watering can. (anyone)

[gryphon]

It came as a strange surprise to dear Miss Withercom, that she fitted in quiet well with the daisies. Not that she had purposefully seek them out and desired the idea of sitting, in an odd angle, amongst them. Not at all. It had only come as an awkward coincidence that she would find this out. Seconds before hand having been walking along the footpath, smiling stupidly to herself about the enclosed area.

'All would have been well if it hadn't been for that rock.' She thought with narrowed eyes. 'But I guess it's not right to blame it on the rock.... Since it was more the steps I took that weren't high enough. Hnm.'

Those long, wiry green stems with the whitest of petals, one dot of yellow in the centre surrounding her little frame... not very flowery looking in closer observation. No, they looked more like a-

sneeze.

"Yes, more like a sneeze," Gryphon sniffled, wiggling her nose a little. The blonde girl's legs only visible, protruding out of the flowery bush.

[flowers]

I didn’t know bushes had legs…? came the mystified thoughts of young Nort Flowers who happened to be strolling down the lane of this so called enchanted garden. He was wearing red skinny jeans with black converse shoes today, combined with his favorite black t-shirt which happened to have a rather demonic looking unicorn on the front, unicorns always making an appearance upon the boy in some shape or form.

The black haired Mihael could only stared at the bush with legs, Was it upside down? Did it need to be put back onto its feet? he wondered as he speculated the flowery bush.

Nervously he took a small step toward the enchanted plant, “umm hello? Would you like some help getting the right way up again or do you always look like this?” he asked the plant not wanting to offend it, it could get angry really and that was the last thing Nort needed. An upside down or perhaps right side up bush with two protruding legs chasing him… woo fun! [/size]

[gryphon]

'As much as I like flowers this is just ridiculous.' Another thought, along with another sneeze sneaking up but fading in a very annoying fashion. A weak grumble escaped her as she realised she would have to find a way out of this bush. With nothing to grab onto and appendages set above places they should be. This was rather a pickle Gryphon had gotten herself into.

'I can do this...I got in, I can get out.'

And so, not so delicately, Gryphon attempted at freeing herself from the bush. Struggling to get her tootsies to even reach the ground the girl kicked lamely at the air. Much to ehr dismay the result being her body to sink further into the bundle of foliage.

Perhaps she would have to remain here and live off the petals. Forever creating endless amounts of daisy chains... as if anyone would even notice.

Could this be any worse? Why yes, of course, that moment she realised someone was talking to her. Too busy in her own thoughts and attempts at escape she hadn't heard them properly and now she wasn't quiet sure what to say back. Something about always looking this way?

"Arrh, hellow." She paused, feeling a little awkward but trying to act casual about this. "Um beg pardon?" Gryphon spoke again feeling her cheeks heating up. How did she get into these situations?[/font]

[flowers]

Puzzled, Nort felt himself jump a million miles in the air as the bush with two tiny legs sticking out of it gave a weathered sneeze and grumbled, Nort just didn’t understand, What’s going on…should I run? he wondered as his eyes widened and his eyebrows almost jumped off his face. Norts face no doubt illustrated the scene before him quiet perfectly.

He flinched again as its legs began to kick, was this how it communicated? Or were the legs like a tail of a dog, wagging at excitement to see Nort?? A short squeak alerted the boy to the idea that maybe these legs didn’t entirely belong to the bush but perhaps something else. Immediately after such thought Nort’s mind was drawn to the idea of ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Before he knew what was happening the tree/bush was speaking back to him, Nort could have run away but he was glued to the scene. curse you my dam feet! for Nort was not so much scared but just worried and unsure exactly what to do. As he thought before the idea of a evil demon tree chasing him was rather creepy.

“Can’t do what?” he asked and half whispered to both himself and the bush. It spoke again and he felt his muscles ease with the friendly yet gentle voice from within the bush. “Hello? I said ….” He hesitated, “can’t…do what??” Unlike normal people Nort was beginning to feel normal again, not feeling weird what so ever that he was talking to a, what seemed to be, a polite bush.[/size]

[gryphon]

Oh dear. The heat in her cheeks wasn’t cooling down. And it seemed there wasn’t any form of escape.

