An active, character-driven Hogwarts experience set in the early 2000s. Unique items, plots, and features. Non-canon; this isn't Harry Potter's story, it's ours.
For part 2/3 of the Halloween Event this RPG year. Only volunteering students on Professor McGonagall's list in the Entrance Hall are permitted to post here. This thread is modded by Xan and overseen by Prefect @kaspian .
The empty classroom looked less like one already, with tables pushed aside and chairs thrown array. At least a dozen blue Cornish Pixies flew around, tearing up spare parchment and various school supplies they'd somehow managed to find despite the room's lack of use.
They were having fun, whizzing around like mischief-causing snitches. They were mostly harmless, so long as they were left alone...
Kaspian ran through the entire castle until he arrived, his heart pounding and a sheen of sweat on his brow. It appeared he was the first to arrive. He entered the classroom with caution and his wand extended, his eyes flicking between each of the dozen pixies. They were tearing the room apart, with pieces of parchment falling from above and school supplies being thrown from every direction -- not to mention the tables and chairs in disarray. It was complete chaos.
"Out of all the rooms in the castle, this is the one you lot picked?" Kash ducked any objects that flew at his head while cautiously moving further into the room. He was talking at the pixies but knew not to expect a response. "But I guess the real question is: who let you lot out?" He thought he suddenly felt one near his head and made a quick swat at it.
He didn't know how to approach the troubling situation, but the pressure was on as a newly made prefect. Magic seemed appropriate with the scene in this condition, but he didn't want to harm the pixies or cause more damage to the classroom. To make matters worse, the Cornish Pixies appeared to be small as all heck, lightning fast and apparently had super-strength?
"Try not to use offensive magic!" Kaspian thought he heard someone entering the room from behind him, but didn't want to make any sudden movements to greet them. "We need to try and corral the pixies into something -- maybe a cage if we can find one?" His eyes searched the room, hoping to find one for use. If not, they could use something else.
Post by Grace Babineaux on Oct 2, 2020 11:15:33 GMT 10
"Um..." Grace said, a little worried. She didn't really know anything that wasn't offensive magic. She had that curse, and even spraying water or shining light on the pixies seemed a little antagonistic. "I'll try to find a cage!" she said, searching around the classroom, all the while dodging whatever the pixies were shredding up.
She had never thought much about this room, though she was glad it was this classroom the pixies were tearing up and not one of the ones that belonged to one of the Professors, though she suspected that it was the pixies that would be more out of luck than Professor Snape if they had ended up in that dungeon somehow. She looked for anything that might help corral a pixie, even if it wasn't a cage.
Post by Lindsey Bryce on Oct 2, 2020 20:37:31 GMT 10
Lindsey had gotten word from the Professor to go to the empty classroom. Still in her outfit from the day afternoon prior, she ran at an easy pace until she heard what sounded like a bit of destruction. As she got near the classroom, she stopped, removing her bag and placing it down the hall under a bench, out of sight and pulled out her wand. The last thing she needed was one of those pixies taking her bag from her.
With her wand out, she moved to the classroom and heard the order about fnding a cage coming from the older Ravenclaw. As she entered, she looked around the room and saw the young Gryffindor searching for a cage.
"I'll look over here for one." She said, searching the opposite side of the room for a cage as well. While looking, she tried to think of a spell that might stop them... The freezing spell came to mind, but she didn't know it well enough to use it.
Tiana skidded against the flooring as she came to a running halt, entering the usually empty classroom. It wasn't empty tonight with dozens of pixies flying around and causing all kinds of havoc! Tiana ducked one she thought was flying directly at her, and she began to rummage for anything she could find to shield herself from the pixies. She was looking for something sturdy like a book or a board but anything would do. It didn't look like anyone was using magic..
“Grace!” she hollered, noticing her teammate searching for something. “What are you looking for? Something to defend yourself with?” Ti asked, hurrying over to help Grace. She continued to look for something that could be used as a shield for herself, and looked around at the others in the room. She noticed a fourth year she didn't know and Kaspian who she had classes with.. but hadn't known he was a Prefect until now. Had he just got that?
“Kaspian, what's the plan?” she yelled out to the prefect, finding it difficult to talk to the others with the pixies trashing the room and making noise. Tiana wanted to use magic but didn't know anything that could be used against the tiny blue beasts. The more seconds that passed, Ti felt hopeless, not knowing how she could help the situation. The more they didn't do anything, the more the pixies would wreck the room.. or worse, find ways to target everyone!
Handfuls of pixies continued to lay waste upon the classroom, overturning chairs in pairs and shifting desks to better divide the students that were entering the space, one after the other.
As more and more desks shifted, some contents fell out, such as random books, used quills and black inkwells. If anyone wanted to make use of these things, they'd need to make a grab for them before the pixies did. However, much to the students' dismay, they wouldn't find any cages or similar containers, as the room had remained empty of such things for a long time.
The remaining bright blue creatures whizzed throughout the room, swooping down at students as they entered, and in a way, tried to throw the students off their guard and distract them.
