I was walking down a practically deserted corridor on my way to transfiguration, when a glint caught my eye. I stopped walking and backtracked to where I had seen it. Standing there was a suit of armour holding a particularly shiny sword. I leaned back placing my hands on my hips to examine it. Looking both ways down the corridor I saw no one was about, I quickly got out my wand and reduced the size of the sword and placed it in my bag, later I would put it under my bed with the rest of my collection of weapons. I turned on my heels to carry on with my now short journey to Transfiguration; I was turning when I nearly walked straight into Snape, whom was standing behind me trying to figure out a way to put me into detention when he hadn't seen me do anything wrong. You see, Snape and I kind of got off on the wrong foot when we first met; basically we were making our first potion when mine went… a bit wrong. Apparently setting fire to your teacher isn't a good way to introduce yourself. Sometimes I feel he treats me worse than Harry.

'Ah. Miss…Whestone… And what would a person such as yourself be doing lingering around some old suit of armour? Not, doing anything…suspicious now, are you?' He said in his drawling tone.

'Did you know Hermit crabs have sex upside down?' I asked, grinning madly. At this he turned on his heels and headed off in the opposite direction of that he had originally been walking in.


The past week has been quite eventful for me. From bewitching a suit of armour to follow Snape around the castle for a whole day, singing Barbie Girl whenever he took points off of Gryffindor; to Placing a rubber arm on the corner of a corridor in red paint with a knife next to it so it looked like someone had been murdered, a few Firsties cried, it was wonderful.

Not to mention the fact that I have been trying to figure out the egg again. I think I might actually just blow it up. With a bomb; I have connections.


Sitting in the common room with the egg on my lap I pondered why I couldn't understand it. Maybe it was Morse code, Nah. Morse code was boops and beeps.

'Stupid egg, what do you want from me?' I said, and then licked it. Yes, licked it. I didn't think about what I was doing and it happened. People of course are looking at me, probably thinking I'm slightly mad, and like I've said before, I probably am. I pushed the first year off the sofa that I was sitting on and laid down placing the egg on my chest.

'Do you want blood, Shall I murder someone with you? Will you make sense then?' I looked up, people where trying to be discreet as they slowly moved away from me. I sat up and suddenly launched my egg across the room. I watched as it hit the wall opposite me narrowly missing a group of fifth years, causing them to look up with alarm and a few curse words to escape their mouths. It bounced off with a clang rolling in a circle before coming to a stop.

I sighed as I got up heading to my dorm, I notice out of the corner of my eye that the people left in the common room let out a visible sigh of relief.

I got into bed, closing my curtains around me, hoping that the fact that I never closed them didn't make anyone suspect anything and come to see if I was alright. I lay my head down on my pillow, feeling tears fall down my cheeks and on to my pillow. Normally when I had a problem I would owl my Mum and Dad to ask them. Of course they wouldn't be able to help me with this, but my Dad might have given me a hint if I bribed him with chocolate. I missed them, terribly. There wasn't a moment that went by when I didn't miss them. It had been a long while since they had died, almost a month. And I was coping much better than I had been. I wasn't really a big crier, so in whole the continuous crying I had been doing over their deaths had passed relatively quickly.


The next day I found myself in my dormitory laying on my bed pondering things, Ayana's random disappearances every now and then. It's been at least two times now; her Aunt didn't seem to be getting any better over the months that I had known her. I noticed how she would look really rough near the time of her disappearances then get better. Like an ongoing loop.

I sighed as I got up, out of habit picking up my egg and heading to the bathroom to have a shower. I got into the shower holding the egg, maybe it had to be hot or something, I hadn't thought of that.

I turned on the water, slowly sliding my hands around the egg searching for any groves to open it. I sighed as I stood under the pounding water opening the egg, who knows; maybe the egg likes bathrooms or something. As I opened the egg, I noticed it wasn't screeching-well not continually it was on and off. I moved the egg out from under the water. It continued to screech. It was then, that a tiny light went on in my head. I washed my hair quickly getting out of the shower. I started looking around my dorm for something big enough to hold my egg and enough water to cover it. I continued rummaging around, when I stopped and started laughing. Am I a witch or not? I continued to laugh until I grabbed Angie's hair brush and transfigured it into a big metal bath like thing. I then cast "Aguamenti" and waited for it to fill up.

