The Playground
 

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Slides, swings, and other things, the playground rests on the free grounds overlooking the lake. The clever design, Mr. Murdoch says so himself, is slightly similar to Hogwarts, and just like the castle, the playground comes with surprises of its own. The ladders disappear, the roundabout moves on its own and the dragon-shaped spring rockers will try to throw you off. Don't worry if it succeeds, though, Waylon has placed protective charms along the grounds so no injuries happen.

He wouldn't want the Healer mad at him, after all.

Selena liked slides. Slides were cool. She was cool. Therefore it made a lot of sense for her to want to be near them. Plus, with the loss of her favorite treehouse, a playground would definitely make up for it. The Slytherin skipped over to the playground and looked for a way to get up and possibly stand at the very top and declare herself ruler of the universe. Or the playground at least, because it sounded like it'd be a lot of fun. The purple pygmy puff rested on her head as Selena found the ladder up. Grinning, the Head Girl, with her badge still pinned on, climbed up it and looked around. Now... where was the next section? Where did she go next?

The Slytherin found her way to what she called the middle and shouted. "I AM RULER OF THE UNIVERSE." Yes, she was totally cool. And with that, Selena looked upon the grounds, chomping on a chocolate bar she pulled out of her bag. Because chocolate tasted good.

Tag managed to slip away from the common room and discover get lost in the castle grounds. It didn't matter much because sooner or later he would find his way around the castle and return back. That, or the school would have to call a swat team to come looking for him once they realize he may be missing for the night.As he trekked around the grounds he saw a playground. Excellent. The perfect place for him.

Walking around the playground to get a feel of what it looked like he heard someone scream rather loudly that they ruled the universe.Weird. This person must be real powerful. Carefully he made his way around the playground and climbed up a latter. Perfect. He spotted the person. Quietly making his way up he popped his head like a groundhog and said BOOO!!! Not very frightening-but hopefully the element of surprise caught her.

Selena continued to eat her chocolate bar, admiring the view and enjoying the fact that she was back at Hogwarts. The seventh year placed her purple pygmy puff, Kent, on the wooden ledge of the playground. It felt nice to be back at Hogwarts. Given, it was her last year and all, but who said it had to be sad?! That very idea was just ridiculous. Selena took another bite of the chocolate bar, enjoying the sweet taste.

Then she heard something. She dropped her chocolate bar, scrambling to catch it before it hit the ground and grabbed Kent before drawing her wand. "Hands where I can see them!!!" Selena exclaimed. Kent was in the crook of her left arm with the chocolate bar caught in her left hand, just barely. Her right hand held the wand in the wrong direction. Oh. It was just a kid. Oops. "Hello," Selena chirped, calming down and placing her wand back in her pocket and placing Kent back on the ledge. She took another bite out of her chocolate bar. "Who are you and why do you want to be a ghost?" she asked, eying the blond boy.

And why was he trying to scare her?!?!? :whaa:

Tag shimmied up the remaining steps of the ladder and stood on the platform of the playground, his hands high above his shoulders. Her wand held tightly in her fingertips and then she lowered it and put it back in her pocket. He breathed out a sigh of relief. "Hi.Oh, I'm Tag." He answered her happily. A ghost? He didn't want to be a ghost-out of all the super powers he could have or the type of things he could be, a ghost seemed very boring in his mind. "I don't want to be a ghost. I just wanted to scare you for a second. Universe Ruler." Tag added with a smirk. Yes, he heard.

Selena leaned against the wooden frame of the playground next to Kent, her epic pygmy puff and looked at the blonde boy while she ate her chocolate bar. Upon finishing, she balled up the wrapper and shoved it into her bag to pull out another one. A day was not complete until you had the proper amount of chocolate. "Haiiiiiiiii Tag!" Selena exclaimed, beaming from ear to ear as she unwrapped the chocolate bar half-way. Now she'd need to think of a nickname for him. "Can I call you Pineapple?" Because he seemed like he'd be a pineapple. Or perhaps a different fruit?

He didn't want to be a ghost? "I wasn't scared..." Selena said, sticking her tongue out him. Just startled. There was a difference. "And it's Miss Universe Ruler for you." Because he tried to scare her. And that wasn't nice. And Selena was a nice person. "But I'll be a good person and let you call me Miss Selena Universe Ruler." That sounded fair to Selena.

