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Well. She hasn't felt her anxiety kick up like this for while. Now she had to find a partner and present something to the class. Beverly sat there, writing down notes and dreading having to get up and do as directed. She didn't mind the assignment. In fact, it was pretty creative, but...presenting it to the class, in front of an audience, it made her really nervous.

For house points, she thought, and that was somewhat what got her moving. For house points. She'd do that for house points.

Taking a deep breath she approached the Hufflepuff who appeared to be looking for a ground.

"Hi. Want to work together?" she asked. Please say yes so they could get this over with.

"I'm 100% an evil genius," Mo helped move the mountain around so Maddie could place the campers and tent and yetis on their diorama, and then he stepped back with her. That was actually really good work. Very impressive.

"Proud of you, little buddy. You're a great partner. Are you ready to go up and make our presentation?" He carefully lifted the diorama and carried it to the front of the classroom. He'd just hold it and let Maddie talk, right?

Or maybe he'd talk a little. "So this is our diorama of a genuine yeti cave, complete with baby yetis. The mama yeti is mad protective of those babies, and these campers are WAY too close."

Simon followed Sophie's eyes to find three giant snow monsters in front of them? "SWEET MERLIN!" he cried as his blue eyes widened half in fear and half in awe. Those creatures. And they were being attacked.

"They're not the police. They're..." he said, struggling to fight the word wizard off the top of his lips as he assumed that Zander was just a muggle. He couldn't breach the law and inform his mate about wizards. But then again, his mate had just seen people casting so would it be harmful of him to do such a thing? "Crazy people. Hunters? Maybe their using the latest technology to stun creatures so that they could... you know... capture them." He paused and then an idea popped into his head. "We should call the police. Help those poor creatures."

And then Simon remembered that they were on the mountain. "Buuuuut we don't have cell phone service up this high on the mountain so maybe we could pretend to be the police and scare them away?" he said as he eyed the crazy monsters and those weird people casting spells.

Well, duh. It wasn't as if Dima was expecting him to have a tiny piano in his pocket.

... no, he totally had been.

Different scenarios? He didn't really understand what the older boy was talking about, but he was sure that it would be easier to comprehend later on. "I guess that sounds good if we can explain them a little in the process." Pause. "Can you write a verse? So I can see how it's done and stuff?"

And they were gonna make this whole thing RHYME, right? Didn't all songs rhyme? Or were some like those weird poems that didn't have any sort of structure to 'em? Dima thought those were so WEIRD. Rhymes were much cooler. He could rhyme like a pro, okay? Dibs on that job.

What... rhymed with yeti? Betty? Betty the yeti?

"I'll keep that in mind when I'm a world ruler." That was a promise mmkay, Branxton? Maddie smiled a little at him and then at their work. Hopefully everyone else was as great at recognizing masterpieces as they were.

Proud. That was a word the first year didn't hear very often and her cheeks MIGHT have turned pink but if anyone asked, she'd just say it was a trick of the light. Maddison Cooper did NOT blush. "You're great too, Mo. Ready when you are." And he was ready, apparently. She'd let him start them off.

"The campers are ALSO careless because they're falling ASLEEP without putting our their FIRE." The twelve year old's eyes were big as she motioned towards the flames Mo had created. "CLEARLY they never heard of that Smokey the Bear character because they do NOT seem concerned about forest fires or the creatures living nearby." OUTRAGEOUS, right? Was everyone's blood boiling yet?

Maddie glanced over at Mo and gave him a small smile. He was the yeti fan so he could finish them off? She'd just stand there and look CUTE and incredibly SMART.

Sophie wanted to run. Ohhh, yeah, she wanted to run. However, her senses came to her, and she realized that two things might happen if she ran. One, the Snow Monster might notice such quick movement and come after her. Or two, there might be more Snow Monsters out there, and she could run right into all of them!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

"Geocachers who got lost?" she asked. ...and did he just call her Sweetheart? hee hee She looked at the fur-covered THING yelling at the people around it and shook her head. "No, the people attacking it with sticks (wands) are probably geocachers. That fur-covered THING is a SNOW MONSTER!" Then her pretend boyfriend realized what she was talking about and began the whole freaking out process.

