Everyone was doing great! Finneas gave Ms. Morin a THUMBS UP for her work. Was she distracted? He had absolutely no clue. In his ~own little world~ over here. The world of J A Z Z E R C I S E! What a wonderful world to be in, honestly. ”Yes, come join us! We’re doing KNEE kicks!” As they could see. He waved big at Noah who followed the other crowd of newcomers.

Bernadette’s ‘woooooing’ was all the encouragement Schmoe needed to kick things up a notch. Literally kicking. ”LEG KICKS, EVERYONE!” He demonstrated with literally no coordination. He was aiming for the beat, but er… The beat did not want to be followed. "Right and left! Right! And left!"

AnD KICK AND KICK AND…. Was the sky red? That was odd. And very distracting…… Mood lighting? Errrrrrrr.

Finneas paused to look up at it, blinking a bit. A bit odd, but strangely familiar. Actually come to think of it, this entire past half hour felt like a weird sort of dejavu. He scratched his head before bringing his attention back to the group. "LEFT!"

Knee kicks required more energy than simple stretches, so she lifted her knees one at a time and gradually managed to direct her attention to following the music and controlling her breath. Soon she was blocking the snapping sounds and "woohoo"s from her mind. The spectators from the other houses had joined them too, so they were now one big group having fun together. She switched to leg kicks at Professor Schmoe's instructions, but ... chose to follow the beat instead of his shouting. Everything was so nice! It wasn't even raining yet. She looked up at the sky once more and noticed that it was ... red? Shocked, she blinked and continued to look at the sky for a few moments. She watched as it turned purple, then dark blue again.

"Did everyone see that? The sky was like, RED just now." She stopped her leg kicks to say this to no one in particular.

Blake sighed, not only had he been called out by Schmoe, not Bernadette was up in his business ... though neither of those options surprised him. Taking a deep breath .... "Alright, but only for you Bernadette would I do this." He added standing up and doing some pretend sort of jig with the music. "This is suppose to be exercise???" He added, but even has he was making fun of the 'lack of exercise' with the music he was beginning to be out of the breath.

And then out of no where the sky turned a BRIGHT RED!!!! What in the name of Merlin was going on here. "Bernadette, did you see that?" How on earth could she not have seen it, it was already beginning to fade, but what could it possibly have been. After his incident with the portrait last year he was a little wearing of anything else happening. Could there ever be just a normal year at Hogwarts?

She was getting down and bouncing around to the awesome music. Her snaps were happening and the sweat was starting to come out as well, though she would never admit it was sweat, no it was sparkle. Wasn't it so much fun to sparkle? "You are all doing soooooooo great!"

Wasn't this so fun!

Her eyes did lift as the sky turned colors and she stopped dancing a moment as she felt the birds confusion over it as well, but soon things were feeling back to normal and she looked around spotting Gus, "Oh Gus you can come stand by me if you need a spot. We are just getting started."

She couldn't wait to get started at Jazzercise, what fun were they going to have at this. 'Wooohooo"

Awww, man! Blake was making her blush. Bernie turned a little bit red but what could she say? She was glad to still have one friend at Hogwarts, at least, and Blake was C R A C K I N G her U P with his jig.

"It IS exercise, YESSSS," she clapped for him, then caught sight of Professor Kitridge looking up at the sky, and got distracted and looked too. "YEAH WOW!" Bernie started snapping instead of clapping; she thought that was the trendy thing to do. "NICE LIGHT SHOW, SCHMOE!" Or should she say nice light schmoeeeeeee? This was obviously just part of the exercise routine!

Bernie let out another jubilant, "WOOHOO!" and started doing her leg kicks to the left, take it back now y'all, one kick this time, one kick this time...

Avalon was busy knee kicking, enjoying the beat of the music, when something truly bizarre happened in the sky. Her eyes narrowed, and she stopped in her tracks, glancing up. Was it just her, or did the sky just turn full-out red? It was only for a few seconds, but she could have sworn she saw it. Huh. Maybe it was just a trick of the light, or because she wasn't wearing her glasses?

