Ok she was afraid of spiders, but fighting over it was stupid!

Shaking her head she looked around the hall. She noticed a new girl walk into the hall and sit down, on her own. Frowning she stood up. She grabbed her pink, yes PINK, sleeping bag and goddies and made her way over to her.

"Hello" She said, setting her stuff down next to her, she sat down, smiling.

Stop what? What was Destiny doing that was so wrong? For all anyone knew Jake could have told a funny joke and his tears were tears of laughter. Ehh, if anything happened that would be the story she would so with. 'It was mean that you stole MY spider too.' And gave it such a horrible name. That spider would be scarred for life if it had to walk around with that name.

Aww. The first year was ignoring Destiny. 'Don't ignore me. The emptiness of my heart..' she pouted as she dramatically covered her heart with her hand.

He wasn't worth messing with. He bored Destiny, mostly because he wasn't saying anything.

Besides, she had Jake's wand to find..

"The ears are cool. I want some," Dylan chuckled. He would look good in ears. Better than his own ears anyway. Furrier. He could sit and stroke them all day. Stroke, stroke, stroke. He could see it now. Arc reactor chest, kneazle ears. He would be AWESOME!

"Like Kiri said. We are talking about Superheroes." Yay superheroes. "You don't really like quidditch?" She was weird. A quidditch captain that wasn't a big fan of quidditch. "Iron Man flies. He has jets on his suit."

Forget the wand, wherever it went to, Jake didn't care.

Still totally bawling his eyes out (PIIIIIIDAHHHH!), Jake got on his hands and knees and began crawling back towards Tibi and his little friend. "He w-w-was mmmmine!" he blubbered, bringing one hand up to clutch his head.

Jake pouted.

"Stop lllllaughing!" he insisted, looking back over his shoulder at Destiny. "It's nuhh-not ffunny. Hurts!"

Jake's wand? This was...Mr. Stutter's wand? EWW! Well no one it looked like it had fingerprints all over it. Pffft.

Well, in that case, he wouldn't notice her slyly slip it up her sleeve now would she. And if anyone asks what she was doing, well, she already had her OWN wand there anyways... And this was the perfect opportunity to get her own revenge on Jake for getting her a detention.

So, slipping it up her silk pajama sleeve where her own wand already was, she moved around Marie as if she didn't hear what she said and sat back down in her original spot before the whole spider incident, and closed her eyes. Yes, Jake probably knew his wand was missing since that other kid just blabbed out that he was missing it...

Good going!

"They certainly make it easier to hear," Raiden said with a grin, his fingers touching the irritated red spot again. "Unfortunately, Gryffindors seem to think pinching and twisting them while flying is a good idea."

The blood-blister that had formed from that... was still sore. Luckily, Raiden's fur on his ears matched his dark-brown hair, hiding most of the visible redness. It really only hurt if he pushed on it or something.

"Superheroes?" The Muggle ones? Raiden had never heard of... Iron Man. Blinking, he leaned in a bit, to catch every word. He didn't really need to, but... it was a natural reaction. "I haven't ever really... read muggle comics."

He'd seen muggle cartoons though! Yes, indeed.

Pfft. There she was talking about the emptiness of her heart.

Yeah, right.

But Jake! His behavior seemed sooooo ODD. Treyen was certain that he was not a first year, then why was he behaving like a 4 year old?!

Boys don't cry.

And even if their hurt they have to be graceful about it. Like Gilderoy, even at the times when he was wrong, he always had a nice way to pretend it wasn't. Though, he'd been rarely wrong. But still!

"Okay, he was, but I don't think he is yours now, if it was a he, or whatever" he said, with a shrug, dismissing the not-too-big deal. "Sssstop talking to her!" he said, almost in a whisper.

This Jake guy didn't learn, did he? Either that or he DID want the girl to be mean to him. Truth be told, he was provoking her. Totally.

YES FINALLY SOMEONE!!

Ooooh and she had goodies! YAY!

