Chapter 12- Powers of the elements

Lyndsay had woken up very early that morning; she was excited about being taught her powers. She knew very well though that the others wouldn't be up for several hours, walking down the stairs, she headed for the kitchen and began to make breakfast.

"See you're enthusiastic about your gifts" Marcus's voice said.

Lyndsay looked over her shoulder; Marcus was sitting on the bench near the door playing with the phone.

"Yeah, who wouldn't be?"

"The others obviously, if you want we can get started now."

Lyndsay's face lit up "Really?"

Marcus nodded, "I got this place, quite big actually, right out in the county."

"How did you do that?" Lyndsay asked.

"Higher power, I can summon any amount of money at anytime."

"Can I do that?"

"Not unless I teach you, which I won't" Lyndsay looked disappointed.

"Anyhow" Marcus stood up "Let get to the place, I'll orb you there."

"How-" Lyndsay's question was left unanswered as Marcus pulled her into his chest and looked up at the ceiling.

Lyndsay felt a breeze rushing past her and soon her and Marcus were standing in a grand room.

Lyndsay gaped, she'd never seen anything like it, the room was massive; the floor was white tile with wooden furniture with a large wooden staircase leading to the open second floor.

"Not a bad little place, there is enough room for fighting and practicing, plus a library"

"Fighting? What do we need to learn to fight for if we have these awesome powers?" Lyndsay asked.

He chuckled "You've made the common mistake most make when they have powers, there is something called a magic globe which blocks out all magic, when an adversary uses this, you must be prepared."

Lyndsay nodded, "So what powers do I have?"

"You have the powers of the goddess of wind, superior sight which includes the inner eye, possess people and feel other beings feelings."

"What the hell is the inner eye?" Lyndsay asked

"Meaning you are a seer of things beyond normal sight."

"You mean a psychic?" Lyndsay asked

"If you want to put it that way."

"Cool."

"I think we will work on trying to posses people until the others decide to get up, then we'll work on orbing and levitation" Marcus said.

"We know how to orb" Lyndsay pointed out.

Marcus shook his head, "You can only go to a place you are familiar with, I'll teach you how to orb anywhere in the world and soon other realms too."

"Anyway" Marcus clapped his hands together "on to your special power, possessing people, we'll start simple, I'll leave my mind open so it is easier to get into, as we persist I'll block you."

"So what do I do?"

"I'll stand here and you sit there" He pointed to a wooden chair "then just close your eyes and try to let your mind be let free from your body."

Lyndsay obediently sat in the chair.

"Ready? Now just close your eyes and think of me"

Lyndsay closed her eyes, she thought of Marcus standing in front of her. She didn't realize what happened then, her eyes flew open but instead of looking at Marcus, she was looking down at herself. Within a few seconds she was in her own body again.

"That was good for a first try, this time make me jump a few times okay?"

Lyndsay nodded and closed her eyes again. Soon she was back in Marcus's body, looking through his eyes. Making him jump as quite easy, just thinking about it would eventually get his body moving.

When she was back in her own body, Marcus praised her and told her "one more go and I'll go find the others, this time try and make me say something."

"What do I make you say?"

Marcus shrugged "Anything you want"

Making Marcus talk was a lot harder than making him jump, to talk it took much more control of the body. Eventually Lyndsay got him to say:

"Hey, how you doing?"

Lyndsay felt very drained after that.

"Here, drink this" Marcus handed her a small bottle filled with red liquid "feel free to explore any of the rooms while I'm gone" with that her orbed, leaving Lyndsay alone in the house.

Carlie and Jess were in the great hall having breakfast. The mail was just flying in when Marcus orbed into the castle. Carlie had gotten one letter from her mother.

Dear Carlie,
I'm sorry about the no letters from Lyndsay and Nathan but they haven't spoken to me. Nothing much happening here, Sara finally hired a new waiter, his names Pete, he's fourteen and really nice. Sara and Mitchell are still together, Sara has found 'the one' or so she says, personally I don't believe in that crap but Sara believes many things I don't. Mrs. Weasley sent me a letter the other day asking me if we'd like to have Christmas at her place, I said that you could go but I'm busy. I'm going over to Mitchell's place with Sara for a party and they'd prefer it if no kids came. You are only spending the first week of the Christmas holidays at the Weasley's, you're spending New Year here and we're going to have a huge party. You can invite Fred and George want.
Love you loads
Mum.

Carlie looked over at Fred and George; they were reading a letter form their mum, most probably informing them that Carlie was coming over for Christmas.

"Hey guys, looks like I'm crashing at your place for Christmas" Carlie said.

"Yeah, mum invited your mum too but she said she had to go to a family thing" Fred replied.

"Hey do you want to spend New Year at my place, we're having a party" Carlie asked.

"Yeah sure that would be great" George smiled.

/Carlie, Jess meet me outside the Forbidden Forest now/ Marcus's voice announced.

