Run From The Darkness

A New Power And Some Not So Friendly Company

As the sun started to set, there wasn't a village or town in sight, so we had to make refuge on a small island in the middle of a large pond. I set up a small hut made of slabs of granite I just conveniently found lying around. you know, it's really useful being able to move rocks and all, but it isn't as fun as playing with water.

All of the elements have their perks, but water is my favorite. It just flows with the world like it wasn't meant to do its own thing. It goes where fate takes it, and stops when it has nowhere to go. That is how I wish life was for me; just point somewhere and go, then stop when you feel like it. Thats the real meaning of free. My understanding of water is phenomenal. It just keeps getting better and better as my control does.

The elements work in sections; like teams almost. The team captains are light and dark. the payers are evenly spread between the two teams. On team darkness, we have fire and earth. On team light we have water and wind. The team captains are even. They can do no damage to each other. Each element has a tribe. After you get your element, the leader of the tribe your element belongs to asks if you would like to spend the next 5 years with your parents, or join the tribe immediately. Then after, you get to chose to stay with your parents, or leave to learn your element better

When I was born with all the elements my parents didn't know what to do with me. They obviously couldn't let me join a clan already. Plus when the time came, I wouldn't have a clan to join. I mean sure, I had fire; and wind, and water, and earth. But I had all of them, so I didn't fit the critique of any clan. People had heard of someone with no power, but not someone with all of them. I was better at some elements rather than other. I always had more control and command on earth and fire. This is because I also have command of darkness. This can be useful at times because their the more dominating elements. But sometimes it's a burden. I hate being the one who dominates. I wish I could just be used instead of using.

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I went through most of the night thinking these thoughts. As soon as my eyelids dropped I started dreaming. There was little girl about 4 years older than jackie. She looked normal to me, except the glint in her eye, almost as if they where made of crystals. The color was so beautiful; a sapphire blue with specks of gold. When I approached, she greeted me as an old friend would. "Hello Dominic. How are you this morning," she said. It was so proper, like she had been born 1000 years ago. When I got close enough she came and hugged my leg. Scream. all I could hear was screaming. It was the scream of a little girl. I thought it was just a part of the dream, but It didn't stop, and this young girl was holding onto my leg smiling like I had been their her whole life. I didn't know that scream, but I knew I would never forget it. It was giving me chills just thinking about what it came from.

All around me. All I saw was black. I couldn't see my hands though I new they were right in front of my face. I had a really irritating feeling in my eyes, but I couldn't tell what was causing it. It's like I was in a box sealed so tight that no light could get through. All I could hear was screaming. Now it was more people. Maybe seventy screaming voices. Then it all stopped. No screaming. Just absolute silence. I heard something drop. The sound came from behind me, but when I looked back I still couldn't see anything. I heard another "thump" behind me. This made me really scared, but just as curious. Light started flooding in and saw two bodies. My mom's and my dad's. Then another. And another. Then more and more until everyone who had screamed was piled on the ground. Everyone I knew lying on the ground with those same sapphire blue eyes the little girl had. standing right in the middle of a circle of my most loved family was that little girl staring at me.

I screamed for help from the others, and when they arrived they seemed confused. All they saw was a huge pile of shining crystals and metals with a little girl right next to it. When I turned away from them back to the pile of corpses, that's all I saw too. What was it with this girl? I had never met her in my life, yet I knew her from my dream just moments before.

All the others got along with her, this little girl with sapphire-gold eyes. I couldn't shake the feeling that she had some bad karma in her midst though. I didn't mind the extra body to take with me, or the extra mouth to feed. It was the silence that bothered me. Since we met in the woods next to all the jewels and golds all she has said was hello Dominic. It freaked me out that she knew my name. It also made me mad that she got to hop on the ban wagon without a word, but I had to beg my parents. I guess that's what she gets for being a stranded ten year old. What was it with her? Everyone else thought she fit in just fine. Me? I think she is up to something.

Right when that thought popped into my head I fell to the ground crying out. All these negative thoughts going through my head. I couldn't explain it if I wanted to. All of a sudden the thoughts disappeared. They were gone and so was I. I was in that black place again. The screaming started again. The dead bodies fell once again, and then the little nameless girl was there. She smiled a mean, evil smile. Out loud she said "You did this Dominic. You are the one at fault. You aught to just join them."

Then I started screaming again. I yelled for help. I would've taken help from anyone. When the others showed up in my dark place, the pile of dead bodies was gone again, and again in its place was a pile of jewels and gold.

I closed my eyes. It had to be a dream. It had to. None of it made sense. It happened twice to me. Two times did I see a pile of dead people turn into a pile of riches. I just stayed there, lying on the ground. It had to have been 10 minutes before I opened my eyes. When I did everyone screamed. I jumped up and looked behind me.

"What is it? What did you see?" I asked. They all gathered around me. Fodjour sat right next to me. "Your eyes turned purple. They looked like amethyst. How did you do that?"

"I didn't know I had"