How rude. There she was slowly unwrapping a chocolate bar right in front of him. Did she even realize she was slowly killing him with that. Tag began to lean forward a bit with a dreamy look in his eyes. "Can..can I have a piece please? " And if she refused, she'd have him to deal with. Pineapple? He wasn't sure where she had gotten that name but he didn't mind. "Oh, yeah, that's fine. I've been taken a picture of with a pineapple with a mustache on it-actually." Tag said smiling and being, perhaps a little too much, proud that he had drawn on a pineapple before.

"Miss Selena Universe Ruler. Ok. I can remember that." The boy now spoke to himself. Somehow he felt as if he forget her real name he'd have a lot to pay for. She seemed one to not be particularly pleased about having her name forgotten.

They were on a playground. A cool playground. And they weren't making good use of it. "We're not playing on a playground. Kind of ironic-isn't it?" Besides playground playing was productive, very productive.

The tiny Slytherin watched as the kid stared at her chocolate bar. Didn't he know it was Selena's?! It was Selena's chocolate bar!! :whaa: Selena had her eyes on this kid... just in case he snatched it out of her hands and - oh, he just wanted a piece of it. Selena snapped the bar in half and passed it to him. "HEREEEE!" she said cheerfully, smiling at him. See, he was a nice person. And he was cool. Plus, he took a picture with a pineapple. How cool was that? "I took a picture with my pygmy puff! He's the king of all pygmy puffs! His name is Kent," Selena said, grinning. And Kent was cool. Because Selena said so. That and Kent was the king of all pygmy puffs.

Selena nodded. "But you can call me Sel for short," Selena told the kid. The four and a half feet tall Slytherin looked at the kid. Was he a Slytherin? She was pretty sure he wasn't. Hmm... "What house are you in?" Selena asked. Because he was nice. And there were people from some houses who weren't nice.

They weren't playing on a playground. He wasn't very bright then, was heeee? "We are plaaaying!" Somehow, she just had to figure it out so that she'd be playing on the playground. And she just didn't figure any of it out yet. Yup.

WAIT. HOLD UP.

Playground?!
For reals? She wasn't imagining this?
Ronnie rubbed her eyes just in case she was, and grinned widely when she saw the playground was still there, plain as day. She squealed with delight. Oh boy oh boy oh boy! She loooooved playgrounds! She looked at everything. Slides! Swings! Roundabout! Bridges! Little towers!

AND DRAGON SHAPED SPRING ROCKERS!

Ronnie sprinted as fast as she could towards the dragon-shaped-spring rockers and hopped on the first one she got too. "YIPPEEE!" she cried, rocking back and forth. This was so much fun! She was glad to be back. She couldn't wait to explore the grounds and see if there was more new things to find.

Angelina was walking around minding her own business, not thinking put about anything. She then decided to go around places at Hogwarts she never been before. So far she wasn't finding much new stuff, until she ran into something wonderful, surpassing and shocking. Angelina's eyes opened while from it, was it true?! Or just a enchanted dream? A playground! Ahhh! She hasn't been on one of these in sooo long! What since she was like 5?

Happily Angelina walked over to the playground. She wasn't to sure what to go on first, until she saw the swings. She ran over to one before it got taken from her. She hoped she wouldn't act like a five year old when coming here...

Angelina continued swinging on the swing and smiled when she say Taylor. "Hey," she said. Still smiling Angelina said, "why wouldn't I come back? My summer was good, yours?" Looking down at the ground she looked back up at Taylor and saw she changed since last year. Angelina herself changed. She talked more and wasn't afraid to say something. Also her appearance changed. Her hair was a bit shorter, she was getting tired of her long long hair. She only cut it about a day or two before she headed back to Hogwarts. Also she started to wear a little make up, but not so much were it made her look too much older.

Angelina laughed and said, "yeah I've been gone nearly all summer." Smiling and looking down at her hair she said, "Thanks, I like yours too! WHen did you get it done?"

Nodding fast Angelina said, "Yes I did. Did you have fun as well?" Angelina laughed and said, "Oh really?" She didn't want to add that she didn't know who Mins was, but Angelina didn't know alot of Taylor's friends.

Angelina continued to smile at Taylor, but then frowned when she heard she had a rough day yesterday. "what happened," she asked concerned.

Angelina continued to frown and said, "Im sorry." She looked at the ground and continued to swing back and forth sight on her swing.

"what happen?" She hoped Taylor didn't mind her asking.

Addie was walking along the grounds for fun because she loved being outdoors. Then she saw it...a playground! A playground! Addie ran over to the playground and went for a ladder quickly climbing up it. Once she got to he top of the ladder that wasn't enough. She took of from the platform she was on and found footholds in the wood. Climbing up slowly she finally made it to the top of the structure.

