God. Apples. Water.

Janice had feared those games where you need to take apples with your mouth from a tub of water since she choked on one years back. Now they need to do it again. Perfect.

She waited for other people to come.

Tiffany was getting more and more excited with this game. Watching others bobbing their apples made her want to have her own try. She found her target and...she got it! *crunch* She took a bite of the apple with her face all wet, looking a bit silly but she didn't care a lot about it. All she cares was to have fun.

Once again, Aiden sinks her head into the barrel and searches for more apples. Sinking her teeth into one of them, she pulls her head out and puts the second apple aside. Now for the third one, she dives her head into the barrel again and pulls out another bright red apple with her mouth. Frankly, her head is starting to feel funny.

Sarah ducked again. She just couldn't spot one and delved deep to the last of the barrel. This is silly. She moved her head left and right, it looked as though she was wiping her nose vigorously. It tired her. She withdrew and took a breath and once again delved in. She caught one immediately. Hard works pays, Sarah. The apple was so red. Just three more! She jumped excitedly and smiled. And the apple, it just fell!

"Oh, great!" she scowled. Sarah dipped her head in, furiously and the caught the same one she lost. She stood up and took it in her hand. "Gotcha! Running away are yah?!" she shouted in excitement. Oh sheesh. The crowd. "Oops! Sorry guys" she said rather embrassed, Hoping she hadn't disturbed anyone in the course of her apple quest.

Vashti scanned the barrel, trying to decide which apple to go for next. There was one that was already floating pretty close to the side of the barrel, so she leaned down and chomped down on it.

Success!

She straightened again, released the apple into her hand, and set it down next to her first one. Two down.

She turned her eyes back to the ones still floating in the water. Quickly picking a third to get, she leaned down once more and chomped...but the apple slipped away from her! She tried again quickly, managing to dunk the apple - and her head - under the water but successfully securing the apple in her teeth.

Once she straightened up again, she set that third apple down and wiped her face as best as possible with her hands. Blehhh. At least she only had two more to get - then she could dry off.

Two more to go. Aiden stares at the barrel intensely as if she is trying to use Legilemency on it. Then, she gets her head back into the barrel and comes out with an apple. Releasing it into her hand, her head enters the barrel one last time and comes out with the final apple. Done. Wonder what will the next clue be? On the other hand, she needs to get herself dry.

Moving on to one of the barrels, Louisa peered in to see if the water was clean enough. What? She did not just trust Captains & Prefects activities. Seeing Vashti nearby, the girl grinned at her best friend and lifted her sleeves up (even if that was unnecessary). Leaning her hands on the edges, taking deep breath Louisa sank in... kind of.

She opened her eyes under water and saw the apples moving around from the impact of her face hitting the water, she waited until one was close, opened her mouth and...

..BREEEEEATH. She was out catching her breath and coughing little water. Louisa eyed the barrel evilly and wiped her mouth with her sleeve. She had to be quick at opening her mouth and catching the apple. That was the trick.

Back to diving, Louisa sank her face into the water slower this time, an apple was floating at her nose and she was able to bite into it and raised her head quickly.

Arya was happily watching the task and vanishing puddles of water when a little lion spoke to her. She got finger waggles and a wide grin. "I'm not missin a thing." The prefect shook her head. "It's just as fun for me to watch." And if they liked this, they would love the next few tasks.

Sky finally found her last apple! She repeated the same process she had for the last four apples, and got off the floor. Whew! She cast "Tergo" to dry off her clothes, and then stood waiting by her pile. She watched her fellow participants gather their apples. Some were already finished and were waiting like her, while others were close.

Number three, here we go. Oh no!!! THIS APPLE HAD NO STALK!!!! Argh! With great difficulty Aurora managed to crunch her teeth into it... HAHA! YOU ARE FOILED, MR APPLE! She lifted her head and grabbed the apple from her mouth, placing it on the ground next to the other two...

