Aiya kept her eyes closed, kept her limbs where they were, and shivered. It was extremely cold here, where ever they had ended up. Even the swirling vortex of five million colors -- colors she'd never even thought of before, never mind seen -- had been relatively warm. George and Fred had told them it was a time device. But what happened when the time device broke? Where did that take them?

Aiya was afraid to find out.

Her unorthodox pose was threatening to tip her over. And what would she tip over into? Grass? Snow? A ditch? A tar pit? Another hole in the fabric of space and time? Candy? Even that couldn't tempt her. She contiued to keep her eyes stuck shut, but wrapped her arms around herself and plopped her bottom down so as not to fall down into who-knows-what.

Plopped her bottom down onto...more cold? Snow, was her first thought. But her pants weren't getting wet. Grass? She wiggled a little and slipped to one side. A smooth surface without traction. Not grass. ...Stone? She was on stone? She had been on stone before! Could it be that she had gone nowhere? If so, then why was it so gosh darn cold?

Very tentatively, she peeked open one eye and looked through a slit no bigger than an eyelash. All she could see was...eyelid. Well, dang it. She opened the eye a little more, looking down to see what she was sitting on, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was indeed, stone!

Huh. She opened both eyes and poked the gray slab to be sure. Yep, and it was the same stone she had been sitting on before. So did that mean they had gone nowhere? ...Well, that would be boring. At that particular thought, curiousity swam up to overwhelm the fear. Were they in Prague in the 1920s? Were barbarians going to come storming through the door any moment now? Had they been tossed so far back that everything around them would be dust and motes of light? Were they about to see the birth of the universe?

Aiya opened her eyes fully and looked around. Oh, poo. They were right where they'd left from. No Prague. But then again, when were they? The young Ravenclaw glanced around the room, and shivered again. Whenever we are...it's sad, she thought at the sight of the empty room. There weren't any people except for them. There wasn't even the sounds of people coming from other places in the castle; no yelling or laughing or talking. Could it be that they the only people left in the entire castle of Hogwarts?

Aiya shivered again.

Cal yelped as soon as his butt hit the floor. The cold, cold floor. "Damn!" he shouted, scrambling to his feet, only to trip over a couch and go sprawling on his face. This was not a good way to start off a trip in wherever they were. Actually, where were they? He looked from his view on the ground, but he couldn't make out much. He inhaled, then immediately began coughing, sounding like he was going to hack up a lung. There was a layer of dust on the floor about an inch thick, and he had probably just sucked half an inch up his nose. "I'm dying!" he wheezed, flipping over so that he was on his hands and knees, still coughing.

Once the coughing fit had subsided, he slowly got to his feet. It was almost pitch black in the room, and he held his hands out in front of him. "Guys? Guys, where are you? Am I alone? Did a whale eat me?" The next moment, he was walking into someone, and he had knocked them to the floor. From the feel of it, it was a girl. He had to check, though, so he spoke. "Bella? Bella, is that you?" He went to push himself off of the ground, but ended up poking himself in the eye. After a few muttered curses, he managed to get up. He dusted the front of his shirt off, before remarking to the person he thought was Bella, "Wow, Bella, your boobs are smaller than I remember. There's hardly anything there!"

>> "It's dated twenty years in the future."

Cal's head whipped around when he heard Leonardo's voice, a sinking feeling in his stomach. "What d'you mean?" He then glanced down. "And, more importantly, why don't I have pants?!"

Cold. Ice? No, not ice. Not snow either. Colder still. It burned slightly and made her shiver through her clothes. Her eyes were clamped shut, as tight as they would manage. With darkness all around, the cold couldn't get to her, right? Wrong. No matter how how black the inside of her eyelids were, the cold would not vanish. Nor would the nauseating role of her stomach. Her sensitive ears were ringing as if a muggle telephone was held up to her head. Bella whimpered and slid her hands to her ears. Cue light head ache.

This was much what it felt like to apparate. Well. With someone else at least. Bella was not yet able to apparate by herself, but she had done so with her father and Aine, as well as Jean and Cal and her other friends. The rush that pushed her body from all different directions and the physical symptoms she always seemed to get were similar, but not quite the same, however. There was no sense of falling.

Confusion was easily reachable by this point. The last thing she remembered happening was people disappearing from the common room. Now, she just...wait. What was going on? He eyes were still closed, so she hadn't the faintest clue what was around her. Well now, we will just have to change that now, won't we?

Easier said than done.

With Fred and George's talk of time travel, Bella couldn't help but wonder if she landed in some strange time without anyone else with her. While some strange place probably wouldn't have a nice seat to sit in, like she did, it was oddly quiet. Until a familiar voice reached her muffled ears.

>>"Bella? Bella, is that you?"

Cal. Of course that was the first person she heard. No doubt other words had been spoken, but the fact that Cal was here made the situation a whole lot better and actually worth listening to. Letting go of her head and opening her eyes, Bella was greeted with a grim looking sight. The common room...but not the common room.

The colors were gone and the life seemed to be sucked right out of the room. Upon further investigation, the brunette only found half of the original number of people in this questionable room. Bella herself was sitting on the same couch in the same position she had been before people vanished and, well, the year changed.

While Cal looked for his pants and Ana worried to an boy that Bella did not know, the fox animagus was more focused on what Leo had said.

"Twenty years? Come on Leo." Rising from her seat, Bella crossed the room to look for herself. Low and behold, it was dated twenty years from what it should be. "Wait...that can't be right."

Then again, what could be?

Bee squeezed her eyes shut until the strange sensation that had consumed her subsided. It felt like hundreds of bugs crawling all over her body and she hated it. She wanted so bad to try and brush feeling away but she as frozen in the position she was in, out of fear and shock.

Once she managed to open one eye but instantly shut it when all she saw was a blinding white light. The feeling went from bad to ok, then back to pretty bad. Suddenly the atmosphere around her turned from the warm air that had once surrounded her to a freezing chill. Bee opened her eyes and looked around, she was back in the common room and the chair she had been on was no longer under her causing her to tumble to the floor with a loud thud.

"OOOW!" she groaned standing up and brushing the dust off her jeans. Wait? DUST!? Why was there dust on the floor? Why was it so cold? It was so cold Bee could see her breath. The common room was dark and cold. The candle sticks on the mantle were covered in cobwebs and one was even broken. All the furniture was moved around and covered in a dust like film

"Fred and George are SO dead!" she thought. How could they have messed whatever it is they were going to do? They were going to be in trouble with SO many people, especially the ministry. Running her fingers through her hair she tried to remember what they were talking about. Something about time and being able to go ino the past or future. Well what did THAT mean? If this was the past.....damn people didn't know what clean meant...but if this was the future.....then THIS is what happens to hogwarts.

Bee looked arlound at the people surrounding her. "Uh hi....um...WHAT THE HELL HAPPEN?!" she asked then saw Cal without his pants. "Cal what happened to your pants?"