something that looked suspiciously like one of those "fingers" that were characteristic of gillyweed. She struggled through the plants and knelt down next to it. She put on one of her gloves and picked the object up. Yes, it was definitely gillyweed. But it wouldn't be much use to her; this one looked old and dead. Maybe one of her classmates had discarded it on their way through the maze, or maybe it had been on the ground before. In either case, it wouldn't have been enough to get her through the waters waiting beyond the greenhouses.

Kiri put the gillyweed piece down again and straightened up. She stood and thought, wondering whether to get her bearings first or just carry on looking for gillyweed. She set out again, deciding on the second option. Once she'd found it, she could worry about finding the door out.

He smiled as the Professor said sure and then took a seat beside Fyo. He watched as Cedric talked to Bunbury. He had to try hard not to laugh as she told him that he was supposed to do the maze. Silly Hufflepuff, all he had to do to try the stuff was go through the maze like everyone else!

Not paying as much attention as he should be, William smacked into a dead end. "Ow." he grumbled rubbing his face and shaking his head. glaring at the annoying wall of maze he turned back thinking he should have gone left instead of right. Right, left, right, left he thought to himself as he kept on walking looking down every so often. He stopped when he saw a honking daffodil and grinned bending down to sniff it gently. "Pretty flower aren't you?" He asked softly giving the daffodil a small gentle pat on its head before moving on and turning left. Continuing his walk he looked around spotting another small clump of gillyweed. Now that he knew what it looked liek it was easy to find. He heard a howling noise and jumped clinging to a tree in fear. Was there a wolf in here?!? Would she be evil enough to do something like that? no, no she wouldn't, would she?

Letting go of the tree he chuckled dryly before bending down to pry the gillyweed out of the small clump of greenish leaves. Taking it in his hand with the other gillyweed he kept going, knowing or hoping he'd be close to the exit. He was hungry, nervous and getting tired Sweat prickled his brow as he walked on, the humidity getting to him and making him seem sluggish. He had a small scratch on his cheek from when he dealt with the devils snare, nothing serious but rather annoying as it stung. Keeping his wand out he stopped blinking at a fork in the maze; left right or straight ahead he thought pausing to rub his chin.

Evil lady.

...

No howwlllll?? Well she did say something back which is what he EXACTLY wanted--kindaaaa. But did SHEEEE know he cleaned all of his earwax the night before? NOPE! Unless she was some sort of a stalker or anything... he doubted that possibility because it just wasn't even possible, or was it...? There was no time to waste now on thinking though, he started following the path where the voice came from.

Cam started skipping on and on, straight to where he thought the voice was but--"OOOFF!" A STOOPID PLANT TRIPPED ME. He turned to make an icy glare at the well MEANNN plant who just happened to trip him. "Stupid... mean...," he started off, still on the ground body flat when he noticed he was right next to a bush...

Gillyweed? Ooooh.

After he'd gotten it off, he noticed it was a bit larger than the one he previously found and so he put it in his other pocket. Cam skipped again, making sure no plant would distract or distuurb him when he came across another gillyweed, small, yet good enough and he looked ahead and saw...

AN OPENINGGGGG. "YESSSS." Cam ran instead of skipping straight there and ruffled through the plants, one plant actually making a cut on his finger but he'd had to take care of that later because now all he had to doooo was go to the pond and... and swim. Gillyweed could make people swim, right?? They just HAD tooooo.

Finally, with enough ruffling, he sawww a bit of water and eventually the whole pond, looking at the other side and a bit sad a few other people were already across.

Hmpf.

Miles folded his arms and frowned. "Fine." That was the quickest meeting he had ever had with Vannie, and he wasn't happy about it. "Y'know, I don't think it's a race!" He called back to her as she continued to dissappear behind the large hedges. He'd only stopped to help her up, and possibly work together? Obviously not.

Taking the gillyweed in both hands again, he continued through the maze, turning a few left turns and a few less rights. Miles finally made it to the center of the maze. The pool. "OooOOooooOOh." He said eerily like a ghost in a child's mind. It was time to do a bit of swimmin'.

