Kurumi was fidgeting just a bit too much with her hair and she blamed her nerves. Where was Salander?! He was supposed to have been here at least twenty minutes ago to help her finish setting up things. Crossing her arms, Kurumi began to pace back and forth, glancing at the pool filled with goldfish every now and again. She probably should feed them...Couldn't have these goldfish decide to nibble on her classmates mistaking them for food.

Walking over to a small table with multicolored towels on it, Kurumi grabbed a small container of fish food and began to sprinkle it into the kiddie pools.

Salander was out of breath by the time he got to the kiddie pool, trying to keep a step ahead of the rush of enchanted little jeeps as the students rode their newly painted vehicles towards their next task. Mini!Carter on the other hand seemed to have been able to seize control of Lil!Arya's jeep and started driving like a crazed joker, trying to trip him up and outrace everybody else all the way towards the Lake. Wizarding Road Rage, who woulda thunkit?

He glanced at the left over pie he managed to swipe from the Great Hall but wasnt able to snack away as he had hoped. He had enough trouble trying to keep his balance with Mini!Carter zooming around his feet and avoiding crushing all the other little jeeps underfoot. He placed a free hand on Kurumi's shoulder, catching his breath and trying to sort out that knot in his ankle. "If we're ever going on a road trip with Carter, remind me to never have him drive."

Carter was a muggleborn and this, by no means, was his first time behind the wheel. This was... however... his first time in a toy jeep offroading along the Hogwarts grounds.

AND IT WAS BRILLIANT!

He loved it. The grass made it look like he was driving in a safari... and giant!Sal made him feel like he was hunting a dinosaur. A dinosaur that stole his pie!

And so... he drove in a way to match his... overly excited, pie-induced imagination. He weaved in and out of Sal's feet... and was even tempted to shoot a few stunning spells toward him.

But he didn't... He didn't want to risk losing the rest of his pie. And the grounds were a bit bumpier than expected. He wasn't sure how safely he could drive without his hands on the wheel.

He did get to cross another item off his life goals list though. Racing a dinosaur giant? Check! Offroading at Hogwarts? Check!

As they approached the kiddie pool he powerslid the jeep to a stop. Then he looked up at the kiddie pool... which was not so kiddie anymore.

And little Kurumi? She wasn't so little anymore either.

And that sugar rush he was just on? Not so rushing anymore.

OH.SWEET.CIRCE.

He was going to kill them. She was going to die in a tiny toy jeep, that admittedly looked awesome, under Sal's feet. The Puff prefect was holding on for dear life, cursing the fact that she hadn't painted on some seat belts, or at least gotten in another car, while Carter drove like a mad man. What was he going to do exactly when they GOT to Sal? He was still a giant compared to them.

When they finally stopped, she took a much needed deep breath and looked over at Carter. "You are a MAD MAN, Carter." MAD.

Having finally thrown out the idea about taking the Headmaster's seat down with her to wherever this other task was, Evelyn followed all the mini cars, seeing the little kiddie pool in the distance. Ohh riighht. It was over here.

Spying the jeep that had Arya in it, the Slytherin grinned her grinny-grin, and picked up her pace a little before giving a mighty leap, and landing right behind them. "BOO!"

Even if this wasn't her task, she could still have fun, right?

Marilyn had never been more terrified in her LIFE...The tiny car was zipping and zagging her around the Great Hall, through the Entrance Hall, out onto the grounds...and it was bumpy...

Of course, it was thrilling, Marilyn was sure it had never been done before...but she wasn't use to getting thrown around like this...and it was making her nauseous. Yea, she could ride a broom HIGH up in the sky...

Ironic...

The first thing mini!Marilyn did when she stepped out of the car was get down on all fours and vomit...

Yes, VOMIT!

After having almost run into a wall, Sky didn't think the bumpy grounds of Hogwarts was such big deal. That was, until SHE started bouncing in her seat every time her Jeep went over a bump. And of course, every time she bounced, her head hit the HARD top of her Jeep. Oh, she was going to have such a headache after this!

She finally reached her destination and saw… a kiddie pool? They were going to have to swim after their crazy Jeep rides? Ugh… Still, Sky unbuckled her seatbelt and got out. Annnd, there it was. A headache was forming right where her head had made contact with metal. Owie!

Kurumi tried not to giggle too much as the army of small jeeps appeared over a small mound carrying her classmates. Her violet gaze fell on one jeep that was, well, driving all over the place like a troll with too much butterbeer. Her jaw dropped when she saw who had gotten out of the jeep.

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"CARTER?!"

