The look on Kurumi's face at Selina's appearance made the redhead want to throw something. Yes, yes it was all very funny that she was a potioneer... Ha Ha. It was bad enough that everyone knew how awful Selina was at potions, but the fact that she was advertising being brilliant at the whole ordeal made Selina want to heave. The girl tapped her foot impatiently at Kurumi and threw her hand on her hip to let her friend know that she knew it was all nice and well... but Selina was not thrilled being a potion's master.

Suddenly she remembered she was on stage and she removed her hand from her hip and cleared her throat trying to get back in character... as a potioneer. That was downright laughable.

Then Kurumi was flinging herself on Selena and the whole scene was sort of plummeting into the abyss. What in Merlin's name was going on. However, Selena handled the whole ordeal beautifully and part of Selina wanted to applaud the Slytherin girl's efforts. Masterful, really. She did not break character once even though Kurumi was flailing all over her like a codfish.

Attempting to help Selena out to the best of her ability, Selina walked over to Kurumi and helped her off of the other "sister". "Yes child," Selina said trying her best not break character, "We will help you revive your loved one... but are you willing to do what you must?"

Then Selina released Kurumi and headed over to the cauldron to await the other two snakes...

Logan smiled as Ella leaned against him. He could just fall asleep right there, it was nice..and comfortable. He then chuckled. "Okay, I will...and thanks.." he mumbled, feeling his eyelids getting heavy. He couldn't really take it anymore-he let them close and soon was asleep.

His eyes flickering back and forth between Indy and the stage he nodded when she nodded. So only tired then. Well, he couldn't exactly help her with that, could he? "Okay." Because you know, what else was there to say? Except for the first thing that came to his mind. "Do you want something?" He nodded towards the food table, having just decided to get something for himself after all. Soon anyway.

Sisters?! More and more people suddenly came onstage - some quite creepy like the cackling Slytherin Prefect and the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain. Whose names he still didn't know. They were going to...brew a resurrection potion. And were some kind of...gang? The Potioneers. And everything was about resurrecting this William character. And everybody was being REALLY dramatic about it. Especially the Slytherin Prefect it seemed.

Wasn't this supposed to be a scary story? With ghosts? He hadn't come here to watch a play full of LUUUURVE! But he was going to watch it until the very end. It would be rude to leave. Plus, it could only get better. The story line of resurrecting the dead DID have potiental. "It...I'm sure it's going to get better." Lewis muttered back, probably sounding a little too hopeful.

Indiana rubbed at her eyes a bit. Maybe that would wake her up at bit more. She really had no idea why she was feeling sleepy. It wasn't as if she had gotten up that early. Not really. She had gone out to the library before breakfast, but she hadn't gotten up that early. Oooh. Lewis was going to go get some food. That was good. Indy looked over at the food table. Mmm. Marshmellows. "Marshmellows?" She offered with a small smile. She'd be up for eating whatever Lewis brought back over really. Indy wasn't a fussy child. Not when it came to food anyway. She liked food.

Now. The story was getting really weird. There were "sisters" on the stage now. And they were all cackling. Man. Some of them were slytherins, and it was very clear to Indiana now that slytherins must be evil. The way they were cackling up there. And they were gonna resurect Kurumi's "love." That was kind of weird too. This story wasn't scary! It was just really weird. Where on earth had the prefects found this story from. Oh dearie me. Indy hoped it got a bit more scary. Because she had thought she was gonna get really scared. So far. Nothing had really scared her.

"I hope so..." Indiana took her attention from the stage to shrug at Lewis. It was supposed to be a scary story, and she wasn't feeling scared yet. "I thought it was gonna be a scary story....it's not that scary yet." Hopefully it would get scarier. Although then she didn't want to be too scared. It wasn't good really. They'd have to see what happened.

"Yeah she's a muggle." Glenn whispered to Zhenya, realising a little late that Zhenya had been talking to her. Glenn had been so focused on the story happened in front of them on the stage.

Glenn shuffled a little closer to the bonfire and where Zhenya was sitting. A cold breeze had caught her, bringing with it a creepy sound from the forest. Being closer to the fire made her feel better about being out a night. In the dark. Listening to a scary story.

Kimalia put on her best disapproving look.. But she just had the urge to bare her teeth as a smile, feeling the corners of her mouth curve she countered with shaping her lips opposite... And came off as a rabid hungry wolf. Great. Maybe being the mean sister won't be so easy after all..

