Of course the first thing that pulled West in was the part with food. He was all about finding a spot and getting his feed on. He went up to the table, following his nose, and examined the food. Load up a plate yes? And grab a stick. West grabbed a bit of everything, going for hot chocolate rather than warm milk for his drink choice, and then went and found a good bonfire spot and a blanket. Yes he was gonna toast things in the fire with this stick. Only after he was fed would he have energy for all that other stuff.


... mayyybe.

She had her a unicorn, a stuffed one that she made with Anya just a bit ago, she laiked her little unicorn.. it was supper fluffy and squishy. And..

Food... she smelled food.... following her nose the seventh year found her way to a table of assorted things.. yum... she grabbed a hot chocolate before turning around to see the fire..."ohh warm fire." she said taking her hot chocolate with her over to it..

Oh "hey Odessa!" she said wandering over to him... she would stand if he sat...

Make her feel taller and what not. Y'know

He had his mouthful already. Hotdog things. Meat. Sauce. Bread. Essentially man food. This meant he wasn't really in the zone for saying words, not if he wanted to be polite. But he did gesture at the spot next to him. Was she going to sit or just hover?

He snugged the blanket around himself with one hand and kept turning the stick with marshmallows on it with the other. Quite the one-man feast going on over here.

Whhhooohooo. Fire. Cat loved a good fire. Maybe it was her tendency to gravitate towards dangerous things, or maybe it was because there was food in this direction. It was probably both, anyway. She gave the FOOD serious looks before she decided that she was going to pop her own popcorn. Wasn't that just EXCITING? Really, she probably should not be trusted with this job, but hey, if it exploded, at least it was just popcorn, right?

Cat shoved a cookie in her mouth and grabbed some hot chocolate and headed over to sit near the fire and a West and an Ariana. Her mouth was full of cookie and she wasn't going to chance losing any of it for talking, so she just gave them both a 'sup' nod. SUP, fellow snakes.

She really wasnt planning on sitting she liked being taller really,even if it was just cause he was sitting. West Odessa was easily the tallest person she knew... besides her dad of course, but odessa was younger then her which is one reason him being so tall bothered the girl.. she was almost eighteen and he was like fifteen... in other words, little.

She shrugged slightly before sitting next to him and she sipped her hot chocolate some... he was eating.. and roasting marshmallows and she was just going to wait for him to be done chewing and stuff cause she didnt want to make him talk with his mouth full, thatd be rude or something... thatd be rude.

And there was a Cat, with food too. It was quite the active quiet party here.. she shuffled and dug the heels of her tennis shoes into the dirt some as cat got settled, oh look she brought the popcorn dont kill us with it, please.

SipSipSip

Cat got a sup nod too. Sort of, but mostly West was busy eating. He had priorities after all. He did look around a bit see if he could see anyone else of interest. Mo was over at that bounce thing right? Which obviously was a premium job. For reasons.

And Ariana was sitting. That was good. Had she brought more food for him? No? Too bad. At least his marshmallow was toasted nicely. He brought it closer and blew out the flame.

He swallowed his mouthful and eyed the toy thing in her hands. "What the heck is that?"

Well, they were just a chatty bunch now werent they? She sipped her hot chocolate once more sharing a glancce between cat and west....... why was this weird? They talked all the time... stop eating odessa, your silence makes things awkward.
Obviously it was his fault... or something, he had no idea really..."dont kill us with that" yes cat.. you.. no killing of the Ariana, she was a majestic and glorious unicorn thing you know, she couldnt die by popcorn kernels. "popcorn, Odessa" thats what that was... and she better know how to do, then again that could be funny..
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"so hows everyone liking quidditch try outs?" those were happening... Cat was there... they could do this.

"No, that toy rat thing in your hand." Not the popcorn. He bit into his toasted, melty marshmallow and eyed the toy thing. Was its NAME popcorn? Anyways, he had better things to do, like eat. And he put his stick down too, the rest of his marshmallows went into his hot chocolate, it was easier.

..... tryouts?

.........

............

He put a smile on. He was getting good at that. "Oh you know, dominating." Him and Theo, perfect pair. Yeah. Focus on the good stuff until an easier subject came along.

WHAT?
WHAT??
WHAT???

Rat thing?! She looked down at her unicorn and pretended to cover its ears.. you know even though it was fake it still had feelings... cept not really. "Its a unicorn Odessa. " UNICORN. Not a rat! Not a toy! "made it with Anya.. just over there" she said motioning To the animal making station...

UNICORN...

