His back pressed against the cold stone floor and the suit of armor jamming into his body in every place possible, Riley was about as stuck as one could be. He was completely accepting the fact that he was going to be stuck there until someone, if anybody had decided to come and find him. Kurumi probably ran off and he would have to wait it out, possibly even through the night. Braeden and Deus always teased him about being a 'diva' and a 'drama queen' but did they not see the situations he was always getting in?!

He layed his head back down and layed still when all of a sudden he heard some footsteps running towards him and then a helmet from a suit of armor began to come close to him, IT WAS WALKING BY ITSELF TO COME ATTACK HIM FOR KNOCKING OVER HIS FRIENDS!!

"Aghhhh!!!!!!!!!" The Gryffindor yelled and began to struggle beneath the metal trying to break free and be saved from the angry suit of armor when he heard a tiny voice coming from the expressionless face plate. "Kurumi is that you? Why the hell are you wearing that thing?" he said taking a deep breath to calm himself.

He felt her begin to shift the suit and he pushed up on the heaviest part aswell and it creaked and gronned and then finally it was up high enough that the Sixth year was able to shimmy out from underneath and then he dropped the heavy suit to the ground with a clash. "Thanks." he said smally. That was kind of embarrassing. He looked around at the 'graveyard' of metal around him.

Was the scream really necessary?

The sound rang in her helmet and seemed to magify with each echo and it almost made her want to scream herself. She ripped the helmet off her head and ended up pulling a few strands of hair out in the process. Ruddy helmet...looked like more nightmares on the horizon, this time regarding suits of armor.

"I-I-I-I didn't want to put it on the ground," she half laughed. "Seemed a bit ridiculous to add to the mess on the ground since we need to somehow put all this back together."

Yeah, it wasn't exactly the best of ideas nor excuses.

A little bead of sweat trickled down her brow as she managed to push the suit of armor off Riley. Looking over her shoulder, Kurumi gazed at the sparkling hallway lined with bits and pieces of the suits of armor that once stood regally along the corridor.

Oops...

Riley continued to stare in disbelief at the mess KURUMI HAD MADE and then patted her absently on the shoulder as she appologized and gave her excuse for the helmet stuff. What were they going to do? "What were you doing anyway? Why were you walking AT the wall? You knew they were lined against it right?" It was kind of a stupid question but it was kind of a stupid thing to do really.

"Woah, woah woah!" he said shaking his hands in front of himself as she mentioned something about picking them up. "Do we have to pick them up? Can't we just blame it on Peeves? There is always something weird going on in the Castle someone was bound to knock it over sometime. They don't need to know it was us!" he said slyly, using his non-morals, trying to convince the obviously good-too-shoes Gryffindor second-year to leave with him and keep her mouth shut.

He didn't have high expectations though...maybe they could blame Evelyn, Destiny, and Marie???

"I was reading a book," she said in her defense. She was just full of ridiculous excuses and reasoning today. Sadly, everything she said was true.

Kurumi's jaw dropped at his next words. Put the blame on others? Kurumi had never thought that a Gryffindor would come up with such a notion! Weren't they all supposed to be chivalrous and, well, not like Slytherins? "I doubt that would work," she said folding her arms across her chest and nodding her head towards some of the portraits hanging on the wall. "They saw everything."

She knelt down and picked up a helmet. "We could try to make a game out of it," she suggested with a smile.

"Oh..." Riley said as he recalled slightly seeing her with the textbook just before he took off running. Well at least she was doing something productive rather than most of the younger students here at school. He had also heard that the girl baked...

*sigh* He had hoped she would play along and just let him leave in peace without having to clean up HER mess. And he saw that look. He knew what was going on in her head. What just because he was a Gryffindor meant he had to fall in the mold of overly-chivalrous and brute-strength? He was hardly either. Part of him still stood true to the notion that he was sorted into the wrong house but there was no changing that. "I'm sure it would, but I guess I can help with the mess. What sort of game are you suggesting?" he said raising an eye-brow curiously. He was pretty sure he could beat the little girl anyday but might aswell take a chance to make a child cry learn how to compete properly.

Kurumi picked up a helmet and held it over her head. "Well, these suits of armor kind of look like puzzles," she chirped as she stood on her tippy toes to try and reach where the helmet ought to go. It was times like these that she wished she wasn't hovering around five feet. "So, putting them back together may be a challenge in itself."

She liked puzzles! It was a way to get the brain moving and thinking in different ways.

"Or, maybe we could use all the arm pieces and helmets to bowl?"

Although, that would be rather noisy.

Hmmmm...that was a hard choice to make between the two proposed ideas for what the two Gryffindors would do with the Suits of Armor. The first one sounded kind of boring yet they would be able to clean up the mess...meh. The second, although fun, would cause alot of noise like Kurumi had mentioned but it would also be immensly enjoyable. Where was a magic 8-Ball when you needed one?

Riley pondered the two choices in his head for a moment and then spoke, an idea coming to mind. "We can combine the two! We can take two Suits and stack them up as pins and each of us take a helmet to use as a ball and then after each person bowls their frame, we will set up one suit back against the wall, of the non-playable ones of course." he said, the latter was definately obvious they couldnt play if they did those ones.

"After we are done with all of the others we will put those last two together and then we will be finished. So are you ready to go down in a game of Armor bowling?" he said with a mischevious grin.

Kurumi was a little hesitant about this whole bowling idea she had suggested. She supposed that as long as they cleaned everything up afterwards that it would be alright.

Kneeling down, she picked up an arm and part of a leg and looked at Riley. “I suppose?” she asked rather than said. Still holding the two pieces of metal in her hands, Kurumi knelt down and began picking up more pieces until her arms could carry no more. “Where should I put these?”