Angel was totally lost now. "Eh would a bag work?" Angel wasn't sure but it was worth asking... because she couldn't figure out what else they had that they could use.

"Immobulus!!" Angel was glad she had brought her wand because well she was going to need it. "Immobulus" Angel was doing the wand movement at the same time aiming for the pixies, she really hoped that they could get the pixie to stop attacking because that just wasn't nice.

Following as she was told, Beverly focused her attention on the runes and then helping with taking the table toward the Restricted Section. This, she did not see as an opportunity to capture the book, at the realization that this was the Restricted Sections, she maybe could get a sneak peek at some books.

But the smell...

...cookies.

It was all too tempting, and so was getting her hands on the book.

She had just about walked closer toward front of the group when...


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HOLY MOTHER OF DRAGONS.

PIXIES. A SWARM of them.

And there was one tugging on HER hair. Beverly Juniper Wayne OFFICIALLY despised pixies. Away with them! Wincing and scowling and cursing under her breath, the Prefect threw her wand out, shooting at the pixie ASSAULTING her. "Immobulus!"

.......Despite this little Ravenclaw girl actually being a girl, Gabe turned to give her a curious look. It was a good question...

"I think....um, people are too focused on the smells." Helpful Banner is helpful.....and those who weren't focused on the smells were too horrified by the sight of their professors and classmates acting like the walking dead.

So, there was that, too.


There was suddenly quite A LOT going on.....all at once!

Pixies were materializing out of the fairy tale book.....AND ATTACKING CULLODEN....and the little Ravenclaw girl he'd just been speaking to was casting against them. Gabriel looked at the much smaller girl in horror.

A Second Year GIRL was protecting his FAVORITE professor.....

Wow. What had his anxiety reduced him to.....? Gabe glanced at Penelope....and then to the others that had just joined in with the Freezing spell. It wasn't awful to protect people you cared about...and it shouldn't have been so stressful to raise his wand and cast when so many others had zero issues....and this wasn't just Culloden....Flamsteed was also under the book's power. Both favorites. Both so crucial to the progress he'd been making.

"I-immobulus...."

He was trembling...and couldn't help it. The spell was repeatedly stuttered...as fear clutched Gabriel's throat.

"Im-Immobulus....Immobulus!" Finally....It was okay. His Head of House was there and others that would....keep them safe. That was okay. THIS was okay.

"Immobulus!"

So they had brought the table and she looked towards Airey and Cosgrach worried as they seemed to be drawn closer and closer to the book. Gasping as Cossy took hold of it. "What in Merlin's beard." Did it just send pixies at them? She ducked as a few came closer to her.

Watching the students starting to work together to stop the pixies. "Good Job everyone. Keep stunning them. Professor Culloden are you alright?" She raised her wand joining the group to stop the pixies from attacking him any further.

SPOILER!!: Gabe

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Originally Posted by Govoni

.......Despite this little Ravenclaw girl actually being a girl, Gabe turned to give her a curious look. It was a good question...

"I think....um, people are too focused on that smells." Helpful Banner is helpful.....and those who weren't focused on the smells were too horrified by the sight of their professors and classmates acting like the walking dead.

So, there was that, too.

SPOILER!!: This!

There was suddenly quite A LOT going on.....all at once!

Pixies were materializing out of the fairy tale book.....AND ATTACKING CULLODEN....and the little Ravenclaw girl he'd just been speaking to was casting against them. Gabriel looked at the much smaller girl in horror.

A Second Year GIRL was protecting his FAVORITE professor.....

Wow. What had his anxiety reduced him to.....? Gabe glanced at Penelope....and then to the others that had just joined in with the Freezing spell. It wasn't awful to protect people you cared about...and it shouldn't have been so stressful to raise his wand and cast when so many others had zero issues....and this wasn't just Culloden....Flamsteed was also under the book's power. Both favorites. Both so crucial to the progress he'd been making.

"I-immobulus...."

He was trembling...and couldn't help it. The spell was repeatedly stuttered...as fear clutched Gabriel's throat.

"Im-Immobulus....Immobulus!" Finally....It was okay. His Head of House was there and others that would....keep them safe. That was okay. THIS was okay.

"Immobulus!"

