L.O.S.T. [open]

[aquat1cf1sh]

Avery walked into the Courtyard Maze; he had never been here before. He had always looked at it from the lake, seeing students going in and out of it. One time he even saw someone shoot up red sparks; that was quite a shock. Avery however would rather spend an eternity lost in the maze than shoot up red sparks.

He turned several corners, hoping to get lost. He needed adventure, something to do; he was getting quite bored sitting around in the Hufflepuff Tower all day. Soon enough, he did find himself lost. He looked around; where was he going to go? Avery smiled, this was exactly what he wanted: a problem to solve that didn't involve a classroom or homework. Loafing around, staring up at the sky and then back down at the maze, Avery wondered what to do next.

[Brayden Christiansen]

I'm ready for an adventure.

Brayden pushed open the Fat Lady's portrait and walked along the corridor, until he met up with the Grand Staircase. He began the descent to the Entrance Hall, making sure to step over the trick stair, that he only knew too well. Before he knew he was in the Hall. He didn't even pass any prefects along the way, which made this night even better. He pushed open the front doors and walked out, hoping he would come across something good.

He walked along the dewey grounds making his was toward the Courtyard Maze. It was the dead of night, so he illuminated his wand, the light shown over the grounds, making it much easier to see if there were any tree roots or stumps. He finally reacher the Maze, he took a deep breath in, and a long breath out. Do you really want to do this, Brayden? Of course! And with that thought, he walked into the maze.

The Maze was even darker than night itself, but with the help of lumos he could see. The maze was a never-ending, twisting labyrinth. Hoping not to get lost, only to have some fun, Brayden took a left, a right, another right, and a left. As he turned the corner, he could see the outline of a figure a ways down the hedges, this scared the wits right out of Brayden. What was it? Was it another person?
"Umm, Hello? Who are you, what are you?" he asked the thing.

[aquat1cf1sh]

Avery took out his wand, muttered "Lumos!", and had to squint at the site of such a bright light coming out of the top of his wand. Avery wished he knew how to adjust the brightness of the charm; he didn't like being blinded by its light every time he had to use it. Sighing, he made his way further and further into the maze; or perhaps he was making his way out of it?

He shivered as bugs buzzed around by his ears; it was definitely quite buggy out here in the maze, or perhaps it was just because it was nighttime. Avery wasn't particularly fond of bugs. As a child and in his earlier teen years he was deathly afraid of them; bees and wasps in particular. He almost wanted to say he had a diagnosed paranoia of them just so people would stop laughing at him whenever he jumped if they came near him. But Avery was past that now, he could at least handle them being near him. Having them actually touch him and land on his skin? Well, that was a different story.

Avery's heart suddenly froze; he heard a walking sound not too far away. Now it seemed like his current worst fear had come true; his recent worst fear had been someone meeting him in the dead of night, alone, and wanting to harm him. "Nox!" Avery hissed fiercely at his wand. At once, the light went out. It was almost as if his wand had had the same fear as he had and could sense the person, or creature, nearby. Avery gulped and turned around; he could hear footsteps in behind him. He looked at the figure making its way towards him, and he wondered if it was a friend or a foe. Perhaps it was that annoying Gryffindor girl who had jinxed him in Defense Against the Dark Arts the other week, or maybe it was something else, something worse.

Gulping, his wand at the ready, Avery almost wanted to exclaim that he was a vampire and that he shouldn't be messed with; which was true. Avery didn't know of any secret powers he had, but he thought the idea of a vampire might scare the figure away. But the figure spoke before Avery even had a chance of opening his lips, and he saw a bright light come out of near where the creature was. Avery could practically laugh; he knew who it was. "Brayden? Is that really you?! Whew! What are you doing out here?"

[Brayden Christiansen]

He shuddered, not knowing whether to get closer, or go back. He thought of the possibilities of the creature being something bad, like a gytrash. He took a few steps closer, hoping whatever this thing was, that it wasn't something that was hungry for people. As the light from his wands illuminated the trees and bushes, and the person who he was certain he would never run into in the middle of the night and in the Forbidden Forest.

"Avery? What the heck are you doing out here?" he asked him, lowering his wand so the light wasn't in his eyes. Of all people to meet up in the Forbidden Forest at the dead of night. It was Avery Yoshiko, he had only seen him him a couple times in classes, and in the Muggle Electronics Room. He didn't know much about him, only that he was a muggle-born, that was pretty much about it.

[aquat1cf1sh]

"Lumos!" Avery hissed fiercely. Almost too fiercely; the wand lit up a little bit but then faded away again. "Lumos!" he said clearly, and the wand lit up with that same, blinding bright light that had appeared just minutes before Brayden showed up. He walked up to Brayden and answered his exclamation. "Bored," he said honestly. "Highly, incredibly, and definitely bored. I came out here to lose myself and do something. I don't have any schoolwork to do, and I realized that my life here at Hogwarts has so far been free of mischief making, so... Yeah."

He looked up at the moon and the stars; he could barely see them, for his eyes were still seeing spots from the Lumos spell. Squinting back at Brayden, he saw something on the floor of the maze move. He couldn't see it, but he could definitely hear it. Lowering his wand at the ground, he looked for the thing; and then he saw it. Black, large and ugly, a rat was crawling along the floor of the maze, perhaps looking for midnight scraps of food. "So," he said, looking back up at Brayden, he wasn't going to let the rat get to him. "What are you doing here?"

[Brayden Christiansen]

Thankfully, it was Avery, and not some creppy creature haunting the maze. He gave a little sigh of relief and lowered his wand more.. The floor of the maze was dirt, and thats all. He spotted a fat rat near the both of them, but decided not to care, seeing it was just a rat.

"Oh, just for the adventure. I wasn't tired and there was nothing better to do. So this sounded fun." he told him, and indeed, it was. Meeting up with Avery made it even better, cause then he was able to get lost with a friend, who might know more, and be able to find their way out.