Once it was full I put the egg under the water and opened it. At first I thought nothing was happening and that I was wrong, but as I leaned my head closer to the surface of the water I heard a soft murmuring. I took a deep breath and stuck my head under the water; a song began to play;

Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you're searching ponder this;
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour, the prospect's black,
Too late it's gone, it won't come back.

'Well that was creepy.' I said out loud. I wrote it down after walking back to the dorm, having to listen to it again and again to remember it right. I looked up at the clock on the wall, it was getting late. I re-read through the riddle again.

"Above the ground" suggesting…Underground? No that's still above a layer of ground, wait, the egg couldn't sing above the ground. But it could sing under water! So this task will be underwater… For an hour? Ah… Is this a good time to say I can't swim?

I made my way back down stairs my head and shoulders still dripping with water, as I headed towards the library. When I got down the first flight of stairs I spotted Harry, he looked like he had just had a bath fully clothed. I looked at him, and he looked at me.

'Egg?' We both asked at the same time, we smirked.

'Yeah.' Said Harry ruffling his wet hair, I merely nodded.

'Got any idea what it means?' I asked, he shook his head. 'Going to see Hermione?' He grinned nodding. I grinned back, 'me too.'

'She's in the library come on' and so we set off towards the Library getting odd looks from people who obviously hadn't seen two people who were soaking wet making their way towards the Library. Half way there I saw Fred, George and Lee all huddled in a corner talking in hushed voices. They stopped abruptly when Harry and I came around the corner.

'Oh, it's okay. It's just Jess and Harry.' said Lee. Fred let out a puff of breath, looking pleased that no one had overheard their next prank.

I got three raised eyebrows as I approached them; I told Harry I would meet him and Hermione in the Library after I had told the three musketeers about the egg song. I read it to them and told them about my not so small swimming problem which of course they knew of anyway.

'Well, that's easy. We were working on something so you could breathe underwater a year or so back. Didn't you call it something weird like "water-Guppy Gum"' Fred said thinking back. I nodded remembering.

'Do we still have the recipe?' I asked quietly, while a group of 7th years walked past. Fred and George nodded vigorously.

'It's not going to help with swimming, you know that right?' George said stooping down and looking into my eyes. I nodded.

'It won't matter; if I don't need to breathe then I can't drown.' I stated hesitantly, I paused for a moment before nodding.

It took a while but we eventually found the test products.

'These work right?' I asked looking over to Fred who was searching for the draft paper on it. Containing all the stages we went through including the side effects. His eyes scanned down the paper.

'Looks like the only side effect is heaviness in the water, that's only as it wears off though, you should be out of the water before then.' I nodded before taking the tiny sweets in my hand.

We headed back out of the common room when we saw Professor McGonagall, she hurried over to us.

'Do any of you know where Mr. Weasley and Miss. Granger are?' See looked slightly disgruntled as if she had lost something important and had been searching for it for a while, slowly getting more panicky the longer it took.

'They're in the Library last time I saw them.' said Fred, McGonagall look relived.

'Can you go and fetch them, And Mr. Weasley' she looked at George 'Can you come down with them.' At that she strode off fixing her hair as best she could. Fred and I looked to George whom merely shrugged in a "who knows" manner. It was very rare, extremely in fact, for Fred and George not to both be given detention at the same time as they were always together and so if a teacher found one they would naturally assume that the other was in on it also, giving both detentions.

When we got to the Library we saw Harry, Ron and Hermione all at a table huddled around stacks and stacks of books.

'Who on earth wants to make their nose hair grow into ringlets?' Hermione said, snapping shut the book she was reading with a huff.

'I wouldn't mind,' said Fred from beside me. 'Be a talking point wouldn't it.'

Harry, Ron and Hermione looked up.

'What are you three doing here?' Ron asked.

'Looking for you,' Said George, 'McGonagall wants you and me Ron, and you too Hermione.'

'Why?' said Hermione looking surprised.

'Dunno, she looked a bit grim, though,' said Fred.

