Destiny turned to the page on meanings. She started to write down what was in the book.

Salamander (6)
Meanings: Restoration, life, heat, Fire, thriving in adversity, dependence, passion, passionate love, protection, temperamental.

Staring closely at her parchment, Destiny had no idea what these meant. 'Heat, fire, passionate love? Whaaat?'

She looked up from her parchment when that Jake character started to laugh. 'That boy is starting to freak me out.

Samson eagerly looked down at is notes and looked for number 9. Apparently, it was the last number. Well, that in itself was rather depressing. What was more, the meaning wasn't exactly the most pleasant one he had once expected.

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Hydra (9)
Meanings:Loneliness, sadness, despair, guardian, regrowth, terror, doing too much at one time.

Well, gosh darn it! It wasn't good at all. And what was guardian and regrowth supposed to mean? They seemed to be the only two that sounded positive, and in his mind, they weren't positive at all. Guardian? Getting a job? As a guard, perhaps? Looking over people? Baby-sitters? Ew. Regrowth? For heaven's sake, he was going to have another growth spurt, was he? NO WAY.

Samson frowned. Why was this the result. WHY.

Ancient Runes, you have failed Mr Carswell.

Looking over her parchment, Mina frowned. That Fwooper seemed to taunt her so. She wasn't very happy about seeing it, but for some odd reason, she wasn't really all that surprised to see it. It's not entirely negative, that little voice in her reminded her.

Remember, it's about the whole picture, silly girl.

Thinking over the possible big picture of things, she looked back up from her parchment and waited to hear the next part of the lesson. There had to be more to this then just the number and ruin. It was a collection wasn't it?

"Master Upstead! Contain your enthusiasm, you're already gotten in trouble with Professor Shackleton-Clarke once, do not make me take points from you." She warned before addressing the rest of the class. "Everyone is doing great, but what Rowling rune seems to never get arrived to in Arithmancy?" Alessia asked the students.

Destiny's hand shot right up. 'The zero, of course!'

Pushing his head up from the desk, Jake gave a slight glare. "It was funny," he said in a snarky way. "So shut up," Jake added under his breath.

DUH! Easy question. "Demiguise, no positive number equals zero when added to another positive number," he droned, not putting up his hand on purpose and continuing his eeeeeevil drawing.

Kay thought about it and then realize what it was. "Professor, I believe it would be the zero." Kay said with her hand up.

Nataly sighed and started flipping through her Arithmancy and Ancient Runes textbooks. After finding the right pages, she started writing on another parchment.
Nataly raised her hand. That was an easy question! "Demiguise, the rune that simbolises 0. If you add two numers together, you'll never get zero."

Abigail raised her hand “Zero I think professor, and that would be the Demiguise in the Rowling runes.”

Chris had just finished writing down his Rowling Rune for the number he had come up with.


Chris thought a minute about that question and then came up with an answer. "It would defiantely be the zero, because unless you had negative numbers added to positive ones you really wouldn't reach it."

'Well gee, that is an easy one' Marie thought as she raised her hand to answer. "Professor, the answer would be zero."

The lesson wasn't too difficult. Uptead was getting a little out of control, but none the less, it was interesting. He did his work on his parchment quickly and precisely.

He felt kind of confused. But hopefully they will explain what the number means in the stage of interpretation. He looked through his abridged advance text in the mean time for the answer.
Professor Lupa asked which number would appear in Arithmancy. Well, it would be 0, but it also wouldn't be anything higher than 9, but their isn't any rune higher than Hydra.
"The number Zero, Professor Lupa, wouldn't appear in Arithmancy," said Matheu. "The math would be very incorrect, seeing as your adding only positive value numbers."

K raised her hand, "Professor the anwser is zero." K thought that was a very easy question.

Nikki looked at her blank piece of parchment and picked up her quill, assigning each of the letters in her first name with its corresponding number.



When she was, Nikki pushed her parchment away so the professor could check it as she passed by.

Pulling her parchment back towards her, Nikki added up all the numbers from her first name.



Alright, 40 was her total, now she needed to reduce it to a single digit number.



Alright her number was 4.

Flipping through her textbook, Nikki found the right page. She moved her finger down the page till she found the number four and then looked at the ruin.



Fwopper? That was a fun word! Fwopper, fwopper, fwopper! hehe! But wait....Negative beauty! What was that supposed to mean. Nikki was pretty right? Yes she might not be the best looking girl in the entire school, but she wasn't ugly that was for sure! Ugh, hopefully this wouldn't effect this to much.

