4 Brothers

Chapter 5

I've been running for like 10 minutes by now and I have no idea why, I finally stopped running and try to catch my breath as I slammed my back against a tree and slide down to the ground.
I need to find out what I want to do and who I want to be but that's just so weird.
I don't know and actually I don't want to know. Everyone of my brothers knows it.
They have a plan and a preference and in the end follow the same path in fighting crime and helping people someday.
I have just this, as I stretch out my left arm the ground before me starts rumbling, my magic is based on the earth, so I can kind of control it.
I stretch out my right arm and small stones lift the ground.
I control them and let them fly in a circle.
As I stand up I shift my left foot from left to right the sand is following it.
I start spinning in circles while my right foot is making a line in the ground, the sand is still following me.
I concentrate more and more and more stones and sand are circling around me.
It must look like as if I'm in a ball off sand and stones. Faster.
I think, it seems chaotic but it's controlled.
I start smiling because I don't have to move anymore, my mind is controlling everything.
I stretch out my arm and point at a huge stone bigger than myself, this time the sand is following my arm and is crashing against the stone with full speed.
It literally explodes to tiny little pieces.
I sit down and bring the sand back to its old place.
I remember the first time I was using magic.
I had to be something around 5 or 6 years old or something, Ryō and Yuki where playing in the backyard of our temple and Haru was trying to scare me by jumping onto my shoulders but my instinct reacted on itself and I made a wall of stone around myself to block him.
He must have been really scared because his little brother was literally in a stone.
I remember him saying "A...Aki, what happened? Aki, Akira... someone help please!". What happened ?
"Ryō ask someone was knocking against the stone
"Aki are you in there? You okay?....HELLLO". Yuki is asking.
"Stop it what if you hurt him?" Ryō says  "but he is literally in a ball of stone, how am I supposed to hurt him?" Yuki responded.
"What if... what if he can't breath?" Haru ask his voice kind of unsure.
For like 10 seconds there was silence.
Then I heard someone punch the stone again and again "let my little brother out, you hear me... stupid stone"
I hear Ryō almost screaming.
After a few minutes his punched abruptly stopped. "Akira can you hear me?"
This must be father I think, but I can't respond "try to take the stone away, the same way you put it around yourself" okay that I can do I start to think and slowly the stone goes away.
I can finely see everyone again.
All of them are looking at me equally shocked.
Yuki was crying, Haru's fingers are trembling and Ryōs fists are bloodstained.
For a few seconds there was nothing and then I was literally slammed into the ground.
Haru was the first to reach me, He was hugging me and saying he was sorry, Ryō also hugged me really tight but didn't said anything and Yuki was crying even more than before, i think he was saying something but it was too muffled to even understand.
The rest is kind of blurry.
Oh good old times, after that I tried to learn anything about this so called magic.
I was the only one in my family with a preference in that kind of stuff so it must be blood related from my biologically family.
But I know nothing about them.
I also don't want to, my brothers are enough.
Ah I'm drifting up again, concentrate you idiot. Improve, improve, think about magic, magic and stone and earth and... wait... how did I manage to let the stone and sand fly, if I can only control the earth.
If they can fly that must mean I can control more than just the earth but perhaps also the wind?