Eris watched as João fought of the pixies with a bit of determination in her mind, she would do that to one day, even if it-...okay...maybe not if it killed her.

Out of reflex she raised her wand as she saw one attack João's hair, but he seemed to take care of that too, giving a nod at his request to go to the hospital wing, "I'll take him after we harvest the caps" the little snake replied dutifully with a thumb up. "Thank y-"

Noticing a pixie come back for the boys hair when he wasn't looking the eleven year old jumped up doing her best immitation of him.

"STUPIFY!" she commanded imagining the pixie fainting on the spot. The spell whizzed past João and hit the pixie, not stunning it quite, but the spell seemed to send it flying back from impact.

Well...it kind of worked.

Now for the caps......she reached her hand down to help Ashley up. "Tag team cap harvesting?" she offered. One could harvest while the other faced the pixies.

Violet really needed help now as she was being lifted off the ground by the dozen of pixies swarming her. Violet had bad experiences with heights and she didn't want to fall so she closed her eyes and curled up into a tight ball. She was being lifted of higher and higher and Violet could her the little pixies laughing with delight and the fun they were having

Phew. Only one more to go. Ariella's finger was beginning to throb where the pixie had bit it. Her head was killing her, and her hair was probably sticking up in all directions. She sighed and twisted the final cap off. As soon as she had yanked it off, another pixie flew up to her and tugged her hair so hard that she stumbled backwards and right onto the ground. How embarrassing. "IMMOBULUS!" she screamed at the devilish pixie, causing it to freeze in the air. Dropping the last cap into the box, she took another deep breath. Finally. Relief.

Tori still had a pixie pulling her hair and another two trying to bite through her gloves. "AHHHHHH!" the girl screamed again, flapping her arm uselessly as she tried to shake the pixies off. "DOES ANYBODY KNOW THE STUNNING SPELL?!"

Please?

In the meanwhile, Tori decided to try to use her free hand to get another mushroom cap. She continued trying to shake the pixies off while maintaining a hold on the toadstool cap in her right hand. With her left, Tori went for another mushroom cap and successfully twisted it off.

Unfortunately, she also earned herself another three pixies, two of which again went for her left wrist and one of which started biting at her knees.

"HELLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP MEEEEEEE!!!!?!"

That was impressive. Alright, now Ashley was determined to try that spell. Even if it exploded something.
Hopefully it didn't.

As he brushed himself off, he tried to check and see if he was really all that hurt, but aside from a little bruising, he felt fine. Still, he figured there was no point in arguing about it. There were still toadstool caps to harvest, and he didn't know how much more time they had to deal with this. Stupid pixies.

"Sure we can do that," he said in reply to the suggestion to team up, already heading back over to the plants. "How many do you have left to get?" Thankfully he only had one.



And then he heard someone yelling for help, rushing over to start trying to just tug pixies away with his hands, attempting to do something to help.

MJ heard a call for help and abruptly ran from the Ravenclaw without waiting for a reply to her question. A few more Stunning spells shot from MJ's wand. "Hi, err, I think it's Stupefy... I just copied the Prefects and it kind of does work... I think?"

MJ made her way back to her own toadstools, which wasn't far from the two girls she had helped. "STUPEFY!" She was getting good at these - perhaps she'd try it on her sister later... Well maybe not. :-p MJ removed her second cap and took it over to the box, minus hitch-hiking pixie this time.

Sierra glared at the Pixie as it flew away. Blasted creature... She made a face at it then turned quickly back to the toadstools. She needed to harvest two more caps, and she couldn't do that if the Pixies were constantly attacking. Though she was focused mainly on the cap, she watched for Pixies out of the corner of her eye.

She placed the palm of her hand firmly on the cap of the toadstool then twisted sharply to the right. The cap popped off with a nice snapping sound, and she went to deposit it into the box. She smirked, thinking she'd sent the Pixies away once and for all. Riiiight. Just as that thought had formed in her mind, a whole family of them dove in at once. She covered her head and fumbled for her wand. "Stupefy!" she called out. ... ... "Stupefy!"

João nodded at the boy to acknowledge his thanks. He didn't say anytime because he liked to keep away from them as much as possible, but he did say "You're welcome," because it did feel good if he could teach them some--

"WADWASDAT?!"

