Chapter 1 – The Year of Awakening
A/N Warning this is not gonna be pretty as there will be child abuse in this chapter and very dark themes.
19th September 1989 Crawley
Crawley was currently experiencing the worst thunderstorm ever to be seen in Britain in all time. Lightning was raining down from the heavens at a ridiculous rate and fires were everywhere. People were panicking and firefighters were putting out fires left and right but one women just walked through the crowd unseen in the chaos. She was a tall, slim woman with dirty blond hair tied up into a rough ponytail but her eyes were the strange thing. They were silver and shining in power. She soon approached a house that seemed to be immune to the lightning but had a foreboding cloud hanging over it.
"Well it's about time another one popped up," The woman remarked as she entered the house. Once in she saw a young couple looking at their daughter who was emanating electricity
"Don't be afraid I'm here to help," The woman said realizing how unhelpful what she just said was
"What's going on?!" the man asked her looking scared
"I'm just gonna be blunt about this," The woman said pausing for effect "Your daughter is a magical elemental who has awoken."
The couple looked at her like she was nuts but the little girl had a look on her face like it made sense
"That's mental," The mother said
"Tell me is it not her 10th birthday today?" The woman asked
"How would you know that?!" the farther asked looking angry now
"Because the same thing happened to me when I turned 10," The woman answered "I caused that giant tornado up in Southport on my 10th birthday."
"So you can help me?" The little girl asked looking scared of yourself.
"Yes, you feel that sense of power around yourself?" The woman asked as the girl nodded "Good, then all you have to do is calm down and embrace it as a part of who you are."
The girl closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths as the electricity around her became almost tame and appeared to be responding to her will. All of the sudden the clouds around the area dissipated and the storm ended. The girl opened her eyes which were now yellow and looked powerful.
"Okay what the hell is going on?" The farther asked confused.
"First let me introduce myself, my name name is Wendy Sykes," Wendy said "let me ask you has there been anything strange going on around your daughter that didn't make sense?"
"Well there was this one time when she kept reaching for a book on the top shelf and it then appeared in her hand almost as if …" The farther started to say
"As if she summoned it, that's because she did you see your daughter is a witch," Wendy stated "As am I."
Wendy then spent the day explaining the magical world to the Granger family who were surprised yet the girl, known as Hermione, seemed as if it made sense. Wendy mentioned that in a year Hermione would be get a letter from a school called Hogwarts which was a magic school and girl literally jumped for joy.
"Okay now that that's out the way let me explain elementalism," Wendy said
"Wait why is it a separate thing?" Dan Granger asked
"Because elementals are extremely rare even amongst the magical world," Wendy said as she begun to explain the difference between a witch and a elemental "You see an elemental is not only rare but insanely powerful compared to a stranded witch or wizard and as such many will seek to control her for there benefit so we all need to keep quiet about this until she is ready to hold her own."
"That actually makes sense," Emma Granger stated
"I will look over her when she is at Hogwarts so that she is safe from others and can help her when necessary," Wendy said comforting the family.
"Thank you for all your help," Emma said
"No problem I will be in contact when I think that I can help you," Wendy said and just like that she was gone in a gust of wind.
"Okay that's just cool," Dan remarked causing the family to laugh.
With the Minister
Minister Fudge was having a bad day. First a magical storm appeared in Crawley with no appear reason why it did, then no one could figure out how to stop it and then no one could figure out why it stopped. The press were already hounding him about it and he had no answers to give them. This did not look good for him in the eyes of the public. He was going to have to ask Malfoy for advice on this.
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January 21st 1990
The once typical suburb outside of the Manchester now looked like hell on earth as a massive firestorm was raging. Wendy had just appeared on the outskirts of the firestorm and was hit with a blast of heat in the face
"Well then I don't remember stepping out of a frying pan but here I am in the fire," Wendy said to herself, laughing at the bad joke when she saw Dumbledore and ministry workers battling the raging fire "Crap I've gotta move quickly on this one."
Wendy suddenly flew up using the wind to power herself and saw that in the centre of the fire was a house seemingly unaffected by it. She then flew over the fire and landed in the eye of the storm. The house appeared to be a bit on the cheap side and when Wendy entered saw that it wasn't as well maintained as the Granger's house was. She saw the elemental curled up and appeared scared of herself though to be fair she was covered in fire. The farther seemingly trying to calm her down but wisely didn't try to touch her.
