Sandbox {Summoned Students}

[Phantom]

Everybody loved the sea, or that's what The Phantom liked to believe. Not only, but it was already June, the spring was coming to an end and the weather was only getting warmer. So naturally, it was a call for celebration. But The Phantom never liked to make it easy for his precious students, after all what was the fun in that? Oh, no. If they wanted to enjoy themselves, they would have to work for it. First he would have his own fun by watching them struggle, and only then they would have their own. It was merely the natural order of the universe.

So this time, when the students would wake up, they would find themselves lying on soft sand, without their wands, in the middle of what seemed like a house. The ceiling was lower than most places, the floor completely covered in sand, and the walls in each room were painted in a different colour. There were no windows, but there was a fresh breeze, sun light and a familiar scent of the sea. If there was a sea in the end of their travel, or anything pleasant awaits, the phantom did not know. All he knew was that they would have to pass through many rooms to find out.

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Eli awakens but remains laying on the ground with his eyes closed. It smells salty, like an ocean. Elijah rolls onto his stomach, expecting to put his face down into his soft pillow but instead a grainy substance greets him. He sits up, his eyes snapping open. Sand. Why is there sand in his bedroom? He looks around and finds that it is covering the floor. The room he is in isn't his dorm room either. No, the walls are painted pale blue and the room is empty besides a couch in the corner that is nearly buried by sand.

Eli gets to his feet, looking around. His heart is pounding in his chest, this room isn't familiar to him. If Eli reaches up and stands on tiptoes his fingers brush the ceiling. It goes to show just how much sand is piled up beneath him. His head reaches out to the only door in the room, a pale white, wooden one. The paint on it is flaky and a few paint chips flutter to the floor.

Eli moves to the couch and brushes some sand off the seat, examining the worn leather material. What was this place? Why is it covered in sand? Is he all alone? Despite being inside a soft breeze tickles Elijah's cheek and his hand dances to his pocket, ready to take out his wand. It's a wizard's first instinct after all. One doesn't want to wake up in a strange room and remain unarmed. Eli's hands dig ferociously in his pockets but his wand isn't there. He takes a deep breath and counts to three, praying that it will turn up.

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[Elizabeth Frank]

Elizabeth was nestled into a mound of sand with no idea of how she had gotten there. It had slipped up under her shirt and into her socks, and even when she pulled the latter off, grains clung to her skin. The air smelled of the sea, though she was definitely in a room: a low roof was over her head, and she was surrounded by lavender walls. Her panic started to fade as she moved through the room, brushing sand off of tables and chairs. This wasn’t like the forest. Even if she didn’t know the way out, it could hardly be as dangerous. Besides, there was always Point Me.

Her wand was gone.

She noticed it was missing when she put her hand to her belt. Biting her lip, she dove back to the spot where she had been sleeping, sifting sand through her fingers and burying herself up to the elbow in it. Her wand wasn’t there, although she did find one of her shoes and a hair pin. Shaking, she stood up and wrapped her arms around herself. She was wandless and helpless… was she also alone?

“Hello?” She walked up to a door and pushed it ajar. “Hello? Is someone there?” She could only hope it wouldn’t be anyone -- or anything -- dangerous.

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Eli was so busy searching for his wand that he didn't hear the young woman open the door. When she spoke up though Elijah had jumped, standing at his full height. "Hullo," he said, slightly relieved. At least he isn't alone. Plus he recognized this girl, her name was Elizabeth, she was in his year, his house too.

"Do you know where this is? Or what it is?" She's a nice girl from what he knew and I have no reason to not trust her. Surely she has nothing to do with this? She looked just as shaken as Eli felt. He decided he should probably formally introduce himself so he stuck out a hand, "I'm Eli," he said with an awkward smile, "and you're Elizabeth, right?"

Eli glanced behind her, peering into the room she came from. The walls are painted a faint purple in there. This place made the hairs on the back of Elijah's neck stand up. It was creepy, weird things had always happened at Hogwarts but nothing like this had happened to Eli before.

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[Elizabeth Frank]

“Hi.” Elizabeth didn’t really know who she had expected to find, if anyone, but she certainly hadn’t expected Eli. It was nice to see a familiar face, though, and especially a face that she could get along with. “Yeah, I’m Elizabeth.”

