He could hear a sudden hollering at the deck above them, slightly muffled from where he stood, but the voice was unmistakable "Hey yeah! Lexi down here!!!!" he hollered his booming voice echoing in the cramped quarters.

Then creaky floorboards got louder behind him, he tilted his head towards where the voice was coming from "So that we dont hafta keep casting Lumos lil feller-- oh I'm sorry Prefect Treyen." he chuckled. Seems like only yesterday that he was ruffling the lil feller's hair. " If we got a light hanging on the wall its one less thing to think about, and frees our wands up for something else right?" like opening barrels of Rum!

Suddenly he clapped the young Puff's shoulders "That's it! Gunpowder!" he exclaimed finally putting a name to the familiar odor thats been bugging him since he fell climbed down the lower deck "Thats what I been smelling all alo--Oh!" he paused as realization of the Prefect's words finally sunk in. And just like that he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and snorted "Torches? Pffft, who needs them? We are Wizards! We got wands!"

He looked back at the other younguns that are now on the lower deck, the bubbly one now nervously singing Sierra's name and Ellie talking about sinking ships. "Relax kids, this ship wont sink-- cuz if it did we gonna drag the Headmaster down with us."

Such a reassuring thought.

"Its nice to meet you too Carter" she smiled, chuckling she stopped 'cleaning' which she wasn't too fond of doing. Atleast there wasn't a loose rope to trip on.

"Yeah he's here" she remarked quietly, "he was the first person on the ship after Vindictus" Kyle explained quietly. Hoping he didn't realize what she had said fully unaware that he had.

Kyle chuckled, when Caroline told her she said that out loud well it was a good laugh none the less. "Well, at least i didn't yell it" Kyle remarked with a laugh that would have been even more embarrassing. "Yes, exploring sounds great" Kyle smiled, wondering where to go. It seemed everyone had already picked through the upper decks pretty well, maybe down below?

Who knew it all seemed like it would be oh so much fun.

Nika followed next to Ness as the made their way to the deck. She looked around in awe at the oldness of the ship. "It's so dirty..." She said as she looked at some cobwebs around the place. "I wonder how it even got here!"

Ooooh man. OF COURSE he was down below. Lexi jutted her bottom lip out and CAREFULLY moved toward the hatch. She wished she had worn gloves as well. Whining to herself and chewing her lip some more she moved a bit closer to the hatch and sucked in a deep breath.

Taking her wand from it's holster she began her descent into the bowels of the DISGUSTING ship. Ewww. Silently casting Lumos she hollered again, "WHERE ARE YOU, SAL? You have to like... keep talking or move toward my voice... because... I don't want to get dirty or sommat." Yeah... because that all made perfect sense. She was not keen on getting some filth disease from this THING.

Man he was bored. Finn was boring yup he was. So to save himself from losing points tying the Head Boy to the steering wheel he looked around and spotted Lexi or rather heard her first. AH HA a new distraction. Adjusting his admiral hat on his his head Admiral Vorpatril walked CAREFULLY down the upperdeck steps trying not to fall through or trip over the rope again that had still not been moved. He snickered and walked quietly behind her.

He walked as quietly as he could behind her. HEHE. "Then you shouldn't be in a dirty ship," he said right by her ear. Did he scare her did he did he?

Lexi was tip toeing forward as she was trying not to like fall down or something. Seriously. WHY was this thing so filthy?

The sound of her own heart pounding in her ears muffled the sound of Ivan coming up behind her.

She jumped about 5 feet off the ground, it seemed, and she let out a loud YELP as she spun around with her hand over her heart and stumbled backward a bit.

"Ivan Vorpatril! You are such a nuisance sometimes!" she said as she jabbed her wand at his tummy hoping to poke him.

Dude. Sierra had some odd tastes for friends, no? The girl was singing now? Well, that was...entertaining, to say the least.

There was something about her that reminded him of Neptune, perhaps they both had that royalty air to them or something remotely similar. They weren't too much alike, because Neptune was all about grace, and wasn't loud. This girl seemed to lack a bit of grace, and WAS loud, or had been, up there.

Either way, he turned to look at her as she spoke, and shook his head, "Just cover your nose with some fabric, robes, or anything," he knew the theory to the charm, the practical part he hadn't succeeded in. Except...if it managed to keep the girl quiet, he might as well teach her how. If she didn't succeed, it wasn't his fault.

There we go. That was the spirit! He smiled back when she agreed with him, and he was forever glad that she didn't freak out thanks to the sinking topic.

"Precisely, it won't fail us." He had a feeling that the ship was as loyal as a Hufflepuff, no? Not really, but the ship couldn't fail them, yes? Otherwise everything he'd said wouldn't make any difference.

He couldn't help but laugh at Sierra's questioning of his feelings towards the options. "Actually, no," he wasn't scared now, not when the Slytherin girl had that smirk on her face, it was hard not to smile at it, much less to feel frightened of anything. Given the circumstance, of course, because if they've been working on a potion, then he'd be terrified of her.

