Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Friendship
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 18
June saw the beginning of the nicest days. It was time when slipping away to practice with Drooble and Weerlow became harder because more people were outside and more time had to be spent studying for up coming exams.
Sasporilla sat on her bed with her text books spread out surrounding her. Lyra was somewhere in the castle not studying as it 'just wasn't her thing'. Gooseberry was no where to be seen. In fact Sassy hadn't seen her monkey since breakfast. She pulled water from a glass, stone from the floor, air from, well ... the air and opened her palm and let fire out to play. She spun all 4 as orbs around the room, chasing back and forth and all around. It was second nature to do this now, even while studying.
Flame crashed into the ball of stone and both into the ball of air. There was a bright flash as the three orbs formed a single ball of molten rock. The lava rock dropped to the floor and started to melt through the stone floor.
"Flame!" Sasporilla scolded ."BAD FLAME!" Sassy pulled the flame from the stone which hardened in an odd shape. The flame returned to her hand where it looked up at her with a cute remorse. "Hungry."
Sasporilla fed the flame a small bit of paper and put him away.
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Exams went fine. Sassy never did well in written test but her scores were always just a bit better than passing. Theory aside, her practical exams were always 100% spot on. Charms, Herbology, care of magical creature, potions even Defense against the Dark Arts went very well. All of the professors were very impressed with her. She was one of the best students performance wise. If only her grasp of theory was as good as her practical application of magic.
The most important thing is that her exams were finished and all she had to do now was spend the last week working with the elves and reading up on wand craft.
There was American style barbecue for lunch. The house elves had given into the insane amount of requests for it that Lyra had made all year long.
The girls sat at the table diving into Barbecued food. Sasporilla enjoyed a very tasty hamburger while Lyra dug into the barbecue ribs like she hadn't eaten all year. Sauce covered Lyras face from ear to ear as her eyes rolled back in her head like a shark in a feeding frenzy.
"Sasporilla." A voice whispered some where behind her.
Sassy looked around. Gooseberry turned her nose up at most of the food. However he found a pinnapple ring on the back of a roast pig and tucked in.
"Sasporilla." The whisper was louder.
Sassy looked all around her.
"What's up?" Lyra asked with a mouth full of barbecue.
"I keep hearing someone whispering my name." Sassy whispered.
"Your suffering from BBQ Overdose." Lyra laughed.
"Sasporilla!" The voice called.
The world around her pulsed and spun. The lunch table was gone and she stood in a serene pasture surrounded by flowering trees that gently rained petals in the calm of a warm afternoon breeze.
An old woman dressed in a lovely green dress walked towards her leaning on a crooked walking stick.
"Who are you?" Sasporilla asked.
"I am earth. I am air. I am fire. I am water." The old lady smiled. "I am mother nature."
The old lady walked up to Sasporilla and sized her up.
"I'm Sasporilla." Sassy smiled nervously. "Sasporilla Bucket."
"Yes you are that." The old woman smiled. "BUT are you the balance?"
The balance. That was what Miss Daisy and the elves had been talking about.
"What is the Balance?" Sasporilla asked.
"The person who will find themselves walking the path between man kind and nature." The old woman said. "Maintaining the Balance."
"So you want me to be mother nature?" Sasporilla asked.
"If you can pass the tests yes." Mother nature smiled walking past her.
"What tests?" Sasporilla asked.
"Over here." The old woman called to the young witch.
Mother nature stooped over in the center of the clearing pointing her grizzled finger at a large ant colony at the base of a tree. Ants milled around coming and going. Small patches of saw dust were splayed around the tree.
"These are carpenter ants." Mother nature smiled. "They build there colony underground and in the tree. Look how each one has a job to do in their colony."
"Yes they are most impressive." Sasporilla agreed.
"They weaken and destroy the tree from the inside." Mother nature scowled. "I like this tree. It's one of my favorites. Destroy the colony."
