Post4!

Okay.. Thea had had enough of this stupid activity now. She was now on her hands and knees crawling through a teeny tiny tunnel. Well, it had seemed teeny tiny but conveniently Thea could squeeze in! Her only source of light was her lit wand which was inbetween her teeth, and of course the irritating arrows that she had to follow.

Just ahead of her, came another teeeeny wall. Growling under her breath, Thea got down onto her belly. Grasping her wand, she pointed it to the stupidly little wall. 'Diffindo.. blah blah blah.'

.. where did this tunnel lead to? It wasn't a trap or anything, was it? There were the arrows still floating above her head, without touching it. And because she was a Ravenclaw, Louisa couldn't take it anymore. She halted, extended her hand and jumped. She had to know what they felt like.. were they rubber? Sprakles? Weird material? Ghost-like? But the arrow jumped away from her hand O_o

She stared at it for a moment before trying again only with same result. "Okay.. you're daring me?! An arrow's daring me?" Again with the talking-to-oneself attitude, she pointed her wand at the arrow and, "Stupify!" She'd stunned a hopping frog, a sleazy newt and a bunch of other stuff were supposed to be for Potions Homework.. an arrow shouldn't be a problem, should it?

PUFF!

This time and when the spell hit the floating thing, it overgrew and fell on Louisa's head before going right onto the ground. She paused a moment then bent down, "See? Nobody messes with aunt Louisa." She smirked moving her hand to touch it.

Or not.

It sprang off the grounds and got back to where it floated a few seconds before and resized itself to its original shape, pouring enough water on the girl to wet her hair. "EEEW! The arrow's just peed on me!" She screamed running forward and shaking the water off. Not long afterwards, she bumped into something.

Raising her wand before her and panting slightly, she faced a wall, "Diffindio!" She shouted bitterly. The building materials in this area were all evil! This wall should be punished for what the arrow had done! So with a double slashing movements, the wall scrambled to the ground in pieces. Beyond it, was a figure moving…

GULP!

Wasn't it Louisa or did the next area seemed darker? She stuck to one side of the tunnel and moved slyly toward the figure ready to tear it apart with her brand new charm. When the figure didn't move, she was under the impression that it was only some kind of a scarecrow.. well in this case scarestudentscrow… whatever. And she wasn't fooled, "Diff-" She started at the shape.

Now Nessie had made it through her first obstacle. The maze and the wall were now both gone. She kinda hopped the rest would be just as easy. She carried on following what she called the Dancing Disco Arrows or rather for short the DD Arrows. She giggled at her own thought and carried on following the Disco Arrows looking up every now and then to see where she was walking to.

The arrows were starting to seem endless. Nessie looked up again to see that see that she was now wierdly surounded by Humungus flying balloons. She looked behind her to see that there were even more balloons. They must have apeared out of somewhere she thought, but she didn't figure out how they worked. They looked almost as big as those big bouncy balls that some people would use when doing excersise. The balloons kept on getting bigger and bigger as the time past but none popped.

She looked back infront of her to see that there were only really two balloons she needed to pop. It would be stupid to pop the rest for nothing. Nessie pointed her wand carefully at one of the balloons and focusing as hard as she could she shouted "DIFFINDO!!" the balloons popped in half and the air from the balloon flew everywhere. Nessie watched as the first ballon fell to the floor. She looked up again where the first ballon was only to see that another one, more or less the same size took its place. She tried again, but the same thing happened.

How am I ever going to do this?thought Ness a little tear rolling down her eye. What if she would be stuck forever. Just think she kept on telling herself think. She didn't have much time as the balloons just kept on getting bigger and bigger. "GOT IT!" she kinda said to herself excited she had figured it out. "I need to Pop those two ballons one after the other then make a run for it!" Wait why am I talking allowed to myself she thought in her mind.

