Jordan finally figured out the spell most of the students and staff used to disarm pixies. "Immobulus" Jordan shouted as he casted a few spells to get the pixies out of his business. At about that time Jordan felt something smack his head out of nowhere. It was indeed a carpet. Yes, a carpet attacked Jordan. "Ouch, Merlin's Beard, I didn't think carpets would harm me like that."

Jordan had been hit by multiple things before: His brother, a baseball, football, beater, quaffle ball, baseball bat, soccer ball. This was the first time, especially at Hogwarts, that he can remember that a piece of the carpet ended up attacking himself. He thought to himself, "Welcome to Hogwarts, where books go missing and carpets can physically attack you."

Not knowing what to do Jordan went to a place where he was cornered in to in the library, where he could see everything that was going on and nothing would creep up on him and slap him in the face causing him to be knocked over. Last thing he wanted was a trip to the Hogwarts Hospital Wing due to excessive physical assault from a carpet.

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A lot was happening all at once. Pixies. FLYING CARPETS. Holy Chinese Fireball. You know, they could use a dragon right about now and toast that book. Add in the pixies and flying carpets.

Beverly had just managed to look in Botros' direction, a brief eyebrow raise at how well the runes were working in holding the book in place. If only...it'd freeze it's power.

"Professor?" Any professor, really. "Isn't there ANY spell to put the book to sleep? Make it's magic wear out or just stop shooting things at us?"

And THEN they could burn it. Sorry, Airey.

Eeeeeeek! Full speed pixie ahead! "Immobulus!"

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What..............What................?!?!?!?!

Gabriel went completely WIDE-EYED as the pixies were replaced with flying carpets. He had NOT been prepared for this sort of attack; being immediately swept up by one of the carpets.....arms forced around the Gryffindor known as 'Kevin'.

Insert PANIC ATTACK here.

He couldn't breathe...and the carpet had rendered his wand and wand hand useless. What was personal space?! There wasn't any......and yea, he still couldn't breathe...and it was hard to think in that moment with no oxygen traveling to his brain. There was only blank staring at Kevin....as he was starting to shut down....

...but then he was hurtling towards the floor....landing in a heap next to the table and Professor Botros........It took several moments to get his bearings, as Gabe attempted to recover from the panic attack still in progress.....Breathing. Deep breathing. Head bent between his knees.

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....AND....they didn't know what they were up against....They couldn't just burn it....What if burning the book released whatever dark magic it had...? What if this book was....possessed?!....But Gabe was too shook up to offer that insight. Professor Botros was sealing it, anyway. Sealing it was the safest option....until it could be...properly studied...and....observed....by experts....

HE WANTED A GLASS OF WATER AND A FLUFFY PILLOW....

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Flying carpets. The book was now sending out flying carpets. It obviously didn't like being in the Runes, but tooooo bad! Stupid thing shouldn't have tried to take over the school, then. And who was shrieking? Was that a professor? Holy crap on a cracker.

Not that that mattered right now, with the flying carpets flying around and attacking people. "Immobulus!" she cried, aiming at the nearest one. And missing. Grrrrr.........

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SWEET CIRCE, what was going on here?!

No sooner had they gotten the pixies off of Culloden, the book flipped to another page and started attacking them with flying carpets. It seemed MAD that no one was reading it, which made her think that things would only get worse until they destroyed it.

Not sure what spells to use, Lux hoped the adults and older students could take care of the carpets. "I'm with Professor Culloden and Lex. I say burn it before it can cause any more evil." Give it a good taste of Incendio.

Why were the humans refusing to read the tantalizing stories held within its beautifully glowing pages? Were the smells and sights not enough for them? Apparently not, since they were shooting useless spells at it. They had no effect whatsoever on the Fairy Tale Book of Fairy Tales.

Then the book seemed to shudder at something one of the older students said. That girl had previously perused its pages and enjoyed herself, but now she was threatening it. How to counteract this? Make her happy, of course.

