Background Info: There is an ancient artifact called the Fourteenth Eye, this artifact grants the user "enternal and unlimited power" according to the prophecy surrounding it. The five elements are Lighting, Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. There are sub - elements within each group like plants/animals are in Earth. ect.
Prompt: A group of teens are going to a high school were elementals have to blend in with normal humans. They get a message from the head consul that the Fourteenth Eye has been discovered and they are asked to retrieve it. There are other forces, undecided if these should be human, elemental, or something else, trying to get the Fourteenth Eye as well.
Cody Barker-- Egan Moeshe
Egan means "Fire" while Moeshe means "Drawn Out Of The Water." It's fitting that this should be since he is one of the grandest fire elementals in School. He was found by his adapted parents in a river when he was just a year old and there for the "Drawn Out Of The Water" part.
At the age of ten Egan had killed two men by fire and at 15 was sent away to live by himself. It was there that he discovered he had to control his emotions and his other ability to control water. When he goees to this School no one knows that he controls water. His, "Ace in the hole." you might say. Now Egan truely was "Fire Drawn Out Of The Water."
Egan is now 17 years old and a Junior.
Koryssa Beebe--(2 characters)
Tala (Earth: Animals/Plants)Tala means Wolf fitting for an elemental more intune with her wolf companions than her human look-a-likes.
She has dominion over wolves and different types of ivy and thorned plants.
She has no interest in studying or people but, with her devil-may-care ways, gets herself in more trouble than she should be able to get herself out of. She has an attitude the wolves are proud to call their own and proudly declares herself an outsider to any who dare to name her friend.
She is seventeen year old Junior and the elder cousin to Airina
Airina (Air and Water)
Airina elemental powers give her perfect control over the water and air and she can bend it in anyway she wishes. Including into the form of her four winged familiar; Leala.
She is a sweet and compasionate girl who hates violence but doesn't let anyone harm her friends. She is childish and very innoncent and calm compared to her whirlwind cousin. She is all about the arts and using words to convey absolutely any meaning. She is extremely inteligent.
Airina is fourteen year old Freshman and the younger cousin to Tala
Zoe Toth--
MórFrom time to time, you might catch a glimpse of Mór. Most often he's a shadow or a lingering flicker of color in your perifial vision. He seems to walk without sound and there are a few students that would swear to God the boy forgets to breath at times. But teachers and students alike just seem to let him be. After all, he gets his assignments in time and they always receive high marks.
There quite a host of surprises hiding the lithe male however. While he is not vocal about his ability to control lighting or the air itself it is something Mór truly loves to do. From time to time, when midnight storms creep over the school of their own accord you can find the male on the roof drenched in rain as he playfully laces the sky full of lighting. Of course, you are more likely to find him in some hidden nook of the school with an art pad cradled in his lap and charcoal accidentally smeared on his face.
He is 16 and a senior
The roar of lunch time had been in full swing for a good five minutes now. Like packs of animals, the students at the Irish High School had long ago fought among themselves to establish a series of strict borders. Oh sure, not one was physically marking their territory. But it was all understood. Perhaps it was near continuous displays of aggression that had lulled Mór’s thoughts away to harsh savannahs of Africa. Or perhaps it was the flurry of mating rituals the students were effortless pacing themselves through. But, like most of his waking life Mór found his mind and his body once again in very separate places.
ReplyDeleteArt was his only method to grasp at sanity. To try and bridge the gap his mind had woven. The young male had once again withdrawn into his favorite corner- the one sunned by a heavenly skylight- his knees functioning as a desk for his pad. And his face, well it seemed to be functioning as the eraser for the charcoal pencils. As his quick strokes carved the teeth of the lion from the page, it was so easy for him to forget that the black marks would stain his skin as well.
No one- teacher or student- seemed to care that the young boy was missing lunch. They all walked past him, their eyes seeing him without really knowing he was there. He had been in the same school for four years, although Mór still received the same looks the students had dolled him out when he had been a new transfer freshman. Back then he was too young, too foreign and too quiet. Not much had changed except now “too tall” had been added to the list.
From time to time someone would bump into him. There was a quick exchange of glances. But they all saw normal hazel eyes starring up at them from under a crop of fluffy, red hair. Then they went away, ignoring the thin body and only occasionally looking back when they heard the sharp crack of his bubble gum bursting. Eventually his slender fingers placed the stick of charcoal on a napkin on the ground and curiously took a bite of the cafeteria’s daily sandwich. A grimace spread across his face as he forced himself to swallow. This sordid excuse for food was why he was so thin. Sighing, he once again picked up his pencil.
Egan growled in aggravation as he watched the students try to eat their lunch. Try as he might, he could not get the image of them all on fire out of his head. It was hard for him to control his emotions around people and these buffoons were only making it worse. The last time he had lost his cool, he had burned down his last house and he didn’t want to loose it here. No telling what would happen if he was exposed. Pulling on the power of his “Ace in the hole” he mellowed his emotions. It was almost impossible for a fire elemental to control their emotions but Egan had a power they did not. Where Fire is fierce and destructive, Water is calming and healing. Now that he knew how to use it, he would.
ReplyDeleteAs he continued to stare at the ignorant students try to flirt their way through lunch he saw that weird kid going inside. He had been here for only two years now and in the whole time he had been here he had never heard that child speak or even look up from his sketchbook that he carried everywhere. Egan vowed to talk to him today. If only he knew where he went? For some reason, once the kid decides to find a corner it’s like he would disappear. Egan guessed it would make for a great hunt.
For the record, it was not like he tried. To disappear that is. All of his life Mór had never understood why everyone was so thunderous. From their steps to their very breath they drew in all people made was noise, noise, noise! How hard they had to struggle to make such a calamity he thought. For the longest time he said in his own word, only a few muscles in his arms twitching from time to time to allow the charcoal to brush against the paper. And then, without apparent reason to everyone else he fluidly rose to stand flipping the cover page of the sketch book closed. If anyone had cared to look, they would have seen two pieces of small charcoal broken in half on the ground exactly where he had been sitting.
ReplyDeleteMór moved through the crowd with ease, never touching a soul. He was always able to find a little space to occupy for the moment. Eventually he broke from the throng of people, his hands quietly opening the wooden door and slipping behind it. Placing his hands in his pockets Mór strolled down the halls- his eyes wandering the walls. Even though every teacher he passed had to see him, no one ever seemed to stop him. Soon enough, he came to a string of blue lockers. His fingers spun the lock apart, opening the metal door to reveal a piece of his world. Old sketchbooks had collected into a colony here, living side by side with packs of art supplies. There were no picture of humans on the walls, although about a dozen snapshots of the school’s scenery were tapped to the inside- ah, precious mementos of sophomore year. He reached past the photos, softly ruffling through the books to try and find a spare charcoal.
When the bell rang and lunch was over, Egan was the first back to class. He hated all of the people in the halls making so much damn noise. He once again had a head ache. The head aches were getting worse now and he needed some medicine or some action which ever came first. He personally wanted some action. School was such a bore for a fire elemental like Egan because he always wanted to fight and nothing ever happened at the Irish High school. When he sat down at his desk he thought he might explode from the head ache he was having. It was even getting hard to control his powers. During one surge of pain, fire shot from his finger tips and was almost caught by a passing student. He had to get out of school and fast.
ReplyDeletewhen the bell rang, Egan was the first to leave. He needed to burn off some steam
Tala ran from the school building. Damn all these teenagers! Don't any of them get a hint? She turned around a corner quickly and froze upon seeing Airina.
ReplyDelete"Airina?" She asked. Her eyes softening automatically upon the sight of her younger cousin. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be inside?" Tala was right, Airina usually only showed that something was wrong by not going to the pool once the bell rang. Airina smiled at her cousin.
"I'm fine. New admirers?" She asked with a tinkling laugh as Tala spun.
"Shit!" She gave Airina a quick hug and ran again. Why do they follow me? Airina much closer to being their 'soulnmate' than I'll ever be! Tala ran and jumped easily into a tree nearby once she'd escaped the sight of her 'admirers.' She leaned against the tree, calming considerably now that she was in her element. She watched the sky as the sun went down and her thoughts flicked briefly to her wolves. She hadn't seen them since the previous week and, unfortunately, hadn't been able to bring them with her to the school. "Damn humans, they screw up everything they can." She cursed out loud.
After Egan was out of the school building, he went straight down to the ocean. It was the perfect spot for a person like him. As soon as he saw the water he started to bend water. When he was close enough to it, he jumped in the ocean. There was no need to take off his clothes. They wouldn’t get wet if he worked it just right. He had to get as far away from the land as possible and as far down as he could. He bent and pulled the water so that when he was completely submerged, he would be surrounded by a huge air bubble. As big as it was, Egan didn’t think it would be big enough for what he wanted to do.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was as far down as he could go, Egan reached deep inside him and called forth the fire that was so badly wanting out. It raged out of him and flew from his hands. It calmed himself and molded the fire into an object like a ball or a box, anything that would take his mind off of his headache. When the fire was to the object he wanted, the Egan would throw the fire into the water surrounding him. It was a perfect way to practice away from everyone and an even better way to burn off a headache.
When the fire started getting harder to make, Egan knew that the air supply was low. He started to bend the water under him so he could get to the top in time. At least his headache was gone for now. It was time for him to go do his chemistry homework anyway. They got to work with fire’s affect on water.
Friday
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By the time Mór had managed to find a suitable replacement charcoal, as dictated by Murphy’s Law the bell rang for class. The herd transferred from the cafeteria, becoming a screaming mindless mob that ran through the hallway with all intents of causing chaos. But then again they did that everyday. And then he was banished into the classroom, confined into an all too small wooden seat to listen to Sister Mary in essence recite a carbon copy of the model from the textbook for over an hour. The final bell could not come soon enough, he often thought to himself.
When he finally managed to wrench himself from the after school mob, a wind seemed to be doing its best to pull students from the lull of the surround town and instead head to the beach. Well find, he decided. I’ll call it a divine wind and follow it. To be honest, Mór had hoped to find the beach deserted. However from time to time a jogger would come along or perhaps a tourist would come strolling along. He hated the area for this reason. Humans must enjoy living in cramped conditions. Mór would rather be free, drifting from place to place as he wished. Eventually though, the world sent him something. The smell of hot salt hit the air and he turned his eyes to watch a piece of the sea boil angrily as if someone had turned on an undersea stove. Sitting on a sand dune, Mór opened the sketchbook. The gulls seemed to be just as interested in the phenomena as he. Perhaps if he sat still enough a few would hope within range for him to do an art study.
