Rise of the Elements

Chapter 14: Knockout

When we walked in there was an enormous chandelier and it was made entirely out of red crystals. The ballroom floor was diamonds and the walls were gold like the outside of the mansion. All the ball guests were dressed in big poofy ball gowns and wore lots of makeup. I was sure that we would have fun. We partied for hours, got sick from all the junk food, fell and tripped over each other. But when we tried talking to people they acted as if we were ghosts. Then Julie noticed her heels! "I never put these on!" She screamed as she changed the color of the heels to black. "Come on Julie!" Ariel said.

"No!" Said Julie. (She was always stubborn.)Then we just gave up and started dancing more. Soon after we heard a DING! The clock struck midnight. "Already?" April said. Then on the second ding the people and walls flickered like holograms, and the walls showed a gross concrete lair. "Guys did you see that?" Julie said. "Yeah we should get going." Ariel said. DING! It flickered again. "Why would you leave? The party has just begun." Said a figure in the dark. At that moment a weird devil creature emerged from the dark and the holograms turned solid and pointed guns at us. Then their faces then melted to bull creatures and the devil creature flicked his hand at us and sleep darts shot us in the chest. It felt like a sharp pencil going through my heart. Then everything faded. The last thing I saw was the creature putting a bag over my head.

"What happened?" April asked. "Oh, owwww! What happened?" I asked. "She just said that you idiot." Julie told me. I hate when she does that. "Guys? Where are you? I can't see a thing!" Ariel called out from the other side of the room. A light started to glow from the far end of the room. "I think you will be able to see with this," Julie said. She pulled out her wand. "Oh, right." I said. Ariel, April, and I pulled out our wands, and the ends started to glow. "Ok, so we can see, and all I see, is JAIL bars!" April yelled. "Well, that is a problem," I said. "Oh, I have a great idea!" Julie said. "Here Pepto!" She waved her light toward me, and I froze, my eyes filled with anger... I busted down the jail bars, and just when I was about to hit Julie, she turned off the light. I stopped, "Wow, nice super strength." Julie said. "Yeah, well," I said as I looked down at my beautiful guns, "I am pretty good." Julie just rolled her eyes. "Ok, so what do we do now, we have no idea where we are, and if Elementar comes, we are almost powerless!" Ariel said.

"Well, you could use your powers, cause you are the oldest, wind and rain can only get me so far, same with you, and Pepto, and even Julie. We can all use some type of spell, as long as it has to do with our power. So, if we have to face an enemy, then we will use what we already know, and make up some random stuff as we go along." April explained. "Great idea, so, like if that door right there is locked, we could use a spell, or use our powers, I could freeze it if need be!" Ariel exclaimed. "Yes! This is a great breakthrough in our power research." Pepto said, jumping up and down. "Guys Eraweb 'beware' Ratnemele 'Elementar'. Beware Elementar! How did we not get this?" April said.

"Let's go before-" Ariel was cut off, by the sound of a lock clicking inwards, they saw the door slowly open, and felt like they were in a horror movie. "I'm out." April whispered, as she turned herself invisible. "Breakfast time!!!!!" said an old, rusty, high pitched voice. With that, a fat woman in a maid suit walked in. She carried a tray of crusty old bread, and glasses of a murky liquid that all of us were afraid to even go near. "Well, I brought you all some water and toast..." The fat lady said, still not taking the time to look around.

"Well, actually, we are visitors here in the dungeon, and we don't want to disturb our old friend's feeding session." Ariel told the fat lady, with only Pepto visible behind her. Julie was still sitting in the cell, which looked 'OK' after what Pepto had done to it, and April was standing right next to Ariel and Pepto, but she was using her power of invisibility. "Well, I don't remember any visit schedules! Actually, I don't recall that we had any visitor policy at all!" She then shape shifted to the appearance of a tall man with a mask on. "RUN!" April screamed. Julie teleported to Elementar as Pepto took April's hand and ran. Ariel stayed as backup with shots of ice, just waiting to pierce Elementar's cold blooded heart. He walked up to Julie, she held her ground, both of the girls were shaking. Julie made a few unseen hand motions behind her back and Ariel shook her head, but had a face of doubt. "You will never defeat me!" Elementar said with a sly grin. "Yeah... You are right," Ariel sighed, "I mean, it's not like we could learn about our powers in a few days. That is just crazy right Julie!" Ariel and Julie had a plan. "Yeah, I don't even know how to do spells!" She lied. "Ha! You will never defeat me!" He cackled as he drew his weapon, he didn't even need to play mind games with these untrained 'heroes.'

"NOW!" Ariel said. "chorós Elementar!" Julie said some spell in greek and whipped her wand at Elementar. "Ha! lol! Do you really think that a dancing spell is going-" Julie spun him around, his muscles ripped when he went down into the splits, he screamed in agony. He jumped to inhuman heights, and spun at crazy speeds, but, despite his pain, throughout it all, Julie and Ariel were on the floor laughing. "When I find you and your precious friends, it will be the slow... Painful end, of all of you! AHHOOWWWWW!!!!!" He yelled. Ariel looked at Julie with a worried expression. Then Julie just grinned when she made Elementar dance again, this time, his tippy toes bent the wrong way.