Nika wasn't quite sure where to go looking. She thought about the first bit of the clue quite carefully because it would probably be the harder part of the two to figure out. "Borr wouldn't be found in the room" or at least it was something like that. The first thing that came into her mind was the DADA room and so she bolted down there after seeing that some of her classmates had left the common room. She didn't want to be the last one left there. As she walked into the room she realized that thy didn't really need the headmasters permission.... So where else could it mean!? She was just on her way to leave when she saw a few other Gryffindors. She recognized Kurumi and Willie, but the older boy she only knew by seeing him around.

"Hi guys... You don't think this is where Nearly Headless Nick meant do you? I don't see any of the prefects here like he said..." Unlesss they were hiding. Then she heard Kurumi and stopped talking. "Actually I was thinking about heading there next." she was taking the pieces of the clue one at a time. Her other thought was maybe the restricted section of the library but you could get any professors permission the go in there....

Smirking and still munching on one of the cookies he stole from the common room, Josh stepped into the Defense Training Room for the first time this term. Why would he ever step into here anyway? Dueling might be fun, yea. But dueling with magic was not so much fun if you ever happened to ask this boy. To him, no magic could give the satisfaction of punching someone in the face. Or...else?

Perhaps that was why he was swinging his beloved beater's bat in a playful manner as he walked towards his housemates inside the room. Or he just brought it to make sure he could make up for the hours it had been apart from its rightful owner. Yea. He had taken the bat back and he was going to take his name back from the dirty name thief Carter!!! Yup, he still thought he was the rightful owner of that name too, since it was his family name and whatnot.

''Hello people!'' he said cheerfully once he approached the group. But of course, at first place, he eyed the room a bit. Seemingly there were no signs of Simon or Legend. C'mooooooon! Who could kidnap two big lions and leave no trace of it behind? There should have been something aroudn here covered by some stupid kind of spell...magic whatever you would call it. ''Have seen anything so far? Anything funny? Smelled Borr gas? Or Simon and Legend gas? I am sure those two combined would be more dangerous than Borr's''

As you enter the room the usually bustling room is relatively quiet...Quiet that is except for the persistant loud rattling coming from one corner of the room (so loud that you don't even notice your resident Prefect Legend Chosen chuckling at the other corner of the room). As you inch closer you notice its a cabinet making the noise, its movements the shaking giving the tell-tale signs of something within. But before you can give much notice of it the cabinet opens to reveal...
Your...Worst...Nightmare!


Ooc: You need to post 5 posts dealing with said boggart before being given the next clue to go on to the next task. Also guys, to be realistic, your character would not know it was a boggart if their worst fear just popped out of nowhere, unless they were a super genius.

Selina walked into the room and waited for some sign of light. Some sign of anyone. But it seemed that she had to be the only one in there. Once she stepped inside she turned the corner and saw that there was indeed people in the room. More specifically-- Gryffindors. Her eyes scanned the room for anyone she knew, but it a lot of first years. Then she saw the people she knew. Kurumi, Nika, Josh, etc. Relief was the best word to describe how she felt. Nothing was more awkward then being in a room full of talkative first years.

She stepped over to that group and noticed that Kurumi still had her hair up in a hood. Part of her wanted to reach out and hug her friend, but they were in public. It would have been the last thing that she needed at the moment. To have people ask questions. So she kept her hug to herself.

THUMP!

Selina's head spun around and looked at the closet. Something was coming from there.

THUMP!

She jumped and suddenly a boggart flew out of the door. Selina shut her eyes and kneeled down on the floor. She would not let it feed on her fears and make them come to life before her. But she could feel her resolve crumbling. Her eyes looked over to the figure that was forming. It was a baby... it was her dead sister.

'Well, it seems to be the right room to me " Willaim told the older boy. " I just figured since you have been at HogWarts awhile, you would have the right insticts for the clue" Willaim said to the boy.

" Kurumi, you are smart, so you must be right" Willaim told her. " I am sure we are all right" Wiliam said to Kurumi.

" I think this is the palce" Willam told nika. "Wait ,look over there" Willaim called out. " Isn't that noise strange?' Willaim asked Nika.

