Jasmine walked into the Common Room and plopped down in the nearest chair. She had come straight from class and needed a moment to just decompress. Sitting quietly she allowed her mind to wander wherever it wanted to go. The first thing that popped into her mind was her Eagle Comrade partner/ mentee. She still hadn't met him or her. She still wasn't even sure whether her mentee was a boy or a girl, with the name being a bit vague and all. Paris Sykes had proven to be very elusive thus far.

Jasmine thought about parking herself in the chair by the door and checking everyone who entered the Common Room......until she found Paris. OK so maybe that wasn't the best idea ever, but she was borderline desperate. Maybe she should ask some of her housemates or just ask Mr. Kitridge for information. For now, Jasmine just sat.....trying to come up with a plan.

Paris had absolutely no intentions of doing any homework today. Most of it required reading of some variety, and the rest wanted him two write about one thing or another. Both of which he wasn't good at, and often got migraines. The lad didn't want to deal with that right now. Right now he wanted to enjoy the common room while it was relatively empty, before the smart claws crowded it and shoved him out.

With his ukulele in hand, he made himself comfortable on a sofa beside one of the windows and started to play. He wasn't even aware of his mentor being around, or that she was even looking for him.

Anise entered the room and looked around to find it amusing. He is searching for a place to sit. Finally he found a place near the canter of the common room and joined the small group of students. He was not sure what to speak or how to start as he is a first year.

Thornton shuffled in and dropped his bag on the floor, not really paying attention to anyone in the common room. Flopping down beside his bag, he put his arms up over his head as he stared at the ceiling.

Seeing another firstie, he waved. "Hey," he said simply. "How has your day been?" Thornton's day had been.. busy. Exhausting. Did everyone feel that way? Or was it just him?

...................what was that?

A quick movement caught out of the corner of your eye or the faint sound of the buzzing of wings... and is that giggling? ..becomes more apparent as a small creature flits about the room, followed by another, and another...

Soon a multitude of pixies flies throughout the Ravenclaw common room, zipping here and there as they see what kind of mischief fun they can get into. A couple pixies dash towards the pair of first year boys, one flying near a boy's ear (Anise) to whisper something unintelligible, then giggle before flying off again. Another sprinkles pixie dust on the other boy's head (Thornton).

Oooh pretty! A giggling pixie flies off to play with the prefect's hair (Jasmine), pulling on it a bit as it zips around her head. And a pair of pixies buzz around in front of another boy's face (Paris). Are they trying to say something?

Play with us, Ravenclaws!

Merlin's sequined slippers!

Thornton's attention was drawn away from Anise by the sudden movement over his face. He squeezed his eyes shut as the pixie dust fell down. Getting some in his nose, Thornton sat up, rubbing his nose, but.. but...

"ACHOO!!" He sneezed forcefully, trying to cover his mouth and nose as quickly as he could. Looking around, first confused, and then somewhat delighted, he followed the movement of the pixies with his eyes.

Holding out a hand toward one, he hoped that it would land.

Jasmine took a moment to glance aound the Common Room and her eyes landed on an unfamiliar face. Who was this boy playing a ukulele? Could he possibly be her elusive mentee or someone who might know him? Figuring it wouldn't hurt to ask, Jasmine got up from her chair.

Walking over to the younger boy, she said, "Hi, I'm Jasmine". "You wouldn't happen to be Paris would you?" At this point, she knew mostly everyone in Ravenclaw......at least by face. Jasmine was hoping that the mystery of Paris Sykes would soon be solved.



Just as Jasmine was about to ask more questions of the boy, she heard a buzzing sound nearby. She looked up just in time to see.....pixies. Before she could react, there was a pixie in her hair and it did not feel good. Well they clearly weren't like her fairies because they knew better. As she reached up trying to make sure it didn't become entangled, the pixie flew away then began to circle her head. Where had they come from and what were they up to? Normally, Jasmine would have been amused......but this was not the best time for pixie tag.

It was definitely time to celebrate. She was proud of her Claws. This term they were working hard and they were even in second place in the House Cup race. With this in mind, Tiara had baked a few dozen cookies to leave on the study tables as an encouragement.

The heavily laden plates smelled glorious and the scent wafted back to her as she walked behind the floating cookies, wand held aloft. She got past the door's riddle and entered the common room, fully expecting to find students hard at work or relaxing after a long day of classes.

But a horde of pixies?!

"Merlin, what's going on here?" she asked loudly, completely forgetting about the cookies.

"Hey you alright?" anise asked to Thornton, "Here have this napkin."

Thornton smiled at the boy and reached out to take the napkin, trying to keep his other hand still. Brushing the pixie dust from his nose, Thornton looked over at Professor Tanner and shrugged, unsure of how to answer her question. Were pixies in the common room not... common?

"Do you think I can get one to land?" he whispered to Anise.

Ehehehehee!

The giggling pixies flew around the room, darting around students' faces, narrowly dodging swatting hands as they looked for some fun to be had. Several of the pixies dashed off to the study tables, pulling out pages of the books someone had left out for studying. And, oh look! A pair of pixies buzzed straight for a pillow on one of the couches. Pulling it up into the air with their little hands, they began to pull it apart at the seams, letting it burst open as the stuffing rained down on them. Such fun!

Hearing a loud voice, a few of the pixies flew towards the adult lady (Tiara), giggling as they buzzed around her head. What was this? Cookies! One of the pixies swooped down and landed on the plate, breaking off bits of a cookie to toss at the other pixies flying around.

Spotting the boy (Thornton) with his palm outstretched, two of the pixies flew over, each grabbing on to a finger and pulling upwards. But they were careful! Sometimes humans tried to catch them in their hands... but these pixies just wanted to have some fun and being captured was no fun at all!

