Professor O'Leary

January 19, 2007 4:18 PM
Clad in the usual black robes, Drake O'Leary stood in the sunshine of the Labyrinth Gardens. If anyone thought this was odd, they dared not to say anything. Arms folded, he waited for all of the students to catch up to where he stood.

Once there, he began his normal lecture, "As this is a mixed class, some of you know me, some of you do not. For those that do not, I am Professor O'Leary, the Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor. While today's lesson is unusual, most classes will be spent indoors. When in the classroom, I expect absolute silence, unless otherwise given permission. Also, regardless of being in the classroom, I demand respect at all times. Fail to do these and you will be serving detention with me and I can assure you it will be quite...unpleasant."

He allowed his dark gaze to fall across the students, seemingly scarier due to the unconventional setting.

"Now, then, today's lesson involves performing and using the Point-Me spell. I want everyone to hold your wand in your open palm, like so," Drake pulled out his own wand and demonstrated. "Then, clearly, in a commanding tone, say 'Point Me.'"

Drake's wand spun around until it was pointed North, "Now if you managed to do this correctly, each wand should be pointing North. With this spell, the wand acts as a compass, which can be useful if you find yourself lost, because for today's lesson that is exactly what you'll be."

"You will be pairing off in groups of two or three and heading into the mazes. Before you head into the maze, take one of the maps that I have provided. It will show you the start point and where you should be heading to. When you reach the location, you will find a stack of bags
containing candies. I assume that it will be motivation enough to make it the location. After obtaining the bag, use the map to find your way back out. If you get lost, point your wand up in the air and use the Spark Charm, like so," Drake said, demonstrating, "and I will come find you. Now, I want to stagger the groups, so one group head in, and then in about five minutes, another group can head in, and so on. Begin."

OOC: Okay, remember, your post should be at least ten sentences in length. The more creative the post, the more points you'll earn, so have fun with it.\n\n
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Caedence

January 20, 2007 5:11 PM
Caedence all but rolled her eyes. This kid was worse than Elly when it came to the chatter department. She was not going to like this at all.

"Sure!Sorry about tripping you. I'm Jae! Except Mika and Gwyneth call me Yae. I have a kitten called Jenny, and Professor K and Aunt Marla said I could keep my Sloyka. And I'm in Pecari, like Saul. Let's go get the map!"

God, does he shut up ever? She gave an irritated mix of a growl and a sigh. "Saul...heh the only chaser allowed to stay in the game. In case you didn't know it, I am the Pecari Team's chaser. That stupid medic wouldn't let me back in. Jerk, that's what he is."

Sloyka? What in the world was a sloyka? "Are you like foreign? Because that 'sloyka' would be a puffskein if you mean what we played iwth in class," She added. Yes, now that she thought about it, she remembered this being the kid talking to the Handicapped person. Yae? Wierd name, Yae. "Anyways, come on, let's go get the map." she added irritably and motioned for him to follow.\n\n
0 Caedence they all come to me..how do they find me? 94 Caedence 0 5


Jae

January 20, 2007 11:37 PM
So the girl was in his House? That was good! She was a little bit grumpy, but Jae could tell between grumpy and mad. Nina was grumpy sometimes, and Aunt Cheri was grumpy a lot, but when they were mad, it was a good idea to get far, far away. Grumpy worked.

But the girl was talking about a Chaser and a Stupid Medic, and a bunch of other stuff Jae didn't understand. So he sort of stood there and nodded, fiddling with the small diamond stud in his ear, sticking the wandstick behind his ear, with his bag. Jae followed the girl dutifully when she said they were going to go get the map. He was actually fairly proficient when working with maps and hands on activities. That was one of the reasons that the teachers at his elementary school had let him and Nina be in the same class for so long. She could usually keep him entertained and on task.

