"Okay,everyone calm down. Fooling people to think we were boys was are Transfigureation assignment." she said, "And if she was in Slytherin, then yes, which means no Steelsheen."
"We are getting off topic, we need to talk about these letters. Has anyone solved your riddles yet?"

*Sheeta looked up at Allie.*

"I think mine is the letter A." Sheeta said as she took her parchment from her bookbag and handed it to the Gryffindor.



*Sheeta put her head back down due to embarrassment.*

Cale pulled his parchment out and laid it flat. "Mine was a riddle, written in numbers, so I had to translate it all back into letters," he explained. He smoothed it out on the chair in front of him. "This is what I got."

"Me and Ryan figured that it would probably the letter W. Since if you write a lower case W, it looks like two U's written side by side, therefore, twice the vowel "you" will ever be," he explained. He wished Ryan were here. He hated taking credit when it had really been Ryan who solved his riddle for him.

Allie looked at cale's riddle.
"I get it! U, then W..double U.. " she said, excitedly.
She blushed when she realized she got a little too excited about hat. "Sorry." she mumbled, anyway, heres mine."

"So I think mine is the letter H..." she said. "So far we have the letters, H, A, W, .......Im thinkin were spelling something."

Celandine headed to the spare locker room with a frown on her face- She had been all over the school looking for people and for some reason none of the people she was looking for seemed to want to be found.

There was noone around so she knocked gently on the door and waited- hoping the others were still there and that they weren't all suddenly missing too.

Maddox came to the door panting. He was late and he knew it. He leaned over and put hes hands on his knees. "Man i need to jog more often." He struggled to say, "Sorry im late." He came in and sat down.

Cela's dark eyes widened as an older boy just barged inside, she shrugged and followed him cautiously.

"I'm late too I guess, Steelsheen you told them I would be ri...?" the question died on her lips as she realised Steelsheen wasn't there. Neither was Anna and Celandine had thought that the gryffindor prefect who was helping them would have come.

She stared around at the people who had made it; smiling at Allie and Sheeta before scrutinising in turn A nervy looking Slytherin, the 'puff boy that had pushed inside and another Prefect who she deemed in her head to be 'boy Anna' since he was a Gryffindor too.

"I brought this." Celandine reached into her pocket and pulled out the Sneakoscope Kayla had given her and held it out for examination.

She pulled the door shut behind her and gestured at Allie to lock it before taking a seat on the ground with her legs tucked up under herself.

*Sheeta looked up and saw Cela come into the locker room, along with another boy. She sighed with relief and went to great the Ravenclaw.*

"Hey Cela, I'm glad to see you're not one of the girls who got caught at Cooper's school. Apparently, Reggie might have been one of them." Sheet greeted. "I just hope that she gets out soon, right?" Sheeta smiled.

*Sheeta then went to whisper something in Cela's ear.*

"Help me out here," Sheeta whispered and blushed slightly, "I kinda shot my mouth off and said boys were stupid. Granted, they are but I didn't mean to voice my opinion out loud... I feel so rash." Sheeta pulled back from Cela's ear and blushed again with a nervous smile.

"Caught at Coopers?" Celandine blinked, "Oh no! Steelsheen?" Celandine looked around, "and Anna? And I was looking for the one that is in charge of the choir but she didn't seem to be anyplace, and Kayla isn't around anywhere; not even in a detention with any professors." Celandine frowned; she hadn't been able to see Professor Brooks anywhere either, and she had wanted to thank her for helping with her Transfiguration homework- but she was probably off doing professory things.

"I'm glad you think boys are stupid, Sheeta; Its too soon for the angst and since you are a hufflepuff I don't think you can avoid it." Celandine whispered back seriously, "But the Slytherins are the worst I think- with the angsty stuff." after many hours of observing various students of those houses (and very little contact with students from her own house or that of Gryffindor) Celandine was pretty confident in her opinion and her resolve not to be angsty.

"But these ones are probably pretty smart so don't worry! Look- they are all older than us." Cela stared at the Hufflepuff boy for a second before flicking her eyes to the Gryffindor Prefect...or boy-Anna, "And that one is a prefect so don't worry, Sheeta!" Celandine reached up and patted the hufflepuff's arm comfortingly and avoided looking at the nervous-looking Slytherin boy, who looked as if he would jump out of his skin any second.

She cleared her throat and spoke quietly but loud enough for the others to hear.

"Its a good thing we think boys are stupid, right Sheeta? Otherwise we would probably start following these ones around and sigh a whole bunch." Celandine let out a huge sigh in demonstration before continuing turning to look at the Slytherin boy, "It would be pretty embarassing wouldn't it? To have a whole hoard of eleven year old girls following you everywhere?"

Ew.

"Anyone want to see my parchment?" Celandine asked, as if she hadn't just spoken.

Clifford sneakily moved to stand behind Cale and Maddox, those girls scared him. Alot. They may have been several years younger, but in Clifford's opinion that just made them a whole lot scarier. Shudder.

