Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa was totally embarassed when the Professor not only admonished for yelling but also deducted house points from her. "I'm sorry for yelling, Professor. My judgement hasn't been really good lately. I'll go look for wood lice right now." Alyssa told the Professor before walking away really fast to look for the only food that would appease the Bowtruckles.

Originally Posted by Destiny

Ohhh..

Waylon KNEW he forgot to give Callie something! How he forgot, though, he had no idea. He was out all that morning collecting them. He even woke up early and everything! Labeled the buckets, too!

He could just put all the blame on Cece. If she hadn't barged into his hut the way she had, rearranging his pictures, he would have never been distracted. And it wasn't like the Healer would ever know anyway. Hehe. So, leaving her back at his hut once the Patronus arrived, Waylon made his way into the Forbidden Forest, his two lidded and labeled buckets in his hands. It took him nearly no time at all to find where the class was and.. what do you know? There really were Bowtruckles.

Staring at the little creatures for a moment, he popped open one of the buckets full of wood lice and held it out for Callie to take. Was she mad!? "I forgot to give these to you. Sorry."

Was he forgiven!?

Originally Posted by BOWTRUCKLES!

The soft ones may have thought that the two Bowtruckles in the clearing now were the worst of it--far from true. Not far away a whole horde of them were beginning to assemble, ready to protect their trees.

Two more Bowtruckles jumped from the tree canopy above and landed right infront of the lady soft one and one of the little boy ones with circles on his face--the harder to poke.

"Ra!" Said the fat one, as he poked two of his sharp fingers into the hem of the lady's skirt.

The smaller one ran at the boy screeching for lice and for the love of his trees.

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Professor Elwood was getting upset. And Vickers gets upset when she gets upset. Although there was a part of him that wanted to butt in and say they weren’t STICKS they were legit CREATURES but she gave the next instructions about looking for wood lice.

He winced unconsciously. Its LICE. He’s semiOC. No other explanations necessary.

He tried to inch his way towards her when the Bowtruckles started to get aggressive. That fat one scratched Professor Elwood! Hastily he rushed forward only to be stopped by a smaller one screeching in front of him. ”I didn’t break any of the tree branches! I picked these up from the grass.” he said showing the sticks and dropping it in front of the creature as if returning them to it.

Wait why is he reasoning with the woody creature?

Just then he saw the Groundskeeper come in with buckets of creepy crawly teeny tiny lice. He has to get to the Professor. "Groundskeeper Murdoch, if you don’t mind?..." he called out as he decided to bring out his wand—a risk he knows, given what he saw of one creature going after Elijah’s HAND—and levitated that one open bucket towards the edge of the forest AWAY from ALL of them, and purposely smacking that fat bowtruckle harassing the Professor to get its attention "YOU! Look, theres your lunch right there...." he called out as he hovered the bucket enticingly before dropping it at the foot of that far tree. Leave the Professor alone yeah? He looked down at his own smaller, screeching creature. "Look lunch! Right there! See?" he said point POINTING at the bucket, whilst iiiiinching his way to where the Professor was standing.

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

This was just TOO much!

There were more and more bowtruckles coming and they were all so wild. All Renesmee could do was stare as her state of shock began to grow on her more than before. She could barely blink now and her senses started to slowly switch off too.At first it was only her hearing that switched off. She hadn't heard a thing Kurumi nor the Professor had said, and their information seemed sort of vital at a time like this. It would have surely calmed her down, yet the panic inside her was still growing.

Her head wasn't much of a help either, it felt heavy and it was hard for her to concentrate on any sort of logical thinking. Soon another one of her senses started switching off. It was her eye sight now. Everything around her became a blurred visson and Nessie could barely make out any of the figures beside her. She could barely even recognise what figures were the bowtruckles and what figures were her fellow students. It just kept worsening.

THUD!

A few moments after the blurry-ness that's when almost everthing shut off. One second Renesmee was up standing and the next she fell to the forest's ground with a small bang. Unconciousness had over come her and so she could not move.

Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

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Seriously if only it was possible to smack Elijah’s shoulder from this sitting position he would have. Instead he bit his lip and looked away as the Curly!Puff kept ribbing him on, not even looking at the Puff but knew full well how the he was teasing him. If he had a bit more daring he might’ve turned and given those pretty peepers a double poke. But he didn’t. After all he was a good Ravenclaw. not a mean Slytherin

And yes Mr Wilde, Vickers does happen to take pride in his intellect. He has to. He thinks its the only thing he’s got going for him.

