Kita kept her eyes firmly shut as they landed. She didn't need her eyes to be open to know that everything was spinning in that horrible way it does when she travels for a long time in a car.

Slowly, she opened her eyes, just as things were becoming steady again. A small smile spread across her face as she looked around at where they were. The Natural History museum? Really? So that meant that they had apparated to... London?! Woah!

Kita took a map and opened it. Wow, this building was huge. She looked up at the Professor as she asked about the... "Is that a dinosaur?" she asked out loud.

Eyebrow raised. OH, YES.

He fought the urge to reply back and simply...stood there.

What was what? Oh, "You mean, the dragon-wannabe? Nope." And he may have been wanting to annoy Saylen, maybe. Or maybe he truly didn't know what the dinosaur was. There had been so many of them, that who on Earth could know the scientific name of the thing?

Oh. Kurumi did. Blink.



But, hold on, did Arya need some help? Nah, their trio (meaning Aaron, Treyen and Arya) were strong enough as to not need help after Apparating. Though, he couldn't wait until he gets to do so on his own. Not that he'll be doing that a lot.

'A grass eating one'. Haha. Good one. "Herbivore, Arya." Tsk. She knew that.



"You okay?" yes, that same question again, and since they'd established that he could ask it without any particular reason, then it was all good.

He couldn't help it. Treyen chuckled at her comment about the Apparition part. "Let's not."

Oooooh, and when Ellie turned to Arya, the boy actually forgot to ask his friend the same question he'd asked Ellie. It was only polite to do so, even if he didn't think it necessary. Arya was always alright.

Treyen followed the Ravenclaw's gaze and actually wondered how big was this compared to an actual dragon. You know, the biggest dragons. Which were...?

Oh, and yes, he was still holding her hand, of course.

Jaina raised her hand excitedly. Something she knew!!! "Professor, that's a dinosaur. More exact, I believe it to be the bones of a Brachiosuarus." Jaina was beaming with pride. She was glad she remembered to put the kerchief on her hair....it was probably purple!

"It's a dinosaur! Or well it was a dinosaur..." Nika blurted out.

Jacob said nothing to Emily, his mouth was gapping. What just happened? This wasn't anypart of hogwarts he'd ever seen... and then the Professor answered.

London? But they were just in Hogwarts, and he was pretty sure he'd heard somewhere that you can't apparate off school grounds. And more importantly, they were in a humongous muggle filled museum... Jacob could get lost... actually there was only a very small percent that he wouldn't get lost.

Jacob was gonna be left behind!

...

Oh look, Big bones.

Jacob got closer to the large dead creature. "It's a huge... dead" obviously. "Creature... that could stomp on me, and most likely laid eggs." most likely... cause you know, acient creatures always laid eggs

Emily laughed and went to stand by her friend. "Is it?" she asked looking up at it. Wierd thing wasn't it?
"You excited for this?" It was a field trip in their own lesson! Awesome! Shame they had to be around... muggles. She got enough muggle-ness at home thank you very much.
She looked at the map and examined it. 'The earth lab' Sounded interesting. Mabye Nika would want to go there?

One second blackness was rushing past in a whirlwind of motion and the next they all came to an abrupt halt in a bright entranceway. Her eyelashes fluttered a bit as she blinked at the change in lighting. With a shake of her head to clear the temporary disorientation Ivory released the firstie's hands and took an involuntary step forward to look around....at the alley?

Her face showing her bewilderment, she brought a hand to her stomach. Oh Merlin, side along apparation was definitely not for an everyday thing. The queasiness alone...

In an attempt to ignore the funny feeling in her stomach, she straightened up slightly as Professor Saylen asked everyone to stay together and follow her. Pausing where she was for a moment as everyone began to move forward, she lagged back a bit and helped usher along everyone along, finally moving ahead herself when she was positive no one had been left behind.

Skipping a bit to catch up as they rounded the corner, Ivory couldn't help the large smile that grew on her face as she realized where they were. Arching her neck to admire the arched windowed ceiling, she bounced a bit on her heels. Ooooh, she hadn't been here in years.

Tuning into what was going on, Ivory accepted the pamphlet and promptly opened it up to give it a once over. She was here. Right at that spot. Right in front of the dinosaur.

Raising a hand a bit,she piped in to the variety of answers around her. "Fossils, Professor. Fossils of a now extinct dinosaur."

