FULL SPEED AHEAD

The suit continued to stomp forward with agitated movements. If it were capable of human expression, the suit of armour would be wearing a look of complete and utter contempt thanks to the tiny being hiding within it.

The spell from the boy hit the suit of armour square in the breastplate, but did nothing to impede its movement. Instead, spell ricochet off at an angle and went shooting off towards another suit of armour. It then ricochet off that one as well, causing two things to happen.

One, the second suit of armor began to fall to the side into the suit beside it and so one and so on. Domino effect in full swing with all sorts of CRASHING and CLANKING and PING PING PINGING!

Two, the spell was sent back towards the two students. ROGUE STUNNER! LOOK OUT!

O___O

So the spell didn't work.

Grayson hardly took note of the fact that the girl was clinging onto his back as if he was her knight or prince charming. PSH. He was no knight of hers. Instead, his eyes were on the light that had flown out of his wand and hit the armour squarely on its chest. Pity it didn't work. And it was a pity that it had hit the other armours and caused them to crash too. Jeez. If this didn't wake up the whole castle, he didn't know what would.

..................... And the spell was coming towards them.

FREAKING. MERLIN. Could this GET any worse?!

"DUUUUUUUUUUCK!" he yelled, bending down as quickly as he could.

Swear to Merlin, if this girl got herself stunned, he was going to be VERY angry.

Also, it was HER turn to do something now.

THE ARMOUR KEPT COMING!!!!!!!

Wasn't that guy going to DO anything else??? Agatha's gaze went from the suit of armour in front of them to all of the others that were falling down like in a domino effect. Merlin, SO LOUD!!!

The girl's wide eyes were still on the falling suits of armour and suddenly there was no longer a boy in front of her. WHAT--

The stunning spell hit her right in the face and she collapsed to the floor.

Bodies bodies EVERYWHERE!

Suit of armour ones that is. Helmets were rolling. Limbs detached and lying about the ground. A real battle zone.

The only suit of armour that remained standing was that one that was still stomping around trying to remove the intruder from inside its hollowed metal frame. Until the intruder was in its helmet.

Top heavy, there was only one way for the suit of armour to go. Down.

CRASH

The helmet detached from the body and rolled a few feet down the corridor and then there was nothing but stillness.

...and the occasional PING of metal hitting metal as helmets and limbs rolled into one another.

This COULD get worse.

How so?

Because crazy cat lady had gone and decided to get herself stunned, THAT'S how.

Grayson was livid. Scared for his own life but flip-the-table livid. He TRIED not to concentrate on the dumb one and, instead, tried to look over at the suit of armour. Maybe when it was close enough, he'd try the Stunning spell again. Or Reducto. But something told him that blasting a shield of armour to pieces wasn't going to get him into the Head of House's good books. That didn't stop him from raising his wand at the oncoming armour and--

................. Oh? It stopped?

Still crouching down, he slowly craned his neck to try and look around at the scene in front of him. It. Was. A. DISASTER! A freaking BATTLEGROUND of bodies! Merlin, he was in for it this time and it wasnt even his freaking fault! Anyone walking in would think that he had done this. Normally, he would have liked knowing that because of him, limbs were detached and heads had been rolled. Would have made him feel powerful and whatnot but not now. He even poked a nearby limb with the end of his wand, just to see if it would get it to animate itself again. He needed an alibi now that the girl was stunned.

Speaking of the girl, he turned to look at her next. How was he meant to un-stun her, eh? Because HE didn't know the counter-spell. No. But what he did know was that there was a way to wake up someone who was unconscious. A Muggle way.

Grayson scooted right over towards her until he was seated somewhere near her head. He didn't know exactly what to do but that didn't stop him. The boy pinched her nose, leant down and..............

............... placed his mouth over hers.

This was exactly what happened in mouth-to-mouth, mkay?

If only stunning spells worked that way. Agatha simply kept lying on the floor, in between amours limbs, unconscious. Too bad she couldn't even freak out about what the other Slytherin was doing. Hopefully she would never know about this.

During all that crashing and bumping and bouncing and loudness that had just happened, Lady was in a form of a tiny little furball inside the armour's helmet. She had no idea what was going on, but she had realised running up and down did no good. Besides, there was no way she could move with all that madness going on and there was an odd force pushing her against the metal thing she was inside.

After much spinning around after crashing onto the floor, Lady didn't wait for the helmet to fully stop before zooming out of it and disappearing as she turned around the corner of the corridor.

Really?

REALLY?!

