Holy tentacles!!

[Amira Raines]

Amira stared blankly at her fingers. Little tentacle like things were growing out of them. Almost like potato roots except they wiggled. 

It was just plain out weird. 

She hid her hands in her house robes as she walked quickly down to the nurses office. The Hufflepuff didn't want others to see because they would like think she was contagious or a freak. No one thought her a freak, at least she hoped, but she was a Hufflepuff, what could I say. 

Amira placed her back against the door and pushed it open. She looked, but didn't see anyone when she entered. 

"Hey, nurse person, um... I have an emergency?" or at least she thought. Who was the nurse anyway? She sat in a nearby chair and waited. 

Where she got her... Tentacles, she didn't know. She just really hoped it wasn't contagious because, by now, it was probably all over the puff common room. All the puffs would have tentacles growing out of their fingers. And some part of that sentence was really frightening. 

And there she sat, waiting, and hoping all would be good. 

[Mayu Shiikawa]

"Do you need help? I'm a nurse-in-training, so I might be able to help a bit," Mayu might have seen this girl before, or she might not have. It didn't matter. She used her walking stick when walking over to the young girl.

"Did you see that!? The girl has tentacles! It's like some sort of--" Yuma began.

Mayu spoke up with some form of urgency, as if cutting someone off,

"I think I can fix that. I mean, at the very worst it could only hurt a bit!"

Mayu reassured the girl in a bubbly, cheerful voice, picking up her wand, err, staff, and pointing it at the effected area.

"So, how should we go about this, first?" Mayu wondered aloud. This certainly wasn't beyond her, if she could just remember the the--

"Oh, right!"

She pointed her wand at the girl's hands with a smile...

[Cyan]

The morning after the debacle in the woods of serpents and other nasty things (mainly serpents), Cyan yawned and began crawling out of his bed, rumpling his green and silver sheets this way and that. He carelessly used a hand to brush back his curly brown locks and free his face.

His face stretched as another yawn escaped, and something tapped and thumped along his scalp.

Puzzled, he brought his hand back down.

Groggy, he blinked for a few moments.

Certain he was imagining what he saw, Cyan pinched the skin of his right wrist.

Nope.

"AAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed, possibly awaking every lad in the slytherin boy dorms. Not checking to see who he woke up and to apologize, he bolted out of the fifth-year room, out of the common room, and up the dungeons. He raced down the hall to the Hospital Wing, blue-and-green checkered pajamas flailing in the wind.

"N-nurse!" he yelped, stepping into the room with too much haste and accidentally crashing into some purple-haired chick with a branch.

His tentacle-covered hands flailed wildly.

[Amira Raines]

This lady popped out of nowhere with her pole and began walking toward her. She could help! Amira held her hands out toward her and stared at her. She definitely knew her from somewhere. Something to do with stars... Astronomy class.

Amira's blue eyes got incredibly large. This was the chick that stole her first kiss!

The puff waited for the lady to cast a spell, but was interrupted by a screaming, flailing boy who ran her over.

Amira screamed at the sudden scare the boy had given her, only to realize it was Cyan, her slytherin friend on the floor.

"Oh. H-hey Cyan," she stuttered. He really scared her. Her eyes darted to his hand in the air with the little tentacles on it. "Do y-you have testic- I mean tentacles too?"

How had they both gotten it? No doubt the forbidden forest.

So that's what the patch of green stuff they found did... It was an easy fix. Right?

[Mayu Shiikawa]

"Kya-!" Mayu was tackled by someone rather rude who... also seemed to have tentacles growing out of their hands.

Well, it certainly wasn't very nice of him to run her over, but she could understand his panic at starring in some sort of weird japanese-

"Mayu, the spell!" Yuma chided Mayu, who had apparently forgotten that she was the one who was supposed to be curing the problem.

"Oh, right. I suppose you want my help, too? I suppose I should ask where you got this, but... I think I know. Not important. What IS important is that we need to get you fixed up before they spread! After all, THAT would just be weird!"

Mayu propped herself up on her staff, and looked in a mirror nearby. Oh, dear, her makeup was smudging. She didn't want people seeing THAT ugly scar... She traced it with her finger...

"Oh, well... Back to the situation at hand."

The terrible pun suddenly hit Mayu, sending her into giggles, "At hand. Teehee"

"Now, unless anyone else wants to give me a surprise hug, it's time to fix the problem."

A bob of her staff later, Amira was tentacle free. After all, this spell was pretty common in Japan, like that repair spell or Episkey...

Oh, right, that boy, too... Maybe she should help him, but he WAS awfully rude...

[Cyan]

Cyan was too shocked to even appreciate that he just had a lot of brief body-to-body contact with a chick!

Also, did Amira just ask him if he had... testicles?

He righted himself on the floor, blue eyes blinking hopelessly with tears nearly forming on their edges as he gazed up at Amira and the purple-haired chick.

This stuff could spread? This stuff could spread? Oh, crap.

If tentacles started growing out of his head, then he'd be ticked. So not cool.

Amira was cured, which was totally awesome. It was Cyan's turn, right? Right? She wouldn't be cruel, right? Well, he did kinda crash into her... It was accident. Panic, ya know.

It seemed she really wasn't going to....

Recalling that Lady Purple said this stuff could spread, he wobbled to his feet and slowly moved his tentacle-covered hands toward her. Hey, he was slytherin. If she didn't fix him, then she'd be going down with him.

"Pretty please?"

The tentacle sticking out of his index finger gave a flick.

[Amira Raines]

Amira also laughed at the terrible pun the kiss stealer made. This was able to be spread?! Oh goodness... and then her tentacles were gone. The puff smiled as all of them shrank away. She twitched her fingers and then looked down at Cyan.

