DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Harry Potter or any of its characters. I also do not make any money from this.
WARNINGS: Yaoi (male x male), Yuri (female x female) adult topics, swearing, sexual scenes and violence.
This has not been Beta'd.
PAIRINGS: Ron x Hermione, Blaise x Cho, Neville x Ginny, Saito (OC) x Draco
'text' is thought
"text" is talking
Hidden Element
Chapter 25: Wand Is The Gate To The Soul
Elementals:
Ice and Void – Draco Malfoy
Fire – Pansy Parkinson
Earth – Blaise Zabini
Nature – Cho Chang
Light – [Name]
The Forgotten:
Electricity – Saito Blackstar (OC)
[Element] – Carsly Hendricks (OC)
Shadow – Alakai Petrovski (OC)
Water - Yasmin DiAngelo
Wind - Miya Hendricks (OC)
He was confused to say the least. He'd surfaced from the water, wand in hand, only to find four of his previous nine companions missing. The others had waited in anxiousness for Harry to resurface before following the other four. Hermione had wasted no time in telling him that Draco had started screaming and had passed out, the elementals taking him back home without any explanation.
He tucked the unicorn hair wand in his jeans pocket, now uncomfortable round his hips, and apparated. The kitchen was empty; its normal lemon tones unusually dull with the heavy beating that now rang in Harry's ears. Hermione and Neville had apparated before him, the kitchen door swinging shut as he heard them hurry up the stairs.
His bare feet left wet prints on the carpet, but he didn't pay much attention to that fact.
They were standing outside a locked door, Hermione yelling something his buzzing ears couldn't pick up and Cho leading her to a bedroom opposite the one Hermione had previously tried to barge into. Harry followed suite, skidding against the carpet with a slight wince as he entered the bedroom where the rest were sitting. Draco was not present.
Hermione huffed as she noticed her carpet being drenched, and with a flurry of wand movements, Harry found himself dry. He muttered a 'thank you' and couldn't help but smirk at how 'Mione was to Molly when it came to keeping her house clean.
"What's going on?"
"Hang on Hermione, let the others get here first." Cho sighed as she held Blaise's hand tightly.
The next thing Harry knew, his shoes were tossed at his feet. He muttered something about how they could have merely been handed to him and frowned at Ron whom only huffed (followed by a sneaky smirk). He ignored the shoes for now, kicking them the rest of the way into the room before closing the door calmly behind him.
Blaise sat perched on the bed, his back against the straight headboard. Cho's legs stretched across his, her left side cuddling up to his, hands held tightly together. Pansy was seated on the windowsill, which was covered by white pillows in an attempt to add an extra seat.
Luna sat next to her, knees tucked up so her chin rested against them. Hermione sat on the white chair in the corner, Ron on its armrest. Ginny sat on the floor next to the door, Neville next to her, but spaciously so, still putting up the act that they weren't a couple. Harry sat on the tiny stool by the tiny desk.
"Since you all hurried over, I'm assuming you want answers. What I want to know first is, when someone shouts your name followed by the words no, it usually means stop and turn around." Blaise stated pointedly in Harry's direction.
Harry gritted his teeth and tried to remain calm. He was not in the mood to trade insults with Blaise.
"I wasn't exactly thinking! I thought I'd get his wand and..."
"Get in a few good points?" Pansy smirked as she finished his sentence. Harry blushed, but in his mind berated himself for it.
Pansy sniggered in amusement before she caught Cho's stern look and quietened down.
"Before we can explain the situation, we need to explain why what you did was a bad idea," Cho began; the most calm out of the three elementals.
"What we are is an anomaly. We were born as an element incarnate, which is why our looks and personalities change drastically. It is in our very core and it becomes our very existence from time to time. Yet we still retain our human selves in the mix. The magic that comes with our cores almost automatically, intermingles with that of our elemental.
"Our wands are what amplifies the magical core within us. It allows as to better use the magic and to better aim it. As we use the wand, our magic becomes in tune with it and roots within it. With our elements, it's the very same thing. As it has become one with our magic, it too roots itself within our wands. It is one of the main reasons why we left them in Accacia. Our wands having imprinted on us, have our magical energy within them. Even after years of having used them for a single spell, that spell could keep going with the existence of the magic our wands have left behind.
"The spells we cast were able to last so long due to that magics presence in our wands, even if we were not physically there to focus it.
"There is another reason, however, why we kept those wands in the towers. Whereas the magic becomes something separate when it mingles with the wand, the elemental part of us still remains connected. Magic is something that can still be separated from us, yet the elemental part of us lingers in us, whether in a wand or not, unless it's being spent or leaked into the air.
"As the element is linked to our very core, the element that lingers in the wand is still just as connected.
"As an elemental, our cores cannot affect one another. Whatever it is that made it possible for elementals to exist, has made it possible for them to recognise each other. That is the reason we started to reach for each others wands, not necessarily our own, before the towers would collapse. We're not exactly sure why this is, but there is no reaction to it.
"What you just did, however, was reach out and touch Draco's soul. And contrary to belief, the actual feeling hurts like hell." The silence in the room could be cut with a knife.
There was no real way to put voice to any of the thousands of opinions that flew around in their minds. However, there had been one thing that had struck Harry like lightning.
"Draco's wand was in a tower?" he choked suddenly, bringing all eyes to the elementals sitting on and near the bed. Cho tightened her hand around Blaise's once more, but said nothing further.
"Where have you been all this time? I'm sure even your friend Ron has it figured out by now!" Pansy sneered with a lick of her lips.
Ron lowered his head to the side to avoid his best friends gaze, and ignored the jab the red head had aimed at him. Looking back, he was sure Hermione had known, and the more he thought about it, the more it had made sense.
Pansy had portkeyed Hermione to Draco. The key lay in the fact that they weren't allowed contact with any of their past friends, apart from phone contact via the elementals. Draco had to have been in the loop for Pansy to know where he was.
He had also seen Draco rush to the centre instead of Cho, had also seen the familiar way in which Saito had handled the blond. Saito claimed to be in a relationship with Ice, and the way he had held Draco as he came running into view could defiantly be classed by that definition.
Everything had just happened so fast, he never had the time to question.
Scanning the room, Ginny had a similar look of avoidance about her. Luna was calm about the fact, there was no real way to discern whether she had been shocked or not. Neville's mouth, of course, was wide open in astonishment.
"I... I..." he couldn't begin to understand what the implications of this meant! He hadn't been able to read any of this from Draco's face.
"I need to speak to him!" It was the only way he was going to know for sure what the hell was unravelling before him.
"You'll have to wait for him to wake up first, if he wants to that is." Blaise growled. Pansy gave Blaise a 'really' look.
"He knew he was going to have to answer questions the minute the cat came out of the bag. He was ready for this Blaise, it's why he decided to come before they completely found out who he really was."
While the two sat arguing whether or not Draco was going to talk to anyone about his life story, there was only one word that filled Harry's head over and over again.
Shit!
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