Putting her notebook away, she thought about it. Well, I think so. There should be snakes if there are spiders and cricket bats. Well, I still think that there should be the dried blood. It was a lot of blood right. I mean that a snake bite, especially from Nagini, would have a lot of blood. " Turning to Celandine she said, "I want one too! I have an Iguana, cricket, owl, purple pygmy puff, tarantula, chicken, cat, rat, and pony." She took a breath. Saying all her pets in one breath was hard. Really hard with all those. My parents made a secret magic room in my house to fit them all. Its actually really cool. There is a section for each of the pets. A sun for the iguana, a field for the cricket, tarantula, cat, rat, and pony. Woods for the owl, a huge cage for the pygmy puff, a coop for the chicken."

When is this tunnel gonna end! I love it but its a little long!

Virgi started wondering if she should sneak out of the Shrieking Shack and buy Christmas presents. Christmas is meant for Jesus and presents and friends and family. Presents need to go to friends.

O ya, its class. I can't do that.

"Mina, do you think that this tunnel will end in the next two minutes?"

A tunnel below the stupid tree with a vicious and mad personality. If anyone was going to be a herbal psychologist, of course he was not, Josh did a mental note to ask him or her to examine what was the problem with this one. Or just simply to destroy because it was so annoying. Dangerous plants were mostly annoying to him instead of being scary or else. Hopefully once he was inside tunnel he would not be watching the annoying tree.

His wand ready, Josh stepped into the surprisingly dark tunnel right after a Ravenclaw, as well. From the voices exchoed inside people in general seemed to be slightly frigtened and the Gryffindor, on the other hand was happy that at last they were up to some plantless action. 'Yuck!' What was that touching his head? He slowly reached fpr his hair and picked up something soft. What was that? ''Lumos'' he whispered and illuminated the thing he was holding. 'Moss. Okay, maybe it is not a plantless mission as i thought it would be' Other than the moss the smell inside, earth mixing with something more, was also annoying.

This time with the aid of the lumos charm he started to walk faster in the tunnel since now he could watch where he was walking. ''Books'' he murmured frowning as his eyes spotted a few right to the narrow path. Even down in here.

Mina turned to notice Cela on her skates. She squinted her eyes a little to get a better look. "Those look cool, Cela." she replied as she followed behind. The darkness wasn't as terrifying now, but the tunnel still gave her the creeps. But was the lesson cool? She thought about it and smiled. "Yeah, it is kind of cool."

Blood?

Oh yes, blood. She blinked and shrugged her shoulders. "True, but will we still be able to see it? I'm not fond of blood at all, but if it's still there, whatever." She felt strange talking about blood, but at least she was talking and not caring about the spiders and snakes around them. She definitely felt something crawling over her foot and around her ankle. She wasn't terrified by snakes, but they weren't exactly her favorite animals. Kicking her foot slightly in hopes of dislodging whatever was around her ankle, she turned to Virgi. "I'm hoping, but I'm not holding my breath. I have a feeling, we might be inhere a while."

Baha! Bahaha! Bahahaha!

Destiny couldn't help but laugh. Evelyn threw the snake right at the girls feet. She wasn't sure what was funnier, the snake crawling up the girls unsuspected legs, or the fact that the snake was not close to herself anymore. Its not like they would actually get caught. Who would think they were going around throwing snakes at people? Its not something you just think up, well in their case they did think it up. Oh well, Destiny wasn't even sure if Bunbury and Truebrigde were down in the tunnel yet.

Destiny turned to Evelyn, turned to where she thought Evelyn was. 'Maybe we should start walking again? I'm sure we will hear if she gets scared.' The screams would echo through the tunnel. 'We can summon the snake later for you, if you really want it.' Now if Destiny could find a puppy down here..

What? Start walking again? "And leave the snake here? No way!" she whispered, holding her wand out again. "Lumos." Not caring if the girl saw them anymore, she was definitely not going to leave the snake there where someone could step on him or pick him up. Evelyn found him...well Destiny found him first technically, but Evelyn was the first to think of keeping him. So there. The snake was hers now and no one else was going to touch, harm, or even stare at him for too long. Besides, it would be a way better pet than her owl that tries to make her life a raging nightmare.