It seemed like some of the other students had noticed it, too. "I saw it too, Jina," Avalon said to her housemate. "Or at least, I think I did. But now it looks dark blue...." she trailed off, squinting at the sky again. And Professor Schmoe had seen it, too, judging from the abrupt pause in his leg kicks (which, if Avalon may add, were painfully off-beat). She stared at the sky for another few minutes before shrugging and returning to some leg kicks. But every couple of seconds, she couldn't help but glance up at the sky again, wondering what was going on.

K teasingly glared at Noah realizing he had essentially tricked her into agreeing to attending all of the classes. Sneaky Gryffindor. She clearly wasn't actually upset with him though. Perhaps it would make Muggle Studies more fun?

K focused on Professor Schmoe and his... offbeat leg kicks, before following along but adjusting her rhythm to where it matched the music. She peeked sideways towards Noah to see he was doing the same, but then glanced up at the sky when she heard everyone mentioning it. Was there something weird about it? "The sky looks normal to me..." But she didn't doubt them either that they had seen something weird previously.

What she DID also notice that seemed weird was... didn't Professor Kitridge already say those same exact words to Professor Rainwater? Her face screwed up in concentration for a moment, before giving a slight shrug. Maybe she was just imagining things? She glanced over at Noah again, "Are you getting a weird sense of deja vu?"

The purple-tinted sky remained still for long enough that you may have started to question whether or not it had even changed colours to begin with. Only for a few minutes. Soon, however, the colors start changing again. Another gradual fade from purple to a deep violet to blood red.

Maybe it wasn't a trick of the light after all.

The red stays for longer this time, but the moment does not last for too long. Again, the red fades out. Blood red to deep violet to tints of purple. Off and on it fades.

Finneas had wondered if he had imagined things. The feeling of deja vu was VERY strong, but the inkling that something strange was going on with the sky was even stronger. So much so that when Ms. Morin spoke up, Finneas found himself dropping his feet to the ground and abandoning the routine all together. ”Yes…. That was… ERrrr… Strange, wasn’t it?” He hadn’t ever seen a RED sky before, come to think of it.

ERrrrrrrr….. ”Maybe this is the beginnings of a storm?” Finneas was no weather man, but errr……… A red sky could not be good, right? Felt a little apocalyptic actually. He scratched his head, looking from face to face. Everyone seemed just as confused as the next. Except for those who looked as though absolutely nothing had happened. Finneas was willing to ignore the strange sky as it had settled down, but the NEXT wave of red sent in a right state.

”Maybe it is best if we’re er… Come to an end for today.” He looked around. He’d make it up to them. Perhaps he could incorporate group exercise into an upcoming lesson? HMmmMMmmmMMM. The ideas were brewing. ”Right errrr, thank you all for joining!”

Oh, was it a light show?? Jina was almost convinced, but everyone except Bernie looked confused, so it was probably not something the professors expected either. In fact, Professor Kitridge was behaving strangely, repeating the same thing to Professor Rainwater. She hoped they were not about to have the same argument again. On top of that, there was another wave of colour change in the sky. She was glad that the jazzercise was ending. She decided that group exercise was not for her - there were waaay too many distractions. Exhaling deeply, she drank from her water bottle. "Thanks, Professor," she nodded at her head of house and housemates before making her way back to the castle.

"Bernie .. I'm not sure it was Schmoe's doing." Blake stopped himself .. he had never before used Bernadette's nick name ... he never called her Bernie ... he wasn't sure what to make of it himself either .... but then the sky turned red again and he was lost into thought about that.

"What do you suppose is going on? Should we head in?" Blake asked ... he didn't want to sound afraid ... he was going for more confidence the year and he had to tell himself that at least 100 times a day to make sure he stuck to the right course ... but he was rather afraid of the sky ... who knows what would sort of rain would start falling from the red sky ... the idea of blood made him want to puke.

And then Schmoe ended the exercise program. "Thank Merlin that's over." Blake sat on the grass if only to catch his breath, and then he would be ready to grab Bernadette and run as fast as he could to get of the blood ran if it were to happen.

