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I heard talking in the distance around me.

The voices looked familiar but I couldn't place them. I felt myself lying on a bed with my sore body. I tried to sort everything out. What had happened? And like a switch, everything came back to me.

I felt how exhausted my body was, but that had nothing to do with the feeling in my head. Like I was completely empty. I no longer felt any strength.

The voices became clearer. It's as if they've only really dawned on me now. I heard it was Rob, Leo, Sara, Max and Kate. Leo, Sara, Max and Kate were practitioners just like me. Like me, they had the power of an element. Leo could practice Air, Sara Water, Max Fire and Kate Earth. And for two days I knew that I was also a practitioner. And this morning I was told that I could practice the fifth element. Which meant I could control all four elements. I hardly knew anything about it, because it was very rare. And Rob is our mentor, also known as Elementor. He is trying to guide us through these forces.

"And? Have you spoken to them yet?" asked Leo.

I heard a deep sigh.

"I haven't learned anything at all. I really need to hear from Julia what happened and whether it worked."

I heard an exhausted Rob talking.

"Is there any progress yet?"

"No, they look exactly the same."

"Can't we do anything for them?" Sara asked with a concerned tone in her voice.

"Guys, am I the only one who doesn't trust Lorenzo? He was there too and we found out that Lucas is an e-warrior, so why shouldn't he be!?"

This time it was Kate, I could hear some aggressiveness in her voice.

"You didn't find them Kate, you don't know what they were like when I found them." It was Max. His always sure voice sounded worried and tired now.

"Yeah, stand up for her again." I heard a loud shuffling of a chair and footsteps that sounded farther and farther away.

"Stop the jealousy Kate, you had better help!" shouted Max angrily.

"I know it now!" Kate called back and I heard a door slam shut with a loud bang. The tension was to die for.

I knew why I was lying here on the bed. My eyelids felt heavy and my head was pounding. But how on earth did I get here?

Max had probably found us, as he had told Kate.

I remembered Renzo and I taking on Lucas and the possessed boy and girl. How we had both collapsed and been injured and now I had woken up here.

Geez, we survived. It was that Leo, Sara and Max had tied their strength to me, otherwise I really wouldn't have made it.

Renzo and Lucas were brothers and both trained as e-warriors. An e-warrior is one who takes on a practitioner and is trained to destroy a practitioner. Only Renzo has turned his back on this fate and fought alongside me against Lucas, who was still an e-warrior.

I was with Renzo when it went black before my eyes.

Renzo!

I felt a shiver run through my body. He was in really bad shape. I knew he healed quickly, just like me, but still.

Slowly I opened my eyes. Grateful that the room I was in was not brightly lit. I blinked a few times to get a clear picture. I looked at a wooden ceiling with wide beams running across it. There was a large chandelier in the center of the room that was only half lit. As far as I could tell, the room had an old-fashioned decor. I tried to move gently and felt my body protest. Slowly I raised my head. It was a large room with high ceilings and tall windows. It was a combination of a living room, study and library. I myself lay in a kind of bay window with the curtains drawn. I looked around but saw no other bed where Renzo could be. I felt a twinge of pain in my chest. I did see four people standing with their backs to me, because of the light movement I made the bed started to creak. Immediately someone turned around.

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