Walking towards the sanctuary, Evelyn looked up to see a few students enter and leave a stone building, looking quite pleased. Running towards the building, she peaked inside and noticed a few feathers. "Must be what they're getting." she muttered and picked one up before walking out, looking for more things on the list.

Stepping out, she caught a figure walking over to the stables and pick up a brush, taking a few hairs out. 'Really?' she sighed, and walked over, making sure no one watched her and plucked a hair out of the brush. "This has got to be the most random thing i have ever done. What is it anyways?" she asked herself, looking at the hair in different angles. Shrugging her shoulders, she started walking away as if nothing happened.

He was relieved to find the curry sitting out, because it gave people an easy access to Abraxan hair... and NOT to steal them from precious Tib and Cass.

Cope pulled one hair from the brush and added it to his satchel.

As Abigail flicked through her book to find out what tip of animal the feather came from she walked over and sat on a bench. Finally she found a picture of the animal shed seen in the stone building...it was an Augurey! Smiling happily to herself she looked around wondering where to go next she noticed a horse brush sitting next to her still covered in hair from when it was last used. She didn’t know if this was an Abraxan hair or not but decided to take a sample anyway, and placed it along with everything ells in her bag. She’d have to look that up as well but decided to do it at another time.

Dominic shrugged as the two first year hufflepuffs conversed about the feathers they were looking for. He didn't really have the slightest what he was looking for... But somewhere, there would be clues, right? Just think of the treasure hunt in fourth year, he reminded himself when he had to work with his own housemates, as well as students from other houses in finding clues to the next part of the hunt. That was an interesting year.


As were the little greenish-black feathers that the seventh year noticed fall to the ground. About to go fetch one, Abigail beat him to it. "Excellent. We only need one of each feather, right? Since we're working as a group?" Dominic asked the young girl. It wasn't official, because he'd only specifically partnered with Arrick, but it was just understood. So he thought anyway.

"Ooo... what's that over there?" Dominic asked, almost rhetorically as he pointed towards the hairs on a horse brush... Horse brush... Wizarding horses, which were also known as Abraxan hairs, which was indeed one of the items on the list.

"Got the sample, Abigail?" Because she was now the unofficial collector for their group it seemed.

Abby walks over to the Magical Creature Sanctuary. The place reminds her she needs to visit Marmalade. She starts to open the door when she sees a brush just like the one she uses on Marmalade sitting on a bench. Abby bends over and picks the brush up. Perfect! She takes some of the hair out of the brush and puts it in her bag. Abby then marks her list and goes inside the sanctuary.


No sooner does Abby get the door closed, she hears a loud cry comimg from the bird area of the sanctuary. Abby rushes over to see what's wrong with the bird. She finds a Augurey flapping her wings and crying again. "There, there, nothing could be that bad." Obviously something has woken the Augurey. Abby starts singing to the bird. The Augurey goes back to sleep. She ruffles her tail and a little greenish-black feather falls from the cage to the floor. "Thank you," Abby whispers. She picks the feather up and puts it in her bag. She marks Augurey off her list and continues walking around the sanctuary. "There should be a Phoenix around here somewhere."

Arrick wasn't sure what the bird was, but given the fact that a stampede of students immediately went over to collect the feathers that fell off of it, it was on the list. Uninterested in joining the crowd, he poked about elsewhere instead and retrieved a long hair from the horse brush.

He noticed Abigail had gone and collected both, but there was no guarantee that she had grouped up with them, so he kept his horsehair.

By the time he was done the rush of students were coming over to investigate his brush, so he moved over to retrieve the feather from the strange bird.

That done, he poked about some more, frowning critically.

Abigail looked at Dominic then back to her bag. She was really confused, as far as she was concerned she was working on her own, that’s why she’d been doing all the work so far. She didn’t mind working with Dominic but she didn’t want to work with Arrick, he hadn’t been very nice when she’d tried to help.

