Arabella-Marie was trying to fight the flames when she heard a cry for help turning around she saw that Kurumi was injuried and Eino was needing help and made her way over to them and said "What happened Eino, how did Kurumi get hurt"

Simon was coughing a bit now, he felt like shouting retreet but decided against it, he wanted to help put it out. "ARE THERE ANY PROFESSORS ABOUT?" Simon shouted at the top of his voice. "Saying that does anyone know how to produce A patronus we could then said it to every Professor in the school, surely one would get it in the end." Simon sighed, he was wishing he hadn't come now but since he was here he would do his best to help them.

Ahhh to hell with it! Oakey stepped in and barked out Aguamenti with the other two students. They asked for help and certainly needed it. Might as well be Oakey Richard Gunter Boggart Slayer again but this was no boggart . Plus Oakey wanted to feel useful Aguamenti was 1 of 4 spells he only knew, might as well put it to good use. Just hope a dragon doesn't pull him in and eat him. Maybe his bad luck would go to the dragon and make it easier to defeat.

She had been heading down to the store room to collect potion supplies when she saw the flames. Oh Blimey that was one bad fire. She thought her eyes wide with fear. It wasn’t long before that feeling - the feeling of panic changed to one of a calm and tranquil feeling.

Something was wrong, yes, but she wasn’t going to go get into a tizzy about it - it wasn’t like this was the gunner's supply room or anything. Like that would be any better the whole school would be blown to rocks and rubble if that were the case.

Looking around she spotted someones robes. “You there” she pointed to Arabella, her mind elsewhere even as she spoke. “hand me that robe behind you” the girl was crazy right now, prepared to run at the fire and smother it with some kids prized school robes. “c’mon now! We don’t have all day” she expressed - maybe it was the fact that she had spoken so harshly in a voice unlike her own that had jarred people to not help she decided to take her own black school robes off. Seeing as water was not working fast enough. Taking a quick step over to the room she began to smack the wall of fire with the robes. She was going to smother them even if it meant burning her own hands to do so.

It worked a bit - not enough though. The heat hitting her hand caused her to snap too, the words that came out of her mouth next were loud. Very loud.

“FIRE” well everyone KNEW there was a fire - thats why they were there wetting it. Taking out her wand she immediately began to cast the water spell as she backed up, almost to the corridor wall. Maybe no one saw her insane bout of ‘brave’ actions. Maybe they just ignored the fact she had yelled ‘back you addled fiend’ to the flames as she smacked them. Man did she just feel insane.

Kurumi could just make out Arabella and Simon cast their own spells towards the fire. It was going to take more than four younger students to put this one out though. Especially when one considered all the potion's ingredients that were in there as fuel. Kurumi's head snapped around when she heard Eino's voice break. Eino, the usual airy and confident Ravenclaw, was now no where to be seen.

Looking around at the smoke filled corridor, Kurumi held the side of her head for a moment and tried to gain her bearings. She knew very little about the dungeons seeing as she only ever came down here for classes. "I-I-I don't know either," she squeaked as she stood a little closer to him and continued to cast her spell towards the flames.

Kurumi wasn't sure which was hurting more right now, her arm or her head, but worrying about that wasn't going to get this fire out.

Coughing, Kurumi covered her mouth with the sleeve of her robes. The fumes were almost becoming too much. "Eino, this isn't working," she said as the water stopped coming out of her wand. "D-Do you know any other spells? I-I don't think we can perform Mizurus boru...the air is being sucked try from the flames...."

Kurumi then saw another student FINALLY helping them with the fire.

Taking time to flash a smile at the first year Hufflepuff, Kurumi picked up a stray label that had landed near her feet. There was no need to continue to read what all was in the storeroom. Everything in there was flammable it seemed.

Kurumi pointed her wand at the paper in her hand and traced one clockwise and one anti-clockwise circle before whispering Mizurus boru and creating a rather large water balloon thanks to the Hufflepuff's spell casting.

"Maybe...if half of us cast Aguamenti and the other half Mizurus boru, we can put out this fire?" she said through some severe coughing. With Mizurus boru, they could levitate the water balloons to parts of the fire their spells couldn't reach.

Kurumi swayed a bit, but managed to catch herself by grabbing onto Eino's shoulder before she fell. Falling wasn't an option right now.

Since he had been chasing Professor Lafay to convince her to train him, well actually he had asked only once but Lafay's word was law so he knew it was like she had said it a hundred times, Josh was thinking of ways to deal with it or if it was completely impossible, without it. Not to mention he wanted to keep an eye on Evelyn though he had be away from her. He was going to keep an away eye on her.

