The Unknown

Chapter six

Getting out of my bed, I think about yesterday. On how they didn't even care about me. Walking over to the bathroom I hear a knock. Ignoring it, I wet my toothbrush and begin brushing.

Ugh. Probably them trying to make me do my same stupid schedule again as always.

The knocking soon becomes pounding, and as I rinse out my mouth, I yell,

"What!?" Silence. Then I hear someone clearing their throat.

"Hey kid, it's me." Finn. Oh, I forgot. He was actually on my side, urging them to let me do some missions in the first place. "Kid, I know you have a point..."

"I know, you're on their side, aren't you." I snap.

"No. Actually, I'm not," he scratches his head. "I don't have any opinion really. You have a good point on how you want to feel the experience. But they have good point on how you could be killed." I think some more on the whole "being killed" thing.

"Killed! I'd never be killed." Finn gives me a crazy look.

"You have no idea what they'd do to you if they found out who you are," he lowers his voice. "They think you're the hero, remember?"

"Yeah, but so what if I haven't gotten my powers yet. I'm sure this is normal."

"And I'm sure it's not!" He yells, then realizes he is yelling, and clears his voice. "Marco, this is nothing to be messing around with. It's like saying that a human can go against those monsters."

"But I'm not a human!" I yell back at him. "I'm an element! Just like you!"

"You're no better yuan a human!" He snaps, and it hits me.

"You're right..." I mumble, and he is right.

"Kid, I never finished," he says smirking. "If you wanna die, then you wanna die," I try to say something, but he stops me. "... and the others agree."

"Really?" I question, bewildered by what he said. "How could the elementals agree on something like that?"

"Yep. Can't believe it either." Finn says grinning. I then noticed how young he still looked, his smile still the same after the years.

"You know, you haven't changed at all, I mean, physically. None of you guys look old or anything." He just laughs.

"Emma doesn't teach you much about our culture or anything, does she."

"Not really." He cracks up, me having no idea what's going on.

"Marc, basically I've been looking twenty-seven for almost three-thousand years in a nutshell."

"Woah." And somehow, I'm not much surprised. So much has happened in the three years I've had that I am rarely surprised anymore when it comes to all his extraterrestrial stuff with the elements.

"Our bodies stop growing once we reach our prime."

"Interesting," I say. "I wonder when I'll stop." I then sit on my bed and stare at the ceiling. What if I truly am this "hero"? What would I do? What if I were to mess up and do so many things I'd regret. I don't really know the answer, but I wish I'd get my powers soon.

"Hey! Get down here!" Blake yells, and Finn and I proceed downstairs. Blake was wearing his mission clothes, a leather jacket and jeans. I don't know why, but apparently these are the best clothes to wear if you're going out to beat up people. I heard Emma in the background tapping on the mission screen board, sounding angry. Finn however, had no clue what was going on.

"What's up, hot head?" Finn teases Blake, but he just give Finn a glare.

"It's the girl again," Emma says, running into the room, her long hair all over. "She is corrupted again, and the evil elementals are harassing her." I then think about that girl again. She never told me her name...

"Kid," Finn starts, saying his usual nickname for me. "This is your chance to actually participate with orders."

"Yes Finn." I say. Then running upstairs, I slip on my trench coat, and we're out the door.

~♢~

"Marco, you will keep the girl from going over the edge." Emma says, as we approach a building. On top, I can hear them fighting as last time.

"Tell me where he is!" The same man says. All of us start up the building, of course me having to go up by hand.

"I don't know!" She yells, and the man slaps her.

"How do you fail... just as you failed your parents!" He proceeds to slap her, the girl whimpering.

"Vick, I-I didn't mean to..." Before she could finish, Blake rushed up the building and pounds the ground with a full fire fist.

"The elementals! Fight for your lives! I will protect the girl!" Vick shouts, and he picks her up and jumps to another building.

"Go!" Finn lips to me, and I jump onto the next building.

"Tell... me." Vick mumbles through gritted teeth, and I walk behind him.

"I-uh..." the girl sees me, but focuses on him. I then punch Vick right in the back while also kicking the back of his knee. A martial arts takedown move Blake taught me. The girl collapses on the ground panting, her body covered in toll.

"Miss..." I wait for an answer, her looking me in the eyes.

"Assane." She replies.

"Ah, Assane the water bearer," I say, pulling her up. "I'm Marco."

"H-hello Marco." She stutters. Her body is soaked, and covers in toll almost completely.

"We need to get you out of here." I concluded, picking her up.

"Oh no you're not," Emma chimed in, appearing on a vine. "We checked her background, and Assane is dangerous. We will have to blase her." I look and her. Blasing was the way of imprisoning, or killing an element for thousands of years as punishment.

"There is no way. She protected me and didn't tell them where I was," I plead, but they all have that same look on their faces. "Finn..."

"Kid, I have nothing to say. They're right." Finn gulped, and I am surprised by this. Off all people, Finn was the one that I seemed the closest to. But all of a sudden, he is seeming serious. I placed her on the ground.

"Marco..." she looked at me. "They're right. I've done too many wrong things to not be blased."

"No. People change! I won't let this happen!" I argue, but they proceed. Finn steps forward, Emma and Blake following. Finn starts by neon drawing a circle around her, following by a square in vines by Emma, and an triangle of fire from Blake.

"Kid... I'm sorry." Finn says, before they say the phrases in the blase process. I look away, I've seen them banish souls too many times.

"By the plants of the earth, the fire of the heart, and the light of the soul, we blase the soul of Assane the water bearer for being unworthy of element label. We cleanse thee-"

"WAIT!" I scream, and all of a sudden a flash of lightning occurs, and I appear somewhere else. Everyone disappeared, and I fall to the ground, astonished by what happened. Grey sludge circles around, and there is only a moon shining down, I not being able to see anything much; none but a large figure levitating above me.

"Well hello Marco..."