Juliette was a little overwhelmed at the moment. Who would blame her?! HER CLASSMATES WERE ABOUT TO GET EATTEN! Oh my merlin, this was terrible. She was about to pull her wand at the ready until she heard Professor Stewart, who was closely followed by the Groundskeeper. THANK GOODNESS they were here! She still had her hand on her wand, which was tucked away in her dress pocket once more, as thoughts swirled around her head.

"Okay, okay! I'll get help!" Get help, yes, but who?! She would think about it as she started running towards the castle, but luckily, Esme mentioned Professor Myers and Draper being the closest. At least one of the Hufflepuffs were thinking clearly! "I'll get Professor Draper!" She gave the group around her a look that said 'good luck' before she headed off towards the castle.

Hopefully nobody would get eaten while her and Esme were gone!

Ursula frowned at the boy (Brady) who just SNAPPED at her. "Angry meat... can't.... no..." she muttered as she added more to the cauldron (10 meters of small intestine, unicorn fur, baby toe nail clippings, salt and pepper). But the boy kept talking and it was starting to irk Ursula, and the children who had followed them were refusing to join their little friends. One of them was yelling at her (Darcy) and it was making Ursula laugh a wheezy laugh. Was it a dare? So she grabbed his hand (Brady) and sunk her teeth into his arm. If he was going to ruin the meat by being stressed and rude then she'd have to savor his taste some other way. she had already gotten a taste of the young man after all.

Rather then run off the moment she herself was safe Hady let out a relieved breath when Professors Stewart and her own HoH arrived. This was good. They wouldn't allow anything bad to happen to Kitty or Brady. Not that she would either. Hazel eyes shifted back and forth between everyone as she hurried to keep up with them all following the Hag.

"Professors what should I do?" she asked gripping her wand tightly in her hand as she watched two of her friends run off to find some of the other Professors. She kept close to Ava keeping an eye on the younger girl as well as a close eye on the two others that the crazy Hag had put into a pot and was attempting to cook?! Could they all shoot spells at her and take her down already or were they really just supposed to stand around and wait? The teen wouldn't do anything that could potentially harm anyone else should her aim be off at all.

"Unhand them you nasty Hag!" This was an outrage, right here in their territory as Justin had sent out another stunning spell towards the wicked one. Some students were still standing around though, whether they were delegating on the jobs or not. Justin didn't care. Something needed to be done.

"What should you do? Give her everything you got!" That's right, permission to attack her. "But stay close to us." No one else was getting bitten on his watch.

THE HAG JUST BIT BRADY!!!!

Azura has her wand out and was marching straight up to the teachers, there was no way she was going to let her friends get eaten! She didn't care if Brady hated her.. She pulled out her wand and then looked up at the groundskeeper, who said..

To give her everything she had!

Well then.. Hag..

Here came Azura!

She aimed her wand at the hag and moved it in the appropriate motion and said "Flipendo! " She sent the spell straight towards the hag,careful not to hit anyone else.. Let's see how her dueling paid off..

Azura was furious and just wanted to march over there and..kick the hag in the knees.. No one messes with her friends..

No one.

Scarlett liked taking walks near the Forbidden Forest - she never went IN there of course, but just being near it made her feel like she was avoiding danger and being all rebellious. Hehe. Although today, as she walked her normal route past the forest, she heard a lot of yelling. What on EARTH? That was certainly...not normal.

Knowing the history of this place, part of her wondered if she should just...keep walking. But no, that wouldn't be right. Also, she was CURIOUS and nosy and had to know why everyone was yelling!

As she entered the area, the cries getting louder with each step, she stopped once she found a group of people and quickly scanned the area. Was that...OMG!! THE HAG! The one from last term who had pretended to be a Divination professor and RUINED the subject for Scarlett. Mouth agape, she watched as the hag seemed to be...trying to eat someone.

It was the sleepy Hufflepuff from class! Wait - wasn't he the one who'd gotten thrown in the pot by her last term? SHE WAS BACK FOR REVENGE! This was all coming back to her now. All the memories of the hag that she had tried to repress...

Taking her wand out of her pocket, she pointed it at the hag, hoping to do SOMETHING of use. "Expelliarmus!" she exclaimed, shouting the first spell that came to mind, although she wasn't sure what good it would do without a wand to target.

Kitty watched in horror as the Hag BIT Brady on the hand. "NO!" she shouted. "Get away from him!" And she tried to claw the Hag's face. Her long nails were the very last weapon she had - even when she had her wand they was still her best weapon, but now was the first time she ever used them.

Did the Hag...

...just bite Brady?

Kay would not have that. No! Not her student! With Justin urging the gathered students on to attack the Hag, she added, "Be careful not to hurt either of the kids!'' Meaning Brady and Kitty. Justin was right too. She would ensure the others were safe. Maybe the kiddos would get the hag distracted enough so that Brady and Kitty could be rescued.