However, voices of trouble was not ordinary thing one could hear in the dungeons corridor. It was usual so dark, deep in silence and cold...cold...never feeling like...that. Fastening his steps, his eyes were not late the catch the smoke and the unusual light coming behind the door. Not to mention the voiced of people talking about...stuff...rather nervously. Well...none of these were good signs. So, the Gryffindor ran and once he reached to the room in question, his eyes widened with utter shock.

FIRE, DOWN HERE IN THE DUNGEONS!!!

And he knew Mistress Lafay liked to play with fire...what if...something had happened to her?

''PROFESSOR LAFAY!!!!'' he yelled rushing into the room not really caring about the heat. ''MISTRESS LAFAY?? WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU HURT??'' If someone had targetted Lafay, this boy was not going to let them go away with it.

Taking an angry breath he looked around and that was when he realised Marie, Destiny and a bunch of younger students including...KURUMI...who did not look...in her best moment.

Not even losing any time with cursing out loud, Josh quickly ran to the girl's help. ''Kurumi...Kurumi...how did you...?''

What? What was the problem of these people?It was not like they could stop it, was it? They needed to leave...NOW!!!

Arabella-Marie coughed as the smoke was getting to her and said "I think we need to try something or at least try to get out of here cause i am not sure if we are going to be able to put the fire out"

Simon decided to try and lighten the mood a bit, it was becoming a bit too tense. "So who thought it would be fun to have a bonfire indoors?" Simon grinned but then had to stop when he coughed, he was going to need a drink in the morning that was sure, he looked around and saw everyone trying to put the fire out. "This isn't working." Simon sighed. "What are we going to do?"

Oakey began to fell the effects of the smoke he let out a large cough and cast another Aguamenti at the fire. Oakey looked to his side just for a moment and saw the older girl turn a piece of paper in water balloon and heard her say to cast Mizurus boru. What's that?! Oakey asked through the smoke and coughed a bit more.

Riley hated being down in the dungeons but he had a question about the marks he had received on his latest potions homework and was sure it had something to do with when he threw up on her shoes at the beginning of term.

One of the main reasons he disliked the dungeons so much was because of the smell and today was no excpeption. It smelled like.....burning things. Was professor Lafay burning something? He walked down the corridor to inspect and was afraid of what he would find and then he heard shouts.

He ran to the open storeroom door when he saw smoke billowing out from it. He entered the room and saw many students including Kurumi, Simon, Destiny, and Eino all standing near the flames some trying to put it out.

The Gryffindor stared for a minute and then shouted. "What in Merlin's Beard did you all start a bloody fire for?!?" He shook his head and stepped back as a fresh burst appeared as potion bottles exploded.

"I'm telling!" And with that, the sneaky little Gryffindor ran off to get Lafay. She was going to be maaaaad.

Eino could hear a voice addressing to him but couldn't quite make out who it belonged to. "We need help!" He repeated. Hopefully someone would go inform a professor or the Headmaster! There was no way they could put the fire out by themselves. Just then he could see a trace of vapor. Someone else must have been extinguishing the fire, but most importantly, he now knew where to lead Kurumi. Kurumi seemed to have noticed the person, too. As he approached him he saw it was a Hufflepuff student he had never seen before but couldn't be happier to see him now. "Thank you..." He said and cough as he walked away from the flames. Then he looked the opposite side and saw Arabella, and realized she must have been the one to speak to him. "The explosion... " He coughed as he tried to explain. " We need professors."

Just then he saw Kurumi creating a large water balloon ready to drop in the fire. "Good idea..." He responded. With his right arm free again he took his wand, pointed at the fire and shouted "Aguamenti!" With Kurumi's water balloons, and the Hufflepuff boy, they were managing the fire, or at least preventing it from expanding but they needed more help. At least the worst part was over and they could run for their lives, but they couldn't leave the dungeon burning. They had to try their best to put out the fire. He continued with his right hand raised and pointing it at the flames and a jet of water ejected from his wand.

Then there was another student who seemed rather upset at the fire, rather than worried. Well, at least he was going to call a Professor. Eino really hoped no one suspected he and Kurumi had started it since they were the first ones to find it.

Something deep down told her something that would stop a fire. Fire stopped fires. She had done it before, once...but the memory was unclear like looking through a fogged mirror back on a reality, a childhood she had once known - or else it was all a dream...but she knew it was a fact. Fire stopped fires.

"Josh," she expressed as she saw him in the room, "we need to get a victorian fire grenade" what the heck was she yammering about? "they burn hotter than fire - it'll put the fire out using all the oxogyn the fire would use" she explained it sounded smart...sounded like it would work.