Varius tried a number of things, such as rubbing it across his neck like he had previously suggested for one of the Professor's questions, but it didn't seem to be working! Nor did inhaling the smell of it and really the only thing he hadn't tried yet was to... eat it. But, it looked so gross! and disgusting! and horrid! and ewww! WHYWOULDYOUPUTTHATINYOURMOUTH!?

Picking a couple of the ratty tails from the horrid, gross plantbeast, he opened his mouth, stuck his tongue out and placed a little of it on it. "EWWWWWWWWWWWWW NONONONONONONO! I can't, I honestly cannot. EWWWWW." It was as if he was attempting to eat a flobberworm and failing miserably.

The Professor had said he could hop over some plants and such like thing, but she had probably charmed them to buck when someone made contact and Varius didn't want to die today, no thanks!

Plucking up the courage, he closed his eyes, opened his mouth once more and shoved the disgusting THING in his mouth. It was a rather weird texture and was MOIST. Very, very moist. And gooey seemed like the only appropriate way to describe it despite it not being terribly, overly gooey -- but when you have it in your mouth, thinking up words to describe it wasn't the main priority.

He swallowed and the effects began to occur. Gills appeared at the side of his neck and his hands and feet began to become webbed. Such a strange sight, but he couldn't observe it for long as he was unable to breathe. Quickly, he jumped into the water and underneath. It took him some convincing before he dared take a breath under the pond, but when he eventually did the relaxation of his lungs was most welcome.

He quickly swam to the other side, not wanting to be anywhere near that death maze any longer than necessary. But he did face the problem of practically being a fish, so had to stay below water for about five minutes before surfacing when he could breathe normal, good, ole' oxygen-air again.

Drenched, with his clothes sticking to him, he made his way to get a towel and attempted to dry himself off a little. He noticed Bunbury sitting in her pink chair and it took quite a lot of determination not to go bite her other hand. This task had been evil!!! So, so evil!!!

And now she was deep inside the maze. Kiri didn't know why, but she was sure of it. The plants were higher here, sometimes arching over her head, blocking out the light. Some of them even seemed to make grabs for her - she had to struggle stronger now to move forward.

After a few minutes' searching, Kiri found some more gillyweed. She knelt down beside it excitedly. She could see that this one would probably be usable. It was thick and kinda slimy, and it was stirring ever so gently. One hand went into her robes and came out holding the dragon skin glove. She pulled it on and prodded the gillyweed. It squirmed violently. She bent down even lower to squint into the brush beside it. Yep, it was a pretty big specimen alright. Kiri wasn't sure how much she would need, but surely not more than a few minutes' worth.

She was about to grab it when she remembered that she still didn't know where the exit was. She didn't remember if the professor had said something about the lifespan of severed gillyweed, but it might not be that long. So she would have to have at least a rudimentary idea of where to go. With a sigh, she got to her feet. The plants around her looked completely uniform.
Kiri tried to think. She'd walked straight ahead, more or less, for the entire time. The greenhouses were basically big rectangular boxes with doors at the narrow ends. But if she continued onwards, would she turn up at the right end? Or would she suddenly be back with the professor in the other greenhouse?

Ugh. She stamped her foot in frustration. Settling on nothing more than I just have to be as quick as possible, she put on her gloves, bent down, and ripped out a healthy chunk of the gillyweed. It squirmed and struggled, and slimy goo ran over Kiri's gloves. She held it in her hands and began walking forwards again, using her body to push aside the big plant leaves.

"Eenie meanie minny mo." he chanted pointing his finger at each fork before closing his eyes and stopping. It stopped on the left fork so he shrugged and continued walking only to stop and spot another piece of gillyweed. Carefully extracting it he nodded gathering it up into his free hand and scowling. It's going to taste so nasty he thought as he continued walking, finally spotting the end of the maze. "Yes!" he exclaimed jumping for joy and droppin his hat in the process. Picking it back up he stopped and affixed it back to his head before walking again.

