What in the name of flying freckles was going on!!! There was yelling, and screaming? In HER greenhouses!!!!!

This was not going to fly with her. Not at all.

Arriving at greenhouse three, Seren noted that the door was open... this was never a good sign. Storming in, because heck if there was something going down in her greenhouses she wasn't about to take her time getting there, she caught sight of a bunch of girls.
"What in the name of bouncing blueberries is going on here?!" she asked, waving her hands in the air like a slightly deranged woman.

But then she suddenly felt rather at ease, in her own greenhouse... this was bad.

Blinking a few times to clear her head, she suddenly saw the large form of a ... was that a DRAGON?! ... in front of her.
"Ughh... uuhh???" This was something different.

The large white dragon was the one wreaking havoc in her greenhouse? This wasn't all too surprising. It was Hogwarts after all. Seren was just thankful it wasn't a real dragon... this one was most definitely made of snow.

"Ok, which one of you did this?" she asked sternly, hands on hips. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw two girls laying on the floor.. clearly making friends with the Venomous Tentacular.
"Are you two respinsible for this?" she asked, glancing from Mia to Destiny and to the dragon.

Whipping out her wand, she approached the girls and severed the vines from their legs. "Up, both of you... now explain yourselves."

Shaking her head TJ nearly laughed aloud. Tying up a snowdragon? "Wouldn't melting it work better...?" she asked backing away more closer to the others. "Maybe it will leave if we use the hot air charm...afraid it will melt!" Her hand still holding her wand, she kept her eyes on the snow dragon, watching where it went. The poor plants!

Hearing Kurumi's answer, she shook her head, "Well that was obvious wasn't it?" Her eyes quickly moving to the door as the professor entered, she shook her head, the younger children couldn't have done this...right? ...Well...they were in the greenhouses before TJ and Kurumi had arrived.

Jez looked up at Professor Bentley. "There all coming alive!" she squeaked. "All of them! The snowmen from the contest! There was one in the Entrance Hall, and an eagle in the Owlery!" She gulped, glancing around that the others. "Does anyone know who made the dragon?" Even when scared, Jez's investigative nature still shone through.

And all of a sudden it was utter chaos. Mia was just getting used to a snow dragon being in the greenhouse and trying to figure out how she and Destiny were going to get out of this one when all of a sudden half of Hogwarts was in the greenhouse.

Okay slight exaggeration but it felt like it.

She looked up hearing her name being spoken and she blinked a couple of times at the Gryffindor Prefect. "What would you like us to do?" Could the girl not see that she and Destiny were somewhat pre-occupied at the moment. Or could she not see THAT A MAN EATING PLANT WAS TRYING TO MAKE THEM ITS DINNER!

"You're a Prefect, you do something." She was just a mere Huffie who was trying to get through her seventh year at Hogwarts unscathed. If she was brave, she would have been a Gryffindor, now wouldn't she?

And then things just got worse.

Bentley arrived.

And boy did that woman go nuts when her plants were in danger. Mia had always thought she was a quiet and kind woman. Not anymore. The woman had a crazed look about her and...

WHAAAAAAAAAT????

The Professor thought they had something to do with the snow dragon? Had the woman never seen Mia try and perform magic? If she did then she would never have asked that question.

And oh Merlin! She was going to hex them. Mia flinched when Bentley took out her wand and started towards them. But she was just severing the vines and she immediately jumped to her feet.

Explain themselves?

Mia thought it was pretty obvious but okay. "We didn't have anything to do with that - that...dragon thingy." Again the woman had obviously never seen Mia do magic. "Why don't you ask them?" she said pointing to the students milling around. "It was just Destiny and me in the greenhouse and then the snow dragon appeared and then all of a sudden they showed up."

So there!

She may be a Huffie but she wasn't above passing the buck.

Oh good! Professor Bentley was here!

Kurumi suddenly felt a lot better about the situation seeing as a professor was already on the scene. Last term with the fire it had seemed like an eternity before a professor had shown up. However, her smile suddenly faded when she saw that the usually somewhat passive woman was looking madder than a hornet on Tuesday.

"P-P-Professor Bentley...I-I don't think anyone here made the dragon..." At least, she didn't have a clue how to even begin to make such a thing happen.
But before she could speak any more to Professor Bentley, TJ spoke again.

