Sarah was going wary, after all she had been spraying for like AGES! And her fingers were hurting from pulling the trigger nozzle so long. She urged herself on, after all she was on a mission and she had plants to save.

By now she could see the winter sun setting although it was really about 4 o'clock. She wanted to get back into the castle before it got too dark so she sprayed some more plants... she sprayed the ginger plants which she used for chillblains. No - she would not like that to get insecterized.

Fanged Geranium were coming up next as Sarah sprayed them. The smell of the Jasmine told Sarah that she was nearly done, after all.. she remembered that she had smelt the jasmine when she was spraying the 'figs. Sure enough she saw the figs that were nearby and with renewed strength she sprayed the jasmine and a few other plants and then she was done.

She collected her winter clothing and prepared to enter the cold air outside. She opened the door to the greenhouse and the cool air embraced her. She was tired, yet she still had homework to do.

He stepped back from the Dirigible Plum shrub and looked at it for a moment. it looked like it was dripping after a sudden downpour. Happy with his work on that he started to move a little further into the Greenhouse, looking at various shrubs and bushes and plants that were already treated and how they were treated. He looked back at the still dripping shrub he just left.... well the Professor did say to be generous didnt she?

As he walked along he came across a set of potted bulbs that looked like they were just about ready for replanting. Curiously several of these looked like they were held down with a netting of some sort. If he starts spraying, would any of the minsecticide filter down to where its needed?

Carefully he loosened the netting just a bit, only so that he can fit the nozzle of the spray bottle.....

Unfortunately that was enough to make those little potted plants quiver and start B ^O U ^N C ^I N ^G

Finding a spot away from the other students, Daichi surveyed the plants and thought it was a good idea to spray right here. This time, he was standing in front of purple looking ball. He remembered that this plant was called a shrivy (ooc: Shrivelfig) did he have to spray the Minsecticide on this plant as well?

Thinking for a few seconds while swinging the spray bottle in his hand, Daichi shrugged his shoulders and thought that he better should spray. The mission was spray everything right? Holding the spray ready, Daichi pointed it to the Shrivelfig and sprayed.

SPRAAAAAAAY~

You know, spraying was actually the EASIEST homework he had ever done. Although this wasn't technically homework but only for the mission force... He sprayed on top of the purple plant and it was then that the Shrivelfig began to move. Once the solution had hit it, the plant opened up all of the sudden and the Slytherin panicked when he saw some liquid dripping out. Was...was it supposed to do that?! He didn't know! the only thing he knew was the plants name, and that was Shrivy!

He should walk away and pretend that nothing had happened! With a quick glance around, Daichi took a step backwards. Looking again. Taking another step and another, until his back hit one of the working tables. He jumped a little and then quickly moved to the Flutterby Bush.

Uh oh.

Baaaad call there...

Vickers dropped the spray bottle onto the table as he hastily tried to contain the bouncing bulbs from breaking free of their harness. Arms fanned out as his hands kept grappling and shoving and clawing at the increasing number of jumping and wriggling pots that was spreading like a wave throughout the table. "Stop stop stop!" he whimpered in panic, leaning further across the jittery pots and using his torso to keep them under control without crushing them...

... that didnt help him any from this next bouncing bulb, because as soon as it felt him shift it broke free of his barely containing grasp, jumped up, pot and all, and landed itself right on top of Vickers' head, shoving the Ravenclaw's face into a mass of a purple squiggles all struggling to free themselves of the restraint. The escapee bouncing bub landed on the clear side of the table, teetered then fell on its side, the pot now rooooolling away from him, straight towards the table's edge....

Spotting the flutterby bush , Daichi stepped towards the quivering plant with his spray ready in his gloved hand. The now flowerless bush was shaking as if it was afraid of him and Daichi actually believed his own thoughts.

The poor plant was shaking and surely it was afraid of him! But...Daichi wasn't scary right? The Slytherin leaned towards the bush but it did not stop shaking. "I-It's okay, i-i'm not going to hurt you..." Wait, was he REALLY talking to a plant? Well, maybe plants could hear? Who knew... "I'm only going to spray Minsecticide so you don't have to deal with creepy crawling insects"
The bush only continued to quiver making Daichi pout. He knew that his mission was to spray all the plants so he pointed the spray to the Flutterby Bush and began to spray.
The minsecticide dripped over the leaves and on to the soil ground. Spraying a little bit more because the bush was pretty big , the Snake then stopped when he thought it was enough. "Seeee~ that wasn't so bad right?"

poor bush was still shaking with fear~ Daichi thought it was sad and leaped forward to hug the plant . A bit of the solution was now sticking on his black robe. "Well, i gotta go spray the student garden now bye ~!"

