Harry ran towards the palace, closely followed by Bael and Eil.

"I don't get it." Harry said. "Why would anyone want to attack the palace?"

"The Dark Elves," Eil said between breaths, and suddenly Harry understood.

They reached the palace gates, which had been blasted open and ran through.

Bodies were scattered everywhere, and blood covered everything. It was a gruesome sight.

"Oh my god…" Bael said. "He's back."

"Lucifer?" Harry asked, naming the leader of the Dark Elves who had called himself after the Muggle Devil.

"Yes," Eil replied.

Harry acted quickly, putting protective shields up around the entire area so there could be no further attacks. He walked up to one of the palace security guards who had been inside the palace at the time of the attack.

"How many dead?" he asked.

"Around a hundred," the guard replied.

"And this includes the King?"

"Yes."

Cursing, Harry looked around. Seeing several injured people, he walked over and began to heal some of them. He felt like he needed to help.

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Hours later, all of the injured had been healed by either Harry or an elven healer. The dead had all been identified, and the death toll amounted to ninety-seven elves. The Elven Kingdom was in a state of shock. Both the King and the next in line, the Half-Blood Prince Zama had been killed, as well as the Queen. Harry was saddened that all of the royalty had died, but even more saddened at the death of Ayden, his former teacher.

"Blaze, you have to come forward and accept your right as the Elven King," Baeldeth pleaded. Eil immediately looked confused.

"I don't know if I can," Harry said.

"It's not against the Elven law for a half-elf to be king or anything like that," Bael informed him.

"That's not what I meant." Harry replied. "I just don't know if I can physically- and mentally- deal with it. I mean, picture yourself in my position. I have more powers than God himself, I'm bloody royal, famous, I am on the top of Voldemort's hit list…"

"What?" Eil asked. "Blaze, you're royal?"

"Oops." Bael said, realizing his mistake. Harry had made him promise not to tell anyone, even Eil.

Harry chuckled nervously.

"Haha… It… um… must have slipped my mind."

"YOU ARE ROYAL?" Eil exploded.

"Umm…. Haha… yeah."

"How? I thought you weren't even Elven!"

"Actually, I am half-elven."

"And you are royal… but what line are you descended from?"

There was a long pause, before Harry quietly answered "Silver… and Gold."

"What?"

"You know how Lylia, daughter of Kyla and Eol disappeared twenty five years ago?"

"Yes, but I don't see how…"

"I'm her son."

"So she married a wizard?"

"James Potter."

"And you…"

"I'm the descended from Ravenclaw and Evlar, and technically first in line for the crown."

"So that's…"

"Why Blaze chose me? Right."

"Because you're…"

"Because Blaze is really Evlar."

"How?"

"You know how I told you that I can hear my sword in my head?"

"Yeah."

"Well, Elvar created the sword and when he died his spirit entered the sword, and now occupies it."

"Wow."

"What I don't understand-" cut in Bael, "is why you refuse to become King. Many people would cut off both of their arms AND both of their legs if it meant a chance to become King."

"That's gross." Harry replied, sidestepping the question.

"I'm waiting…" Bael said, tapping his foot.

"Okay, okay." Harry said, seeing that he wasn't going to get out of answering. "It's like what I was saying earlier. My life is complicated enough as it is. I came here to train because I have to fight Voldemort. I found out I'm a mage. Then I found out that I basically have every power ever known to exist. Then I found out that I'm half-elven, and then that I am royal. It's just too much."

"But Blaze…" said Eil. "You do realize what will happen if you do not become King, right?"

Without waiting for an answer, Eil continued.

"Because there are no more Copper Elves, the next in line for the crown are the Dark Elves, and if they get a hold of the crown, the Elven realm is basically doomed."

Harry sighed.

"Okay, Okay I-"

Harry was interrupted by a knock on the training room door. Eil went to open it, and took the three letters from the mail elf, thanked him, and closed the door.

"Blaze, they're for you." he said, handing Harry the letters.

Harry opened the first, and gasped. It was from Zama, the deceased Half-Blood Prince. Harry knew that in the Elven culture, it was customary to write one letter to a person whom you had wanted to tell something but couldn't. That person would be given the letter when the writer was dead. They would also receive fifty-percent of the writer's estate.

Harry quickly read through it, and glanced at Bael and Eil with a slight look of shock on his face.

"Great. More powers," he said sarcastically.

"What are you talking about?" Eil asked.

"You've read the Book haven't you?"

"What book?"

"The Elven Book, you dolt."

"Oh, yeah, that book! What about it?"

"You know that Zama was a mage, right?"

"Yes."

"And what does the Book say about Mages?"

"I don't know! I didn't memorize it!"

"It says that when a mage dies, all of their powers go to another mage. To put it simply, my life just got a lot more complicated."

"Wait… what?"

"You've studied the Wizarding and Muggle Worlds, right?"

"Yes…"

"You know what a will is right?"

"Yeah, it's a legal declaration of how a person wants their possessions to be distributed after their death." Eil said, as though he was in school and reciting definitions to his professor.

"Well, with mages, it gets a bit more complicated."

"How so?"

"They not only have possessions that need to be 'distributed', but intense powers as well. If the cadaver of a mage were to hold all of that unused magic in for long enough, there would be enough power to cause an explosion the size of France."

"So, where does the extra magic go?"

"You really should read the Book again," Harry said, not realizing that at this moment he sounded exactly like Hermione.

"But where does it go?" whined Eil.

"The mage has to perform a complicated spell at least a year before his death that will transfer the powers into another person after the mage dies."

"But how would they know that they were going to die within that year?"

"Most don't- unless they have the power to 'see'."

"So then how do they know when to do the spell?"

