A/n You guys don't even know; I am having so much fun writing this story. Thanks for your support and reviewing. NOTICE my beta has sadly left me (tears) and now I need someone to beta my story for me...Please? It would be greatly appreciated. I haven't been updating as quick because I haven't had someone to look over my mistakes. Hopefully this chapter isn't too bad. Oh this is a bit of a fast forward. probably a couple months into the training.
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Snow fell pass Ginny's window. It was a cool early morning and she simply could not sleep. She rolled over to see that Blaise had once again joined her in bed for some friendly snuggling. She rolled her eyes and kissed him on his forehead, smiling inwardly at his boyishly good looks. He was the best non related brother she ever had or possible sister. She quietly slipped out of bed and pulled on a thick bath robe. She grabbed her broom, (clean sweep by mail order) and left for a little early morning go about on the Quidditch pitch. As soon as she left the castle the morning air bit at her skin a little to firecly. She touched her head, she encased herself in a soft glow of warmth. She flew lazily to the pitch thinking about her recent months here.
Draco, who she suspected was going to be the worst person to live with, was actually quite funny. Of course he was stilling warming up to the idea of being her friend. Which to Ginny was acceptable, seeing as he had never had a real 'girl' who was a friend. Usually the only girls that wanted to be his friends, always wanted to be more than that.
Ginny spoke to Draco everyday, slowly building their friendship, with a little help from Blaise. Draco would still try to hide behind his cold mask of arrogance. Giving new meaning to Ice Prince. Ginny snorted at the irony and dipped her broom low going as fast as she could, twisting about flipping head over heels, just enjoying the feel of the brisk air stinging her warm face.
She soon reached the pitch to find that she was not alone. Draco flew around in lazy circles not noticing that Ginny had joined him. His eyes were closed and in the early moon his face looked as if it was carved by angels. He had something in his hand and at closer inspection it was a white rose. He seemed to be singing softly some song Ginny could not hear. She flew behind Draco, shocked, that he had not heard her. Ginny frowned, this wasn't the type of person Draco let on to be. But she did appreciate this one a bit better. No scowl on his face, no anger in his heart, just the air tossing his hair about looking as free as a person could be.
Ginny watched Draco, the Wielder of Water, shoot ice from his hand making little pictures in the snow. Ginny grinned inwardly. Of course this would be his favorite season, he can control water in any form. She tried to poke him when he made a sharp turn running into Ginny. Ginny saw the peace from his face change to an angry scowl in defense. His expression fell a bit when he saw the suprise in Gin's eyes. "What are you doing here Gin?" Draco said quietly flying closer.
"I was watching you. It's not everyday you see Draco looking human." She smiled, her cheeks red with wind. Her hair looked oddly pristine and her eyes glittered with something that Draco was sure, was excitement.
Draco now very put out by company sighed, "Ginny I think I will be going in." He began to fly away, but Ginny grabbed his arm almost pulling him off his broom. " No please, don't go," her tone light with something Draco had never heard from her. "I saw something which you don't show to anybody else. It was beautiful Draco. I didn't even know you could sing."
Draco smiled. Yes, the ice prince smiled and it was lopsided and unperfect which made it all the better. Ginny loved this smile the most, and she had learned to appreciate it when it happened, because it didn't happen all that often. "Yeah well, you learn new things everyday don't you?" Draco held up the white rose he had been carrying earlier. Ginny touched it and a little gasp escaped her lips. It was covered with frost, giving it the look that there were many little diamonds on it. Ginny took it and looked at Draco suprised, "What is this for?"
Draco sighed, mocking her with a disdained voice, "Obviously it's for you and it's becasue your my friend. That's what buddies do isn't it?" He winked and flew off to the other side of the pitch. Ginny had never seen such a kind attitude from Draco as she had seen today. He was down right nice. Was she dreaming or had he winked? Shaking her head she stared to the horizen, the clouds painted with many shades of purple and pink. She loved sunrises and couldn't think of a better way to spend her morning.