4 apples down, Thea had only one more to go. Sloshing the water around as she moved her head, THea hunted desperately for the last apple. She had no idea whatsoever why she had even joined in with this ridiculous thing..

AHA. Snapping her teeth at the apple, she got it after a couple of goes at it. Taking her head out of the bucket, she dropped it immediantly. Reaching out her hands, she felt the soft material of a spare towel. Pressing it to her face, she also began to dab at her damp hair. 'Ok.. I've done it!' She called to whichever Prefect was in charge.

Kennedy watched with an amused smile on his lips when he saw Aurora with an apple in her mouth. Hehe, adorable. He didn't want to interfere with her concentration, so he dunked into the water once again. He used his teeth to hold down on the stalk and then clenched them on.

Yep, yep.

After number two, hehe.

Jai stood by the wall, watching. He couldn't help but chuckle as it was a pleasure seeing everyone, dive in and have fun. Literally.

"Looking good everybody. Keep it up. They're slippery little buggers but you'll get 'em." he said as encouragement.

He moved along, making sure everyone was ok. Taking out his wand, he dried the floor around the barrel so that nobosy slipped on the wet floor. That would spoil all the fun. Safety first.

cheeseStrings:
Jai saw a Huffie looking around. She seemed a little hesitant."Don't be shy or afraid. If you have any problems call for me. Trust me it's fun." he said in a soft tone.

Dan and Emma<3:
He saw a first year Gryffindor girl and she was having a ball."There you go Tiffany. That's how to do it." he said smiling at her.

sevensnared:
There was a Slytherine girl who seemed to be doing very well,"You look like a pro. Get those apples. Keep it up and they might rename the game after you." Jai remarked to her with a smile.

AlwaysSnapesGirl:
"That's it. You're almost there." Jai said to the Ravenclaw, giving her the thumbs up.

Magical Soul:
"Now that's how you bob for apples. That's good." Jai said as he passed another Ravenclaw girl. They were very good at this.

lazykitty:
Jai stopped as he realized that a Slytherine girl was done."Nice job." he told her with a quick wink before he continued milling through the barrels.


AuroraQuinn:
Jai stopped at a girl who seemed to bite a little too hard into her apple,"Don't worry about that one. You either get another one or it's fine. I'm sure the apple doesn't mind." he reassured her with a gentle pat on the shoulder.

elllla_Wtwins:
Jai saw another Gryffindor that announced that she was finished. He went over to her and said,"Awesome. You can just finish drying off and just chill for a bit. Way to represent for the pride." he said with a smirk as he moved along.

Bubbles:
"Very nice technique." he said to another boy.

Going in again? Most definately!

August was thoroughly enjoying himself with this Bobbing for Apples business. He had never expected this to be going on today and was pretty sure he preferred this to the working on of homework he had planned to do after lunch when he had stopped to talk to Tori.

Taking a deep breath the Gryffindor jammed his head back into the water, his face smashing into an apple, sending it back to the bottom. Ooops. He moved his head around the barrel and finally his mouth found and apple and August bit right into it. Coming back up for air, he dropped the apple on the floor before wiping the water out of his eyes. "Only two more to go now." He grinned.

Kennedy swiped his hair away from his eyes so he could see who had spoken to him. He saw the guy then the badge. A prefect. Kennedy smiled widely. "You think." Wow a prefect guy actually complemented him. He'd want to a prefect one day.

Turning back he examined how he would be getting the next apple. He narrowed his eyes and with a fast motion he dove in. His mouth open, landing on a slope-y surface. He secured the his teeth were well attached to the apple and then he pulled out.

Woooooot!

Apple number three.

Okay...okay, OKAY!

Marilyn was going to do it. She wasn't happy about it...but, well, this was competition...and she had this thing about winning. Even if it wasn't suppose to be about winning...What was she saying? Of COURSE it was about winning.

