The plant was hitting back. For every whap of her shoe, Vivi realized she was getting a sharp tendril punch to the face, which was definitely going to leave a mark. She looked up dazedly, noting that rescuers now included Kurumi, Selina, and Dylan, all of whom filled her with greater confidence that she could rescue Milton without losing a firstie in the process.

Also, the professors and Headmistress would help too. Even if Truebridge's hair looked frightful at the moment.

Vivi unstuffed the robes from her ears, a precaution when the plant had started unrooting mandrakes, and dropped her shoe at her feet. They were going to just pull Milton free, hmm? So why was everyone just standing around waiting? She leapt over the nearest tendrils and latched on to Milton's feet. "Someone, help me pull."

Eyes still scanning the rows of plants, Ethan turned sharply at the sound of a commotion outside the greenhouse. He took a step in that direction and the color drained from his face as he saw those vines again.. this time pulling a person into the greenhouse with it. He barely had time to register who it was when he saw Minerva rush forward - throwing meat, shooting spells, and grabbing onto the one he now vaguely recognized as the Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain. And while he admired her attempt at rescuing this boy.. he wasn't about to let her get eaten too.

The boy stole a backwards glance at the two professors in his group looking for a suggestion as he approached Minnie, the plant, and its victim.. and when he turned back, the greenhouse seemed to be full of people. Just where did everyone come from?? As chaos ensued, the boy tried maneuvering through the crowd, dodging spells thrown by others at the plant, and covering his ears at the sound of high-pitched shrieks. The spells obviously weren't working - the only angered the plant, or worse.. and Ethan lowered his hands from his ears just in time to hear Bentley tell him to throw meat at the thing. He shot her a somewhat confused look. Minnie had already done that with no effect.. but he still had the bucket's handle around his arm and didn't feel like carrying it around anymore anyway.

Chucking the bucket of meat at the plant furthest away from the crowd, Ethan slid in close to Minerva to make sure no vines wrapped around her next. And while she held onto Milton's arm, he noticed Vivi latching on to his feet. Group effort? He could help with that.. Ethan grabbed onto on of Milton's legs and began tugging.

Oakey stayed white faced and frozen for only a moment . Once Professor Bentley yelled he snapped out of his fear, and spotted Dlyan giving Renesmee an evil eye."Whoa! Stop looking at my captain like that Dyl!" He was well aware of the grudge these two had, ever since Renesmee asked him to dig up any kind of dirt he could find on Dylan. They were not going to loose both of their championship Captains in one day!

He didnt know how he could be of any use down here, Professor Bentley had ordered them all to go and pull Milton free, but Oakey was not getting any closer to the demon plant then he already was. He inched his way over to the Herbology Professor and Kurumi who was handling an unconcious Ravenclaw. "Kurumi, let me take her." He spoke up in a soft, still slightly terrified voice. "You'd better go help Milton. I'd just choke up."

The least he could do was get this girl to wake up, and start helping again.

Hogwarts needed those muggle escalators, elevators, and lifts. How do people survive this place without getting tired of using the staircases that constantly move? It's annoying and tiring at the same time. And sickening. Since Kat was a Fourth Year, she could go down with the others to the Greenhouses. Yeah, the perks of being one of the 'older' people in the school. She wasn't an ickle!firstie like before anymore so... back off, duds.

When she arrived, the first thing she noticed was noise around. HEY STOP SCREAMING GUYS! But the students were all sending spells at the plant. Oh, how she wished she could just kill the plant with her bare hands. After all, she can punch and it's pretty nasty. Then Elise set it on fire. Kat wanted to burst into applause but... right, Milton was still there.

Well wasn't this what Milton wanted? He's so hot he's already burning. Hooray for Milton Shackly-bolt. "Can we Accio him?" If they could summon a plant that KILLS, they can summon a human too... right?

"Miss Cambridge, you do not run off and try to be a hero like that. You wait for us to ---" Isabelle stopped in her tracks upon entry to the greenhouse, right behind the brave-as-an-idiot Gryffindor. She was all ready to give the girl a lecture, until she saw what was going on. The plant had another human hostage. Alive, thankfully. But that meant that the others taken might not be now. A pang of fear and concern swept over her as she moved forwards.