MELT IT?! "Do you see the size of that thing?! Melting it could cause more damage...all that water could drown the plants, rot their roots, destroy more." Worse case would be that the robes would go right through the legs and then chop him up into smaller pieces.

Kurumi then turned her attention to the Ravenclaw she had jumped in front of. Wait...how did she know about the eagle in the Owlery? Kurumi hadn't seen them there. Perhaps gossip spread fast.

The first year might be on to something with the snow creatures coming to life...but who had made an eagle? Kurumi didn't remember seeing one of those. "Ira from my house built one for the contest...but there is no way she could have set it loose on the castle." The girl was only a first year after all.


Do something because she was a prefect? She might be a prefect, but she was also a fourth year and the current situation clearly called for more practiced hands...like those of a seventh year.

Kurumi glanced back over at Professor Bentley and then back at the dragon, sho seemed to be at least somewhat behaving himself for now. The ropes she had conjured earlier were in a tangled mess around his left leg only. That clearly wasn't going to do any good.

She glanced back at the dragon and tried to put more pieces together. "In the Owlery, I startled the eagle and it flew into a wall...vanishing in a poof of white smoke...maybe...if we can make this dragon run into the side of the greenhouse the same thing will happen?"

Just how they were going to do that was unknown. Poke it with a really big stick?

Jez looked at the older girl thoughtfully. Wasn't she a Gryffindor prefect? That would definitely be helpful ... "My friend Scott built the snow eagle, but I know he couldn't have charmed it either, he's a first-year." Not that Scott would have charmed his eagle anyway ... Jez frowned. Not the time to be thinking of her boyfriend! "The snowman and snow eagle didn't hurt anything, but the dragon is ... I don't think whoever is enchanting them necessarily has them under control ..." It would explain a lot. "But that still leaves the question of who's controlling them?" Ultimate questions.

Seren was glaring at the dragon that had stomped on her precious BABIES! Oh this lump of snow was going to pay.. it was going to pay big time. Wait... what? Had that Slytherin girl just suggested melting it? ..
"Melt it... yes... just not in here. We need to get it out somehow."
She was not about to drown what was left of her poor little plants. This was going to take some serious work to get back to normal.

She heard a number of voices speaking at once. Merlin! One at a time!!!

One thing she did note, was that perhaps Mia and Destiny had not been a part of this ... mess, and Kurumi did raise a valid point. Perhaps none of them were responsible for it.
"Alright, alright... but seriously, what were you doing on the floor? I suggest you play nice with my plants in future instead of intimidating them like that."
Her precious plants could do no wrong... Nope, they were innocent

But who was?

Listening in on Jezabel and Kurumi's conversation regarding other snow...animals?... she couldn't help but wonder why all this was happening.
"There have been others?" she exclaimed... clearly concerned and slightly confused.
One was enough to deal with, but more? A part of her wanted to lock up and barricade all of the greenhouses. Her babies needed protecting, but right now, her main priority was this stupid Dragon!

The eagle snowbird disappeared in a poof of smoke? smoke? .. were they not made of snow? Why wouldn't they disappear in a poof of snow instead?
"Well if we try that, it would be best to get it to poof outside of the greenhouse, rather than in it."

A rampaging dragon wasn't going to be doing her plants any favours. They had already been through so much... poor dears.

It was Borr. Borr and his cane of doom doing it all. He had been the one whacking everyone's creations all over the place. Was probably his way of making everyone in the school suffer for being lazy in his eyes or whatever. Kurumi was regretting ever giving him a cookie and thinking about giving him another. Shame on her. SHAME.

Kurumi looked around the greenhouse and eyed the dragon's tail. Professor Bentley looked like she was about to hex someone's ears off just as a form of stress relief from the plants being mushed.

Right, plants, plants were important. Seeing as her rope conjuring spell wasn't catching on, time to implement something else to get things going. Kurumi pointed her wand at one of the Flutterby Bushes nearest the dragon. "Protego." There, now one less Flutterby Bush could be harmed. She wasn't sure how many shield spells she could cast before she reached her limit, but at least it was something, right?

"Yes, professor," Kurumi said with a nod after casting another shielding charm on a flower bed. "I was in the Owlery when an eagle made from snow appeared. It flew away suddenly and smashed into the wall and...then there was no snow..."

She looked back at the first year. If everyone's snow creations were coming to life...did that mean that her house elf was going to be walking around the school at some point? Perhaps that would be her key to getting into the kitchens?

