Pixies? ...... No.....seriously? Didn't professors KNOW there were first years in their classes? Fallon wondered, staring at the various students struggling with the pesky creatures.

Fallon had grown up living within walking distance of a moor infested with doxies, so she had seen how to deal with them. When her family would make the short trek to play quidditch, she knew you had to be on your guard from the mischievious pests, and she had seen her uncles and aunts use the stunning and freezing spell numerous times, though she had never attempted them herself.

It'll be learning on the job then. She thougt wryly, approaching a seemingly empty bunch of toadstools.

She grabbed one by the stem and yanked, ready to spring backwards incase a swarm of pixies came out to attck her. She paused, waiting, and nothing.

Well that was easy... she began suspiciously. With a shrug, she hoped the rest of her assignment would go as smoothly.

One cap to go! And after that I never want to see another pixie in my life! Kynthia's head was sore from all the pulling the pixies had managed at her hair and one of them had biten her hand when she tried to approach another toadstool in order to collect the third cap. Thankfully she wore her gloves but it still hurt a little and she was sure it would bruise later.

When she finally spotted a toadstool she walked there determined to not let the pixies put another finger on her or her hair, which looked awful by the way. Next time she was coming to this class, she was going to make them a ponytail. Stunning and freezing any pixie that dared even look her way she twisted and picked up the third cap and deposited them all in the box. After that she grabbed a stool away from all the tandrum and sat there feeling really tired but also pretty satisfied with her self.

Fallon cleared her throat, wand at the ready, and grabbed the stem of the second mushroom.

With a gentle tug she pulled it up, only to have it yanked right back down again. For a moment, she was confused, and she pulled harder, only to have the same result.

What the....? She peered closer to the toadstool and saw three pixies holding firmly to the other side of the fungi.

"Come now, it will grow back!" She exclaimed, pulling hard. She managed to dislodge the pesky creatures from the toadstool and laughed triumphantly, only to have her laugh cut off mid-chuckle as her robes were jerked back, almost choking her.

"Ack!" she exclaimed, trying to see back to where the pixies were pulling on her robes, but she just couldn't get a good enough angle to send a curse at them. "HELP!" she gave up, peering around madly for assistance.

"You very welcome!" Faven said having regained her breath. "I'm going back in!" She said with a smile, before charging in once again.

Faven ducked and dodged around the pixies, thankfully avoiding not only the pests, but the spells of the students tryinig to protect herself. She finally got to the toadstools and had one in her han...AAAAAAACCCCCCKKKK!!!!!! Faven called out as she toppled backwards. Pixies had pulled on her hair and clothes with enough force to yank her to the ground! Faven watched terrified as her wand flew out of her pocket and onto the floor, feet away from where she lay. Faven tried to reach for it, but couldn't. Too many pixies had descended upon her. They clawed and bit at her sensitive and already bitten arms that she had raised to cover her face. Her robes had opened as well, revealing her smooth and very vulnerable legs. She was being attacked and had nothing to protect herself with, the kicks she did up at the air were rendered useless by the clever pixies who avoided her and had now restrained her to the floor. "Evelyn, HELP HELP!!!!" Faven called out to the girl.

Theodore pulled her to the ground, brushing off a pixie hair than had landed on her shoulder. "No problem," He breathed, a bit exhausted after running around trying to de-cap these wee plants and fight the blue little pixies. This felt more like physical education than herbology! Grabbing his mason jar and uncapping it for one final time, he sprinted off to find his last botanical victim. It was time to decapitate a peppermint parasol.

Theodore had found a lone parasol and had gripped it tightly, ready to yank it off and complete the assignment, when he heard a distinct nasaly voice float his way. It sounded like yet another person was in peril. For Merlin's sake, today seemed like a soap opera. Turning, he noticed that it was that one new Ravenclaw, the one who sneezed everywhere and over-analyzed everything he saw and did. And he couldn't even keep his feet on the floor? Rushing over to help, Theodore left his mason jar by his quickly-decapped parasol. "I'm comi-!" FWOOP! Like a scene out of a muggle cartoon, Theodore tripped over something twig-like, but more substantial and smooth, and fell onto his hands, his nose touching the floor. "Oof," He sighed, in pain as he lay there for a moment. Only the cries of the damsel dude in distress spurred him to get up. Turning to see what he had tripped over, Theodore noticed a wand. Was it...?

