Blossomfest The Lake Event

Its been a while since the last time Alex got out on a nice walk, too long in fact. All his time spent on burring his head into books or trying to catch up with Erin's constant shenanigans. He however didn't hear the news about the dance, it must have slipped him, much like so many other things lately. The cool breeze of the evening night brushing through his robes would sometimes cause the collar to stick to his face, it was too loose to his liking, but he'd occasionally brush it back off. He could see light in the distance, various lights in fact, alternating in color far away from the castle.

"That's odd, is there a party of some sort out there? Might as well check it out"

The thought occurred to him for a brief moment, it didn't take him long to realize that he was already heading that way, as if his legs had a mind of their own. The scenery was definitely something else, there was quite a bit of chatter, but no familiar faces. He would walk through the crowd which at first glance were typical for those kinds of events, but something caught his attention. A voice louder than most, somewhere up ahead. He started picking his pace and the blond kid found the source. It was one of those Hufflepuff kids yelling at someone, he couldn't immediately see who it was, the huffle blocked the view.

"Man, look at him go, whatever it is they did, that's a bit excessive, better put a stop to it before it gets out of hand"

He started to go around the kid, and it appears that the victim is a Slytherin girl. Kinda pretty too. He didn't get a good look at the Hufflepuff though, not yet, but without realizing his arm was already extended to the kid, attempting to grip his shoulder and violently yank it towards him to force the kid to face Alex.

"Hey there bud, your voice gives me a headache, mind dropping those tones for me?"

He was talking without thinking, he was smiling but it was clearly fake, more of a curtsy for a stranger picking on another. Maybe some of Erin's violent personality rubbed off on him, maybe he just wanted to help the Slytherin escape the abuse, but surely he dislikes the rubbish this kid was spewing most of all.

Stamina: 10 | Agility: 8 | Strength: 12 | Control: 5

Ruka is affected by Veritaserum

Rowan. Screeched.

A full on screech, that made a good portion of people's gaze whip to them in both concern and confusion. He went bright red, making it even worse as he shoved against Miko's chest, glaring. 

"You little sh*t! You suck! Gods above and below the only thing I told you to do was not drop me! You scared me half to death!" 

His anger.. or whatever it was was short lived though, as he wrapped his arms around his neck again and hid his face in his chest, embarrassed. He almost missed what Celynne said too. Though as Miko said his part, he remembered what she had said. 

"Yeah. There's a growing list of things my father is going to murder me for eventually. I'm actually kinda surpised he hasn't sent a howler at some point durring the year yet. Though I suppose he's too sophisticated for such a 'barbaric' form of communication."

Rowan did air quotes around barbaric, laughing softly. Let's see, there was elena, there was miko, there was his appearance, there was the wheelchair, there was the fact that he was in ROAM... ahh.. he would be so pissed at him when he saw the male next.

Interacting with @Donnovan Perrywinkle , @Ruka Tân and @Alexander Cloverfield

Nico didn't even get the chance to reach the tree she had an eye on. The Huffelpuff in question had already noticed her. Pip growled as he nearly jumped at the boy. She held Pip tightly in her hands, holding him back. Donnovan Perrywinkle. She didn't forget his name. How could she? She gave him detention afterall. His friend Ruka Tân was present aswell. Luckily, he wasn't in a violent mood as his yellow bud was. Nico had already noticed that Donnovan was the dominant one while Ruka was a rather ... more kind person.

S-Snooping? For a brief moment she wasn't sure if she was trespassing but she knew better...

Nico froze up, she didn't like when people yelled at her. Not now. She didn't come here as a Prefect. She just had an awful first date and now this...
He was so close to her yet chose to yell...

'I think you should keep your greasy nose out of peoples business for a change! Maybe settle down once and a while eh'? Take a break and just PISS OFF because I'm tired along with the rest of everyone here, of your lousy, stupid, arrogant--AUTHORITARIAN remarks, before little Ms. Slytherin gets a taste of her own medicine!"

She swallowed as she mustered all her courage. What was his deal? She just did her job. It's not like she loved giving students detention. It was quite the oppposite. Being cornered and exposed like this made her feel vulnerable and her Pygmy Puff knew. It wiggled its tongue agressively, ready to strike the boy at any moment. His glasses wouldn't be enough to save his eyesight. Nico finally found the courage to speak up until a blond boy she didn't know stepped up.

Almost like a Prince, he appeared out of nowhere to save a damsel in distress. Cheesy, Nico. Cheesy.

Apparantly the surprise appearance of this Gryffindor, startled Donnovan as he seemed to come back to his senses. Nico sighed and quickly rubbed away some tears that nearly rolled down her cheeks.

At this point Ruka came to save his Badger. As he spoke, Nico couldn't help but notice how he talked the same way and volume like Donnovan did. What in the world was going on... They almost seemed drunk. But that would be impossible... right?

The Slytherin Prefect had seen enough and carefully walked between the Gryffindor Prince and the two drunk students. 'A-Alright.. Settle down.' She gently rested her hands on the chest of Donnovan and the blond boy as to keep them at bay. 'No fighting.' She first turned to the blonde stranger and smiled softly, a faint blush on her cheeks. She was rather embarassed that she couldn't keep the situation in control. 'T-Thank you. I was... having abit of trouble there.' Pip peeked at the mysterious boy from between her red hair, wiggling his nose curiously.

