The Elementals Project

Raina

Lucy. Of course. I should have known who she was from the start. My brain starts flying through memories. She's a magic user. Unlike us elements, she can learn new spells. Meaning she's an infinite amount of possibilities. My brains fly through all my old memories, trying to find a solution of how she took Anya and that's when it hit me

"Taylor" my voice was quiet and Taylor came to sit by my side "I know how she did it" I look round at her, her eyes filled with sympathy and regret. This is all my fault. If I had just realized earlier, I hold my head in my hands pulling at my hair.

"Raina, I know this is hard, but to get Anya back we need to know about our enemy, this isn't your fault it's theirs, so right now we need to work out how we can get to them and get your baby sister back to you." I can tell she serious and I lift my head

"When we were younger she had three abilities" I start "One was hallucinations" I take a deep breath and calm myself "The second was cloak" I look up and Taylor catching her gaze for a second "and the other was clone" I can see what I've said makes sense to her and she stands up.

"Well, now we know what she did she can't trick us again" She took a deep breath and continued "But I do think they went the opposite way to what we saw them go." She looks down at me for conformation and I nod. Pick myself up off the floor and take Taylors hand. I look behind me for a brief moment wondering if Shane and Jedd were alright but I knew they would be and with that I continued on with Taylor into an unknown part of the forest, knowing that we may not both come out.

"You know, there is a way that fire can hurt fire" Taylor explained froze for a second in shock before turning to look at her

"How?" my voice was small and timid and I turn to look at the floor

"It takes control so we'll practice on a few things round the woods then I'll show you what you need to do" She beamed. I stopped in my tracks

"How do you know any of this?" I asked confused, I look at her to see her face turning red and she starts to stutter a sentence. Something along the lines of it interested me as a kid so I wanted to learn more... I think. I nod and agree to move on and we get walking, slowly making our way through the thicker part of the forest.

We had been walking a couple of hours and along the way Taylor was giving me different things I had to hit, almost like target practice, at first, I did horribly, hitting things several feet of my target but as we've walked, I've got pretty good

"Tree" Taylor shouted and I spun and aimed at the nearest tree, using my fingers as guns I shot at it, hitting it dead centre. I turned and smiled the cheesiest smile I could at Taylor as she jumped and applauded me. I took a bow and we both laughed giggling amongst ourselves, not long after that we had reverted back to playing games, we we're pretending we we're spies and jolting between trees when Taylor tripped on a log and landed on top of me. We lay there still and silent; all of our laughs had fallen quiet and we we're just led there, looking at each other. Wow. She is beautiful, she had a slight flush to her cheeks and her hair fell to frame her face perfectly. She let out a small giggle before clambering off me to lay looking up at the treetops like me we lay in silence for a few minutes before it's broken by a scream. We both jolt up and look at each other and before either of us knew it we we're jolting in the direction of the scream running as far and fast as our legs could take us

Hoping. Preying. Wishing.

We knew who that was.