"What if there are others? We can't just run!" she exclaimed.

Then Simon had some brilliant idea to play police. Sophie didn't think the Snow Monster would be afraid of going to jail, though. "Maybe we should run out there with STICKS like those other people!"

Caleb had gotten so distracted by Zahra's group - what was going ON over there? - that he didn't even notice his group until Marigold started talking to him. Great Uncle Cassie with a peg leg? Whaaa?

Well, it wasn't his first choice for character, but...he could roll with this.

Bending over like his back hurt and limping like he had a peg leg, Caleb started waving his hands in the air. "MERLIN'S BEARD! MY ARTHRITIS! I CAN'T GRAB THE BABY, SOMEONE GET HIM!" he cried. He started hobbling around towards Morgan, since she was the baby and all, moving his arms like he was trying to grab at the baby yeti despite being unable to move all that well.

At least he was getting kind of warm from this running around...

AJ and Angel did their thing. They were pretty good and so were their voices. He had to fight to keep a sad face. Not that he wanted to laugh at them or anything but because they were making the presentation fun.

But at the last verse, he had to smile. The song suggested that he smile, yes? See? The humans wanted to be friends with the yeti. They knew yetis weren't so bad. The 'yeti' hugged the human girl. He had made a friend!

The Gryffindor looked back at his pretend O__O girlfriend. "Those stick guys?" Geocachers? That was... That was... That was probably right and totally brilliant. He gave his pretend O__O girlfriend a huge nod, but still wore the look of terror in his eyes. Because SNOWMONSTERS! "You're right... Running would only make things worse!" What would they do!?! There wasn't any point in just staying put! That'd be awful!!

Then, Simon had an idea, or so it seemed... Save those poor creatures!? What about save the POOR GEOCACHERS!? "Uh, Simon, that SNOWMONSTER looks pretty violent! I think we have to help those poor people, the ones with the STICKS!" Which first of all... Why were they carrying sticks that was wierd?? Heh. It was weird not playing a wizard. Ahem anyways right back in character. "Yeah! That's brilliant!! Let's find some sticks!!" Alright. Where would they find sticks.

AHA! The third year took his pack off his shoulders and dug into it looking for something very particular. After a couple seconds of searching, he pulled out three pencils. Good thing he left them there after the muggle studies lesson. Hadley was right, these did come in handy. Throwing them onto the floor, Zander looked around at his friend and pretend O__O girlfriend "Look there are some sticks we can use!"

Awwwwww. Isn’t Kiki the CUTEST??!

Zelda comforted the little Yeti, patting her head reassuringly. “Nonono sweetiepoo.” Zelda then got a lock of hair from her baby yeti and tried to braid it. “GrrrrrrrrAAAAAAAhhhhhrrrr. Time out on the mating dance!!!GRRRRROOARH” Mother duties, you see studentsies??! Yes.

Zelda was braiding Kiki’s hair when she whipped her FABULOUS Yeti head towards the first invaders getting physical.

Sort of.

Zelda stopped what she was doing and CHARGED at the one who casted the spell first. Zelda escaped the ropes…and perhaps it got Bruce instead? No time to look at him now. HE was busy being RUDE, so NO saving from Mama Yeti.

“GrrrrrrraaaaaahhhhhhrrrrrrrDINNERRRRRRRRRaaaaarrr rahhhRRRRRR!!!”

Zelda knocked Lex’s wand hand with her mighty Yeti arm, then embraced her with a tight Yeti hug…dragging her away from the rest of the hunters. "GRRRRRRRR!!! RUN AWAY FROM INTRUDERS KIKI! GRRRRRROOOAAAAAAARRRRHHHH!!!" Or...maybe attack the man who was limping?



Watchoo gonna do now? Hmmm?

“GRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Dinner! YUMYUM!”

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

Yetis are always hungry, don't they know? Food's scarce up in the cold mountain, yeah?

"Have to help them? But those people with w-.. sticks are just crazy!" said Simon with widened eyes as he watched the situation. Seriously, did they want to get involved with those lot and end up getting baked up nicely like the giants almost did to the dwarves in the Hobbit.

