candy trip gone wrong / ulysses

[BLAISE CUNNINGHAM]

Blaise was happy to have more time with his friends while all the older kids went to Hogsmeade. But the day before the trip, an older kid came up to him and told him about a passageway to get to Hogsmeade and specifically Honeydukes. Blaise thought that sneaking into Honeydukes and grabbing a few sweets before coming right back might be a nice thing to do for his friends after they rescued him in the forest. He didn't want to tell them in case they insisted they went too. He didn't want to get them in trouble. After all, he was trying to do something nice for them, not get them in trouble.

When it was the day of the trip the next day, Blaise found the one-eyed witch statue. It took a little bit to find but then he did. Then he said the password. "Dissendium" after making sure that the coast was clear. It was and he slipped past the statue and took the slide down. He hadn't been expecting that. But soon enough he was walking down a long tunnel towards Hogsmeade. It really did take a long time. Was Hogsmeade really this far? But eventually he found the end of the tunnel and got up to the Honeydukes storeroom.

But then everything went black.

Blaise woke up a while later, all groggy and wondered where he was. His vision was a little blurry but then he started to make out some shapes in the dark. He also couldn't move his arms... They were tied. He looked around frantically. His arms were tied behind his back around a column. He then made out the shape of a man also tied up around another column across the room. Blaise jumped a little at that. What was going on?! He tried to free himself from his bonds but he couldn't. He wondered if he still had his wand on him. But if he did, it would be in his pocket and not really reachable with his hands.

He tried to figure out where he was. He couldn't tell. He hadn't been there before. From what he could guess, it looked like an vacant shop. Definitely not Honeydukes.

Blaise wasn't sure if the man would be friend or foe but then he realized that he was tied here too. He probably wasn't the person who did this. Otherwise why would he tie himself up too? Blaise called out to him. "Um, Mister? Excuse me. Are you awake? Mister?"

ULYSSES SAINT MACTAVISH

[ULYSSES SAINT MACTAVISH]

Ulysses had been out having drinks with some friends the night before. Just some fun since the next three days would consist of him curling up in the transformation habitat he and Gem had gotten built for him in their backyard. He had blacked out though even though he was usually able to hold his drink.

It wasn't until he heard someone speaking to him that he fully came out of it. What was going on? The other voice sounded so young. He struggled against the bonds tying him to some sort of column. "Who are you? Where are we?" Uly asked, hoping the kid at least had more of a clue than he did.

BLAISE CUNNINGHAM

[BLAISE CUNNINGHAM]

Blaise looked around. It was lind of dark in there, but the windows were boarded up. "I was in Hogsmeade, but... now I don't know." He could be anywhere if he got kidnapped.

He looked around some more and noticed that it did look like they were in an abandonned shop and he could hear fsint voices of passersby outside. Kind of distant, but still there. "Maybe we're still in Hogsmeade?" he concluded.

Blaise tried to struggle against his bonds to break free. "Do you know why we're here? Its getting late, I think..."

ULYSSES SAINT MACTAVISH

[ULYSSES SAINT MACTAVISH]

In Hogsmeade... were they still in Hogsmeade? It was hard to tell. Though what mattered right now was getting out. He shouted for him but it looked like whoever had done this had thought of that as none of the passersby outside seemed to even notice. Or they were too far from the populated streets to even be heard.

His heart sank. It was getting late and he now remembered one crucial detail: he did not have his wolfsbane with him. He could generally tell when the time was coming and he could feel it now. This was terrible, he had to get the kid out of here. "I don't know but you are in great danger, we have to get you out of here. Do you see anything nearby you at all that could be used to loosen your binds?"


BLAISE CUNNINGHAM

[BLAISE CUNNINGHAM]

"Why am I in great danger?" Blaise frowned as he was suddenly suspicious of this man. They were both tied up here, but did the man know something about this? Maybe he wasn't actually tied up and was pretending to be a victim in this like Blaise to.. to... Blaise didn't know what. But something wasn't right here.

"What do you know?" he asked in an accusatory tone. But then he considered what the man asked him too because it was a good question. Blaise looked around for himself seeing if he could free himself and get away from this suspicious man. He couldn't see anything because it was so dark, but he tried to struggle with his bonds, trying to free his hands from the rope behind his back.

ULYSSES SAINT MACTAVISH

[ULYSSES SAINT MACTAVISH]

Ulysses hated this. He didn't like telling people what he was. He literally never told strangers and even some of those closest to him did not know if they had not gone to school with him. And even then people who he had shared a dorm with would have reason to have put together why he wasn't in the dorms with them the nights surrounding the full moons.

"I'm a werewolf. Usually I stay home with my husband and take wolfsbane." Gem was going to be so worried. The other man usually hung out with him in his animagus form in the habitat they had built in their yard. "I can understand why they would do this to me if they somehow found out my secret but... why would someone take you, you're just a boy." Unless the other was some sort of werewolf, vampire or something too? Ulysses had no idea, the important thing was the boy getting free.

BLAISE CUNNINGHAM