It's time for THE TRIP -invite-

[grobanitexd]

The first flurry of snowflakes fell. It wasn't enough for there to be a full fledged snowstorm, but it was only November so Liyah wasn't too worried. In fact, she was more excited as she gazed out at the Forest in front of her. She put on her headband which protected her ears from the cold. She was planning to wear a hat but she figured she did not want to cover her hair which now had pink highlights. Oh, this girl would never have the same hair color for longer than a month!

Aaliyah bounced on her toes as she waited for others to arrive. This was something she had been excited for ever since she first found out about the Forest. She had been wanting to go there, wanted see what was inside. What made it Forbidden? Why couldn't students go in here? Well, Aaliyah wanted answers and she was going to get them this day.

The Mihael yawned. It was early in the morning. The first ray of sunlight was just coming over the horizon. She figured it was best to be up early so they could spend as much of this day as possible in the Forest. They would not know exactly how long they would have so they were going to have to use every second.

And Aaliyah could not wait much longer. Every second she waited was a second wasted. She continued bouncing on her toes and rubbing her hands. Boy, she picked a chilly morning to go out into the forest!

[trini]

_{Sabra made her way outside and on her way to the Forbidden Forest quite slowly. She was excited and nervous but mainly scared. She wasn't sure if she was ready for this. She couldn't believe she was about to do this. As she approached the Forest she saw Aaliyah incredibly anxious to go in, bouncing on her toes. A strong breeze passed andit sent chills down Sabra's spine even though she had on a long sleeved thermal shirt and a thick fleece on over it. Maybe it was a sign that they shouldn't go into the Forest. There must be a reason why it's Forbidden and if there's a reason then maybe it's better not to know. Yes. At this moment she was virtually chickening out mentally but her legs still carried her over to Liyah. She tapped her on the shoulder hesitantly, pulling her multicolored scarf tighter around her neck to keep the draft from her neck.
"You seem way too excited. As far as I'm concerned I'm cold, scared, seriously reconsidering and tired. Oh. Did I mention? I'm hungry too. Just to let you know ahead of time if I end up peeling the bark off of a branch and start chomping on it."
She was a bit uneasy, sarcastic and serious and she was sure Aaliyah could tell. If only Troy would hurry up and come so they could go in and come out quickly.}

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[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah grinned and quickly hugged her best friend before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a candy bar. Handing it to Sabra, she tilted her head and smirked. "How does that make you feel?" she asked. "And if you were tired, you should have went to bed earlier like I told you to last night. But know, you wanted to stay up and do whatever you did after I went to sleep. Well, I think you'll wake up soon enough."

She glanced around her, hoping for the others to arrive. She hoped that none of them were chickening out. Well, if they were, then Liyah and Sabra would just have to go by theirselves. No matter what, Aaliyah was going to see just what was so forbidden about the Forest.

[jazziojazzio]

AnnaSophia had walked down into the common room that morning, expecting to see the usual gathering of Mihael's. Her friends, really. Only to be greeted by an eerie forgetful feeling.. she must have forgotten something. She bit her lip and began running back memories through her brain, only coming across one possible answer. The Forest Trip. She remembered Aaliyah telling her about it recently enough, and now she was siked for it! Well, now she was shocked, but the night before she was bouncing off the common room walls with insane happiness and anticipation!

She dashed up the stairs back into the common room and threw her cloak over her shoulders and her Mihael scarf tucked snuggly against her neck. She smiled at the sight of her new pink earmuffs, with small little centaur beads along the band. She was a real Mihael, first year Mihael. Obsessive, Muggle-born, first year Mihael. Does that explain much to you? Her smile could have lit up a room full of ashes and charcoal. She beamed as she skipped down the stairs, two at a time and sauntered out of the common room. She skipped down the staircases and out the front doors onto the grounds.