Bless Kitty. Look at her fighting back.

Um.

So.

What the HELL was going on? And Where was ESME? Because he had followed her into the forest, lost track of her, and then heard all of THIS commotion just in time to see URSULA BLACK TRY TO EAT BRADY.

OF ALL THE STUDENTS, BRADY, WHO WAS ALREADY TRAUMATIZED?

Paul whipped his wand out from his pocket, aiming for the hag but trying not to shoot any awry spells at Brady or Kitty--MERLIN, BRADY, KICK HER OR SOMETHING! "RictuSEMPRA!" he cried.

Melbourne Johanson was confused…she had been in the treehouse minding her own business when she heard it. Screaming. Yelling. Curses being cast and a whole lot of GET AWAY FROM THEM bits being yelled by multiple voices…her curiosity had gotten the better of her.

What on earth was going on?

Sneaking closer to the forest and heading toward the commotion she saw her. The Hag. She was biting into Brady’s arm like he was the last drumstick in the bucket. NOPE. Not watching that. Still she couldn’t help but feel mad when she noticed that the hag also had Kitty.

“LET THEM GO” she yelled at her and pointed her wand right at the hag. “MELOFORS!” She cast her wand pointed right at the Hag’s head. Maybe that’d make it harder for her to eat anyone….a pumpkin around her head would suit her just nicely. Sure, there was the off chance that Brady might get a bit of Pumpkin ooze on him but that was better than the Hag's teeth.

!!!!

Hadn't Esme told the Hag that she would be sorry if she hurt either Brady or Kitty?? Clearly the message hadn't sunk in because there she was biting Brady's hand. Now she was madder than ever and about to enter killing mode.

"Excuse me. I told you to leave them alone, you ugly old prune!!" Furiously she sent the Stinging Jinx towards her.

It was juicy and Ursula was enjoying the taste until she felt things all around her. Her mouth unclamped and pulled back as the other brat in the pot clawed at her face. "AAHH!" she shouted, pulling back and feeling the deep scratches on her face. She gave the child a nasty look and shifted her grasp to her arm instead. Planning on biting into her too, her plan was cut short.

Flipendo was cast and Ursula felt her back collide with the soft dirt. She hurriedly pulled herself up but thankfully the next spell had no effect on her as she wasn't holding anything, and Ursula let out a raspy laugh. She was back at the pot now where the two children were and she yanked a few strands of hair from both of them and put them into her pocket for safe keeping. She knew she'd have to do a runner soon and she might get hungry.

The tickling charm hit Ursula and she let out a coughing, wheezing laugh as she doubled over near the cauldron. But she had to fight this she just HAD to and she pulled herself up again, resisting the urge to laugh. But it was no good because moments later she felt something heavy over her face and she felt around it to feel a hard something. She realised it was a pumpkin! She smashed her head against the edge of the cauldron which cracked the pumpkin, and she hurriedly stuffed the bits of pumpkin into the cauldron. She liked pumpkin and it would add a nice taste to her stew. If everyone would just LEAVE HER ALONE!

But they wouldn't go away and Ursula was hit with a spell that immediately had her face swelling. "Ahh you BEASTLY BRATS!" she shouted to them all, before her tongue swelled and she realised she couldn't talk more than a few mumbled incoherent words. Her eyes were almost swollen shut. There seemed no more for Ursula to do, so she turned and fled towards the depth of the forest.

Brady looked up at the Hag and was very glad that she was frowning. The second year just stood there in the cauldron and glared at the Hag for a minute or two. Gross. She was adding more stuff to the cauldron. Brady looked down towards his feet. What was that stuff? Ew. He looked back at the Hag and spit at her. NO HAPPY HUMAN FOR YOU WITCH! The second year had heard some other students yelling spells or choice words at the Hag. What was she doing?! "LET GO OF ME WENCH!" He was pretty sure he didn't know what a wench was but it sounded like a good choice of words to use in that moment. Brady clenched his eyes shut as he felt her teeth bite into his hand. He let out a painful yell.

He felt the Hag's teeth back away from his hand, he looked down at his hanf very quickly and saw blood. HE WAS GOING TO NEED A NEW HAND but he really liked this hand he was born with, there was nothing wrong with it. Until now that is. There were teeth marks and blood. Brady didn't even know what was happening, he just felt some horrible pain going through his hand and he was sure he bit his own tongue in the process of being munched on. He felt helpless, he didn't even know where his wand was. He wanted to help but when he got some courage to do something he saw the Hag running off in the distance. "HEEEELLLP I NEED A NEW HAND!" He yelled out to one of the adults, whichever one would come over here and help his bleeding hand.

Azura was glad that more people had shown up, the force of all of their spells had driven the hag off and the teen was now shaking a bit from the experience.