Immediately everything changed. The rogue pixies began to bat their eyelashes, blow kisses, and playfully braid the hair of anyone they could reach. The flying carpets released their captives and began to dance with them instead. And now frogs, some chocolate some real, began leaping from the table where the book sat, bound by the runic ward. The amphibians began to pucker up and make kissing noises.

Try not letting that make you happy, girl!

She was trying to slip from the room without being seen when she felt her hair being tugged and tried to look back at whatever had hold of it and saw blue fingers of a pixie who was now attached to her back trying to braid her long hair. Wait! NO! Get off! She tried reaching back to catch hold of the little pixie. "Come on now!" she exclaimed. Professors? Headmistress? They really needed to figure something out. Puckering up frogs, dancing carpets and now pixies who braided hair??

Professor Culloden was completely helpless, just screaming for them to save him. It would have been funny if people weren't being attacked by pixies and flying carpets.

Gabriel Banner. She liked this one. He was smart. Oh, one of the carpets had him! Penelope didn't know what to do.

Did someone suggest BURNING the BOOK? "You can't burn the book!"

Good, the carpets had released everyone and had stopped attacking people. Penelope made her way over to Gabriel to make sure that he was alright. "Are you okay, Gabriel?" He didn't look like he was okay. It looked like he was having a panick attack.

Just when Jasmine thought things couldn't possibly get any worse, they did. The evil book sent flying carpets to attack everyone. She watched in horror as the carpets lifted several students into the air. Fortunately no one was seriously injured in the madness.

The professors were shouting out spells and suggestions. The students were giving their opinions on what to do with the book too. It was contained, but not subdued. There had to be a way to put an end to the bad things that were happening.

Suddenly, things got even weirder. The schizophrenic pixies started blowing kisses. What? The carpets we're swaying. Jasmine could not believe what was going on.

In one instant, the mood of the whole book club hunt changed dramatically. The Pixies were now trying to dance with the students and their appearance had changed too. Instead of a weird, blue-looking pixie, you would see that same blue pixie with makeup on as if it were getting ready for some type of formal dance. Jordan was mostly shocked and a little bit confused as to why they transformed like that. Was the book just that unusual or was it trying to pull a prank on the students and professors of Hogwarts, not to mention the Headmistress.

Jordan tried to avoid all and any contact with these "girl" pixies. Unfortunately for them, Jordan was not attracted to these beautified pixies because they would be quite strange and awkward. Instead he continued to discharge the pixies and blocking contact by hitting them with his fists if they got to close. He thought to himself "I didn't think that finding and securing a book would be this difficult, especially in a library. Hogwarts really does surprise you all the time."

First the pixies, then the carpets.... Anastasia was certainly glad she was hiding in the stacks. Whaaaaaaat, this was a big library and her hair was far too valuable and pretty to risk against the wrath of a BOOK. She did follow the events happening around said book, however, from peeping through the bookshelves.

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"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.

"Colloportus is for doors," Anastasia murmured from her hiding spot. "Try collocartus?"

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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?

Or.... this. It turned out the person hiding out on the other side of her shelf was the 'Head Girl' herself. *snort* Anastasia shoved some books to the side and poked her hand through the gap to poke Alexa, then talked through the shelf to the girl.

"Don't laugh," she nudged Cambridge. "Try something. You read it, OBVIOUSLY, as that's the only excuse for your crazy period at the start of this term. So talk to the book. It must be somewhat cognizant. Give it what it wants without reading it."

See, the book was sending out NICE things now to try to get them to read. Annie leaned around the bookshelves and snagged a hopping chocolate frog for herself, biting off a leg idly. Hmm. Not bad. Tasted just like the real thing, too. Since things seemed to be going better now, at least as far as what was coming FROM the book, Annie edged a little bit closer to the mess.

Oh, the book was trapped on a table, now was it? GOOD. So where was the spell to end the book....hmm... they needed some magic words. HA.

Maybe the threat of burning really WAS how to destroy the book, because in no time it went from attacking them to being super nice. It was very weird. A pixie started braiding her hair, and Lux let it slide because hey at least it was being nice.

