...and on to the fourth floor.

Sierra was keeping up with her plan of moving from floor to floor. She had three copies of the poster left, one of which would be used now. Finding a random spot to hang her poster, Sierra dropped her bag to her feet then retrieved her wand.

She pressed a poster tightly against the wall then used her wand to cast a Sticking Charm. Backing off, she looked at it, making sure it was going to stay. It peeled just a little, but she reached up, pushed it back to the wall, then looked at it again. Yup, all was good.

NEXT!

Hop. Hophop. Hophophophophophop waddle. Waddle waddle.

It probably had been a mistake to experiment with his muggle joke items before returning to his office, but the Astronomy professor had been a bit over eager to try out this particular one. He hadn't been too impressed at first, having stuck a finger in one end and nothing happened, so he had removed his shoes and socks and placed one on his big toe. When nothing happened again, he then decided to see if anything excited would happen were he to stick his other big toe in the other and along with the index finger on his free hand.

Well...something did happen. And that was precisely why the man was now hopping around the corridors looking ridiculous but still handsome in his suit
.

He bent down for a moment to try and pull his fingers out of the muggle object, placing his right foot over it and pulling upwards, but all that ended up happening was it getting tighter and...

"OOOOOOOOOOF!!"

Professor down!

Since he had a badge and nothing else to do homework could come later, Daichi decided to walk around the castle as if he was patrolling. He wasn't at the moment but it was fun pushing his chest out and holding his chin up high as he marched with big steps through the corridors.

As he turned a corner, the Slytherin noticed the back of the Astronomy Professor and he was about to say hi when he saw that he was busy with something. Some kind of thing was wrapped around his finger and toe and he seemed to be trying to get it off.

Still standing at the corner, Daichi tiptoed to the wall as he hid behind it first. Looking around the corner wall with his head, the Prefect tried to keep in his laughter at he sight of the Professor now hopping around in the corridor but when the man fell down Daichi couldn't help himself anymore.

"BWAHAHAHA!" He let out an abrupt loud high pitched laugh that anyone could identify coming from him. His laugh was weird.... "What on earth are you doing , Professor?" he asked as he decided to step out of his hiding place and walked towards the fallen guy.

So the last class wasn't the last class of the day for her but she wouldn't complain too much . Nah. She had a good amount of time before she had to go running off to her next lesson. This meant she and Felix could take a nice walk. It was the least she could since she hadn't exactly been taking him out for his walks as often as he'd like; not that the kneazle walked very much when she did.

"Hey Felix, I think we can hit the grounds for a bit, maybe the whomping willow." He didn't like it very much there but she did and at the moment she was the only one using her legs so he'd have to get over it.

Heading down the corridor she heard something like a thud then the VERY loud laughter of someone. Merlin, then they said she was loud.

Still.

Laughing meant something funny happened...usually had something to do with fun at someone else's expense too. Turning the corner she walked into the corridor that held Professor Airey on the floor and Daichi--

Blink. Blink.

She tilted her head and gave him a curious look. "Professor. What are you doing down there?"

Had the floor been cleaned recently? He sure hoped so because his suit was now all over the stone corridor while he essentially rolled around trying to get his bearings.

...........was that laughter? ...................

Rolling on to his side, he saw Mr. Katharos to be the culprit of said laughter. Minus 5 points for laughing at a professor instead of helping? Nah, he probably would have laughed too as a student and taking points would really just be an example of calling the cauldron black.

Flopping and rolling around a bit more to bring himself to a sitting position, he was just about to answer the Slytherin prefect when one of his favorite little lions Miss Cambridge showed up as well. Two fwoopers with one stone it seemed.

"I was just doing some experimentation with these muggle devices," he said in as nonchalant a tone as he could manage. Obviously his experimentation was turning out to be a failure considering that his two fingers and big toes were stuck.

It seemed that either his laughter had attracted a person, heh or Flamsteed's fall had. Either way, Daichi first turned his head around to see Alexa, the kid who scared him a few times when they met (which she luckily didn't do now) and shrugged his shoulders.