Arabella-Marie nodded and said "Yeah i know Eino we do need a professor but we all can't stay down here" Arabella-Marie coughed some more the flames were being controlled somehow but they did needed a professor badly

Simon had this feeling Lafay would be here before long and he'd be in trouble for it. "Why don't you go Arabella." Simon said, he was sure that once Professor Lafay saw he was here then he would be in serious trouble, she would blame him without asking him if he had been the first person here.

Simon was coughing a bit as he continued to try and keep the flames under control but he wasn't sure it was working and they really did need a Professor but there didn't seem to be one around, hopefully one would come before that Gryffindor came back with Lafay.

Sierra burst into the room right as that Gryffindor boy she'd met last school year yelled out a question about someone starting a fire. WAIT. Someone started a fire?! She narrowed her eyes in anger and shoved through a group of students, her eyes immediately falling on Kurumi Hollingberry. "What did you do?!" she exclaimed, her question being directed toward Kurumi and no one else.

Her brown eyes scanned the room, and she took in the sight of the steadily growing fire. She diverted her attention back to the Gryffindor when he stormed from the room, threatening to tattle tale on whoever had started the fire. "Are you lot crazy or something!?" she said, her voice rising to be heard over the commotion. "Potions can explode!" Really, they could right in the thick of an explosion in the next five seconds, for all they knew. "Stop trying to put out the fire and get out." Someone who knew what they were doing should be in here...

The whole place could blow up and all the idiotic Gryffindor was worried about was tattle telling. Wasn't that just like a Lion?!

Connor was walking back to the common room after his run and talk with Selina he felt the air around him grow warm and thick with smoke. He ran into a mass of bodies gathered inside and right outside the potions store room. He was about to go for a professor and totally run like a chicken when he heard a voice say Kurumi was in there. He would not allow the fire to consume someone else he loved. it could have him it it wanted but not Kurumi! Not his Love...

He began reaching in and grabbing bodies and slinging them out of there "Someone go get Professor Tate NOW!" He called pulling out another person and another. "KURUMI TALK TO ME LOVE! WHERE ARE YOU! There was now a flame crawling up his right arm, scalding his flesh but he didn't care. He was focused on saving her and others if he could. He went further in the room finding an air pocket good enough to cast the bubble head charm so he could breathe before he continued, the flames were spreading across his back when he grabbed Enio by the collar and hauled him out! Or Tried to at the least. "Enio buddy let me get you out of here please!"

Arabella-Marie hardly could see Simon through the smoke and said "I am not leaving because this fire was not started by any of us students" Arabella-Marie coughed quite a bit and started to feel a bit dizzy from the amount of time she had spent in the smokey dungeon

Kurumi’s head was spinning as a bottle of something fowl smelling exploded and covered the corridor wall in a thick gooey green slime. She managed to duck before some of the broken glass hit her, but the sudden movement made her head throb even more.

“J-J-JOSH!” she squeaked throwing her arms around him. She had never been so glad to see him.

Suddenly, she felt a familiar presence at her side and her heart skipped a beat. She wanted to hit herself upside the head for blushing at a time like this, but that certainly would not help her current situation any. Quite the opposite really. She probably WOULD pass out.

“I-I was just jogging for Lord Borr’s assignment when I noticed smoke…E-Eino and I thought perhaps there was a baby dragon when all this happened.”

Kurumi turned her attention back to Eino and the first year Hufflepuff. “It’s a spell we learned in Charms last term,” she explained as she coughed up some ash. “Y-You just keep casting Aguamenti.” It was helping a lot now that they had a game plan of sorts.

Kurumi’s eyes widened when she heard Riley shout at everyone. Why was everyone so quick to point fingers?! Why would anyone want to start a fire in the potions storeroom unless they had something against Professor Lafay but she doubted anyone was THAT cruel. She then hear Kyle go on about something that she had no idea what it was. “Kyle! We need more people casting Aguamenti!” Not…whatever it was she had mentioned.

Whatever happened to constant vigilance? Headmaster Tate would be disappointed. Especially if someone died.

Kurumi jumped when she heard someone else shout at her. WHY IN MERLIN’S BEARD WAS EVERYONE POINTING FINGERS AT HER?! More specifically, why were all the Snakes doing the pointing? Did they really HATE her cookies that much? She would remember not to give them any at the end of the year feast. “I didn’t do anything!” she squeaked as she lost her concentration on the water balloon she had conjured and it went falling to the ground…landing right on a certain snake’s head.

o______________O

Turning her gaze back towards the flames, and putting Eino between her and Sierra, Kurumi thought she could hear someone’s voice calling her name…but the roar of the flames was too loud for her to be sure.

