Marietta Edgecombe (marietta_louise) wrote in magic_days, @ 2007-08-22 20:29:00 |
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</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-22 04:37 (link) | |
Lil sat in the Hufflepuff common room reading through her journal. It was certainly becoming popular lately. Suddenly she saw something Hexed to her from Mandy. Lil read, and re-read and kept staring at what Mandy wrote. Apparently she found something in the restricted section. Why was she in there anyway? It was a whole minute before Lil realised that she should probably be there by now. Lil snapped her journal shut, tossed it in her bag which she put over her shoulder and ran out of the common room. Where was she going to again? Lil stopped for a second. She frowned, then remembered. The Statue Duh!! She ran towards Gregory the Smarmy and spotted Mandy. "What was that all about?! What did you find? What what what?!" She asked Mandy. She looked down at Mandy's hands and spotted the book. "Is that it?! What is it? Tell me, tell me!!" |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-22 04:46 (link) | |
Mandy wave her hands frantically as she saw Lil. Thank Merlin she could actually read her writing enough to understand. Mandy took out the book dramatically. "This is the thing I was talking about," she held it up, "IT'S A BOOK!," Mandy announced dramatically. "Anyway I was looking through it and nothing happened and then this writing appeared and it sort of meant something like a quest! Or a a scavenger hunt. I don't know. It said something about peeking so I peeked into it and then this map thing came. And now I'm a bit lost. But you know how most muggles have maps and stuff when they do quests and something about X marks the spot. But there's no X and I got confused so I thought I should ask you and also because I thought it'd be fun," Mandy was rambling like she'd never rambled before. "Anyway, look!" "It's a good thing you got here I wasn't sure you'd remember the meeting spot, but of course you remember. Duh. I'm sort of waiting for it to do something. I'm not really sure. I don't even know if this works." Mandy talked quite quickly and shoved the booked onto Lil. "Well," Mandy looked up expectantly, "What do you think?" And she hoped that the answer wasn't, 'I think you're complete nutters.' (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-22 05:02 (link) | |
Lil kept blinking as Mandy rambled on about whatever it was she was rambling on about. All Lil heard was "BOOK", "peeking", "map", "lost", "you" and "look!" Then the rambling continued until Mandy shoved the book towards Lil. Lil looked up at Mandy with a puzzling look, and then looked back at the book. Mandy's gone complete nutters! Lil thought to herself. She opened the book and the pages opened to the map she must have been talking about. Lil grinned and looked at Mandy again. "Well, I have read Treasure Island. Do you think we could find treasure!?" Now Lil started to get really excited. "Where do you think it will take us? It kind of looks like the Quidditch Pitch, but I don't really know. What do you think?" (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-23 01:14 (link) | |
What did Mandy think? What did Mandy think? It was quite hard to find just the one thing that she was thinking about because her mind was racing as a list of options seemed to form in her mind. "I don't know! We probably won't find treasure, actually we might. What if it's a joke played on us by Peeves?" Oh dear, the last thought hadn't occurred to Mandy yet. It was really quite likely that this was a dud, a prank, a joke that was place to see what type of gullible person would fall for it. As she thought about this possibility for a split second, she decided that it didn't really matter if it was a joke. For all she knew, there could be treasure and they'll be greeted by bucket fulls of galleons and jewels. "We could go to the Quidditch Pitch. We could wait and see if anything else happens. We could show other people or study it a bit before actually doing anything," Mandy thought hard and decided what to do after a while. "You know what. If you think it's the Quidditch Pitch, I say we go to the Quidditch Pitch." (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-25 03:40 (link) | |
Lillianna looked closely at the map once more. "WAIT!" She cried out. "There's little arrows appearing from the Quididtch pitch!" Lil watched as the arrows made a winding path passing The Whomping Willow and Hagrids, before heading into, "The Forest! We have to go to the Forest! Oh! I don't want to!! There's scary things in there and we aren't allowed!! Mandy!" Lil frowned. She didn't want to get in trouble today. "We should just forget about it. Someone's probably found it anyway." She did not want to go into the Forest. Nope. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-25 04:55 (link) | |
Mandy looked down and did indeed see the little arrows moving towards the Forest. Interesting. Her first instincts told her to just abandon the whole treasure hunting thing and to listen to Lil and believe that some had found it. Only her curiosity made her change her mind. They had to keep going. They just had to. The more she stared at the book and the mini arrows, the more she felt like it was beckoning her to go forward. "But we've got to go to the Forest. Don't you see? It all fits! Like a jigsaw puzzle or the broken handle of a mug that needs to be glued back. I mean, we've already gone this far!!" So that wasn't saying much since they were still stuck at the statue and haven't actually done anything. "Please. There's nothing actually scary in the Forest, it's just tales to make us scared and it's not even that into the Forest, it's just the outside," Mandy pleaded. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-25 05:24 (link) | |
Lil had heard so many stories that she always mixed up one with the other and confused herself until she had to sit down. Werewolves and monsters were in there. And Lil had also heard that there were GIANT spiders. But she didn't believe that. Bugs couldn't be giant. They're supposed to be small. Lil stared at the wall and though. She didn't want to get into trouble. Sure they go down to the kitchen all the time. But they were going before curfew. And Mandy had pointed out that no one really told the students that they couldn't go there. They just never mentioned it. But what if there really were treasure!? Lil wondered what she would do with it. Her and Mandy would split it of course. Mandy wouldn't spend it all on herself. She'd give some to her friends(except for Mandy. She'd has a whole pile of money) and family. Wait. What was Lil thinking? She just said that there might not be any treasure. But...if they checked first..it wouldn't hurt.. "Okay. We'll see if there's treasure. But if anything happens and I get eaten, I'll drag you in with me." Oh that made her feel a whole lot better. Not. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-26 03:18 (link) | |