...WERE THOSE CHOCOLATE FROGS?! *________*

Eagerly grabbing a hold of one, Lux took a bite as she listened to the Headmistress tell Lex to talk to the book. Would it work? She was very curious to see.

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Gabriel had no clue what was going on now. He was far too involved in simple breaths in and out...and not passing out in the middle of this mess. Lack of oxygen to the brain could do that...He had...first hand experience....on that.....front.....

Suddenly, the small Ravenclaw....um, Penelope? girl was speaking to him...and it was a terribly good thing he was already in a panic...because this had no further negative effects on his state of mind. How could it possibly get worse? A flying carpet had just tried to kill him...

A. Flying. Carpet.

"I'm....okay." His tone suggested otherwise, however.

.......Why were there suddenly bouncing chocolate frogs?...and dancing carpets?......and......hair-braiding pixies? This...was a nightmare. Yes! He was dreaming....What else could it possibly be?! He just needed to pinch himself and this would all go away and then he could wake up and get dressed...and go eat breakfast with CB.....

What a strange dream to have, though...

Huh. Gabe lifted a hand and gripped some skin between his index finger and thumb, squeezing hard.

WHY WASN'T IT DISAPPEARING?!

Logically....it should have....

.............."I'm....not okay....."

She was seriously getting whiplash from everything going on. First it was pixies, then it was flying carpets and now it was........ chocolate frogs? And the pixies and carpets were being nice? Heather avoided the frogs, because she was afraid that it would be a trick. Like what if the frogs were just the book's way of enchanting people again? So, yeah. The pixies and carpets didn't get a very warm reception from the Gryffindor either, as they were batted away like flies.

Listen to the Headmistress please, Head Girl. This lion was ready for the book's insanity to be over.

Alexa was interested in all the things. The amusement in her eyes as they darted from one disaster to another was not easily hidden and she wasn't trying either. As far as entertainment went, this beat hanging out down in the kitchens--even if that sandwich had been a beautiful sight. This made it worth it. Professors crawling on the floor, hiding behind shelves and generally freaking out made it worth it.

"On the contrary, we can burn anything." She said in response to Penelope's wild protests against the possibility of burning the book. It was like that one year with the flesh eating plant and Bentley not wanting it dead. Bellaire blew that thing to smithereens regardless and they would do it again whether Mr. Kitridge liked it or not.

The sudden poking from behind the books had her attention and freaked her out a little because Restricted Section books that could grab were a PROBLEM. As it turned out it was the Headmistress urging her to try something...to talk to the boo--

Hold the snitch. Oh my my my MY! The book was sprouting chocolate frogs. THE BLOODY BOOK WAS MAKING ALL HER DREAMS COME TRUE. hdsfxijkrgfiwgs!!! Needless to say the Gryffindor had tuned out the Headmistress in favour of the loves of her life, whipping out her wand to freeze them as they went about before sticking them in her bag. These were hers, officially. With the widest of grins now firmly in place, Lex went right up to the book, leaning against the table it now rested and plucked another chocolate frog that was freshly leaving its pages. "Keep this up and I promise I'll live happily ever after." No questions asked. She turned to the others with a serious look and a chocolate frog dangling from her mouth. "No one's burning this bad boy. This is happiest I've been in months." She wanted to scoop the book off the table, and take it back to her dorm so the chocolate frogs could hop around there. No one should disturb. "We're gonna need some alone time." But...spells on the book to keep it in place....best not touch....

Wand in hand was tempting this Prefect. Blasting the bloody book seemed like a great way to release stress from OWLs, Dad's new girlfriend-thing, sleeping issues, books that were trying to posses students. BOOM. Just one really strong blasting spell. It didn't matter from whom.

Beverly had just become overcome with temptation as she pushed off a bookshelf, striding toward the center off commotion, wand gripped tightly, when the attack ceased.

Well...not exactly.

Now there were dancing magic carpets, smooching frogs and...chocolate ones.

