The young Lion Hurried back from the Kitchens after another long Chat that fell short of him convincing his Cousin to dump his Girlfriend for more freedom. He seemed rather upset over the fact still that Benton would completely ignore his cousinly advice. As he reached the staircases Torrance began his ascent to to the Gryffindor Common Room....Now it was Descent to the Third Floor, and back up to the Common room, back down to the Fourth Floor.

The Stairs seemed rather active today.

As it was now going to take him some time to get to his Destination Torrance was going to wait for it. So he just sat down, and in doing so his mind began to wander.

of Course one of the many things it took him too was the beginning of last term. When he encountered Former Astronomy Professor and his Former Head of House Flamsteed just lying flat on his stomach rather uncomfortably on the steps here.

Eh...that wouldn't hurt to try it himself would it?

Torrance adjusted himself on the Staircase so that he was now facing downward his forehead touching the corner of one of the Steps...and he just laid there. Face down Arms to his side.

SPOILER!!: *rolls*

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The young Lion Hurried back from the Kitchens after another long Chat that fell short of him convincing his Cousin to dump his Girlfriend for more freedom. He seemed rather upset over the fact still that Benton would completely ignore his cousinly advice. As he reached the staircases Torrance began his ascent to to the Gryffindor Common Room....Now it was Descent to the Third Floor, and back up to the Common room, back down to the Fourth Floor.

The Stairs seemed rather active today.

As it was now going to take him some time to get to his Destination Torrance was going to wait for it. So he just sat down, and in doing so his mind began to wander.

of Course one of the many things it took him too was the beginning of last term. When he encountered Former Astronomy Professor and his Former Head of House Flamsteed just lying flat on his stomach rather uncomfortably on the steps here.

Eh...that wouldn't hurt to try it himself would it?

Torrance adjusted himself on the Staircase so that he was now facing downward his forehead touching the corner of one of the Steps...and he just laid there. Face down Arms to his side.

Heading up the stairs with the library as her intended destination, Paige hopped on one of the moving staircases JUST as it decided to change. Which meant it was now pointing her in the wrong direction and she either needed to go up and around quickly before they changed again...or wait things out. Seeing as the Hufflepuff was not much of a risk taker, selectively anyway, she opted to wait things out.

Merlin knew how long that would take.

.........was that..........

"TORRANCE?!"

Under the assumption that he had slipped and fell, hence his downward facing appearance, Paige scrambled up the steps towards him and instantly began checking his vitals - maaaaaaaaaaybe accidentally tickling him as she searched for a pulse on his neck.

Timmy was totally scared about this, he was just going on the stairs when suddenly.

"Abandon ship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Timmy just clung to the stairs as they moved, why did no one tell him that they moved! They never moved at his own school, well to tell you the truth he hadn't seen any stairs move at all.

"Someone help me!!!!!!!!!!" Timmy was totally scared as the stairs continued to move. Could someone come and help him, he would be forever grateful with whoever it was that saved him.

Hady was on her way down to the dungeons from the seventh floor. She had just finished a lesson and now had a free period before her next. Reaching the landing to the stairs she waited while she saw them moving.

It was normal for her and she didn't even think twice about using this staircase. A shout from below though alerted her very quickly that someone wasn't as used to it as she was. Looking around startled by the shouts for help she spotted a younger boy clinging to the railing. "Hey, hey! It's okay, just don't move until the stairs meeting the landing!," she called out not wanting him to get hurt.

"But.... But.... This isn't possible." Timmy was still clinging on for dear life. "Nothing is supposed to move." He was really getting upset now and he just wanted to get off this ride. "What is this some sort of Halloween Prank?" It was a bit early for that, and weren't you supposed to have some decorations in a haunted house.

"Next you'll be telling me, that the portraits move and that wizarding people can walk on water." Yeah, this was just very freaky and he wasn't enjoying his experience one bit, he had a feeling his friends wouldn't be having this problem at secondary school.

As he was never properly trained in the Art of Flamsteeding. Torrance looked up the second Paige freaked out and yelled his named and also grabbed his wrist and checked his neck for a pulse...which were very there and very good pulses too, mind you. "Paige...Paige." He moved away a bit to keep from her hands. "I'm fine. Just continuing a Tradition."