‘How silly you must look right now girly.’ Came a thought that made Gryphon wish for the bush to just simply swallow her whole. The conversation with this other unseen person, although pleasant, was obviously being confused. By their can’t do… what? answer, all she could do was look around at her position and grimace silently.

“Well, I can’t do a lot of things. Obviously… well, like this anyway...” Gryphon closed her eyes tightly feeling like an idiot, this laid-back chatter just wasn't right for the moment. Yet it came anyway all the same. "... as you can imagine."

[flowers]

Oh dear indeed, this was getting quiet awkward very fast. Assessing the answer from the bush Well, I can’t do a lot of things. Obviously…well, like this anyway! As you can imagine

Imagine? What more could he imagine for Nort was indeed talking to a bush, yes a bush!! How much more could he imagine? For if this bush was indeed part of his imagination then, certainly it had drained him completely, meaning it left his brain disconnected entirely and out of any future imagination for this was the best it would and could get.

“Yes, I er…” Nort’s throat running dry as he ran out of something honest to say that would not result in this enchanted tree chasing after him, “I er… I can see that but why does an enchanted bush like yourself have legs if it can indeed do nothing with them such as running, walking or kicking, well..” he paused as clearly it had been kicking moments ago “like kicking a ball?!” Nort’s voice reaching its ultimate climax

“What shall I call you enchanted bush for you are indeed an interesting specimen!” half the truth as Nort did find it interesting but as well as a little freaky. “Are you native to this land?” never having seen such a plant before in his entire life. [/size]

[gryphon]

He could see it apparently, those few words made her tummie sink.

Emmmmbbaaarrrasssmeeennnntt.

But the following words came as a startle to the lopsided girl. One eyebrow slowly raising as the voice enquired about her enchanted bush abilities. With all these pondering questions from what Gryphon was starting to recognise as a males voice, she couldn’t help but want to answer them as a daisy bush might. ‘I mean his voice is pretty sincere…I wish I could talk with a bush.’ A small thought came, the boy now asking for her enchanted bush name.

Of course it came only natural after so many questions and words for Gryphon to open her mouth to simply answer him- however she quickly saw the strangeness that would be and so stopped herself abruptly.

“Well…Where to start?” She now said oddly not feeling so red as there were too many thoughts in her dear head right now. “I can walk and run and skip and kick a ball if I wanted to.” Gryphon glanced her blue eyes onto her legs “And I have legs cause most do have legs. But I’m sorry to say that I’m not an enchanted bush. As much as that would be lovely…Actually rather horrible considering one wouldn’t do much.” She paused ‘umming’ slightly under her breath. “Lets see I’m Australian…um, I’m really not all that much of an interesting specimen at all. You have legs? Er.. don’t you?”
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[grobanitexd]

Summer was slowly fading and Aaliyah Rose McKenzie could feel that. Wearing black skinny jeans and a long sleeved grey shirt, the Mihael shivered. It was definately a lot cooler today than it was yesterday. But she continued along in her hot pink and white converse [house pride!]. The only sign of summer on her was her sunglasses which she took off when she saw Nort... talking to a bush with legs.

Raising an eyebrow, Aaliyah continued forward and stood behind him. Without him knowing that she was there, she listened to his conversation a little bit. Native to Australia, hmmm? Aaliyah thought. She had seen a lot of weird things here at Hogwarts but she had never come across a talking bush. This was mighty interesting. Aaliyah took a step forward.

"Hey, Nort," she smirked. "May I ask why you're conversing with this bush?"

[flowers]

Occ: hahahahahhahahahah*wetspants*haha

Nort’s eyes brows were barely visible now, raised to such a point he was sure they’d never really return. This day was defiantly turning out to be an interesting one indeed. The bush began to talk and yes where to start indeed.

As the bush spoke about being able to skip, kick balls, walk and run, Nort could not help but visualize the ‘thing’ doing so. This amused him muchly as he almost laughed but it was her next words that made the boy think realistically. Not a bush? Oh my.. Steps followed his thoughts and he was joined by the beautiful and equally inquisitive Aaliyah.

