Passing time..

Kurt walked out of the castle to get some fresh air. He was starting to become stir-crazy, being in consecutive detentions due to his pranking. He was feeling sort of lonely, because nobody had talked to him for a while. As he strolled about the grounds, he felt his spirits lift as he took in the scent of fresh winter air and the forest. It calmed him. He decided to sit on a bench he was approaching, and think of what his next prank should involve.

Oh, pranks. How he loved pranking people. It seemed to be a natural ability of his. He usually didn't get caught for them, though the professors, being used to his behavior, have taken to just assuming that whatever it was, he had done it. Oh, well. He could live with that.

Jack had been outside, walking around the lake to give herself a break from the claustrophobic aura of the castle. She glanced towards the Whomping Willow, recalling her trip there... She looked into the lake, remembering coming to the realization that she had grown up... So much was happening, so quickly, before she could even think things through properly...

Things were getting much to serious for her taste. She finished her circle and began to head to the castle, hoisting her knapsack higher. Suddenly, she spotted something, a figure nearby sitting at a bench. She stopped, chewing her lip and felt a devious, long lost expression fall onto her face, feeling normal, natural... She missed this expression.

She stopped and began to dig through her knapsack before fishing out a marble. She set it down and used the spell Michael had taught her, transforming it into a cat. She directed the cat towards the boy and quickly sought refuge behind a bush. The cat wound its way between the boys legs, purring and Jack pulled out her laser pointer directing it on the boys midsection. The cat saw it and backed up, eyes wide. That was when it pounced.

Kurt was spacing off fr a bit, wondering about all of the things that he'd have to worry about if he didn't improve his work ethic enough to pass all of his classes. He was sure he heard something approaching, but who or whatever it was, he probably wouldn't have cared much. Maybe a random student, going to class, or a rabbit, or something. He never expected what it really was.

All of a sudden, there was a cat ravaging his stomach! He saw that it was after a small speck of red light. Someone had been trying to prank him. He knew what he was going to do. He fished around in his schoolbag until he found a small mirror. He directed it toward a random tree. He then got the psychotic cat to stop killing his robes and directed it toward the tree. The cat hopped off of him, and went toward the tree. Then, the laser disappeared. It then shortly reappeared on his stomach. Yep, someone was definitely trying to prank him. He decided to continue playing with the cat. He directed the laser into a nearby bush, and the ravenous cat followed it, and pounced on the bush, showing the plant no mercy.

Jack watched them, licking her lips to hold back her laughter as the cat batted and kneaded at the figure's stomach, trying desperately to catch the beam of light. The boy bent over and suddenly the cat bounded away. She narrowed her eyes and he tilted whatever he was holding in his hands and a glint of light momentarily blinded her, helping her realize what was going on... He had a mirror, was redirecting the light.

Ah. A challenge.

Se pointed it back at his stomach and allowed him to again redirect her light as the cat pounced off. She ticked her eyebrows and pointed her wand at her laser pointer. The beam became to grow bolder and bolder and then began to flicker rapidly. She pointed it at the figure's shoes and the cat went tripping over itself to attack the person's legs.

Kurt thought he had evaded the cat. It had gone out of sight for a while, but suddenly bounded back to him and started attacking his feet after a now violenty flickering beam of light, directed at his shoes. He decided that whoever was doing this thought like he did: If they try to make it better for themselves, make it worse. This definitely was a challenge.

Kurtis, who carried absolutely everything in his schoolbag, was digging around for quite some time before he found his secret weapon. He had been experimenting with transfiguring potions lately, and pulled out of his bag a flask of his latest concoction. He uncorked the flask and spilled a little on the ground slightly to the right of the cat. The cat (being a cat, the curious little bugger), lapped some up, and promptly turned into a butterfly and flew away.

Kurtis put his mirror and flask back in his bag, picked it up, and stood, looking around, with an expectant look on his face.

Jack scowled when then cat was transformed into a butterfly and began to float off. That marble had been given to her by Michael Tremaine, who sort of considered her to be his pranking apprentice, and she did not get gifts very often, so the few she had, she kept close to her. To others they were just beads, just a marble... But to her it was a stress reliever, a cat on the go...

She pointed her wand and re-transformed the butterfly, turning it back into the original marble before saying, "Accio." The marble flew back into her outstretched hand and she closed her fingers around it, slipping into her pocket and stomping forward and approaching the figure, who turned out to be a Slytherin boy she recognized but did not know. "So what, you get my marble cat all doped up on some weird liquid from your flask and then stare at your reflection? Hm?"

Kurtis smirked. "Well, a guy's gotta keep his good looks up, eh?" he replied, his trademark sarcasm appearing in his voice. "Though, I've got to give you props, girl. That is one vicious marble." Kurtis had seen this girl around, he was sure of it. Pretty cool, for a Gryffindor. Any common enemy of theirs were in for a hard time if they got along. "Teach me some of your charms? I can show you how to whip up a barking mad concoction. Turns any object into a seemingly harmless rabbit, but it'll go crazy on anyone you set it on."