It didn't help that everyone already seemed to know what the answer to their clues meant - and there he was struggling with reading some of the ruddy big words in his. Bleh.

"Anna was taken as well," Cale added, mentioning that horrible fact for the hundredth time that day. He was still trying not to think about where they had taken her--it made him feel sick. When the young Ravenclaw mentioned that Mia had been taken too, a lightbulb went off in his head. DUH! That was why the first Hufflepuff had looked familiar. "I think Mia was one of them as well," he added.

As the girl rambled on and on, Cale looked around the room. He felt uncomfortable--all the girls were younger than him and most of them seemed to have the same opinion that boys were stupid. Where was Ryan? That smarty Ravenclaw could prove them all wrong! "Erm, sure," Cale said when the other Ravenclaw offered to show them her parchment.

*Sheeta started to smile as Cela was comforting her. But then, Cela announced both of their opinions out loud and Sheeta blushed even further than she had before... if she had to guess, it matched the color of her hair. She quickly looked over to the Gryffindor, Cale, to see what he was thinking... he looked uncomfortable this time around. Was he really going to bow down to a girl a few years younger than him? Suddenly, Sheeta's nervousness melted away and a devious smile replaced her frown.*

"Thanks Cela... you're a life saver!" Sheeta whispered to Cela.

Cale wrinkled his eyebrows. This girl looked like she had some weird plan up her sleeve--whatever. He didn't have time to deal with this, they were here on a mission! "Since Ryan isn't here to show us his clue, I'll just tell you what he told me so far. He thinks his is in binary code--I guess it's like a robot language or something. I dunno, whatever it is, it's muggle. Anyone know anything about it?" he asked.

"So its the brave ones that we need at Belles that got stuck over there."
Celandine nodded and passed her parchment to boy-Anna.

Celandine shrugged, unconcerned- truly she didn't think boys were stupid- just the angsty stuff was. Besides these ones had to be smart or they wouldn't have gotten invitations and she had just wanted to make Sheeta feel less uncomfortable.

"Thats the thing with ones and zeroes isn't it?" Cela asked, thinking about a book she had read on code-breaking when her and Nico had figured out their own codes. "I don't know anything about it other than that."

Cale nodded, "I dunno what it means either, but he had a book on it and I think he translated it. Hang on, let me find it in my pocket," he said, digging for it in his robes. PLEASE tell me I didn't leave it in my dorm! He thought to himself. That would be so Cale-ish of him. Gah! Where was it?

OOC: Just a quick note--this is a secret meeting for a secret order, so no one else is supposed to know about it IC unless another character told you about it, so please stop PMing me asking if you can join in the fun. I'm sorry, but this is a little plot going on between a few people right now and that's just the way it is If your character DOES try to sneak in here and they aren't invited, please be advised that there IS a prefect in the room right now and will be joined by another one shortly and he will not take very kindly to trespassers If you want to know what is going on, feel free to stalk OOC. You'll learn everything you need to know from doing that, your charrie just won't know about it. Mkay? Thanks!

Anna Greingoth walked as quickly as possible across the grounds and towards the spare locker room. She wanted to run, and she had to force herself not to break out into a sprint right then and there, but she was certainly in no position to break any more rules right now. She'd just been released from that horrible secret, locked room, for Merin's sake!

When she finally reached the door to the spare locker room, she flung it open with a speed that should have knocked it straight off its hinges. Thankfully, it appeared in no worse a condition than it already was, though. It only took her a split second to glance around the room and find the one and only person she wanted to see right at this exact moment. She took a short time to close the door before calling out, "CALE!" and running across the room right into his arms.

Cale jumped out of his chair as someone came barging into the locker room. Ryan? Steelsheen? A student who wasn't invited? Nope...it was Anna! A grin stretched across the Gryffindor boys face as his girlfriend ran at him and flung herself into his arms. He squeezed her back, never wanting to let her go. He was very tempted to kiss her, but he remembered that he was in a room with first years, two of whom had seemed to agree on the fact that boys were stupid. Lord knew how they would react to a kiss.

Setting her on her feet, still grinning broadly, he checked her over quickly. No signs of beating or torture, thank goodness. "How did you get out?" he demanded. "Anna, I was so worried about you, I had no idea where you had gone--the number of stupid ploys I was thinking of trying to get into detention with you..." he trailed off. Meh. No need to go into specifics now.

Looking around, he had expected her to be with someone else. "Where's Steelsheen?" he asked. "Wasn't she dragged off too?"

Anna stood back, still smiling, as Cale checked her over. No doubt checking to see if they'd tortured her half to death before releasing her. "I'm okay!" she said, assuring him that nothing too horrible had happened. "They took us into this secret room right outside the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. It's sort of like the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts - if you've ever heard of that - in that you don't even know it's there unless someone points it out to you or you find it by accident. It was locked, and we had no way to get out."

Anna stopped talking on and on long enough to catch her breath before continuing. "They questioned us for a while before we finally confessed. I was nervous, yeah, but I confessed so I could hopefully get out sooner. Believe it or not, we weren't punished at all, and they even helped us out! I think they were impressed by our little rebellion. They just brought us back over, and I ran straight here. I'm not sure about Steelsheen. We all ran in different directions at once, because our groundskeeper showed up."

