An Elemental Justice

an elemental Justice chp5

CHAPTER 5:

FIGHT AND FLIGHT

I'm not alone. When my parents died I was devastated. I still am, but that pain had lessened. I have a twin. I can't believe it. How is this possible. My whole life has been me not fitting in, being an outsider. Having no one to express my problems to. I was an only child. Had my parents given her away when we were born. Was I given away and my parents weren't really my parents? So many questions. But I have at least one answered. I'm not alone. Not just in body but in powers as well. Kiara has the same abilities as me... except... I am water and earth, she is fire and air. Its so weird, so magical, so amazing. Finally I can have someone to relate to... my twin... Kiara. I will never die alone.

I shut my diary and breathe in the air Kiara was blowing around my head. She was lying on my bed while I wrote. We hadn't separated since the phone call. We had just been getting to know each other and our powers. It was so exciting; I have never felt so alive. Having another me was beautiful I had never felt so free.

"So who knows about our powers?" I ask Kiara.

"Well the Halts know... which is this family, you know, Chase , the twins and their mum. And that's it". I blink.

"Really?" I ask, "They even know about mine"?

"Oh, whoops, sorry, I meant that they know about mine, but I wouldn't surprised if they guessed by now, I'm mean, how else could you have beaten that werewolf and plus you're my twin". She says but only one word sinks in.

"Werewolf"? I ask. Kiara clamps a hand over her mouth.

"Oops", she mutters. I glare at her.

"Kiara, tell me everything". She grins sheepishly

"Ok", she says, she takes a deep breath and says "well you obviously heard me say werewolf and no you didn't mishear me. There is such thing as werewolves, and vampire, and angels, and... " I cut her off

"What is this families species". She looks at me nervously.

"What makes you think they aren't human?" she asks. I give her a 'I'm not dumb look. "Ok, lets see, they talk like they don't know anything about humans, they aren't freaked out by our powers, the creepy twins just happened to be walking in the forest at about 3am and coincidently find me..." this time Kiara cuts me off.

"Ok, ok, I get your point. Do you really want to know the truth"? she asks. I nod.

"They're demons". Short and to the point. My mouth falls open.

"This world s so screwed up". I say in monotone. Kiara nods her head in agreement. "So, do we have a species, or a we just mutated humans"? I ask laughing. This time, she looks at me dumbly. "We're elementals, duh". My head is spinning. This was a lot of information to take in.

"Okay", I say slowly, "new question, how are we twins, who is our real parents"? Kiara laughs.

"Parents?" She asks. "Elementals don't have parents. Elementals are made from the elements. It's so rare to have twins though. All it means was that the elements tried to make someone have all the powers but they weren't strong enough for it and it didn't work and that person got split into two making an identical twin so they can carry two of the elements each". She smiled happily.

"No parents? No mum or dad?" I ask quietly. Kiara's smile fades.

"I'm sorry Kiana. It must be weird for you after having a mum and dad for your whole life and then nothing. I'm not even sure how you ended up with them. All I know was that I was brought up in an orphanage until I met Chase, then I moved in here with the rest". She looked at me sympathetically. I sighed. And then smiled. "At least I have found my sister". I said. Immediately her face lit up.