"No, Mika said they were called Sloyka," Jae asserted, nodding as he followed his partner. "Mika's really smart. He's read books about a place called Narnia, and some about talking horses. I like horses. Do you like horses? I have a horse called Chester. Well, at least, he's halfway mine. Nina's taking care of him while I'm at school 'cause she's going to Fairview instead of here. Aunt Marla said it was because Nina didn't get a letter for here, so I would have to not tell her and keep Sonora a secret, 'cause otherwise she might be upset and get mad."\n\n
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Caedence

January 24, 2007 3:32 PM
Caedence found every last nerve in her body about to snap. She formed a mental image of herself going crazy. Then she saw her Head's face appear, frowning at her. Dissapointed. Great, what a time to get a Concious, Caede, she thought to herself. Okay, beating up the kid really was out of the question. Maybe a little hex? No, no hex. She sighed, how would a "normal" happy-home-flowers-and-kittens type person act? Conversation. Great, if there was anythign she didn't like it was talking alot. Fists said all that you wanted to get across.

"Well, Yay, did you say it was? I have never actually ridden a horse myself, "She mentally added, 'father wouldn't even let me have a cat!' "We live in the city, so I guess it's like against the law or something. Father took me to the fair once. I think there were horses, I don't remember, I was like four. That was almost eight years ago." Hey, she was getting the hang of this conversation thing! "I don't have any pets of my own," She continued, "But I want the puffskein that we were messing with in class. Father would never say 'yes', but mum might."

It took her awhile before she realised that they were facing a dead end in one direction and a fork down the road in another, "Umm, I think we took a wrong turn...hold on" She drew ehr wand, "Point me!" it spun..and pointed to the right fork, "Next spell its your turn," she said with a smirk before taking the right.\n\n
0 Caedence Hah, you don't know me then do ya? 94 Caedence 0 5


Jae

January 25, 2007 5:45 AM
"Oh," Jae said when the girl explained that she didn't have a horse and she lived in the city. "I sort of live in the city. Not really. Aunt Marla and Aunt Cheri and me live outside of Boulder in Colorado by the mountains. Nina lives next door." He was sort of hopping and skipping to keep up with the girl as she travelled down the path. "Do you have a little brother or a little sister? I think it would be fun to have a little brother or a little sister, even if you didn't have pets. Nina has a little sister. She's cute. Sometimes she tags along with us, only not when we go on trail rides 'cause she's too little to ride Chester."

The girl did the spell that Professor O'Leary had been showing them. She headed down one of the forks in the path, informing Jae that it would be his turn next. Yay! He would get to try a spell!

"That's AWESOME!" he said, hugging her from behind as he tried to keep up. She was taller than he was and moving faster than he normally did. "It's supermadcoolawesome! I can tell Mika and everyone that I did a spell! Can I try it now? Please? Pleasepleaseplease?"

Jae was grinning from ear to ear, almost literally. His blond dreadlocks were all over the place and the diamond stud in one ear sparkled. Bouncing up and down after releasing the girl from the hug, he kept his green eyes locked on her, occasionally saying "Please?" like a small child begging for a sweet.\n\n
0 Jae No, but I will! 0 Jae 0 5


Caedence

January 26, 2007 7:26 PM
Caedence was begining to get he hand of this conversation thing. Talking wasn't one of her usual things if it didn't involve threats, but more and more since coming to Sonora she was becoming...docile. It was weird, nice, but wierd. "No I don't have any siblings, though I'd like one. It would be fun. I don't have any friends like Nina at home. My friend is Elly. I guess she is like family since I live with her in our dorm."

She was about to continue when the kid hugged her from behind. Her first instinct, duck and hit him with a shoulder. Not a good idea, so she didn't do it. Besides, he was young. Instead she stiffened like a board and balled her fists. Only a madman would dare hug her. Not even her mother did.

'Relax,' said a soothing voice, her new-found concious, 'he's young and excitable. You'd be like that too if you didn't have the life you did. Happy kid. Let him have his happy moment' God, she was begining to hate her concious, but she obeyed adn stopped her hands from pummeling him. They fell limp at her side, but that was the only thing limp about her. She stayed stiff. Talking good, hugs bad.

