OH MY. WHAT HARSH WORDS BRUCE. Not in front of OUR child.

Zelda patted their child’s Yeti head to comfort her. “Grrr…there there, Kiki…Papa Bruce had a rough day…grrr…” Zelda said as she continued to pat Kiki’s head. MY. What TALL first year he got from the audience! This girl is taller than Ethan. Whut.

Zelda gave Bruce the stink eye at the threat, then turned to her charge. “Grrrr…let me just braid your whiskers, Kiki.” You know...mother and daughter thing? Ethan then started to braid the first year’s (Cassie’s) hair.

…

And what does Bruce mean when he said interview? THERE WILL BE NO INTERVIEWS BECAUSE YETIS DON’T DO THAT! Or…maybe the YETI family will answer their questions IF they hand out some sort of ‘gift’ such as the Peppermint Humbugs they got. Sweet deal, yeah?

BUT NOOOOO. THOSE INTRUDERS ARE RUINING THINGS! Merlin. They are in the middle of something, can’t they see?!

“YOU’RE NOT YETIS! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! YOU LOT ARE NOT WELCOME TO WITNESS OUR MATING DANCE!” It’s pretty much like a wedding, no? If you’re not invited, then don’t show your face to the event. Pssh. Party crashers. And this is an important event for ZELDA. Big deal for Yeti females, intruders!

“GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRR!!! ”

Ian thought about it for a minute. I could sing, but I don't want other people's ears to bleed too much. It might be better if I was a yeti. What do I need to do to be a yeti? I saw a muggle cartoon once where they had an abominable snowman who made lemon flavored snow cones. I might be able to do that. He smiled hopefully not sure what exactly they were looking for.

And the final verse:

Lucy thought that even if it was a Muggle gift could cheer the yeti!

Angel looked at Ian and smiled. "You just need to dance and things." Angel wasn't sure if she should tell him that this was sort of a musical so everyone had to sing and dance, though singing and dancing wasn't really that bad or hard. "I'm sure you have a lovely voice Ian." Angel was sure he had and anyway this was all just for fun. "I can make you into a Yeti if you want."

Adi, who was still hanging on to the parchment with the song, held it out in front of Ian. "Here, Ian. Just follow those. You and I open up with that bit of song and a dance dance. Then the girls follow up with their bit.''

It was all pretty much simple. "Angel, could you help AJ dress Ian up?'' That way they would get this started soon. Truth be told, Adi was getting a little impatient. So not Hufflepuff like. Hehe.

Lucy had finished writing the song. It was a first attempt but she was satisfied.
She regretted not having brought her bagpipes at school..
But at the end of the school she would have played her song !
Then she cleared her voice and she began to sing the text of the song....

Angel smiled, she could so dress Ian up like a Yeti, she decided to make him look like an amazing Yeti with all the stuff she put on him. "Hey AJ, what else should we put on him?" Angel asked as she put his whiskers on, well Yeti's did have them and well Ian wanted to be a Yeti, now she wondered if Ian and Adi could actually pull this off, what with all the weird noises that Yeti's make.

Ian listened to Angel and Adi and then looked at the costume. Maybe my singing will seem in character for a Yeti. He smiled and then tried to wrestle his way into the costume hoping he wouldn't detract from the group. He felt a little odd in the outfit, but it would be ok he told himself

Wait what? What. ...................................what.

Zahra actually lifted up her mask and LOOKED at that Slytherin 3rd year.

O_________o

What.


....

Zahra flipped her mask back down, turned to the HUMANS on Bruce's mountain. "DID ANYONE BRING A TRANQUILIZER POTION? BRUCE WILL TAKE PICTURE WITH YOU IF YOU TRANQUILIZE .....THAT...." Bruce pointed his YETI HAND towards .... the scariest of the three yetis present. The one screaming about mating? "OR A BIG NET? YOU CAN HAVE HER. TAKE HER WITH YOU, STUDY A YETI. BRUCE WILL TELL NO ONE."

Hehe. Dressing up in costumes was fuuuuuuun.

Lux liked the idea Jasmine had of placing white material at different places on her body. It might not cover all of her, but it would at least make her look funny. Comedy could be a good thing, and she was sure that Professor Glendower would enjoy it. Glendower was awesome like Professor Cassie. Would Professor Cassie give them snaps for their performance? Lux sure hoped so!