Eli’s room was emptier than Elizabeth’s had been, and it would have been pleasant were it not for the sand coating the floor. She stepped through the door for the sake of movement, but an instant later was tempted to race back into the lavender room and search for her wand, even though she knew it wouldn’t be there. Do I really know that, or am I just trying to convince myself it’s gone?

“I don’t suppose you’d know what’s going on?” He had looked as surprised to see her as she was to see him, but for all she knew he did have something to do with it. “Or… have you at least got your wand? I can’t find mine.” She bit her lower lip and looked away. It hadn’t been her fault it was lost, but she still felt as though she should have kept a closer hand on it somehow. She was too old to need someone else to take care of her like this.

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So he was right, she was Elizabeth. "I have no clue what's going on," he said, biting his lip nervously. "If this was a prank it was a bloody good one," he added as an afterthought. He glanced at the girl in front of him. She lost her wand too? Thank goodness, it would be horrible if he was the only one who lost their wand. "I can't find mine either," he gulped, "my parents are going to kill me. That's been passed down for generations!"

Eli's short attention span got him distracted right away. He began to pick at the chipping paint on the wall when a thought struck him. "Do you think each room is a different color? Maybe we could follow it the same way you follow a rainbow... you know?"

After saying it Elijah realized it was probably a stupid idea. He doubted she had any better ideas though, "we don't have to do that of course," he adds, "just a thought. I don't have any other ideas." He shrugged his shoulders and continued thinking of how to get out of here... or how he ended up here in the first place!

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[Elizabeth Frank]

Elizabeth felt suddenly nervous when Eli said he had lost his wand as well. The two of them were completely unarmed and defenseless, and she wasn’t a very good fighter when it came to Muggle techniques. Of course, they hadn’t been in any danger yet, so there was a chance they could get out of here without having to use magic. “I hope it turns up,” she said, partly because she did feel sorry to see Eli fret like that, and partly because she would feel better if someone was armed.

A rainbow? Her room had been a shade of purple, while his was blue. “It’s as good a plan as any,” she said. One of them had to be brave, and she doubted it would be him, so she steeled herself and walked to the door at the far end of the room. It was made from some kind of light wood and folded easily to the side, revealing grass green walls and furniture upholstered in various shades of blue. Sand coated the floor and had settled onto the fabric, and a painting of flowers in a vase hung on one wall. “Purple, blue, green,” she murmured. Every adventure starts somewhere. “Let’s go.”

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"I don't think it is here," Eli replied, "I just have this bad feeling." He sighed and ran his hands through his gingery hair. Eli was extremely physically weak and he really hoped he wouldn't have to fight anyone in here. Although he was scared that his wand wasn't with him he was also rather glad. It would be impossible to find in the sand.

When the two enter the next room Eli noticed that the wind seems stronger in here. The sand drifted occasionally too. Eli also noticed that the ceiling seems lower in here, or is the sand higher? He reached up once more, his fingers brushing the ceiling. "Elizabeth," He said softly, "I have a really bad feeling about this."

Eli didn't want to seem like a coward but at that point the young man wanted nothing more than to run home. He swore he could hear seagulls squawking in the distance, he hated birds. Should he mention that to Elizabeth? No, what if she made fun of him. Then again, she seemed like such a nice girl. He decides to mention the bird noises and ask if she hears them too, "Do you hear those birds in the distance?"

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[Elizabeth Frank]

The green room seemed a bit smaller than before, and Elizabeth had to step up to get atop the sand. The ceiling was still far enough above her head that she felt fine, but it was lower than she was used to. “Does your feeling come from more than turning up in a strange place without your wand?” That was still more than enough to make her nervous, even though she had a very tall boy right behind her. “I don’t suppose you know how we got here,” she added as an afterthought. He had already said he didn’t know what was going on, but there was still a chance. “I just woke up in that purple room, and I’m not sure how I could have.” She had never walked in her sleep that she knew.

Now that he mentioned it, she could hear birds. “Yeah. There are gulls somewhere over… there.” She turned to the left, but all she saw was a wall and ceiling. “Huh. Do you suppose they’re somewhere outside the room?” They would have to be by water, then, she thought as she walked to the wall and set her hand against it. It felt as solid as ever, but the wind was stronger and shifted her hair over her shoulders. “How can we get out?”

