Discovering Elements

How Long Can I Wait? (Kaiti and Izak)

                                                                                            (Kaiti)

I woke up, pain searing on my forehead. My throat was dry and painful. I guess I had fallen asleep after hours of yelling. I got up and my whole body was sore. I must have hit the stone floor hard. I grew apprehensive, worrying if I was going to be rescued. I grew into a horrible mess. First, I cried and cradled myself on the ground. I then grew fearful of everything, even the mouse that came from a hole in the wall. I quickly moved to hoping every sound was my rescuer. I grew bored, and just kind sat there.

                                                                                             (Izak)

I stood up slowly, my burns still burning and my toe almost to normal size. Cai and Lily were fine, and  she had surprised me. She seemed nice, making me suspicious. I slipped back into sleep. A spark left my hand as I fell asleep.

"Up! Up! Fire!" I jumped up as Lily went around gathering the little supplies we had. Cai was waking up, but was way to tired to be of immediate help. I went around, trying to gather the burning energy in front of me. I soon became to sick to stand, energy levels fluctuating too quickly to map. Cai stood up and went around, getting the burning supplies, walking through flames. Lily starting yelling something that I didn't hear. Blood rushed to my head, stomach acids leaving my stomach. I stayed conscious, but just blurry. I felt myself vomiting, heat roaring around me. The grass was cooling. It still burnt, but it was cooling. 

I woke up at the bottom of the mountain, facing towards it. Their were many people surrounding the spot. Lily walked into my view. She was holding some type of soup, but I never knew what it was. I ate it, my stomach graciously taking it in. She brought another bowl, and I ate it slower, but still fast. Cai told me we had to go before they come down. We started a trek after I got up. I limped but Lily helped hold me up. A bird flew over my head and dropped an envelope in my jacket hood. The bird then dropped to the ground. It morphed quickly into a person, a girl with beautiful brown-red hair, sparkling blue eyes, tall, and skinny. She smiled, her lips red as cherries. She grabbed the piece of paper, her fingernails painted the same red as her lips were. She spoke, and her voice was silk. "Hello, I just thought you should know your heading for a trap.", Her hips off to the side with her hand on them. 

We walked to the right, and I stared at the girl the whole time. Cai and Lily seemed not to be bothered by her, but I was infatuated. Leaves started to rustle behind us as shouting erupted. Their trap had been set off by a chipmunk.

We ran into a clearing, and a house was in the middle. An old man was in the garden drinking some lemonade. The house was made of dark brown logs. The old man looked over and saw us. He opened his mouth, and instead of giving us away, yelled "Mackenzie!". A young girl came out of the house with her curly dark brown hair bouncing gently as she ran at us. She grabbed our arms and whispered quickly in our ears "Come with me if you want to live.". She pulled us into the house and shoved us into a closet of sorts. A muffled "Hold on" came through the door as the floor fell beneath us. Squeaks surrounded us, but there was only a couple of mice. 

"Girl with the red hair -Cai -Lily! Where are you?" My voice echoed through the chamber. I heard lily squeak "Ewwww! It's so wet!". The ceiling above creaked as someone walked across it. Loud voices could be heard, but I only "No-Jail-Capture-Kill" out of the conversation. We waited for what must have been hours before light flooded into the dark chamber

Mackenzie came through a cellar door, so we must have been in the cellar. When the light flooded in, it showed the room. It was full of jars with food inside them. She handed us each flashlights, and started to go down a tunnel. "Why should we trust you?" my voice broke the silence. Cai smiled at me, proud that I was able to asses the situation so quickly. I was angry that he considered himself higher than me, but I knew we had to go. "Well, I haven't killed you yet, now have I?" came into my mind during our face battle. 

We started to go, but then Cai dropped his flashlight. It shattered on contact with the ground. He shrugged and then lit his hand on fire. Mackenzie looked surprised, but then led us on, only a little faster now. Cai and the red haired girl started a converstion, but I don't know what. I was upset, him laying his eyes on my girl. I turned around, ready to kill. 

Sparks flew from my hands as Cai ducked. I attacked him with all my energy, the cave cackling. Cai started to run back, refusing to fight me. I sent a lightning bolt down the cave, magnified by the water on the walls. He dodged it but his hair was on end. He then threw the same attack at me. Why was I controlling electricity anyways? I am fire.

The girl noticed my confusion, and clarified that his power includes sending it over a distance for another person to borrow, as most elementiá can do. His was special, he could do it forcefully. He heard it to, and I felt energy pull back. Cai used then started draining my energy. I grew fatigued, falling to my knees. He realilized what he was doing and he tried pulling in. I heard the red-haired girl yell no, but everything seemed to change. The earth wavered, and then changed. I began to loose sight of the solid things and see the energy. I looked down to a floating ball of energy, and thats all I was. I heard Cai yell before I started to run.

Cai came into focus as I ran towards him. He was a surprised as me. I told him to use his power to bring us back. As his aura grew in concentration, I saw strands of energy moving around him. I tried using my power, and my own energy depleted. He pulled energy from outside his body, he was special. What element is this under? It's not fire, water, air, or earth, or is it a combination of all four?

The energy forms around me grew more solid as Cai returned us to our  own reality. They watched us waver into existance in front of them. I didn't tell anyone my find, but rather talked about it. The girls began fighting immediatly. "I thought I recognized you!" "There is no way you could" You will not do it to me again Madison!" "I already have", They went back and forth, Mackenzie implying that Madison is evil. I went to stop them. Mackenzie seemed to focus, and stray rocks picked themselves up. A roaring tornado of rocks developed, rocks flying towards Madison. Madison began focusing but I could not tell what she was doing. I felt the sudden urge to attack Mackenzie, but I held it in. Cai wasn't as strong. He threw lightning at Mackenzie, but I jumped into the way. I was shocked and flew against the wall. I smelt chicken, and then I passed out.

                                                                                    (Kaiti)

I flipped over, another feeling of foreboding in me. A shadow ran over my face. I looked into the darkness of my cage and saw a small form, a little girl. The little girl smiles at me with a toothy grin. Half of her teeth are out and she is holding the things in my pockets. She then started to floss with my dental floss, and flipping my coins. I hate it when people take things without asking. I walked over and tried to nicely get my stuff back. She denied taking it while still playing with it. 

I sat there trying to bargain with her when she slapped me and told me to stop bothering her. I slapped the girl in the face back, and it soon turned into an all out brawl. I easily overpowered her, her being only around 9. Guards come in and starting taking her out. I attack the guards and run out. During a fight with a guard, the wristband I was given gets busted off. I begin using my powers to make their water bottles drain and attack them. The girl I was fighting comes beside me, and begins fighting with me. I bust her wristband off and she disapeared in the shadows.

I was left to fend them off as my only ally decided to run. I hit a guard in the face and then sprinted down the hallway. I turned left, right, and some other directions. I then barged through a door to hide in the room. I heard them sprint down the hallway, not even noticing me. I turned around, relieved. A person in a lab coat stood smiling me creepily, over a body. I shrieked and passes out.