Addie yelled, "I'm on the top!". Addie loved being on top of stuff and climbing stuff. It made her feel tall and being 4'4" it felt good.

Taylor started to tell Angelina the story. She swing as she talked.
OOC: What is happening at the hall is the story.

Angelina continued to swing on the swing while she listened to Taylor tell her story.

Angelina frown and said, "I'm sorry Taylor." She would give her a hug but it was hard on the swing.

Walking across the grounds, Isaac's eyes widened at the sight of the playground. A playground, here at Hogwarts? WOAH, now that was certainly a first. He'd not expected that in the least! Well he'd not expected the leaping lily pad and races last term either, so this shouldn't surprise him, but it really did!

Crossing past the dragon shaped spring rockers, Isaac saw a younger girl rocking back and forth on one, a smile played at his lips. It did look like fun, but he was very much wanting to hop on a swing which he'd not done in years! Laughing as she yelled yippee he stood back watching "Looks like fun." he called over to her.

Ronnie saw an older boy walk past and stand back, watching her. She chuckled as he called over to her. "It's totally fun!" she called back. "You should try it!" she said. It was like training for the one day she'd ride her own dragon. Not that that'd be happening anytime soon.

After a while of just rocking, Ronnie got off and walked over to the boy. She stuck her hands out towards him. "I'm Ronnie!" she said with a smile. "What's your name?"

Swings!!!

No the little lion was not hallucinating things. There were actual swings and a full blown play ground, but the swings were the best. Not as good as a broom when it came to being able to fly sky high, but they were a close second.

Taking big huge steps she claimed an open swing and pushed off. The movements were so natural and felt as natural as breathing. "I'm Jezzabelle Antoinette and I love to swing." Why was she shouting she wasn't exactly sure. Maybe because she felt childlike. "I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky." Well she could on a broom but still, nothing better than a dorky song to relate things to.

Anyone (VM me if you take it)
 

Angelina opened her arms out to Taylor and said, "Come here. It will be okay."

Angelina hugged her friend and patted her on the back, "Your fine, it will all be fine."

"Yes you are," Angelina said jokingly laughing. She hoped Taylor would be alright. Angelina looked at Taylor and returned her with a half smile as well.

Yssa!
 

...

'A playground? In Hogwarts?' Zeke blinked as he looked at the playground standing right before him. Since when did that get here? He couldn't remember it from last year. Oh well.

He decided to give the swing a try. His legs were tired of walking and no bench was nearby. And of course, he didn't want to sit on the ground right now.

Walking to the swings, he occupied one of them and just sat there. Not moving at all. He looked at the others at the swing and saw that the person right beside him was almost his age. Though he couldn't really tell what year she was in. All he knew was that she was definitely not a first year and that in itself was a relief to him. At least he wasn't the only old guy around here. It would be awkward for a fourth year guy to be all alone there surrounded by happy playing kids. But there was the Head Girl, too, so I guess it's all good.

"Hey."

She took a really big swing. It was really big she thought she could of if she was brave enough jump over the moon. But that would be really scary and she was a bit of a wimp. She took a small swing and jumped of. It was fun doing that and then she spotted a taller (of course) boy next to her. He was good looking in a way.

What? Oh he just spoke. Hmm. What could she say? She wasn't good at making conversations and normally just shooed them away. BUT she wouldn't do it this time. She was running out of ideas on what she could say. What about Hey? No that was way to boring and she would just of copied him on that. She got it!

"Hiya!" she spoke to the boy with a cheery smile. "Do you like lollies?" It would be TERRIBLE if he didn't and she would probably despise him.

That was...well, erm, random. What were lollies? It took him almost a minute or two to respond to her question as he processed this in his mind. He looked down on the ground, looked forward to where he was standing moments ago, and then back to the girl beside him. Lollies, lollies...OH!

Could it be lollipops? It was the only thing he could think of. But Zeke decided to go with the safest answer he could come up with. "I guess so?" He said hesitantly and gave her a smile.

His eyes widened as Selena cracked off a piece of her chocolate bar and passed it to him. He held the chocolate in his hands rather too religiously as he held it slightly above his head and then, he gobbled it. In one bite. Way to save it. "Kent.." He said at the mention of her pymgy puff's name. His eyes began to gaze off into the distance as memories of his friends flashed in front of him-most recently him getting hit by a piece of paper because of Kent. "It's a nice name. Kent. That's my best friends name."

