India smiled to herself, she was going to stay a bit longer and fight off pixies - but she noticed they weren't really running around destroying people and Orchid had all her caps. Which was good.

Smiling over to Professor Bentley, she waved. "Thanks for an interesting class Professor Bentley" she smiled. Waving, still as she left the green houses to go and get seriously cleaned up at the Ravenclaw tower.

Orchid smiled and went to go towards the caps again, but looked up just in time to see three pixies flying towards them. Perfect. She thought. "Stupefy! Immobulus!" She said as she took out two of them, the third having disappeared preifly, she cautiously made her way towards the toadstools and popped off the last cap and raised her hand in victory.

Cora had somehow managed yet again to stay hidden during class. As she walked out twirling a lock of her hair, she nervously looked to where the pixies were. This was so far her favorite class, but she was a bit too terrified when she was given the activity. She simply stood there frozen as if someone had paralyzed her, although no one had. In fact, the others around her were covered for her quite a bit. She knew she would make up for it at some point, and hoped the professor wouldn't be too concerned with her. She really cared about this class, but her timidness got the best of her. Next time, she told herself.

Fingers still sore in spot from the toadstools - and a scar here and there that would vanish in time - Kurumi's eyes widened when Professor Bentley mentioned....pixies. Wait... really? Pixies?

Before Kurumi could register everything, utter chaos erupted in class as pixies began terrorizing everyone and everything in the classroom. Eyes opened wide, Kurumi noticed, just in time, a pixie flying straight for her face. Squeaking loudly, Kurumi attempted to duck, but her forehead made contact with her work station first and she tumbled over backwards instead. Two pixies came zooming by and grabbed her left shoe, ripping it off her foot and flying off somewhere.

"HEY!" she shouted, pulling out her wand and trying to take aim at them. Sadly, the two pixies were already no where to seen. She would have to summon her shoe later, right now she had to deal with the other three pixies flying in her direction. Dragnhide gloves still on her hands, Kurumi crawled under a few tables before popping up in a somewhat pixie free zone. Coast clear, Kurumi grabbed a nearby toadstool and began to twist when *TWACK* her own shoe collided with her head.

"OUCH!"

Kurumi's head snapped around, and she twisted the cap off in the process, and thrust her wand towards the two pixies from earlier. "Immobulus!" And not there were two more pixies floating around in the air like dazed little bubbles.

Toadstool cap in hand, Kurumi tucked it into her robe's pocket for the time being. The less movement she had t do at the moment the better.

"I GOTCHA, I GOTCHA!" Tori squealed, making a mad, intense face as she brandished her wand at those pixie vermin. "STUPEFY!" Boom, down wen the one attacking Em's eye. "STUPEFY!" she cast again, successfully stunning the one going after her hand.

Merlin, where did these things keep COMING from?!

"STUPEFY!" Tori hit the one biting the Puff's ear. Oh, and there was one more at her back! "STUUUUUUUUPEFY!"

And they were all down. Whew. "Hurry and get that thing to the box," Tori panted, still eying the toadstool with her wand out and her eyes narrowed.

Orchid approached Professor Bentley with a smile on her face, her hair in a mess, and a few cuts on her arm, but she didn't mind aside from the hair, which she got revenge for hehe. "Thank you for a wonderful lesson Professor. I've always enjoyed Herbology! The pixies were a bit of a challenge, but India and I teamed up and conquered." She told the professor. "See you next lesson." She said, waving goodbye as she walke out of the greenhouses and back up to the castle.

Em was trying her best not to panic, but it was incredibly hard with the pixie on her face. Relief flooded through her as the creatures fell one by one. Instinctively her hand went up to her face and covered her injured eye. As the slytherin took care of the pixie tugging on her cape, Em focused on gathering her Toadstool caps. Luckily her first two where where she left them so she gathered them up, and then found the last on the floor where it had landed during the scuffle. Hands now full of toadstool parts, she squinted at Tori when she mentioned the box "G-good i-idea" At that, she headed over to the box and placed the caps inside. Returning to the girl Em gave a slight smile. "T-thank you again,' she stuttered, still trying to gain composure" I d-don't know how I can e-ever repay you."

Aww, the poor Puffer was stuttering! Tori frowned slightly as the girl recovered her mushroom caps and then returned.

"It's nothing, really, it's what... anyone would do," Tori shrugged it off. "Don't worry about repayment. The same thing happened to me earlier. It's why we have classmates."

So that we can all fail and succeed together! Yay!

The puff nodded, but she surely didn't agree with Tori. It wasn't nothing, and she did owe her. "Really?" Em said, looking the girl over with her good eye. "W-well, it looks like you faired better than I d-did." Sure Tori may have looked a little rough at the moment, but she surely didn't look like Em felt. Giving the girl another smile, Em said, "I t-think Professor Bentley said we were free to go after we f-finished so, I think I will head up to the castle. Maybe even visit the new Healer."

