"It's no big deal,"Carson said shrugging it off. "I enjoyed being with my aunt and uncle. They we're great and I wouldn't change anything about it."

Mmhmmm, Evelyn was off in dreamland again. But now she was back! And she brought criticism! Hurray!

Raising a brow at the word 'raft', Evelyn turned to look at Carter before a moment, crossing her arms and just...standing there. "A raft?" she asked, thinking through all the rafts she'd seen before. Sure, she may not have ever been to the ocean before, but she'd seen plenty of stuff in books! "Please tell me this raft will have sturdy sides so none of use will fall out."

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Kylie saw Patroclus in a striped swimsuit behind her. LAWL. It was ridiculously awesome, of course. She waved him over, "Hey! Patroclus!"

It was sort of an obvious invitation to be in their group. But, you know, things could be misinterpreted.

Patroclus heard his name being called out. Turning around he saw that it was Kylie, standing with a group of students he could make out. It was hard to recognise people without the school uniforms he so regulary saw them in.
Making his way over he saw that it was the usual group, "Why hello!" Patroclus said smiling, "These History of Maigc lessons just keep getting better and better!"

"Is it cool if I join this group?" Patroclus didn't want to just invite himself in, as it were, he had spectular manners, "Destiny, Carter, your floaties are awesome!" He had also had an affection for inflatables!

Shoshannah was a good friend. Well, to the few friends she did have anyway. That was besides the point. Brinkley seemed as if he were on the verge of a nervous breakdown and she didn't know what to do, aside from giving him the job of Ark Manager. He could do that, right? Just sit and watch? She had to do something to help.

That was when Chez was talking to her. " Hmm? Yes, yes Romania." She said absentmindedly. Why was he telling her about Romania? It didn't figure into ark building. Eying Chez, she noticed that he was also kind of .. big. Good for manual labor, she supposed.

" Calming Draught?" Sho's ears perked up at the words. " Hey...would you, you know actually mind giving him it?" She asked Raiden, sort of asking in Brinkley's place. " I think he's gonna like...lose it soon." She said worriedly. " Hey," She turned abck to Brinkley. " He's got a calming draught. That might help." She said encouragingly.

Kylie laughed at everyone's awkwardness. This WAS kind of awkward. They were to build a raft? Hmm...

"I have an idea..." But, of course, this idea required everyone to know how to magically bind things and lift them.

It really wouldn't be too hard at all, actually... with a little teamwork...

On one hand, Ivory was excited...on the other she was a bit anxious. She didn't know much about boat building or sailing for that matter.

But she could be creative-that should count for something...shouldn't it?

Pondering on that note, Ivory stood atop of the nearest wood stack to look around for a group. Hmm...where'd Arya go?

"Your Stepmum sounds like she reads way too much non-fiction," he said to Jack, censoring himself for everyone's sake; particularly Jack's sake. Brinkley didn't know if she liked her stepmother or not yet. As it was, Brinkley couldn't decide he liked his own family not to mention Raiden Kururugi.

He was surely, trying to poison him or something. Calming Draught? Sure? "Do I look like a need a Calming Draught?" he asked almost immediately as the words left the Prefect. Did he? If anyone looked at Brinkley's sickly face, and the sweat collecting once again on his forehead, and the way his neck and chest were bright red but not from the sun--yes, the answer would most definitely be yes.

This Chez fellow, though, was only making him panic more. He was comparing ark construction to fence reparation. If Brinkley was a complete idiot, and he hoped he wasn't, he'd say fences have BIG GAPING SPACES whereas, Arks do not. "Yeah, exactly the same thing," he mumbled trying not to say anything about his ignorance towards cephalopods. It wasn't as big of an offense as, say, Legend Chosen calling him Brinky. "That is not my name. My name is Brinkley. Call me that or Brink or don't call me at all."

Legend Chosen was a menace and he obviously didn't get along with this Chez Fellow. Brinkley couldn't exactly blame him. It was a primitive instinct for Alpha Males to try to combat each other. Clearly, these primitive instincts were still active in these two individuals even though it seemed himself and Raiden had evolved past such things. "You guys want to fight over an invisible wolf pack later? I can't handle the hostility, it's making me break out," he whined, scratching at his reddened chest. At Sho's brilliant idea, Brinkley made grabby fingers.