Oh boy he was really talking to a plant

Sierra walked into the greenhouses and took a long look around. This would be just more of the same, but...at least she was almost through. She had a good mind to just spray the first four she came to, regardless of their condition, and just be done with it. No. For one, she had a parent standing nearby that would chew her up and spit her out if she got lazy with her work. For two, she wouldn't get very many points for that, and she'd just get upset with herself later.

So she did things the right way. She scoped out the area until she came upon a plant that looked like it needed a little extra armor to defend itself against the pests. Come to think about it, what if the pest were here now? Ewww. She took a careful look around, didn't see any, and then knelt on the ground. She lifted up each leaf of the plant and sprayed on top and bottom of it. Then she sprayed around the plant, so the pests would be turned away right as they approached the plant.

"Five down, three to go," she said, looking up at her mother. "Oh, and I pulled my grades up." AKA, she'd advanced in the ranks. "Dad should be happy. I'm almost more perfect than perfect." Heh. She remembered that time he hadn't been happy at all, because she'd let Kurumi Hollingberry beat her a third or fourth year in a row.

"He just wants you to be the best, Sierra. Your father wishes only the best for you." Should she broach the subject now? "You are a daddy's girl... always have been... do you think you will be alright when your sister takes a lot of his attention away from you?"

Sierra continued her routine of standing from one plant and moving on to another. She chose another wimpy looking plant. How was it that some of the plants seemed to thrive while others just go beat up? She guessed it was 'survival of the fittest' even here in the greenhouses. She sprayed down the wimpy plant, taking care to get it from all different angles. She sprayed the leaves, the top of the plant, and the base of the plant. She even sprayed a bot of the soil around the plant.

...and then she froze in place and looked up, but not at her mother.

"A lot?" she asked. She hadn't really thought about that. She was used to being the one and only when it came to her parents. Now she'd share the spotlight with her little sister. "...and how much attention will you give her?" ...because Sierra did have a good reason for asking.

"I don't know... probably not as much as your father..." Because she wasn't and had never felt very motherly.

"I'll be alright with it, I guess. I mean, of course I'm going to be a little jealous, but...I'll get over it," she said. "I've lived with siblings before, and...it's not so bad. I have to think about it this way, too, though." ...and here was the reason she'd asked about the level of attention her mother would give the baby. "Sometimes I think I'm closer to you than I am to him. I'd never tell him that, but...over the past few years, you've been there for me more. You and I had to work so hard to get where we are now, and...it just made it so much more meaningful. We got to choose one another. You taught me that."

She stopped talking as she approached one of the last two plants she had to spray. By this point, she was just ready for the assignment to end. She was getting bored with the spraying and had other things to do. She half-heartedly starting spraying a different plant near the one she'd been working on. Then, remembering she was under watchful eyes, she starting trying a bit harder again. She gave it a good little spray shower, making sure to leave no stone unturned. Errr..., no leaf unsprayed. "I have no idea how much of this stuff to use," she mumbled to herself.

"I think with all the students spraying them, it's good that you are using the minsectide." She said and rubbed a plant. "I think you are going great... I should get back to the office... have fun Miss Greingoth."

Sierra just nodded. She could care less about saving the plants. Well, no, that wasn't true. Plants were useful, and she knew it. She was just getting in a bad mood. She was never EVER waiting until the last second to do something like this again. She was getting tired and cranky, and...yeah. It was just time to go in.

She spun around and saw an entirely different species of plant. None of them looked like they were being attacked, so she skipped them over on account of the fact they didn't really look like they needed her help. She glanced up at her mom. "Mmkay, see you around," she said. She wouldn't be far behind her. She'd just get one more, and then she'd feel like St. Sierra had done her job.

She was still walking along when she saw it--plant number eight! It had holes in its leaves where pests had chewed into it. Bummer. It'd really taken a beating, hadn't it? She felt of its leaves, just like she'd seen her mother do, and then she knelt beside it and began to spray it. She gave this plant a few extra doses of minsecticide. If she didn't, she was afraid it honestly wouldn't live to see another day.

*spray spray spray spray spray*

Yup. Extra doses all around. When she was done, she tightened the lid on her spray bottle, stood up, and headed off. Her work here was done.

ASDFASDGFHGH!!!

He peels his face away from this squiggly purplies and doesnt know how he could nurse his head and keep these things down. But any throbbing pain he had felt gets ignored quickly when he turns his head and realizes...

--- that evil bouncing potted bulb was going to fall off!!

He quickly scampered after it, reaching out and catching it in mid-air as it rolled off the edge. He breathes an audible sigh of relief as he cradled the wriggling potted rascal in his hands but that when he looked up he nearly screamed--

-- the rest of those rowdy bouncing bulbs has gotten out of their harness!!

