The Spark of an Adventure Closed

"Oh sure, I'll have some sweets, thanks, Adohiro," He said smiling at the boy. Just like James, Arceus noticed all the people, "Yeah, we're a lot of people I'm surprised.." He looked over at James while he stares into the forest. "Yeah I know what you're thinking, it would be cool to go in and explore" he gazed at the forest, it had a scary vibe coming off it with a thick tangle of bushes, trees and vines that were crawling around every crevice. They were so thick you couldn't see very far ahead and if you were to walk through you would definitely get poked with all the twigs sticking out of the trees, the floor was very mossy and looked quite damp even though it hadn't rained in a while and there were multicoloured mushrooms growing up from the ground. 

He got up and walked a little closer there was so much foliage you could barely see anything but since he moved closer he could see an opening deeper into the forest. "Hey guys come look at this" He said gesturing with his hand for them to move closer. He walked up to the forest and got hit in the face with the smell of hundreds of different plants. He moved closer until he was in the forest territory and waited for the others to come. With a big smile on his face, he looked at them and said "We're gonna have an adventure today!"

It began to grow late and curfew was just around the corner at Hogwarts. And some of Ignatius' dormmates were yet to arrive. He began to grow worried. Especially for James. A week into school and detention for walking past curfew was not the right way to go! It also didn't help that he hadn't seen James during the walk back to the dormitory. He seemed to have disappeared. And that only made Ignatius even more worried.

"Merlin's beard, here we go." He murmurs under his breath as he grabs his warmest jumper and gloves and places them on. Ignatius, whether he liked it or not, was loyal. And he began to grow comfortable with James, it made his life at Hogwarts, anxiously awaiting his family's unhappy howler about him being a badger rather than a snake, more bearable. Ignatius gave a glance at the dorm, readying himself for whatever he was to do and closed the door, soon enough exiting the Hufflepuff common room. And soon enough, Hogwarts castle entirely. Ignatius wasn't exactly sure why, but something had told him to start his search starting within the woods.

The walk was dark and quiet, but the sound of people talking the closer he got made him walk a bit faster, going towards the sound of talking. And before he knew it he was in front of a group of first year students like himself. And one just so happened to be James. He looked to the others as well, a majority were people he wasn't familiar with yet. It was a tad nerve wracking being in front of so many new people (or at least so many in Ignatius's mind) but he spoke up nether the less. "What are you lot doing here?" His tone was nowhere near rude, it was curious if anything.

Adohiro heard that Arceus wanted some sweets so he handed him a few pieces of an assorted wrapped candy. "It is Gangjeong, traditional candy from my homeland. They are sweet rice puffs and they are homemade." He smiled. He had hoped it would taste okay to Arceus. He saw James and he waved, offering him also a piece of the confectionary candy. He heard Arceus mention about exploring the forest which did not sound like a good idea, but it was somewhat tempting. "It is our first day of school. We would bring shame to our family name if we get detention for venturing out where we are not supposed to be in. But it is somewhat tempting to explore." Adohiro warned. Knowing this was a bad idea especially if they were caught. Soon he saw a dark-haired boy walk in, asking what they were doing. "I believe we are standing here as of now. It is a pleasure to meet you." Adohiro spoke, offering the unknown dark-haired boy some rice sweet puffs to him. Not knowing if the boy would like it or not, but it wouldn't hurt to try it. He began to munch on his own Gangjeong, already beginning to miss his home. 