Oh for Merlin’s sake the Badger brought up his last retort. That’s what happens when the brain filter slips Vanderbilt “I mean… yeah… Yeah! She IS out of your…I mean don’t bother with her. She’s not interested.” he grumbled as he evaded the Badger, and the subject matter, and tried to focus collecting the twigs. There were truths in those half-hearted lies. Certainly this Ravenclaw thinks he wasn’t appealing enough to the Gryffindor brunette so he thought HE wasn’t in her league, and the more he looks at Elijah, the more he realizes how different he was from the Puff, the more he starts to think that Kurumi may actually be interested with guys like him. A great smile, a head full of hair and those yellow robes… he didn’t know why he didn’t realize it sooner.

Professor Elwood was getting upset. And Vickers gets upset when she gets upset. Although there was a part of him that wanted to butt in and say they weren’t STICKS they were legit CREATURES but she gave the next instructions about looking for wood lice.

He winced unconsciously. Its LICE. He’s semiOC. No other explanations necessary.

He tried to inch his way towards her when the Bowtruckles started to get aggressive. That fat one scratched Professor Elwood! Hastily he rushed forward only to be stopped by a smaller one screeching in front of him. ”I didn’t break any of the tree branches! I picked these up from the grass.” he said showing the sticks and dropping it in front of the creature as if returning them to it.

Wait why is he reasoning with the woody creature?

Just then he saw the Groundskeeper come in with buckets of creepy crawly teeny tiny lice. He has to get to the Professor. "Groundskeeper Murdoch, if you don’t mind?..." he called out as he decided to bring out his wand—a risk he knows, given what he saw of one creature going after Elijah’s HAND—and levitated that one open bucket towards the edge of the forest AWAY from ALL of them, and purposely smacking that fat bowtruckle harassing the Professor to get its attention "YOU! Look, theres your lunch right there...." he called out as he hovered the bucket enticingly before dropping it at the foot of that far tree. Leave the Professor alone yeah? He looked down at his own smaller, screeching creature. "Look lunch! Right there! See?" he said point POINTING at the bucket, whilst iiiiinching his way to where the Professor was standing.[/QUOTE]

"She's not interested?!" Elijah said aghast. Had Vickers known something and NOT told him about it? That wasn't a very bro-like thing to do, unless of course he had been trying to protect him... yeah, that was the likely explanation. "Has she said something to you, Vee? What!?"

As the bowtruckles emerged, and Elijah continued to threaten to set them on fire over and over in his head, he watched on as the Professor took ACTION! Yeah! She was totally ready to fight back and... oh wait, no... she wasn't. She was too busy using his BEST friend as a shield! Yeah, he said it! BEST friend. How dare she endanger him just to save her own old behind. Elijah was going to have to tell Vickers he definitely needed better taste in women. Although perhaps he enjoyed being the knight and shining armor and protector for the Professor? In fact, come to think of it Vickers was probably LOVING it.

Things took a bad turn, however, when more of the bowtruckles started attacking, one of which (a rather LARGE one at that) decided to get jiggy with this here hawt 'Puff. The damn creature latched itself to the end of his wand and began scratching at his hand.

"ARGGHHHHHHH! YOU LITTLE-"

Elijah began flailing his arms around, giving the bowtruckle a sort of rollercoaster ride which he continued to hold on to despite having no harness. "LET GO!" he warned. The more this damn stick scratched, the more he ruined Elijah's skin and the more Elijah's skin was ruined, the less attractive he became and that was NOT an option!

The Groundskeeper eventually turned up with the woodlice that were supposed to help this situation... but it didn't LOOK like it was helping as his bowtruckle CONTINUED to scratch at his bloody hands! "STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!" he whined at the HORRID little BEAST, "FLIPENDO!!!!"

He said automatically out of sheer frustration more than anything. Latching on the end of a wand may not have been the bowtruckles smartest idea, but trying to jinx a horrifically aggressive creature when it had so many horrifically aggressive brothers and sisters probably wasn't Elijah's best idea either...

Uh oh.[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

It was chaos! Cassia was glued to her ground. She was watching what was going on without having a thought of what was she supposed to do. Well, she knows that they stopped collecting sticks! The first year thought of going and hide behind Professor Elwood, she's the professor, she must know what to do! And being small has great advantage of being able to move smoothly and without being noticed by the creatures that appeared out of the blue.

Before getting to hide behind Professor Elwood, some of the creatures landed before her. Turning around and getting AWAY because obviously their Professor is a target, now. The Slytherin darted her eyes around the surrounding area and found it best for herself to hide!

Again while everyone was busy doing whatever they were doing, and discussing the issue. Cassia headed to a far bush but she made sure that she could watch what was going on in case they had to flee! Checking around her for no creatures. She crouched placing her tiny body among the branches.

She noticed that the ground keepers came but she couldn't know what did he do or want. Well, she was staying until the matter is solved for she isn't fond of little jumping creatures.

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Spike rolled his eyes at the Professor. Didn't she know such creatures lived in the forest? Even if she did, shouldn't she have foretold the events of the lesson, and been better prepared? He shook his head from where he stood by the birch tree, his curls bouncing. She even managed to insult them along the way, calling them sticks. She'd better hope the bowtruckles hadn't caught on to that...

