..............No.

That had been the man's answer when Gabriel had asked for a reprieve. No. Simply no.

Gabe gaped at the older man who had knocked the Bunsen burner off his desk...along with the ice cream pack...and ALMOST his notebook (before Gabe had saved it). There was a glare sent his way, too...and he could not grasp how REAL it appeared to be. The professor looked genuinely angry with him...and it started to make the Ravenclaw wonder if this wasn't just some elaborate cosplay scene...Did professor Flamsteed actually think he was Captain Hook?

....or had he completely immersed himself in the role...and was now taking it a bit too far?

Gabriel fell silent, eyes fixed on the man...who now had a pair of boxers clutch tightly in his hand. He was either completely brilliant or totally insane. Gabe couldn't properly decide WHICH at the time...but it was one or the other. No gray areas here.

He'd darted off...and then Clara had appeared, looking just as confused and terrified as he felt. Not that surprising since more people SHOULD be terrified at this displayed. A food fight? REALLY?! What were they? Eight?

He hadn't even thought about what he was doing, either. He'd HEARD Clara talking to him...but he had eyes on his surroundings, darting to and fro around the room; PEELED for flying bits of food. Completely against what the man had said, Gabe was prepared to escape at any moment. As soon as he found his opening...but that's when he seen the mush flying at Clara's back. Blinking once...he reached out for the girl and jerked her towards him out of the way...ducking down after doing so.

Gabe did NOT want to wear food.

.......and he didn't want anyone throwing things at Clara, either. BECAUSE HE JUST DIDN'T.

Speaking of which....WHERE WAS RUBY?!

"You think I know?!" He was under his desk now, EYES WIDE AND BLINKING RAPIDLY. "Everyone's lost their minds.......We've got to....go...." He couldn't handle this room. He was already trembling, his hands and face cool and clammy. If the professor tried putting him in that closet, Gabe would vomit on him...and there would be nothing to do about it...because he COULD NOT WITH LOUD NOISES AND ALL THIS COMMOTION...OR SMALL SPACES. CONFINEMENT.

"We......need to....get out...."....BUT WHERE WAS HIS SISTER?!

Eeep! There was more mush flying through the air now. Time to get his butt out of this chair and take cover. Just before he did so, Adi caught sight of AJ tossing some of...something at Ian. He couldn't resist a laugh. Oh man! This was too tempting to resist any longer.

Adi grabbed two of the apples (you could say one was revenge for Benny and the other for AJ), quickly pointing his wand at them. "Francesco!" Double the mush! OH YEAH! He took a careful aim at Ian and let the mush fly. He had a good aim so here's to hoping he joined Benny and AJ and hit the enemy target.



No Huffie aiming for Hufflie here. Just an accidental aim.



So what if he had totally missed his mark with that Claw girl (Clara) when her friend (Gabriel) pulled her out of the way? There was no way he was going to miss Ian.

So...as Ian stood there, orange juice still dripping from his sticky fourth year fingers, staring at AJ he felt something else hit him just below the ear. And it was a big pile of something. He turned to his side and saw Adi laughing. Ian turned to face AJ again and winked. Best...astronomy class...in ever! He asked her, Is that all, or did you want to add to my apple face? Free shots...all you need to get it out. Ian was glad that he'd come to this class. He liked looking at stars, but learning the history of the US space program, not so much. This lesson, though it had started off with crazy Hooksteed had turned out to be therapeutic for him. He felt like he fit in at the school again, even if his friends never accepted him back.

He was just standing there like a chump. AJ watched as the applesauce slid down his face. Another pathetic scene that involved Ian. Why wasn't he fighting back? Oh right, it had to do with the whole coward thing. This was no fun. This wasn't a food fight. Did he know how those worked? She was just about to turn around and find a new target when he spoke to her. How dare he. He spoke to her as if nothing had happened between them. The nerve.

AJ rolled her eyes and was in mid turn when she caught him winking at her. After all this time Ian had learned absolutely nothing. "Actually, I don't think that I am done." But, she didn't have apples on her mind anymore. In fact she didn't have pureed anything on her mind. Never taking her eyes off of him, she walked over and grabbed a whole ham. Mush was flying left and right, but AJ didn't care. She was on a war path. Apparently Ian needed another lesson, and he was going to learn today.