Friday; night
ReplyDeleteTala didn't move from her place on the tree. She watched the sun set and crused the fact that when it rose again she'd still be stuck in this god-forsaken human world. She had never wanted to come to St. Ronan, it had been her aunt, Airina's mother, who had decided to send the orphaned teen with her daughter for study abroad. Not that Tala minded babysitting her cousin. She'd always had a soft spot for the water/air mix. They tended to be quite calm and pleasant to be around. She growled softly at the moon as it began it's slow rise. She hated the humans, every last one, none of them were anything but noisy children who always wanted their way. She jumped from the branch and headed off aimlessly allowing the wind to tug her where it would. She followed it easily and when she took note of her surroundings, her feet cruched against the sand.
When he was almost to the top of the ocean, Egan noticed that something didn’t feel right. It was as if nature it’s self was pulling him to the sand. It wasn’t normal to feel that way. The sea was churning towards the bottom and he knew that a storm would be coming soon. He had to get home and start on his homework. When he got closer to the top his air supply was really low and he started to bend the water even more so he would go faster. As he broke the surface of the ocean going about ten feet in the air, he about died of shock...
ReplyDeleteThere was not one, but TWO humans there staring at him as if he were some sort of freak. He twisted and flipped so that when he landed he was standing on the border of land and sea. Egan didn’t know HOW he was going to get out of this one…
Friday night still...evening-ish
ReplyDeleteTala stared in shock for about a milisecond. There's one of our kind who doesn't know the meaning of laying low. She mused. She glanced at the being on the beach not far from where she stood that had also seen the elemental burst from the water. She walked up to him and sat down.
"So boring when one of ours acts like an idiot." She commented lightly to the teen beside her. He didn't respond, and she didn't care for him to. They stayed there for a while and both sun and moon showed in the sky.
Eventually a black headed gull grew curious enough to hope to his feet. Its head bobbed and the creature stared at him as if it could ascertain his whole life’s story from a simple gaze. What irony, for Mór saw more intelligence in that simple bird than most creatures. The gull was aware of its world- it knew the stroke of the wind and the stinging whip that the waves could deliver. It also heard the footsteps of a young female. By the time her footsteps came too loud, it was not one set of wings that took to the sky. No, instead there was a maelstrom of feathers as the flock of gulls flew away from what they feared- the scent of a predator. Mór was left alone with the human, with only a few white token gull feathers scattered on the dunes.
ReplyDeleteBut fate was playing hard and fast today- for their came another. And it was not that hard for Mór to realize that it was probably the same person that had heated the waters that sprung from the sea as if possessed by dolphins. He calmly noted the dry clothing and decided the male was an elemental. After all, there had to be more than just him. The stories his grand-mere had told him were proof enough that. She always said there were creatures with dominion over other types of elements. Certainly not just the wind and lightning were represented. The male seemed disturbed at the fact that he had been discovered. Not wanting to intrude as humans always seemed to do, Mór rose to leave. Besides the female seemed to be more of a social type than he.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Egan saw that weird kid standing up, he instantly thought that he was a snitch. He didn’t know what to do. Should he stop him from leaving or just let him go? Of course it would have been far easier to do that if he didn’t feel the pull from that kid too.
ReplyDeleteThe pull of nature was there between them. He could feel the strength of it now and he knew that they too were elementals. He still didn’t want him to leave so he did the only thing he could think of doing in his panic. He brought his fire to a head and cast it in a circle around the three teens. He hoped that there were no water elementals around. It wasn’t a big circle but it was big enough to make it hard to just walk over.
Tala's head snapped up at the sound of fire and she watched it surround her. That elemental from before...OH HELL NO! She threw one arm out immediately and sand exstinguished all the fire.
ReplyDelete"You did NOT just try and FUCKING TRAP ME!" She screamed completely pissed off. Human boys constantly tried to corner her saying she had to much curve for her own good. She'd be damned it she let one of her own do the same. "What the fuck are you? Some kind of human?" She had completely forgotten the elemental beside her and she began to stalk toward the fire elemental.
There was nothing like having someone place a fire in your path to make you feel loved. Like most creatures, the sight of flames caused Mór to temporarily halt his step. And then he did the second logical thing on his list: he started kicking up sand on the fire’s base. Unlike the girl, he did not really care if the other male was acting like an idiot- it was not exactly an uncommon occurrence after all. And unlike the boy, Mór was not accustomed to using ‘powers’ as a solution to anything really. After all they tended to get in the way. However when the fire suddenly decided to die out, he figured out the girl was in the camp with the boy. And when the girl started yelling, well Mór just shook his head. It was like watching toddlers with guns.
ReplyDeleteAs far as he was concerned there had been no physical harm to any of them. Well, yet. For a person with a connection to the Earth, the female was rather turbulent. Wasn’t it supposed to be a calm and constant element? Pulling the sketch pad to his chest –After all, he had been lucky the last time. The next time the paper pad might go up in flames- he was glad neither of them were lightening elementals. Everyone always seemed to think that fire was the frenzied element. Ha. A fire could burn for hours with enough full. Lightning was quick, constantly striking at the slightest bit of irritation. There was a reason he had been raised to be deathly calm after all. No one could afford any ‘learning mistakes’ from him. Oh and at the moment, he had his money on the rather pissed off chick.
He didn’t really want to fight this girl now that he was feeling better, but Egan didn’t think that she was giving him much of a choice. He released the fire that that was burning inside him. The air started to blaze with the heat and he was prepared. He had trained with the best of the best when he was ten so he knew how to control his fire. The only bad thing was his water control wasn’t so great when fighting. And so the idea was sprung.
ReplyDeleteEgan let the fire get around him to the extent that everyone could see it from about fifty feet. Then, when he thought he would loose control, he willed the water to swarm around him putting the fire out. Egan hoped the crazy bitch would see this as a sign of peace and no ill feelings. He didn’t mean to attack her or her friend. At least, he hoped she would see it that way.
Tala took a deep breath at the sight of the elemental drenching himself. She turned to face the boy behind her.
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry about him, he won't do it again." She told him soothingly because from her point of view he seemed a little spooked. "RIGHT?" She snapped back at the fire child. Her 'mother wolf' senses immediately adopting the slighter teen as the one to protect while despising the fire one. She walked over to the fire teen dragging the quite one behind her. "Explanation please, and it had better be good."
The climatic story did not seem to have that interesting of an ending. It was just the passing of an olive branch. Albeit a very soggy one. However the girl seemed to be interested in weaving one of her own. He had to bitterly smile a bit when she spoke softly- as he if was a toddle frightening by a passing storm. It was understandable- women often had maternal instincts. Of course his understanding of the little mothering stint ended when she decided to treat him like a rag doll. Mór whipped his wrist from her arm, curling the long fingers into a fist after they returned to his side. Verbally he was quiet, but the stiffening of his shoulders expressed words a Catholic nun would have been shocked at. But instead of leaving the pair, he remained staunchly planted in place. The girl might have overstepped her bounds but he was interested at hearing the male’s explanation. His gaze shifted from the female to the other as he waited for a series of very convincing words to come out of his mouth.
ReplyDeleteBefore anything else could be said, Egan decided it was time to get out of those wet and soggy clothes. He brought his hands up over his clothes and then out to sea. Tala and that weird Kid could not help but see the water either. Now that he was dry he could explain what happened and hope he wasn’t killed.
ReplyDeleteHe wasn’t real sure who the danger was though. At first he thought it would be the crazy girl but now he could properly feel the emotions of the boy. Defiance and anger were just a few. As a Fire and a Water elemental, Egan could sense the emotions of others around him. Egan had seen those emotions before and he wouldn’t have been too worried if he hadn’t seen a tiny spark of lightning come around his wrist. Ah well it was probably just his imagination.
“Well. Now that I am dry you wish to hear why I cast fire at you? Ok then. The reason is simple. I thought that weird Kid would turn me in to the consul or worse. I didn’t want to get in trouble. I didn’t mean to harm anyone. I truly am sorry. With me being a fire elemental, my emotions tend to get in the way of reason. No hard feeling?”
...Tala looked at the boy in disbelief. No hard feelings? He tried to roast us and he wants no hard feelings?! She coached herself quickly and managed to calm down. Her 'mother wolf' instincts still in over drive. She had noticed the pale teen's reaction to her touching him, but honestly, wolves dragged their young all the time and so it hadn't occured to her that the contact might be unwanted.
ReplyDelete"I'm afraid I'll need a better apology than that." She replied tersely. Not really caring that her tone was quickly rising to hostile again. "You nearly killed us." Tala was always like this, she picked one person to protect and protected them to the end. Normally it was Airina but she wasn't arround...Where was she? She normally went straight to the beach when the bell rang. Tala's eyes scanned their surroundings quickly and realized that her cousin really wasn't there. That's odd... She frowned briefly but then focused on the fire elemental again. "Well?" She stopped and turned to face the lithe teen again. "Don't you have anything to say?"
Egan laughed to himself. This must be an earth elemental to be this motherly.
ReplyDelete“Truth be known child, I wasn’t talking to you. I was talking to the Weird kid. I nearly roasted your sketchbook didn’t I? Sorry ‘bout that. With me being a Fire elemental, it is hard for me to control my emotions like you do. I can tell that you have practice at it. You should really teach your girlfriend here how to do that. It might get her hurt one day. Now if you want a better apology, then look somewhere else. I apologized to who I thought I should and that is all you’re getting out of me.”
Egan really didn’t want to make the girl any madder but what else could he do? He wasn’t going to sit there and grovel and beg for it. It just wasn’t in his element to beg.
The female was proving to be a bipolar mix of mother and potential murder. The male’s explanation had made sense. You make mistakes, apologize and forget about them. Otherwise you fall back into the same trap you just climbed your way out of. Mór shrugged off her question. What exactly was there to say? Did she expect him to chat about the weather or perhaps politics with the stranger? Besides her little bit about being nearly killed was an exaggeration. There was too much water and sand in the area to allow you to be burned to death. All you would have had to do was roll on the ground or jump in the sea.