Suddenly, a dissonance of noise erupted as about four or five Cornish Pixies swarmed after Grace Babineaux and Tiana Thomas, attention drawn to them from the yelling of the latter.
The creatures grabbed at whatever they could, some yanking at the older girl's hair and the others pulling at the ears of the youngest. The pixies let out a series of crazy shrill sounds as more crossed over to help lift Grace from her feet, using her ears to better raise her about four to five feet off the ground—showcasing their strength. The pixies could lift about anything!
Another two pixies worked in unison to tie the laces together of an unsuspecting Lindsey Bryce, as one swiftly shot back and forth ahead of her, attempting to yank her wand from her grasp.
There was no shortage of chaos as a pixie darted toward Kaspian Kettles and ripped the pinned prefect badge from the front of his robes, which would no doubt prove enough of a distraction for him. The pixie cackled and zipped higher into the air, dangling the badge like a prize.
Kaspian turned his head when he heard two girls enter and respond to his request. He didn't know them but appreciated they followed his instruction. It would prove to be tricky to not use magic but Kaspian didn't want to agitate the pixies or draw unnecessary attention to him or the others. If the pixies wanted to flutter around and rip up some parchment, then that was fine.
But that didn't look like it was going to last long. When Tiana Thomas entered the classroom and began to holler for the first year she referred to as Grace, Kash attempted to shush her by pressing a finger to his own lips. It seemed absurd to gesture for someone else to quiet down when the pixies were harsher in sound and making all kinds of noise, but Kaspian didn't want anything to happen to the students he was overseeing -- not on his first night as a prefect.
"Tiana, you have got to quiet down!" Kaspian whispered as quietly as he could whisper when he was frazzled. "Look for anything you can to help contain the pixies!" His face was red, his hair unkempt and it was obvious how fatigued he was becoming. Kash could only duck and dodge so many sweeping swoops by the pixies without running into a table or chair.
Almost as soon as Kaspian instructed Tiana to look for some sort of container, he began to realize there wasn't anything around to use. It was only tables and chairs with some scattered school supplies. Kaspian couldn't panic. To do so would show weakness. He needed to be strong -- or at least appear so. He didn't want anyone to think he wasn't a suitable prefect.
"Hey!" It looked like someone didn't think he was fit for the role, as a pixie tore his badge clean from the front of his robes. "Give that back to me right now, you little blighter!" Kash jumped upwards, his spring driven by the power of his legs. He made a swipe at the Cornish Pixie and tried to retrieve his stolen badge, oblivious to everything else going on.
Post by Lindsey Bryce on Oct 7, 2020 20:29:49 GMT 10
Lindsey searched through the abandoned classroom, looking over and under the desk for anything that would be helpful, but it became clear before the Ravenclaw said anything... There were nothing but desk and school supplies. 'Bugger!' She thought to herself as she turned, her eyes quickly diverting to the scene before her. This wasn't good at all.
As she looked down, she kicked her feet out at ridiculous creatures. "Oi! Get away ye wee devil!" She said before clutching her wand near her chest as another tried to take it from her. "Ye cannie have it! Away with ya!" She backed away, but the two below had managed to tie her laces and she grumbled. There was a way to fix this and as she scooted back against the wall of the room, she kicked off her shoes before standing.
"Do ye know the freezing spell?" Lindsey asked the others, her wand held tightly in her hand, her back against the wall to prevent anyone from taking getting directly behind her. She did know one spell, the slowing charm... But would it work? "Do ye think the slowing charm might work on these wee devils?"
Post by Grace Babineaux on Oct 8, 2020 5:25:27 GMT 10
Grace looked up at the sound of Tiana's voice, and was about to explain that she was searching for something to keep the pixies in when they caught them. Unfortunately for her, that was also when the pixies decided to yank her ears and lift her up into the air. She squealed--it hurt, after all. She tried to swat at them, but they were bigger than she had expected.
She looked down at the older students, wondering if this was how Aric had gone missing as well. Stolen by pixies. It seemed like an odd way to go missing, but she didn't know how strong they were. She wished she was older so she could figure out a better way to work with the pixies. "Help!" she squealed, nervous about falling as well.
Clara wished she'd been able to go with Jamie, it felt strange going to help search with people she didn't know. She wished she could have stayed with her friend. As it was however, she wanted to help, so wiith that in mind she had hurried to the classroom. Catching sight of another student heading into the classroom, Clara hurried her steps towards the empty room.
Running into room, she stumbled to a halt, managing to catch her balance before she fell again. Her eyes widened at the chaotic scene unfolding in front of her. "Whoah..." she whispered to herself, rooted to the spot. Hearing voices yelling she pulled her attention back to the chaos long enough to throw herself out of the way of a pixie.
Stumbling into the wall she frowned, her back to the cold stone as she surveyed the area. They couldn't search like this, they needed to trap the slippery little buggers and fast. Watching another young student being carried into the air made her eyes widen, her fingers wrapping tightly around her wand not knowing how to help. "We need to help her!"