TJ still thought maybe luring it outside or chasing it out with some kind of charm or spell might work. "What sort of charms or spells might work to get it to leave?" she mused aloud. Something that wouldn't harm the plants in the greenhouse, nor themselves, if they got too close.

"Professor? Is there anything you can think of that might lure a snowdragon outside, or make it want to leave?"

Jez glared at the snow dragon. Mhm, you're going down, plant murderer, she thought angrily. She had an idea, and waved her wand at the snow dragon. "Accio snow dragon!" The snow dragon moved a tiny bit towards Jez and subsequently the doors, but the huge effort for the minimal result was annoying. She blew her hair out of her eyes and looked around at the other people. "Anybody got any better ideas than Accio? I'm not sure it's working well."

Alyssa first felt the sudden cold and when she turned to look to see who had left the greenhouse door opened, she saw a gigantic white beast enter. It looked like a Dragon. But it was white in color. She closed her eyes and opened it again, hoping that it was just a figment of her imagination, but it was still there coming trampling over and freezing each plant as it stomped past.

"Pro...Prof...Professor!!" was all Alyssa could say. She tugged on the Professor's sleeve and pointed behind her. All the other students in the greenhouse were screaming and running trying to avoid it.

Alyssa knew that it couldn't have been the two students responsible for making this creature. No one in here could of done that. Then she heard about the other snow creatures appearing in the castle. "Oh No! I do hope Yogi isn't one of them," she thought to herself.

Alyssa realized what she had to do. She had to be the decoy and try to distract the dragon back out of the greenhouse. "I'll do it, Professor. I think I'll be quick enough to run past it and try to get it to follow me." Without waiting for permission, Alyssa ran down another row of plants on the other side of the dragon, ran past the dragon and came around behind it.

"Hey there you big lug. Why don't you come get me?" Alyssa yelled taunting it and waving her arms. "I'm over here, you stupid thing!!"

Harvey looked up at this massive white beast, he had never seen anything like it and couldnt believe his eyes that he was looking at it. He looked down at Professor Bentley and the students trying to think of how to bring this thing under control when suddenly he heard a familiar voice shout at the dragon. He looked down to see that Alyssa was taunting the dragon, he didnt think that it was a good idea but he couldnt think of anything else either. So he went to Alyssa "I will help hang on I will be back in a minute" he went outside to see if he could find something to throw at it. He found several medium rocks and brought them inside. Straight away he began to throw the stones at the dragon to try and get his attention "Are you deaf!??" He shouted at it "You seem to be both deaf and dumb aint you, you big white dumb beast sorry forgot to add you are DEAF!!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs still hurling stones at it.

It all happened SO fast.

One moment she was laying on the floor, vines of some plant creeping up her leg, and then in the next moment..the doors of the Greenhouse flew open, Mia decided to slap her in the head, Kurumi and a bunch of other people entered, followed by Professor Bentley who looked angrier than a kneazle who just had it's tail stepped on. And then she saw it..the SNOW DRAGON.

It took her a while to take everything in, and even after the crazy lunatic of a Professor Bentley severed the vines from around her and Mia's legs, she decided to stay on the floor, just staring at the snow dragon. It was a dragon. Made out of SNOW.

SHE WANTED TO KEEP IT!

Which was why, as she only half listened to the conversation going on around her, and only half hearing that the others were going to 'take it out', she jumped to her feet, moving closer to the creature and standing in the line of him. Not too close of course, after all, it was still a dragon. But, she didn't want anyone to hurt it. So, flicking her wand at in the direction of the thing, she cast a quick 'Protego' on it..and just in time, too. Because someone started to throw STONES at it!

"Hey, STOP!" Seriously, what was WRONG with people!? They were all CRAZY. "It's not doing anything! It just..killed a few plants!" A few hundred plants, but she didn't need to go into details. "So what? They will grow back..unlike him, if you take him out!" Taking a deep breath, she turned to face the boy who was throwing stones. The stone thrower. "And will you stop doing that!? You're going to hit someone."

Merlin!

Alyssa saw what Destiny was trying to do and tried warning her. "Destiny. It's not real, but it is charmed right now and very dangerous. Look what it's done to everything in it's path. It's frozen everything. Don't touch it. It could freeze you too. Help us get it out of the greenhouse, so that the Professor can deal with it. You can always build another snow dragon!!" Alyssa tried reasoning with her while keeping a close watch on the creature.

