Nigel was nervous but he saw a group being made so why not ask to join. Nigel goes up to the older hufflepuff and asks "Hi I'm Nigel and can i join your group?"

Ella smiled when Min suggested that the second years work with her and Alyssa. That would be fun. She didn't think Sophie and Messer would mind either but she didn't want to speak for them. Instead she smiled and nodded. "I'd be more than okay with that."

And then Ella saw another boy come over. He looked to be a bit young, maybe a first year? Was he the one who came to the protest? She smiled and waved. "Hey, course you can join us. That is if no one else minds?" She said, looking around at the others. "Then we'll have six people in our group like Williamson wanted."

João had been watching intently and didn't even think its food was gross--nature was nature after all--when he suddenly couldn't breathe for a few seconds.

They were to walk a dragon?

THEYWERETOWALKWADRAGON!!

He took a deep breath finally, when his face had started getting red, and he eyed it--the--the thing--it--with eyes as big as full moon.

He... he wasn't sure of it. What if--what if it didn't like him? What if he had a blood type close to chicken's and it still was hungry and... What if he couldn't find a group?! He gasped to himself at the last horrifying though and quickly looked around as he tried not to show his growing fear. But he failed in concealing it. He was very, very afraid...

They were to walk a dragon!

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"Somebody wake up the Gryffindor prefect," William mused at the sight of Kurumi dozing with her head on Daichi's shoulder. Sleeping in class, tsk tsk. "Shoot her with some water." That should work nicely.

....Aspen re-evaluated her list when the Prefect passed out. Hmm. She moved Kurumi to first to get eaten, above Professor Williamson. Better.

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Lovely, another question about releasing Roro into the wild. Sierra didn't happen to be friends with Aspen, did she?

"What marks the moment? Well I'd say when Roro is flying and breathing fire and goring deer with his horns and chasing after Hufflepuffs for a snack, well then it might be time to release him into the wild."

Please note the sarcasm, thanks. "In other words, when he's fully grown and about two years old, that will be the time to return him to the Sanctuary."

Aspen used her notebook to cover her face. She was laughing again. His sarcasm, and offense, and Hufflepuffs. Oh funny.

Then she wrote down a hypothesis about the DNA make up of Hufflepuffs causing them to be more tasty, or easy targets. Could the Sorting Hat read DNA in addition to thoughts.

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Time to move on.

"While Roro finishes eating," Willy did notice the dragon getting to the bottom of his bucket, "I'd like you guys to go ahead and form groups of four to six. You're going to be walking a dragon!"

Lucky, lucky them.

She packed her notebooks into her bag and subtly moved even further back among the hay bales. Aspen wanted to choose the best group, which, obviously would ideally be herself, Kennedy, Joao, Louisa, and Sierra - the Least Likely To Get Eaten/Mauled.

But after that whole 50 points thing, she doubted ANY of them wanted her group. SO... Aspen would just... linger and wait and watch and observe. Take notes. Laugh at the Professor.

Kennedy had listened to most of what Professor Williamson was saying, but he was a lot more fascinated with Roro. Okay. He hadn't heard much until he mentioned them getting the chance to walk a dragon. Were they going to walk Roro OR did he have MORE dragons?

His stood up from the bale he had been sitting on. Partners time. He looked around and found the Slytherin that almost lost them fifty points...and...did he look scared?

Naaaah.

Wait...he kind of did. Kennedy approached him, his hands inside his pockets. "It's not going to eat you." Well, maybe not now because Roro seemed pretty distracted with the food at hand. Maybe when it got bigger it would try, but he wasn't going to mention that right now.

It took all of João's will to tear his eyes apart from the dragon and onto the Slytherin Prefect standing right there.

"I know it won't," he said. He had been listening to class. He knew they only ate--or drank, really--chicken blood and brandy.

That still didn't make him all walk-able, though.

"Shall we be partners?" Because Kennedy was prefect and probably knew what to do. They needed two more people, though... his eyes fell on Aspen retreating, and quickly looked away before she could even see him. He certainly didn't want her see him all... afraid of a baby dragon.

