Annabeth was still thinking on Cosgrach last question when she noticed the door crashing down near to her. It took a few for her to realize that the troll was real. She run her fingers on her wand and stood quite still. The wrong decision could place her life in serious jeopardy. She looked frightened at Cosgrach, her eyes watering in fear.

Yeah no. This was worse than an earthquake and Silas wanted no part of it. None. Nada. NOPE. Cowering closer to the ground he whimpered slightly.

THERE WAS A TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!?!?!?!?

" Professsssooooorrrrrr! SAVE US!! "

Angel was clinging to Benny, and she knew that the older lion would take good care of her sister. She was safe. Leave it to Adi to joke during a serious moment. He got a smile for that. It was one of the best things about him.

"Like being clung to?" It wasn't something that AJ normally did. "Don't be silly though. I just figured two wands were better than one." She'd be lying if she said she wasn't a little scared, but for the most part she was ready to attack with her man by her side. It wasn't like she was hiding behind Adi, like Angel was doing with Benny after all. "What's the plan?"

CRASH!!!!

WHAT IN THE BLOODY MERLIN!? He stood there wide eyed....

O____O

He immediately got out of his seat. The big troll just broke down the door. Ermm this was not good. Kace got his wand at the ready incase he got near him. He needed to defend himself somehow right? He went to the front of the classroom just to be safe. He didn't even know what spells would work on a troll.

A troll? Of all the things that could'a burst through that bloody door it had to be a troll? And on a day she didn't have her wand (really had to find that thing, this was getting inconvenient). How.....how...."RUDE. You useless son of garden gnome--you show up when I can't find my wand?" While she spoke she reached for her shoe then hurled it at him. Something she'd seen Vivi do once to show her displeasure. "Shoddy timing you big Oof!"

And she was being perfectly seriously. It was no rabid chimaera, nor was it a sleeping dragon but it was still high up on a Gryffindor's list, you know? She'd always dreamt of something busting in but all those dreams had her valiantly brandishing her wand NOT sitting here looking all dumb like everyone else. 'OH LOOK, IT'S A BLOODY TROLL', how original.

But this...wasn't what Head Girls did, something she noted only after Toby started....wow.

"Like Toby says, everyone get away from this thing, the Professor will handle it." While she sat here and seethed about this. Damn thing. Rotten timing.

Ugh.

When the door CRASHED to the ground and Lux saw the troll, she immediately shrieked and went to hide under her desk. This was very scary and she wished that Bay was there so that she could cling to him and be protected. There was Kace, but he was not the same thing by any means.

Huddled under her desk, she hugged her arms around her knees and wanted the troll to go away. Where was Bay?!

Yes. Yes. His eyes were starting to feel heavy…his breathing was starting to deepen. Merlin’s beard. Just one last question, and his brain can’t process it. He can’t come up with an ingredient anymore because hello Zzzs.

And just like everybody else, Ethan’s eyes were wide open because of the booming sound, and instinctively got his wand out from his arm. He’s jumpy because he’s at the brink of falling asleep, then remembering he can’t fall asleep and started to hallucinate, or the banging sound was the real deal. Before he could even yelp, the door crashed on the floor and…what in the holy name of Salazar Slytherin??! HOW…How can a troll find its way into the dungeons? WHO let it in? Questions, he’s got questions alright, but first things first. Stand up, and back away from the thing.

They must stun that ugly thing right there. But what if they can’t? “Think Mordaunt. Come on!” The potions classroom is connected to the potions laboratory, yes? They can escape through there if all else fail. “Slytherins! Stay behind me!” Or stay behind Gryffindors, if they like. Merlin’s beard. His first year as a prefect, and THIS??! And what…NO! “Gregoire! Aladdin! No…Gregoire! WHOEVER YOU ARE DO NOT ENGAGE THE---" Meep. Too late. “Get back here!” Ethan quickly dragged the hallucinating French kid behind him before the troll could even bang his club on the poor kid. And could Trolls talk? Now's not the time to ask such questions, missy. Everyone's in danger.

Now what? Ethan, now fully awake, stayed far from the ugly thing and waited for Culloden’s instruction. Was this part of Potions class? Were they to extract…Troll boogers for their next potion? Gross, but yeah…

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The Gryffindor's doodling was abruptly stopped at the sound of... Actually what was that sound?

