Author's Note:
I do not own Harry Potter, J.K Rowling does! I only own Emily Blanchett, Delilah Hopkins and any other Elementals! I also own Merlin Towers, and anything that comes along with it:D

Okay, this chapter might seem a little boring - but trust me, there are more exciting chapters to come! Just endure with me for this one(: By the way, please comment yeah. The purpose of these comments is the only source of others' point of view that I have; and that I can improve on. If you want to see this story improve, I highly suggest you commenting or something. I mean, how else would I know that you like it or not? Haha. Okay, well here it goes! Enjoy.

Chapter 1
 Stay Young

Running her fingers along the Grand Piano that was located in to Foyer, Emily Blanchett found herself yet again, one of the twelve students that had decided to stay back in Merlin's Towers for their summer holidays. Her best friend had gone back to her own home, leaving her alone. She had invited Emily to stay over, but Emily didn't want to intrude. It wasn't her fault that Emily had decided to stay back in school; but the fact that there was nobody home to welcome her with loving arms. Her mother, also known as Emily's only hope, was long dead, leaving her father to take care of her. However, it turned out that her father was a coward. He retreated to drugs, drinking and prostitutes after her mother had died, leaving Emily to fend for herself. Most of the time, when her father was sober, he would apologize profusely, and beg for Emily to come back to him, pleading that she was the only thing that he had left. However, she had heard enough, and had learnt not to believe anything that he would say.

Opening the cover of the Grand Piano and revealing the white and black keys of the Piano, Emily smiled, a sudden unknownst joy filling her heart, as a memory of making her first friend filled her mind.

flashback.

"Do you mind if I sit here?"

Surprised, Emily looked up from her comfortable position in the compartment seat, to find a girl about the same age as herself -- eleven, standing at the doorway of the compartment. The girl was a brunette, and was extremely pretty, thought Emily. Nodding her head, Emily figured that it wouldn't hurt to make a new friend. Emily wasn't shy, but she was a rather quiet girl.

"Thanks." The girl gushed, as she entered the compartment and closed the door behind her. Emily blinked. She had remembered closing the door after she had came in, but did not hear the door opening again. As the girl sat opposite her, Emily returned to her comfortable position -- gazing out the compartment window, feeling the bumps of the train on the train tracks, as they were on their way to Merlin's Towers.

The girl looked at Emily curiously, and asked, "What's your name? I'm Delilah." Emily looked away from the window, and looked towards the girl, replying in a soft, but audible voice. "Emily." She whispered, as she gazed back to the windows.

Delilah looked uncomfortable, as she tried, yet again, to start a conversation with this extremely quiet girl. "Oh, Emily? That's a pretty name. What Year are you in?"

Without turning her head towards Delilah, Emily replied, still in the same soft voice, "First."

Delilah smiled in glee, as she exclaimed, "Oh, I'm going to be a First Year too!" Delilah didn't know why Emily was so quiet, but Delilah figured that it wouldn't hurt to try to make Emily talk. "Do you know how Merlin's Towers work? As in, the houses, sorting and the classes?"

Now, at this topic, Emily turned and looked towards Delilah, and shook her head. "No, I don't." She replied, honestly.

Hearing this response, Delilah proceeded to talk, to explain what Merlin's Towers was about.

"Merlin's Towers is famous for it's Elemental studies. The school has five houses. Anfang for the First Years, Schlau for the cunning, Klug for the smart, Freundlich for the kind and Tapfer for the brave." She said, as she continued, "Anfang, which means 'Start' in German, is for the First Years to settle in. An entire year is given for them to settle down, and familiarize themselves with the area. At this stage, they are given classes, of course. As First Years, other than the normal classes, they are to choose which Element they would want to study and carry on with, for their following six years at Merlin Towers. Lightning, Fire, Earth, Water, Wind and Metal are the Elements that they would choose from. Then, according to the Element they chose, they'd go through an intensive series of lessons on that particular Element. At the end of their First Year, the students will be given a choice, if they want to continue majoring in Elementals, or not. Those people who do not want to continue majoring in the subject will take it as a sub subject. However, for those that thrived in that subject, would be continuing, majoring in a certain Elemental. Mostly at the end of their First Year, they would get an idea of what Merlin Towers was about -- and would get sorted according to their personality."

At the end of this, Emily was smiling, and as Delilah took in a deep breath, Emily started chuckling. Delilah looked astonished that Emily was laughing, and exclaimed, "What are you laughing at?" Emily, still laughing a little, replied, "You just recited from the Handbook! Everything!" Right then, Delilah noticed that Emily was holding the small booklet, labeled the Handbook, in her hands.

"Oh.." Delilah muttered, embarrassed, blushing. "No, no, it was meant as a compliment." Emily said, suddenly not so quiet anymore. Delilah looked towards Emily, and smiled. "Want to know how the First Years are sorted?" She asked, and Emily smirked, nodding her head. I bet she'll recite everything again. She thought.

"At the Sorting, there would be this special lake -- you'd call it a Muggle Pool, actually, but Purebloods didn't know that. The Pool, located in a special room, was slightly smaller than a normal Pool, and was not filled with chlorine, but a special, clear type of water. Students were to, one by one, descend down the steps and into the pool, and walk to the other end of the pool. By this time, the pool, once a clear body of water, would turn into the colors of the house -- determining what house you would go to. Then, the student, now at the end of the pool, would walk out, ascending the steps and appear, totally dry. According to the color that the pool had shown, the Anfang students would then be sorted into either the Green house, Schlau, which means 'Sly' in German, the Blue house, Klug for the 'Intelligently', the Yellow house, Freundlich for the 'Kind', and the Red house, Tapfer for the 'Brave'." Delilah recited.

Emily looked astonished, and commented, "You almost recited everything off the Handbook!"

Delilah giggled, and replied, "I tend to memorize stuff a lot."

Emily nodded her head. "I can see that."

The two burst into laughter, and whatever wall was inbetween them, was gone and nonexistent already.

end of flashback.

That was six years ago. Unknowingly, Emily's fingers began to start dancing across the keys, and she had started to play. She didn't know what song she was playing, but she figured that she would find out soon enough. She started off playing a C chord, and then with her right hand, began dancing across the keys, and Emily began to sing. "Far past these roads, there is a place, where all of our precious dreams remain. Someday I know, I'll find a way to keep myself from holding on."

Suddenly, hearing footsteps quickly clamboring down the steps, Emily panicked. She didn't know any one of those twelve students, and she didn't plan on it any sooner. As she stopped playing abruptly, Emily closed the piano cover quickly and scrambled out of the area, up the steps and found herself in front of the Klug's Common Room's door.

Quickly producing the Klug symbol in a solid shape of water in the palm of her hands, Emily fitted it into the small slot found in the right side of the door, and suddenly, as the watery Klug symbol suddenly collasped and disappeared, Emily took back her hand, and opened the door by turning the doorknob successfully.

She rushed up, from the empty Common Room, to the Girl's Dorm, and into the empty 6th Year's Dorm, collapsing onto her own bed and then, realizing, that her heart was pounding at an extremely fast rate. Slowly breathing to make her heart beat normal again, Emily then just realized, that the song playing just now?

She didn't recognize it at all, but now as Emily was lying flat on her bed, she had a feeling of what it was. It was the starting of a new song.