"What?" Sasporilla asked shocked.
"Destroy the colony girl." The old woman nodded at the ants and sneered. "Go on girl, they're just insects."
Sasporillas insides started to tighten
She couldn't just kill them.
"They are ants. Pests. Unimportant!" Mother nature cackled. "Kill them!"
"No." Sasporilla refused stiffening her back and her neck. Adopting a defiant scowl.
"Why?" Mother nature asked.
"Because they're alive." Sasporilla barked. "Eating trees is what they do. Whether it's your favorite tree or not. To eat is what they do. It's the way they survive. It's in their nature."
"Good answer." Mother nature smiled. "But. What if the tree was the tree of life. The center of all life and all magic. For that ant colony to destroy the tree would destroy all magic and all life on Earth. Then what would you do?"
"Then I would try and talk to the ants and explain to them how dangerous what they're doing is. Then I'd move them else where. Far away to another tree."
"Compassion isn't always practical." Mother nature said. "What if they refuse to stop? What if you move them and they come back. Killing the colony is the only answer then, yes?"
"Yes." Sasporilla conceded hanging her head.
"Also a good answer." Mother nature said.
The old woman placed her grizzled claw on Sasporillas shoulder. The glade spun away and before she knew it they were far above the Earth looking down at the coast line of America.
"Same sort of situation." Mother nature cackled. "People, billions of people, like ants. Digging, burning, polluting, poisoning the earth. The Earth is the tree of life. The center of us all. The place from which all life and magic flows. They know what they do goes against nature. They do it anyway. We need to kill most of them."
"No." Sasporilla pleaded. "You can't."
"Oh I most certainly can." The old woman mused. "Indeed I have. But this task isn't mine. It's yours. Destroy most of the colony of man and return balance to the Earth."
"No!" Sasporilla screamed. "They aren't ants they're people."
"What's the difference?" Mother nature asked. "The games the same. Who cares who's playing?"
"No." Sasporilla insisted.
"You have so many choices." The old woman said. "Storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. What about something less grandiose? A plague! That's what I used in my test hundreds of years ago. Not giving you a hint though."
"No I won't kill billions of people!" Sasporilla screamed.
"Why girl?" The old woman yelled grabbing Sasporilla by the shoulders. "Tell me why?"
"Because I believe in them." Sasporilla said. "I believe that they will come to their senses before it's to late."
"What if it's all ready to late?" Mother nature asked.
"Then killing them would make no difference." Sasporilla said. "My god don't you have any compassion, any pity?"
"No." The old woman sighed. "Mother nature can not afford them, but it's obvious to me that you do. The Balance must be maintained but alas it won't be by you."
"So she is not the one." Miss Daisy asked walking up behind them. Once again they stood in the beautiful garden clearing.
"No Daisy." Mother nature smiled. "I'm afraid she is not. Though she has some the best power and control over the first four elements, she is just too strong with the fifth element."
"The fifth element?" Sasporilla said.
"Love." Miss Daisy smiled. "My darling Sasporilla it was the one element you didn't need to study was love. Compassion, friendship, loyalty. You are the most loving person I have ever met. I was hoping it would be the quality inside of you that would make you fail this test."
"You wanted me to fail?" Sasporilla couldn't believe her ears. "Why?"
"Because girl." Mother nature began. "To be mother nature is the loneliest and harshest way to live. There is beauty beyond anything you've seen but there is also so much pain, destruction, disease and strife and all of it is your doing. To be compassionate would make this gift a prison sentence and would only lead you to madness."
"I am so happy you failed sweetie." Miss Daisy stretched up to kiss her grand niece on the cheek.
"I have 4 more people to test and only a few hours more of the summer solstice to do it in so I'll return you to school." Mother nature said waving her hand.
"Seriously though dude." Lyra asked. "You ok?"
Sasporilla looked around at all of the happy students enjoying their lunch and smiled. "Never better."