Staring at Destiny, as if she could even think of what she suggested, Evelyn leaned against the wall of the tunnel and crossed her arms, forgetting all about the spiders for the moment. 'Pffft, leave the snake here. Horrible idea! Wonder if snakes this small eat owls though. Not like No-Name is bigger or anything...which is the problem. Wait, do owls eat snakes?' Eh, if No-Name decided to eat the little snake, well, he better fly far far away... Who cares if the snake ate the owl though. *evil grin*

The fourth year bent down, and was about to scoop up the little, hard circle when he realized it could be dangerous. Dangerous as in ... DANGEROUS! He gave a little gasp, and quickly withdrew his arm. Then he cast around for a piece of cloth, found none and, finally, decided to conjure a nice, checkered hanky with the help of his wand.

He carefully wrapped the little orb in the handkerchief, and held it up to his wand - which he had lit once more - to inspect it better. He saw, now, that it was a rather hand-sized ball and ... my gosh, this was a Remembrall! Yes, Fyo was sure it was ... and even as he peered closer at the curious, little object, its contents had begun to swirl and then, within moments, it was glowing red, a bright red that was a sign he had ...

... Forgotten something.

Forgotten what was the question, though.

What, indeed?

Destiny's plan of leaving the snake there had failed. She should've known that Evelyn wasn't going to leave the snake there, even if it was a Gryffindor snake. Makes no sense. 'Fine, fine. We will wait.' But Destiny was going to wait on the opposite wall, and she decided not to light her wand back up. Instead she leaned against the wall with her foot out. Someone was going to pay for her misery, but she just had to wait for someone to walk past her. They were going to be in for a surprise.

"Yeah, well I am. It would be so cool to see Snape's blood. So, what else do you think we will see? An artifact from when my great-grandfather was in his third or seventh year. That would be so cool. If we did see one, I wish I could take it back home with me and show great-grandfather Harry and see if he remembers it. I so want to bring something home with me. Sorry I talk to much when it comes to him."

" haha I killed snape"-Voldy

Mmm, this was ... interesting. Fyo had managed to collect a souvenir from this tunnel - a Remembrall, to be more precise - and the souvenir was bent upon making sure he knew he had forgotten something. If only it could tell him what he had forgotten, too! The fourth year shook his head, then decided he did not want to take the Remembrall back with him -- it wasn't his property, for it belonged to this tunnel.

Quite carefully, he placed the Rememmmbrrrrroooo back from the spot he had picked it up, then took a step forward and --



ThhWAACKKK.

Ah yes, he had tripped over what he was pretty sure was someone's foot. For a moment or two, he lay sprawled on the ground, and then he stood up, brushing dust off his robes. "Your foot is in the way," he told the girl to whom THE FOOT belonged, very politely.

His knee hurrttt now.

Poor knee.

Virgi heard a loud wack and turned around. What she found was amazing. A Slytherin had tripped a Gryffindor. I thought that they didn't do that anymore. She couldn't help them up because they were a fourth year and she was a little small to help them up. She saw a remembral and went to pick it up and wondered if it was Neville Longbottom's remembral. Maybe it was. She looked around and saw that no one was looking at her so she picked it up and put it in her pocket. She ran and joined Mina again to talk to her hoping no one saw her take the remembral.

Having stormed past Fyo, Shumeeta was now on her own. She heard a few girls fuss over a snake ...... a loud thud .... excited chatter ....

But she wasn't interested in all of that.

She just wanted to ....... feel the tunnel. Its walls, its smells ..... the feeling that it had been here for ages, for more months than she could count ..... it was such a lovely feeling, such a very lovely one! The tomboy ran a hand over a tunnel wall, then suddenly jumped back! My there were insects here!

"Lumos."

Hearing someone speaking to her, LouAnn moved her wand slightly to the right, hoping the light would fall on the source of the sound. Oh, Fyo! LouAnn liked Fyo a lot. He was a really awesome student and fun to be around, too. "Oh, hey, Fyo! I can't say I've found the place as amusing as you have, but it is pretty cool, hmm? I think tunnels are neat. They're mysterious and always lead to really cool places," she remarked. She turned her wand from him and shone it in around, looking for the spotted bug Fyo spoke of.

"Spotted bug? I don't see any spotted bugs, Fyo," she commented, just before the Gryffindor boy ended up locating the bug he was looking for. She studied it for a minute then turned away. She was more interested in finding out what was at the end of this tunnel.

So she waved bye to Fyo and continued walking, her wand raised and lighting up everything in her path. "When is this thing going to end?" she called out, once again speaking to no one in particular. Someone cruised by her on a pair of rollerskates, an idea LouAnn only wished she had thought of long ago. A beam of light from her wand revealed the skater to be Cela Toussaint. That girl thought of everything, didn't she? "Hey, Cela!" she greeted.