Oh.... still a tough subject huh? Biting her lip she dug her heels into the dirt. A bit more... way to be considerate logan, geeze... "i think its going well..." or something...OWLs this year though, right?".. just keep talking girl, go for it...

"If you say so." West said casually. Well it was dark and all and he only could see by the bonfire light so really, couldn't blame him for that. He could see it was something resembling a unicorn now though, but still... if you say so, Ariana.

"Yeah. OWLs. I'm not even a bit worried." Shrug. Nope. "I just have to decide which ones to bother with given nothing I want to do after Hogwarts even needs any." So he didn't even have to stress. "And you with NEWTs...." He looked up at her. Was she worried?

"i do say so." cause it was. She'll have to show it to him later cause it was one fine unicorn stuffie thats for sure. Mostly cause she made it really with the help on Anya and hers matches cause they were unicorn sisters now, so says her anyway.

"not even a bit?" well she supposed if he didnt need them for what he wanted to then he shouldnt be nervous but like EXAMS... Ariana hated them, so much she hated them. She was bad at test taking and studying and she just couldnt....

"dont remind me" cause we're shaking in our skin already just thinking about them. We were not ready, dont slack off for six terms kids.

Wearing her BEAUTIFUL pink pajama she walked toward the bonfire and grinned. She LOVED it to walk in her pajama, it was funny to do and... she could stay up late and leave the common room!! This was FANTASTIC! "Oh, look at the fire, isn't it beautiful?" spoke Sonea to her two rats, who were of course sitting on her shoulder, the third year old was NEVER going anywhere without her two rats, so today was no exception.

Walking slowly closer to the fire she tried to see if she knew somebody and if she could sit and talk with a student she knew.

Well wasn't really his sort of thing, making a toy. 'sides, his girlfriend already had that one weird pig thing. One weird toy was enough.

"No, I mean, I'm smart, y'know?" West said easily and gave a little shrug. It wasn't like it was going to be a struggle for him. It was literally a matter of deciding which OWLs he'd bother to sit. Maybe it was a waste of brains given he didn't want to put them to any specific use, but it did mean that he did well enough in school to be allowed to do the things he DID want to do, namely Quidditch and music.

"I'll help you." He added. No big deal.

Oh look it was Sonea, with no mud on her face. West wondered if she'd actually learned anything (aside from how to clean and condition brooms) from that incident. He didn't call out to the third year though, she could do what she wanted and sit where she wanted and he'd just eat his food and drink his hot chocolate. NBD.

With his hood still on, Angeal was already seaten by the bonfire, wrapping his arms around his knees. He stared blankly at the flame, ignoring his housemates who were basically at most a few metres away from him. He was alone, of course. Then, he heard a voice nearby and thought it was meant for him. As he was about to respond, the Snake noticed that she wasn't talking to him and at the same time, she had two... Rats on her shoulders.

He looked at them (girl and rats) questioningly. "Those aren't really animagus, are they?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. It was meant to be a joke. A humourless one though, Angeal thought. He sort of regretted saying that, thus looking away back to the bonfire.

He wasn't sure which was worse...a prefect event with dementors or one with a stuffed animal making station. It was a cool idea, yeah? What with the slides and the stuff loitered all about, but the stuffed animal making station was weird. He couldn't be the only one who thought that...and by the looks of it...he wasn't alone. Not one bloke was chilling over there. Only over excited skirts with their friends.

With drumsticks in hand, he twirled them and took a seat by the bonfire as he tried to figure out what he was going to do next. S'not like he wanted to do the stacking thing 'cause he was in sleep clothes. Who wanted to put forth any kind of effort in pyjamas? Pfft, yeah not him.

So he would chill here for a while until he figured out what he wanted to do.

Fire. Warmth.

Marissa walked over to the bonfire and sat down on one of the tree trunks. She pulled her sweat shirt around her tighter against the chill and watched the flames dance in front of her.

"Don't come near the fire" warned Sonea while she eyed her two rats, she herself also was careful with the fire, the pajama she wore was too pretty to get burned and she didn't wanted to worry about the safety from her two rats. But... She had punished Sir Blue for running away during her previous year so she knew for sure that her rat would listen to her now. "I'm hungry" said Sonea to her oldest and completely pink rat, Little Princess and just wanted to look for some food when she saw a older boy she knew, West was looking in her direction and she remembered immediately what had happened last year. West had helped her when she had been punished by professor Botros... Brr... the third year old shivered while she thought about the punishment Botros had given her and she didn't wanted to have something like that again. SHE HATED MUD and she had been covered with it!! Brrrr... Luckily professor Botros had accepted her excuse and he had given her five points for her behavior this time...