June saw the beginning of the nicest days. It was time when slipping away to practice with Drooble and Weerlow became harder because more people were outside and more time had to be spent studying for up coming exams.
Sasporilla sat on her bed with her text books spread out surrounding her. Lyra was somewhere in the castle not studying as it 'just wasn't her thing'. Gooseberry was no where to be seen. In fact Sassy hadn't seen her monkey since breakfast. She pulled water from a glass, stone from the floor, air from, well ... the air and opened her palm and let fire out to play. She spun all 4 as orbs around the room, chasing back and forth and all around. It was second nature to do this now, even while studying.
Flame crashed into the ball of stone and both into the ball of air. There was a bright flash as the three orbs formed a single ball of molten rock. The lava rock dropped to the floor and started to melt through the stone floor.
"Flame!" Sasporilla scolded ."BAD FLAME!" Sassy pulled the flame from the stone which hardened in an odd shape. The flame returned to her hand where it looked up at her with a cute remorse. "Hungry."
Sasporilla fed the flame a small bit of paper and put him away.
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Exams went fine. Sassy never did well in written test but her scores were always just a bit better than passing. Theory aside, her practical exams were always 100% spot on. Charms, Herbology, care of magical creature, potions even Defense against the Dark Arts went very well. All of the professors were very impressed with her. She was one of the best students performance wise. If only her grasp of theory was as good as her practical application of magic.
The most important thing is that her exams were finished and all she had to do now was spend the last week working with the elves and reading up on wand craft.
There was American style barbecue for lunch. The house elves had given into the insane amount of requests for it that Lyra had made all year long.
The girls sat at the table diving into Barbecued food. Sasporilla enjoyed a very tasty hamburger while Lyra dug into the barbecue ribs like she hadn't eaten all year. Sauce covered Lyras face from ear to ear as her eyes rolled back in her head like a shark in a feeding frenzy.
"Sasporilla." A voice whispered some where behind her.
Sassy looked around. Gooseberry turned her nose up at most of the food. However he found a pinnapple ring on the back of a roast pig and tucked in.
"Sasporilla." The whisper was louder.
Sassy looked all around her.
"What's up?" Lyra asked with a mouth full of barbecue.
"I keep hearing someone whispering my name." Sassy whispered.
"Your suffering from BBQ Overdose." Lyra laughed.
"Sasporilla!" The voice called.
The world around her pulsed and spun. The lunch table was gone and she stood in a serene pasture surrounded by flowering trees that gently rained petals in the calm of a warm afternoon breeze.
An old woman dressed in a lovely green dress walked towards her leaning on a crooked walking stick.
"Who are you?" Sasporilla asked.
"I am earth. I am air. I am fire. I am water." The old lady smiled. "I am mother nature."
The old lady walked up to Sasporilla and sized her up.
"I'm Sasporilla." Sassy smiled nervously. "Sasporilla Bucket."
"Yes you are that." The old woman smiled. "BUT are you the balance?"
The balance. That was what Miss Daisy and the elves had been talking about.
"What is the Balance?" Sasporilla asked.
"The person who will find themselves walking the path between man kind and nature." The old woman said. "Maintaining the Balance."
"So you want me to be mother nature?" Sasporilla asked.
"If you can pass the tests yes." Mother nature smiled walking past her.
"What tests?" Sasporilla asked.
"Over here." The old woman called to the young witch.
Mother nature stooped over in the center of the clearing pointing her grizzled finger at a large ant colony at the base of a tree. Ants milled around coming and going. Small patches of saw dust were splayed around the tree.
"These are carpenter ants." Mother nature smiled. "They build there colony underground and in the tree. Look how each one has a job to do in their colony."
"Yes they are most impressive." Sasporilla agreed.
"They weaken and destroy the tree from the inside." Mother nature scowled. "I like this tree. It's one of my favorites. Destroy the colony."
"What?" Sasporilla asked shocked.
