The Elementals by Namacub95 (best book club books for discussion .txt) 📕

/> "Where is everyone?" he asked turning to Rose.

"Outside in the snow." Rose answered "My cousin Fred declared a snow war and nobody turns down a snow war."

Scorpius chuckled "Let's go then."

"Just let me grab my coat." Rose said with a smile then dropped her voice to a whisper "Don't worry. My dad doesn't bite."

Rose ran into the kitchen and Scorpius was left alone with the Weasley family. He tried to ignore the fierce whisper fight that Hermione and Ron were having, he knew they were discussing him so he said nothing. Rose mercifully returned quickly with her coat and lead Scorpius outside to the others.

They all stayed outside until the sun began to set then everyone trooped in, covered in snow and laughing to eat a huge dinner made by Mrs Weasley. After dinner Rose called Albus, Alice, Keith, Shauna and Scorpius upstairs and led them into a room with Chudley Cannons posters adorning the walls.

"Muffliato." Said Albus before sitting down in the small circle formed by his friends. In the centre sat the little leather-bound book looking completely innocent.

"Did you manage to translate it?" Shauna asked Rose who nodded in response.

"Most of it." She answered "It's really interesting because it's not a normal book…it's a journal."

Albus and Alice glanced at each other with looks of confusion while Keith looked somewhat shocked, Scorpius looked interested and Shauna looked bored already.

"A journal?" Scorpius said.

"Yes," Rose nodded and picked up the book. She flicked through several pages "This is a rough translation: this journal was penned by Alfred son of William, wizard and fire elemental."

Five pairs of eyes turned to look at Albus and then back to the book.

"Is it like "Dear diary, today I kicked butt, the end"" Keith asked with a smirk. Shauna rolled her eyes at Keith and slapped the back of his head. Keith rubbed his head and shot an annoyed look at Shauna.

"No." Rose said annoyance clear in her voice "It tells all about the last elementals…the ones from the stories."

"Really?" Alice asked curiously.

"Yes," Rose nodded "and that isn't the most interesting part."

Everyone leaned forward anxious to hear Rose's interesting discovery from the book. Rose flipped a couple of pages in the book searching for something then finally finding what she wanted, lay the book in the middle of the circle and pointed out a symbol on the page. It was a circle with two swirls inside of it; everyone looked at it in confusion.

"It means spirit." Rose said "What makes it interesting is the symbol beside it." Rose's finger shifted to the symbol to the right, it was an arrow with two heads point left and right "That means change or move."

"Ok." Keith said still looking perplexed.

"Spirit change…reincarnation!" Rose explained "Elementals' spirits are reincarnated!"

"So you mean…I wrote that." Albus asked motioning to the book.

"Sort of." Rose answered "It doesn't go in to detail but what that means is that there were elementals before us…loads more before us."

There was silence as everyone took in this news; everyone glanced at each other not knowing what to say. Rose closed the book and stared at its leather-bound cover with an unreadable expression.

"If there were more. Why didn't they say anything? Why didn't they make themselves known? We could've learned so much…know more…it would have been so much easier. Why didn't they tell anyone?" Alice asked softly.

"We'll never know." Albus replied. Alice sat sadly and Albus placed a hand on her shoulder in hopes of comforting her somewhat.

Rose, Scorpius, Shauna and Keith all stood and Rose lifted the book taking it out of the room with her, Albus and Alice soon followed after them. Rose slipped outside when no one was looking.

Snow was falling again and Rose watched it from the kitchen door with a small smile before trudging out to stand by the snow wall which was still miraculously standing. In the darkness she could make out the igloo Keith had made earlier in an attempt to impress everyone. The wind picked up slightly

"Rose?" Rose turned to see Scorpius leaning against the door "What are you doing outside? It's freezing out here!"

"Just thinking." Rose replied.

Scorpius hooked his thumbs in his jeans "You're going to get a cold if you stand out in the snow without a coat."

Rose smiled at Scorpius's concern "Trust me Scorp I've had worse."

Scorpius smiled and shook his head before trudging outside to stand beside her. Rose gave him a smile and the wind picked up again, whether this was natural or Scorpius's doing Rose wasn't sure.

"You…uh…you…er…have a good Christmas?" Scorpius internally smacked himself, not what he had planned to say at all. Somehow whenever he went to pay Rose a compliment or ask her out he always became incredibly tongue-tied.

Rose chuckled "Scorpius you've asked me that three times in your letters."

"I have? Er…sorry…I…uh…what I meant to say was…um…uh…R-Rose…would you…I mean only if you want to but…uh…Will… Will you…WILLYOUGOOUTWITHME?"

Then before Rose could respond, without thinking, without even considering the possible outcomes of his actions, he kissed her and to his surprise and delight she kissed back.

Neither of them noticed Alice standing in the kitchen doorway, her hazel eyes admiring the scene. She slipped away without either Rose or Scorpius noticing her presence with only one thought in mind

It's about time.

