Minerva walked around looking for someone to tag. She was out in the open watching everyone around her.

Jezzabelle ran across the room and snuck up behind Kurumi. "Tag! You're an eight."



At least she was pretty sure she was an eight no one had tagger her lately...odd.

Did a Hufflepuff just touched him? A Hufflepuff?! Hades immediately jumped away from her. Eeeww!!! Now he had to send his uniform for super cleaning if that even existed. Either way, he needed to clean his uniform afterwards. The Badger disease can be contagious!

Giving the girl a death glare, he walked away.



Before he touched anyone, Hades saw girl with a red badge. As the girl looked like she was in shock, he took the chance and ran towards her and placed his palm on his back. "Tag! Number eight!" he said before running off to the nearest desk. He needed to catch his breath.

Glenn saw an eight, there was getting to be too many of those. She ran over and tapped her arm, "Tag! Now you're a four!" Glenn ran off before someone could catch her again, she skipped over to a desk and put her hand on it, catching her breath.

Aha! But not for long. Treyen decided to take his hand away from the desk, considering that Amelia was close by...and...with his hand on her shoulder he said, "You're a seven!" AGAIN.

She'd been a seven before, hadn't she?

It was becoming hard to keep track of this. And...he went back to the desk. He kind of wanted to see if he needed to turn Keefer back to his number or not.

Minerva walked around trying to see who she could tap. Hmm every time she got someone in view they either went to the safe zone or were tagged by someone else.

Sophie kept walking around the room, waiting to spot someone to tag.

Aha! She reached for the Gryffindor girl and touched her shoulder. "Tag! You're a four now!" she smiled. She then noticed the girl had alrady been tagged and was a four. Heh. "I'm Sophie, by the way!"

No sooner had Kurumi pushed herself off the desks had Jezz appeared behind her. Kurumi had caught her out of the corner of her eye, spun around, and attempted to dodge the first year's hands, but she had been too slow.

"October 3," she nodded. That would certainly do it.
And she had been tagged again. Did this mean that she could...add her two 8's together and get a new number? Kurumi glanced around for Professor Hadley, but couldn't really see her through the mass of students running around. So, 8 is was for the time being.

Gah! She didn't even get the chance to be an eight that long.

(7) + (2+4)
(7) + (6)
(1+3)=
4

So October 24 would give her the number four....awesome. She looked around for someone to tag.

...and now she was an eight again.

Was there nobody at all with a one, three, five, six, or nine? They'd been at this for a while, and Sierra seemed to be calculating for the same few numbers over and over. Ehh... At least she was getting good at doing four, seven, and eight. She'd only been a two once.

"October 17," she said.

9 + (1+7)
9 + 8 = 17
1 + 7 = 8



Ehh...

She shrugged. She hadn't said that to be nice. She'd said it because she needed to do another play for the house points, and Hollingberry had allowed her the chance of another play. She wasn't trying to be Saint Sierra the Arithmancer.

After regaining his energy again, Hades saw another Gryffindor who was alone. He smirked as he tiptoed behind her at the same time his eyes looked around just in case if someone was approaching him. Hades stopped as he reached the girl who had her back facing him. He patted both of her shoulders. "Tag! You're number eight," he beamed excitedly and ran off.

Now back to being an 8 again, Kurumi scanned the area looking for someone to tag. She sort of missed her days of being a five. Well, seconds of being a 5 since as soon as the game had started she had been tagged three times by different people.

Then, she spotted August and THIS time she was going to actually tag him.
Rushing up to him, Kurumi POKED him in the side. "Tag!"

Alyssa was looking at Glenn that she hadnt see Sophie come up and tag her. Now she was a 4.

Personal month number 7. So her calendar day had to be the 6th.

6+7=13
1+3=4



Instead of going to her safe desk, Alyssa stayed in the middle of the floor to tag others.

Meh. This was all giving Jezzabelle a headache. 4's and 8's. She missed her 6. And all this math just to figure out the date was no fun either...which she ahd to do all over again.

(7) + (1+0)
(7) + (1)=
8

So on October 10, her Personal day number shall be 8.



She leaned against a desk and decided it was time to break.

Well, Messer is a seven, he looked around the classroom looking for someone he could tag on. Hmm..He saw an older Hufflepuff near him.

"Tag!" he poked her in her arm. "You're a seven now." he grinned.

Ira was becoming a bit bored with this game. It was becoming a little less exciting than it was before. She decided not to tag anyone for a while and so, she herself started walking back to the desks...

Alyssa noticed that Kurumi had been busy poking August that she had forgotten to return to her safety zone, so she turned to her and tapped on the shoulder. "Tag you are a 4". Now that Alyssa had successfully tagged somebody, she decided to rest and went back and sat on the safe zone desk for 4's.

Zhenya was a number Eight, and she hadn't been tagged for a while. She looked around and saw people were either already number Eight, or they were on the safe zone... so what to do? She just stood in the middle waiting to be tagged.

Minerva smiled when she was tagged. "Ok seven let me think.. 1+3=4 4+3=7. My day is the 13th.. Ooo I hope it's not on a Friday." She giggled and went looking for someone to tag.



It didn't take to long to find someone to take. She went up to the girl smiling. "Tag you are now a seven." Minerva smiled and skipped away.

Why did it seem that the only people playing the game were the same people Sierra had already tagged about five times already? Just as she started looking around for someone else to tag, that same Hufflepuff girl, the one who'd tagged her and been tagged by her several times already, passed by.

Sierra overheard her mentioning being a seven, and so when the girl got within a close range, Sierra reached out and tagged her. "...and now you're an eight," she said with a grin.

HAHA! Take that August! No tripping! No missing! Just a full on tag and...

oh...

This is why Kurumi had given up Quidditch. She got distracted too easily. Really, the only sport she was able to focus for extended periods of time on was kendo and that was mostly due to her being trained in it ever since she could stand. Three older brothers and your home being part dojo would do that.

Which one of the dates giving Kurumi a 4 hadn't she used yet? "October...8"

At least, she thought she hadn't used that one yet.

Deciding that she had had enough running around and calculating, Kurumi made her way towards the desks when she spotted the same Hufflepuff from earlier that she had tagged. Couldn't hurt to tag her again, right? "Tag," she chirped before continuing her way towards the safe zone and leaning against it.

Hopefully this would all be ending soon. She was beginning to get tired.

Zhenya stood where she was tagged; as a Seven. Hmm, okay. So to be a 7, and her number was 2... "October 5th," she thought. Yes?

She looked around, and smiled seeing all the colourful numbers.

Messer frowned when he saw an older scary looking Slytherin girl tagged his current victim. He walked slowly toward the girl hoping that she didn't see him coming. And POKED "Tag! You're a seven." he grinned.



He looked around to find someone to tag too but it seem that most of the students already standing in the safe zone.

Ella smiled as she saw a fellow first year that she recognized from the sorting hat ceremony. She didn't know him but she thought it was the perfect time to introduce herself. Tiptoeing up behind him, she tapped him on the shoulder and smiled widely. "I'm Ella! and-well you're an 8 now!"

Tayla followed a younger student, tapped her back, and smiled. "Hi Ella," she greeted, overhearing the girl saying her name. "I'm Tayla. And now you're a three!"

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