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

/> "McGonagall swore him to secrecy that's why." Keith said.

"How do you know?" Rose asked with raised eyebrows.

"Think about it! If she didn't he would have told us by now!" Keith answered in an exasperated tone. Rose rolled her eyes

"You all are being paranoid. You are seeing things that aren't there! Scorpius isn't doing anything suspicious and McGonagall isn't swearing him to secrecy! He's probably just studying." Rose said.

"Just because that's all you think about." Keith muttered.

"I do not!" Rose retorted

"You do! All you ever hear from you is study, study, study! If I hear that word again I'll go mad! Is that all you ever think about? C'mon Rose it's the weekend give us a break!" Keith yelled.

"Well excuse me! I'm simply trying to pass my OWLs thank you very much! If you want to waste your life then it's fine by me!" Rose snapped before getting up and storming off.

Rose didn't care where she was going just as long as she was as far away from Keith Downes as possible, that boy made her so angry that she could hex him. She walked for what felt like ten or fifteen minutes then she stood on a twig and looked up, she had walked straight into the Forbidden Forest. She glanced around the unfamiliar surroundings, she couldn't see the Lake.

"Perfect." Rose muttered sarcastically. Rose wandered through the forest trying to remember the way back to the Lake when she heard voices to her right.

"You are breathing too hard! How do you expect to control air currents when you can control your own breathing?" barked the voice of Professor Davies.

"Sorry." Muttered a voice that Rose recognised instantly as Scorpius. Rose followed their voices to a small clearing crept closer and hid in some bushes nearby. Scorpius and Professor Davies were standing with their backs to her.

"Again and focus!" Professor Davies instructed.

"Ok." Scorpius said and sucked in a deep breath. Rose held her own breath wondering why Professor Davies was instructing Scorpius on his breathing pattern.

"You still aren't concentrating!" Barked Professor Davies. "In through your nose then out through your mouth slowly!"

"I'm trying." Scorpius said and by the sound of his voice he was saying it through his teeth.

"Try it again." Professor Davies said his voice not as commanding as before. "Power in air comes from the breath. You must master proper breathing if you want to have full control over your element. Only when you can control the air currents in your body will you be able to control them outside your body as well."

"We've been practising this for a week! When will I actually get to do anything? I did just fine without all these breathing exercises!" Scorpius asked and by the sound of his voice Rose could tell that he was frustrated.

"That was your element at its zenith. When you are in the air your power reaches its maximum you don't have to concentrate as hard as you need to when you are on the ground." Professor Davies explained.

"Then I'll jump out of a tree!" Scorpius said.

"No! You will concentrate and perfect your element on the ground. Now focus Scorpius." Professor Davies said with a note of finality in his voice. Scorpius gave an exasperated groan. Rose was thoroughly confused, she had no idea what Professor Davies was talking about.

Scorpius breathed in deeply and the exhaled slowly and the air around him began to swirl into a miniature tornado. Professor Davies began to clap as the air settled again.

"Well done." He said "You have finally got it. Now you can have the rest of the weekend off but I expect you bright and early on Monday morning for some actual training."

"That's brilliant!" Scorpius said with obvious glee. Rose scrambled away in shock and slight fear about what she had just seen.

Rose ran through the forest heading as far east as she possibly could and she emerged from the forest. Albus, Alice and Keith had gone inside at some point and so had most of the students.

"Hey Rose!" Rose cringed as Scorpius approached her.

"Um…Hi Scorpius." She said sheepishly. Scorpius frowned in confusion which in Rose's opinion made him look kind of cute.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Oh…it's nothing. I just thought I saw something." Rose lied twisting her fingers behind her back.

"Oh…ok." Scorpius said with a shrug.

"So…um…Alice was looking for you. She said you promised to train with her."

"Oh God! I forgot all about that! Alice is going to be pissed." Scorpius said slapping his forehead.

"Just a little." Rose said with a small smile.

"Any chance you have any suits of armour?" Scorpius asked with a smile that made Rose's heart flutter.

"Sorry I'm fresh out." She joked. Scorpius laughed and grabbed her hand which caused Rose to jump slightly. "Well I guess there is no escape now."

"Don't worry I've got your back." Rose said as they walked back to the castle together.

Chapter 6: Earth

"Can anyone tell me the dates of the main battles of the Goblin Rebellion?" Asked Professor Binns. The class looked half dead and Keith was snoring softly beside Rose who raised her arm.

"Someone besides Miss Weasley." Professor Binns said and Rose scowled before lowering her hand. Rose elbowed Keith awake just as the bell rang and suddenly the half dead pupils sprang to life and were all out the door before Professor Binns could register the fact that the bell had rung.

