She nodded as Sierra spoke. She wasn't that fond of her nickname, she much preferred El or Liz or something like that. Just NOT Liesel even though she wrote and introduced herself as it because she had just been so used to being called Liesel. "Can I call you Prefect as well though?" she asked. It would make sense if she could call her Prefect but it wasn't her name.

Scrubbing hard on a tooth she made a face of disgust. It was yellow and gross. Why would Professor Bentley make them do something that would be gross?! Yellow teeth were extremely disgusting and it did not smell exactly pleasant. "Of course it disgusting! Were cleaning big, yellow teeth!" she exclaimed. Still the plant was pretty cool besides for the yellow tooth bit.

"Flossing is overrated for plants." she said. She just had to say it. It wasn't like the plant did it to itself, it was getting a pretty big treat with people cleaning its teeth for them. She started scrubbing harder and in no time she finished the tooth she was working on and started working on another.

Slowly, carefully and determinedly Lea kept brushing the fanged geranium's teeth and she seemed to be enjoying it a lot as she did. She would not even think that she would like to care for a plant so much but...this was a plant with teeth. It was so pretty.

When she made it sure that all teeth were brushed and clean, she put the brush down and cleaned it carefully with her wand. And now that the brush was clean, it was the time for the next step: flossing. Still smiling happily, the little Gryffindor picked up the minty floss and eyed the now clean fanged geranium teeth of Gera.

She was not scared of the teeth, not at all. She just did not want to hurt Gera so very carefully she started to floss the upper line of Gera's teeth enjoying the minty smell of the floss.

Minerva smiled at the professor "Thank you, just making sure is all." she had gotten points taken off for doing something she thought was right last term, no more of that. No, no Minerva Wheatborn could not do that again. She looked back at the gross toothbrush and pulled out her wand "Scourgify. There nice and clean" she said to no one really. Then she picked up the toothbrush and carried it back to the cupboard. Since she had already put the floss away, that was all she had left to do. This project wasn't so horrible after all Min thought to her self.

Okay, so now on to the flossing! he was all very happy to be done with the brushing part of the activity which was gross. He loved the smell that came from the minty flossing twine. He always loved fresh smell. He kept the brush on to the side of the plant not wanting to throw it anywhere in the room. He was good to be kept on one side.

He turned around to the plant with the twine in his hand and looked at the plant wondering where to start it from. Okay so finally after deciding that he would be starting from the left he took the floss and stared with the flossing from the left. He still didn't have a good feeling about this. He was too scared if the plant would just take a bite of his finger thinking he was in some kind of danger.

Never mind he thought and started on with the flossing. He took the floss holding it to his hands on both the dies and started moving it between the teethes on the left. One by one he was moving towards the end from the front teethes. He felt the mint smell and that kept his mood pleasant. He worked very hard trying to get good results from this.

Finally when he was done with the left he stood admiring the plant to see if he didn't miss any spot that still needed the flossing. He stood in front of the plant with the floss in his hand. When he felt that the work was perfect he removed the part that was use and took the other part of the floss that was new to start on wit the right.

'Family from Indy'? Spike eyed the Slytherin boy curiously. "Of course. I'm her older brother," he replied, before shaking the boys hand. Slightly awkward, if dragon hide gloves, it had to be said. Letting go, he tilted his head and glanced across the greenhouse towards where Indy was happily working with her fanged geranium. "I take it you know her then?" Funny, since they were clearly not in the same year...

"Die-chy," Spike repeated softly, trying to get the pronunciation right. "Ducks are pretty cute," he agreed with a nod. "I'd rather go for Matilda, my pet tarantula, but ducks are okay." He brushed his fingers lightly through his curls to the spot where Matilda would usually be located. It felt odd her not being there after the summer, but it was safer when they were in class that she was kept safely in the dorms. "Mandarin ducks are pretty cool," he added after a short while. "The male ones, I mean. The female ones are kinda just normal colour-wise. But the males, now they're pretty showy."

Spike shrugged at the boy's reaction to the plant's teeth, and gave a small roll of his eyes. "It's fine, really," he said, taking hold of the brush in his left hand, and stroking the piranha plant comfortingly with his right. "Look..." And with that he started making gentle circular motions on the front teeth with the brush. "It's fine to start gentle, and work up so the plant isn't put into any discomfort...and you feel happy and safe."

