Jory walked and walked until he came to a fork again. "Left,'' he decided and went down that path. But he turned back a few moments later- it was a dead end. Back at the fork, he went right and this time, there was no dead end.

The boy walked along cautiously. Suddenly, he felt something tap his shoulder. Startled, he spun around but saw nothing. Shrugging, he continued on. He had not even taken a dozen steps yet when something tugged at his hair. "What?'' he asked, thinking it was a student playing a prank on him. But he could see no one from the beam on his wand.

Holding it higher, Jory glimpsed several electric blue pixies fluttering and sort of chattering away. "Cornish pixies,'' he muttered staring at them. One rushed forward and tugged at his hair again and soon more followed. "Get off!'' he exclaimed, swatting at them with his hands and trying not to panic. Of course, the mischievous creatures paid no heed. "I need a spell,'' the Puff thought wildly.

Gripping his wand, he aimed it upward at a random direction and shouted the incantation for the freezing charm. Instantly, he felt some relief from the tugging. He cast the charm until all the pixies were frozen. "Serves you all right,'' he said, glaring at them. For now, he had a headache.

This was it. Hadley wanted to kill them all. In fact, EVERY Professor wanted to kill them all and it was annoying. Did everyone want them to die? Like seriously. They weren't that lame right? Course not. But everyone and everything is being eaten this term. It was lame.

Dang it. When the whole classroom shifted into a maze, Kat was IMMEDIATELY pulled by a weird looking vine. The blonde screamed in surprise and shock. Hopefully this WASN'T the vine or plant that ate Professor Burbage and Christiansen right? RIGHT? Before even doing anything, Kat was able to kick the plant off and grab her wand. "DIFFINDO!" she cried. It send a slash through the plant. Excellent.

And then the vine took her by the foot again. The girl screamed in anger. STOP TOUCHING THE PRECIOUS CHASER/BEATER/SEEKER. Stop. It.
"LEAVE ME ALONE YOU STUPID PLANT!" Kat whined and stepped on the plant so hard and repeated the process. Nothing hurts more than stepping on one's face.

As it got darker and darker, Emmanuelle could feel eyes on her again. And again she looked around for said eyes and didn't find them. She was starting to wish that she had a second light source, like a flashlight or a tiki torch. Just something. But her wandlight would have to do. And speaking of which, it was in that that she could see a large birdbath. There was room to walk around it, but only just. She moved to her right to go around it, but IT MOVED WITH HER! The stupid thing was blocking her way! And as if that wasn't enough, it sprayed her! With so much water that she was now drenched. Great. Now not only did she have find a way around the magical moving birdbath, she had to do it soaking wet!

Going through a mental list of all the spells she had learned over the years, she finally found one she thought could work. "Bomdarda Maxima!" she exclaimed, aiming her wand at the birdbath. It exploded, sending cement in every which direction. Em actually had to duck to avoid being hit by the flying debris. Well that worked. Her path now clear she started down the path again, coming to another fork.

Laura was still going deeper into the maze she really wanted to be one of the students that got to the end, so far, there had been a few obsticles if you could call them that but there was nothing too serious and Laura was beginning to think that this curse thing wasn't as bad as she thought it was, she wished that she would see something cool, like a dragon or a dementor or something cool like that but she hadn't yet, she turned a corner and.

*sigh*

Seriously this wasn't really interesting at all, a plant a small plant that was it, nothing other than a small plant blocking her way she started to move closer to it when it suddenly started to move towards her. "OHHHHHHHH!" Laura screamed. "Stay away from me!!" Laura hadn't thought about a plant that would chase her over the place, she ran straight past it and continue running after taking like three turns this way and that way she stopped and looked back it looked like she had lost the plant well she hoped she had because she had to get her breath back.

From his already careful creeping about he froze mid-step when he can hear SCREAMING. Something about that thing that ate Burbage?

... Whoah hello what? ATE? BURBAGE?

All he saw of the poor woman was that she was dragged bodily away, apparently by a plant, which he has yet to see. But its not like he was going on a search party for it when he's seen what happened to one-- no make that TWO Professors-- and be brave foolish enough to think it wont happen to him. He's too chicken smart for that.

Now he was hesitating to move FORWARD. Because what IF that blasted plant was hiding amongst the hedges? Then again would the Professor so willingly put them all at risk?

