Changing Rooms || Secret Blossom Ball Event Fin

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After the fireworks had gone off and the light had slightly blinded everyone, there were a couple of seconds of complete peace, during which nobody talked. But of course that did not last long.

@Alan Vanes was the first one to break the silence; worried for his first year Hufflepuff friend Jake Morris, he immediately jumped to his defence, asking Erin to let the young boy go, and wondering out loud what was even happening to everyone there.

@Jack Burnett tried to bring some peace in the chaos, as he explained his plan to the group in front of him. His idea was to shut down the Ball by releasing the bludgers and prevent any further disaster from happening, since lately between fires and spiders in common rooms the students had suffered a lot. He had asked Erin to help him since she knew where the bludgers were kept, hoping that releasing them might correct the mistake that the students that organised the ball did when they decided to go against the rules and endanger everyone. After that he proceeded to scold the prefects for not doing their job, since they should have been valuing the safety of the students above anything else, before he reassured everyone that Jake would have not been harmed.

Of course @Jack Warren didn't share Burnett's plan, and he made sure to tell him, while pointing out that if he was that against it he should not have come and instead he should have told the professors; then he concentrated on his badger friend, worried about him being passed out in Erin's arms.

Burnett of course quickly replied to the younger Hufflepuff prefect, saying that if he would have snitched to the professors, the organisers of the illegal ball wouldn't have learned their lesson, but if the bludgers were released it would have been a test to see how safe the ball actually was, and to see how they would have handled a crisis. But it wasn't just a test, it would have been a way to surprise whoever had started those fires in the common rooms or let the spiders in, throwing them off their feet and making sure that the students were ready to react against danger. After remarking that he was not dangerous, Burnett asked to the others if anybody else had something to say since, in his opinion, their time of action was limited and it was running low.

Worried for his little badger, @George Henry spoke up and demanded that Erin and Burnett to give Jake back to him, but then @Grace Mint agreed out loud with Burnett's plan, and George couldn't help but snap at her."Oh, go away oan yer trolley now! You're not even meant to be in the boys' room! What're you gonna do anyway, chase us 'round in your frilly dress? The bludgers'll knock off your pretty head if they come out!" He said, before realising that Grace actually could have helped his cause of giving the bludgers to Jake, so he apologised to her, his face as red as a tomato. The Ravenclaw girl didn't take well the way that George had talked to her, so she slapped him, apologising right after and saying that she didn't like when boys were rude to her.

As he pinched the bridge of his nose, it looked like @Quinn Healy had enough of Burnett's talking; standing up in his full height of 7'8". "Mr. Burnett I would appreciate it if you would respectfully shut up and actually think about your actions." he had started saying, before he continued in lecturing the Slytherin boy on how his plan would have only brought panic an fear among the students, and that the fear would have made them do anything in their power to make it go away; it would have made them paranoid, and they would not have trusted the Prefects anymore. Then, just as he declared that the violence and harm towards other students had to end, the half-giant grabbed and picked up Burnett, bringing him eye to eye with himself, only to then tell him not to go around and traumatise the students, and to start acting like one, a little threat hidden in his words, as he said that he would have kept an eye on him from that moment on. After that, he let the boy go and fall on the ground, as he hoped that Burnett would have listened to his words.

Jack Burnett, after he got back up from the floor, admitted that his plan was stupid, but that at least he had tried to do something to stop the ball, and that even though he didn't know that so many prefects would have taken part to the event, he would have expected them to report to the Professors about it, since it put the life of the students in danger. Then he explained to Quinn that he also thought that the Prefects should have spent more time training Warren not to use violence to resolve conflicts, rather than lecturing him on how wrong his plan was, before he announced he would have stopped going after the bludgers to join the event in the pitch.

While the whole discussion between Healy and Burnett was going on, George Henry hurried up to Jake and tried to reassure him, before asking him what was up with his sudden interest in the bludgers.