ReplyDeleteBut the irony was found in the male’s little speech. Control my emotions like you do? Ha. Oh sure the girl was better at it, but the improvement was lacking any serious difference. Mór gave him a respectful nod when he admitted to almost grilling his art pad. The comment about the Earth elemental being his girlfriend went over his head though. It was a reflex. People never really warmed up to him at school –which to be honest was fine with him- so attempts at bullying him were therefore allowed. Names calling and jokes like that hadn’t really bothered him for the last two years. But one thing had been made clear- this was not the place for him. Mór was content to just be a random “weird” human to them. Someone who had seen a bit too much but obviously was not going to talk. He waved goodbye and slipping his hands into his pocket turned towards the school. Night had already fallen and he could fell a storm coming. Perhaps tonight he would get the chance to be in the bosom of a full thundershower once more.
Tala didn't say anything more after Mor left. Her must protect instinct died instantly and she told Egan good bye without any malice at all. She was agressive when she was on defense but otherwise she simply didn't care. She walked through the woods on her way back to her dorm and called the wolves to her.
ReplyDeleteThey came obdiently and she played with them until the moon hung directly over head.
"I have to go my dears." She told them gently. "Airina will be waiting up for me by now." Tala allowed them to follow her to the edge of the forest before she slipped sliently into the second floor window of the room she shared with Airina.
"You're late." Airina pouted childishly as her cousin came to sit next to her.
"I had someone to take care of." Airina asked nothing about it, assuming as always that it had been a matter of wolves. Tala said good night to Airina and the fourteen year old fell gratefully into the arms of sleep. Tala sat on the window ledge and stared up at the moon. She wanted to run, she wanted to sing, she wanted to be one with the night and never leave it. never let it leave her. She leaned back agaisnt the sill.
"Yumi-kami, call for me and I shall answer gratefully and fall into your heart once more." Tala stood and moved to her bed and, lying down, allowed sleep to consume her.
Late Night
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It had ended up being a rather long day for Mór. One of those days that when you finally managed to hit the bed, your bones still cried out in weariness. To be fair it was not like he had really done anything since he had left the beach. No one had stopped him and it was only when he sat down to review the week’s sketches did he realize one was missing. He sighed. It must still be back on the beach. The excitement of the beach day must have shaken it loose. What was worse was when he remembered what had been on the page. It had been one of the better ones- a nice pristine mark drawing of what he always envisioned to be an angel.
Annoyed with himself, Mór placed his art pad in his desk hiding it as always under a few books. Which was really pointless- who was going to care enough to look in his room much less inside of his desk. He ruffled his fingers through his hair and accidently hit his own horns. Bah! Had he spent so long in this false skin that he too had forgotten his true form?
There were no stars in the sky when he finally managed to make it out of the dorms. It had only taken a half an hour of turning and tossing before Mór decided that the storm was calling for him. He had heard the rumbling grow all night now, just begging for someone to help it open out to the world. He stood on the roof of the doors, looking out the sea for a moment. Soft waves tossed onto the shore as if unafraid of the storm’s might. And then, the thick black clouds let out a low rumble of thunder. Closing his eyes, Mór leaned his head back slightly. This was nature talking to him, gently asking for him to take command of her canvas and to creature. His arms rose from his sides like a conductor about to lead to symphony palms cupped towards the heavens. He felt the wind stop first, waiting for directions. He felt the static in the arm rise, waiting for the command.
And then, dropping his arms the sympathy began! Winds torn into the clouds, bursting force the water that had so long waited patiently within. He felt the first wave of cold water drip onto his face as gentle as a lover’s touch. Mór laced the sky then watching brilliant branches of lightening grow across the heavens above the sea. And for a brief second the world was nothing but light and everyone could see Mór smiling and laughing in the heart of a storm.
when the storm hit:
ReplyDeleteAs the thunder rolled, so did the waves. Egan had seen the power in the girl’s eyes when he surrounded her with fire. The look of pure power and hate. He knew that if he was to fight her, he would loose and it would be miserable too. So, he decided to train. His fire bending was excellent but his water needed practice. The perfect time was now at hand. Egan could feel the waves through his hands as he swept them across the ocean. From left to right and getting faster as he went, the waves started to do battle. It might not have seemed much but it was very tough to do, fighting against the current. When the waves where cooked up and battling, Egan began to bend the water into a cyclone. It was the hardest thing he ever tried to do, and he failed. As hard as he tried, he could not get the water to rise and stay in shape. What could he be missing?
As the storm raged on, he noticed a stray piece of paper stuck under a stone where the weird kid had sat. Temporarily leaving his training, Egan went over to pick up the piece of paper. It was a picture of a beautifully drawn angel. On the bottom right was a name. Mór. And now he had a name. Now the hunt was back on to see where he went off to.
Tala bolted up as the storm slammed the windows of her room open.
ReplyDelete"Damn it!" She cursed jumping to close the windows once more. Airina slept on and she was grateful for it. She looked at her cousin then back at the tumultous sky and opened the window carefully once more. She slipped out and went to check her wolves who were sure to be frenzied by the storm. She ran, searching for them, and ran closer and closer to an encounter she had know way of knowing of. She paused in a clearing and looked at the boy's dorms. The gentle teen from before stood in the rain, hands lifted toward the sky his eyes closed as he seemed to listen to it's deepest thoughts. She stood for long moments in silence knowing that the storm was his. Like her pack was hers this storm was his and she took a step back. One did not intefer with someone when they were truely with the thing that was theirs and only theirs. They did not share it easily with others and outsiders were never welcome. She smiled softly and began backing away with little care as to what was behind her.
The storm was his medicine. With each strike of lightning the world began clearer. Where sanity had once reigned lucidity was slowly creeping in. The reserve that Mór had always thickly coated himself in always seemed to melt away in the cradle of the storm. After all, it was really only at times like this that he felt safe. He was no longer a singular element in a vast world. The air itself had brought him into the heavens and the storm supported his position there. Soon the branches of lightning grew thicker and longer as Mór’s traditional worry was burned away. A few tears trickled down his checks- ones that were shed for no reason he knew. They had been down at the bottom of his mind for so long, like all the other emotions Mór shoved down there, that their reason for existence was purely self denial. And as odd as it sounds, he once again remember he had a tail. He could feel it under the false skin, whipping away at the world. He remembered. He remembered himself that was forced to hide under the red hair and freckles. He remembered the ethereal white of his hair and the clarity of his true blue eyes. And in a final act of self indulgence he cast his hands fully to the heavens and made night into day with lattices of light.
ReplyDeleteMór fell to his knee when the dark returned out of breath. Or more he had to remember how to breath in his human shell. It was the cycle of his life. To remember and then to forget. And every time he bared his soul to the world it took a moment to pack it all carefully away once more. At least now, he had a few moments each week to remember who he was. He grasped at his own arms, wishing he could stay longer. But he knew to do so was to tempt fate. Even now the static clung to him, demons that whispered to him. Ones that reminded him that lightning’s only purpose was to destroy. Ones that begged him to for once live his nature. Unadulterated. Unrestrained. To make the mortals and elementals fear alike! To no longer be just the quiet child in the corner of the room….
But he had to send the demons away, ignoring their tempting promises once again. Standing it took a moment to remember to stand up straight. He pushed his hair back, feeling the water drip through his clothes. Finally he opened his eyes. And the first thing Mór saw was Tala.
As soon as he found the the drawing, Egan ran straight for the boys' dormitory. usually on the full moon Egan didn't stay inside. He was too busy training with water. The last time he had been training on the full moon, Egan had learned how to bend water and air around him so he could breath under water. He ran as fast as he could to the dormitory and was there just in time to see Mór atop the building calling the wind and lightning to himself.
ReplyDeleteEgan wasnt paying attention to where he was running and he ran smack dab into Tala. At least he could find out if she knew what his name was. Now he just had to make sure she didn't kill him before he got a chance to show her Mór's drawing.
...Silence...Tala stared at the boy that had quite literally fallen on top of her.
ReplyDelete"You have less than ten seconds to live." She warned in a soft, livid voice. Tala looked up to see Mor watching them with a strange expression, perhaps only strange because she was looking at him upside down at the moment. She groaned; it had been such a nice night till then.
All the emotions he had just had to shove into his body suddenly yearned to be free once more. Static crackled in the air –to the point that the other two were be able to hear the siren song- sadistically hinting at how easy the quandary would be to solve. Just once, it almost seemed to whisper. Thunder sounded in the distant, echoing the notion. Everyone else gets to make mistakes, so why not you? Mór could feel the stroke of the static even as his hair began to lift up from its roots. He had always assumed that the top of the roof was just his area. After all, not many normal students wanted to climb up the side of the walls to sit on concrete. And now it seemed all of creation was trotting upon it. The only space that he had a little psychological freedom had now been tarnished perpetually. Mór drummed his fingers on the side of his legs trying to deal with the lose of his personal space. If he had only noticed a few moments earlier, oh how easy it would have been to deal with them. Storms held no messy morals within their clouds after all. However, the boy was quite content with letting the Earth elemental deal with his other unwanted guest. Lord willing, perhaps he would get lucky and both of the pests would be removed from his life.
ReplyDeleteEgan's mind aparently wasn't working fast enough to make the decision and he was thrown through the air by briars that wrapped around his chest and waist.
ReplyDelete"I said ten seconds." She reminded. Her voice was oddly calm, whereas before her anger had flashed when she percieved Mor to be in danger, for herself it grew like ice. "I gave you a warning that you did not heed. Any harm that befalls you is only your fault and no one else's." She stepped forward as the briars hauled Egan into the air and bound him to an old oak. "I was leaving. You should have never come. One's element is theirs and no one else should EVER interfere." She informed, no, lectured the fire elemental. She turned to face Mor and bowed deeply. "I am sorry for my intrusion. I will take this one with me and go." She turned and began walking away signling the briars to bring her captive with her as she headed for the beach. The drawing laid on the ground as they began to leave.