'We're supposed to walk down to her office,' George said.

Harry looked at Ron and Hermione like they were being taken away from him forever. Hermione bid him farewell and took off after Ron and George.

'Good luck in the task tomorrow Harry.' I said smiling at him slightly.

'You too.' He said. Fred and I turned away waving over our shoulders as we left the Library.


Fred and I were walking back to the common room, betting on what George got detention for.

'Do you recon it was for the dungbombs last night? I'm sure Filch saw us.' Fred said.

'Nah, if it were we would all have been given detention.' I answered.

'What about,' he started, 'Nah.'

We were walking down a fairly busy corridor when out of nowhere a firstie bumped right into me, making my bag tip sideways, causing a rather large serrated knife to fall to the floor with a loud clatter. I bent down grabbing the knife to hastily stash it back in my bag causing a few other objects to fall out too. Including; A half shrunken mace about the size of my hand, a gun, two hatchets, a peashooter and a fake moustache fall on the floor, most rather loudly. I quickly stood up and began rubbing the back of my neck.

'Geeze, I wonder how those got here.' I said, then getting slightly louder. 'Someone should really be more careful about where they keep their dangerous and deadly weapons. No Fred, you're right, I wonder who these belong to. I will just have to keep hold of them for… Dumbledore! Yes Fred, I agree. Let's go back to the common room.' I finished, I hastily re-packing my weapons while grabbing a confused Fred's arm. Fred was trying not to laugh as it was quite apparent that he hadn't said a word.

As we neared the end of the corridor a solid object stood in front of me, blocking my way.

'Uhh, excuse me.' I said rudely, I looked up to see Snape leering down at me. Apparently some little shitter had told him about my various weapons. He took my pea shooter.

As he was walking away I said in a loud tone so he would defiantly hear me 'Good job he didn't see the pointy sharp weapons eh, Freddie?' Snape paused for a brief moment and I half expected him to turn back and yell at me, preceded by emptying my bag. But to my surprise he shook his head and continued walking down the corridor.


Fred and I were sitting in the boy's dorm waiting for George to come back from McGonagall's, while going over the plans for tomorrow. We didn't know what I was supposed to be finding, or if the Gum lasted for an hour. Or what I'm going to do if it does run out and I'm not capable of swimming to the surface in time. But of course, I didn't really want to talk about that, so I didn't really have a backup plan if anything like that did go wrong. It was getting later and later, Fred would occasionally go down to the common room to ask if Hermione, Ron or George had come back, each time getting a no. It was the last time he went down while I waited for him that I felt my eyes get heavy, closing without my permission.


I woke up early the next morning. Still curled up in Fred's bed.

'Eww,' I said out loud, I sat up. 'When was the last time you changed these sheets?' I asked. I saw movement from George's bed.

'Dunno, a month. Don't really keep track.' came Fred's voice, still extremely groggy from sleep.

'George isn't back yet then?' I asked, that was concerning, I really didn't want to think what George was doing in McGonagall's office all night. My mind wanders to gross and dirty places sometimes without my say so. I voiced this to Fred who just 'eww-ed' at me and turned over.

It's the day of the task I kept repeating to myself in my head when I was back in my own dorm. I was even more worried this time than I was the first time. Probably because I didn't have a plan in which I didn't have to do anything. I've been told not to use that trick I used in the Dragons nest again. Something about unfairness, who cares? I cheated to get in, I should be allowed to do it. Well that's what I said to Dumbledore, he merely patted my head and said 'Nice try.' That was in the same conversation that he told me not to call the minister of magic a 'Bald Old Coot' to his face. Actually, coming to think of it, he told me not to do quite a few things in that conversation. Including, Bothering Snape, Creeping up behind Draco and whispering 'I know your secret' winking and walking away and anything to do with the Womping Willow, including throwing things at it, running up spanking it and running away, and telling first years there's buried treasure under the tree, while watching the hilariously that will be sure to commence from a safe distance.


I got down to the lake a little late due to the fact that I had taken a while to decide whether or not I was going to run away into the forest and live like Tarzan and be raised by thestrals.