@Erin Ryan had been trying to back up Burnett while he argued with Warren, saying that the Prefects hardly protect the students anymore, that nobody seemed to notice that some students had been going missing in the last three years, if not for longer. Then, after stating that Jake smelled yummy and innocent and that he was her thing now, she ordered Grace to stand in Warren's way so that he wouldn't be able to leave with the bludgers box. But then, as Burnett and Quinn talked, the girl slowly realised that the guy she had thought was Paracelsus, was actually yet another imposer; that shocked her, making her hands and lips go numb, before she answered Henry's question about the bludgers and stating that she had no idea since she had only been asked to grab them. After that, she let go of Jake as she tried to handle the emotions she was feeling before she decided that she would have left the room.

@Oliver Hart listened to Erin as the girl apologised to him for bringing him into all of that and he shook his head, before he agreed on leaving with her; he was caught by surprise though when the girl told him to enjoy the ball, and he hurried after her to make sure that she would not leave the party yet.

Once Jake was safe again with George and Alan, who had hurried towards him and was now holding him up as he spoke to him in a clam and gentle way. , Quinn made sure to ask the fellow Hufflepuff student how the little badger was, worried for him, as both his voice and his posture went back to normal.

As all of this was going on, another Hufflepuff Prefect, @Annie Morgan had walked inside the boys' changing rooms, after a short break from the ball in the girls' one. Once her eyes caught a glimpse of the poor little Jake on the floor, her mother instinct kicked in and she walked up to Quinn. "What the bloody hell is happening, I came back from the dance and walk into the changing rooms only to hear yelling and see Jake on the floor, has something bad happened again?" She asked, as she wondered what the bludgers had to do with all of the chaos that was going on in the room.

Warren of course pointed out how many girl there were now in the boys' locker room, questioning whether they knew the meaning of "boys' locker room".

Burnett, after a last chat with Haley about Warren, made sure to point out that Erin knew that she would have been going inside the boys' changing room, but that she had done that only to help the Slytherin boy with his plan. Then, irritated at Warren and himself, he headed out of the door, leaving the changing room behind him as he hurried after Erin.

But what about @Jake Morris, what had happened to him during all of this mess?

After the loud and bright explosion of the fireworks, the young badger was ready for the worst to come, trembling against Erin; but when the end did not come, he felt his body relax a little bit, even though he was still panicked. He listened to everything that was going on around him, from Burnett and Warren arguing, to Quinn's words, to George demanding him back. Erin's voice in his ear terrorised him as tears rolled down his eyes, he didn't know who or what had grabbed him; then, suddenly, he found himself into Alan's arms, his voice asking him gently if he could stand up, but he couldn't. The third year Gryffindor, together with George helped him sitting down on a bench, and when he finally had his beloved Freddie back in his arms, Jake felt like he could breath again. The voice in his head was quiet again, even though he didn't know how long that would have lasted, and he took the opportunity to allow his body to relax some more as he leaned against Alan. He didn't feel like he was able to answer all of the questions they were asking him, but when Alan asked what had happened the little badger had tried to explain them about the voice, but in the end he gave up, certain that they would have not believed him. Then, Jake talked directly to George, and begged him and Alan to go back to the castle; he wasn't feeling well, and he could feel that something bad was about to happen.

"We should all go. Something is gonna happen. I know it is, please,"

The young badger wasn't wrong.

Because once all of the chaos seemed to have quieted down, a weird atmosphere filled both of the changing rooms.

The music coming from the pitch area suddenly stopped, just as the magic candles, still surrounded by their protective bubbles, had started to flicker, casting creepy and ominous shadows all over the walls and floor. The light slowly started to get fainter and fainter, the candles gradually dying out for no apparent reason; only a couple of them didn't completely blow out, even though their small glow was in no way big enough to cast any kind of light around the room.

Whoever was still in the changing rooms would find themselves immersed in complete darkness, and if they were to head outside and glance at the inside of the pitch, all they would be able to see would be just an immense sea of blackness, a distant buzzing sound echoing through the dark.


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The girl with purple hair would only release Jake on her own terms. She knew how to handle a hostage. It made sense, considering that each word out of her mouth made her sound crazier than the last. Her ramblings were as amusing as they were deranged. Jack Warren didn't have the social skills required to have a conversation that didn't involve punching, let alone maintain a disguise for any amount of time, and the idea that Quinn was a cannibal was so hilarious that George would later consider repeating it as fact. He couldn't help but smile at how proud the girl looked when Green Jack called her his 'charming companion'. They were all just kids acting like grown-ups, as serious as things had seemed a moment ago, and it wasn't like the girl was going to kill Jake. The baby badger had wanted the bludgers, anyway.

