Why screaming could be a good idea

Subject: Why screaming could be a good idea Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:04 pm

Leaves rustled under foot as Icky ventured deeper into the forbidden forest. Tree branches blocked his face now and then, but were thrown aside by a wave of his wand. Ah, the forbidden forest. Icarus always took a little walk in here whenever he was bored or needed to get his mind off things. A little walk in this forest, and you’re left refreshed and happy. Icarus looked up at the sky and smiled. It was darkish. Not total dark. But, dark for the day. Afternoon type of dark. The perfect color of sky for a venture in the forest. Not too dark, yet not too sunny. The perfect time too.

Perfect.
Perfect.
Perfect.

Everything was perfect! Icarus smiled as he decided to sit down by a particularly tall tree. He took a deep breath of forbidden forest air and closed his eyes contently. This forest was so overrated. He’d come in here many times since first year, yet never saw anything more exciting than a couple of centaurs. So what if they beat him up then? He was only a second year. Plus, he’d managed to live. Believe me, regular people do more harm than the creatures in this forest.

Suddenly, he heard rustling and some type of a snipping sound. A centaur? Icarus stood up, grabbing his wand as he did so. A clump of fur soon appeared coming up of a tree with a couple of legs.

Then…

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

[OOC: xDD...wanted to make a thread, but all I could think of...]

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:33 pm

'Where the bloody hell are you?' Matteus muttered. His cat Roxas was playing outside with him when he just took off in the forest! Great, fantastic... the forest. In the forest there were bugs, and Matteus HATED bugs. "Roxas!" he called hopelessly.

"ROX!"

He saw a flash of black dash east, jumping over a dead tree that had fallen over many years ago. Instinctively, he ran towards it and shouted, "It's not safe for you out here! com'mon! Roxas!"

That’s when he saw Icarus, and a centaur. "Oh shit!" he said as Icarus yelled, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Centaurs were generally nice creatures, but they didn't like humans in their area. Matteus had only seconds to act... be inside he sort of regretted do anything other than watching. He jumped towards Icarus and pushed him out of the way.

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Will had been following Icarus into the woods and watching him for awhile. He had been planning to start making "creaturish" noises that would freak him out, but the centaur did more than a great job.

Will tried to hold in his laughter as he heard the boy's "little girl scream", but every once and a while a chuckle escaped his lips.

Then he heard Matteus yelling, oh yes, he thought, this will be fun.

He peeked out from behind his hiding place, a giant oak tree, to see what was going on. Huh, they both looked quite scared. And the Centaur was horribly mad, Will stepped towards the scene, yet he was still about twenty five feet away. He thought about going to get help, but then they'd all be expelled. He waited for awhile, his laughter had stopped. The centaur was coming towards to Matteus, like he was going to ram right into him, Will pulled out his wand on impulse and shouted, "Conjunctivitis!", the centaur's eyes suddenly became white. Will smirked, he's blind now. The centaur spun around trying to find his victim in a world of black, it was quite sad actually. The centaur ran angrily off, probably going back to his heard. More would be coming.

Will ran up to the boys. "We've got to go," Will yelled, out of breath. "More will be coming."

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:25 am

Now, you might be wondering why Icarus screamed. Well, it had to do with him thinking it was more than one. Yes, more than one . He’d seen too many legs, you see. Plus, he had bad experiences with them too. He guessed insulting their looks, their actions and, most of all, their intelligence wasn’t too great in his part. Plus, doing it twice? The second time Icky found himself in the hospital wing for too long. Now, both sides dislike one another fiercely. So, with Icky thinking there was more than one, he decided to scream. He’d constructed a plan where he screamed, pretended to be frightened, then explained to the centaurs that he’d changed. It would get them to let him live with no problem.

Plus, he thought he was alone. But, nope, Matt soon turned up, pushing him aside. He was going to say it was ok with the centaur being only one when Will came along. Oh, goodie. Will muttered a spell, blinded the centaur and had it running away. The centaur was blood mad, probably going to bring back a herd of wild centaurs.

WAS. HE. MAD?

Then he asked them all to go back. Icarus rolled his eyes. “No,” he argued, “You two can go.” He stood up, brushing dirt off his robes. “Plus, I would have been fine if you two didn’t turn up and ruined everything. I had a plan and it didn’t involve the centaur running back to get more .” Smiling, he added, “Go ahead. Run along back. I would be finishing my little hike in the forest and going back when it’s done.”