His gaze went back to the professor still on the ground and had to resist another chuckle. Seriously, anyone who saw this should have a hard time not laughing. Admit it Alexa, you are laughing silently too! "I don't think that muggle device is supposed to do that , right?" he asked slowly as he pointed to the...well...weirdness going on.

"Or does it? cause if it is then Muggles have very funny sense of humor" he grinned. "Where'd you buy that Professor? it looks like the PERFECT gift for my brothers birthday" he wasn't even kidding! What? just because he was fairly innocent didn't mean he couldn't have fun once in a while. "I'm guessing you can't get loose now, right Professor? should we" meaning him and Alexa "help you or something?"

She continued staring at him curiously as he explained the whole muggle thing. So far she was agreeing with Daichi, it probably wasn't meant to do that at all. Why would any muggle want to be on the ground? "What he said Professor, maybe you're using it wrong...?"

Oh and the older boy was offering their help.

Well...

She did want to help him...of course she did, but not before she had a moment to enjoy it. How often did you see a Professor on the floor bested by a muggle instrument? Exactly. Leave him be Daichi--unless he let them play with it too!!! Could they?? Just then Felix hopped from her hand and moved over to sniff the fallen man.

See that? Even the kneazle found this strange.

"Yeah, we'll help but do you have anymore we could play with?"

Well OBVIOUSLY he was doing something wrong with his usage of the device - hence why he was on the floor like he was right now - but he decided to keep his immature thoughts to himself for now.

Yeah yeah kids, laugh it up. Not like THEY knew how to use this muggle item either. Just what was their Muggle Studies professor teaching them anyway?

"Well, Miss Cambridge, if you know how to better use this my all means enlighten us all," he said with a somewhat forced grin while performing another manly roll to the side to try and wiggle his toes and fingers free but to no avail.

Airey couldn't help but chuckle softly at the two. Leave it to the youth to ask for a free handout goodie bag. Priorities. They needed to have them sorted. Even IF this was a rather fascinating little device. "Yes yes there are plenty of these things left. Bought an entire box at a muggle hobby shop this weekend while I was in London."

Now, some help?

Or did he have to do some manly eyelash batting to get any?

Making her way up to the fourth floor, having finally brought up the nerve found some free time, there was a possibility of heading to the library, but only if she didn't back track before she got there first. Although, just the slightest hint of distraction would have accomplished that in a split second, and lo and behold, there was quite a distraction waiting in the fourth floor corridor.

"Letting students get the better of you, Airey?"

What in Merlin's beard was on his hands and feet anyway?

Flop. Roll. Twitch. Roll. Tug.

These blasted things should come with instructions. Or maybe they did and he just tossed them out. Who read instruction manuals anyway?

People that didn't want to get caught in an awkward position most likely. It was one thing for students to catch him like this - they probably already thought he was a bit off his rocker based on what all went on in his lessons - but now Medea? Could he just go curl up in a black hole somewhere now?

"No," he said with a boyish pout. "I was just experimenting with some muggle devices. Mr. Katharos and Miss Cambridge were just joining me." Yes, excellent wording, Mr. Astronomer. Yes. "Care to join me us?"

And since he had no hands to really gesture towards the small trail of Chinese finger traps that had fallen out of his breast pocket during his fall, he just wiggled his head in their general direction.

"Red would look very striking on you."

Daichi giggled yes manly men giggle too! when the cat from Alexa jumped out of her hands and began to sniff the Professor who was still struggling on the floor. cute cat...or kneazle..whats its name?" he asked the gryffindor as he looked at her but then had to turn around in curiousity when he heard footsteps.

As he turned, the Prefect saw their DADA professor. For a second, he looked back at Alexa with a slightly worried expression. Romanos wasn't going to think that THEY were responsible for Flamsteeds....restrain. Nuhuh! HEWASINNOCENT!

And then he listened to the two grown ups and crossed his arms over each other. Wait, joining? What?! "I'm not going to lie on the ground like you, sir." lying on the ground was so not what a Slytherin would do.

"Okay, though i'd love to have one of those things, i don't want to end up like you...no offence professor!" soooo...they first needed to free him right? But how? He looked at Romanos and Alexa for help. "I'm NOT touching his feet!"

