The Hourglass

Earth-Chp. 4

I opened my eyes. I was surprised. I was kneeling with my fist to the ground. I was in a small crater, almost like a tiny explosion went off on the side of the clearing. Clapping brought my attention to the side of the crater where AJ stood clapping. "I knew I would bring out the earth in you, just not like this." I forced the earth to suck him into it and then force him out right next me. Basically teleportation."Wow, Cate used to be able to that! I mean ummm...." I would have laughed at his cuteness if not for the raging fire of jealousy in my chest. Deciding that she was his true love after all, I played it off cool "What do you mean Cate was able to that?" I masked the anger in my voice with curiosity. "Cate was also able to control air and earth. She was a powerful fighter, but that doesn't explain how she was able to make that THING." Suddenly confusion swept over me, "Wait you mean Cate, your beloved, put you in that hourglass?" He suddenly looked , uncomfortable. "Well... You see.... uhhh.... ya, she did." Shock kept me quiet. We walked for awhile before we stopped in a clearing. AJ turned to me, "Ok Katie, let's practice here for a little bit." I nodded and headed towards the right side of the clearing. This clearing was about half the size of the other clearing. He got in position and set an ice shard at me. I dodged effortlessly.
He looked as surprised as I felt. But with no time to dwell on it, I sent back an earth attack that would launch him up in the air, the perfect targeting point. I was surprised when it worked. As he flew through the air, I caught him with air and as I brought him towards the ground I had vines shoot up and wrap around him. He made his entire body fire, but I took away the air around the flames so they started to go down. So he turned all water. I made diamond walls appear with no cracks in them as they enclosed around him. I didn't remove them until I heard a loud voice scream "Surrender now!" I turned around slowly. There stood about 200 government mpolice. They're basically like your SWAT team except these guys only work with magic cases. Crummy-dumb, I totally forgot about them. The sound of metal made me turn my head toward the other side of the clearing where a girl was pushed forward. She was beautiful. Naturally straight brown hair that fell mid-back. She had bright blue eyes. She wasn't super skinny she had the right amount of meat on her bones. Her eyes pleaded for help. And so I used earth to create a double headed spear, it had a thick but light wood shaft with diamond spear heads. The heads were hollow so they were light but still lethal. I had already released AJ, I had a feeling that he also had a weapon ready. I looked at the girl and nodded. At that instant someone shot a bullet at my head, I blocked it with my spear. And just like that all hell broke out. I killed many. It was then that I noticed someone filming me, I threw my spear at it. I then created another spear and continued fighting. I was starting to feel overwhelmed, I knew that I had to do my best move. First I used air to move the girl and AJ into the air. Then I did it. I jumped into the air, I then began spinning really fast. I then dropped out of the sky still spinning, then I hit the ground and instantly all of the GMP (government mpolice) were thrown in different directions. All of them were killed. I was now kneeling with my fist to the ground panting heavily. I stood up and brought the girl and AJ down. The girl was holding an ice sword and AJ was holding a double headed ax with the handle ice and each end was fire with unmeltable ice that was super sharp beneath it. Nice. I turned towards the girl but she beat me to it. "Hi I'm Elizabeth but please just call me Liz or Liza. I control water. The GMP kidnapped me so that I would defeat you guys for them. Last week I would have been happy to help them but now I know that they're just power hungry idiots. But you guys have guts, and how do you both control two elements?" I gave her a confused look. She sighed, "There were only two people in history who could ever control two elements." Wow. Liza then looked at me. "Your really pretty, how old are you?" "16, you?" Liza smiled, "14." I smiled back an then looked at AJ surprised that he had stayed quiet through that whole conversation. AJ looked thoughtful. Looking at him I slowly started to wonder something. I didn't quite know what I was wondering about, but I just had that feeling like I was starting to wonder something. But just as I did Liza interrupted my thoughts with one if her own, "You guys would be a super cute couple!" I wanted to snort, but settled for a short laugh. "Funny you should mention that on the mission to find his true love that in prisoned him in an hourglass ," I couldn't hide the bitterness in my tone. Liza gave me a look that said 'we will talk about this' but settled for saying "oh." I looked at AJ to see how he reacted to my bitterness towards his true love. He actually seemed to be studying me before saying, "She in prisoned me because of a huge misunderstanding, and that would be another huge bonus for this mission: finding and killing the guy who tricked her." Now it was my turn to reply with "oh." When did my AJ suddenly become serious AJ. Why can't Cate just be dead and he can turn his attention towards me? Wait that was a terrible thing to think and I take it back. Liza shrugged. Then started walking in some random direction, over her shoulder she yelled "Come on love birds, lets get out of here. I wanna see the world." She smiled and winked, before walking off.
We are definitely going to be BFFs, I smiled before running after her.