And then all hell broke loose.

Spells flying everywhere, screeching mandrakes being pulled from their pots. Isabelle winced and covered her ears as all around her people were getting slapped by the tendrils of the plant. This thing was dangerous and the Headmistress was right - they needed to stop with the spells or the poor Ravenclaw was in trouble.

As Seren gave instruction to throw meat at it, and the mandrakes were finally silenced by Kurumi, Issy moved around the other side trying to get a good look at the situation while also keeping out the way of the plant. "Do we have anything else to distract it with while a few of us help Miss Wheatborn drag Mister Shaklebolt free?" Because shooting it with spells was only going to antagonise it. "Then we can blow it to pieces."

Sierra hurried out to the greenhouses, stopping only long enough to summon her extra beater's bat out the common room. Selina wanted it. Wherever Selina was right now...

Sierra didn't bring her own bat along. This was no place for Scarlet! She did, however, have her kneazle, Hissy Fit, in her arms. The cat was protesting loudly and was hissing so much Sierra was sure his throat would go raw soon. The hisses were likely drowned out by all the chaos, though, so Sierra just let the kneazle be.

She still sort of thought they needed the cats in order to beat this thing, and if not, well, Hissy Fit was just along for the ride. She stopped in the midst of the group and looked around, trying to make sense of all the chaos.

Whew she was out of shape...she really was. How did her entire search party get to the Greenhouse before she did? Whatever...she needed a moment to breath.

When she got to the Greenhouse despite the chaotic scene in front of her, Sophia leaned against the entrance door, seemingly oblivious to everything going on in front of her, but really not quite so, and breathed in deeply...needed,to stead heart rate..whew!

Was this chaos even needed? She was in time to hear Bentley issuing commands but knew that really the woman just did not want to hurt the plant which was ridiculous because she was here to exterminate.

Wand out, Sophia moved into the chaos. All they needed at this point was a simple charm.

"Immobulus!"


"Professor Magnus, get the boy so we can finally be rid of this thing. Everyone step back!" Sorry Bentley the plant has to go and anything else close to it. It made her sweaty..she was sweaty, it was a disgrace, she felt like such a hypocrite, this plant just had to die.

As soon as the Professor had pulled Milton free, Sophia flashed her wand again.

"Bombarda Maxima!"

Cough cough splurt splurt. Sophia covered her head as tiny bits and pieces of plants and other debris fell to the greenhouse floor.

Okay maybe she had over done it on that spell a bit the place was certainly looking like a bomb had dropped but at least the plant was dead. Wow..so much rubble, she didn't even want to look at Professor Bentley right now.

So she focussed on dusting the dirt and plant remains out of her hair and off her clothes.

Minerva saw Ethan throw the meat at the plant and join the hold that her and Vivi had on Milton. She was no way letting go of him. She didn't care what it took, but they were getting him free. As she felt her feet slip and the plant flailing around in the chaos she made sure not to loose her grasp. Then she heard Professor Magnus say about helping pull him free. She wanted to give the professor a thank you look, but at the moment with all the crazy that was going on wasn't even sure where to look. Finally she heard another professor give commands.. who was that even, but as soon as the charm was done she knew it was Bellaire.. Then using all the strength she had and seeing Professor Magnus jump in as well, Ethan, Vivi, Magnus, and Minerva pulled and she fell back as Milton finally was free. Without any other time to react she heard another spell being said and knew she had no extra time to get further away from the plant. Placing her hands over her head she felt things falling on her.

Once it felt like all the falling pieces had stopped she lifted her head and looked around. Standing up feeling a bit confused of everything that happened so quickly. What was all over the greenhouse. Wait that was the plant.. Looking at Bellaire she just wanted to hug her.. Would she get into trouble.. That blasted plant had come near her one to many times and to see it's pieces all over the room overwhelmed her with emotion. Looking at Bellaire she couldn't help but give a smile, "That was great professor, but did you blow up the body as well?? What about Millie, the professor? Does that mean..." She didn't want to even say the words dead, but by the looks of what the plant was she was assuming the worst for them.

