Powers (Book 1)

Chapter 14: Empty Bottle

Caleb's POV:
"Ahhhh!" I scream as I throw water from the fountain on the tree. Brandon helps, but when we put the fire out, half of the trees leafs are gone.

"That was super close." I say, wiping the water on my pants. "Well well well. Look who we have here." And we turn around to see Kad holding a Life leaf in a bottle. "Glad you came, I thought the tree was going to burn to death." Kad says putting the bottle away. "What do you mean 'burn to death'?" Anthony asks putting his hand on his axe.

"Well you see, I can't touch the tree without burning it, even if I'm not blazing. So I thought, why not set it on fire right when the walk in. Bam! Tree can be used for another day. Thank you so much." Then he sets himself ablaze. People around us run, I don't know why, you would think they would call the police or something. When everybody has fled, we press our gems. FLASH!

"You want to give the leaf to us now, before this gets ugly?" I ask holding out my hand. "I'd rather take ugly." And Kad flies of. We go after him. He shoots fireballs at us while flying. I know that must not be easy. We evade the most we can. Anthony super screams, and Kad falls to the ground. "Why, why?!" Kad yells, recovering from the screech. "There's more where that came from." Anthony says about to scream. "Ok ok, I'll give you the bottle." And he hands Anthony the bottle.

"Can I go now?" Kad asks. "Sure, but don't set any trees on fire." I say. He flies off immediately. "Why did he just hand it over?" I ask Anthony. "I don't- What the-" and we see the bottle is empty.

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Brandon's POV:
"Woah, ok, too close for comfort." I say taking a step back. "Brandon, we're supposed to go down there." Leyla says forming her jetpack. "But Leyla, that's at least four million feet down!"

She glares at me. "Ok, not that deep, but still." "Caleb told us to go down there."

I stare at her for a second. "Ok ... lets go." We walk to the edge of the cliff. "Ready?" Leyla asks, adjusting her jetpack. "I'm ready." I lied. Then we jump off the cliff.

I lowered my self slowly down the canyon, and if you can't guess, I have a fear of heights. Not like Ferraris wheel high, like skyscraper high. "Are you Ok?" Leyla asks circling around me.

"U-huh." I say never stopping to look down. We go down the canyon slowly. Very, very slowly. And when we got to the ground, Leyla says, "Finally, I thought we were never going to touch the ground." "Ha, ha, very funny." I say, walking over to the river. "The river is super long , how are we supposed to find the rock?" I ask.

"I don't know. Henry?" Leyla says. "Need something?" "Yeah, how do we find the rock?" "Great question Leyla. Well, you can find the rock on the edge of the river." "You mean the beginning of the river, because that's too far." I say, looking for the end. "No, I mean the sides of the river." "Oh." "Anyway, call me if you need something else." "Ok bye. Come Brandon, lets search." And she pushes all the water towards the other side.

I start looking through the sand. "I can't see any rocks." Then I find the rock. "Never mind." Then the water washes back to us. "Ok, time to go." Leyla says flying off.