She took her wand again getting read to be fast and run. 1...2...3.. "DIFFINDO!!" She screamed at the first balloon. It popped almost immiediately. Nessie quickly pointed her wand at the second balloon. "DIFFINDO!!" she shouted then ran at full speed. She had done it! She had made it! She carried on walking along her Disco Dancing Arrows nervous for what was comming.

As Lara got into the tunnel she stood there observing the surrounding. She didn't see much just a couple of split things. Clearly few students were here before her. She looked around trying to catch on where her arrow went. She glanced it and walked where it pointed. On her way her foot hit something solid. She bent down to check it and it was a glass board crossing her way. First she tried to move it but then she felt stupid for doing this! They are supposed to practice the spell!

So she took few steps back held her wand up and said "Diffindo" and the board was gone! Lara smiled satisfyingly she was enjoying this more and more.

Lara then walked after the next arrow she her eyes were moving fast trying to catch anything moving. That's why she forgot to look right in front of her. As another solid thing hit her in her stomach! Lara's eyes widened and were filled of tears. She let out a moan. She looked down to look what on earth was this! And it turned out that it's a horizontal pole "Very funny" she murmured as she moved her wand downward and said "Diffindo!" and the pole turned into dust.

She straightened herself to carry on. She was now trying to look in all the directions .As she was walking she heard some voices, she stopped. trying to find out where they're coming from. She turned to where the voice was echoing. She saw a shadowy figure but she stayed still and she didn't move.

She wondered if there are any humans obstacles or so. However, before trying to know the answer Lara held her wand up and said "lumos" and as the light flickered she recognized the figure but to her surprise the figure was aiming at her so she shouted out and loud and it sounded like a plea"Noo! Lou this is mee Lara!" she hoped it wasn't too late as she covered her face with both hands.

Post5!

Furiously shoving her hair over her shoulder, Thea marched on. She was alone, it was darkish AND she hadn't run into anybody?!?! Ridiculous much. Letting out a shriek, Thea fell riiight on her butt. LKooking donw she seemed to be on a long conveyer belt.. and it was shuddering to life. Grasping her wand, Thea held up her head.

In the weak light, the lioness could just make out a wall coming up towards her. Frowning she also spotted her arrow. On the wall. Merh, whatever. Lets blaaast da wall! Sighing, Thea once again pointed her wand at the wall. This was getting boring. 'Diffindo..' She yawned.

Ariella sighed as she finally reached the end of the tunnel. She rushed over to the flowers, trying to look at as many as she could. Then, a rumble. The ground started to shift beneath her. Again. She shrieked and quickly rushed back into the tunnel. She found herself tumbling down a twisting slide.

When she could finally open her eyes again, she was in the middle of a clear tunnel. She saw an arrow pointing ahead in the distance. She clambered towards it, only to find herself face to face with a metal wall. "Diffindo!" she said firmly. The wall split, opening up a narrow passageway.

Ariella looked down. The clear tunnel allowed her to see a full view of the lake. The glassy water reflected the sun, sending a shadow of sparkles over her.

Nessie followed the path wondering when the next obstacle would be up. She could see something in the distance. It was something colorful, but she wasn’t too sure what it was just yet. She would have to get a little closer and then maybe, just maybe she could see what was far ahead. Closer and closer she got finally starting to realize what the strange object could be. It looked like a hole or a tunnel. She couldn’t exactly see the whole thing.

Wait a second it wasn’t a slide was it? Nooooo! Never! it was too big to be a slide. She looked down again at her Disco Dancing Arrows trying not to focus on the hole or whatever it was and trying to rather focus on getting to it first. Eventually about ten minutes later she was standing right by object. It was a slide after all. She then made sure that arrows wanted did after all want her to go down the slide.

Nervously she sat down by the beginning of the slide, then gave herself a little push. “AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!” she screamed as she went down the slide. It was a long and twisty slide. She was getting nearer to the end, well at least she hoped she was. She was starting to get a little dizzy from the slide. And there it was the ending hole, but wait it seemed to be blocked by something.