Glancing at Aaliyah briefly Nort spoke silence as he did a double take on the bush….a female bush no less but sadly, from what it had just spoken, not a bush at all. The voice was familiar and as his brain began to make sense Nort could not help but wonder…. “Gryphon?” he asked in a weak squeaky voice, “Your name would not happen to be Gryffon would it?” he asked his eyebrows completely shot off his face and with not a hope in hell coming back. Especially now that the person inside the bush had the possibility of being Gryphon Withercom.

“Aaliyah,” Nort finally said verbally recognizing his friend, “I think this is no bush but a girl upside down inside it!” though why he did not act straight away was a mystery to Nort and it would now forever haunt him up into his adult life. [/size]

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah raised an eyebrow and glanced at the bush again. Now what was the possibility of that? Aaliyah had come to the point where she was sure that anything was possible in the wizarding world, even at talking bush. Aaliyah put her hands on her hips and stared at it a little more.

"I'm not quite sure what you're talking about," Aaliyah smirked. "I'm sure there is such thing as a talking bush named Gryphon. That seems extremely logical. Because if it really was a person inside, wouldn't she have come out by now instead of continued talking to you?"

This seemed to make the most sense to Aaliyah. Sure there was a small chance that there really was someone inside, and if they were upside down, they could be stuck. But this definately did not seem too likely.

[gryphon]

( x) heh. long postie. )

Oh crap. And now there was another voice? A more feminine voice but another voice all the same. She was asking why this boy was talking to a bush. Damn, this was going to be awkward when it all came out. Though it really was all of Gryphon’s fault. Walking around the Enchanted garden- tripping on a rock and falling into daisy bushes entrapping herself in daisy bushes. As if they would believe her now if she right out said what had happened. As if they would take pity. They’d more likely think she set it up just to get attention or maybe they would believe and just simply laugh at her expense. Walk away with out helping her out of this prettysmelling shrub.

There was a long pause of silence and for a moment Gryphon was sure they had both just left. Bored of the phonie legged daisy bush. But then ohsweetpuddingsno!! Her name was said. This person knew her name. And it seemed that dear Gryphon's insides leapt out of her and completely out of the bush.

They knew her? Someone actually recognised her voice? Or maybe it was her awkwardly angled legs?

Gryphon gulped. Flinching at the inquiry to whether she was she. If she could have recoiled her features into some kind of shell like a snail she would have right there and then. Still listening now to the confused boy that knew of her talk to the other girl. Aaliyah was apparently her name...

‘Damn, another witness.’ Came a silent thought further listening to him tell her that Gryphon was a girl in a bush not an actual legged bush.

Oh how she wished to recoil like a mr snail.

The answer the girl came back with only made things worse. She was pointing out, logically, that Gryphon was in fact a bush. If she were human she would have come out with it by now….

>.<

A nerve in bushgirl’s left temple twitched something odd was happening. Pressure was rising and her lips couldn’t help but be unable to withstand the presser of being pressed together so…hard.

For when she heard these words like a twig snapping Gryphon herself snapped. Just a little.

Her legs which had been sticking out lamely started to kick and her arms sprawled out in odd angles waved about frantically and the words “I’m not a bush!!” Came out rather abruptly in very recognisable- panicked tone. While her limbs pathetically attempted again at freeing herself only managing to make more room inside the bush for her to sink further in.

And not just a little further in. But a great length that now only her feet stuck out of the bush. The bush still shaking, almost seeming fragile as Gryphon stopped the errr.. tantrum, now positively freaked out. In the darkness of the bush- which now occurred to Gryphon to be quiet deep. Little heart pumping away like mad, bretahs coming out short. she realised there something about the first voice. A very distinguished aspect of that voice. And it hit her rather hard and horribly, yet all the same joyously as she spoke in a wobbled tone.

“...norts?”

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[grobanitexd]

[[ooc: Yeah, that is a long post. There's no way I can follow that up...]]