I have a plan, a glorious plan. That will in fact just like last time, make it so I only have to do half the job. Huzzah for laziness. I looked around, the stands were full of people waiting to watch what they were sure was going to be another exciting task. I of course was wishing more than ever that I had never put my name in that ridiculous fancy cup. Yes I may have a plan, a wonderful fool proof plan. But like Ayana had said to me when I had told her of my plan this morning, I am indeed a fool. I looked around at the other champions; we were spread out in such a way that made me guess that whatever they had "stolen" was in the middle of the lake, excellent. Fleur DePhlegm was the furthest away in the smallest of swimming suits I have ever seen in my many years of living and seeing. Next was Cedric, wearing what looked like a man thong? Who knows, he was shivering, rubbing his bare arms while jumping from foot to foot. Krum was somewhere to my other side wearing shorts and a sleeveless top thing. Harry who had just arrived was in his school ropes looking quite tired and put out, bless him he looked like he had just ran a marathon, I waved like crazy to him, giving him a thumbs up and then pretending to drown when he finally saw me. I was next to him wearing a red and gold swim suit with a skirt over the top you know like one of those attached ones. Pretty cute if you ask me, and you should because I'm a cool kid, and now, here I am rambling to myself about how cool I am. I really am going insane but you know, that sounds like more fun than this stupid bloody task.

I could hear Bagman mumbling on about what we had to do, and suddenly everyone was jumping into the water, Harry was next to me looking like he was going to throw up as he stuffed some green stuff into his mouth, he was then pushed into the lake by none other than Mad-eye moody. I held the Gum in my hand as I sat down and started murmuring the incantation to my feet. I could hear bagman over the noise of the crowd.

'And there's Jessica from Hogwarts, looking a little confused if you ask me, you're supposed to go into the water, love.' He said sarcastically followed by a swarm of laughter made by the crowd.

I felt like flipping him off.

I should flip him off.

I'm seriously considering flipping him off.

I just flipped him off.


I sighed as I got up and started walking towards the water still hearing Bagman's annoying voice magnified by magic. Merlin's saggy parts if I get the chance I will let him meet Mr. Mace. When I got out a fair way, people started noticing I wasn't going under the water, faze one of my plan complete. I could feel the cold water beneath my feet, and hear the sound of the splashing the water caused, I was half tempted to just jump up and down like a little kid, I withheld myself nicely though and carried on. I looked down as I walked waiting for it to get dark enough to know I was over the deepest part of the lake, marking it as the middle. I ignored the crowd who were watching me like Seeing Eye hawks as I was the only champion that they could see and continued my search for the middle.

After about five awkward minutes I finally found what I guessed was the middle. I popped the Gum into my mouth, being careful not to chew it; I don't really want to suffocate now do I? No is the answer you're looking for.

I took a deep breath looking down into the deep black water. That looks…deeper than the shallow end in a pool. I closed my eyes before yelling the counter curse sending me plunging into the water. The moment I felt the water close around my head I started chewing, instantly able to breathe again. That's good, I'm not dying. I put my hands by my sides, like a pencil and slowly drifted down to the bottom of the lake.

I attempted to swim in the direction that I guessed would be the middle, but instead just accomplished swimming around and around in circles for a while. I had to be careful not to open my mouth because well, the gum wouldn't work if it came out of my mouth or lost contact with my mouth. But that's a minor technicality, nothing to worry about, unless, you know, I'm at the bottom of the lake, and drown. That would suck, a lot.


