Chapter Summaries

Bell and Hermione spent a day together in downtown, traveling by bus and stopping for breakfast before looking for something to do. After Bell led Hermione into a clothing store, she became excited about trying on outfits.

• Bell suggested that he and Hermione take a bus downtown instead of using Side-Along Apparition.
• Hermione paid for breakfast while Bell ate several plates of food.
• Hermione admitted she did not know where to go, so Bell took her hand and led her along the shopping street.
• Bell brought Hermione into a women's clothing store, where she eagerly picked out outfits to try on.

Hermione and Bell went on a date, shopping for clothes before watching a horror movie that frightened Bell. The date continued with Hermione planning to shop for clothes for him, while Bell insisted he was not afraid of ghosts.

• Hermione asked Bell to help choose between two dresses, but they left the shop without buying either.
• Bell took Hermione to the cinema after their morning of shopping, and they watched a horror movie Hermione had chosen after reading Lockhart's book.
• Hermione teased Bell for being frightened by the movie, while Bell claimed he had only wanted to blow up the screen because the cinema was stuffy.
• Hermione led Bell toward more shops to pick out clothes for him, and Bell protested that he was not afraid of ghosts.

Bell became Hogwarts’s first day student so he could attend the Space Battleship’s maiden voyage, while Shanna joined the dangerous operation despite his misgivings. Before they set out to test themselves against the Elemental Lord ahead of confronting N'Zoth, Bell persuaded Shanna to return to Hogwarts afterward and care for their family; he said he would come back when he stood at the pinnacle.

• Bell obtained a day-student permit from Professor Snape and attended the Space Battleship’s commissioning on September 1.
• Shanna asked Bell to let her stay out longer and become a day student, but he refused and told her to return to Hogwarts after the operation.
• Bell explained that he had brought Shanna along only after she insisted on joining the mission to avenge him and their parents agreed.
• Bell warned that Yomi might be unstable while he was away and that Little Bell could still be at risk from the Obscurus within her.
• Bell asked Shanna to look after their family after the operation, and Shanna agreed.
• When Shanna asked when Bell would return, he answered that he would come back when he stood at the pinnacle.

Bell and Shanna traveled aboard the Williams to Dark Star, where Bell planned to obtain the Elemental Lord’s Ice Core. After the battleship arrived, Bell prepared to guide its attack, but Captain Stuart Trevitch tried to stop him because William and Elena had ordered him to keep Bell safe.

• A gray-robed Wizard told Bell and Shanna that the Williams was ready, and Bell ordered the battleship to depart.
• The Williams jumped through space toward Dark Star while Bell and Shanna chatted during the journey.
• The battleship reached Dark Star, and Stuart Trevitch reported that the Elemental Lord had been asleep in a canyon for more than a month.
• Bell ordered the crew to test the Elemental Lord’s defenses with a gradual attack and said he would guide the battleship himself.
• Stuart pleaded with Bell to stay back, citing William and Elena’s orders to keep him safe.

Bell and Shanna prepared to hunt the Elemental Lord, with Bell insisting on at least a ninety percent chance of avoiding its Ice Core. After Dark Star evacuated the canyon base, Bell began the attack by having Shanna release Mad Bear to pin the Elemental Lord down.

• Bell refused to let Stuart take the risk and chose to guide the attack himself while Stuart stayed to command the warship.
• Bell and Shanna arrived at the canyon, where Jennifer revealed she had sent them its coordinates.
• Jennifer reported that the base personnel and facilities had been evacuated, and Bell sent the remaining monitors to the warship.
• Jennifer persuaded the monitors to leave, while Shanna stayed to help Bell avenge his earlier injuries.
• Bell told Shanna to release Little Bear and have it attack and pin down the Elemental Lord.

Shanna unleashed Mad Bear against the Elemental Lord, using its size, claws, and Rocket Punch to restrain the giant foe. Mad Bear’s Curse Breath failed to meaningfully harm the Elemental Lord, and the fight continued as Mad Bear charged back in.

