(A.N.) I must say I like the number of hits this story is making but I'm upset that the review don't equal even a fifth of the number of hits. Oh well here's hoping for the future. Also to answer a question I had received, the characters from the crossover will be a mix of OOC and being in character, meaning some are in character, but most are not. Anyway I would like to award Taberah Blanc, NoName, and neosildrake a virtual Kyuubi plushy thanks for reviewing.
One last thing only reason Ginny, Ron, and Hermione aren't the other three elementals is cause, first it wouldn't work with my story, and second cause that band wagon is overcrowded as it is, also there is a reason why I'm not using a wind element, and the balance will be more noticeable later. Also don't expect too much romance since this is only first year, actually don't expect any romance for sometime.
(Disclaimer: Don't own anything but my OC's)
For the first half of their tenth year, Harry, Sasuke, Gaara, and Haku focused on bonding and working together with their familiars. Harry and the nontile, Kyuubi would run throughout the castle playing a game of tag, which Kyuubi always dominated Harry. Gaara and his sand badger, Shukaku would sit and meditate, ignoring Harry and Kyuubi's request to play tag. Sasuke and his fire lizard, Ballmut would occasionally join Harry in their games, but mostly focused on training their control over fire. Haku and her mist hawk, Shahara, although liked playing games with Harry and Kyuubi, preferred to be alone to read quietly with Shahara on her shoulder.
As Sol'Lez had said, after the bonding each of the junior elementals started developing unique traits, similar to those of their familiars. Sasuke developed the ability to completely camouflage his body to the point that he was completely invisible and undetectable, a power he would constantly use when he would play games with his peers. Gaara developed an armor of sand that blended had blended to the color of his skin; no one could even tell it was there unless he was hit hard enough to crack the armor. Haku was able to turn her body into a misty form; much like her hawk could, and was able to travel to areas that were originally impossible to get too. Harry had developed an above average healing rate, and although it was not even close to being on par to Kyuubi, it did keep him from getting sick and healed almost any injury in minutes, at first no one even knew of his ability until Harry came from his tower unaided by his glasses; Kyuubi's healing trait correcting his eyesight so that it was 20/20.
While the four bonded with their familiars, the four adults of the castle had their own problems to deal with, namely sending the children to Hogwarts later that year.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY'RE GOING TO HOGWARTS?" Tal yelled, looking at Sol'Lez as if she announced the world was about to blow up, which to Tal wouldn't be nearly as shocking. "Tell me right now Sol'Lez, are you insane? They might hurt someone or worse, have their power abused by those fools that run the wizard world."
"To answer your question Tal, no I am not going insane, and yes, I'm quite aware of the risk involved in sending them to Hogwarts." Sol'Lez said in a rather calm voice.
"But, Sol'Lez, why are you sending them?" Marla asked Sol'Lez, in a voice much calmer than Tal, but still filled with worry.
"It was the only way I could bring Harry here without any problems, Albus Dumbledore wants Harry to attend Hogwarts, and as you know a balance must be maintained, so in order to keep the one from being stronger than the others I had to send all of them." Sol'Lez explained.
"But what if their powers go out of control; they could destroy the school, or worse freeze the schools water pipes." Tal said shivering at the thought.
"Tal, you know that when an element's power awakens, that it tends to go out of control due to the built up energy inside of them." Marla lectured to Tal.
"Besides, you should trust Sol'Lez, she wouldn't be sending them if she thought it wouldn't be safe." Razure said joining in the conversation for the first time since it started.
"Razure is right, Tal. At the moment the children don't have enough power to do anything more than minor attacks which couldn't really be classified as harmful. Besides I know for a fact that those kids have great control over their elemental power." Sol'Lez said, glad at the compliment from Razure.
"And how do you know they have such great control over their powers." Tal asked still feeling uneasy at sending the children away to a school for close to ten months.
"I've been monitoring their progress very closely ever since their powers awakened. You should be proud that Sasuke has the best control." Sol'Lez said while smiling at Tal.
"Considering how hard the boy works on controlling his element that shouldn't be a surprise." Marla stated.
Tal looked at his three friends, thinking that they were all insane. Sighing he submitted to their decision. He knew that continuing to argue with them would only add more grey hairs to his already impressive collection. Sighing once Tal looked at Sol'Lez and said. "Fine but don't hold me responsible if anything goes wrong, cause all I'll say is "I told you so"."
Smiling at her victory over Tal, Sol'Lez nodded and stood up before speaking again. "Well now that we all agree, I want you three to talk to the children about our decision. I have to go and speak with Albus."
As the three senior elements left the room, Sol'Lez disappeared in a burst of wind, her destination, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
(Section Break)
Albus Dumbledore was sitting at his desk looking over a bunch of forms and documents for the new school year when a large gust of wind came from no where and knocked all the papers on his desk to the floor. Sighing at the mess Dumbledore looked up to see Sol'Lez standing before him.
"I'm sorry Albus. Did I do that?" She asked with a false look of innocence.
"Yes, you did. No matter," Dumbledore said while muttering a quick spell to clean up and organize the mess. "I take it you are here to work out the finer details of the children coming to the school. Please have a seat."
Sitting down in one of the chairs Sol'Lez cut right to the chase. "Not details Albus, just detail. The children will be attending Hogwarts just as we agreed, however they will be bringing someā¦friends with them."
"And just who are these friends?" He inquired.
"Oh, just their familiars, and don't try to say anything against them bringing them." She replied, hoping to put a stop to Dumbledores protests.