"Hey there I'm here to help you with the fire," Wendy said cheerfully
"Really can you save my girl?" The farther said pleadingly
"Yes just calm down alright," Wendy said as she approached the girl who she could see now looked terrified "Just relax Okay if you calm down the fire will stop and you'll be fine."
The girl just couldn't calm down so Wendy began explaining what was going
"Listen to me okay this fire is apart of you and you need to embrace that, when you do the fire will be yours to control as you wish okay."
"Really?" the girl asked
"Yes you see you are a magical witch and a fire elemental who can do many strange and fun things but you need to learn to control it and to control it you need to calm down and embrace that the fire is a part of you," Wendy explained
The girl began to calm down and fire seemed to disappear and reveal her.
"I did it!" The girl said jumping for joy. She was a little short for her age with dark jet black hair that reached her shoulders and curled at the end. Her eyes where a bright amber and looked like little gems of fire. She quickly hugged Wendy and said with passion "Thank you!"
"No problem what's your name little one?" Wendy asked
"Sera, Sera Brandt," Sera said.
"Not to be rude but what the hell just happened?" Sera's farther asked
Wendy then once again explained the magical world to the family and about how people will try to use Sera for her power so she needs to hide it until she's ready to stand up for herself. The family appeared to be working class but didn't struggle and Sera had been taught early to appreciate the value of money. Sera's mother had apparently died in childbirth leaving the two alone but it was clear that they loved each other. Wendy then once again left in impressive fashion to the amazement of Sera.
Same time with Dumbledore
Dumbledore was considered to be incredibly powerful yet the firestorm just wouldn't stop raging no matter what he did so when it suddenly disappeared it confused him to no end. It didn't make any sense to him and neither he no the ministry officials could find the source of it. He couldn't shake the feeling that what happened here was similar to what happened in Crawley a few months ago though and that's what worried him. Was someone showing off there powers and causing chaos or was it a weird coincidence?
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June 15th 1990 Greengrass Manor
The home of the Greengrass family was a magnificent manor built over many generations of hard work from farther to son. Marcus Greengrass, the current Lord Greengrass, was known as a neutral Lord as he didn't pick a side during the war as Voldemort was too fanatical and he had always distrusted Dumbledore so chose to stay out of it and protect his family. He woke up in his magnificent mansion to find it frozen. The cold air seemingly took the life out of him as he scrambled to figure out what was going on. The wards didn't tell him that it was an attack and it emanated from his daughters bedroom.
"Marcus what's going on?" Selene Greengrass asked
"I don't know come on we have to find out," Marcus responded as he quickly got his wand and headed through the corridor to his eldest daughter's room only to find the door to it frozen shut.
"Daphne?! Can you hear me?" Marcus yelled through the door.
All of a sudden the ice melted from the door and a 10 year old Daphne Greengrass opened the door.
"Dad what's going on, everything's frozen but I'm not cold?" She asked
"Your not cold?" Marcus asked his teeth chattering and trying to figure out what's going on. At this point Daphne's younger sister walked up to them as did her mother. Looking into his daughter's room Marcus saw that the path that Daphne walked was melted and that's when he figured it out.
"Daphne, I want you to listen to me, just try to stay calm and focus on the ice," Marcus said looking serious.
"What?" Daphne asked confused
"Just trust me okay," Marcus said.
Daphne did what she was told and found that she could feel the ice around her as if it was a part of me.
"I can feel it dad!" Daphne said surprised
"Good now try and draw it into yourself," Marcus instructed
Daphne then felt the power retreat into herself and the once frozen house was now back to normal
"I did it! But what is it?" Daphne said excited and bewildered as to what's wrong with her.
Just as Marcus was about to answer there was a knock on the door.
"Who the hell is that?" Marcus said as he went to answer it.
"Hello there Lord Greengrass, I believe you daughter just had a surprising awakening," Wendy said nonchalantly.
"Who are you?" Marcus asked irritably
"Forgive my manners, my name is Wendy and I'm here to help your daughter with her awakening though I can see you handled it pretty well yourself," Wendy explained
"So my hunch was right then," Marcus muttered "So why specifically have you come?"