Hadn't she said it earlier? His stomach was going to get him into trouble? How could he have shrunk himself? Her pie had purposely been set off to the side when she had finished it! It didn't really matter how it happened, since the deed was done. She then saw Arya get out of a jeep as well. At least Salander had shown up just in the nick of time, full sized and not looking like be belong in a Polly Pocket play set.

Wiping the shocked expression from her face, Kurumi took a very careful step forward towards the cars and folded her legs underneath her as she sat down. Towering over her classmates while standing was too awkward. "Congratulations on getting here everyone," she smiled, once again fighting back the giggles as she heard all of their slightly squeaky voices, especially tiny!Carter. "You are continuing your journey east to Japan. Soon, you will be participating in a modified version of a traditional Japanese festival game called Kingyo-sukui. 'Kingyo' means 'goldfish' and 'sukui' means 'scooping'." She paused for a moment and gestured towards the kiddie pool that had been enlarged using Engorgio. "Behind me in this large kiddie pool are thousands of goldfish that you must try and, well, scoop. Unlike the traditional game, you be using scoopers made from rice paper that are about the size of a hoola hoop to you now." You know, because they were all so tiny and adorable right now. "These are currently floating in the kiddie pool along with the fish." She paused for a moment to let all this sink in before continuing. "Once you have retrieved a scooper, you must swim around and try to get a goldfish to swim through it. Once you have accomplished this, the hulla hoop is charmed to change into a bridle so that you can ride your goldfish." Sounded simple enough, right? "The goldfish will then take you through a series of tubes until you have arrived at the Black Lake. Once there, the properties of the lake's water will reverse the effects of the Shrinking Solution you digested and you will become your usual size again." Special thanks went to Professor Lafay for brewing this very specialized potion for them. Good thing Kurumi hadn't been the one to go and ask her to do so. Probably would have breathed fire at the young Gryffindor.

She then leaned a wooden plank against the side of the kiddy pool. "Once you have performed a Bubble Head Charm on yourself, younger students should ask an older one for help, you can climb up this plank and begin!" Were there any questions? She was pretty sure she had covered it all.

Oh yeah! One more thing.

"When you are out of the lake, one of us will be waiting for you and will lead you to your final destination," she added with a mysterious smile. "Alright everyone. Time to dive in!"

OOC: ooc: Just like all the previous tasks, there's no posting limit or minimum, just have FUN. While your characters will be underwater for this, there is no drowning or anything dangerous in the kiddie pool...so no killing your character. Feel free to work alone, in partners, or in groups. You do not have to wait for someone to cast a Bubble Head Charm on you if you are RPing a younger character, but can pretend that one of the mini!prefects slash Quidditch captains have. Although you don't have to have posted at the previous three tasks it would be nice if you can. And just like in the last event you'll have about 48 hours before the next part of the event is open...and you have reached your journey's end!

Cass sped through the grass, her screams as loud as they were since she left the castle. But she instantly stopped when she saw this giant something looming over her - all of them. She was about to run away from fright, drive away if necessary, but stopped when she heard the familiar voice booming over them.

It was just Kurumi. Whew. .....she never thought that Kurumi's voice could be this loud though. Oh well. The effects of being incredibly small.

Then she listened intently as the giant Kurumi explained what they had to do, her eyes widened as she stared at the kiddie pool and the giant looking things that they were supposed to catch them with.

Then they were supposed to ride the giant fish too?? Oh dear Merlin.

Maybe she should step back and watch first. And try to see if she would come out alive from this one

As if being freaked by Carter's crazy driving wasn't enough, now she had crazy head girl JUMPING up behind her and SHOUTING. Why was she doing both? The small jeep shook from the jump and she jerked from that and her shouting. Arya shoved the door open and quickly got out of the car before Carter got any ideas and glared up at Evelyn.

"WAS THAT NECESSARY?"

Yes, she was shouting. But only because she was tiny and wouldn't be heard by the girl other wise. GLARE.

And don't think Arya didn't notice that she didn't have Tatertot's chair with her. She would be going back for it when she was normal size again.

Kurumi stole her attention for a bit when she started to give out instructions. Hm. Might as well do some fish riding while she was this small.

Marilyn was still trying to regroup after the throwing up episode...and Big!Kurumi's voice was hurting her ears. Standing up, she was a still a bit shaky...Disoriented, she walked over to where all her other mini!classmates were.

They were getting in the pool? But...it was COLD!

Pulling her mini!wand...Aww! mini!wand...she transfigured her clothing into a swim suit, bubble charmed herself, and also layered a heating charm on her skin. Ambling over to the plank, Marilyn saluted Big!Kurumi and dived in...

Of course, she'd forgotten about the HUGE fish...

*flails*

Carter stepped out of the jeep and beamed. It was still officially the best day ever. And it just kept getting better. Now that he was small he'd have to ride a goldfish too. And... weirdly enough... he'd thought about what that would be like.