Just like that.

Spike was a Pro. He loved these sort of plants. And Professor Bentley's encouragement only gave him more enthusiasm for them.

Happy with the two teeth he'd be working on, Spike held out the brush. "Wanna a go now?"

Kurumi was completely oblivious to the fact that there had been a joke to be made. Despite having spent that last five years in Great Britain, humor and sarcasm were still very foreign concepts to the Japanese raised prefect. Her father probably should have been a little more willing to influence his children in Western ways, but...alas.

So, for the prefect, there was nothing awkward about this situation at all.

Kurumi watched as Penny continued to floss, nodding now and again at the Ravenclaw's efforts. Good good. "Don't be afraid to really get low with the floss," she instructed. She had been the first time and had missed a whole bunch of meat goo. Her eyes met Penny's when the younger girl asked her a question.

Only the drool was the first thing that was on Kurumi's mind...and the fact that it was now on Penny's shoe. "Oops," she said with a faint giggle as she removed her wand from her pocket. "Scourgify." That should do it, yeah?

Now, what had Penny been asking? "I found a sapling a few terms back after the snow dragon destroyed the greenhouses and Professor Bentley told me to take care of it. Turns out it was a Bloody Red Rose, so I have been handling him for a while." Kurumi continued to scratch the plant under its chin and it continued to wear a goofy open mouthed grin...and drooled a bit more. "This is what I do when I try to floss Xavier's fangs."

Only Xavier didn't drool nearly as much...probably because he was never sedated when she was flossing and brushing his fangs.

Oichi was giddy now. She was getting closer and closer to being done. She cleaned the tooth brush once more and applied more toothpaste. She then went back in for another go. She scrubbed the other side of her fanged geraniums mouth till it was clean as a whistle. She then scrubbed the fangs nice and clean. Oh yeah, that disgusting mouth is now clean. Now to just finish the job and het whatever bifg pieces of food are left in it's mouth with floss. But what does he eat? What am I fishing out..... EWE!!!

Selina smiled at the girl when she threw a smile in her direction. It was nice of the girl to be so pleasant even in the face of working with a stranger. Addie was okay in Selina's book.

So when she grabbed the toothbrush, Selina cringed. Bentley must have known what she was doing and all when she assigned the project; however, the whole idea of sticking her hands in the line of fire of REALLY huge plants, well, that was not something she was exactly keen on doing. It was gross. As Addie worked on the teeth, Selina reached out and grabbed a toothbrush of her own. Her hands reached in and she cautiously started to brush the teeth of the plant on the top. The toothbrush moved around in circles and removed all of the plaque that she could see.

Her face scrunched up in disgust, "This is gross..."

Home stretch, you've got this Oichi grabbed the floss and lunged right back toward the plant. She put the floss between a set og teeth toward the middle and it and lifted up. Ewe gross, the gook in the teeth red. That? Yes it is, raw meat, She threw out that floss and took a deep breath as she grabbed her seccond piece and kept going. She kept up this pattern of floss and replace till she finished with plants mouth. I'm done, I'm done. I did it. Sooo Groooosssss. But atleast it's done. Oichi smiled looking at her handy work. The plants teeth were now pearly white, minty fresh, and not a peice of food stuck in them.

They didn't talk much. It looked a bit awkward. People meeting for the first time and that too with this giant ugly plant for audience. "Yeah, let's get started" she said, but didn't like the idea of doing so. She gave a horrid look at the plant and gulped. "Okay, this shouldn't be so bad, or professor wouldn't have given us" she said confidently. You're a Gryffindor.

She checked picked two pairs of gloves and handed one to Gwen. "Just in case" she said. Sarah picked a toothbrush. She fixed her eyes on the plant, "We can split it up" she said, "I'll start with the brushing first"

Sarah carefully inserted the toothbrush, with uttermost concentration. They are sedated. She moved the brush slowly from right to left slowly, real slowly. She tried to remove the dirt from it's teeth. Argh.