Holding up a white beard and moustache piece, she thought it might work with the costume. "This thing makes me think of Santa.. Maybe Yetis have Santa beards." Lux wouldn't know, because she had never met a Yeti or Santa before.

Well?









That was an awkward pause right there.

But the two of them must educate the others on how they reproduce…and keep the Yetis from being extinct! SO YES KEEP UP WITH BICKERING, because that's how they do things in the wild, yeah?

More flambouyant beard flipping from Zelda. Now, take down notes studentsies. This is how Yetis roll. “GRRAAAAAAAHHHHHRRRRRRR…”

Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. BEARD FLIP.

That’s also part of the mating dance.




Are they taking notes? Hmm?

And don't you dare capture THIS Yeti. Uh-huh.

BEARD FLIP.

Sophie glanced around the room as the three of them hiked up the pretend mountain. She frowned as she noticed that nearly everybody had had the SAME idea they had! BOO. She thought they were going to be unique and different in using Zahra and Ethan's Yetis as the Yetis they accidentally run into. Meh.

Sophie turned back to Zander and Simon just in time to see that Zander had his hand extended toward her. She smiled as she confidently reached over and took his hand, too. What a perfectly sweet pretend boyfriend he was being! Why was he so nervous anyway? Or, at least, he seemed that way. She though all boys were cool and confident about this kind of thing.

Sophie did a pretend shiver, as well, when she saw Simon shiver. "It was OUR idea," she reminded him. "The geo-caching? Remember?" Speaking of which, Sophie stopped as she heard the beeping noises. They had stopped by some desks, so Sophie bent down and pretended to dig around as if looking for something. "It should be around here...somewhere," she said. She looked around for a quill or...really anything that she could pick up and pretend as if she'd found the treasure.

So much was going on at once and Cassie was just wrapped up in the excitement. She was thrilled to be having this much fun. Watching the two interact Cassie couldn't help but bounce in her seat and snap. Her giggled were uncontrollable as she was sooo entertained.

"Whaaaa grrr no Dada no volcano. Baby Yeti no like being tossed in volcano." She pawed at Bruce. "Baby Yeti hungry, baby yeti want dada to find food."

Her green eyes widened as she heard about mating. "No.. no.. no baby yeti don't need to hear about no Yeti parent mating dance. Baby Yeti hide baby Yeti ears." She covered her ears and acted like she was hiding.

"Whaaa grrr whaa grrr

O_o

"Baby Yeti no want a tranquilizer, Dada Yeti won't hurt baby Yeti" She moved closer to Zelda and fake whimpered. "Mama Yeti help baby Yeti."

Adi was showing Ian the song, good. "So, you just have to sing, and dance like you are in sad." Really that could be anything as long as he didn't look happy. Just follow Adi's lead.

Without waiting for an invitation, AJ walked up to Ian and grabbed her silver marker. She showed him to his seat because he was too tall and she couldn't reach his face. "This will come off." She was almost sure of it. Quickly she mimicked the motions she did for Adi. Replacing the silver marker with the brown she fixed him mouth and eyebrows. He already had his costume so he was good to go. "You good?" It was time to get the show on the road.

"Hit it Adi and Ian." She was excited. There's was going to be the best.

Hazel looked around at the groups being made. Maybe she could join one of them? "Can I be in anyone's group?" she called out. If not, she was sure she could come up with something, but it was so much more fun to do it together.

Adi watched as the girls got Ian ready. Since they both had done this before and they were working together, making Ian a yeti took less time than it did with him. And soon they were ready to entertain the class. Hehe. "Remember to just look sad, Ian. If you can't remember the words to the song, that's fine. I can cover that.''

Annnnd action! He was sure everyone else was watching but Adi needed to not think about that. Or the possibility that there would be laughter at his crazy moves. Hehe.

Adi broke out his sad dance moves, flailing his arms around slowly as he started to sing, hoping that Ian was following his lead.

I'm so lonely,
Yeti lonely,
I have no jetty,
to go on.

I'm so lonely,
Yeti lonely,
I have no Jedi,
for a friend.

I'm so lonely,
Yeti lonely,
The snow is mighty
All week long.

He paused now for AJ and Angel to continue. Your turn, girls!

