Watching Kazuko go to the lake and dip her feet into it. Looking around, he wondered what the Caretaker of Games and Keys were at. It had been a long time since he had spoken with him.

( What season is it? And as well as the time? )

"Nice," Chloe praised, she had always been better at making potions, but spells intrigued her more since they were more of a challenge.

She quickly walked across the tree bridge and waited for Tor on the other side.

[[any season? O_o you pick XD]]

*throws some water at Exia and giggles* "What are you looking for?"

Exia felt water splashing all over him. Looking at Kazoku, he smirked and then took off his shoes, "You've asked for it." Running into the lake, he splashed Kazoku with some water as well and continued to do so, "Take that and that!

*laughs* "Weak!" *splashes this huge wave at Exia*

"Your in my territory buddy, so watch out!" *water moves around strangely and 'attacks' Exia*

Victoria and Alexis both rose an eyebrow.....

"Well that was random," Victoria sighed.

"She mustn't be THAT worried about her powers if she has time to chase after boys....." Alexis grinned.

"What are you smiling about?"

"Well my love, it is night and I have a special surprise for you in the Astronomy Tower."

"The Astronomy Tower?"

Alexis chuckled, "Well get rid of the students who are there illegally first...."

Victoria laughed.

Gets wet again by a huge splashing wave from Kazuko, "Dang it!" Again, he tries to splash her and he keeps on trying, "I'm gonna get you for that one Kazuko."

Alexis sighed, "Lets get out of here before we see something that might make us deduct points from Gryffindor...."

Victoria nodded and they made their way towards the Astronomy Tower.

*sees Alexis and Victoria leave* "Hey! were you guys going?"

*splashes a huge wave at Exia and remembers what she need to do* "Crud! Ah...stupid short-term memory moments!" *runs ontop of the water and runs back to the castle* "Sorry Exia! Look for me when you've made the plans for your borther!"

The last splash drenched Exia, looking at Kazuko leave, "Alright!" Stretching his arms, he pulled out his wand again and flicked it. His whole entire body dried itself and his clothing as well. Stashing away his wand, he got put on his shoes and walked back into the castle. This year was his O.W.L.'s year and he would need to at least study for it, but knowing himself, he would study for all of his classes except Astronomy. That was a class he believed to be a waste, what would they get if they studied the stars, except meteors, comets and shooting stars. In the castle, he headed back to the Gryffindor common room. Quickly raising his bags, couple of pea's fell from the sky and Peeve's just flew on by, trying to hit anyone else.

*runs into the library and gasp at the after math of the dung bomb. Waves her wand to create a small gust of wind to clear the air* "I wonder if anyone is still in here. Hello?"

The librarian told her to hush. "Um excuse me, where are the book about mystical creatures or different types of magic?"

The librarian points here towards a section of the library, and Kazuko starts walking there. She stares up and down at the shelfs. "Ah...this is gonna be a while." *grabs a couple of books and sits on the ground and starts to read*

Peeks out of the restricted area when she hears Kazuko's question. She shrugs and then turns back to her book entitled "Magic of the Natives" taking notes as she reads.

Tor stepped across the log. She got to the other side and jumped lightly off. "Okay, I guess well keep going forward. Let's head to that forest. It might have some interesting things. Hopefully nothing scary though."

"Oh?" Chloe smirked at Tor, "So, you don't like scary things, huh?"

All types of nasty tricks ran through her mind before her evil aura subsided and was replaced with her normal one.

"Anyway," she looked towards the forest, "If anything is in there, it'll just give us some practice with our new shield, right?!"

Alexis and Victoria chased people out of the Astronomy Tower with threats of detentions in the forbidden forest cleaning up giant spider poop.

Alexis conjured a small wooden table with the food that he had made a week ago and placed under a couple of strong spells to preserve its freshness so it wouldn't go bad or get cold. It would taste like he just pulled it out of the oven. Thanks to the house elves he begged to get cooking lessons off of years ago, he could actually make a decent meal....

"On tonight's menu is Lavender and Sage Roasted Pork, Rosemary and Garlic Roasted Potatoes, and for desert a Sweet Plum and Cinnamon Compote. Bon Appétit!" Alexis said with a smile as he helped Victoria to her seat.