Seeing Brady getting taken and bit like that had had a strange effect on her. She bit her lip as she lowered her wand and took a few steps back, trying to melt into the fray.

She heard Brady's cry for a new hand and she wanted to run to him and heal his wounds, but.. The Professor's should do that. Her purple eyes were filling with tears as she looked at her friend and she felt her chest tighten, what If something had happened to Brady? What if he wasn't around anymore? What if they never got to be friends again?

Azura bit her lip as she stumbled back more.. What was happening to her? She couldn't...

She turned around and started to run away from the scene as fast as she could.. Maybe if she was lucky he would never knew she had been there.. Or how much she cared for him..

Scarlett watched in defeat as her Expelliarmus did...nothing, which she half expected, but in the heat of the moment it was the best she could think of. Thankfully, she didn't have to worry about that for too long, because a few moments later, the hag had run away. Which was both a good and bad thing. Good because now the Sleeping Hufflepuff from class was safe, but bad because she got away AGAIN. Like seriously. WHY DID THIS KEEP HAPPENING!

"We can't let her get away AGAIN!" she exclaimed, pointing to where she had disappeared and addressing mainly the professors. After all, THEY were the adults here. They were the ones who had to catch her! Scarlett had already proved that, as a lowly second year, she probably wasn't THAT prepared when it came to hag dueling. So. Yeah. GET ON IT, PROFESSORS.

She turned to the Sleeping Hufflepuff and looked at his hand. "I don't think you need a new hand...unless hag bites are poisonous. Which I don't THINk they are," she told him, trying to calm him down a bit because he was making a scene. Although she could hardly blame him. She'd be freaking out too if this had happened to her! And honestly she had no idea if hag bites were poisonous. If so...well, the professors would fix that, right? She looked at them expectedly.

Now would be a good time to start, you know...adulting and fixing the situation!

Nearby, Scarlett noticed Azura looking like she was about to cry. Scarlett didn't know the girl all that well, but she had run into her in Diagon Alley last year and she seemed nice enough. "Azura, are you...?" she started to ask, before she turned tail and ran the other direction. Huh. Well, that was a bit odd. She was probably just upset over the whole situation, though. It was awfully...traumatic, wasn't it?

Once the young girl informed him that the chaos was happening in the forrest, James didn't waste another second. He was RUNNING. He didn't have any information other than "hag" and that itself was enough to alert him that students were in danger. If the disaster of a "divination" lesson last term wasn't warning enough...

Still running, James entered the scene just in time to take note of all the chaos, all the students, and .... Poncho Paul who used A TICKLING SPELL? Yes. Good plan. GREAT plan. Let's tickle her into surrender.

Merlin.

If you want something done right, you ought to do it yourself. Not checking to make sure that the girl (Juliette) had caught up, James quickly pointed his wand at the struggling hag. "Incarcerous!" /JamesDraper.

THAT'S what Poncho should have done. Honestly, there were PLENTY of Professors present and not one of them thought it'd be a good idea to tie her up? Honestly, his coworkers were all blubbering baboons.

Oh…hey…Drapes was here, Mel looked over to her favorite care of magical creatures Professor EVER and grinned. It was nice to see someone that well, knew how to handle creatures because Ursula Black was a hag after all. “Hi Professor Draper…” it probably wasn’t the best time to be all starry eyed at her Professor but, he was here. HELPING! That was great.

“Azura! Brady…you guy’s alright?” She asked as the hag was trying to run into the forest. Yes, it probably wasn’t the best idea for her to go up to the cauldron and grab them but that was exactly what she was going to do. Jumping into action she dashed toward the cauldron and held out her hands to both of them. “Here, lets get you guys out of there while she’s…distracted” she whispered at her friends and tried to help them out of the cauldron.

Ursula kept running despite the chaos that was RUINING her plan, running away that is until she heard the voice she had been waiting for. She smiled and went to turn around in hopes of luring him deep into the forest with her where of course another pot waited but he was too quick and she felt ropes tighten around her shoulders, arms, torso and legs. When she tried to turn and hop away into the forest she overbalanced and toppled over with a shriek. "YOU BEASTLY BRATS! YOU DID THIS TO ME! I'LL HAVE YOU ALL ONE DAY!!!"

Everything was happening so fast. Kittys scratching definitely distracted Ursula, but just as she was about to grab her arm spells started hitting the Hag, driving her away. It was then that Kitty realized that they were not alone and that they were going to live. She felt so weak with both relief and fear that she almost fainted again, but she stopped just in time. Brady was hurt. "Oh dear," Kitty fretted as Brady screamed. "Don't worry, I'll get help!" She took Mel's hand and climbed shakily out of the cauldron. "Br-Brady needs help." Her teeth chattered nervously as she talked. "I'm not sure it's safe to use my wand now because it's all wet."