His amusement was doused by a few odd behaviours from the scary, pretty girl. She was smelling Jake like he was fine dining, keeping the little badger held tight. George approached anyway, though he backed off a step when Erin swatted at him, his footwork light and graceful like a fencer's as he managed his distance. When he leaned in to ask Jake a question, Erin spoke back, much to George's surprise.

She... didn't have a clue? She was willing to take a hostage just because she'd been asked nicely? My, she was a girl worthy of Hufflepuff colours with that level of faith in her friends. And he smelled weird, too? George accepted Jake from the girl, giving him a quick hug to try and pull him back to reality. He smelled the younger boy's hair and let go, worried that a prolonged hug might urge the little one to cry. He couldn't smell anything, but perhaps the girl had a more keen nose. George grumbled to Jake. "Can you at least use soap the one time I take you to a ball?"

Then the girl swore, and George looked up, worried she might strike again. But she wouldn't. She was crying. She rubbed her ugly necklace and scurried off, crying. In other circumstances, George would have offered his sympathy, but these were not other circumstances.

"He's fine," George assured Quinn, without checking. More people were swarming - a girl Hufflepuff, likely attracted by the subsonic frequencies at which Jake cried. They always buzzed around him when he got upset. No wonder he acted like such a baby. It worked for him. Alan closed in, too, asking poor, precious Jake what had happened. Trying to make everything all better. Just asking him to calm down was a bad move. Never worked. "Nothing bad is happening! You say the word bludger in a quidditch pitch and everyone freaks out!"

George, too, was freaking out. His face was red - embarrassed and angry and upset all at once, furious that his chance for a normal ball had been ruined. He felt ugly in his clothes, mistaken for a girl. Jake was predictably upset. Everyone could see the makeup left on George's face. He looked like some kind of sad clown. What would it take to get everyone to shut up so he could have one good dance?

Grace slapped him. George looked down at the small Ravenclaw girl, blinking incredulously. He rubbed his sore cheek, staring daggers down at her. He spoke with an eerie calm. "I don't think you're pretty, I think you're mental. Get out of the boy's room."

Jack Burnett had the audacity to continue acting righteous after tearing through the changing room like a hurricane. George's sudden calm snapped, and he shouted after Burnett as the boy departed. "Look, you made your charming companion cry! And don't worry, everyone agrees this is YOUR FAULT!"

Things were returning to equilibrium with the loudest of the interlopers gone, but there was still one person standing in his way, stopping him from having the fun evening that this was supposed to be. Jake Morris was tugging on George's arm, pleading incessantly. He wants to go home. He wants to go home. He wants to go home. "Shut up!"

But the silence that followed was too silent. The music stopped. Jake was right. Something was wrong and they had to go. Even after snapping at the young badger, George muttered an apology and clutched tight on Jake's arm, refusing to let him go.

"I'm sorry," he muttered, his voice choked as inky blackness descended on the room. This was a familiar routine for George. He needed to have a routine for this kind of thing at this awful school - it was the only thing that kept him sane. Step one was already done; Jake had Freddie with him. All he needed now was his nightlight. George reached down to his belt and wiggled his wand free from where it had been stuck, holding it out in the dark and swishing it in a practiced motion.

"Lumos!"

Action: casting lumos.

Most of the people who were fighting and discussing mere moments ago were gone now and quiet would have returned, if it wasn't for Jake's crying and whining and the sound of a slap that echoed through the room. Alan twisted his head around after making sure that Jake sat down correctly and wouldn't just fall off the bench. His eyes searched for George and when he saw the angry red print of a hand on his pale cheek, his eyes snapped towards the girl. "Why the heck would you do that?!", he asked in shock, even more shocked to speak it so fluently. His eyes narrowed at the girl and he nodded at George's words. "Th-This is the b-boy's locker room, you sh-shouldn't be here. W-Excuse me f-for my language b-but th-this isn't b-being rude, th-this is you b-being a pervert wh-who c-can't differ b-between the boys a-and girls r-rooms-", he huffed out. How dare she hit George? Sure the Hufflepuff hasn't been very nice in the way he spoke but he was right; the girl did not belong into the boy's locker room!