GIMME THE DRAUGHT.

Destiny jumped slightly as Kylie had come out of NOWHERE! That girl..she just popped out of nowhere and now she was talking about beasts and stuff. Perhaps the water beasts!? Oh Merlin! This class was going to be dangerous! "Totally beastly.." she gulped. Perhaps being the Captain was a BAD idea.

She didn't want to fight beasts.

With all beasts out of her mind, thanks to the STOOPID question Carter asked, Destiny rolled her eyes, "Yeah, I build rafts all the time." He was lucky she knew what a raft even WAS! She took a quick glanced at the ever growing group she was in, "I think we're gunna need something bigger than a raft." Unless they make the raft out of her group members..hehe.

Grinning at Patroclus, Destiny gave her duck floatie a little squeeze, "Yeah, I know it is AWESOME! I'm just glad mine isn't as bright at Carter's." she snickered. Seriously, if their boat did sink, they weren't going to need flares to get anyone's attention.

Carter's floaties would definitely draw attention.

"I was thinkin we could build a speed sail boat ya know?"

Arya had climbed up the pill of wood and joined her friend and was staring at the wood beneath them. "So that if we wanted to just sit and chill we could," She mused. "But if we wanted to go super fast then we could." Her eyes finally drifted from the wood to her friend with a smile.

The little Puff would much rather be in the water than on it, but who's to say that she wouldn't fall out of said boat? Accidents did happen of course.

Marie laughed when Destiny asked if she could be captain. She could just see it now. Destiny standing at the front of their ship raft with her duck floatie around her waist. Oh yeah, she would look real official. Professor Lainey would think Destiny was the psycho one then, not Marie.

"Of course you can be captain Destiny." That is if no one else objected.

"Hey Kylie, you don't mind if Destiny is the captain do you?" Unless Kylie wanted to wear the duck... maybe Destiyn would let her be in charge for a while.

And then there was her crazy boyfriend Carter. She couldn't believe he actually put on those stilly arm floaties that Destiny gave him. Oh well, she was still crazy about him no matter what he was wearing. "Um, I've never built anything that floats at all," she said when Carter asked if anyone knew how to do this. She was kind of hoping the others in the group would know how to do this.

"Hey Patoclus, sure, you can join our group. We could always use more help." Especially from the guys. Maybe if they got enough guys in the group the girls would be able to just supervise. You know, let the boys be the ones to get dirty.

"I don't think rafts have sides on them Evelyn... Do they?" she then asked the others in the group. Maybe they did, or maybe they could make theirs have sides.

Jacqueline had no idea what was going on anymore; everyone was just talking a whole lot, and the kid who's name was Legend Chosen seemed to have some kind of problem with Chez, and it was putting Brinkley on edge, and Sho and Raiden were suggesting Calming Draughts, and Grayson was still named Grayson, which was an all too serious name for someone so small...

...

.....

"I think we should all take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy the beautiful day that is today. And THEN when we are all calmed down, we can build Brinkley's Ark."

"I've never seen a raft with sides..." Carter said to Evelyn.

He stared at Destiny. He was just asking to be polite. How would she like it if they were building... a sheep or something... and he didn't ask for her input since she knew so much about them.

He smiled at Patroclus. "Welcome to the team, mate." he said. He then whispered. "These are Destiny's. I think she felt weird being the only one with floaties on... so I told her I'd wear some so she doesn't feel as awkward." Plus, they would give him some really exciting tan lines.

He then turned to Kylie. "Is your idea to levitate logs onto ropes and then tie them together?" he asked. Because that was his idea. But if they had two different ideas they could merge them together and make the most amazing raft ever. But even if they weren't different ideas it would still be an awesome raft.

Kylie looked at Marie. WHOA. Where had she been?

No biggie. She was nice and all. "Of course not! Captain Destiny.. I rather like it."

She looked at Destiny for a second, then immediately dropped to her knees, bowing to her. "ALL HAIL CAPTAIN DESTINY!!!"

Having ideas didn't mean you had to be captain. Plus, she was having a lot of fun making a total fool of herself.