"Heyyyy," said Lucille. She squished up so that the girl had some room, "Im lucille," she said, holding out a hand.

Bella smiled at her new friend, well she thought so. "Heyy, im Isabella, well Bella for short" She held her hand out to shake

Well she was weird, would Lucille think so?

Smiling again she picked up a Pumpkin Pansy with her free hand, "Do you want one?" She asked, handing it out.

Marie watched as Evelyn slipped Jakes wand up her sleeve, oh she was a sly one, hehe. Jake was going to go nuts looking for his wand once he realized it was missing. Which may not be for a long time yet considering the way he was blubbering like a baby. Awwww, poor little Jakey, hurt head, no wand, and NO SPIDER, Bwahahaha.

Aww. And now Jake was leaving. How hard could he possibly hurt himself to make him cry like that. Destiny figured he was faking anyway, just to get sympathy from the professor's. How old was he anyway?

She didn't know why he could claim the spider was his, just because he got to it first? If that was the case, Destiny would own everything, 'How do you know it was a he?' she asked as he crawled his way over to Freak Face Tibi.

Pfffft, Jake was lucky she didn't have her wand on her, or she would have offered to help him with that 'pain'. She knew how to take care of pain, yes she did. 'HAHAHAHAHA!' she laughed one last time before heading back to Marie and Evelyn.

Maybe the spider made it's way back into the Great Hall.

"I like Quidditch," Kiri told Dylan, flicking the card Raiden had given her away without a second glance, "but that doesn't mean I follow all the leagues or whatever. It's fine to just, er, manage the team here." She snorted. "Enough work too..." she said, pursing her lips disapprovingly. Earlier she could have sworn she'd seen one of her players duck into the Great Hall and then disappear again moments later. One of the players she still needed to... talk to.

Spreading her anger around would be for later, though. Finishing off the Chocolate Frog, Kiri glanced around to see what else was happening. Professor Lupa was still not starting her storytelling session, and wasn't it about time for that? "Anyone know why we're not starting with the story yet?" she asked, wondering if tugging on Raiden's tail would get him to sit down.

"Sit dooown," she repeated out loud. "Dylan can tell you all about Muggle comics. I've never read any in my life, and I already know that, er... there's a radioactive crime-fighting duo called Captain America and Major British?" She gigglesnorted and wrapped her arms around her legs. "I made that last one up," she informed Raiden helpfully.

Right. This was getting depressing. "Of course you won't," Gold told him, pulling at his sleeve. 'Cause she liked to. "I'm gorgeous, I have awesome hair, and I'm a total dear. Why would you ever want to leave me?" She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Hey, I can carry it, it's fine," Gold said, holding on tighter to her sleeping bag. She really wasn't the type to run to a guy for help. Gold had always handled stuff like this, herself. She didn't really need a boy to carry stuff for her, when she could do it herself.

"Love you," she said quietly, as she fell into step besides him, coming to a halt when she spotted Kiri and Raiden. It felt odd, to be intruding upon their company, but hey! Dylan had invited her!

Hehe.

"Kiri, Raiden," she said, giving both Slytherins a cheerful smile, as she placed her sleeping bag on the floor.

Finally reaching Tibi and co. again, Jake lay down on his belly, resting his head against his pillow. He'd ignore everyone else. Yes he would. He'd just wait for the story.

Snifflecry.

He still hadn't realised his wand was missing...

Caaaaalm down, Jakers. You're okay. Story soon. You're okay.

Evelyn turned her head towards where she heard the sniffling and 'crying' come from before opening her eyes. Was Jake really that upset over losing a spider? Or was he acting like that because of Destiny?...or something else. Jeez, he needed to get over it! He was such a Huffie.

Crossing her arms so no one would notice that the line on her arm from her own wand practically doubled, even though it wasn't that noticeable, she smirked at Marie who noticed her little action there.