"Well well, now sisters!" Clapping her hands as she skipped to the cauldron, "Come now, we have just the solution to help our GRACIOUS sister's tragedy!" Kimalia saw Selina already there, and gave her a wink hoping to let her know that the next part will be a cinch. Thank you summer(s) of helping her dad brew some potions.. Even if it meant just watching him pour the stuff in.

Now she was waiting for Selena who was still engulfed in Charlotte's arms. Tapping her feet.. Hmm, better get their attention. "Red Rover! Red Rover! Send one of our beloved.. green sister right over!" And she had her back turned to the audience just so she could let out a big smile to the red and green leaders. Hehe.

GRANTED. He'd been too preoccupied with the fact that he was wearing all black to even notice what was going on over there on stage.

By now, the potioneers were up there, no? Wait, sisters? He hoped they weren't talking about real sisters, because that's not what the book said. But...they should start with the potion soon enough. Like...VERY SOON? Yes? Because the most important part of the story needed to happen.

Probably.

And he wanted another marshmallow.

"Pssst. Go on." The Potion Sisters should go ahead...and work on the cauldron, yes? And Vashti probably ought to change his clothes back.

Probably.

Plus, he had no idea where that misty fog was coming from...so...they might as well do this quick before something, someone or whatever, decides to come out of the woods, yes? Yes.

Selena wanted to wriggle away and was verrrrryyyy grateful when Alien Selina got wailing Cookie Prefect off of her. Feeling like she was able to breathe, Selena listened to Kimalia. Who the flipping pygmy puff was Red Rover? OH. Was that a nickname for... Alien Selina? Because she had red hair? Selena was sooooo using that now. It was definitely easier to say that Alien Selina all the time. Selena let her cape-cloak thingy flutter as she walked quickly towards the cauldron on the stage. Selena turned around for a second, just so she could stick her pointy nose on before turning around to face the audience... with a new green pointy nose. Because she was so coooool.

And Head Boy didn't need to rush them, psht. Selena was awesome. She knew what to do.

"My sisters, shall we get to work on the potion now?" Selena asked, grinning at them, and resisting the urge to spin around on the stage... just to see her cape flutter some more. Selena also had to resist the urge to start cackling again. Oh what the heck? "A toad that sat under a cold stone for 31 days," Selena said gleefully as she tossed that into the cauldron with a cackle. Yes. She cackled. Because she wanted to. Selena wasn't putting in the crup parts though. Clarke would be offended.

Hey, what was with the fog?!

Kimalia held back her lip as she waited for Selena to make her way over, well, at least Treyen knew what she meant as Selena made her way right over.. and saw her dawn on the green pointy nose "E-Excellent!" Ducking down allowing her cape to fall over her face, she discreetly let out a few silent giggles behind it before spinning back to face the cauldron. Okay, she was good for now.

"Of course!" Watching as Selena dropped in the first ingredient, was it really real? Well, she didn't know as all the stuff was given beforehand. Next up was, "And some Acromantula venom!" Dropping some into the cauldron. Hmm, things were getting a little misty.. and bubbily, of course. Now she waited for Selina to add the next one in, just to help in case she forgot, "Alas, now is the boomslang skin, and that of which, one of you has it I presume?" This ancient talk was getting a little old for Kimalia, but what can she do about it, it was ancient times after all..

Right... of course... the actual potion making part of the stage acting. Well this was SO not going to end well. She could just see the whole thing blowing up in her face like it did in potions. And the fact that they were actually adding real ingredients to a cauldron made Selina think that they were actually brewing a potion, which of course they were not, but now Selina wanted to throw up.

MERLIN! Why didn't she sign up for stage crew? Her life would have been much easier working the fog machine than getting involved in all of the delicate bits of the whole experience. Acting was not her thing. Acting was not what she liked and acting was NOT something that she liked doing at the current moment because, well, she got stuck with potions.

But she was thankful when her fellow Captain gave her the next ingredient to say. She drew it out of her cape and threw it in the cauldron herself, "Yes my sister. I have the skin here..."

Kimalia watched as the boomslang skin was added, hmm.. There was something about adding one at a time that bugged her, did the instructions state to add it one at a time? Now let's see.. "Sisters! Our precious book must be needed for verification!" No she didn't forget the next ingredients, she just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything else like breaks required. That was okay, right? Well too bad if it was, because Kimalia was already on her way to get it.

And so she skipped, yes, skipped in those clog shoes that *CLOCK* CLOCK* CLOCK*ed her way across the stage past the figure of Kurumi who was still on the floor to the back to get it. Clog shoes were "in" back then, right? Well, she hoped so. In the pile of stuff, she dug in throwing a few items back near her "sisters", a small lightweight pouch, a jar of flobberworm mucus, aha! Her special book. "SUCCESS!" Now prancing back to the cauldron, she opened it.. And a satisfied smile appeared before she shoved it away near where Selina stood.