It was blocked by a see through wall and it was barely visible. She only managed see it because she saw some of the water from the Lake reflect on it. She quickly pointed her wand which was in her hand, at the transparent wall. She only had a few more seconds to go before she would bang into the wall. “DIFFINDO!!!” she shouted at nearly the last second she had. She then felt herself fly right through were the transparent wall was and before she realized where she was standing she felt something wet.

She looked down noticing that she was now standing knee deep in the lake water. This water is freezing was her first thought. She wanted to get out as quick as possible. She turned around seeing as the arrows told her to go left. On her left she saw a ladder leading out of the lake and back onto a ground path. She climbed up the ladder and carried on with her adventure.

Louisa froze when a girl said her name. Quickly, she lowered her wand and looked clearly at the girl's lumos-ed face. "Lara?" She walked toward the girl chuckling… and was about to ask 'what are you doing here' before she remembered it was a lesson… naturally she'd be here. "Sorry, I thought you were something to destroy." She replied blatantly and then squeezed her eyes, "Lou? You called me Lou?" The same as Johnny used to call her.. but he was her brother! And he barely could talk! He was sick now and the last thing Louisa needed was a reminder. "Don't do that again." She said quietly.

The thirteen year old looked down at her friend's wand to see it shining. "Is it too dark?" She raised her eyebrows. Louisa was doing quite fine without a Lumos but since Lara had done that, the Ravenclaw was not going to walk along a Slytherin light.. no way. But.. "What if we can't use Diffindio if there's a Lumos charm on?" Louisa pointed out, pleased with her super duper smartness. "I'll break the blocks as we go while you tag along." Tag along, as in follow and make the way seeable for me.

Following the floating arrow forward, Louisa walked before Lara did. The ground beneath them was starting to get wet a bit, "Do you think we'll end up inside the lake?" Louisa suggested seriously, "I don-" She was saying when a net blocked the girls' way. Without hesitating, Louisa slashed her wand downward muttering, "Diffindio!"

Penny had walked along the corridor, which seemed to be shrinking smaller, soon she was bending to walk, then she was on her hands and knees....what's up with this tunnel? she said, mostly to herself, for she hadn't seen anyone around her..

The deeper she went into the tunnel, the darker it became... soon she had to light her wand "lumos", her wand tip lit up to show her the way..

At the end of this tunnel/corridor, she saw a wall - but this wall she could she through... Pulling out her wand, pointing it at the wall...

"Diffindo", she yelled at the wall and watched it split, making a gap big enough for her to step through....

Onto the next phase, she thought.... but already tired of this task

... and she was finally away from all those balls.

When Helena was out of there, she found some kind of tunnel, while all the arrows were pointing towards it. The only thing she didn't really like was that the tunnel seemed... long. And dark. Before entering (and she even had to bent down in there, hmph), she muttered Lumos, and a tiny light came out of the end of her wand. It was slightly better, but she still hoped she won't just fall into the lake at some point.

And there it was, the end of the tunnel. She also found out the reason it was so dark. It was a dead end, of course. And this one... she had no idea what it was made of, but she made a few slash movements, as she said "Diffindo."

There. Light.

What next?

Post6!

Professor had maybe used the word adventure to describe this torture. Thea could use a lot of words to describe this.. a lot of words her Mother would 'diffindo' her for saying!

Shaking her hair out of her eyes for the 32534th time, Thea carried on following her neon arrows. She really really hoped this journey was at and end.. sometime SOON. She began angrily muttering to herself, when suddenly she came to a rope ladder.

Sighing, Thea grabbed the ladder and began to climb. As her head bumped sometihng, she cussed quietly. 'Really? why put one there?!' With difficulty, Thea managed to point her wand to the annoying wall. 'Diffindo!!' she shouted angrily, and suddenly she was back in the classroom.