The poor boy was almost crying. Awww. She wanted to give him a hug, but that probably wouldn't be appreciated.

"Cyan, it's okay," she said as he stood and began to chase down the purple haired lady. The tentacle began to move. Amira squirmed in her chair and shut her eyes.

That was nasty.

"You should really fix him," she said kinda laughing at the situation. I mean, neither of them touched anyone except for when Finny grabbed Cyan's hand...... Oh dear.

"If it can spread, we might have another hufflepuff coming in." This was not good at all. Oh well, they'll deal with it as it comes.

[Mayu Shiikawa]

Oh, well, he'd had a good scare. Mayu wasn't EVIL or anything, so she figured that'd be enough punishment. A click of the staff on the floor and... Cyan was also tentacle-free. Now that that was over, she had better get to work documenting this or something... She knew this girl, but... Did she ever know her name? Oh, well. It was about time Mayu got some actual work done.

"So, uh, yeah. I should document this for your medical records or something... I'll need names, years and, well, what you think you did to come down with that... Also, anyone else you may have touched. After all, we might have to treat them as well..."

This thing... well, while a little... Japanese... wasn't really a serious condition, if Mayu remembered correctly... But then, she WAS pretty young... So, what did she know? Either way, she began jotting down some notes about something or other unrelated to the scenario. Mostly to look busy and professional. After all, appearances are key!

"So, you should start, Mr.I-Can't-Be-Bothered-To-Not-Run-Over-Someone-Trying-To-Help. Oh, wow, that sounded a lot better in my head..."

[Cyan]

Cyan watched as the tentacles protruding from his hands suddenly began curling inward and shriveling. They dissolved as though becoming ash...

Cyan looked over his hands, flipping them like pancakes. Relief flooded his body, and his shoulders sagged. He counted exactly five appendages per hand, which was exactly how it was supposed to be.

Ah... How excellent! And he hadn't even had breakfast yet...

Lady Purple was speaking.

"Uh, uh, Cyan Reed," began Cyan, flushed with embarrassment. "Fifth-year. Slytherin. Sorry for, uh, slamming into you earlier. I was just, uh, panicking... a little."

[Amira Raines]

Their savior cured poor, freaked out Cyan and then needed names. She would start with Cyan. Amira sat and waited for the Slytherin to finish his name and apology.

"Amira Rose Raines. Seventh year. Hufflepuff. It was some weird plant thing that we mistook for valerian root for Potions," she realized after she said it, that she probably didn't need to throw in the middle name, but it was fine.

The blond puff rose from her chair and just stood there, not really knowing what to do next. Her stomach made a noise and she looked down at it and then began to rub it to calm it down.

Erin was being really loud.

What?

You don't name your organs?

Erin, Amira's stomach, continued to complain through all the calm rubbing the blond was doing to it.

[Mayu Shiikawa]

Mayu flipped over a page in the notebook she was using, and narrated the following as she wrote it down:

"Cyan Reed, Year Five, tentacles growing out of hands of about 1-2cm.
Other known cases: Amira Raines
May have some in contact with:"

She paused. Didn't Amira give her that other boy's name? Why couldn't she remember it? Maybe she'd just ask her to spell it, and hope it wasn't easy to spell, like 'Bob' or something. Yes, that'd work! She'd roll with that plan.

"Great idea, Mayu!" Yuma chimed in.

Mayu paused further. Yuma needed to stop reading her mind. It was getting annoying. Oh, well. She'd just chide Yuma later.

"Please spell it for me?"

[Finnegan Darby]

"EFF-EYE-ENN-EE-EYE-WHY."

Yes. You guessed it. Finnegan Darby, to the rescue.

It was so nice of him to bust in and help spell his name like that. Maybe he could spell the others' names, too, to help out. It was best to ask him, after all -- he was a Hufflepliff, and they were known for being the smartest house in the entire world and/or galaxy. Slytheroos, if he remembered right, were the dumb slutty ones or something.

He bounced closer and stuck his hands in Cyan's face. The tentacles on them tried to touch Cyan's nose. "DUDE. LOOK AT MY HANDS. COOL, HUH?" Laughing, he wiggled his fingers.

What? Get fixed? No, he was just there to hang out and show off his awesome new hand-part-things.

[Cyan]

Amira's middle name was Rose? Cool. Cliche, but cool.

....And, man, was that sound her stomach? Even Cyan had to stare a little. Was this normal? And why was she rubbing it so much? She trying to smooth it over like a Buddha's (?) head or something? Weird.

She probably wasn't pregnant. Probab--

"EFF-EYE-ENN-EE-EYE-WHY."

Why. Yes. Why.

Bloody hell, the kid couldn't even spell his own name right.

Before Cyan, PJ's and all, could even say, "Finny, why don't you go jump off of a broomstick and die?" Finny's tentacle-infested fingers wiggled IN CYAN'S FACE.

Naturally, he screamed.

"Finny, what are you doing!" This was clearly a statement, not a question. "Get that cured! Put it away!" Cyan scrambled backward, somehow managing to wiggle around Lady Purple and scamper behind Amira.

Man. Some days, it just wasn't worth getting about of bed.

[Amira Raines]

It wasn't easy for Amira to spell things out loud and be able to tell if they were spelled right or wrong. Finny probably knew how to spell his own name, so she'd go with what he said.

Within the next few moments, Finny used his tentacles to attack Cyan. Poor Cyan ran behind Amira.

She chuckled a little bit at the fact the Cyan hid behind her.

The blond female hufflepuff could tell Finny was enjoying his tentacles. It was in Finny's nature.

Her hand was still rubbing her stomach. It was just always something she'd done to calm Erin down. The noises were getting quieter and farther apart. See, it worked!