Destiny was leaning against the wall, arms folded and leg out. Why wasn't anybody walking by here yet? She was just about to pull her leg back in when suddenly she felt someone trip over it, and almost caused Destiny to fall right with the person. But she caught herself.

'Lumos.' Destiny wanted to see who she had tripped had almost made her fall. And there he was, sprawled out on the ground. Trying to keep herself from laughing, she muttered 'Oh sorry! I didn't know anyone was walking here!' It was a bad excuse, buuuut whatever. 'Bad foot, for tripping him!' Destiny was in a much better mood.

It was sorta clear Destiny was ... not as sorry as she was trying to sound. "That's alright," Fyo said, with a grin. Maybe she had thought a practical joke would be fun? He didn't mind, he was in too good a mood. "Your foot's not bad. It's fun to trip, now and then. Life is really interesting if you make mistakes, you know. Sooo.... see you around!"

He waved to her and walked on.
Fyo nodded. "I like it 'cause it's soooo ... funky," he told her. It was evident he was in a really good mood. "It houses all sorts of cool things, so you never know what you might find here!"

Awww, she wasn't too interested in Trubury Bananasticks Goatpink Popcorn. The Second, of course. But she was still really nice. Good to talk to, too. Fyo waved to her as she departed, then turned back to...

THE TUNNELLL.

He needed to find more interesting stuff here.

Maybe a secret passageway that led to the Land of Chocolate Frog Cards, or something of that sort?

"Hey Mina, I'll be right back." She said and ran off.

She ran over to the person she saw fall. "HI, I'm Virgi and I heard you fall. Are you OK?" Uh, it felt kinda weird saying this to a fourth year but it also felt good to let a person know that she cared. Poor Gryffie. She hoped he was OK. She didn't like it when people fell. She just liked bugs and gross things and talking with boys more than girls. Even if most of her friends were girls she liked the boys. They made fun of her and it was actually kinda funny. She liked hearing what boys did, talking to them, and just hanging with them. She drifted away from her thoughts and went back to life (roleplay life)

Fyo had already picked himself up by the time a smallish girl arrived on the scene. But awww, she wanted to help him. Swweett. "I'm alright," he told her. "But thank you." There weren't many people around who had rushed to help him up, so her gesture was appreciated.

"I'm Fyo, and who might you be?"

Light broke out from the tip of her wand and Shumeeta held it up. In the illumination, the tomboy could see plenty of things such as the insects. A ladybug ..... something with wings ..... a few more .....

"Not bad," she grinned. She didn't dislike insects. They were alright ..... as long as they didn't crawl into her shirt or something along those lines. She turned round, saw that it was Fyo who had fallen. But he seemed to have gotten back to his feet alright so she didn't go up to him to offer help. The boy could manage.

Now for some more walking.

Aww, Fyo wasn't mad. Well that was no fun. Shrugging her shoulders Destiny waved to the boy as he left. Well she couldn't possibly trip anymore people. It seemed like everyone knew who was doing it, so if anymore people would start falling, they would know it was her. And that would also be no fun.

Oh well. Destiny would just look around the tunnel until Evelyn was ready to trek on. She held up her wand and looked back at the wall she was leaning on. 'Not you again.' It was the same exact spider that she had flicked earlier! How did it find her? Holding out her hand, Destiny let the spider crawl onto it. It wasn't a puppy, but maybe a spider would be better.

Oh lookie, there was Shum in the distance.

She seemed to have found several insects, Fyo could see. But she would be okay, they wouldn't eat her or anything. Besides, she was not the kind to care about that - Shum was, he knew, a tomboy through and through. Despite, of course, the 'accidental' violet hair.

He yawned a bit, then looked around again. He was pretty sure this tunnel held a lot of treasures. Old things of value, stuff like that. So he bent down a bit once more and, pointing the lit tip of his wand downwards, began to inspect the ground. It was uneven, not to mention littered with interesting objects in some places but, for the most part, he saw nothing that REALLY mega-caught his fancy.

Until, of course, he saw the shoe.

An old shoe.

What was a shoe doing here? The fourth year spent several seconds in thoughtful silence, but he had no idea. The most plausible explanation was, of course ... NOTHING! So he bent a bit more, picked up the shoe with the help of his hanky, and peered at it. It was leather, a deep red in colour, and did not tell much about its owner. So many curios, this place housed, no? Fyo grinned at the shoe, then said,

"You need a name, too."