She grinned as a few snowflakes fell into her platinum blonde locks, and she tilted her head back, letting them fall and melt on her tongue, like little droplets of water.. keeping her hydrated. She grinned as she twirled her wand between her fingers. She had learned one or two useful spells within the past few months, and she was officially a Hogwarts addict. She spent most of her time randomly playing around the grounds in the snow, or wandering the streets of Hogsmade. Rarely touching her books and quill.

"Hey Aaliyah!" she said cheerfully, waving once she saw a slightly familiar blonde head. With pink streaks. Lovely. A new hair colour. She smiled, "I like your hair." she complimented, glancing around at the other girl. "Hi!"

[troyzoton]

Troy made his way down to the forbidden forrest through the few small, cold snowflakes that were falling. It was quite early for him to be up but he had promised Liyah that he would go with her on the trip to the forbidden forrest that she had been talking on about the last three terms and today was they day they were going.

Troy got closer, feeling a little excited and he could make out three figures standing in the grounds.
As he walked on, he saw that Liyah was there, Sabra too, and there was another girl that Troy didn't recognize, he hadn't seen her before so he presumed that she was one of Liyah's friends, maybe a Mihael girl.

Troy would liekd to have thrown a snowball at one of them from behind a tree but unfortunately there was not enough snow so Troy trudged over, "Hello" he shouted as he came face to face with the three girls.

"Heyy, nice hair Liyah, I like it" he smiled gesturing towards the pink highlights she now had in her hair, "You can never keep the same hair for more than a month can you" he smiled.

Troy turned to Sabra who he ahd not talked to in a long time, "Hey Sabra, how are you?" he winked at his friend, "Long time no see" he laughed.

And finally he turned to the last girl he who did not recognise, "Hi, i'm Troy" he said as he stretched out his ahnd to shake hers, "By what should i call you?" he smiled.

Troy wasn't feeling cold he was wearing ablack hooded top over a t-shirt, a pair of dark blue jeans and a pair of gloves. He did have a hat in his pocket but that was only in case of an emergency, he didn't like to wear a hat unless he was really, really cold.

[trini]

_{Sabra looked at the candy bar. "That makes me feel hungrier. Wanna give that to me? And I'm tired only because I just am. Loser," she laughed. There was another girl who appeared. She looked like she was kind of young. She just nodded and smiled back. "Hey, I'm Sabra. You are?" At that moment Troy came along and it was a nice group of four. "Hey there 'ol buddy 'ol pal."}

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[grobanitexd]

"Heya!" Aaliyah called out as AnnaSophia joined them. Giving the youngest Mihael a grin, she handed the candy bar to Sabra and then stuck her hands in her pockets to avoid some of the chill on her hands. She needed to have warm hands in case she needed to use a spell with her wand or something. That's why they had waited until they were a little more experienced before going through the woods.

Then Troy joined along and Liyah quickly gave him a hug. "Thanks," she grinned when both he and AnnaSophia complemented on her hair. "And I'm sorry if I get bored with my hair color. I just wish I could learn a spell to change my look. That would make things so much easier. But I was talking to an older year and she told me that you don't learn human transfiguration until your sixth year. So I just have to wait, I guess." She shrugged.

A couple minutes had passed and Aaliyah was ready to jump out of her clothes, she was so anxious to go. "Do you guys want to get going now or wait for someone else to show up?" she asked. She did not want to leave anyone behind but she also figured it'd be pointless to wait for people who might not even show up. And besides, they were wasting time just sitting around and waiting.

[troyzoton]

Troy, Liyah, Sabra and the Mihael girl whos name Troy did not know were standing around and Troy was starting to shiver as no one else seemed to be turning up.

"Do you guys want to get going now or wait for someone else to show up"
Troy looked at Liyah who seemed quite eager to go into the forrest ansd replied, "Yeah your right, I think we should go in now, other people who said they may come might not turn up, we've waited long enough for them"

Troy was just as eager as Liyah to go into the forrest, he had forgotten to ask Giselle although he had only seen her once since he had came back.

