Salima just wanted to get this over and done with but disided that she should take her time instead. She grabed her second toadstool and started to unscrew the cap. Salima had done this successfully, this time without a pixie comming at her.

Finally pulling the pixie from her hair, Sarah set the pixie down next to the decapitated toadstool and moved on, giving the pixie one last glare.

At the next toadstool there was only one pixie. She hoped that would make her job easier. "Excuse me," she said politely to the pixie. Reaching for the 'stool and twisting off the cap.

As she went to drop the cap in the jar, the pixie gave a little screech and rushed at her. Sarah gave a shriek of surprise and ducked. The pixie, going too fast to change directions, crashed into the greenhouse wall.

"Oh, jeez." Sarah muttered, dropping the cap into the jar and making her way to the fallen pixie. "Come on," she sighed, picking up the pixie gently and depositing her next to the toadstool. As she set it down, it bit her thumb.

"Bloody--!" calm Sarah, just ignore the little blighter.

"Yeah, you're welcome." she muttered.

Salander kinda just stood there, in the middle of all the chaos of the activity. For one, he LOVED peppermint, so the aroma of the greenhouse was making him all shades of happy. And he would stay that way if not for the little blue demons zooming about.

Yeah he wasnt exactly a Pixie fan.

Tightening up his gloves he approached a relatively quiet set of peppermint toadstools and grabbed hold of the top. Aaannnd-- all quiet. Huh lucky. He twisted one out and set it aside. He was about to start on the second one when a Pixie flew in from behind him and grabbed the just harvested toadstool "Oi!" he yellled, reaching out and grabbing the Pixie by its legs. The little blue demon mya have been small, but it was tugging at him like a good sized dog. "Give that baaaackkkk...."

O____O

What...GAH! This was NOT cool! Kennedy has always imagined pixies to be nice and help you how to fly like Tinker Bell, but these...these were more like mini demons. He ducked when he saw one of the little freaks head straight for him.

Hehehe!

He was too fast for it...

OUCH!

Kennedy was hauled back by his hair. The little freak had him! Oh noes, it was going to eat his brains out. Not really...maybe. The fourteen year old reached behind his head, but the darn pixie kept pulling his hair even more. How could he stun it if he could only see. He had two choices; try to walk the opposite direction the pixie was pulling or yanked the thing away from him. Either way, he was loosing some hair. Going for option two, Kennedy reached the pixie and pulled.

That hurt.

Throwing the pixie back into the air he pointed his wand at it and said, "Stupefy!" He let out a sigh of relief when the thing fell on to the ground, motionless. Stupid thing.

This time it wasn't like with the toadstool. Kennedy didn't feel bad for the little pixie. It had hurt him, so now he was going to take it's cap off. M'hm. He held the top and gave it a twist, once he had it he deposited the cap into the box.

Now, could he please not get his hair pulled again. It was a painful experience.

First biting toadstools.. now pixies? Some people might think pixies are cute, but Desiree knew better, they were dangerous. They had a problem with them in their yard a few years ago.. She glanced around cautiously. Hmph well there didn't seem to be any around..

The small witch reached out her had to grab the cap, and squealed "Ahh, Get off of me!" O__o A pixie was on her head, pulling her hair, She tried to swat it away with her hand. Oh her wand! She pulled it out, but then realized she didn't know what spell to use, unless she wanted to change it pink. She glanced around frantically at the other students having similiar problems "Could someone help me? Im-*swat* not *dodge* sure *duck* how to stop them??"

Penny had followed the rest of the class into the back room greenhouse and was immediately stunned with the most beautiful smell..

She didn't like the sound of those pixies.. Making her way down the long table which seemed to be crammed full of toadstools... Picking a space half way up.

Removing her wand and gloves from her robes and got prepared as she looked for the first stool - looking around her she saw that Kita was just over the way...Hopefully Penny wouldn't need help.

Bending over the 'stool', Penny silently prayed that she wouldn't have any trouble.... Twisting the cap off like Professor Bentley said - then suddenly...

"AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH... get off me you cheeky imp", the single pixie was pulling her hair and swinging from her ponytail.