Obviously Chez had never heard of Wingardium Leviosa. Raiden almost felt bad for having asked him, because he lugged it over by hand, and it was probably heavy. But if that was how he was gonna do it, then that was fine. He seemed nice enough, and had done it without fuss.

Except now he was fussing at Legend. And Legend was fussing right back. What was it with these people? Raiden blinked as his eyes flicked back and forth between the two.

"Much as we're all really enjoying you guys being all... that at each other, we're in class now," he finally said, rather firmly. "So... if you're both gonna work with us, you're gonna have to be nice to each other. Verbally assault each other when we're on the other side of the lake."

He turned his attention back to Brinkley, who... why yes, Brinkley. You sure do look like you need it. Raiden prodded a spot on his wrist holster and the little phial slid out from where it was hidden.

"I always have one on me," he said, looking at Sho. "I used to need them, for... medical reasons."

He held the phial out for either Sho or Brink to take and glanced at Jack.

"Right. Uhm... well we have boards now, thanks to Chez. We could probably use a bit more wood though, and some rope, and... who's good at sticking charms? And does anyone have any other suggestions for like... designs?"

Because obviously nobody else was going to like... organise things. He quickly conjured a quill, ink, and parchment, and held them out for Legend to take. He was the one suggesting a raft with sides, so... draw it, Gryffindor boy. Draw!

"Well, we better make it have sides." 'Cause that's the only way she was getting on the thing if they were to sail across to the other side of the lake.

Mmhmm...grumpy mood...

Okay, okay. Gotta loosen up. Loosen up and enjoy the sunny day a little. She was going to get nowhere if acting like...this. Eesh, even her inner thoughts were annoying her.

However, looking over at Kylie for a moment when she said she had an idea, Evelyn crossed her arms, waiting for the idea when Carter spoke up. What kind of raft was that? More then likely sink than anything right? The heaviness of the logs, including the weight of...

Six of them? Seven if Josh decided to show up sometime soon?

"Is that the only thing we're gunna do? Tie logs together and hope for the best?" Grumpy mood haaaaas returned with full power!!

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"I was thinkin we could build a speed sail boat ya know?"

Arya had climbed up the pill of wood and joined her friend and was staring at the wood beneath them. "So that if we wanted to just sit and chill we could," She mused. "But if we wanted to go super fast then we could." Her eyes finally drifted from the wood to her friend with a smile.

The little Puff would much rather be in the water than on it, but who's to say that she wouldn't fall out of said boat? Accidents did happen of course.

The sudden voice at her side might've really startled her had it been anyone else's but since it was her best friend's voice Ivory just smiled and hooked her arm through her's as they appraised the wood.

Listening to Arya suggestions, she nodded along. Speed and comfort. That sounded admirable in a boat. "Yeah I totally agree." Looking around at what they had at their disposal, she tried to think of the best way to make a small craft that would go fast.

Scratching her head, she put her mind to thinking. "I'm guessing the fastest boat would be a small one..." she mused aloud. "But not too small, since we want to be able to lay around..."

They could always tie wood together but that seemed a bit unsafe. And what if water leaked through? What if their boat sank? Well actually taht would be fun- but sadly against what they were supposed to do.

It was while pondering these ideas that her gaze fell on a large fallen trunk not too far off. Hmmm...

Excited now, she poked her friend and pointed to it."Hey crazy idea, but what if we work on that trunk? Its huge and we can both fit in it if we hollow it out.." Her mind reeling she continued quickly. " We could use Defodio and stuff that way we don't have to worry about holes between the wood and then we can add a mast and use the canvas for a sail and make a ruttter and..."

And she was off rambling on and nodding her head. Turning to her friend, with an aura of question marks every where she brought up her hands smiling ruefully. "What do you think?"

Alex had reached the lake and just stood by she saw Selena had already gotten in a group and she was one of Alex's few and far inbetween friends. So Alex decided to just wait until someone either noticed her or the Professor forced her into a group.. She just didn't know many of the people around here other then either around or she just didn't like much, mostly the first one.