Sheer sense of panic gripped him as the purple menace started to scamper all over the greenhouse. He has to do something before any of them breaks their pots, escapes the greenhouse or worse-- starts bouncing and coming after him!

Whipping out his wand he urgently hollered "Immobulus!" towards the general area of the bouncing bulbs....

... they stopped as if frozen in time.

He rushed forward to look at the potted fiends. They seemed alright. Quickly he collected the rest of the wayward potted bulbs and placed them back onto that table and re-secured the harness before the spell wears off. It was only then that he saw the spray bottle he dropped onto the table. Merlin the trouble he went through just to get a bit of that mixture onto these things! Hurriedly he sprayed the netting and the purple bulbs in broad-strokes, hoping that the mixture will just manage to drip its way down to these plants.

When he was done he stepped back and reached out for his head. That spot where the potted bulb jumped onto was really starting to sting. Grumpily he turned his heels and exited the greenhouses, he has to get someone to look at his head.

"Right, so buckets of flesh are in the stores cupboard, help yourself," she mused as she entered one of her favourite places in the world. There was nothing quite like a greenhouse, and nothing quite like her greenhouse.
"I'm just going to see if anything's missing... keep your eye out for the plant."

Minerva walked into the greenhouse with caution. Looking around at all the different plants. She had been in these greenhouses many of times,but never to try and see if they could be bait find a plant that had been taking living things. Could that plant just blend in with the others Minerva wondered, if these were all like that plant wasn't all of them suspects of the crime..

Then she looked at the cupboard.. They were really going to get meat out to carry, well at least if they did come across it they could throw the meat at it hoping it takes it like a dog treat instead of them. Walking over to the cupboard and opening the door she found the meat and pulled it out. "Ethan, Professor Lafay... do either of you two want to carry some meat?" She wasn't sure if either would or not so better to ask.

Apparently he wasn't the only one feeling a bit edgy.. but it wasn't all that surprising given the circumstances. Eyes sweeping the ground for anything out of the ordinary and wand still tightly in his grasp, Ethan silently followed the others into the greenhouse.

He glanced over at Bentley as she spoke and followed Minerva over to the cupboard. "Um.. sure," he told the girl as he reached for his own bucket of meat. Although if they were going to be going to the greenhouse that kept the flesh-eaters, he wasn't sure carrying around raw meat was such a great idea. Then ALL of the flesh-eating plants would want to swarm in on them.. or maybe he was just being paranoid in his edgy state.

The boy walked over to a row of plants and let his eyes drift in and around the leaves. He didn't see anything unusual yet..

The Umbrella Vinora was happily hidden behind batch of mandrakes. One of its long tendrils slipped through the open door with lunch! Pulling the Ravenclaw closer and closer to its main part.

YUM!!! Lunch would be good today!

As soon as Milton was dragged off the table in the library, he knew summoning Isfret was a bad idea. Isfret was a GHOST, though and those were UNSUMMONABLE, so he figured that nothing would happen. But he was obviously VERY VERY WRONG. To make matters worse, he dropped his wand on his way out of the library.

After Milton got over the initial shock of being dragged along the cold castle floor and rough pavement, he screamed like a girl yelled and flailed and wiggled, slapping the vine with his free hand. "LETGOOFMEYOUSTUPIDSTUPIDVINEYTHINGLETGOOOO!!! " Milton continued swatting at the vine that was wrapped around his wrist.

He noticed his surroundings change as he was surrounded by more plants... THE MOTHERLAND. HE WAS GOING TO DIE.

"HALPMEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Lex had been doing exactly what the Professors said. She was keeping in line, making sure to stick between Magnus and Bellaire and yes she was ignoring the rude Slytherin girl; such a good person she was...until she saw the Greenhouse.

Not wanting the plant to get too far just in case, she bolted past Bellaire and ran into the Greenhouse where she could've almost been sure she saw something...Mmm...must have been here imagination.

When the noise stopped she figured she'd lost whatever it was she saw and began spinning in all directions trying to spot it again. Hmmm...looking back she realized how far behind she'd left everyone else...

Oops...

Just then she heard a sound...a rather pathetic one too...Why did it sound like that Ravenclaw Captain dude...and WHY did he sound like the Runes Professor and Burbage???

Minerva was at the cabinet getting the meat out for her and Ethan and Professor Lafay if she wanted any when she heard something that made her dump the bucket onto the ground. Looking around she spotted someone going across the floor.. "Professors.. there.. the plant.. " She dashed a piece of meat still in hand towards the victim and pointed her wand at the vine, "Stupefy" If she could get close enough she could slice the vine.