Now turning to the two boys, her face became rather stern. 'You two again.' She let go of the others boy chest and folded her arms. She eyed at Rukas wand. 'You better put that away. There's no need to use that here. We all came here to have fun, no?' With her index finger, she gently pushed his hand down before looking at Donnovan. Seeing the look on his face, he must've felt deeply ashamed. 'Since you say you have no idea of what just happened. Let me clarify this to you. I have no idea why you two are acting so loud and weird...' Pip ran over to her other shoulder to face the rude Huffelpuff, snarling softly. '...But there was no need to.. just .. do that you know?' Her voice broke, she tried to be brave and strong but today wasn't her day. She sniffled and rubbed her tears with the palm of her hands. 'Wh-Why did you have to be such a jerk... I only did my job... If you guys hadn't been there then you wouldn't have gotten detention. Simple. As. That!' The last word, she screamed it at him.

She didn't feel ashamed for doing so. It didn't matter if it was magic that had overcome him. This was just wrong. Her face was red from crying, making her ice blue eyes stand out more.

In a few seconds, she pulled herself together. Enough of that.Her eyebrows cast a shadow over her eyes. 'For the sake of everyone here, even you two. I won't give you guys detention. But another one of these tricks... You'll be back scooping poop from the owlery.' She sniffled still while she talked. Even her voice still shivered a little.

Interacting with @Donnovan Perrywinkle , @Ruka Tân and @Nico Shymane

Alex yanked the boy towards him but something strange has happened. The kid started to act weird, as if not only nothing has happened but... Somewhat different all together, like he was a whole different person. Alex started get a bit angrier

"Is he making fun of me? Pretending that he is confused and nothing happened at all? What sort of bullshit is this?"

Before he could add anything or do anything someone else has stepped up, to fill the already small gap Alex and the huffle had, and just like his friend, this kid was also, quite loud. He was protecting his friend, he was justifying him, he was demanding that Alex would step back and leave them be. Normally Alex would be more than happy to do so, but his friend was extremely abusive, spewing nonesense left and right without regard of anyone else. He quickly snuck a glance to the red haired slytherin, her eyes gotten red, maybe they already were before Alex showed up, she was either ready to cry or was crying already, that made the situation so much worst.

The blond young wizard was ready to shove the short Gryffindor out of his way and get things settled with the hufflepuff, but then the girl got into their small huddle, placing her hand on each of their chests as if to try to separate the two a bit further, the huffle was murmering something, demanding explanation, the girl was requesting all of them to calm down. She was then started stating what has already happened, how they were acting like loud jerks and apparently she gave them detention? Alex was unaware she was a prefect, not that it really mattered.

"Was that so hard? Look at how calmly you're speaking now, keep at it champ"

A quick remark to the huffle before his gaze lowered to the Gryffindor

"Well, I wont touch your friend as long as he behaves, but I will hurt him if he doesn't, fair, isn't it?"

Everything was happening so fast, the pace of all of this was insane, one moment they're in a heated argument, another the assaulted victim tries to break up a fight, not that Alex was planning on actually swinging his fists or anything or using his wand... He just realized that the Slytherin mentioned something about a wand, was the Gryffindor going to use it? Surely he wouldn't, that goes against regulations after all. Then girl finished scolding the two, Alex finally took a step away from the Gryffindor who was quite frankly too close to him for his own comfort and instead faced the red head.

"Hey, are you ok?

A simple question which normally results in a white lie, normally, likely in this case as well, he didn't expect to hear anything else in fact and he'd be okay with that as well.

"Come along, I'll get you something to drink"

From experience, water or any other beverage helps calm the nerves, she was clearly crying, he figured that would be the best thing to do now, better to not leave her with these two after all, who knows what they'll do once Alex leaves them be.

Amnis.

The girl chuckled at the sight, raising a hand—still dry—to hide her mouth inconspicuously, sleeve—definitely not still dry—dripping water as it was pulled out of the lake momentarily. Her eyes bent into crescent moons before she dropped the hand, walking forward in the water to join the other two students, white fabric trailing behind her in the lake in a way that looked cool but was honestly very inconvenient for walking. "I mean, technically he didn't drop you. Not completely, at least."

On the subject of being taught to swim... Cel spread her arms. "Please, be my guess if you want to try, but I doubt you'll be able to. I tend to stick to other sports." Several other sports that she admittedly wasn't the best in. The strength-requiring activities that she really was good at numbered few, although the daily climb up the West Tower had strengthened her legs considerably. "Besides, I don't want to distract you—I don't think Rowan's going to be very happy if you drop him again."

Water reached up to her ribs now; most likely she wouldn't be able to go much deeper. The Ravenclaw folded her arms to keep them dry. There really were quite a few Purebloods here, so her original thought of not letting her stepmother know about her visit was more or less trashed, but you know what, she didn't really give a crap—at least she'd be able to use her appearance at the Blossomball as a point of argument. The argument that she would, of course, end up losing, but not without a fight.

Truthfully, her previous sentiment of being off the hook once Svana's attention had been directed toward Dorian might not happen. Certainly, Svana tended to freak out more at Dorian's antics, but what that boy decided to do was beyond her completely. Cel, on the other hand, was held to much higher expectations than her brother tended to be, but tried to follow them very closely. Clearly, she wasn't doing that tonight. "Ugh. My stepmother's been sending Owls threatening me with Howlers since I got here; I'm definitely going to suffer when she gets the chance to yell at me again."

Amnis = flowing water

Jade is under the effects of Veritaserum