You know, now that Blake said that, and now that Schmoe was ending the exercise program, Bernie thought maybe they SHOULD head in. The sky did that THING again and again, and she didn't like the look of it. So uh, yeah.

"We SHOULD go in," she mumbled to Blake, stopping her exercise and just standing next to him. All her enthusiasm had waned with the sudden end of the jazzercise program. "Uh, come on, I guess." She held out her hand to Blake to help him up, since he was kind of being a grump about this all anyway, and it wasn't a big deal, like, they'd already held hands ONCE today, so, like, what if they held hands AGAIN?!.

Smiling up at Bernadette he took her hand and stood up. "Better safe than sorry for sure." He added making sure to keep hold of her hand. Being brave had his benefits! Twice in one day holding hands with Bernadette ......... maybe he could become even braver before he could get a kiss .... nope never mind , he caused himself to blush just thinking about it. "So should we grab something to eat quick?" Blake added trying to cover up his blush. He gave Bernadette's hand a little tug and began walking toward the castle ... before the sky did a total freak out again.

Aww, that was such a Blake thing to say, hehehehe. Bernie was usually sorry rather than safe, ha!

She beamed at him, not really noticing the color on his cheeks, and started swinging their hands as they walked up the castle. Nothing personal, Bernie just did this to everyone she held hands with, from her dad and mum to her little sister. "Okay!" Food sounded good after all that arduous jazzercise, gosh!

Even though she did not like to go out too much because of the strange weather, she really wanted to take Flat Newt to the Great Lake. She was sure that this is one place Newt Scamander frequented when he was a young student at Hogwarts. Not only was it a good spot to relax, but there were a lot of interesting magical creatures here. She wondered if he went into the lake to see the grindylows and merpeople. He was probably good friends with the giant squid, if it was alive then. This location could help her come up with some good ideas for stories. She just had to write them down and take a picture before she forgot.

Jina put her cardboard Newt down on the shore, making sure it would not get wet. She was about to take a picture, when a few of those translucent strangers appeared in the camera's field of view. Ugh, she did not want them in her picture, she had enough of them in her daily life. But they were just minding their own business and she could not tell them to move, so she was the one who had to move. She picked up the cardboard piece and walked away from the "ghost" students. When she set it down at a spot with no one else around, she snapped a photo. The scenery was usually beautiful, but the red sky ruined it.


Now, the picture was taken and she was sure that she had to do something else. She decided to try to remember the next task while packing up. She returned Flat Newt and the camera into her bag and sat down. She came down to the lake to do this assignment ... which requires taking a picture of Newt and ... aha! Writing notes to prepare for the final presentation. She quickly took out some writing equipment and jotted down her ideas:

When she was done, she looked at the red sky absent-mindedly for a while, then sighed and stood up. It was again time to try to remember what she had to do next.

Naya had her camera hanging from one shoulder backpack on her back and Flat Newt tucked under her other arm. She decided to take him to the Great Lake because........well, it would make for a pretty photograph visually and.....what better place for him to study some interesting creatures? Thinking of all of the inhabitants of the lake, she wondered which one would interest Newt the most. Surely he had spent time here as a student, getting to know and observe the denizens of the lake.

Taking a moment to find the perfect spot, she finally decided where she would position him. It was a bit tricky because he was supposed to be looking at the lake, but she wanted the lake in the background of the picture. Fortunately she had planned ahead. She had fashioned a makeshift stand to prop him up. Placing him at just the right angle so Newt could be looking toward the lake and still be seen properly, she stood him up. Naya was thankful that the sun was in the right spot and wouldn’t interfere with her shot. She picked up her camera, checked her settings and took several pictures. Playing them back, she was satisfied that she had a good one out of the bunch. Now she had some notes to write. Taking out her parchment, she began to scribble.



Once her notes were finished, Naya gathered Nate, her camera and other belongings and headed back toward the castle. All the while, she was pondering what she would include for her presentation. She had to make it good.