1) Only her boyfriend got to smooch her.
2) She wanted all of those chocolate frogs.
3) Tie down the Head Girl and blast that book into smithereens.

Was that so hard? Would anyone miss it? Could they be done with this and have a happily ever after and not worry about ANYTHING? Would this be enough to cancel OWLs? Would pizza be on the menu for dinner?

Beverly thought of all of this while biting the head off of a captured chocolate frog.

"Stupefy!" Smooching frog down. No kissing her.

WHATINTHENAMEOFMERLIN????.... HUH? PIXIES?

And before he could even react, FLYING CARPETS???? Uh. Zander had no idea what to do. He had to... He had to-- KEVIN!!!

Well, that definitely woke him up. Furrowing his brows in reaction, he ran towards Kevin, but then stopped after seeing the third year was alright. Either way, no one messed with his friend and got away with it. Neville Longbottom wouldn't let that happen.

He needed a spell... But what? Uh. All his brain could thing of at the moment was... Aguamenti? Alohomora??? NO THINK, ZANDER. THINK. Uh. Lumos?? WHY COULDN'T HE THINK OF A PROPER SPELL. Wait a minute. Chocolate frogs? The book was shooting out chocolate frogs??? CHRISTMAS WAS HERE... AGAIN! And early too!! This was the best day ever! It was raining chocolate frooooogs! Creepy kissy chocolate frogs BUT STILL. Jumping up and down to collect the spewing frogs, Zander started making his way back close to the book without even realizing it. Until he was only a few feet away from Headgirl Lex. Wait a minute, was she TALKING to the book? Wait a minute. That was exactly what the book wanted, right? To be loved? With the words of one Airey Flamsteed in his head, the Gryffindor swallowed any doubts and took a few steps closer to stand next to the Headgirl. What would Neville Longbottom do? Swallowing hard, the Gryffindor looked at Lex, hoping that she was doing what he thought she was doing. "Isn't this book great, Lex?" he asked, looking at her and imitating a wink that he had definitely seen Simon use before. The kind that said that he definitely didn't think the book was great, though he did it with his turned away from the book and fast enough so that HOPEFULLY the book didn't notice had it seen. Fingers crossed? Anyways, he continued nervously. "Maybe we should just take a small look... Read a page or two?" Did she see what he was trying to do?

If they let the book think that they only wanted to read it... That was what the book wanted? To be read? AND if they could just fool it... Then they could... They could take the opportunity to shut it. And if the book was closed... Then it wouldn't have any power? It had to use the story to shoot out the flying carpets. That had to mean something. The stories had power, but would they have power if the book was shut?

SPOILER!!: Gabe

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SPOILER!!: This!

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Gabriel had no clue what was going on now. He was far too involved in simple breaths in and out...and not passing out in the middle of this mess. Lack of oxygen to the brain could do that...He had...first hand experience....on that.....front.....

Suddenly, the small Ravenclaw....um, Penelope? girl was speaking to him...and it was a terribly good thing he was already in a panic...because this had no further negative effects on his state of mind. How could it possibly get worse? A flying carpet had just tried to kill him...

A. Flying. Carpet.

"I'm....okay." His tone suggested otherwise, however.

.......Why were there suddenly bouncing chocolate frogs?...and dancing carpets?......and......hair-braiding pixies? This...was a nightmare. Yes! He was dreaming....What else could it possibly be?! He just needed to pinch himself and this would all go away and then he could wake up and get dressed...and go eat breakfast with CB.....

What a strange dream to have, though...

Huh. Gabe lifted a hand and gripped some skin between his index finger and thumb, squeezing hard.

WHY WASN'T IT DISAPPEARING?!

Logically....it should have....

.............."I'm....not okay....."

Gabe said he was okay, but Penelope could clearly see that he wasn't. There, he said it, he wasn't okay. She wasn't sure if there was really anything that she could do to help him, but she stayed by him in case he needed help.

