Hogwarts at the same time:
Dawn curses under her breathe as she sees that darn cat again. She swears and ducks into a classroom to avoid it. She smiles slightly as it passes and quietly starts back down the hallway. As she sees the doors of the Main Entrance of Hogwarts, she makes a break for it across the main hall.
"You almost made it, but I give you a 10 for effort," Kennedy says from behind her.
Dawn turns around and sees Kennedy with Rona and Vi staring at her. "Hi guys," Dawn starts, "just, you know, a bit stuffy in our room, castle and all, so I'm going for a walk."
"Lame excuse, its night, and you're in all black. If I didn't know better you would be trying to sneak out," Rona says looking straight at her.
"Guys," Dawn lowers her voice and beckons them to come closer, "let's go into that room over there, I don't want to get caught."
All three of them duck into a room off the entrance hall. "I just want to make sure everything is OK with Blaise, I don't feel comfortable with her there all alone. I'm getting a creepy feeling about all of this. I don't know what it is, but the whole plan....it doesn't feel right," Dawn says trying to explain herself.
Vi looks up at her, "Like everyone in that room knew something except for us and that's why they were agreeing to it so soon?"
"You too?" Dawn says to her.
"Yeah I thought it was just me," Vi says to them, "I don't know but I'm willing to bet there's more going on then we know."
"OK fine so there's more going on, we don't even know where Blaise is, if we can find her or whatever," Rona says, "I'd rather not just run off into the middle of nowhere without having some idea of where to go."
Dawn looks at the three girls, and then takes a deep breath and holds out her palm. In it is a little light that flies around the room and then returns back to Dawn's palm. "That's how we are going to find Blaise."
"That's a tracking spell," Kennedy exclaims, "I see Willow do that all the time! How do you know how to?"
"I started learning after the First, I'm basically self taught. Blaise worked with me a lot, and taught me most of it. I'm getting pretty good. Good enough to cast a decent tracking spell and then get some of the brooms to work for me to follow it, at least that was the plan," Dawn says.
The three girls look at each other and come to a silent decision between them. "So you think you could get three more brooms working that way?" Kennedy asks.
"You mean you'll come with?" Dawn says. "And you aren't mad for me holding all this back?"
"Nah girl, we aren't mad. Just wish you had filled us in earlier. And of course we are coming, it's Blaise. You sure the broom thing is safe though?" Rona says nervously, worried at the prospect of getting on a broom.
"Yeah the brooms should be fine. We have to move now though, I don't know how often the outside is patrolled," Dawn says heading for the door.
The four girls sneak out and rush off to where the school brooms are kept, careful to stay in the shadows. Dawn opens the door to the closet and pulls out four brooms and magics them to stay up. As the girls climb onto the brooms, she then places an ignore spell on them and cast the tracking spell. As they lift off the girls pass one window with two people that have not been deterred by the ignore spell.
"Well Rupert you seem to be correct in judging all your charges so far," Dumbledore says watching the girls leave the school grounds.
Giles looks out at them, "Yes I seem to be. I am disappointed in the fact I didn't know what Dawn had been up to with magic though, I feel as if I should have figured that out too."
"No matter Rupert, they'll just get there quicker. Maybe to hear a part of the discussions I didn't think they would here. That might help us, but otherwise it's all going according to plan," Dumbledore says sitting down in the chair behind his desk with a slight smile on his face.
"Yes it seems to all be going quite well," Giles says, sitting across from Dumbledore. He cocks his head to the side as if listening to something and then winks at Dumbledore.
Xander's in a rage. "At least Blaise basically had to do this, but Dawn? And magic? She didn't tell me that she could do that!"
Charlie shakes his head at his friend as they head to the entrance hall, brooms in each of their hands. "I think we need to try and figure out what Dumbledore means by it's all going according to plan. What plan? No plan I heard! And apparently Giles discussed us all thoroughly with him if Dumbledore knows how each of us will react to things. We are probably playing into his hand here." Charlie stops, "Maybe we shouldn't go."
"NO WAY!" Xander exclaims and grabs Charlie's arm to start pulling him towards the Entrance Hall. "We are NOT leaving them to face this on their own. We at least know it is part of the plan, they don't. We might be able to catch them before they put themselves in real danger."
"Ok we'll go," Charlie says, "but know I did this is protest."
"So noted," Xander says as they walk outside.
They lay their brooms on the ground and Charlie charms Xanders then reaches out for his own to come up. Charlie then casts a tracking spell on the girls and they lift off into the air to follow them.
Dumbledore and Giles look out the window of the office and slightly shake their heads. "I must call everyone together, it will be earlier then I expected with them in the mix."