"Harvey thanks for helping me but you have to stop throwing stones at it. You're going to miss and hit someone instead. Just help me attract it's attention!!"Alyssa yelled over at Harvey.

Harvey heard Alyssa shout something and stopped immediately and ran outside and put the stones down and came back in to see what was happening.

Ropes quickly latch on to the dragon's legs, sinking a few inches into the packed snow. If they were any tighter it would be possible for it's legs to be cut completely off.

The snow dragon drags the ropes along as it continues to stomp on various plants, not taking notice to the people around it.

As a large rock comes in contact with the dragons head, the creature it lets out a loud shriek and swings it's tail, at an attempt to hit whoever was throwing the rocks.

Alyssa saw ropes latch around the Dragon's legs. "Someone must have cast the Incarcerous Spell," Alyssa yelled to whoever could hear her. "Now that's a great idea. If we can all grab hold of one end and pull, we may be able to bring it down or at least pull it out of the greenhouse.".

Then she heard the Dragon shried and lash out with it's tail at Harvey. She quickly leaped and pushed Harvey out of the way. Rolling away from the swinging tail, Alyssa turned to Harvey and asked, "Are you alright, Harvey?", making sure that she still kept a close eye on the swinging tail AND the dragon.

Harvey was in shock he couldnt believe what had just happened. That THING had tried to KILL him. But luckily Alyssa was there and she had saved him. He looked at Alyssa "Yes I am fine." he said, then he turned to Alyssa "Thanks Alyssa, you saved my life" He said to her and then looked back at the dragon

Wist Ebony entered the Greenhouses because she had heard a whole LOT of rough noises in there. She stood, stunned, looking at it. A SNOW DRAGON????? Her first reaction was that it was wicked cool, but it was causing havoc, she saw. But who had made it?
She saw the students fighting with it, and she shouted 'WHY NOT CAST INCENDIO???!" She took out her wand and shot the spell at its tail. "INCENDIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The spell shoots toward the snow dragon colliding with its rear leg setting it on fire. The snow dragon's leg begins to melt off as the fire quickly makes it way up it's body. Water from the burning creature's leg splashes down on the students and plants.

She jumped in a startled way and dropped her wand as the force of the water hit her. She quickly picked up her wand and aimed it at the dragon again. It seemed to be dying. Wist suddenly became reluctant to finish it off, she didn't even know anything about it. But she did take a step back and looked to see what the others were going to do.

Harvey shielded his face from the force of the water that collided down on him from the spell hitting the dragon. He was completely soaked as he looked up to see the Dragon dying.

MERLIN! What was the second year Puff doing?! This was no time to play hero - especially not when you were so young. "Alyssa! Don't!" She called, but then she saw that the ropes she had conjured were working.

Phew, she was glad that that thought had paid off.

Kurumi stood in front of the two younger students and pointed her wand at the dragon's mouth. No snow fire please, just in case. "IUn-CAR-sir-us!" Her spell was stronger this time, probably because she had gotten control over her emotions.

Wasn't anyone listening?! Professor Bentley had said no fire spells! "Don't cast Indendio!" Kurumi shouted. "You will drown the plants."

What???! Wist shook her head in despair. Why hadn't she thought of that? Not that she had heard him. She didn't even know any wind spells that might get rid of the water.

"Doesn't anyone know any spells to get rid of the water???!" she shouted out to the whole room. She was going to get in soo much trouble...

But wait a minute. That dragon was already about to do waaaay more damage that the water would!

"So it was Kurumi who had used the Incarcerous spell. That was really smart thinking on her part." Alyssa thought to herself. Kurumi was brave trying to protect them, but Alyssa knew that she could have outrun the lumbering creature. Then she saw another student enter the greenhouse, wave her wand
and cast the Incendio spell.

"NO STOP!! The Professor doesn't want to flood the greenhouse!!" Alyssa yelled out hoping to stop the student before it was too late.

Too late, the creature was melting all over the greenhouse, flooding everything in its path.

Alyssa sighed both in relief as well as in frustration. At least the creature was gone, but now the Professor was going to be upset. "Quick, let's go help the Professor dry up the place before the plants drown, Harvey." Alyssa said running back into the Greenhouse.

Whipping out her wand, she pointed it at the spots that were flooding and used the Hot Air charm.