On her way out, Em walked by Professor Bently and stopped. With her hand still up to her eye she gave a small smile and said. "Thank you for the great lesson. I can't wait for the next one." After this, Em continued on her way back to her things, and then headed up to the castle.

Now that the two pixies carrying her shoes were immobilized, Kurumi marched right up to them and snatched her black leather school shoe from their hands. Honestly, hadn’t anyone told them that it was not polite to take things that didn’t belong to them. Kurumi balanced on her shoed foot and attempted to slip the retrieved shoe back on her foot when *WHACK* something else collided with her and she went face first into the dirt floor of the greenhouse.

Temporarily blinded by the dirt, Kurumi spat out what she seriously hoped was nothing more than soil and nothing that contained any properties of dragon dung…or any dung for that matter. She couldn’t see where she was spitting, but hopefully none of the slightly damp…whatever…didn’t land on anyone. She was embarrassed enough as it was.

Shoe now back on her foot, Kurumi used the sleeve of her robes to wipe her face. AHA! She could see again. Kurumi turned around to see the pixies that had thought they were doing her a favor by making friends with the ground, and her eyes narrowed. “Now that wasn’t very nice,” she scolded, taking out her wand again. “Immobulus!" There, try knocking her over now.

Turning back around again, Kurumi made her way towards another toadstool when she felt yet another whack against the back of her head. Shouldn’t there be less of these little creatures running around right now? She had gotten a bit of a late start on the whole process and figured that the pixies would be tired out by now. Narrowing her eyes, Kurumi now saw a few pixies holding up her Herbology textbook and….*GASP*

THEY WERE TEARING PAGES FROM IT! PRECIOUS PAGES OF KNOWLEDGE!

Now where was her bloody cat when she needed him? Or, that’s right, he was still missing.

“You put my book down this instant!” she commanded, charging after the pixies who merely glided backwards and continued to shower her with papier-mâché that had once been her textbook. She supposed that using some magic could fix it…hopefully.

“Immobulus!" Now several more pixies were frozen in time. Kurumi, marching over once again to snatch something back from the creatures, glared. First her shoe and now her textbook. They better not try for anything else or she was going to cast a lot more than Immobulus on them.

With a few moments of pixie freedom, Kurumi returned her attention to the toadstool from earlier and twisted its top off. She then added it to her pocket where it rested with the other. Just one more to go…

"Hugo... Five points for Ravenclaw, a fine bit of magic there," she nodded brightly. Healing his peers, very admirable indeed.

There was that feeling again. Seren looked dow to find Harlow hugging her again, she pat her on the back gently. "I'm so pleased you enjoyed it. There's nothing quite like an exciting lesson to get the blood flowing." Increased blood flow meant increased brain function... well in most cases. Some were clearly lacking.
"Thank you dear, I think I'm all set for helpers right now. But if I ever need it, you'll be the first person I ask." Seren was becoming rather fond of Harlow, such a bright, brave ambitious little first year. And she wasn't even put off my the pixies!




"Thank you for coming, see you next time," she said to others that filed out of the greenhouse.
"Enjoy the rest of your day."

OOC: I will lock this thread in approx 4 hours (from the time of this post) Feel free to finish up or say goodbye.

Harlow quickly released Professor Bentley and beamed up at her. "Those pixies are strong. They picked me right off the ground." she told her. After she thought about the experience it wasn't as scary as she thought it was. "Well if you need me my bed is the second one from the window in the Slytherin girl's room and my owl Zipper can find me." she offered. Just in case the professor needed her when she wasn't in the gardens.

"They are rather strong, and they can be rather feisty, but deep down they're just like us... they care about the plants and want whats best for them." And Harlow was rather tiny... it didn't surprise her that the troublesome pixies managed to lift her off the ground.
"You're not hurt I hope."

How precious! Seren couldn't help but chuckle lightly.
"I'll keep that in mind, thank you." Though she didn't need that information. Seren had her own ways of tracking down students. The Castle was a curious place.

Kurumi checked herself up and down to make sure that she wasn't missing anything else before proceeding towards her final toadstool. Left shoe? Check. Right shoe? Check? Toadstool caps? Yep, both of them in her pocket. Wand? Double and triple check there. Head? Yep, still attached. Well, her father always asked her if she had her head on, so she ought to keep up the tradition, right?

Peering around students that were still either collecting caps, avoiding pixies, or just trying to get out of the greenhouse without their hair being pulled, Kurumi edged her way towards a toadstool that looked like it was just sitting there waiting for her to remove its cap. And not a pixie in sight, lovely. Kurumi slowly bent down, checking over her shoulder now and again to make sure that no pixie was going to zoom out of no where and pull on her hair or anything. Her hand closed around the cap and she was just about to twist it off when ZOOOOOOOOM it went flying right out of her reach.

What in Merlin's beard was going on? Oh...wait...she saw little legs and wings fluttering behind the toadstool. Yep, a pixie had snatched it and was now zooming about the greenhouse with the toadstool in its greedy little hands. Had the circumstances been any different, Kurumi would have simply shrugged her shoulders and gone on her merry way finding another toadstool.

