Emmaleigh listened intently as the prefect began to speak to those gathered. There was something better than cookies? she doubted that. And if what Arya was talking about wasn't the ship, then what was it? Did it have anything to do with it? "Pirate treasure?!" The girl said aloud.

She smirked to to herself at the comment about finding. The only thing she was ever good at finding was things to trip over. But she scratched her head as the older girl continued. What were they supposed to be doing? she had no clue. When she heard the younger boy say something about a cup, and Arya confirm that it was what they were looking for, she couldn't help but comment. "A cup? why would someone care about a cup?" she just couldn't see why something like that would be so greatly valued.

Arya grinned at the young badger, and the cup he was holding. "Yup, you found one!" She took a closer look at the cup. "But not one that has a clue. Keep looking, your doing great." Really, he was. Hopefully the other badgers would follow his lead and help with the search.

Arya shrugged her shoulders. "I'm not sure why our founder cared about the cup, but I know you should care about finding the cups if you wanna get to the final destination." Unless she didn't wanna reach the hidden place. She highly doubted that though.

Looking around at the other badgers, she notice none of them were looking. Hm. Maybe they didn't know what it looked like? "Hey guys! Conan found one cup if your wondering what it lookes like." She pointed to the boy. "When you find the cup, search it to see if it has a clue. I PROMISE you will notice which has a clue and which doesn't. Only 19 left to find!" Saying all that she could say without giving anything away, she went back to watching them.

OOC: rules/guidance II.
- One cup was found, that only leaves 19 left!
- Remember to post your student searching for the cup, and if they find a cup, post them searching the cup for the item in question.
- EmilyMalfoy or myself will respond to your post if you've found a clue WITH the clue.
- The sooner you guys find the clues, the sooner you'll be at the next task.
- Again, if you have ANY questions, we're just a VM/PM away.
- Have fun!!

Oh. Conan's face fell. He had been right. But he hadn't got one with a clue. Now he had to hunt for another one. His eyes scanned the table for another two handed goblet. A HA!!!! He ran towards it, and raised it in the air. "GOT ANOTHER ONE" he called from the other end of the table. Please have a clue. Pleeeease.

He was sooooo far away! Arya had to walk down the bench to him to examine the cup, her grin widening when she spotted something sticking out of the bottom of the cup. "This one's a winner!" She pointed to the object, but didn't take it since she wouldn't be needing the clue. Heh. "Keep going, only three more clues to go."

OOC.
- A clue has been found!
- You don't have to ask if a cup has a clue, you can just RP your student searching the cup and we'll post if it has a clue or not.
- two cups have been found, that means only 18 to go!

Note that this event takes place at a different timeline to all other RPs at the table. No one but badgers here. ;)

Did she want to know what was going on? you bet she did. So Emmaleigh reached over and grabbed one of the cups that matched the ones that boy had picked up. Bringing it closer to her, she hoped this one would have a clue. she looked inside of it to see if there was anything hiding in there.

Freya was beyond shocked when the younger girl showed her the scar on her forearm. That must be a very traumatic experience for Helena and not to mention she's four years old when that happen. "I'm sorry I didn't know." now she felt really bad. She wanted to ask how that happened but she decided its not really a good topic to discuss.

"Do you know why there are a lot Hufflepuff in our table?" The third year decided to change the subject with more easy one and less traumatic one.

Fee listened to William and her face dropped a little bit.He really seemed to be sad about the whole situation.Maybe he just needed to get used to Hogwarts still?It was always loud,maybe the people really didnt hear him."Does it matter if they know you as my friend?",the girl said,"you know you are my friend and i love you as my friend thats what matters."Waiit his girlfirend Katelynn?What was with Rose ?Did they already break up oh gosh."Do you have a new girlfriend,Willy?",the blonde beamed a little.Such a womanizer.

As the Slytherin saw how the little one was tearing up almost she couldnt help but hug him tightly."William dont cry",she whispered and hugged him tightly,"you know its always hard to be one of the new students.it will get better i promise."