STICKS?

SWEET MOTHER OF MERLIN!

Simon blinked at his mates for a brief second before facepalming. Great. This is WHAT he got for hiking with his two muggle best friends. Magic was awesome and all but hiding it from friends was horrible. It was a big secret that the boy had to keep inside of him for he feared that if he showed them it, they wouldn't like him anymore. He didn't want to lose either one of them. "You both may run out with sticks but if they eat you for dinner, its not my fault," he said abruptly holding his hands up. "Look if we run out with sticks like those people then we're just going to annoy those beasts more. And we'll all end up on the menu."

Jasmine watched as Lux attached the fur swatches to her clothes. Oh and she found some white facial hair. That really topped off the look. "I think you look very Yeti-like." At least she vaguely looked like what Jasmine thought a Yeti looked like.

Jasmine dug through the box, looking for something a Yeti body parts for potion stealer would wear. She could probably just wear her multiple layers of clothes with her coat on top. Jasmine did pull a hat out of the box and put it on her head. "Do I look like a Yeti hunter?", Jasmine asked Lux. She didn't know if she should keep it simple or look for more stuff.

So Lux, how do you want to play this? Anything special you think we should say or do? I can be searching through the woods looking for a Yeti. I can talk to myself about how I need Yeti parts to sell for use in potions and then....... any ideas."

It wasn't a forest, really, and Mo didn't know that they had named their yeti Smokey, but he nodded along happily as Maddie talked. Everything she was saying was absolutely true, and those careless campers were to blame for so much that was wrong in the world. Like making yetis grumpy, and apparently forest fires.

"Right, right. So the yeti, being perfectly legitimate in its disgruntlement, now fears the terrible flame of the careless camper. When she sees the plushy goretex jackets and colorful tents of the camper, it reminds her of the frightening fire, and she reacts out of fear. Which is perfectly normal and I think you all would react that way too. So in conclusion, yeti aggression is a product of human carelessness and if we'd just leave them alone, they'd probably be much happier and go back to eating mountain goats." The end.

Maddie nodded along solemnly as Mo laid the guilt on thick. That's right, people, campers for shame. If their classmates didn't oppose bothering yetis NOW, Maddie didn't think they could be saved from being yeti lunch. JUST saying.

"Yeah, guys. Goats not Camper guts. THINK about it."

When their speech was wrapped up, the small brunette grinned at Mo and gave him a gentle hip bump only her hip didn't quite meet his so it was more like a minor assault on his leg. It was a gentle bump though and one that meant GOOD JOB.

"We nailed that. Best presentation ever."

OHMYGOSH the mommy Yeti was now comforting baby, so Cassie made baby Yeti noises, whatever those were. She whimpered and nudged her hands to her face more like a puppy most likely than a yeti. When she saw other students coming around. "Whaaa grrr whaa grrr stay away from Kiki, Kiki no go." Baby Yeti wasn't going anywhere. Mommy Yeti was braiding her hair.

The blonde was really trying to not crack up too much and stay in character, but she was really struggling and when the net came she let out a very high pitch squeal and giggle. Jumping from her seat. "No, not Kiki's mamma and Dada." She turned like a brave baby Yeti, "Grrrrrr" and lashed her claws at them.

When Mommy Yeti seemed to want her to run Kiki moved around the desks in a bit of a bouncy jog moving her claws around. "Grrr.. No go, stay with Mama and Dada." Baby wasn't leaving her parent Yeti's.

Arthritis at a time like this???? "This is no time to be physically disadvantaged!!!!!!! We got huge ugly yeti that will make us a fortune!!!" Forget the aching bones for like a minute!!

That was all she got out though before her wand hand was being knocked away from it's ready position and ....and......."SOMEONE GET THIS YETI OFF ME!!" She demanded, wriggling against the strong grip of the large beast--nevermind the fact Ethan was shorter, this was where imagination came in. Yup.

Because of the vicious Yeti screaming about dinner--which she didn't understand because humans weren't meant to be able to decipher, she tried even harder to break free.