Ham in tow, she walked right back up to him with a blank expression. "If you want that eye, I suggest you keep it from winking at me." Was that clear? The ham in her hand was going to show him what happened when you messed with Aubrey Valentine. The lion cocked the hand holding the whole ham back once more and let the meat smack him dead in the jaw. Whoopsies, did she forget to puree it first? How silly of her. Ham: 1, Ian's jaw: 0.

It hadn't really taken much though. Still under the desk, Toby had retrieved parchment and ink and another quill and was quickly scribbling out the same message over and over, before folding the parchment into paper airplanes. Then, once he'd used a decent amount of his available parchment, the Hufflepuff tapped each one with his wand and sent it out into the abyss that was the classroom in the general direction of the other students.

And... just in case...

"Accio Banana."

That spell was definitely coming in handy today. Now to see if anyone would be up for a classroom revolution.

Sighs. All the sighs. This isn't even Neverland. Though, she was even doubting they were at Hogwarts by now. Oh, Merlin, and look at Pebbles. Just looooook at that rock. It was perfectly clear this was not a lesson anymore, even if this Hook kept on reading the contents of it.

O__O

And then Pebbles flew.

This is probably how the rock got lost that one time, you know? In a sort of fight. And got used as a weapon. Or someone had pulled a prank on Airey. Was Tiberius still a fish? Also, she took note of Tobias getting Pebbles, just in case he decided to make Airey part the rock for real.

Mostly, she was tired of people being so loud.

At Lex's words she just sighed more. How do you find something you haven't seen? She was no Hufflepuff, she didn't magically found things, you know? So, unless her bestie's mind suddenly remembered where her wand might be, it was as good as lost. Now, getting someone killed... not even Hook had it in him to kill others, so they were all gonna be okay.

Speaking of... the man was rather dramatic about his hand.

'WAR IT IS!' And Lottie STARED at the loudness, yet still listened. Even listened as Hook changed it all up. Didn't the instructions originally said something about tubes, hmmmm??? Where were those? Why were they going to waste perfectly good food?! Then it started. The food fight. Food wars? Whatever you wanna call it.

Well, the least she could do was practice the spell, right? Besides making sure NO ONE got to her. Shields exist for a reason. At least she was on Peter Pan's team, no? YES. She'd rather be with Dante on this.

So, one vegetable was taken, and the wand was pretty much tapping it while she quietly said, "Francesco," without much intent.

It was obvious nothing happened to the vegetable.

Ian was willing to let AJ take all the shots she needed to to get back at Ian for the opening feast. She looked mad that he wasn't doing anything. He didn't understand and maye because he wasn't talking well. She did that to him. He watched as she trudged of and when she turned, he saw she had a whole ham. No worries, deviled ham was ok. The. She started yelling at him and he saw there was no purée Going on. She was dragging a whole ham at him. He started ti react as he reached down to grab the pineapple and frantically francescoing with no effect. As she got right up to him, she swung and he ducked. He went the wrong way and felt the full force of AJ ham on his face. The day got all sparkly and he fel woozy and be very nearly crashed I to the desk behjnd him. He steadied himself and turned, his face red and not happy, excited to be food fightin Ian. This was angry, hi in the face by a ham Ian. what are you doing? I'm giving ou a free shot cause I deserve it, but then you cold-clock me with a blooming ham? he reached down, grabbed the banana, peeled of open and pressed it into her Gryffindor face!

SPOILER!!: Ian, AJ and Adi

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Ian was standing there, preparing to take another shot at an 'enemy'. He thought he was good with Zeke, but he wanted to keep a wary eye on the Mini-SMEE. Fatal error in strategic judgment as that meant he had left his flanks unguarded. Ian reached down to grab another sticky, gooey pile of pineapple puree when he was struck squarely on the side of the his shoulder *SPLAT* and he felt the splash of stickiness on his neck and it began to slip down his skin under his robe. EEEEwwwwwwwwwww was all he could think until he turned to see the assailant.