We're some people still thinking about burning the book? How could they even think about burning a book? Who would even want to burn a book? "Don't burn books, not even books that attack you with carpets and pixies!"Penelope noticed that not a single Ravenclaw had suggested burning the book, unless she had missed someone. As far as she could tell, only members of other houses wanted to burn the book. The students in the other houses were seriously misinformed if they thought that it was acceptable to burn books of any kind.

Finally able to grab his wand from under the table, Kevin crawled back and stood up while looking around. The library was a mess and he thought that the Librarian shouldn't have whined about when he tried to mess the place up by putting bugs in the books. 'Cause this was FAR worse. He ducked and dodged his way to safety or as safe as one could be in this kind of situation and then everything died down. What the? For a moment, Kevin stared but then he realised that the carpets started dancing and he felt something tucking on his hair lightly. He looked up to see a pixie .......braid his hair. "YA GET OFF!" He shouted as he was now having four braids in his hair already.

But then Zander caught his attention as he saw him walk to the direction of the book and stand next to Lex. He couldn't hear what they were saying and immediately thought that the book had done something to his only friend to get him closer. He used the immobulus spell on the pixies and with his hair beautifully braided what? he got closer to the the Head Girl and Zander.

READ A PAGE OR TWO?! oh yeah, he definitely heard that! HIS ONLY FRIEND WAS GETTING POSSESSED WASN'T HE?! "YA! are you two stupid or something? just destroy that thing!" he pointed his wand at the book. "Or I will!"

Bravely stupid Gryffindor being a bravely stupid Gryffindor.

Ummm, why was that Ravenclaw girl (Penelope) talking so loudly? Raising her brow, Lux gave her an odd look as she continued eating her Chocolate Frog. As far as she knew there was no plan to burn the book, just people wanting to do so.

Curiously she watched as Lex talked to the book. Haha, it would have been kind of funny if things weren't so serious right now. Frogs were making kissy faces and the Head Girl was talking to a book that was held in a circle made out of red candy. Hogwarts was such a strange place.

Zander wanted to read a page or two, which was SO not a good idea. "Anyone who reads that book becomes possessed. Not a good idea. Trust me, I know from experience." She had to admit that Kevin's idea was much better. "What if we used Bombarda?" Yes? No? Maybe?

AHHHHH!

If Adi wasn't afraid of his head smashing into the ceiling should the carpet turn right side up or him falling off and crashing to the ground, he would surely have enjoyed this high speed ride. And you know what? That song A whole New World was stuck in his head. All he needed now was his Jasmine aka AJ.

The fourth year became aware of shouting down below and took a chance at scanning the faces. There was Angel looking mighty concerned. He was sure he heard the words 'Leave my bro'. There were Benny, Culloden and Tanner pointing wands in his direction, no doubt trying to save him. And Airey shouting something about that annoying book.

Suddenly, Adi found himself falling...falling...falling...ever so slooooowly Had one of the three persons who had been pointing their wands at him done something to slow him down? And when he landed close to the floor, he didn't crash into it as he had expected. Instead, it felt as though he had landed on something soft. Phew! He was mighty thankful to whoever had helped him out there.

But he hardly had time to think on that when his carpet grabbed his hands and started pulling him this way and that. O___O What was going on?! It took Adi a moment to realise the thing was DANCING with him.

Best day ever. Hands down, best frickin' day ever. She didn't care how real these things were. They tasted the same and if they vanished from her stomach later she'd just have room for more right away so really this was a win-win, for her. No one else seemed on board. The actual frogs that wanted kisses were ignored for their chocolate counterparts but one was duly expulso-ed when it tried getting too close to her lips. That was not how it worked Mr. Frog. Lex froze another couple frogs and took turns biting into each of them, getting a taste of them all in case they vanished at any minute.

And Zander was winking. Did he have something in his eye? As he approached Lex extended an untouched chocolate frog to him. "You can read as many pages as you want so long as you don't change this story." Because she'd forget he was a lion for the faintest moment and pop him one between the eyes for taking away her chocolate frog wonderland. Surely that was clear.