With that, he turned around and ventured deeper into the forest, still smiling as he did so. Nope, he wasn’t mad. He was just hoping the two annoyance wouldn’t be tagging along.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:14 am

“No,” Icarus argued, “You two can go.” He stood up, brushing dirt off his robes. “Plus, I would have been fine if you two didn’t turn up and ruined everything. I had a plan and it didn’t involve the centaur running back to get more .” Smiling, he added, “Go ahead. Run along back. I would be finishing my little hike in the forest and going back when it’s done.”

Matteus gave an incredulous look at the boy in front of him, "Why you ungrateful little swine!" he yelled. Obviously his temper flared easily. "If you think that was a smart move that you pulled back there, then you need some serious mental help."

Icarus kept walking off towards the centaurs, and he didn't look to pleased.

Matteus groaned in protest, and ran his fingers through his hair nervously. "You see this?" he had turned to Will, pointing off to Icarus's direction, repeating, "Do you believe this guy?" Then muttered to himself, "the little mucker is going to get himself killed!"

He couldn't bear the thought of death on his hands. Sure he didn't care for the guy, but something like that was certainly damaging to the brain.

"Aurrrg!" Matteus yelled, "Wait up! You stupid, arrogant, arse!" He ran off towards him, trying to catch up. Perhaps he should join a track team... he seemed to run a lot more than an average person should. He was out of breath when he caught up.

"Why you--" he paused, "You'd better not get me killed, prat."

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Will smirked at Icarus. "So 'Icky', what exactly was the point of your little plan?" Then wish a swish of Will's wand the centaur's eyesight returned. Will waggled his fingers at the boy, "Enjoy yourself, Icky," and spun around, right as the centaur began to charge at the filthy little swine.

Will was enraged at Icarus for not accepting that he had saved his life. Once Will managed to find the break in the trees that led to the school he brushed off his robe, you are amazing, he thought about himself.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:36 am

OOC: Wait....didn't the centaur leave?

-Is confused-

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:45 am

((OOC: I think so... oh well we can just go with it XDD))

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:35 pm

[OOC: Alright…I made it so that the centaur came back =D]

Matt had gone all mad by his actions though Icky didn’t know why. He was minding his own business when Matt and that overconfident goof had decided to ruin all of his plans. Matt pushed Icky aside, leaving time for the other idiot to anger the centaur with one wave of his wand. The angry centaur had then ran away to gather more angry centaurs. Brilliant, right? Especially seeing as Icky had a plan to hike in this forest for a while longer. He had no plans to run away back into that overcrowded castle. So, now that these idiots had ruined it all they apologize this way? Ha! And to think Matt had been sorted in Hufflepuff.

He was in the mist of these thoughts when Will asked something he didn’t hear too well. Not that it mattered. He was probably going to ignore the prat, anyways. Suddenly, he heard hoof sounds and looked over to see the blind centaur coming back. He was alone, however. Icky grinned, guessing that the centaur couldn’t find its way to the rest of the gang. Good. Maybe he doesn’t know they were there.

But, nope. Will had decided to show off his stupidity a bit more and returned the centaur’s eyesight once more. With a wave of his hands, Will was now gone. Icky watched as the centaur hurled towards him. He was angry now and Icky knew that there wasn’t any way he could calm the creature down. Therefore, with a wave of his wand, he sent the centaur blind. The centaur shrieked and continued in the direction he was going, getting Icky to dodge away. With no Icky to hit, the centaur then bang itself onto a tree.

Icarus couldn’t help it. He laughed. “And centaurs were supposed to be smart?” The angry centaur’s head spun around towards his direction, invisible fumes leaving his ears.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:44 pm

Icarus dodged the once again blinded centaur, causing the hooved creature to run straight into a tree. Matteus cringed when the terrible noise that had come from the blow.

He then taunted the creature more, “And centaurs were supposed to be smart?”

The centaur was certaintly not happy with Icarus at all. Trying to fix up this mess, Matteus went up to the centaur and tried to polite. Apologizing for his classmates behavior, "Really I'm very for this pra-" he was cut off by the centaurs angry moves which Matt dodged, luckly he wasn't hit. He practically ran back towards Icarus, and said, "Now what? He obviously doesn't want to talk about this! What is this bloody brilliant plan of yours, eh?"

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:56 am

Icarus laughed at Matt’s attempt to calm the centaur down. It obviously hadn’t worked, as Icky had predicted, and resulted in the centaur’s failed angry attacks. Matt had then ran away towards Icarus who was trying desperately not to laugh. Laughing could result in the centaur knowing their whereabouts, after all. Matt had then asked, "Now what? He obviously doesn't want to talk about this! What is this bloody brilliant plan of yours, eh?"

Bloody plan? What was he talking about?