Ian was staring at Benny, and Ian couldn't tell if benny was pleased he'd hit him or not, but this was too fun not to throw something back. Ian began to giggle with glee as he thrust his hand in the new direction, flinging a yellow mass of gelatinous pineapple in the direction of the gryffie.

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What, what, WHAT??? They were having a flipping food fight. Awesome. Too bad she had to waste time casting a spell to make the food turn into puree. She figured throwing an apple at a certain someone's head would be waaaay more beneficial. Whatevs, it was still a food fight and she would take it. "FOOOOOOD FIIIIGHT!" Who was peter pan? AJ looked around to see if anybody else looked confused. It really didn't matter because she was with her head of house, or whoever he was today.

No need to practice the spell, she would just wing it. So what if the apple didn't get all the way pureed? Getting whacked in the face by apple chunks were no big deal.

No need to question who her first target would be. For once AJ was glad that Hufflepuff wasn't on the same team as them because that meant that Ian was fair game. Were coming for you, Tinker. Hope that kiss was worth nonstop food in the face.

"Francesco!" Her apple still looked the same. C'mon, now was not the time. She had food to fling. "Francesco." Applesauce... well, practically. This was going to be FUN! AJ grabbed a fist full and walked over to where the puffer was at. She got close enough to touch him, and gave him a dirty look. "This is for being a git."Her hand cocked back and the puree went flying straight at Ian. Take that!

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Ian had taken to compiling a group of items that could be transformed into soft projectiles. He had grabbed a banana (which wouldn't hurt if you threw it whole would it?), another pineapple, a ham (who wanted to have deviled ham tossed at you?) and a few oranges (What exactly was orange puree like). Fully armed, Ian grabbed one of the oranges and pureed it with the francesco spell. He now had a hand full of orange pulp and juice. It was kind of gross, but there were gryffinclaws that needed to be pureed. Ian wanted to win and defeat Hooksteed. He stood and prepared to take aim with his next target. When he turned to acquire same target, he came FACE TO FACE with an angry female gryffindor. He hadn't expected close quarters combat but he was determined to hold his fire. He deserved to get a face full of pureed whatever it was. He stood there and dropped his hands as he felt the apple sauce hit him square in the face. Apple sauce went in his nose, covered his eyes and dripped down off of his chin onto his hufflepuff robes. There would be NO retaliation and if Adi felt like he needed to do it too, Ian would be there to take it. He was tired of not having his friends around. He was tired of having snippets of conversations here and there because he missed these people. He'd seen them of course, but they hadn't spoken since the opening feast. If they still didn't want to talk, Ian understood, but he surely wasn't going to retaliate (well, Benny was a fun throw, cause food fights were fun), but AJ would not receive a return shot. Ian felt the orange juice and pulp dripping off his hand onto the floor at his feet...and stood there.

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Eeep! There was more mush flying through the air now. Time to get his butt out of this chair and take cover. Just before he did so, Adi caught sight of AJ tossing some of...something at Ian. He couldn't resist a laugh. Oh man! This was too tempting to resist any longer.

Adi grabbed two of the apples (you could say one was revenge for Benny and the other for AJ), quickly pointing his wand at them. "Francesco!" Double the mush! OH YEAH! He took a careful aim at Ian and let the mush fly. He had a good aim so here's to hoping he joined Benny and AJ and hit the enemy target.



No Huffie aiming for Hufflie here. Just an accidental aim.



So what if he had totally missed his mark with that Claw girl (Clara) when her friend (Gabriel) pulled her out of the way? There was no way he was going to miss Ian.

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So...as Ian stood there, orange juice still dripping from his sticky fourth year fingers, staring at AJ he felt something else hit him just below the ear. And it was a big pile of something. He turned to his side and saw Adi laughing. Ian turned to face AJ again and winked. Best...astronomy class...in ever! He asked her, Is that all, or did you want to add to my apple face? Free shots...all you need to get it out. Ian was glad that he'd come to this class. He liked looking at stars, but learning the history of the US space program, not so much. This lesson, though it had started off with crazy Hooksteed had turned out to be therapeutic for him. He felt like he fit in at the school again, even if his friends never accepted him back.