She gave the Professor a curious look. How in Merlin's beard would she know how to use that thing? She hardly knew what it was! But ignoring that for a bit--she got to play with onnnne!!!

Lex beamed over at the older boy when he said she had a cute kneazle. Felix was adorable, yup, totally was. "His name's Felix, super friendly too if you wanna pet him."...Well actually...he was semi-friendly. It depended on his mood but he seemed fine at the moment so he had nothing to worry about...in theory.

She followed his gaze when she heard footsteps. Ooo, lookit, another Professor. "Oh yeah, what he said! We were gonna play with those things too and you can if you want to." Nod nod nod. Two Professor on the ground would have been priceless. She was about to say something when Daichi objected to the ground. "Well why not? It looks kinda neat..."

And now they would have to find a way to help him. It would help if they knew how those things worked. Lex drew her wand from its holster. "Will magic get it off?"

Waful was very pleased to have been chosen to deliver this package. It was nice to get out and fly and be awesome. Basically just be himself.

The journey to Hogwarts was effortless for him, and finding the girl person this letter and package was addressed too was also equally as easy. He swooped in through an open window and landed carefully and easily in front of her, releasing his grip on the package in his talons and setting the letter in his beak on top of it.

"Hoo." There, girl person. There were your things. You're welcome.

He then took flight once again and flew back out the window.

Oh! Dear Merlin, what an adorable little kneazle. Goodness, she almost missed the little guy, perhaps due to the fact that Airey wasn't having a panic attack...yet. Or maybe he'd gotten over his fear of them? Nevertheless, she awe'd at it before her attention was drawn to the muggle devices strewn over the floor.

How nice of the students to be so ready to aid Airey. "Oh I'm sure it vould." she nodded to Alexa, bending down to pick up one of the red muggle devices and examining it. "Though I'm also certain your astronomy professor can get himself out of this...situation." What a weird little device. And it supposedly trapped you? From what she able to gather that is. How... tempting. It was so very tempting.

Alas, the arrival of the owl and package for young Cambridge took her attention.

Lying on the... Airey Flamsteed was NOT lying on the ground. Okay, so he WAS doing that. But that didn't mean that was his intention. The last time he had intended on lying down on the ground in public had been for Medea's first lesson of the term.

Something he thought he just might have to do once more the next term. Heh.

"There is nothing wrong with my feet, Mr. Katharos," he grumbled while tugging some more at the device that was trapping his two big toes. Minus ten points for insulting a professor's pedicure!

Only the astronomer found himself distracted from this idea because there was a MONSTER there. A MONSTER!

Man!squealing, he attempted to both stand back up on his feet and run away at the same time - which made him look like a chicken with its head cut off - and ended up stumbling around even worse and falling AGAIN on his face and practically on top of the other professor's shoes. "Don'tletitkillme!"

And cue some more rolling.

Oh! Miss Cambridge had a package?

That meant she was going to have to put the feline thing down to open it...didn't it?

Seeeee? Even Professor Romanos thought Felix was adorable! The kneazle had some serious charm going for him yo! That just made her even more confused when the Professor began flailing about.

Uh huh...

Perfectly normal reaction there. "You think he can?" She asked the Professor curiously as she walked over to the kneazle that had followed the Professor even as he fell a second time. "I mean, he seems legit scared, wouldn't he have freed himself and run by now?" Afraid of a kneazle, pffffft. She picked him up, saving the Professor in the process then gave him an even more curious look. The look was interrupted when an owl suddenly swooped in.

After it flew off she grabbed the package with her free hand...oh but the letter. Yeah...back on the ground Felix. She put him down then snatched that up as well.

By the time she was done reading there was a HUGE grin spread across her face. Lex stuffed the letter in her pocket then tore open the package. Moderate amounts? Suuuure and maybe horklumps would fly. These would be gone by supper. After pocketing the candy too she picked up the kneazle that had gone back to sniffing the terrified Professor. "How did you even get like that Professor?"

Felix? that was such a typical name for a cat wasn't it? He smiled at the young Gryffindor and crouched down to pet the cute kneazle but had to take his hand away when Professor Airey started to freak out.