Wait.... wasnt this the class that suddenly got Myrtle invaded and flooded?

*gulp*

Nerida was still being held by the vine when she scream "ITS GOING TO EAT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Just as she finished screaming her head off. The vine let go...She looked around no one heard that right. She quickly began to run, not wanting to get caught by the deadly vine. She kept running no watching where she was going...Casting glances behind her every now and then.

SMACK!

She ran straight into something or someone...She scooted back and pointed her wand at it....Lumos...She moved her wand trying to show anything but all she saw was thick fog..The hard kind...She looked behind her it was behind her too..She gulped looks like she had to leave her sense of sight behind until she could see again....She reached her hand out and felt something leafy but hard...The wall of the maze? No...it was hard...Maybe it was a rock wall...

She started her walk through the fog...How hard could it be losing your sense of sight...She walked slowly using her hands to feel her surrondins...Which was hard since even with both her arms spread out only one of her hands actually touched the walls...Sigh. Maybe she should just use one wall. As she continued to walk the fog started to get thicker and thicker. After a couple more steps she could no longer see her feet or hands...She stomped her feet what was that spell called. She racked her brain...Come on you know this!!

Meteolojinx something... Reducto... No... Returno... No... Reparo... No.... What was it!! GOODNESS! Come on think. She tapped her fingers against her thigh as she thought of the last part of the spell. "Recanto thats it!!" She shot her wand up and cast "Meteolojinx Recanto!" She hoped that worked...She shut her eyes tightly not wanting to see if it failed or not...After what seemed like a minute she opened them...

The further Kendall was getting into the maze, the calmer she was getting. Oddly enough, after the acromantula and then the stupid running straight into the dead end, things had been kind of quiet. For her, at least, as she continued to hear screams and other noises filtering in from elsewhere, probably wherever the rest of her classmates were. Either way, she hadn't ran into anything, which meant that she had time to start to feel all the myriad of scratches along her arms and the few on her face from the run-in with the hedge. She was determined not to let them get to her, and determined to finish the maze, though, so she tried to ignore the stinging and continue moving ahead. She was stronger than the scratches anyway. Superheroes didn't let a few scratches take them down.

Although another surprised shriek came out of her as she turned another corner only to feel her boots sliding out from underneath her. Resulting in her slamming into the ground hard on her back, knocking the wind out of her momentarily. Simply laying there for a second, she got her breath back and sat up, immediately pointing her wandlight at the ground underneath. There wasn't anything visible other than the pathway, which made her eye it for a moment. At least everything til now was obvious, and she almost just gave up on trying to figure it out. Until she set herfree hand down to try to boost herself up and it slid a foot or so. Painfully, as if she was on ice. Glisseo charm, she thought. She either was going to have to get up really carefully or stay on the ground. Getting to her feet would take time, though, so instead she just got to her knees and started crawling, half-skidding, until she got past the charmed patch of ground and could stand again. Now with scratches and half-frozen hands and legs, but she was still in one piece. Therefore she could keep going, and she started walking again. Remembering to occasionally point her wand at the ground ahead of herself. She wasn't going to be caught by surprise again.

Mazes..these weren't usually easy for Ness, but then she didn't mind a challenge now and then.

As the classroom transformed into a maze, the red head stood up and held her wand tightly in her right hand. In an instant the whole room went dark which Nessie did not like one bit. She wasn't exactly afraid of the dark, she was more scared of what was inside it. With a quick Lumos spell, Nessie's wand emitted light and she had a little more vision of the classroom that was now a maze.

Well off to find that bracelet then?

After walking for a few minutes a voice started to appear through the air.

'Nesssieeee! Cooooome heeereeeee!!'

The voice was really close by and Ness was sure she'd see what it was soon.
One sharp left turn and there it was or more like there she was. Galia, her best friend that died in a car crash almost six years ago. The sight of her had Nessie excited for just a short moment untill she realized this wasn't a normal Galia. The blonde ghost boggart began zooming straight ahead at Ness as though she was coming to grab her.

"I wiiiiill neeeeverr forgiiive yooouuu for that fiiiiiight." Even her voice was different, but those words had Nessie burst into tears and unable to move.

