"Thanks, Gabben!" Anna called out, watching the two boys until they were both out of sight. Poor Aaron. She hoped he'd get all stiched up and be all better soon. He was only a first year, and he'd probably taken this little event a lot harder than everyone had. Making a mental note to check up on him later, she turned and...

...oh, my.

Wow...

She blinked a few times to make sure she was seeing what she thought she was, then we she was definitely sure of herself, she rushed over to Professor Kazimeriz's side. "Plym, did he take a turn for the worse?" Anna asked, glancing down at the professor. He didn't look out of breath, but then again, she'd been looking after Gabban and Aaron for the last few minutes. "Push on his stomach a few times, Plym! I think you're supposed to do that, too!"

!!!

Once more with feeling: !!!


What. In. Merlin's-cherry-flavoured-lip-balm was Morgan doing? He realized in a split second too late that the young lad was grabbing his nose and about to ...was he going to -- Oh, HAIL NAW! Kazimeriz snapped back into himself and pulled away, one BBQ-scented breath away from the point of no return. "Morgan- what?! Don't be ridiculous; I am fine! FINE!! " he snarled, pulling away from him. "And I assure you that I am in no need of-- of -- I can breathe, Morgan; perhaps hearing me say the word 'detention' would prove it to you?!" He snarled, pulling the blanket up around him like a wallflower on her first date.

The excitement seemed to be dieing down. Adrenaline was slowly cooling as attention was diverted from the chill waters to the professors who had emerged from it.

Something else pierced the wall of water. A bubble, the size of a bludger, floated gently through the air. It seemed almost silly, until the bubble popped.

"Help!"

It was the voice of a boy they called Helios. A boy who tried to be a hero. A boy who was in over his head.

Plymouth was startled at the YELLING. "Professor! Just relax! I really know what I'm doing! Mum taught me!" And that was saying something. "You can't give me detention if you're dead, Sir!" Plymouth reached for his nose again. "Anna - you sit on him and do the chest thing. Help me hold him down?"

Plymouth didn't want anyone to die! And especially not Professor Krazi! Not now! Now that they had bonded!! Plymouth lowered his face again, already blowing hard breaths into Kazi's face.


Don't worry Kazi! Plymouth will save you!

Anna blinked when she saw the professor pull away. So he was still alive and breathing. So what in Merlin's name was Plym doing?!?! She glanced sideways and gave her friend a confused look, but then the professor starting talking again, so all concentration moved to him. "Plym, dude...I think he's fine. I think we can---...," she said, but trailed off when detention was mentioned. Yup...Professor Kazimeriz was back to his normal self and better than ever.

She pushed herself up off the floor and shook her head no. "Detention? You're on your own, bud," she said to Plym. "I'm telling you he's alright, Plym. He's talking...he's breathing...he's threatening detention!" As she spoke, she was suddenly aware of someone crying out for help, though when she turned around, no one else had joined them. Odd. What on Earth? "Erm, did you guys hear that?" she asked.

...but then Plym was asking her to sit on Professor Kazimeriz! Was he out of his mind? "Ohhhhh, no. I do not have a death wish, Plymouth Morgan. I refuse to meet my end via Professor Kazimeriz...in the broomshed...with the wand," she said. Plymouth wasn't listening to her, though. He was going to do this anyway, wasn't he? Yup, sure was. "Plymmmm, come onnnn" she urged, grabbing him from behind and attempting to pull him away. "He's going to give you detention until you graduate!"

OH! PANIC AT THE DISCO!

NO HE DIDN'T!

Kazimeriz's eyes literally bugged out with shock as the spicy, hickory-smoked Ravenclaw leaned down, attemptin to inflate his lungs like two chipotle-scented birthday balloons. Bless his tangy little heart; if only Kazimeriz really had needed rescue breathing and could have been unconscious for this entire mess! Or dead. Dead might've been better! Instead, Kazimeriz was awake and alert for the entire close encounter of the Morgan kind. His only saving grace is that at his age, the 'rest of his life' was likely to be short, because he was undoubtedly scarred for life by this ...shared moment.