"Don't let any of these get away! Try knocking this one out, don't worry about me. We can still make millions!"

And someone gagged the baby. A hostage for a hostage, yeah? Still no notice of the muggle onlookers. Too busy battling for dear life in the most unfortunate of circumstances. Lex never thought her life would end like this. She hadn't made her millions as yet!! Have a heart you great beast!!

Putting the fake beard on, Lux was happy to hear that she looked very much like a Yeti. "GRRRRR," she said as she raised her arms up and held her fingers out as if they were claws. Hehe. Rummaging some more, she found some fake Vampire fangs. Shrugging, she cleaned them with Scourgify and then put them in her mouth. "GRRRRRRRR."

Now Jasmine was piecing together her outfit, and it got a big thumbs up because it was awesome. She looked exactly like an evil Yeti-part stealer. "You look awesome, but I think you would look more evil wearing an eye patch." Digging through, she pulled one out. "Pirates wear eye patches." Nod.

The idea of Jasmine talking about what she was planning to do during the skit was good, because it would help the audience understand what was going on. "I could be looking after my babies when you do that and then maybe you try to take one of my babies or something and I can get all angry and stomp around and GRRRRR at you?" Yes?

A COOL Yeti? Yeah! He would be! Would that be because Yeti's like snow or........huh? Kyroh just NODDED in agreement cause, YEAH Grayson!

"Did the award say participation? I don't think it counts if it just said participation." Y'know not like FIRST, SECOND or THIRD. Participation for acting? That wasn't good, the Slytherin had to know that. "Yeah?" Kyroh blinked. "Am I not suppose to think you're cool?" Well if Grayson ONLY got a participation award or acting then MAYBE he'd rethink the whole cool thing.

CHEERING! FANS! Kyroh bowed, kind of surprised that he'd actually get cheered on? Kyroh listened as Grayson began to spew his idea and the boy could hardly contain himself from bouncing on the desk. "That's the best idea ever." Muggles just did NOT understand Yeti Wrock. Gosh.

He watched slightly impressed as the box came out of nowhere and landed in Graysons hands. He had to learn how to do that spell sometime too! "I don't even think we have to make the wand look fancy, 'cause i'm a Yeti and I don't like fancy!" BAH HUMBUG! As for his beard? Kyroh took out his wand and reached for a few cotton balls. He looked down at Grayson for a bit, eyes shinning because he wanted to show him that guess what, he DID remember. "Adhaero!" Kyroh mumbled, tracing a handful of the cotton balls and then pushing them right on the lower half of his face.

See Whitty? See? He remembered? None of the cotton balls even fell off! When the important beard stuff was done, Kyroh began to run his hands through his hair, causing it to stick up even MORE so than usual and making it as messy as possible. YETI WROCK FASHION. "Interviewer! I am ready for my close up!" GROWWWLLLL!!

Though.....Grayson didn't REALLY look like an interviewer just yet. Kyroh looked around before spotting a muggle pen and grabbing it. "Hold still!" The boy declared before clutching the Slytherins face and drawing a mustache riggghhhht on top of his upper lip. THERE!

.......


"GRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWL!"

What in the world Cinna just stared for a minute so many things going at once. She had to catch up with everything. Grab the baby? They were all acting baby yetis. Minus the weird mating dance. Mmm yeah. Caleb with old man arthritis. Well then. The event were unfolding faster lex was getting a yeti!hug and the baby was getting away. Quick thinking she turned to Marigold "Aye, Save the captain. I'l track the young one."

Cartwheeling over to the yeti baby. Now what was she? A pirate ninja yet hunter or something. Cinna ran in place for dramatic effect just behind professor Cassie not old great uncle Cassie. Her arms raised as if she was about to grab the baby yeti. Almost there.

Zander, it seemed, was totally on board with Sophie's stick idea. Simon didn't seem too convinced for some reason, but HEY--it was working for those people out there battling the Snow Monster. They hadn't died yet, at least! That was always a good thing! A movement from Zander caught her attention and real Sophie looked to see that he'd dropped some pencils on the ground.

...pencils?