Aaliyah took a step back as the bush began to shake. This was definately something weird. Why would the bush contradict itself now. That was not very nice. She glanced at Nort trying to see if he could figure out a plan. Maybe this is an evil bush, she thought, and it's just trying to play a trick on us by being friendly one moment and crazy the next.

“I’m not a bush!!”
"Don't lie to me, bush-person!" Aaliyah frowned. "Don't start acting like you're a bush one minute and not the next. You confuse my poor little head."

She pulled out her wand and began poking it into the bush, trying to find some source of the legs. Aaliyah did not realize that she was poking a fellow Mihael in the stomach.

"Well, it feels kinda smushy in there," she muttered.

[flowers]

“Grammaphone?” Nort’s voice was painfully high as he looked aghast the pair of thinly shaped legs thrash about then with a combination of squeaks and braking branches, watched it sink future into the bush.

Paralyzed, Nort watched fearful for the legs whom he believed to belong to a good friend. “Oh dear…” was his next response as Aaliyah now began to poke the bush with legs… and it was with then that he finally walked forward and pushed Aaliyah’s wand gently away from the bush with one hand and then used the other to make his way into the thicket.

Spying a rather now dirty blond, tangled mess of hair intertwined with branches Nort could have laughed at the poor girl but for if she wasn’t is such a frustrated mess he may have too. “My my Grph, how on earth did this bush swallow you?” for it made perfect sense that Gryphon had possibly fallen into the push randomly for who really didn’t have these moments in life? Perhaps not falling in a bush randomly and ending upside down but maybe tripping over a shadow, dropping a sandwich all over the floor or even falling into a puddle and wetting ones pants from laughing too much….it happened and Nort was open enough to realise such things.

And so now the caring boy reached in and took the girl’s arm pits and tugged softly, nothing happened….he tugged again….still nothing…”Your not holding onto anything are you by any chance?” Nort’s voice full of sarcasm despite he was being very serious about her holding onto something. “Because it’s not helping!”[/size]

[gryphon]

( wasn’t expecting a follow up matching it x.x I just couldn’t help but write so much, heh. )

So now she was a bush-person and the other girl didn't believe her. Saying something about Gryphon lying and how she was confusing her head. Gryphon’s poor little head wasn’t feeling all that great either. Not sure what to expect to happen but hopefully nothing, maybe complete eternal darkness? That wouldn’t have been so bad right now. The prods did cause a few noises of complaint to escape her but what was she to do?Trapped in a bush unsure which way she was facing. Up or down, maybe this was the new up?

“It feels smushy cause it’s my tummy and that was my nose.” Gryphon mumbled hopelessly wishing to rub the spots the girl had poked. Her hands were too far away from her in another part of the bush- it would be too hard to retrieve them now… Or so it felt this way to Gryphon. Optimistic skittle she was turning out to be.

‘I guess I got my chance to be a mr snail.’ Came a thought just as the prodding subsided instead hands reached in and gripped around the tops of her arms. Tugging a few times attempting to free her; it seemed this action would have normally helped but in this certain case it was only proving to make it all the more worse. For now her arms were being pressed into spikey unseen sticks and her hair was caught on something else.

Again, oh dear.

hearing Nort’s voice asking if she was holding onto something and that her holding onto something wasn’t helping, Gryphon frowned abit to herself. “Why would I do that? I want out not in. I think the daisy bush would rather me stay than leave, it’s got my hair. And I swear I’m not a bush.” She said sounding worried as if they both still believed that she was a bush.

: o

Another worried thought struck her then and with this one she couldn't keep it in her head. "....What if this is how people turn into bushes?"

[grobanitexd]

"Oh, my God, this could be the way people turn into bushes," Aaliyah said nervously. "I'm so sorry about poking you. We need to get you out of here fast."

I people could get entrapped and turned into bushes, this girl needed to be saved right away. Aaliyah pushed aside a couple of leaves and tried to find her again. She went around the push and searched in there. Pushing a couple branches aside, she could make out what looked like the girl's nose. Aaliyah moved a couple more leaves out of the way and she held them apart as she looked at Gryphon.