Oh good, other people had joined he in immobilizing the pixies. Someone as speaking to her. It was that older Ravenclaw boy, Gabriel. Too focused on the smell... They needed another powerful smell to distract those who were being lured in by the book. "The smell, we need a way to distract them from the smell." If anyone carried around stuff with a strong smell, it would be Professor Culloden. She wasn't sure if he actually carried that around with him, but either way, Professor Culloden was currently being attacked by pixies. Professor Culloden wouldn't be much help while he was being attacked.

"Immobulus! Immobulus!" Penelope fired another round of spells at the pixies, hoping that the spells immobilized the pixies and not Professor Culloden.

Penelope was mentally forming a plan. First, deal with the pixies. Second, or even better, while the pixies were being dealt with, stop Professor Flamsteed and the rest of the people heading for the book. Waving something with a strong smell in front of the astronomy professor's nose Third, get everyone who didn't need to be here out of the restricted section. Even after catching the fairy tale book, there would still be the threat of all of the dangerous books in the restricted section. It would be a shame if the Hufflepuffs, or any other people were harmed by books in the restricted section.

REALLY!!!!

That's all it took to end the book?! Placing it in a ring of Runes?! Why didn't anyone think of that before? And now they were being attacked by pixies. Sigh. "Immobulus!" she cried, aiming at the nearest one. Which just happened to be tugging on her shoelaces, trying to tie her shoes together. Stupid creatures. Exactly why she wasn't the biggest fan of Care of Magical Creatures class. All about protecting things like this. "Immobulus!"

"Does anyone have a box or jar or something?" You know, to put the frozen ones in so they didn't attack again.

... whoa!

"The ward works!" Botros shouted over the series of pixies that invaded their small space and elicited a series of spells from the people around. A shell-like shield flashed over the ring when Culloden placed the book on the table. It was the trapping ward at work. "It cannot vanish now!" He emphasized proudly, literally beaming at anyone who met his eyes... which was none because they were all busy fighting off those nasty little things. Right.

Anyway, a box sounded great. Botros wasn't sure if the pixies from the book were any real, but for now they better not take risks. So. Yeah. He accio'd a small box from the front desk of Leo's and enlarged it with his wand to a size suitable to put in the pixies. "Keep going!" He dodged the moving pixies as he picked up the frozen ones he saw and dropped them in the box.

Leo turned to Penelope who posed a good question considering where they were all standing. Loud enough to be heard by everyone present he answered. "The locks, chains and numerous spells cast on both books and shelves in here should hold. We are safe!" He emphasized reassuringly. It wouldn't do to have student's freaking out in the section. Plus he admitted to himself Leo lied to keep the calm running. He was well aware that if one book could get loose more could do it. He'd have to see to if he could up the security over the summer. Maybe Piers had some suggestions?

Then chaos broke loose as a swarm of pixies flew out of the book and attacked. Pulling out his wand Leo cried out "Immobulus" and cast the spell on a pixie that was attacking his hair. Ducking and dodging several more pixies he glanced over at Botros who was priding himself with his invention that seemed to be going and shouted over to him. "How do we stop the pixie swarm from coming out of the book?"

Glancing around at the students who were casting Immobulus as fast as they could Leo echoed. "Keep going! Don't let the pixies get too close to attack!" Trying to move towards Cossy he shouted to his friend over the sounds of running feet, spells and pixies. "Professor Culloden, are you all right?"

Angel was doing her best, she didn't want to let any of the Professors down. "Immobulus!" Angel was going to get one of these pixies. "Immobulus!" Angel was shooting the spell straight at the pixies, she still didn't like how they were attacking the Professor... when he wasn't harming them at all... he was just doing his job.

Was the Potions man okay? O_O

But everyone was asking him that so Adi figured Culloden would be taken care of. Time to get back with helping to fight off pixies, yeah? Uh...that was kind of difficult given that one was currently tugging on his hair. REALLY HARD.

"Ouch! You get off!'' Adi waved his hand at the pixie but of course it was no use. Time to use magic maybe? "Immobulus!'' More tugging. "Immobulus!'' Aha! Nothing now. That meant his hair was free.

"Immobulus! Immobulus!" Pesky pixies.

Amid the Pixie battle, Botros heard Leo call for him. "Beats me! My runes just bind the book to this place so it doesn't disappear!" Maybe try a bunch of spells at the book while everyone else fended off those pixies? Ab focused on the book and started attacking it with a bunch of spells starting with Finite Incantatem.