Everything was happening so fast that Selina could barely keep up with what was going on. The amount of screaming and yelling that was going on in the room was actually absurd and it made it very difficult for everyone to try and talk to each other and figure out what to do. But she did hear Dylan very clearly because suddenly he was right behind her and asking if they were going to attack the thing head on. Trying to make her voice loud enough so that he could hear, she said, "What spell do you even throw at a man-eating plant?!" She had missed that lesson way back in the day... ugh WHERE was Kurumi?

And then she heard her best friend from across the room and snuck a glance at her best friend. She was still carrying the younger girl. That was all nice and fine and dandy, but they needed her help. The girl would be fine and less of a target if Kurumi put her out of harm's way instead of waving her around like an easy target, which- because she was unconscious- the girl was. So she yelled at her friend, "KURUMI PUT THE GIRL DOW-"

She did not finish her sentence because suddenly Bentley was there. And she was telling everyone not to harm the plant. As much as she loved her head of house, that time was over. The plant had eaten two people and was on its way to eat the third. There was NO negotiating with a plant. It was eating people and they had to save Milton. She had cookies riding on the outcome of his game.

But everything stopped for Selina when she saw Sierra enter the greenhouse. In her hand was the most beautiful sign that everything was going to be okay. She knew they would make it through this... and that everyone would be okay. Because in Sierra's hand.... was MORTIMER!

The redhead's heart literally stopped and in the midst of the screaming and flailing all she saw was her precious bat that had alluded her for months now. He was back. He was back and Selina could feel her eyes welling up with tears. She was NEVER letting him out of her sight again.

So, ignoring all of the other nonsense going on around her, she ran over to Sierra and snatched the bat out of her hands. Then she threw her arms around the Slytherin and gave her a huge, wet kiss on the cheek, "THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!" And then she shoved Sierra away and hugged her bat. OH HOW SHE HAD MISSED HIM!

That was when she heard Dylan's idea... go and grab him? Right! They were in the middle of fighting a gigantic plant. They could do that... they could totally do that! MAKE A CHAIN OF PEOPLE! She turned around to Dylan and said, "You're a genius!" But it seemed like Vivi was already five steps ahead of them all. She had lunged forward and grabbed onto Milton's foot. Vivi was giving Selina a clear instruction- Make a chain of people. And she would do it. Because now she suddenly felt very brave.

So Selina turned around and yelled to Kurumi, "Grab my hand, Rumi. Help us pull." And with that, she ran over to Vivi and grabbed her feet and started to pull her back hoping that she could hold onto Milton.

If anyone else wanted to help... she was so not going to fight the help. Big gigantic plant.

And then suddenly... something exploded.

Theodore was booooored. So bored, he decided to look for an adventure. And the adventure apparently started when he began following Sierra Greingoth from the Slytherin common room. She had a bat, and he was curious. Maybe extra quidditch practice? Anyway - he SO was not stalking the Prefect... just... curious.

Once he reached the greenhouses, he seemed to have arrived just in time to see something go BANG. Theo suppressed a smile when he realized the source was from Professor Bellaire.

Hehe...

That's what he liked in a woman. Fire and KAPOW.

The next thing he could see was the Ravenclaw captain all in a tizzy. Is it bad that he wanted to grab some popcorn and wait for this to unfold some more? The second year stood, a safe distance, from Cassia. Just to observe and stuff.

She grinned when Elise threw her her beater's bat; at least someone wanted her to have some other means of hurting this thing. Just as she got ready to give it a few whacks she saw the girl cast that fire spell--yes!! Her ideas were all being used in one way or another...wait....wait no....No Good Ravenclaw Captain was gonna burn too!!....though she wasn't so sure that was a bad thing so to speak, simply an annoying inconvenience seeing as it meant pretending to be sympathetic afterwards. Yeah...let's make sure he doesn't die...