Somehow Harris had managed to avoid any direct attacks from the pixies- being unnoticeable and easily disappearing in crowds did have its advantages, it turned out. He knew he couldn't sit on the sidelines forever though- as funny as everything that he was observing was, he knew the chaos was quickly spinning out of control. If he could help restore some order to the classroom, that would be pretty cool.
The Slytherin girl had mentioned the slowing charm- great idea! What was the slowing charm again? Harris cycled through the rolodex of spells in his brain and tried to remember. Charms wasn't his best class- no class was his best class, truth be told, although CoMC was less awful than the rest- but he did manage to recall the incantation.
It was hard to aim at these little devils, but Harris pointed his wand towards a cluster of pixies that had happened to cluster around Kaspian. He hoped he didn't accidentally jinx his fellow 5th year in the process. "Arresto momentum!" Harris bellowed out.
Tiana missed the shush signal from Kaspian the first time but zipped her mouth shut when he addressed her volume. This was the second time today someone told her to lower her voice. Was Tiana really that loud? Maybe this was something she had to work on. Her loudness this morning ended with one of her teammate's injured in the Hospital Wing and now this time.. an oncoming swarm of crazy pixies!? Tiana went bug-eyed and flailed her arms in defense.
“Get away from us, you pesky buggers!” she screamed, swatting at them as they pulled at her hair. Tiana fell onto her side, knocked off balance by a couple of pests working together to yank her down. She noticed a book sprawled across the floor and made a reach for it, quickly grabbing it and pulling it close. The pixies kept pulling at her hair until she gripped the bottom of the book with both hands and swung backward, aiming to forcefully knock away the pixies!
“Grace! Hold on!” Tiana shouted with panic, trying to get back to her feet. She kept swinging her book left and right, aiming for each pixie that dared to mess with her and Grace. Tiana had no qualms in knocking them out like bowling pins! “Let her go!” Tiana yelled, climbing onto a shifted table adjacent to them. Ti watched in fear as her small friend got raised five feet off the ground but knew she could be raised higher if she didn't get rid of the blue, flying creatures.
“Take that!” Tiana squalled, striking the hardcover book at one of the pixie's holding the ear closest to her. If the pixie was successfully smacked away, it would have to put some abrupt weight on the pixie holding Grace's other ear.. maybe causing it to drop Grace to ground? Ti could only hope, as she hopped off the table and jumped to catch Grace if she was dropped!
A surge of magic shot instantaneously through the air from Harris Teague's wand and toward the covey of pixies above Kaspian Kettles. The incantation appeared to work, as the group of flying creatures came to an almost standstill, floating and moving in molasses-like movement. Their velocity temporarily slowed and made it manageable for the prefect to recollect his badge—but he'd need to do so before the effects wore off, which would be sooner than later.
Harris' incantation was a warning to the other pixies, as they immediately began to disperse about the room at top speed. The cluster carrying Grace Babineaux by the ears had been weakened by the efforts of Tiana Thomas, and made the decision to drop her into the arms of the fifth year after witnessing the charm's slowing effects. They wanted to avoid the spell.
Most of the pixies were flying solo now and swooping down at unsuspecting bystanders, this time a little more aggressive than last. While Cornish Pixies were mostly harmless creatures, they felt attacked and wanted revenge. Their goal was to send these students running.
One determined pixie retrieved a used inkwell from the floor and thrusted the open end toward Clara Randall, quickly splashing and coating her face in black ink, while another used all their might to knock Harris Teague's wand out of his hand and several feet across the chaotic room.
Wisps of electric blue flew rapidly around Lindsey Bryce and herded her away from the safety of the wall, while a lone pixie seized one of her shoes and began to lasso it over its head. The shoe swung with erring aim and hit Lindsey, before being inadvertently launched toward the Gryffindor girls, who were dealing with agitated pixies that yanked at their hair and robes.
Post by Grace Babineaux on Oct 15, 2020 13:10:26 GMT 10
Grace screamed as she fell into Tiana's arms, then looked a bit ashamed. Nobody else had been scooped up by the pixies. Whatever the Hufflepuff kid from earlier had done seemed to have worked, she thought gratefully as she tried to step down to the floor so she could have better footing. She didn't know as many spells as the older kids, but the pixies were still annoying her.
Grace swatted at the pixies. She didn't even care if they tried to bite her like the Snuffron had, she just didn't want them to pick her up again. She hardly noticed Lindsey's shoe flying at her because she was so worried that she might end up on the ceiling this time. This had to be how Aric had gone missing, she thought.
Post by Lindsey Bryce on Oct 15, 2020 21:14:58 GMT 10
That had worked? Lindsey was relieved that it had worked, even for a short time. But it wouldn't work for long... The pixies were now agitated and she was herded away from the wall and her shoe forced off her feet.
"Hey! Give me back me shoe, ye wee blighter!" She called, just as the shoe hit her square in the chest and then went towards the Gryffindors. Rubbing her chest, she grumbled and stood up straight, gripping her wand with anger. Her hair was coming out of its ties and she was getting mad.
These foolish things needed to be stopped, but how... How did they even get on here? There wasn't a cage, so she didn't think someone brought them in. Looking at the windows, she was tempted to open it and let the beast out onto the grounds.
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