Arabella-Marie entered the defense training room after finally working out the clue and looked about and saw some of her fellow housemates and was glad that this was the place to be but there was a weird thumping noise coming from one of the cabinets in the corner and Arabella-Marie was scared she didnt know what to do but only to cautiously approach the cabinet she got out her wand just in case she needed it

Kurumi was just about to answer William and greet Josh when SOMETHING moved out of the corner of her eye and moved towards Selina who was the closest to that side of the room. Kurumi had no idea who is was that had appeared before her second year friend, but what she DID know was that the look on Selina's face was worst than when she had seen that one vision during Divination early on in the term. The vision where...where...well, Kurumi didn't even want to think about that.

THUMP THUMP

There was more rattling and noise, but Kurumi's entire focus was on Selina who she ran over to so quickly that her hood fell off and revealing to everyone the discoloration in her hair.

"SELINA! Are you alright! What's wrong?! WHO is that?" she asked with her back turned to whoever's corpse had appeared.

Suddenly...there was a loud ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR. A roar that Kurumi had heard before in her first year. A roar that still sent shivers down her spin.

Slowly, she turned around and saw the last thing she ever wanted to see again.

Arabella-Marie was inching closer to the cabinet when a boggart sprang out and took the form of a basilisk one thing that Arabella-Marie had always been afraid of since she was young and she looked about scared and not sure what to do next but to run but then she remembered something but she stood for a few seconds trying to remember what it was to do with the boggart

Nika looked at Josh who had just entered the room and then turned back to Willie. She was about to say something when she heard some noises. She looked at the cabinet and raised an eyebrow as the noise grew louder. She saw a small child dying and then Kurumi ran forward and the thin changed forms to something that she could attach a name to. Then she saw Arabella go forward and it was something different.

The thing inched towards Nika and the unsuspecting second year walked forward to get a better look. But it was no longer what it was a few seconds before. Nika opened her eyes widely as she laid her eyes on a snake.

A HUGE ANGRY SNAKE.

She let out a small whimper and backed up a few steps. Where had this come from!? Wh-what was it? She looked at the snaked worridly." N-nice snake... D-Don't hurt me..." she felt afraid... Very afraid.

Kurumi’s head spun around as the nauseating smell of sewer water and dragon dung filled her nostrils and seemed to make the very paint on the tapestries hanging from the walls peel. Was she dreaming? Had she only imagined that she had walked down from the Gryffindor Tower? She was emotionally exhausted from everything she had gone through in such a short period of time. It WAS plausible that she had simply passed out on the sofa in the common room with Walnut purring softly on her lap.

There was only one way to find out: she was going to have to pinch herself. Or was it that she had to have someone pinch her? Or did she need something that would serve as her constant? Something that only she knew the true weight and shape of like a spinning top? Sadly, she had none of those on hand at the moment to test the theory, so pinching herself would have to do.

“OUCH!”

Well, perhaps she wasn’t dreaming then?

The massive creature before her began bellowing a smog as thick as pea soup at her as millions of voices began chanting hurtful things at her. Hurtful things that she had heard over and over again. Words like half-breed, worthless, and other such things spewed out like poison and seeped into her delicate skin and turned her hair an even more sickly color.

Suddenly…a new voice called out from one of the many on the creature. A voice that she had known all too well, but not in this regard. It was a voice that she had found nothing but comfort in for the past twoish years of her life. It was a voice that came attached to a smile that always made her feel like she was bathing in the sun and that nothing wrong could ever happen.

“Look at how worthless you are,” it spat as the disfigured face of her Badger Prince appeared. “Not even the ones you care for stay by you. THAT one boy left you and chose a country over you and now, you have lost in another battle. You are not even second. Not even considered. ALL ALONE AND UNLOVED. You were rejected…rejected…rejected…REJECTED!”

Kurumi froze in place and felt tears forming in her eyes as the creature moved closer to her, spewing its venomous words and gas. Her jaw dropped and she began to feel weak in the knees. It was true…she was rejected again…she was worthless…all alone…

Her hand reached out for something, anything, to catch her balance on as tears began streaming down her face. “G-G-G-Go away!” she whimpered in her native language – too damaged for English words to form in her head. "You're wrong...you're wrong..." Or was it? Kurumi was beginning to doubt herself.