He was so good at this too. Look at how still he was being. So long as the Older Hufflepuff would stop prodding him any further. He turned his head back down and straightened his arms against his side once more. "I think it's called Planking. You know because I'm as stiff as a board right now."

He kept talking. Totally missing the point of Flamsteed's silence part from when the Former Professor did it.

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As he was never properly trained in the Art of Flamsteeding. Torrance looked up the second Paige freaked out and yelled his named and also grabbed his wrist and checked his neck for a pulse...which were very there and very good pulses too, mind you. "Paige...Paige." He moved away a bit to keep from her hands. "I'm fine. Just continuing a Tradition."

He was so good at this too. Look at how still he was being. So long as the Older Hufflepuff would stop prodding him any further. He turned his head back down and straightened his arms against his side once more. "I think it's called Planking. You know because I'm as stiff as a board right now."

He kept talking. Totally missing the point of Flamsteed's silence part from when the Former Professor did it.

Paige actually felt his pulse well before he started talking, but her inspection for vitals and making sure he hadn't given himself a concussion or something had not. That is...until he moved away and started speaking...then her cheeks flushed from embarrassment and mild relief. "Tradition?" she questioned, brow raised and expression still quite unamused.

Planking? That made even less sense to her than this being some sort of tradition. No, actually, lying down on the moving staircases in this manner was still more nonsensical than the apparent name of it.

"I've been here seven terms and I've never seen this before," she said as she took a seat next to him on the stairs, carefully folding her uniform's skirt underneath her. Or...had she. "No...wait...is this what Professor Flamsteed used to do?"

Hady could hear the boy clear as he rambled on and on about how staircases couldn't move. Poor kid thought someone was playing a trick on him. A part of her wanted to laugh but another part of her, the more mature Hady part wanted to give the small boy a hug. Clearly he was muggleborn and from the looks of it he hadn't read his textbooks over the summer either.

The moment the staircase came close enough the seventh year girl jumped onto it without much thought. Gripping the railing she made her way down to where the boy was clinging onto it as if his little life depended on it. "Hey, calm down, it's okay. Lets have a seat and I'll explain?" she coaxed softly sitting on the step above him and lightly resting a soothing hand on his shoulder. "My names Hady, what's yours?" Best to try to distract him a little bit. Calm him down and then answer all his questions. Which she did plan on doing!

Miffy was in a bored mood. She wanted to cause more chaos and especially danger. That was why her arms were full of jars. The jars were full of wax from when she and Peeves had melted all the candles in the school headpersons office. Lots and lots of wax. *GIGGLE* The students and staffers were in for a right slippery treat.

Miffy floated up to the top of the moving staircase. She had waited until it was empty of students before she started pour out all the wax from the jars over the stair steps cackling to herself "THEY WILL SLIDE OFF AND HURT THERE LITTLE HEADS AND LIMBS!"

She kept floating up and down, up and down the staircase pouring out more wax.

Peeves saw his precious poltergal floating at the top of the stairs and glided over to her. "Tsk, tsk," he scolded, wagging a finger at her. "Starting without old Peevsie! Naughty, naughty!"

He grabbed an armful of jars and helped his girlfriend pour them all over the staircase, singing a little song to himself as he went:

Wax,wax, wax!
No time to relax!
Must get down to brass tacks
And cover all the stairs in wax
The studentsies will all fall down
and make their bones go CRACK!!!

By the time he'd finished, he was cackling like mad. He floated in the air, bouncing giddily as he waited to see the wee student beasties slip and slide and scream. This was going to be so much fun! BRING ON THE CHAOS!!!

Why was she even up here? The music room was still locked. She had checked it every day. She wanted in there. It was her special place. It had memories that no other place in the school could touch. She was mad that it was still locked. Why the hell was the professors allowing this idiots to run the school?

Rounding the bed she started down the steps, but as soon as she hit it she went down. Her feet going out from under her and her bottom hitting the steps hard and bouncing down.. down.. down. She tried to grip something, but everything just kept slipping past her. She was screaming!

SOMEONE HELP!

Katerina was coming back from the library, and now she was going back to her common room to put her bag in her before she was going to meet Cornelius to go to dinner. She wasn't paying much attention to anything else besides, humming Follow the yellow brick road Thanks to the Muggle studies lesson last week the song had been in her head all week.