The Ravenclaw was still campaigning for the book. "Take a chill quill bookworm, the book's gonna live. It's proven it's worth." Now when it stopped sprouting chocolate frogs, THAT'S when it would find itself engulfed in flames or in a million pieces depending on what her wand felt like doing at the moment.

She grinned, obviously in the best of moods with all this sugar hopping around her in all its magnificent glory. "Grab a chocolate frog and enjoy the show, the book's finally on our side." Minus the kissy frogs. Those were still a bit iffy with her.

But then Kevin happened. He...he was ruining her happy ending with talks of destroying the lovely book that gave the wonderful gift of SUGAR. Faster than she realized her wand was pointed straight at his face. "Back off Hirase, or you'll find yourself short of a head. No one is destroying this book until the last of the chocolate frogs have come out and I won't be saying it again." As he could see, the book was still at work, therefore, MOVE. "Unless you wanna join Delaney-Podmore in his next headless hunt I suggest you step away quickly."

Unreasonable, yes but this was the joy of a chocolate frog and these people were dangerously close to RUINING everything.

Alexa gave an exasperated sigh as she turned to face the Hufflepuff who'd also been giving suggestions to end this beautiful thing they had going here. "The book stays. The chocolate frogs STAY." How hard was that to understand? She'd been saying it clear as day, hadn't she? Sweet Circe.

"We wanted to catch the book and we did. It's been here longer than we know which means there's a way to make it dormant again."......after. After the chocolate frogs had run out.

Oh for the love of Merlin.... Alexa Cambridge had once again taken things too literally. She was now leaning up against that book as though it were her only friend. AND she had sucked a younger Gryffindor into doing the same thing!

"Stupid frogs," the Headmistress murmured, pushing away from her shelf and entering the fray again. At least the book was distracted, because Annie was going around and freezing pixies that were braiding the children's hair. All pixies collected were placed into Botros' box.

As she proceeded calmly through, Anastasia directed her laser blue eyes at the standoff happening by the book. "Remember who the REAL enemy is, Cambridge," she called out. "Keep talking to the book. DON'T ACTUALLY touch it, Zander. Kevin, point your wand at it, but not to light it on fire." Actually, that gave her an idea....

"EVERYONE, wands out and at the ready. Point them at the book. We're going to sweet-talk our way out of this." Now what did that book want to hear? As Alexa had said, there had to be a way to make it dormant again....

What in Merlin's Beard was going on. Students were now reading or maybe talking to the book as if it were a person. If this wasn't such a strange situation, it would not be Hogwarts worthy. Jordan continued to freeze the pixies and thought about the Silver Shield Spell that he learned in Defense Against The Dark Arts, however pixies didn't really register in his mind as being defined as "Dark Arts".

The Headmistress, Truebridge, started shouting and giving commands for certain students to do something as they still hadn't conquer this fighting book. As she ordered all the students to get their wands ready and sweet-talk the book, Jordan thought of why. Why should they sweet-talk a book and what good would it do. However, the Headmistress said that, not another student so it was easier to do what she said since she actually knew what she was talking about. So Jordan prepared his wand and was trying to prepare to sweet-talk the book, if that was even possible.

.....What on earth was Dumbo doing? Kevin couldn't help it but let out a laugh when he saw Adi dancing with one of the carpets. Whaaat? that was funny! No matter if it was a serious situation. Oh right ..the book. Standing next to Zander and with his wand pointed at the book on the table, he turned his gaze from the book to Lex and he sent her a death glare. "Was that a threat Cambridge?" He said in a cold and quiet voice. And people still asked why he didn't like her ?! "Not really how a Head Girl should act towards a FELLOW Gryffindor" He didn't stop glaring at her and only when he heard the Headmistress words did he turn back to the book.

Sweet talk? Oh boy, he was so not good at that...how did one even DO that? He was good at motivational speeches. Just ask Zander, no lie. But sweet talk? "I don't even know how to BE nice, you two do the talking..or no wait, ZANDER should do the talking" another glare for you Cambridge. In the meantime , he continued to point his wand at the book. Mentally preparing himself for whatever was going to happen because he did not believe that book would give up so soon.