It didn't take long until one of them was getting attacked by a swarm of pixies and as Kevin stood next to Dumbo aka Adi , he saw that the person attacked was Culloden. A laugh escaped his mouth but he was pretty sure that no one would be paying attention to him. Because what? it WAS funny! ...wasn't it? he thought it was... But he already knew that his sense of humor was different than anyone elses. Mweh.

He didn't have much time to laugh though as the pixies started to fly his way as well. At first, he saw them grab Adi's hair but before he could raise his wand to help out he too got pulled on his right ear. "oww oww oww!" he shrieked, trying to swat away the pixie with his free hand. "Immobulus!" he shouted after effectively shaking the pixie off and hitting it with the spell.

"ISN'T THERE A SPELL THAT CLOSES BOOKS OR SOMETHING?!" or someone grab it with their hands ...take one for the team , be a hero , or whatever.

Jordan was just senselessly roaming the halls when he realized he could do something around the castle. Although he didn't have a huge interest in books, The Book Club needed help in gathering up all these different kinds of books. So instead of sitting on his bottom, and doing homework, he decided to go help them out.

He had heard from a few of the Gryffindors in the Common Room that they were headed to the Restricted Section of the library along with the professors of course. A bunch of students couldn't just go to the restricted section of the library, that would be absurd. But nonetheless, it was an opportunity for students to temporarily break some of the rules. As Jordan entered the Restricted Section, he noticed that there were very loud noises and sounds, this would typically be unusual at most libraries, however this is Hogwarts, far from ordinary. Growing curious of the annoying sounds he thought it good to follow the sounds and pinpoint where the sound was coming from.

Once he realized and found the source of the strange sounds, he had wished he hadn't come. "Oh lord, pixies? Really?" From what it looked like, these Blue looking, skinny, weird-looking and small creatures came from a book! Yes, A BOOK! That in and of itself was a bit weird and scary to Jordan. In defense Jordan whipped out his seven inch wand with Strong Mahogany Wood in case he had to defend himself and get some of the pixies out of his face. He had remembered learning about the different spells you could use against small creatures and especially pixies, but he couldn't remember any of the spells to save his life. He had hoped other students would demonstrate some of the spells to use that way he could follow suit.

"Professor Botros has it bound in the runes now." Professor Culloden had placed it on the table...not knowing what he was doing...but helping, nonetheless.

Was he okay?!

Gabriel needed him to be okay...


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......and he cringed at the loud noises.

"Couldn't we actually freeze the book....with, uh, Glacius? To caulk it in ice?" If it was blocked, it couldn't produce anymore of these gnarly pixies...right? And even if it only staunched the flow of pixies streaming out, it'd still give said pixies no place to retreat to. A momentary fix...until Professor Romanos could show up.

This antique text was considered Dark Magic, right?.....and she was the expert.

"Immobulus..." Now that Gabe wasn't stuttering, the spell was coming much easier.....but he was still on the verge of having a fit. He didn't like creatures as it was and these pixies were especially ill tempered....

"Couldn't....runes?...bind it? As in....sealing the...book up?"...His arms were starting to hurt with these spells.

The book was fuming now. It was still not being read by anyone. This was not okay. It was beyond being disgruntled now it was getting angry. Didn’t the humans get it? Wriggling on top of the table it started to flip its pages again. Stopping on another story it let out an airy giggle as it sent out a dozen magical carpets to attack the stupid humans.

Zooming fast close to the floor a carpet swept up a boy in a black and yellow school uniform off his feet (FearlessLeader19) and taking him on a ride upside down around the ceiling. Another carpet attacked a dark skinned boy
(HarryPotterQuidditch) that had just arrived to the section giving him a slap over the head before it knocked him over.

A third carpet sneaked up by behind two boys one in red robes (DuckyLinJi) shouting something about spells and another in blue robes (Govoni) that was joining in the spell guessing. Engulfing the two in a hug the carpet literally lifted them up into the air and within seconds they were dangling with their feet's in mid air over the big table.

The remaining carpets kept flying seeking targets to attack.

"I dunno about freezing the book,'' Adi shouted back to Gabe as he directed his attention between Gabe and the pixies. "But I think Professor Botros has a plan to do something concerning runes."

