Ella had been wandering around the castle, tired from all her studying, when she found herself in front of the spirit room. For whatever reason, this particular room gave the small third year the creeps, though she couldn't help but walk over to the doorway and peer inside. She wondered if maybe the ghosts used this particular room for when they were feeling particularly sad about their deaths. It sure seemed that way. The room definitely had a sad vibe to it. Poor things. They needed a party or something...or maybe ice cream...or gummy bears.

...

Wait! Ghosts couldn't eat, could they?!

Ronnie walked with Adam, still holding his hand to the door. This was it! This was the place. She looked at him with a smile and then to the door. The door creaked as she slowly opened it. She stood there, looking at the room. There were sheets covering a lot of things...perhaps furniture or something...and there were cobwebs all over! Yuck! And the place surely needed dusting. But what was under the sheets? Ronnie was curious, even though she knew it wouldn't be that exciting.

"C'mon!" she said to Adam, beginning to walk into the room when suddenly, it felt as if something wasn't letting her through. Like a...barrier or something... Huh? She tried again, and still couldn't get through. She sighed, trying a third time and frowned as she didn't end up inside. She turned from the door to Adam, her eyes meeting his. She felt her heart begin to race. Jeez, what was with these sudden...feelings for him?! She had nooo idea. Oh. Right. Wh..where were we?

"I guess there's some spell or something to keep us from going inside." she said with a sigh. Well. That hadn't been much fun. "Wanna go check out some other floors for anything else?" she asked. There HAD to be something exciting to explore SOMEWHERE...

This room. Was creepy. As heck.

Adam peered inside. It was all dusty and cluttered...like, his room cluttered. But what was under those sheeeeeets? Adam NEEDED to see it, whether it was boring or not. In a room this old, there HAD to be something cool. But a thought suddenly occured to him: Why was it so like this? Surely other kids would wanna see it.

Oh. That's why. A barrier? Guess whoever owned this room liked their privacy. Testing it himself (to find it indeed didn't want him in there), he frowned at the doorway. What was the pooooint of it being here then? Was it a ghost room...? OH. A GHOST ROOM. That made sense. Invisible facepalm. Of COURSE, living couldn't enter. It was like a mourning place.

Happy that matter was solved, he also turned towards his Adventure Buddie... and blushed again. She had the niiicest eyes. Such a lovely shade of-- WHATINMERLINWASHEDOING. Gah. He probably looked like an idiot, staaaaring at her and blushing. Ahem. Hem. "Yeeeah, we can try somewhere else," he replied, taking one last peek at the room. However boring it was, Adam thought it was kinda cool. Not to mention he had to look away from Ronnie without seeming akward.

Ronnie noticed Adam staring at her. Or, at least she thought he was. Erm. Anyway. "Alrighty. Let's head to the fourth floor then." she said with a nod, surprising herself as she took his hand in hers again. Jeez, what was her problem?! Why did she keep doing this? She was probably scaring the poor guy. She sighed, her cheeks bright red and walked with him down to the fourth floor.

Surya knew it that this is the perfect place for private conversation.s He has clued Am about this place. She may come here as soon as she discovers something about the case.

Am hurried to the spirit romm where Surya was. "I think I've figured it out. The Wolf-Gang is a group of evil wearwolves."

Surya has huried back to Spirit room to meet Am tell her what he heard. "Am, I have heard that Our headmistress is taking care of it. We need not to get involved with this anymore. We may not have an exciting end but we have a happy ending atleast. So I guess this is the last time we are meeting here I guess.."

Floating into the dank and dusty spirit room Sir Nicholas sneezed 'ACHOO!'. Distraught and worried he silently hovered over to a white sheet covered table with only a cup on it filled with wooden potion stirrers.

Staring at it blankly he waited for the others to arrive.

The ghost floated into their room and, eventhough it had a familiar and friendly feel to it, her expression was still of complete horror. She floated aimlessly in and instantly started floating in circles with her hands crossed in front of her....a million thoughts going through her mind, mainly one name pinged around inside of her head...

