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

PAIRINGS I know of so far: (pairings will be added as they are mentioned in chapters)

Ron x Hermoine, Blaise x Cho, Neville x Ginny, Saito x Draco

This has not been Beta'd.

'text' is thought

"text" is talking

A/N: Haven't had any replies in a while :p Am I still going on the right track or is it starting to bore people :D

Hidden Element

Chapter 48: Mix and match

Elementals:

Ice and Void – Draco Malfoy

Fire – Pansy Parkinson

Earth – Blaise Zabini

Nature – Cho Chang

Light – Cherrie Everdeen (OC)

The Forgotten:

Electricity – Saito Blackstar (OC)

Animal – Carsly Hendricks (OC)

Shadow – Alakai Petrovski (OC)

Water - Yasmin DiAngelo

Wind - Miya Hendricks (OC)

"Damnit woman! We are not playing this game!" Alakai bared his teeth with a growl. This Cho woman had this fabulous way of running, hiding, then attacking, and repeating the aforementioned. He hated hide and seek, just as much as tag. Always had, and he was loath to start now in his 'young adult' years. She was pushing her luck! Nature created plenty of shadows, yet it was the vast expanse of trees and flora one was reluctant to find in a forest that was proving his task harder than he thought. Where the hell was she hiding this time?

Cho made sure not to breathe too deeply. Small breaths, even if they weren't as even as she would have liked. She stood firmly and snug within a tree, hoping he did not think to look within the confines in trees for the logic that there was no shadow inside trees. Of course, her own body created one just being there. Of course she thought it cowardly, after all, being in Dumbledores Army had taught her reckless abandon, full-speed ahead charging of the enemy. Power was what Harry Potter had taught her. That any spell no matter how small could change the sands of time, and save your skin.

The most important lessons, she had learnt from her husband. It was times such as these that she really understood Blaise's Slytherin psyche better. She was not a coward, so she would like to think. Think before you charge. Stand aside before you use that power. Now she thought back on it, that was perhaps why Harry and Draco had made such a great couple. It wasn't that one was brains and the other brawn, no, something much more complex than that. They both had exceptional power, awareness and quick skill, Harry more of the first and Draco the latter. Where Draco had experience in number, Harry had experience in difficulty. It was the power and skill they used, that stood out differently.

A dead end. That was what she had come across. How she wished her cunning husband was here, any slytherin, or Hermoine. She had never been quick to think, although her grades had never been bad. Cho just never knew the right thing to do come the time things needed to done. The feeling of going into an exam knowing the material off by heart, yet when the time to write started, your mind went blank.

What good was putting Slytherin thought into practice if she couldn't calm herself enough to think? She couldn't help but laugh to herself, mentally, at the thought that Gryfindor logic never really needed much thought. Whereas Slytherins took the time to think, examine and come up with a plan, Gryfindors were all about heart, emotion and instinct. Cho didn't want to go as far as to say they already knew what to do, they followed their guts. Where did she stand? Ravenclaw? They were prized for their learning, wisdom and wit. The in-between of Slytherins and Gryffindors. They were competitive, highly so, known even to stab each other in the back for the sake of knowledge.

The heart drove them, yet so did their brains, perhaps in that aspect more like a Slytherin than they expected. Standing side to side with Blaise she was embarrassed to say how alike they really were after all that drama in Hogwarts. She took a deep breath and pushed herself out of the tree. She wasn't going to be the one who let them down because her knowledge had failed her, even if such information on how to beat shadows had never presented itself. Pushing outwards with her hands, the trees bent outwards, until they almost lay flat on each other creating semi-walls.

In front of her, a few miles away, Alakai turned around with a 'tsk'. Pearly white teeth showed up against inky skin.

"Tired of playing?"

"Yes."

"Good" She flinched and turned as the whisper came from behind her. She couldn't help but scream as massive teeth sunk into her left shoulder. Alakai chuckled as he walked closer.

"You couldn't wait, could you?" He sighed, hands on his hips. He supposed it was fine to share if it was Carsly. She had one wicked sense of humour, and a twisted sense of thought to boot.

Cho found herself stumbling forwards as Carsly kneed her back, yanking her teeth out of soft flesh.

"Blech!" Carsly moaned as she removed pieces of fabric from her teeth. "Nasty stuff!"

Cho gasped as she stood up shakily, a hand going up to cover her shoulder. The slight touch stung and looking at it, overflowing crimson and jagged marks. Some of the flesh had been ripped off. She swallowed heavily before growling and swung with her right fist. Carsly dodged easily, yet growled as two thorns from the side imbedded into her cheek.

"Ow! You bitch!" Alakai couldn't help but laugh.

"You turn into a porcupine now?" Carsly showed him the middle finger before proceeding to remove the deeply imbedded thorns. Cho had no time to think as she found her foot suddenly sinking into the ground. A black hand clenched tightly around her ankle pulled her into her own shadow. Flinging her hands in a downward sweeping movement, Alakai found himself suddenly hanging upside in the air, a tree bark firmly curled around his leg. He could feel the blood rushing to his head. He mumbled to himself, using his stomach muscles to lift himself upwards and start trying to tug on said branch.

With a growl, the tree released Alakai, the sensation of falling had the hand around her ankle weaken and she pulled out of the ground, shuffling to the side out of the way. As Alakai landed, he seemed to vanish into the ground.