Swinging her head around quickly, the pixie lost his grip and flew into the air... Penny quickly pointed her wand at his and yelled "Immobulus", he froze in mid-air..

Penny plucked him from the air and left him gently on the bench and got back to the task in hand of removing the caps from the 'stools'.

Sweat was running down Penny's forehead, she wiped it hurriedly on the sleeve of her robe before moving onto the next 'stool'.

Ok Salima wand at the ready...toadstool...remember the spell...pixie...concentrate...
Salima was just about to unscrew her final cap until she looked up and saw a pixie comming at her "IMMOBULUS!" She was just about to put ther wand down to uncrew another cap when she saw another pixie and yelled "STUPEFY" though she missed the pixie but tried again "IMMOBULUS!" stunning the pixie she continued with her work.
Salima decided that this time she would unscrew the toadstool cap more quickly but carefully. Once Salima was finally done she took the other two with her along with the last one and placed it in the box.

William retrieved his dragonhide gloves from his bag once more and proceeded with the rest of the class out to another, darker, greenhouse. He stood in the massive congregation of students, gripping his wand tightly. Peppermint? Thank goodness he wasn't allergic to that. Otherwise he'd definitely need a trip to the Hospital Wing. After listening to Professor Bentley talk about these Peppermint Striped Parasols, she left them to do some more harvesting. At least this one, Will thought, was going to be easier than those fanged biting toadstools.
"Wait, what are Pixies?" he asked. He may have known a lot for being a first-year, but that didn't mean he knew everything. Will had never read up on magical creatures. He imagined them to be tiny and harmless, since their name would intimate that.

But as the class began to harvest these peppermint plants, Will discerned what Pixies were. He apprehensively approached the plants that had an almost overbearingly sweet, peppermint fragrance. It was reminding him too much of Christmas, though he did like that Holiday. He gripped the plant, just like he did the biting toadstool, only this time he began twisting the top off of stem. However, he only got a few good twists in before something happen. A large, blue, winged human-like creature flew out of nowhere and began tugging on the back of Will's robes. Relinquishing the peppermint striped parasols, he spun around and tried to prod what he could only assume was a Pixie.
"GET OFF ME!" he yelled, whacking the creature with his hands. For some reason, it let go of him, and he rushed back to the peppermint striped toad. But as he got near it, he suddenly tripped. His glasses flew askew and it was hard for him to see. But the blurry, red and white striped mass in front of him allowed him to discern where the parasol was. He rushed forward, ripped off the top, and threw it into the pocket of his robes. He then proceeded to crawl on his hands and knees, getting covered in dirt, as he attempted to find his glasses. His fingers brushed up against something metallic, and as he began to get a grasp of what he hoped where his glasses, they were tugged out of his hands.
"MY GLASSES! Give those back!" he hoped at the site, jumping up at the blurry blue figure that was laughing at him. Would someone help him?

After getting the pixie out of her hair, Lana saw her friend Desiree having trouble. She pointed her wand at the pixie attacking her and yelled "Immobulus!"

"Hey Desiree," she smiled as the Pixie froze. "It's a good thing we've got Raven and some older students here otherwise I wouldn't have know what to do," she laughed.

Ok Peppermint toadstools didn't sound so bad, certainly not as dangerous as biting ones. Unfortunantly as the Professor went on in her words, Gideon berated himself for thinking too soon on the subject of danger.

Great...just what we need to deal with...PIXIES!

The fourth year could see those already starting the next assignment and already dealing with the mischievous blue creatures. He ducked as one from a nearby student flew past certainly not wanting to deal with any he wasn't already going to have to with his own work. Wand securely in one hand, he moved closer towards the toadstools and grabbed hold of one of the caps.

With a twist or two he removed the cap but suddenly had to back away as a pixie was disturbed and flew right at him and he couldn't move fast enough. Turning to try and and catch it as it flew back around and avoid getting attacked from behind, Gideon aimed better at the creature.

"Stupefy!" he cast, the pixie freezing in midair and the Gryffindor relaxed, reacquiring the cap and depositing it in the box.