The only thing that would make this day even better was if he could teach his patronus how to play fetch.

But. Of course. All good days had a downside. His downside was Evilyn Evelyn. Out of nowhere she came crashing by and yelling. The sound of that made him stumble a bit. Sweet Merlin! Now there was a dinorawrsaur!

"HEY KURUMI!" mini!Carter squeaked. "SAMPLED THE WRONG PIE." he added because she looked like she was concerned with why he was actionfigure!Carter sized.

And... now he needed to stop talking yelling. His throat was beginning to hurt a bit.

He busied himself with bubble charming a few of the younger kids before he noticed there was no splashing. Why was nobody going? Oh wait. Marilyn was.

And Carter wasn't about to let the fun start with out him. He cast the charm on himself before running up the plank and dived in too. Not only was this going to be fun... but he was also further away from Evelyn now.

Now... where were these giant goldfish? SWEET MERLIN! Were their eyes always that shifty? It was a good thing this activity wasn't "Swimming with the Sharks" or "Swimming with the Piranhas."

Alright. He'd supervise from in here... where the view (of what was no doubt going to be hilarious) was better. Bring on the rest of the kids!

Upon hitting the water, Marilyn realized it wasn't that cold. Perhaps warming charms had been placed on it, as well...Smirking, she floated around, diving under to see the fish. They weren't coming at her for swimming away...

Well, she had just jumped in unannounced. They were most likely startled. Aww, poor little fishes...

Hearing more splashes behind her, she whirled around to see Carter. Of course, she was momentarily surprised because she thought they couldn't participate...Yay, though. Marilyn was stoked he was in the water with her...

Now...to get one of these so-called...scoopers...

*swim, swim*

Did Evelyn have to scream!?!? It wasn't helping this young Slytherin's headache. Although, Sky guessed she should just be glad the Head Girl wasn't right behind her when she did that. Sky put her fingers to her temples and pressed slightly to help get rid of her headache. After a few minutes, her headache had diminished somewhat, but she was definitely going to have to go to the nurse after this.

After hearing the directions for the next task and the mini!Gryffindor Quidditch Captain casting the Bubble Head Charm on her, Sky started over to the kiddie pool. Once she had reached it, she reached up and grabbed the edge. She used the edge to pull herself up. Once on the edge, she sat down and let herself slide/ fall in. She nabbed one of the scoopers and started trying to lure a goldfish over.

Sweeeeerve!

Bump...bump...bump... Ouch!

Kennedy was having TOO much fun to complain about his head hitting the roof of the jeep. He was thoroughly enjoying this since he didn't need a state liscense to drive, hehehe!

He felt like he was in Jurassic park. Plants and giants everywhere.

COOOOOL!!!

He stopped when he reached a large pool, to him, and who appeared to be the Prefects and Head People. Could he keep his car and enlarge it so he could drive it? Probably not, and his mom wouldn't allow him to drive yet.

He listened to what Kurumi said and his eyes grew wide. They were going to ride on goldfishes?!

Oh-uh-uh!

Jeeps he could drive because they were cool and stuff, but fishes... No, they didn't have brakes on them.

After the fifth fish in a row had swam away passed her by, Sky started getting irritated. "Stupid useless fish!" she exclaimed. Ugh, she was never going to catch a fish! Another fish or was it the same fish? swam it's way towards her. Sky stuck out her scooper and…… the fish hurried away. But this time, she was ready for that response and quickly swam after it.

Selina was little. Well Selina was smaller than usual. She had never been particularly tall to begin with, but now she was minute and so was everyone else. If she could let out an evil laugh because now everyone knew what it was like to be short she would. However, she was not Slytherin enough to cackle. Unless of course it dealt with stealing small children's lollipops.

She smiled and waved at Kurumi and listened to the instructions. Goldfish? Water? Seriously? Ahh well, Kurumi seemed so proud of the goldfish thing she would get wet. Sigh... her hair actually looked good today.

After chasing the stupid fish around the pool, Sky finally had it cornered. She reached out the hand that held the scooper and placed it right in front of the fish. "Ha ha, got you now!" Sky shouted with glee. "There's no other way around but through the scooper!" But the fish did find another way around. Right where Sky was floating. "Hey!" she screamed as the fish smacked right into her in it's bid for safety.

Needless to say, Sky swam around looking for a new fish to fry catch.

Sampled the wrong pie? Kurumi wasn't sure she bought that excuse. Carter knew that all the pies were going to be spiked with Shrinking Solution...wait...why was he even testing them to begin with? Kurumi shook her head and rolled her eyes.

