Sarah looked at wonder as Lyssie did that spell, her spell knowledge was still so limited.
She quicly noted it down in a spells note book she always carried with her.
She quickly went back to the task at hand. She found a sponge and over it she took out her wand "AGUAMENTI" she said and water jettedout and wet the sponge. "Finite" she said and the water stopped. She used the sponge to wipe the horses eyes and cklean out his nose -yuck, there was disgusting things there. She took out another cloth, wet it with AGUAMENTI and cleaned the docking area under its tail- this was also gross. She then discarded the sponge and cloth.

Now everything was groomed about the horse- except for.. the mane and tail. First she got some emu oil that detangled the hair and made it look shiny.She used to fingers to separate hairs in both the mane and the tail. Shen then took out a mane comb and gently combed out the tangles in the tail, starting from the bottom -as not to cause the horse pain. Soon she had combed out the mane and tail, it was now looking nice and shiny! This horse was well groomed.
"Now horsy, show Lyssie how pretty you look!" Sarah said in a cooing voice. The horse flicked its tail with pride and strutted around and then went to the trough - all this styling and modelling made him thirsty.

Kurumi continued to look down at the puffskeins, checking each one that she could get her small hands on for traces of chirzpuffles...and continued to find it without having to search too much. At this rate Kurumi wouldn't be surprised if every creature in the sanctuary was covered in these tiny creatures. She should probably let Professor Williamson know. Might be something to address in a lesson since it seemed like professors liked to sometimes use them as an opportunity to get some cleaning done like Professor Vindictus and his broom care lessons.

"That perfect," Kurumi nodded when Nessie brought over something that resembled a kiddie pool. Wand out, Kurumi cast a nonverbal Aquamenti to begin filling up the pool with water. To Nessie's question, Kurumi merely shook her head. "If there weren't so much chirzpuffle....poop...on them just applying the solution would be enough...but the poor things are covered in it and could use a proper bath to start fresh." Not to mention their skin was probably all sorts of itchy thanks to all the biting and poop stuck to their skin.

Stopping the spell, Kurumi hurried back towards the supply shed and grabbed some chirzpuffle shampoo and dumped the entire thing into the pool before casting a Hot Air Charm to both stir up the water with the shampoo and to somewhat heat it as well. Kurumi then removed her outer most robe and slipped off her shoes and socks before grabbing one of the puffskeins from the pen and carrying it over to the pool.

Here goes nothing...

Kurumi then stepped nervously into the pool and slowly began to lower the puffskein towards the water.

This...was a first...and if it was anything like bathing Walnut then her and Nessie were going to be in trouble.

At least Ness felt like she had done something right. The Hufflepuff was pleased to hear that the container she gotten was perfect. She then watched and listened as Kurumi filled up the 'tub'. Ness took in ever word Kurumi had said and it made sense to her but, there was one word that really caught her attention though.

Poop. Chirzpuffle poop.

The red head blinked as it sunk in. Her pygmy puff was covered in poop, and she had touched that poop. "Ewwwww!" Ness couldn't help herself. "I..I touched poop." she said trying not to scream or throw Puffles off her shoulder. "I think I'm going to faint." Nessie closed her eyes and shook her head trying to get the thought out of her mind. When she opened her eyes again, Kurumi seemed to have disappeared.

Alarmed, Ness took a quick look around the sanctuary, to be calmed down by the sight of Kurumi carrying some more of the solution.

Gosh..this was gross, Ness eyed Puffles that was still on her shoulder. She wanted to get him off there as fast as possible, but Kurumi still seemed to be busy organising this bath. Hurry! She wanted to shout at Kurumi, but knew better than to really do so. The fourth year closed her eyes again trying not to think of the dirt or anything to do with it. That's when she heard the tiny splash that was bearly audible. Ness opened her eyes once again, this time to see Kurumi bathing one of the filthy puffskeins.

