Elemental Problems

Earth's Fight With The Skye

Skye had waken up early and had joined May in her Tai Chi and then had spent half an hour sparring with her. After being knocked on her back only four times - a personal record - she had finally called it.

"You're getting good." May commented.

Skye scoffed and replied, "If you call being knocked down four times, good, then I'll accept it."

May chuckled and left the room, nodding slightly to Elizabeth who was standing in the door. Skye looks at Elizabeth and beckons her in.

"Whatcha need?" Skye asks her as Elizabeth made her way into the room.

"Um, so I talked to Coulson this morning and he told me that I could stay, even if I tried to kill May and knocked you out. He said to come talk to you about training and stuff." Elizabeth replied.

"Yeah, ok, since you are and Inhuman your training will be a little different from other people's. While you are still getting trained in self-defense we will be working on enhancing and controlling your powers...."

Before she could continue Elizabeth asked a question. "What is an Inhuman?"

Skye looks at her, "An Inhuman is a line of powered descendants from humans that were made by an alien species called the Kree. They have a genetic marker in their DNA that activates when the person goes through the mist, kinda like a ritual. Were you not analyzed and prepared before you went through the mist?"

"I've never gone through 'the mist' or anything like that."

"Oh, I see, your powers developed after the fish oil incident."

"I don't take fish oil tablets. My mom said they were artificial and not needed."

"So you are telling me that you have never gone through the mist and have never taken any type of fish tablet?" Elizabeth nods. "Damn kid. So you are a gifted. Nice."

Elizabeth looks down before saying, "My mom always told me I was special. She told me that I was the youngest of them all. She said when I was ready that I would know what to do. The day I got my powers was the day they disappeared. Poof. Gone. No trace what-so-ever. And I looked. My parents. My older sister..... my baby brother." At this her voice cracks and tears ran down her cheek. "All gone."

"Hey hey hey. It's okay." Skye says hugging her, not mentioning the fact that one of the punching bags disintegrated behind Elizabeth. "Now how about we work on some forms for hitting. Come over here." Skye says, changing the subject while leading her over to a punching bag, opposite of the one that is destroyed.

"So," Skye continues, "show me one punch then we will get your hands taped."

Elizabeth nods and takes a deep breath. She gets into a stance and quickly strikes the bag. It gives a quick jolt and then settles back down.

Skye looks at her impressed at her form and her strength. "Where'd you learn to hit like that?" She asks.

"My dad thought it would be helpful for me to know some things. I've been learning since I was seven."

"Hmm. That is nice to know, well I still wanna see you punch this thing. So let's get your hands taped and we can begin." She smiles before turning to pick up some tape from the nearest bench. Before she can grab it Elizabeth was punching the bag.

Skye whips around to stop her from hurting herself but stops. Elizabeth's eyes were different. They were completely green. She had heard from Coulson, May, and Simmons that this happened when she was using her powers. Yellow for air, red for fire, blue for water, and, as Skye was seeing, green for earth. She tapped into the frequencies around her looking for anything growing or something changing.

The most powerful frequency was coming from the small teenager in front of her. At first glance nothing had changed but when you looked at her hands you can see that they have changed.

Her hands had a rough look to them. They were stone, Skye realized as she stared at them. Focusing on the stone in her hands Skye tried to see if the frequency of them would change. Absolutely nothing not even a small shake.

As if sensing the powers, Elizabeth lunges out at Skye landing a solid kick to her stomach. Skye doubles over and then stands back up, dodging the next hit. Skye jumps and rolls in the middle of the room and gets into a stance. She dodges another hit and makes a quick but powerful jab into her chest. Elizabeth staggers back but lands another hit into Skye's thigh.

Skye sends a wave towards Elizabeth hoping to knock her back but is only successful in slowing her down a little. This goes on for a while, each person landing a couple hits everytime.

Little does Skye and Elizabeth know is that May had gathered the team and they were standing just outside the training room looking in at the fight. Hunter and Mack were taking bets. So far Skye had most of them. Only three people placed a bet on Elizabeth. Simmons, May, and Coulson. Some of the people winced each time Elizabeth or Skye landed a good hit.

Elizabeth had just tackled Skye and had her pinned. She raised her fist as if to strike Skye's face. Skye threw up her hands to at least try to protect it. "I give up!" She closed her eyes waiting for the blow to come but all that came was laughter.

Elizabeth had rolled off her, crying from laughter. "Oh my god, you should have seen your face! It was priceless! You were like 'Aaaaaahh!'" Elizabeth tries to copy Skye's face but ends up just laughing more. Skye had a look of disbelief on her face.

"B-but..." She stutters, still shocked. She looks up and sees all her team gathered. Her face goes red.

"No buts. I won. Fair and square."

"But you cheated." Skye yelled, now laughing too.

"And you tried." Elizabeth smiles and stalks off. Pushing through the crowd and heading upstairs. Three of her team had smiles on their faces as the rest handed them their money, in disbelief.

May speaks up. "I take back what I said, you still have quite a bit of learning to do." She chuckles and Skye does too.

"I still think she cheated." Skye says, shaking her head.

A/N-- Hello my sweet angels, hope you enjoyed this chapter.