The Elementals Project

Raina

"The morning sun must have woken you up hey" I say as I bend down in front of Anya. She looked up at me rubbing her eyes, I could tell she was still tired. "Did you sleep well?" I ask, my voice quiet as if I was worried to wake her. She nods at me and we all laugh, she's so cute when she's tired... I mean she is cute anyway but, in this state, she looks so innocent and young. Younger than 7 at least. I pick her up in my arms and look over at Shane. "I suppose we got lucky, let's get the hell out of this forest to the next town before we run into trouble"

"Yeah, don't jinx us" Shane replies a soft smile on his face "We're not out of trouble yet, still got a good few miles to walk till we're out of here" We all look round at each other and I can feel Anya heavy in my arms, I look down and see she's fallen back asleep and I smile. My own little sister. I always wanted one. I kiss her gently on the forehead, don't worry baby girl, I won't let anyone hurt you. I sit down with her in my lap, thumb in her mouth while everyone dances around us to pack things away. It wasn't long before we we're all packed up and ready to go, I held Anya as we walked with Taylor next to me, beaming, telling me just how cute I looked, Shane took the path in front of us and Jedd being the oldest stayed behind us for extra caution, we laughed and joked for a few hours before Anya woke up, bubbly and jumping around and before we all knew it, we were playing and running about. It took us half a day to realise none of us had eaten anything yet so we all sat down to eat we found quite a nice spot too, an open space in the middle of the track surrounded by oak trees, standing tall and proud as the sun beamed through them, one tree had fallen laying through the middle of the space so we decided that will be our picnic bench.

"Big sister look!" Anya yelled pointing at the sky "The sun is happy" at that comment we all laughed

"Yeah would you look at that it is" Stated Shane through laughter "So how about we eat then?" we all raced to the fallen tree and collapsed around it laughing as we did so, for a moment everything was alright, cam and peaceful as we ate, it was only when we were packing up that we realised something was wrong, we all froze, looking at each other, all of us had the same feeling and this definitely wasn't a good sign. We all surrounded Anya so she wasn't to get hurt and quickly stood on guard, looking around, so many hiding places, so many ways they could've got around us... that's when I saw her, my body froze and I took a sharp breath and I felt fear overtake me. She steps out from behind the bushes revealing herself to all of us

"Shame I was so hoping I could follow you for a little longer

"She laughs a hint of sarcasm in her voice "Hey Rai" I can see her moving closer to me, talking to me, but my body is frozen, I take a few deep breaths but before I know it she stood in front of my holding my chin in her hand, I open my eyes and see her face not far from mine "Remember me yet" I can hear the mocking tone in her voice and I can feel my rage burning up, I launch myself at her headbutting her to bring her to the ground.

"What's your name? At least tell me that" I can't conceal the rage in my voice and she starts to laugh manically.

Before I know it Shane and the others are at my side, Jedd has her by the hair and Shane is in her face, Taylor and Anya at either side of me holding my hands. The feeling in my gut grows and I tighten my grip and Taylors hand, something isn't right.

I know something is wrong here.