Hello, people of Fanfiction the ShadowLight is back. Okay, yes, Iknow I have been gone for forever with no explanation, but know thhat I will never abandon this story. So to make up for it I give you one of the largest chapters I have written so far. Also, a secret is finally revealed that will change the Potter World as we know it.

Many people asked about the whole dragon and tail thing and it will be explained in either next chapter or the chapter after that.

Disclaimer: Don't own it. Sadly, never will.

Xave: You've got me, boss.

ShadowLight looks at ceiling: Why me?

Without further ado, enjoy.

Harry hadn't remembered that last one and on top of that, why hadn't he felt any pain yet?

Opening his eyes he saw the earth dragon's tail an inch away from his heart.

Jack for his part was shocked, Xave deduced. This rarely happened and it had only occurred one other time. Smirking, Xave thought, there we go it's final.

Jack was putting two and two together so Xave let a blast of fire out before he could emerge from his thoughts. Unluckily, he was too late and Jack easily blocked.

The battle continued between them as they exchanged attacks. The dragon hadn't moved, but its tail had retracted and its head was now looking to Hermione. Uh-oh.

He tried to move to get to her but Jack lifted the ground beneath his feet and threw him into a wall. He was in extreme pain and had probably gone past the boundaries he had set up for himself to stop him from passing out after the battle. Last time he did it he was out for a week.

Grimacing at the memory he stood, quickly looking in Hermione's direction to see the dragon's tail squeezing the life out of her.

"Surrender or the girl dies," Jack said with a cold tone.

"Can't beat me any other way, I suppose," Xave replied, cocky as ever, even though he knew he was losing badly seeing as Jack was, one, still standing tall while he was struggling to do that and two, another pillar of earth was shooting up at him at top speed when he wouldn't be able to do much more unless he were to risk being out for a month or permanently for that matter.

Harry was pissed. Xave could tell that from here. There was still one thing he didn't get. Shaking his head, he turned to dodge a wall of earth. If I'm going to live, I need to focus. Time for that Slytherin cunning to shine.

"You think I care. Crush the girl. I forgot you don't know. I captured her and used her as bait. I would have killed her if my plan had worked," Xave lied, shrugging.

Jack smirked and the dragon started to squeeze harder.

"Diffindo," Harry's desperate voice cried out as the spell only chipped the tail. Jack turned to smirk at Harry and in that moment Xave struck. He sent a blast of fire downwards propelling him towards the dragon as he brought his hands up incasing them in burning hoot flames as he crashed through the tail. Landing he felt burns all across his hands as he winced in pain but Hermione was free.

Tearing off his medallion from around his neck he threw it to them.

"Go! Use the nearest Floo and throw it in," Xave commanded before sending more flames at his rival.

They were still standing there gaping at him. He grew frustrated and yelled, "What's wrong? Go!" They slowly started to run away before they picked up pace and disappeared from sight.

The dragon tried to go after them but Xave slid in front and melted the dragon. It's time to go all out! Let's hope Sanjin is wrong for once.

Headmaster Sanjin had a theory that the basis of an Elementals power and it's magic was from a pool of energy that would fuel the body before becoming to much and damaging the body making one or a combination of three things happening, 1. Your body wouldn't be able to handle it and you would fall unconscious, 2. You go into a coma, 3. Or you die.

He really hoped it wasn't the third one.

When it had happened before he had not gone this far over the limit and Sanjin believed if they went too far they would die.

"Let's take this outside," Xave said. Jack gladly complied by turning the floor he was standing on into a large snake and knocking him out of the window.

I hope I can buy enough time, Xave thought. For a second he thought he was forgetting something but shrugged it off as he landed.

--

Harry was holding the medallion Xave had thrown them and trying to adjust to the change that had been thrust upon him. Xave had not only saved Hermione but was protecting everyone which is unheard of from a Slytherin unless they had something to gain.

He also wondered how throwing the medallion threw the floo would help them at all and if it was a wise choice leaving Xave to fight that Jack guy by himself. Hermione seemed equally shocked.

"Harry," Hermione asked so quietly he nearly missed it.

"Yeah, what's up?" Harry asked, genuinely intrigued.

"When you came to get me after Xave captured me, was Ron with you."

"He was with me but took another path that apparently took him longer," he responded. I wonder why she asked.

Hermione took a deep breath before she said, "Xave told me that Ron was behind the other set of flames the entire time and that he didn't move to h-help like you did."

She started to get upset so he quickly calmed her, "He is lying just to break up our friendship. It's what those bloody Slytherins do," he said, angry that someone would try to do something like that.

"B-but what if it's true and Ron just stood there and would have let me d-die to keep his own skin safe," Hermione said as she started to cry again, except this time, Harry had no idea what to do.

Deciding to solve the problem ahead he said, "Whether or not it is true, which it isn't by the way, we still need to do what Xave said and hope whatever he wants to happen happens."