The violence excited him. The girl so whimsically resorted to using her own elemental gifts as weapons to inflict pain. A hand lifted in a bold stroke, rising on the pure feeling of the static caressing it. It would be just like before, a simple slash of the hand then light then nothingness. He could wipe the whole area clean in a rite of heavenly might! And when anyone dared come into this area, they’d find nothing! They would find….nothing. And then there was just emptiness. You could see it all drain away from him, every gram of emotion washed from his face and body language as the hand fell without meaning. He had not thought about things like that in years. Slowly, Mór just sank to the ground. The world around him was irrelevant to someone drawing themselves that deeply within. He just would not bring himself to care about the bleeding colors on the page or the fact that he was sitting in an tarnished area. At that point it was just breathing. In and out. Perhaps later he would be able to handle thought without resorting to emotion. But for now, he barely felt like he deserved to be drawing in air.
ReplyDeleteThe rain fell and continued falling. The soft footsteps went unheard as Airina glided effortlessly to where Mor knelt on the ground. She paused as the picture of the angel, she picked it up and ran her hand across the page, watching as the ink returned to where it had been before and the paper dried and the rain no longer touched it. She moved silently to the pale haired boy and knelt in front of him. Airina reached out with gentle hands and lightly touched his face. The blank, perfect face that showed no emotion aside from unending pain and shame. She wrapped her arms silently around him and stroked his hair. The rain began soaking her as well and, silently, it poured from her eyes. She stayed there, she didn't move, she became a statue holding on to another statue; one of sorrow and one of love. The rain fell down in darkness.
ReplyDelete“Crap!” Egan though as he was carried away from Mór and his little Lightning issues. It would have been easy for him to break free of the briars, but he knew if he did then he would be in for a hell of a fight and Egan knew that without his new tricks from the water he would be screwed. As soon as they were clear of the boys’ dormitories Egan exerted all of his fire that you could muster. Fire cracked and whipped and snapped and all of the briars were gone, burnt to a crisp. He didn’t wait to see if the Earth elemental was following him.
ReplyDeleteWhen he reached the border between earth and sand he started to call on the water. He was at the beach now and he only had to make it to the water he would be safe for a while. She moved the waves back and forth like he had been doing not but an hour ago. Left to right and back and forth. Before the earth elemental could even process what he was doing he was already deep inside the ocean. Protected, for now, by that of the Earth elemental.
There were different ways to comfort people. Some people really enjoyed being held. The warmth of another body pressed against theirs was soothing, a reminder of the wonderful time spent near one’s mother. Mór was not one of those people. He had never liked being touched. It was not something he did to be angsty though. Most people were easily aware of the concept of static shock. However what they did not understand is that for someone who easily collected static there was a little shock that came with each touch- not matter how gentle or good intentioned. It was easier just to avoid physical contact all together. Unlike earlier, when he had removed Tala from his wrist, he was not aggressive. He gently removed the girl’s hands from his shoulders and let them return to her own body.
ReplyDeleteIt did not bother him to have her there though. To be fair though, he did not really care. His eyes were fixed in the distance as if the answers of life were written on the horizon. It was not like art though this feeling where is mind was in another place. It really wasn’t anywhere special. Just grounded with him, feeling the sharpening slaps of rain. Good he thought. He deserved the sting.
Airina made no move to touch him again but she did comment on the action.
ReplyDelete"Even if you shock me it won't matter." She whispered softly. Her voice blending with the rain as if it had spoken instead of her. "Mor," She whispered. "Look at me." She recieved no response and gripped her hands to keep from reaching for him again. A tear slipped from her eye and melded with the rain that fell from the sky. The emptiness before her broke her heart and she longed to hug him once more. She did not want him to empty himself in a bid to not react to his emotions. "I'm sorry." She whispered, the wind stealing her words before they could reach his ears. "I am so sorry." The rain poured, the wind howl, and all the world cried out the pain of the lighting boy and the pain in her heart.
Tala glared after the boy but made no move to follow him as he did not return to where the other was. She turned and walked back to her dorm. She noticed that Airina was gone and briefly thought to look for her before remembering that Airina, if she didn't want to be found, would not be. She left the window open and sat on her bed watching the sky. What would happen now? There were never more than four elementals in a school. They put that many there so they could support each other and now. Now all they held toward each other was some form of hate. Tala pulled her knees to her chest and, for the first time feeling completely alone, cried herself to sleep.
ReplyDeleteHe waited for five minutes, but Egan didn’t feel the pull of nature any more. That could only mean that the Earth elemental did not follow him. As he sat there his headache came back. Since he was there at the bottom of the ocean he decided to get some more practice in. He would work on that cyclone again. He had seen a little of what had happened with Mór, and he had an idea on how to make it work now. His problem had not been the amount of force he was using but that he was starting at the top when he should have been at the bottom. The waves were still doing battle from before when he barely dodged the Earth elemental so the job was already half way done. He pulled the water to him and started to make a circle and spiral out of it. Egan then bent the water so that it was going faster and faster and faster until finally a small cyclone appeared in the water. Now if only he could make one that could reach from here, to the beach’s sand. A small smile appeared on his face. Time to get to work. Homework could wait. Besides, Egan never went home on a full moon because of the thunderstorms. He guessed that he knew who had caused them now. Egan vowed to confront him at school on Monday. Until then he would train. He didn’t want to be captured by the psycho Earth elemental again. How embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteThe time and the place no longer seemed important to Mór. There was the rain beating down on his body but that was about all he cared to be aware of. Actually he was thankful for the rain. Its cold sting on his sting kept his mind from wandering. And right now he was not even sure where it would go if it had freedom. He felt like he was picking up glass, trying to place an infinitesimal amount of pieces back into place.
ReplyDeleteThe day had been odd he decided. Mór was not found of the people he had met. It was as if being with humans had changed them. Or maybe the humans had changed him while they remained the same. Regardless he felt no kinship to them. He never fancied himself as the quiet kid with the powers. As if he was keeping a secret or some sort of superhero. Obviously the others thought differently. The male trained, as if they were a skill to be mastered. And both the Earth and Fire elemental used them as tools.
He needed rest. Tomorrow was another day. A day away from his classes, where he was just a sixteen year old hazardously tossed alongside eighteen year olds who minds could not process his appearance. One thing was for sure- Mór was going to steer clear of the beach.
When he finally stood up, he only took a moment to glance at the girl. She was a stranger. A kind one that he held no malice towards but a stranger none the less. It would be better for her to get inside and stop trying to understand everyone's problems. At this rate she'd catch a cold.
Airina saw thethe look the other gave her and smiled sadly.
ReplyDelete"Sorry." She said standing. "Good night, Mor" She handed the angel picture back to him and started to walk back to her dorm. As she left the rain no longer fell as it had, it was now as if the sky had given away to the tears of heaven. Airina moved slowly and drifted away from the other elemental. She moved through the silent, sad woods and stopped when her dorm window came into view. She stared at the open window to the dark room and turned to look where the moon was now hiden by the heavy clouds.
"We're running out of time." She moved up the wall and in through the window. She descended into the blackness within herself as she laid down on the bed.
Tala woke up the next morning and cursed to realize it was already day. She pulled on a change of clothes and headed for the woods. She elected to let Airina sleep and left without waking her. She ran. She ran and didn't go near the beach, didn't go near the clearing, didn't go near the school, and didn't go anywhere near the dorms. She ran, and ran, and ran. She felt the earth, eager to please her, propelling her along faster than her body could ever run. She out ran the wind. The trees moved from her path. The animals called out to her, begged her to play, and she ran on. She ran, and ran, and ran. She out ran everything. Everything but her own mind. She stopped on the mountain located miles from the school and stood still allowing the earth and vines to wrap arround her, felt the animals that came to guard her, as she shut herself out from everything.
ReplyDeleteBehind her closed eyes she saw her past. She saw her dying mother, her murdered father. She saw her burning village. She saw her younger sister, the one who had looked like Airina, burning alive. Tala screamed, and screamed, and screamed.
The vines and earth uncurled from arround her once she finished screaming. The animals, the wolves, came to her and she collapsed to the ground burying her face into Amite's coarse fur. This was her wolf, always had been and always would be.
"I'm fine." She said hoarsely. "I don't know why I remembered." Amite whined and nuzzled her shoulder. "I'm okay now." She smiled and traced the scar on her stomache. "I'll be fine."
When he woke up, Egan noticed that he didn’t know where he was. There was no land, trees, or sand of any kind. Only the deep, dark, deathly color of the sea lay under him.
ReplyDelete“Shit!” Egan said cursing his idiocy once again. He had been sure to bend a lot of water around him before he went to sleep but he didn’t know that he had bent so much that it had taken him from the shore line. He was only trying to see how long he could stay afloat not go to sleep and end up in God-knows-where. The only thing to do now was to try and find out where the Hell he was. He stood up on the water, making sure to bend it constantly, and pulled that water up into a platform. Then he shot straight up in the air. For at least five miles there was nothing but a little speck that he hoped was his homeland.
Since he was this far out he decided to explore the underneath. He bent the water again so that he would have enough air under the sea and let go of the water tower. He instantly fell towards the ocean and its cool embrace. When he entered the ocean he could see a couple hundred feet to the bottom and there was a sunken ship from a day far forgotten.
It’s perfect.” Egan said. He had been looking for something to store away things. Now here it was.
Very Early
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Eventually, Mór made it back to the dorms. Although the male was a legitimate Senior he was physically 16. And that meant having a roommate. Steve or Bob or Josh or some common name like that. Of course, Mór might have solved that problem. Somehow walking into a room at 1:49 a.m. soaking wet was a grand way of freaking out a roommate. All he heard was the roommate yelled something about decency as he slid into his bed. Whatever. He was the one soaked to the bone.
Early Afternoon
Mór woke up to find that the Sun was happily shinning on his face. He grumbled, turning over a few times before deciding to actually get up. The first half an hour was a blur. Mornings -or whenever he managed to get up- were always a blur. It wasn't until after the shower when he was dressing that things started to clear up. Thoughts of the previous day began to drift back to him. Crazy people. Storm. Interruption. Shame.
It was a Saturday though, which meant no school. The beach was out, as was exploring the forest. Mór had decided to avoid the others. Instead, he grabbed his pair of roller blades and decided to hit the small local town's skating rink. Normal, sane people when to skating rinks. And no one really hassled you.