Oh, STICKS! "Sticks! We've got sticks!" she exclaimed. She scooped one up and encouraged Simon to do the same. He still didn't think it was such a good idea, though, so she opened her mouth to prepare to launch into a speech as to why the whole stick idea was a good one when...

MILLIONS?!

There was a chance to make money?! Well if THAT was the case, Sophie wasn't just going to stand by in the trees and let those people out there make all the money. She was going out there to get involved! Not because she wanted to, but because there was NO MONEY involved in staying in the trees.

So armed with a pencil as a stick, Sophie just barreled out into the thick of things with a warrior type sound. "WAHHHHHHH!" she said.

Ian wasn't sure about all this. He allowed AJ to sit him down and hand him a marker. Then he tried to listen to the instructions. He tried very hard to see with the mask on. He didn't think he'd have ANY trouble with sad. He was getting a little warm, which was nice but he knew that would turn to hot soon enough. As Adi began to sing, Ian decided to just make shuffly movements and sort of groan. He wasn't sure he was keeping in tune, but he guessed he could make some good groans. He just pretended to feel like he did that day his dad had let him eat too many pasties on the ship. The seas had gotten rough that day and he leaned over the edge of the boat releasing his pasties into a waiting sea.

He heard AJ sing, but couldn't quite see her well. He shuffled over to where she was, his hands raised over his head and he moaned some more. He felt a little like a zombie (was that a thing?). He hoped he didn't accidently knock one of his party mates over. He wondered where Angel was. He certainly didn't want to knock her down.

Hazel looked over at the Slytherin girl. She seemed to be dreading getting up as much as Hazel herself was. "Sure," she said simply, immediately happy someone had asked her. "I'm Hazel, by the way." She hoped the other girl took that as a sign to introduce herself. No matter how hard she tried, she could not think of her name.

She looked over the possible ideas. It seemed like most of them included doing something on the spot. That wasn't really her thing… at all. The only other project she saw was the poster. That seemed to be easy enough. Just writing facts on a board and decorating it? Sounded good to Hazel. "So, erm, did you have an idea for the project that you wanted to do? I was just thinking that a poster looks good, but if you don't want to, that's fine." Soon, the presentation will be over. Soon.

It looked like Lux had pretty much completed her costume and oh an eye patch for Jasmine. She took it and put it over her left eye. "How do I look? Pretty creepy, right?". So they seemed to be ready costume wise. Was there any other preparation that needed to be done?

Lux was going to be the protective mama Yeti and Jasmine was going to steal her baby. That would make anyone want to attack and hopefully they would make that clear in their skit. "So Lux, I guess we're just about ready to perform our skit. Just one more thing......What will be our final scene so I know when we're finished? Maybe you attack me, take your baby back and I run away or you can finish me off and I'll have a big death scene. What do you think?"

Angel was singing her song.

"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. "

Angel was totally enjoying herself and she was singing around when suddenly before she could get the last verse done, she was falling over.

EEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angel wasn't sure if Ian had seen her or not but when he had gone backwards he had fallen into her and had made her fall over. "Oh I don't think that was in the script Mr Yeti!!" Angel giggled.

Good good they were making plans to free her. One would take the baby and the other would rescue her from the clutches of this beast that didn't know it would be making a nice fur pelt for someone else later on. Ignorance, what a thing it was. But then, she heard something that wasn't from her own magick-y hunter people.

What the kneazle??

Lex spotted Sophie--sorry, we don't know the pretend name--with some battle cry as she came over.

"THIIIEEEEVES." Lex yelled, flailing ever so much. "SHE WANTS OUR YETIS!! DON'T LET HER HAVE OUR YETIS!!" Nuuuuuuuuuuuuu, back you muggle fiend! Tryn'a keep a witch down. SHOO. They were NOT sharing the spoils...you know...if they actually made it out of this alive and stuff. Never know when your next yeti hunt would be your last.

"Someone grab her! We can sell her with the baby, call it extra perks or something!" Muggles still did that right? Trading each other? Odd bunch they were. People down in Knockturn Alley sold people all the time but her father said you had to know who to go to and it WASN'T a good idea. This was only pretend though.