Picking it up, he tossed it to the boy in need. Whether or not it belonged to him was irrelevant; they would need more than one person to conquer this swarm that swirled around the kid's head. "Stupefy on three!" He called. "One, two... three!"

A huge blast of light emitted from the end of his wand, knocking a few pixies to the wayside.

Wiping his brow with the back of his hand, Theodore scooped up his jar and the remaining parasol, tossing them into the cardboard box that was nearby. VICTORY. At least, somewhat.

Grabbing her wand tight in her bleeding hand she headed back to where she needed to pull of the last cap. As fast as she could she twisted the cap and pulled it off. She looked at where the Pixxies were lying on the floor..they looked adorable. She looked at them for a few seconds in awe which was the biggest mistake she had made. In no time the Pixies started moving and they came to attack her. She started running but she didn't notice there were still a few on the ground and they were right in her way. She tripped and the cap went flying out of her hand."Just Great!" she commented sarcastically. At least she had managed to keep her wand safe in her tight grip.

Before she could even get up she could feel Pixies pulling hard at her long red hair."OUCH!!!!!" she screamed in agony. This didn't look good she would for sure be paying a visit to the nurse later. Their grip on her hair was getting stronger and stronger and soon she could feel herself lifting from the ground. Trying to calm down she took her wand and shouted "STUPIFY!" as she amimed at the Pixies by her hair. She wasn't high up in the air yet and when the Pixies had let go of her she didn't fall hardly on the ground. She fould feel a Pixie was still touching her hair but it looked stunned. She carefully took the Pixie of her hair and headed to wear she dropped the cap.

There were already Pixies there trying to get it back to where she had pulled it from. She took out her wand and shouted "Immobulus" The Pixies all fell to the ground and so did the cap. She picked it up and happily placed it into the box. She then went back to her seat waiting for the Professor to tell them what was next. She just hopped no more Pixies would attack her it wasn't like she was she was touching any caps anymore.

Penny was really hot and yucky now, and mostly wanted to back into the dorm for a quick shower...

With that thought of a hot shower waiting for her, she decided to get on with the job...the last cap.

She located succulent toadstool just down a little from the jar, and even though there was pixies in the area, she didn't care - "Just get it done", she encouraged herself...

Gloves on and wand drawn, she walked over determinedly... Just as she was arriving at the bench no fewer than five pixies flew at her, Penny ducked and weaved, before shouting with all her might.

"Immobulus", three of them froze in mid-air.. two where still whizzing around her head... Snatching the three immobilised out of the air, the other two were attacking with full force.... Penny tried a different spell.."Stupefy", the closest pixie stopped in its tracks, its face contorted with mischief and malice, fists clenched...

She swiftly scooped him and left him down beside the other immobilised pixies.. the remaining pixie seemed to know that he wasn't going to win, and went to bother someone else..

Penny breathed a sigh of relief - she quickly twisted the cap of the toadstool, taking a quick look at the frozen and stunned pixies, before dropping off the precious cap into the jar - which was getting quite full now...

Happy that she had completed her task, Penny looked around at her classmates, and seeing a few of them under pixie attack - Penny may not be a Gryffindor, but that didn't mean she wasn't brave..... Penny went to aid her friends!

“Thank you!” Jayden called out to the girl who had, in her eyes, just saved her hair, and her life. Okay. Maybe that was a bit dramatic, but still. With the pixies immobilized for the time being she took quickly took advantage of the moment and quickly grabbed one of the toadstools by the stem and yanked. "Now on to the next one.." she repeated the grab and yank motion. “Success!” She said to herself proudly. “Ouuuuuch! Stupify, Immobulos!” Jayden cried, pointing her wand at the two pixies, who then fell, as if paralyzed. “Alright…last one.” She said to herself with a smile,head held high… she marched over to the next toadstool wand at the ready...

Pixies? She hoped they couldn't smell her fear or she'd really be in trouble. Olivia had no idea how to stun or freeze a pixie, she hadn't learnt those spells yet. This was only her 2nd lesson at this school. She decided to watch and listen to what the other students were doing before attempting to complete the task. Stupefy seemed to be popular so she decided to use that, mimicking the wand movements.