Moving forward, she pulled up the sleeves of her robes. Also, tying her hair up. This was going to get...messy...but it could be fun. *nods*

Lowering her face to the water, she took a deep breath before pushing in. The shock of the temperature caught Marilyn off guard at first...but she recovered quickly. The coldness of the pitch had helped in that regard.

Opening her eyes under water, she spied apples. With both hands on either side of the barrel, she maneuvered her face closer to a small group of them. Using her tongue and teeth, she attempted to bit into the red fruit...

...Failing at first.

Resurfacing, she took another deep breath, and tried again. Sinking her face back into the water, Marilyn spied the apples again. Going towards the bunch with her face and mouth, she caught the stem of one apple and tore it away from the others. Moving her mouth around the top of the fruit, she was FINALLY about to sink her teeth into it.

SUCCESS!

Pulling her face from the watch, Marilyn sputtered, dropping the apple in her hand.

So, four more to go...

Dropping her first one at her feet, Marilyn dived back into the water. She could use the same technique to retrieve all the apples...

Spying more of the fruit, she moved towards them, grabbing a second with her teeth successfully.

Pulling out her face and dropping the second piece of fruit at her feet, she moved to push her face into the water again. The shock of the water had worn off, thankfully. Looking for another apple, she moved towards it, but it was eluding her.

She couldn't seem to position her mouth around this one...The blonde tried rolling it with her tongue...but that was just pushing the apple away. Getting a little frustrated, she lifted her face out of the water and positioned it right above the offending fruit. She WOULD get that apple...

Lowering it down, she was able to graze the crown of the apple with her teeth. Sinking them in, she pulled the third apple out of the water.

SUCCESS, AGAIN!

Oiiiiiiii veyyyyyyy. This was annoying. Tori could feel the icy water just RUINING HER MAKEUP the instant she dunked her head in the barrel. She flailed around a bit and tried to yell, but instead just got water and apples in her mouth. Well that worked, at least.

The redhead yanked her sopping wet face up out of the barrel and emerged with not one but TWO apples in that big mouth of hers. All right. She spat them out with a disgusted expression and then dived back in to get the next three.

Caroline went right back to work sticking her head back down into the water. She had another one cornered up against the wall of the barrel. She found that cornering her [s] victim[/b] apple was the best way to get it. When she finally got the apple she resurface, with her second apple in hand.

Sitting in beside the first one she drove her head back into the water. Cornering yet a third apple, she bit at it, the apple was bigger than she thought it was and couldn't get her big mouth around it. She came back up but quickly when back to try again.

She had a big enough mouth to get it around this apple, and she knew it.

She wasn't going to let this big ruby red apple get away......

Going back she opened her mouth as big as she could, even under the water she could hear a crunch letting her know that she had it. She was going to save that one for later, definitely, it was just to good looking to waste.

Three down two to go.

Kurumi didn't really mind playing the messenger since it was Carter who had asked her. Anything for one of her big brothers, right? Upon entering the armor gallery, Kurumi had to cover her mouth from bursting into a fit of laughter. People were drenched, apples in their mouths, but at least it looked like everyone was having fun.

She smiled at each person as she walked by, but her attention was more on Arya and Jai than anywhere else. "How is everything going here?" she asked, taking another glance over her shoulder. Seemed like everything was going swimmingly. "Carter and Evelyn," well, mostly Carter. "...wanted me to tell you that they are all set up and ready for anyone who has their five apples." She glanced at Arya with a knowing nod.

As Kurumi began to walk through the crowd that had gathered, Kurumi remembered Carter's request: an apple. Merlin that boy and his appetite was going to get him into trouble. Kurumi was just about to nonchalantly drop her hand into a barrel and grab an apple, but that wouldn't be fair to the others. Shrugging her shoulders, Kurumi laughed. "When in Hogwarts..."

She quickly dunked her head into the nearest barrel and flailed around a bit until her teeth connected with an apple and she removed her head from the barrel with a slightly dramatic hair flip a la Little Mermaid - it had been unintentional, but her hair WAS really long.