"Wow," she said quietly. "How the hell did you get tangled up this much?"

While Aaliyah was talking, she did not notice that, for some reason, the branches were starting to wind their way around her long, black hair.

[gryphon]

D: Gryphon looked around panicky in the dark of the daisy bush. The nervousness in the other girls voice probably microwaved her own thoughts mutating them into thoughts people shouldn't have of daisy bushes. 'Jeeze, I just wanted to go for a simple walk around the garden. Now I’ve got another thing to be paranoid about- bushes eating me.'

Gryphon blinked her eyes squinting at the new source of light that Aaliyah brought in trying to save her too. "I don't know?! It, it just happened," she worried more, blue eyes adjusting and realising she was pretty much upside-down. "ek. I don't feel so good..." Gryphon hadn't noticed the branches in Aaliyah's hair either, the angle she was on made it highly impossible to do so.[/color]

[flowers]

Rolling his eyes, Nort tugged his friend once more, still no difference to the last tug. “Well duh but you never you with do we Gry!” then tugged once more as Aaliyah now attempted to help. “What it, don’t want you falling in too” then Nort let go of Gryphon and stood back to survey the scene.

A bush no bigger then the height of his hips and the length of his arm spam, he wondered how on earth it held such a grip upon the girl. “Ok I got an idea, stand back” and Nort reached for his wand out of his pocket. Pointing it at Gryphon, Nort chanted the levitating charm, his eyes bent in lack of self confidence. “hold on…no don’t hold on just… shut your eyes ok!” and cast the spell.

Oddly enough it worked and Gryphon began to rise in the air. Legs first, obviously, then came her hips and half her stomach, Nort trying his best to concentrate on the spell and not drop the girl. [/size]

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah smiled when Gryphon began raising up. Why she hadn't thought of a spell like that before, Lord only knows. Perhaps she was more amazed by a 'talking bush' that she did not think of magicking someone out. She grinned as she saw Gryphon raise out of the air. Satisfied that Nort was taking care of the problem, Aaliyah began to move out of the bush too.

That's when she realized that her hair was caught.

"Crap," she muttered slightly. She turned her head slightly to make sure that the others were not paying attention. How stupid it would seem if after they got one person out, another one got stuck. Aaliyah grabbed onto the branch were the majority of her hair was and tried to untangle it.

[gryphon]

Gryphon winced when Nort took out his wand, hoping that he wouldn't set her on fire by accident or anything. Closing her eyes tightly not cause he had said so but out of pure fear Gryphon turned her face in the opposite direction, nose all crinkled. When she started to feel herself floating off the ground and upwards her eyes sprung open. Suddenly aware she had her arms and legs back properly where she could see them she tried her best not to move whilst Nort levitated her.

"Well this is. Er. Odd...feeling." Gryphon spoke shyly worried about talking any louder may result in the spell being broken. And falling on her behind right now would reeeaallly hurt. Especially if it meant back into the daisy bush, not so innocent looking on the inside as apose to the out. Of course right now the blonde girl wasn't thinking at all about the bits of hair in tangles that had been ripped out or torn. No she was too terrified of other things at this point. "Can you put me down, please, Nort? Still in pieces...that is. If you can."

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah glanced up at Gryphon as she hovered in the air. That must have been an awkward experience. Aaliyah thought back to the time she had to levitate Avery into the air because no one could carry him. She had done all right that time but she had never asked how he felt during the entire experience. She would make sure to ask Gryphon later.

But right now, the Mihael was busy with her hair which seemed to get further tangled in the branches. There was something odd about this bush. It would not seem natural for it to try to pull you in. She glanced at the largest chunk of hair that was wrapped and tied around a branch. In frustration, Aaliyah pulled on the branch and broke it off. Now that she realized that it [sort of] freed her, Aaliyah began hacking away at the bush, ripping off the pieces that were attached to her.

By the time she was finished, she was able to pull her head out of that ridiculous bush. But now Aaliyah sported a new hairstyle: one with lots of leaves and twigs. She glanced back up at Gryphon hoping she would come back down safely.