As fast as she could Ness picked Puffles from her shoulder and dropped him gently into the water. She then removed her shoes, socks and her first layer of robes and then stepped into the water with Kurumi. "I can't believe I'm actually doing this." she said with a tiny grimace on her face. Her feet would be clean for now at least, though she was still not too happy about this.

Silly owner! Puffles was really displeased with Nessie today. Yes he had promised to behave and all, but look what she was doing to him. First she made him stay on her boring shoulder, secondly he made her go near those catlike creatures that was so afraid of and now this..she had just plonked him in this water like she could do what she wanted to him! How dare she!

Hmmph!

He'd teach her a lesson or two.

Wanting he's revenge, Puffles began bouncing up and down in the water making splatters of water go everywhere and on everyone.

The second year sat patiently by the fire, tapping her fingers on the jar of bugs that she had sitting in her lap. She couldn't help but wonder what a bug might taste like. I mean, why were they so appealing to so many creatures?! They couldn't be as tasty as chocolate or ice cream! They just couldn't. If she was brave enough...maybe just maybe she would bite into one. Just to test it out and see what all the fuss was about. Luckily for Ella, she was totally not brave...which meant no bug eating! Mhm.

And still no sign of the little salamanders. Boo! Perhaps if she put down a trail for them to follow?! Yeah! Like in Hansel and Gretel! Only she would be using these dead bugs instead of bread crumbs. Cringe. Deciding it seemed like a truly inspired plan, the second year began laying a trail of dead bugs from her cozy fire off into the nearby brush. Hehehe. This was totally going to work! Come on out, little salamanders! There's a salamander party going on!

Kurumi felt the puffskein in her hands shiver nervously as she continued to lower it towards the water. "Shhhhhh...it's alright, it is just some water and soap to make you all clean." And less itchy and, well, prevent more of this sort of infestation for a least a little while. Hopefully.

Turning her attention back to Nessie for a moment, Kurumi shook her head softly and giggled under her breath. "You aren't going to die or get sick from it," she said. Probably best to just ignore what, erm, the poop consisted of then. Kurumi had really only theorized about it anyway. No sense in ringing a false alarm.

Bending her knees, Kurumi finally lowered the puffskein into the water completely and she felt it struggle in her hands. She didn't tighten her grip exactly, but she did move her hands a bit so that they were holding it up from its bottom to offer extra support and let the creature know that it didn't have to try and float on its own or anything. After a few moments of simply staying like this, the puffskein ceased its resisting and stayed relatively still in her hands.

Good good.

Slowly, Kurumi moved her right hand from under it and scooped up some water and slowly began to splash the creature's back to allow it to get used to the water - which seemed to be going well.

"How are you and Puffles doing over there?" Kurumi asked, not looking up from her own work just yet.

So this gross dirt wasn't infectious or anything then? According to Kurumi it wasn't.

Still..it felt Ewww! And all Nessie wanted to do was scream about and get this chirzpuffle poop off her. She knew better than to do that though. Instead she just gave Kurumi a nod pretnding that everything was alright.

Clearly it wasn't though.

As Puffles began bouncing up and down, the water from the pool went everywhere. It really had Nessie soaked, all her robes were sopping wet now and her little annoying little pygmy puff wouldn't stop with he's bouncing. "Stop it, Puffles." she said getting irrateable now. Nothing happened though, the indigo ball of fluff just continued bouncing.

From all the splashing and noise, Nessie was barely capable of hearing what Kurumi was saying, but just managed to make out the words. "Um..just fine." said Ness loudly and with quite a lot of sarcasm. Puffles was acting the exact opposite of fine. Why wouldn't he just listen and behave like a normal pygmyy puff.

That's it! Now Puffles would pay. Renesmee put her hands out towards her pygmy puff until she managed to catch him in her arms. She looked at him, now that he was still and not moving and gave him a look to show he'd be in big trouble if he didn't stop. At this, the fluff ball mellowed down and began being just a little less energetic.