• Shanna threw Mad Bear onto the battlefield, where it expanded to more than five hundred meters tall and roused the Elemental Lord.
• Mad Bear blasted the Elemental Lord with Curse Breath, but the Elemental Lord quickly recovered from the attack.
• Bell explained that the Elemental Lord’s Ice Core could match Mad Bear’s Philosopher’s Stone in Magic Power, though Mad Bear had more varied methods.
• Shanna sent Mad Bear forward to rake the Elemental Lord with its claws, but the Elemental Lord punched Mad Bear away and threw ice toward its landing point.
• Shanna dodged the follow-up attack and had Mad Bear launch a Rocket Punch that forced the Elemental Lord back before Mad Bear charged in again.

Shanna fought the Elemental Lord with Mad Bear while Bell waited for her to gain control of its power. Bell eventually joined the fight to locate the Ice Core, and sensed an intensely scorching point within the Elemental Lord's Magic Power.

• Mad Bear battered the Elemental Lord as Shanna grew more adept at controlling it, while Bell held Jennifer back and watched for an opening.
• After about twenty minutes, Bell sent Jennifer to help Shanna and rushed to the Elemental Lord with the Elder Wand to search for its Ice Core.
• The Elemental Lord froze Mad Bear with a burst of cold that followed an icy-blue flash at its neck, leading Bell to suspect the Ice Core might be there.
• Mad Bear broke free, knocked the Elemental Lord down, and gave Bell another chance to probe its body with the Elder Wand.
• Bell endured the freezing cold and sensed an extremely scorching point amid the Elemental Lord's Magic Power.

Bell discovered that the Elemental Lord’s Ice Core generated intense heat and used Flame Spells to track its location despite the creature’s icy body. After marking the Elemental Lord’s leg with a magical nail, he warned Shanna and Jennifer to retreat before the Williams’s attack struck.

• Bell sensed soul-searing heat inside the Elemental Lord but lost track of its Ice Core when the creature shifted its body.
• Bell endured worsening frostbite, used a Flame Spell to heat himself, and returned to the fight with Shanna and Jennifer’s help.
• Bell noticed his body cooled unusually quickly near the Elemental Lord and tested a point-blank Flame Spell to trace the heat flowing through its body.
• Bell confirmed the Ice Core’s position while the Elemental Lord remained still, then drove a magical nail into its leg to guide the Williams’s attack.
• Bell warned Shanna and Jennifer to retreat; Shanna withdrew Mad Bear while Jennifer used Side-Along Apparition and Obstruction Jinxes to help it land safely.
• The Williams’s attack struck the Elemental Lord with a thunderous explosion.

Stuart waited anxiously aboard the Williams for a signal from Dark Star and ordered the ship to fire its main gun when an attack signal arrived. The blast devastated the battlefield, and Bell, Shanna, and their companions survived, though Bell was badly shaken and injured.

• Stuart repeatedly questioned the monitoring Wizard, who could not see the battle clearly through Dark Star's darkness and dust.
• A Wizard reported an attack signal from Dark Star, and Stuart ordered the Williams's main gun to fire.
• The main gun unleashed a powerful blast that destroyed the canyon and sent Bell flying nearly a thousand meters away.
• Bell crawled out from underground and found Shanna and the other girl safe beside Mad Bear.
• Bell told Shanna he was fine despite swallowing blood and feeling the effects of his injuries.

Bell repeatedly attacked the Elemental Lord while avoiding its Ice Core, weakening it until its body became a giant ice ball. After the battle, he lost his frozen right arm and had Shanna use Corrosion Breath on the remains to keep the Elemental Lord from recovering.

• Bell spotted the Elemental Lord healing from its injuries and confirmed with Stuart that the Williams's main gun could not be weakened or focused further.
• Bell and Shanna repeatedly attacked the Elemental Lord, with Bell marking safe firing spots away from its Ice Core while enduring extreme cold.
• Bell's right arm became irreparably frozen, so he tore it off and told Shanna to cover the Elemental Lord's remains with Corrosion Breath.
• Shanna used Mad Bear's Corrosion Breath on the Elemental Lord, which had been reduced to an ice ball about thirty meters across.
• Bell called for the Williams, struggled to free the frozen Elder Wand, and told Jennifer he would treat his wound before taking healing Potions.