"I can help you with the spell on one condition. Don't ever do that again. All you have to do is let the wand know you're boss. Command it. Taht is the best way to get the spell to work. It is an order, you're ordering it to point you. Let the tone of your voice say 'point me the right direction or else!' and it will. Like this" she put the wand in the palm of her hand, "Point me!" she commanded it. It spun and pointed the way they were going. She glanced at the map. According to this there was a fork up ahead. Good, a chance for the kid to try his stuff.

"Okay, your turn Yay," she wasn't sure that was his name, but oh well.\n\n
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Jae

January 27, 2007 8:46 AM
"Okay!" Jae chirped excitedly. The girl said he wasn't to do that again, so he stopped bouncing and kept as still as he could. It worked for a minute or two, but when she said it was his turn to do the spell, he jumped a little bit, then ran ahead. They were at a fork in the road. There was one that went left and one that went a sort of squiggly right. This was when he was supposed to be commanding the wandstick, right? Jae decided to give it a shot.

He frowned at his wandstick. "Okay wandstick. You're going to do what I say. Right? Okay. Um. POINTME!" The wandstick twirled around in his hand, but before it was done, something small and brown ran across the right squiggly path. Yelping, Jae dropped his wandstick on the ground and ran after the brown thing, down the squiggly path. When he got to where it had disappeared into the hedges, Jae dropped down on his knees and peered under the hedge. With that movement, his robes and cargo pants acquired permanent dirt stains on the knees. Not that Jae noticed. He was too busy staring at the brownish thing that looked sort of like a potato. Maybe it was another pet, like the Sloykas? Maybe someone had lost it! They would be sad.

So Jae reached in and patted the brown thing on the head and gently scooped it up. "Bad," he said firmly as the thing tried to bite him. It looked at him in bewilderment, then went to bite him again. "Bad," Jae repeated, tapping it sharply on the nose. It stared at him again.

"Girl!" Jae yelled, realising that he didn't know his partner's name. "Partnergirl! What is it? Where does it belong? Can you make it stop trying to bite me?"\n\n
0 Jae Why, yes, I do. 0 Jae 0 5


Caedence

January 27, 2007 1:59 PM
Caedence sighed, this kid was more excitable than Elly. And Elly was the one with the huge grin. She stared up at the sky waiting for the kid to do the spell. A flash of movement caught her eye. 'Oh no!' she thought as the kid ran after it. "STOP! YOU DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE RIGHT WAY!" she yelled.

Bad. Bad oh no, now he was talking to it like it was a pet. She picked up the fallen wand and went over to him. "That is called a garden gnome. Oh and I am called Caedence, not girl," She let the faintest hint of irritatioin creep into her voice. "It belongs in its ground hole. That is its home. A little burrow. But do you know what is fun? Spin it around and around, toss it as high up as you can and watch what happens. But for now Immobulus" She pointed her wand at teh gnome. The spell didn't work as well as she hoped. It just slowed the thing's movements so it was biting in slow-motion now. "The spell will wear off in a bit. Let's see if we're going the right way, shall we Yay?"\n\n
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Jae

January 27, 2007 3:27 PM
Jae stared at Caedence, aghast. Spin it around and toss it as high up as he could? Why would he do that?! That was mean!

"Why?" he asked his partner, reproachfully. "That's not nice. How would you like it if someone spun you around and threw you? That would hurt. And it might make you dizzy." Jae put the gnome down and patted it on its head. The little creature looked at him oddly, in slow motion, then managed a halfhearted 'Gerroff?' that was more a question than a complaint. It began to slowly make its way back to its burrow.

Jae took his wandstick from his partner, and looked at it. The wandstick had spun before. So he had done something right, right? Jae looked down at it firmly, then looked up at Caedence and down at the wandstick. "Point me?" he asked. It spun halfheartedly, then stopped, pointing at the gnome.

