Joss and Kat disappeared into the Ravenclaw common room just before 10 pm. They both looked a little apprehensive, and kept glancing over their shoulders to make sure no one was watching....

A little while later a black cat, Kathryn's cat Scully, crept out from the picture cat flap for the Ravenclaw common room. She sniffed the air and looked around carefully. Anyone watching would have noticed that there was a positive air about her and that she moved with a purpose. She went down the stairs to the main door and crept out into the night. She headed towards the forest and found a bush to hide under where she could view the edge of the forest without being seen.

Inside her head there was a strange thing going on...

"This is still a bit weird", The Joss bit was saying.

"I know. I've not done this a lot, so it's still weird to me", The Kat bit said.

"Merrrrow?" the Scully bit said.

"The question is do we tempt another animal into this or do we have a cursory look with Scully?"

The 3 minds cramped into the one cat shaped head consider this.

"Purrrrow, prut," say's Scully

"You know the weird thing is that I can understand her," say's Kat.

"I think she's right. We're not used to this, so we carry on using her this time, but we wont go far into the forest, and stick to the path"

Joss agrees.

Scully takes a quick look around and runs off into the forest. She quickly finds a track to follow, making notes of the things around her, particularly smells, that will allow her to find her way back.

Something smells strange ahead. Maybe this would be of interest. Scully stops and looks around, given advance warning of what might be ahead. She climbs the tree next to her, having first made sure that it wasn't like the whomping willow - alive. In this new vantage position she works her way closer, light on her feet so as to make no noise. The smell is coming a lot stronger there must be something interesting up ahead.

"Go ahead very slowly", Kat says. "We don't want to end up in the middle of something."

Scully sneaks down from the tree and slowly moves forward, the strange smell getting stronger.

There is a crackling sound and Scully spins around so fast that Kat and Joss feel dizzy inside her mind! But there is nothing to be seen. Scully, quickly loosing interest in whatever made the noise continues forward, along what appears to be a path. It feels so strange being inside a cat's mind. and looking from her eyes. Everything looks so big, and very clear considering it is so dark.

Then up ahead they 'feel' rather than see, a light, a warm blue/green glow coming from behind some trees.

As Scully heads towards this light, another scuttling noise comes. This time from the right, and much closer! Scully spins around again.... and they see that they are face to face with the largest SPIDER both girls have EVER seen! In the body of a cat it looks far, far bigger! Scully hisses at it and they see eight red slightly glowing eyes focus on them!

Scully leaps! For an agonising second Joss and Kat think she is about to attack this monstrous thing, which you know is far to large for her to handle. But instead, and to their relief, she leaps into the tree behind it and watches from above.

'Can't spiders climb trees?' the girls think to each other, feeling very afraid! However, the spider, which they see now seems to be slightly unsteady on it's feet, moves away, away from them and away from the light.

From Scully's new vantage point the girls can see the source of the light now.

It's a cauldron in a clearing, the contents a misty blue green in colour and they are able to tell that this is where the strange smell is coming from.

Scully is unsure about continuing onwards, but with a sight push from the girls she makes her way down from the tree and slowly moves to the edge of the clearing.

'WE MUSSSST MAKE READYYY! THE TIME OF FEEEDING ISSSS AT HANDDD'

The loud voice makes them jump and scares both girls very much. It is a deep, growling voice. At first they are not sure where it has come from but then they see at the opposite end of the clearing what they 'think' is a large man.

He is dressed in long, tattered deep black robes; his head covered in a hood so big that neither girl could see anything under it.

Scully sinks lower to the ground as another hooded figure enters the clearing. But this figure is not alone. Attached to a leash held by a bony, almost claw like hand is what at first looks like a dog, a thin whippet like dog.

Then they realise at the same instant that it has no skin! The dog is like a skinned rabbit, all glistening muscle and sinew. Its mouth is far too big, and its teeth are many and all sharp.

Scully's fur stands on end and then.....

'YOU!' A voice is heard behind them !! Scully spins around but too late!

'EXOTHO GATOS!'

The girls suddenly find they are spinning and spinning..... ....... They then find that they are lying on their beds in the Ravenclaw Third Year Dorm.

Scully is beside them, licking her fur and looking slightly confused.

Mulder is sitting on a chair, looking miffed at being left out.

Kat had a funny feeling that she'd seen an EYEBALL! floating in the air behind them in the woods, complete with a dangling nerve ending behind.