Memories, that's all that went through Nessie's mind instead of her actually remembering that this ghost couldn't be real.

A maze? Amazing. See the pun there? A-MAZE-ing. Elise felt clever, for the first time since this class had started. Everything else was just so confusing, and Elise's head was spinning. Spinning with confusion, or was that the fog Elise could feel starting to surround her?

Stepping forward and stumbling, Elise realized that she was scared. Terrified, even. This was not good. Elise was blinded, and WHERE WAS HER WAND? Okay. It was time to freak out and panic. Shoving her hand into her left pocket, she sighed in relief.

"Lumos," she muttered, hoping that it would help, to some degree. Well... It was. It helped her to see about half a foot in front of herself, so that was alright. But it wasn't enough for Elise to feel even remotely safe.

SOMEBODY SAVE HER!

"BAD PLANT!" Kat said as she continued to step on the plant with her lighted wand on her right hand. She kept it high enough so that it lit up the ground below. Yeah, and she was liking the fact she was creaming the plant to its death by just stepping on it. To make it a nice finale, Kat decided to Blast the plant. "Nox," she said. And the light on her wand dimmed. Now... time for some REAL superhero time.

"CONFRINGO!" she cried and cast her spell at the plant. The girl covered her face with her arms as the spell made contact with the plant. The things around blasted with the plant. Once it was safe enough, Kat tried to fan away the dust and sneezed. Oh, bad idea. "Lumos."

With a lit wand now, she went to get Elise.... She looked scared. LOL. Not that it was funny but, really.

"Magic works in mysterious ways," Kurumi replied with a small wink. She had struggled with producing a proper patronus and had really only done so this term. Well, technically over the summer when her and Lewis had been doing some brush up work for their seventh year, but the memory she needed to do so had come towards the end of her sixth year. And then his choice of words really hit her. That right then had been his first proper patronus. Too bad he had 'wasted' it on her? "Oh....OH! Congratulations Oakey!"

Really. She meant it and may have been a bit jealous that it had taken her longer.

Separate. Kurumi wasn't sure about that really, but before she could say anything the maze made that decision for them and Kurumi was left alone and in silence with her little ball of light floating along beside her. Well...so much for working together.

Wand out again, Kurumi sighed and then continued to make her way through the maze, making a right turned here and a left there and another right somewhere else. Where was the end of this maze? And...this bracelet was going to end up being a portkey to somewhere else, right? No, of course not. It was just a bracelet under the influence of the Flagrante Curse. She should probably start to figure out how to best break that curse while she was walking...hmmm...

But Kurumi's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a very VERY strong wind that knocked her backwards and right smack into the bushy wall, holding her there. The wind was so strong that Kurumi had to shut her eyes for fear of them watering and she almost felt suffocated from the pressure. Holding up her hand to shield her eyes slightly, Kurumi was able to to make out the path and...wait...was that...

She couldn't be too sure, but she knew that she just had to make it to the other side of this path to continue. So, wand out, Kurumi pointed it at her feet and did a quick swish and tap movement. "Prehenso." Gripping Charm now in place on both her shoes, Kurumi tested the ground and found that she could slowly make her way forwards...only to find that she really needed to crawl because the wind was going to push her over backwards. So...on all fours it was.

The dark was scary! It really was. Was this that Instant Darkness Powder? Maybe Professor Hadley had developed it further and made it last long? But it wasn't really dark. It was foggy. And it was almost dark and Elise was still scared of it. Professor Hadley was mean. Weren't Hufflepuffs supposed to be the nice people? With the exception of awful!Puff, of course.

Anyways. SHE SAW THE LIGHT. Ohwait. That was her wand. But the fog had to end somewhere, right? And it was thinning... and Elise tripped. "OUCH!" she yelped, prodding her ankle with her finger. THAT hurt. A lot. Really. Okaaay. She could walk, though. It wasn't broken or anything like that. And she could almost see a shape through all that fog. It looked eerily familiar, really.

Jory kept walking until he heard a familiar voice screaming. "Nerida?'' Jory wondered. What had gotten her? Nervously, he looked around the spot where he stood. From the light of his wand, he could see nothing though.

"What if that plant grabs me?'' the boy though, as he strained his eyes to see if he could spot any signs of movement. He continued on, occasionally turning to look behind him. "So far so good,'' he muttered as he rounded a corner. Or was it?!