"You tried to get into detention with me?" Anna exceitedly asked, throwing her arms around him again. "Thank you so much, but please, never get yourself into trouble for me! I was lucky to get out easily the way I did. I wouldn't want you to get caught by a Ministry professor!" Anna knew, as she was telling him this, that she would do the exact opposite of what she was instructing him to do if the tables were turned. She'd be the one to land herself into detention to try and be with him, too.

Steelsheen felt her heart was going to burst, but she didnt dare slow down now, having ran all the way from the Front Gates then straight into the Quidditch Pitch. As her eyes fell on the door of the Spare Locker Room she prayed silently Oh please Merlin let them all still be there. She grabbed the doorknob and burst into the room "DONT LEAVE YET I'M HERE!" she cried as the door flew open. Relief washed over her upon seeing all of the girls, including Anna, and the Cooper boys. She gave a heartfelt but exhausted laugh as she bent down to catch her breath "I was so worried you guys would've left. I'm so sorry I'm late, I got stuck at Coopers." she said sheepishly as she slammed the door shut and took her seat next to Celandine.

"What did I miss?" she asked gasping, trying to get her heart to slow down gradually.

"Well, good thing I didn't do anything stupid, then," Cale said with a grin. "I probably would have just earned myself regular detention instead of finding some secret room!"

He looked around the room, hoping that people weren't staring, although they probably were. "Um, have a seat, then, I've got to dig out the clue that Ryan gave me, so just give me a minute," he explained, searching in his pockets once more for the parchment he had somewhere with Ryan's clue on it. "I'll let you know about everything we've talked about so far when Steelsheen gets here--if she does," he added.

Just as he spoke, Steelsheen whipped through the doors, panting and out of breath and yelling things he could hardly understand. "Erm...hi," he said with a smile. "Don't worry, you haven't missed much...have a seat," he offered her a nearby chair.

"You know what, though?" Anna asked. "I can't blame you for thinking that way. Had the tables been turned, I would have tried to get into detention with you, too. I mean, come on, I snuck into your school for Merlin's sake!" Anna smiled at him and took a deep sigh. "I'm just glad I'm here with you now. Like I told you in class, it was so worth it...at first. In the end, I thought I was going to be in more trouble than I could get myself out of!"

Anna did as Cale instructed and sat down, watching the door and waiting for Steelsheen to finally make it in. "I hope she didn't get caught by anyone," Anna said, a worried expression on her face. "I guess I should have waited to help out the others. I wasn't thinking straight, though. I just took off like a herd of Hippogriffs was suddenly after me. I had places to go...people to see," she continued, smiling at Cale once again.

That was when the door flew open again, causing Anna to jump just a little, and in walked Steelsheen! "You made it!" Anna exclaimed. "I was starting to get a little worried!"

Clifford's brow furrowed slightly when some other Gryffindor girl threw herself into Cale's arms. Hang on. Whaaaa? Didn't they already have both Gryffindor's in here? The ickle firstie.. and Cale. Who was this? Hmpf.

"Erm - do you have a clue too?" He asked the older Gryffindor girl, forehead wrinkled in confusion as he mentally tried to calculate everyone. Calculating things + Clifford's brain, wasn't the best of combinations - but he wasn't blind. "Why do we have three Gryffindors?"

Anna was suddenly distracted from her conversations with Cale and Steelshen when someone else in the room started questioning the fact that there were not two, but three Gryffindor's in the room.

"Oh, hi," Anna replied, turning around to face a boy she knew she'd seen around Hogwarts in the past but still didn't really know well. "Just Cale and Allie have the parchments," she explained. "I was asked early on, before the girls even knew there were also boys with parchments, to be a sort-of assistant to the girls. They're all first years, and since I'm a prefect and older student, they asked me to help. They invited me here tonight since I've been working with them all along."

"Oh good!" she replied automatically, then realized she was looking at a Gryffidor boy who was at the same DADA class she was in at Coopers. Having a better look at him now she spotted that he wore the same badge Anna did. "You're the Gryffindor Prefect Allie was talking about, uhmm..." she frowned thoughtfully, trying to recall his name.

"Yeah, just in the nick of time too it seems." she said as her breathing started to return to normal. "I had to dodge around the path, I went through the foliage a good distance until I was out of eyeshot. Masterson kept his word of keeping Dion busy, but geez she wasnt letting up either." she said as she recalled the exchange between the two adults.

An assistant to the girls? Brow still furrowed with suspicion, Clifford folded his arms across his chest and gave a shrug. What was the point of being in this Order for the bravest and most generous if any ole' person could just poke their noses in? Grrr. She clearly just wanted a bit of their glory.

"Whatever." He said distantly, giving his eyes a small roll as he pulled out his riddle and read it through for the thousandth time. Soft as ginger bloom.. hard as a gun..

BLEH!