Secret Passage Leading to Honeydukes' Cellar
 

Gabe <3
 

If anyone was familiar with this passage, they would notice something new on the steps. Well, they were not something new in essence, just more cobwebs on the corners and up on the walls. In fact, there seemed to be too many of them here due to how deserted this area was, and how conveniently dark and damp. They would get caught in your hair, your clothes, your FACE and all of you should you try and use this tunnel.

Anyone want to RP with me/Kate and The Narrator? :D
 

Kate was getting really good at venturing around the castle. She'd explored the grounds and a couple of corridors she hadn't visited too many times. She'd also met a lot of new people, which was awesome in itself. Her first year had gotten kind of lonely with her being one of the new kids with few friends.

Kate paused at the entrance to what used to be called the 'Secret Passage'. She knew where it went now, even though she'd never taken this route. There were also cobwebs EVERYWHERE, which made the place look less inviting. Her eyebrows wrinkled inward as she looked the cobwebs over. Why were they taking over the castle? She could barely walk around anymore without getting them all over her.

Seriously. What was going on?!

Kate, the Narrator, and ??
 

Daisy had taken a wrong turn – somewhere and now found herself inside a tunnel. A tunnel that didn’t appear to be used very often. She remembered the last time she had taken a wrong turn. She’d found herself at a dead end in the dungeons with Noah nearby. She was great at getting lost. Rubbish sense of direction she had and great, now she was thinking about Noah. Ugh, Noah. She’d managed to avoid him all year and that was a good thing because the last thing she had said to him had caused him to storm out of the Great Hall at the welcome feast.

She paused. Was there a sound up ahead? It sounded like breathing. “Hello?” She ventured softly hoping to find someone who could help her find her way back to the Great Hall. She knew how to get around from the landmark – usually. “Someone there?” she called a little louder. Her ballet shoe got stuck on something and as she stepped it came off. “Eww,” she muttered placing a hand on the wall. What was wrong with this place? She knew it was a castle and all, but it sure seemed like the spider webs were overkill. After all, it wasn’t Halloween. She managed to slip her foot back into the ballet flat and dislodge it from the spiderwebs, but then her hand was stuck on the wall. “Song of a banshee! That’s just wonderful…”

Abby seemed to have taken a wrong turn heading back up to the school and saw that she wasnt alone and she wondered what was going on a where they were as she saw that she wasnt the only student who had taken a wrong turn and wondered where they were from what Abby was thinking this one of the supposed to be caved in secret passages to the school

For Anyone c:
 

Ah, someone had made the mistake of coming into contact with the webs. Red dots began to appear rapidly on the girl's hands and feet. It is likely best not to touch them, as a savage itching sensation is likely to follow.

Who else would fall prey to such occurrences?

Bright red dots, painful and itchy, soon dotted the scalp and face of another unfortunate soul. Hopefully they wouldn't migrate any further!

Hady, the Narrator, & Kate
 

With great muster, Daisy managed to pull her hand free of the wall, but not free of the spider webs. Some remained stuck to her hand as if eager to come along for a ride. As if the webs needed help getting around. They seemed to be everywhere. “Great! That’s just great…” Daisy said staring at her hand. The light was dim in here and she could hardly see much. Then suddenly the passageway was brighter. She raised her web-covered hand up to shield her eyes from the light. She recognized the voice that spoke before her eyes adjusted to see the face that spoke them. Hady had used her favorite spell, or least her favorite spell when Daisy was around. “Hady?” Daisy said lowering the web-covered hand. “You do enjoy that spell don’t you?” she asked the older student. If someone looked at Daisy, you’d swear her hair poofed up in response to the charm. The last time Hady had used it, Daisy’s hair had become a puff ball that rivaled a pigmy puff.

In the light Daisy could see how badly the webs covered her hands. She didn’t dare reach for her wand. She’d get webs all over herself if she did. Then something else came into focus in Hady’s light. “What the?” she began noticing red spots covering her hands. They looked an offal lot like chickenpox. But she had had those when she was 3, she couldn’t get them again...could she?
And then they started to itch….and her feet started to itch.

“Oh my ….” She scratched. She wasn’t able to help it. The spider webs spread a to her other hand.