Jezzabelle had finished brushing the top and was almost halfway through brushing the bottom. She had found some serious ares that were in need of flossing and it had taken her a good bit of time to remove at least two stains on two different teeth.

Her arm hurt and all she could think was that if she ever wanted to get in a good work out then this would be a good way. She opened the mouth of the plant a bit wider in attempt to reach the teeth in the back. Brush. Brush. Brush. Brush.

Finally she reached the last tooth and once it was nice and clean she placed down the brush. "Time to floss," she said to herself and the plant.

Just when she was beginning to think that all hope was lost, a small, obviously younger red head walked up to her, and judging from the colors of her robes, she was a Hufflepuff. Oh, joy.

But then again, the girl did look vaguely familiar? Maybe she wasn't all that bad. "Awesome." Cass said with a bright grin, she then held out her hand and said "I'm Cass by the way, you are?" What? It wouldn't help to reintroduce herself or something. Besides, she couldn't recall the girl's name..

So it wasn't opening up. "Come on, flower. Open up!" Prodding its pot with the end of the toothbrush she frowned. How was she going to do this if the plant wouldn't open it's tiny mouth?!

Finally, it cracked just slightly open. Moving the brush forward, Elise blinked. "I'm not going to hurt you," she smiled. "I'm just going to help you. Okay?"

And with that, she used a tiny portion of the toothbrush to scrub one of the geranium's fangs. The flower appeared to like it, since it was shaking excitedly. Slowly getting a little more confident, she moved the brush in a circular motion, removing all the plaque-like stuff on the plant's teeth-fang-things. Maybe this wasn't so bad, after all...

Heart beating at its full pace, João had just stopped and turned around to see if the plant had really moved when he was hit from the behind quite forcefully. He shrieked this time, and fell on his back with whatever hit him under his body. In the meantime, with that fear and confusion, his wand had fallen from the wrist holster into his hand and shooted some spell in some direction he couldn't even control. Whatever done was done. Rolling quickly to get up, face all flushed red, he directed the wand at the thing that caught so much commotion. The Ravenclaw girl had beaten him to it though and she was already getting... oh. It was a little boy. João lowered his wand quickly not to be misunderstood as if he had intended to shoot him. Well, he had, and he would have, but for the professor right there who demanded to know what was going on. He, himself, didn't know it exactly either, to be honest. All he knew was, that plant did move, and this boy hit him.

Although, that girl had got him up almost caringly. She also knew his name. To make it worse, the boy was a Slytherin. Why hitting another Slytherin, in front of a PROFESSOR, who was sure to deduct points for disturbing the class?! His confusion turned into anger. Putting more distance between himself and the plant and that over-excited ram-like boy; he said, in an attempt to beat them to answering Professor Bentley: "She--she made fun of my obvious reservation about this plant and he hit me on purpose from behind. So my wand shooted blindly." A quick, effective summary. See? He was COMPLETELY innocent!

For a change, the Slytherin was rather nice and Ness didn't feel the need to be so scared or cautious. The red head smiled a little and accepted the girls handshake. "Nice to meet you,I'm Nessie." Yep, this wouldn't be too bad and hopefully this snake was good with plants and ...teeth. Eww!

So..they should begin right? Because they didn't have forever to wait and obviously they needed to get their work done the quicker the better. "So..should we start?" she asked hoping the girl would agree.

SPOILER!!: that 7th year Slytherin boy and Professor B.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hera

Seren had noticed some sort of commotion occurring through the eyes on the back of her head, because ALL teachers had those, special implants they were... she could have sworn she saw a flying Odessa. Now that was certainly not supposed to happen. Was there something wrong? Had the plant woken? Where they in danger? ... Why no screaming? Despite not hearing her name, she had turned to the group which had caught her attention. West, Aspen and João.
"You three," she called out, eyeing them as she approached. "What's going on?" In other words, explain yourselves and make it quick.
She spared the plant a look. It was safe.. thank Merlin for them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deniiz

Heart beating at its full pace, João had just stopped and turned around to see if the plant had really moved when he was hit from the behind quite forcefully. He shrieked this time, and fell on his back with whatever hit him under his body. In the meantime, with that fear and confusion, his wand had fallen from the wrist holster into his hand and shooted some spell in some direction he couldn't even control. Whatever done was done. Rolling quickly to get up, face all flushed red, he directed the wand at the thing that caught so much commotion. The Ravenclaw girl had beaten him to it though and she was already getting... oh. It was a little boy. João lowered his wand quickly not to be misunderstood as if he had intended to shoot him. Well, he had, and he would have, but for the professor right there who demanded to know what was going on. He, himself, didn't know it exactly either, to be honest. All he knew was, that plant did move, and this boy hit him.