"STUPEFY"

It didn't work and now there were two pixies moving towards her, aiming for her (unfortunately rather large sticky out) ears. What a day to decide to wear her long hair up in a ponytail! It was just drawing attention to her ears.

"Go away!" she cried as she attempted to twist the cap off the toadstool. "Please?"

She managed to get the cap off but she was struggling to get rid of the pixies, the miscast stupefy had seemed to really annoy them!

As she watched the girl go back into the battlefield, Evelyn found herself becoming distracted once more, looking at all of those who were calling out for help, and of course...making sure no spell came her way that wasn't supposed to.

Blinking, the Slytherin turned her attention back to the Puff girl but...she wasn't there. Good Merlin, was she that fast?!

Yet hearing her name being shouted, her gaze turned downward instead. Ah, there she was. What was she doing on the ground? Being attacked by pixies or not, that was no place to lay! Forget the fact that she had done the same minutes before. WAIT! PUFF GIRL HAD THE TOADSTOOL! "Immobulus. Stupefy." she started to say, the stream of spells coming from her wand and hitting each pixie, either knocking them back or freezing them. Merlin, these creatures attached themselves to you faster than a hungry kitten could get to his dish!

The girl still had the toadstool, right? Reaching her hand out to help the young girl up, she looked for the mushroom. Meep? "You alright?" Was the mushroom alright?

Louisa so carefully moved on to the next plant they were supposed to har-

"AAAAAA!" Because someone just grabbed a strand of her hair and was pulling! Tilting her head she saw that the person was, wait for it, a freakin' pixie. "YOU? LEAVE ME ALONE!" She growled at the flying obnoxious creature which didn't respond but kept pulling and making squeaking sounds. "I. Said. Let. GOOO." Was she having an argument with a Pixie, now? Okay, she needed to act mature..as possible.

Louisa was wincing as she tried to turn around and point her wand at the creature, "Immobulus!" And the spell went wrong, instead of hitting a pixie it hit a long kind of vine plant that embraced a pole close to the ceiling causing it to shudder a bit and then go back to normal. Louisa forgot about the pain in her scalp in that moment of sheer panic. Bentely seemed so fond of her plants and if something terrible happened to one of them, she might do the inevitable; Taking points from Louisa and that'd be a blow to the girl's record.

However, the constant tugging made Louisa snap back to the present and shoot another spell toward it which, luckily, worked. Standing still for a moment smirking at the frozen pixie Louisa wiped her forehead -there was no sweat, it was just a gesture of hardworking- and crouched down to get another cap. She grabbed the cap and was about to twist it when a pixie 'shrieked', "Immobulus!" HA! Louisa was reading this time and the pixie was frozen fairly close to the girl who kept her smirking face. She finally twisted the cap and got it.

One more to go and she was out of here.

Rose noticed that another student was having a hard time with the pixies. She knew that if that were her that she would want someone to help her. So Rose grabbed her wand and made sure she had perfect aim and shouted "Stupefy" at the first one. Estatic that it worked she aimed her wand at the second pixie and shouted "Stupefy"once more. Again she was successful. "Whew, that was a close one." she said to the girl.

Relieved that she was free from the pixies, she started to straighten herself out. When she looked up, the boy was gone heading for another parasol before she can officially thank him for all the help. Hmm, well.. maybe I'll see him around later. He was a great help.

She patted down her hair. Next time.. I need to tie my hair in a bun. Who knows what else this professor is going to want us to do next!

Okay, last cap! I can do this!

She walked towards. "IMMOBULUS!" She pointed at another one. "IMMOBULUS!" UGH! Bloody pixies! ANOTHER one?! "IMMOBULUS!" This time she ran to the parasol, twisted the cap off, and ran towards the box to put her last required cap in. I definitely don't want to do THAT for a long time.

She walked up to the teacher. "What an activity professor," she said as she looked up at her. "Am I going to be in any more danger today?" she asked laughing and hoping the professor didn't take it offensively.

Penny saw a first year Raven having a spot of trouble with some pixies, so she went over to her..