Mina glanced at all the items that they could possible use and then at all the groups forming. Everyone was pairing/grouping up rather quickly. Biting her lip, she wandered toward the piles to get a better look at what was all there.

Glancing back to all the groups, she kind of wished that Evan was around to work with her. But he wasn't and she would just have to work with someone else. Again, she looked at the materials and started to think about what she could possible do with it.

Partner. Hm. Wellllll, let's see. There's Cela. She's a hard worker and very bright, but BUILDING something? Becca opted out of that option for now. As she scanned the other students present, everyone else seemed to have teamed up. Lainey was chilling on her throne, so... hey. She could build a kick-butt raft all by herself! It wouldn't be the most sturdy nor most beautiful, but she knew how to get the job done.

So Becca began her quest to build a raft that wouldn't have her sinking the moment she climbed aboard. In her mind she tried to think of the most effective, sturdy raft she could - and the image in her mind came from a very, very old Muggle TV show, Gilligan's Island. Hm. It was stupid and kind of ridiculous, but it might just work.

First, Becca gathered about seven or eight good-sized logs from the pile and lined them up in her own area of the grass. In area, it was large enough to fit another passenger or two on board - maybe Cela or Lainey - if someone wanted to freeload a trip across the lake, and the logs were thick enough that it should certainly stay afloat.

The tricky part would be to make sure the logs would stay together. Hm. She eyed her wand and pondered for a moment. Would casting a sticking charm in between each of the touching logs be as efficient as she wanted it to be? It was worth a shot. Becca used the Permanent Sticking Charm to attach every log by its side. Upon pocketing her wand again, she tried to separate a pair of logs. Hm. It WAS pretty tightly held together...

But that didn't mean Becca wasn't going to take any chances. She took one long rope and strung it underneath the row of logs towards of the top of the raft, then back around to the surface and tied it securely to the other end. She did the same thing with another rope, this time at the other end of the raft.

After many minutes of working, she stood up and took a few steps backwards. Well. It wasn't the most beautiful thing she had ever created, but it was a raft!

At least... in the making. Now what to do about a sail.

Wow someone was uptight. What was wrong with Brinky? He liked the name Brinky. It sounded less formal. “All right Brink calm down.” He could have called him that dude. But he didn’t.

Invisible wolf pack? Legend twitched. Why couldn’t anyone see that Chez was pure evil? PUURE evil. Legend just noticed but Brinkley seemed to be freaking out.....

Good freaking out was the first step to becoming less up tight. The lake wasn’t that bad. “All right, all right I’ll be good.” Legend held up both his hands as if to show that he surrendered.

As long as Chez and his big nose didn’t but in again.

....Enjoy the beautiful day? If they did that then the day would turn into night and they would never finish building the Ark..thingy. “I think we should just hurry up and build the thing...and also we should call it Brinkley’s Ark, the name has a ring to it.”

Before he knew it Raiden was like forcing him to take parchment, quill and ink. His face expression clearly said TAKKE IT. Taking the paper the fourth year sat down and began to draw. A raft with sides actually did look like an Ark. BRINKLEY’S ARK MWAHA. Okay enough playing. After a few minutes he quickly scribbling the drawing in he stood back up and held up three pictures.

“Alright this is the...random thing I drew here don’t mind this.” Why would he draw that? “And this is the side view of the Ark. And then this is the top view. At least that’s what I had in mind.” Legend really sucked at drawing.

Chez was about to open his mouth to retort at Chosen when Raiden spoke up again. Telling them to basically... shut up. The Hufflepuff had to bite into his lip hard to prevent himself from lashing out irrationally.

But... yeah they were in class. And he'd JUST gotten out of detention.

"I'll worry about you later," he muttered quietly to Legend. And well, that was the end of it. For now.

But Brinkley was actually funny, unintentionally at least. "Yeah mate, don't want to ruin that perfect skin." He patted the Gryffindor on the back. "I'll stop for the sake of your pores."

Baha.

Whipping out that niiiice blackthorn wand, he swished it a few times and conjured some thick rope. "Ok. We going to a canoe. Raft? How big is this vessel gonna be?" He was a constuction worker at heart. And he could fart like one too... not that this was the place.