"Destroy the colony girl." The old woman nodded at the ants and sneered. "Go on girl, they're just insects."
Sasporillas insides started to tighten
She couldn't just kill them.
"They are ants. Pests. Unimportant!" Mother nature cackled. "Kill them!"
"No." Sasporilla refused stiffening her back and her neck. Adopting a defiant scowl.
"Why?" Mother nature asked.
"Because they're alive." Sasporilla barked. "Eating trees is what they do. Whether it's your favorite tree or not. To eat is what they do. It's the way they survive. It's in their nature."
"Good answer." Mother nature smiled. "But. What if the tree was the tree of life. The center of all life and all magic. For that ant colony to destroy the tree would destroy all magic and all life on Earth. Then what would you do?"
"Then I would try and talk to the ants and explain to them how dangerous what they're doing is. Then I'd move them else where. Far away to another tree."
"Compassion isn't always practical." Mother nature said. "What if they refuse to stop? What if you move them and they come back. Killing the colony is the only answer then, yes?"
"Yes." Sasporilla conceded hanging her head.
"Also a good answer." Mother nature said.
The old woman placed her grizzled claw on Sasporillas shoulder. The glade spun away and before she knew it they were far above the Earth looking down at the coast line of America.
"Same sort of situation." Mother nature cackled. "People, billions of people, like ants. Digging, burning, polluting, poisoning the earth. The Earth is the tree of life. The center of us all. The place from which all life and magic flows. They know what they do goes against nature. They do it anyway. We need to kill most of them."
"No." Sasporilla pleaded. "You can't."
"Oh I most certainly can." The old woman mused. "Indeed I have. But this task isn't mine. It's yours. Destroy most of the colony of man and return balance to the Earth."
"No!" Sasporilla screamed. "They aren't ants they're people."
"What's the difference?" Mother nature asked. "The games the same. Who cares who's playing?"
"No." Sasporilla insisted.
"You have so many choices." The old woman said. "Storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. What about something less grandiose? A plague! That's what I used in my test hundreds of years ago. Not giving you a hint though."
"No I won't kill billions of people!" Sasporilla screamed.
"Why girl?" The old woman yelled grabbing Sasporilla by the shoulders. "Tell me why?"
"Because I believe in them." Sasporilla said. "I believe that they will come to their senses before it's to late."
"What if it's all ready to late?" Mother nature asked.
"Then killing them would make no difference." Sasporilla said. "My god don't you have any compassion, any pity?"
"No." The old woman sighed. "Mother nature can not afford them, but it's obvious to me that you do. The Balance must be maintained but alas it won't be by you."
"So she is not the one." Miss Daisy asked walking up behind them. Once again they stood in the beautiful garden clearing.
"No Daisy." Mother nature smiled. "I'm afraid she is not. Though she has some the best power and control over the first four elements, she is just too strong with the fifth element."
"The fifth element?" Sasporilla said.
"Love." Miss Daisy smiled. "My darling Sasporilla it was the one element you didn't need to study was love. Compassion, friendship, loyalty. You are the most loving person I have ever met. I was hoping it would be the quality inside of you that would make you fail this test."
"You wanted me to fail?" Sasporilla couldn't believe her ears. "Why?"
"Because girl." Mother nature began. "To be mother nature is the loneliest and harshest way to live. There is beauty beyond anything you've seen but there is also so much pain, destruction, disease and strife and all of it is your doing. To be compassionate would make this gift a prison sentence and would only lead you to madness."
"I am so happy you failed sweetie." Miss Daisy stretched up to kiss her grand niece on the cheek.
"I have 4 more people to test and only a few hours more of the summer solstice to do it in so I'll return you to school." Mother nature said waving her hand.
"Seriously though dude." Lyra asked. "You ok?"
Sasporilla looked around at all of the happy students enjoying their lunch and smiled. "Never better."
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I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.
I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, research which charities J.K.Rowling donates to, then donate to them as such.