Dumbledore studied her expression before continuing his questions, he knew that he couldn't say no unless he had a good reason too, and a reason he was hoping to find. "Care to tell me where you plan on their familiars staying?"
"With them of course."
"Surely you know that I can't allow that, how am I to explain four children having familiars to the staff? Not to mention the commotion it would cause with the students."
"That is not my problem Albus. May I remind you that I'm bending the rules for you, the least you can do is bend the rules for me."
"There is a fine line between bending and breaking you know?"
Sol'Lez looked down with a look of hurt in her eyes that Dumbledore had never seen before. "I know that, I know that all to well Albus."
Dumbledore sighed, leaned back in his chair and contemplated the situation. Reaching a conclusion, he sat back up and asked. "Just how big are these familiars?"
Sol'Lez gave a mischievous grin before answering. "By the time school starts up they will be able to make themselves the size of Fawkes."
"Are you sure?" Dumbledore said with a hint of surprise, one thing he had learned from Alar is that an elemental's familiar is rarely ever as small as Fawkes.
"I give you my word."
"Alright, the familiars can come, but only if they are able to remain the size of Fawkes, was there anything else?" He asked.
"Yes," seeing the slight frown from Dumbledore she quickly added. "Just an innocent question. Where do you want me to take the kids? I know for a fact that they will need stuff for school."
"Take the kids to The Leaky Cauldron; I'll have Hagrid take them off your hands there. You do remember Hagrid." Dumbledore said with a slight smile.
Sol'Lez let out a light chuckle before replying. "Yes, Albus, I remember him. He isn't someone you can really forget." With that being said Sol'Lez shook Dumbledore's hand and vanished in a gust of wind, knocking Dumbledore's papers to the floor again. Dumbledore merely sighed before once again cleaning up the mess.
(Back at the castle of elements)
Upon returning to the castle Sol'Lez was surprised at the sight that greeted her. Right before her were four children staring up at her with horror stricken faces, and at the same time they asked her the same question. "Are you really getting rid of us?"
Sol'Lez took a step back in shock it was true that she was sending them outside of the castle, but the way they phrased the question made it sound like she was abandoning them to their worst fears. Quickly composing herself she looked at all four children before replying. "I'm not "getting rid of you". You four are too important to me to do such an evil thing."
The four children let out a sigh of relief and were about to plan a way to get revenge on Tal for saying something that ridiculous, regardless of whether or not it was a joke, before Sol'Lez spoke up again.
"However, I am sending you four to a school for most of the year," Seeing the looks of horror return to their faces she was quick to add. "But, don't worry you will get to come back on holidays, plus it's not like you'll be gone forever. Just for a little while."
"But we want to stay here." Haku spoke up.
Sol'Lez shook her head before looking at the children smiling. "Why would you want to stay with a bunch of old farts, and beautiful little ol' me, when you could be making more friends your own age?"
The children sniggered at her remarks on the three senior elementals, even Gaara, the emotionless, Razure jr. smirked.
"So will be able to meet kids are own age?" Sasuke asked with a wide smile on his face.
Sol'Lez nodded hoping to continue to add onto the pros, in order to make the children forget about the cons. "And," She started pausing for dramatic effect. "You get to bring your familiars."
If the junior elementals were happy before they were ecstatic now, running around her, cheering, and with the biggest smiles on there faces. Even Gaara had a wide grin at the thought of bringing Shukaku with him.
"But first, we need to train your familiars to be able to shrink by using magic once they learn to shrink teaching them to grow back to normal size won't be a problem. Sasuke, Haku, since your familiars are already small enough we'll focus on teaching them to grow, now hurry along and get your familiars." She said as the four children ran to their rooms in the towers to get their familiars.
For the rest of the summer, the four kids worked with their familiars in order to grow and shrink in size. The training was taking quite a while to actually start working since the familiars weren't familiar with casting spells that happened automatically. But by the last week before September 1st the familiars had master the art of changing their size and spent the rest of the week talking to the kids about what the outside world was like.
Finally the day arrived and Sol'Lez gathered all the children together in the main chamber to make sure they were ready. Each child was dressed in plain robes with their familiars at their side or in Sasuke and Haku's case, on their shoulder. All the familiars were at their original size, with the exception of Kyuubi, who was half his size because of Sol'Lez's insistent nagging of being too large for his own good.
After fully checking each child, Sol'Lez told them to say good bye to Marla, Tal, and Razure since it would be a while before they saw them again. As the seven people and four magical beast exchanged goodbyes, Sol'Lez gathered her nature magic and teleported the small group.
When the group came to their destination, all, but Sol'Lez, were disoriented by the weird form of travel. As the kids and their familiars came to their senses they saw that every set of eyes in the room were staring at them. From behind they heard thunderous footsteps, turning around they were greeted by the biggest man they ever saw.
The man looked down at all of them with a gentle smile and when he spoke up and said. "You four must be Gaara, Haku, Harry, and Sasuke."
The four children merely nodded before the man spoke up again. "Pleased to meet ya, my name's Hagrid."
(A.N.) So how was it? Good? Bad? Decent? Let me know with a lovely little review. Next chapter will lead up to the Hogwarts express, and the introduction of Ron and Hermione.
I would also really like to know what house Tonks was in, I cant remember if it was mentioned or not, and since she was in her seventh year when Harry was in his first I want to include her, and make her a more important character, rather than waiting till way later on in the series. If I am unable to find out what house she was in I'll just say Gryffindor and be done with it. Anyway review please, reviews are what keep me working on this story like a part-time job.
