Minerva got up and went over. "I.. I don't know anything about this instrument. What should we do."

The notebook flips to another page. The page shows how to play the instrument. It also shows information about the instrument. It reads

" I don't know...." Then the notebook flipped to a page of instructions. " I think we have to play it. " Justin said with a puzzled look on his face.

The book flipped to another page with a song on it. The lyrics were

Minerva picked up the notebook and read it. Then looked at the instrument. She picked it up and turned it around. She studied the notebook some more. She began to finger the keys and then shrugged her shoulders. She pulled the instrument to her mouth and blew the air into it. The sound shocked her. She looked at Justin and then back to the notebook which had changed to lyrics. She began to play hoping it would help, not sure if she was even doing it correctly.

As the song played Nate's fingers started to twitch.

In Nate's mind he was being attacked by demons. His eyes grew wider and the more the song played the more scratches Nate got.

Justin began to sing the lyrics that were in the notebook as Minnie, hoping Nate would come out of his trance. He didn't want the poor little first year to get hurt any further.

As the lyrics were sung the cuts got smaller, but they were getting deeper. Then two claws appeared and started to scratch Nate again. As soon as the claws went in and came out blood was on them.

Minerva stopped playing confused of what was going on. "I don't understand what's going on. What does this instrument have to do with him acting so weird." She thought maybe the first year was playing a trick on them. "I think I'm going to get a Prefect."

As the claws were digging in the more blood went down his arm. Soon his whole arm would be covered in blood. Well on the bright side the claws weren't posioned. Also he was happy that he heard Minnie was going to get a prefect. His hearing was back! That mean he would be back soon....hopefully at least.

Sophie just watched as the two older Hufflepuffs tried getting Nate back to normal. She had a worried look on her face, but didn't say or do anything else. She wasn't sure if it was a good idea to be playing that weird thing anyway...

When Minerva said something about getting a prefect, Sophie was the first to get up. "I'll go get Treyen!" she had spotted him with Glenn and Ella by the fireplace when she came in the Common Room.

She ran up to the Head Boy, once again asking for help. Sophie have watched a bad experience when a firstie tried to help other students on their first day at Hogwarts, she wouldn't dare doing the same thing. At least not that soon.

"Treyen!" again, not a good time to call him by his nickname. "Nate is acting weird on the floor over there!" she pointed at where Minerva and Justin where. "There's something wrong about that notebook and instruments of his..." she looked at where the other two badgers were, with a concerned expression on her face.

Justin looked at Nate and thn back up to Minnie, " That's a good idea....." then he heard sophie calling to Treyen. Everything going on and the poor kid was digging the hell out of his arms! Justin tried to stop Nate from scraching himself and held his hands down.

Amethyst walked into the common room hoping to share some ice cream and cookies with her friends. She smiled humming until she caught a vulgar sent. Sniffing the air a few times, Amethyst looked around the room. She gasped as she saw a boy bleeding. "Justin! Minerva! What happened?!" She rushed over.

" i don't know. One minute he as playing a song on this wierd instrument ...the next he went rigid falling to the floor and began scratching himself. " Justin said with a worried look on his face.

Minerva looked at Ame. "I don't have a clue we were just sitting and talking when he was playing this weird instrument. He then went to the floor. It's very weird. I was going to go get a prefect but Sophie already did." She turned to see if the head boy would know what was going on.

Amethyst shook her head out of pity and helped Justin hold the boy's arms up. She looked around, looking for something that would help out. She looked at Saber who looked just as mortified as she.

Nates arm was all covered in blood he then mumbled "Wa-t-er. I ne-ed wat-er." Nate eyes started to slowly open.

He never intended to make her blush, though, and he didn't even know what she was blushing about to begin with. Apologies made her blush? That would be a first. He should know, he'd apologized a LOT before.

But then Glenn mentioned something that made his smile disappear. 'I'm sure she's usually lovely'. Actually, he doubted it in his head, for a small fraction of time. Ellie was simply perfect, to him at least, but he'd never giving it much thought as to how she was towards others, and the incident with Glenn had him doubting that fact for a moment. He even opened his mouth to comment on it...but no words came. Did it truly matter, though? If Ellie was super nice to a girl or not? She...wasn't particularly nice to Kurumi either, not that he could blame her...but...

Treyen shook his head as if to make those thought vanish from his mind, and...Glenn succeeded in doing so when she mentioned the nickname her and Sophie had come up with at the feast. He laughed, softly, "It's quite refreshing to hear it, truth be told," not that Treyen was coming to terms with enjoying it just yet, but at least it seemed to bring a smile to his face now. "I may actually let you call me that." Wasn't she doing that already?