Saluting Jai and Arya, Kurumi removed the apple from her mouth and scampered off to deliver Carter his apple.

Caroline send Kurumi come in and she knew that the prefects and captains must have the next clue ready. She scanned her barrel for two smaller apples, if she could get that last big apple then two smaller ones should be simple right?

The problem was there were two small ones almost on oppside sides of the barrel. So she moved the barrel around trying to get the two little apples closer to each other.

Alas success.

Now all she had to do was stick her head down in the water, and get these last two apples. She drove head first into the barrel. She got 'em both in one try on the first try. She was so going to owl her mother and tell her she was right about one thing her whole life. She had a feeling that she looked like a overstuffed chipmunk with the apples hanging out of her mouth and spit them out and Squealed "Done!"

Tori dipped her head back in and bit down hard on the first thing her mouth came in contact with. Fortunately, it turned out to be an apple. The girl flung her head out of the barrel and released her bite-hold on the third apple.

WOO. Two more!

Without even checking to see how her partner August was doing, Tori dived back into that FREEZING water and this time, it took her a few moments to dig around for the next few apples. But she managed at last and emerged two more times, with one apple in mouth each turn.

"DONEEEEE!" the redhead called out victoriously, throwing her hands up in the air and flinging more water everywhere. WHOOOOOo. She had SURVIVED Ireland!

The Puff prefect was keeping track of how many students had already captured their five apples while she cleaned up the mess they were making. They were all doing so well! She was proud.

Shifting on her stool, her eyes turned to the young lion prefect when she walked over. "Heh. They're doing great! Havin so much fun they wanted me to join in." Arya grinned. She would join in later.

Oh! They were ready? "I'll send some over now." She returned the knowing nod with one of her own, and while Kurumi went over to snag an apple, her's was in her pocket, she stood up on her stool for all the students to see. "Hey guys!!" That should get their attention, but she waited all of five seconds just in case. "For those who have all five of their very much needed apples, I have the next clue!"

The prefects reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of parchement, handing those who had their five apples duplicates when they came up to her. And of course they got smiles and congrats.

"Have fun at the next clue guys! And keep up the good work those who don't have all five yet. Almost there!"

OOC: For all that RPed getting all five apples, the next clue is here! Take it and run to find the next task!! You don't need to wait for me to respond, just play as if Arya's giving you the clue when you come up to her. The rest, keep going, your almost finished with this task!!

Auggie dunked his head back into the freezing water that was in his barrell. Really in his excitment to get started did he pick the one with the coldest water? The Gryffindor still needed two more apples and he wasn't about to give up from cold just yet.

He noticed Tori had just finished and he better hurry up before she thought she was better at bobbing for apples than he was, which was obviously wrong. He fished around in the water, mouth wide open and felt the stem of an apple attach between his teeth but he didn't come up. Then he grabbed the second and last apple just as he was about to come up for air; he did it!

"Yes! We did it Tori!" he said pumping a fist in the air. Yeah, they ruled.

"HOLLA!" Tori shouted, giving Auggie a giant, hard high-five. "WHOOOOOO."

She was clearly still on an apple-bobbing, my-head-is-frozen high.

Still hyper from her achievement, Tori practically rushed the prefect handing out clues. She bounced over to her and yanked a clue out of her hand, leaping over to August to show it to him too.

"What does it all MEAN? Where do we GO? Should we take our apples with us?"

Just in case, the girl loaded up on the five apples that had fallen by her barrel. She looked real funny now, what with her pockets being loaded down and all. But whatevs.

Tori Bunbury was here to WIN.

Kennedy rubbed his eyes. He didn't like getting water in them. He looked down at the pile of apples he had so far collected. Three. Two more and he'd be ready for the next clue. He was very excited about this. He wondered if they would include Mexico for this around the world thing.

His head was back in the barrel. He could feel his head bumping with the apples. He felt one near his cheek and he turned to it, sinking his teeth into it.

Gotcha!

One more to go.