Then, her hand found something to keep her from falling. That something was the shoulders of her friend Selina.

Well...apparently and lately things not only escaped his eyes but also his ears. Yes, there was that cabinet thing and he could hear the voices coming from it. Eh...who had said they had no clue yet? And to be honest it was not a clue to where to find Si and Legend. That, he was sure, was where he was going to find those boys.

Hiding in a closet and not even bothering to be quiet about it? Like seriously? Restraining himself from rolling his eyes pretty dramatically, the lion boy took huge steps towards the cabinet playing with the beater's bat he had with a single hand.

And once he was there, he knocked on the cabinet door a few times with the beater's bat before adressing to the guys hiding inside ''If you guys think that was funny, i think you should work on improving your understanding of fun.'' And he believed he could help them with that...totally.

''Now...'' he ordered reaching to open it...yet before he could do that so the closet opened itself and he could see nothing...at first place. ''Yea, yea. Very funny. Now, get out before i decide to make use of this...'' he raised te beater's bat in his hand and showed it to no one in the closet ''...and...''

And the boy froze when he had realised who was in the cabinet.

She was neither Simon nor Legend.

Surprised, at first place, the boy froze and just blinked at her not really knowing what he wanted to say.

Then, he managed a little warm, smile at the sight of Evelyn Flores before asking that question of which answer he couldn't wait to know

''Well...hi, hun! What were you doing in there? Up to no good again...i suppose...are you? Hope i did not interrupt whatever it was.''

Hehe...

She backed away worriedly and looked up at the giant snake. How did it get into Hogwarts? Why doesn't it leave? What does it want? She was starting to feel dizzy. Was she imagining all of this. She looked at the snake and could see it poisonus fangs almost taunting her to try and win.

She looked around for her fellow Gryffindors. Maybe one of them could get rid of this thing. Nika surely couldn't get rid of it because it was terrifying her. Her heart was pounding and she was breathing heavily. She had to do something... Anything to get rid of this.

Kurumi tapped and squeezed Selina’s shoulder – mostly to make sure that the girl was in fact still there and that she wasn’t hallucinating. Perhaps she should pinch her to see if she reacted? No, wait, it didn’t work that way, did it? Kurumi shook her head and cast a quick panicked glance back towards the approaching monster who was continuing to say hurtful things when she was suddenly struck with a thought. Well, they were more like memories to be honest.

She remembered the day in the library where Treyen had helped her with her research about her father and the day of her first Quidditch match when he had walked her to the pitch. While those memories were a bit painful now, knowing that he hadn’t been feeling what she had, the light began returning to her eyes. Sure, she HAD somewhat been rejected in a sense…but not completely. He had said that he DID care for her and LIKED her – she remembered the glow she had felt inside her, as if she had caught a star from the heavens. He had called her a great friend and perhaps someone as close to him as a sister. Now THAT wasn’t rejection, it was acceptance.

Turning her gaze away from the monster form in front of her, she saw Selina. This girl certainly had never rejected her or made her feel alone. Selina was always there for her in her darkest times. Then there were her other housemates – Lexi, Simon, Heather, Patroclus and many others – who were always there by her side. Her thoughts lingered on Patroclus for a moment and the final words he had ever said to her: "Never stop being as wonderful as you are, I know the pride of Gryffindor will forever be safe with you!"

Well, she certainly wasn’t honoring those words right now was she? Wallowing in self pity and listening to a monster that often appeared in nightmares and she had battled during her first term in Charms class…

CHARMS CLASS! Why hadn’t she realized all this sooner?!

Well, she knew why. She had been panicked and shocked to suddenly see something this frightening suddenly appear in front of her out of the cabinet. Sorry Headmaster Tate. Kurumi had forgotten her mantra of constant vigilance for the moment, but it was back now.

Kurumi quickly removed her wand from her robes and turned to face the beast head on. She wouldn’t let this boggart hurt her anymore today.

"You always have and always will be ALONE. You are all alone…KURUMI HOLLINGBERRY!”