What in the name of Merlin? Who was screaming and it was close. The third year finally seen who it was that was Nat. "Nat are you okay?" Did she fall down the stairs? Kat took a step down to check on her. Kat's mother was a healer and she knew about somethings so maybe she could help her. When she took the next step she slipped and bounced down the steps and landed a few steps below Nat.

OUCH

WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN? PEEVES MIFFY ugh.

Blaise was a combination of hungry and tired. Mostly, he was hungry which made him relieved to know it was just about dinner time and soon enough the Great Hall would be filled with mouth watering dishes and aromas that would leave him in a happy place. In fact, he suspected the tables were already being filled and he didn't wanna be late.

His notepad floating before him, the Fourth Year read page after page of the day's notes. It was a common practice for him, he would even say walking and reading had become an art he'd perfected.

Being as engrossed as he was in what his quill had written, the Gryffindor didn't hear the screams even as he approached the staircases. Just as he'd done a million times, the boy felt for the steps absentmindedly and began making his descent. Only problem was, there was suddenly this VERY unfamiliar feeling of his feet slipping from right under him, sending the 14 year old tumbling and sliding down this section of the stairs.

Blaise landed with an unceremonious thud and a lot more pain than when he'd started out for the Great Hall in the first place. "....Bloody hell......" OWWWW. It was only after pulling himself into something of a sitting position that he noticed the girls also plopped on the floor--one being Phillip's sister, which meant he naturally had to care. "You alright, Kat?" Annnddd Nat....right? They had classes together. He glanced to her as well trying to ascertain whether she was fine too before born eyes swept up to the rotten poltergeists that were OBVIOUSLY responsible. "You guys could have gotten one of us KILLED. Are you both insane??" If he wasn't aching, he'd have attempted to hurl something at one of them. Ow ow ow.

She was on the floor, the bloody floor. It wasn't bad enough she couldn't get in the music room or that Roman and Alex were done with her, but now she was on the floor looking up at the castle ceiling. Worst part was she didn't know if she cared to get up. Though that thought was interrupted by sounds of others following her fall. bloody hell the dynamic duo had hurt more people. She sat up slowly wincing from the pain. She looked at Kat and then Blaise. She knew Kat better then Blaise, but she knew of him.

"I think I'm okay, just sore." Her head, shoulder, and bum hurt. Stupid fall, stupid stairs, stupid Peeves and his girlfriend. "Right what Bliase said. You could have killed us you stupid ridiculous idiots." Her frustration of everything just boiling over from the fall. She got to her feet (though she kept slipping a bit).

"Skurge....Skurge.....Skurge" Wand in hand she pointed at Peeves and Miffy. Primeaux had taught the charm and now she was going to fully use it. She wanted to take all her energy out on them. "Skurge" Trying to move a little, but quickcly realizing she might slip again she just pointed her wand. "Stop tormenting everyone, it's ridiculous. You and your crazy girlfriend need to go away, Skurge"

As if wax wasn't bad enough, out of nowhere the staircase turns into a slide. Things have gotten a whole lot slipperier. Best grab a firm hold of the banisters if you don't want to take a tumble right to the bottom.

Well... slipping down these staircase was not as fun as it sounded. Also this was NOT the way things were suppose go today. Hopefully Nat was the only one to see her fall. She didn't see Nat fall, She didn't mind that Nat seen her fall if she did. She knew that she wouldn't laugh at her, mostly because she herself was also on the floor. "WAX?" It was wax. For the love of Merlin what was Miffy and Peeves thinking?

Shaking her fist at the duo, RUDE. She was done! Miffy nearly killed her, Paige and Professor Gaston in the kitchens a while back. This was Katerina's last straw. Hufflepuff or not she was going to fight, dueling club was paying off. She tried but it was no use. UGH. So after her failed attempts to get up, Blaise come tumbling down the stairs the same way she did.

"I'm okay I think. Are you?" She had to ask being her brothers friend and all. Sometimes Kat was too Hufflepuff for her own good. Whelp this was a pickle. She watched Nat, oh yeah she remembered that spell, she looked around for her wand. OH MERLIN WHERE WAS HER WAND. Panic set in. Where was it? She spotted to and reach out to get it.

But it was too late when she hands where almost thought something happened and Katerina was sliding down stairs turned into a slide. Normally this would have been fun. BUT NOT TODAY. She tried grabbing something that was sturdy but she couldn't grab a hold of anything.