/we're kinda having breakfast/ Carlie answered.

/Fine, finish Breakfast then orb down/

After a few more pieces of toast, Carlie stood up and headed for the Forbidden Forrest. When she'd reached Marcus he snapped "I said orb, it's much faster"

"I can't exactly orb anywhere I want you know."

Jess soon followed and with one swift movement, Marcus grabbed Carlie and Jess and they soon stood in the large room that Lyndsay had been in a few hours before.

Carlie whistled "nice place."

"It's more of a palace than a place" Jess remarked.

"Where's Nathan and Lyndsay?" Carlie asked

"Lyndsay is here somewhere and I'm getting Nathan now" Marcus said.

/Lynds, where are you/

/In the library/ she answered.

"The library is through there" He pointed. "I'll see you soon" Marcus said, orbing after Nathan.

The library was massive, it was a large room with walls lined with books. There were a few tables and ladders so you could reach the tops of the shelves. Lyndsay was sitting at a table engrossed in a book entitled 'the art of potion making- beginners' guide'

"Lyndsay what the hell are you reading that for?" Carlie asked when they found her.

"It's really interesting, I've always wanted to know how to make a real potion" Lyndsay didn't look up.

Carlie rolled her eyes as Jess smiled; he knew Carlie hated potions with a passion.

Wondering around the Library, Both Jess and Carlie found books that caught their fancy. Jess had found '101 ways to curse your enemies' while Carlie thought 'entertaining spells' was interesting.

Lyndsay had already finished 'the art of potion making- beginners' guide' and was now immersed in 'useful potions for the young witch'.

Jess was writing down a few of the curses that he could use on someone while Carlie had her wand out and pointed it at Jess and yelled "flumories"

Jess's hair turned a bright fluorescent green. Lyndsay looked up; she hadn't seen Carlie or Jess do any magic before.

Jess pointed his wand and yelled "Panockulous" Carlie's eyes widened, blood began to come out of her mouth, eyes and ears.

"JESS! STOP IT!" Lyndsay screamed. Jess began to panic, he didn't mean for that to happen.

"I can't" He cried.

Carlie had gone white and was whimpering.

"I'll take her to the hospital wing" Jess said, grabbing Carlie and closing his eyes, thinking of the hospital wing.

Jess appeared outside the hospital wing, Carlie was shaking and both were covered in her blood, Jess had also seemed to forgotten that he had bright fluorescent green hair. Madam Pomfrey came rushed past without noticing them as Oliver Wood came in groaning, followed by the Gryffindor Quiddich team. George noticed Jess and Carlie standing by the door covered in blood.

"CARLIE! What happened?" He said. Fred had come back to see what George was looking at.

"Mcairn! What did you do to her?" George growled.

"I didn't mean----"

Fred and George helped Carlie into the hospital wing; Madam Pomfrey immediate sprang into action.

"Lye her down on that bed" She commanded.

Jess was still standing outside the hospital wing. He was feeling really guilty about what he'd done.

/Jess, stop moping around and get back her/ Marcus voice ordered.

Without a second thought Jess orbed back to the library.

"Now dear can you tell me what curse you were hit with?" Madam Pomfrey asked.

"Panockulous, I think" Carlie coughed.

"And who did this to you?"

Before Carlie could say anything Fred jumped in "Jess Mcairn"

"I'll talk to Professor Snape, this is very serious, the Panockulous curse was outlawed about fifty years ago, it isn't even recorded in books anymore, the only books that is recorded in are not easy to find or access" she said.

"Why was it outlawed?" Fred asked

"Because it is extremely hard to treat, it takes a week before you can get the bleeding to stop without the use of magic and if it was used on a muggle it looked as if they had gotten a disease which I cannot remember the name of" she explained, as she pointed her wand at Carlie.

"Now dear this will only stop the bleeding for a few seconds, while it's stopped, drink this" She gave Carlie a small bottle of clear liquid.

Madam Pomfrey murmured a few words and the bleeding stopped, Carlie sculled down the liquid that normally she would have said tasted like crap but compared to the taste of her own blood, it was delicious.

"Now you'll have to be in here for a week before I can let you go, you have to take that potion every three hours or the bleeding will start again" Madam Pomfrey turned around to tend to Oliver as she'd left him because he'd only taken a fall off his broom and he could survive another few minutes without treatment.

Carlie looked at Fred and George, "we'll get Mcairn for you Carlie, don't worry."

Carlie had wanted to say 'no don't worry about it' but she knew whatever she'd say to them would not stop them from getting Jess back. They were good friends to her.

Marcus had just made Jess's hair go back to normal and he was shaking his head at Jess, "I can't believe you used the Panockulous curse on Carlie."

"I didn't know what it would do to her" Jess said.

"Well next time look" He snapped "anyhow, I've begun to teach Lyndsay how to use some of her powers so I guess I'll teach you how to use yours."