Which was why he was a regular. The employees always just nodded at him, taking the admittance fee. Slower music was playing as his wheels first hit the wood and he let out a few tedious strokes. Soon enough he was in the flow of people, going around the corners with ease.
Sunday Noon
ReplyDeleteAirina opened her eyes to the bright light that flooded in. She sat up slowly allowing her sore muscles to tell her that she had slept to long. She turned her head slowly and surveyed the empty dorm room. Tala wasn't there but that didn't suprise Airina. Tala was big on respecting other's true home and Airina's was the dorm they now lived in. She moved silently out of the bed and into the shower.
Water...water...air... She closed her eyes and allowed her elements to consume her, feeling as Leala formed by her.
DID YOU CALL MISTRESS? The creature asked soundlessly. Airina shook her head.
"Is it time to tell them yet?" She asked her familiar carefully. Silence greeted her and then.
NO. THEY ARE DIVIDED. Airina nodded at that.
"Mor is damaged." She commented, concentrating on the white tile in front of her.
SO HE SHALL REMAIN. The young elemental nodded slowly, sad she couldn't help him. YOU CANNOT SAVE THEM ALL, SOME MUST BE BROKEN. She nodded again.
"Thank you, Leala." The familiar disappeared and Airina slid to the floor surrounding herself in water and air. Somethings must stay broken.
Tala hadn't come home after losing herself in the woods. She had stayed in the mountain woods with Amite and forgotten her past. She walked slowly now, calmly, back to the dorm where Airina waited. She was sure Airina would be there, and if the window wasn't open she'd just go back to the woods. She walked and paused as the dorm window was in view. Closed. Tala nodded to herself and walked back to the woods and pulled herself into an oak tree. Might as well nap.
ReplyDeleteNoon on Saturday
ReplyDeleteAfter swiftly getting in to the boys’ dorm rooms, Egan had grabbed some of his more precious materials that he didn’t think others would be happy about if they knew he had them. It had taken him two years and a lot of lying and sneaking to get all the chemicals that he might need for his headache remover. It wasn’t like he could leave school when ever he wanted to and burn it off and they were coming more frequently now. Some how, some way, he had to get rid of these damn headaches.
It had taken him all morning to be sure that he could find the ship again and he had taken many trips to make sure he could subconsciously find it just by the feel of the water. Twice, Egan had sent inanimate objects to the ship just by bending water and never going into the ocean. He had been right both times. He was getting better.
When he reached the ocean he bent the water around the chemicals and sent them do south towards the ship. If only he could get the earth elemental to help him raise the ground around it about a couple hundred feet. Hell would freeze over before she agreed to that though. Well, at least no one can find them now. When he touched the water with his hand he searched for his elemental push. It was at the ship now.
“Wow!” Egan said shocked. He really was getting better.
Officially, Mór loved the autonomy a small crowd could create. So long as everyone had enough room to move around and not bump into each other of course. No one stopped you asking you to suddenly explain your whole life story. Yet at the same time, all it took was a little wave of the hand to acknowledge someone. It was a group understanding to just work in harmony. Or at least not run over everyone. Sometimes a nerve twitchingly fast song would come on and he could find a person to race around with. And when it ended, the other person and he would just melt back into the crowd. It was the perfect social contract.
ReplyDeleteEventually though, all things had to come to an end. A panting Mór skated to the wall, holding onto it as he worked his way to the carpet. His chest rose and fell rapidly and his heart pounded in his chest like it was being held prisoner. Unlacing the roller blades, he tied the strings together so he could place them around his neck and left the ring to go get lunch.
Even though the school food was horrid, Mór always looked forward to lunch on the town. And when the weather was nice like this well, it was perfect! He took a table outside and began flipping through the menu to see the weekly specials.
/Mór? Can I come out now?/ a pleading voice rang through his head. But before he could give an answer a stunningly beautiful white fox appeared. She was large -far too large to be a true fox- but that was of little concern. Mór had noticed humans never noticed elemental familiars for what they truly were. Everyone always assumed Agne was a dog- much to her chagrin.
/You were rather busy without me I see,/ she commented as she hoped up to sit on Mór's lap. He stroked the fox's head, paying particular attention to the brow ridge. /Don't you pull that silent crap with me! I know you are not mute./ /Sorry,/ he mentally replied. /Just a lot on my mind./ The fox crooned, nuzzling her owner's hand. Perhaps due to the fact that she seemed to be born of a storm (with wind white hair and bright lightning eyes) Agne never caused any static shock when she touched Mór. /I forgive you. Although you really should try and be a bit more social./ Mór nodded. He probably should. Sensing the 'should' instead of 'would' Agne nipped him. /Dork./
“YOUR’RE GETTING BETTER AT THIS.”
ReplyDeleteEgan looked around in shock to find that his familiar had come out. To mortal humans, his familiar took the shape of a normal monkey. In reality Saraphina was a gigantic, red ape with deep sea colored eyes. Despite its size and appearance, Saraphina had the softest, most beautiful voice that Egan had ever heard before.
“Thanks Saraphina. I’m glad someone around here will talk to me. In two days I meet two more elementals and none of them like me. In fact they tried to kill me twice. I need to get better. I mean, I’ve trained with two of the finest Fire masters in the past fifty years and I’m ok with fire but I need a water master. Someone who can control even the slightest form of water and I believe that I could learn to call the ocean to cover all of Ireland. I just need a master.”
“ARE YOU SURE YOU COULD CONTROL YOUR SELF WITH THIS NEW TEACHER? THERE IS A REASON WHY WE WERE SENT HERE AFTER ALL. WE DON’T NEED ANY MORE DEATHS ON OUR HANDS DO WE? AFTER YOU KILLED YOUR TEACHERS, DIDN’T YOU THINK YOU HAD DONE ENOUGH? BUT NO, YOU HAD TO GO AND KILL YOUR ADOPTED PARENTS TOO. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR SELF? DON’T MAKE ME ASK AGAIN.”
There was nothing like getting lectured by a huge red ape to make Egan feel like shit.
“Yes Saraphina. I can control myself now. I have learned that Water can cool me down but the problem is that there is no one for me to learn from. I’m the only Water elemental for at least a hundred miles. What am I supposed to do?”
Without answering Saraphina disappeared back inside of Egan. Now Egan truly felt alone in the world.
Airina felt the tug of another call. It wasn't the type of call an elemental let out intentionally. It was a thought that just happened to form into a wish that carried. Airina smiled as she realized the call was coming from near the ocean. Leala reappeared next to her.
ReplyDeleteIT SHOULD BE EGAN. The familiar commented.
"It should indeed." Airina rose from her desk and opened the window, hoping out side. "Let's see what he wants." She murmured to herself, leaving the window open as she headed for the ocean and Leala disappeared from sight.
Tala opened her eyes at the noon sun.
ReplyDelete"Shit. I forgot about time." She groaned to herself. She saw that the window was open now and slipped into the dorm room. Really, who needed doors? She glanced at her homework assignments and snorted. No one actually ever did them, why should she? She picked up a remote and turned on the radio, blasting it through the room. She smirked. "Rock on."
Noon
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/You know I really think the fact that I am noncoperal should not limit me from having a sandwich,/ very perturbed fox stated as she watched Mór cut off a piece of grilled chicken from his plate. /I mean, I would appreciate the though,/ the stubborn fox added. When it became all too apparent that Mór was not going to be ordering the fox a fish sandwich, Agne changed the topic. The couple sitting on the table next to them had a radio on, tuned into to the news.
"In other news, the High School has been put on alert about the abnormally large storms expected to hit Tuesday. Meteorologists are puzzled as to how the ocean water around Ireland has been heating, yet are adamant that the resulting malestorm will cause serious property damage."
/You could stop that you know,/ Agne added. /It would not be any trouble at all really. Besides YOU know exactly why those waters were heated. Its your responsibility to deal with the problem./ Placing his fork down on the plate Mór shook his head. /That's God's will and I am not going to interfere with it./ Agne placed a paw over her head. /You know out of all the humans in the world that have powers you have to be he most boring. All you do is sulk about it. I mean the average person would love to be able to do what you could!/ Mór shrugged. /I'm not human but I guess I am just boring. Besides, its not like people never had to deal with a storm before./
With a jolt, Egan stood up. He had never felt this presence before. By now he could tell the different pulls of Nature. The Earth elemental’s pull was hard and motherly while Mór’s presence was full and demanding. This new presence was all of those pulls and more. Who ever this person was, they were extremely powerful.
ReplyDeleteEgan turned to where he felt the pull and put his arms behind his back. The pull of Nature wasn’t a harmful one yet but he wasn’t going to take chances. With one hand he called fire. With the other hand he started to bend water. He would be ready if things turned violent.
Airina smilled at the defensive teen in front of her. She could feel that the air was distorting around water and fire and spread her hands easily.
ReplyDelete"You called?"
Tala got bored of music quickly and left the dorm again. She wandered around the town that the school boarded and paused in front of the skating rink. Skating...why not? She opened the door following her impluse and immediately made her way to the floor completely unaware of the other elemental who was there.
ReplyDelete/Its not my place to distort nature Agne. End of story./ The arguing had continued into dessert. /Funny, everyone else seems to fine bending it!/ The fox returned. /Whatever./ Mór really loved Agne, except when she got into her little parenting modes. Talking about how he wasting talent or whatever. Leaving a few crumpled bills with the check, Mór headed back to the rink. He had expected Agne just to disappear again but she followed him into the building.
ReplyDelete"Hey, no pets allo-" an employee tried to tell him. Agne just wagged her tail and walked past the poor teen. It was not like Mór had told her to get loss, so she planned to tag along and watch the boy skate. Despite sitting down for a while, Mór got back into the rhythm of things rather quickly.
“You can feel it too then?” Egan asked the new obvious elemental. Up until now he had been the only one he knew who could feel the Call. Nature was indeed a very fickle mistress. He didn’t remember what he had been saying to saraphina who had appeared once more behind him. When she saw the new elemental she backed away as far as she could into the water. Who ever this is, they had ever scared a 12 and a half foot red ape.
ReplyDelete"Yeah, please no fireballs, i don't like them." Airina smiled. "What did you need?" She asked again and waited for Egan to answer.
ReplyDeleteTala skated in a steady rythm when to music switched to fast and pounding. She strapped her helment on and saw, out of the corner of her eye, someone else looking for a race partner. She skated a circle around him in invitation and he accepted. They were off!