If it wasn't for a quick reflex to buck down, that stunning spell might have hit him. HIM! With a face TERRIFIED, he looked at Eris in awe for a few seconds before he could blink away again and close his mouth. She had just... that was...

"Well done." But no thanks. Because he could have been shot too. She did deserve a smile though. Something he rarely did; smile gratefully. But she earned herself one.

He was about to point out that their health was more important than anything, but if they wanted to collect the caps first, it was their decision. He only shrugged to himself. He wasn't the responsible here if they got any further injuries.

"If you're all settled," which they seemed to be, already planning the rest of the class, "I'll return back to my toadstools." He looked at them one last time to be sure before going back to his own plants to pull the third cap.


Taking a deep breath, he walked towards it and the pixies seemed to defend it even more determinedly. Two had already been trying to travel to his back to push him--which were the victims of two strong "Immobulus!" and another two came off to bite him. He was fresh from the fight though so these last two were stopped with "STUPEFY!" either and he pulled off the last one without any further injuries, except for the bite in his finger.

Dropping that third cap off in the box, he stood there and started waiting for the professor while examining his finger.

Tori managed to fling one pixie off her wrist, and then finally found aid in the form of two of her peers. "Ah, thank you, thank you!" she smiled at the guy and the girl who helped her. Wow, one of them was a firstie stunning pixies?

Now she felt stupid. "Stupefy, right. I won't forget that." And indeed she wouldn't. Tori hurried to drop off her first two toadstools so that she could get a start on the third one.

MJ rubbed her eyes. Boy, was that bed in the dorm looking inviting right now. Exhausted, she wrenched the cap off one last pixie, stupid things, plopped it in the box and trailed back to her place.

They had to harvest while fighting off pixies?!

How on EARTH could someone do that?
Daichi grabbed the cap of the stool and tried to figure out a path that lead to the box without being pulled, poked or pinched by any pixies. Seeing as his classmates were fighting them off, Daichi decided that this was his time to run. Dashing forward, cap in his gloved hand and wand in the other.

He was ready to use a spell he didn't know.... when a pixie would pop up. And yes, one of the pixies started to grab his left ear and pulled. "OWWW OWW OWWW!" He winched as he had to walk with the pixie otherwise it hurt to much. Trying to fight the pixie off, another one had sneakily flew down to his shoes and tied his shoelaces together. Daichi didn't notice this for he was still trying to perform a spell which would likely never come. "Stupefy!" nothing "Stupefy!" only a bit of sparks.

Then, the pixie let go while cackling darkly. Daichi sighed in relief and with the cap still in his hand he moved to the front of the class. Only to fall face forward on to the ground. Tears stung his eyes as his nose started to burn up, was he bleeding? He hoped not. The second year looked around at his feet and saw that his shoelaces were tied together. Groaning, he reached for his shoes but a new pixie started to pull his hair, preventing him from untying his shoes. "SOMEONE HELP ME GET THESE SHOES OFF!" He shouted throughout the class and hoped that someone would rescue him.. they would right? ..please?

Violet opened her eyes and took out her wand to attempt the Immobulus spell her peers had been using.

Violet cried out "IMMOBULUS!" and immediately she saw the dozens of pixies floating away from her. She was very glad that she managed it, but she then immediately fell on the ground hard.

"oww..." she whimpered as she slowly got on her feet. She was quite sad that no one had tried to save her, but she shook the fustrated though out of her head. This wasn't the time to be angry. She limped back to her peppermint cap. She twisted and pulled her final cap easily out of the pot and limped to the cardboard box to place the plant in.

She was going to need to go to the hospital wing to see if her leg was alright. It may be just a little sprain she though

Kennedy still felt his head pounding, but his eyes were still centered on all the chaos. Boy was he glad to be done with the assignment. His green eyes then caught one of his new little friends.

Uh-oh.

Daichi seemed to be in trouble. "Hey! Get off him!" he yelled pointing his wand at one of the pixies and Stupeying it. He ran from under the table and over to the kid in distress. "Here, let me help." He didn't even care how weird it looked taking off some kid's shoes.

"Err.............................three." Eris could almost chuckle at this, she was about to collect her first one when she ran over to help Ashley. Of course, if they did this quickly she could get it over with fast.