Nathan nodded and Jess sighed.

"You can go first Nathan, I'm a bit shaken up" Jess said.

Nathan nodded and Lyndsay asked "What are we going to do?"

"You can explore the house or looking the library a bit more just" He said with a slight smile "don't curse anyone."

Carlie was staring at the ceiling, she'd been in the hospital wing for four hours and she was already bored out of her mind. Fred and George had left but said they'd be back soon, she decided to see what the others were doing.

/Guys? You there/

/Are you alright Carlie/ Lyndsay asked.

/Yeah but I'm going to be in the hospital wing for a week/

/Bummer man, you want to know what I learnt to do/

/Yeah /

/I can posses people, isn't that awesome/

/Really? Wow. What you doing now/ Carlie said.

/Reading about potions, I've read three books so far/

Carlie silently laughed /If you want to do my potions exam you are welcome to do it/

/I think you may be a little more advance in potions than I am/

/Nah, I'm only in second year/

/Do you like potions/

/NO! I suck plus Snape hates me/

/That's nice/

/Where's the others/ Carlie asked

/Nathan is working with Marcus and Jess is exploring the house/

Carlie looked over at the door, Professor Dumbledore was coming in.

/Sorry Lynds, gotta run/

Carlie sat up. "Hello Professor Dumbledore" She said cheerily.

"Hello Carlie, I'm sorry to bother you but I have to investigate this morning's goings on"

"What is there to investigate?" Carlie asked.

"The Panockulous curse was outlawed fifty years ago which means Mr. Mcairn used an illegal curse, furthermore how he found out about the curse is something we would like to know."

Carlie quickly began to think, he was going to ask her what happened.

"So what did happen Carlie?"

"Well, I made Jess's hair go fluorescent green as a joke and he got angry and cursed me" It was true, she had indeed done that, it was the next question he was going to ask that worried her.

"Where was this?"

"I---- can't remember"

He nodded but Carlie seemed to know that he knew she was lying.

"Thank you Carlie, I hope you get better soon" He stood up and walked out.

Jess had walked in and out of almost every room of the house; there were about twelve bedrooms and six bathrooms. Upstairs there was a large sitting area and a room filled with ingredients for potion making plus a few cauldrons in the corner. Downstairs was a large pool and a gigantic room with nothing in it. The kitchen had a large bench with a fridge and cupboards full of food. Plus the library, lounge room and dinning area. He ended up back in the library where Lyndsay was sitting with two piles of books. He soon noticed that they were all about potions.

"You like potions eh?"

Lyndsay looked up "Yeah, it's fascinating, I'll have to try making some."

"I found a room upstairs with potion ingredients, it's at the end of the right hall."

"Really, man this place has everything" Lyndsay said

"Yeah I know" Jess sat down with the book Carlie was reading.

Lyndsay picked up the book and began to look for the room with the ingredients. It took her a little while to find it as it was tucked away.

The room was filled with Shelves that had every ingredient you could think of. Lyndsay looked down at the book, "Amaranth, Heliotrope, Spiderwort, Lemongrass and Hawthorn" She read. Browsing the shelves, she soon found each ingredient and set up a cauldron.

"Half a teaspoon of Amaranth, three cups of Heliotrope, a drop of Spiderwort, two pinches of Lemongrass and half a cup of Hawthorn" Mixing the ingredients together, the liquid in the cauldron began a light purple, Lyndsay dipped her hand in and drunk out of her hand. A weird sensation came over her and looking down, her body was gone. She'd done it, she'd made an invisibly potion.

One of Nathan's gifts was healing, so to practice, Marcus had cut him and he had to heal it. Marcus had told him that healing powers usually came from the hands so he had to place his hand over the wound and concentrate on the place. Once you'd learnt to concentrate you power in the one place, Nathan found it was downhill from there.

"I think that'll be enough for today, I'll work with Jess now and keep practicing, it's a handy gift to be able to heal" Marcus said.

Nathan nodded.

Carlie felt very stiff, Madam Pomfrey said it was an effect of the potion she was given. Carlie wanted a drink real bad and no one was in sight. She could see a jug of water on the other side of the room and wanted it. Carlie concentrated on the jug of water; soon it began to slowly float across the room. She placed it on her table and levitated a glass as well and used her mind to pour it.

Jess found that he had a few good powers; he could walk through solid objects, and make himself and other things invisible.
He worked on walking through solid objects. Marcus had explained that at first it would take a lot of concentration to use their powers but within a few weeks, it'll become as natural as breathing. Walking through walls was not as fun as it first seemed. It was hard and sometimes you could get stuck in the middle of the object.

"I think we should call it a day" Marcus said.

"Great, I have to look forward to getting detention" Jess sighed.

"I will see you soon" Marcus said.

"Yeah, see you" Jess said and orbed to Hogwarts.