After tracking down some student help to assist them in their brainstorming, the Friar floated up into the spirit room. Helena and Sir Nicholas were already there, but to that he was not surprised. Especially that the Baron hadn't arrived yet.

"The students should be coming soon," the Friar whispered, looking around the room urgently.

Gideon hadn't been sure what to expect when greeted by the Fat Friar with a message. Sure he had interacted with the Hogwarts ghosts from time to time, but a meeting? To uncover the mysteries of the castle? Or as the note said. However the prefect wasn't about to NOT go where he was requested so when it was near the time of the gathering, he made sure Bastian was with him before walking with raven on his shoulder to the Spirit Room on the 5th floor.

"Good evening, Sir Nicholas...Friar...Helena," he said greeting them out of politeness starting with the more familiar form of his house's ghost.

As Belle was walking to the spirit room, she saw the Fat Friar. The least she could do as a prefect is help him out. He seemed like it was urgent. "Hello Fat Friar, Sir Nicolas and Helena." Belle said to all of the fellow house ghosts.

A rather puzzled look crossed Milton's face when he had first read the message from the Fat Friar. Obviously, the school had mysteries. It was HOGWARTS, for Merlin's sake and if anyone really thought they would be able to solve them, they were absolutely nutters. But... duty calls and Milton had to admit he was rather intrigued. He wanted his dorm back and his comfy bed and all his pillows and blankets and he suspected that this meeting had something to do with that.

With his mean, old owl perched on his shoulder, Milton opened the door to the dark, dusty room and slowly walked inside, nodding at the spirits and students already present. As soon as Jax, Milton's ragged old, owl spotted Gideon's raven, he screeched at it. Jax wasn't one for tolerating other animals. "This oughta be fun," Milton muttered to himself, waiting for others to arrive.

Bring your pet. Well...Kurumi WOULD bring her pet if he hadn't been trapped in the common room all this time. At least Walnut knew where his food was and all that. Easy access to water... but it was still ridiculously frustrating that she had been asked to bring him in the first place. She missed Walnut...and Merlin knew what the cat was up to now. All alone. Peeing.

Ug.

"Evening everyone," she said rather gloomily as she looked at everyone, including some polite bows to the ghosts. "Um...I would have brought my kneazle....but he has been trapped in the common room all this time..." So...if someone had an option for what she could do, now would be a fantastic time to let her know.

Creepy much?

A little worried as to what they'd be doing in this meeting, Nessie made sure to be exactly on time. In her hands she held her dear pygmy puff as tightly as anything. She refused to let Puffles walk on his own, in case he felt like running off or causing any havoc. This meeting seemed to be serious and she didn't want him to interrupt in any manner.

The red head entered the Spirit Room just after Kurumi and looked around at everybody before uttering her greeting. "Evening." she wasn't sure if using the word good would be appropriate for this matter of time. She nodded her head at each of them in the room and then stood silently waiting for the rest to appear.

Sir Nicholas stared at the cup so long that by the time Helena and Friar arrived he saw double. Shaking his head he nooded quietly to them. "Good, good. Did either of you see the Baron on the way here?"

It didn't take long either for the prefect's and captains to arrive with their pets in tow. "Good evening Gideon, Ms Lecium, Mr Schacklebolt, Kurumi and Ms Dixon." Sir Nicholas greeted with little wave's to each of them and big smiles to Gideon and Kurumi.

"Could somebody bring some light to the room?" There were candle holders in here if his memory wasn't failing. And besides he didn't want to spook the students. A dusty and dark meeting room with glowing ghosts was enough to give anyone nightmares.

Gahh!

Renesmee bit her lip as a small shiver ran down her spine. She could barely see the ghost and it frightened her a little when one of them, whom sounded like Nearly Headless Nick, spoke. She knew there was no real reason to be scared....just yet.

Light? Yeah! They needed that.