To prove her speed, once they got to the plants, Eris gripped A cap and began twisting it when a pixie came flying towards her.

Okay now they were just annoying. With a bit tongue in concentration of her cap, and eyes unmoving, she curled her fist inward and sprang it out at the pixie with a mighty punch. The tomboy's hand met the pixie's face happily, doing more than her attempt a spell could do.

"Dumb pixie....." she muttered finishing tossing the cap in the jar before starting on the next.

Leaving the yanked plant on the ground carelessly Louisa crouched before another one and veery carefully grabbed the cap. And a couple of pixies were on their way at her from behind, each grabbed a strand of her hair and started pulling. She jumped and shrieked. "UGH!" Her wand was still in her gloved hand as she pointed it randomly, "Sooop!" Because that worked. Hmph, "Immobulus!" She shouted and the spell hit one of them, making the other even more angry as she started to pull Louisa to one direction.

The fourth year had to walk with the stupid pixie to not get her hair plucked out of her head. "Immobulus!" But it didn't hit. "IMMOBULUS!" This one was very... enthusiastic that it hit two pixies together. Louisa pulled her hair out of the pixie's grip, stuck her tongue out at the immobile creatures and hurried back to the cap she was supposed to get.

Louisa bent down, twisted the cup and carefully removed it. There, she had three caps and all she had to do was to stand by and curse as many pixies as she could, just for the fun of it.

"Oye!" she called out at the pixies in an anger punching one square in the face, cause you know, when a first year doesn't know a spell well you gotta do what you gotta do; finding herself with two very familiar faces.

As Kennedy began working on one she she worked on the other, till it was of Daichi's foot. She sighed in relief.

Now it was time for round two.. Damon continued watching the sneaky hiding pixie with close interest as he slowly began turing another cap in his gloved but yet secure hands, but all of a sudden the one pixie darted out at him and literally knocked him over hard. Damon was not hurt but he was shaken. He quickly stunned that pixie before it could cause further interference and it still moved in his hand a bit as he put it down, this time he had little issue with placing the second cap in the box.

As if Biting Toadstools weren't enough, they now had to deal with evil little pixies. Great. Just...great.

But the sooner she got this done, the sooner she could go and hide from the pixies. Or preferably class would be over by then. That would probably be better actually - Vashti had a feeling she wouldn't be able to hide from the pixies for very long.

So she quickly walked over to one of the toadstools that hadn't had their caps twisted off, and just as she reached for the cap - a pixie seemingly popped out of nowhere and flew straight for her.

"MEEP!" she squeaked, trying to swat it away, but the pixie was too quick and it dove straight behind her and started pulling on a strand of her long brown hair. GAH!

She flailed a bit and finally managed to twist herself around so that she could get a look at the evil little thing. Pointing her wand, she quickly cast, "Immobulus!", and the pixie froze mid-pull. With her free hand, Vashti grabbed it and gently pulled it away from her hair. She set it on one of the station tables then moved back to her toadstool.

The Ravenclaw gripped the cap and twisted it until it finally came off. She walked over to the box Professor Bentley had indicated and dropped it inside.

That was one down. Two more caps and any number of pixies to go.

Nate had only been half listening, so when they were sent off to harvest, he was rather lost. He decided to simply grab a toadstool and yoink off the cap. As he reached towards the toadstool, he received a lovely little pixie directly to his eye. Thinking fast, he pointed his wand at the toadstool and spurted, "Diffindo!" The cap fell off of the toadstool and into the basked he had placed on the floor in front of it.

"Oh," Ashley said, very surprised, and actually starting to feel a little bad. He hadn't meant to keep her from getting on with the task or anything. Or was it the pixies' faults? After all, he hadn't asked to be taken on an airy joyride or anything. In fact, he was doing perfectly well on the ground, thank you very much.
Still, he smiled in a somewhat sheepish way, which wasn't something he did very often. "Sorry about that! Thanks for coming to help me, then," he said, adding just for her benefit, a quiet, "Kamsahamnida."
He couldn't help but laugh at that. He really only said things like that at home, but he'd remembered her interest from what seemed like forever ago.

Just as he was going to grab another cap, figuring he could play lookout and get his last one done at the same time, yet another pixie appeared! He was all ready with his wand, sooo about to use this probably-explody spell, when... she punched it.