"Alrighty, basilisk eye," Kimalia dropped that in first, "aand the clabbert toe." Watching it fall into the cauldron, things were going good so far..

Selena cackled again. Because it was fun, oblivious to the Slytherin Captain's giggle behind her cloak. She felt like a mad scientist. The fog was cool too. Maybe they would make Frankenstein next. THAT would be EPIC. Selena looked at the potion and grinned. It looked cool. She wondered if she could dump more stuf- wait. She was supposed to dump stuff in.

She watched Kimalia skip around the stage. She also eyed the little pouch that Kimalia had taken. Coolios. Right. Disgusting stuff put in! Selena let out another cackle and dumped the bat fur into the cauldron. "Bat fur... and crup tail."

Selena didn't have the crup tail. She wasn't going to betray her cruppy by touching such a part. So naturally, she eyed the other two witches waiting for them to put it into the cauldron.

Oakey watched the interaction back and forth between Keefer and Kurumi William and Charlotte. What a sad and tragic tale between two lovers.

Oakey could not resist it, such a drama could not go unnoticed without tears flowing from the audience's faces. Oakey made sure of that, his lower lip quivered and tears rolled from his eyes all while blowing his nose into his robes sleeve...It's not fair that, he can't help but be overly emotional about these sort of dramas even if it did look kind of cheesy on stage.

When the scene ended and Kurumi exited the stage. Oakey quickly robed his whole face into his robe and regained his composure, almost as if he had never cried to begin with.

After that, Oakey just watched as cheesy story played itself out. The Three Sisters were way to funny. Selena had taken to her role a little to well, and added a fake green nose to her costume half-way through the scene. Then there was Kurumi, who despite her earlier performance that had Oakey in tears now looked like she was tripping all over the stage. Maybe if they undimmed the lights a little she could see better. He smiled but held back the laughter.

Artemis was just as daring and boldly clothed as anyother day. She wore and a bright cyan knee length dress with some silver flats, black hand bag and a bright magenta cotton jacket. She looked around knowing that she didn't know a soul and very much hoping that someone wouldn't be shy and just walk up to her. Someone with blue hair isn't very normal at Hogwarts and the sixth year knows that even if it is her very first year at this grand school. She knew that she would have to change some minds once she gets some friends.

The scene seemed to be going over well so far. Everyone was playing their parts and they were already beginning to make the potion. The only potential problem was...where was that fog coming from?

Was there supposed to be fog in this scene? Vashti didn't remember that being in the script, but perhaps someone had changed it. She glanced at Treyen, but he seemed as puzzled as she was. Or maybe he was just trying to figure out why his clothes were all black now. Hehe.

Now wasn't the time to think about clothes though, so she turned her attention back to the prefects on stage. Should they do something about the fog or... Nah. It looked harmless.

But they probably should try and hurry to finish this scene, yeah?

Kimalia had waited for Selena to add her next ingredient in, but it looked like Selena had some trouble putting one in.. Oh.. Gross, a crup tail. Ugh, Kimalia had a look of disgust as she took it from her to drop it in *DROOP* They weren't going to drink this later, right? Merlin knew what this type of soup would do to someone.

But it looked like the show was going a little slow, and sooooo Kimalia began to break into a song. Yes, a song. They didn't say it wasn't suppose to be a musical right? Right. "The forked tongues of Runespoor, pour pour pour," She did just that. "Adding the icky flobberworm mucus, but wait that's not all." Breathing deeply before going on, Kimalia stared at both of the potioneer "sisters" encouraging them to join in. "Liiiiizard leg," Dropped one in, "Owwl wing, and now we won't forget the scales from a Hungarian Horntail dragon!" Dropped them both in. Their turn now, yes?

This was miserable and Selina (WITH AN "I") was certain that it was sprawled out all over her face that she was not enjoying this at all. The whole thing was a scene that involved potion making. The redheaded girl hated it in real life, why would she like to PRETEND to make a potion. Although they were really adding real ingredients to a real cauldron with real water in it.

All of the color in her face drained as one simple fact dawned on her- they were brewing a real potion. Like with real ingredients and everything. No wonder why she felt absolutely sick to her stomach. This was repulsive at best and Selina had to stand there and let everyone watch her as she failed at making a potion.