"No, point me." Jae explained patiently. The wandstick twirled around a couple of times, then pointed to the gnome again. "Um....POINTMEPLEASE?" Jae tried. The wandstick spun around quickly, turning and turning and turning until it finally ended up pointing to the left, right down the path they hadn't taken. \n\n
0 Jae I'd be a bit worried if you hadn't 0 Jae 0 5


Caedence

January 29, 2007 4:54 PM
Caedence shrugged as he set the gnome on the ground. "Well, it don't hurt them. They have thick skulls, you know. Like rocks. And the point is to make them dizzy. That way they'll leave your garden. They're really bad pests, i've heard. They eat your plants and stuff. And they bite." She said as he sent the gnome on its way.

"See?" she said when the wand pointed the other way after several tries, "One, you said it as a 'would you mind?' instead of a 'do it now!' voice. Two, you rushed off without checking where you were going. That could be dangerous and you could run straight into a really nasty trap. You don't want to be hurt do you?" if she had said that last question to any second year, they would have taken it the wrong way. As a threat. She hoped the kid knew she was just gently scolding him for being reckless.

She turned around and walked back to the fork. To make sure, she used the spell again. It pointed left, just as Yay's had. Yay, what an odd name. She didn't know if Jae or Yay fit him more. Judging by his hyperactivity and obvious ADHD, she went with Yay. "C'mon, Yay, this way" she laughed a bit at the little rhyme she made.\n\n
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Jae

January 31, 2007 5:52 AM
"Why would I be hurt?" Jae asked, tagging along behind Caedence and waving to the gnome as they left. "Why would there be traps? Aunt Marla says that if you ask nicely, things happen. Why doesn't that work with my wandstick? But it did work, right? 'Cause we're going the right way now, right? How do you know so much about gnomes? Does Professor K do them in Comec? Will we do them next? Will we get to keep them?"

This was a fun lesson. They got to run around outside and meet new people and animals and stuff. All the teachers were really nice here too. They had fun lessons, like in Comec or Charms or Potions where you got to make stuff and make stuff do things and move around. Best of all, you didn't really have to read, except for homework sometimes. And there were animals that you got to keep, and Aunt Marla had sent in a note and he got to keep Todd and Jenny. Well, Jenny was from home. But Todd was from here, and Jae got to keep him, so that was really good.

There was a huge statue up ahead too! It looked like a man with a robe and a big nose. When Jae ran closer, though, the big nose turned out to be a beak. Why would someone have a beak? Why would there be a statue of him in the maze? Maybe it was one of those traps Caedence had talked about. Dubiously, Jae poked it with his wandstick. Nothing happened. He poked it again. Still, nothing happened. Why was the statue there?\n\n
0 Jae Well, that's good! 0 Jae 0 5


Caedence

February 07, 2007 8:00 PM
"My mother is a witch, so I know a titch of magical stuff from her. But mostly I learned it myself. In Care of Magical Creatures last year we did crups. Like a little dog with a forked tail. A jack russle terrier? One of my neighbors had one. It didn't like me though," 'Along with half the people in my town' she added to herself, "But I was able to teach the crup a trick. Maybe if I can go visit it I can show you." Caedence said, getting more and more into a chatty mood. Gosh, happiness was infectious!

She stared at the statue. It looked odd, she had never seen it before, not even flying over it. "Speciallis Revelio" She muttered tapping it. (OOC:sorry if i misspelled it)

She frowned as the statue opened and shut its beak. What was this all about? The spell she said should reveal it's hidden secret, why was it flapping its beak? What was the point? "Yay, you seem the exploring type, see if there is a stick nearby, or just look into its mouth. See if you see anything in there?" She suggested. Whatever this thing was, it was even wierding her out.\n\n
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Jae

February 13, 2007 7:46 PM
Caedence explained all about crups. They were like dogs, only not very nice. Jae liked dogs. Dogs liked Jae. She probably just didn’t talk nicely enough to them. When Jae talked nicely to animals, they usually listened. A lot of other things listened too. Like the toaster. It never, ever worked for Aunt Marla, but when Jae asked nicely, it always worked for him. Aunt Cheri usually laughed and told Aunt Marla that she should be nicer to the appliances, and then Aunt Marla rolled her eyes and threw something at Aunt Cheri.