Ha. That was funny. "And do you mind? Because I don't see you moving either," he remarked, gesturing to her.

Whatever, he wasn't commenting on the ship anymore. People should stop mentioning it. Enough.

It was the change in her expression that made his former smirk disappear, and gave way to a small smile, HIS whole expression changed, he had no idea he was doing what Ellie just said, and it just didn't seem fair for him to be reminding her of, what he now knew to be, one of her fears.

Treyen took her hand, as if to show her that he won't be mentioning it again. The same smile remained in his face, and the eyes seemed to think the only thing worth looking was her.

Until...

...Salander.

He frowned a little to Salander. Seriously, dude, torches were no good. Sure, most of the wood was wet, but still, it wasn't sane to light anything with fire. Just in case.

Ooooooh. NOW Salander understood. Treyen actually grinned, after all, he'd been right all along. Awesome! He was closer and closer to being a Pirate, so it seemed. "So, now you see why torches would be ill-advised?" he said, giving the Slytherin one nod.

He sooo would've smacked his head with his hand when Salander decided to take part of the sinking topic, but one hand held his wand, and the other held Ellie's hand, so, he merely shook his head.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!! He did!!!! He watched as she jumped and turned toward him. "That's Admiral Vorpatril thank you and no I'm not. Not my fault you didn't hear me." Well...not really....

"OWWWWWWW!!!" He said rubbing his stomach as she poked him. "Be careful you just might damage that wand of yours." He made a face at her and looked around behind her to see what was ahead. "I'm bored what do you expect of me. Bad things happen when I'm bored."

Simon froze when he heard Treyan realizing himself that he should have thought of that being the smell since it was a possibility of cargo at least at one time. He nearly chuckled however when the Slytherin cut off apparently connecting the dots. "Yes...dont need to blow everything up...including us," he mused agreeing with the Hufflepuff. The seventh year turning his head when he heard the muffled yell from above as well though only sure it was his friend when Salander confirmed it.

"Over near the bow Lexi..." he said speaking up this time, his gaze being more cautious of the barrels now that he had some clue as to what they held.

"You are a nuisance... what would you have done if I had fallen and and and gotten a GINORMOUS splinter or something and they had to amputate my hand? How would you EVER live with yourself after something like that? And I will NOT call you Admiral anything. You are so mean to me sometimes," she said in a haughty tone as she blew her hair from her face and INWARDLY smirked as she watched her wand make contact.

"Pffffft. Whatever. Come on you can help me make my way through here without getting dirty. Or injured. Or deathly ill," she said with an air of finality.

Ivan raised an eyebrow at Lexi's rant trying not to burst out laughing though he really really wanted to. "Well we're wizards they could fix that one and two I'd take care of you." He gave her a grin that fell with a sigh. "Oh relax will you. You weren't hurt. Really. Making a big deal out of nothing.

Hearing someone say Lexi's name he held out his arm to her and pointed down the way. "Allow me to escort you your majesty. Your prince awaits," he said trying to block all the sarcasm out of his tone that he could but not succeeding fully.

Connor had been curious about the old ship the same as everyone else. He wanted to see if it was like the beautiful, homey ship they had at Drumstrang. He'd love that beautiful old ship that was well taken care of. This one though old was rather disgusting and smelly and grated on his half-veela sensibilities. He followed a group of the other students down below. He really didn't know anyone except one person in the group. That particular person was currently annoying a girl in his house with a camera. The stench of age was awful down here, age and mold and death. The girl that he recognized from his house had just spoken wondering what they were looking for, hmmm. "I don't know but I'm sure this filthy, smelly old ship is looking for a good cleaning."

Lexi stood glaring at him for a moment and then stuck her tongue out at him. "Well I could have been hurt. So... yeah." Fabulous retort, she knew it was so very adult of her to poke out her tongue as well.

Snorting slightly, Lexi took hold of Ivan's arm and held her wand out and up a bit to illuminate the way forward. "I think that was Simon... but what the hell is a bow and which way are we supposed to go to get there?" she asked quietly. Boys were good about piratey ship stuff. She never quite got the hang of it even when she was on the boat with the Hudson's.

Oh brilliant come back..a tongue. He snorted as he saw that and shook his head. "You really should be careful who you do that to someone might take that as an invitation," he said cheekily to annoy her because he knew it would.

Hearing her question he looked toward the light and back behind him. "Umm...." Which way was he facing again? Oh he couldn't remember he'd been too focused on teasing her. Guess time. Eeny meeny mino mo. "That way," he said pointing to the light. Yup sure why not. Straight ahead.

What a cheeky little monkey. Pulling a face she focused on where they were headed and snorted at him. "You ought to not say things like that to females, Vorpatril. Really."

Glancing at him from the corner of her eye she furrowed her brow and ran right into a barrel. "Bloody hell. You are useless sometimes you know that? You have no idea do you?" she said as she paused to rub her offended knee. She was heading straight to the Healer if she ever made it out of there alive.