Either there was something really big thumping oustside of the classroom or someone was just as frustrated with this lesson as he was. What in the name of Merlin was going on? Zander didn't like this theory stuff either, but you didn't see him throwing a fit because of it. Probably some immature first year or something. Typical.

Double O__________________O!!!!! x100000

ABORT MISSION. ABORT MISSION!! That was the FARTHEST thing from an immature firstie. WHAT. Okay, Professor C if you hadn't taken the cauldron away this would've been a great opportunity to use it as head protection. But nope. Had to take it away, didn't yah? But the next best thing: His wand. Zander pulled it out of it's holster in his bag and got up from his seat. Well, this was a great end to a wonderful lesson. All sarcasm, by the way. Zander wasn't really having much of a wonderful lesson.

"WHaaaaaa??" Wait a minute. Troll. A troll. There was a troll. Huh, a troll? WHY DID THAT TAKE SO LONG TO REGISTER?! A TROLL.

His eyes were widened. Mouth ajar. Fingers shaking a little, but not much okay!! Instinctively, he looked at Professor Culloden first. But he still just stood there. Stood there right by his desk, looking at that ugly troll now. Staring. But also holding up his wand, yeah? At least there was a little logic. He was kind of in shock. Or a lot in shock. Or a lot in-- what?

A TROLL??? ??? ? ???

Nope. Gabriel didn't SEE Zahra gaping at him...

Excuse me.

He was currently too busy GAWKING at the full sized troll now stepping inside the potions classroom. What were words?!

........and he had to agree with his sister. Why was it talking?

This was a hybrid troll. MORE DANGEROUS AND DEADLY, wasn't it?! AND HE WAS ONE OF THE ONES CLOSEST TO IT. Sitting at the front of the room had seemed like such a smart idea. WHAT WAS THIS?!

Unfortunately, fear had glued him to the spot...and Gabriel just continued to GAWK.

........Was he REALLY seeing this?!

Ruby was far back enough at this point that she wasn't in immediate danger, and she wasn't one to lose her head like some people.

She also wasn't about to play hero like half the class apparently? All the 'get backs' were just obvy, and all the 'get behind mes' were just... what? Who said that? Who actually thought 'hey yes I shall sacrifice myself for other people', that was the dumbest--Gabriel! Why was he just sitting there.

"Gabriel, idiot, stop sight-seeing and come over here and protect me!" What KIND OF big brother just SAT there? But omg also, really... one of those stupid brave people... maybe they could fetch her brother? Please? Yes?

Kevin was about to answer the previous question when it happened. The loud bangs on the door had startled him out of boredom and he turned his head just in time to see a troll crashing in the room.

....a troll... a real troll..."wicked" he said but then jumped up from his place when the troll entered the room. He grabbed his wand instictively and looked at the Professor as the Prefects shouted to get back. Normally he would have ignored their commands but he wasn't stupid so he too turned to hide with them but then....

Zander

the bloody idiot was just standing there! Without another thought, Kevin changed cource and ran up to his friend. "What are you doing, idiot!?"

The young Slytherin had been wrong with her answer. That's alright because that's what she was coming to Hogwarts for. To learn. Picking up her quill she began to jot down the correct answers when there was a terribly loud banging on the door.

The banging got louder and louder. Crash! One minute the door was there and the next...it was on the ground! Standing where the door once was, was a...a...troll?!

Hadleigh blinked several times staring at the troll in surprise to shocked to even get up and move from her desk in the front of the room.

Whoa. Cool. SCARY, but COOL. Z'd never seen a REAL troll. "I KNEW YOU HAD SOMETHING UP YOUR SLEEVE, PROFESSOR C!" A REAL TEST!

No time to brew a potion.

Only time to SAVE EVERYONE and try not to get eaten.

Merlin, she missed Mikey. IMAGINE THEM TAKING ON A TROLL TOGETHER! They could mount it's HEAD in their future living room one day...

But alas, alas, she was on her own.

She was quickly to the front of the room, helping to MOVE FIRST YEARS (ie shove them until they were behind older kids/to their Prefects). Then at Ruby's yelp for help, Zahra MANHANDLED Gabe from his stool and basically dragged him like a troll herself away and to Ruby.

NOW BRING IT ON TROLL. CULLODEN EATS TROLL FOR BREAKFAST!

.............Yep. Gabriel hadn't moved an inch. Even when he'd, somewhere in the back of his mind, HEARD Ruby yelling for him....he was fixated on the huge beast. How had it gotten in? Was it actually a troll? HAD THEY ALL BEEN SLIPPED SOMETHING AND NOW HALLUCINATING FROM ITS EFFECTS?! That seemed likely...though, Gabe couldn't remember eating or drinking anything that tasted funny...