What, what, WHAT? O_O

One moment he was being attacked by a vicious pixie and fighting it of while having a quick conversation with Gabe and the next moment Adi found himself UP IN THE AIR. UPSIDE DOWN, TOO! O__O

What the...where had this carpet suddenly appear from?

Aladdin and his magic carpet briefly flashed in his mind. "How fitting,'' he had time to think to himself before clutching at the carpet again. Oh gosh! If the carpet decided to set him right side up, this Hufflepuff would have his head smashed into the ceiling for sure.

Ahhhhh! How was he going to get down from this thing? He had a second or two to notice Gabe and Kevin being dangled in mid air before he squeezed his eyes shut for fear of being sent smack into a wall. It was attack of the rogue carpets!

Okay so it was caught or not by the runes keeping it to the table. And people kept talking about what to do with both the pixies and the book as it was caught for the moment but not likely to remain that way. Couldn't the uneffected staff have some experience in the matter and think of something. "Maybe we need Professor Romanos," he suggested. Surely the DADA professor had the type of knowledge that might assist. The book could be dark after all.

But it seemed not to have to be moving to do harm. First the pixies that were quickly being immobulized by himself and other students. But that was only the first salvo and before Benny could notice that the pages had flipped around even more to another part of the book, there were more items appearing. These were far bigger than pixies yet as things progressed were just as troublesome.

Flying carpets!

And one had snagged Adi up to hang by the ceiling!

Benny's wand had already been out for the pixies but he had to help his best friend. Or any of the captives for that matter. But how without causing them to fall and risk getting seriously hurt? "Immobulus!" he finally cast at the flying carpet holding Adi feeling at least it would stop moving so he could work on getting the Hufflepuff down.

Cosgrach was ready to read it...

He SHRIEKED and SHRIEKED as pixies tried to MURDER him. He couldn't even fight back, didn't even KNOW which spell to cast, how to do it... all he could do was to yell "GET'EM OFF MEEEEEEE!" while trying to protect his face. These things were BRUTAL too, and it took all his will not to go hysterics. People were immobilising them, though, and he OWED them his LIFE. Finally, after a short while that felt life-long, the pixies were off him. He just collapsed to th ground, still holding his face, and panted.

"Why don't we just BURN it!?" he asked in response to Cassie and Leo. THAT was how he felt! Finally, he removed his hands from his face. It was thankfully undamaged, but his hands needed a healing potion...


NO.

Drawing his wand, he yelled "DIFFINDO!" to save Gabriel and Kevin and "Aresto Momentum!" at Adi in case he fell.

"Howdoweevenstopthese?!" he yelled again. Yes, he was still on the ground, because these things were FLYING and he wanted to make himself as small as possible.

Angel was upset when Adi went up in the air. "HEY LEAVE MY BRO ALONE!!!! Angel shouted at the stuff... she was really annoyed with the stuff and she hoped that everything would be cool and Adi wouldn't be heart at all. "Immobulus!" Angel aimed her wand and hoped that everything would be okay. "Immobulus!" Angel wanted Adi back now.

NOOOOO! THE BOOK WAS.....

Oh wait. It was just moving to the table and....

"SWEET SOLSTICE!"

Not wanting to deal AT ALL with the pixies that were zooming out of the book - creatures were not his thing - the astronomer dove off to the side and attempted to army crawl around one of the shelves to hide gain some better perspective on the situation.

Overhearing Mr. Hirase shout out something about a spell and then Professor Botros saying something about runes and ---- HOLY BLAZING COMETS! Face planting into the floor as one of the carpets went zooming over his head, the astronomer heard a soft crack as cartilage combined with the floor. Eyes watering - because that did tend to happen when one smacked their nose against something hard like that - he pushed himself up off the ground and rubbed his nose several times before trying to make his way back towards the center of all the chaos.

On second thought....army crawling seemed like a MUCH better idea.

Back on the floor again with his wand clutched in one hand, Airey wiggled his way back, shooting off stunning spells towards flying carpets when he had a clear enough shot.

AND FOR THE LOVE OF MERLIN NO BURNING THE BOOK!

"I don't suppose anyone has been able to try and cast Colloportus or something of that nature on the book?!" he shouted while rolling to the side and slamming into one of the bookshelves to avoid one of the on coming carpets. Had anyone cast any spells or enchantments at it, save for this runic...whatever it was...that Professor Botros had set up?