Gangjeong

"Yeah I know what you're thinking, it would be cool to go in and explore" Arceus agreed.
James watched as Arceus got up and walked a little closer to the forest. He got right up to the edge of it, and seemed to be looking at something.
James attention was temporarily grabbed elsewhere as Adohiro passed some sweets out to everyone. James smiled and held his hands out for some, wondering what this foreign candy would taste like, as he saw Adohiro motioning and talking to someone else. James looked over to where Adohiro was looking, and saw a familiar Hufflepuff face.
"Ignatius!" James exclaimed. "More friends!" James laughed a bit, smiling even more.
"What are you lot doing here?" he asked curiously. James shrugged. And before he could answer, he heard somewhere behind him, Arceus calling out.
"Hey guys come look at this!" James turned to face towards him, and his eyes snapped open wide when he saw Arceus already in the trees. Still visible, but in the forest. "We're gonna have an adventure today!"
James gestured to Arceus while looking back at Ignatius.
"I guess that's what we're doing..." James said, chuckling.
James stood up, looking over at Arceus as Adohiro spoke up again.
"It is our first day of school. We would bring shame to our family name if we get detention for venturing out where we are not supposed to be in. But it is somewhat tempting to explore."
James bumped Adohiro lightly on the shoulder.
"I'm honestly not one for rule-breaking, but I won't deny that it is tempting."
James thought for a moment longer, before starting off towards where Arceus was. James stood at the edge of the forest, looking in at where Arceus stood.
"Having fun in there?" James asked, smiling jokingly at Arceus.

I sat beside James, wondering if he would go into the forest. 'If he goes into the forest, I go. I can't let him go alone. Well, he won't be alone, he'll have Arceus. I don't wanna be alone" I look into the forest and see Arceus looking at something, apparently extremely interested by it. "Hiro, please have a little fun. It isn't all work, work, work. And if your family starts crap, you can come over to my place!" I stand up and grab James' hand, making him stand up beside me. 'Let go of it, and just walk. Walk into the woods with Arceus.' I drop James' hand from mine, feeling my heart beating 200 beats a minute once I do. I stare at my hand like I had touched a god. 'Well, in your eyes he is a god Alecks. STOP BEING STUPID' I turn away from James and walked into the woods. I walk, staring at the grass beneath my feet as I walk into the Forbidden Forest. And me walking into the Forbidden Forest, was really just me walking straight into Arceus. And by, like straight into James, I mean, seriously, the line I walked into James was straighter than I am. 'That isn't that hard to do, you idiot.' "I-I sorry Arceus"

Jenna, done with all of her classes, decided to take a walk before dinner. She thought long and hard about her... interesting day. It didn't go exactly as she had hoped... It wasn't the normal day she wanted. (Unless passing out in the Ballroom and blowing up an origami duck is a typical kind of day.) Not being able to take a break before, Jenna was relieved that she could relax and not have to worry about embarrassing herself in front of everyone. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and let it out with a smile. Fresh air felt really good. Jenna felt free somehow, like her hands were untied from a burden of her klutziness. 

Jenna's pink hair blew in the wind as she walked down to the edge of the forest. She tried to look deep into it, but failed to, due to the high number of trees in the area. Something about the forest made her shudder. Perhaps how dark it seemed compared to the bright, colorful sky. Jenna felt immediately unsafe. Paranoia washed over her, and she did a quick spin to look in every direction. A twig snapped.

She almost jumped out of her skin as she grasped her wand, quick as lightning. She pointed it at the woods viciously, biting her lip in fear. Whatever was there, Jenna didn't like the feeling it gave her. Then she heard voices. One of them sounded vaguely familiar, so Jenna leaned cautiously toward the trees, cupping her ear to hear better. 

It's... James! But where is he?

She squinted her eyes, trying to see even the slightest thing in the forest, but there was no such luck.
Suddenly, a branch fell from the tree right next to her. Jenna screamed and sparks flew out of her wand. She sat up quick and looked at the trees in front of her. The sparks from her wand had created tiny flames, and those flames weren't getting any smaller. Quite the opposite, actually. As the flames formed together to about the size of a normal campfire, Jenna shot up to her feet and ran, very stupidly, into the part of the forest behind her, screaming like a mad person at the top of her lungs.