Was that a shadow reflecting on the wall of the maze next to him? It certainly was not human... Jory stood rooted on the spot before he took a cautious step forward. But the minute he took that step, the shadow vanished. "What was that?'' he thought

Laura was really confused, she had finally managed to catch her breath and hopefully the stupid plant that was chasing her had got fed up, it seemed the further into the maze you got the worst things happened, she just hoped she was wrong, though she had a feeling she was right.

Laura turned around a corner and *WHAAA!!!!* Laura really hoped that she hadn't fallen on something hard or worse dangerous, she stood up and looked around there was nothing there. "HELP!!!!!!!!!!" Laura screamed what was she actually tripping over. "INVISABLE PEOPLE ARE AFTER ME!!" Laura was really scared now.

Blind Elise.

Did this girl really have eyesight problems more maybe she was just so scared right now. The thought was funny, yes, but Kat chose not to laugh out loud. She just kept her silent fits of laughter to herself. 'Cause well... she didn't want to hurt the Claw's feelings. MELLOW.

"Lumos," Kat said. Then she turned her attention to Elise. "ELISE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" DUH, she was scared of the dark. Yeah, like something was going to attack her now. She should be lucky Kat had sent that plant a Blasting spell.

"WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING, LET'S GO!" Kat called out. But if the girl didn't want to follow... well... not her fault.

Barely having made two steps forward from where he started Vickers was starting to get a bit too paranoid with every whisper and scream and rustle of the leaves. Was this what curse-breakers do? Its an awful lot of hard, nerve-wracking work. Surely changes the perception this boy had where he thought curse-breakers just sit in a fortified room and test spells on exotic objects and such.

Suddenly he felt like some kind of invisible force knock him forward, sending him flying through the air and landing in an unceremonious heap a few feet away. His mind was racing between trying to figure out if he broke anything with that fall and wondering if some kind of monster dealt him that blow...

He didnt have to wonder for too long-- because he could feel his hair whipping back and forth...

Laura was really moving slowly now, she didn't want to trip up again, she was really confused. "I've got invisable people after me!!!!!!!!" Laura scream this was really weird. "I'm scared now." Laura had thought that it would be easy to sort this out but at the minute she was now scared, she managed to go around the next corner but was the invisable things still around she didn't know. "What to do now?" Laura said out aloud without realising it.

"Laura?'' Jory called as he neared the spot where he heard the girl shouting. "Are you alright?'' He looked all around but he didn't see anything. He wondered if invisible people or things were indeed after Laura.

"Does it have anything to do with that shadow I saw earlier?'' he wondered. Suddenly, he felt something shove him in the back. The force sent him sprawling, his wand flying out of his hand. "What was that?'' the boy asked looking around wildly. He was seriously getting injured in this maze. First it was water, then cornish pixies and now whatever had just sent him on the ground.

Laura suddenly heard Jory's voice. "JORY!!!" Laura looked around for him but he wasn't around, she was about to give up and look to see which way to go next when.

*WHAAAAAAAAAAA*

Laura fell over something. "Stupid inv..." Laura stopped and giggled it was Jory. "Oh sorry Jory!" Laura blushed, she hoped that he wasn't crosh with her, she stood up and held out her hand for him to take. "I'm scared Jory, these Invisable people have been following me for like the last 5 minutes in this maze." Laura was hoping they were people. "I hope they aren't dragons or something worse." Laura sighed, "this is really confusing me." Laura wanted Jory to give his advice.

"Oh, there you are , Laura,'' Jory said looking up from the ground, with a grin. "That's alright. I heard you scream and since I was close I came to see if you are okay.'' He took her hand and pulled himself up. After he dusted himself off, he grabbed his wand. "It is scary,'' he agreed. Who knew what was lurking around the corner. "But I don't think Professor would have anything too dangerous in here.''

Now, back to Laura's invisible people. "Maybe you've got something they want that's why they're following you around,'' the boy said with a wink. "A few minutes ago I saw some sort of shadow back there,'' he indicated to where he had come from before he met Laura. "I have no idea what it is though.'' Probably some creature haunting the maze.

