Power of the 8 Elements

Chapter Two

The next day, I went outside for fun. I wanted to see if Skrael was still around. Maybe if we got to know each other we could be good friends. I stepped onto the rickety dock once again. Maybe Skrael was a dream, or maybe all I had to do was fall in the water again. I looked over the edge at the frozen lake that cracked a little.

"Lean to close, and you'll fall in, little one..." said Skrael's familiar voice.

I turned around and smiled when I saw him floating above the snow. I ran towards him and gave him a big hug. Skrael stopped and floated to the ground.

"What's the matter?" I asked, removing myself. Had I offended him?

"Oh, it's nothing...it's just. I haven't had a hug like that in a long time." 

I smiled and gave him another one. 

"And just yesterday you were running away from me. Why the change?"

I let go again and looked at him. "I don't know. I just wanted to have some fun." 

Skrael smiled. 

"Alright then. What do you want to do?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing. You know, there's always so many things to do in the snow. Winter is an underrated season."

"I know! That's what I've been telling everybody!" I said with a smile. I spun around in a circle while looking at the ground. "Do you go to school, Skrael?"

"No, I do not. Why do you ask?"

"Well, I go to school. I have to go to school Monday to Friday. I get the weekends off."

"Do you like school, Ph-Terry?"

"If I'm being honest, no, I do not. The kids at school are mean."

"Mean?" 

"Yes. A girl in school, Ariana. She doesn't like me at all. She says I'm annoying."

"Annoying?"

"She called me a half-breed once." 

"A h-half breed?!"

"Since I'm half fairy and half monster."

"Monster?"

"Skrael?" I asked, turning to him. His eye twitched a little as he looked furious. "Are you going to hurt them?"

"Them? Is there more than one, Terry?"

"Sometimes." 

Skrael bit his lip hard. 

"Don't hurt yourself! You could bleed." 

Skrael relaxed his jaw. A purple liquid leaked from his bottom lip.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Oh, nothing," he said, wiping it away. 

I looked at him for a bit. "Do you not have a coat?" 

"A coat?"

"Yeah, you must be cold. I mean, your fingers are black." 

He looked at them as if just noticing that they were frostbitten. My parents said that if you didn't get frost bite treated, your limbs could fall off. 

"I'll be fine." 

He knew himself better than me. I walked away and sat by the dock, hanging my feet off the side. Skrael teleported next to me. 

"Are you magic?" 

"Yes, indeed I am. A very powerful magic." 

"Are you good or bad?"

Skrael paused.

"That depends on the way you see it."

"I think you're good. You probably do good things." 

Skrael looked like he didn't even believe that.