"I wanna call you Selena." He said stomping his feet in a playful manner. "The house of the mighty lions." Tag said proudly, he tried to roar but it came out as a squeak rather.

"We're not playing." They weren't chasing each other on the bridge or hiding from one an other, or climbing up the sloping slide.That was playground playing. They were just standing there.

For anyone XD
 

It seemed as though he didn't know what lollies were. Weird boy. If he actually liked lollies he probably would have known what they WERE. She chose to no despise the boy because he looked absolutely clueless on what they were. Maybe she could explain them. Nah that would take like WAY to long. But in the mean time she tried to think of what to say.

"What about candy?" she asked. Hopefully he would no what it was so then she wouldn't despise him

PLAYGROUND?!
PLAYGROUND?!
Since when did Hogwarts have a playground? Slides and all? And WHY hadn't it had one before? Everyone needed more slides and... dragon rockers in their lives. Especially Daisy. Unaware of everyone who she might be embarassed to see her and pleased she wasn't the only one practically wetting themself with excitement of this place, Daisy giggled evilly and ran over to the playground, grinning madly as she sat on one of the swings next to another girl, who looked a little younger than her.
'Hey!' She grinned at the girl swinging next to her. It was weird, but Daisy felt friendly toward anyone who had a common interest in going on swings. 'This is so much fuuuuuun.'

WAAAAAAAAAAAT, A PLAYGROUND?

Theodore was far too mature for this. But it looked like a nice spot for... reading... so he entered, hands in his pockets. All cool-like. But the swiiiiiiings, though.

Pondering his next move, Theo eventually dropped his book (magazine) on the floor and skipped over.

OHHHHHHHO. Ravenclaw alert. He had forgotten if they had forgiven each other.

So he would make efforts. "Helloooooooooooooooow. Mind if I...?" Nope? GOOD. He jumped onto the swing beside her then swung LIKE A BOSS. He was going so high.

The COOKIES?

No, cos Theodore didn't trust that she didn't put poison in them. So he hadn't eaten any. "I'm not a COOKIE person." He totally was. That was just his excuse. Oh, was this a battle now?

Probably not, but he saw it as one.

Flailing his feet about, Theo managed to get himself even HIGHER until he was almost flying over the bar.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH...." And before he DID actually fly over the bar, he quickly threw himself off and onto the floor. And he laid there, in the fetal position for a few seconds.

for elllllaaaaa
 

This place was the second most awesome thing on the ground! The first place went to the Duck Pond of course.

Daichi's eyes widened as he saw the huge playground in front of him. His mouth hang open slightly in awe and he had Mr.Duckles in his school bag on his back with the head popping out of the opening.

Squealing loudly before clearing his throat and looking around if anyone heard him. he knew he would get a slap on the head from Thea if she heard the squeal O_o And he waddled towards one of the ladders of the playground, getting ready to climb.

HOLD UP. A playground?! and had she just heard somebody squeal? 'Daichi?..' She called out carefully. The squeal had been very familiar..
Ah. There he was. Waddling about. Bless him. She couldn't help laughing at him.
Watching, she spotted Mr Duckles' head bopping around as Daichi wandered towards the ladders.

Rummaging about in her own school bag, she grabbed her sunglasses. Placing them on her face, she smiled. Muuuuch better. Crossing her arms over her chest she walked towards Daichi. 'Make sure your ducky doesn't fall out your bag!' She frowned. 'Or he won't be impressed.'
Smiling slightly she leant against the large climbing.. thing. she didn't really know what to call it.

Ah, finally. Something he was familiar with. And no guessing this time. "Sure, candies are good." Any kind of food was good. Except those that weren't edible and smelled awful and tasted awful. Bleckk. But candies were sweet.

Zeke was swinging in a slow and little motion, it looked like he was merely being forced to move by the wind. Just slight movements as his feet pushed his forward and back.

Daichi had placed a foot on the ladder when he heard a voice. He turned his head and smiled when he saw Thea leaning against the playground. The way she was leaning against it was so cool and the Slytherin's eyes twinkled a little. "He won't fall out!" he said reasuringly as he began to climb on the ladder.

one step, two steps, three steps..four steps , five steps, six steps se-- He really wished he could have counted till the seventh step but something was wrong. Missing in fact. The ladder he was climbing on suddenly dissapeared and Daichi yelled loudly when he realized it in the split second he fell down.