“Erm...I...I thought you were working with Arrick? Sorry I’ve just been collecting for myself.” Reaching into her bag she handed over some of her samples. “Here have these I’ve got plenty. I only have one Augurey feather though, but I’ll go and get another one.” Standing up she smiled at the head boy “It’s not that I don’t want to work in the group...it’s just...well I sort of want to do it on my own. I hope you don’t mind.” She headed back into the stone building and collected another Augurey feather.

Mina continued to look around the sanctuary. This was harder than she expected. From her left she heard something. Slowly she started walking toward the direction of the noise.

Cautiously, she approached. Not wanting to disturb the Augurey, she quietly reached for a feather. "I don't mean any disrespect, but may I have a feather? You probably can't hear me, but I still want to ask." she voiced to the sleeping Augurey. She wanted to at least ask, if not for her conscience, but out of respect for the animal as well. Putting the feather in her bag, she quietly left the area in search for anymore samples.

Mina looked down at her list again as she walked toward the stables. A brush caught her eye. 'Oh this must be my lucky day', she thought to herself as she took a few hairs. "Thank you, whom ever has granted me these hairs," she said to no one specific as she added the hairs to her other samples. Yes, it was quite possible anyone that saw Mina, would think her to be crazy at times. With a smile, she ventured back to find samples.

Go higher? Was she mad? Marcus, had his eyes firmly closed shut the moment the Abraxan had taken off, so he had no idea how high they were and quite frankly he really didn't want to know. His stomach had lurched when he felt the Abraxan rise into the air.

This was a bad idea!!

Really it was!!

"Ugh Iliana, I think I'm gonna puke or scream or something" he moaned into her ear with his eyes still firmly shut. His hands were around her waist and he was holding onto her for dear life. Yeah he knew he was being a total wuss but he didn't want to do this anymore.

Marcus, felt the Abraxan dip suddenly and his stomach felt like it was now in his throat and he did let out a small squeal before the winged horse righted itself again. Okay this really sucked. "Ili..."he croaked and try as he might he could not swallow against his dry throat. "Can we like land now?"

Having stood quite still for a while, observing everyone else searching and collecting, Jake frowned. It was a good plan, waiting... but what if all the feathers were gone?

Moving quickly, Jake darted forwards, picking up a rather small feather. Looking at it closely, Jake hesitated for some reason before putting it in his pocket along with the other items.

Wow... what luck!

On his way out to begin looking for more materials, a horse brush caught his eye. He couldn't tell what the hairs were from at ALL, but he figured it wouldn't hurt... just to take a few.

Having just left the Magical Creatures area a few minutes ago, Torin and Jack had been making a lot of progress with the wand woods--but nothing else, really. They wandered back and luckily for them, there were a few pieces of hair stuck to a comb sitting on a nearby bench.

"Oooooh look, more animal stuff!" Jack exclaimed, running up to the bench, grabbing a few hairs and handing some to Torin.

He headed over to Jack when he pointed out having found something new. "Sweet. This must be the Abraxan hair." Another item crossed off the list.

He put the ones JAck gave him in his pocket.

Sara couldn't believe her luck. There lying on the floor, beneath the Augurey's cage was a loose, greenish-black feather. Picking the feather up, Sara placed it in her bag with her other Scavenger hunt items and continued on her way.

Continuing on her way through the Sanctuary, Sara kept an eye on for more items. A little further on, Sara saw a brush lying on a wooden bench. It was full of flaxen coloured hairs. Were they on the list...Sara looked. Could they be Abraxon hairs? Sara didn't know. so she took some anyway.

What? Arrick was grabbing his own feathers? Was the first year boy even grouped with him? Maybe he ought to collect his own feathers and such just to be on the safe side... because there wasn't a shortage of feathers, was there?

Truthfully Dominic didn't really know, but to be safe, he made his way over towards the fallen greenish-black feathers and selected one of the augurey feathers, placing it careful in his folder for his items to collect.