"Hi, I'm Penny, you need some help here?", looking at the pixies swarming around the girl...

Raising her wand and pointing it at a group of four or five, she yelled "Immobulus", and they immediately froze where they were... she scooped them up and laid them on the bench..

Then looking at the girl she said, "I know it's hard, but try not show fear - I think they can sense if your afraid or weak.... Not that I think your weak or anything.. but they take advantage of it" , she added with a smile.

Oh great Pixies!

Harlow rubbed her hands together and steeled herself for battle. Pixies seemed to really not like her and she could only hit them so hard. She sidestepped students, pixies and toadstools to make her way back over to her bench.

Something yanked her hard from behind and she stumbled back. Her arms pinwheeled to break her fall, but she found herself being lifted off the ground as two pixies grabbed hold of her robes and wee airborne.

"LET ME GO!" She knew she was tiny but the pixies didn't have to make fun of her by flying her around the room like a rag doll.

She tried to twist around to whack them with her wand but her arms just weren't long enough, and she didn't know how to stun or freeze. They didn't take about that in Witch Weekly Top Hair Dos of the 19th century. "Help! Help!" she shouted at anyone.

"Immobulus!" Maddy shouted and the pixies caught in her spell froze. "Thanks, that helped" Maddy said to the older girl. There were more pixies comming Maddy's way, she aimed her wand and yelled "Oh no there's still more, Stupify!" the pixies were stunned for a moment and wobbled in the air but then recovered and flew right at her again. Maddy dropped her wand and picked up a textbook and squashed the closest one.

"Ugh, tell me about it!" Fallon exclaimed, rubbing her neck. "Thank you so much! You're pretty handy with the stunning spell!" Fallon grinned, giving the girl a pat on the back. "I thought I was going to be dragged around all class!"

Fallon grasped the second toadstool in her hand, practically coveting in for all the trouble it had caused her.

Oh....so they weren't quite finished just yet. Kourt moved along quietly with the rest of the class as they were led into another part of a greenhouse. The very familiar scent of peppermint tickled her nose and she breathed deeply. Yum.

At the instructions of harvesting the caps, Kourtney peered at the toadstools, believe that she could easily do that after having pulled fangs from biting toadstools. She hadn't, however, counted on the pixies. Holding back a squeal as she watched small, blue creatures attacking the students as they attempted to twist off the caps, Kourt backed away slowly, turning her head from side to side to look for help. "Um...I don't know how to..."

She spotted Indy, watching as she cast a spell that stopped a pixie in its tracks. "Indy..." She scurried over, holding her wand securely. "How...did you do that?"

William was utterly defenseless without his wand. He was too weak to try and physically harm the pixies, and so he resigned to just hanging in the air. What strange pleasure Pixies received by this, he did not know. Fortunately, the creepy Ravenclaw Prefect that Will had so unceremoniously crashed into during the start-of-term feast was nearby.
"Hey can you hel-" he stopped, for the seventh-year Prefect tripped over what, from that height, seemed like nothing. Will rolled his eyes. This guy was gonna save him? Well, he thought, it's better than no one helping him out. The Prefect threw his wand back up at him, and instantly Will pointed it up.
"STUPEFY!" he shouted. Even though his stunning spell was no where near as effective as the Prefect's, it was enough for the Pixies to relinquish him.

However, William was a good ten feet in the air, and it wasn't in the nature of a Pixie, especially when they've just been stunned, to lightly drop their victim to the ground. Instead, they instantly let go and Will fell ten feet down, down, down- CRASH!. He landed on. . . someone? Groaning, the first-year rolled over and tried to stand up. He was shaking, and there was a small cloud of dirt-dust that erupted from the impact. It took him a few moments before he realized that he had landed on the Prefect, and a small table of peppermint striped parasols.
"Oh no!" the first-year exclaimed. He moved forward to see if the prefect was alright, but the cloud of dirt affected his sinuses again, which forced him into another sneezing fit. He toppled over, once again, rubbing his itchy, red, watering eyes. Looking to his side, he noticed that from his fall, a couple of peppermint striped parasols had been hit, and one of them was decapped. He slowly stood up, picked up the last cap, and threw all three of his caps into the mason jar. He then proceeded to check on the Prefect.
"Are you alright?" he asked, poking the seventh-year.