“You’re wrong!” she shouted pointing her wand directly at the distorted face of Treyen. It’s lips twisted into a menacing smile that made even a troll’s look like one belonging to Prince Charming. “And I am going to show you just HOW wrong you are!”

Her thoughts focussed on her housemates - both those she looked up to and those that looked up to her - and felt something warm bubble inside of her. She also thought of her father and brothers, who always accepted her and were there for her, even when her mother wasn't.

Taking a moment to close her eyes, Kurumi knew exactly what she had to do next.

It was utter chaos in minutes. One second, he was hearing Kurumi - the other there was loud, annoying rattling coming from the corner of room. With other students, his own eyes traveled onto the cupboard, in question.

It was not a matter of only looking though, because everyone seemed to be curious and was moving forward toward it. He had not even taken two steps toward it, when the ratttling seemed to have stopped - it was more quite than necessary, Orlando hated the silence. "What's going on guys?" he voiced before his nostrils filled with smell of burning smoke. "What the-?"

Sweat beads formed on his forehead, almost immediately - smoke was gathering up around him. The sixteen year old started coughing, as it entered him - reaching into his throat and lungs. His heart picked up a little speed, he calmed himself - there was no fire though, no fire. Something was burning but not here.

"Orlando .. Orlando"

Orlando's eyes shot up, when the familiar voice reached into his ears. "Mama .." he called, coughing still. And there, she was. What was she doing here? What was happening? Why was she around the growing smoke .. "Mama, get out of the smoke .. " he coughed harder Suddenly, he felt his eyes water from irritation and then also from the next sight. Mama smiled at him and a huge fire erupted, lighting up the cupboard, her dress and she disappeared inside it.

Lando's heart stopped, face turned white - finding unusual strength in his lungs, he screamed and called out for his Mama. But she had disappeared. Why had she disappeared? Tears fell from his eyes, scared inside out - and not being able to do anything to save her .. he fell backwards , when the huge fire roared at him.

Nika didn't understand what was going on. The only thing she could understand was that her worst fear was right in front of her. Not a hallucination not a mind trick. The snake was really there, fangs and all. She whimpered as she looked at it. She was in Gryffindors for a reason, but the one thing she wasn't brave around was snakes. Merlin why must it be a snake.she searched the room frantically hoping to find someone to ask for help, but it seemed as though the room was empty. Even though their were others in the room with her she couldnt find them because she was lost in her own sea of worries.

She looked at the snake, but quickly looked down. She could hear it slithering towards her, it was coming. She backed away quickly and ran tothe corner of the room where she could see the snake flashing it's fangs playfully, telling her to come closer.

Gryffindors are the symbol of bravery, but Nika knew she was only being a coward. What kind of lion runs from their fears? She took in a few deep breaths as she tried to analyze the situation. Snake. Fear. Snake. Nightmares. Snake. Fangs. Snake. Worst fear.

This is going no where. But then the more she thought about it the more it started to make sense. Mordred had told her about a creature that changes into your worst fear. It was more than just a snake. It's a Boggart.

Orlando had never cried like this before. He had never. Tears flowed down his cheek - he rubbed against them but they burned. His mama was gone .. his mama was gone .. Into the fire .. it was so hot. It was so hot.

He could barely breathe, he felt faint. He wanted to go inside it, he wanted to follow his mama. But he could not - whenever he tried to get up, the fire roared even more madly toward him. He kept calling out for his mother but it was no use. She was gone. Into the fire ...

It was so hot ..

Kurumi stood her ground and focused on the face in front of her – the HORRIBLE copy of the Hufflepuff who she had come to know so well. How could she have even doubted herself or him? Was she really that naïve and quick to believe everything that she was told? Well, this was true in many cases – like Salander and Lexi talking with her about basilisks – but she had to remember to keep her wits about her.

Kurumi thrust her wand towards the face and took several steps forward so that her wand was almost sticking up its nose. The face released more of its putrid gas and laughed mockingly at her, but she blocked its words out by humming to herself. It’s lips curled into a smile…

"Riddikulus!” she shouted and suddenly its menacing looking teeth turned into marshmallows which then toppled out of its mouth and onto the floor. Kurumi giggled, softly, and began casting the spell at any face that dared smile her way. For emphasis, Kurumi squished a few of the marshmallows under her black school shoes.