Victoria looked at the food and smiled, "Since when could you cook?"

"Since I took lessons from the house elves."

She took a bite of the pork and her eyes widened, "This is exquisite!"

Alexis blushed, "Thank you...."

*starts by reading a book called The Enciclopedia of Mystical Creatures* "There are so many...i should take notes, for class as well as to better understand this world...note to self, need to stop talking to myself."

*takes out her notebook and quill and begins to sribble notes and a quick drawing of the creature* [At this rate I might be here till late at night. Unless my inner study demon comes out] *silently giggles to self*

*It did take her long to finish, since she was and 'A' type person. She moved on to a book that dealt with different types of Magic and Spells* [I should try this...mabye I'll check this books out]

*She gets up form the ground and put all the finised books back. When a worn out book fall right next to her.* "Hm? what's this...are books in this libarary able to fall off this selves anyways?"

They ate, mostly in a comfortable silence. Alexis' heart was bounding against his rib cage. He was so nervous.....

He conjured a blanket, "There should be some good shooting stars tonight, would you care to join me?"

He offered his hand to Victoria. She took it and he helped her up from her seat.

They laid down on the blanket together and stared up at the stars, holding hands.

"Yeah. I just don't like creepy things jumping out from the shadows." Tor sighed and squared her shoulders. "Alright, let's head to the possibly creepy forest."

"Don't worry, Tor," Chloe smirked at her while they walked towards the forest, "I have really fast reflexes."

"I have fast reflexes too, it's just the jumping part." Tor replied. "I can handle them once they jump out just fine." Tor had a freezing spell memorised for just such an instance. Tor walked until they reached the forests edge. "You first." Tor said, flourishing.

Kazuko picks up the book and tries to put the book back on the self, but it wouldnt go back. [Well that's weird....hm...Ancient Magic...mabye it can help me out. But i wonder why it wouldnt go back to the shelf...]

Kazuko picked up the books that she decided to check out and walked to the librarian and places the books on the desk. "I would like to check this out please."

The librian stamped all the book, until she got to the book of Ancient Magic and says, "This isnt part of our collection. Were did you find this?"

"I just feel right next to me...does that mean i cant check it out?" Kazuko held the book and felt the sudden need to have the book. The librarian said that since it wasnt part of the collection she was free to take it, but the librarian would have to put a lost book aid in the library; just incase it was someone else.

Finishes up in the restricted area and stuffs a book entitled "Dark Legends of the Ancients" into her bag 'I'll save this one for later' Anabella thought to her self. She slipped out of the restricted area and past the librarian, smiling and waving as she went by and went into the corridor. 'Whew...that was close, I need to know what is in this book' she thought to herself, walking outside. Anabella finds a tree and climbs up into it and begins to read her book making scribbles in her notebook.

Chloe laughed at her scared friend. Since she was one of those people that act brave when people who are more scared then her are around, Chloe stepped into the woods first.

"Sorry Tor," she feigned disappointment, "Nothing seems to be jumping out."

She turned around to smirk at Tor, but then noticed, in horror, that Tor was gone. Then the forest seemed to evaporate and in its place a bloody carnival formed.

"What the..." She trailed off as a knife went whizzing right past her left cheek, successfully making a line of blood appear.

(( The forest is cursed to make the people in it see illusions. Since the people experiencing these illusions think they are real, what happens to them in the illusion also happens to their real body. Let's say that the shield protects Tor from the illusion since she's hanging on to it. ))

((Okay. Chloe's reacting to invisible things, right? I'll act accordingly.))

"Chloe? What are you doing? Stop lagging! Come on, we need to get out of this crazy forest... Chloe, what do you see?" Tor asked, starting to get really frightened. Chloe was wide eyed, and confused looking and had gotten a scratch across her cheek. Must have been a tree branch.

Chloe was now staring at a horrific looking clown with blood flowing out of his eyes. The clown had been the one that threw the knife and he was holding onto about twenty more in a belt around his waist.

Since Chloe was very brave and never stepped back from a challenge, she went and picked up the knife that had been thrown at her. She would fight this clown and win. In the back of her mind, she was more scared about what might be happening to Tor.

She decided to try and find Tor once she won the fight against the clown. The battle started as Chloe lunged in to fight.