Renesmee took Puffles and dipped him in the water, cleaning off the dirty, black spots everywhere in he's fur. "How's it going for you?" she asked sure that Kurumi was doing a much better job than she was.

Jory was walking around by the trees when he noticed something suddenly dart around on one of them. His eyes shot up and saw nothing but knew there were bowtruckles were up there.

The Badger had brought along some woodlice which he now took out of a bag and piled at the bottom of the tree. He retreated a fair bit not wanting any of the bowtrucles to leap down on him. They had very sharp fingers after all.

A few moments Jory saw a couple of the creatures landing at the tree base. They began to gobble up the woodlice as more bowtruckles began to join in.

Kurumi had begun to massage her puffskein with nothing but water first to help the creature become a little more adjusted to the water before she began to massage a little more vigorously to create a thick lather over the creature's fluffy body. It seemed to enjoy that as it purred and bounced eagerly in her hands.

Kurumi glanced up when she heard Nessie respond...and just in time for a face full of soapy water. Spitting it out of her mouth, Kurumi rubbed her eyes with one of her free hands, Kurumi blinked a few times before examining Nessie and her pygmy puff. Well, they both were somewhat drenched now but at least their creatures were clean?

"Going alright," the Gryffindor smiled as she finished massaging the puffskein all over, making sure to use her fingers to really scrub deep down and remove even the most stubborn bits of...poo. Once this was done Kurumi removed the puffskein from the pool and cast Aquamenti to wash all the shampoo from its body. "Siccus Aerous," Kurumi instruced after two clockwise circles as she moved her wand up and down over the creature gently to dry it. "There, all nice and clean."

Only problem was that it was starting to get dark now...They should probably start heading back towards the castle soon.

Finally Puffles had decided to behave. Renesmee carefully continued dipping him into the water, making sure that he was fully wet and covered in the solution. This whole thing was highly out of her comfort zone, but she knew it was the only way to get Puffles all cleaned up.

"Yeah they are." said Ness with a nod. This whole thing would be over soon, she just kept on telling herself that over and over again. She was almost done now, Puffles seemed clean, though being a little bit of a perfectionist, Nessie wanted to make sure he was spotless. She scrubbed he's fur for a few more minutes and then decided he was done.

"Can you please dry him for me?" she asked Kurumi as she took her little puff ball out the bath.

Was there time to help another animal?

Ness looked up at the sky. It looked like it had started getting late and anyways Nessie wasn't keen on having to clean a whole Puffskein now, it was bad enough she had to clean Puffles.

"Do you think we should head back to the castle?" she asked now eyeing Kurumi and pouting. She still wanted to get redressed and all before she had to head to the great hall for dinner.

Now the trail of bugs was put down, Ella had nothing left to do but wait. Which was never fun, the waiting thing. So the second year decided to sing while she sat by the fire. Hmm...but what to sing? How about a made up song? Yeah! One to inspire the salamanders to come out! BEAM. That was a brilliant idea! Sitting up a little straighter, Ella closed her eyes and began to sing.

Salamanders, Salamanders
In the bush
Come out to the fire
to warm your little toosh-

O__O

Whoops. Maybe singing wasn't such a good idea after all...But wait! GASP. There they were, a group of little salamanders! EEP! Had her beautiful singing lured them out of their hiding place? Heh. Probably...though the bugs probably helped too!

Ella smiled, beckoning to the creatures with her hands. "That's it, little guys, come on over to warm you-well, you know."

On another visit to the area of the ground devoted to the magical creatures, Gideon headed over to the magical creatures santuary. There was an augurey here as well, in fact several creatures, including the various bird species, had been found in both places. However he was drawn to animals of a more fluffy variety this time around.

The prefect wandered towards one area and found a whole bunch of puffskeins, no doubt related to all the pygmy puffs Professor Williamson had been using in classes and loaned out to Professor Bellaire for her own. They might not be as small and cute as the miniature variation but they were fluffy and seemed just as cuddly. "Ye just get the short end of the deal...eh?" he mused leaning down and petting one of the nearest, and then another as it came to investigate the visitor.