'OH THANKYOU, LORD!' Thea fell to her knees, onto the floor. Nearly hugging it, she also dropped her wand. 'Oh thankyou Merlin that's over!' Freezing, she sat up. 'I hope to never ever use Diffindo again!'

Lara was so glad that she was still in one piece! She lowered her hands and tried to sound cool. She looked at Louisa and said "Something to destroy?! Aren't you a smart student! Professor Descoteaux wouldn't put humans for destroying!" she said frustratingly .Although she thought the same thing when she saw her "Anyway, it's good you didn't" she said in a calm voice now. She paused trying to remember , she just said it she wasn't thinking "Yeah, Lou is shorter and I didn't have time to waste I was about to get destroyed!" she giggled. She was curious why Louisa didn't like it but she just said "Ok, I won't".

The true Slytherin eyed the Ravenclaw "No it's not too dark!" Lara snapped "But I wanted to see what I'm destroying before I do it" she said pressing on the I "Unlike others who destroy randomly" she turned her face and started to look for her arrow as she whispered "Nox" and the light went out "We don't need the light it's ok" she turned back to Louisa "If you can't see turn on your own light" Lara wouldn't let the Ravenclaw do the splitting thing while she tags along!!


Lara then spotted her arrow and started following it. Louisa was ahead of her and she was talking ,Lara heard something about the lake so she answered " Nope! Professor Descoteaux already said we're not" she told her "Although I hoped that we would". Lara didn't see what blocked their way she only saw tiny pieces flying. She hated how Louisa got to see it before Lara did. So she picked up her pace and was few steps ahead of Louisa when she faced a wall blocking the way. She looked around trying to find if there's any other way but there wasn't. So Lara took the chance and moved her wand downward saying "Diffindo!" And the wall was dust. And her clothes were too! Clearly she should've taken a few steps back before destroying the wall. She coughed because she inhaled some of the dusty air and then she looked behind her to see where Louisa is.

Along the ground path carried on Ness. She hoped she was almost done, because each obstacle seemed to be getting harder and harder every time. I can do this! She kept on encouraging herself. She was pretty eager for the next obstacle. They may have been getting harder, but they were also getting more fun and exciting. So off she went wand in her hand singing a little tune to herself to keep her self a little occupied as she walked.

Nessie noticed a patch of grass that didn’t exactly look like the rest, but it was probably just her mind playing tricks on her. She carried on deciding to forget she even saw the patch of strange glass. As soon as her foot touched the patch that she wanted to forget about, a weird sort of marble cage appeared around her out of nowhere. She should have seen this one coming. She tried to cast Diffindo at the walls of the cage, but every time she did the spell just gave the marble on the wall a tiny crack and nothing else.

Nessie looked down Trying to see what direction the Dancing Disco Arrow, surely that would help. She then realized it was showing her to go down. She pointed her wand at the weird patch of grass and shouted “DIFFINDO!!!” she then felt the earth she was on shake and break apart. The next thing she knew she was falling down some sort of tunnel only to be stopped by a softish net which caught her. She was only mid way through the tunnel, as she could see it went on. She looked at the next arrow. It showed her to go down, but How? She would fall and hurt herself wouldn’t she.

Nessie looked around and having no other option. She aimed her wand at the net and shouted. “DIFFINDO!!!” . All she could do was hope for the best of luck. Closing her eyes she went deeper and deeper into the tunnel only to found her self land on the most softest ground she had ever felt it her life. It had to be a charm she thought. Anyway getting up she continued going right along the tunnel.

Savannah took some gillyweed and the 'antidote' bottle. This actually sounds pretty fun! They don't do anthing like this everyday!

All righty! The room began to change. Foam walls were everywhere, and there are dark tunnels that made Savannah hope that she wouldn't be going down any of them. Savvy began to follow the arrow closest to her. She kept her wand out, so she will be ready to pounce on any grindalow, even though the professor said there wouldn't be any. Who knows what could be in there place?

