Crystal Powers

~17~

As they opened the doors to the library, Dawn began to look around, making sure she knew no one and that she wouldn't have been caught by child authority.

After she inspected the area, they made their way towards the nonfiction part of the library.

"They wouldn't have a section on something that they know don't exist," Camden said, looking at all the shelves. Dawn walked past the shelves and stopped at a corner and placed her hand on the beige-colored wall.

Suddenly, the wall began to shift, and it made a little entranceway. Dawn looked around the area once more, and then ushered the other 4 children into the passageway. As they all went inside, Dawn closed the wall behind them.

The place that Dawn had in mind looked like an old library, filled to the brim with hundreds upon hundreds of old books.

Phoenix took a glance at one of the book's spines. It had something to do with teleportation.

"Dawn...you found a library all about powers?" Phoenix said, still staring at the spine.

"Yes, it was a bit tricky, but I found it when I got pushed into this wall the day I met Camden," she said, not taking her eyes off of the shelves.

"Tesla, if you look over there, I think there might be a book on the original 4," Dawn said, pointing in a direction.

Tesla walked over and looked through all of the books filled with information. She grabbed the book Dawn was looking for and heading back to where she was. They all sat down at a table while Dawn flipped through the pages

"According to this page, this is what one of them apparently looked like." Dawn pointed to a page.

It was one that had wind power.

She showed a woman who had light hair and light eyes. "It would be more helpful if these had color," Sapphire said, trying to point out the features of the picture.

Suddenly, the picture did switch from black and white to color. They were stunned by how much the woman resembled Camden.

She had the same eye shape, the same paleness of skin, and most importantly, the same look when they evolved. She had the same shade of white that his hair gets, and the same eye color too. It was no surprise that this woman could be the one that he could have evolved from after many generations.

"Is there any information on her?" Camden asked.

Dawn quickly skimmed through the text around the picture. "It just keeps on talking about the prophecy," she said.

They searched more and more about the book, trying to find the slightest bit of information about anything that could help them. Unfortunately, they couldn't find anything.

Dawn put the book back, while the rest of them wandered around the large, mysterious place filled with knowledge.

Sapphire was in the corner of the library, looking at one of the shelves. She looked up to see what section she was even looking at. To her surprise, she was in the "Mighty Heroes" section.

Sapphire picked up a book that looked interesting to read: Stephano and Iris. She flipped to the first page and began reading.

The book talked about how these two people were among the greatest heroes in magical history - as they defended towns from lion prides that were hungry, healed the sick, and even managed to defeat one of the evilest people to have ever ruled over their kingdom.

As she was reading the book on these two heroes, she saw a sentence that caught her eye, "Legend has it that they had one child together and that he/she will be the next hero."

Sapphire read the sentence over again. "Wow, these people are incredible," she whispered, flipping the next page. She came to a surprise when a picture of the two was there.

The two were smiling at each other, happily caught in the other's eyes. Sapphire noticed that the picture was already in color. Iris looked a lot like Sapphire, with curly blonde hair, light freckles, and even the same skin tone. However, Stephano had the same eyes as Sapphire. She looked amazed as she noticed all the similarities between her and these two heroes. She put a bookmark where the picture of them is and went to go find the rest of the team.

While Tesla and Camden were talking about their parents, and Dawn and Phoenix were talking about the library, Sapphire ran to find them all.

"Guys!" she said, holding the book up to them. They all stared in confusion, wondering what was so special about the book. She opened the page with the bookmark and pointed to the two. Sapphire stepped back and watched as they switched their gaze to her and then back to Stephano and Iris

"Clearly they must have some relation," Tesla said, pointing at Sapphire.

Camden flipped to the next page. "Sapphire, come here. You might want to see this," he said, looking at what seemed to be another picture.

Sapphire peered her head over his shoulder to see what he had found. It was a picture of what Stephano and Iris looked like when they evolved.

The book said that both Iris and Stephano had the power of water. Iris's dark brown hair changed to an aquamarine color and her eyes went from light blue to a dark blue color. Stephano's normally sandy hair turned bleach blond, and his eyes went from brown to a vibrant purple.

"Wow, they look a lot like you, it even says that it is speculated they had a child, and since it would have been the firstborn child, it would have powers, like you!" Phoenix said, giving her a big smile.

"Well, there is only one person that would know that," Sapphire said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Who?" they all said in unison.

"My adoptive father."

"Wait, hold on a second, you are proposing that we go back to town, and talk with your father after you have been missing for months?" Dawn said, waving her arms all over the place out of frustration.

"It might be the only way that we know for sure. Besides, there is always an option of finding other places to live." Sapphire said, taking the book and looked back at the team, "You coming?" she asked.

Camden shrugged as he got up to go with her. They began to walk out until they heard a voice from the back say, "Good luck finding your way out."

Sapphire stopped, and then looked around the room. Sapphire went and opened one of the windows and looked down. There wasn't a big jump, so she slid her body through the frame and made her way out of the magical place, with Camden following behind.