"GERROFF MEE!" Kazimeriz bellowed, squirming away, trying to eradicate the memory of Morgan breathing for him and the closeness that brought. "Detentiondetentiondetentiondetention..." he would put Morgan's great grandchildren in detention for this! He tried to scurry away, but 103 year old men just don't scurry all that well, a sad truth that had never been so evident to Kazimeriz as it was in that moment. "Morgan! I AM NOT DEAD! NOR AM I A TOUSSAINT! And here! HERE! HEEERE!" He shoved the pack of the mysterious Tic Tacs at Morgan as though they could ward him off. "THIS ought to help you clear things up with Miss Toussaint! Now back-- back I say!" He held his hands up as though to ward him off with a karate-chop. And Kazimeriz did not know karate.

Kazimeriz's attention was only briefly distracted by a cry of help. "Is there a student in the water?" he asked, hoping to high heavens above that there was, if only to take the focus off his Moment with Morgan.

Memory charms, for every. student. present. were DEFINITELY in order. And Vindictus too.

Iris Sighed in Relief now that the Professor's were safe and Alive. And Aaron did brilliantly, he did so well. Poor thing though, covered in splinters. Iris felt bad about not actually being able to help, but there were just so many people there, she couldn't get close enough to the door to be able to cast at it. (ooc=aka, I was in bed. stupid time zones)

There's a student in the water?! Iris looked shocked, who in their right minds would dive into the water when there are already people trapped? Iris didn't care about them though, harsh as it sounds but she just wanted to get up to the hospital wing and check that Aaron was Okay. And to say hello to the hufflepuff who took him there. They really are a friendly bunch. she thought as she ran off.

"Oh. You ARE better! Hooray, Professor! Hooray!!" Plymouth hugged him - since they were all close and cozy anyway. He wrapped his arms around the old man's neck and gave him a good and soggy squeeze. Plymouth let the Toussaint comment roll off of him like the broomshed water was rolling off Professor Kazi's hair. He ... didn't get to hug and snuggle Toussaints anymore.

Everyone knew that.

Plymouth sat back on his knees and beamed like a proud momma at Kazimeriz. He was going to be just fiiiine. Plymouth was sooooo glad, too. He waited for more instruction - since, you know, Plymouth was part hero now.


Merlin, that was manly. Vindictus must have been so proud.

Kazimeriz sat, utterly stunned as Plymouth "his-children's-children's-children-will-spend-Hogwarts-in-detention" Morgan actually. HUGGED. him. And then sat there beaming at him like they were best pals or something! Freezing, wet, having spent all that time treading water, the stress of being trapped and then being yanked about by Vindictus, the super-stress of being 'treated' at the scene by Plymouth "Florence Nightengale" Morgan... and knowing there was still sounds of another student in the water... it all became too much for the old man. The world around him swam bright and brilliant and then faded... First grey, then black.

Kazimeriz collapsed.

Well, at least one of them took the blanket pretty quickly. She had no idea it will be Kazi the one to do so. You know, pink.

But then her eyes widened as she watched the Ravenclaw boy...what was he trying to do to Kazi!? He was fineeeee, or so he was saying.

Then a crying for help? But those two were already out..."I see no one" well, no one trying to get out, of course. Weird.

And then...it happened. "Professor Kazimeriz?" she asked, apparently the man had collapsed there on this muddy floor...which was beside the point...but.."Should be call the nurse? Or take him to her?" she asked, looking at those around her.

Whoa. Had poor Plym just received a detention? Anna wasn't sure, but she thought that maybe he had. Perhaps Professor Kazimeriz was just calling out threats in an attempt to get Plym away from him once and for all. She cringed a little when Professor Kazimeriz mentioned the Toussaints. He had no way of knowing about Plym and Cela's horrible break-up, but Anna thought that maybe Plym would still take that comment kind of hard. Then again, when she really thought about it, Professor Kazimeriz seemed to know everything, so maybe he had already heard of the break-up.

"There's...a voice coming from the water," Anna said, replying to Professor Kazimeriz. "It seems that there's a student still caught inside the water." She glanced worriedly in the direction Professor Vindictus and Professor Kazimeriz had come from. If there was a student still trapped, how in Merlin's name were they to get him out? She turned around just in time to see Plym hugging Professor Kazimeriz. She shook her head at the sight. If poor Professor Kazimeriz hadn't suffered from a panic anxiety attack yet, he surely would after that display of affection.