The arrow led to a foam wall. Pooey. "Diffindo!" said Savannah loudly and clearly. The foam wall splitted half way. Ugh! When will she be getting it right? "Diffindo!" Savannah said again to cut the other half down. She walked through and saw more arrows. She followed it and saw a fork. Where route should she take? There are two arrows pointing both ways. Maybe both of them will be able to take her back to the original Charms classroom. Savannah definetly hope so, she randomly took the right one. Soon, she found herself in total darkness.

Bummer.

Penny walked through the broken wall and immediately began scanning the walls for another arrow.... after a few seconds she saw it pointing to the right of the room she was in....walking in the direction pointed for about five minutes, every so often there was another arrow confirming she was going in the right direction..

Then suddenly the arrow instead of pointing ahead, now pointed down...Penny followed the direction with her eyes and felt her stomach fall....Another slide!!

Slowly making her way over to the slide entrance... taking out her wand, "lumos"... holding it tight in her hand, she sat down on the edge of the slide and pushed herself down.......

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", this slide was so long - where would she come out at... nerves were making her tummy sick..but maybe that was the slide...

As she slid, Penny saw something in front of her, like in a faraway distant sort of way..

Getting closer to the object, she saw that it was the end of the slide.... she had just breathed a sigh of relief when she realised the slide was taking her into the grounds... she could see trees, or more precisely branches..

Emerging from the slide with a bump on her bum... she found her feet, seeing an arrow pointing left - but her way was barred with the branches of a Devils Snare plant....

"Diffindo" she yelled, making a hole for her to squeeze through...silently thanking merlin that this task was at least half over now...

:-/
Louisa decided not to respond to Lara's snapping at first but when the Slytherin mentioned being smart and all, the girl blurted out, "I am smart! I didn't expect people to linger around in this tunnel instead of running forward." She argued as they walked on. But then and all of a sudden, the Slytherin sprang forward and destroyed a wall which bit the dust at once. Literally. Louisa frowned and caught up with her, "You should've taken a step back." She patronized... unnecessarily.

Following the arrow on, the water started to appear and a few feet away she saw a shiny circle- an exit. "Look! We're close!" She said excitedly, Louisa didn't like this narrow dim tunnel. Her feet splashing against the little water filling the ground, she didn't wait for her friend to follow. She was about to get out and get rid of this evil playing area with peeing arrows! She was about to have victory! She was about to-

BANG!

.. one minute she was seeing a shiny circle growing bigger and bigger, the next minute she was on her stomach. She turned around, still on the ground, and saw strings stretched from one side of the tunnel to the other. Perplexed, she got up, her front side was wet, and looked down at it. "Why would anyone put this thing in here?" She said bitterly, pressing the string. Instantly, she heard a splashing sound. "What was that?" She said, her voice shaking a bit. She turned around and saw a big block working as a mill. Going down on the ground with a splash but no hitting sound was heard.

"A mill?! Somebody put a mill in a playing area?!" She scowled, "Diffinfio!" And the spell split the block in two parts falling on the ground with a slight splash. Louisa walked over to them and touched one of them with her hand. It wasn't a solid material, "Rubber?" She said in disbelief, "Is there anything real in here." She said getting up and feeling silly.. for some reason.

Not exactly sure how to jump out of the tunnel, Helena decided to sit down on the edge and let her feet fall and see what's there. She wouldn't just bent down to get a look of whatever it was outside the tunnel, because she knew how clumsy she was she it was very likely for her to fall.

The girl sat down and let her feet down, out of the tunnel and...

SPLASH!

...

It was water. But it wasn't anything like a... lake. It was just a little bit of water that was reaching her ankles. Great. Now her shoes will fill with water.

Helena hopped down and... uhh, the water was a little bit higher than she thought it was. But still not reaching her knees. She slowly made her way through the... room? that she was in, and finally found another kind of door. "Diffindo."