Instictively reaching out to grab something, his hands grabbed Thea's arm as he fell and when he landed he was surprised that it had not hurt. It was as if an invisible cushion had been placed under him and the Snake LAUGHED out loud.

For Jez...
 

A playground. Hogwarts now had a playground? Usually Jordan would've been running around like an infant child under normal circumstances, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. He couldnt work out what was wrong with him, ever since he'd gotten back from his summer with Jez, Nate and Pam he hadn't been feeling like his normal self. He'd been quiet, distant and most of all his metamorph powers had been going haywire, he suspected it was because of the blow to the temple he'd recieved which still hadn't healed. He took a seat on a swing and began to slowly push himself.

"Ow." His face was still on the ground. Still in the fetal position.

Theodore eventually sat up, his face covered in mud and a slight bump starting to form on his forehead. "Oh, I'm fine. That was nothing." But his insides were CRYINGGGGGGGG. Literally.

Amazing Theo? Even though he hated being called Theo, the boy shrugged, "That kinda fits me perfectly." He beamed.

"Sooo.... are we PALS now?" Are they putting the almost-food-fight incident behind them?

Watching Daichi climb, her eyes widened slightly as the ladder.. DISAPPEARED?!?!? Letting out a shriek, Thea tried to cover her face with her hands but instead she was pulled to the ground.

For a bit she just lay there, a bit unsure of what had just happened. She must have looked ridiculous. Her sunglasses sat askew on her face and she had a Slytherin laughing like a total loon sitting half next to her, half on top of her.
Pushing herself up, she just stared. Was the ladder back or..? Well there was no way she was going up there.
Patting herself she made sure nothing was missing/snapped... 'Are you okay?' She turned to Daichi who erm.. still seemed fairly happy about the situation. 'Mr Duckles okay?' She then asked, to lazy and sore to look for herself. Thea had no idea why she even asked about Mr Duckles. It was a toy, of course he'd be fine. 'I knew I should have backed off while I had the chance..' She muttered, but despite herself she couldn't help laughing.

Selena watched as the kid ate it in like... seconds. That was... just... her eyes were wide as she watched. She just hoped the guy didn't choke to death because then she'd have to drag him to the Healer and that didn't sound like fun at all. "Kent is named after Superman!" Selena exclaimed, grinning. Kent was a nice pygmy puff, he didn't bite. All the pygmy puff did was eat snot. Which wasn't cool at all. "Do you wanna hold Kent? He might try to eat your snot though."

He wanted to call her Selena? "Fine." Because she was nice. "Slytherin is better," Selena said, giggling at his squeak before hissing. See, snakes were totally cool. It also helped that she could talk to them but whatever, right?

They weren't playing... yet. Well then. "Tag! Tag, you're it, no tagbacks," Selena said, quickly poking him and then smirking. Hah! He was doomed to be forever it now. hehe. "See Pineapple, we were just playing a game of Tag. Which I won." Obviously.

Looking down at his long legs, he shook his head "Don't rightly think I'll fit actually." He was usually wayyyy too tall for most playground items. It really kind of stunk most times, because there was so much things to do and play on and with on a playground. Was it weird that being almost of age, he still liked to play there??? Hmm, he'd have to think on that one.

A smile appeared on his own face as she got off and introduced herself. "I'm Isaac." he said shaking her hand. "Have ye checked anything else out on here?" he asked looking around them.

Ameliah!!!! XD
 

Harvey led Ameliah to the playground and just looked at it.. it was new and had never seen it before "Wow.. just like a muggle playground.. it looks so good! dont you think so?" he asked Ameliah still clutching her hand in his

OHMIGOSH!!!! A PLAYGROUND!!!! "I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!" Ameliah squealed. Yup. The twelve year old that squeals at a playground. JUST what Hogwarts needed!!

Angie jump up and down like a 12 year old dose when shes hyper.Woot she yelled i'm going to party on the swings yo she yelled.she hopped on the swings.

"Nice to meet you, Isaac!" Ronnie said. She then shook her head. "No, not yet that is." she said chuckling. She looked around. This playground was so awesome! She noticed the swings and smiled. "Those swings look like lots of fun." she said, pointing them out. "Wanna come with me to go on them?" she asked, turning back to Isaac with a smile.

Harvey watched her squeal "Yeah I can see that you love it ... ALOT!!" he grinned as he moved in closer to her and gave her a hug and keeping his arms around her "What part of her castle does my princess want to explore first?" he asked chuckling as he looked at her closely

Ameliah grinned. "The swingset, defenitly." she responded, hugging him back.

