Georgie smiled sheepishly, he looked slightly confused. "I'm sorry, I'm just so used to people being late now. I blame Nik." Seriously, her best friend was like never on time! Though she loved her anyways.

Hearing him, Georgie's smile grew slightly, aww! How sweet! She could feel herself blush slightly too. Urgh. She really should get over that. It'd be a little weird to be blushing around her boyfriend all the time. "Sure, I'd love to." Then, noticing his weird look, she followed his gaze to a girl hiding in the bushes. "Er, how about we go this way?" she asked, pointing in the opposite direction. The girl didn't appear right in the head.

Oh so it was Nikki. Barry`d never really got to know the girl but she seemed alright. Apart from being late all the time. Georgie had made so many friends in the one year she`d been here. Unlike Barry who had once spent whole months in the common room. He didn`t like to remember. That was the only badside to love.

Barry liked it when Georgie blushed. It meant he was doing the right thing. He wasn`t confident with the girlfriend thing yet. He nodded at her as she indicated the girl. They`d see what she was upto later anyway. They were going to walk in a circle. Holding out his hand for Georgie he started to walk. How calm it was.

Georgie smiled and took his pre offered hand. "So what have you been up to?" she asked as they began to walk, though she was sure she was slowing him down, stopping every so often to examine a flower.

No roses though. Please let there be no muggle roses in the garden! She realllllyyy didn't want to have to deal with one of her sneezing attacks right in the middle of their date. Embarrassing much? But the thought of roses made her chuckle, the scene from DADA popping into her mind. She and Allison owned.

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"I'm not doing anything!" The voice that spoke the words was signifcantly different from what had been expected. Raiden would have been startled by it had he not realised that his pants were now so baggy they were in danger of falling off and set to worrying about that instead. His shirt seemed ridiculously oversized; one thin little shoulder was soon peeking from the neck of it, as it had slipped sideways on his too-small body as he scrambled after his pants. Even his hair had grown longer as this all happened, a slight fringe intruding onto his forehead and into his eyes as the boy gasped to breathe through his horror.

Neptune was taller than him now. By quite a bit.

"What is going on make it stop make it stop make it stop Merlin this is not funny-"

Neptune was going to HIT RAIDEN for scaring her and shrinking! Then she was going to march upstairs and throw the bracelet he'd given her OUT OF THE Tower window! HMPH!


Or, she would have had she not... started to feel tingly. And smaller.


As if on cue, Neptune BURST out into tears. "I don't want to die!" Cause obviously that was what was happening.

Ick... They noticed her! Great... The cat ears she hadn't even noticed she had twitched. It was a strange feeling, but she waved it aside as she concentrated on trying to find a new place to spy on her victims. She looked around, then settled on trying to crawl away from the new students and still stay hidden from her subjects.

And then Neptune started crying... Yup, she was caught.

"Oh this and that. Have you heard about the missing students?" he asked, immediatly regretting his question, now he was forced to think of Cela again and what could have happened to her. He really had to give Georgie more attension.

Ooh a cherry tree! It wasn`t season yet but he wanted to go try anyway. He broke away from Georgie and went to pick a handful. He returned and offered them to her before poping one in his mouth. Ehh it was sour. Cherrys were supposed to be sweet. Barry hadn`t even noticed that they`d already walked a 1/4 of the way around the garden. It was small

Die?! What did Neptune mean, die?! Five-year-old Raiden's big, wide eyes stared at her in horror. This wasn't how dying worked! People didn't shrink when dying!

Neptune was... shrinking... too... Oh Merlin. Right when Raiden's body had apparently decided it was done (and had reduced his height by nearly half), Neptune's decided to start as well.

"It... stopped... I think," gasped the juvenile voice. Neptune was crying. Cryiiiiiiiiing. But Raiden was too busy trying to breathe (and keep his far too large pants held up) to worry very much over it. "We're not dying Neptune! Don't think like that, it... it'll be okay..."

Right. They just had to go... to the nurse or something. She would know. Raiden took one tiny step toward Neptune and managed to fall, the overly large shoes on his feet getting in the way.

..Sniffle.

Satisfied, Lina stood from her hiding place and made her way over to the couple, a cruel smile across her features as she watched Neptune. "Enjoy the candy?" She chuckled, facing Neptune, who was finally shorter than Lina. "Hello, dear. Miss me?"

She knelt by Raiden and helped him up. "Sorry, Raiden," she said softly, an ear twitching and sincerety in her eyes. It was then that it occured to her: She knew this boy! She blinked a moment, stunned, tilting her head and looking him over. He looked younger now, than she remembered him, but it was close enough. "Rai?"