Either she was faking it or this whole mouth-to-mouth thing didn't work on Stunned people. And if she WAS faking it just to get a good ol' smooch out of him, then............... okay, that didn't sound bad to him. The least she could do is SAY something instead of lying there like some sort of damsel in distress. He had no time for people like that.

And no, Grayson didn't see the squirrel-cat hybrid dart away from the helmet. He was too busy trying to resusitate this dumbo over here. Good thing too because otherwise, the Slytherin might have started to panic. But no panicking was happening and his lips were no longer locked with hers, breathing air into her lungs. Sucks for you, girlie.

What was his next method of waking her up? Prodding, of course! He pride her arms and cheeks and even started shaking her shoulders. "Come ON! Wake up wake up wake UP!" More shaking of her shoulders. "I need you to help me put the armours back together before somebody sees! Wake UP, will you?!"

Why did they have to be on lock down? They were all going to go nuts being cooped up inside the castle with cabin fever. The inside was sooo boring to begin with. She would much rather be outside. But no nope that wasn't going happen. Not with the thousands of feet of snow out there.

So Cinna just settled with trying to find something to do inside. Ugh nothing except for homework and classes. Ewww.

Somehow she ending up on the second floor. How? All she did was hop on the grand moving staircase of course. She remembered this spot from when her and Bart threw icky flavors of Bettie bots at the armour.

The armour which was scattered all over the corridor. What in the name of Merlin happened here? Grayson! And Agatha nagatha but what were they doing. Snogging? Hopefully Grayson didn't get more love potion brownies. "Grayson? What are you doing? What have you done?" The armour was his fault he did it and she knew it. And Snogging girls in the corridor. Only she would walk in on that. Plus he was doing in all wrong.

Oh wait no she was stunned. Why was she stunned? Grayson whatever his middle name is Whitlock you have some explaining to do.

And then things got even WORSE. JEEZ.

Cinna was here? CINNA?! Sure, he trusted her and was probably glad that it wasn't someone sassy here but this was a little awkward, no? Love potions and whatnot. Regardless, Grayson tried to look as innocent as possible, because that's what he was. INNOCENT. With capital letters, thank you. Even if the situation looked freaking dodgy, something even he could admit.

He was VERY offended with that question. "MEEEEEEEEE?" he started, in a very dramatic fashion, "I did nothing. I smirked, tried to be a knight in shining armour and now I'm the hero amongst a battlefield." He held up a hand to indicate the ground around him. See? INNOCENT. "I was wandering around, she came up to me -- dunno, she probably likes me or whatever, or wanted to be best buds," he said, waving a hand dismissively, "THEN, the suit of armour CAME TO LIFE! And it started stomping around for no reason."

"And THEN it started stomping towards US," he said, gesturing to himself and the weird girl on the floor, "She was using me as a shield so I did the only thing I could: stun the armour. The spell went everywhere and did nothing to the armour buuuuuuuuuuut," He stopped to glance down at the girl before glancing up at Cinna with a helpless expression spread across his face. "THEN the armours crashes and limbs flew EVERYWHERE. I tried to wake her up but nothing's working."

SEE? Was that his fault? 'Course not.

"Help? Please?"

Spread out on a corridor floor, Jun was reading a book on wizarding universities with Charmander on his stomach. He had talked with Charlie about them before but now he was giving them more thought. More like he was freaking out about them. It was also maybe because his potions ran out and his moods went back to being a roller coaster. Trying not to pay much mind to that, that boy sat up and leaned against the wall, continuing his reading. Maybe he'd go for magical creatures; his favorite subject at school. Or charms. Or even potions. Was Muggle Studies also applicable there? Jun ruffles his now blonde hair and flipped through the pages. At least Charmander didn't have to worry about this.

Vinnie didnt quite know why she was walking around the second floor but she was in one of them moods where wandering was her thing. Especially now that they couldnt go outside, the only way to take a walk was inside the castle. This thing was huge so it would take ages to wander it all. Even though it was frustrating that they couldnt go outside, the brunette was glad it was all warm and cozy inside the castle.

Not looking where she was going she bumped into something on the floor. Looking down to see who or what she had bumped into the brunette grinned. Jun was sitting there, studying some book. "Hey babe", Vinnie smiled as she plopped down next to him, "why are you sitting on the floor?" Why wasnt he in the library! It didnt really matter cause the fifth year was happy to see her boyfriend.