Harvey smiled as she hugged him back "Of course.. lets go" he said as he offered her his arm to loop her arm into to go and explore the swingset.. this was new for both of them since this whole playground was new.. so they would explore it together "You sit in it and I will push you.. but I wont push you too hard dont worry about that" he smiled.. or would he? :shifty: he could push her hard.. but then he would frighten her and he didnt want that.. so that plan was out.

Ameliah took his arm and hers and they walked to the swingset. She sat in the swing happily, grinning. She laughed; "I supported myself age eight to eleven. Payed my own rent by working, earned enough money to barly feed myself. Not to mention I work potatoe farms with both my biological and adopted family. You realize I'm tougher than that, right?" she asked, chuckling. "I don't care how high you push me!"

Harvey led her to the swingset as she sat down and he began to push her.. and listened to her talk "wow you did all that by the age of 12?.. wow! even I havent done that much! You are? well when you put it like that.. yeah you do seem quite tough! OK! I will push you higher then" he smiled as he proceeded to push her higher.. this was another tough girl he had as a girlfriend.. it seemed tough girls liked him.. but who was he to complain when they were girls like Ameliah.

Ian! <3
 

Ameliah laughed, and when the swing was high enough, she tried her trick, seeing if she still could do it. In one quick move, she flipped backwards, wrapped her legs around the chains, and dangled from the swing like that.

Flyin' high in my superman socks!
 

Yes... Indeed... Jonathan was going to try out for Quidditch... And he was going to be...

...Spectacular.

Although, he had never exactly played Quidditch before. Sure I've flown... BUT never actually played.... Although, flying through the Brazilian rain-forest was a trip... I have never dodged so many birds in my-

A PLAYGROUND?!?!?!?!

Why Jonathan didn't notice this on his way down to the pitch- he had no idea... But he was sure glad he found it on his way back....

Somewhere in this fortress, the evil Dr. Vilkenheim was holding the beautiful dame hostage.... AND IT'S MY JOB TO SAVE HER!

Jonathan sprinted onto the playground, up the ladders and into the fortress... I will have to use all my wits, skills, and prowess to find the room where Dr. Vilkenheim was... And then-

"OOF!" Jonathan had collided with the henchman of Dr. Vilkenheim! The boy fell... He reached for his blaster. GASP, WHERE IS IT?!?!

"I should have you know there are 200 agents surrounding the perimeter of this fortress!" Jonathan stood up to face his enemy. BUT WAIT! "Delilah? ...You're an agent of Dr. Vilkenheim?"

Harvey was pushing Ameliah and when the swing was high she did a trick.. "WOW!! I didnt know you could do that!! I guess I must learn some more things about you" he said as he watched her dangle from the swing.

Ameliah flipped back up, grinning. "I used to do it when I was little. Amazing I still have the reflexes." she laughed.

This boy... really. I just can't. XD
 

Delilah was SO jealous of Gerald right now. Getting around this would be so much easier AND SO MUCH MORE FUN if she had a tail, and the rest of the monkey-balance... thing he has going on. Alas, she didn't. So exploring on foot it was!

After finding a dead end, the girl turned back on herself to go and find a better route. SHE NEEDED TO FIND THE TALLEST POINT OF THE CASTLE -

OOFT.

...

Ow.

Face first into the chest of ... someone. That someone was now lay on the floor. Did she really run into him with such force? OH MY... THAT WAS BAD IF IT WAS THE CASE. OOPS?

THIS would not have happened if she weren't so SHORT.

Rubbing her nose, the Slytherin rose her eyebrows when she realised who was on the floor. Jonathan! He didn't look quite so strange when he wasn't wearing silly clothes. But then, of course, he spoke. Agents? Why would there need to be agents? What even WERE agents? Delilah just looked at him, confused, not realising to help him up. "Um... what?"

When he stood up and recognised her, she frowned, more confused than ever. "Doctor... Vilken... Who?!" Of course she wasn't an agent! But obviously - assuming that an agent was the assistant of a bad buy (that doctor guy sounded like he'd be a bad guy...) - then that's EXACTLY what he'd be expecting her to say...

Kent was named after Superman? He didn't understand what she had meant at first,but the more he thought about it the more he understood where the name had come from. "Clark Kent- I get it. So, can he fly? Is Kryptonite his weakness?" So many questions. As far as he knew, Tag didn't have any snot. He wasn't sick at all so he began to wonder how Kent would eat his snot, if he had any. "Yes, I'd like to hold him. And, snot eating? So, does he climb up your nose or something and eat it?"