One moment, he was just sitting there playing his ukulele, the next he had not only an older girl in his face (the house prefect to be specific) but also PIXIES. Gasping, he pushed himself up and out of his chair, landing on his back with a painful thud.

"Ow." His face contorted and he looked around at the pixies once one wasn't in his face. "What the....." He looked around, tried not to think about how sore his back now was, and crawled over to the prefect. "How do you get rid of them?"

Thornton smiled as the pixies came near, but that smile fell off his face as they pulled on his fingers.

"Ow!" Thornton pulled his hand back from the pixies, and furrowed his brow. He chastised himself internally as he should have known better. Pixies were trouble makers, he knew, but he'd been distracted by the possibility of holding one.

He looked to the professor and frowned. Could she get them out of here?

Jasmine was annoyed and trying to swat away the pixies when the boy she was talking to fell flat on his back. Jasmine took out her wand and aimed at the nearest pixie. "Immobulus", she shouted, hoping to subdue the pest. Jasmine held out her hand to help the boy up. "Are you OK", she asked with concern. I don't know how to get rid of them, but we can use the Freezing Charm to stop them them temporarily. Hopefully Professor Tanner would have a better idea.

In the meantime, Jasmine tried to keep the pixies at bay with a few well timed freezing Charms. They were way too mischievous. She still couldnt figure out how they had gotten into the Common Room in the first place.

Shrug. That was all he was going to do: shrug?! An unhelpful young man, to be sure. "Don't encourage them!" she commanded, seeing the excited and mischievous look in his eye.


Meanwhile, the bright creatures were creating havoc everywhere and ripping apart her common room! "Leave the books alone!" she commanded before catching herself. They were certainly NOT going to listen to her. She had definitely heard a cry of pain, likely male. And then next thing she knew.. "My cookies!" Well, the students' cookies, really, but she had made them. "Don't you dare touch those, they're for the hardworking students!" Now they had gotten her angry.

Fortunately, their female prefect (Jasmine) seemed to be keeping her cool. Yes, of course! Freezing Charms! "Everyone, Freezing Charms, and pronto! Immobulus!" she said, practically jabbing her wand at the nearest creature and paralyzing it in midair.

The flurry of pixies grew faster as the mischievous little creatures flew around the room, giggling and wreaking havoc. The boy whose hand a few of them were pulling on snapped his hand away so they pulled on his hair instead. And the cookies? The pixies were too busy having fun tossing crumbs at each other to hear how angry the lady had gotten.

But what they did notice was the spells being cast at them. Oh no! The pixies knew exactly what those words meant and they did not like them one bit. Freezing charms were no fun at all, mean humans!

Many of the pixies tried scrambling out of the way, but with the spells coming from a couple different directions, that proved futile. But instead of keeping the pixies in mid-air as one would expect, after a moment the frozen pixies went POOF! Just as quickly and mysteriously as they had arrived, they were gone. And the few that had managed to escape the spells headed towards an open window till POOF they were gone too. Disappeared into thin air.

Never was he more thankful for a prefect to be around than right in this moment. Paris didn't cower under her...... but he wasn't the best as spell work, and the pixies where everywhere so he stayed on the floor where he crawled, watching both her and Tanner in fascination until the pixies just poofed.

"That was brilliant." He said after a moment, rising to his feet cautiously but grinning. Strange how they just poofed like that, the fourteen year old couldn't figure it out and wondered if it had something to do with the charm. "I've never seen the spell have that reaction before, could ya teach me?"

Er... what had just happened? Freezing Charms didn't do that.. Perhaps she would have to speak with Fuller about this. And in fact, she heard an inquisitive young Ravenclaw wondering the same thing. "I have no idea why that happened, Mister Sykes, and I doubt Miss Guidry, though imminently wise, would know either. That is probably a question for Professor Fuller."

Meanwhile, her cookies had been ruined. Not a single one had escaped the pixies. "Well, there goes that idea. Sorry everyone." Crumbs were hardly as appetizing. "I'll try again some other time." Her expression soured a bit, she cleaned up the floor with a few waves of her wand. "Happy studying, everyone!" Then she turned and left to go back to her office.

Paris looked at Tanner, then over at his prefect thoughtfully when the woman made her exit. "We should go find Fuller then, right?" Could they? He wanted to.

The fourth year was painfully curious about what happened.

And they could talk about whatever reason she was searching for him for along they way.

Cassie made her way into Ravenclaw tower. Looking around the common room she didn't see anything glowing nor any random books that seemed out of place. Though she did see some books, it was the common room after all. She moved some of the chair cushions with no luck.

"If I was a Fairy Tale book, where would I be?" Moving to look under some of the tables and near the fireplace it had to be somewhere in this castle, but she wouldn't be too upset if she wasn't the one that found it. No the book scared her a bit. If it had the power to possess her once, could it do it again? She didn't want to be mean ever again.

Melek was walking around on her hands, bored and didnt want to do any homework at the moment. She quickly stopped as she saw an adult. Mel flipped up and tilted her head, "What cha doing, Prof?" She leaned against the table and glanced down, looking at her,

Cassie looked up hearing a student. Finding it very odd how the girl addressed her she just kind of stared a moment. Prof? She didn't think she had ever been called just that, but no matter she straightened the table she had been looking under and then looked directly at Melek. "Well I'm looking for a book. It says something about fairy tales on it. You haven't seen it have you?"


She didn't think it was around if the students were right and it glowed, then she was sure she'd spot it the minute she walked into the room. So if it wasn't here where could it be? She sighed, maybe the dorms? Should she go look or possibly have some claws go look.