It took one book and two minds to figure something out. And when they did, both Dave and Tarlyn were absolutely dumbfounded.

"Oh."

"My."

"Flipping."

"God."

"Uh, you're kinda scaring me," said Adrian weakly. Tarlyn glanced over at her and glared before angrily flipping the page.

"This can't happen," she said furiously. "This must be illegal in at least five countries!"

"Five?" asked her brother, snorting into his pumpkin juice. "Try, like, all of them with a stable government." It had been less than twenty-four hours since she had been able to sort through all the crap in Bagman's mind and find the horrible truth: the challenge would take place in the Forbidden forest. And after reading Hogwarts, A History cover to cover for the twenty-second time, it got worse.

"Thirty-nine spectators have died watching a task set in the Forbidden forest," Tarlyn spat. "Not to mention eighteen fatally injured, thirty-two gone missing. That's not including the champions themselves. Two of the three died, and the third one became mentally ill." Max wrinkled her nose.

"You mean like slutty Natalie ill?"

"No. Like, like..."

"...like disturbingly weird Misha ill," Tarlyn finished. Halo and Contessa looked horrified.

"Goodness! We feel so bad for whoever had to go mentally ill like that; we wouldn't even wish it on our worse enemy!"

"When you meet Misha, you'll think differently," muttered CaraLena bitterly. "He's an incompetent ass."

"Language," Max chided.

"An incompetent donkey. Eh; that doesn't have the same ring to it."

"Well you could always stop swearing," said Zohra, annoyed.

"You swear too!"

"I do not!"

"You keep calling your dog a bitch."

"Well she is!" Zohra said defensively. "I have a female dog and a female dog is a bitch!"

"I'm going to the bathroom. Be back in ten." Dave told nobody in particular.

"Finally he left. Onto a different topic," Max was getting annoyed, "Forget Dave; he's absolutely incorrigible. He just doesn't get it! And I think he has his eyes on some Ravenclaw chick. But what do you guys think about Fang?"

"You have every chance with Fang," Halo and Contessa said immediately.

"You sure?" asked Max nervously. Luce scoffed.

"Remember that wonderful conversation we had that other time?" (Refer to chapter 4 of If I Wasn't There)

Dave walked back into the room and plopped down into a large black armchair. "Whacha guys talking about? Anything interesting?"

"Nothing," said the girls in unison.

"That's hard to believe. Nothing at all? It's a miracle. Anyways, does anybody have an idea of what the task will be?" Tarlyn consulted Hogwarts, A History yet again. After five minutes she slammed the book shut and looked up.

"Well, in the last task set in the Forbidden Forest, the champions had to run through an area infested with Arcomantulas and search for a port-key that transported them to safety. They also had to do the entire thing in underwear." Some of them make disgusted faces.

"Good thing they never repeat tasks. Though, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of me having to do the task naked," Dave exclaimed.

"Eww!" CaraLena yelled in disgust for she hated the idea of seeing Dave naked.

"Hey. People would pay to see me naked." Tarlyn smacked Dave on the head with her large book.

"That's it! I'm investing in darker sunglasses."

"Um..."

"Hello? Hi, I'd like to place an order for super dark sunglasses..."

"Can't cats see in the dark? Wouldn't those glasses be pretty useless?"

"Let's give a round of applause to the idiot who forgot what I am, again," she said in bitter sarcasm. "It wouldn't matter anyways; the glasses would pretty much be a curtain of black, not darkness."

"Hey! That's smart idiot to you. I'm the one who got all Os. And I'm a part dragon. Just throwing that in there. I mean, isn't it awesome!" He opened his supermegafoxyawesomehot dragon wings to add emphasis. A book flew through the air and oh-so-conviently hit him in the head.

"And I didn't?" she asked.