The lovely, "Jack, come here will ya? We need to lay these boards out evenly you see. No cracks." They would let water it. MOST LIKELY.

He peered over shooulders to get a glance at Chosen's schematics... apparently he was the body crushed under it. "A bit juvenile," Chez said condescendingly, "But it'll work. Good work Chosen, you're coming along nicely." Only Legend would get the sarcasm. Right?

Grayson had been continually entertained at the bizarre collection of people their group had been collecting. Even as Gryffindor drama boy had kept up his threat of barfing and such. She had good enough reflexes that she could avoid it if he did. And she would have continued her amusement, if a certain other Gryffindor hadn't decided to become a thorn in her side yet again. As Legend came over, she turned away from him, only to stare at Sho's Gryffindor (aka drama boy) as he actually corrected the fourth year. Um, okay, she thought. An ark really seemed like an appropriate name for whatever they'd make. Although she'd think Legend wouldn't have made it on the ark.

Then she snickered at Jack's comment about her name. "I guess you could look at it that way," she said to the blond Ravenclaw, before shooting a glare at Legend. "Some people just focus on it being a boy's name." But then she figured Jack would understand that, even though she had a feeling that wasn't her actual name. Like how Sho wasn't Sho's actual name. "He was calling me a dirt kicker. Even though I didn't actually kick dirt at him," she helpfully explained. "But back to the ark idea, of . . ." Oh, drama boy's name was Brinkley. Glancing at him as he continued his histrionics, she shrugged. "Brinkley's" And then Raiden seemed to be taking charge, which made sense, prefect and all. As Chez brought over some boards, she looked at the Slytherin. "I can't say I'm a good drawer, but I can build. I may be tiny, but that doesn't mean I can't do stuff." She glanced over as Legend showed some drawings, and tried not to snicker again. "Um, maybe we should just see what we can come up with without drawings." Chez seemed like he knew stuff. Even though he hadn't known about Barty, and she still doubted he knew all the stories from Harry Potter's time. At least, he knew building stuff. Like that whole making things watertight.

"Logs are pretty buoyant." Carter said. Well... at least that's what he learned in muggle school. And he'd seen plenty of rafts made of logs.

"And we could use sticking charms and maybe even a feather-light charm if that'll make you feel more comfortable. I think we'll be able to put sides in too." he said.

"Well maybe we could put at least one side on it for you Evelyn," Marie said. She wasn't sure about that though since she had never done this before. "What do you guys think?" she aslked everyone else in the group.

"Levitating the logs sounds like a good idea to me," she said looking between Kylie and Carter. "Maybe after we get them tied together with the rope we can use a super strong sticking charm too." You know, just to make sure the raft wasn't going to fall apart on them.

Looking over at the pile of logs she seen Mina standing there... alone. "Hey Mina, wanna come work with us?" They had room for one more in their group, right?

Somewhere along the way, the raft had become a boat which had then turned into an ark and suddenly it was Brinkley's Ark. He didn't mind much except that now he felt like calling himself Noah and magicking himself a long and fuzzy beard. Clearing his throat, Brink seized the phial from Raiden's fingers.

Off came the top, and down went the contents of the potion. At first, his body felt warm. Slowly, he felt his fingers and toes tingling. It was almost like his entire body fell asleep--except he was definitely awake. A sloppy crooked grin was plastered against his face and he wasn't even bothered by that Chez Puff touching him.

Chuckling, Brinkley took Chosen's designs. He analyzed them, crooked smile still in place. Brink even held up the designs against the sun, twisted and turned them every which way. "These are horribly amusing," announced the boy with a chuckle. "Chosen, I think you're fired from ark design. Please get in line for job reassignment. Jack you can...." he trailed off, raising his brows simultaneously.

Jack...could....he giggled. "You can lure animals into the ark with your singing voice or whatever..." Except, Chez Puff was already taking her away from the group. What a suspicious man. That made him giggle too. "Alright, Chosen, look I guess this as good as it gets. We either float or drown. No big deal. It happens all the time."

He turned to Sho and wrapped one arm around her shoulders. "I'll stick with Sho and apply some sticking charms." Ha. Look at that, he had made a funny. "What's little Grayson going to do, though?"