This maze reminded him of his weird day dream in the boy's bathroom. He expected the creepy fairy to come fluttering out of it's hiding place and attack him. Surely there were no green fairies with creepy black eyes here, right? glancing around a bit nervously now, his heart rat picked up as he stopped at the exit looking at the pond. He could take the lily pads but you only get one shot at eating gillyweed and growing gills, which was something pretty cool to him. Looking down at his gillyweed-covered hand he turned back to the creepy maze, seeing something scuttling behind a bush. shuddering his mind crept back to the fairy and he gulped.

Clearing his mind like his cousin had taught him, which totally helped in situations like this where he was faced with unknown dangers he stepped up to the pond and looked in it. It was too dark to see how deep it was. Sitting on the ground he crossed his legs and just waited.

This was it. Cam gulped and looked at the pond, eyes in total fear because he didn't know what he was doing. Cam took out the small gillyweed he'd found just minutes ago and he sighed. The ugly little plant really, it looked like green worms and WHO would actually EAT green worms?? He took a deeeeeeeeep breath and frowned because he obviously didn't know how to swim and even if the gillyweed would make him grow gills, would he be able to floattt? Who knew really.

He sniffed the gillyweed first. BLEH. If it smelled THAT bad, then he was mighty sure it tasted even WORSEE. "Uhhh," Cam eyed the giant lilypads. Couldn't he have just jumped on 'em instead of actually swimming across?! Well BunBunz said you could but Cam was a man for challenge.

And he ate, but only about 3/4 of it considering it was already so smallish.

"UGHHHHHH," he yelled out in COMPLETE DISGUST. He felt like throwing up actually because the taste was EXTREMELY revolting. Cam put a hand over his mouth so he wouldn't puke in the pond, but the taste and taste just kept disturbing him so much. His eyes closed, ready to faint anytime now from eating the gillyweed. And so he unintentionally fell into the water, body falling in with eyes still closed.



Cam's eyes opened in the water, completely energized and his transformation took there, noticing his feet and toes were "webbed" and then he felt a scratch on his neck. IT HURTTTTT. He felt over it, noticing... OOOOH GILLS! And... whoah. He was actually SWIMMING for the first time, floating in the pond water.

Herbology, he sniffed in the water, made mah dream come TRUEEE! The webbed feet helped A LOT and the gills made him invincible, breathing normally-ish. Cam looked up, noticing the prickly underside of the lilypads, and even if it was all so amazing to him, realized he had to be quick 'cause he'd only eaten a small amount of gillyweed. If he went back to his human form down there, he'd have died. Yup.

Cam swam and swam, putting his hands in front of him to help and eventually, he was FINALLLLLYYY across the pond and the gillyweed was just in time because it wore off as soon as he touched land. After his head was above land, he looked at the students first and then at Bunzz who sat there in her pink stoool. Stupid pink stool.

"THAT. WUZZZ. AWESOME."

Kiri pushed aside a particularly big leaf and nearly slammed head first into the glass wall of the greenhouse. In her surprise, her hands opened slightly, and gravity tugged on the gillyweed. She struggled for a moment like a trainee juggler, then managed to get it under control again.
This didn't look like one of the ends of the greenhouse, unfortunately.
But it did have one advantage. Bushes and plants were much sparser here than further in. Gillyweed squirming in her grip, Kiri leaned against the glass and squinted along the length of the greenhouse. She wasn't completely sure, but she thought she could see a collection of pinkishness in the direction she was looking at. That would be the wrong way then, back to the greenhouse she'd started in, where the professor was with her pink chairs. (Although she might have moved to the other end by now, actually.)

She'd just - she began walking - have to follow the edge of the greenhouse in the opposite direction until she hit the end, then follow the second edge until she came to the door. Things were looking up, even if she'd more or less succeeded completely by accident. Now that the end of her little "journey" lay in the near future, she even remembered what she should have done immediately: Take out her wand and perform the Point me charm to get her bearings. Kiri shook her head at her own stupidity as she moved along the greenhouse's edge, snow swirling outside.