Marigold looked appraisingly at the younger girl who got into character quickly and seamlessly. This gave her a little more confidence to act in a different/outgoing way. She crouched low to the ground and put her hand on it, as if determining the freshness of the tracks. "In my opinion, it would seem that the yetis were here only recently." She had lowered her voice a bit to sound more professional, then straightened back up. She threw a glance back behind her at… Caleb, was he named?

"Great-Uncle…" She needed a name. What should his name be? She searched around the room for inspiration and her eyes fell upon the Divination teacher. "Cassie. Great-Uncle Cassie, try and hurry up a little. I know you have a peg leg, but you can climb quicker than that."

She wasn't sorry to call him Cassie. Heh. And also, WHaT wAS HappENING WITH ZAHRA'S GROUP!??

Zander almost flinched as Sophie had took hold of his hand without a second of doubt. Almost. But he didn't because he was being a confident pretend boyfriend. Totally. He could definitely deal. Everything was A-Okay here. Nothing to see. Nope. And so, the boy- still holding hands- continued to hike up the steep mountain. He noticed everyone pretending to shiver, and being the great O__O boyfriend he was pretending to be, Zander took off his jacket and put it on to Sophie's shoulders. Because that also meant he could take a break from the hand holding. He didn't want her to feel sweaty palms. That would be very embarrassing.

Then the beeping came. Seeing Sophie duck down under some desks-brilliant idea- he followed right behind her. Reaching his hands out on the floor he began 'searching' for the geocache. "Maybe its--" and that's when the acting came into play. The Gryffindor had stopped mid sentence to turn around and look. "Hey, do you guys... Do you hear that?" Of course he knew it was just Zahra being her obnoxious self with a little bit of yeti added to the mix, Ethan, and Professor Morgan. Buuuuut he was pretending after all, right?

If she weren't in character Lex might have been BEAMING at them for how easily they got right into the act. Good thing too because the Yetis were getting more restless. She nodded to both Marigold and Cinnamon at their comments about the prints before being drawn by Zahra--no Bruce yelling at them.

"You lot hear that? Yetis! Up ahead." Alexa quickened her pace, depending on them to follow after her with their wands out.

When they got close enough to the group Lex held her wand at them. "DON'T MOVE AND WE'LL MAKE THIS QUICK!" Quick, meaning no interviews for you Bruce, ew no, aint NOBODY had time for that. They were on a get rich quick venture and sitting down with yetis wouldn't allow for that. "One of you grab the baby, it's too little to make us much but it's a start, we'll cover you." Wand still aimed at the other two yetis. Nobody move.

"Incarcerous!" With that, Lex tossed the net she'd brought with her in the direction of Ethan and Zahra--would'a used a proper spell but you know how that went.

Simon nodded. It had been their idea to go for a hike during a middle of a blizzard. Merlin, how many wizards did it take to achieve common sense? Obviously more than three. Yet despite this, the three pressed on. As the two of them climbed underneath some desks, Simon kept his eyes on the imaginary device. He pursed his lips and then he too fell to his knees to start digging as well. "It should be...." he said as he pretended to push some imaginary snow around on the ground. Hmm.. Quill, coins, eraser? Simon eyed the desks briefly for any object. He couldn't find anything.

He continued to pretend to dig and then heard Zander ask if they heard anything. Simon hadn't heard anything so he shook his head and kept digging but then he heard the noise again. "Uhh.. I did... What... What do you think THAT was?" he asked, stopping his digging and glancing at the couple with widened blue eyes.

Y'know who was kind of a heartbreaker? Maddie Cooper. The Coop. Sitting there with her big eyes and worrying that he was going to forget about her but trying to pretend like she didn't care. It was... well. Warmed up the cockles of this particular seventh year's heart, that was for sure.

"Fake spiders are epic. If you put some of those in the bottom of someone's bed, they'll never sleep again." Mo finished painting the mountain and began to dry it again, once again using the hot air charm. It was going well, really... the mountain was done, the yetis were done, and they were finishing up the tent and campers right now.

Oh! Fire! Mo retrieved some popsicle sticks, which he broke up and made into a small campfire at the bottom of the mountain. "I won't die, but I couldn't possibly forget about you. You're my little buddy. Who else am I leaving behind to get into Ravenclaw messes on my behalf? People here are too responsible all the time, y'know?" He lit the fire with a bluebell flame and stepped back.