"Do you also want something to eat?" asked Sonea while she looked at the baby rat from Little princes, her baby blue rat Sir Blue. The rat made a soft sound and she nodded to herself, yes, her rats wanted also something to eat!

Huh? Who was talking to her? She looked around her and spotted a first year boy she didn't knew and... hun? What was he asking her? Who were animagus? Did he... was he talking about her rats? She walked toward him and shook her head. "No, they are just rats, but they are special because they are colored" said Sonea proud. "Little princess" - she pointed at her pink rat, "is pink and her baby," - she pointed at Sir Blue, "is blue, so they are special". She offered the boy her hand and smiled. "I'm Sonea Duvessa."

"Not eating? There's tons of premium snacks over there." West helpfully pointed out to his mate. His own plate, despite working on demolishing its contents for the past ten minutes, was still half full, stacked high with all sorts of delicious things. All for West, y'know? Yes.

Also, where was Loppy? Why wasn't Scan taking advantage of this whole thing? West would be if it wasn't for the fact that his girlfriend was stuck running one of those event things. Eh she was probably enjoying that more than she'd enjoy his company anyways.

Oh there was that firstie that he'd seen at tryouts. Not to bad either, decent hustle. West might've waved or said hi or something but she seemed all lost in thought and everything. He wouldn't mind seeing a firstie or two make the team, like how he and Theo had and all that. Legacy. Yeah.

Marissa looked up from the fire when she saw someone walk up to the fire he looked familiar so she stood up and walked over to him, "Hi." she said with a slight wave, "You were at the tryouts earlier right?" she asked him, "I'm Marissa." she said holding her hand out.

Minerva had a chance to have a little break and she took a few deep breaths. She was hungry and the food was near the bonfire and the bonfire was well fire. Something she clearly wasn't doing well with since last term, but she had treatment for that didn't she, so the blonde made her way slowly over. Going to the table first she grabbed a stick and a hot dog as well as some already done popcorn. No need to stand that close to the fire if she didn't need to. Cooking the hot dog would be long enough. Grabbing a blanket and having her teddy bear tightly under her arm Minerva turned and walked towards the fire.

She breathed a bit easier when she noticed no couples cuddling by the fire. Not that it wasn't cute it would just make her a bit lonely without her certain favorite cuddle claw there. The teddy bear was going to have to be her date for the night. Smiling seeing West and Ariana she waved at the boy and her best friend. "Hey guys, having fun?" She hoped they were at least. Then she saw the snake girl from the end of the year who ran into Forrest and a person she didn't know. Giving them a smile and a wave, Minerva kept her eye on Sonea a bit longer. Yes she would be watching this one especially around her little badger

Next she came near Ascanius. Now this one made her blush with every word he would say. She was an interesting four.. no fifth year now. Wow these younger ones were getting older. She honestly didn't know how Penelope wasn't red all the time being his girlfriend and the way he had compliments up his sleeves. Giving the boy a smile, "Hello Ascanius, having a good time I hope?" Oh and someone else she didn't know got a wave and a smile as well.


Moving her self to an open area and back away from the fire as much as she could Minerva opened the blanket and sat down. Now she had to get near the fire to cook the hot dog. Well maybe that could wait for a moment. She looked around just people watching hoping the event was going well.

Yeah he was. Dominating them of course. Of course. West nodded and then smiled a bit at the little girl. Oh what? Handshake? Err.. okay. He took her hand and shook it, friendly smile in place. "Hi Marissa. You're pretty good out there, you played before?"

Marissa shook her head and shrugged, "No, not really I've only watched it played." she replied, "You were great, have you played long?" she asked him.

Well that was pretty normal not having played and all, at least she knew what Quidditch was and all that. "Yeah, I started in my first year, me and Theo Kinsley, we made the team as starting Chasers back then, and we've been playing on the team every year since. Last year Slytherin won the championship." And they'd been a big part of that and all. And it had felt like the culmination of four years hard work. That wasn't an achievement anyone could take away. "Its good that you're trying out."

After hearing about the event that the Prefects had set up, Nick decided to check it out as well. It was a lot better than sitting alone in his hut anyways. There were a few things the Groundskeeper would rather not been seen at though. Like the "make a stuffed animal" for example....What if Space Nerd Airey saw him there?!

So instead he walked to the outdoor bonfire and found a place to sit. "Good evening everyone" he greeted before looking around. Were there any marshmallows?