Hmm? What? Looking at Abigail, Dominic frowned for a moment as if trying to comprehend her - though he had heard her perfectly - but really just wanting to make sure it was correct. "Oh... well i guess we can collect our own samples too," Dominic gave the young girl a small smile, as she went into her bag and gave him some of her extra hairs from the abraxan.

"No worries, Abigail. We can work together, but alone... In that we go to the different places together, but each collect our own samplings." The seventh year nodded at her confidently. "But thank you," He commented, as he placed the hair and feather from Abigail into his folder, next to the feather he'd just picked up. "Think there is anything else to be found in this area or shall we move on?"

Abigail gave Dominic a small smile. He didn’t seem to understand that on her own meant on her own away from Arrick, but then again she hadn’t been very clear.

“Sure...as long as Arricks ok with that. I don’t know if there’s anything else here or not, we can always come back. I’ve already been to the gardens, greenhouse, and the whomping willow so my next stops the forest. What about you guys have you been anywhere else?” She placed her book back in her bag ready to move on if Dominic and Arrick were.

At first, when Marcus held her tighter, Iliana just naturally assumed it was because he felt like gettin' closer. That was until she heard the word 'puke'. Yeah, that wasn't good. She had NEVER seen him react in such a way. She didn't know what to do except... land. "Bring us down, girl," she said, patting Trinity's neck as she shifted her weight forward.

After they touched down, Iliana leaned back against Marcus and turned her head towards him. "Is this better?" she asked.

Okay it wasn't normally like Marcus, to pass up an opportunity to flirt outrageously with a beautiful woman and especially this particular woman. But he was so grateful to be back on the ground again that he gave Iliana, a quick smile before jumping off the Abraxan and got down on his hands and knees and kissed the ground.

"Oh I am never leaving you again" he crooned as he ran his hands over the grass before flopping onto his back and looking up at Iliana. "That was...a disaster. Sorry for carrying on like a baby Ili." Eh...why did he need to fly anyway? When there were many exciting things to do on the ground.

Oh for the love of Merlin! Iliana thought before laughing outloud. She swung her legs to one side of the winged horse and looked down at him and said, "When you and the ground are done with your passionate love affair, you think you might help me down?"

"Heeey!!" he protested with a laugh as he patted the ground once again. "Me and the ground have a rather strong connection with each other." Marcus, gave her a goofy look as he got back to his feet and walked over to her. "I do believe Professor Morgan, that this is just an excuse for me to put my arms around you." He placed his hands on her waist and pulled her down off the Abraxan and safely onto the ground.

Okay so he knew she was being coy. Surely he was used to it by now. "And so what if it is?" she asked, as he helped her to the ground. "I quite like it when your arms are around me." she said, giving Marcus a bashful little smile as she leaned up against her horse and twirled her hair. He had certainly never complained about it before.

A gust of wind sweeps through the stables, stirring around the loose material inside. When the wind settles, loose feathers flutter to the ground. Best stick with grabbing one of these, rather than yanking one off the creature it came from.

Feeling his hair being blown over to one side, Jake blinked slightly as a bunch of feathers were blown out in front of him from... the abraxan stables. EXACTLY what he needed!

Jake grinned and plucked a feather that was floating in the air in front of him...

Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! Feathers---that's what I'm talking about! Seeing all the loose feathers now covering a small portion of the ground, LouAnn headed over towards them and scooped one up. She felt the urge to do a little jig, but she refrained. Such behavior would probably not go over well with some of the more skittish creatures. The scavenger hunt list was still not complete either, as she had...a few or so left to go. Nevertheless she pocketed the feathered and continued to peer around for any additional items.

Running through the Magical Creatures Sanctuary to get as far away from Bunbury as possible. As he ran, he saw a bunch of feathers kick up in the wind.

Assuming these were also good for the hunt, he grabbed one as it fluttered through the air, and kept running.

Celandine was happy to see that the feathers were easy to get. Ooooo she'd be mad if someone had of tugged them loose from Tib and Cass! She picked one up and added it to her collection.