Suddenly, he was being JERKED back harshly...and he stumbled....almost face!planting on the dungeon floor. He looked around wildly, trying to figure out what was going on...Was it Ruby.........Gabe remembered hearing her voice......

Zahra...

Zahra was touching him.

Gabriel jerked away meanly upon realizing this; face set in a hard line. HIS NOTEBOOK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. He had to go back for his notebook...........but now that he'd been knocked out of his almost trance, the troll seemed decidedly MORE real...and he cringed backward further...fumbling around for his sister's hand.

...and then he fixed his glasses.

What the hell even?!

ALSO, HIS NOTES!! Not thinking about anxiety or stress or ANYTHING ELSE he was feeling, Gabe whipped his wand out and accio'd them and his quill quickly. PRIZED POSSESSIONS. THE TROLL COULDN'T HAVE THEM....

What the HEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Agatha was OUT of the way and managed to get behind as many people as possible as soon as the door came down. "GRYFFINDORS FIIIRST!!!" She yelled as she made her way through people until she was the furthest away from the troll as possible. Nope, she didn't have to deal with the massive thing, that sould be the professor's job. No, thanks, she would not play hero like some of those weird kids over there. Gryffindors, of course. Urgh. The fourth year thought they should be the first ones to be eaten, if the creature was actually going to do that to any students.

Once she was in the safest place of the room, Agatha kept quiet. No need to call attention to herself now.

The last question was posed and Jasmine raised her hand to answer it. "Frozen ashwinder eggs can be used in love potions. They......." Jasmine didn't get to finish her answer because there was a very loud banging on the the door. What in the world was that?

Then a loud voice talked about gobbling them up. What? Before Jasmine knew what was happening, the door came crashing down and a troll appeared. O_________O Jasmine was frozen, but just for a moment. Then she took out her wand and immediately started looking for her younger claws. Where were they? Were they all safe and out of the path of the troll? Jasmine snatched anyone who seemed be in harm's way and pushed them to the side.

"Maybe if we all shoot stunning spells at the troll at the same time, we can take him down", Jasmine said to anyone within earshot. Or at least they might slow him down.

Just WHAT EVEN anymore????? Marigold abruptly dropped her quill and stood up, backing away from the doorway and away from the troll. For some of the younger students(anyone) who were still sitting still in their seats, she grabbed them and helped them out of their chairs, then moved them quickly to the back of the classroom and behind her for safety. She took out her wand, though she didn't actually have any spells come to mind. Eeeeek.

Huuuuuuhh???

Zander snapped out of it as soon as he heard Kevin's voice. WAIT, there was a bloody troll and it was going to eat them all and he was just standing by his desk O______O Without another thought, Zander looked at Kevin with his widened eyes, "I-uh--" And then he looked back towards the crowd of students that was starting to form at the back of the room.

Pointing his finger towards everyone, "We should-- yeah." Right. Ahem. Whoops. Was he just meant to leave all his stuff at the desk though? There were important papers in that bag!! NO, NO BUT TROLL! It's not like his notes were any good anyways.

Wand still at the ready though, in case. But now he was actually moving towards the back of the room, checking to make sure that Kevin was following.

Ian had anxiously been awaiting a response from the 'good' professor and yet none had come. He supposed that perhaps they were going to have to confront this creature. How exactly did one confront a troll? He did what came to mind first.

He pointed his wand at the place in the floor in FRONT of the troll. HEY EVERYONE! If we freeze the floor, maybe the big oaf will trip and fall and we can overpower it as a group? It was an idea right?

He didn't wait to see if anyone would join him. With as much concentration as he could muster he yelled out GLACIUS!!! and watched as a one foot by one foot circle of ice formed on the floor before the beast.

Resisting the urge to use the Aguamenti charm on his face to wake him up, Kevin was glad that he finally got what was going on. "Yeah, we should!" he said as if Zander just had the worlds greatest idea and watched him leave to the group...

He quickly turned around as well before the troll came closer and after a few steps ...he slipped. The ground near him had changed in to ice and the Gryffindor yelled in shock before falling on his behind. "YA! WHO DID THAT?!" he shouted and tried to get back up.

A little help here!