He stood back up sloooowly, with an raised eyebrow as he started at the Astronomy Professor to the DADA professor to the Gryffindor and then to Felix before back to Flamsteed. Was he SCARED of the cute little cat?! Merlin, even HE did not look like that around fire he was worse "I think he's scared of Felix" he chuckled at Alexa before he felt horrible. No one ever chuckled out loud when he had to deal with fire....

*blink blink* "I never said there was something wrong with your feet, Professor" which was true, had only said he wasn't touching them. He then turned his attention to Romanos. "Do you know a spell that can take off those muggle things, professor?" he asked.

oooh! an owl~ Daichi eyed the package landing in the girl's hands. Not so subtly he stepped a little closer to check what she got.

No , he had never heard about privacy.

Oh dear...

It was reflex that she hopped a tiny step backwards, startled when Airey fell once more. Even more so when she leaned down to help him up, torn between the amusement from his absurd fear and genuine concern. She somehow found balance between the too. Somehow. "Airey..." Good gracious, something had to be done about this cat problem of his.

Apart from the panic attack, Alexa had a very good question. Oh...and Daichi as well. Right, that was important too. "I'm not sure." she said in all honesty, lifting up the one she had, which somehow had found itself on her right index finger. It looked like simple material to her. How was this able to trap a person? She glanced down to the Astronomy professor.

"How far apart are your fingers?"

IGNORING Miss Cambridge's comment about if he really was scared - although 15 awesome mental points to you Mr. Katharos for catching the snitch - because there was no IF about it. It wasn't his fault that he had been bested by the most tricksy of muggle devices.

Or something like that.

"I was experimenting, Miss Cambridge," he reminded her with a schoolboy pout. "The label said finger trap....so I was curious to see if the same thing would happen on fingers as it did toes. As you can see, my hypothesis was correct." Once again, there was always a method to his madness.

Spells? That was a good question, but.... "I would prefer if there was no experimenting done on my muggle toy," he grumbled, glancing over at Medea. Wasn't she just the eager beaver? "They are pretty close together....maybe a 1 centimeter between the two of them." Pause. "Why?"

Healer Tillstorm was coming from the library heading back to her office when she caught sight of an owl flying down the corridor and out the window. Looking around to see who it might have been for she noticed quite the commotion going on not too far from her.

Alexa Cambridge!

She should have known that child would be involved. Just as she approached the crowd she seen Alexa put candy in her pocket. "I'll take that," she said as she summoned the candy out of the girl's pocket. "I think your father will be interested in hearing how you have outsiders sending you candy." Cece could only imagine how much of the stuff the child had smuggled in that she didn't know about. This time instead of sending the candy off to nowhere land, she put it in her own pocket.

Looking from the girl to the professor on the floor, to Medea standing there, back to the professor on the floor Cece crossed her arms and shook her head. "Miss Cambridge, what have you done now?" Yes, she was blaming the child without asking questions first. "Really Professor Flamsteed, how could you let a child do this to you?" And why was Medea just standing there doing nothing?

Lex snort!giggled at the older snake's statement. The Professor was a little more than a afraid if you asked her. Not that she could see why. Felix was a darling once you didn't fall on his list of prey and quite frankly the Professor was too BIG to become kneazle food in the first place. How very ridiculous, but she wouldn't make fun of him for that....only because he was a cool Professor. She made no promises about the fact that he was on the ground because of a muggle toy though. Heh.

She nodded slowly at the him as he re-explained his reason. Experimenting, right; sounded familiar. OH and Professor Romanos might have let them cast spells on the Professor!!!!

Sweeeeet.

"Don't worry Professor, I think we'll mostly be aiming at you, not your toys. They should be safe in all this." Funny how the man was more concerned about his toys then about a 12 year old casting a spell at him. So funny he was--

Lex felt all the blood leave her face at the voice that suddenly entered the corridor. With wide eyes she turn in time to see the Healer STEAL her candy.

JBKFBDLFGDLFBLGVBJBV;GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOO!!!