"You punched it," he said with a blink, clearly impressed.

Cautiously, he peeked around the plant he was about to de-cap, mentally getting his fist ready. But... nothing. And after all that he'd been through so far, he was still disappointed as he pulled off the cap and went to put it in the box.
Oh well. At least now he could play lookout without distractions. That was promising!

Feeling something else tucking at his shoes, Daichi glared angerly at what he thought was a pixie while trying to fight the pixie pulling his hair off. But it wasn't a pixie. It was Kennedy and not a few seconds later Eris even showed up. Eris...whom he had pushed in the lake and almost drowned together with her...she had run to him to help. Maybe this was the mark of friendship? He didn't know but no time be sentimental.

As his shoes were taking off by Kennedy, he saw Eris punching the pixie pulling his hair in the face which caused him to laugh. Sitting up right, Daichi looked at Kennedy for he figured he knew how to perform the spells. "Thank you! Can you help me get this" He showed the harvest in his hand "in to the box? Like cover for me?.......why does this remind me of a war movie?" He didn't even care if Kennedy would know or not what a movie was. "I-i can't perform the spells" He blushed slightly as he admitted this.

Elsie really had no clue how to even start to do this activity. She looked around at the now slightly hectic classroom as everyone was trying to deal with the pixies. She started trying to observe what other people were doing so she could figures out what to do.
Suddenly a pixie was in front of her trying to steal the jar with the fangs she had just harvested. "There is no way you are getting those!" The fangs from the first successful activity she had completed at howarts? No Chance! She thought. Elsie reached out and grabbed the jar back. The pixie, now seemingly angry, bit Elsie's finger. "Ouch!" Elsie said, who knew pixies could bite so hard? Elsie noticed that other people were casting Stupefy, but Elsie had forgotten the correct wand movement and didn't want to risk casting the wrong spell.

Eris had just finished tossing her second cap when she turned to face Ashley

Kamsa-wha? o.o

Her little brain tried as hard as it could to keep up with what she considered a long word associated with a bow. Kama...kamsa....kashadima....

She would have to ask him about this later.

Feeling whatever he said should be returned with a bow, Eris started a 90 degree one without remembering the danger of the pixies around, in her moment of mental abstraction, one dove down and grabbed hold of her ear, starting to drag her away like a mother who was angry at their child.

Gah!

Eris looked over at Kennedy. What Daichi had said certainly made the two of them, not knowing how to perform many spells her self, she made a mental note to ask him later.

Right now. It was Pixie war.

"War wha-?" she was about to ask, having only heard the term movie once or twice, just as a pixie dove past her shoulder, luckily, aiming for the student up ahead.

the things were little monsters, they were...

"How many do you have left to go?" she asked curiously.

So basically, Ashley was ruining Eris' life today. He hadn't expected any kind of reply, and he certainly didn't mean to be distracting. Maybe he should just stop... doing whatever he was doing. Wait, what was that? Being around? Okay, he couldn't stop that. He had to stay in class.
Well, at least he could try to do something about the pixie!
As much as he really wanted to try that spell for once, he wasn't going to do it near someone's head. So he was getting hands-on again, quickly chasing after to get his hands on the pixie, pulling at its body with one, and trying to pry the little hands away with the other before they pulled Eris' ear off. She probably needed that.
"Get off, already!" he said as he tugged, finally dislodging the little thing, falling over from the effort.
Maybe he should just stay on the floor.
At least the thing was free now, and he could pull out his wand and point at it safely, with a "stupefy!", which didn't really do what he'd expected... but at least the pixie ended up halfway across the room and out of trouble.

"Sorry!" he said, because that was really probably his fault.

Kennedy almost laughed when Eris punched the pixie. She had gutts. And, that pixie also deserved it. After taking Daichi's shoe off, he waited to see what else the kid needed help with. Kennedy looked at Daichi's hand then the box, alright. "I know exactly what you're talking about little man, " he said, standing up and brushing off his trousers. He was like the biggest movie watcher here.

Kennedy looked down at Daichi and grinned. He was like that too, at one time. "It's alright," he said, ruffling the kid's hair. "Now, lead the way. I got your back." He looked over at Eris, making sure she was ready. "You ready, Eris?"

Now, what pixie wanted to get in his wands way, huh?