Jun wasn't paying to anything around him. Or Charmander, who had perked his head up and sniffed at the person approaching. But said person bumped into him and Jun got annoyed. "Oi! Watch where--!" Hearing the person voice and pet name made him stop. Looking up, Jun smiled and watched as Vinnie say herself next to him. "Hey Vin," he grinned giving her a quick kiss before going back to his book. At least he didn't have to meet her down in the weird dungeons this time. Vinnie had gracefully tripped over him as she walked by. Didn't she see his long legs sticking out? The blonde watched as Charmander tilted his head at Vinnie and snugged himself on her lap. For some reason, he did that with everyone.

"I'm reading a book about universities. I started thinking about what of the trainee program doesn't work out for me and I don't get to debut before I'm twenty-one. That'll be three years of uni wasted into the program," Jun had put too much thought into it actually. And if he went to uni, he could see his friends and Vinnie more often. Doubted that was even a though with the program. It took up most of his time.

Caleb was sick of sitting in the library and studying, so as he walked back to the dungeons, he was just happy to out of there. However, he'd heard some sort of commotion - something EXCITING was going on! - but by the time he got there, it seemed that whatever had been happening by the suits of armour had all but dissipated. Booooo.

Ah well. This was as good a time as any to hang out and read a bit, yeah?

Simon too was getting rather sick of spending all of his time going back and forth between classes, the library, and the common room. He had explored most of the random corridors and knew his way around the castle really, really well. In fact, he felt as if he could draw a map of the whole school by now.

With nothing to do but sit and watch the flames move in the fireplace, Simon got up and went for a long walk. He wanted to end up somewhere near the Suits of Armour because he had never gone there before. It was something new and fun. Plus, he had heard rumours of an interesting event taking place up here, involving two of his fellow housemates. He didn't know who it was- he just hoped whoever was involved would be okay.

Once in the particular room, he saw a familiar boy around his own age there. Was this kid in his dorm? He was pretty sure that the guy was; however, he had never gotten the chance to introduce himself to him. "Hey, did you come up here to see what the whole kerfuffle was about?" he asked, approaching the boy with a shy grin and a nod.

Vinnie couldnt help but laugh at the rude tone Jun put on. He was adorable. Annoyed so quickly. Thankfully she hadnt used all of her brownie points yet and was kind of allowed to walk into him. Smirk. „Hey handsome“, the brunette smiled and kissed him back quickly. Too quickly. She wanted more kisses. But her boyfriend was busy with some book. Wouldnt that be her part? Being the library girl and all?Maybe it was rubbing off on him. As Charmander plopped down on her lap the fifth year stroked him softly. Charmander was lovely.

Without saying a word she took the book away from him and took his hand into hers.“Shhhh babe...you're 17. You're sixth year...you have plenty of time to look up universities“, Vinnie squeezed his hand,“ we will look at unis together. You dont have to go through it alone.“ It was stressful to think about unis. Like what subject would you go for? What uni would you even go to? This wasnt the right time to worry about it, they had plenty of time for that later. „Besides that why do you worry? You're an amazing dancer, if you dont get the chance to debut who will?“ Jun had a talent to stress himself out and the Slytherin was glad she had found him here.

His book was gone.
WHY?

Jun tried to make a grab for his book but no use. Vinnie wasn't going to give it back and now had her hand in his. Sigh. "Then can we look at them together now? I have nothing else to do right now," Which was why he was on the floor, reading. Or was. "But then next term I'll have to choose. I'll be eighteen and in my seventh year. Just don't want to it to the last minute," Y'know, he wanted to have an idea of what he might be doing after Hogwarts. So far, Jun was thinking of creatures and charms to study. Maybe even astronomy or just a regular non-magical uni. "Because dancing isn't the only thing the program looks at. I have to learn new languages, sing, rap, act. And there's way more talented people in there," Like maybe even that annoying guy who sprained his ankle over the summer.

Jun needed to break his now.

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Simon too was getting rather sick of spending all of his time going back and forth between classes, the library, and the common room. He had explored most of the random corridors and knew his way around the castle really, really well. In fact, he felt as if he could draw a map of the whole school by now.

With nothing to do but sit and watch the flames move in the fireplace, Simon got up and went for a long walk. He wanted to end up somewhere near the Suits of Armour because he had never gone there before. It was something new and fun. Plus, he had heard rumours of an interesting event taking place up here, involving two of his fellow housemates. He didn't know who it was- he just hoped whoever was involved would be okay.

Once in the particular room, he saw a familiar boy around his own age there. Was this kid in his dorm? He was pretty sure that the guy was; however, he had never gotten the chance to introduce himself to him. "Hey, did you come up here to see what the whole kerfuffle was about?" he asked, approaching the boy with a shy grin and a nod.