Alice had never traveled like that before but she couldn't help but reach her hand up to her head to try and stop the room from spinning. She turned her head and saw that Lexi was standing next to her with a rather repulsed looking facial expression while Salander was running the other direction.

Poor Sal. She felt weird but she wasn't going to puke. Giving Lexi's hand a little squeeze to steady herself, the room eventually stopped spinning and she realized they were standing in front of a rather large collection of dinosaur bones in what Alice could tell was a museum. Neat!

"Wow, pretty cool huh?" Alice whispered to Lexi, uncertain as to whether or not they should be talking at normal level for fear of drawing unnecessary attention from the nearby muggles.

Lexi returned the pressure on her other hand and actually scooted closer to Alice as she spoke to her. "What is it though? I haven't... I don't know," Lexi mumbled. She had never seen anything like that before... and there were in the middle of a MUGGLE place and it made her uncomfortable. REALLY uncomfy.

Arya didn't know what Ellie was talking about. What would she do if what? Did she say something before they arrived? If so, she didn't remember it now.

"Never better." She gave Ellie a smile. It wasn't one hundred percent true, but this wasn't her first apparation, so she knew she would be back to her normal bubbly self very soon. Treyen's answer had her stiffling a giggle, shaking her head slowly. Dragon-wannabe, he was silly.

Ah. That was the word she'd forgotten. Herbivore. She grinned at Treyen. "I knew that.....I was just giving someone else a chance to respond." Yup. Thaaaat was the reason. Not her being dizzy from apparating or the museum itself.

"Yes, I'm fine." BEAM. "There're just too many people. I'm pretty sure they," she nodded over to the person who had taken her other hand, "Hit my head with theirs." Ow.

And she smiled at Arya. Good.

Ellie snorted in her attempt to NOT laugh at the 'dragon wannabe', but since the snort gave it away, she just didn't care. So she LAUGHED at that. It was totally true. They're completely jealous they don't spit fire and fly and are ferocious. They're just pathetic.

Nika turned around being a little startled by her friend's appearance. "Oh hi Emily! I didn't see you there!" Nika gave her friend a hug then turned her attention back to her professor. She wasn't sure how much talking professor Saylen could tolerate.

Apparition!

Mia didn't like it any better the second time round. When they all landed in the museum, she felt her knees wobble a little and she let go of whoever's hand she was holding and almost crumpled to the floor.

Taking a few deep breaths, she looked around the room they were in and raised her hand. "It's the bones of a dinosaur." She had no idea which dinosaur it was, she was too busy trying not to throw up on the floor.

What...on in Merlin's...name had they just done...?

Vashti thought the name of this teleportation sort of thing was Apparation or something like that - her mind was a little fuzzy right now so she wasn't sure. Whatever it was, she was definitely not planning on ever using it. She'd stick with brooms or the Knight Bus or something to get somewhere. This was too...nauseating...

She perked up a little though when she realized they were in a museum - a natural history museum. Now this was Vashti's kind of class!

And dinosaurs! Vashti liked those things too. Learning about them at least. She eyed the dino bones that were set up, trying to recall what she knew about these. After a few seconds she raised her hand. "I'm not sure about its specific name," was there a plaque she wasn't seeing?, "but I think the - I guess - 'type' of dinosaur it is is a sauropod. They're the ones with the really long necks, and they're usually really big." Big was probably an understatement...

"They're bones, or fossils I suppose is the more appropriate term, of dinosaurs. They existed around the time cavemen did," said Alice with a little smile, looking back at the dinosaur bones in front of her with a smile. She had visited some museums like this when she was younger and went to muggle school, but she didn't think she'd ever been to this one. The fact that Salander still hadn't returned made Alice a little nervous. "Do you think Salander is alright?" Alice asked, figuring Lexi would know better than her.

not wanting to be a show off but wanting the girl to understand " Thease guys died out like 65 million yr ago man first ansestor didnt show up untill like 2.5 million yr ago "then pointing to the info card down at the bottom

Chad was a grown man. He could apparate himself to the Museum and that was exactly what he did...after making a much needed coffee pit stop. He was going to need it make it through the day, but don't get him wrong: he was VERY excited.

:3


Chad made sure to move quietly around the students and over to where Maya was standing, not wanting to disturb the students as they answered questions. Such smarties.

Once beside her, he held out her coffee for her to take. It was his way to say 'thank you' for her agreeing to put up with him for the day. Heh. Heavens knew how much of an accomplishment that would be...