Unaware of the thought of candles around, the captain did the first thing that came to her mind when the word light was mentioned. She held onto Puffles in her left hand, and with her right took out her wand and quietly whispered. "Lumos!" Her wand tip illuminated a white light and now it was just a little easier to see. "That's the best I can do. Unless... Are there any candles around?" It was only then the alternative idea came to her, most of the school was lit up like that and it seemed to be brighter than this spell.

Dylan, who'd been lying low since returning from visiting his sick father, made his way slowly up to the Fifth floor. Slowly because he wasn't in too much of a hurry to be around too many people...The truth of the matter was that he just had too much on his mind to be bothered with others...

Anti-social. It wasn't a crime.

...And with the added stress of sleeping in the Great Hall with the other houses and having no privacy as of late...Yea, the Slytherin didn't have to much to say to anyone at the moment...

Charlotte, who was currently on the Captain's shoulder, shared in her owner's somber 'tude towards the whole thing. Instead of rubbing her fuzzy legs against his neck as she would have usually done, she was just sitting there. Dylan would've thought something was wrong with her...had he been paying attention.

Entering the room, he glanced around at everyone...not offering a verbal greeting. No. A simple head-nod would suffice...Charlotte was finally moving, crawling her way closer to his neck. Fuzzy legs were finally making themselves known...

It must have been the ghosts...

'Bring your brains and your pets...'

Those words were repeating in Spike's mind as he made his way to the Spirit Room. He felt pretty honoured that the Hogwarts' ghosts wanted to talk to the Prefects, but had no idea quite why there was a specific invite to bring their pets. It was slightly worrying, especially with the disappearances of creatures recently - the gnome in Herbology not coming back, the abraxan that just apparantly walked off... He wasn't sure that they were just coincidences.

Spike trusted the ghosts, however, and so had brought his whole entourage: Matilda was settled safely in his curls, as usual; Killy and Kranky were perched on his shoulder, the small green frogs looking alert, and wondering why their daddy wasn't tucking them in to bed right now; Sophie was being shy, and clinging to the inside pocket of Spike's robes; and Rosie was down in the greenhouses, given that she was really a plant.

"Good evening," Spike said with a smile, and a polite nod to each of the ghosts. "Lady Helena, Friar, Sir Nick." He looked around at the assembled prefects and captains. Good, he wasn't the last - though he soon stepped around the Slytherin Captain, and scooted closer to some of the others in the group to some friendlier faces.

It wasn't long before Gideon was joined in the ghosts' company by some of the rest of his leaders. First a Huffie prefect and Kurumi, then two captains. His fellow prefect reminding him about Walnut's captivity causing a slight frown. The feline better not cause trouble. The owl upon the Ravenclaw captain's shoulder seemed not to like his own familiar and Gideon could feel a slight tightening of a claw on his shoulder. "At ease Bastian. Evening Kurumi."

He nodded at Nick's request and slipped his wand out as Dixon beat him too it. Seeing as there was no harm in some more light, he added his own with a quiet "Lumos..." It was then as his wand tip lit up that he realized that a couple of his fellow leaders were INSIDE the room. Hadn't there been a barrier or sorts here? Gideon could have sworn one of the othere times he had found himself here there had been no way for humans to enter.

Perhaps what had messed up the common rooms had effected it as well.
As for candles well... "I'm not sure if there are. Usually ye not allowed inside," he remarked with a shrug in answer to the Hufflepuff's question as a third captain and another prefect appeared. Gideon was civil and silent towards Dylan not about to make too much of his presence for now. But it did make him wonder where Selina was.

The message from the Friar distracted Louisa all day(s). The last bit about bringing their pets made her a bit nervous. Was it even a literal sentence? 'Please, if you could be so kind, bring your brains and your pets.' It sounded almost like a metaphor... eh, or not. Ghosts were no laughing matter. Viola and Cuddles trailed her all day anyways, they grew sick of the crowded great hall and missed the cat house up in their common room. She had Cuddles in her arms and Viola strolling behind as she made her way up to the spirit room, which by the way was not one of Louisa's favorite room in the castle.