...and then, the old man fainted. Anna gasped and dove to his side again. "Plym! You...you killed him!" she exclaimed, looking towards Professor Vindictus in fright. Ohhh, Professor Kazimeriz just had to be alright! He just had to be. "P-Pr-Professor Vindictus?"

Between freezing waters, and oxygen depravation, dying felt rather comforting. The world was getting darker by the second. It would be so easy to give up.

Surely the gods would grant him one last thought before the long slumber? The girl. Krissy Moon. His reason for coming to this perilous place. Goodbye. This would be his sunset.

Somewhere in the black, Helios didn't feel so alone. Kaz was nearby, out of the water, but still in danger. On the verge of life and death, he could hear the old mans voice. The boy could hear that condescending tone, laced with encouragement. He was right: This was no way to die.

Black turned to gold. The edge of the water seemed to glow, finger tips suddenly protruding outside the liquid wall, palms outwards.

There was no way to describe the sound of a body of water being torn open, holding back the pressure through sheer willpower. Soaking wet and barely standing, the Greek wrestled past where once the door stood, letting the magical flood retain it's shape, filling the tunnel once again.

"No one dies this day." The body was weak, but resolve tempered his spirit. Falling to his knees infront of the professor who gave him the tongue of a snake and seperated him from his love, the boy found the strength to lift the old man. "That means you, sir. We have unfinished business."

Huh. She turned from Kazi to a newcomer.

Someone from the water. Actually, it sort of frightened her a bit, but then she noticed who it was.

"Helios?! What--?" and he was going to lift Kazi...or already had...she didn't know because she was focusing on the strange way the water continued to stay there, like some invisible barrier was keeping it that way...er, perhaps they should leave? No one knows how long it could be kept that way.

"Where are you planning on taking him?" she asked, looking at Helios now.

Aislynn was minding her own business when she heard a commotion coming from the broomshed. She went to go see what was going on. "What's going on?" she asked alarmed. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

BOOM!

If she had known the door was about to blast out of the way with such a huge impact, Sabrina would have stood pressed to the wall on the opposite side to the door - as far away as possible. Although not exactly week, her short height and light weight did not exactly help her stability when things were being blasted around her with such force. The tiny sixteen year old had been standing a little close to the door, well, closer than she should have been standing.

And the impact of the blast had thrown the blonde back a little.

With a little too much force.

The Ravenclaw lay on the floor, her back covered in mud and groaned. Her head was throbbing a little. Heck, her whole back was. Why was she so short?

... EW! She was covered in MUD!

Sabrina immidiately sat up, but that just made her head a little dizzy.

Perfect. And for once, she thought she had been the hero (admittedly, with other people, but still).

Aislynn went over to the fallen Ravenclaw and offered her arm to help her up. "Are you alright?" she asked.

Aislynn was very confused as to what was going on. But, that didn't seem to have an impact on her. She wanted to help. She was their when the blast took place. And wasn't aware of the large wooden splinter in her side.

All she wanted to do was help.

*Gabben ran back down to the shed to help once he made sure Aaron was ok with the nurse.*
"What happened?! Why is the professor passed out? Helios?"

"It wasn't my fault. Clara was stabbing me in the arm with her sharp quill," Max retorted and was amazed that he remembered such an irrelevant fact. And then he sat there in the freezing mud laughing while Plymouth tried to perform CPR on Valon. Too bad no one had a camera handy.

And then he saw a student emerge from the water. A student in my office without permission? Oh, he'd better have a note from Shackleton. And how did he know about this tunnel? The doorway was still hidden from normal view despite the flooding!

But then Max saw the boy pick up Kazimeriz who had clearly fainted. The entire scene was surreal and he found himself on his feet snatching the elderly man from the student's arms. "Not so fast, sonny!" Vindictus bellowed as the adrenaline rushed through his veins. "Get those brooms off the work table! Dry towels are in the towel bin. Help me get him onto the table!"