Although, that girl had got him up almost caringly. She also knew his name. To make it worse, the boy was a Slytherin. Why hitting another Slytherin, in front of a PROFESSOR, who was sure to deduct points for disturbing the class?! His confusion turned into anger. Putting more distance between himself and the plant and that over-excited ram-like boy; he said, in an attempt to beat them to answering Professor Bentley: "She--she made fun of my obvious reservation about this plant and he hit me on purpose from behind. So my wand shooted blindly." A quick, effective summary. See? He was COMPLETELY innocent!

As soon as Professor Bentley came over and asked THAT question, Aspen immediately put her hand over West's mouth. West would tell her in GREAT detail, and then some, and perhaps... if they let the older boy go first, they could get off easier.

Hah.

"Actually, Professor, I was having fun, not making it.This is a great learning experience, but my partner wasn't having OR making fun. Perhaps Herbology isn't suited for him. I believe he woke up your Piranha with his brushing techniques. I tried to help him."

As for West... "West was just coming to see me. He got a little excited." In a sense, that was true. Aspen pulled him tighter and did her VERY best not look at the older Slytherin boy. He had shot off an accidental hex or something! It could have hit West! Or any of the other first years! He was an irresponsible almost-adult wizard and Aspen no longer wished to be his partner.

Looking at his work he was well satisfied and then he took the floss to continue with the right part of the mouth for flossing. He had to complete this before time was up and he got the feeling that the class would end any moment and all his work would be a waste since he didn't complete it. No! he didn't want that.

He quickly grabbed he floss in his both hand and started moving it between the teeth of the plant in the right. Rubbing it up and down again and again, till he was happy with the work. He took sometime for each teeth. He didn't just wanted to rush and leave it still dirty and since the professor didn't tell them anything about them getting late he continued to do it more slowly.

As he rubbed the floss it made some. Well he didn't know what sound that was, if couldn't figure it out. Maybe it was the sound that made when the teeth was clean he thought. Then the teeth seemed to be all white and bright, the were shining and well looked than it had before he cleaned them.

He removed the floss when he thought there was nothing much to o with the teeth. He removed tjh floss from his hands and kept it aside the brush and stood there admiring the plants teeth. Wow! what a job he thought. He would never want to do it ever again in his life unless under certain circumstances. He looked so glad and happy with his work that he couldn't help smiling and looking around proud. He waited for the professor to come and check his work.

Frankly, he really wants to ask Professor Bentley when was the last time this thing had its teeth brushed? But then again, he might get into trouble for being rude. Whether he likes it or not, Xing continues to brush the teeth of the plant that he has no idea what the name is. When Jonathan gives him the simpler form of the word, Xing nods happily. "I see. I understand now. Thank you."

They continue brushing tooth after tooth without talking much. Jonathan who probably can't stand the quietness breaks the silence with a question. Xing pauses, turns his head to the older boy. "I from China," says the younger one and moves on to the bottom part of plant's mouth.

Seeing a flash of colour zoom off from the tip of João's wand was concerning, snapping her head from side to side, she watched as the spell ricocheted off of one of the glass panes and to the dirt floor, leaving a big, smoldering hole in it. Now THAT, could have taken someones arm off.

She raised her eyebrows at the Slytherin boy.
"Wand away please." ... "And mind you fill that hole in, we don't want anyone tripping in it do we?" she asked. It reminded her of a similar situation last year.


Having listened to both sides... and ... observing the silencing of West, which she found somewhat amusing, Seren decided it all seemed to be a bit of a misunderstanding. Kids would be kids. They were all in once piece, nothing was broken, save for the hole in the ground... and the plants were fine.
"Provided," she began, eyeing all three of them, "that you are all able to finish your work without disrupting the class again... I will take this to be a minor misunderstanding. Perhaps consider who you want to work with next time." Understood?