ReplyDeleteMór might have never liked P.E. due to its emphasis on the more strength based sports but here his lithe build served him well. And when it came to the turns and where he could lean into them, the boy just zoomed. It really did not matter who he was racing. She was just another nameless face of the crowd for him to twist around, often coming in from the side and abruptly clipping in front of her. He heard a few encouraging yips from Agne when they would pass the area near the tables.
ReplyDelete/What is it?/ Egan asked Saraphina not trusting his voice right now.
ReplyDelete/Don’t you sense it? She has great power! Don’t trust her!/
Egan looked at Saraphina. She had never been scared before and this child was a third her size. What could this person be to scare her so much?
/I think you should try and kill her. I’ve felt a presence like hers before… that presence caused a lot of trouble. Kill her./
Egan wasn’t going to attack her yet though. He had to find out what she was. So he just did what he usually did. He got right to the point. He could see the tint of blue in her eyes as much as he could feel she was trying to hide it.
“Are you some sort of water elemental? I need a new Master.”
Airina's smile widened at the question.
ReplyDelete"Yep! I'm a master." She informed him. "I have trained fourty-eight aprentices and all of them are very powerful!" She chirped happily and then giggled. "Your familiar shouldn't be afraid of me. I'm not going to hurt you or it." She told him. "Seriously, don't worry, Egan." She gathered a small ball of water into her hand from the ocean and sifted out the salt and other things till it was pure clear water and drank it slowly. "Wouldn't you like to learn how to do that?"
The music stopped and Tala removed her helment laughing.
ReplyDelete"Thanks for the race." She told her companion and faded quickly back into the mass of gliding bodies.
It had been a fun time -racing around until your lungs hurt. Fun enough that when he saw the partner stop to remove her helmet, Mór had turned back to thank her. However, before he had the chance to do so the girl was back in main group another face among dozens. Clicking his helmet snap open, he carried it under his arm as he searched through the mass for her. He hadn't see too much of the girl, although there had been a flash of green hair. And exactly how many people had green hair? Eventually he saw a short crop of green hair, surrounded on both sides by people. But Mór was curious as went ahead of the little cluster. He cut in front and opened his mouth to speak...Until he saw who it was.
ReplyDeleteIt was girl from last night.
Egan had to close his mouth with his hand. He had been working on that all damn day the other day and he still couldn’t do it.
ReplyDelete/I don’t care what she tells you, Egan you better try and kill her. I have sworn oaths that would make you shutter so I can not tell you but this child is dangerous. You may even know one of her relatives. Just be careful./
“Saraphina told me that I should know you, or at least someone related to you? How can that be when I’ve never met you before? I don’t understand and I don’t like it when I don’t understand things. It brings on the headaches again.”
/Calm down Saraphina. I can’t have you acting all scared all the damn time. Be a man and stand up straight beside me!/
/For your information Egan I’m not a man I’m a female remember? Humans and their memories/
Tala kept skating. She didn't bother to name the multiple people she raced with and thought nothing about the boy she raced with first. She didn't realize it had been Mor. Didn't realize it at all. She moved to the wall and then the food court area collapsing into a booth.
ReplyDelete"A slice of pizza, peperoni, and a coca cola." She said when someone came to take her order. A few minutes passed and her food arrived. "Thanks." She ate it slowly watching the skate floor with blank eyes. To be alone amoung so many.
Airina watched the glimmer of jealousy that flashed across Egan's face and smiled inwardly. She hoped he would take her offer. She enjoyed teaching new people; it was always fun. She watched silently knowing that he and his familiar were talking together. Airina decided to just wait until he decided to speak to her again.
ReplyDeleteWhen the girl did nothing, not even respond to him, Mór just accepted it. He was not going to pry into the girl's life- after all she had shown the same respect to him before. /Come on Agne. Might as well call it quits for the day./ He hit the floor, this time fully taking the skates and putting on regular shoes. He had to tap his foot into the left on a bit before he began walking though.
ReplyDeleteAnd by that time, Agne had decided that it was high time for Mór to stop calling the shots. After all he was doing a horrid job at socializing. Instead of following her boy towards the door, the fox let out a mischievous yip and bounded across the floor. With a flying leap an a mental shriek of /PIZZA!!!!!!/ the fox landed on Tala's table and shoved the peperoni pizza in her mouth. Her fluffy tail wagged and she looked quite please with herself. /Ha! Try and avoid dealing with this Mór!/ she taunted as she munched on the tasty pizza.
Mór just looked embarrassed out of his mind.
Tala stared at the large fox on her table in shock as it ate her pizza. What the hell just happened? She stared with an open mouth.
ReplyDelete"Did you just steal my pizza?" She asked. Not mad, her voice simply held disbelief. She continued staring. What the hell? She scanned the area and saw a very embaressed Mor and laughed as soon as she saw his expression. He was really too cute.
Agne gave a little snort to answer the girl's question. Her pink tongue licked at her muzzle, trying to get all of the pizza sauce off of her fur. The fox sniffed at the Coke for a brief second before getting on her feet and returning to Mór. Agne scampered up into his arms, clearly pleased with herself. And despite her weight you could tell that Agne did it very often- Mór did not express any discomfort in holding her at all.
ReplyDeleteMór moved forward to the girl's table and clutching Agne to his chest -lest the little wee beastie get free again to cause more chaos- bowed to the girl. "I am sorry," a surprisingly strong yet calm voice said.
Tala continued giggling. Honestly she should have been mad, but she'd been so suprised that she hadn't been able to get made.
ReplyDelete"It's okay, it's okay." She laughed. "I'm used to it. I have wolves. Nice voice by the way." Tala winked and took a sip of her soda. "Never heard you speak before. Oh yeah, I'm Tala." She introduced herself. "You?"
As Mór straightened up from his bow you could clearly see a blush on his face. Mad was easier to deal with than...what was she flirting with him? Agne struggled in his arms for a moment before he allowed her to wiggle free. The fox could tell Mór was considering his options and she wanted to make it clear that he was staying. So she planted her foxy butt down on the seat right next to Tala. The fox grinned and Mór stared straight at the ground.
ReplyDelete/I win,/ the fox stated. "Mór," he replied.
Tala smiled.
ReplyDelete"Mor's a nice name." She commented petting the fox behind it's ears. "I don't think you're leaving anytime soon." She laughed. "Cannines can be hard to move once the lay down." She looked at him smiling and aware of the fact he appeared to be uncomfortable, but she didn't think he'd appreciate her commenting on that fact. She looked at his outfit and laughed again. "Was it you I was racing eariler?"
Accepting the inevitable, Mór sat down next to his little -demonic- fox. Agne flipped her tail onto the male knowing that her soft fur would tickle against his air. Mór smiled- Agne was evil at times but he could never stay mad at her. It was loving evil after all. /Talk boy. I did all of this work and I am not going to watch you sit around like a stick. Perhaps you should use a few of the words that help make people believe a scrawny runt like you is actually a Senior./ /Wait, I'm not a runt!/ he protested. /I'm tall./ The fox snorted a him. "Yes that was me."
ReplyDeletePeaking out past Tala Mór had to ask, "Would you like me to get you more pizza?" /Because my stupid fat fox ate all of yours!/ Agne smiled. /'Atta boy./
Tala smiled at Mor. She slightly suspected that his fox was making his life more difficult but she couldn't resist.
ReplyDelete"Sure, but only if you're going to stay." She teased the teen who looked ready to bolt. She watched the fox bugging Mor, and couldn't help but feel that it was humorious. She resisted the urge to giggle like a stupid human girl.
He nodded, accepting the girl's terms before rising up. After all he owed her the pizza. And of course there was the question of how much. /Lots. That way I can have some. In fact I shall accompany you to make sure you do not order too little./ The fox smugly followed behind her boy, tail high in the air. /Maybe you'll actually shown her what you look like. For someone who claims to hate that "false skin" so much I see you wearing red hair far too much./ Mór shrugged. /Maybe./ Agne knew that meant no though. Leaning against the food counter, Mór waited for the employee to notice him.
ReplyDelete"I needz some pepperoni pizza pie!" the fox belted out. The employee turned around, looking at what she thought to be a dog. "Uhh would like 3 pieces be enough?" Mór just nodded and exchanged money for pizza. /Someday someone is going to figure out you talk Agne./ Yipping in annoyance the fox resumed her perch next to Tala, rubbing her head against the girl's hand. And when Mór placed the pizza down, she of course took one of the slices for herself. /Don't worry boy. Two is enough for her./
Tala laughed inwardly as the fox ordered the pizza. She rubbed the fox's head again.
ReplyDelete"You're awesome." She told Agne. "Too bad Amite can't talk, but she's not really a familiar." Tala mused out loud. She looked at the pizza as it was set in front of her. "Thanks, Mor." She smiled and pushed one piece back in front of him. "You have got to be hungry after all that racing." She said starting on her slice. When he didn't say anythign she spoke again. "Do you come here often?" She asked, well aware that the line was often used by guys trying to pick her up, she was tempted to laugh at the irony of it but instead watched Mor waiting for a reply.
/Saraphina, would you by chance shut up long enough for me to talk to this girl?/
ReplyDeleteEgan was beginning to get irritated with his familiar. She was always defensive and protective in every way but for some reason the only familiar he had ever known to hate violence so much was telling him to kill first and ask questions never. He had made that choice already and it had landed him here. He was going to remind her of that too.
/Saraphina, you just told me to make sure I calm down and act with a cool head. Now I am asking you to do the same. Don’t make me Call you back In./
/You wouldn’t dare?! I’m only doing what I see as best./
For now Egan decided to ignore her. He had more important things to do. He turned back to look at the Water elemental and he could see that she was trying to hide a smile. He had had years to perfect his emotions and those around him just kind of came with the territory.
“ I would love to learn under you…” Egan would have finished his sentence if he had not felt a dramatic Pull in Nature. Egan looked out on the ocean’s horizon and saw the tiniest black line of clouds moving in. Normally a storm would hot have worried him but since his elements were acting on it he thought it was extremely important. A huge storm was on the move towards Ireland.
Airina looked at the storm behind Egan.
ReplyDelete"That shouldn't be here yet..." She murmured and took in the shocked expression on Egan's face and smiled. Well they need to get together...