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He was just standing there like a chump. AJ watched as the applesauce slid down his face. Another pathetic scene that involved Ian. Why wasn't he fighting back? Oh right, it had to do with the whole coward thing. This was no fun. This wasn't a food fight. Did he know how those worked? She was just about to turn around and find a new target when he spoke to her. How dare he. He spoke to her as if nothing had happened between them. The nerve.

AJ rolled her eyes and was in mid turn when she caught him winking at her. After all this time Ian had learned absolutely nothing. "Actually, I don't think that I am done." But, she didn't have apples on her mind anymore. In fact she didn't have pureed anything on her mind. Never taking her eyes off of him, she walked over and grabbed a whole ham. Mush was flying left and right, but AJ didn't care. She was on a war path. Apparently Ian needed another lesson, and he was going to learn today.

Ham in tow, she walked right back up to him with a blank expression. "If you want that eye, I suggest you keep it from winking at me." Was that clear? The ham in her hand was going to show him what happened when you messed with Aubrey Valentine. The lion cocked the hand holding the whole ham back once more and let the meat smack him dead in the jaw. Whoopsies, did she forget to puree it first? How silly of her. Ham: 1, Ian's jaw: 0.

HIT!

His apple-ish projectile had met Ian's shoulder and neck and was all good. Let him take that for all the trouble he had caused at the begining of the term, including the jinx he had had to protect AJ from at the carriages. When the Hufflepuff turned to meet his gaze, Benny met it face on not hiding from any wordless accusations sent his way on whether or not he was the true culprit behind his wet shoulder.

But he was waiting and watching to see what might happen. So he managed to catch sight of the pinapple puree coming his way and avoided it well enough. Only a couple of droplets managing to land on the sleeve of his robe. But the giggling from the other boy was making him just a tad weirded out. What was wrong with him?

At the moment... another lump of pureed applesauce. Hitting the Hufflepuff right in the face!

AJ's voice annoucing she had had the same thought as he in aiming for Ian on the opposite team. About the only opposing team member they both had anything against. Ben exchanged a look with his friend and housemate. Score two for the lions!

Another shot hit Ian below the ear and Ben quickly followed its trajectory back to his bestie. The one on the same team as the seemingly eager human target. He couldn't help the smile that crossed his face in result. That would make it three for three...or FOUR!

AJ had gone at the sickenly grinning and laughing Hufflepuff with a HAM!

Benny bit back a laugh trying not to draw too much attention. Best he move on to another target. Ian was preoccupied at the moment. And apparently having too much fun at it. So he grabbed another piece of food, the Gryffindor not too sure what it was. "Francesco!" he took the time to cast and feel its change before throwing it in the direction of a Slytherin.

Everything that happened once Clara had reached Gabe seemed to happen in a blur.

She couldn't keep track of it all. There was the semi-acknowledgement of her from Gabe while he kept constant watch of his surroundings. There were yells throughout the room, people dodging mush left, right and centre ... there was even someone hiding under a table. Not a bad idea, really ... though if she did that she'd feel even more trapped. It was crazy ... but not as crazy as what happened next.

Before she could even comprehend what was happening, her vision blurred and she was MOVING ... but not of her own accord. She was being pulled down. It wasn't until she stopped moving and took a wide-eyed peek upwards that she realised that it had been Gabe that had moved her out of the way – of flying mush, she assumed – and was now ducked down too, shielding her in a sense. Intentional or not, she didn’t know, but at that moment it didn’t matter … nothing was really processing anyway.

The red-head could now see the offending food splattered on the table at which she’d just been … and seeing it brought her focus back.

Clara blinked several times, darted under the table nearest to Gabe and went into auto pilot. She wasn’t thinking about how small the space under the table was and she felt that that was partly down to being able to see Gabe right there. She kept her eyes on, well, EVERYWHERE, while periodically shooting glances at Gabe. “You’re the smartest person I know … if you didn’t know, then who would?” It was what she’d been thinking and it was logical, but she wasn’t sure she’d meant to say it aloud. “I … Yeah, they have,” she agreed. There was no denying that he was right … and he was also right about needing to get out. Everyone sane should want to get out, too, but evidently they were the only sane ones … and they definitely needed to get out. If Gabe was feeling anything like she was feeling, the sooner they got out of there, the better.