Slash, slash.

Penny found the next arrow fairly quickly after emerging through the Devils Snare hole..... following it's direction, she saw that she needed to go by the greenhouses...

Ok she thought, lets see where this takes me.... wandering along the egde of the lake up towards the greenhouses... wondering what new obstacle awaited her there..

Reaching the Herbology area, entering the greenhouse saw immediately what she was facing... a massive foam wall !

Giggling a little, she pointed her wand at the foam and said lazily "Diffindo", bringing the wand in a downward slash, the foam fall collapsed in the middle, allowing her to walk through...

four down - two to go....the end of this silly task is nearly in sight..

Splash, splash.

... splash.

Besides feeling tired of this whole... thing, Helena felt a bit... mad. Why did she have to go through all this to practice one charm, when there were enough trees in the Forbidden Forest to cut with Diffindo? Okay, she'll never harm a tree... or anything else, but STILL.

So... more splashes, as the girl made her way through the water, kind of... kicking it. Because she was tired and she wanted to get dry shoes!

Helena followed more arrows that led her to another passageway. She had a feeling that she'll really fall into the lake this time, but after using Diffindo on the... door-or-whatever-it-was, she let out a sigh, as she found herself back into the classroom.

Splash, SPLASH. There, professor Descoteaux. Water in the classroom, since her shoes were full of it. Hmph.

Penny walked through the foam wall, getting a little foam on her robes in the process... immediately looking for the next arrow...

Seeing it beside the greenhouse door, she walked over, and ouit the door in the pointed direction... finding another on the side of a tree and another beside a rose bush... Penny had an idea..

They're all pointing back up to the castle again..she thought as she followed them, the next brought her to the castle doors and just inside she seen another..pointing up the marble staircase...ok she thought, here is the downside to all those slides - we have to climb up all these stairs

But Penny began climbing the staircase, making it to the second floor, found two arrows, one pointing left and the other pointing right....Oh no...which should I choose, looking down both corridors, but unsure which route to take..

Finally deciding on left (cos it has only four letters?) and walked down the corridor, seeing another arrow confirming her choice... up ahead thoug the corridor seemed dark, even though there was a few windows there..

Finally arriving at the scene discovered that it wasn't dark really, just a very large hedge, spanning the width of the corridor and about as high too..

Pointing her wand, she yelled "Diffindo", bringing her wand in a downward slash...but the hole it made didn't make much difference, so she tried again.."DIFFINDO", bringing the wand down to a slash again..

This time the hole was large enough for her to push herself through....

Five down - one to go ... the end is in sight, she thought with a smile.

Eventhough his clothes were soaked in water, he still had a big grin on his face. This whole test was fun. Atleast it was for him. He didn't know how the others were doing. Anyways, moving on. His shoes made squishy sounds as he walked, following yet another arrow to the left.

Okaaaaay...please explain to him how he had gotten in to what looked like the Great Hall?

Daichi looked around, better yet, below him. He noticed he was not walking on the stones in the Great Hall but above. The see-through tunnel became smaller the more he walked and he finally had to crawl on his knees to get out. But that was by faaaaaar the worst part. Seeing and smelling the food below was torture to him. Having it so close yet so far! Daichi's stomach roared at the thought of the food waiting for him after this class which only encouraged him to crawl faster. As he reached the end of the tunnel, Daichi found himself in a classroom he had never been before. Maybe it was from one of the subjects he didn't take but seeing the dust on top of the desk told him that this classroom hadn't been used in years.