Faven was realived when she heard footsteps growing nearer and looked up to see Evelyn. Good thing she had overheard Evelyn's conversation with a friend and had remembered her name! Faven watched as the Slytherin girl battled the pixies, and sighed as at last the pain stoped. "Oh yes, thanks to you, I am alright!!!" Faven said from her spot on the ground. With a grunt, she turned herself over and picked up her wand. Standing up to her full 4'7" height, she proudly held up the cap, which she had managed to protect in the crook of her arm the entire time. Faven momentarily forgot about her throbbing pains and beamed at the girl, "Here you go! Your third and final cap!"

Indiana looked up as he friend came over. Kourt. It was Kourt. Indiana smiled at her friend. She liked her friend, she was pretty. Oooh. She didn't know how to do the spell? Indiana smiled at her friend. She could teach her, and that would be really fun. "You have to say Stupefy!" Indiana nodded with a smile. Hopefully her friend would be able to do it like she could. Or that wouldn'r be very good at all. "Like this..." Indiana pointed her wand at a random pixie, before shouting. "Stupefy!" Her spell hit the pixie, stunning it momentarily. Unfortunately it wasn't that strong and the Pixie unstunned a few seconds later. "Kinda....like that."

So...it seemed these pixies were pretty protective of their toadstools, as within minutes chaos reigned in the greenhouses. Spike ducked down, and crawled along to an area where there seemed to be fewer people.

The pixies would ignore him then, right?

Wrong.

Before he could as much as mutter a word, a pixie had found it's way into the mass of curls atop Spike's head. He shook his head fast, but apparently the pixie liked this ride, and wasn't about to let go in a hurry. Spike frowned. He was not about to aim his wand into his curls, as who knew what might happen. Amongst everything else going on, Spike was sure Professor Bentley didn't need his hair on fire. Instead he shrugged, and let the thing stay there, gritting his teeth against the tugs of curls he kept feeling.

Now, toadstools. He moved towards the nearest one, and went to stupefy the pixie sat upon it when another tug of his hair turned his attention to his left. There Indy was stood, looking pleased with herself and oblivious to the pixie flying behind her. There it was looking at her long hair with a look of glee. Spike's eyes widened, he knew how much Indy care for her golden locks.

"Indy, look out!" he cried, heading towards her.

Louisa was enjoying the scene of students getting nailed by pixies. Only... one girl seemed to be... rather alone and helpless. Louisa wasn't a Gryffindor but she'd never tolerate children abuse by toadstools. "Don't panic! Immobulus!" She shouted at the pixie taking hold of the younger girl. Louisa tried not to show how concerned she was - because she was not that nice. However, she went over to the girl, "Are you okay? Did you gather all we're supposed to gather." Or harvest, or yank, or whatever they were doing.

Now for the last one.. Fallon thought, hoping it went better than her previous attempt.

She grasped her wand tightly in her right hand, and approached a patch of toadstools.

Even before she grasped one of the plants, four pixies rose up and glared at her challengingly. "Immobulus!" She shouted, almost dancing around in joy as she froze one of the pests.

The other three chattered angrily and flew at her. She ducked and threw her hands over her head. With a huff she looked up at them and grasped a nearby book, smacking one with it and sending it sailing away. Another landed on her arm and bit, causing her to drop the book and smack it with the hand fisted around her wand.

With a determined grin she looked at the final pixie and pointed her wand at it. It stared wide-eyed at her, gulping slightly. "STUPEFY!"

And with what was a fairly ridiculous grin she plucked her third toadstool and turned them in.

"Thank you." Olivia tried to smile even though she was shaking a bit. "I tried to stop them but my spell didn't work." Next time she'd try that 'Immobulus' spell, it seemed to work well. But then Olivia had never tried that spell before either. "I thought they might sense my fear, kinda like dogs, so I tried not to be afraid. It didn't work."

Thankfully the pixies were still immobulised so she was able to twist her second cap off. It was nice that another student had helped her out. At her old school everyone would have been pointing and laughing 'look at Dumbo, let's see if she flies!' Two down. One to go.