Jae liked his toaster. It made nice toast. Maybe he would eat toast for breakfast tomorrow.

“I’m going to have toast for breakfast tomorrow,” he informed Caedence. “Then we can go and visit the crup, right? Is he cute? Does he like kittens and sloykas?”

Caedence did something to the madcool statue and its beak started flapping. Jae jumped up on the statue’s plinth, then stretched to reach the beak. It didn’t work; he was too short. Securing footholds, he quickly scaled the statue and peered inside its mouth. There was something there! Being very careful not to catch it at the wrong time, Jae’s hand darted into the beak and retrieved a smallish, paper-wrapped parcel. Unfortunately, the sudden movement caused him to topple off the statue towards the ground.

Yelping, he landed on his shoulder and felt the shoulder pop. It didn’t hurt as much as a broken collarbone, but tears still welled up in his eyes. “Ow,” he whispered quietly and sniffled slightly as he dropped the parcel and grabbed his shoulder. “Ow,” he said again.
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Caedence

February 14, 2007 1:37 PM
“I’m going to have toast for breakfast tomorrow. Then we can go and visit the crup, right? Is he cute? Does he like kittens and sloykas?”

Caedence rolled her eyes. What a pest, he thought they were to hang out on a daily basis now! She sighed. "Maybe," she demured. "Careful," she warned as the boy preped himself to reach into the beak.

"CAREFUL!" she repeated in a yell as the boy lost his footing. She rushed to try and catch him, but was too late. She heard a faint pop. Caedence cringed. Her arm made a sound very similar sound last year. The stupid medic had said a warning about bone shards in blood or something. All Caedence knew was that it hurt alot. She reached over Jae and carefully sat him up.

"Its okay, Yay, just take it easy. This is kind of like adventure flicks. You know, how the hero gets the lost treasure, sets off a trap, gets hurt, but wins in the end? Maybe that's like now. Want me to unwrap this thing you got out of the beak for you?" Caedence would surprise herself if she hadn't been too distracted by the possible break in the boy's arm; she was actually trying to soothe the boy! Wow, she should keep a journal about all the un-Caedenceish stuff she does every day. That would be an increasingly thick journal!\n\n
0 Caedence Ooh! No, Jae is cool, he can't get hurt! 94 Caedence 0 5


Jae

February 19, 2007 8:57 AM
"Owowowowowow," Jae whimpered as Caedence sat him up. His shoulder hurt. His shoulder felt weird. It hurt. It didn't hurt like when he broke his collarbone, but it was still painful. Frighteningly, the shoulder felt different to the hand that was gripping it. The arm connected to the shoulder in question was held away from his body slightly, forearm turned outwards. The statue above him kept clicking his beak in a determined fashion. Jae felt his head pound and he whimpered again. But then Caedence started to talk. It was reminiscent of the way Aunt Cheri spoke to him after he had come home from elementary school, throwing up and feverish.

"Its okay, Yay, just take it easy. This is kind of like adventure flicks. You know, how the hero gets the lost treasure, sets off a trap, gets hurt, but wins in the end? Maybe that's like now. Want me to unwrap this thing you got out of the beak for you?"

Like an adventure flick? Oh! Like...like the old movies that Aunt Cheri liked so much. James Bond and Indiana Jones. They got hurt but they got the treasure or the bad guy and it all turned out all right. He nodded mutely at Caedence's question. Maybe the treasure would be really really cool, and it would make him all better. Or maybe it would be really really cool and then they could go and see a doctor. \n\n
0 Jae Happy Chinese New Year! (albeit delayed) 0 Jae 0 5


Caedence

February 19, 2007 6:21 PM
Caedence unwrapped the package. She grinned, showing it to Jae. Inside were many different colored wrapped candies of a lot of different sorts. Caedence looked at the forgotten map that lay on the ground near her. She grinned when she saw that it was the right spot to be. She noticed the little piece of paper that was also with the pacage. Congradulations on finding the candy. Remember to use the 'point me' spell to find your way out. Again, if you should get lost and need assitance, send up sparks

"Well, we got the treasure. Do you need me to help you up? Need me to walk you to the medic..." She faded off here, her face set in a tiny frown. Help the annoying but somehow endearing boy and have to face the idiot medic, or send him on his way with directions? She decided on the former, despite her feelings on the man, "I know where the place is, I can get you there, help explain the situation and have him set you right."