Sophie listened as professor Williamson explained everything and answered questions and told them they would walk the dragon...

O_____O

Walk the dragon?? Like it was a doggy?? That was... so professor Williamson-like.

So they already had a group? She smiled and nodded as Ella and Minnie pretty much formed the group. It was alll fine with her, yep. Oh, and there was a little Ravenclaw she didn't know! "Hi, I'm Sophie!" She said cheerfully, waving at him.

Daichi had not realised that something was wrong with Kurumi. He was too focused on any unexpected movements from the dragon. He had not noticed that she turned paler than her features actually were and only when she suddenly rested her head on his shoulder did he look at her.

What had happened? Did she pass out? Why? This was no time to ask these questions though. He leaned a little bit closer so that her beautiful face wouldn't slide off his shoulder and hit the seat and wrapped one arm around her shoulder trying to shake her awake.

"Professor Wiliamson, i don't think she's sleeping. I think she fainted sir!" He said as he tried to shake her awake. Water... right...water...where could he get water? oh the aguamenti charm! He had had alot of practise last year during the transfiguration class where they had to fill the vases with water. He had even volunteered that time to fill the vases from the students! The slytherin flicked his wrist and the wand fell out of the holster. A little spray of water should do the trick. Okay...he could do this...

"Aguamenti!"

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"STOP! STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPPPP!" It was supposed to be a small jet of water. Not a STREAM. "NO STOP SORRY! WAAAH!" he pointed the wand to another side of the room. WHATWASTHECOUNTERCURSEAGAIN?! finite! right! "Finite!" The spell stopped and Daichi took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry sir! i'm really sorry!" he apologized as bowed his head deeply a few times. They had to partner up and walk with the dragon? He had no time to partner up now!

Kennedy slightly shrugged. He was just making sure the Slytherin wouldn't pass out from fright. He then nodded at him. "Sure. I'm Kennedy, by the way." In case he didn't know. Kennedy didn't want to keep referring to him as the guy-who-almost-lost-Slytherin-fifty-points. It was too long.

He glanced around the room. Two more people and they'd have a group and be ready to WALK A DRAGON. He was secretly wishing for a small group though, the more people meant he would have to share the dragon and he didn't want to. Yeah.

Okay. "We need two more for our group." Two.

"Can I join you guys too?" Alyssa asked still spitting bits of the chicken blood that was still dripping off her face and into her mouth."Hold on a second while I clean up." Alyssa told her friends. Taking out her wand, she pointed it at herself and said,"Aguamenti" and as water spurted out of her wand, she washed her face and hair with it and tried to wipe off as much as she could from her robes. Then she said,"Finite" to end the spell. Holstering the wand, she smiled back at her friends, shaking off the water from her head like a dog would do. "Okay all clean now."

They were going to be walking a dragon. That very announcement had made Stella want to curl up into a ball even more, even if the only dragon she knew that was there at Hogwarts was Roro. So at least it wasn't like Professor Williamson had expected them to walk a full-grown dragon, but that didn't make her feel any less like this was a disaster in the making. Of course the younger students had all grouped up rather quickly. They didn't know any better, but she really didn't want to get near the blood. Roro was fine, if the dragon hadn't just eaten and gotten blood all over the place, but right now...

Taking a breath, she resigned herself to having to get it over with. Like herbology, and having to clean plant teeth, and she looked up as she heard someone asking for two more people for their group. The Slytherin prefect and João. At least she sort of knew one of them, if just from that DADA lesson last term. Hopefully he didn't remember her getting his wand away from him, and she finally stood up to slowly walk over. "I'll join your group, if you'd like?, " she replied, still occasionally glancing over at Roro to check on the progress of the feeding dragon. Eventually the blood would run out. At least, she hoped it would.

Lily carefully got up from her hay bale and started looking around for a group. A group to work with around the dragon. A group to walk the dragon with. How they were going to do that, she had no idea. But that wasn't her job to figure out. It was her job to get into a group.