With that they were off again as they traveled through the castle to the nearest floo which happened to be the Gryffindor Common Room. After they said the password Harry ran to the floo and grabbed a bit of powder before throwing both of them in.

Instead of the normal green of floo fire it was a black flame that quickly erupted before disappearing.

Nothing happened for what seemed like ages to Harry, but in reality was only about thirty seconds.

From the fire place they heard a weird sound that sounded like… rushing water.

Harry's eyes widened just before he and Hermione were slammed into the wall by a deluge of water crashing into them.

As Harry lifted his head he saw a mist fly out of the fireplace as well hitting him and Hermione. Next thing they knew, they were frozen in various places.

He saw a crackling sound that sounded suspiciously like lightning. He struggled to lift his wand arm but it was useless, seeing as it was frozen in a block of ice.

Just when he expected to feel 100 watts of electricity, a strong breeze blew the lingering mist away. Harry now clearly saw six figures, including the one gathering the electricity he had heard earlier who also looked like Xave, standing there with worried looks on their faces except for one who had messy brown hair had a slightly maniacal grin on his face.

The Xave look-alike saw him and took aim before the blonde haired girl said, "Sam, wait something's not right here."

The Xave look-alike, Sam, lowered his arm and glared over at the girl, "What do you mean stop?! Xave would only throw that threw there if he was captured or about to die. Which means that since his body is not here they," Sam said gesturing to Harry and Hermione, "disposed of it meaning they are going to pay."

"Sweet, let's start the torture," the boy with the messy brown hair said. The lights began to dim as darkness started to creep in like a deadly fog. A beacon of light, from the blonde boy, countered the darkness and the room returned to its original lighting.

"What did you do that for, Zach, I was going to avenge Xave," the messy brown-haired boy growled.

"I did it because he's not dead," Zach said with a slight smirk.

The rest all looked confused.

"At least not yet," Zach continued.

The redhead's eyes widened as she waved her hand quickly and suddenly he could move again.

"He sent you here?" she asked.

Harry nodded and was about to speak but Hermione beat him to it, "Xave's not dead yet but he will be if you don't hurry up. He is fighting this weird guy that can control earth," Hermione quickly said as she stood up shivering a bit.

When Hermione had finished all of the newcomers had visibly stiffened. The boy named Sam looked at Hermione, "What was this person's name by any chance?"

Hermione took on a thoughtful pose so Harry answered, "His name was Jack and we should get going. When we left, Xave looked pretty battered."

Visibly relaxing they all nodded and ran out the room with Hermione and him slowly following. When they caught up he heard snippets of conversations.

"Least it's not…"

"… thought we sealed…

"Stupid brother…"

"…leave it alone…"

"…hurry."

Resigning to asking them about the conversation later as well as why they were more relaxed to fight this Jack dude than anyone sane should be, unless there was another person they were afraid to fight who was stronger. Harry nearly shuddered at the thought.

As they were running through the hallways at Hermione's direction, they heard a loud crash followed by screams of pain and sick laughter. Arriving at the scene they saw another large hole and a sight that they would not soon forget.

Xave covered in dust and blood having the life squeezed out of him by a large stone hand.

--

A while before Xave had unleashed a large blast of flame that had engulfed his entire body. Charging with new speed, he smashed his burning fist leaving a nice, ugly burn there.

Smirking in satisfaction he jumped back to find that where his left foot landed was a crevice that crushed his foot. Even though the fire protected against most of it his foot was still fractured, if not broken.

Testing the foot, he found he could put only a slight bit of weight on it. Jack, not wanting to give him time to recover hit him with the tail of his giant rocky snake, which Xave had yet to destroy. Flying back, he landed on the ground just to have the place where his left foot landed elevate. He lost his balance and used his left to steady himself. It hurt. A lot. A whole lot.

He fell to the ground and was lifted up in a hand made completely and totally of rock. It started to squeeze as he screamed in pain as Jack laughed maniacally.

"Good boy, now play dead," Jack said as the hand squeezed incredibly hard, beginning to crush him.

He heard the sound of lightning before falling to the ground. He heard Jack curse and say, "So Xave lives for a little while longer. Good for him. Bye." He then heard the sound of earth being fired and Hermione's scream followed by a strong breeze.

As he began to pass to the blissful world called unconsciousness he heard.

"Oh my God there's blood everywhere."

"Katie, help I need to stabilize him."

He felt something cool before passing into unconsciousness.

Well at least it's not a total loss, Xave thought, at least it's finally official that Harry Potter, Boy-who-Lived, is an earth Elemental.

With that thought he finally fell into the peaceful realm of unconsciousness, blissfully unaware of the chaos around him.

I run away and hide in Mexico to avoid the super heated flames from reviewers and Xave for making him lose.

I'm going to be burned alive.

Thanks for reviewing: Jarno, hpnut1, harmony09, murdrax, RLD Flame-Point Callie-co, daniel, Magikmaster02, Sakura Lisel, and Paladin13. You guys keep this story alive!

Till next time, Bye!