Troy looked at Liyah for a reply, he was ready to do what ever she said, afterall it was her idea to go to the forrest and she had organised it so he was waiting for her go-ahed, "Your decision boss" he laughed.

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah frowned. She had wanted more people to show up but she did not want to waste time. She sighed and then nodded. "Let's get going," she said, pulling her wand out of her back pocket. She then began to make her way into the Forest. She did not know what they would find in here but, more than anything, she was excited to find out. So, she began by leading them on the path.

"I wonder why they would even have a path in a place where we aren't supposed to be," Aaliyah thought out loud. "I've heard sometimes people have to go here for detention. I don't think it's a good enough punishment. I would purposely get in trouble if that means a detention in here. A couple of squirrels ran by their feet but so far nothing too dangerous.

Aaliyah started to feel extremely confident. She turned back at her party. "Do you guys want to go off the trail and see what the real woods are like?" she asked. As far as finding their way back on the trail afterwards, Aaliyah had not completely planned that one out. But she wanted to be spontaneous and take off into the unknown. She was getting a little too curious.

[troyzoton]

Troy followed Liya as she waked into the forest, it didn't look so creepy to hm, just looked like an ordinary forest, but then again they had only just stepped into it and as Troy walked a further step he felt a small eery feeling around him.

"I wonder why they would even have a path in a place where we aren't supposed to be,"

Troy smiled, "I guess it's not really a path though is it, more of a plaace where other people have walked i guess" he smirked

His ears sprouted as Liyah meniotned about going off the path into the woods

"Do you guys want to go off the trail and see what the real woods are like?"

"Yeah" Troy replied, "I've always been told never to stray off the beaten track, but that is where all the fun is" Troy grinned, "I'm up for it" he said as he brandished his wand from his pocket, "Lets do it" he said as he turned to look at the other 3 girls

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah glanced at the other two girls. They had been a little quiet since they started into the Forest. Liyah could not tell whether they were scared or just quiet. But if they were going to refuse Troy's idea, then they would have to verbalize it now or they were just going to go. Aaliyah scratched the tip of her head with her wand as she gave them five seconds to respond.

But there was nothing; they remained quiet. Perhaps Aaliyah should have given them more than five seconds. But waiting any longer would mean wasting time. So, she turned toward a tree that was off the path and led the group toward it. As she made her way over, she began to climb the tree. Balancing herself on the branches, she looked down at Troy, Sabra, and AnnaSophia. "Do you guys wanna join me or what?" she asked.

[alexander]

Professor Abigail Fall was new to Hogwarts. A new Professor. Sitting in her office she wondered what he duties are. Surly she couldn't just sit and do nothing and do classes. Thinking she realized The Forbidden Forest. There had to be some rule-breakers there. She stood up and put her Hogwarts Staff cloak on. She stepped out and walked down the stairs. Her shoes clicked. The stairs above me where still standing. Amazing how Hogwarts looks so wonderful. Finally reaching the door she walked out and quickly started to walk for the Forest.

It was early and some flurries began to snow. "How nice. Maybe this snow will pick up." She smiled. As she came near the Forest she read the sign which the Headmistress had put. She began to enter the forest. Silly kids wouldn't even know I would be here. She came to right of the Forest and heard something. A voice which she thought said, 'Join me or what'. The Former-Raveclaw walked for the voice and saw a boy some girls. One of them with a terrible hair color. Children these days Pink hair? "Can you read the sign?"

"It' says no entry. Perhaps I should give you all a detention?" She said looking down at the students.

[grobanitexd]

Looking down from the tree branch, Aaliyah's heart skipped a beat. A professor had caught them. They were going to be in big trouble. She quickly made her way back down from the branches and stood in front of the professor. Liyah had never seen this woman before. Either she was new or she taught a class that Liyah did not care to take. Either way, she had to do some fast talking to get them out of this one.