"God that was boring!" Keith exclaimed as he and Rose walked to the Common Room for their free period. Rose shrugged

"You think every class except Potions and Defence Against the Darks Arts is boring." She pointed out.

"History of Magic takes the cake." Keith grumbled. "By the way can I borrow your Transfiguration notes?"

"What happened to your own?" Rose asked.

"It's a funny story actually." Keith said with a smirk.

"On second thoughts never mind and before you ask I'm not writing the introduction for your essay." Rose said as Keith opened his mouth.

"I wasn't even going to ask that! I just wanted to know if you were going to watch Alice's Quidditch trials this afternoon." The Quidditch trials had been cancelled the previous day by a sudden rain that forced the Ravenclaws to abandon the Quidditch pitch for the warm and dry castle.

"Yes I am and so are Albus and Scorpius." Rose answered.

"She's going mad about Alan Morrison. I think she fancies him." Keith stated with a confident look.

"Then you obviously have the emotional range of a teaspoon. If she's calling him a "flying idiot with ego problems" then she obviously doesn't like him in any sense." Rose reasoned.

"I don't pretend that I know my sister's every thought." Keith said with a shrug.

"You always said you two had twin telepathy." Rose pointed out.

"Did I?"

"You did."

"Oh…well. We do just not at the moment." Keith said.

"Whatever." Rose sighed as the stopped in front of the portrait hole.

"Password?" Asked the Fat Lady.

"Phoenix Tears." Keith answered and they stepped through the opening.

Rose flopped into a squishy armchair near the fire and Keith sat on the floor in front of it. They worked diligently for a good half an hour and by then Rose had finished her work but Keith was still trying to write the essay that his mother set the class. Rose attempted to help him but he insisted that he could do it himself. Rose became bored and decided since the weather had improved and it looked like a nice day outside.

"I'm going out ok?" Rose asked as she stood up.

"Fine by me. I'll see you at dinner." Keith said not taking his eyes of his half finished essay. Rose nodded and ran up to her dormitory to get her scarf before climbing out of the portrait hole.

She made her way down the staircase and out through the Entrance Hall into the grounds. She had been right about it looking nice outside, the sun was shining and the leaves were only just starting to change colour. She wrapped her scarf tighter around her neck as a cool breeze blew by and began to walk to the Lake.

"Hey Weasley!" Called a voice from behind Rose which made her stop dead and reach slowly for her wand. A large 7th year called Terry Dixon and he was flanked by two other 7th years who were equally huge.

Rose glared at them; she hadn't forgotten what they had done to Alice the previous year. She gave a small shudder at the memory of Alice in the hospital wing. It was worse what she said they had tried to do to her, if Albus and Scorpius hadn't shown up when they did. Keith had gone insane from fury and had sent Terry and his friends to the hospital wing as well, with Albus and Scorpius's help. Alice didn't want to tell anyone about what had happened despite their protests and thankfully although it took a very long time, she was able to move forward although she never was really the same again.

"What do you want?" Rose hissed backing away slightly. Terry's friends snickered causing her Rose to shudder.

"You." Was the answer.

"I'm not going anywhere with you!" Rose declared with as much bravery as she could muster despite feeling the exact opposite. Before Rose could say or do anything more Terry's friends began to move closer to her and she continued to back away.

"Aww, you scared Weasley?" Terry crooned.

"You wish!" Rose spat. Then with speed that Rose didn't know he possessed, one of Terry's friends had grabbed her arms. Rose let out a yell and before she knew it the other boy was behind her. She kicked out and managed to hit the boy in front of her in between the legs causing him to let go of her arms. The boy behind her then grabbed her around the waist and she elbowed him in the stomach causing him to stagger slightly and allow her to escape.

Rose ran as fast as she could with Terry and his friends at her heels. The Forbidden Forest loomed in front of her and she decided that she could lose them in the forest. She increased her speed and ran into the forest. She made a zig-zag path into the forest then hid behind a large clump of bushes.

"Where'd she go?" said heard Terry yell and he sounded close.

"I dunno." Answered one of the boys in a gruff voice.

"Well find her!" Terry hissed.

Rose prayed that she wouldn't be found as she peeked her head over the top of the bushes. The coast seemed clear and she crept out from her hiding place.

"There she is!" cried a voice and Rose began to run again. She ran and it was right into one of Terry's friends who then shoved so hard that she fell.

Rose hit the ground and began to shake with rage and it wasn't just Rose, the ground seemed to shake with rage as well. Rose balled her hands into fists and the trees swayed and their roots began to move of their own accord wrapping themselves around the boy's ankles and legs.

"W-What are you doing?" He yelled as the roots began to twist around his waist and up his chest.