Spies And Shauna's Plan

A week later and it was time to board the Hogwarts Express for Hogwarts. The journey back to Hogwarts was a short one; it almost seemed as if they hadn't left at all. Soon it was back to classes and the day to day routine of the school year. That was until one Thursday two weeks after term began again

"What's all the commotion?" Rose asked indicating the crowd in the Entrance Hall. The six friends were walking down the Grand Staircase when they saw a large crowd gathering in the Entrance Hall all whispering to each other.

"Dunno," Albus replied "but it can't be good."

"Crowds gathering around something and whispering in Hogwarts is never good. It's like an unwritten rule." Shauna declared.

"Albus!" Lily came running out of the crowd with Hugo, Lorcan and Lysander behind her, all of them looked frantic. "Someone's wrote something on the wall! Come look!"

She grabbed Albus's arm dragging him into the Entrance Hall before pointing. On the wall, in black paint was a symbol of a crescent moon with a dot beside it and underneath was written

The Cult's spies are in Hogwarts. Elementals be warned.

Everyone stood motionless staring at the message. Rose's blue eyes were wide, Keith and Scorpius looked solemn, Shauna had a look of barely suppressed fury and Alice looked at Albus with fear in her hazel eyes.

"What are we going to do?" she asked. All eyes were suddenly on Albus as he struggled to think

"I-I don't know." He said after a couple of minutes.

"We fight these people." Shauna declared "We don't back down and we don't let them know we're afraid."

There was a sense of determination that radiated off her but before anyone could say anything more she had turned and left. Albus and Alice shared a look of confusion while Keith ran after her. Rose and Scorpius stood side-by-said before Rose said softly

"We should tell Professor McGonagall about this."

Keith ran up the Grand Staircase after Shauna, she was walking all the way up to the seventh floor and Keith had a suspicion that she was heading to the Room of Requirement.

"Shauna wait up!" he called after her.

Shauna stopped half way to the fourth floor as Keith caught up with her.

"What Downes?" she asked. Keith stopped a moment to catch his breath after his mad dash up the stairs.

"Where are you going?"

"Why's it any concern of yours?"

"Are you planning something?"

"What makes you think I'm planning something?"

"Are you going to answer or are you just going to reply with another question?"

"Annoying isn't it?" Shauna smirked.

"Shauna." Keith grumbled.

"Alright fine." Shauna sighed "There is no way you five are going to defeat the Cult-"

"Thanks for the positive thinking Shauna. Really inspiring."

"Shut up and listen!" Shauna snapped her pale blue eyes blazing "You five won't defeat them alone! You need help. You're going against an army! If you think five of you are going to have a chance at taking out an army then I think you need a reality check."

"We did it before." Keith pointed out.

"Five centuries ago and you actually were masters then." Shauna retorted.

"Good point." Keith admitted.

"You five need more people to help you. You won't be able to defeat the Cult alone...you need an army too."

"What are you getting at?" Keith asked looking intrigued and slight apprehensive.

"Remember who my dad is." Shauna said.

"Professor Longbottom, I know that Shauna but what does that have to do with anything? Unless your dad has an army locked in the castle dungeons."

Shauna rolled her eyes "What did my dad do during the war?"

"He led the...DA." Keith answered with sudden understanding "You want to bring back the DA. To fight the Cult."

"Yes...well sort of." Shauna replied "I want to start an army like the DA and train them to fight."

"Isn't that what the DA did?"

"No." Shauna replied "They only taught defence and I want to teach them defence and offence."

"But didn't the DA teach offences when-"

"Downes..." Shauna cut him off with a glare.

"Shut up?" Keith asked.

"You're learning. Not much but you're learning."

Keith grumbled something inaudible but quickly stopped when Shauna glared at him.

"I need help rounding up people and you're going to help me." Shauna said with a clear tone of authority.

"Well…who are we going to get?" Keith knew better than to argue with Shauna.

"Everyone." Shauna said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Everyone?" Keith asked in disbelief.

"Yes, everyone we can. James, Lily, Lorcan, Lysander, Nicky, Fred, Roxanne, Lucy, the Quidditch teams, the duelling club, Ellesheil-"

"Ellesheil? Are you mad?" Keith asked astonished.

"No I'm not mad." Shauna replied her eyes narrowing dangerously "We need everyone we can think of, including her. She's a horrible person but we need her on our side."

"Fine, but I'm not happy about it." Keith grumbled

"Neither am I but we all need to make sacrifices." Shauna said.

"So we'd better get started." Keith declared.

"Yeah, tell them to meet us at the Room of Requirement tonight at seven." Shauna instructed.

"Ok. See you there." Keith nodded turning and heading back towards the Entrance

"Downes!" Shauna called after him.

"Yeah?" Keith asked turning to look at Shauna

"Don't tell Hothead, Sparky, Blondie and especially not Daffodil!"

Chapter 22: The Elemental Army

The Room of Requirement was full until bursting point with students. Keith and Shauna had spent all day rounding up students to join their club. It had taken them most of the day but they had finally rounded up everyone they could.

The Room of Requirement looked like a giant hall with a small stage at the front and standing in the Room of Requirement were the House