Draco who was watching Ginny stare at the sky happily flew up behind her. Draco, though rather nervous at scaring Ginny away, put his hand on her shoulder. She looked at him a smile gracing her features. She really was beautiful when she smiled. "Isn't it beautiful?"
Draco nodded not wanting to ruin the awesome silence. Not awkward but pleasent. Not forced but controlled. An hour had passed, the sun now gracing the sky with light and warmth. Ginny took hold of Draco's hand suprising him, "Thank you Draco for watching the sunrise with me." Ginny waved Draco goodbye and went back to her dorm to prepare for the days lessons. Draco who was still confused and unsure at such friendlyness flew down to the pitch and walked slowly to the castle reveling in the feel of Ginny's hand in his.
The five students stood in a circle, waiting patiently for instructions as to what they were supposed to do. Marcus had placed them in this order and left the room with the strict instructions to 'stay put.' Draco looked thoroughly hot under the collar at being told what to do like a child. Blaise on the other hand was speaking animatedly with Onilwyen, and Ginny (though secretly watching Draco) was speaking with Artemis about Arithmancy.
Even though they came here for different training, they still had to take their Hogwarts classes. It was alot better than having a lot of students in one setting with only one teacher. Now you could actually ask questions and get work done with out people screwing around in class. Ginny, who couldn't keep her head out of the clouds, was pretending to listen to Artemis.
Draco had drowned out the people around himself and thought back to the conversation Blaise and himself had, had this morning. Thinking about it now made him stare at Ginny, who spoke to Artemis in tired tones about her Potions exam coming up. Draco shook his head and returned to his earlier thoughts about the confrontation this morning.
"Draco," Blaise had exclaimed after he had walked out of Ginny's room,dressed in green pj's, "do you want to tell me something?" Blaise said accusingly. Draco, who had been thinking about Ginny's hand in his making his insides flame pleasantly, frowned and stared at Blaise as if he were crazy. "What do you think I would have to tell you?" Draco said causing Blaise to smirk. "Well, maybe you could tell me about your little crush on Gin-bean here."
Draco's pale features had morphed into an arrogant mask, blank of expression. "What in the world are you talking about Blaise? Me and Wea-Ginny? Are you insane? We've been friends for four months. He are still warming up to each other let alone falling in love with someone. Our families have hated each other forever and we have hated each other forever. You can't fall in love with your enemies."
Blaise laughed loudly, "You have no business speaking as if you two are still enemies. Your friends and I don't know if you know this but it is very easy to fall for your friends." Blaise smirked knowingly. Draco rolled his eyes, "Blaise you know you don't like me like that anymore." Blaise shrugged his shoulders, a smile creeping on his face, "I'm just saying..." Ginny's door opened to find them staring at her.
Draco remembered the way her nose wrinkled up when she got all suspicious. A smile tugged at the corner of his lips. He smiled, causing Ginny to loose interest in Artemis and stare at him openly. Draco was smiling. She could always see something so beautiful in his smile. A door open loudly and disrupted Draco, bringing him back from his memories, the smile disappeared from his face. A woman dressed in black robes swept through the door. At first her figure was just a shadow against the wall, but then it became dark. Her power breathed like a living thing, taking in each persons scent. All conversation stopped.
"Welcome Elementals," she hissed. "Good morning Professor Nehebkau." Ginny had become quite found of her teacher. Nehebkau was the Egyptian Snake God, a beautiful woman well over four thousand year old.Her face was like the purest ivory known yet her eye's were like onyx, scattered with stars. She walked with a cat like grace that made it appear as if she floated on the black mist that seemed to follow her. In the beginning her smile made Ginny uncomfortable. She had blood red lips where two rows of razor sharp pointed teeth were seen omniously.