He was visibly shaking and she feared that if they stayed here any longer he would have a panic attack. For some reason, she didn’t fear the same about herself … she felt almost numb to the situation. No. That wasn’t it. It was … shock ….. at least that was what made logical sense to her. She could tell that she was panicking about the situation inside, but her brain wasn’t registering it and it wasn’t reflecting outwardly, except perhaps in her eyes.

The next thing she did was another thing she hadn’t planned to do, but it happened nevertheless. She shuffled over to Gabe’s desk-shield and took his hand in her own and TUGGED him in the direction of the door. “Now,” she commanded … though the word came out more as a question.

She needed out. He needed out.

Could they go now? Please?

In all the sudden action that was taking place she almost didn't notice the little Slytherin walking over to her desk. Good thing she'd waited until after the rock throwing otherwise you never know and no amount of lies would be able to cover up for Airey when this stuff got out. How many people would believe the Fairytale book made him do it?--Well everyone in the school would believe but outside....not so much. Hogwarts madness was real. This one peaked her attention with talk of a book. "Yeah, I did. What of it?" Was she appalled by the fact Lex would be burning books? Well that was just too bad for her green little behind now wasn't it?

Eyes back on the class.

It was the strangest thing but when you forgot that this was all one big ball of chaos, the little pockets were actually kind of interesting. 'Pan' and...er 'Aladdin' were they? Whoever. They decided to join forces. Something you didn't see in the books and Zeke was talking about war which got the Professor's approval immediately.

Alright, she was game. It didn't beat Astronomy but it beat learning and all the complicated terms she had no interest in so FOOD FIGHTTTTTT!!!

Lex whipped out the Professor's half polished wand and aimed at an apple. "Francesco!" Getting it all to mu--THWACK! Mush right to ear and that entire half of her face. Whipping around quick enough she caught Kace's wand still aimed before he could put it down and knew her puff target. "Depulso!" She might have used her hands but this way she could pretend she was directly firing at people. That made things all the more interesting. Lottie got no attacks, she was not a Hufflepuff and therefore on Lex's side by all technicalities.

The girl before her (Hady) was not so lucky. Lex raised her wand and with a cast of "Francesco!" had a little food mush. No wand list time, she simply picked it up and flicked it at the girl with a grin. A late welcome to her desk if you will.

Thornton just simply did not know what to do. He couldn't make sense of Professor Flamsteed's dramatic shift in personality - and he had no knowledge of Peter Pan to clue him in. For a man who seemed particularly concerned about lint and appearance, a food fight war seemed more than just unusual.

So when the food started to fly, Thornton dropped to the ground and slid along the floor. He though to stand up on a chair, attempt to broker some sort of peace. After all, pirate!flamsteed has reacted cordially when Thornton had calmly, and politely, took him to task for stealing his ice cream.

Popping his head up to see if some sort of intervention could be made, he ducked back down quickly, mushy food flying every which way.

"Excuse me," he called from his spot on the floor. "Maybe everyone could call a truce for a second and talk it out?" He didn't raise his voice, though, and so it was unlikely he could be heard.

Looking around to see if there was something he could use to get everyone's attention - besides his wand, that was not in the cards - he saw a folded paper airplane land near his feet.

Food fight?

Oh no no no no no. Coral-Bay did NOT like getting dirty. Hence, whenever she sat outside she brought along a blanket. No grass stains that way, see? So this was.... not exactly her cup of tea.

Her eyes darted around for a familiar face, specifically Sophie 'cause she'd be first to throw food at her. She just knew. But that's when she spotted Gabe... And he... well, he'd just grabbed Clara and pulled her under a table...... Coral watched them go out of sight and she was stuck staring; dumbfounded.

....

A few moments later, she was pulled out of it by a paper airplane that had struck her on the nose. She grabbed for it, and ducked under a table as more of the goo went flying, getting too close for comfort.

She unfolded the paper and read.

Toby.

