Ellis the Glitch

First Meeting

I leave the Speedie track as silently as I can, to avoid waking any of the other members of my division. I still can't believe the Sloppies won the Glitchketball tournament! Now, I REALLY want revenge on Claire!

I creep slowly across the thick pavement to the line of trees where I met Siera Valior, the mysterious girl, yesterday. I look around, and the woods are silent. Sighing, I turn back towards the buildings of WGO HQ. Although I half expected her to no show, I'm still a bit disappointed. 

"Looking for me?" 

I turn around with a jerk, to see Siera staring me in the face!

"Um...yeah." 

"Sorry if I scared you," Siera laughs. "Icehearts can be pretty sneaky if we want to." 

"What even is an Iceheart anyway?" 

"We're supreme beings," Siera smiles proudly. "We have powers and resources you humans wouldn't dream of, and right now, we're using all of that for one thing and one thing only." 

"And what's that?" 

"Why, destroying the one you know as Claire King of course," Siera laughs. 

"Really!?" my eyes light up with excitement.

"Yes," Siera shoots me a malicious grin. "This is where you come in. Help us, and we'll give you this in return," she pulls a small syringe out of the pocket of her leather jacket and hands it to me. 

I take it and turn it over in my hands to see that it's filled with some kind of weird, bluish liquid. 

"What is it?" I ask. 

"It's called the Iceheart Serum," she explains. "It turns you into an Iceheart. With this, you could be one of the most powerful people in the universe! However, it has never been tested on humans before...oh well, I'm sure that it should be fine, since we're not very anatomically different."

"It has never been tested on humans...but what about you?" I raise an eyebrow, even more confused than before. 

"Me? A stupid little human?" Siera snorts. "Of course not! I'm a Lessenite!" 

"What's that?" I ask. 

"You're really full of questions, aren't you?" Siera sighs. 

"You're really full of mysteries," I shrug. 

"The others will tell you more later, if you agree to my offer. Do you?" 

"I just have one more question, and then I'll decide," I tell her. "Why do you guys- Icehearts- want to kill Claire?" 

"I can't tell you that right now, it's a really, really long story." 

"Okay..." I pause for a second to think. This girl seems nice, and she also seems to hate Claire just as much as I do. I decide to give her a chance. 

"I accept." 

"Good. See you here again tomorrow, same time, same place."