She leaned down for just a moment and picked him up by the collar of his robes and dangled him in the air for a moment. "Carter, I told you that that stomach of yours was going to get you into trouble," she sighed. Seeing as he already had casted the Bubble Head Charm on himself...there was no sense in waiting any longer. Follow the leader, right. She then leaned over a bit and... *PLOP* ...dropped him right in the middle of the kiddie pool.

Kurumi then looked at all the other little people. "Just got word that everything is finished over at your final destination!" she smiled. Which probably meant that all the food was out and Lola had finished with...whatever it was she had been working on. The Slytherin Quidditch captain wouldn't let Kurumi, or anyone else really, on her secret plans. Which...was very VERY frightening. "So, hurry up and catch a fish so you can enjoy it!"

OOC: we have opened up the party threads for you to play in, so just follow the link in Kurumi's announcement to get there. It would be great if you RPed catching a fish that then took you to the lake and then off to the party, but it is not required. Everything is just for fun *nods* We will be leaving this thread open for a while for you to finish up any RPing you might wish to do.

Finally, success! Sky got her scooper around a fish and off she went. Though a series of tubes and into the lake. She felt herself growing back into her usual size. She swam to the bank, climbed out, and cast a drying charm on herself.

Kennedy sighed as another fish escaped him. Darn it! This time he concentrated on a fish that was slightly bigger than the rest. He wanted that one. Reading himself, Kennedy set the scooper right in front of the fish's path and WAM!

He got it!

Immediately, the scooper transformed into a bridle and hoped on it. This was more than wicked cool.

YEEEHAAAA!

He performed the bubble head charm on himself and then allowed the fish to take him through several tubes until he reached the Black Lake. He only knew he had reached it because he had plopped into and returned to his normal size. After getting out of the lake Kennedy followed the Prefect to the next destination.

KATRINA WAS LITTLE! Name of Merlin, man. HOW COULD SHE SWIM! But, no time to LOOSE! Katrina swam and retrieved a scooper and got a fish. Katrina hopped on it [to make it easier] and placed that charm they use to breathe underwater.

Katrina and her fish, which she now called Ada, swam to a series of small tubes. "Ack!" Katrina said as she hit her head unto the tube's surface. Soon, Ada and Katrina reached the Black Lake. Yipee! Katrina wouldn't be tiny anymore. She saw herself get bigger and back to her normal size. "Goodbye, Ada, and thanks for the lovely ride!" Katrina then went out of the lake and went to the last place to go.

Alyssa had fun driving her little jeep all the way from the castle out to the Hogwarts School Grounds to this little kiddie. Only the kiddie pool, was not as small as she remembered. It was humungous!! Then Alyssa laughed. She had forgotten that she was now a itsy bitsy person in driving a toy jeep. But she guessed that a spell had also been cast to make the pool larger than it usually was, or it wouldn't be able to hold that many goldfish. So Alyssa parked her jeep and went forward to hear what next instructions were. "We're supposed to do all those things??" Alyssa thought to herself. "I will definitely need a bath once we're done here.". So she got in line and waited for turn to jump into the kiddie pool. She first took off her shoes and waited in line for the Prefect to cast the Bubble Head charm on her "Thank goodness I was in the school swimming team back in Salem,"Alyssa thought to herself. Even then she knew that this task was going to be a hard one.

Once the Prefect had cast the Bubble Head charm on her, Alyssa dived into the kiddie pool. She opened her eyes looked around for the nearest scooper that might be floating around. Then she saw one. She quickly grabbed hold of it and then swam forward looking for a fish to catch. There were many swimming around, but they were getting skiddish because there were now a couple more students in the water chasing after them. So Alyssa decided to wait and play possum. She knew that if she remained still and waited patiently, soon a fish would think that she was a statue or something and swim near her to hide from the rest of the students. Alyssa didn't know how long the Bubble Head charm would last, but she knew that once the charm wore off, she would still have at least a minute of air, since she could her breath that long.

But Alyssa didn't have long to wait. Soon 3 goldfish swam towards her and hid behind her. Alyssa quickly turned around and using her scooper she managed to scare one into swimming through it. Immediately, the hulla hoop (scooper) changed into a bridle. Alyssa quickly mounted the goldfish and hung on as the goldfish took off and headed for a series of tubes which it swam through. Soon Alyssa realized that they had arrived at the Black Lake. She had survived the ordeal. She patted the goldfish on its back to thank her for bringing her to the Black Lake. Then letting go of the bridle, Alyssa saw the goldfish swim away.

Alyssa swam back to the shoreline and as she swam she realized that she was growing bigger and bigger. Soon she was back to her regular size. Dripping wet, she followed the Prefect who was waiting for the students to arrive to their next destination. "Whatever it is, I'm definitely going to get a shower and change out of these wet clothes."Alyssa thought to herself.