Once they were all fed and watered, they went to their dormitories. And once everyone had fallen asleep, Phoenix and Celestia met in the common room secretly.
“So? What’s the plan?” Phoenix said.
“We’ve got to go find her!” Celestia said indignantly like this was an obvious thing to do.
“What, go out and search for her out on the grounds?”
Celestia grabbed his hand and they fled out the portrait hole
“Just follow me.”
“Hey! I was sleeping!” Said the Fat Lady.
“So where are we going?”
“I know that Akko has a taste for shiny objects.”
They went through until they approached the hump-backed witch statue. Celestia took out her dragon heartstring wand and tapped the witch statue.
“Diffindo!”
The back of the statue opened up.
“Woah! How did you-“
“No time to explain just get in!”
She gave him a push and he fell through, sliding. Celestia went after him.
“Where are we?” Whispered Phoenix.
“Honeydukes,” she whispered back.
They crept out of the hole and opened the door from the storage room.
Squeak!
“Wait... did you hear that?” Celestia asked cautiously.
Squeak, Squeak!
Celestia and Phoenix followed the squeaking sound.
Akko was trying to break open a Bertie Botts box!
“Akko! What are you doing here!?” Celestia cried out loud.
Apparently, the noise didn’t go unnoticed,
“Who’s there?!” yelled a scared woman.
Celestia froze. Phoenix has the sense to quickly grab Akko, tear the box from her grip and throw in the ground.
“Where’s my keys? I swear I’m coming in, and I’m ARMED! Ugh! Where’s my keys?”
The woman stumbled and hastened to open the door. They ran back to the storage room and hid behind a box, then the woman came stumbling in.
“Stealing Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, eh? I’ll have you now!” She shouted.
“Now I get why Akko’s so wanted!” hissed Celestia.
They tried to make a bolt for the hole but the woman came bursting in the storage room.
“Hmmm...”
Celestia took a better look at her. She was a very fat woman, her eyes were tiny and blue, she was pale and frightened with shock. And she was slowly coming to their hiding spot. She was getting closer. There was no escape they would be busted for sure-
“AMANDA!”
The woman jumped and turned around.
“What in the blazes are you doing!?”
“Someone’s here! They’re stealing sweets!”
“Nonsense, Amanda. I locked the door after my shift,”
“There’s another way to get in there has to be!”
They were bickering until finally they left the storage room.
The group left through once more.
“That was close!”
“I know,” replied Celestia.
“Well, well, well, scrounging around at night are we?” said a sour voice that belonged to neither of them.