Kate blinked as she was suddenly joined by not one, not two, but three other girls. Merlin, this place must have been more popular than she assumed when she'd stopped here only seconds before. Noticing that both the Gryffindor girl and Hady were getting rashes of some sort from the webs, Kate tried to think as quickly as she could. "Watch out," she told the Ravenclaw girl, the one she thought was related to Angel and AJ. "Something weird is going on."

She gently grabbed both Hady and Daisy's arms and tried to pull them into a safer direction. The cobwebs weren't going to try and eat them alive, were they?! "Are you okay?" she asked them.

*BLIIIIIIINK*

Abby nodded at the younger Ravenclaw when she saw what had happened to Hady and the younger gryffindor girl what was going on with these cobwebs everywhere and why were there rashes forming now Abby was truly puzzled

"Don't remind me," she muttered, when Hady brought up pastry snacks. Her hair was still uneven from the cauldron cake debacle of 2085. Her clean hand reached for her hair, touching the patch that was still growing in from where it had been yanked out courtesy of a cauldron cake and Noah. The hair was taking it's sweet time growing too.

In the light, Daisy could see that Hady was biting her lip. She continued to scratch at her hand, spreading the cobwebs to her other hand in the process. "What's wrong?" she asked, not realizing that she too, was making a face. The itch turned into a burn that itched and burned and itched and burned and itched...it was a vicious cycle. Daisy had no impulse control and therefore could not stop herself from itching.

"Yah think?" Daisy asked the girl who stated something odd was going on and to Hady who stated the dots itched. Couldn't she see Daisy knew that? Itch - scratch - burn - itch - scratch...

Something grasped Daisy by the elbow and she was yanked back just as she was about to start rubbing her right foot (the one that had lost the shoe) with her left. "Oye!" she called out. "What's with the man-handling?!" She struggled a little, wanting to scratch more but unable to do so with the girl holding onto her arm. Instead, she started rubbing her right hand on her jumper, spreading cobwebs around. Yes, poor Daisy wasn't very good at impulse control...

Well, it was obvious the cobwebs had caused the breakout on the other two girls. Did cobwebs normally do that? Kate had no idea. She'd never really had that much contact with one. Looking at Hady and Daisy, she was suddenly glad she stopped and paused next to the nasty gathering of webs and not right on top of them.

She blinked at the Gryffindor's reaction to Kate's help. "Man-handling?" she asked. Hadn't she just gently taken their hands and guided them away? Maybe somebody else was hiding in the depths of the passageway and had yanked the girl's hand? Just in case, Kate peered into the passageway but ended up seeing nothing unusual. "Sorry," she mumbled, just to be nice.

"We probably shouldn't stick around any longer," she told them. "You two might need to get the Healer to check that out. Want me to walk with you?"

As careful as they may have been, it was no use for the poor girls. Spiders began to rain down from everywhere after having been disturbed by the first two students. The arachnids began to bite with a vengeance, not sparing anyone.

Perhaps that Ravenclaw's idea about running to the Healer was a good one.

In the silence that followed her statement about the healer, Kate suddenly heard a different sort of sound and looked up. "SPIDERS!" she screamed. They'd woken the inhabitants of the web! She barely had time to look down and cover her face, when the creatures reached her. She felt a few of them bite into her, and she screamed.

She'd run, but she was too scared to look up, and what if she fell down into the secret passage?

"RUN!" she screamed again. And she would have run had she not felt so sick all of the sudden. "I'm going be sick to my stomach..." she mumbled.

The Ravenclaw was just trying to be nice. Daisy tried to remind herself of that and to try and be nice in return. Ever since the blow-out with Noah at the beginning of term, Daisy had found it hard to be nice. Maybe she was taking her anger with Noah out on others, maybe she just wasn’t afraid to speak her mind anymore. She was going to apologize, because the comment had come from the Ravenclaw taking her off guard more than anything.