/Tala! Tala! Help! Come to the beach quick!/ Airina shouted in a panicked tone over her mind link. This would be a good time and setting to tell them about the eye.
Tala jumped as the call reached her and paled as she listened to the message. Technically, as long as the elementals knew each other by name, they could call each other regardless of boundries...but Airina never called. She heard the panicked tone and, forgetting about Mor, jumped from the booth and took off running.
ReplyDelete/I'm coming hold on!/
Out of the two of them, only Agne seemed to care much at the fact the girl was freaking out. Mór did not actually react that much at all. This of course, earned his hand a sharp bite from Agne. /Hey! You drew blood!/ he protested. /Good. What kind of dumb ass are you? Tala is obviously in some sort of trouble!/ 'It's proper to intrude' he muttered back while rubbing his hand. Agne stared at the boy, stood up and jumped off the booth.
ReplyDelete/ And since when was it 'proper' to allow someone really freaking out to run off by them self?/ she asked before following Tala. Mór tried to stay seated. I mean, he thought, I know Agne is pulling my strings here. Yet a few moments later he was running down the street next to Tala and Agne.
The beach was covered in a Power he had not felt in over seven years. It was pure Nature. The only time he had ever felt it was when he was in a place on the other side of the world called Canada where he had trained with his last master. That was a man that was truly intoned with the Forces of Nature.
ReplyDeleteEither way, Egan could feel Nature getting closer to him. The Earth was trembling and the wind was raging. He didn’t know why. The storm was an easy two days off. If this was an Elemental Storm then it shouldn’t be this powerful yet. Once again Egan’s mind flew to his past that he so longed to forget.
Try as he might he couldn’t get the image of his last master, Aither Aden, trying to fight an Elemental Storm that had shaken Canada for days. Once it had passed, his master lay dying in his house. Before the Storm had come, Aither had asked Egan to destroy him if the storm had won. Now his second master was dead because he wasn’t strong enough to help stop it. He wouldn’t let these people down now. One was his master. The other that was coming was…
No wait. There were two forces of Nature coming this way. Why was the Earth elemental running this way? Why was Mór with her? And why the Hell was he asking all these questions to himself? He really needed someone to talk to more often besides his 12 foot tall talking ape.
Airina smiled to herself as Tala came running up the beach followed by Mor and Agne. Her plan had worked perfectly and soon she'd be able to tell them about the eye.
ReplyDeleteTala saw Airina and Egan, imediately stopping inbetween the two.
ReplyDelete"What were you doing to her?" She screamed. Tala was panicking because of what her cousin had told her in the call. She took a defensive stance in front of Airina her eyes wide with fear. She couldn't let anyone hurt Airina. She didn't know why she couldn't. She just knew that this was how she felt, despartely, deep inside her heart. She didn't look away from Egan even when Mor and Agne arrived.
"I think what she means to say is what is going on." added Agne. "The female is smiling so obviously she is alright." You could tell the fox loved being around elementals- such as chatterbox found it hard to stay quiet around mere mortals. "Now what's up?"
ReplyDelete/Agne, we shouldn't be here,/ pressed Mór. /We came and there is no problem. Let them handle it. Come on, lets just go-/ /Go where? Home? Because that is not an option. Humor me,/ Agne noted pressing her head against Mór. /I am after all your familiar for a reason. You needed me. So listen to me./ The male looked at his fox, and slowly nodded. He'd wait to hear the problem.
Tala cast Mor an almost desperate glance. She had no idea what to do. Airina had sounded scared, sounded like she was being attacked, and now that Tala had arrived nothing was wrong. She glanced at Mor again, begging him with her eyes to help her. She had no idea what she was asking for help though. She turned to face Airina when she felt a soft touch on her shoulder.
ReplyDeleteAirina gave her cousin a reassuring smile.
ReplyDelete"I'm fine, Tala." The earth elemental looked at her in confusion. "I called you here to explain something. I was afriad I'd have to track down Mor as well but it looks like you brought him." She smiled. I need to tell you abou the Fourteenth Eye."
The Fourteenth Eye? Why did that sound familiar? Egan turned to Saraphina and she seemed to be thinking the same thing. Of course, in his position, Egan didn’t really need to find out because, once again, the Earth elemental was going to try and kill him. If he had to guess, Egan would say that the Earth elemental and his new master were related. It was hard to see even for him, but Egan could read that Tala was sort of getting pissed. He had tried to read Mór’s emotions but, once again, they were almost impossible to read. The only thing he could tell was that as much as mór didn’t want to stay, his fox did.
ReplyDeleteTension. Screaming, ripping, writhing, hateful tension. It happened every time those two were together. They were not even opposites- they had no excuse. And now he could see Tala inching closer towards the other male- ready to use her fangs. Coming up from the rear, Mór stood between the two his posture confident for once. "Agne was right. Relax Tala," he stated calmly.
ReplyDeleteMost people would have said Mór was acting out of character. But, perhaps he had just realized a little about himself. After all lightning occurred when nature had too much negative energy. It was a way of coping- to restore balance. Well at least that theory sounded nicer than the whole 'destruction and doom' theory.
His eyes turned towards Airinia. How could he not be curious about this eye thing? After all, the girl said he was involved. "Now, what do you have to say? What is this 14th eye?" he asked. Agne tipped her head in curiousness. The child was finally accpeting his element instead of rejecting it. Even his voice filled the air with power like a strike of lightning.
Egan knew there had to be a reason why Mór never spoke. This had to be the reason. His very voice rang with the clarity of lightning and the force of thunder. This could turn into a powerful friendship or a very, VERY, dangerous enemy. He hoped never to get on Mór’s bad side.
ReplyDeleteTala took a deep breath after Mor told her to relax. She forced her muscle to unwind and her posture to return to normal. She sent a thankful look to Mor. She didn't want to lose it in front of Airina. She treated the girl like her daughter instead of like her cousin most times. She looked at Airina, who had just confessed to luring her to the beach.
ReplyDelete"Airina, what is going on?" She asked unconsciously stepping closer to Mor as she did. "What is the Fourteenth Eye?" Tala knew, even as she asked, that she would never truely want to know the answer, but still, it came.
Airina smiled at the group before her and Leala materilized and hovered just behind her.
ReplyDelete"The Fourteenth Eye is absolute power." She said simply and then directed her gaze to Tala. "I'm sorry, cousin, I never told you but I'm the consul for Water and Air." The surprise that flickered across her cousin's face amused her briefly but she continued without delay. "The consul has recently been informed that the Fourteenth Eye has activated. We don't know where, and we don't know when it activated either, we simply know that it has." She surveyed the group again. "As I said, the Fourteenth Eye is absolute power, and normally it would be fine to leave it whereever it has been hidden, however," She paused, sighed, and continued again. "The darkness has also found out that it awakened." The darkness was another type of elemental, they didn't thrive unless they were causing pain and suffering, it was rare for one to be born in their tribe, but unless murdered; they didn't die. Airina glanced at Mor, and the best way to kill them was by lighting. "The darkness cannot get the Fourteenth Eye. It simply must not happen. Therefore, on order of the consul, the four of us have been ordered to locate and retrieve the Fourteenth Eye." She declared and waited for the inevitable response of the entire group.
Even as the girl Egan now knew as Airina was talking, he was backing up towards the water. He didn’t trust this group as far as he could throw them. He had placed his hands back in his coat but he never let go of his command over water. If worse came to worse he would simply disappear in the water. He didn’t trust the Earth elemental that he now knew as Tala at all. That made the third time she had tried to attack and kill him and Egan knew it would probably not be the last time either.
ReplyDeleteOf course Saraphina chose the perfect time to appear behind him and slap him on the head.
/Pay attention! I think you should listen to what she has to say. Then you can try and kill her/
/Listen Mrs. King Kong, if you want me to kill her then you might as well kill me yourself because you know that won’t happen. You have seen her power over Nature. I’ll not try and kill her. Its suicide./
The familiar backed off royally insulted. She hated it when he made fun of her size and she really hated it when she knew he was right.
As far as Egan was concerned, the fourteenth eye meant nothing to him. He didn’t want to be hanging around people who were constantly trying to kill him and he certainly didn’t want to be so close to a Lightning elemental like Mór. It just wasn’t natural to have that much power even in his voice. It just rang with Leadership. Clarity was there along with a side of demanding power. He knew what would happen. It would only take one false move on Egan’s part and the whole damn group would decapitate him without a second thought.
And so, when Airina stopped talking, expecting the group to say something, he said nothing.
Tala might not have noticed her encroachment into Mór’s personal space but he defiantly did. Of course before he had a chance to move, he felt Agne’s fur brush against his leg. The male had a wide variety of thoughts about what Airina had said. Crossing his arms, he placed a hand to his chin as he thought- you could almost see the gears turning rapidly in his head. He was not comforted by the fact that there was something called an air consul. Shouldn’t they have been in contact with him then? Was there a lightning consul member? He also caught onto the fact that there was some connection between him and the darkness- after all he was the first one Airina looked at. A bitter feeling bloomed in the pit of his stomach. After all destruction was the speciality of lightning. Perhaps that meant he was the closest to it.
ReplyDeleteHe glanced at the other male, curious to see his reaction. Tala was related to Airina which meant that she would be the most likely to follow her. To take just her word that this “darkness” really was evil. He reeked of discomfort. And not just at Tala. A bit of it was directed at him. But Mór could not blamed him that much at all. /Agne, what do you think?/ he finally managed. The fox looked at him- tail twitching like a cat’s. /I know you are not sure of this. You would not just take the word of a stranger. Espically when it came something like this. And I know how you feel about murder. The girl singled you out for that job already. And…/ the fox just quit trying. “Already girl,” Agne nearly purred. “Why hasn’t this consul been helping people with powers? Did the lightning consul just die or is personal suffering not something ‘important’ enough to address? Because it sounds like its all take and no give right now.” Mór smiled at his companion. She understood. She understood how he was uncomfortable with this lack of information.
Tala's head was spinning. The darkness. The memory of her burning home and sister flashed through her mind again. She heard the comment made by Agne and, before Airina could respond, cut in.