And then, she jabbed her finger in his direction, not even calling him by name, to tell him to find woodlice. Oh, he didn't need telling, Professor. "It's Spike," he mumbled, however, "for future reference." She should know the names of the Prefects, right?

Grumbling, he headed over to a log, and peered inside. Any woodlice to be found here?

Spike reached his hand into the damp log, and giggled as critters tickled it. So...maybe divination had improved a little bit, but no thanks to the Professor.

He pulled out his hand, and carefully pulled away a spiderweb that had gotten caught on his wrist. No spider though. Pout. However, there were three wriggling woodlice in his palm. Result! Not exactly many, but it was a start...

Not that it'd matter, as it seemed the groundskeeper had appeared with supplies.



Spike was distracted from the groundskeeper's supplies by a movement on his trousers. It seemed he had a friend, and he gave the bowtruckle a crooked grin.

"Hello fella," he greeted friendily, as the bowtruckle seemed to make himself comfortable on his shoulder. "Are you hungry?" he said, holding out the three woodlice he'd just discovered. They wriggled in his palm. "Freshly caught too. I can go find some more if you'd like."

Yep, Spike was quite happy trying to befriend a bowtruckle. More than happy, actually. It was Spike's nature to want to get on with all creatures, and he rarely saw bad in them. One only had to look at his collection of pets. It'd been a while since he'd gotten himself a new friend, and this bowtruckle seemed quite happy up there perched on his shoulder. Spike often had a tarantula in his hair...why would he find a friendly bowtruckle on his shoulder any different?

Spike was just about to find his new mate - well he hoped the bowtruckle was a new friend - some more snacks, when he heard shouting.

What the...?

He GLARED at the Huffie. GLARED.

"That's not good, not good at all," he muttered to his bowtruckle, hoping that the lil' fella would see Spike was a NICE human, and not start pulling on his hair or scratching him to pieces.

"Don't!" he cried to the Huffie, wincing as the poor bowtruckle clung on. "Listen to Kurumi, and take a deep breath. They don't understand that we mean no harm to their territory." He glanced up at the bowtruckle on his shoulders. "We need to show them that we respect them. And thank them for they do in the forest... They're only protecting their homes."

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah was already engorssed in her search for fairy's eggs, lookiong under leaves when Mordoch arrived. She had already raided two fairies nests and therefore had hundred eggs in her hands. She went up to the teacher with her loot. "I hope this will do for now, there are many more leaves with eggs there" she said, pointing to a cluster of trees on the right hand side. "Should I look for me or will the supplies Mr. Murdoch has be enough?" she asked sweetly. There were many more casulties from the trees by now, the girl Nessie had been knocked unconsious while many more students were being attacked. Sarah knew she had to stay calm. She took took some more fairy eggs from under a leaf and made sure to show the bowtruckle it by swinging it in front of its face. She then started to walk away urging the bowtruckles to follow her if they want more.

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa kept looking under rocks and logs until she found a swarm of wood lice hiding under a log among the rotted leaves. She found a bottle in her bag and scooped up as many as she could, before quickly walking back to the clearing....where she saw that Mr. Murdoch had already arrived with them.

But for some reason, the Bowtruckles didn't seem to be interested in them at all. She could see that they were more interested in clinging onto the legs of those who happened to be holding the twigs from the branches they had collected.

She walked up to the Professor ahd said,"Professor here are the lice I found. Maybe it would be better if I lay them near a tree, nearby instead of dropping them where they would only get trampled by everyone. Maybe the Bowtruckles will hopefully see that food has arrived and leave everyone alone."

One thing Alyssa knew that there was too much screaming and moving going on. So she whispered out to everybody in the clearing. "Could everybody, like...try to stop yelling at each other and panicking and try to stay still. I know its hard to do, but it seems the more you react to the Bowtruckles, the more they react back....and if you are holding onto any twigs right now. Drop them. Drop them all!!"

Belatedly remembering what Professor Williamson said about not panicking and working together as a group, which in this instance no one seemed to be observing either, Alyssa wondered what she could do to help, especially now like that it seemed that more Bowtruckles were arriving.

Then she thought of an idea. Chances are that it wouldn't work, but it still was worth a try. She gathered up a stack of twigs and poured some of the lice on it. Then taking out her wand, she cast the levitating charm on it, saying,"Wingardium Leviosa" sending the stack of wood covered with lice up floating into the air.

Concentrating hard on the spell, she floated the stack of wood over to the angry mob of Bowtruckles and brought it down to their eye level. Now all she had to do was hope and pray that the Bowtruckles would see the wood stack AND the wood lice and follow it.

She was hoping to float the twigs up to a tree and leave it on a branch and hopefully they would climb up and forget about the 'stupid' humans taking their twigs without their permission.