The slight frown that had been on her lips was instantly replaced with a grin and she peered around in search for him before crouch/hopping her way toward him.

"What's the plan?"

It was probably bad that AJ felt a little glee with the wobbly hufflepuff. She didn't like to actually hurt people, but Ian obviously didn't learn anything from the tackle. He freaking winked at her. Not cool, not cool at all.

Finally Ian grew a backbone, and started to fight back. She could almost respect that. Not that she would ever say those words out loud. They had them an actual food fight ladies and gentlemen. He smashed a banana in her face which only fueled her more. AJ wiped her face off and slung the banana bits back at the puffer. "Shut up, Ian." She was done talking. It was full on war now.

She grabbed a handful of apples, as many as her little arms could hold. Where was a basket when you needed one? AJ was a very good baseball player, and her arm was on point. One after the other she started to throw them in the direction of Ian. Was he fast enough to dodge them?

Angel looked at Benny and watched him move out of the way but she didn't know why until.

"EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Angel felt something hit her face. "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Angel flailed her arms around.

"THAT'S IT!!" Angel just looked down at her clothes. "My clothes are ruined... whoever threw that is going down." Angel glared... seriously professor Mutiny was about to happen.

Thornton reached down and grabbed the airplane. Opening it, he looked around to see if he could figure out where it had come from.

He read it once.

Twice.

Three times.

He didn't quite believe what it said. Someone - TT... Tobius? - was trying to get students to put the professor in the closet? Sure, the situation was out of control, but Thornton still thought, perhaps naively, that there was a rational solution. What was being proposed was an uprising! An overthrow! ANARCHY.

And if it's one thing that the Baines family did not go in for, it was an upheaval of proper roles.

He waved his hands franticly in Tobius' direction, mouthing no, repeatedly. There had to be a better way.

HAD. TO. BE.

Come on AJ... Angel had been keeping an eye on her sister. "You need to count to 10 or I'll.... I'll throw an Apple at you." Angel smirked at her sister. She was hoping that would calm her down. "Remember when we had a food fight at primary school and we got into trouble." Angel had bad experiences with food fights and she didn't want to get involved in one now.

Was this Professor nuts... think about all the poor house elves that was going to have to clean up this mess. "Francesco." Angel wanted to practice the spell even if she wasn't going to use it. "Francesco!" Angel practiced again. "Francesco!" Angel did the wand movement on something and then saw it had worked. "AJ don't make me have to do this YOUNG LADY!" Angel had totally gone into mother mode... she didn't want her sister to get into trouble.

Did he know who was the poor sucker that got hit by his piece of vegetable purée? Nah! Did he know if anyone even got hit by his vegetable purée? Nah! What he DID know was that, as he was reaching for another piece of fruit, there seemed to be parchment aeroplanes flying around.

That's right. Parchment aeroplanes.

Snatching one up, Grayson eyed it carefully, turning it over in his hands. There seemed to be words or lettering so, naturally, the boy opened it. Because why not? And it seemed to be HAND WRITTEN. That ruled out the idea that this was ripped out from a textbook or whate--

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Benny bit back a laugh trying not to draw too much attention. Best he move on to another target. Ian was preoccupied at the moment. And apparently having too much fun at it. So he grabbed another piece of food, the Gryffindor not too sure what it was. "Francesco!" he took the time to cast and feel its change before throwing it in the direction of a Slytherin.

................................ THWACK!

WHAT.

IN THE ACTUAL.

NAME OF.

MERLIN?!

Maybe he should have expected it since he was standing around and was CLEARLY a target for anyone in the red and blue houses but REALLY? SUPER SECRET CODE, COME ON PEOPLE. Dude was trying to be NOSY. And now he had some sort of fruit purée on the side of his face and dripping down his neck and down onto his chest. "UGH!" he said, hastily trying to wipe as much of it away as he could, "This stuff is going to STINK." Jeez, man.

Oh right. Note. THAT got a bit of puree on it too so Grayson hastily wiped part of it off and continued reading.

...................... SMIRK.