Thinking as quick as she could Minerva threw as hard as she could the meat that was in her hand at the vine.. "Take the meat" Hoping it would let go of, who was that even, then it hit her.. That boy from the kitchen what was his name.. Milton.. Keeping her wand pointed she yelled again just to make sure she was hitting near it, "Stupefy" Jumping towards Milton Minerva grabbed for his arm, shoulder, robes, whatever she could reach and gripped the best she could.

It figured that Vivi would spot her Baby Lion making a mad dash for the Greenhouse while she was crossing the grounds, and she jogged to catch up with the younger girl. Why was she in such a big hurry?

For that matter... why were there so many people in the greenhouse at the moment?

"Lex? What are you..." She glanced past the girl and spotted evil!Puff throwing meat at the plants. "What are you doing in here, Alexa Cambridge?" Her momma!bear tone was out today.

Alice was so totally ready to MAIM this plant.

Not really. Actually, she kind of admired it. HEY. You had to forgive her, it was a pretty cool plant. Especially since it took Butterfly.. Milton. Ahem. But, you know, being a Gryffindor and all, she had to be all heroic. Couldn't she just leave that Kurumi and Selina and Gideon? YEAH. She could. But she still wanted to see the scary plant. And see if she could take it.

PFFT. What was she thinking? Of course she could take it.

And so, when her favourite little ickle!lion, Lex, ran away from the search group, Alice was quick to follow. And it wasn't like anything bad was gonna happen to them, because that blonde girl who liked to shove was following Lex as well. And the Gryffindor imagined that this girl could shove off the plant long enough for them to make a run for it if anything bad happened, so they were good.

And when they reached Lex, and Vivi went on Momma Bear mode, she still wasn't paying any attention. Until she heard a strangled, high-pitched, little girl scream. That sounded EXACTLY like Milton. "BUTTERFLY!" She exclaimed, more shocked than relieved. "You're ALIVE." Well. Were they going to get that plant or what?

"You should hit it with your shoe," she told the blonde girl. And then, immediately, she grabbed a tendril and latched onto it with her demon child teeth.

She flashed around when she heard Minnie yelling something about meat...

Meat?

Uh-huh...because that wasn't weird at all... following the voice she saw the girl--she actually had meat!!--njfdbdcsb!! The plant and it did have the no good Ravenclaw Captain!! Oh nooo. She watched the girl cast a spell but before she could give her own reaction she heard a voice she liked more. Whirling around she shot Vivi a wide smile that quickly faded when the girl got all crazy protective or something. "Um...I...I was...plant hunting?" That was technically what she was doing, it's just she should have been waiting on the professors. Meh, she wouldn't mention that part to her Mama Vivi, not when she seemed so concerned.

Then Alice finally caught up!...Did she call the boy Butterfly...? ...Another question for another day--

O___O

She bit the plant...COOOOL!! Why hadn't she thought of that!!!! Ahem...of course...being a Gryffindor she had to jump in too. Lex began stomping at the tendril hoping it would release the boy. She didn't like him but you know...

Vivi was still mid-scold with Lex when the a little blur of blond hair flashed past and jumped on the plant. Merlin, it was the shoving!lion, and she was trying to bite Milton free from that crazy plant thing she'd seen on the mini golf course that day with Kurumi.

Wait. Milton?!?

"Do not die, or I will be SO mad at you," Vivi ordered Lex before sliding along the plant and reaching for little Alice. She would be very displeased if the plant ate her captain before the Championship game. That was just... a Hufflepuff plot, it was! This was all a big Hufflepuff plot. Vivi whipped her shoe off and banged on a tendril of the plant.

"Let. Go. Of. My. CAPTAIN." Stupid Hufflepuff plant.

And soon, Alice had help from her ickle lion. "Gfo Lfthex! Gfeth tfhe pwfant!" .. Yes, so her words weren't exactly comprehensible— her mouth was full of plant stuff— but she was pretty sure that Lex could deduct the general meaning of her cheers. And then Vivi started whacking the thing with her shoe. YEAH. Teamwork. They could definitely take this thing down.

Alice yanked on a couple more tendrils and chomped her devil baby fangs teeth down on those, too. Hard. After a second or two, she released those and crawled over to Milton. Hmm.. now.. where were the vines holding him? She noticed one wrapped around his wrist and immediately clamped her jaws down on that green, stringy rope, as well.

OOMF. They tasted DISGUSTING.

The lioness made a sour face as she bit into the vine even harder. Ow. Her jaw was probably broken by now. Over-dramatic, much? She kicked at the other tendrils, in hopes of keeping them away from her and the others, but she suspected that it was no use. And hadn't the rest of the search party caught up yet? 'Cause they could have really used more teeth and shoes.