Side stepping the barrel she now moved forward and called out, "Salanderrrrrrrrrr."

Making a face back at her he laughed, "Well that would have to mean you are a female, Denver. And as we are not going there any more I like to think of you as my sister who by no means would be an actual female." He ruffled her hair with his free hand and gave a cheeky grin. Yup he was just trying to annoy her now and succeeding too he might add.

All his attempts at teasing though mad him miss the barrel she ran into and he winced, "Sorry." Hearing her call out he rolled his eyes, "I'm telling you they're ahead will you relax." Well he was pretty sure...well kind of.

"I am a female who will have your fingers if you muss up my hair again, you... poo!" she exclaimed and used her hand holding her wand to smooth it back down, their light shifting this way and that as she did so.

"It's hard to RELAX on this floating death trap I have so idiotically ventured onto," she said as she stepped and the board beneath her foot gave a loud groan. She immediately tightened her grip on Ivan's arm and winced. "I am going to be SO mad if I die down here with your aristocratic self being the last person I see," she muttered as she moved forward.

"Down here Lexi!" he hollered again then glanced quickly at Simon and added "Yeah over by the bow!" Wait does she know what a bow is? Bloody hell just in case she thinks its a ribbon "I mean over by the front of the ship."She can tell whats front and back right? "Theres a hatch on the deck, use the ladder to get down!" or she can just jump, the way Simon did, the proven Gryffindor way yeah?

Turning his attention back to Treyen and Simon the Slytherin lad chuckled "Well, I have no intentions of blowing us up or sinking this ship until I find some... souvenirs." specially something that doesnt leave him black and blue in the morning, he has enough of those already. He inched closer until he could feel like he kicked something awkward and heavy. He crouched down and held the wand light closer. "Hey look kegs!" he pointed excitedly and leaned closer-- then suddenly pulled back. He has found the source of that odor at least some of them. "Okay these vintage is definitely not for celebrating." he stood up suddenly and turned to the others "... more like something the crew would break out if they're under attack."

He waved his wand aloft, face now puzzled. He has yet to see anything remotely resembling something valuable-- at least to him. "Is this a warship or something?"

"OOOOOoo feisty. I like that. Then again we know that," he said with a smirk. He tried to look ahead but frowned as her wand kept moving, "Will you hold still! I can't see if you keep waving the light around like that." Taking another step forward he winced as his leg hit barrel he didn't see because of the wavering light. "Gah!" He said pulling out his own wand and lighting it. Looking down at his pants he saw they were torn and frowned. "Great! Just bloody great!"

He ran his hands over his slacks and sighed. "Well maybe if you TRIED relaxing," he said irritably. His irritation faded though as she clung to his arm and then rolled his eyes. "Oh thanks. It's nice to be so loved," he said sarcastically and looked down at his slacks again before moving with her.

" " Talk to you later" William called down to Sierra. William did not really believe Sierra could not hear him. A very typical Slytherin. Not like some of her old family that Jason told William about during his time at HogWarts. " I might just come down there to talk to you" William said to Sierra.

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Woah, this ship must be really old, Viola thought as she stood at the deck of the ship. It had this old world feel to it which she really loved. Buut, why were people yelling all over the place? She was having a terrible headache and it was just getting worse. She rubbed her temples, closed her eyes and tried to ignore the noise.

Ten students seemed about right, one for each handle? The wheel was very heavy and it seemed difficult to steer, which was very inconvenient and was probably be the reason why there had been so many shipwrecks. The captains couldn't steer the ship fast enough and it sailed right into a gigantic rock! It made sense that they would use giants to steer it, but then that would mean they would have to be somewhere on the ship, right? Maybe they were in the hold or the captain's cabin. "We should go to the captain's cabin." Eino suggested as he looked around trying to locate it.

"It is strange that it's not moving... Unless we missed the anchor." Eino couldn't see that no matter how hard he looked. "So maybe it could be." The squid seemed really smart from what he had seen during a History of Magic lesson a year ago. "I suppose so, too, but how could we tickle it?" Should they just cast the tickling spell to the water randomly? What if they made the entire merpeople population tickle? That wouldn't be very good.

"Yeah it is" said Nessie hoping she had hand sanitiser on her. she looked around more and started to wonder the same thing. It deffinatley got here by magic but what kind? though Ness. "Yeah me too!"

Conan's head flicked from people to people. There were too many of them to follow what they were all saying. But Treyen had asked him a question, and Sierra sigh had told him where she was. He followed her voice down the hatch, and frowned. "Um I don't have it," he called to Treyen. He was exploring a pirate ship. Therefore, it called for a sword. Cue sword pull from his belt. Hi-ya! He tightened his grip around it, in his gloves. He looked kind of like Zorro.

"So what we looking for?" he asked, to noone in particular. There were enough of them to get an answer. "I don't think we should do any pillaging. It is frowned upon in civilised society."