Indiana had gotten two caps into the box now. She was very happy with that. She was doing well so far, and was really enjoying herself. Indy really liked herbology, she could see why Spike had gone on about it so much. It was pretty epic lesson. Well as long as they continued doing fun things like this. Thinking about that she needed to start to harvest the last cap, before she missed her chance. Ensuring that her gloves were on effectively, she looked at the toadstools, and Pixies again. She could do this. She had done it twice now, so she knew she could do it. But knowing her she'd mess up.

Pulling her wand out, she was ready to stun and Pixie's that name near her. She was hoping that they woudln't get into her hair or anything, because that would've been pretty tragic. She stepped forward reaching her right hand for the toadstool, as she held her wand in her dominant left hand. But as she went to grab one the Pixie jumped onto her right hand, and began pulling at her glove. "Oh no you don't....you're not hurting me." Indy shook her hand a little, before pointing her wand at the pesky little thing. "Stupefy!" She said it in a firm voice, and was glad when the pixie fell off her hand stunned.

"Perfect." She smirked, as she passed the toadstool from her right hand to her left hand. All she needed to do now was harvest the last toadstool. She knew how to do that though, so that should be fun. Indy took a good grasp of the top of the toadstool, and pulled it from the stem, placing the cap into the bucket. All done.

Faven heard a girl ask for help and ran over to offer assistance. "Stupify!" Faven shouted and pointed the spell at a particularily nasty pixie that was pulling at the girl's hair."The spells to use are Stupify and Immobulus," she told the girl in between using the spells to protect the two of them. "Immobulus, stupify, STUPIFY!!!" Faven called out towards a group of pixies, who all fell into her hand.

"Stupefy! Accio Glasses!" Aurora stunned the pixie and summoned the glasses, passing them back to the little Ravenclaw lad. "There you go." she said, smiling at him.

Post 2
Searching for another cap to harvest, Kynthia passed a boy chasing a pixie with... were those glasses? Another girl rushed to help the boy, so she continued with her search. Soon enough she found a toadstool who still had its cap intact.

Hmm. Better be more carefull this time. Don't want to lose half my hair again. This time the pixies spotted her before she even made one step closer to the plant. But she was expecting them this time.
"Immobulus!" She shouted. Soon she was holding the second cap in her hands.

DEAR MERLIN'S MOTHER'S SHOES!

This was such a DANGEROUS lesson! Spells were flying all over the place. Pixies were flying all over the place. Not to mention how those pixies were biting, scratching, tugging and just being in places that they had no right being. This Herbology lesson was even worse than the one where they learned about Devil's Snare. That's what she needed.. Destiny needed a broom. To beat the life out of all the pixies. You can hit more with a broom than a single spell.

Looking for the person who had cast a spell in their direction, thankfully hitting one of the nearby pixies and not her, Destiny gave Evelyn a smile as she thanked her. She was going to remember this day forever. And not because of the bite marks on her fingers. But because she had HELPED Evelyn. Practically saved her life, she did!

She turned away after a moment of just smiling, and once she was facing the toadstools again, Destiny leaned forward, stretching out her hand to grab a cap. She had almost twisted it off the stem when.. what do you know, a pixie decided to show up. "Don't you--" she was cut off by a very painful honk to the nose.

Shaking her head, trying to free her poor, sore nose, she ripped the cap off the toadstool and used it to try and swat the pixie away. There was no way she was using magic.. so close to her face.

When the chaos begun and the pixies were set loose, Theodore had dived headfirst to the floor. The pixies were most likely to reach for those who were closest to the ceiling and being a seventh year and towering over the younger students didn't leave the odds in his favor. Crawling on all fours, he found an unharvested cap that sat on the table above and got onto his knees, quickly grabbing a cap, twisting it off, and placing it into his mason jar. One down, two to go!

It was only then that he felt a tugging at his scalp and a stream of gibberish in his ear. Looking at the reflection of himself in the greenhouse glass, he could see that a pixie had taken two clawfuls of his curly hair and was attempting to prize it off. "Shoo!" Flailing about and looking like a headbanger from the 80s, the pixie was expelled from his head and landed on the opposite wall. That had been a close one.