So she looked around. Until she spotted someone she knew she could trust. Someone whom she had met in a very different situation than you would meet most people. But it was someone who she trusted so that was all that mattered. Walking over towards the seventh year and her possible group, Lily started to grin. "Hey... uh Stella. Can I join your group too? Please!" Then they would have four people... one for each leg of the dragon.... Not that that mattered very much since Roro was way bigger than them, or close to it.

Dead to the world. That is essentially what the Gryffindor was right now BUT if she had been somewhat alert she would have protested Professor Williamson's comment about her sleeping. Kurumi Hollingberry just did not sleep in class, ESPECIALLY one of Professor Williamson's classes. That was just impossible.

As it was....Kurumi wasn't feeling or hearing anything at the moment. Which was probably a very good thing because Daichi putting his arm around her would have probably caused the sixth year to blush slightly.

However, Kurumi's 'sleep' was soon over when all of a sudden everything felt...cold....and DAMP...

Kurumi's eyes suddenly flew open and she toppled over her hay bale and onto the ground where she froze again like a dog playing dead for several long moments. She could vaguely hear a voice saying to stop, but she hadn't fully regained consciousness yet to be able to hear just who it was. Come to think of it...where was she? Outside...she knew that much because she was looking up at the sky...but other than that...

Propping herself up, Kurumi looked around and was a little perplexed to see that her classmates were present. Oh? Was she in a lesson? Funny how things worked out that way. This was rather helpful. Perhaps one of them could tell her how she got here and why. The why was answered a little later when she looked around and saw Professor Williamson and the Gryffindor was tempted to greet the man.

But then she heard Daichi apologizing and bowing. What was going on?

Completely ignorant of the fact that she was wet, Kurumi sat back down on the hay as if nothing had happened. Oh, they were supposed to partner up? "Daichi, want to work with me?" On whatever it is we are supposed to be doing?

João knew his name already, but he nodded anyway. At least, talking to people made him less nervous. It got his mind off the dragon they were about to... walk.

How about the others did the job and he just followed them from a safe distance?






And then, someone else joined them.

Reminding him of the task at hand.

He nodded shortly, face going as white as chalk. So they really had to walk a dragon. Even if it was only 'baby'.

At least the girl was Stella, someone João knew vaguely and would trust... sort of. At these matters, at least. His plans for leaving all the job to the others were going pretty well, because both were supposed to be good at classes and such...







Then a small girl approached them. João would usually be pretty nasty about it and simply do anything to break her enthusiasm, but today? Right in the presence of a DRAGON?

He was simply too weak to even answer her. She'd addressed Stella anyway. Bonus for her. As long as she was sensible and did what was told...

Well. Let the others decide. They were four now, so maybe this was good?

Silvia had quickly scooted back as the contents of the bucket were splashed very close to her feet, just in time to avoid getting a mess on her shoes. Lucky she wasn't sitting even closer.

Just then the professor began giving them instructions. They were going to walk a dragon? Cooool! Except, she needed to find a group first.
"Anyone need another group member?" she asked, looking around her.

Minerva smiled at everyone, "I think that might have been the easiest group forming I have ever had." She then laughed a bit when Alyssa started cleaning off her face, "Ahhh your getting me wet." she laughed as water sprayed off of Alyssa and hit her a bit. "I still can't believe you got that in your mouth. Gross." She turned to the other five members, "What do you think we will be doing?"

They were going to walk a dragon? Wasn't that dangerous. Dragons breathed fire and had claws, etc. In other words, dragons were dangerous in Addie's mind. Whatever, it was for this class and Professor Williamson wouldn't let them get hurt right.

Now she needed a group. Hmmm, who would need another person. She saw the Slytherin prefect looking for more members. He was in her group for Divination right! "Hi Prefect guy Kennedy," Addie said cheerfully as she walked over to his group. "Can I join your group?" Please...Addie hated looking for groups she just wanted a group right away.

Alyssa laughed this time making sure that her back was facing Roro."Well I didn't really expect Roro to be such a messy eater. But if you think about it some of us eat our meat rare, so there's some blood in it. But of course it still doesn't taste as bad as that chicken blood/brandy mixture."