Then the plant started fighting back, like throwing slaps and everything! Also, was it just her or was it making more and more vine thingys...Not. Good.

The words of the Headmistress alerted her to the fact that there were others now in the Greenhouse. More people!!! Headmistress Lady made sense. Casting was obviously not doing it any good. Professor Bentley really got her though when she told everyone to calm down and feed it meat. Right. 'Cause they hadn't tried that before. "Professor I think it prefers live prey..." Millie, Burbage, Runes guy and Milton. Coincidence, no way.

She hopped back, releasing the plant just in time to hear Cassia asking about her being so close. "Well we have to save Milton over there and so far this is the only way we can think of." If anyone had any better ideas she wouldn't oppose; so long as the plant still got hurt. "And nah," to answer her other question, "she was being pretty loud just now but she's helping so I guess she's fine." And with that she shrugged casually. The girl wasn't worth her time at the moment.

Her thoughts were cut short when she heard what sounded like the worst kind of noise...that really annoying kind that you used hexes on to make them go away. Her hands flew to her ears immediately in an attempt to block it out and it wasn't until after Kurumi silenced the mandrakes that she lowered them--

She flashed around to see Professor Magnus...and she was trying to give her a lecture--at a time like this?!?!? Nooooo! Luckily the woman was quickly distracted by all the happenings and gave up on this. It gave her a chance to slip over to Vivi and Scary Bat Girl who were helping Minnie pull the Captain out of the plants grasp. Lex pulled and pulled but it didn't seem to be working. Of course giving up wasn't an option so she was glad when Professor Bellaire instructed them to step back; meant she had a spell up her sleeve. Without questioning it she stepped back and tugged on Vivi's robe to do the same.

Her eyes went wide with admiration when the woman blew the plant to pieces...or well...the tendrils? Meh. "Neat!! We should find the rest of it and do the same!" and by 'we' she meant them because a spell like that was a recipe for disaster when tried by one Alexa Cambridge.

She coughed a bit and tried fanning away some of the dust. "Is everyone alright?" Except, you know, Professor Bentley...yeah...she didn't expect her to be alright for a good while after this...

Isabel was still pounding at the plant with her wand ,when she heard the Cambridge girl say something but she ignored her she didn't have time to listen to whatever she was saying.

Isabel was pounding and pounding as hard as she could until she felt one of the tendrils hit her straight in her stomach and she was thrown back and manage to hit her head against one of the tables.not long after that she heard the loud screeching sounds of the baby mandrakes.

She quickly covered her ears but soon after discovered they had been silence by a Gryffindor prefect.

Time to get back to what she was doing that plant was going to pay for smacking her. Isabel carefully got on her knees as her stomach was still throbbing and began to make her way over to the plant when she heard a spell being cast at the it and the claw captain finally being freed.That was good that meant they could burn it to the ground now. But before Isabel could make her way over to the plant a second spell was cast and the plant was blown to smithereens a piece of one of its tendrils hit her square in the face.

UGH!!! even when it died the bloody plant managed to peeve her off to no end.

Well that seemed to work.

The plant stopped moving as Sophia bellowed her incantation. Still, Isabelle was careful as she latched herself on to the Ravenclaw Captain, along with the others. "Pull!" she yelled, tugging at whatever piece of clothing she could get a grip of and stumbling backwards as the boy and several kids tumbled to the ground around her.

A couple of seconds later there was an explosion, and Issy instinctively threw up a shield charm to keep herself, and whoever else she could, clean. Bits of plants thumped against it as it rained down, causing her to flinch. "Is everyone okay? Did you get all of it?" Issy looked over at the kids, then Sophia with a quizzical expression. Then she caught Minerva's question. Oh dear. "I'm afraid it probably does mean... Yes. I'm sorry, dear." What could she say?

The devastation was pretty extensive, it had to be said. Isabelle glanced towards the Herbology professor and bit her bottom lip. Seren was going to need to be sedated after this.