Dinosaur. :3

Emmy beamed at Professor Saylen's question - dinosaurs had been her specialist subject pre-Hogwarts, and she'd almost grown up in this very museum.
Raising her hand politely, she said, "That's the herbivore, Diplodocus carnegii, Professor."
She could even see a couple of staff members that she used to be friendly with floating around nearby.
She wondered idly if they remembered her... Probably not, she decided.

Maya's eyes remained narrowed at the two girls for a moment longer, as they explained themselves. She could imagine it, everyone dissapearing in this gigantic museum and Maya would have to explain to the Headmaster why the hell they had not returned to school with her.

Ugh...
"Allright." Yes, let's not see that happening again. "I know it's exciting and all." She hoped.

"Yes, indeed it is a type of Diplodocus." she nodded at the girl.

A what? "Miss Skylar, if I do not actually say that you can go off on your own, then you cannot assume you are allowed to." Right? "I will not send you back to school." Yet. Hehe.

Lookit, there was one who knew names. "It does look like one...but it is infact a type of Diplodocus dinosaur. But good guess."

A bunch of bones. The Mexicana turned to look at the skeleton, and then back at the girl. "Yes...There are bones there." So...some of them didn't know what this was. Right. Note to self.

"Correct, dinosaur bones." She nodded with a small smile.

Oh...dear.
"How do you know it's dead?" Hmmm? A Thestral could look dead to anyone who didn't know what they were.

Hehe.

Ah! "A grass eating dinosaur, good answer." Totally.

Again. "How do you know it's dead?"

Dun duun Duuuuuuuuuuuun!

"Yes, this is a dinosaur!" Excitiiing!

Dragon wannabe? Oh...

OOOH.

He didn't.
But he did! "A dragon-wannabe, huh? Maybe this is the super-great grandfather of a dragon." Yeah, think about that. "Good wording, Mister Lockhart."

"Good guess, Miss Maloney. But this is actually a...relative to the Diplodocus." Hm, made sense?

"Yes, it is!" Getting excited there... "Good answer, Miss Black."

Well...stomp, yes. "Yes, that is all true." Heh. "Laying eggs, that is a good point. Very good, Mister Blunt."

Oh, they were all getting good with words! "Fossils, that is correct. Good answer, Miss Erised."

Bones, fossils. Nice. "Yes, yes it is, Miss Gibbins." Nod nod.

"Yes indeed. This dinosaur is a type of Sauropod. Good answer."

"Yes, indeed it is, Miss Frost." the Mexicana nodded.

Okay, so far everything was going allright, but she could feel the immense rise in excitement in this great room and Maya's curiosity was itching to run around and absorb the information... EVERYWHERE.
So, hopefully she wouldn't tell them to stay here while she went on a happy trip around the museum.

!

Oh dear Merlin. He was here, and he brought...coffe. She saw Chad come closer and tried her best not to snatch that delicious drink out of his hand. Ahem. She was really going to be needing this. "Gracias, Mister Stryker." She gave him a smile and gratefully accepted the coffee.


"Everyone, you all know Mister Stryker, the Groundskeeper." She adressed the class again, though the man didn't need an introduction. "He will be joining us today." So you can't escape. "I'm glad you could be here. This might get a little too exciting." If he knew what she meant. Another smile his way.


Everyone ready to move on?"Allright, let's head on over to the Dinosaur Gallery, shall we?" And then she very much turned serious, "Follow me." Practically glared at them all as if she could read their little 'Run-off-and-play' plans in their minds. She started making her way to the Dinosaur Gallery on their left, keeping close to the Groundskeeper.

smelling fresh coffee Mikey looks around and sees Mr Stryker " Good afternoon Mr Stryker hear to help the Proffessor with the coralling of the students " more likley to catch the eye of a certain Senorita

Charley was about to raise her hand when Jaina's shot up next to her.
She decided not to answer; She was likely the most knowledgeable student in their year, if not more, whereas Jaina's muggleborn heritage hadn't allowed her to earn that. She smiled over at Jaina. The miniscule amount of hair Charley could see from underneath the handkerchief Jaina'd worn was now a very pretty lavender. Charley reached over gently and pulled the handkerchief so that it covered all of Jaina's hair. With how quickly the colour changed Jaina would be violating the rules, as if she were accidentally transforming into her animal form.
Charley slid her wand further into her bag for safekeeping, heeding the sleeping kitten, and opened the map in front of Jaina and herself.