Cutty got up. He'd been up out of his seat since the creature...whatever it was it was most certainly NOT a troll as they did not speak that way...came booming against the door. He'd been a bit...worried, and so had taken out his wand, but all that dissipated by the reactions of his fellow classmates.

Gregoire was his favourite so far, until Ethan tried to put a stop to it. He almost felt sorry for his cousin for being victim to the presumption that one could actually heard cats.

Then there was Sophie Brown and Toby Tempus...


BWahahahahahah haha hahahaha hhhhahahahha!

Shrinking Solution. Good idea, Rogers! But he had to get close enough to the storage cabinet first.

"Glacius Duo!" He said aiming for the door, but not really. He was taking advantage of Sophie Brown's distraction and her position of staring and waiting for one professor or another. The girl was amazing. Or she could be. Let's see what she does.

This was not the time to panic. This was not the time for inaction. Cutty had his own ideas. This was an opportunity.

Now, again, Cosgrach was editing the blackboard with the answers the students gave. He was proud again, for they all seemed to be giving correct answers. He had taught them well?

Hehe -

BOOM? He stopped looking at the blackboard and turned his confused gaze at the door. What was it? His brain barely registered the students' questions, because a voice inside him said this couldn't be good.

...and it wasn't.

It wasn't BIG BAD WOLF but actually a troll. And not just some ordinary troll - something was different about it... it could TALK, to begin with. And it wanted to gobble people up.

......this wasn't real. It couldn't be. Cosgrach barely registered the BOOMs, because his brain was denying it. No. Nonono.

But it was moving ohmerlin COULD THEY RUNNN maybe they could move between its legs and IT WOULDN'T NOTICE and then they could call someone ELSE -

Cosgrach had pretty been PETRIFIED until that I D I O T shoot a jet of water at the troll. It woke the Professor up. His wand was in his hand then, and directed at the THING. Oh, the boy wouldn't get away with it, for sure. If the troll didn't gobble up in the end, Cosgrach would. For trying to be the stupid hero.

But right now, the Professor had a troll to deal with. He had to be the hero. He loved himself far more than anyone else seperately, but his love for his students in sum was more than his love for himself, so he pushed Sophie behind him and took a step forward while bellowing "GET BACK NOW! Adi, Marigold, Ethan get everyone back. Anyone older than fifth year, come forward." Like Alexa. WHY WAS SHE THROWING A SHOE? WHERE WAS HER WAND?

Cosgrach was panicking, but he was trying his best not to show. He heard what Jasmine said. He also heard Ian's spell. Another idiot wishing his death. Cutty too. "Aim for the eyes," he commanded the fifth year and above students, but pointed his wand at the floor first to QUICKLY undo the stupid freezing spell. He actually didn't want the troll to fall down and slide towards them, thank you very much. He didn't see any more frozen place, so Cutty's heroism would have to wait. He also quickly lifted Kevin and carried him magically to the back with everyone else while every fifth-and-above students hopefully stupefied the beast.

Everyone hope for the best.

As for everyone else who didn't get back but shot a spell at the troll (i.e. Ian, Gregoire and Cutty), he would deal with them later. Oh, he WOULD.

Sophie was STARING up at Culloden with big eyes the moment she moved next to him, WAITING for his direction and examining his facial expressions - he seemed all sorts of panicked and conflicted, didn't he? - and when he pushed her BEHIND him, she FROWNED.

BUT SHE WANTED TO HELP.

She WASN'T a fifth year or older, but that shouldn't have meant she couldn't try to stun the thing, too! Her eyebrows furrowed and she made a move to step out from behind Culloden and join the ranks of the older students, when -

A sharp sting shocked her whole body as Cutty's spell hit her, and before she could even blink, she was frozen solid.

A human ice cube.

Hadleigh snapped out of her daze when she was suddenly being pushed towards the back of the room by an older girl (Zahra). Staying as far back as she could on the instructions of the Professor the tiny first year remained with her back to the wall. The first thoughts running through her mind after 'OH MY GOSH A TROLL!' was that she had wanted to help.

Almost pulling her wand she heard the Professor tell the younger ones to stay back. That...meant...her. Letting out a breath she peered around one of the older kids in front of her trying to see what was happening.

Marigold was continuing to move everyone to the back of the classroom, throwing a "Come on, Sophie, to the back of the classroom," as she passed Sophie Brown, then double-taking. UH OH. She ran back to where she was and tugged on her frozen arm. "Professor?" she said in a small voice. "WhatdoIdo?"