Wendy just sighed at the suspicious nature of Purebloods "Because I know first hand what it's like to go through an awakening so I came to offer my assistance."
Marcus quickly assessed the situation before coming to a decision "Very well then you may enter," he said as Wendy stepped inside "The girls are just getting changed so will be down in a moment."
"It is no problem Lord Greengrass and thank you for letting me enter your home it's very impressive," Wendy said. The two waited in the hallway when the Daphne, Astoria and Selene Greengrass all came down the stairs
"Who is this farther?" Daphne asked politely.
"This is Wendy who came to help with the situation earlier," Marcus explained
"You mean when Daphne turned the house into a igloo," Astoria said snickering.
"Yes well I figured that I would come to offer my assistance but it seems like you have already figured it out Lord Greengrass," Wendy remarked.
"Yes, I believe that I'm correct in saying that my daughter here is a water elemental," Marcus said to the shock of his family
"But I thought elementals were extremely rare and no one knows how they appear?" Selene said
"That is true yet your daughter is an elemental and I don't think that I have to tell you what people will try to do should they learn of it," Wendy remarked.
"Yes unfortunately I know that people will try to use her for there own gain," Marcus stated "Alright everyone no one will mention the fact that Daphne is an elemental to anyone until we all believe that Daphne is ready to hold her own."
The Greengrass family nodded in agreement understanding how people will see her as nothing more than a weapon or try to experiment on her to get her power for themselves.
"Very well then I will take my leave then it was nice to meet you all," Wendy said as she went to leave.
"Thank you for your help but I can't help but wonder what you get for helping us?" Selene asked
"Like you I was neutral in the war and decided to stay out of it because the last thing that I wanted was to be controlled and used as a tool so I understand," Wendy said as she left in a gust of wind.
"Well this has definitely been an interesting birthday hasn't it Daphne?" Marcus said and mood lightened considerably as Daphne celebrated her birthday.
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July 30th Longbottom Manor
The home of the Longbottom family appeared to be more of a extravagant longhouse that has had extensions added to it over many years. Although right now it appeared to be rumbling as if there was an earthquake. Wendy slightly lifted herself off the ground by creating a pocket of air to stand on and calmly walked up to the house to knock on the door. She waited for a while until a house elf popped next to her looking frantic and confused
"Whos are you?" The house elf asked
"Hello there, I'm Wendy and I'm here to help with the earthquake problem," Wendy explained calmly "would you please send me to the child causing this?"
"Of course miss we donts know whats to do," The elf explained
The elf then held Wendy's hand and apparated the two of them to Neville's bedroom where the young boy was currently curled up in a ball scared of what's going on and an old woman she recognized as Augusta Longbottom.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my home?!" Augusta demanded
"Calm down Dowager Longbottom, my name is Wendy Sykes and I'm here to help your grandson," Wendy replied using her last name for a bit of recognition so as calm down the frantic witch.
"What do you mean what's wrong with Neville?" Augusta asked confused now
"Your grandson is an earth elemental and is going through his awakening," Wendy explained
"You expect me to believe that superstitious myth about elementals," Augusta said getting angry "Tilly Get her out now!"
The house elf approached her but was blasted by a gust of wind knocking her into the wall.
"Look I don't care what you think I'm just trying to help your son," Wendy said getting angry, Merlin she hated the ignorance and holier than thou attitudes of Purebloods, "Let me help him or your precious manor will crumble into the ground because you were to stupid to take advice."
"HOW DARE YOU THREATAN ME," Augusta yelled drawing her wand but before she could aim it another gust of wind lifted her into the wall and Wendy through a wandless stupefy at her. Wendy just turned to Neville who looked frightened, "I'm sorry about that but there's no need to worry she'll just be out for a bit," She said sweetly trying to calm the boy down.
"W...W...What do...y...you want with me?" The asked scared
"Just calm down, all I want to do is help you out so that you can stop the earthquake okay," Wendy said.
"But I'm weak," Neville said
"No your not Neville, like me you are an elemental but where as I control wind you control the earth," Wendy explained
"Really?" He asked
"Yes now how about we stop the earthquake before the house collapses," Wendy suggested
"How?" Neville asked
"First of all close your eyes and focus on the feeling of the earth," Wendy explained. Neville did so and found that he could actually feel the earth moving as it was a part of him. He smiled which told Wendy that he had done it.