Caleb heard someone approaching, but to his surprise, it WASN'T his sister, whom he had gotten used to seeing any time something crazy was happening. But nope, it was a boy around his age - wait, he knew him. He was in his dorm yeah? Caleb never usually paid attention to the other boys in his year besides Cutty, but this kid seemed normal. He'd humor him with conversation.

He grinned and chuckled. "More like stumbled upon it by accident. Looks like it's calmed down, though," he said with a shrug. Boringgg. "You're in my year, yeah? I think we share a dorm," he told him.

Simon nodded in agreement with his fellow housemate. "Yes, thank Merlin," he added. He was kind of sad that he had missed the whole event; however, he wanted to learn more about it. He raised his eyebrows when the other boy asked him if they were in the same year. He beamed. Yep! They were in the same house and year! Was this Sophie's brother? He had seen them hanging out a couple of times in classes. "Yes, we are. You're Sophie's brother, right? I generally hang out with Cutty and Ethan Mordaunt." Yes, the blue eyed boy had spent a lot of time with those boys and had sometimes gotten up to no good with them. But he enjoyed it. Anyway, probably introducing himself would be a good start!

"I'm Simon. Simon Holden," he said, holding out his hand towards the other boy and being all proper like. Yes, handshakes were good because they were manly men- I mean- manly boys. Yes, yes.

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Simon nodded in agreement with his fellow housemate. "Yes, thank Merlin," he added. He was kind of sad that he had missed the whole event; however, he wanted to learn more about it. He raised his eyebrows when the other boy asked him if they were in the same year. He beamed. Yep! They were in the same house and year! Was this Sophie's brother? He had seen them hanging out a couple of times in classes. "Yes, we are. You're Sophie's brother, right? I generally hang out with Cutty and Ethan Mordaunt." Yes, the blue eyed boy had spent a lot of time with those boys and had sometimes gotten up to no good with them. But he enjoyed it. Anyway, probably introducing himself would be a good start!

"I'm Simon. Simon Holden," he said, holding out his hand towards the other boy and being all proper like. Yes, handshakes were good because they were manly men- I mean- manly boys. Yes, yes.

"Yup, that's me. I'm the cool Newell," Caleb said with a grin. "Caleb Newell. Nice to meet you, Simon," he added, shaking the boy's hand in return. Good manners, Caleb liked that. He seemed like a good chap.

And then he brought up Cutty and Ethan. He'd heard of Ethan and never had a chance to hang out with him or introduce himself - but he raised an eyebrow at the shared names. "Yeah, I know Cutty pretty well, but is he Ethan's brother? Or cousin?" he asked. Obviously they had to be related.

Simon grinned when Caleb introduced himself. "Nice to meet you as well, Caleb," he said. He was glad when Caleb shook his hand. Thank Merlin. He had avoided another awkward situation. It seemed as if this Slytherin had been brought up with good manners too. Simon had run into a few people who had just stared at him weirdly for holding a hand out for a handshake. He even had one person awkwardly high five it. The boy supposed that some people didn't understand the art or the meaning behind the handshake. Or perhaps Simon was just extremely old fashioned.

Oh so he knew Cutty well, did he? Simon quirked his right eyebrow. Did that mean Caleb was a little odd like Cutty? To be honest, everyone he had met at Hogwarts had their own little quirks but that's what Simon liked about them. If everyone had been perfect and normal then school would have been quite boring to the young intellect. "Cousins. Though they act like brothers at times," he said chuckling. The two boys were nearly opposites. Ethan was outgoing and Cutty was reserved. It was an interesting combination. "So how are you?"

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Simon grinned when Caleb introduced himself. "Nice to meet you as well, Caleb," he said. He was glad when Caleb shook his hand. Thank Merlin. He had avoided another awkward situation. It seemed as if this Slytherin had been brought up with good manners too. Simon had run into a few people who had just stared at him weirdly for holding a hand out for a handshake. He even had one person awkwardly high five it. The boy supposed that some people didn't understand the art or the meaning behind the handshake. Or perhaps Simon was just extremely old fashioned.

Oh so he knew Cutty well, did he? Simon quirked his right eyebrow. Did that mean Caleb was a little odd like Cutty? To be honest, everyone he had met at Hogwarts had their own little quirks but that's what Simon liked about them. If everyone had been perfect and normal then school would have been quite boring to the young intellect. "Cousins. Though they act like brothers at times," he said chuckling. The two boys were nearly opposites. Ethan was outgoing and Cutty was reserved. It was an interesting combination. "So how are you?"