The cute ones get all the attention.

Gideon had now seemed to have gotten more and more of the many puffskeins' attention. Made him wonder if they were just curious or interested or just hungry. Unfortunately there wasn't anything around that might give him some clue as to when the last time they had been fed, but seeing as he remembered them being scavengers they probably could keep themselves well fed. However just for good measure he took out some broken pieces of owl treats he found in his robe pocket from his last dealing with Watson and his letter, scattering them on the ground for the puffskeins to enjoy before straightening up and setting out to see what else he could take care of.

Now that the salamanders were out in the open, Ella decided to scoot back a bit so that they wouldn't be scared off or anything. She really wanted them to be able to enjoy the fire and all of its warm firey goodness. And so the second year watched, from a short distance, as the tiny creatures gobbled up the bugs along the trail and made their way to the small but awesome fire that she had made.

After a while, Ella couldn't stay quiet any longer. She was getting quite antsy and decided to hum 'This Little Light of Mine' to herself. It was the perfect choice too, mostly cause she had just created a fire...which emitted light...so yeah! Perfect sense to sing about light! Teehee.

As she hummed, the second year noticed that several of the salamanders had stopped warming and turned in her direction. O__O Uh-oh. Had she startled them or something? Now she felt quite bad. She immediately stopped her humming but the creatures were still looking at her, almost expectantly now. Did they...like the humming? Just to test the theory, she started up again. WOAH! They were coming closer! Oh Merlin. Ella was totally the salamander whisperer! Or like...the salamander pied piper. EEP! And so as the salamanders came closer, Ella stopped humming, and they stopped. O__O Heh. She could totally play red light-green light with them now. And so she did!

Setting the now clean puffskein free in its pen, Kurumi glanced over her shoulder at Nessie when she made a modest request of the Gryffindor. "Sure," Kurumi nodded while she twirled her wand in her fingers. "Siccus Aerous."

After a few moments of waving her wand up and down Nessie's pygmy puff, Kurumi pocketed her wand and glanced back at the darkening sky. "We probably should," she nodded as she waved her wand over the pool to banish its soapy contents. "If you are up for it we can come back some time tomorrow though. Since you are well versed in bathing fluffy creatures now, handling a puffskein shouldn't be too hard."

Hum.Hum.Hum. Ella grinned. The salamanders little bodies wiggled across the ground in her direction. Stops Humming. The little guys halted their approach, blinking at her. HEHEHE. This was a lot of fun! The second year had no idea that the salamanders would do something like this. She wondered if it was normal for them to be attracted by music. Thinking about it, it didn't seem that strange. Roro the dragon had liked music too, she remembered, it had even seemed to calm the large creature. Perhaps it worked the same way for the smallest of creatures too! Ella decided she'd have to do some research in the library to know for sure.

When the salamanders arrived at her feet, Ella didn't reach out to them for fear that she might really startle them. Who knew if they just saw her as like a...giant jukebox or something! Instead she slowly picked up the jar of bugs, unscrewed the lid once more, and sprinkled some on to the ground to the left of where she was seated. Then she carefully placed the lid back on and set the jar back down. Heh. There you go, little ones. Pig out. And pig out they did. When all the bugs were gone, Ella finally decided it was time for her to go as well. So she stood up, careful not to step on any of the salamanders, and watched as they scattered back to the brush. Perhaps they did see her as a big jukebox after all.

Walking back over to the fire, Ella removed her wand and pointed it at the burning twigs. "Aguamenti!" She watched as the flow of water came out of her wand and hit the flames, causing smoke to rise up into the air. She continued letting the water go, making sure that the pile was completely drenched for fear that it might catch again when she had gone back to the castle. Once she was confident that the fire was completely out, the stopped the flow of water and placed the wand back in her pocket. Wait, but what to do with the mess? Removing her wand once again, she pointed it at the charred sticks. "Scourgify!" There, mess cleaned! BEAM.

