a {midnight} ADVENTURE;;j.a.m.e.s

[Arielle Regal]

Arielle couldn't sleep. She simply couldn't. On this warm spring night the full moon cast beams into the dorm. Letting out a groan, she turned onto her stomach and hid her head underneath a pillow. Her body was restless and didn't want to settle down for the night.

Letting out an aggravated sigh, Arielle threw the covers off of her short-clad legs and placed her feet on the cool stone floor . She walked over to her wardrobe and put on a pair of jeans and a lacy camisole along with her favorite pair of sandals. As she got ready to head out the door of the common room, she remembered to grab her wand. She ran back to her dorm and grabbed her wand and shut the door behind her.

As she quietly made her way through the castle, Arielle gritted her teeth. She could never sleep when it was warm out and when there was a full moon. Slipping out the front doors, she glanced around to make sure no professors were out and about at night on duty. When she had finished checking she headed to her favorite place, the Black Lake.

When she reached the shore she smiled to herself as she looked around to see if any professors were out doing patrol agian. Since it was a nice night and Arielle really didn't feel like taking off her clothes to go for a swim, she decided to take her animagus form. As she focused she felt her state changing from human to animal. Vanessa had become an animagus.

She had turned into a tall and beautiful blue roan horse with a white pair of stockings and a bold snip on her muzzle. Arielle had always liked turning into the independent horse and running around the lake. The horse wondered around the lake and stopped. She walked into the lake , letting the gentle current wash over her tall legs. She threw her neck and let out a soft whinny as she got her long black mane out of her eyes.

Arielle knew that if anyone was to be coming out to the lake tonight, that they'd be drawn to the "horse". It was a trick that Arielle had been glad to master because she could scare her fellow classmates by rearing and biting them to make them go back inside. She hadn't used this trick much at Hogwarts, but at home she had done it to scare her brother who hated animals.

[James Potter]

"I'm through with standing in line
To clubs we'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the ninth
And I'm never gonna win
This life hasn't turned out
Quite the way I want it to be"

Thursday 0000 ish…
James Potter

James had had a lot of trouble sleeping recently, it was not like he didn't want to sleep but his mind just refused point blank to be surrendered into the sub-conscious. Why? The boy wasn't completely sure but his mind did seem to be working more than overtime recently, there was always something to think about so it seemed. Last year at Hogwarts, the major exams that were coming up, his more frequent arguments with his brother, what he would do career wise after, would he be refused as a trainee auror because of his school records and of course Brandi...he needed to get her off his mind, to him it was unnatural to keep thinking of one girl so much.

His room mates already fast asleep James turned in his bed to lay on his side and looked out of the window up to the full moon that hung in the sky half covered by a thicket of dark clouds. The Gryffindor closed his eyes, "Sleep" he told himself but it was no good. Sighing his light blue eyes open and he stood, grabbing a pair of light blue jeans he pulled them on over his boxers that he slept in, a baby blue t-shirt, black leather jacket and beige hat was also shoved on. Removing his wand from his school robes he placed it into his back pocket before silently creeping out of the dormitory and down to the common room, towards the fat ladies portrait.

He did not meet any prefects nor teachers and even if he did he was lucky to posses the gift of the gab, so to speak. He could near enough talk himself out of anything and even if he didn't get away with it, stuff it, it was only detention. The night had a warmth to it, though there was still slight chill in the air. The moon now clear of clouds was reflected on the lakes waters, which were completely still. The mountain range dominating it's landscape the whole scene was more than breath taking and then he noticed it. A large pure white horse stood gracefully in the shallows of the lakes waters.

Why was there a horse by the lake at midnight in Hogwarts? James wasn't aware that the school owned any stables. Tilting his head to one side the boy approached the horse. James was a lover of horses, he had his own back at Godric Hollow and if he ever needed to just be alone inside his own head he would take her to the fields that surrounded the village and just ride for hours. "What you doing out here girl," he asked the animal though he was more than aware that it was unable to answer back, just speaking out of instinct.

[Arielle Regal]

Arielle let out a soft whinny as she saw James. He was one of her closest friends and they got along great. She decided to have a little fun with him as she bent down and peered at him and started to nip at the end of his shirt. Her horse form then sniffed his hand and whinnied agian. One of her favorite hobbies was to mess with others when she was in her animagus form.

The horse put her muzzle into his hand and looked at his face. What a pretty sight she was. With her long flowing mane and bold white markings, she knew that any horse lover would like to have her as a horse. Arielle whinned softly agian as she threw her neck to get her long mane out of her eyes.

When would this game end? Arielle would eventually turn back into her human form, but not yet. She and James always shared a good laugh and this time wasn't any different. The moon shone down on the grounds, illumnating it. Coming to the lake at night was extremely soothing to Arielle, no matter what kind of mood she happened to be in