Now he was really stomping his feet on the floor. "No fair. You didn't give me time to run away from you!" That was the quickest game of tag ever. He wanted to run away from her, at least, have a chance to try and win the game.

Jonathan.... was heartbroken... His friend. The beautiful Delilah... An agent for Dr. Vilkenheim. He may have shed a tear. He took a step away from the girl.

"I can't believe it..." A quick turn back. "You ARE mind controlled." A triumphant step towards Delilah. "DON'T WORRY, MY LOVE I SHALL SAVE YOU!!!!" Jonathan picked her up in a fireman's carry and strode through the rest of the fortress trying to find an opening to the outside.

Eventually, he did. Jonathan took a quick step onto a bridge when the fortress decided it didn't want him in it anymore.

*FLING*

Oh, my... I'm in the air.

Drat! The evil Dr. Vilkenheim had prepared for Jonathan... Yet, somehow... The ground was soft. Jonathan was laughing when he sat up.

"You, okay, Dee?"

Harvey watched as she flipped back up and chuckled "You did? thats so cool!! Yeah.. well maybe not.. maybe you always had them but you didnt use them" he chuckled with her.. it was amazing the sort of reflexes she had he wondered what else there was to still learn about her.

Grinning as she asked if he wanted to go on the swings with her "Sure." he replied. It was his first aim, when he spotted her on the bouncing dragon thing. A michievious look came on his face "Race ye there." he said taking off at a run and laughter coming out in his voice.

Hey if you couldn't have fun just being a kid, what else was there?!

Ameliah laughed. "Maybe." she had just adjusted herself when she noticed....

DRAGONS!!!!

Ameliah squealed a little. She loved Puffs and Doggies, as well as Ducks, but Dragons were her favorite. And from the looks of it...yep. They had Welsh Greenbacks.

"EEEEEP!!! Let's go see the dragon spring thingys!!!" she squealed, already halfway there. When she made it, she had already claimed the Welsh Greenback. BUT....OH NO!!! It tried to buck her off!! But NOTHING was going to keep Ameliah from her dragon, and she clung on expertly.

Harvey watched as she adjusted herself when she squealed a bit before saying that she wanted to go the dragon springy things.. before he could even help her off the swingset she was already there and he followed her as she got onto one and it tried to buck her off.. Harvey looked a little scared thinking that she was going to get hurt with this dragon thing but she managed to stay on it "Be careful.. that thing doesnt seem to like you!" he said to her as he watched her on the dragon ride

No. Welshy. Loves me.

Ameliah rolled her eyes. "Puh-lease. This is the charm put on it that doesn't like me. Welshy here LOVES me!!" she had still managed to stay on.

Minerva was happy to be outside. She walked to the newest part of the grounds, always changing things she thought. Setting down her bag she moved around looking at the playground. She decided to just sit and watch everyone else explore the area.

"Yay!" Ronnie exclaimed. "A race, eh? Your on, Mr. Isaac!" she said, giggling and running as fast as she could, a little ways behind him.

She finally reached the swings, and realized Isaac had beat her there. "I was just going easy on you." she said simply, even though it wasn't really that true. She grinned and hopped on a swing, and began moving her legs so that she was going higher,

and HIGHER,


AND HIGHER!

"Weeeeee!" she cried, swinging back and forth. She loved swings, they were VERY fun. These felt more like riding a dragon that those...little spring rockers.

Tay was wearing a black tank top and skinny jeans. She didnt feel like being colorful anymore. Taylor was too sad to even think of wearing colors. She saw Minerva and nodded to her.

Minerva got up and walked over to Taylor she could see she was upset. She hated seeing all her friends so upset. She hugged her "How are you?"

Harvey watched as she was still on the dragon thing "I know its just a charm.. well then the charm dont like you and be careful.. well you seem to be doing good!.. managing to hold on!!" he said as he watched her stay on.. she seemed to be enjoying riding that thing "What?! I have competition with a dragon over you?! Oh how am I ever going to win?" he asked jokingly as she said that Welshy loved her

Tay hugged back, "Dreadful....." She frowned, "But there is no way to fix it....." Taylor sighed.

"It will be okay, just let the hurt feelings heal and then it will get better." she gave a smile not really sure if they were okay. She didn't want Taylor to feel weird now knowing that she was the girl when Minerva had liked him the entire summer.