Oh ho ho! What do we have HERE? A mutiny? A REVOLUTION? Yeah, he was DOWN for that. Now he just needed to find whoever this TT person was. Someone hiding UNDER a desk, no doubt, since the note mentioned something about mutiny under one of them. The boy bent down -- good thing too, because there were freaking purées flying EVERYWHERE -- and searched around until his eyes landed on...........

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It hadn't really taken much though. Still under the desk, Toby had retrieved parchment and ink and another quill and was quickly scribbling out the same message over and over, before folding the parchment into paper airplanes. Then, once he'd used a decent amount of his available parchment, the Hufflepuff tapped each one with his wand and sent it out into the abyss that was the classroom in the general direction of the other students.



And... just in case...

"Accio Banana."

That spell was definitely coming in handy today. Now to see if anyone would be up for a classroom revolution.

.................. No. What. WHAT?! This mutiny was being started by a HUFFLEPUFF? And TOBIAS, of all people?! What happened to having Elixir to Induce Euphoria running through his veins?

This class was clearly full of surprises, sweet MERLIN.

Hoping against hope that he wasn't wrong, Grayson hobbled his way over towards there with some sort of sticky purée still attached to his face. "Yo! What're we gonna do? How are we gonna get him into the closet?" Lulz. Oh MAN. Into the closet. The expression on the Astronomy Professor Captain was NOT going to be a good one and that made Whitty that quite a bit excited.

No but really. HOW were they gonna do this without getting caught? Not that he cared about points or innocence or whatever but he kinda wanted to save his skin, you know.

Very faintly, almost like it didn't exist, Alexa heard a voice. It wasn't just any voice either but Thorton. She'd recognize the prim and proper tone anywhere and whirled in his direction with a casual grin. "Lighten up Thorton. The grand 'ole Cap'n might have lost a screw or two but this beats theory and he'll be out of it in no time. I'd shoot you for mutiny if we weren't on the same team." All in good fun though. This was a hella serious problem but from experience she knew there was nothing to do but ride it out and enjoy.

"I'll help you get cleaned up after, so fire away--I recommend the stuffy Slytherin over there." Permission to aim and fire at each other? Yes please! This was a long time coming if you asked her.

And with that Lex took aim at a bunch of bananas well placed on the table...for now. "Francesco!" Was Lottie still not aiming at people? It could be FUN, in fact it was. If no one else, Alexa was thoroughly amused. In the end she would magick herself clean and would have gotten some good wand practice out of it too.

Her eyes glanced the room twice for her next target and found one soon enough. "Depulso!" Heh. Prudes. This was EPIC fun.

Having finished the couple of food items he salvaged from being wasted, Declan went back out into the war zone from the safety of the closet. He spotted an apple sitting on top of a desk and crawled towards it on all fours. The boy was already planning his escape out the door after snatching the apple when suddenly...

*SPLAT!*

The side of his beautiful face was hit with Merlin-knows-what and dripping down his neck and into his collar. Dec froze in place, unaffected eye twitching; the temperature in his face rising.
...
.....
.......

ಠ╭╮ಠ "THAT...IS...ITTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ಠ╭╮ಠ

Unbelievably furious, Dec rose to his full six feet stature, not even fazed by the pureed food whizzing by close, and grabbed the apple he left the closet for.

He's had it with people getting too friendly with his face. The boy reached slid his wand out of his pocket and held it at his side; glaring at the direction in which the culprit had thrown this disgusting substance at his face. Declan took one bite into the apple and then, non-verbally casted 'Francesco' on the apple while he chewed in despise.

Not taking his eyes off that side of the room, he mumbled, "Depulso" and watched the apple puree whiz towards group of blue and red. No more Mr. Nice Hufflepuff.

