Oh wow, that was a bit rude of her, but whatever. "Yes, i'm fine with going in the tank." Ella replied confidently. She was an awesome swimmer. But this would be a bit weird diving into a tank for a lesson, she would do it though. It could be fun. "And yes, the Bubble Head charm is fine too." She nodded then watched as the Prefect performed the charm on another Snake, and then herself. As she dived into the tank, Ella pulled out her wand. "Viseo Ebullio." She said, then a bubble appeared around her head. Fantastic.

With a glace towards Trixie and the other Slytherin students, Ella followed the Prefect's example and dived into the tank. Hm, well this was weird. Especially with this bubble thing around her head. It was certainly something she hadn't done before. Now what?

Trixie looked at Ella with a smile,"hello" she nodded respectfully she wasn't in the mood for arguing and besides they all needed each other so arguing wasn't really going to do them any good was it? But Ella was going in, even if it meant Trixie had to drag her in there herself.

Trixie nodded along with Nancy. "Yeah I'm fine with it" she smiled. She had been paying so much attention in classes recently so that she could catch up. She let Nancy protect her with a spell first and then decided to use the bubble head charm on herself, making a circular counter clockwise movement around her neck and declaring "Viseo Ebullio." so that a bubbled shape appeared around her head. Now off into the tank. So that is what she did. Dived into the dank and oh blimey this was a little weird but oh well.

And then she spotted the shiny necklace that had appeared. Oh that is pretty she thought but didn't actually say it out loud but yes they had their first object. This was good! But everything looked weird from inside this tank.

Simon looked at the older students and stood quietly, he had a few ideas but he wasn't going to say a word, not a sausage, he didn't want to get yelled at by them for saying stupid ideas, he would just stand there and wait and see what the others would say, he stood quietly well away from Nymphy

Alex raised an eyebrow at the locket, "Well looks like they do do something after all." She drawled out getting bored of looking at a crate.

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"Eeep, one at a time!" Vashti exclaimed when suddenly the boy - CJ, apparently - had cast the Bubble-head Charm on Ivory. "I wasn't ready! Can we stop and try that again?" She turned to CJ. "I'm Vashti by the way. Hi." She took out her wand again and cast, "Finite," on the bubble around Ivory's head. "Now can we all wait our turn to be timed?" She eyed the older boy. "I can only do one at a time."

CJ stared at Ivory innocently and then turned his big innocent eyes towards Vashti. "Oh I'm so sorry I thought we were casting twice at a time, " He gave a nod to Mina.

"But it's fine I'll wait my turn. And its nice meeting you Vashti." and with that he stared at the clock.

....

After Mina had finished, Christopher once again brought up his wand and cast again on Ivory and nodded towards Vashti to time.

ooc: Sorry guys will be gone for a second just assume he's outside the tank redoing you all's bubble charm. Be back on as soon as I can

Dani stood off to the side. She agreed with Rhea and the other boy. She looked around at the other students. "If anyone has any idea's dont be afraid to say them. You never know they just might work." she said.

Nymphy took the others silence for agreement, so he went back under to cast more spells. "Reducto!.....Diffindo!......Defodio!.......Relash io!........." and finally "Finite Incantatem!"

He was putting so much into this and just hoped that something else would happen and they would outstrip the claws.

Selena was a bit put off by Alex's actions. She sounded a bit like she was mad. "Alex, are you alright? You seem a bit... annoyed," Selena said. Alex should've probably joined them. She knew that was what Alex really wanted to do. She felt a bit bad that because of her Alex had opted to stay outside the tank.

Having already cast the bubblehead charm, JD sees Mina nearby looking a little nervous. Walking over to her, he puts his hand on her shoulder, and squeezes gently. "It'll be alright" his voice sounding a little strained even to him.

He'd dove off the rocks in Ireland many times, this should be a piece of cake... he thought nervously to himself.

Evan smiled briefly at Nancy in his bubble before diving in as he repeated the incantation several times in his head. Shouldda pay more attention to classes and not care the distractions, or he might not have Nancy around the next time.

Looking around in this bubble was odd. It really was a bubble. Just as he turned his head to look at the crate, something escaped from it. Yay' Their first thing. Being quite sure Selena and Alex --was it?-- would get it, he drew his wand, glancing at the other three girls to see what they were doing. "Diffindo!" he said like they'd agreed to do on the land with Nancy, his voice muffled a bit. He guessed it was because of the bubble. He then looked at the girls as if asking them What now?

WHAT!

Not only was she tied to Destiny, now she was in a BUBBLE with her too! And they couldn't remove it themselves, they had to wait for the professor to decide when to remove it. What was it with these professors? Do they really think it's funny to force students to be stuck together? How in the name of Merlin was she EVER going to get anything done being stuck in a bubble with Destiny?

"Shut it Destiny!" She yelled when she said Marie had a big head. "If it wasn't for YOUR big MOUTH we wouldn't be in this stupid bubble!" Seriously, when would Destiny ever learn to keep her mouth shut?

Well it looked like maybe there was one good thing to come out of this. At least they already had the bubble around their heads and didn't have to worry about the charm wearing off when the dungbombs were released. Still not happy about her situation, she crossed her arms over her chest and just sat there... pouting. They better get this bubble off them by the end of class, she was NOT going to walk around the school in a bubble with her so called friend.