Ah, so they were cousins. That made since, especially since he'd talked to Cutty many times and surely, a sibling would have come up. "Gotcha. Sort of good news I guess - we don't really need two Cutty's, do we?" he joked with a chuckle. They had the strangest relationship - true frenemies, they were.

"I'm good. COLD, but good," he grumbled. Everyone was cold these days, weren't they? "How about you? Have you been around since first year?" he asked, wondering why he'd never seen the boy before.

Vinnie closed the book in her hand and layed it down next to her. " We can look at unis together yes", she nodded," not on this cold floor though and not they way you think we might." If looking at unis stressed you out so much already how much will going there stress you out?! They needed a calm moment and some drinks, some food. Just checking out places. "Also yes you have something to do now", she grinned," i am here now." They could do anything, go skateboard, watch a movie, cuddle, cook. Anything.

The Slytherin was so glad she had found her boyfriend here. The least thing she wanted was for him to drown in worries about unis. He didnt need that. "Look baby, its enough time next year to look up unis. During holidays, during school days whenever. Can we not worry for a moment? You'll do fine." He was a good student, smart. The brunette knew all the words wouldnt make him worry less but she'd be there for him.

Squeezing her boyfriends hand Vinnie shook her head a little."You need to know if you want to take all of that, all the stress with the program", she said," if you want to do all of that. I'll have your back. If you dont i'll have your back too." It was his decision and no matter what he would decide she'd be by his side. Hopefully that would help him a little to see things a little easier." And i doubt there are many people more talented than you...you're insanely talented." She wasnt even sure if he could see it?!

Simon laughed a little more than he should have at Caleb's joke about two Cutty's. Caleb's response made Simon feel a little less anxious about Caleb being as strange as Cutty. Joking about it seemed like a pretty normal thing to do. "One Cutty is definitely enough for the school. And one Ethan too," he shared with his dorm mate. Honestly, he couldn't imagine a school with two Cuttys or two Ethans. A school like that would just be too perplexing for the Australian Slytherin.

He nodded in agreement once he heard that Caleb was cold but good. Simon honestly was about the same. He wasn't going stir crazy yet. Sure, he had spent hours roaming the school corridors but he hadn't gone crazy from being locked up in a castle. Not yet. He was determined not too. "About the same. It's too cold for my liking. It's nice and warm back home for me, he said with a kind grin. He shook his head at Caleb's next question. "No, this is my first year actually. I transferred from a school back home in Australia. The Professors told me to go to Hogwarts. They thought it would be more beneficial for my 'education'" He raised his hands and made quotation marks on the last word. "What about you? Have you been here since your first year?"

Maybe he was too worried? Jun nodded in agreement with Vinnie. The cold, hard floor wasn't really the best place to look at Unis. But he wasn't really looking at them. It was mainly the majors he could take if he decided to go. The more he thought about it, the more nerve wrecking it felt. Is this what the actual seventh years felt like? "Then we'll look at some later. But what can we do right now? I had freed my time to look at that book and get an idea of what I wanted," Moving Charmander from Vinnie's lap, Jun laid his head down on it and looked up at the Slytherin. "I know but I always like to be prepared, y'know? And there's nothing better to do while stuck in here all the time," Even sitting by the window and staring outside wasn't helping anymore. Jun opened it a few times to get "fresh air" but that didn't work either. The boy might be going insane soon.


"I know. I can handle the program since I've got maybe another year or so. I just break down all the things they want me to lean by parts," Y'know, the learning a new language, rapping, acting and such. Jun already had singing and dancing down so those weren't a hassle to practice. Everything else was and he should ask Pal for more acting lessons soon too. "I know you will. But this is what I want; what I've trained for since I was little. Sometimes I think it might not be enough," Like how he wanted to quit over Christmas break because of certain events. But he managed to pass those auditions so it was okay. "And there are also many more people who have trained while at a young age like me. You're being biased," He laughed, poking Vinnie on her chin.

"Agreed," Caleb said with a chuckle. Two Cuttys? Oh Merlin. Although Caleb had not met this Ethan fellow yet - despite sharing a dorm with them. Wow, he really had to start chatting with people he bunked with, yeah? He never really wanted to do much except sleep and read in there but he could probably stand to start some conversations now and then.

"Australia? Cool!" he exclaimed. He was being sincere too - that WAS pretty cool. "Yeah, my family has been going here for years. Mostly Slytherins, a few Gryffindors tossed in here and there - and then there's my Uncle Alex that no one has heard from since he graduated, he was a Hufflepuff," he explained. Actually, they HAD heard from him a few times because he sent a card every other Christmas, but he was always in a different place - The Netherlands, Germany, France, he was in Malaysia at one point...