Anyways.. this should be their final adventure in Hogwarts. Yay.

The Ravenclaw poked her head into the room checking that humans were around beside the spirits. Oh there were plenty, good. She walked slowly toward the crowd. "Hey." A nod to her fellow students and then, "Good evening Lady Helena, Friar, Sir Nick." She noticed Nessie and Gideon with their lit wands and then her eyes found Spike and his... collection of pets. The edge of her mouth twitched in a small smile.

Viola, which should've started licking shoes as soon as she detected them, was snuggling by Louisa's feet, apparently spooked. Cuddles meowed once, very faintly, glad that she was safely tucked in her owner's arms.

The Grey Lady instantly stopped her pacing/floating in circles as the first few students arrived...having students around always relaxed her...for a split second a smile spread across her face until she saw how tired the student leaders looked....and she knew it was because of being locked out of their CRs...shame shame...she shook her head slightly left and right.

"Hello lovelies! Thank you all for coming to visit our favorite meeting place..." she said as she glanced around the room and then she felt guilty because for a ghost it was great but for the living it was rather dull and gloomy...candles...yes she thought there were candles somewhere...

She floated towards a drawer and spoke to no one in particular, "Yes, I believe there are some old candles in this drawer and someone could use the Incendio charm to get them burning once they are in their holders..." she said in a rather monotone voice....she hated that she couldn't pick them up and light them herself.

The ghost floated back towards the students and decided that it was time to get this little meeting started, "The Friar..." she paused as she nodded at the ghost, "and the rest of us called you all in here to discuss something very serious...we have found out whom locked the Common Rooms..." she said crossing her arms over herself once again.

Ooooooookay...Kurumi was going to move sliiiiiiiiightly away from Dylan and Spike for the time being and the eight legged friends that accompanied them. She was on edge right now because she was reminded by this meeting that HER pet had been trapped in the common room all this time.

Nor did she really like her mentioning of said kneazle being trapped in the common room still being ignored.

Spike and all his pets made her frown - not because of what they were but just because he had so many. And then Louisa had her two cats. HOW MANY PETS WERE HOGWARTS STUDENTS ALLOWED TO HAVE?! Kurumi just wanted her one kneazle back...

And she was being overly dramatic about this whole pet thing...but at least it was just in her head as her expression and posture remained somewhat neutral and alert.

Finding herself standing next to Nessie now, Kurumi wiggled her fingers at the pygmy puff and sort of frowned before nodding her head at Gideon after his greeting. He was fluffy. Fluffy like Walnut's tail... Er,, right, back to what was going on. Kurumi removed her wand as well and flicked it. "Lumos Maxima."

A ball of light emerged from the end of Kurumi's wand and with another soft flick she sent it floating off into the air around where it remained for the time being. There. Now they all could see better and use their wands to help light candles.

Her attention shifted to the Grey Lady when she spoke, saying that the ghosts knew who had done it. "Who?" Kurumi asked somewhat cautiously. And what did this have to do with their pets? AND SHE WANTED HER PET. "And...does this mean you called us all here to...help you catch whoever it is?"

.....with their pets?

Sierra mumbled under her breath as she made her way out the common room and into the corridors. It was late, and her kneazle, Hissy Fit, hadn't appreciated been awakened from his sleep. The irritable cat had had to be confined to Sierra's arms, and all its hair was raised in anger. It was hissing loudly as she made her way to the spirit room. Why had she had to bring the animal anyway?!

Hissy Fit squirmed and tried to make a run for it at one point, but Sierra endured the scratch it made on her arm and continued the walk to the fifth floor. When she finally made it there, she hurried to the entrance to the spirit room and found the meeting getting underway. They knew who'd locked the common rooms. "Yeah...who?" she asked, looking at Kurumi and echoing the girl's question. Sierra would like to give this person a piece of her mind.

Sierra blinked at Kurumi's second question. Was it true? Were they here to catch the culprit?!