Jake began to plead and beg to just go back to the castle already, which would pull Alan back to the present as he turned towards the smaller badger. The situation seemed to be getting out of hand again, when George snapped at Jake, only to apologize right away and then... darkness and quiet. Weird. What happened? It was dark... completely dark! "W-Well you, g-girl, should probably st-stayhere n-now; wh-whatever is g-going on is n-not right...", he muttered, as he tried to make out any shapes for orientation, before taking his wand from the leather holster around his hip. She should not be wandering off alone now. "Lumos!", he muttered as he drew the required movement into the darkness, in the hopes to spend a bit of light to regain his sense of sight.

Action: Look Around, then cast Lumos

Reducio

Clothes

Shoes:

OPEN TO INTERACTIONS (both positive and negative LOL)

Action: Jo lashes out at the group when the lights go out, but then offers to exit to the Pitch to check on what is happening.

Interaction with @Jo Morgan

Open to interactions with others.

OPEN TO INTERACTIONS (both positive and negative LOL)

Currently Interacting With: @Slade Deol

Attempting Interaction with: All in room.

"Hey, are you ok? My names Slade by the way Slade Deol! What the heck is going on here?"

[font="Monotype Corsiva"]There was so much happening at once, despite things beginning to quiet down. It was starting to overwhelm Quinn especially when another prefect came Annie. What's with all the girls barging into the boy's locker room!? You don't see the boys doing that in the girl's. That was besides the point, it appeared as though things were finally beginning to qui-

A strange feeling hit Quinn, and before he could even ponder a second further darkness hit. It was all encompassing and eerie. Quinn didn't like this, but furthermore on top of not being able to see his heart began to race. He had come here because of Nico, where was she? Was she on the pitch would she be in the stands? He didn't know he couldn't see but all he knew right now was that nothing else mattered but making Nico safe. He was late as is all things considered.

Ignoring everything and everyone Quinn with his massive size would fumble, and stumble his way out of the changing rooms. He had a decision though should he check the stands or pitch first. It would be difficult he couldn't see worth a damn and he also refused to use his magic. He had tried so many times before, and so often did it fail him when he needed it. No Quinn would rely on himself if he could help it. So hopefully not running into anyone or anything he exited the changing rooms and headed for the stands.

He would check there and than the pitch itself. Less stumbling that way and hopefully he might be able to notice something from that great height but that was doubtful. Hopefully his friends would forgive his selfish behavior. He would understand if they didn't...[/font]

[font="Monotype Corsiva"]Action: Leaving the changing rooms and headed to the Quidditch Stands to look for Nico[/font]

Interaction with: @George Henry @Jake Morris @Jo Morgan @Annie Morgan
Mentions: @Quinn Healy

Jack had foolishly thought that the danger had passed; he was supremely wrong. Bludgers flying around like a menace without wings should have been the most of the boy's concerns. However, Jack was standing beside his best friends, one of which is having a minor breakdown(@Jake Morris), while the other is having a significant freakout at the one who is having a minor breakdown(@George Henry).

Jack's attention had been drawn to his littlest friend as he rambled on about how they needed to leave. Something terrible would happen, he said. "Jake, all of the bad things are over-" That's when a certain sour somebody decided to snap out towards the little boy. Jack glared at George. How dare he snap at that boy yell at his little padawan that way! Jack took a few steps over to George to slug him in the arm. Another girl, suddenly, had popped up out of nowhere, claiming that people had forgotten she was there! (Which was true, but still). Jack's mind was still slightly preoccupied with trying to take care of his littlest badger.

As if at Jack's punch and the girl's random outburst had scared away the lights. Everything thing went to an ominous black. Darkness permeated around them. The sudden night only brought a sense of unease for the young Hufflepuff prefect. Pulling the cherrywood wand from his jacket pocket, Jack sighed. "Honestly, I have no clue about what's going on," He answered Jo, "but knowing this stupid school- it probably isn't gonna be a surprise party with puppies and rainbows." Before he could take any more action, an overly large boy rushed right past him- "Annie!? Did Quinn just leave us here in the dark?" Aside from his query, Jack raises his wand knowing that he should most likely prepare for the worst.

Action: Be snarky, then prepares his wand for the worst.

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