However.

She was just about done with these pixies. Head snapping around, and her prefect badge catching the light in a slightly menacing way. Pixies...watch out. Kurumi pointed her wand at the flying menace to wizarding kind. "Accio toadstool!" she shouted and the toadstool flung itself forwards towards Kurumi with the little pixie hanging on and trying to fly in the opposite direction. Little bits of dirt fell off the toadstool where the horrible little creature had ripped it out of the ground. When it was close enough, Kurumi grabbed the toadstool and pixie out of the air and pointed her wand right between the pixie's eyes. "Let. Go. Now." she commanded. Surprisingly, the little fellow did.

Well, it looked like you could teach an old pixie a new trick.

Kurumi twisted off the top to her third toadstool and put it in her pocket, but she was still holding the shaft to it in the other. Bloody pixie. She ought to replant the poor thing. She then turned around and found the spot, hopefully, where it had been pulled out. It was the only really empty spot in the flower bed, so she suspected that this is where it had been. Using her free hand, Kurumi dug a small hole, set the probably traumatized toadstool back in, filled the hole, and then padded it down. "Aguamenti," she whispered and a small stream of water poured from her wand. Good as new? She sure hoped so.

Toadstool now back in its bed, and hopefully with its friends, Kurumi reached into her pocket for the three tops and checked them over to make sure that they hadn't been damaged in the pixie war process. Satisfied with them, she then walked over to the cardboard box and plopped them in before heading over towards Professor Bentley.

"P-Professor," she said timidly. "I'm...I'm afraid that the pixies pulled out one of the toadstools, but I tried to replant it. I'm not sure if it was done properly..." She kicked at a rock aimlessly. Poor little toadstool. Maybe it was going to need therapy.

Beezus was about to hold the box with the caps inside when the Professor summoned a parchment and quill. She looked at the note the Professor was writing.

"Sure Professor. I would love to." So, she was tasked to bring the note and the jar of fangs to Professor Lafay. She had already been acquainted with the said Professor for she have started brewing potions.

She got ready to carry the jar of fangs when Professor Seren had once again interrupted her from leaving. Three owl feathers ?
Her curiosity grew, "Errrr. . Professor, what will I do with these feathers ?" she asked. She needed to know what the purpose of those was. She just couldn't go carrying the feathers with her without knowing who it might be for, could she ?

These pixies create more destruction than he thought as he helped the final students complete their tasks, he even saw a pixie pull a toadstool!

"Brilliant, thank you very much dear." She'd much rather not spend all that time walking back to the castle if she didn't need to.
Oh right the owl feathers.
"Yes... its a new rule. Professor Lafay wont take any visitors unless they bring her three plucked owl feathers. I wouldn't want you to go all that way just to be turned back."
Because that would be a terrible waste of time. Not that it would be likely. Would it? Surely a jar of fangs would be enough. But it was always better to be safe than sorry.

"Oh and three points to Ravenclaw.. for your trouble."

Harvey wanted to ask the professor whether he could pick flowers from the gardens but he didnt have the courage. So he decided to ask where he could pick them.

"She is a nice girl isnt she professor, she likes to help out, she even helped me out. Professor if I was wondering where would be a nice place to pick some flowers, you know ones that smell nice like roses? or some other nice smelling flowers. "

Harvey could tell that this professor was one of the nicest he'd had since starting here at Hogwarts, even his teachers at muggle school were not this nice.

"No big Professor Seren." she said. And then for the feathers. So, it's Professor Lafay's new rule. How amazing indeed !

"Oh, alright Professor." she told her, carrying the jar of fangs now. It was odd that she liked Herbology now. Unexpectedly yes, but she's now really looking forward to their next lessons.

"Thank you Professor and Goodbye." bowing slightly as she said farewell. Beatrice then proceeded to the castle to go to Professor Hecate's office.

"Oh yes indeed she is."
It was delightlful to see so many friendly, helpful and willing students. Very lovely indeed. Seren listened to Harvey's query, and she couldn't help but smile.
"I would recommend checking out the student gardens, there's plenty there perfect for picking. Feel free to pick anything you like, and feel free to grow anything as well. The student garden is for you to take advantage of."

"See you later dear, and thank you again, I trully appreciate it."



Right... so that was about it. She'd let the pixies settle down and adjust to their... new circumstances before cleaning up the greenhouse. They needed some time to mourn.

"Right all, class dismissed, homework will be posted on the notice boards and I'll see you next time."
And without another second to spare she ushered the remaining students out of the greenhouse, the box of toadstool caps in hand.


She was about to shut the door when.... SWOOSH.

Whoops. A couple of pixies got out.
"Hhhmm... nevermind, they'll probably head into the forrest," she mused as she ensured the door was shut.


OOC: Thanks everyone! you were all brilliant!