Waiiiit Presley?As in Presely Black the girl who asked if Hagrid still lifed her?GLitter,she was one weird Ravenclaw.But Willy seemed to friends with her,maybe the age."When did you and Rose break up?",the third year asked patting his shoulder a little,"what happend?"That had seemed to be lsuch a sweet couple and now it was over.Daaamn things happened fast.

Oh and now it was onto Hugo again."Dont force anything",she said,"just wait a little maybe things will wok out in the future."The girls the little gryffindor was hanging around with didnt seem to be too lovely,good for them the blonde didnt know them."Dont listen",the Slytherin shook her head,"you arent a baby and it takes a lot to cry because people are stupid like this."The blonde would always be there for her friend no matter what.

" No I guess it soes not matter if anyone knows yo uare my friend or not" Wiliam told Fee. " You are a great friend 'Wiliam said to Fee. " My new girlfriend id Katelynn because Rose tried to change me despite all the lies she tells everyone at HogWarts" Willaim explained to Fee. " Ddi you have trouble being a nre student?" Willaim asked Fee wiping his tears away from his face.
" I know Hugo will come around when he is ready because I know Gwen and myself , both of us becoming friends after we have been frienemiles" William agreed with Fee. " I knew you would understand about the ctying, but Presley is the one that surprised me" he told Fee. 'What should I do sbout the lies Rose is tellling about me at Hogwarts ?" Willaim asked Fee. She wants me to lose a lot offreinds here" Willaim sighed. ' Oh. you really need to meet Sarah, you will lover her, she is a great friend just like you and is very helpfu to me" he explained to Fee.

Isobel hopped off the bench and walked over to the girl who had found a cup. She looked at it and grinned at the girl. "Cool! I mean... congratulations! You found a clue!"

OOC: Another clue has been found!
-three cups have been found, so there are 17 left ^_^

Well. If it's part of procedure.

"I'll give you my name if you give me yours, interviewer girl." And and AAAANNNDD "Let me join you on your interviewing expedition." Whatever it was for.

It could have been school but considering her statement against sane people, he figured it might not be. And that was fine with him, it just made the whole thing more interesting and made him really want to join in. As long as she wasn't trying to use information against him. Not that anything he just said could be used against him.

...Could it?

Relative, of course. What has she even written down? For all he knew, she could just be doodling. He needed to sneak a peek at that notebook.

"Hey! What's that over there?" he asked, pointing behind her.
Not that he actually thought it would work, but it could after all.

Helena giggled at Freya's reaction. She surely didn't mean to shock her like that. Just to let her know that she wasn't THAT crazy. Hehe. "Don't worry. Just my first" and definitely the last "toy broom."

Hmmm the Hufflepuffs? Yes, Helena noticed them all around them. Actually invading their house table. "Maybe they have a meeting, like we did," the girl whispered, as she leaned closer to Freya. "Or... not?"

Ness looked at all the dinnerware on the table and started searching. She was told by quite a few people that she had good eyes, when it came to spotting things, but Ness wasn't too sure of that. She carried on looking hopping to find something soon, she wasn't exactly sure what she was looking for, but she continued anyway. They were suppsosed to look for a cup Right? thought Ness. She looked up at the cup the boy was carrying then she continued looking.

Uhm, looking for a cup? She began to browse all of the plates and cups, lifting them up and turning them over, looking for any puff signs. Hmm. She moved her way down, catching the odd flash of yellow. But everytime she reached for the yellow, it turned out plain or green. Tricks of the light

Ness carried on with her search, she then spotted a cup. She looked up again at the boys cup, then looked back at the one she had found, they looked pretty much the same, well according to Nessie they did. She walked over to Arya the prefect, and to Isobel the captain to see if she had found a clue. "Um.. I think found something!" said Ness shyly. She hoped she did cause it would be pretty embarressing if this wasnt the right cup that they were looking for.

The young prefect was searching for the pieces while she watched the eager badgers, she wanted to play too! It was only when she spotted something under one of the cups the other Puff picked up did she notice that one of them found a third piece . "Hey! You found a clue." Hehe.

And they seemed to be getting lucky today, cause not soon after they found the third clue did another Puff find something. Arya skipped over grinning at the clue hidden in the stem of the cup.