“If you mean the brilliant plan I had , it doesn’t mater. It’s not going to work now thanks to what that idiot did,” Icky explained. He smiled, motioning to the direction of Hogwarts‘s building. “But you’re welcome to leave anytime. This centaur is so stupid, he probably wouldn’t notice you leaving. Like how he didn’t notice Will.” It was too true. Sure, the centaur was blind. But, he shouldn’t be deaf. Shouldn’t he hear Will leaving? But, nope, the centaur was apparently too busy trying to attack Icky to even notice. Signs of stupidity if Icky had seen one.

Suddenly, Icky heard the sound of hooves trotting on the forest floor. Was that more centaurs? Oh, oh. “Your last chance,” Icky observed, a bit more nervously this time. Yes, he was nervous. But, he was sure these centaurs weren’t going to kill him or anything. They never did. The worst they were going to do was bruise him and he much rather that than run away. He didn’t run away for anything .

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:38 am

Matteus heard the sound of hooves coming straight in their direction. This wasn't good.

"Your last chance." Icarus warned- he sounded... nervous?

he couldn't leave the Slytherin there, that would be terribly unlike Matteus. Okay not really, more so that leaving would give Icarus the chance to mock him for the rest of the year. 'Damn that stupid prick.'

"Have ya any sense at all?" Matteus asked incredulous. Icarus didn't budge, "Well, if you're not going back, neither am I!"

The hooves' sounds were getting louder. It was now or never.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:55 pm

Matt seemed reluctant to leave.

The hooves were getting louder and louder. Icarus looked at his watch before smiling. “Well actually, I’m having a class coming up. So might as well ditch this place.” Of course, he didn’t care much about his classes. But, it did give a good excuse to walk back. He turned to leave right when the hooves were overwhelmingly loud. A head appeared through the bushes followed by a body and more heads. The centaurs were all carrying bows and arrows. Bows and arrows? Doesn’t look too good.

Not to mention how they were angry too, shouting something Icarus guessed was the blind centaur’s name. The blind centaur scrambled up to his feet, looking over at the rest of the centaurs who give a shocked gasp at his blank stare.

Oh, oh.

“Well, look at the time,” Icky commented as he looked at his own watch, “Looks like I’m late for my class. Better run.” With that, he ran off towards the school, hearing hooves as the centaurs followed. Suddenly, the ground give way under him and he found himself falling before-

BANG!

He landed on ground. What the-Icarus coughed dirt out as he scrambled up onto his feet. Apparently, he was inside some type of a hole. The thing was gigantic in height and all the leaves under him told him that they probably once lay on top of this trap. The sound of hooves strengthened in sound before fading away. Fading away? Looks like the centaurs passed him. Icarus found himself grinning.

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Ruby was walking through the forbidden forest when she heard a scream. Probably just some of the younger students playing pranks on each other, she chuckled remembering the many times that had happened in her first year. Daring people to go into the forbidden forest alone, then following them and making strange creature like noises.

She paused for a second as she heard a few students talking, she couldn't tell what they were saying but she could hear hooves following them. The two students were running now, they were being chased by centaurs that was her guess. Ruby spent many hours in the forest, she knew how to handle centaurs. Explain you are a student, who wished to gain knowledge about the forest, in no way did you mean them harm or to trespass on their land. You then backed away slowly and didn't return for a few hours.

She followed the hooves quietly, lurking in the shadows so they didn't see her. She couldn't see who was being chased by them but she didn't really care. They were nearing the edge of the forest now so they would be fine. Centaurs never left the forest. Ever. She was wandering along, not really looking where she was going, when she fell into a hole. Now this hole was not supposed to be here. She knew every inch of this forest, and this was definately new. A trap? "Lumos" she muttered. When the hole lit up she nearly had a heart attack. She was not alone. Quickly realising it was Icky she hit him lightly on his arm. "You scared the hell out of me!!" she hissed.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:48 am

“Well, look at the time,” Icky commented as he looked at his own watch, “Looks like I’m late for my class. Better run.” With that, he ran off towards the school.

Matteus watched as the centaurs ran after the Slytherin boy. He disappeared so suddenly. How did he do that? Matteus stood in the same place the whole time. It was a good thing they didn't seem to suspect him otherwise he'd be dead meat.

He heard a loud THUMP, and he turned his head towards the noise, his hair flipping across his face. He patted the hair out of his way in annoyance. Glaring suspiciously, he made his way to the noise that came from the ground.

Once he got there he noticed a gaping hole. Was this here long? Must be a new trap. He leaned over the hole and noticed it was a Gryffindor girl, and Icarus.