Dawn curses under her breathe as she sees that darn cat again. She swears and ducks into a classroom to avoid it. She smiles slightly as it passes and quietly starts back down the hallway. As she sees the doors of the Main Entrance of Hogwarts, she makes a break for it across the main hall.
"You almost made it, but I give you a 10 for effort," Kennedy says from behind her.
Dawn turns around and sees Kennedy with Rona and Vi staring at her. "Hi guys," Dawn starts, "just, you know, a bit stuffy in our room, castle and all, so I'm going for a walk."
"Lame excuse, its night, and you're in all black. If I didn't know better you would be trying to sneak out," Rona says looking straight at her.
"Guys," Dawn lowers her voice and beckons them to come closer, "let's go into that room over there, I don't want to get caught."
All three of them duck into a room off the entrance hall. "I just want to make sure everything is OK with Blaise, I don't feel comfortable with her there all alone. I'm getting a creepy feeling about all of this. I don't know what it is, but the whole plan....it doesn't feel right," Dawn says trying to explain herself.
Vi looks up at her, "Like everyone in that room knew something except for us and that's why they were agreeing to it so soon?"
"You too?" Dawn says to her.
"Yeah I thought it was just me," Vi says to them, "I don't know but I'm willing to bet there's more going on then we know."
"OK fine so there's more going on, we don't even know where Blaise is, if we can find her or whatever," Rona says, "I'd rather not just run off into the middle of nowhere without having some idea of where to go."
Dawn looks at the three girls, and then takes a deep breath and holds out her palm. In it is a little light that flies around the room and then returns back to Dawn's palm. "That's how we are going to find Blaise."
"That's a tracking spell," Kennedy exclaims, "I see Willow do that all the time! How do you know how to?"
"I started learning after the First, I'm basically self taught. Blaise worked with me a lot, and taught me most of it. I'm getting pretty good. Good enough to cast a decent tracking spell and then get some of the brooms to work for me to follow it, at least that was the plan," Dawn says.
The three girls look at each other and come to a silent decision between them. "So you think you could get three more brooms working that way?" Kennedy asks.
"You mean you'll come with?" Dawn says. "And you aren't mad for me holding all this back?"
"Nah girl, we aren't mad. Just wish you had filled us in earlier. And of course we are coming, it's Blaise. You sure the broom thing is safe though?" Rona says nervously, worried at the prospect of getting on a broom.
"Yeah the brooms should be fine. We have to move now though, I don't know how often the outside is patrolled," Dawn says heading for the door.
The four girls sneak out and rush off to where the school brooms are kept, careful to stay in the shadows. Dawn opens the door to the closet and pulls out four brooms and magics them to stay up. As the girls climb onto the brooms, she then places an ignore spell on them and cast the tracking spell. As they lift off the girls pass one window with two people that have not been deterred by the ignore spell.
"Well Rupert you seem to be correct in judging all your charges so far," Dumbledore says watching the girls leave the school grounds.
Giles looks out at them, "Yes I seem to be. I am disappointed in the fact I didn't know what Dawn had been up to with magic though, I feel as if I should have figured that out too."
"No matter Rupert, they'll just get there quicker. Maybe to hear a part of the discussions I didn't think they would here. That might help us, but otherwise it's all going according to plan," Dumbledore says sitting down in the chair behind his desk with a slight smile on his face.
"Yes it seems to all be going quite well," Giles says, sitting across from Dumbledore. He cocks his head to the side as if listening to something and then winks at Dumbledore.
Xander's in a rage. "At least Blaise basically had to do this, but Dawn? And magic? She didn't tell me that she could do that!"
Charlie shakes his head at his friend as they head to the entrance hall, brooms in each of their hands. "I think we need to try and figure out what Dumbledore means by it's all going according to plan. What plan? No plan I heard! And apparently Giles discussed us all thoroughly with him if Dumbledore knows how each of us will react to things. We are probably playing into his hand here." Charlie stops, "Maybe we shouldn't go."
"NO WAY!" Xander exclaims and grabs Charlie's arm to start pulling him towards the Entrance Hall. "We are NOT leaving them to face this on their own. We at least know it is part of the plan, they don't. We might be able to catch them before they put themselves in real danger."
"Ok we'll go," Charlie says, "but know I did this is protest."
"So noted," Xander says as they walk outside.
They lay their brooms on the ground and Charlie charms Xanders then reaches out for his own to come up. Charlie then casts a tracking spell on the girls and they lift off into the air to follow them.
Dumbledore and Giles look out the window of the office and slightly shake their heads. "I must call everyone together, it will be earlier then I expected with them in the mix."