Georgie's eyes grew concerned, "I have. I don't think I personally know anyone. But it's worrying none the less." she shook her head slightly, urgh. Now she was semi-depressed too.

Georgie tilted her head as he ran for a cherry tree, before coming back and offering her some. She took one and popped it into her mouth. EEP! It was super super sour! Wow, and already they'd walked a good length of the yard. And suddenly, her eyes spotted roses. CRAP! Georgiana sneezed and rolled her eyes. "Dammit."

"Yeah and no one knows who's doing it" he said. "Be careful" he advised Georgie genuinly worried. " Their thinking about locking down the school" he glanced towards the building. He`d be seperated from Georgie if it went ahead. This reminded him of his first term here. Excelior had turned into a fox.

Barry still kept eating the cherrys. They were incredibly sour but at the same time he liked them. Then Georgie sneezed "Are you alright?" he asked

Georgiana nodded, biting her lip. "I will, and you have to as well." she couldn't lose him now! No no no! That would just be wayyyyy too depressing! And she'd miss him way too much as well. Georgie looked towards the school as well. "Lock down?"

And then he was asking about her sneeze and she chuckled, "I'm fine.Allergies. I'm actually allergic to roses." which was weirddd! Good thing her favorite flower was the carnation.

Neptune was knee-high to a grasshopper. Her little hands were pudgy, as was most of her body. Her hair lost all the tameness, and the curls were undeniably out of control and covering her whole head - particularly since her cat ears had fallen off. She was looking all of three, maybe four years old inside her dress that looked more like a tent now.


HUGE tears were pouring down her face when Lina stepped out and said... something. Neptune was FAR too busy having a CRISIS to pay her ANY attention at ALL. She was going to RUN AWAY from them ALL, but like ickle Raiden, she tripped on her far too large shoes and toppled over.


And then she started screaming. High pitched, toddler in CRISIS-mode, SCREAMS.

"Of cource I will. " Barry said with a small forced smile."Yeah. I overheard them when I went to see the headmaster. You know locked in our common rooms. So no one goes missing you know?" he explained. But to him it just sounded really annoying. He only had so little time left and they wanted him to spend it in the common room?

Barry calmed down. "Oh ok. I feel kinda lucky. I don`t have any allergies" well that he knew of. Barry walked a bit faster until they were away from the roses. He didn`t like swelling and stuff.

Then someone started screeming. It wasn`t even Georgie. " Who is that?" he asked knowing that Georgie probably didn`t know either.

Georgie smiled back at him, but it faded. "Locked in our common rooms?" No no no! That meant she wouldn't be able to see him, or Nikki, until she left! Georgie bit her lip at the thought and gave his hand a small squeeze, "I really hope they don't."

She chuckled hearing him, "It's definitely a hassle. But it's not horrible, I only go into a sneezing attack." But it definitely sucked.

And then she heard screaming as well, and looked towards him worriedly. "I don't know. Should we go check it out?" Of course they should!

Too many things.

Neptune was screaming, Lina was here and helping him up and his pants were getting away from him again and he couldn't breathe and his shoes were too big and he'd FALLEN DOWN and... and...

Raiden's lower lip wibbled unashamedly.

"I wanna go HOME why do weird things keep happening to me!" The five year old-sized prefect cried, plopping down on his butt, wrapping his arms around his knees, and burying his face away in the sea of oversized shirt sleeves.

He was obviously completely rational at the moment.

And... now they were both crying. Well, there was an easy way to deal with one of them. She pulled her wand and cast at Neptune. "Silencio!"

Then she turned back to Raiden. He was... He was that boy! She remembered peeking into his room quite often. He was usually asleep, but every so often he would be talking to one of her guardians... Oh! Maybe that was it!

She smiled softly to him, taking a little hand. "Now now, Raiden... M-- Kaydy wouldn't want to see you crying like this, would she?"

Barry just gave a little nod. He didn`t like it either. He gave her a little kiss. "Maybe, its for the best" he said. If it stopped anyone else going missing it probably was.

"Sorry. I didn`t know" Barry said feeling foolish, he was so stupid thinking she would die from smelling roses. But back to the screaming girl. "Yeah I think we should" Then not wanting to strain Georgies hand he let go and walked quickly towards where he`d heard the screams coming from, earning a few scars on the way.

It was a four year old. A kid. They didn`t let children go to hogwarts. And she was next to another kid. With a prefect badge. They were both with that girl that they`d seen. He thanked the girl for screaming. Otherwise they might never have come. But something had happened. Her mouth moved but nothing came out. What? He looked towards the other girl, "Tell me what happened" he asked the normal sized girl. Maybe it wasn`t her fault.

