Team Red (Ares and Mary)

Mary sighed inwardly at the prospect of working with other people, but smiled at Professor Zanderson and took the bandana. It wasn't the Professor's fault she was in a bad mood, after all. She looked around for other red bandanas as she tied her own around her wrist, figuring it'd be the least inconvenient there. The only other one on her team seemed to be Ares, a fellow Wormwood and she walked over to him. Smiling and nodding in greeting, the witch hoped they'd work well together.

"Ready?" she asked him before setting off into the maze, gripping her wand tight. As the witch saw the first clue, she paled and started to feel nauseous. Dementors? Dementors?! "What the-" she muttered and then the first dementor was rising.

Memories of the Quidditch attacks came before her eyes, filled her mind with screams and chaos and it was unbearable and this couldn't be happening again, oh God. Mary fought hard to push the memories away, on the edge of her mind and instead focused on making sure Ares was standing behind her, so the dark creature couldn't hurt him. She tried to think of happy memories, of Lydia and Oscar, of training with Jake, of moving in with Gavin in a few months, of Christmas with her family, of anything even remotely happy.

"E-Expecto Patronum." A silvery mist erupted from her wand, floated in front of her for a few seconds and then evaporated. Mary let out a frustrated groan and panicked as the Dementor was moving towards her. She tried again, this time the memories were clearer in her mind and her voice wasn't shaking as much as before. This time, something vaguely resembling an owl flew out of her wand, towards the Dementor. It backed away back where it came from and Mary let out a shaky breath.

Presuming Ares hasn't learnt the spell yet, as he was in his second year, Mary turned to him and managed a smile. "To do the Patronus Charm, you have to think of something really, really happy and then say 'Expecto Patronum'. Don't worry if you don't get it on your first try or at all, it's an incredibly difficult piece of magic. If you know all this already, that's great, but I wanted to make sure." the Head Girl explained, her voice still shaking. What was the Professor thinking, making the students fight Dementors?

Ares took the bandana from the Professor and tied it around his head. He smiles at his fellow Wormwood. "Yes, I'm ready" he nodded. The first clue was a... dementor. He has never seen one up close but now he would, Ares watched as Mary battled her dementor and won. Ares heard Mary explain the spell and then looked up to see a dementor for himself. He shakingly grabbed his wand and thought of something happy. "Expecto Patronum" nothing happened. He kept thinking of something happy. "Expecto Patronum" again nothing. The dementor flew closer to him and he took a deep breath before trying again. "Expecto Patronum" that did it, the dementor got blinded by his patronus and disappeared.

"Well that was more harder then it looked" he said.

Mary observed as the younger Wormwood tried and then succeeded enough to drive off the Dementor. She grinned at Ares with relief. "One of the most powerful spells known to man..." she muttered and shook her head. "Well done."

She moved on in the maze and heard a distant high-pitched buzzing ahead. The witch looked around the corner and saw a bunch of fairies flying around. "Okay, it's fairies next. I don't know how to fight them, but they're not really dangerous... They love it if they can act as an ornament, so we can use that. We could try and stun them, but they're just innocent creatures protecting their territory." Mary said, considering the options they had. The instructions said 'fight the fairies', but she wanted to go with the non-violent option.

She picked up a twig from the floor and first made it slightly bigger and then transfigured it into a small Christmas tree. "If you can think of any way for the fairies to act as an ornament, go ahead."