"Good, now focus on that feeling and pull it into yourself," Wendy instructed. Neville did as he was told and slowly the earth stopped rumbling.
"I did it!" Neville said ecstatic that he had done something.
"Well done Neville now I'm gonna guess that you don't know much about elementals so allow me to explain," Wendy said as she began to once again explain what elementals were and how society viewed them. Neville seemed scared that people would use him like that but was proud that he was something special though his gran was a worry for him.
"Wendy, could you make my gran forget about this whole thing?" He asked
"Why?" Wendy said surprised
"It's just that she wouldn't be able to keep this quiet and I don't want this to spread around the Wizengamot," Neville explained
"You don't like her much do you" Wendy said sadly
"I do, but, she keeps comparing me to Dad and I always feel bad because of it," Neville said
Wendy just sighed and quickly obliviated the woman.
"Done," Wendy exclaimed "And don't feel bad about being compared to your father, it just means that she misses him."
"Thank you," Neville said.
"Your welcome Neville, happy birthday," Wendy said before she disappeared.
"Cool," Neville said as he got up to start the day.
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July 31st Little Winging Surrey
"Okay didn't expect this," Wendy exclaimed as she looked at the once average street that now looked indescribable. Nothing here made sense at all as there was cold fire, hot ice, liquid earth, it was chaos. She found the house were the power emanated from and didn't what she found. There were members of the magic reversal squad trying to put everything back to how it was but to no avail, no matter what they did nothing happened.
'What the hell are blood wards doing in a muggle neighbourhood' she thought as she quickly scanned them 'there based on intent to harm so no trouble but there really weak so why are even here?'
She walked up to the house not liking what she heard.
"YOU FUCKING FREAK, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT AND YOU BETTER PUT THINGS BACK TO NORMAL OR YOU WILL BE IN THAT CUPBOARD TILL YOU STARVE AND DIE" A loud voice said.
'Yeah fuck that' Wendy thought as she drew her wand and stormed inside. She saw a fat man holding a kid by the scruff of the neck looking purple in the face. When she looked at the boy she saw a scar on his forehead and realized who it was.
"WHO ARE YOU?! GET OUT," The fat man yelled as he dropped the boy and approached Wendy who lifted the air beneath him to slam him into the roof before pushing him into his wife and son and sent the three into the kitchen wall.
"Harry Potter?" Wendy asked the boy.
"Yes," The boy croaked out.
Wendy observed the Boy-Who-Lived and found him to be way to skinny and small for a 10 year old but the most telling thing was his eyes. They were emerald green but looked dead as if there was nothing in them.
"My name is Wendy and I'm here to help you control your power," She explained
"Are you like me?" Harry asked hopefully
"Yes but we need to focus on what's happening," Wendy said
"So I did do this?" Harry asked looking at the disfigured house with the melting walls.
"Yes, but that's not a problem alright, trust me your not a freak," Wendy said encouragingly
Harry smiled at this and said "Okay but how do I stop it?"
"First close your eyes and focus on the power around you until you can feel it," Wendy explained
Harry did so and could feel something but couldn't describe it. It was as if every force that opposes one another were merged together in perfect harmony.
"I feel it but it doesn't make sense," Harry explained.
"I'm not surprised," Wendy remarked "Now try and pull that force into yourself,"
Harry did so and could feel the world going back to order and the mad power becoming a part of him.
"I did it," Harry said "But what is it?"
Wendy then began to quickly explain to Harry about the magical world and the elementals and quickly warned him about having to keep his powers a secret so people don't try to use him. She could see Harry take the warning to heart.
"Okay but what kind of elemental am I?" He asked still a little confused
"You appear to be a chaos elemental," Wendy stated
"What's chaos?" He asked confused.
Just as she was about to explain she felt three people approach the house one of whom was powerful enough to be Dumbledore.
"Crap they have monitors here," Wendy remarked "I've got to go."
"Wait take me with you," Harry begged
"I can't," Wendy said "The powers that be won't let you leave."