Merlin she was going to die.

Realizing that his loan period on numerous library books he borrowed from the library was about to expir, Jace hurriedly stacked the borrowed gems in his arms and dashed out of the common room towards the moving staircases. Given his situation, Jace was conscious of the time and was relieved that the stairs won’t change its initial position in the next half hour.

Taking a hurried step, he did slide a bit but was able to regain balance right away. However, he couldn’t see what was in front of him due to the amount of books he was carrying, so he decided to carry on.

Why were the steps so slippery?! Jace had to solely rely on his legs and feet since both hands are full and his sight was limited. He hoped no one would slip behind him. Today was not the day to become a bowling pin of some sort.

Owen had came from the higher levels of the castle again to do some stalking exploring. But he got bored after a short while. A little hungry too, so he decided to just go down and whip something up for himself in the Kitchens.

He was jiving to his upbeat humming when he noticed Peeves and Miffy from his peripheral vision. Ack! Retreat retreat! Trouble alert!

...Too late.

He had already taken a step on the moving staircases and to his horror realized that they were slippery! WHAT THE HELL WAS HAPPENING TO HOGWARTS?! The 4th year flailed, tried to grab whichever was close to reach. But there was nothing and he was sliding...down?

O____o

Look out below!

MERLINMERLINMERLIN someone was ahead of him. asjbfkbdk!! He was going to crash against whoever that was......

*insert horrible crashing sounds here*

His mind wandered a bit as he realized that this could be a wonderful exercise to strengthen his core, given that he needed all the leg power he could muster for his upcoming grading in a few months time. Jace was doing really good at not slipping when something else caught his attention.

Wait...the stairs aren't supposed to move yet.

What was going on?!

Slowly turning, Jace's eyes grew big as saucers as he saw THE Owen Montezor plummet towards him. Instinct told him to slide on the side to prevent the crash, but it proved to be futile when the stairs decided to turn into a slide, giving him no choice but to clash with the huge Hufflepuff.

Books flew out of his hands, some were torn, the others plummeted to the ground below. The poor Ravenclaw fell to the nearest landing with the Hufflepuff, and he ended up pinned underneath the older student.

No sound came from Jace albeit the profuse bleeding on his forehead, and his left arm in a weird angle. The Ravenclaw was obviously knocked out cold.

SPOILER!!: BLEEDING UNCONSCIOUS JACE *more whaa-ing*

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His mind wandered a bit as he realized that this could be a wonderful exercise to strengthen his core, given that he needed all the leg power he could muster for his upcoming grading in a few months time. Jace was doing really good at not slipping when something else caught his attention.

Wait...the stairs aren't supposed to move yet.

What was going on?!

Slowly turning, Jace's eyes grew big as saucers as he saw THE Owen Montezor plummet towards him. Instinct told him to slide on the side to prevent the crash, but it proved to be futile when the stairs decided to turn into a slide, giving him no choice but to clash with the huge Hufflepuff.

Books flew out of his hands, some were torn, the others plummeted to the ground below. The poor Ravenclaw fell to the nearest landing with the Hufflepuff, and he ended up pinned underneath the older student.

No sound came from Jace albeit the profuse bleeding on his forehead, and his left arm in a weird angle. The Ravenclaw was obviously knocked out cold.

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What...happened?

Owen rubbed his forehead with the back of his fist as he surveyed the scene before him...books scattered everywhere. Where was the - OH NOOOO...!

Scrambling to his knees his eyes bugged wide as he saw the blood, the younger student, the blood, the crooked arm, the blood...DEAR MERLIN SO MUCH BLEEDING....For a few seconds, Owen froze...going into a shock...heart thundering against his ribcage and not knowing what to do.

And then his senses came rushing back as he trembled at the sight before him. Holy hell...did he just kill a student?

No, no, no, Owen...He's still breathing. Calm down, calm down. Help him! DO. NOT. CRY.

So he puffed forceful breaths one after the other and spurred into action, quickly tearing a segment of cloth from his shirt and tying it around the kid's head (mommy, so much bleeding!!). And with his still shaking hands, pressed on the wound as he yelled to whoever was there, including Peeves and Miffy.

"SOMEBODY GET A HEALER!....PLEASE!

Don't die on me, kid. Don't you dare.