Raising an eyebrow he asked, "Ye havin' a party down there or something?" he paused then said nervously to Icarus, "I'm not coming down there after you..." He then looked at the girl, he had never met her but she was quite pretty. "Well," he changed his mind, "Maybe for you." He smiled flirtatiously towards her.

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Ruby looked up and chuckled.
"It beats potions I guess" she admitted looking at her watch. She had potions in 10 minutes, but stuck down a muddy hole with Icarus seemed far more amusing.
Ruby, deciding to camp out in the hole for a bit, sat down and leaned against the wall.
"I'm Ruby by the way" She added as she mock saluted the stranger. She liked the irish, the accent was so friendly.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:41 am

Icarus was soon thinking of getting out of the pit. Of course, doing it the easy way required his wand. So, he’d reached into his pocket only to remember having it out when the centaurs came. But it wasn’t on his hands now. It must have slipped out when he was falling into the pit. Seeing as it was now getting dark and hard to see, Icky found himself feeling around for his wand when he heard a sudden thud. He froze, wondering what the thing was. Whatever it was, it better not have been whatever had made this trap. Icky somehow felt reluctant in meeting the trap’s creator.

Soon, however, he’d heard a lumos and found the pit illuminated. Standing there was Roby looking-frightened? Icky grinned before he was slapped. “So, why are you in Gryffindor, again?” He asked, looking confused. It definitely hadn’t taken much to scare her. He should try doing it more often. He suddenly heard a heavy Irish accent and looked up to see Matt glaring down at them from outside of the pit. “Oh, I’m so-r-ry,” Icky apologized, “I ca-n’t un-der-sss-tand.” He said it slowly as though Matt couldn‘t speak any English. “Per-haps you can get some-one to tr-ans-late or ss-peak En-gl-ish.” He smiled, “Un-der-sss-tand?”

Of course, Icarus understood Matt perfectly. But it was much more fun pretending that he didn’t. It was then when he remembered his wand. Scanning his eyes across illuminated pit, he caught sight of a stick on the far corner and ran to it, inspecting it and smiling as he recognized his wand. Good, so it wasn’t lost.

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Ruby laughed at Icarus, he was actually quite funny. Mean, but funny. "Ignore him, he was dropped on his head as a baby" She chuckled at the irish boy who was still crouched over the hole. "Expelliarmus" Ruby shouted as Icarus picked up his wand. "You'll leave, if you have your wand." She explained. She picked up his wand and shoved it in her robes. "This way you can't" She smiled smugly, extremely happy about how things had turned out. She chuckled at his expression and patted the ground next to her, motioning for him to sit down next to her.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:29 am

“Oh, I’m so-r-ry,” Icarus apologized, “I ca-n’t un-der-sss-tand.” He said it slowly as though Matt couldn‘t speak any English. “Per-haps you can get some-one to tr-ans-late or ss-peak En-gl-ish.” He smiled, “Un-der-sss-tand?”

Matteus glared at Icarus, and was about to come back with a snarky comment when the smiling Gryffindor joked, "Ignore him, he was dropped on his head as a baby." Matteus laughed, running his hand through his hair that was acting weird from leaning over the hole.

He noticed something was off. Feeling his ears, he noticed an empty hole in his left ear. Sighing, he heard the two converse. Apparently she had take his wand, and was forcing the Slytherin to socailize with her. HA! That's a riot.

Matteus felt the ground in search for the gage that had fallen from his ear. He leaned his head back over the hole and said, "Eh, guys? I'll be back. Lost me earing." He gave a salute and crawled in the leaves. It certaintly was dark. He had to squint to see much at all. It would help if he ever wore his glasses.

((OOC: okay, I cracked up at the slow talking XDD ))

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:01 pm

At his awesome, if he should say so, teasing of Matt’s accent, Ruby decided to ruin his fun. How? Well, Matt had glared at Icky, probably thinking of a sneaky comment to say which was what Icky wanted. But, thanks to Ruby, he had laughed instead. “Ignore him, he was dropped on his head as a baby”. Now, normally, Icky would have laughed it off. But this was too close to the reality. Well, actually, it was pretty much the reality and introduced memories. Icky blinked them off though just as-

“Hey-”

Icarus watched as his wand zipped out of his grasp and was placed in Ruby’s pocket. So he doesn’t leave, huh? “Ok,” he agreed, “But if you think I’m scary, wait until whatever made this trap comes along. It will too, obviously. And when it does, I bet it’s huge and carnivorous.” Icky raised his hands above his head as he pretended he was a monster like what little kids sometimes do. “I also bet you’ll scream.” He grinned, relaxing. “Now that I think of it, it’ll be fun watching.” Shrugging, he decided to walk up to a corner and sit down when he tripped midway.