Hopping back up on the bench, she motioned for the other badgers to gather around. "Okay guys, now it's time to piece together your clues so that you can head off to the next task where the other house is waiting to work with you." And then they'd be at the final destination! Arya was glowing with excitement. "The pieces are charmed to mold together when you get them right, so gather round and start working on it!"

OOC.
- All the pieces have been found!
- Those who have the pieces should work with the others to piece them together.
- EmilyMalfoy or myself will post with the final product after you guys post
- Have fun!

Ness got really excited when she heard she had found a clue. She then listened to Arya's instructions very carefully, so she would know exactly what to do. She then took her piece and waited for the others to join her so they could build the map together. Ness wass pretty good at puzzles and this one seemed pretty easy, it was after all only four pieces that couldn't be too hard, could it? "So we just have to put the map together right?" said Ness just to make sure.

"Yup. I think so", Amy nodded to Nessie, giving her a grin. Her little loch ness monster. But cuter, she looked around at everyone who had found the bits. Oh. She seemed to be the oldest. Woot. She'd have to organise and not only. Was Amy highly immature? Yes. Did sh do organisation? No. Well, rarely. It just wasn't one of the things she did. She winged things a lot of the time, but she reconed they could work out what it was if they worked together. And she had a lot of Puff pride. A lot.

"Come on badgers we can work it out!" She called, serious house pride dropping into her tone.

Lame Post of mine I know!
 

"Okay cool!" said Ness smiling at Amy, the purple dinosaur. She then looked at Amy's piece it looked pretty similar's to her own, but obviously a little different. Ness then giggled a little at Amy's serious tone, but Amy was right, so Ness put herself together and tried to help Amy."Yeah!" said Ness "We can do this!" she said to the other Hufflepuffs, hoping they would all come help now, so they could finish the puzzle and get going as quick as posssible.

Ness then looked at Amy's piece again, and realised that they could fit together, well from Nessie's angle it looked like that, and it was deffinatley worth a try, Ness walked a little closser to Amy and checked again, it seemed to look as though it fitted with her piece. "Um.. Amy, I think our pieces go together, Look!" said Ness as she took her piece and put by Amy's she then watched the the two pieces linked together, Ness was really happy now, and a big smile lit up on her face.

Oh yeah she knew that this was going to be good and Destiny did not disappoint her. Mia shook her head at the girl. "Two wrongs don't make a right Destiny. If someone steals something from you then you go and dob them in to an authority figure." That way they get into heaps of trouble and it makes them look like a total rat fink. As for hurting an animal..."Well I have to agree with you about taking an animal away from someone who is being cruel but I wouldn't call that stealing. More like justice." or something like that.

At the rate Destiny was going she probably was going to die by an overload of chocolate. Mia had never seen anyone eat so much of it. Maybe she shouldn't have set that challenge for Destiny then, she was putting the girl into an early grave but it seemed to be too late now.

So finally being off the ship, Mia walked them back to the castle and into the great hall. "Four minutes eh? This I have to see." She placed the cake onto the table and took her watch off her wrist. "Whenever you are ready."

Sweet Merlin!

Mia was sounding a lot like her mother at the moment, and Destiny was sure her friend was going to be standing outside her common room in the morning asking her if she remembered to brush her teeth. The answer would be yes, no matter if she did or not. "What if the person that stole something from you is an authority figure?" Huh, Mia? Answer that one! Grinning to herself because she knew she was good at doing whatever it was she had done by asking that question, she gave a small shrug at the next comment. "Justice is such a boring word." And that was all.

Having been too distracted staring at the chocolate cake, the same chocolate cake that she was going to eat in four minutes, Destiny hardly noticed where they were going. All she knew was, this was not the way to the creature nursery.

But she didn't care!

As they arrived at the Slytherin table, Destiny threw herself down on the bench, and once the cake was placed on the table, she pulled it closer to herself. Was she supposed to use a fork to eat it? She hoped not; it would only slow her down. She rolled up the sleeves of her shirt before giving Mia a nod of her head. "I was born ready."

With that, Destiny stuck her hand right in the middle of the cake, and quickly tearing a piece off, not that that could be considered a piece, she shoved it into her mouth.