"They have to do it at least once a year."

"So have you?"

"Yes."

"What's it like?"

"It hurts a lot, but that's besides the point."

"Who's getting your powers?"

"Can't say."

"So Zama chose you to get all of his powers?" Bael asked.

"Yeah."

"Why?" asked Eil.

"That's what I wondered at first, but the letter explained everything."

"What did it say?"

"Well, when I first came here I was in pretty bad shape- you know that." Harry really didn't want to elaborate.

"Yeah."

"Well, basically, he is the only reason I survived. I'd known that. Except no one ever bothered to tell me that when he saved my life he transferred a little of his power into me. That's why I am a Class 12 elemental mage."

"Oooohh." Eil said.

"So if he hadn't transferred a little of his power into you…"

"I'd be an elemental mage, about class 8."

Elemental Mages were graded on a 'class' scale according to how powerful they were. The scale ranged from one to sixteen (sixteen being the most powerful).

"Only Class 8," said Eil sarcastically. "That would be horrible."

"Oh, quit it," Harry said. "I wouldn't have my Copycat ability either."

"So you wouldn't be a Metamorphmagus?" asked Eil. The Copycat ability that Harry had meant that he had the option of having every power that every person that he had ever spoken to had. Luckily, his magic was developed enough so that it could be selective about it and filter out the "bad" powers. Because otherwise, he'd be a werewolf.

"Nope. I can thank Tonks for that one."

"And Zama," said Bael. "Though sometimes I think that my life would be a whole lot easier if you weren't a Metamorphmagus."

"True." Harry said, laughing.

"What else did the letter say?"

"Well, now I am going to be a Class Sixteen Elemental Mage because of all the extra power. And um… the power is going to be fused into my body over the next three days. Oh yeah, and turns out that Zama was an Earth elemental, so I guess I control all four elements now."

"Geez," said Eil. "You'd think with that much power you'd explode."

"Well let's just say I'm special."

"That's for sure."

"What other powers are you getting besides the Earth element?" asked Bael.

"Well, Zama was an animagus with the form of a puppy- golden retriever to be exact, as well as being the only living creatures besides fairies themselves to be able to heal fairies. But mostly my previous powers are going to strengthen."

"What are the other two letters?"

"I'm not sure." Harry said, opening the second one. "This one is from… Mallon?"

"What? Don't tell me he was a mage too?"

Harry quickly read the letter, and looked up.

"He knew."

"Knew what?"

"That I'm the heir to the Gold and Silver lines. Apparently there is some picture frame in the palace that shows the true heir."

"Well, what did the letter say besides that he knew?" asked Eil.

"That he encourages me to step up and assume the crown."

"Well, you should." said Bael.

"I guess…"

"Wait-" interrupted Eil. "Why didn't he tell you he knew when he was still alive?"

"He obviously didn't want to give up the crown to me."

"Was there anything else?"

"Not really- though he gave me the address of Eol. He thinks I should go visit him, and really, I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. The poor man has been searching for his daughter for the past twenty-five years and here I've been, his grandson, in the Elven Realm for a year."

"What about the third letter?" Bael inquired.

"From Cyrytha," Harry said, rolling his eyes. Cyrytha had a huge crush on him, as well as about fifty other female elves his age and younger. It was pretty amusing, but Harry wasn't interested in anyone besides Ginny.

Harry held up the letter from Cyrytha and used his fire elemental abilities to set it on fire. He then used wandless magic to make it float over to the nearest trash bit, doused the fire out with water using his water elemental abilities, and turned back to Bael and Eil.

"I wish I could do that," said Eil jealously.

"And I wish I couldn't." said Harry negatively.

"When are you just going to accept that you are all-powerful and stop the I-feel-so-sorry-for-myself attitude?" asked Bael.

Harry laughed. "Probably never. You'll just have to get used to it."

"Mages these days…"

"Hey!"

Eil interrupted. "So, Z… You going to visit Eol?"

"Yeah, I think I will…"

"When?"

"Now's good."

They all stood up from the table and headed out the door.

"According to Mallon's directions, its on the other side of the village." Harry remarked.

"Fun," replied Eil.

"Why not just teleport?"

"Not a bad idea. Save us the walking." Bael commented. "Sometimes, I think, elves aren't very practical."

"No duh." Harry said.

"Hey watch it- you're half-elf too," Eil joked.

Harry teleported, and Eil and Bael followed suit.

----

"This is it." Harry said as he stepped toward the door to Eol's house. He knocked on the door.

About a minute later, an elf of about fifty or sixty answered the door.

"Hi," Harry said, beginning to get nervous. "Would you mind if we came in?"

"Not at all, though I am curious to find out what this is about. Not had many visitors lately," replied Eol.

Harry followed Eol into his house, and Bael and Eil followed Harry. Eol led him into a sitting room, and they all sat down.

"Umm…" Harry said. "Your daughter…"

"What about my daughter?" the man said, hope shining in his eyes.

"Well, she…" Harry said. He was having difficulty talking to his grandfather because he had never really known his mother, and he'd never met Eol before. "She is my mum… well, was."

There was a long, prolonged pause. Eol spoke.

"You are…"

"Your grandson."

"And my daughter?"

"She… she was murdered by Voldemort when I was one."

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A/N: really really really sorry about the looooooong wait. I didn't intend for it to be so long, its just that school has been taking over my entire life.

And I'm sorry I had to end it there, and that this chapter is a little shorter than the other ones. I am taking a vacation to Hawaii with my family and we are leaving early tomorrow- I havnt even started packing yet. But I wanted to get up a chapter before I left- my Christmas present to you. Now your Christmas present to me can be a nice… REVIEW! Yay!

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