Elementalists (completed)

Chapter 16

The next morning I wake up to someone gently shaking my shoulders.

"Time to wake up Blitz." I hear Neve's voice whisper.

"Five more minutes...." I mutter, rolling over sleepily

Suddenly the weight of a human being lands on me. I feel all the air go out of my lungs in a whoosh as Nero shouts,

"BLITZ WAKE UP!!!"

I start smacking him, my lungs burning, "GET OFF YOU FAT LARD!!! I CAN'T BREATH!!!" I gasp, seriously thinking I'm about to die.

Gee, survived the crocodiles for nothing.

And my ribs are crushed.

Poor ribs. What did they ever do to Nero?

He beams at me before getting off, perching on the edge of my bed, "It worked, didn't it?"

I don't answer, just gasp for air. Sweet, luxurious air.

Kin laughs and I push Nero off my bed once my oxygen level is intact and my strength and anger both return. He hits the floor with a loud thunk and I laugh as his grumpy face appears in front of me, rubbing his head.

"That was mean!" He whines, sticking his bottom lip out.

"So is jumping on someone while they sleep!" I retort, sticking my tongue out at him. He pouts at me for a minute before getting up to go get ready for the day. I follow and soon we're all up and ready for the man to take us to the result room.

There really is no point to getting the results for this round. Obviously the teams that are continuing on are the Black Serpents and us, but I guess they just felt it was needed.

We say goodbye to the Iron Wasps formally and I see Pointy Nose walking morosely along. I feel kind of bad. What if he has a dad in the hospital or something?

Once the defeated team leaves, Ms. Banyu congratulates us happily, her long blue hair bouncing behind her, before telling us the results.

"Coming in first is the Black Serpents, the Snow Ferrets a close second!" She announces.

I wrinkle my nose at the stupid snakes smug smiles (that's a tongue twister). Why did they have to say the results? They don't matter! The only reason they're there is so we can tell who needs to go home, but they say who comes in all the other places also. I don't know why, probably just to tell us where we're at, but seriously?!? Way to make us feel bad!

"Come on Blitz."

I snap out of my thoughts and turn to see Ignis holding my arm, her glaring eyes facing elsewhere. I follow them and see she is glaring hard at a smug Fotia again.

Geez, they must have had a backround back in Kasai City!

She pulls me along and I stumble after her without comment, deciding it wasn't my business.

We get back to our room and the minute the door closes the fire girl turns to us, her face serious, "Guys, we need to practice our elements."

Terro frowns, "Why?"

"It could be helpful." Ignis responds.

"Oooo!" Kin says excitedly, "We could do that thing we were going to do back on the fire path! The element battle with the little element people!"

"Yeah!" Nero exclaims.

"What are you talking about?" Ignis asks, puzzled. While Anemos explains, Kin makes the mini stadium thing again and we make our little element people.