Flame Touch

Chapter 20-Melody

After a morning of nonstop tours, the whole of the Aquatic colony (which is to say a lot of people) was shuffled out of the blue hallways and into a giant room. Even bigger than the Aquatic Main Hall. It glowed in three different colours: red, blue, and a faint yellow all intersecting in the middle where Taris and Pisces waited for everyone to calm down. I started to sit next to Lunar, but I caught Sunny's eye and sat over there instead. Knox came over five minutes later looking a bit shaken up. I looked around and saw people were wearing three different colour, the same as the room. My own new clothes were blue.

Pisces raised his hand for silence.

The noise in the room went out with a hush.

"Friends!" Pisces started, "As you are all aware, our new Sagittarius has yet to prove himself worthy of place as a figure head by ending the war that endangers our world. Though he is a bit young," snickers were heard across the room, "The conditions of becoming a head figure will not yield. They never had and they never will. With that, he has come with a proposal. Let us hear him out with open hands and hearts." He nodded towards Taris who looked nervous, but not scared.

"Um." He started with a small voice and cleared his throat and started again, "To every one's knowledge, there are four star groups. Vent, Terra, Aquatic, and Luminosity. We have two groups on our side they have two on theirs. We need a tie breaker, we have the tiebreaker on our side. Who, you ask, is the tiebreaker?" kids looked to each other skeptically, but didn't interrupt him, he pointed to the faint yellow streaks that come to an end in the middle of the room, "The tiebreaker are the Libras! A whole other group and no one knows their true powers! Perfect right?" the people wearing yellow shifted awkwardly, "Wrong! We all know that a group is only strong with their head figure to guide them and strengthen them!" at that kids started jeering and yelling that he was holding himself too high. One kid who was yelling sat next to me and I made him shut up with a cold glance, but Taris didn't seem fazed by the kids yelling at him, "Oy, I'm not trying to be immodest. Calm your butts down." At the word 'butts' kids laughed and stopped yelling.

Hot-head knows his stuff I thought.

"Anyway, my proposal is that to win this war, we must first find Libra. Lordess Libra." He amended, "To do this I need a small team to go in search first." He glanced down and made eye contact with Knox , "And I think I know who I want."

                                                ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Tell me why you must drag us along around the world searching for one person?" I complained to Taris's face when he came up to talk to us.

"When did I say I wanted you to come, fish?" he asked with a sneer.

"You made it pretty obvious." I said with a similar sneer.

"Because you three are like a godsend." My eyebrows went up like rockets, "Not like that fish! I mean, you three are perfectly good friends and are all from three different colony groups. The three colony groups. I didn't say it when I was up there, but another key part of winning this war is getting everyone to work together. Aquatic and Luminosity especially. So if they see you three working together like you did in your cafeteria, maybe they're hearts are willing to change." He finished with a sigh, like he didn't want to share this information with me.

"How can you expect them to change when you're calling your own team mate fish, hothead?" I asked, meaning for it to be a light jab, so I wasn't expecting the expression on his face when he said, "I-yeah you're right but..." his expression darkened, "I need to go pack, you should too." And with that he left me with Sunny and Knox.

Yeesh. That is one moody kid.

"Pack? Pack what? He does realize we got here via tornado with nothing but the clothes on our back and a spoon right?" Knox asked irritably and I nodded my head, "But forget that, what is his problem? One minute he's happy the next-" I shook my head and noticed Sunny looking a bit awkward, but before I could ask her why, she got up and said she was off to pack some clothes from the Luminist rooms and steal the bathroom towels. That left Knox and I to our own devices.

"I tried to get into the Aquatic dorms today."

"Really? How did you get in? Lunar told me that anyone else who wasn't Aquatic would be frozen if they tried. And why were you trying to get in anyway?" I asked rapidly. Knox laughed, "I didn't exactly get in, but I wasn't exactly frozen either, but it sure did feel like it."

"Idiot." I said rolling my eyes. She stuck her tongue out at me, "Why were you trying to get in?" I asked again.

"I wanted a bath."

"A what?"

"A bath okay! How was I supposed to know the glowing hallway meant do-not-enter"

"Because there's a sign that says 'Aquatics Only'."

She stuck her tongue out at me and I stuck mine back. It was weird. For some reason, I felt like I couldn't stand Knox a day ago, but now she seemed fine, though a bit off. When I was in my room packing, I tried to figure out why she seemed a bit odd this morning.

Then I realized that her eyes were flecked with blue.