Satisfied with the trip, Ella made sure her wand was back in its secure spot and that she had the jar of bugs. She then turned and skipped back to the castle, suddenly feeling quite hungry herself.

A kneazle caught his attention and Gideon couldn't help but smile. Other then birds like owls and hawks and their more magical cousins, kneazles and cats were the other creatures he had always been exposed to growing up. His aunt had certainly had instilled that connection as best she could being quite the feline lover even without it being her animangus form. (Which it was.) And kneazles were supposed to be really intelligent though the prefect wasn't quite sure how exactly that was measured.

"Hey there fella," he said moving closer, watching it jump up to a perch halfway up his height. Gideon slowly raised his arm and moved to pet it, only continuing as it seemed to get a welcome response. A nice pet down its back here...a scratch behind the ears there...another beneath the chin like he remembered Sherlock and co liking, all of his actions getting a relaxed expression upon the kneazle. And a purr if one listened close enough. "You like the attention...don't ye?" he rhetorically asked as he continued for a little longer.

Alyssa opened the gates to the Sanctuary and walked towards the trees. She was looking for the Augurey that was supposed to be living in a tear shaped nest hidden among the trees branches. According to Newt Scamander's book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Augurey's loved to eat large insects and fairies. Now Alyssa knew where to find the large insects but as for the fairies, even if she knew where they were hiding, she just couldn't see herself feeding them to the bird. So large insects will have to do for now.

Walking to the food supply bin, Alyssa took a bag and opened the lid of the bin containing the insects and scooped some into the bag. Closing the lid, she then made her way to the trees and looked upwards trying to spot the elusive bird.

She walked among the trees continuing to look up until she spotted a nest of some kind in the branches. She wasn't sure whether it was tear shaped or even if it was, whether the Augurey was nesting in it. But first, she needed to confirm whether the nest was an Augerey's. She bent forward and looked on the ground, to see whether she could find any feathers.

As she searched for what seemed like more than half and hour, she spotted something sticking out from one of the bushes. It was a greenish black feather. Alyssa remembered that the Augurey was greenish black in color. So she decided to sit under the tree that had the nest and hopefully, she would be able to catch a glimpse of it in the branches.

Dylan pushed his way into the Magical Sancutary having just seen the homework notice. Yep, he'd been to the Great Hall earlier...Slytherin had fallen behind Ravenclaw in the points race...Something that he just wasn't cool with...

Nope. Not at all...

So, he'd literally raced...Raced to make some points for his house. Winning had always been Dylan's greatest ambition...and this was no different. He WANTED that cup in his Common Room...Wanted his scary HoH to not skewer them, as well.

It was incentive.

Looking at the clipboard, he smirked.

Nifflers, eh?

He'd already wanted to meet one...and hadn't had the pleasure living in a place as cold and snow-driven as Wisconsin...

Finding some of their little burrow holes...he approached cautiously...How was he suppose to lure them out again? Knelling down, he began talking. "Come out...I KNOW you're in there..."

Coming back a few days after she had been here with Nessie, Kurumi lugged out the large kiddie pool that Professor Williamson had used during their lesson in bathing Roro and once again filled it with water using an Aguamenti spell. Once it was filled, which took some time since it was just water erupting from her modest wand, Kurumi retrieved the bottle of chirzpuffle remover and mixed it in with the water until she had created a thick layer of bubbles - the perfect sort of bubble bath for some puffskeins.

After checking the temperature, Kurumi made her way over to the pen and entered it. Now...which one of these guys had she given a bath to previously...

Not getting any immediately response, Dylan frowned. They could obviously hear him. He was being loud...Well, not LOUD...but clear. Maybe even a tad firm.

Yes, clear AND firm.

Getting down flat bellied on the ground, he pressed his ear to the dirt. No sounds were coming from the ground...Where were they?