Hearing Destiny laugh again before moving back to where she and Marie were, Evelyn shook her head and chuckled. "C'mon Destiny. Leave the poor little stut-...Huffie alone." Yea, so they didn't have to lose any points. They were just getting slowly ahead too... "Sit." she said, pointing to the spot next to her. Plus she didn't want any attention drawn to them. Not like that mattered anyways with the whole spider incident...

"At least they didn't pull your tail," Dylan smiled. "I bet that would hurt more." He had a look at Raiden's ear. "What would happen if you popped that?" He was interested. He could pop it.

"Major British?" he chuckled, "I could draw that. That would be awesome." He had ideas for that already. He could have a laser sword or something. He could submit it to Marvel. He would be awesome.

"Kiri, Raiden, this is Gold. My girlfriend," he smiled, introducing them. Obviously she knew who they were. But it was just a double check. "I love you too Goldilocks." He patted the ground right next to his sleeping bag. "Room for one Goldilocks right here." Unless she wanted to snuggle in his. There was plenty of room.

"Hey Bella, hey i like that name," she smiled and nodded.

Oooh FOOD!

"Yes indeedy. Thanks!" she said, taking the pumpkin pasty from the girl. She unwrapped it and started to NOM it.

"OMG wanna do manicures? Its kinda girly, i know, but i have a weird thing for nail varnish." She unzipped a small case she has with her, and spun it round so that Bella could see the contents. Every colour was there, metalics, sparkles, neons, pastels. EVERYTHING. "Fave nail colour?" she asked.

Leaving the sabotaged food table, he happily walked to where the students was gathering for the story which was going to be told by Professor Lupa, the detention queen. If the food had not been sabotaged, he guessed that he would never leave that place for this one with the detention queen but now...reconsidering things as he took another sip from his pumpkin juice, he thought maybe this was not really a bad idea.

Oooo...he was getting more and more cheerful. So cheerful that he wanted to yell out a big HELLO! to everyone there but he did not want his detention to be prolonged. Therefore it was for his goodness that he stood silent for a couple of hours. But the people here were definitely not amongst the most silent ones. Hmmm... What was going on?

Yeah, Destiny would just let Jake go over there and cry some more. There would nothing better to do then see him cry. Even though Destiny only play a teeny tiny role in the whole thing. She would thank the sleeping bag much later.

'I didn't even do anything..' Not yet anyway. If he would have just handed over the spider, he wouldn't have gotten hurt. Maybe he really did hurt himself..not that Destiny cared or anything. She didn't think anyone could cry that much.

Maybe she would find the spider in the dungeons later. It was so cuuuute!

"I have my doubts about that," he said to Dylan, sitting down next to Kiri before she could do drastic things to make him sit. She was getting that look in her eye. Heh. "My ears are more sensitive than the tail is, I think..."

Finishing off the other half of the frog, he looked at Kiri and grinned. Impatient for stories and making up superheroes? Sounded like she had had too much sugar.

"I wouldn't know you had, it sounds like a legitimate character." He reached for the blister on his ear again and shook his head at Dylan. That was not suggestible. "It... would bleed? And probably hurt a lot. I'd rather we didn't do that."

Oh hey Gold. Raiden gave her a little smile and a wave as she approached them, his tail giving a little wag. Another prefect, good. At least he wasn't the only one ignoring the chaos that was going on.

"We've met... Hehe on the train, and in a few classes." Kiri might not have though... she might have, actually. Did prefects often run into the Quidditch Captains? He had yet to see the Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff ones... eh. Didn't matter. "Gold was actually in class when..."

Well. He gestured at his ears.

Yes!

It was all quiet right now.

Perfect for the story-telling time---hey! Which one was his sleeping bag again?! Oh, there it is! Next to Tibi-Ty-t, of course.

And the Jake guy was somehow stopping from crying. He'd better stay that way. Yes. For his own good. Because those girls would bother him again, and apparently he couldn't deal with them. Apparently.

Still, he knew the boy's name was Jake because one of the mean girls had mentioned it. So, Treyen poked the boy, "I don't think we've met, I'm Treyen, Treyen Lockhart" he said, "And I hope you don't keep on crying, unless we're told a sad story, and even then, it's no good for those girls to see you cry" entirely true. So he better not cry.