"I'm sorry ma'am?" she said innocently. "There was a sign? We must have missed that. I did not realize that we weren't supposed to be here." She tucked a piece of her blond and pink hair behind her ear and stared at the professor with big, unknowing eyes. "I don't think it would be fair to punish us for breaking a rule that we were unaware of. We had seen a couple of older years going into the forest and we were curious to see what was so cool about this place. It never crossed my mind that those students were going through this forest illegally."

[[ooc: I know that you're a professor, but technically you're not supposed to post in a thread that you were not invited to or isn't open. But you can stay since it will create a bit more fun. xD]]

[alexander]

Waiting for an explanation. She stood there beginning to hear her speak. She explained she saw no sign and saw older students come into the forest. She shook her head. "If an older person jumps off a building would you?" She said. "Ms. McKenzie Third Year I believe I think you would know by now that The Forbidden Forest is off limits. So your obviously lying to me." She smiled.

Detention. She thinks I really wouldn't give Detention. "You must find me a joke Ms. McKenzie. I know I'm old though I wasn't born yesterday. You will get 2 Day's of Detention. All of you. You can be in my office helping my make Potions. That should be pleasant." She said. "Now really explain yourself." She said with a very serious look.

"There's a reason the Forbidden Forest is Forbidden. It's easily in the title." She ended.

[occ; You should read the Warning. It say's Staff May pick threads randomly even if it's a private thread. Let's keep the occ down though ;] ]

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah shook her head. "Honestly, professor. We were unaware that there was a rule against being here." She bit her lip at the clichéd "If someone jumps off a building..." metaphor. It was really getting old and tiring wasn't it? She placed a hand on her hip. Couldn't this professor, who had to be brilliant of course [how else would she get the job?], use a different metaphore. "I wouldn't jump off the building because I don't know how to fly," she said with a smirk. "How do you know my name and year? I don't think I've ever met you before..."

But as soon as the professor mentioned detention, her smirk was quickly wiped off her face. Her jaw dropped open. She did not want her friends to get in trouble for her decision. She quickly shook her head. And then it got worse. Potions?! Aaliyah was ready to throw up just thinking about that subject. But then she remembered what Ms. Evans had told her in their last lesson. The smirk formed on her face again. She had a way out now. But her friends didn't.

"Uh, Professor, I got permission from the potions TA not to do any potions work aside from the theories behind potion making," she said. "So, perhaps if you give me a dentention- and I ask that you only give it to me since it's really all my fault that they had come- that it would be something else. I should have checked the rules first. Honestly, I didn't know this place had a name, ma'am." She looked at the professor again with innocent eyes with the grey contacts in them.

[Timothy Linn]

[[OOC: If I may barge in for a moment. Prof. Fall, you should read the disciplinary rules more carefully. A verbal warning should be given first before any detentions. And if there is a given detention, it will only be served with their HoH, not the professor. So sprucen up a bit on the rules. ]]

[alexander]

[occ; Ah.. your correct Timothy. I completely forgot that rule. Sorry.. I'll just change this thread around a little.]

Looking at her beginning to explain herself. She came up with some terrible things. She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Very well then. I will take you to Professor Linn and Professor Black to see what to do with you. Come with me." She said. "Also I'm a Professor. I believe I should know most students in Hogwarts. Don't ask how. I just know." She said.

She began to walk for the end of the forest. Going back to the castle.

[occ; This thread will continue to Professor Linn's office ;] ]

[grobanitexd]

Aaliyah rolled her eyes and began to follow the professor out of the forest. She looked back at Sabra, AnnaSophia, and Troy. "I'm sorry guys," she whispered. She looked back up at the professor seeing that she was defeated in this battle. But that wasn't going to be the end of this. She stuck her hands in her pockets and marched on, upset with her entire plans being foiled by a professor.

But as she walked toward the entrance to the forest, Aaliyah vowed that she would return one day. Whether it was when she was a fifth year, a seventh year, or even graduated, she would eventually return and she would make sure that no teacher followed her in.