The Slytherin decided that he WAS going to see one of these creatures today. YES, he was.

"Come on out, buddy...I'm not going to hurt you." I just wanna actually see one of your UP CLOSE...

Come on...

Searching around the moving carpet - at least that is what it looked like as all the puffskeins scampered about - Kurumi began to inspect their fur for evidence of either being de-chirzpuffled or that they were infested with the tiny creatures. Kurumi wrinkled her nose after examining one of them, seeing as it was covered in poop - as Nessie had put it - and scooped the creature up in her arms before exited the pen.

Kurumi returned to the pool and slipped off her shoes and socks and was glad she had worn shorts so she didn't have to roll up her pant legs. Slowly, Kurumi began to lower the puffskein towards the soapy bath below while she hummed no tune in particular. She was just trying to calm the creature down since it had begun to shiver in her hands a bit.

Dylan was still laying on the ground, trying to get their attention...but obviously they weren't having it. How lame, the Slytherin was thinking. Didn't they know how bad he wanted to meet them?

He'd read about them...NIfflers could apparently find shiny things...like money...Dylan desperately needed to get one of his own. Man, the money he could find make...

Unbeknownst to him, when he propped himself up onto his knees, a few galleons of his fell out of his pockets. They landed with a soft thud on the dirt next to his shin...but Dylan's focus was purely on the burrowed hole.

"What do I have to do..." What had he read....?

Lowering the puffskein even more slowly towards the water as she felt it begin to react rather violently to the presence of the water, Kurumi wondered if perhaps the mountain of bubbles rising up beneath it was frightening it. Surely puffskeins were not too familiar with bubble baths, so it should be a bit scary for it. Which is why Kurumi used her feet to kick at the water and remove all bubbles from immediately under her.

Which seemed to do the trick.

Humming just a bit more loudly as she proceeded, Kurumi eventually lowered the not-shaking-so-much-any-more-creature into the water and crouched there for a moment with it still sitting on her hands. "See, the water isn't so bad," she cooed.

Scrunching his face up in concentration, Dylan frowned. There had been something in his book about these things...Why had it been exactly? What was it that attracted them out of these funny holes...?

Moving a hand up to rub his neck, the other was supporting all his weight...but something...What was that nuzzling his hand?

Looking down quickly, the Slytherin nearly collapsed straight down to the dirt...

A NIFFLER!!

What...What had he done to get it's attention...? Why was it choosing now to come out?

But it was merely brushing past his hand...making it's way under his body....

Huh?

The puffskein thrashed about just a bit when it came in contact with the water at first, but Kurumi didn't allow herself to react to this. She didn't tighten her grip on the creature nor did she make any sort of gasping noise. If the creature was freaking out, then she needed to be the calm one since animals did have a tendency to feed off the energies of the humans around them. So, soft humming it was while Kurumi waited for the puffskein to calm down enough so she could gentle splash it with water.

It seemed to respond well enough to this that Kurumi removed her hands out from under it so that it could stand on its own accord...only it didn't want to do that and sort of belly flopped forward and splashed soapy water EVERYWHERE.

Blinking rather stupidly, Dylan rolled to the side...trying to see where the thing was going. Had it not been him that had caused the creature out of hiding? Had it been some high-pitched sound or something? Apparently that worked for bats or whatever...He'd...read that somewhere, right?

o.O

Eyeing the niffler's furry body, Dylan gaped at what the thing had held in it's hands...

Galleons...

Where are the thing found money THAT FAST?

Continuing to blink at it as if he were in a trance, the little niffler held the money tight, moving back towards the dirt hole. Before resubmerging...the thing actually looked at him...It felt like it had looked him right in the eye, if the Slytherin weren't imagining things...before turning back around and disappearing from sight.

*more blinking*

"Hey..." He quickly knelt back down, getting on his belly again..."Did you just STEAL from me?"

Okay...he did NOT want a niffler...