Ethan tugged at Milton with Minerva and what seemed like a couple other girls along with Professor Magnus, when he heard a loud, commanding voice. He threw a glance over his shoulder to see Professor Bellaire taking charge.. never was he so glad to see that woman. Once she shot that spell, it was much easier to take hold of his fellow Claw and he pulled at Magnus' order, tumbling backwards onto the ground as the boy was freed.

Instinctively throwing an arm over his head upon hearing the blast, he was thankful it was not needed as the Transfiguration professor's quick thinking provided them with a shield. His eyes first turned to Minnie. "Are you okay?" he asked, though he was relieved to see that she seemed to be fine. And his eyes turned to those around him. No one seemed to be hurt, thankfully. His eyes then took a slow, disheartened look around the area.. he knew deep down that the monstrosity of a plant probably had to go that way.. but the rest of the plants? Such devastation..

Minerva looked at Professor Magnus as she answered her question and she knew it was true. She knew the minute she watched that plant take the wombat that she would never see Millie again, but she just didn't want to hear that it could be that bad. Looking around at the mess and the chaos that had been going on Minerva just felt overwhelmed all of the sudden. She just stood looking around a bit of shock coming on her.. "I figured as much.. i just was hoping." Then she heard Ethan and turned, "I'm okay.. " Was about all she could get out..

Her eyes fell to the ground as she felt emotions trying to take over, but she held them in. She was just happy it was over.. It was over, right.. Then her eyes caught Milton still on the ground, he hadn't gotten up, he hadn't moved... She bent down.. "Milton... Milton.. " Looking up again at Professor Magnus or any of the professors, "Professor.. Milton isn't waking up.. I think he was knocked out.." Well she hoped just knocked out.. One of them probably should attend to him soon.. She continued to gentle shake his arm a bit to try and see if she could get him to wake while waiting on a professor.

And then professors came.

Which would be reassuring, you know, if they were less panicky than the students. But they weren't. AND, to top it all off, who let the mandrakes out?! STUPID PLANT. Did it know what it was doing? Alice attempted to cover her ears in time, but she just wasn't fast enough. She was going to pass out and then-

Huh. Where did all the noise go? Bless Kurumi Cookie's spell-casting HEART.

And. Now. After all that pulling and spell-casting.. Milton wasn't AWAKE? "He got an earful of the mandrakes' cry." So he would be knocked out for a bit, yeah? Just like Elise.

Kurumi bit down on her lower lip and glanced Elise in her arms. "I thought of that, but wasn't sure it would reverse the effects of a mandrake's cry or not..." Kurumi admitted. But it was clear Professor Bentley was, well, not wanting to exactly pay attention to this right now...so allowing the girl to just wake on her own would be for the best. Now where to put her...

Oh! Professor Romanos offered her a place...and one that made sense as well. Away from all the smoke and chaos. "O-Okay!" she squeaked as she made her way quickly towards the door when...
...she grabbed Oakey's hand and dragged him along too. Once outside, Kurumi gently set Elise down and propped her head up with her Gryffindor robe that she rolled into a pillow. "Oakey, will you stay with her until she wakes then? Just to make sure she is alright?" Because that would still be plenty of help to the entire situation. "I'll go see who else passed out from the baby mandrake's cries and bring them as well. Watch them too, okay?"

And without waiting for an answer Kurumi rushed back inside...

Kurumi had literally just stepped back into the greenhouse, her wand drawn and her attention looking towards the ground for any students that may have passed out from the sound of the baby mandrakes cries when the next thing she knew she was being blown off her feet and in some collywobble direction. Heat and some sort of hot goo stuck to her skin, possibly causing mild burns, and she felt her body whack against something (VIVI!) and she went crashing to the ground where the lay in a pile.

Vision blurry and her skin burning with hot goo, Kurumi groaned softly and tried to sit up, but found her body too heavy to do so.

Whaaaaaaaat had just happened? And could she just....take a nap? She very much wanted to right now....her eyes were so heavy...

One moment, Annie was crouched down by the plant watering putting it out, and then the next she was literally BLOWN BACKWARD by an explosion.

Thank you, Professor Bellaire.