Suddenly the lights on the stage were a whole lot brighter and everything that she saw was swirling into one coherent blob of nothing. She blinked a few times in the light as she started to feel light headed, "Is it bright up here or is it just me?" Everything kind of hurt and she wanted to just breathe and throw up at the same time. It was not a fun sensation.

Case and point: she hated potions.

So the girl in a shaky voice, who was now swooning with every step she took forward toward the cauldron repeated, "Is it bright... or is it just me?" She then was standing directly over the cauldron and dropped in her two ingredients, "Here's the wolf's tooth and the fingers of the grindylow." Then, not even realizing that she was jumping into Selena's lines, Selina also added two more ingredients, "Shrake spine and hemlock root dug up in the dark while we are at it. Eh?" Was the stage getting darker....? And why did she feel so light headed...?

Selena was definitely grateful she didn't have to touch the crup tail. How could she tell her beloved cruppy she had to put in a CRUP tail for a potion? NEVER would she be able to do that. And Selena was about to say her lines before dropping in the next two ingredients but it seemed like... Selina did it. And she didn't look very well. Eep.

"SISTER ALIEN!!!" Selena said, throwing her hands up in the air. Because she didn't know what else to call Selina. Other than Selina. But that would be weird. Because it was like... saying her OWN name. "I think we need some kneazle fur," Selena said, hinting at the fact that the girl should PROBABLY not die on the stage. Because there was probably kneazle fur somewhere... in the back. So the Alien Selina wouldn't die. Selena cackled and looked at the crowd, grinning and all. "Now goat bile and twigs from a yew tree..." Selena said dumping the gross bile into the cauldron, "broken off during a lunar eclipse." And the twigs into the cauldron as well. Good thing her wand wasn't with her or she'd probably accidentally drop her wand into it.

Then lastly... "Re'em blood, and our potion is complete," Selena cackled dropping it in before grabbing a stirrer and starting to stir the concoction before her nose fell off her face and into the cauldron. Not her real nose mind you, the green one she had put on. NOOO. "MY NOSE!" Selena exclaimed, eyes wide. HER POINTY NOSE. NO. HER NOSE.

WHAT WAS THIS MADNESS?! And fog. Was Selena allowed to pick up her nose?

Ah at last the potion was nearing completion. Though there was quite a fog making it difficult to see for some reason... Anyway, yes, now it was the time to celebrate. So Kimalia began to dance around the stage.

"Darling Charlotte, your beloved sisters have-" And Kimalia had to stop, Selena's nose fell off.. into the potion No, no, no, no, her smile was betraying her and she was beginning to want to laugh. Quickly skipping in front to show her back towards the audience. "NOO! Our beloved potion has been tainted! We will-ah, ah, ah" And she lost it. "Ahahahaha... Ahehe.. Ahehe HA HE HAAA!" Throwing herself to the floor she couldn't stop the giggles any longer.

Gideon was continuing to watch as the action on stage slowly unfolded, the potion being brewed by the three sisters. He knew Selina had to be hating it up there doing what she had to do for the play-acting and completing asks she hated in real life infront of their fellow classmates. And that was without seeing the reactions she was doing her best to hide.

Well...she HAD been trying to hide.

Now she was clearly not looking well causing Gideon to frown. Did the rest of her fellow actors notice? Would they do something? Was the healer around? That last made the Gryffindor wish he could see through the crowds better or had taken a mental count of the staff members present at the bonfire. He made his way closer to the stage even as Selina mvoed towards the cauldron, her steps not her usual confident but shaky. Okay this was not good. And the other girls...the Slytherins seemed preoccupied with themselves and there own status especially as one girl doubled over on the stage in laughter.

WHAT WAS THIS?

Laughing? Seriously? Oh, Selena's nose had come off. That was actually pretty funny. But it gave him something to work on, why? Because they were enjoying themselves too much up on that stage, and he wanted his uniform to turn back to yellow in all the places it was YELLOW, Vashti.

His favorite color may be purple, but the yellow was good for him. So, he wanted it back. End of story.

Back on stage, there WAS a huge explosion. And all the torches went out at once. Of course, this was only made thanks to the wonders of magic and Treyen's wand. No one was really killed, yet you could see that the cauldron no longer existed, and the only one who was still standing was Charlotte (Kurumi), the other witches were on the ground, and some misty figures resembling ghosts started to hang around the place where the cauldron had been. And very slowly...the giggling witches were no more. "Whatever the potion was intended to do...it had failed. No one was brought to life that night."

Charlotte was clearly devastated by this, after all, she'd expected William to return to her. Not to have all the other potioneers vanish. "If anything, the opposite had happened." True story. Mmmhmm.