Sophie was still searching under the desk, when she felt something drape across her shoulders. Looking around, she noticed that her pretend boyfriend had taken off his jacket and put it around her to keep her from shivering. Aww, how sweet, pretend boyfriend! Zander should really get himself a girlfriend. He seemed to know exactly what to do. She started to turn back to her search under the desk, when Zander asked if they'd heard anything.

"Hmm, I don't think--.." Oh, wait. There it was. She stood up from the ground and pretended to take a look around the mountain. "What is that?"

That was when she grew wide-eyed and dashed behind her pretend boyfriend. "THAT'S what we're hearing!" she half-whispered. "There's one...two...THREE huge SNOW MONSTERS ahead!" ...and there were people casting on them now. To run or not to run? To help or not to help?

Maddie shivered JUST a little because while pranking her brothers with spiders was fun, she suddenly realized what it'd be like if THEY put spiders at the foot of HER bed and just NO. NOPE. YIKES. "You might just be an evil genuis," The first year said quietly, her tone dripping with admiration. Thank goodness Mo was an ally because otherwise, the little Cooper girl might just have to fear him.

Working some blue pipe cleaners into a tent-like structure, the twelve year old tried not to look at the older Ravenclaw for fear her expression would betray the bit of sadness she was feeling. She didn't want him to think she was weak or anything, y'know? People used weaknesses to their advantage.

After covering the tent with blue tissue paper, she set it a ways away from the fire and glanced up at Mo, a determined look on her face. "I promise I'll never be TOO responsible." Then after checking that Glendower wasn't within ear shot, she added, "And I promise when I do 'cause a bit of trouble, I'll do my best not to get caught." And, y'know, to keep Dima and Kyroh out of trouble TOO.

"I think we're done, big buddy." Best diorama she'd ever seen.

Zander saw Sophie getting up, so he followed the action taking a few steps forward to stand right next to her. He pretend to look around too, but it was Sophie who had spotted the yetis! "--Huh, where--" and then he turned to face the same direction his pretend girlfriend was facing and there they were. Three of them. The boy dropped his mouth and widened his eyes in mock horror. Alright. Think like a muggle. Actually... What would his own family do? Channeling one of his older brothers, the Gryffindor looked back at Simon and Sophie before saying, "Snow monsters? Don't be silly..." Uh. What would a O__O boyfriend call her girlfriend? "... Sweetheart, maybe they're just some other geocachers who go lost," at this he took a few steps forward, approaching the group.

"Maybe we should take a closer look?" As he got closer and closer towards the noisy group, he made sure to look back and see if the two were following him. O_______O And cue the dramatic gasp. "WAIT A MINUTE, THEY REALLY ARE SNOW MONSTERS!!!" Guuuulp. "Guys what do we do!?!" They couldn't run away now, there'd be no possible way to out run the monsters. They were HUGE.

And that's when he pretended to spot the group of wizards who were there to capture the yetis. "THE POLICE THEY'RE HERE, WE'RE SAVED!!!" He looked back at his group all excitedly. And that's when Lex's spell happened. Uh. Oh. They weren't supposed to know about magic. They were muggles! This was the breach, wasn't it?! This was the statute of secrecy being broken right in front of their muggle eyes. Turning back to Simon he opened his eyes widely once again, "Uhhhhhhhh??" Muggle pretend boyfriend, Zander was in complete and utter shock.

Adi did such a good job. She couldn't help but to beam from ear to ear. AJ wanted to shout and holler, and jump up and down, but she was supposed to be in character so she played it cool. Once he was done with his song it was her and Angel's cue. There were a lot of people in the class, but she wasn't stage shy. With a look at Angel she skipped her way to the front of the class.

"Oh no Mr. Yeti. Why so sad?" AJ looped arms with Angel and the smile she already had on her face got bigger. Ahem.

"Why do you have to be a sad Yeti?
Why do you have to cry?...
There no need to be this sad...
We are friends for life.
Oh, Mr. Yeti, don't look so sad. Just because you're big hairy doesn't mean you're scary…
You love the cold and we think that's bold, that height of yours makes it hard for anyone to beat you in a fight, though fire can turn any situation dire

Why don't you put on a smile?
Why don't you listen to what I say?
There's no need to be down and gloomy
We are friends for life."

When the song was over, she skipped over to Adi and looped her arm with his. SEEEE, yetis were bad m'kay. How'd they do?