And you know what? "At least I share it with someone who seems to be nice," and not with the scary Evelyn from last year, but back to present, he actually agreed with her, "Yeah, I like the one-year apart difference," or...well...he would still be a silent Head Boy from the shock of it all, "I know, time is passing by so quickly these days...," too quickly, they were already too close to Christmas, but that only meant he was close to more study-time since he was staying in the castle for the holidays. NEWTs.

Then he laughed. That was funny. So, basically, she loved everything related to cakes. Nice to know. But.., "Why don't you? I mean, we're at Hogwarts, the house elves keep them at each table on the Great Hall...so, you can have them every day." Yet, he supposed that having the same thing you liked every single day would get tiring. Probably. He didn't have a favorite food he'll love to have every day.

Oh. Yes. Seven years. "I've been here since my first year...this is my seventh and final year." Hence why the Head Boy badge was on his robes, being a seventh year was one of the requirements...the others he didn't know.

A nod came to his head. "It is." He really loved it there. Everything. Even the food. And he didn't eat much. "Oh, I went there like three summers ago," he couldn't remember the exact date...it was before the Quidditch Cup summer, though. So, probably three...or four.

Huh? That question made him smile. It was incredibly random, by the way, "Sure. As long as I get to call you Eve." Wink. Granted, his reason for that was a simple one...it wouldn't remind him of Evelyn, plus, it was short and sweet, wasn't it? Eve?

OH! Yeah, he could see she was doing great based on her answer. It was rather amusing, too. His only reply? "That's good." With a smile, of course.

Ella Bishop. Okay. He nodded as she spoke...and then couldn't help but chuckle a little, "Eh...not exactly, there were too many Hufflepuffs, weren't there?" The table had been packed, especially with firsties and second years. It had been hard to keep track of everything that day. And night.

The second he took his eyes away from Ella, he noticed...was that boy bleeding? His eyesight was probably tricking him, no?

NO. Because then Sophie came running towards him and his only reaction was to stand up. See? This is exactly what tended to happen when there were parties. Nate? So, that was the boy's name. Okay, so...there was only one thing they could do, right? Because the boy was actually bleeding.

He nodded at Sophie and then eyed the other three girls, he probably was going to owe Glenn another apology sometime soon, "Excuse me." He said, finally walking away from his oh-so-perfect chair.

Magic better not be involved.

"What instrument?" That was the question that least concerned him. There was something that needed to be done first, right? Healer.

He knelt on the floor next to the boy and eyed Minnie, "Do you mind taking the instrument and the book to the Healer with me?" because he was taking the boy to the Hospital Wing. ASAP too. He just...decided it was best if someone joined him, plus he was going to have his arms full with the boy and all...


BUT THEN...he started to ask for water? Well, that was easy, Treyen accio'd a cup and recited Aguamenti before holding it close to the boy's mouth so he could drink some, "Nate? Can you hear me?" That could mean he was conscious, and that was always good.

"Y-yes. I ne-ed wat-er." Nate lips were starting to crack.

Well, okay. He was conscious, somewhat. That was good.

Actually, Treyen didn't know if that was good or not, he'd never had to deal with any type of injury...this bad, anyway. He held the cup closer to his lips, so Nate's lips was touching the cup and Treyen gently started to get some water sense into the boy, "This is water...just...have some. But we're going to the Hospital Wing, okay?" And he didn't care if Minnie followed or not, he'll just wait until Nate took a bit of water before moving him.

"Yes I can go with you. It's that weird instrument over there. I have no clue what it is. The notebook on the floor kept opening to different pages."

"Th-a-nk yo-u. O-ok." Nate was going in and out of consiousnence. He was just happy he was going to the hospital wing.

Ella watched with wide eyes as Treyen gave Nate some water and insisted on taking him to the hospital wing. She was glad that a healer was going to see the first year because he looked pretty bad. She was still quite confused as to what had happened to the poor kid but decided to stay seated, a concerned expression on her face. Never a dull moment at Hogwarts... she thought to herself with a sigh.

Okay. Awesome! Treyen seriously liked this girl. "Just...take the instrument...," which the Head Boy didn't recognize once he took one look at it, "...and the notebook...and put in a bag if you don't feel like carry them in your hands. Then...just follow me." Mmmhmm. Yeah. That was an easy task, right?

Now that Nate had drank some water, Treyen took the boy in his arms and..., "Try to keep your eyes open, please," he said, whispering to the boy, before leaving the Common Room.

And, yeah, there will be blood on his robes, but he cared very little for that right now.

"O-ok. I'l-l tr-try to." Nate was just glad he had water in him.