"Please?" Harry begged again
"Don't worry, you now have the power to stop this family from hurting you, for now pretend to be asleep." with that Wendy quickly obliviated the Durslys of any memories of her and disappeared into the wind. Harry did as he was told and went back to his cupboard where he could hear someone enter the house before looking in his cupboard quickly before leaving.
He thought about everything that just happened. He was a powerful elemental wizard and how he couldn't leave here because he was being watched by someone. There were so many questions going through his mind but the main one was 'What is Chaos?' Harry had no clue as to what he could actually only that it didn't make sense. He decided that the best thing he could do was practise and play around with his new found power, Dudley seemed like a good test subject. For the first time in his young life he felt happiness. He was happy because he no longer had to be the weak victim, he could fight back and take what he wanted from the world, after all the world had taken everything from him so why not get it back.
Wendy made it back to her home confused. She lived in what appeared to be a small cottage alone at the top of hill that was covered in overgrowth but inside it was a stylish and homely place. She went downstairs into her basement which was actually a massive library filled with books on all different types of magic and even books about elementalism. She pulled out a small book called 'Comprehensive List of Elemental Powers' by Nicholas Flamel which listed all the possible elements someone can possess and it's potential as well as a brief overview of their abilities. Flicking through she found what she was looking for.
Chaos
The element of Chaos is the rarest of the elements as it is by it's very nature impossible to even exist so should a chaos elemental exist they are a living contradiction. The most astonishing part of this element is that all previously known chaos elementals have at one point in there life suffered greatly at the hands of others to the point of despair causing me to believe that the element is technically a man made creation as it appears as if the element residing within the witch or wizard wasn't always chaos but has been warped and twisted due to outside interference. It is known that there is always a similarity between a persons element and there personality so for a chaos elemental you would presume that their personality would be that of an insane person but that doesn't appear to be the case as chaos elementals appear to be free thinkers and rather ingenious but selfish as well and find it difficult to understand normal conventions.
In terms of power Chaos elementals appear to have an abundance of raw power as well as a flexibility unseen in any other. Their attacks are strong and confusing causing an opponent to become confused at how they were hurt.
A chaos element should be considered one of the most dangerous elementals possible as at the height of there powers they have the potential to bend reality itself to their will and appears only to be limited by the users imagination.
After reading this Wendy put the book down to absorb all this.
'What had happened to Harry to cause his magic to become twisted and confused. Of course it was Voldemort, Harry was hit with a killing curse yet didn't die, he literally defied death. There was also the abuse he's suffered so far so that could have compounded onto it causing him to become chaotic.'
She had so many questions though about Harry and why Dumbledore placed him in an abusive home. If she could, she would take Harry away and place him in a safe home but she knew Dumbledore would hunt him down and return him there after all it was his magic she felt on the blood wards. No she couldn't do anything to help him yet but she can keep watch at Hogwarts next year and protect the boy until he is ready to hold his own. Another thought she had was that five elements were going to be starting Hogwarts at the same time.
'That's going to be fun to see' Wendy thought smiling 'I'm expecting great things from the five of them'.
With Dumbledore at the same time
Dumbledore was now sure that someone was sending a message to the magical world that they are powerful but he had no idea who it was. More to the point did they know that Harry was there or not? Seeing the boy sleeping in that cupboard was not a pleasant sight and was glad he told Minerva to wait outside, she would have thrown a fit. But it was necessary, Petunia was Harry's only living relative and he had to keep the boy safe no matter what but he was concerned about the possibility of the displays of sheer power being Voldemort teasing his return but he didn't know, he needed proof. He needed to see him, to get him out into the open so he sat there for a while thinking of a plan.
'Immortality' Dumbledore thought 'The prospect of immortality would surely lead Voldemort to him and he could even come up with a way to test Harry to see how much help the one destined to defeat Voldemort would need in the future. Dumbledore quickly made a floo call to his old master Nicholas Flamel to get his trap all set up.
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Authors Notes
I hope you enjoy my new story.
I'm currently struggling with what to do next with Harry Potter DxD and found myself one day planning this out just to see what I could come up with until I found myself with a plan all the way up to the end of book 3 mapped out so I just started writing this.
I know it's not an original idea but I like it so this is my twist on the concept of an elemental Harry Potter.
Leave a review if you want as I always enjoy reading them.
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