Tay sighed, "I accidently heard what he said in the passageway......" She shook her head, "I hurt my best friend..... or exbestfriend.... or whatever we are......" Taylor frowned and rubbed her arms.

Ameliah laughed. "Just stay yourself. That's good enough." she smiled.

She, very carefully, let go of the handels. She held on using only her knees. "I wonder if this is how Americans spend their time. Riding bulls." Hmmm. She didn't find a point in that. Bulls are, like, cows. Not as exciting.

Unless they're ALIENS!

Yeah. Aliens like cows. Of course!! How could she not realize that?!?! NUUUU!!!!

Minerva sighed and sat down on the grass. "Oh you did, yeah that was rough." she looked up at Taylor hoping she would sit down as well. "Taylor , I'm sorry if you think I lied all summer. I knew the entire time. See why I said the girl was prettier then me?" she gave a small smile.

Minerva played with the grass, "Well you are, but it doesn't matter." she looked at Taylor "Tay everything will turn out okay. He just needs support right now, he'll get through this and so will you."

Harvey laughed "Oh trust me that wont so hard with you around.. I am always myself with you" and some other friends.. but she didnt need to know that right now.. "I dont think they do.. I am sure they have other things to do as well" he smiled.. like changing hair and eye colors "Like hanging out with their friends and stuff" he smiled.. still watching her on that dragon.. well there wasnt much competition between him and that dragon.. thats what she said.. just to stay him and it would be enough.. that isnt so hard.

Tay sighed, "You are way prettier than me." She wrapped her arms around her knees, "I miss him like crazy....." Taylor frowned.

Daichi continued to laugh out loud as he lay half on Thea half on the surprisingly soft ground. The shock that the ladder had disappeared had only been there for a short notice and Daichi had found it funny now he thought about it. It was brilliant! And now that he really looked at the playground, he noticed that alot of the devices had a magical touch to it. Some seemed to be even floating in the air!

But now the realisation that he half lay on Thea dawned on him and Daichi stopped laughing. Not completely cause a few more giggles escaped his mouth and got off of her. Seeing hersun glasses askew on her face the fourth couldn't help it. He tried to keep it in but laughed again. "BWAHAHA your glasses!" He pointed at them , not realizing that his own were askew on his face as well.

OH MR.DUCKLES! Now Daichi's eyes widened as he opened up his bag to see if his plushy was okay. "He's fine~" he answered after taking the duck out and actually checked it out. "Yes well that was the decision you had made, deal with it" whaaat? it was true right?

"You wanna ride those dragons!?" he shouted after noticing the spring rockers and looked hopefully at his Gryffindor friend and partner in crime.

Ameliah shrugged. "There are muggles, though, right? From Texas?"

And Aliens. Never. Forget. The Aliens.

"Then go talk to him. He probably feels awkward, but it's going to take effort on both sides to make this normal again."

Getting to her feet, Thea straightened her sunglasses. Raising her eyebrows, she leant forward and flicked one of Daichi's lenses and snorted.
Brushing down her clothes, she picked her bag up also.

Yawning slightly, she raised her eyebrows again as Daichi spoke. 'Wow, since when did you get so touchy?..' Thea stuck out her tounge and turned to look at these dragon rockers her friend was shouting about. Her truthful answer was 'no defiantly not?' but after catching a glimpse of his face she sighed. 'Okay.. I'll race you.' Thea rolled her eyes behind her glasses. She knew Daichi would most likely race off as soon as he heard her say that, so she braced herself for everything to go flying.

Rummaging in her pocket, she brought out a sugar quill. Popping half of it in her mouth, she waited for Daichi duckling to calm down a bit before offering him it.

Jez hadn't been on an actual playground since she was four and Keegan had snuck her to the Muggle park across the road (their parents had been furious). The closest she'd come since was the giant treehouse in her first year. Now there was an actual PLAYGROUND!!
She took a leap at a rope ladder, climbing it to the top and running to the slide. She shrieked in delight as she went down. If anyone saw her and told her not to be so immature, she'd slap them around the head.
Jez's five minutes back as a four-year-old lasted about ten minutes before she saw Jordan sitting alone on a swing. Wow, he looked more miserable than Jez had ever seen him. So she went over to try and cheer him up.
"Hey," she said, taking the swing next to him. "What's the matter? You look a little blue. Well, not really blue," she added quickly, not wanting him to think his meta powers were going weird. "Blue as in sad, not literally blue." She smiled at him, eyebrows raised. "So, what's the matter, lion boy?"