Tenacius zips out of the Gryffindor Common Room with a quick 'bye!' at the Portrait Lady, thinking of going down to the Kitchens. Since he's done this hundreds of times before, he wasnt looking at the stairs. He was looking at everybody struggling by the stairs, curious at what's happe--

-- SLIP!

B A M ! goes his bum on the first landing.

"What the????" he groaned as he looked back to where he had come from.

There is a slide behind him? What happened to the stai--

THERE IS A SLIDE BEHIND HIM!!

AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS???

#OpportunityKnocksButOnce

Ignoring all his aches and momentary wooziness the Curly Top immediately took his cruiser out of his pocket and enlarged it to surfing size. Where o where should he start the crest of the "wave" eh eh? But oh he should study the timing of the stairs, because he was gonna riiiiiiiiide this baby all the way down down down yup.

Wait for it.... wait for it...... NOW!

"COWABUNGAAAAAA!!!!!"

#StairSurfingFTW

Rafael Carraro wasn’t pay attention as he walked toward the moving staircases and then he heard it…wooping excitement and there was someone bleeding! OH DEAR MERLIN THIS SCHOOL WAS A MESS! He didn’t see the wax on the floor as he moved to go and find out what was happening with Jace.

“Is everything oka - heey watch out!” he called as he started to slip on the waxy floor. Pointing his wand he quickly went into action “arresto momentum!” Hopefully he would stop slipping…maybe they needed to do a heating charm on the floor and melt whatever substance was on it away…or just a cleaning charm? Either. Anything. Still leaning back he managed to come to a stop next to the bleeding kid. “I’m here to help,” he muttered as he tapped his wand against Jace’s head “ferula” he cast and watched as the bandages began to form.

“We need to do something about this floor” he mentioned to the kids near him. Really if anyone had ideas that would be great.

He would've comforted Owen and say that everything will be okay, but he was just there...lying on the floor unconscious. He didn't even feel the bandage that started to wrap his head. While things went by around him, Jace was in his dreamland.

He was back home in Japan...with the Cherry Blossom in full bloom. Wait, what was going on? Isn't it December already? There shouldn't be any flowers at this time, right? Still, the young teen walked under the full bloom and wondered where his friends are...

Weird...so weird.

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What...happened?

Owen rubbed his forehead with the back of his fist as he surveyed the scene before him...books scattered everywhere. Where was the - OH NOOOO...!

Scrambling to his knees his eyes bugged wide as he saw the blood, the younger student, the blood, the crooked arm, the blood...DEAR MERLIN SO MUCH BLEEDING....For a few seconds, Owen froze...going into a shock...heart thundering against his ribcage and not knowing what to do.

And then his senses came rushing back as he trembled at the sight before him. Holy hell...did he just kill a student?

No, no, no, Owen...He's still breathing. Calm down, calm down. Help him! DO. NOT. CRY.

So he puffed forceful breaths one after the other and spurred into action, quickly tearing a segment of cloth from his shirt and tying it around the kid's head (mommy, so much bleeding!!). And with his still shaking hands, pressed on the wound as he yelled to whoever was there, including Peeves and Miffy.

"SOMEBODY GET A HEALER!....PLEASE!

Don't die on me, kid. Don't you dare.

Felicity had been on her way down the stairs heading to the staff room when the poltergeists had appeared and poured wax all over the stairs and the stairs had decided to go all glisseo on them. The high heels that she was wearing did not have great traction to begin with, and the wax was making everything quite slippery. Felicity slipped on the stairs and started sliding down them. Oh dear. It seemed that quite a few students had also fallen. Focusing completely on being a raccoon, Felicity transformed into her animagus form. Her raccoon paws reached for the bannister, and wrapping her raccoon arms around it, clung on for dear life. As the stairs had turned into a slide, Felicity climbed up to the top rail of the bannister and walked along it. Ah, the joys of being a raccoon.

Hearing a call for help, she rushed over to the landing where the cry had come from as fast as one could when one was a raccoon clinging to the bannister. Upon reaching the safety of the landing, Felicity transformed back into her human form so as to better be able to assist the person in need. "Owen, what happened? Jace?" That looked like a nasty head injury and a broken arm to her. Felicity was no healer, but it was obvious that Jace needed medical attention. However, given the current state of the stairs it would be quite difficult to get Jace up to the hospital wing.