Bell replaced his severed arm with a temporary Magic Power arm while waiting for Stuart and the Wizards to arrive. They began moving the Elemental Lord’s Ice Core toward the Williams, but the sphere started growing as soon as it left the corroded ground.

• Bell used magic to create a temporary arm and tested its movements, planning to regenerate his real limb later.
• Stuart arrived with the Wizards and was shocked to see Bell’s missing arm, but Bell showed him the Magic Power replacement.
• Bell ordered the Wizards to keep away from the ground corroded by Mad Bear’s breath and warned them that its Curse could destroy their Magic Power.
• The Wizards’ Levitation Charms failed over the corroded area, so Shanna had Mad Bear kick the ice sphere out of the pit.
• Bell urged everyone to transfer the sphere to the Williams after it began expanding outside the corroded ground.

Bell and six Wizards carefully extracted the Elemental Lord’s Ice Core from its ice sphere aboard the Williams. After the sphere shrank to a few dozen centimeters, Bell took over the final stage and began taming the Philosopher’s Stone’s magic power to open the crack safely.

• Bell assigned six skilled Wizards to extract the Ice Core and warned them to work slowly with the battleship’s Magic Rune arrays.
• Bell let Shanna stay beside him, then asked Stuart to bring food while the Wizards worked for several hours.
• Shanna fell asleep on Bell’s shoulder and woke to find the ice sphere nearly gone.
• When a crack appeared in the thin ice, the exhausted Wizards retreated and Bell stepped in.
• Bell gripped the sphere and drew in the Philosopher’s Stone’s magic power, using his own magic to tame it and keep the crack open.

Bell broke the final layer of ice around the Elemental Lord's Ice Core but suffered catastrophic injuries from the cold. In the Williams's infirmary, physician Erich Conrad estimated Bell would need about a month for his other injuries to heal and one to two years to fully recover his arms.

• Bell drew too much outside magical power into his left forearm and shattered the final layer of ice around the Ice Core.
• Bell smashed his own left arm to knock away the Ice Core, but its cold spread across the warship and nearly froze him to death.
• Shanna rushed to Bell and gave him Potions, while Bell struggled to tell her to seal the Ice Core.
• Bell woke in the Williams's infirmary with his left arm gone and severe cracks extending from his shoulder toward his heart.
• Erich Conrad told Bell that his injuries would take about a month to heal and that regenerating and adapting to his arms would take one to two years.

Bell recovered from his injuries enough to worry that Shanna would destroy Dark Star in revenge for what it had done to him. He persuaded her to stay by his side, leaving the planet safe for now.

• Bell accepted that his injuries would take a month to heal, though lingering cold remained in his body.
• Shanna blamed Dark Star for Bell's injuries and presented a plan to destroy the planet.
• Bell tried to calm Shanna, then pretended to be in pain to stop her from leaving.
• Bell convinced Shanna not to call a healer and asked her to stay with him while he recovered.

After a week of recuperation, Bell left Dark Star with Shanna and the Williams, then arrived at N'Zoth's location. Stuart asked how they should proceed as the crew faced the enormous living meteorite.

• Bell secretly studied the Elemental Lord's Ice Core while pretending to recover, and the healer wondered why his condition seemed worse than the examination results suggested.
• Shanna asked to delay departure, but Bell insisted the Williams leave so they could deal with N'Zoth and return to Earth sooner.
• Bell said he planned to use the Killing Stone inside Yomi to restore his arms after they returned to Earth.
• Bell and Shanna said goodbye to Jennifer and boarded the Williams, which departed Dark Star.
• The Williams reached N'Zoth, and Stuart asked Bell how they should proceed.

Bell remained on the bridge as the Williams prepared for its first battle against N'Zoth. The crew attempted mental communication before opening fire, but N'Zoth gave no response, and the Wizards reported that it possessed enormous Spiritual Power.