~~Ouch.~~

Icarus scrambled up to his feet and shook the dirt off his pants, looking down at what had tripped him. “What the-wow.” What Icky was staring at was a rope. Both ends of it were buried into the dirt of the pit while a tiny part of its middle stuck out and succeeded in tripping him. Now what was a rope doing here?

[OOC: Note-I might not be on much until wednesday because I'm going out of me country. I'm bringing me laptop, but in case I don't catch the interent, thought I'll tell you guys...though big chance that I will.]

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Ruby giggled, huge and carnivorous? "True, I may scream, that is quite likely." she admitted, nodding he head whilst smiling at him. "However, I have my wand to protect myself from the evil monsters, you don't" she pointed out, patting her robe where his wand was hidden. Ruby laughed more as Icky tripped over something. What was it? She leant over it with her wand, a rope? Interesting. The more time went on, the less she thought this trap was made by a creature. Most creatures didn't posess enough logic to make traps like this. She was starting to think this hole was made by someone instead of something. She glanced at Icky nervously, before settling back down into her little corner.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:57 am

Icky grabbed hold of the small part of the rope that was sticking out. He then pulled the thing so that the rest of it began snapping out of the dirt. The small piece of rope sticking out soon grew until both of its ends were outside of the pit.

“Well, what do you know,” Icky exclaimed as he walked along side the rope. On both sides, it swerved up onto the walls of the pit and wondered away into the distance. He grabbed onto it again and pulled it towards him. Grinning, he then started walking up the wall, still holding onto the rope for aid.

It didn’t take long for him to stand outside of the pit, looking down at Ruby. “HA,” he teased, “I’m outside of the pit and guess who is still sitting in there? You!” He then looked back to see the rope right by him, the rest of which was buried into the ground. He wondered where this rope ended up in at both ends.

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Ruby tutted loudly as Icky tried and succeeded to escape the hole. "Party pooper" she muttered standing up in the hole. "Ascendio" ruby muttered as she sprang from the hole and landed a little shakily on the ground behind Icky. She glanced at the rope, wondering where it led and then turned back to Icky. Ruby had always thought Icky was goreous and despite the amount of havoc he had wreaked on practically everyone at Hogwarts she had always found him quite...sweet. She smiled at him briefly and then hooked her arm under his so their arms were linked. "So are we going to solve the mystery detective?" she giggled nodding her head towards the direction of the rope.

Subject: Re: Why screaming could be a good idea Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:29 pm

Icarus smiled at Ruby for a brief second. “Sure thing,” he answered, scanning the rope again with his eyes. He could still see the wand-holding pocket of Ruby’s as he did. He wondered-yeah, yeah it’ll work. He decided to try it anyways. Suddenly, without any warning what-so-ever, Icky reaching into her pocket and snatched out his wand. “HA,” he laughed as he waved his wand teasingly in front of Ruby’s face. “Nobody lasts long with my wand.” Yup, he was proud of himself and wasn‘t afraid to show it.

Grinning, he then flicked his wand, forcing the rope to snap out of the dirt with more quickness than what had happened when he had to do it with force. He watched the rope quickly make its way around the forest muttering a “that’s a big rope” as he did. It was true. I mean, it must have been the biggest he’d ever seen anyways, though that didn’t mean much. Soon enough, the last of the rope snapped out by a tree. Icarus gasped as he scanned the tree and found a wooden treehouse at the top.

A treehouse?

Now this must have been the most surprising day ever. I mean, first Icky confronted a centaur then had some weight throw him over before a random spell hit the thing. Then he had to meet with even more centaurs and ran off in order to fall into some trap he didn’t know was there. Then he heard a surprising thump made by Ruby and now-this?

Yup, surprising indeed.

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Ruby was glancing at Icarus suspiciously, he was smiling. He hadn't pushed her away or anything. It was odd. Ruby was just about to ask him what the devil he was playing at when he suddenly lurched for Ruby's pocket. At first was confused. "Why bother?" came to mind, then she saw his wand in his hand that he was waving at her. She grinned. Sneaky. Very sneaky. He then grinned and flicked his wand, at first she thought he was going to curse him. THAT made sense. She HAD hit him, stole his wand and then taunted him about it. But little Icky had other plans. Ruby heard a loud snap behind her and swung round to see the rope was now clearly visable. It's source? A treehouse. Very strange indeed. How many creatures made treehouses? None. Who in the world of magic makes a tree house in the middle of the forbidden forest. Ruby glanced at Icarus, "Any good at climing trees?" She asked, as she started to walk towards the trees.