Inportant A/N; There will be two chapters left, before I start the next story, that would combine the Weapon Mages and this story together. Also this will be the sequel to the Weapon Mages story. I will add more details on the last chapter.
On Christmas Eve morning, Alex woke to the sounds of knocking on her door. "Hey, Alex wake up, you don't want to miss all the fun do you?" Alex heard Tina yell through the door. "I'm up already; I'll meet you in the great hall." Alex yelled back, and started to change into some warm robes since she could tell, it had snowed hard over night.
In the great hall, talk was abundant, as students talked in groups, about what their plans, which was to build a fortress, out of snow or ice, for the yearly snowball fight, which the whole school seem to be participating in.
Once in the great hall, Alex found her friends in deep discussion with a couple of other students. "This plan will work, with Alex's help, we can build the best ice fortress the school ever seen." Tina whispered to the others. "Are you sure Alex has her fire Element under her full control? If it goes haywire, it will destroy all our work." A boy named Tom, who was a Water Elemental and a year older then Alex. "Yes we are sure." Laura said, as Alex came up to them. "So how are we going to do this?" Alex asked, since they were talking about this the day before. "While Tom supplies the water, Tina will make ice towers and large ice blocks. You and Troy, will sculpt the towers to be circular, and the ice blocks into large other things." Laura informed her. "And what will you do?" Troy another fire Elemental asked. "Well, with my Earth powers, I can easily move the blocks around and of course Alex can use her Mind Element, to lift the finished sculptures and place them where they need to be." Laura said, as they accepted the plan. "Well, we better eat a large meal, since this will take a while." Tina informed them, and they all dug in.
Once outside an hour later, the five Elementals walked across the large open snowy field, trying to pick a place to set up a tower. "Looks like the other students are getting ready for an all-out snow war." Tina said, as she spied several groups of Elementals using their powers to get started building. We better stay near the others, so we have no problems with the snowball bombardment later." Laura said, as they got within snowball throwing distances, and then started their planning for their fortress.
The Large Tower, as the five friends called it, was going to be twenty-five feet in diameter, and thirty-five feet tall. The tower will have two stories, each with a fifteen foot ceiling clearance, the second story will be smaller in diameter about twenty feet, since it will have a walk way, which the five friends can easily walk around the tower. To protect themselves against incoming attacks, a small wall about six feet tall, and two feet wide, will also circle the walkway.
Once the planning was done, Tom went up first, and then with a wave of his hand, created a thirty-five foot diameter water spout, that shot up well over fifty feet. "My turn, I guess." Laura said, and stepped up, and waved her hand, and in seconds froze the water into a solid ice tower. "Alex, since this is your first time, why not tries and shaped the tower, as we planed it, but don't do the insides yet, that can be saved for later." Laura informed, and Alex nodded, and then gulped as she looked towards the uncompleted tower.
As Alex stepped up to the tower, she closed her eyes, and pictured how they wanted the tower to look like, then with that in mind, she opened her eyes, and created a cyclone of fire, swirling around the ice tower, and then the fire started to slowly eat away the tower. "I have got to concentrate?" Alex thought, as controlled the fiery cyclone to shape the tower into what they wanted.
It took ten minutes, as Alex stood, and concentrated, and once she thought it was finished, Alex removed the fiery cyclone, and found herself facing a marvelous sight. "Not bad for your first try." Laura said, as she spied a perfectly made two story tower. "Troy, why get started on the inside and the stairway." Laura said, and Troy nodded. "I'm on it." He said walking to the tower. As Troy got to the tower, he placed his hand on the wall, and within a thought, a fiery cyclone formed within the first story of the tower, and in seconds, Troy was finished.
Once the fire was out, Laura step into the newly made doorway, and glanced up a spiral staircase, that ran along the outer walls. "I better strengthen the ice, it looks weak from all the fire." Laura informed them, and placed her hand on the transparent walls, and then in seconds, they looked a lot more solid. "Let's head up to the second floor." Tina said, as she walked up the stairway, followed by the others.
On the second floor, after placing a no slip spell on the ice, Alex was surprised; she could see the school, and the surrounding forest, as she carefully walked around the tower, since the outer walls had not been made yet. "Alex, why not set up the second story, we just need a room, to store snow in, and make sure, and there are four entrances, on each side of the room." Tina informed him, and Alex place her hand on the wall, and in an instant, a large blaze was seen, and was gone. "Oops! Laura, you better strengthen this floor, too!!" Alex quickly called out, since she made the walls too thin, and it started to crack. Luckily Laura just needed to place her hand on the wall, and the walls quickly thicken. "Alex, please go more slowly next time, we are not in a rush," Laura scolded, and Alex nodded, as they started working on placing six by one foot walls on the edge of the walkway, but had cut openings big enough to be able to throw snowballs at the other fortresses.
Within two hours, the tower was finished, and it looked exactly like a castle keep. The others fortresses that sprung up around the tower, looked like medieval castles, but they were either bigger then the tower or just longer, but either way, they provided, more then enough protections, for the upcoming snowball fight, right after lunch.
As the five Elementals was very happy at their work. "I told you this would work out." Laura said, to Tom. "Alright, Alex does have full control of her element." Tom said, in defeat. "Let's take a picture, so Alex can show her friends." Tina suggested, a camera was quickly conjured, and their tower was photographed, with the five happy friends standing in front of it.
A little after lunch, Alex, Laura, Tina, Tom, and Troy, were standing guard on each side of the tower on the second floor, since it was the start of their annual snowball fight, and unfortunately for the friends, they was surrounded by an assortment of nine types of fortresses. "We are doomed." Tina said, looking at a couple of the other fortresses. "Why do you suppose we are being targeted by all the other students?" Alex asked. "Probably, since we have a simple design, and our tower, will be an easy target," Troy said shrugging. "Everyone, gather as much snow from the storeroom as possible, and get ready for a long battle." Laura said, and each quickly scooped up tons of snow from the room, and placed them nearby, they all were glad, that the snow they got had a duplicating spell on it so they would have an unlimited supply of snow to throw at the other students.
It was war, pure and simple, as snowballs flew in all directions, and luckily for Alex's group, they weren't the center of attention as they thought, since the others was not only throwing snowballs at them, but also at the other fortresses. "Alex, look out, they starting to gain up on us." Tom yelled as snow was being piled up in his area, from the tons of snowballs that was being thrown in his way. "Remove the duplicating spell, we don't need it anymore." Laura yelled from the other side, and Alex waved her hand at the snow. "Rimuova incantesimo!" Alex whispered, removing the spell.
The battle was intense, as Alex tried in vane, to throw as much snowballs at the other groups, but a good number of time, she was being pulverize, by incoming snowballs, before she could threw even one, and since they couldn't use magic to protect themselves, this battle was not easy to fight.
The battle lasted for hours, and soon it ended, when the defenders either was too tired, or to much snow had accumulated in their fortresses, that they couldn't move. The growing amount of snow in the tower was that the reason Alex and her group, had drop from the battle, early in the second hour, since they could not remove the snow as quickly as it came, and because of that, they came in tenth place.
As dinner came around, battle weary students headed to school, many were sour, tired, or bruised, from the long battle, but even though of that, they all were happy, and talked about the battle, until bedtime.
As night settled, Alex was lying in bed, thinking about tomorrow meeting with the Longbottom's. "I wonder what they wanted to talk to me about." Alex thought worriedly. "Probably just to get know me better, at least I hope?" Alex closed her eyes, hoping to forget the meeting for the night. "Unless the one born of light is found." Alex tiredly said, as she fell into a deep sleep.