The redhead unsteadily got to her feet, flipping her hair out of her face and shooting a GLARE at the Charms professor. DID SHE NOT KNOW these had once been ANNIE'S greenhouses?! DID SHE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THAT HAD BEEN A POTENTIALLY VALUABLE AND EXTREMELY RARE, EXOTIC PLANT?!

"You just killed our chances of saving Professor B-b-b-bbbburbage!" the redhead declared, promptly bursting into tears on the spot. She was just devastated by the reality setting in that this plant her friend was dead. DEAD! There was no disputing it now!

But that also meant there was no point in shedding tears over the now shredded plant victims. Annie needed to lead these people back to... to the library, or whatever, to save the stupid house ghosts.

Sigh. "I guess t-t-t-tthat's that, then," she hiccuped and pulled out a hanky to clean her face up. She tilted her head up proudly and looked around, assessing the damage. "Do we need the Healer down here?" Uhhh maybe? Why were all these kids passed out? Weren't they USED to the sound of baby mandrakes??! Regardless, she flicked her wand into her hand and sent out yet another nundu patronus...

Sophia continued to dust the debris off her clothes and shoes and hair and anything else eon her person that had debris. When she felt that she had done an okay enough job of making herself look presentable she looked around.

Kids on the ground and of course Mr.Shacklebolt unconscious as per usual. She shook her head. Was the boy ever not passed out?

And then Miss Bunbury Red head happened. Sophia frowned at the woman and turned up her dirt smudged nose. Luckily she liked her job and secondly she knew it was just the finality of the situation. The woman was over whelmed.

"You know just as well as I do that Burbage is long digested." That was the truth. She turned to look at the students.

"Well I suppose if you need tending to the healer should be hear shortly...err... you all did well." They were alive after all.

Vivi continued to pull at Milton's legs, and she felt someone grab her from behind and pull as well. If they could just get the right traction, she was sure they could slip the Captain right out of the hold of that...

And then Bellaire happened. One minute, everyone was working together to free the Ravenclaw Quidditch captain from the coils and tendrils of the plant, and the next, the woman came in with wand drawn and no conceivable idea of how dangerous a spell she was using. Merlin's beard! Vivi didn't even have time to react as the plant around Milton seemed to disintegrate and a body hit her heavily from behind.

She groaned and rolled over, looking first at a very still Kurumi before trying to see if Milton was still there amidst the plant goo and destroyed greenery. "Wheres Milton?" she asked loudly. Maybe too loud, since someone just blew up a plant in her ear.

Oakey was just being grabbed and pulled around all over the place today. As he neared the doorway to the Greenhouse he flopped to his knees and listened to Kurumi asking him to keep an eye on the Ravenclaw girl, he could do that easy-peasy. "Simple enough." was all he said to Kurumi as she darted back into the Green House to get more unconscious people out with him.

That's when he heard Professor Bellaire shout out a spell. His head jerked around the corner of the entrance to watch Professors and Students being thrown off their feet and onto the floor, including Kurumi who seemed to be out cold now herself, how ironic.
Not only was everyone thrown back, but it seemed like the plant had exploded! HELL YES! Oakey wanted to scream out loud. Professor Bellaire just blew the damn plant to oblivion. His eyes followed some of the plant goo hit the ground with a huge grin on his face.

He slowly stood to his feet grasping his wand in his one hand, it had to occurred to him during his few seconds of mental celebration that Kurumi's job was left unfinished. Some one needed to get Milton out of the Green House. He had barely lifted his wand up to get the Ravenclaw moving when suddenly a large cat patronus whooshed past him.

He almost lost his balance again but quickly regained it, he looked down to the Ravenclaw girl and slowly wrapped her one arm around his shoulder, and hoisted her up. Walking back into the Green House. As he made his way to the Head Mistress he made EXTRA sure to stomp EXTRA HARD on any plant goo that was on the ground around him. "Ma'am should I check to see if anyone is still conscious."
It would make Evil Healer's work slightly easier if she only had the unconscious ones to deal with wouldn't it?