Like seriously?!?!?! And she wanted to tell her father TOO!! kfhglfbgkflgh!!!!! >___<

She was doing so well all term! Why NOW???? This was like an extra special stash!!! Louisa actually sent it for her like she said she would and it wasn't easy convincing her in the first place!! She WANTED HER candy back!!! AND GASP THE BLOODY WOMAN POCKETED HER CANDY!!!!! What kind of jbvflfgvbffbjl UGH!!!! NO! NO NO NO NO NO!!!

Waaaait! She was gonna blame her for the Professor thing too! UH-UH, NO WAY!

"I didn't do anything! He was playing with those things and fell over, AndIWantMyCandyBack!!!" LIKE NOW WOULD BE NICE! jfvkkufdgf!! And why were Professors Romanos and Airey just standing there...or er...lying there in Professor's Airey's case...while the woman STOLE a precious commodity that she'd been sneaking for the whole term been denied and hadn't had for the whole term???????

Doooooo something >______<

It seemed that no one was willing to help get the kneazle away so the Slytherin crouched down and tried to lure the cat towards him, away from the professor. He had no idea if it would work though...

Anyways, So Flamsteed was TRAPPED and the only way for them to free him was by using Diffindo to cut the muggle toy and he refused? "It's just a toy Sir... you have more right?" he said as he raised an eyebrow. So basically the toy was more important than his own hands and feet....

Why are all the cool professor's weird?

He grinned however at Alexa's words. "I guess we could use the spell on him if he doesn't want to hurt the toys" he shrugged and took his wand out of his wrist holster. He twirtled his wand and dropped in on the floor.

"oops" The man should be wise and allow at least professor Romanos to cut the toy...

And then another distraction came in the form of the Healer. Daichi had never met her before simply because he never had a reason. His last visit to the hospital had been in his second year after he had almost drowned in the lake...but that wasn't important.. what was was that the woman seemed to grab something out of the Gryffindor girl's hand and he wondered what it had been.

Woah...wait...what? Had the Healer just accused the girl without any proof? THAT was just a big no no. "Ehm, i'm sorry Healer...Healer...." WHATSHERNAAAAME!? think Daichi think! what had Oakey told you? "Tillstorm, it's true,Alexa and i found Professor Flamsteed on the ground. We are just figuring out how to ...free him"

Or rather cut him if he didn't agree to the term of having the toy snapped instead of his fingers...and toes... "Maybe Professor Cerulean knows what to do?" She did teach muggle studies sooo...

Despite his grumbles about not wanting this 'toy' to be experimented on, Medea already had a choice of spell in mind, and he was apparently not going to like it. It was easy and simple after all though.

Oh! Healer Tillstorm. Oh...goodness. Well, she herself certainly did have the same assumption that the healer had when she first came upon the scene, though had refrained from pointing fingers before questioning. As for the candy snatching... "Indoor voice, Miss Cambridge." Poking and prodding at the trap on Airey's fingers, to see where that open centimeter was between them, Medea glanced up to the Healer momentarily. "They're quite right though." Innocent students! Or so she was told.

Wand slipping into her hand, she turned her attention back to the Airey's finger trap. There was no need to disturb Professor Cerulean, in her opinion. At least not over something that could easily just be...

SNIP!

Airey shot Miss Cambridge a NOT reassuring look. He had heard about Mr. Katharos and his spellwork - the tendency for things to explode that is - and he wasn't too sure about her spell abilities. He DID, however, know that she tended to get easily distracted.

So, no please. No experimenting by students on the professor, please.

And then Cece showed up and too Miss Cambridge's candy. "Got any Bertie Bott's in there?" he asked jokingly with a smirk before his face dropped. "I did not let a student do this to me!" he grumbled defensively. "I did it to myself." Grin.

And then Medea stepped in and -----

SDFJDSLKJFSDLSDFSDJL

Okay, so his toy was now snipped in half by a well placed spell from Medea and it made the astronomy man!wibble for a moment. SHE HAD BROKE HIS TOY! This was WAY worse than sticking him to his door. He needed to....oh, now there was an idea.

Piercing blue eyes growing even wider and jaw hanging open like a codfish, Airey let out a loud man!shriek and gripped his right index finger with the entirety of his left hand. "MY FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGER!"