"Anyway I think the Professor said that we're supposed to take Roro for a walk. I noticed a strange looking harness in the barnyard, so here's hoping that's for him."

"If not maybe you can pull him by his ears, Minnie. He seems to like you."Alyssa grinned at her friend

Nigel was still thinking about the next task and happy he finally had a group. He was a little nervous and happy at the same time.

He then saw a person in the group that he did not know wave to him and introduce themselves. Nigel kept the smile on his face and said "Hi Sophie, I'm Nigel, nice to meet you".


Nigel then turned around and saw Alyssa explain the task again and suggest to Minnie that she should pull Roro by his ears.

He waited and watched to see if she would do it.

Laura had no idea who to work with and so just looked around, she also didn't want to walk the dragon but she wanted to fly it, the Dragon was cute and no way was it dangerous so why shouldn't they be allowed to climb on it and have fun with the animal.

They had to do what? Hannah was not looking forward to walking a dragon at all. They were forming groups though so she really just needed to be faster than the slowest person in her group.

Hannah hated teamwork and depending on other people. She wished she could just do everything by herself...it would be so much easier. Then having to trust people around a dragon too...UGH!

"Anyone want to partner up?" She wanted to get this over and done with.

Zhenya snuck up behind Laura and wrapped her arms around her quickly. She let them go and said "Want to work together?" and smiled nervously. She wasn't very happy to be working with a dragon... wait, what would they be doing? She was scared, anyway, and didn't want to die.

"Right..." Anya said watching the dragon carefully. "Good... good to know..." Hopefully there would be no dragon headbutting today...

Ooh! Group work! And walking a dragon was cool! Her eyes scanned around the room. Her first thought was Messer, who she passed on walking in. But it looked like he was already claimed by a gang of Hufflepuffs.

Which gave her an idea.

She'd group up with Gryffindors!

"Tag! Penelope! Want to group up?" she said calling to the first years. She might as well partner with her two favorite first years, right? And by favorite... she meant the only ones she knew... Okay. Not exactly. She did like them both.

Now. They needed at least one more person.

Almost like an obdient puppy Tag gravitated towards Anya as she called out his name. Even if she hadn't he still would of walked in her general direction, no doubt about that. He looked around and waited patiently for food lover girl Penelope to make her way over.

How on earth their teacher thought it reasonable for a couple of school kids to watch over a dragon seemed sensible, he didn't know. Just knowing and thinking of all the possiblities of what could happen with this class today scared him.

"And we're really watching over this dragon?"Tag asked in a slow, hesitant voice.

Really, Willy?! REALLY?!

Hollingberry falls asleep in class, and all Willy can think to say is 'Somebody wake up the Gryffindor prefect'?! Really. REALLY. He should have drenched her in a surprise Aguamenti attack then docked a good fifty off her. Man up, Willy. MAN UP!

Then the attention was turned Sierra's way as her most recent question was answered. Ohhh, she had Willy's attention! *SWOON* Oh, and...wait. WAAAAAAAAAAAIT. "He's going to chase after Hufflepuffs for a snack!?" she asked, her mood suddenly brightening. Bless that dragon's little scaly heart. "Fully grown and two years old. Got it." In other words, she caught the sarcasm. He was so cute when he brought in the sarcasm.

"Does anybody need a group member?!" she suddenly asked. Willy? You? Hmm? Hmm?



BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

At'ta Slytherin right there, folks! BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Of course Sierra was only laughing on the inside. For now. Later on, in the safety of their own common room, she'd pat ole Daichi boy on the back and have a good laugh then.

"It's okay, Daichi," she said, patting the boy on the back. "You were just trying to help." Turning to Hollingberry, she added, "You okay, Kurumi?" Seeeeeee....

Sierra could be nice. Hey, Willy, can I have my ten house points for being nice now?!

"Daichi, Kurumi, do you guys need an extra group member?" she asked. Do you hear me being nice, Willy?! TEN POINTS. TEN POINTS.