Grabbing his wand from the pocket of his trousers, Theodore heard an agitated cry from nearby. Someone, a Huffie from the looks of it, needed help! Feeling as if the prefect's badge on his chest gave him an inordinate amount of superhero bravery, Theo charged forward and cried, "Immobulus!" A few pixies, who looked as if they had been about to bite or scratch the poor girl, were rendered immobile as rock and floating in midair. Glancing at the girl, he gave a quick nod and a salute before rushing off to his next cap.

Faven looked over her shoulder to see a Slytherin boy wrestling with a pixie over a toadstool cap. Wanting to help, as well as practice her spells, Faven took out her wand, pointed it at the pixie and called out "Stupify!" The pixie fell, leaving the cap in the boy's hand. "There you go," Faven said with a smile upon her face.

After helping her friend, Lana was determined to get her third cap. I swear if another pixie attacks me, I'm gonna kill it! I mean, erm.. freeze it or whatever. Taking back her thought, knowing she would lose points if she had killed a creature.

She walked closer to another toadstool. She got a whiff of the peppermint smell. Ahh, that smells so good. she thought closing her eyes, breathing in the aroma.

BAD IDEA.

This time two pixies grabbed her by the ear and, once again, found herself midair. She tried freezing them but she just couldn't aim at them just right.

"Thank you, thank you very much!" Faven called after the Ravenclaw Prefect.

Now... time to harvest another cap.

Part of her still believed that the pixie's won't harm her if she pretended to be small and cute and harmless. So that's why she approached the toadstool with a cute smile on her face and her eyelashes fluttering as if there's no tomorrow.

But then again, the pixie's weren't Hogwartian boys.

And then it came to her. The pixies. The silly, don't-know-when-to-leave-you-alone pixies. Hmph. But this time she was ready... right? She had already defeated one pixie, she could defeat some more.

"AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHH!" she screamed. It. Had. Grabbed. Onto. Her. Hair. That's it. THINGS JUST GOT REAL!

Kita grabbed onto the top of her hair and swung it forward. There, dangling at the end of her hair, was a small pixie. She eyed the bright blue pixie who was grinning at her, baring its teeth. She drew her wand round and pointed it at the pixie.

"Immobulus!" she cried. She breathed a sigh of relief as the pixie froze and dropped onto the floor. But before she knew it- "ARGH! ALWAYS THE HAIR! WHY THE HAIR?!" she screamed as she felt something grab onto her hair.

Hmph.

She brought the other side of her hair forward and glared at the pixie dangling at the end of it. "What have you got against me and my hair?!" she screamed before pointing her wand carefully at the pixie.

One... Two... Three... "IMMOBULUS!" A jet shot of her wand and hit the pixie in the face. Kita giggled at the silly expression on the pixie's face as she picked it up and chucked it onto the table. She bent down, picked up the other pixie and chucked it next to the other pixie that had grabbed onto her hair. She reached over and unscrewed another cap. There... that wasn't so bad was it?

By now, Will had already decided he hated Pixies. He was hopelessly trying to get his glasses back when someone from nearby shot a stunning charm at the Pixie while also summoning Will's glasses and handing them to him. He turned around, put them on, and smiled at the Slytherin girl, who he could now see.
"Thank you!" he said gratefully. He smiled at her again. "What was that incantation you used? Stupefy?"

He gripped his wand and ran back to another peppermint striped parasol. He gripped the top like before, and, while still pumped with anger from that pesky pixie, ripped the top of the parasol off with little effort. Throwing it into the pocket of his robes, he ran away from the parasols, fearing another Pixie would come.
"Stupefy. . . " he said under his breath. He wondered if he could perform that spell.

Oh...excited person.

Wasn't expecting that.

Raising a brow, she glanced to the box, spying the toadstool she had harvested and turned back to the girl. Which proved difficult since she was somewhere else already. Actually, the girl was pretty quick. And small, so perhaps she could be of use.

Once she was done acting the hero, Evelyn leaned against a table, smirking smiling somewhat. "Actually, I could use your help." Because, you know, Evelyn didn't want her hair to get messed up and she didn't want to lay down on the floor again as a Pixie attacked her. "Why don't you...harvest the next two toadstools for me? And I'll make sure you aren't attacked by pixies." From back here.

Teamwork, right? Hehe.