Xehanna walked into the great hall and smiled. She loved to see everybody get along, no matter the house they were in. She thought she saw her friend and ran up to him. She tapped him on the shoulder and waited anxiously, her eyes turning ice blue in the process. When he turned around her mouth dropped and her eyebrows raised. She was so embarassed that it wasn't him. "Oh my gosh, I am so sorry! I thought you were my friend... but i guess i was wrong. I should really check to make sure i know the person next time." Her eyes turned pink to match her bright red cheeks. "Wow you guys look scary alike from the back. Do you know...uh- nevermind it doesn't matter. Sorry, I'm ranting again. I should just..." She pointed her thumb in the opposite direction and bit her bottom lip. She turned around and almost tripped. She caught herself and smacked her forehead mumbling things like "How could i be so stupid and clumsy? God what an idiot. No wonder i can't get a guy. And he probably thought i was crazy the way i kept talking! God!"

Giggling, Ivory then looked at Arya curiously.

Ice?? Down her back??

Huddling closer to her friend, she looked around and helped her look for the culprit.

"Hmm let us stare pointedly at the possible culprits and then get them back!" she exclaimed quietly with a waggle of her eyebrows.

Thinking they needed some thinking food, she reached into her pillowcase where she'd put the food she'd stashed from the Junk Food Feast.

Taking out her bowl of white chedder popcorn and her cup of punch both enchanted to not spill, she then reached into the case and got two straws.

Sipping from the blue one she offered some to Arya as she munched on some of the popcorn.

Suddenly nose began twitching...and then tingling...

Turning away from Arya and the Professor, she covered her mouth and sneezed.

Hmm that was weird.

Looking back around the area she tried to see who had ice with them.

Finally Raiden was sitting down! Kiri hoped that she hadn't forgotten a piece of Chocolate Frog or something on her sleeping bag, otherwise Raiden would get up with a very unfortunate chocolate stain on his pyjamas.

Putting her head on her knees, she watched him closely as he talked to Dylan. This was the first time in... forever that she'd managed to see him without him being surrounded by classmates during the lessons or, out of lessons, depressingly large amounts of attractive girls (in particular that girl), and she realised she might have missed him more than she thought she had.

But Raiden also looked different. Apart from the Kneazle ears and tail, of course. He'd grown even more, now being what Kiri judged to be close to a foot taller than she was, and for some reason appeared much more serious than before, possibly even subdued. She wondered what had happened - and why she hadn't found out about it. Maybe she could go and ask Celandine about it, but Kiri hadn't seen her in a few days either, not even in classes. Usually it was hard to miss her.

She smiled. She wasn't quite sure what Raiden and Dylan were talking about, but Raiden's ears flicked backwards and forwards in response to what Dylan was saying. It looked weird and fascinating and very, very cute. Before she had to explain herself, however, another person arrived to join their merry little group.
"Hi there, Gold!" Kiri greeted the girl. Dylan's girlfriend? Interesting, Kiri thought, watching her sit down next to Dylan so that they practically mirrored Kiri and Raiden (except, of course, in the way that mattered...).

"Oh, I know her," Kiri told the two boys brightly, "we've met in Muggle Studies. When we were doing the football stuff. And in Astronomy too!" Kiri nodded. "So smart!"

Josh was trying to figure out what was wrong with the stuff here the moment he felt someone tao on his shoulder. Weird. None of his friends tapped on his shoulder for he had experienced their announcement of presence by other different ways. Whatever...who could this be?

He turned around only to see a girl he had not met before, but he wished that he had met her before since the moment he saw her, he thought that any moment he had spent previously without knowing her was a total waste. So, he just kept staring at her as the girl spoke not really understanding what she was talking about as he watched with awe. She could stand there and speak but what....she was leaving. No ''My name is Joshua!'' he uttered quickly right after her as she tripped when trying to leave.