After he crushed the banana in her face, Ian heard her say shut up (ok..yell was more like it, but say sounds sweeter ). OH NO YOU DI'NT! Ian said as he bobbed his head side to side. I'll say whatever I want. You don't own this school and you certainly don't own me. I'm a free Scotsman and it's time I said what I have to say. He saw her grab a bunch of apples and then he watched (almost in slow motion) as she started flinging them at him. She wasn't tossing them like an old lady either, she was winging them with all she had. He quickly threw up his wand and said Protego! He wasn't quite quick enough and he caught one apple in the belly and one glanced off the side of his head. Ian had enough. He started screaming what he wanted to say..she might not listen, but by jove, she'd hear him. I'm sorry for everything that happened that first day. I'm sorry I tried to curse you, I'm sorry that I kissed you, in more ways than one. I'm sorry that I didn't fight back cause my mum told me not to hit girls and I was a train wreck. I'm sorry that I ruined EVERY friendship I had in this school because I was trying to avoid a conflict after everything I did. I am not however, sorry that we were friends. I am not sorry I just let you toss apple sauce in my face because I want to be friends again. I am not sorry for this either! He picked up a bunch of grapes and a soft orange and tossed them consequtively trying to catch her off guard. He francescoed his ham and taking two handfuls tossed it straight at her!

However he was distracted from finding out if he had hit the student he had tried for by Angel's exclamation beside him. Ben turned to look at his girlfriend only to notice she had been bit by someone's volley. It took him a moment to wonder who before he realized that since he had moved to his left to avoid Ian's throw that Angel on his right had been in the position to get caught by what he had been saved from by his movements.

Ooops. His fault in some way.

But Ian's fault regardless.

Now he could hardly defend AJ and not her sister so the Hufflepuff was going to get it again if he and his aim had anything to say about it. Benny wasn't even fully aware that Angel had decided to go after her triplet to get her to calm down from her one on one with Ian. Instead he went to retrieve another source of projectile some meat this time. Setting it on the table in front of him, he decided to try the other technique. "Francesco!" he cast, making the meet mush as he had mastered the first spell before moving onto the next. "Depulso!" he cast, aiming the banished meat puree towards Ian once more.

Ian was sitting there doing his best to protect himself from AJ while trying to toss meat mush her way when he was hit AGAIN! He looked to see Benny with a meat pile in front of him. Ian looked down and noticed he had plenty of ham hash in front of him and took another handful and heaved it at Benny. He didn't know if he had hit him with the last volley, but Ian was ok trying...cause of course Benny was on the other 'team'.

He didn't take his attention off AJ for too long though. He returned his gaze at her to make sure he'd have time to react to her barrages.

Yeahhh Ruby wasn't about this life. She spent a few minutes hiding behind Grayson before she decided she wasn't sticking around. It wasn't EASY either by the way, to sneak out. Like there was plenty of chaos to distract anyone from what she was doing but there was gross food everywhere. That stuff she was NOT allowing anywhere near her hair, and would NOT put up with it getting under her fingernails.

She dodged and ducked here and there, with surprising speed but plenty of smarts. Hide behind bigger targets you know. Finally she made it to the door...

... and then Ruby was gone.

Bailing on Astronomy.

A paper airplane had caught Maddie's eye from her place underneath the desks and she reached a hand out, stretching her fingers to get it. After reading the contents, she showed Kyroh and then motioned for him to follow. He didn't HAVE to but getting Professor Crazy locked away so they could escape seemed like the best plan of action right now.

Crawling along under the desks, the second year made her way to where Toby was holding court. She wasn't sure she trusted EVERYONE there (GRAYSON) but she DID think they needed a distraction and she wasn't above making the snake walk the plank if it meant getting Flamsteed safely into the closet. JUST saying.

"Who's going to be the distraction, hm?"

See? He had been right. His aim had not missed. Adi smirked. Ian deserved everything he got. Time for another shot at an unsuspecting victim, yes? One more apple was in his hand. "Francesco!" Now, he wasn't biased to Gryffindors or Ravenclaws but another Ravenclaw was whom he saw first (Thornton). Adi let his mush fly but had to quickly duck.The last thing he saw before he did that because some mush came whizzing by was AJ marching up to Ian.

And he surfaced just in time to see her smack in him the face. O_O What was she saying about winking? Was Ian winking at his girl? Did he need to hex the trouble maker? Annnnd there went Ian retaliating.

"YOU!'' Adi said to the dorm mate he had ignored all through the term so far, scrambling out of the cover of his desk. "You leave her alone. Haven't you caused enough trouble for one term?'' Seriously...did Adi always have to keep breaking up fights between these two? He put a hand on AJ. He knew she was fired up.