Of course it did.

What...was that? Hearing a commotion in front of her, Evelyn took a step forward and raised her lit wand. Huh. Snickering a little as she watched the Gryffindor leave, she turned to Destiny and raised a brow. "Good job." she whispered, looking down the tunnel both ways once more.

"Do you think the Professors are in the tunnel yet?" she asked, wondering if either one of them liked snakes. Would be funny to see Professor Whatshername... Nah. Evelyn wouldn't do anything bad to a Professor. Weeeeellll, maybe a liiiittle tiny prank wouldn't kill them. They did make her get near to the Whomping Willow after all. 'Tree looks way too much like devils snare.' she thought, kicking a rock before realization came to her. 'And...that's why I don't like it!' Well, finally figured out why she hated the tree so much! So, she actually did learn something this lesson.

Aaand she totally missed the spider that Destiny was playing with...Or did she. *eyes suspicious spider*

"I'mma call you ... SHOE!"

Yes. That was the shoe's new name. SHOE! Fyo pulled a pair of dragonhide gloves out of his pocket - yes, he carried those around - slipped them on, and then proceeded to pet SHOE a bit. Once that was done, he dropped it back on the ground, and looked around once more.

.....


Oh.

Myyy.

GOSHH!


Spider! There was a pretty, smallish spider in the vicinity! Fyo lovvved spiders! They were totally unique, and they had lots of awesome, neat tricks up their sleeves, all the time. They seemed to know the ways of their prey well, too. "Hey there, spider!" he said, waving to the little thing as he pointed his wand at his feet.

"Glisseo!"

Ah yes, so now his own shoes had ... super-sliding powers! Fyo skidded a bit, then zoomed through the tunnel in a manner that suggested he wore roller-skates. He did not, of course. He zoomed back to the spider, waved to it again, and back to the spot where he had first seen Trubury Bananasticks Goatpink Popcorn. The Second, of course.

This was funfunFUN!

Becca tramped on through the old tunnel, further into the tree. She began to hear other voices behind her and realized that a lot of others had found their way as well. As she was listening to the conversations echo, she hadn't been paying any attention, and when she turned around, she ran straight into a big huge spider's web. Oh Merlin! Ew!! Ewww!! She shuddered at the fact that the big huge spider could be crawling on her and quickly shook herself off, probably looking mental. She didn't care any longer if she looked like an idiot; she did NOT want that spider!

Becca shreiked loudly as she removed the rest of the gunk from her hands. Once she was sure she had gotten all of the spidery decor off of her, Becca continued on into the tunnel. Long way, just to find up some beat up old shack. She thought to herself. But I guess it served a deserving purpose.

Destiny gave Evelyn a thumb up. Only one thumb because she held the hand holding the spider behind her back.

Hmm, were the professors here yet. 'I don't think so.' Destiny was sure if Bunbury were in here she would have been in trouble already. Unless they were already at the Shrieking Shack. But they should at least check up on the students, so they weren't running around like wild animals! What if that snake really did eat Destiny? There would be no Professor here to grab her feet and pull her out of the snakes mouth.

'Hahaha!' The spider tickles. But Evelyn can't know about the spider. So Destiny played the laugh off as a cough. 'Yeah, sooo, do you think the Shack is much further?'

Celandine just laughed.

"My pets all live here at Hogwarts." It was probably a good thing Professor Vindictus didn't know or she'd not be allowed to keep them in her dorm.

"I found them." Celandine informed Mina. "Its like a party in here!" She held her handful of light up so she could see better and waved at a few other students.


"Helllooooo LouAnn!" Celandine waved her wand at the other girl. Nothing happened of course, Cela had more control over her magic than that.


*Flail* Something caught her eye. Or someone really.

"Fyodor Balouch I think we are the same person!" Cela announced incredulously.

No really! Glisseo Shoesies? Of course he'd need to adjust things outside of the tunnel or he'd just slip right over. She'd spent a few months in her first year perfecting the combination of slip stick and stop to get things just right for her Glisseo Shoesies.

"I'm..I'm Virginia but you can call me Virgi." She smiled. She was so small and she felt so weird. "Um... I have to go, Bye." She rushed off. She really had to go because she felt weird. She didn't want to admit it. She felt like a jerk when she did that. She felt like a jerk but she felt like she did the right thing. She rushed to a wall and leaned against it and then sat down. She was a little bored and her feet were tired so she would just rest here until she saw someone or someone came to her.