Nikki looked at her textbook, trying to decide what the answer was. What Rowling Rune never seemed to be arrived at in Arithmancy? So that basically meant, which number is never approached. Well....0 of course. No matter what your total would never add to zero (unless you subtracted). "Is it zero professor?" Nikki asked, raising her hand in the air,

"Professor, Demiguise is the only one that won't show up, since no positive numbers added together will equal 0.

Audio, eying Jake for a moment during his crazy out burst, shook his head and turned the page until he got to the part with all the meanings in it. Jake was such a character. When he first met him he seemed almost pathetic with all the stuttering, but now he was fine? And loud and almost obnoxious, but Audio didn't really care to much about the Hufflepuff. He kept everything interesting, so who cares.

So.... five?
Hm... that did make some sense. Although he feels like he has a very keen ability to focus and his foresight was just fine. Everything else seemed pretty perfect though. Interesting.

He looked up at the teacher who asked the question, but everyone else was answering so he decided to just writing his on his parchment.

Zero is the Rowling Ruin that never was introduced into Arithmancy.

"He needs his head looked at, he does," Arrick muttered audibly to nobody in particular. "You'd think someone'd gone and swapped out his brains or somethin'. He ernt right, he's gone all odd."

Not that anyone would take his advice anyway, so he continued with the work.

"That ernt make any sense," he muttered, quieter now as he was speaking more to himself. "'Cept for tempermental that is. Ernt all this lovey-dovey balmy stuff."

"Everyone who said zero, which represents the demiguise, shall receive a point." Professor Shackleton-Clark spoke from the back of the room before making her way up to the front. "I'd like you all to remember what I told you during the last Arithmancy lesson. The first name represents the physical plane of existence - the material world. Be sure that when you analyze the rune representing your first name, you consider the analysis only within the physical plane."

Professor Shackleton allowed the students some time to take notes. As they did so, she continued to ponder where her wand could be. She'd have to search the entire castle. She wasn't on patrol duty tonight, so she'd have all the time needed to do so.

"Alright. Let's move on to the middle name. Which plane of existence does the middle name represent?"

"Our middle names stnad for the Mental part of the Transit cycles Professor." Kay said hoping that she didn't get them mixed up.

LouAnn glanced down at the calculations she'd just done. She was a number five, which meant...

L o u A n n
3 6 3 1 5 5

3 + 6 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 5 = 23
2 + 3 = 5

...Quintaped. Hmmm...not what did that mean for her? The inability to focus, now didn't that ust hit the nail on the head? With all the blackouts she'd been having lately, and inability to focus would be what she'd end up with, now wouldn't it? Then there was that part about fighting and possible isolation. She hadn't been fighting lately, though, had she?

"Erm, it'd be kind of hard to add up all the numbers from chapter two of our Arithmancy textbook and arrive at a zero," she said, her hand raised in the air.

Jack raised his hand and replied, 'I believe the middle name represents the mental plane, Professor.'

"The middle name represents the Mental transit Professor Shackleton-Clark." he said happily as he had recieved a point fo rhis last answer.

Kylie raised her hand, she'd been quietly taking notes until now. "I believe that your middle name represents the mental plane of of existence. Or, well, the mental transit cycle."

Evelyn leaned back in her seat, twirling her quill and mulling over the words of the second rune in her mind, ignoring Jake's laughing outburst. 'Hmmm...teamwork...repelling...' Glancing down to the wand in her lap, she stared at it, a frown forming and eyebrows furrowed in concentration.

'Graphorn...two. Two-sided...me and you?' she asked in her mind, shaking her head a little. 'That could be true. Two persons in one.' the voice said softly, almost like it would be caressing Evelyn's head if it had it's own body. It felt kinda weird to tell the truth. 'Wait, two persons? In one...' Evelyn didn't like the sound of that. Not one bit. In fact, she was now kinda scared. 'Explains the danger part...'

Sitting straight in her seat, she looked around the room when everyone started answering a question. What question, she didn't hear it, but it had something to do with the zero rune. She didn't feel in the mood to do anything now. Just wanted to go to bed and sleep everything away, thought that wouldn't happen considering Professor Shackleton just asked a question. "Our middle names are the mental plane...existence...transit...thing." Evelyn said after raising her hand, almost grimacing at her choice of words.

Just as LouAnn had opened her mouth to answer Professor Lupa's last question, the other Professor, Professor Shackleton-Clark, was already asking another question. Suddenly feeling quite confused with all that was going on, LouAnn stopped for a moment and took a few deep breaths. Why was she was always so late with her answers? Her classmates always seemed so far ahead of her.

On another note, what in Merlin's name was a plane of existence? She flipped through her textbook, looking for anything that clearly stated some plane the middle name existed on. Sighing, she raised her hand and said, "I don't know..., but it says here that we can get the Mental Transit from our middle name."