James suddenly felt himself lose his balance as Alecks came stumbling into him and Arceus. James had no idea where the heck that had come from, but he was more focused on breaking his fall. James held out his hands reflexively and ended up getting wet dirt all over them, caking his palms in cool, dry, but still moist mud. James managed to avoid crashing into the roots of the tree next to them, and landed on his side with a thump.
"I-I sorry…” Alecks stammered out.
James laughed a bit, shook his head and stood up, brushing a bit of the dirt off of his knees.
He reached out and helped up Arceus and then Alecks, wincing at the scratchiness on his hands.
“No worries, Alecks.” James said, standing up with the other two. James continued to wipe off the mud plastered to his jeans, but stopped abruptly when he heard a loud yelp from somewhere in the distance. The voice sounded the tiniest bit familiar, and James’ head snapped up, looking around at all of his friends there.
Alecks and Arceus were both right next to him, and Adohiro, Ignatius, Ani and Chloe were all just a short distance a way, but James couldn’t see any reason for any of them to yelp.
Before James could ponder it anymore, another, longer scream echoed through the forest only a short distance away.
“Wait…” James exclaimed thoughtfully. He looked over at Ani with a look of worry on his face. “That sounded like Jenna!”
It was then that James saw the smoke.

(Sorry of you where waiting for something specific. Cause juliana is actually in the forest trying to get some alone time)
Juliana hears a piercing scream that startled her. Then she sees a bit smoke. Juliana runs toward the edge of the forest, she sees a pink headed girl screaming and a small fire on the tree. She runs over to the gir,l takes out her wand and says, "Geez, you Dont know any spells/charms for this type of thing? Aqua Eructo! You see its that easy... Uh, this charm should be taught to first years instead of fourth years. *cough cough, waves arm at leftover smoke* so... Uh... Call me Puppet. I hate my first name. And um, Im guessing you are in Hufflepuff." Juliana said to the girl with a smirk. She looked back at the forest, she saw other people. "Oh is that you little boyfriend over there? Oh I see! You where screaming just so he could come and save you. Oh poor little girl..." Juliana laughed, then she grabbed her bag and walled away. Leaving a portrait of a Slytherin with a really annoyed looking face. At the bottom it wrote in tiny letter 'Dmitri'. It even had Juliana's signature on it. She continued to walk away thinking about what other drawings she could make besides gore, snakes, and portraits of Slytherins...

Alecks looked up as he heard an ear- piercing scream that had interrupted the small talk that had been very small. As he looked up, he saw a black smoke drifting into the air and then disappearing. He felt his legs move before he had even registered that smoke meant fire. When he got there, he saw James following a pink- haired girl out of the woods. She was screaming, so Alecks assumed that she had been the one who had let out the screech earlier and presumably started the fire. There was also this goth- like girl who had used a spell Alecks hadn't learned yet to put out the blaze. The goth- like girl was being so rude to the pink- haired girl, bullying her because she was presumably a Hufflepuff and she had been scared of the fire. "Hey Puppet! Stop being such a bully! So what if she is a Hufflepuff? She still has more guts than you, because it takes a lot more to be nice and scared in front of people than to be mean and shut- up in yourself." Alecks takes deep breathes as he tries to calm down and he looks at the ground. A drawing of the Slytherin crest was on the ground, and if it wasn't by Puppet, he would've liked it. "Also, you dropped this" He picks up the drawing and shoves it towards her. Alecks turns and takes few steps before stopping and turn towards James and the pink- haired girl, "I'm sorry you saw me like that, I shouldn't have done that."

Jenna looked at the girl with the dark hair; Puppet in shock. Who did she think she was, showing off like that?! And James was most definitely not her boyfriend. Tears of embarrassment and anger filled her eyes. Then she jumped when she heard someone else calling out to her. 
"Hey Puppet! Stop being such a bully! So what if she is a Hufflepuff? She still has more guts than you, because it takes a lot more to be nice and scared in front of people than to be mean and shut- up in yourself." Jenna turned to see a boy standing there, looking clearly frustrated. He threw something at Puppet that she had left behind. 
Jenna looked at him in awe. How could he be so outgoing like that? I could never stand up to someone so cruel. I guess that's why I just sat there with my mouth open like an idiot... Then she realized that she never closed her mouth. Jenna snapped her mouth shut quick and silently cursed herself for being so dumb. Now was her chance to redeem herself... so she hoped... 
"Hi! I'm Jenna. Jenna Loveland. Sorry- that was weird to say my last name, why did I do that?? Uh-"
She paused and cringed at herself. "Sorry! Just me being the idiot that I am..."