Great! Now there was a new challange and Marie was still stuck to Destiny. Sure, they needed the bubble to breath under water but there was NO way they would be able to work together under water in the shape they were in. They needed this bubble off their heads so they could each have their own.

Grabbing Destiny by the arm she pulled her up with her since now they couldn't even get a foot away from each other. "Come on Destiny, we need to get this thing off our heads." Still holding onto her big mouth friend, Marie and Destiny walked over to the professor. "Um Professor, how are we suppose to participate in this challange with this bubble on both of our heads?" She asked in a very irritated voice. Seriously, how was she suppose to help her house out if she couldn't get away from big mouth!

Carter smiled. "Yeah, I'll do that for you when the time comes." he said. But how were they going to open the trunk...
"Oh, I have an idea. Did you go to the Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson?" he asked. "We could try Histedius on it." he said. Sure it was a knock-back jinx, but the force would be able to do something to the trunk, right?

Simon looked at Nymphy, didn't the prefect get to say anything, he looked at the boy, he just started to do some spells at least then the Prefects couldn't say he wasn't trying. "Reducto!" Simon said hoping that something would work.

Alex glanced at Selena, "Just very bored." She replied trying to smile winningly which wasn't going over so well. She knew what was probably going through Selena's head the same would be going through hers, "After all it's boring watching a bunch of old people." Alex told Selena winking pointing subtly at the prefect and the other two Slytherins.

Vashti started the timer again just as Mina cast her bubble. This one looked very strong too, and one minute easily went by without any sign of popping. Still another minute went by and it was doing fine. As it neared three minutes, it appeared to be starting to weaken. Several seconds after the three minute mark, the bubble popped and Vashti stopped the timer.

"Three minutes and thirty seconds," she said.

Vashti only gave CJ a look as he acted all innocent, but said nothing of it as she had been timing Mina at the time. Now that that was done, she was prepared this time for when he recast the charm on Ivory. She started the timer again, and so began the wait to see how long it woould last. One, two minutes passed easily enough. Then three and it was still going strong.

Four minutes. This was the longest yet so far. Impressive.

Finally, the bubble popped and Vashti stopped the timer.

"Five minutes and nine seconds," she said and gave CJ an approving nod. "Nice."

Nymphy had another theory. If he hit the create with fire, then cooled it down quickly, it would severly weaken the metal ligatures. "Here I go" he said, mostly to himself. "Ignias!" he yelled. A spout of flames erupted from the end of the wand and englufed the create. When they cleared the create was unharmed, becasue of the protective charms, but he could tell that the metal was weakened. It looked black, smudged, and scrathed. He could tell that they were close....

Simon looked at the boy. "What the?" He asked suddenly as he saw that the chest was on fire, he couldn't believe he had just done that. "Why did you do that?" Simon asked, he wondered what the Professor would say. "You don't know what is in there, you could have hurt whatever it was." Simon wanted to check to see if what ever was in there was alright.

"If you look, the create is unharmed. However, the metal is weakened and that is very helpful" he corrected the young boy. "Lets keep trying....we are SO close!!!! I know it!!!!"

Rhea frantically submerged herself into the tank once again to tug on the collar of the boy. She admired his efforts but they couldn't risk harming whatever was in the crate. Not good. Besides the other's hadn't gotten to give their input yet, they were obviously still thinking. She released his shirt and resurfaced taking in a deep breath. She hadn't cast the bubble head spell this time.
" Please, we need to be careful with the trunk. Maybe we should just try something else or wait for the input of the others, please." She looked at the blackened crate. Not good at all.

Simon looked at the boy. "How do you know that whatever is inside isn't hurt?" Simon said suddenly to the boy, he had just seen the crate on fire and surely fire was a bad thing plus wasn't it dangers. "I think we should allow some other people time to get involved." Simon suddenly said.

"Again....the create is fine. I was just weakening the metal and it worked!!!!" he said, pointing at the create. The wooden part wasunscathed. Only the metal looked any different.

"And please if anyone wants to chime, go ahead. But we already asked and no wanted to help, just us...." he said politly, gesturing to himself, Rhea, Dani, and that complainign kid. "Something needs to be done and we can't wait, so if anyone wants to help, now is the time....." he said, looking at the others.

Mina looked over as she felt a hand on her shoulder. Smiling, she realized it was JD and felt a bit at ease. She was just worried about what was in the crate.

Slowly, the charm faded and she looked around. "Okay, how long was that?" she asked.
Mina smiled, that time was rather nice and she could really work with that. "Okay, timing done. Time to jump in yet?"
she asked. She's be lying if she didn't say she was looking forward to trying to break into the crate.

Against her emotions Ivory had to admit she was impressed. This guy seemed to know his charms. Smiling at Mina's enthusiasm she nodded her head. She could hardly wait too.

"Should we all cast the levitation charm on the crate and then fixate it closer to the surface?"

Maddie smiled
'I think so' she said to Mina, and pulled out her wand again 'Viseo Ebullio!' she said, and the bubble appeared 'Ready?' she asked

Victoria glanced over to see Vashti and sighed slightly to see her enjoying herself with other students. Enjoying herself moreso than she would with me... She looked back at her notes and kept her head down, forming a curtain from her hair over her face.