Maybe he could ATTEMPT if he could crawl a little closer....

Also...Cosgrach? Ears still ringing over here from that shriek. Sweet solstice.

With the uninvited arrival of the pixies, Tiara had been momentarily stunned. Sure, pixies had shown up in Ravenclaw Tower earlier in the term, but they weren't attacking anyone like this. She rushed over to her colleague. "Culloden, keep it together, we need you." She was being stern, but not unkind. "We can't just burn it, Cosgrach." She was scandalized at the very thought of such wanton destruction of literature, but mostly she didn't want to think of the repercussions the book would throw out. Flaming things, no doubt.

But then she saw what he was doing: there was another attack by that infernal book. She shot a Cushioning Charm underneath Adi. Just in case.

"Good idea, Flamsteed!" she shouted across the room. "Colloportus, whoever is nearest!" She pointed her wand and let one loose herself, but it ricocheted harmlessly off of a chair in between. "I don't have a clear shot. Cosgrach, I'm going nearer. Handle yourself!" Taking a page out of Airey's book, she crawled across the room toward the madness.

Alexa had only been aware of the sudden enchanting feel of the book and might have continued on that path until all the chaos erupted, snapping her back to her senses in time to see pixies flying, spells casting, Collarbin shrieking like he'd seen Felix again, some carpets and....and Merlin this WAS a mad house wasn't it?

Remember how amused she'd been earlier back in the library? Yeah....that was happening again and despite what some might have considered a serious situation, the Gryffindor was CRACKING UP.

As in....Airey was CRAWLING on the floor, Collarbin was shrieking like Circe knows what and there were pixies floating around. It was like a circus only she might have been the only one hardly concerned. Yes, this might prove a tad bit problematic seeing as it prevented her from raising her own wand to offer help but hahahaha it was hilarious. "I agree with Professor Culloden. Let's burn the thing and be done with it." Sorry Airey, the Gryffindor hadn't set anything on fire in the longest while. It was long overdue.

She watched the Arithmancy Professor propose colloportus, nicking the idea from Professor Airey but couldn't help think it'd fail...like everything else. This was the most ironic fairytale book she'd ever seen, considering all the chaos it was causing. "So much for 'everyone living happily ever after'." She commented lightly, leaning against one of the safer bookshelves that didn't snarl or shriek at her.

"Brilliant." This book was gold. On second thought, let's not burn it. Could she keep it? For later?

Gabriel's idea of sealing the book up was good but... how were they supposed to do that? But before he could think of anything he saw that the book on the table was flipping its pages again and a second later he felt himself being wrapped in a carpet together with the Ravenclaw. He shrieked and accidentally dropped his wand and as he was lifted up in to the air, he dangled upside down above the table. He wriggled and as he did so he saw that Culloden was pointing his wand at them. WHATWASHEDOING?! Oh wait, he was using diffindo on the carpet to set them free. How thoughtful was that?! the only problem was.... Exactly. Being in midair , Kevin shrieked again as he fell but didn't hurt himself as he landed.

The moment he was back on the ground, he dropped down on his knees and crawled under the table where he had seen his wand roll under. He NEEDED his wand right?

Aw flying carpets! Botros, unlike pretty much everyone else, was beaming and grinning foolishly at them. "Back when I was a boy," He called out over the shouting and spell-casting. A short story as they battled a magical book was not harmful. "My father took me and my sibling carpet riding in Egypt! It was brilliant." Oh hohoho, he chuckled at the memory, and ducked when one of those swooping things went at him. Flying on a flying carpet was one thing, getting hit by one was another.

So now. Back to reality. Did Culloden just suggest burning the book or were his ears decieving him? He definitely heard Flamsteed give a better option, and Tanner was crawling towards the book. Okay, good, his much younger colleagues were handling things well.

As for him, he took cover behind one of the bookshelves and leaned sideways to help with the spells from where he stood slightly far from the scene. "Colloportus!"

Zoe stared now as the flying carpets flew out and started picking people up who had been stunning the pixies. She squeaked and started backing away even more now. Merlin, okay maybe she should have stayed in the kitchens or even ran for the common room rather than follow the headmistress's directions to going to the library? Where was James anyway? How did you stop flying carpets? They'd tried stopping the pixies and now look!