Charley folded up her map and and started walking after Professor Saylen and Groundskeeper Stryker, trying to keep from bursting of excitement.

As the feeling of Aparation disapated....Patroclus found himself in one of the greatest place in the world.


And he was actually not that far from his house....perhaps if he just slipped away, he did miss his Mother and Father.......actaully Father may be here?!?!?!?


Pushing the thoughts of a Family reunion to the side, Patroclus did a little jig, a very little one, compared to the desire he had within to bounce around and scream with joy.

"Professor," Lovely professor, "That is the Diplodocus carnegii, and from Fossil evidence, it had been decided that it lived primarily in what is now North Western America, during the Late Jurassic Period."

It was a small wonder Patroclus loved Dinosaurs, Archealogoy was what he was brought up on!



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And they were off, as the class began to move, Patroclus realised he had quite the hop in his step......actually you would probably class him as skipping.

He just could not help himself.


Trying his best not to power-skip past the professor, Patroclus was finding it rather quiet a struggle! He want to grab her hand and drag her to the Dinosaur Gallery fast!


Faster Professor, Faster!!!!!

Kurumi blushed and bowed her head. She needed to be on the Professor's good side if she was going to ask about perhaps adopting an Abraxan later. "Good day, Mister Stryker," Kurumi said bowing slightly to him as her eyes took a quick glance towards the coffee he had given to Professor Saylen. Interesting...

Then, out of pure habit, Kurumi grabbed onto Selina's hand as they began to followed the professors towards the dinosaur exhibit. Her elementary school had always put extra emphasis on the buddy system. Sadly, no one had ever wanted to be her buddy, so she had always been partnered up with the teacher. Her heart skipped a beat and she put just a little bit of bounce into her step for no other reason than she was really happy to be holding hands with a friend.

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smelling fresh coffee Mikey looks around and sees Mr Stryker " Good afternoon Mr Stryker hear to help the Proffessor with the coralling of the students " more likley to catch the eye of a certain Senorita

Chad smiled in return to the young male's greeting and then chuckled. "Oui, Monsieur. Did you not know? I am a certified student coral-er. Plus, I like museums." Oop. Maya seemed to be on the move.

"Come now, follow Professor Saylen before we all get lost." Not that there was anything wrong with that, really...

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"Good day, Mister Stryker," Kurumi said bowing slightly to him as her eyes took a quick glance towards the coffee he had given to Professor Saylen. Interesting...

"Mademoiselle Hollingberry," he smiled, giving her a little wave and then taking a sip of his delicious Irish Cream coffee. Mmmm.

"Enjoy the museum so far, I hope?" He motioned for her to walk with him so that they could follow Maya, but still talk. He was an excellent multi-tasker.

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Oh dear Merlin. He was here, and he brought...coffe. She saw Chad come closer and tried her best not to snatch that delicious drink out of his hand. Ahem. She was really going to be needing this. "Gracias, Mister Stryker." She gave him a smile and gratefully accepted the coffee.

"Everyone, you all know Mister Stryker, the Groundskeeper." She adressed the class again, though the man didn't need an introduction. "He will be joining us today." So you can't escape. "I'm glad you could be here. This might get a little too exciting." If he knew what she meant. Another smile his way.

Everyone ready to move on?"Allright, let's head on over to the Dinosaur Gallery, shall we?" And then she very much turned serious, "Follow me." Practically glared at them all as if she could read their little 'Run-off-and-play' plans in their minds. She started making her way to the Dinosaur Gallery on their left, keeping close to the Groundskeeper.

DINOSAURS. :3

Rawr.

"Come, students. Plenty to see and little time to do so. Marche, mes amis," he smiled, starting to usher students along with one hand. The other was preoccupied with delicious coffee. Yum.

"You are having a fun time already, Madame Saylen," he smiled. "The students seem to be excited about this. Excellent idée."

Riley walked behind Professor Saylen and the Groundskeeper eyeing them suspiciously. Maybe they thought being surrounded by dead things was romantic? Oh well he could be reading the situation wrong Definately not, Riley wasn't wrong very often.

The Gryffindor boy followed them towards the Dino-gallery looking wide-eyed at the historical things and Muggles alike. 'Oh! Was that a Camera?!' he had a mini freak out to himself.