Selina doubled over in pain as she saw the image of her dead sister. Her eyes looked for the door. She would run, flee. At this point she did not want to even do this hunt anymore. She didn't care what Legend or Simon or Sophie had to say to her. It wasn't nearly as important as her sanity. This image was too much. Too much after what had happened. After her baby sister had died.

The image started to move toward Selina and she bolted for the door. All of her house mates must have looked at her insanely, but she didn't care. Her sweaty hands wrapped around the door but they slipped and slid. She could not get a good firm grip on the handle. That was when Selina started to panic. If she could not get out she could not get away. All of these years she had been running from this exact thing. Now she was being forced to face it because her house mates wanted to have some kind of sick scavenger hunt? That was not any level of fair.

Then Selina started to sob. It wasn't fair, none of it.

The baby crawled over to her and smirked evilly. In its eyes it knew what Selina carried around on her shoulders everyday-- she had killed her baby sister.

Nika felt her wand in her pocket as she felt for her wand. She did t look up at the snake until she had her wand in hand. So what did Mordred tell her... She furrowed her eyebrows in thought as she remembered the conversation they had in the owlry. Nika looked up at the snake and shivered slightly at the sight of it's fangs.

She took a deep breath then held her wand high up in front of the snake as if to dare it to come forward. "Riddikulus" She muttered the spell halfheartedly as she waited for something to happen. Nothing did.What a surprise.

She took in another deep breath and tried again. Only this time she said it louder and more confidently. "Riddikulus " She could feel it. Although nothing happened she knew it had been stronger than the first one.

Lifting her wand again she blew a strand of hair away from her face and looked at the snake with full concentration. She imagined it as a plastic childrens toy. A small, plastic, toy snake. "Riddikulus" This time she knew it was almost where it needed to be. She was sure with one more try it would work.

The baby's face then started to contort into a wicked smiled. It was like a dementor, feeding off all of her pain, all of her regret. She had plenty of it everyday, but this was a whole new sensation. She saw the face of the person she loved the most and hurt the most. And the baby knew that she was the reason why the real baby was dead. Selina was a murderer. Selina was a horrible human being who deserved all of the pain in the world. Her suffering was completely valid in every count of the crime. If she had to wake up everyday and remember to live and be happy then she was doing something wrong. She deserved to be miserable.

Then the baby shinned it's small teeth at Selina and she cringed. It noticed her discomfort and started to coo, "What Selina... murderer... can't face what you killed, what life you stripped away?"

She struggled to find the words and chocked out, "Danielle I didn't mean to, you know it was an accident!"

It giggled eerily, "No you killed me! Dead, dead, dead! All your fault, why do you live and I perish?"

"I couldn't, I couldn't control my powers!" Selina stuttered, "Mom and Dad tried to keep in all of my Seer abilities! It built up and when I released all of it in one blow you were gone. Danny please forgive me. Not a day goes by that I don't regret it. I should be dead, not you."

"I'm dead as a doornail and limp as a noodle. My sister's a killer and doesn't care a boodle!" The baby sang loudly.

Nika held her wand up and looked the snake directly in the eyes. She was still very much afraid of it but she knew that she could get the spell right this time. "It's only rubber, it's only rubber, only rubber , only rubber..." she kept repeating the phrase in her head. The more she said it the more she'd believe it right?

Inahle. Exhale. Wand up. Ready. "Riddikulus" She watched contently as the once scary snake began to spin in the air and landed on the ground with a soft thwack. It was gone. All that remained was a small rubber toy snake! Nika showed a shocked look of pure disbelif.

"It worked? I mean.. IT WORKED!" she did a small sort of happy jig as she looked at the rubber snake. Had she really been afraid of that thing!?! Nika bust into sudden giggles as she looked at it.

Nika: 1
Snake: 0

And the little lioness wins.