• Bell proposed going to the deck, but Shanna and Stuart refused to let him leave the bridge.
• Stuart ordered the crew to prepare the Williams for battle, and the ship's systems and Battle Wizards completed their checks.
• Stuart ordered the Williams to approach N'Zoth, activate the Mental Protection Barriers, and attempt communication.
• A Wizard projected his spiritual will toward N'Zoth for three minutes but received no response and was pulled back by his companions.
• The Wizard reported that N'Zoth seemed asleep but possessed enormous Spiritual Power, and the leading Wizard relayed the findings to Stuart.

Stuart opened the battle with a Level One main cannon shot against N'Zoth, but the creature survived with most of its body unharmed and struck the crew with a mental attack. As N'Zoth charged toward the Williams, Stuart ordered the ship to retreat and conserve its Magic Power for a Level Two shot.

• Stuart ordered the Williams to fire its Level One main cannon at N'Zoth.
• N'Zoth's mental shriek hurt the crew, but Bell resisted it and urged Shanna to use Occlumency.
• Stuart ordered the Battle Wizards to attack while the main cannon recharged.
• N'Zoth charged through the explosion's dust cloud, badly wounded in its tentacles but largely unharmed in its main body.
• Stuart ordered the Williams to retreat, stop the Battle Wizards' attacks, and wait until the main cannon reached Level Two before firing.

Stuart’s main-gun attacks failed to stop N'Zoth, but Bell snapped him out of despair and he resolved to wear the creature down. N'Zoth then used an unknown gravitational force to slow the Williams, leaving the ship struggling to escape while its cannons charged more slowly.

• Stuart ordered the Williams to fire its Second-Class Main Cannon at N'Zoth, but the creature survived the blast.
• Bell rebuked Stuart for faltering, and Stuart regained his resolve and decided to defeat N'Zoth by wearing it down.
• N'Zoth merged the mouths on its body into a massive fissure, silencing its shriek and causing the Wizards aboard the Williams to stumble.
• The Williams’s propulsion system reported that an unknown gravitational force had drastically reduced the battleship’s speed.
• Stuart ordered the propulsion system to maximum power, but N'Zoth kept closing in, while the diverted Magic Power slowed the main guns’ charging and threatened to exhaust the Williams’s supply.

As N'Zoth's suction overcame the Williams's attacks, Stuart prepared to retreat, but Bell revealed a final plan to turn the ship's Backup Core into bombs. The chapter ended with Bell declaring that art was explosion.

• Stuart ordered the Williams to fire its main gun into N'Zoth's mouth, but ripples and tentacles blocked the shot.
• N'Zoth's suction returned and slowed the Williams, leaving the crew convinced they might lose.
• Stuart ordered a retreat and apologized to Bell for failing the mission.
• Bell said the mission was not yet lost and asked Stuart whether the Williams had a Backup Core.
• Stuart explained that five Inferior Philosopher's Stones could power only one more Level Two shot, and Bell proposed using them as bombs.

Bell decided to use the Williams’s Backup Core, containing five Inferior Philosopher’s Stones, in an attempt to destroy the rapidly approaching N'Zoth. Despite Stuart’s objections and concern for Bell’s injuries, Bell took the core and prepared to cast a Space Spell, leaving the plan’s success uncertain.

• Stuart protested Bell’s plan to use five Inferior Philosopher’s Stones as a self-destruct weapon against N'Zoth and warned that an external blast might not be strong enough.
• Bell said he could use a Space Spell to send the Backup Core into N'Zoth, though Stuart pointed out that the target was moving too fast to hit reliably.
• Bell rose from his wheelchair and ordered Stuart to bring him the Backup Core, insisting they had no time to spare.
• Stuart delivered the core and made one last plea for Bell to reconsider, but Bell snatched it away, eager to gamble on the attack.
• Shanna asked whether Bell’s injured body could handle the Curse, and Bell reassured her before offering her the chance to set off the core herself.