"Brace yourself." She heard the woman giggle before she shrunk into an eagle and took flight. Turning at a sudden increase in noise, Cho suddenly found herself in unexplainable confusion. She found her body tossed around, a howling in her ears as she no longer knew which way was up or down, just that she wasn't close to the ground anymore.

Carsly kawed and swooped into the tornado that had picked Cho up. She clawed at every turn, scratching and pecking with her beak. Cho couldn't hear her own screams even if she wanted to. A familiar fizzing sound, a jet of heat, suddenly it was just her and the air. She could hear the sound of sudden swearing.

Carsly changed back as soon as she could, her wing having caught fire. That bitch had been fighting someone else, yet she had the gall to flame hew wings. She waved her hands in the air to cool them down, she felt hot to the touch. She couldn't help but scream. She could feel herself changing shape once more, and it hurt having done it so soon afterwards, her bones seemed to ache, yet she was too angry to think properly. Something Miya had always called her up on. She was hot-tempered and quick to anger. A horrible combination, especially to one in cahoots with her animal side. She wiped her horn on the ground before she charged.

Pansy, ablaze, thumped to the ground from where she'd stood stop her huge phoenix's back. The phoenix now lay in ruins, ash falling from the sky and covering their bodies. She rubbed her eyes, they were irritated from all the ash. At least she was happy in the fact that Yasmin stood in a pool of her own dragon. The two 'mythical' creatures had shredded each other to pieces, yet they still found themselves in a stalemate.

Pansy growled as Yasmin, drenched from head to toes, ran forwards hastily, arms outstretched.

"No!" There would be no pity, nor idle chat. Wasn't that what they had decided? What was the bluenette up to? Jets of flame shot from her hands, and with wide eyes, Yasmin shrieked in pain as she tried to absorb it too late. She was flung backwards, water washed across her like a cocoon as she tried to heal her wounds. This motion, however, made Pansy hesitant to attack. That one second of fragile emotion, barriers down, she would not have shown in a serious battle. Something was wrong.

Pansy had no time to think. It was at that time that she felt pain beyond belief rupture through her stomach. Her body was lifted off the ground and suddenly slammed down, and whatever had been lodged inside her body, freed itself with a jerk. A thud of triumph as what seemed to be a rhino walked its way past her and back into the forest.

What to do? This hurt like fuck! She stretched an arm outwards, scraping nails against the grass in an attempt to move towards the only person she thought might help her, even given their circumstances. Arm stretched out, vision wavering, and then numbingly, the world turned black.

Cherrie could feel her throat closing up at the urge to stop and take a breath. Her legs were sore from running, her lungs screamed, yet she was used to it. That adrenaline feeling of 'you have to get there or it's all doomed.' Unlike the others, she had never learned how to apparate. Her mode of transportation involved running on most occasions. This was one such occasion.

Hermoine had been impossibly specific for such a hurried explanation. She had no time to get her there either, she was already gone trying to find the others. She had been out the door the minute she heard the shouts of death eaters waving their wands about, something the others hadn't heard till much later/ Then again, she had sprung out the window when she had seen a hazy green the colour of the killing curse the next street over. Her yell hadn't been heard, her room the furthest away in the house.

She had run all the way over, too scared the bus would be delayed; a taxi was out of the question. In this situation, she could only trust her own two feet. She had to get there, had to get there, had to get there. It was a mantra in her head. She hadn't known what she was expecting, to be honest. Massive tornados? Tsunamis? A forest fire even. Running through this seemingly massive forest, she saw nothing out of the ordinary. Just a rhino.

As she ran, her head quickly sweeped to the side. Indeed a huge rhino was running in her general direction. It looked angry and trees proved to be no hindrance. With a blink of her eyes, a large explosion of light caused the rhino to skid, but she had no time to stop, no time to look back and think why such a creature was in the middle of the forest in the first place. She had to get there, had to get there.

Cherrie had to be close, because as she ran into an avenue of trees parted like the red sea, an automatic reaction of light saved her from what appeared to be an inky axe flying her way, disintegrating into whiteness.

"Light, my little foe. You shall be my ultimate victory!" Finally standing still, Cherrie bent slightly, hands resting on knees, but face still looking upwards. Alaksi stepped out from behind some trees where it seemed he had been waiting.

"No hero speech? Now's the time." He grinned. She merely shook her head in confusion.

"Where are they? My friends I mean." He grinned once more.

"Scattered, yet not far. We seem to be doing a lot of swapping of partners of late. But you, you're all mine. Darkness will destroy the light." Cherrie gulped slightly, wiping hair from her sweaty forehead.

"My element will always conquer yours." He gave her a look of pity, that wide smile back on his face.

"Poor puppy. You don't seem to get it. You just happened to land in my personal battle of moral ethics. Dark vs light. Evil vs good. We're fetching representative, don't you think? Wanna bet which one of us comes out alive?"

"No!" She shouted. "Are we just going to talk?" He sniggered at her attitude.

"Feisty little thing, aren't you?"

"I did not run all the way here just to discuss which one of us could win!" A massive explosion found itself where Alakai had stood, had he not shifted into the shadow of a tree a lot closer to the blonde.

"This is going to be fun." He cackled.