As soon as the plant exploded grey smoke began to fill the greenhouse. Isfret tumbled through the air angrily.

"THE PLANT! MY PLANT"

HISHISHISHISHISHISHIS!

It was GONE.

"YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR THIS."

Flying straight through that annoying red head and some of those snot nose kiddies he floated up and out of the the greenhouse and toward the library.

They destroyed his PLANT he would destroy their SCHOOL.

Minerva was still on the ground next to Milton shaking him lightly trying to wake him. She looked him over and didn't see blood at all or no bones were sticking out of his skin, so she hoped he would be fine other then being knocked out. She heard someone scream and looked toward Vivi not caring if she liked her or not Minerva spoke, "He's right here, he isn't awake though." She heard the headmistress and Professor Bellaire say about the Healer, "She will need to look at Milton." Then she heard Bellaire say about the Astronomy Professor. Frowning she tried not to let every thought in her head come crashing down. Still the overwhelmed feeling couldn't be held in and she felt a tear run down her face. No not now, quickly wiping the tear.

Then she noticed gray smoke.. What was that... Was the plant coming back to life for round two. Then something was yelling about the plant and flying above there heads, Min ducked so it wouldn't touch her and then it was gone.. "W..WWW What was that.." She had no clue what it was, but didn't want around it at all, "Did it say it's plant.. " Was it just the shock of the ordeal or was all of this a bit confusing.

Such a waste! They tried to save the idiot and he went unconscious! Talk about a wasted effort!!! Hmph! That was the last time she helped a no good Ravenclaw Captain.

She looked to the Headmistress who was now...crying...? Oh merlin. What was wrong with these people?! Lex eased herself off the shelf of plants she'd been blown against, wincing a bit as she did, and tried to ignore the clearly over dramatic redhead. Crying. Pfft. Now the Charms Professor, she had the right idea! Not that Burbage being digested was good but knowing she was and accepting it were key here. No need to go wasting tears that could be put to better use.

When she heard Vivi's voice she immediately looked in her direction. She was alive!! The explosion didn't hurt her...right? And Alice, she was fine too yes? She tried seeing if everyone else was okay too when the plant started acting up. Not the plant really but the dust and stuff.

A ghost?

"COOOOL!!!"

She watched eagerly to see what would happen next and frowned when she heard him say something about his plant. So it was his fault why they lost two Professors and a wonbat. SCOWL. She jumped a bit from the sudden chill when he flew threw her then watched him leave!!!

That. Was. Amazing!!!

"Can we go after him toooo?!" Pleaaaaaase???? Ghost hunt! Ghost hunt! Ghost hunt!. She took a step forward and staggered just abit. No. This wasn't happening. Her leg was NOT going to choose now to hurt. Not when there was a cool ghost thing swearing revenge! She wanted to goooo after him sooo bad.

Kurumi sort of rolled off and away from Vivi and onto the cool ground a bit more, which actually felt really refreshing against her slightly plant goo burned skin. After a few moments of dirt therapy (hey, was this a brief introduction to Earth Magic?!) her eyes opened and...she saw brown. Oh, she was rolled face first into the dirt. Lovely.

Pushing herself up, Kurumi used her sleeve to remove dirt and goo from her face and then glanced at Vivi. Oh, had she knocked her over too...

Kurumi then noticed Oakey and she sat up a little more. "Oakey, is Elise alright?"

But before she could really register anything else...there came a BOOMING voice and smoke rising from whatever remains there were of the plant.

.............

Great. Now Isfret was mad and, well, what Kurumi had been saying ALL along had been confirmed just now. The plant and the entity had a connection and THAT was why Milton had accidentally summoned it to the library. "I told them the plant and Isfret were connected," Kurumi managed to grumble under her breath, mostly to Vivi because she was close by. And now that connection was gone and Isfret was MAD.

Did that mean that the plant was like...a horcrux? o_______________O

Kurumi's eyes tried to follow the smoke as it left the greenhouse...but all she saw was it going...up...which could mean that Isfret was heading in, oh, about a billion different directions now.

So...about that cat army?