Who am I?

The end!

I was at once dropped into a weird position. I was pinned against the wall and completely helpless. Dakota vaporized in front of me from a thick black mist. She smiled and I felt sick. "Now Caleb, I like you, you're funny. It'd be a shame for me to have to kill you. That's why I'm just gonna figure out how to take your powers away."

I saw movement behind her. My eyes darted to the corner. It was Holly, she looked scared but otherwise alright. "You're not going to get away with this, I carry the spirit of the earth within me. Even if I die there will be another Earth Person born eventually and they will take you down." I spat at her struggling against the dark swirls holding me in place.

She clucked her tongue "Now, now, I'm just taking a place that is rightfully mine. North America needs a queen, I'm the best person for the job. Our people were so dense with all that peace loving crap. They were so powerful but they certainly didn't put their gifts to good use. The gifted people will thank me when I'm done."

"Thanking you for what? forcing them to live in fear and poverty?" If only I could touch something natural. I couldn't feel the earth from here. She laughed it was cold like ice and picked up a knife that lay on the table next to her. It was cold and dark here. I guessed we were in a basement somewhere.

"What're you doing with that?" I asked. "I'm going to do some surgery and cut your connection with the earth." fear gripped me as she approached me with the knife. Then suddenly the window exploded in a shower of glass. Dakota was  caught off guard when Lilly crashed through and punched her in the face so hard she passed out. Lilly punched her again for good measure and I was let go.

"Let's go!" She said. I ran to Holly and scooped her up. We slammed the door behind us making sure it was locked and ran around to the side of the cabin. "Where did you come from?" I asked. "No time right now, I'll explain later." She said and we darted to the front where the lone imp stood guard.

I stomped my foot on the ground and it sent a wave through the earth that sent him flying. We opened up the door and ran inside. Everyone was crowded around Anthony's cage trying to open it. He looked miserable; they turned in surprise.

"No time to explain you guys go, I'll get Anthony out." I said handing Holly to Lilly. "No, we're staying together." Zoe said. I sighed. "Fine." I put my hands on the branches of the tree and closed my eyes feeling the connection.

I gently coaxed it back to its natural state and it instantly sprung to life. Fresh green leaves erupted in the branches and it reached back through the hole. The vines followed it and it settled with a gust of wind like a sigh of relief. Anthony was free.

"Thanks, my powers were useless in there." He said; I nodded and we took off out the door. Nadia was in the lead. "This way! There's a thick grove of trees we can hide in to scope things out." We scrambled down the small road almost to the grove of trees when the earth shifted beneath our feet sending us tumbling in flurry of dirt and grass.

I slapped the ground and it stabilized. Dakota stalked towards us with hell in her eyes. "Ah, Lileas, you've decided to join us, isn't this wonderful? Now I can get rid of all you annoyances at once." Lilly narrowed her eyes. "Don't call me Lileas." "Sister, that is your name is it not?" Lilly sneered. "You're no sister of mine."

And with that, an imp joined Dakota's side. "Destroy them." She said and pointed at me. "Leave this one, he's mine."  A horde of imps descended on us and striked. Poison and blood flew through the air it was a horrible sight, I would have helped my friends I was too busy with Dakota trying to kill me.

She ran at me punching. I threw up a wall of soil between us. She knocked it down, I stumbled backwards and she forced thick vines from the brush to come at me. I swiped them away and brought life back to them bending them to my will and firing them back at her. As soon as she touched them, they died.