Fire

Chapter Two

"I heard you're the worst Fire in town." Damon whispered from behind me while I was on my way to combat class. Unfortunately, we shared that class together.

"And who told you that?" I spat.

Damon held a fairly large ball of water in his hand and I was completely prepared to defend myself from getting that water all over me. His blue eyes, which signified that he was a Water, looked as hot as his heart must be.

"I saw you practicing this morning. You're 17, you should be able to replicate lightening and yet you probably can't even boil water."

I glared at Damon. Anger rushed through my veins and was seeping out of my pores. I was ready to lunge at him and give him a nice mark or two on his stuck up face when one of his friends called him over.

I almost stopped him just to get a punch it, but decided he wasn't worth it. I needed to save my energy for my practice later. I'd decided I'd go back to the beach and work on my heat. I desperately needed to approve and very obviously now had to avoid using the school's materials to practice before people actually got to school.

When I walked into the gym, Mrs. Serena sat in the middle of the gym with her eyes closed breathing deeply. She did this sometimes. She'd have a teacher of whatever element outside our view defending her as she just sat there. The teacher we couldn't see was supposed to defend her with his or her element from us and we were supposed to get Mrs. Serena. Well, we'd have to touch her shoulder or something. Each year, only four or five people actually succeeded.

I stood near the corner of the gym, watching others try to get to Mrs. Serena. For a moment, there was a small breeze that flew by me. I saw a figure in my peripheral and didn't bother to look towards it until it said my name.

Standing there was a tall man, wearing a red and black uniform. His eyes were a piercing red and I could practically feel the Fire in him leaking out onto me. He stared at me, emotionless. I thought I was seeing things until one of the Air's wind hit him, causing it blonde hair to fly in front of his face. Almost robotically, he moved the hair back away from his face and started walking towards me.

"Who are you? You probably shouldn't be here." I crossed my arms, feeling something I couldn't describe. Warm, maybe?

"Look." The man said, pointing towards the commotion of people trying to use their element to get to Mrs. Selena. I did as he told and looked around. "Now, here's a quick secret lesson for you, Elizabeth." He said in a much friendlier voice than he had before.

The man put his hand on my shoulder. I quickly jerked away but then he gave me a look that asked, "Do you trust me?" There was something about the way he looked at me and how his red eyes looked past mine, deeper. The longer his eyes looked into mine, the more I felt that I could trust him, so I let him put his hand on my shoulder.

I felt a hot rush of energy rush through me at the man's touch on my shoulder. He broke eye contact and nodded back towards the commotion. I looked at them and suddenly saw something very different than I had moment ago.

Instead of there just being students blasting balls of dirt at the teacher, I saw the force field that surrounded Mrs. Selena. I wasn't sure how, but I'd known what the strong and weak points looked like in the force field. Every element fired at the force field did little to no damage to it at all because the force field was demolishing whatever was being thrown at it before it was hit, making it almost impossible to know there was a force field. But I knew.

I stared at the students for a little longer before I had realized something. There was no person hiding somewhere out of our sight. The force field was retaliating for being attacked. We learned about force fields like that in elementary school. They weren't extremely complicated, but it was one of those things people really didn't do because it required blood. We weren't taught how much blood though. All I know is that, for example, and Earth would have to give blood for the force field to retaliate with the earth.