"Shouldn't we get him to the hospital wing sir?" *Gabben asked as he helped to do what Vindictus asked anyway.*

Sabrina shook her head, trying to clear it, but that just made it worse. Her head was spinning in circles and she felt like she was going to collapse back on the floor in a moment. Or her head was anyways. Although used to falling and tumbling all over places, Sabrina was not used to feeling dizzy. Not that she had never experienced it, but she just hated the sensation, the weird tingling in her stomach and her head, the spinning. Her head felt so heavy.

'Are you alright?'

The blonde did not dare raise her head to see who was questioning her. She wasn't able to speak, or rather, she didn't want to open her mouth, so she shook her head in reply.

Not the best idea, but she had to answer!

Aislynn knelt down beside her. For the first time she felt the pain in her gut. She looked down and saw a piece of wood sticking out of her side. She pulled it out and took out her wand and pulled a piece of string out of her robe. She pointed her wand at the string, then waved her wand over the wound and it magically sewed up.

That'll do for now, she thought. She diverted her attention back to the girl lying on the floor. The blonde may have not wanted her help, but she didn't want to leave her there helplessly.

Aislynn took off her robe and bundled it up like a sort of pillow and placed it under the girl's head. "Should I send for help?" Aislynn asked.

Eyes shut tightly, Sabrina pulled her knees together and rested her head on them. Oblivious though she was to her surroundings, she could hear the noise around her, and it was not helping. It just made her head throb with more intensity. She felt like telling them to shut up, but that would be rude (she couldn't tell her professors to shut up, that would just end up in detention or more points deduction) and she couldn't have been able to speak even if she tried.

'Should I send for help?'

Again, the Ravenclaw did not look up, but shook her head once again. She knew it would pass. It always did. Although some peace and quiet would be nice.

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...and then, the old man fainted. Anna gasped and dove to his side again. "Plym! You...you killed him!" she exclaimed, looking towards Professor Vindictus in fright. Ohhh, Professor Kazimeriz just had to be alright! He just had to be. "P-Pr-Professor Vindictus?"

Plymouth's grin faded fast. "I.. I.. I did?" PLYMOUTH WIBBLED!!!! He ... He should have held Krazi down and done it right! Now Krazi really couldn't put him in detention - because he was... d... dead.


But wait! Some... err... .Helios ... saved the day? Plymouth stared. What in the world...? Was it wrong for Plymouth to have sudden thoughts about needing to start working out? Plymouth couldn't have lifted Krazi like that. Old and frail, sure, but ... you know, all that water weight.

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"It wasn't my fault. Clara was stabbing me in the arm with her sharp quill," Max retorted and was amazed that he remembered such an irrelevant fact. And then he sat there in the freezing mud laughing while Plymouth tried to perform CPR on Valon. Too bad no one had a camera handy.

And then he saw a student emerge from the water. A student in my office without permission? Oh, he'd better have a note from Shackleton. And how did he know about this tunnel? The doorway was still hidden from normal view despite the flooding!

But then Max saw the boy pick up Kazimeriz who had clearly fainted. The entire scene was surreal and he found himself on his feet snatching the elderly man from the student's arms. "Not so fast, sonny!" Vindictus bellowed as the adrenaline rushed through his veins. "Get those brooms off the work table! Dry towels are in the towel bin. Help me get him onto the table!"

Oh. HERO ALERT. Plymouth's MANLY hero, Professor V to the rescue! Plymouth got up and followed after him, rolling up his sleeves along the way. "You want me to sit on him and do the chest thing?" Plymouth slid his hands towards Krazi's chest, between his pectoral ... muscles ... and got ready to pump life back into the old man!

HOLD ON KAZI! V and Plymouth will save you!!!

"Can you grab some of the towels and create a pillow for his head, Gabben?" Max asked as he placed Valon on the massive wooden table that took up the center of the shed. "Plymouth, check for a pulse."

Aislynn could tell she probably wasn't needed. But, after observing her position, she figured the Ravenclaw must've hit her head pretty hard.

She looked around and notice little white flowers, almost resembling daisies. She stood up and let out a small cry in pain. Her side was still throbbing from the wound. She went over to the plant, cut off some of the leaves, took out her wand to freeze dry it and brought it over to the girl.

"Here," Aislynn said as she knelt by the Ravenclaw once more. She handed over the dry leaves. "Eat this. It's feverfew, it will help with your head."

"Trust me." Aislynn gave her a reassuring smile.