The bonfire was lit up again, a lot, and the torches on the stage were all OUT. All black.

And Treyen cleared his throat, "It is said the witch took residence in the forbidden forest and buried the wizard's body right in the middle of it. She'd tried many more times to bring back what she once lost. Her one true love. Which never returned." And she never succeeded. "The spirit of the wizard haunted the forest, searching for what had once made him whole. His soul. Complete. Unbroken. Yet we know a simple ghost couldn't drive dangerous creatures away from the forest, right?" So, no need to worry about that being the cause for acromantulas on Hogwarts' ground.

He needed to add that part, because rumors could start, and if there was something truly dangerous in the forest, well, it wasn't a ghost.

Yet it had been William's ghost that haunted the forest back in those days...

...which were...

"So, years passed. It was said that two spirits haunted these lands by the time our founders arrived. They supposedly found no evidence of human life in the forest that we now know it's forbidden. Nothing was truly found, and they decided to ignore the story and chose this place as location for our school." Why should they find the evidence, though? When everyone was already dead, right?

"Then one grave was found during one of the founder's watch of the grounds. They got together in order to sort this out. They managed to make the haunting stop...but just remember...magic isn't permanent. Nothing lasts forever.

Back on stage, the lights begun to lit up again, and the same forest could be seen. Only greener, and less dark, since it was twilight.

Kennedy Escalante made his presence to the stage. He was nervous, but none of this showed on his face nor body language. He has been getting better at hiding whatever he felt. It was gift, it really was. Hehe!

Plus, it was an honor to play the founder of his house, Salazar Slytherin, that he wouldn't ruin because of mere nerves. AND, he's had time to practice his lines.

So...

Salazar Slytherin was making his usual rounds. He didn't mind walking at night, it was much better than being close to those of students of non-pureblood. His feet took him toward the forest. After roaming around, checking for any sneaky students, he came upon an unusual sight.

He's never seen such thing on their grounds. He took out his wand and took a closer step at what seemed to be a grave. "Hmm," he grunted. He wasn't about to risk his own hide and get closer to it.

No, he was going to leave that part to Gryffindor. He didn't mind the king of lions and bravery to lose an arm or two.

Salazar directed his wand up to the sky and a burst of emerald sparks expelled from it. His fellow founders would know that they were needed.

NOW.

....

Kennedy was having fun with this, AND he was good at being Slytherin, oh yeah.

Now it was Adam's turn. He looked at himself from behind the stage. Adam had arrived in a dark red flowing cape and rugged black trousers and traveling boots. He felt his legs turn into jelly as he stumbled in a nervous manner onto the stage.At least it wouldn't be too bad right, Kennedy was on stage with him so nothing could go wrong.

There was a moment of hesitation as Adam stared out towards the audience. The whole school must've been there, but he had to push the thought away.

Adam nodded towards Kennedy's way as he stood beside him."It is time,Salazaar" Adam spoke to his friend/enemy. He raised his wand and pointed it towards the grave and said the incantation. "This shall keep thee body encased within the grave forever."

Adam was doing good so far. He just told himself to keep breathing so as to not faint on stage.

Still offstage, Keefer was a bit sad. Why did Treyen skip the part where I get to roam around the forest seeking my soul! Keefer had been really looking forward to that. The potion scene had taken way longer than expected. Maybe that was why. But he still wasn't happy.

Oh well. If all goes according to plan, I still have a wicked sweet scene at the end! Unless the BigHead Boy decided to skip that too. In which case he would not be playing in the next Quidditch match. Maybe.

Either way, seeing a portrayal of Salazar Slytherin out there was epicly fantastic. He hadn't been sure that the Prefect would be able to pull it off. But so far, he was doing a great job.

Arya had reappeared dressed in a medieval dress and cape of earthly tones. It was a bit uncomfortable because it was so TIGHT and.... BIG. But she was breathing and walking and able to talk, so she supposed to talk. Her sleeves were rolled up and her arms covered in flour, cause she had be PRETEND COOKING. Hehe!

The Hufflepuff house founder!prefect moved across the stage slowly, as if she were AFRAID of moving closer to the other founder!student leaders. But the wide grin on her face and her bright eyes that shown even in the low lighting betrayed her. "Are you suuure about that, Godric?" Solemn-worried-totally-not-giggly tone was used here as she looked at the grave. "Maybe would should just let it be..."

Totally a Helga Hufflepuff thing to say, right? Arya thought so.

A marshmallow fell discretely out of her cape when she swooshed it about to look at serious and what not. Was it working? Hehe.