Still smirking smiling, Evelyn couldn't help but notice a funny sight with Mr. Head Boy and Mr. Grabby Hands apparently. That Pixie was a mister right?

...

Bwahahahaha!

It was ALMOST a shame that someone stunned the pixie for him.



And it seemed all this funny business just continued on!

Good Merlin, she actually was starting to ENJOY this lesson! How cool was that?!?

Chuckling quietly as she eyed Destiny, Evelyn may have waited just a few more moments before reaching out and holding her friends shoulder. "Stop...stop." Stop before she wet herself. "Hold still..."

Seriously, hold still. She didn't want a detention for accidentally sending someone to the hospital wing for a misfire. That would just be terrible luck. "Immobulus." Yea, she opted for the immobulus spell instead of stupefy...mostly because if she DID miss, Destiny wouldn't be unconscious.

Suddenly she heard a shout and the pixie pulling her hair froze midair. Looking around for her savior she saw Lana. "Lana! Thank you so much you saved me" Desiree said laughing. Trying to imitate the spell she pointed it at blue pixie heading their way "Immobulus!" To her surprise the pixie froze just like the one above her head. Pixie:0 Desiree:1 .

Walking confidently back to her toadstool(and looking out of the corner of her eyes for those pixies) she grabbed the cap and twisted it like the Professor said. It came off easily. Pleased with her accomplishment she set the cap down and went to move on to the next. Suddenly a swarm of Pixies appeared another one pulling her hair (It obviously attracts pixies) about to pull out her wand she stopped when a girl yelled stupefy and it fell to the floor "Thanks!" she called to the unknown girl who continued to stun pixies. Seeing one eyeing her mushroom cap Desiree yelled "Stupefy!" and watched it fall Pixie:0 Desiree:2

All in a day's work, the seventh year exasperatedly thought to himself as he gave her a quick wave, his hand accidentally swiping a pixie who had been tossed from a person's cap. Oops. Was this considered to be animal abuse? Rushing over to a forest of de-capped plants, he found a diamond in the rough: a single cap that hadn't been scooped over. Nearly throwing himself on top of it to claim it, it seemed as if other pixies wanted to fight him for the sweet peppermint plant as well. Throwing an arm out and striking the pair of pixies momentarily, the looked dazed as he took off with the plant and ran, trying to decap it along the way.

He had twisted off a cap and placed it into his mason jar, from whence they would go into the cardboard box, when Theodore came upon another first year in need. Did the professors really like to see the new kids struggle? Seemed like it. Although his wand was in his hand, it would have been too dangerous to try to stun them; the girl would get hit! Placing his jar in the crook of his arm, Theodore ran up and grabbed at the girl, tugging her down.

She went to the floor, and was pulled up again. She was pulled down, and then up. Was Theodore really having a tug-of-war with these little annoying, pointy-toothed buggers? Keeping one hand on her arm so she wouldn't float to the ceiling like a helium balloon, Theodore reached up to swat at the pixie near her left ear. "Just hit them, no spells!" He instructed, or they would both get stupefied into oblivion. Or transfigured into venemous tentaculas. He didn't know how crafty this kid was at spells.

Oh joy, just when things were going smoothly, now they had to watch out for angry pixies. Kimalia went to pat the toadstool on it's cap when a Pixie flew to sit right on top of it. Kimalia raising her eyebrows, "Hi, I'm sorry but I need to use the toadstool here." She hid her wand behind her back, just in case. "So can you please, HEY!-" She felt her wand start to slip from her fingers, but quickly she gripped it while the pixie in front of her cackled in evil laughter.

"No! That's - my- wand!" She was in a tug-of-war with another pixie fighting for her wand! Kimalia after some fighting, took control of her wand again and aimed right at the Pixie who was daring for another challenge in the face, "Immobulus!" *Frozen* Kimalia turned back to the Pixie who was still cackling in laughter. Smirking, "Well, I did ask nicely.. IMMOBULUS!" The amount of determination froze the Pixie who still had laughter etched on it's face.

She knew she had to be quick in case their friends wanted a showdown with her. Donning her gloves on, she went to the toadstool and twisted the cap off to harvest. One down, two to go.