OOC: The class will end/close at 12pm EST on the 10th of May. So you still have time to get involved.

Lea was not expecting to have so much fun flossing Gera's teeth. The more she tended on the fanged geranium, the cuter the plant seemed to her. She was trying to be gentle, of course, now in order not only not to hurt but also in order not to wake Gera up from its happy sleep. It seemed very peaceful.

When she was finished with flossing the upper line of teeth, Lea put the used floss away and picked a new one for the lower teeth. She could not understand all the fuss around her and she was not interested, either. All her focus was on Gera the pretty fanged geranium. Before starting to floss the lower line of teeth, the young Gryffindor took a deep breath and petted the plant. ''You will feel better soon. Fresh and clean.''

Ever so happily, she started flossing the lower teeth and when she was doing so, a sudden idea hit her. She looked up, her dark brown eyes searching the professor. ''Professor Bentley!!! Can i keep Gera? Pleaseeee!!! Please, please, please!!!''

*puppy eyes*

Next stop, the bottom row of brushing. Making sure to go in circular motions, Sarah went over each tooth. Then to make extra sure of good dental hygiene, Sarah went over all the teeth AGAIN! Soon, there was not a spot left, so Sarah realized it was time to move on, like most other students around her.

Once she was done moving in a circular motion, she began moving up and down. And if plants could squee in delight, that's what her flower'd be doing now. Because it sure wasn't snapping. Pulling the brush away, she looked carefully at the teeth. No plaque left as far as Elise could see. So, she put the brush down.

"So, flower," she beamed. "You ready for the next step?"

That was flossing. And the plant seemed to know it and clamped its mouth firmly shut. Not again, she groaned before picking up the floss.

"Come on, flower," she tried to coax it. "It's not going to hurt you. It'll get better."

Yes, they're numb.

Jonathan shivered at the thought of them being all not tranquilized while they clean this huge thing. It was scary at first but now, it doesn't seem too bad. Although he does complain on the breath and the particles found on the teeth. One word. Disgusting. He had probably used this for awhile ever since he started cleaning the plant but he can't really blame them, can her? It's not like they were taught to brush their teeth. Obviously.

Jonathan began scrubbing the upper parts, cleaning every inch from the first fang to the last one at the back. It's hard work but Jonathan loves to clean, especially this term. All he does is that. It wasn't really that icky or something, they had gloves for protection. So his complaining seems to lessen for now.

China eh? Nice Jonathan has never been there. In fact, Jonathan hasn't been to many parts in Asia, consider his family had an Asian bloodline. Well, he probably had been but he doesn't remember much though. He was still a kid. He nodded when he replied. "So how's your first day at Hogwarts?" well, it wouldn't hurt to ask.

"Nice to meet you, Nessie." Cass said with a smile before grabbing her gloves from her pocket and snapping them on, wincing slightly when the material flicked at her skin. That might leave a mark. Maybe..

When her gloves were on, the blonde then glanced at the piranha plant in front of them and frowned at the huge, dirty teeth that filled its plant mouth. Oh dear Merlin. Thankfully, as Professor Bentley said, the thing was sedated.

"We should take turns." She told Nessie, trying to hide the nervousness in her voice, I can take the top half of his mouth, and you can have the bottom."

So with that, Cass took the brush and carefully began to brush it's giant teeth carefully - pausing whenever the4 scary plant twitched or anything.

"Nice plant." She cooed "Nice, nice plant" She said as she reached out towards the back of it's mouth, praying to every higher power in this universe that the thing won't suddenly snap its mouth shut "Nice plant, please don't eat my hand."She said once more as she brushed at the teeth at the back of it's mouth

When she was done, the Slytherin rinsed the brush out of all the whatever-it-was that was stuck on the brush and handed it to Nessie "Your turn." She said impishly with an encouraging smile

Taking the floss, Sarah cut a piece of it. A rather toom small piece, so she had to force herself to get a bigger ione, as being thrifty at home helped, yet now she had work to do and she could not make do with little. Twirling the floss around her fingers she did, a touch, pause -engage move and her twine entereed the geraniums mouth.