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Eli thought about her question a moment, "Mainly from being without my wand. Normally I would be involved with some sort of prank like this. Who could pull it off without me," he didn't mean to sound full of himself. Few people would dare to prank Eli though, they knew to expect horrible consequences. "I'm a light sleeper," he added, "the slightest creak of the floorboards and I'm wide awake."


Eli watched Elizabeth move closer to the wall. As she set her hand on it hee moved back further from the grassy green wall. "I really hate birds," he whispered, "I really hate them." His eyes were wide with fear and he watched the wind play with Elizabeth's hair. "I think we probably have to keep going to get out."

Eli motioned to another white door across the room. Without waiting to make sure Elizabeth was okay with moving on he walked forward and pushed the door open. He managed to push it wide open with little difficulty and he stepped into the room with sunny yellow walls. He noticed the slight incline in the sand, as he made his way to the middle of the room his head nearly brushed the ceiling.

"Well," Eli said, "I guess I was right about the rainbow." He noticed a dingy grey couch in the corner, it appeared to be splattered with bird poop. He dearly hoped they didn't run into any seagulls.

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[Elizabeth Frank]

Elizabeth wondered how she always managed to end up with the slightly egoistic boys who liked to break the rules. The weirdest part was that she found herself enjoying their company more than she did her own “type”. If I hung out with both of them at once, would reality somehow break? “I remember I was out pretty heavily last night,” she said. “I’m glad I didn’t have anything planned this morning.”

Not liking birds was a bit odd, but then, she knew people who couldn’t stand tiny, harmless insects, so she didn’t say a word. She did notice that he was gone, though, when she glanced over her shoulder and saw an empty room. “Hey!” Turning from the wall, she raced to the open door and stumbled into the yellow room, where she spotted him. “You can’t just run off like that,” she said. “For a second I thought you’d vanished and I was stuck there by myself.” She hoped her voice wasn’t shaking as badly as she thought it was.

“If it’s a rainbow, then we must be almost out,” she said. “The sand’s even starting to slope down.” A door at the other end of the room had weathered paint, and the whorls of the wood showed through clearly. “Just two more rooms left.” Eagerly, she walked across the sand and pulled open the door.

Gulls. Nearly a dozen of them. Hoping Eli hadn’t seen, she closed it again. “Is there another door?” she asked. “If it is a rainbow, I mean, that might be the wrong one. The walls… they’re… light green.”

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Eli looked down at his feet, "Sorry," he mumbled, "I didn't mean to upset you. I thought you saw me walk away." He really is sorry, he would have been terrified too if he turned around and she was gone.

"What do you mean?" It's strange that she did't want him to go through that room, "there's no other way to go. I must have been wrong about the rainbow thing." He moved forward, going to open the door. He ignored the sound of the gulls, thinking they're just coming from outside of the building he and Lizard are trapped in. "I think you're just nervous Lizard-" Eli cut himself off with a furious blush. "S-sorry, that's just what I call you in my head, I tend to give people stupid nicknames." He hoped she didn't mind, he hadn't meant it rudely.


Eli opened the door and immediately shut it, his heart pounding. The walls weren't green, they were orange for sure. He's resisting the urge to scream like a little girl.

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[Elizabeth Frank]

“You didn’t upset me,” she said, tempted for a moment to take his hand. “I was just… I’d rather not be alone in this place. At least, not without my wand.” He probably felt the same, and she tried to sound bold for both their sakes. “We’ll have to stick together for this. No separations, okay?”

As Eli insisted that there wasn’t another way to go, she stepped in front of the door. It was still an unfamiliar sensation to be the protector, but if she had to fill it, then she would. “I don’t think you were wrong,” she said as he walked forward, “so there has to be another way out. Look around.”

She didn’t know whether it was the nickname or the fact that he said she was nervous that made her react, but she stiffened and let him open the door. Even if he was embarrassed and said he was sorry, he deserved a moment to be scared. Almost at once, she felt guilty and pushed the door shut. “I tried to keep you from going in there,” she said softly, not looking at him. “Did you notice another way out? I won’t make you go through there if I don’t have to.” She dared to look up and try to meet his gaze. “If we do have to go, I’ll go first. I have to get used to being brave sometime, don’t I?”