Nehebkau smiled pleasantly, her forked tongue slithering between her lips. "Today we will learn to control and focus on how to command your powers at different power levels. She stood in front of Ginny and smiled, "Ginerva?" Ginny nodded. "Good, now pay attention. I want you to show me a Fire ball." Ginny lifted her hand out and without much concentration produced a ball of red flames. Nehebkau grinned and stood behind Ginny now. Nehebkau placed her hand at the small of Ginny's back and spoke to her softly, "Now all I want you to do is increase your power, make the flame bigger. Now what I want you to do is try to become the flame. Now it may seem scary, and it may seem very dangerous, but it won't hurt i promise. I must ask that you four do not leave the circle. If you have not noticed, you are standing at a point of a pentagram that is carved into the ground." The four looked down to see a five pointed star glowing faintly. Ginny's body began to glow, like the moon was shining through her skin. Her brown eyes, now the color of burning rubies. Nehebkau noticed the affect of Ginny coming into her power was having on the rest of the group. Blaise had fallen to his knees gasping for breath, the air in the room, whipping about them angrily. Draco frowned feeling his lungs fill up with cold. His breath coming in hard gasps, ice seen unfurling from his mouth. His skin turning an icy blue. Artemis stood rigid like a tree. Thousands of flowers growing at her feet, her skin glowing with the color of new pennies. Onilwyen's hair danced with static, his eyes blazing like liquid mercury.
Ginny did not notice though, her ball of flames crawling onto her arms and then into her. Ginny concentrated hard on the bright light consuming her torso. Her hair was licking wildly as if it too were fire being tossed about by a breeze. Ginny's entire body was now glowing with red and white flames, Nehebkau's hand still on her back, trying to hold her power in.
The circle danced with their powers like a building wave. The pressure of the room made it hard to breath, everything coming to a climax. Ginny let out a powerful scream, magnified three times the normal sound of a human voice. Her body erupted with Flames, Draco's scream was heard too before his body was encased with ice. One by one the students took on their elements and the star glowed with immense power. All at once, they let out a chorus of shrieks, and the power broke. They drowned in silence, before ragged breathing and people moaning broke into the loud silence.
"Excellent Elements!" Spoke Nehebkau. It had taken five hours of harsh training and intense magic for them to control their powers. Only three people passed out during that days training which was a 'miricle' in the eyes of Nehebkau. Ginny could now wrap herself in fire without a thought. At first it had been very hard for all of them to control their new talents. She could remember Draco trying to speak to see if she, who had passed out first, was all right, but choked on little cubes of ice lodged in his throat. Blaise, who had been a little less than invisible at the time, tried his new powers out by letting the air in the room get to dangerous speads. Which resulted in knocking many books off Nehebkau's shelves and Artemis's dress flying dangerously high, almost exposing her to eveyone in the room. Conjouring a rock up from the ground Artemis threw it a Blaise it hitting him head on. Ginny giggled loudly ending with a snort gainging a scowl from Blaise unhappily as he rubbed his head furiously pouting like a child.
After a hearty meal in the dining room, the five went outside to celebrate their freedom for the rest of the day. It was a perfect winter day and the snow was just right for packing. The five had built (much to Draco's dismay, for he had never really made one) snowmen. Which were properly awkward and lopsided. All was well until Blaise charmed the snowman's head to jump off it's shoulders and fly at Onilwyen, which was how the snow ball fights started, and lasted, all day.
In the castle stood a figure watching them play happily while the world they lived in fought against the looming force of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The old figure smiled, his eyes twinkling merrily watching them play as children, for what may be the last time. Because time waits for no one does it, when you must depend on children to save the world? They must turn adult overnight and never look back. The old man sighed and wistfully turned from the window, and picked up his cloak. The door opened just enough to see Marcus, "Dumbledore, it's time for dinner." Dumbledore smiled and nodded his head. He heard the door shut as he turned back to the window. Now the sky was dark and the children were walking back into the castle, they too preparing for dinner. He tugged on his hat and retrieved his cane from the corner and made his way down to the dining room, to tell the Elements the new and terrible news that weighed on his heart.
A/N So sorry that nothing was really answered in this chapter. (I probably caused more questions) but this is for the good of the story. Ok you will probably find out a lot about Draco and Ginny in the next chapter. They end up confessing a lot to each other and yeah (you find out what Harry did(possibly)) Hope this was good thanks.