Kurumi spun around and her ponytail whacked herself in the face. Blinking a bit, Kurumi's eyes widened even further. Her usual black locks were now white as freshly fallen snow. She wanted to throw her hood up over her head to hide, but it had been singed too much to even be considered a hood now. The whiteness of her hair was a stark contrast with the injury she had received early when her head had collided with the stone wall.

Simon looked at the Slytherin. "Oh no really, I had no idea Potions can explode." he said sarcastically, Simon took his gaze of the girl and back at the fire, he was still finding it hard to control. "Are you going to help or just stand there?" Simon could feel his hands starting to hurt, it seems most people where just watching, but there were a few of them helping.

"As you said if we stopped what we were doing the potions would explode and who knows what is in there, maybe there would be a big explosion." Simon wasn't going to leave until a Professor had told him it was safe for them too without the rest of the castle going up. "You can go if you want or you can help." Simon snapped at her.

WHAT LOVELY PROPS THEY HAD!

Lola was mesmerized by the fire, and then suddenly she heard these two students that sounded as if they were to die inside of the room.

...?!??!?! THEY WERE HURT.

She contemplated if they were professional actors or there really was a fire and she obviously had to pick the second one. Just to make sure, the girl quickly put her hand out towards the fire--"OOOOOOH THAT IS REAL!" Her finger was singed, but in times of fighting a deathly dungeon dragon, she had to be strong and brave and FEAAAAARLESSS! "Are you guys okay?!" she asked helplessly towards the burnt people, and well, because she just was Lola Jones, she added, "Wanna be my friend?" Errr.

The girl suddenly noticed Sierra. Exploding Potions? "OH RIGHT!" And immediately took out her wand.

"PROTEGO!" she shouted in a serious tone, creating a medium-sized barrier in front of her and a couple of people, then conjuring up a not-so-strong jet of water (but at least she was helping!) "Aguamenti!"

"I'm startin' to feeeeel like a dungeon dragon!" She continued her warcry, because the heat was INTENSE.

Salander rounded the corner that led from the Slytherin Common Room. Immediately he noticed the dungeons have filled with smoke and the source seems to have been coming from somewhere near the Potions lab. As he neared the area he could hear yelling and after a few more paces he met with the back of the crowd.

His eyes grew large as he saw the roaring blaze, squinting in the heat that emanated from it. "Hey what the-- WHATS GOING ON?!?!?!" he managed choke out amid the smoke, spotting several students already trying to put the flames out.

Then he spotted that all too familiar brunette near the blaze

"Kurumi!" he yelled as he grabbed hold of her shoulder and tried to use himself to shield her from the blaze. "How'd this fire get started?" And to the crowd he asked "Has anybody gone to get Lafay yet?" he asked the turned to squint into the blaze. She wasnt inside when this happened was she?

Caroline was coming down the dungeon corridor from her run, with Kita, Carter and Jai, she was going to take a quick shower in the dorms before dinner. She turned a corner of the corridor near the potions classroom and near the storeroom was a load of students from everyhouse some where yelling and sceaming 'Fire!'

She could see Kyle, Josh, and Kurumi all up near the front of the group. Caroline fought her way thur the crowd. "Kyle, what's going on?" But there was no reason to ask becasue when she look straight in front of she seen what ever one was freaking out over. A fire, a big fire in the storeroom. Oh Merlin, Lafay isn't going to me happy. "We've got to do something."

Simon looked at his hands they were burnt a bit, but he wasn't going to let that stop him from using his wand, he would see the Nurse once the fire was safely out and make up some excuse as too why his hands were burnt. "We can do this." Simon said, he really hoped he was right, though it would be a lot easier if a Professor was here.

Arabella-Marie could feel the heat of the fire and it was burning her hands a bit and coughed some more and said "I am not sure if we will do this because the fire is too intense"

Eino listened to Arabella, who was one of the few people actually making sense. Of course the fire wasn't started by any of them, why would they start a fire in potion store room and destroy precious and rare potion ingredients? And why were people so worried about finding out who did it instead of either helping or leaving? He had too many thoughts in his head. Why was the amount water coming from his wand so pathetic?! He really couldn't do much more than that and the pain on his left arm was increasing.

Eino was this close to pushing the Slytherin girl who was bullying Kurumi into the fire. He gave her a nasty look when Kurumi placed him in between the two of them. Why didn't she take her own advice and leave? He was helping her by extinguishing the fire that would potentially burn her common room, dormitory, and belongings with it after all! How ungrateful!

Eino then noticed his hand was slippery, and when he looked at it he saw blood. Right! He saw it earlier on Kurumi's hair. "Kurumi!" He called her then proceeded to examine the side of her head. "You're bleeding!"