ReplyDelete"I-I don't know about the consul, but the darkness is a clan, a type of elemental. I remember the darkness..." Her gaze shot up to Airina's. "Why did you say nothing till now? You know I want all the information I can be given on the darkness clan!" She screamed. Tala never got made at Airina, but this was her mother, her sister, her father; her home. Even if it was her cousin, she would let nothing stop her from finding out who was in charge of the destruction of her entire world. "Answer me, Airina!"
Airina glanced at her cousin for a moment and then explained looking directly at Agne.
ReplyDelete"There is a lighting consul, and he is in charge of looking out for the lighting elementals. The consuls look after every elemental together, the consul must come to a unanimous agreement on every solution. They are also the ones who decide who does and does not come to the human realm." Her gaze shifted to her cousin. "I was not supposed to tell you about the Fourteenth Eye or the darkness clan until all of you were able to get along, but the situation changed." Airina turned away, walking away from the beach, headed for the dorms. "But I don't care what you all think, this is simply the command of the consul."
Agne looked to Mór to see how he was processing this all. His eyes had widened at Tala’s reaction so obviously he was weighing that into his choice. /They were so close a moment ago. Tala was ready to kill for the other girl’s protection./ he mused to Agne. Airinia’s comment did not seem to settle his mind either. So those where the people that gave me the visa to Earth, Mór thought. He did remember –faintly- as a child his grand-mere applying for it. But it had sounded like a mundane little request more like buying a ticket to a train than having to appear before a consul. “I will not roll over for the consul like a dog,” he finally commented. “You kept a serious secret from Tala- someone who clearly loved you. Obviously you and other consul members cannot be trusted nor should be listened to.” With his arms crossed against his chest, you could tell Mór had no real intrest in listening or following Airina.
ReplyDeleteAirina stopped in her tracks and turned to look at him, her expression frozen.
ReplyDelete"You have no idea why she wants to know." She turned her gaze to Tala and her eyes became sharp. "And I may have to reject your visa if you try to handle everything yourself, cousin." She turned and left, not bothering to look back again. She didn't want to see the destraught look on her face, but Airina simply could not let her seek revenge on the darkness clan.
Tala's knees buckled underneath her. 'Reject your visa...' Airina's words echoed in her head. If her visa was rejected she'd be unable to find the darkness, she'd be unable to kill them... Tears began to pour from her eyes and she stared at the sand and crushed it in her hands. Damn it. Airina had trapped her. She couldn't move forward and she wouldn't go back. I can't believe she would do this to me... Her little sister's face flashed across her mind and she let out a single sob as her shoulders began to shake.
ReplyDeleteThe Darkness was something Egan had heard of in his travels. When he had been training in Canada with Aither, Egan had read a book that had just one line written about them but it was enough to stick in his head for over seven years.
ReplyDeleteIt had read, “…When Elements collide and the Eye is active, don’t look back for those of the Darkness will soon be behind you.”
Aither had told Egan to stop reading that bunch of bull crap. It was nothing but the deranged writings of an insane monk in a time long forgotten. He had even spoken of the consul, saying that they had not believed the monks teachings. It was nothing of importance. Aither had died three months after that speech.
Obviously the Eye that the book had talked about must have been this “fourteenth Eye” that Airina had been talking about, and obviously both Aither and the consul had been proven wrong. He didn’t know what to make of this now. Should he stay and help or should he just walk away? Why was it always this question with him?
Airina had proved his point. Why that little manipulative bitch, he thought. For someone who had been quite content to let her cousin act like her own bodyguard she was rather frigid to her. Normally, Mór would let things go their own way. Then again it was not everyday that someone almost seemed to be falling down on the sands. Trying to comfort the girl, he placed a hand on her shoulder. Mór flinched slightly at the static that occurred but kept his hand there. Agne followed Mór, giving a little hiss at Airina. The fox then licked Tala's hand. "Tala, let me ask you this: If the consul did reject your Visa exactly how do they plan to get you off Earth? I'm sure you could put up a decent fight and besides, I am sure the humans would notice an elemental brawl. Would they really risk exposure?" As usual there was a little mischief in the fox's eyes. She had already taken into the account the fact that Mór was giving the girl a rather large amount of attention.
ReplyDeleteTala looked up with a watery smile to the fox.
ReplyDelete"They might not, but then again, I am Airina's cousin so they might." She let out a harsh laugh as more tears slipped from her eyes. "And I am my mother's daughter." Her mother had been the last earth consul, and streangth ran through blood lines. "They may not want to risk me." She gave Mor a wavering smile. "Thanks."
Airina leaned against the wall once she locked herself in the dorms bathroom. Tala had been distraught... She shook her head firmly and turned on the shower, stepping in with her clothes on. Leala materialized next to her.
ReplyDeleteYOU TOLD THEM MY LADY. THAT'S GOOD. Airina nodded.
"Tala looked like I had betrayed her." She whispered softly.
IT HAD TO BE DONE. SHE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET REVENGE FOR HER MOTHER'S MURDER, AND SHE CAN'T BE LOST...
"Because she's a powerful assest." Airina finished. "They all are." She clenched her fists. "And they're all broken." She hissed. Leala twittered affectionately.
IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE DOING THIS FOR NOTHING, AND THEY MUST BE BROKEN TO ACHIEVE THE CORRECT OUT COME. OR WE WILL LOSE EVERYTHING. Airina sighed.
"Sometimes I wish we'd just lose."
When Airina left, Egan walked about fifty feet to his favorite rock. It was his favorite place to bend Water because it was surrounded by other rocks and trees. It was his small place of seclusion. Besides, he had to keep his mind occupied. Egan could not, WOULD not, loose it now. He had been working so hard on maintaining his emotions to start loosing it now. Saraphina was still thinking some of the most depressing things that Egan had ever seen. Egan couldn’t stand it anymore. He cut the emotional link between them for now. Egan had to regain what was left of his composure.
ReplyDeleteEgan put as much Water bending energy as he could through his palms and thrust his hands out towards the sea. A hole appeared in the water where he had aimed and water bent around it. Egan held it there for as long as he could and blazed Fire from his mouth. When he knew he couldn’t hold the Water any longer he simply stopped bending and sat down beside his favorite rock. He restored the link to Saraphina and was almost blinded by emotions. Sadness, sorrow, death, fear, destruction, bickering, arguing, and more destruction. Egan thought something was extremely wrong until he tried to look at his own emotions and saw that they were his own. He was having a nervous breakdown.
Withdrawing his hand, Mór gave a nod and a smile. Agne shook her head and decided to clarify. "That's Mór for you are welcome," she said with a hint of amusement in her voice. /Honestly, Mór is not like everyone has a telepathic link with you,/ the fox mentally chided. "Now," she purred. "I think we dealt with that we need to here. I say back to the fun!" Agne pranced around Mór, jumping and dancing with an occational loving nip to his hands. "That's Agne for get milkshakes," Mór translated to Tala. With a grin Mór added, /Remember Agne not everyone has a teleptahic link with you./ The fox stopped, stunned at first, but with a laugh went back to her little odd dance. "Milkshakes! Milkshakes!" she yipped.
ReplyDeleteTala laughed at the dancing fox.
ReplyDelete"Alright, milkshakes." She agreed and directed a look to Mor. "You wouldn't want to deprive her would you?" She laughed. Standing and brushing the sand of her kness and hands. "I'm pretty sure that she'd give you hell if you tried." Tala looked at Agne and stage whispered. "Yeah, I think I'll have to start studying Mor speak soon." Her eyes sparkled with laughter as she delivered the small jab to Mor and the joke to Agne. So much fun...
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ReplyDeleteHe hated to admit it, but Egan was going to have to find a way to get rid of Saraphina. She kept getting into his mind and bringing back memories he thought long forgotten. It wasn’t enough that she brought back his last mater’s death but now she was remembering his first master. A brutal man by the name of Deorc, and a Fire elemental to boot, he had ruled over a small sect of people in Alaska until his death. Deorc was a horrible man and an even worse master. He had ruled with and iron fist and had trained with a flaming one. Egan couldn’t help but reach his arm up and place it over the scars hidden under his coat sleeve. They where the marks of his ascension to power. When Egan had found out all that Deorc was doing, he personally hunted him down for his crimes against the people. Egan was only nine years old then. When he had finally tracked him down he had been at a rest stop asleep. In the middle of the night, Egan went in and opened Deorc’s mouth. Before Deorc could so much as breath again, Egan had filled his mouth with a roaring fire. There would be no trace of it because Deorc was one of the few elementals to control not one or even two but three elements. Fire, Air, and Water. His body was healed with Water but he still died all the same.
ReplyDeleteAll the pain and misery that Egan had sealed in the back of his mind was suddenly coming forward in full force. It was uncontrollable. Not even his power over water could help. He was a slave to his memories. Try as he might he couldn’t help the sob that echoed out of his throat and then the tears started. He knew he had been surrounded by people that hated him and wanted nothing more then to attack him and end it. That made it even worse. To be that defenseless in front of complete strangers was even more humiliating. All of the pain came into the form of fire that emitted freely from his hair and back. The Water tossed to and fro and fire whipped around his hair turning the temperature up around his body. The memories of his adapted parents came next and then it was even worse. He had actually loved them as much as any Fire elemental ever could. The pain of disappointing himself and his last master came rushing back and he saw how much he had actually failed Aither Aden when the battle had come with the storm. How, if he could have stood with his master, Aither would still be alive and he wouldn’t be stuck here with an elemental who kept trying to kill him and two more who don’t know if they should even bother trying and, to beat it all, now the Damn Darkness and a master who threatened to deport her own cousin. Then…there was nothing. Only the feelings of betrayal, death, destruction, and misery occupied Egan’s mind.
Egan fell to the ground holding his head in pure torture and anguish. The headaches were back as well only adding to his pain. The Fire was so hot and he started to do the one thing he had never seen before. Egan Moeshe began to cry Fire. The pain was once again opening up the memories of the Fire that had given him the scares on his arms and back. He needed release.
“WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE KILL ME?!” Egan screamed and he knew he truly meant it. He no longer felt the need to live.
Tala spun to look at the screamed, all thought of milkshakes gone from her mind.
ReplyDelete"Egan!" She shouted, moving to where he knelt but not daring to touch him. "What's happening?" She asked casting a glance at Mor for answers that she herself did not possess.