Maybe two hands would work better?

MERLIN!!

Destiny was just as stubborn as she was. The girl was determined to be right no matter what. This argument could probably go on for days. Actually it's most likely going to because Mia was just as determined to get her point across as well. "Oh bloody hell!! Why do have to question everything?' She let out an exasperated breath and then counted to ten. "Then you just have to trust that karma will eventually catch up with them. But wouldn't you feel better knwoing that you didn't do anything wrong?" Yes. She too could ask questions.

Mia watched with fascination as Destiny got herself ready and she let out a small chuckle as she took a seat opposite her friend. Her parents must be so proud that their daughter would be famous for eating a chocolate cake in under four minutes.

The moment Destiny's hand reached into the cake, Mia started the timer. This was going to get rather messy, wasn't it? "Come on D. Twenty seconds have passed."

She hoped the girl wasn't going to throw up after this.

Peering into the cup, she saw what looked to be a small folded piece of paper. Could it bea clue? She thought, as she reached inside for the paper. Suddenly, she felt someone hovering over her. Looking up, she that it was the Quiddich captain. “I Did?” she asked excitedly. “This is SO cool.” Looking back at the clue as she unfolded it, she noticed that it looked like a sort of map. Seeing tht it had a compass in the corner, she flipped the paper so that North was pointing. up. After studidn it a bit longer, carefully sat it in front of her as she reached for another cup. Just as her finger touched the cup, she heard Arya say that all the clues had been found, and that the needed to work togeather to figure it out.

Seeing the other girls who had clues, she headed to them. As she neared them, she watched as their two pieces formed together. ”Heres my clue.” she said, showing them her piece of the map. After studying the other pieces she reached down and placed it where she thought it belonged. The third clue had joined with the others. “What do you think its a map of?” she asked.

Hmm..

Did Mia REALLY want an answer to that question? Because Destiny would answer..and it would be in the form of a question. She had quite a few of them on the tip of her tongue already, but she decided not to ask any of them. Her friend looked like she was about to blow steam out of her ears, and that would have just lead to her asking even more questions. "I'd rather do it myself than have karma do it." It was like getting someone else to do the dirty work for you. "And taking back something that belonged to me would not be wrong."

Ha! She managed not to ask any questions that time!

Perhaps she should have looked at who was sitting at the table before she sat down to eat the cake. She didn't want Evelyn to see what she was doing. Merlin knows what the girl would do to Mia if she saw her allowing her to eat it. Of course she had nothing to worry about with others trying to take a slice off of her. Not with the amount of crumbs that fell from her mouth and into it. Besides, she was trying to beat the clock!

TWENTY SECONDS ALREADY!?

It WAS time to call in the reinforcements. Bringing up her other hand, Destiny plunged it into the cake before shoving whatever she grabbed into her mouth. It was almost like teamwork. And look! Half of the cake was gone!

Half of that half was in her mouth, the other half of that half was on her face.

Amy examined the maps carefully watching some of the slots stick together after she and Ness jiggled it around a bit. And then another girl came over. Ooh. NAME. She did know this girl. A tiny bit. When she was in the second year. OHLORDY.

It was gone. *Shrug*

"Hai" she said, looking up, "I'm Amy by the way" she grinned at the girl taking her bit of the map and again orientering the map until NEWGIRL's bit fitted in. Hmm. Weeeelll, she was pretty sure she knew what it was. But then again, they needed the last bit, she looked up and grinned at the boy who held the last bit. Scary grin Amy. Turn it down. She smiled a little more normally and gestured for him to join.

But she thought she had it. Oh well. Hazard a guess time. "Well, I think, I think" she said, putting emphasis on the "think, "I think it's a map of the school, look" she pointed to the bit labled 'Great Hall' "we're here, and over there" she prodded the map, "is the astronomy tower". She looked at it for a few more seconds, before speaking again "it's almost like a blueprint rather than a map" she murmered, recognising some of the symbols that she'd seen in her dad's office. And he worked in construction/project managing. Hence, she knew a blueprint when she saw one. "Either way, it's a 2D map" she shrugged, placing the map on the table again

Or maybe she was totally wrong?