She scratched her right ankle with the toe of her left shoe. Itch-scratch- burn – itch… “Um….” She began.
Something plopped onto Daisy’s head interrupting her apology. She raised a hand (both were now covered in spider webs from Daisy’ itching) and felt something bite her. ”Ouch?!” She exclaimed. More things started pelting her. It felt like she was out in a hail storm. “ARRRGGGG!!!!” she yelled turning. She gave Hady and the Ravenclaw girl who had grabbed her a push. The other Ravencalw was too fair back for Daisy to ‘manhandle.’ “OUT! OUT!!!” she shouted. Daisy was the farthest in and in order to get out she needed the others to move. The longer they stayed the more they were getting bit. “OUT I say! MOVE it!”
In other circumstances, Daisy might have sighed exasperatedly at the Ravenclaw’s outburst. Why wasn’t she moving?! “MOVE!” She yelled again, giving the girl a push. Only the girl wouldn’t budge. Daisy grabbed her arm and tossed it over her shoulder. The room started spinning but Daisy wasn’t sure if she was nauseous or if it were all spiders. Daisy took a deep breath trying to steady the room. "Common…” she ordered dragging the girl along with her. “And don’t you dare upchuck on me…” At least until they were out of the passageway.

Abby gripped her wand as she was being pulled along by Hady and her head was pounding she would have to pay a visit to the healer these bites were painful and now she hated spiders a lot

Seriously? ... What was the deal with the Gryffindor girl? They'd get nothing accomplished yelling at each other and shoving one another out of the way. Kate gritted her teeth in frustration but quickly clamped her mouth shut when she realized a spider or two or ten of four hundred could crawl in.

EWWWW.

"I'm trying," she said, and she really was trying to move. Somebody pushed her forward then, and Kate tried to remember to breath like Hady was telling her to. "I'm going to be sick..." she mumbled again. Finally, she reached an opening that didn't have a rainfall of spiders coming down on it, and she opened her eyes. Breath, Kate. Breathe.

Then on that note, she threw up, the contents of her stomach spilling into a puddle on the corridor.

”Hady,” Daisy chastised as the girl side-stepped around her and the Ravenclaw she had half-draped over a shoulder. “What are you doing?!” But Hady recast her lumos spell and the corridor filled with more light showing them equal amounts of horror and hope. Spiders were everywhere. Big, small, crawling, dropping, were some even flying? No, Daisy must have been imagining that. The room whirled in her peripheral vision and her head started to pound. It wasn’t helping the pain that was growing in her stomach nor that the itching and burning sensations subsided. A hand pushed her forward and Daisy didn’t need much else to encourage her to move. It appeared Hady was going to follow them out. Or at least – she had better…
The older Ravenclaw was leading the way out, while Hady had fallen into the rear. Was she and the Ravenclaw whose arm was draped around her shoulder the only ones feeling like they got hit with a major case of Black Cat Flu? Please don’t barf. Please don’t barf! Daisy chanted to herself as the two girls lumbered along. She was quite certain that if the girl she was helping tossed her cookies, she too was going to revisit her own lunch.
Apparently Hady’s comment about the girl breathing slowly wasn’t helping and then the girl uttered words from Daisy’s worst nightmare. “Oh no…no…no!” And then yep! The girl gacked all over the pavement.

“Not good…” Daisy let go of her to cover her own mouth with both hands spreading webs onto her face. She could handle spiders and darkness and webs, the itching and burning and the being bitten, but puke? Nooopppee. Her own stomach, which had started to hurt as they moved, began rolling. She got that funny penny-coppery-sweat-salty feeling her mouth and soon the contents of her own stomach were splashing onto the corridor floor.

Tears started to form in the corner of Daisy’s eyes as she stood there bent over with her hands on her knees. If there was one thing she absolutely hated and couldn’t deal with and it was now dribbling down her chin. A groan escaped her as she tried to hold back big deep sobs as well as the urge to upchuck again.

Kate was honestly feeling too nauseated and sick on her stomach to follow all of the conversation going on around her. She was, however, vaguely aware of somebody passing her a tissue and then cleaning up the throw up along the corridor. "Thank you," she mumbled, wiping her mouth. Could she make it to the Hospital Wing? Kate had no idea, but she had to try. "I'm going to try," she said. "At least we're already on the third floor."

"Let's go. I'm not sure we'll be okay much longer without some help," she said to them. Then on that note, she left the area and headed toward the Hospital Wing.

Abby was scared and shaking she had a pounding headache and listened to the others and continued to try to get out of the secret passage she hated spiders now and she felt sick but wasn't ready to throw up yet