Daichi stood up when he could and saw another arrow leading to the door. He grabbed the doorknob and turned it...only to become face to..doorknob? with another door. Daichi blinked in confusion and he tried this door too. The door opened yet another door was hiding behind it. And another, and another and another. And when he opened another one he saw the same door as the beginning. Slightly panicking...okay TOTALLY FREAKING OUT... Daichi looked back to find another arrow. Finding none , he wondered if he should use the cutting charm on the door. Daichi shrugged his shoulders and held his wand up. He took a step back and slashed the wand like sword. "DIFFINDO!" The wall next to the door cut and Daichi blinked at it for a minute. Okay..try again... "Diffindo!" this time he was......even more off than the first time. Daichi pouted his lips and stomped his soaked shoes on the ground like a five year old not getting his favourite toy. He looked at the two cuts on the wall and...got an idea. If he couldn't aim well...then why not aim, way off?

The first year Snake smiled at his own intelligence *cough* ego *cough. He stepped away from the door and pointed his wand at the wall. "Diffindo!" he shouted and the door next to him cut in two pieces. Mwahaha he was a genius! "Diffindo!" he slashed the wall again and the door next to him broke apart. After a few spells all doors had been blasted open and he stepped through it.

Ariella kept following her arrow until she reached a dark tunnel. She could see a glowing red arrow pointing downwards. Great. Another slide.

She gripped the bar overhead and gave herself a big push. The slide shoved her down, down, down, until she heard a splash. She had landed in the lake. Wonderful. Luckily, she had planted her feet out for a good landing, but her shoes, socks, and the bottom of her robes were dripping wet.

This wasn't a very good activity. Ariella sighed as she pushed her way out of the water, stumbling on a rock as she did so. There was a wooden wall barricading the staircase. "Diffindo!" she shouted as it split. She climbed back up the stairs, leading to another platform. A big red arrow was pointing up to a ramp. Well, she might as well take the chance. She gripped the rope on the side of the ramp and started climbing her way up.

Penny walked from passageway to corridor, trudging along very grudgingly... She was tired of this game now.... She was soaking wet, her shoes made stupid noises when she walked and her hair was a complete and utter mess - just to practice a simple charm ...Grrrrrr

Walking up to the door, she yelled in frustration.."DIFFINDO", and the door blew away...revealing the classroom - finally..

Slowly, she walked to her desk and sank into her chair... wondering what madness they would be doing next...

Ariella climbed until her legs felt like jelly. Finally, she reached a clearing. She swung her body up on the platform, coming face to face with a wooden door. "Diffindo!" The door sliced in half, revealing a large, circular window.

She stepped into it, seeing a bird's eye view of the lake and the surrounding grounds. She only had time to enjoy it for a moment until the ground shifted again under her. She leapt back onto the platform, holding on for dear life. She found herself facing a downward clear tunnel with a red arrow pointing towards it. Wonderful. Another slide.

Closing her eyes, she shoved herself down it. Ariella cracked an eyelid open to reveal water and fish all around her. She was in a clear tube, going under the lake! Wicked!

Finally, the tunnel shoved her out, into another ball pit. "Diffindo!" she yelled again.

Having divided and conquered the ribbon fence before her, Kurumi stepped through it and whacked her head once again on something. She looked up hoping that it was another arrow, but instead she found that she had hit her head on the entrance of a narrow green tube tunnel. The tunnel was a little transparent, so she could see out of either side and could see some of her classmates off in the distance doing whatever portion of the maze they were in.

Kurumi turned her attention back to the tunnel and realized that it was not large enough for her to walk through, so she was going to have to crawl through it. She then tucked her wand in her robes and got down on all fours. “I hope there isn’t anything sinister in here,” she mumbled to herself. Something sinister like an army of chocolate frogs waiting to jump all over her face.

Her knees began to throb and Kurumi wondered if she would ever reach the end of the green channel, when she came across a large arrow blocking the entrance and pointing to the right. It was a bit cramped, but she managed to pull out her wand and pointed it at the arrow. “Diffindo!"

The arrow split down the middle and swung to the side like a double door in one of those western movies. Excited that she was near the exit, Kurumi crawled with an extra oomph until her head popped out and she tumbled out of the tunnel. She brushed off any dust or bits of the arrow her robes had accumulated and proceeded to the right.