"No, wait, Aaron! We need all the people we can get to cast the spell!" she called out, but it was too late. He'd already left and gone to get the headmaster. "There's no time to wait for someone to come, though. We have to act now or else...or else..." She wouldn't allow herself to finish that statement, though. They were going to get both professors out alive, no matter what it took!

"Gabben! Wait just a moment, please," Anna encouraged. "Professor Kazimeriz said to wait until he counted to three. If I assume correctly, then he's thinking if they cast the spell the same time we do, then the force will be greater."

Kazimeriz agreed with Max. Things were getting dire. "Merlin in soggy swimfins, put a bubblehead charm on, Maximus!" he ordered. He cast sonorous again:

"WE NEED EVERY WAND AVAILABLE! WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF AIR!" The water lapped up higher, slapping around the base of the bubble on Kazimeriz's head. "KNOCK THREE TIMES WHEN YOU ARE ALL READY, AND I WILL COUNT DOWN TO BEGIN THE CASTING!"

Aaron was up in the air when he realised that he had no idea where to go. He had might as well jsut turn around as help. And that's what he did. he shot strait ack at the broomshed faster than he had ever before He went back into the shed again and just threw the broom on the ground.

He then pulled out his wand again and said out load, "There's no point. It would be better if I just helped." He then kept his concentration on the door, waiting for further instructions.

*Gabben rubbed his now very sore shoulder and nodded then looked up.* "Oi! Aaron! Come back mate! Ok... Ready."
*Gabben waited for the other to be ready.*

The spell bounced back at whoever cast it on the opposite side of the door. "Someone did knock three times," Max said and got his wand ready. "Start the countdown, Valon."

Kazimeriz hoped to Merlin they could hear him still.

"ONE!" he shouted, the sonorous charm muffled somewhat by the bubble on his head.

"One!!!" Aaron shouted back getting ready to perform the spell.

Plymouth really needed to talk about some manly stuff with Professor V. Like - really needed to. He'd walked down to the Broomshed - there was yelling and panic and stuff though....


MUCH TO HIS HORROR THOUGH - Plymouth's personal hero was... DROWNING.


Plymouth fumbled with his wand in his belt (yes, Lawson, he was carrying his wand around in his BELT - at least he had it, right??), dropped it three different times, and then joined Anna. He didn't know WHAT they were casting, but Plymouth Morgan was going to save Professor V! "I'LL HELP YOU PROFESSOR V!"

Plymouth gave Anna the "whatdoIdo????" look.

"One!" *Gabben yelled with Aaron, wand at the ready. They could still hear the professor but he wasn't as loud.*

"Oh, my! Plym! I'm so glad you're here! You, too, Gabben and Aaron!" she said, her voice shaking just a little. The more help she could get...and especially from three boys...the easier it'd be to save the two professors. "Okay, Plym, so here are our instructions from Professor Kazimeriz. As soon as he gives the signal, which is him counting to three, we're to move our wand in three, small, quick, counter-clockwise loops. We need to focus on intent on breaking through a spell, not an actual door. That's what's holding them in...a spell."

"Anyway, the incantation is SpeRecanto. We're to hold that spell in place until he gives us word to stop," she said. "...you ready? He should start counting any second now."

*Gabben heard Anna's worried voice but didn't look away from the door.*
"It's gonna be ok, Masterson got out ok. The same will happen here!"

Before Professor Kazimeriz said the next number. Aaron took a minute to look at his surroundings. First, he nodded at Anna to signalize that it was okay. He then realized that they were two much older kids and that Aaron was a first year and they had to be a 6th and 7th year. Aaron was probably going to make a little difference. But he still concentrated around the door...ish. And he waited for the next number.

....

That was a whole lot to absorb, but Plymouth listened intently. He was a Ravenclaw, after all. AND - That was his HERO in there!!


"SpeRecanto... SpeRecanto... .SpeRecanto..." Plymouth said a few times out loud to test it out. "SpeRecanto!!!"


"Okay. I got it!" He assumed his wand waving position: One manly hand on his manly hip. Plymouth Morgan was rreeeeadddy!

... counter clockwise, right?

Kazimeriz struggled a bit, giving up on keeping the boxes aloft. There was simply no more room between water and ceiling.

"TWO!" he called out to the students, readying his own wand. "You okay, Maximus?" he asked; it was still too dim to see him well and he couldn't afford to waste energy on a lumos charm.

"Thats right, now we wait for the professor..." *Gabben nodded but didn't look away from the shed.*
"Two!"

"TWO!!!" Aaron shouted back. He was ready. This was going to work. He was going to help get them out no matter what. He has never been more concentrated in his life. His wand was strait and stiff and ready for action.

"I'm okay," Max replied and he could hear more voices joining the rescue party on the other side. "If this works, they'll still need to blast the door open."

*Out of the corner of his eye he saw the first year Aaron.* "Don't be to stiff mate, it wont work then."

Aaron rolled his eyes. "I know," he said. "I'm just pumped." He said with a little chuckle.

SpeRecanto. On the count of THREE.

Perfect.

Kaika already had her wand in her hand.

But she wasn't as great with spells...*sigh*...still, she'll help.

Kazimeriz heard everything up to "they'll still need to..." before an excruciating spasm in his hip took him under the water entirely. He thanked Merlin for the bubblehead charm, as his torso buckled forward; surely he'd drown if not for that! He struggled, but the surface eluded him.

He hoped to Merlin that Maximus would realize there was a problem and take over, saving them both. The air in his charmed bubble was growing thin; there was only so much oxygen to be had in there, after all...

*Gabben couldn't help but laugh a little. He saw another person join them aswell. He thought it was his house prefect.*
"It's gonna be ok... it has to be."

A small splash from behind made Max turn around. Valon was gone and he'd never done this spell before. Ever. Now he turned back around and had his wand pointing at the door. "THREE!" he boomed and performed the wand movements exactly like Kazimeriz explained.

"SPECIALIS RECANTO!"

A bright yellow light shot out from the tip of Vindictus's wand and struck the door directly in front of him.

*Hearing the finally three but not from Kazimeriz worried Gabben. It sounded like Vindictus yelled it. Still Gabben moved his wand the way Anna had showed them and yelled SPECIALIS RECANTO. A bright yellow light left his wand and smashed into the shed.*

Aaron heard a different voice say three, but it was still three. he performed the spell just as instructed. But of course, because he's Aaron, nothing happened. he quickly did it again, "SPECIALIS RECANTO!!!" That time a big yellow light came out of his wand and hit the door.

Yes!!! it worked... I think. This seemed like the type of thing that would happen. Aaron kept his concentration and awaited further instructions...