Mandy, too, had heard about the many creatures that dwell in the forest, as well as many tales about it. Most were just witches tales to keep people out or exaggerated stories for the older kids to scare the firsties, but knowing Hogwarts, it's hard to tell from fact and fiction. Just don't think about the forest, Mandy reassured herself, think about the treasure. The treasure chest (would it be a chest) and the galleons it might contain. "Well, look, the arrows aren't even pointing inside the forest, so it's just an edge and all the-" all the what? All the werewoves and monsters and creepy things that are going to eat them alive? "things that would eat you won't be on the edge, they'd be busy inside." (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-26 06:02 (link) | |
Awwww crap thought Lil. Mandy was right. Nothing would try to get out of the forest in the broad daylight...would they? They might. They don't really care if someone else sees. They'll just attack them too. Lil's mind kept of thinking of possibilities that could happen to them. She didn't want to be a werewolf. But it seemed that Mandy really wanted to do this, and Lil would do almost anything to make her friends happy. Lil sighed and nodded her head. "Okay. We might as well go." Lil started walking slowly down the corridor, stopped and waited for Mandy. "Are you coming or not? I'm going to keep the treasure if you don't." (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-29 03:12 (link) | |
Hooray, thought Mandy, that took way less effort that she had expected. However, there was the tiny, rational part of her that still wished that Lil had refused and the thought of treasure would be dropped. They would go back and nothing would ever happen. But that was too late now. "Yes, yes of course," Mandy replied hastily before catching up to Lil. "What do you think the treasure's going to be?" (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-29 03:26 (link) | |
"Money of course. Or jewels or tiaras. That's what all the pirates buried. And we have to look of a big X. Even though there isn't one on the map...but there'll be one nearby!" Since when was I an expert on pirates? We walk past Hagrid's hut and I stop. "Okay...I'm not going any further. We'll look here." I look around for an X. I look up and down and everywhere. Finally I see two sticks lying across each other in the shape of an X. "It's here!" I cry to Mandy. Wow! We're going to be rich! (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-29 04:46 (link) | |
"That would be awesome if there was money and jewels," said Mandy as she kept walking all the way to the forest. But what if the treasure was in the forest? The arrow pointed in the direction of the Forest, but as Mandy thought about that she heard Lil yell out and turned around. "NO WAY!" she practically screams it out loud, elated by the fact that they found the treasure and that they didn't have to go in the Forest. "Ok, what do we do now? Do we dig it up?" (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-30 00:40 (link) | |
"YES WAY!!" Lil replies, grinning. "I say we dig!" Lil hesisitated a bit before scooping up the dirt and moving it aside, trying not to think of the icky dirt getting under her nails. She keeps scooping and moving, till finally she feels rough wood under her hand. "MANDY MANDY MANDY WE FOUND IT!!" Lil got up and started dancing around. She hadn't even opened up the trap door that now was shown from under the dirt. Then she kneels back down and stares at the hatch. "What do we do? Open it? I think we should open it. MANDY YOU WERE RIGHT!" (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-30 00:54 (link) | |
"AHHH!!! WE DID IT!!" she screamed, completely overjoyed and helped Lil scoop up some dirt before hitting something. Could it really be? As Lil screamed in her, Mandy stared at the trap door. They found the treasure!! They were going to be RICH! "Well of course we're going to open it. I didn't come out here just to stare at a hatch," Mandy replied promptly and pulled open the trap door with all her might. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
ooc: this icon, equals awesome. </a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-30 01:13 (link) | |
Lil watched as Mandy pulled open the door. She would have helped, but she was already digging the dirt out of her nails. The door swung back and landed on the ground with a great thud and sent dirt everywhere. Lil started to cough, but quickly gazed into what appeared to be a sort of basement type of thing. For a moment, nothing happened. Then suddenly. "AH!! WHAT ARE THEY!!?!?" Lil screeched, pointing towards the hole. A heard of snails came...er..racing? Out of the hole. "MANDY!!" Lil tried to scramble away, but snails started to slime their way towards her. Great. I'm stuck to the GROUND! Thought Lil as she tried to stand up, but the goo kept her down. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>brockling 2007-08-30 02:47 (link) | |
Mandy pulled open the trap door, peered into it and saw a something colourful admist all the dirt. "SUCCE-AAAAAAERGH" cried Mandy, for a few seconds later the colourful thing had jumped out and knocked her backwards onto the ground. "YUCK!" Mandy yelled as she got slimed in the face by a couple of snails. This was all her fault. If she hadn't been so consumed by the thought of treasure, they might now be here right now; stuck on the ground, overthrown by SNAILS of all things. "So how long do you think we'll be here?" she asked, hoping to sound casual, while trying to get the slime off. The last thing they needed was someone to panic. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread) |
</a></b></a>little_moon 2007-08-30 03:07 (link) | |
Lil looked at the slime attached to her arm and watched the Streelers slowly getting away. "Are you KIDDING?! They're heading to the castle! Mandy! What do we do!? Oooh yuck yuck yucky yuck YUCK!" Lil hated this slime. It was the worse kind. Not that she's been slimed before, but this was just gross. |