The more the baby sang the more Selina cried. She had not meant to kill Danielle. They were so young at the time the little second year didn't even know what she was doing. When Danielle was born Selina was a year old. The two little girls were their parents pride and joy. But when Selina started to show that she might have Seer abilities they did everything in their power to try and control and maintain them. It worked for a period of time. Her eyes did not glaze over and nothing weird occurred. That was until a cold day in November.

Danielle had just turned two and Selina was three. The two sisters were out in the garden playing with the leaves. Danielle crawled over Selina and tugged on her red hair. The older sister shot her younger sister and mad look and tugged on her hair back. The game went on for several minutes until their mother came outside to stop them. In a fit of anger Selina's eyes started to glaze over and her vision started to occur. Her mother tried to stop the vision, but it was too late. She could no longer control her ability. Like a shock wave it erupted from her body, all of her magic. In a minute her sister was dead, her mother had serious injuries, and little Selina was in a coma. Things were never the same after that.

The baby saw that Selina had just relived the entire experience and chortled, "Painful isn't it? But not as painful as when you killed me! Now I will never grow old, fall in love, have my own children, and then have you kill them too!"

"Danielle I love you!" Selina sobbed, "I wish everyday that it was me and not you! Everyday I wish that I could turn back the clocks. Please forgive me, please. I am begging you. Danny! You are my sister."

The baby crawled over to Selina and gave her a soft look. For a moment Selina felt that everything was okay. The baby spoke softly, "Selina... you are a killer... and you will never be cured of your pain. You deserve to live in a world of misery. And I hope you never find happiness... because I never will... you took that from me the day you killed me."

William looked fear in the face. He told one of Voldermort's family " You can't get me" Willaim told him bravely remembering the stunning spell to stun her.

MEEEH? what is going on? Everyone's screaming...or hiding or running...or...or...or...

Heather gulped and stopped dead from walking any further, looking straight at whoever or whatever was in front of her. She slowly looked up and gulped.

in front of her was a scary-looking clown smiling down his big freakish one down on her.

If there's one thing most do not know about Heather is that she detests clowns, make up and everything.

She took a step back; the boggart followed. She took a second leapt back. It followed. Her eyes grew big, and her right eye sort of twitched as she went taking steps back and the clown followed her about. "S-Stop it!" she said softly. "I said stop!" she screamed. "G-Go-GOO AWAAAAYY!!" without any second thoughts, Heather bolted to run away, but the clown followed her still.

"YOU ARE A FOOL! A WORTHLESS FOOL!”

Kurumi somehow found the monster less threatening when all its mouths were merely smacking its gums together as it spoke since it was now toothless. Still, her laughter clearly wasn't enough to vanquish the boggart, not yet.

Kurumi took a step back as the demon dog-like head of the creature peered closer to her and stuck out its thick and leathery tongue dripped an awful yellow color ooze all over the training room's floor. It then licked its toothless gums and sent a shiver down Kurumi's spine. Pointing her wand at its tongue. "Riddikulus!" The once frightening tongue suddenly turned into a kazoo that changed colors ever few seconds and sounds much more like a duck quacking than anything else. A few more giggles escaped her lips. "Riddikulus! Riddikulus! Riddikulus!"

Kurumi continued casting the spell until all the mouths were tooting, erm, quacking essentially the same tune.


"QUAAAAAAAACK! QUACK QUUUACK QUACK!”

The kazoos almost seemed to be quacking in harmony and Kurumi couldn't tell which part of the scene was most amusing and a loud laugh escaped her lips this time. Shutting her eyes once more and allowing the quacking to continue, Kurumi laughed more at herself for doubting everything that had happened to her so far. Yes, there had been bad things and heartbreak beyond anything she could have possibly imagined. That being said, how many times had she told herself and others that Hogwarts was like home? That the people here were like family?

She wasn't alone. She hadn't been from the moment she had first stepped onto the Hogwarts Express.

"Riddikulus!"

There was a loud POP! and the creature and all its heads was suddenly swallowed up by a purple mist that looked as though lightening were striking in different areas. After another loud POP!, the smoke cleared and reveal what was perhaps one of the most adorable looking things she had seen since Walnut had been petrified of snow.

Kurumi lowered her wand and took a look at the giant yellow duck and bit her lower lip to prevent herself from laughing too loudly.