Well this is fun…SHIT WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? I turned around… kind of; it was more of an underwater roll, searching for that almost foreboding dark blur that had passed me. This is just like in those Muggle movies where they see a dark blur and then they die. Great, I'm going to die. But still I kept swimming, "onwards" as many people have indeed said. Oh god, I'm being stalked by a water demon, I heard a noise from behind me, again I did my graceful underwater roll, but I couldn't see a much through the murkiness of the lake. I felt something on my leg, clinging like a limpet, I looked down, tugging my leg only to find that it was only a weed, I tugged again and I was free. I looked up, more cautious now surveying the water, searching for anything indicating the direction I was meant to be travelling in. And suddenly everything went dark, Grindylows were everywhere coming in from every direction, I started to panic, not being able to talk meant I had to do silent spells, this wasn't very helpful as I wasn't very good at them, I cast stupefy, hoping it would catch them and to my surprise it hit one and sent the others scattering, unfortunately it also sent lots of sharp fin like things in my direction, hitting my face and arms covering me in cuts. The small but deep gashes burned, I felt one very painful one on my cheek, the water around me started turning a pinky colour before I turned away and continued my search for…something. As I continued my search I stumbled…swam? Upon brick like structures, it reminded me somewhat of "The Little Mermaid", just you know…minus the singing fish. I was getting a grip on this whole swimming thing, I take that back, I thought as I started swimming backwards when I clearly was telling myself to go forwards. I stopped short when I saw…people? Hanging by rope, hundreds of sonorous ran through my head, did whatever live here eat people? Were those the other champions, should I save them…? They look dead… It would be the right thing to do, but then I noticed that most of them were girls. That's what they stole, people? Who did they steal from me? I approached slowly flinching at the slightest noise, ah, oh it's okay, it's just a merperson, phew, thought that was a shark then, no idea why, a shark wouldn't even be able to get into the lake. Actually I've not seen The Giant Squid around at all, oh, did I mention? I named her back in second year, Lorna. Yes I said her, and if it's a boy, well I can't change the name, that would just be confusing, though I suppose a male Squid called Lorna would be quite gender confusing. Why the hell am I discussing this with you, leave me be, I'm trying not to kill myself here… Merlin. When I finally got there I saw Harry he saw me and pointed to a rock he had just thrown to the ground while making sawing motions and pointing at the people on ropes. I looked up now to see who was there, Ron was with Harry, Hermione was there, and Cho Chang… a little blond girl, and at the end, his flaming red hair floating around his face was George. I swam down to the bottom of his rope and picked up the rock. I turned around and saw a shark coming toward me, HOLY MUSICAL BATMAN! I was right, it came right towards me and then as it swam I saw it's back end, the same back end I saw half the female population staring at before the task, bloody Krum and his stupid head.

He shot a spell and Hermione came free, he swam to the top before I had even finished sawing George's rope, I was considering starting on his legs, they seemed softer, but I doubt he would appreciate that. I inwardly sighed and carried on, Harry just floated nearby, looking at the little blond girl, creeper. Finally George came free and I pushed him so he floated ahead of me, he reached the top with a small splash, he stuck his head under the water when he noticed I wasn't there. I put up my index finger signalling a moment, then signalled for him to get back to Fred, who by now was probably on the verge of passing out. He swam off, and I went over to Harry, slowly but going none the less. He looked like he was trying not to laugh at my poor swimming skills.

'Help me get Fleur's sister?' he asked me in a raspy voice.

I looked at him for a moment before realizing he wasn't joking. I inwardly sighed again, but nodded handing him the rock as he went to saw her rope. Why did Harry have to be into saving people all the time? It was very inconvenient. When he finally got her he sent Ron and her above the water like I had, I began to swim upwards when I noticed, well I couldn't, I was heavy, like REALLY heavy, and I was sinking fast. I looked to Harry to signal help, but then I started to inflate. YES! I knew these inflatable tights would be useful. Yes, they may give my thighs the completion of an elephant, but well, it's that or an early and very watery grave. As I neared the surface I took out my gum, not wanting to not be able to breathe above the water, I hit the surface and took in a deep breath. But just my luck the moment I did this a Grindylow slashed at my now large tights and I started to sink again, I struggled to say above the water but I was very heavy by this point. I tried to swim upwards up, it seemed stupid. I felt my lungs beginning to burn as I waited for my life to flash before my eyes, but it didn't come. Harry had just shot out of the water as I continued to sink. Okay, I think I'm aloud to panic now, I am after all dying. My lungs are burning horribly now and I'm feeling extremely dizzy. Everything started going dark as I took in a deep breath only to be rewarded with a lung full of water, coughing and spluttering I inhaled more liquid. Suddenly everything went dark and I was weightless with not a care in the world.


I think I may have just successfully done a cliff-hanger, Excellent. Anyhoe, hope you enjoy this.

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