She paused before shoving the candy into the boy's hands, "Here, you get the treats, you found the statue, and you got us here despite the little detour. And you're hurt," she said.


"We can either send up sparks, or find our way out." She didn't add that she just wanted to get the heck out of this maze. It made her feel trapped and venurable. Like someone could pop out of nowhere and kick her butt and leave her for dead and no one would notice. That wouldn't be good. She looked at the little boy next to her waiting for his response. \n\n
0 Caedence 'Tis the year of the pig... 94 Caedence 0 5


Jae

February 25, 2007 1:34 PM
The package had candy in it! That didn't make sense. Professor O'Leary had said the candy would come in a stack of bags in the middle of the maze. There wasn't another bag of candy in sight, and there certainly wasn't any other candy bags around. Unless they were in the magic statue. Like a Pez dispenser! Jae loved Pez candy. The little thingy it came in was really cool. So maybe the statue was like a magic Pez dispenser. He was hardly in the position to be finding that out, though. Jae would have to return at a later date and see if the statue was like a magic Pez dispenser. For now, his shoulder hurt too much. But his partner shoved the candy into his hands and said he got to keep it, which was awesome. Jae stuck the candy in one of his pants pockets with his good hand.

"Where's the medic?" he asked. "Can we go see the medic now?" Jae sniffled a little bit, practically drooping. Even his blonde dreadlocks seemed to droop in reaction. "I don't want to get lost. My shoulder hurts."

Looking up at his partner, Jae waited to see what she would say to do. He didn't want to make decisions. He wanted to get his shoulder fixed. Right now he didn't even really want the candy. But at least it was like the old adventure movies because they did find the candy and set off the trap and stuff. It didn't help how his arm felt, but it certainly did help Jae feel a bit better inside. It had looked funny too. Not like the candy bars and lollipops that he got when he went trick-or-treating with Nina. Maybe it was magic candy?

OOC: Sorry for the delay. But my gosh, are you giving Jaeven SUGAR?! *dies* Are you sane?\n\n
0 Jae Kagura! 0 Jae 0 5


Caedence

February 25, 2007 5:07 PM
OOC: Well, yeah that is dumb. btw, i wasn't sure if you meant that to be the candy package, but it is now, eh? Lol. And Fruba rocks! *hugs kyo plushie* kyo's my fave! ^_^\n\n
0 Caedence *author hugs* OMG A FRUBA FAN!!! 94 Caedence 0 5


Caedence

February 25, 2007 5:12 PM
OOC: Sry bout that, my comp thought i meant 'submit' when I hit tab and tried to start a new line. Sry

IC: Caedence thought quickly. What was the spark spell anyways? She always could make sparks come out of her wand when she was really mad, but in her adventure she didn't remember the spell! Oh dear.

It took a moment for her to finally remember. Sending up the sparks, she decided to make small talk while she waited for the teacher. She looked around, as if searching for the topic. There, at the base of the statue, it looked like there was a little square. Maybe that was where the candy was piled? Hidden in a secret drawer? Maybe she would have to come explore it later.

"So, Yay, do you like going exploring alot? I do, trying to find anything hidden. I guess its a trait Pecaris share, cause Elly and Meredeth and Echo all like to explore. I guess exploring and quidditch are my only hobbies." And fighting, she added to herself.\n\n
0 Caedence stupid enter key... stupid comp.. *grumbles* TAG: Professor 94 Caedence 0 5


Professor O'Leary

March 08, 2007 2:24 AM
 
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