It was after a long supper that JD, dragging Callum with her, came into the room that held Professor Maximus. Willow was already there, though it couldn't have been much time before, because JD had watched Willow closely from the Ravenclaw's table and followed when she had seen the 1st year leave dinner.
Pushing Callum in front of JD as he struggled to get out of her hold, ended up standing in front of the two girls.
"You will be polishing venemous terantacular slime from some magical artifacts that were misplaced. I hope you brought your dragon hide gloves." Valerius Maximus said as he eyed the three students knowing he was making them squirm under his gaze.
The pile he pointed to was a pile of what looked like disassembled armor like the ones in the hall. It didn't look like too much as the pieces were large as if just one swipe would clean off vast areas.
"Can we use magic to clean?" JD stated as she rolled up her sleeves and pulled on her gloves.
"I don't see how you could do this without." Valerius Maximus' words sounded almost bored the to the children as he sat down in a comfy chair with a book.
JD grinned pulling out her wand. "This will be easy." stepping in front of the younger students "Scourgify" her wand swished over the first piece but the slime moved out of the way of the spell and rushed at her. Screaming she backed away from the creeping slime, tossing Callum in front of her.
Callum crashed down into the pile of slimy metal causing a deafening crash. His arms and legs flailing out to get some kind of grip as he lurched in the slime puddle that was beginning to creep up his body. Every curse word Callum could think of he yelled out as he struggled.
In his thrashing he gets his foot stuck in an old helmet and his arm wedged into an old metal boot. Callum snarled at JD that this was her fault, as he whipped the boot on his hand hoping it would launch itself at her, but instead it stayed securely fastened to his hand. What did happen shocked all the students watching. The metal seemed to melt into thick cobwebs formed like a boot around Callum's hand. Stunned or not he screamed as loud as the girls when a wave of tiny spiders suddenly appeared from the toe gushing out and spilling across the floor.
Frantically Callum clawed at the web boot on his hand as he backward crawled from the mess of metal back to the girls.
The second his back pushed against JD, her wand was down at the trail of spiders "Depulso" she stammered out in fear. The boot shooting off his hand across the room clanging across the stone floor as it was metal once again.
Then a terrified scream filled the closed room, none of the students were sure who screamed as all had locked eyes with Callum's foot at the same time, the foot that had been stuck in the metal helmet. It was still a helmet and was metal but where the visor had been was a giant eye was now looking out at them, blinking.
"Depulso" JD's spell threw the metal across the room nearly hitting the professor where he just turned the page of his book as if this was all ordinary. The helmet once again looked like a rusty old piece of forgotten armor again.
"Professor how are we suppose to clean this?" JD's voice quivered from the other side of the room as the professor.
"With magic of course." another page turned and the professor didn't look up at the terrified students when he responded.
JD turned to Willow trying to push her toward the heap of slimy metal "I gave it a go it is your turn now."