*CAUGHT!!* She looked back at the boy who'd approached them, then back to Raiden under the pretense of trying to calm him down. She gave him a pleading look. Don't tell them, she thought, as though he could hear it. She looked back to the other boy again, somewhat sheepishly but still confident. "Oh, it's nothing. Don't worry about it. I've got a handle on them." Please, Raiden, go with me on this one, just for a little bit!

Georgie nodded, smiling slightly. "Maybe." It would be better than him getting lost. That would pretty much make her bawl.

She shook her head, "It's not a problem. I didn't tell you. So how would you know?" she smiled at him before following, running after him and spotting to kids. Wait, kids!? What the hell!? The cut of age was 11! These two were definitely not 11.

And then some girl was saying she had it under control. Georgie snorted. "The hell you do! This one is still crying her eyes out!" she replied crouching down beside the screaming little girl. "Shh, it's okay." And here she was focusing on the boy, who looked oddly familiar...why did he look familiar?

Lina rolled her eyes. "She's always a little drama queen brat bot! Of course she's crying her eyes out." ... Smooth, Lina. Her ears pressed flat against her head in annoyance. What were these kids doing here?! Oh right, student gardens. "Anyway, go mind your own business!"

Raiden was NOT coming out of his shirt. No. Never. Shaking his head, even as Lina took his little hand, he mumbled and sniffled his refusal into his arms. Neptune had gone silent, which didn't make the situation any better but certainly made it quieter...

"I - don't - wanna - be - li- iii- iit- tleeeeee." The words that were distinguishable between the little gasps for air were hopelessly stretched. He was just going to go on with his disbelieving crying until...

Raiden's little face, tears smudged all over it, appeared from the sea of sleeves, watery eyes on Lina. His arms were still clenched tightly around his knees, his posture unchanged, but he was at least looking at her. He rubbed his forehead against his knees to get his longish mop of hair out of his face.

"You- you know Miss Kaydy?" The little voice asked hesitantly.

Oh great. More people were here. Glancing at Neptune, who was apparently also teeny tiny and adorable, Raiden buried his face again, hiding in embarassment.

"It's fine go away please we're okay." Oh the lies. One arm, hand engulfed in sleeve, reached out blindly to see if it could reach Neptune.

She smiled softly to Raiden, brushing some of his hair out of his face. "Yeah... She's one of my guardians. Kinda like my mom, actually." She pulled her wand again and shrunk his clothes a little, not daring to shrink them too far until he had a chance to pull his pants up a little. "There, that should be better." She tucked her wand away and sat kneeling in front of him. "I remember... You were at St Mungo's, weren't you? I remember seeing you a few times. One time I peeked in looking for mama, and you two were talking. And you were kinda smiling, though you looked really nervous. I can't believe... I really didn't realize it was you!"

Barry chuckled. They really thought they`d buy the its ok thing? They were kids in a teen school. Something was up. He looked to the girl "Ok, assuming your right its nothing to worry about. Who are they? And why are they children?" he asked. He`d worked out who the boy was now but he kept silence "Last time I checked, prefects wern`t five year olds" Barry imagined carrying the two kids to the hospital wing. He and Georgie would be able to manage it. But it`d be sort of embarrising for Raiden.

Barry took a seat on the floor next to the babys. He had a feeling this was going to take a while

Part of Raiden kept insisting he stop crying and act like an adult. He was 16, even if he had somehow gotten himself shrank to... this. Even if he was in a familiar, yet somehow completely foreign body right now, he was still sixteen years old.

However, most of him just wanted to throw a tantrum right now. He was a PREFECT and nobody was listening to him! It had been bad enough to be disrespected because of the kneazle ears, but now everyone had ANOTHER reason to not listen to him.

"I said GO AWAY," the squeaky little voice yelled petulantly. What was the point of him having the badge if nobody cared to listen to him? The little boy took a deep breath, barely noticing when his clothing started shrinking. There were too many people and too much going on and he did NOT want to be small.

... Miss Kaydy was Lina's MUM?

"She was my Healer person a lot... I was there a lot." Wait. Neptune. Rubbing his eyes, Raiden looked toward her. "Neptune's..."

Turning himself onto his knees, Raiden crawled toward her. These arms and legs were too short, it was hard to get used to. Reaching her, he knelt next to the girl and touched her shoulder.

"Neptune?"

Well, that was more to discuss later. She pulled her wand again and unsilenced Neptune so that Raiden could deal with her. After all, Lina was not about to be nice to the spoiled little brat.