Laura was wondering what to do next, she wanted to stay with Jory but if he was bringing the danger to her then it would be hard to stay. "Jory!!" Laura hugged him, she was really scared about what was following her, she let go when she realised she was like clinging to him. "OH I'm sorry Jory." Laura blushed, she hadn't meant to do that.

Laura listened to what Jory was saying. "All I have in my pocket is my wand and a pen, but why would these invisable people be after my pen." Laura really didn't know what an invisable person would want wth her pen. "What to travel with me along the rest of the maze?" Laura decided she would like some company.

"Can't breathe, can't breathe,'' Jory said jokingly. "It's alright,'' he added as Laura released him. He laughed as she him her wand and pen. "Sure, I don't think Professor Hadley would mind.''

He looked around. "We'd better get a move on, then.'' As they set off, the badger thought he heard a rustling behind him. He turned but saw nothing. "Probably my imagination,'' he thought. He followed Laura. The rustling sound came again. "Er,'' he began. "I think something's following us.'' He said it quietly and calmly, not wanting to scare his friend. "I think we should run.'' It seemed logical, he had no intention of letting whatever it was catch up with him.

Laura giggled when he jokingly said he couldn't breath, she knew he was joking, she smiled when he said he would join her, she was really glad because she was really upset about the whole situation with this invisable thing that was attacking her.

Laura started to walk and she kept thinking about the stupid thing because she knew they were being watched and she knew that Jory had the same feeling. "Jory I'm really scared." Laura wanted to get away from this stupid thing but it was so after her, what had she done, was it because she had said this maze was silly she didn't know.

Laura suddenly heard Jory say run. "No need to tell me." Laura grabbed Jory by his hand and then she seriously ran holding onto his hand, she stopped like after 5 minutes later and was confused something was still watching them. "Jory there is noooooooo escaping this thing." Laura had this strange feeling this thing knew this maze well.

As she continued moving past the invisible ice on the ground, Kendall had finally decided that she wasn't going to run into any more of that and stopped checking the ground every two steps or so. Instead, she trained her wandlight on everything around her. She hadn't forgotten about the acromantula, after all. She definitely didn't want to find out that it had followed her to get revenge or something and be surprised by it. Therefore she had to be vigilant. Especially because she hadn't seen any of her classmates yet, which was disconcerting on its own. Even without the fact she still heard the occasional scream or shout from elsewhere. That meant that they were in the maze, but not anywhere near her. Maybe I'm lost, she thought for a moment. All she could do was continue moving forward. Either she'd find someone else, get attacked again, or find the center and the bracelet. Or she'd end up back at the beginning, but either way, she wasn't going to be in this maze forever.

Turning another corner, she brightened slightly as her wandlight just barely made out someone ahead of her and she tried to make them out. "Vick-oof," she said, her question trailing off as she'd been picked up by the same gust that had picked up the older Claw and been slammed back into a hedge again. "Ow," she concluded, as she'd landed in a heap on the ground and regained her breath yet again. Several new scratches decorating her arms. That wasn't fun, she thought, trying to stand up again only to be knocked over once more. "Okay. Staying on the ground," she mumbled to herself, wondering why she had somehow ended up running into things that made her crawl twice in a row. Hopefully it meant she was getting closer to the center, so she started pulling herself along the ground, Muggle-army style, passing the other Claw slowly as she tried to stay as low to the ground as possible. Keeping her wand held out in front of her to light the ground as she tried to avoid the wind that was still blowing.

After much deliberation, Emmanuelle chose to take the right path. She had been walking down the path for awhile, not running into anything, which had lulled her into a false sense of security when suddenly........

WHAM!

She found herself face to, well grass with the ground again, this time blown there by a rather strong wind. One that had brought with it some really ominous sounding music. Something about building a house to fall down and never being the same. Totally creepy. She decided rather quickly that she HAD to get out of there. But how do you stop a magical wind? Would a simple finite do the trick? And even if it did, how would she be able to hold her wand up in the wind without it flying away? Not to mention that the fall had knocked the wind (no pun intended) right out of her. So that rendered that idea completely useless. Which meant that there was no other options but to either get up and try to walk or pull herself along the ground and hope the wind stopped soon. And in this wind, there was absolutely no way she'd be able to stand. She set to pulling herself over the ground, occasionally stopping to pull her hair out of her eyes. Merlin, this was so not her idea of a good time!