Elements of Freedom

Chapter Nine

62 Years Ago

26th December 2004

00:07 am

She kept doing it to me. Every time I convinced myself that I would move on and ignore what I had attempted to place behind me, she kept forcing me back and kept demanding we practise to see what we could do together. To see what would happen if we let go, let our power take over us. Frankly, the thought scared me. I knew what it was like to allow myself to be taken over by my power - but there was always a small part of me that I allowed to hold on just in case. I was afraid of what we were capable of. She wasn't, she had no fear and no worry of letting go and letting her power rule her.

Wherever I ran to, she would find me. She found me in Hong Kong, England, Brazil, Indonesia, and Alaska. However, recently I had been hiding in a resort area of Khao Lak, for three weeks with absolutely no problems - or so I had thought. But, deep down I knew it was all too good to be true. I received a frantic phone call from her, telling me that she had a plan that could alter everything, a plan that would truly demonstrate our abilities, she promised to let me live my life my way if I did this one last thing with her. The sweet thought of being able to settle down and live like a real person, was music to my ears. I pictured sitting on a pool side with a blonde haired woman beside me, whilst drinking ice cold beers, and singing summer songs. I saw myself grow old with a family around me. It was too much to resist. The thought of a normal life - that was something I would do anything for. So, I said yes. I had to, it was my only chance.

A quiet knock on the door made my body wake up, and force me to sit up. I began to walk towards the white door across from my bed.

"Coming, hold on." I shouted whilst pulling on my damp swimming shorts, not bothering with a top. The Thai air was still warm for me, even on Boxing Day. I reached for the door handle and pressed down, revealing the familiar face of a woman I had recently become friendly with during my stay.

"Hello, Daeyeh. I wasn't aware that I ordered room service." I said whilst standing in the door way holding back my smirk.

"Very funny." Daeyeh handed me a bottle of slightly warm wine as she attempted to squeeze into my budget room.

"As much as I enjoy your company, I have plans to meet an old friend, could we do this another night?" My heart was thumping so hard that I couldn't help but panic that she could sense my worry.

"I could always wait here for you." I could tell she was eager to spend time with me. I answered her with a nod. Holding the door open for her, she kissed my check on her way in, and took the wine from my tight grip. I contemplated running back in to grab a shirt but time was against me. Looking down at my watch, the minutes had sprinted on since she had called me - since her haunting voice poisoned my ears with it's demanding and deadly tone.

00:27 am

My feet lead me towards the beach without any thought from myself or any voice in my head telling me to run to the furthest corners of the Earth. As soon as my toes touched the warm sand my worries seemed to melt into the soft yellow grains below me. The sea swayed with the light wind, kissing the shore every second or two. I sat down, and closed my eyes taking in the peace of my surroundings. I hoped it would last forever.

"I didn't think you would turn up." The voice whispered in my left ear. Causing my body to jump up from the ground. Clearly, no happiness or serenity can stay for a long period in my life.

"You didn't leave me much of a choice." I hissed back at her, fiddling with my increasingly sweaty fingers. She smiled in my direction, and then abruptly looked at the black diamanté watch that was sat on her wrist.

"What do you want me to do, Ivy?" I questioned her. She seemed uninterested as she pulled up small grains of sand from the shore laid out in front of us. I instructed the water below her feet to rise up and grip her, forcing her to turn to face me.

"Chill. I was only warming up for the main event," She maintained a straight face. "Now, do as I tell you. Listen more carefully than you have ever listened before. Do you understand?" I nodded my head at her question. She reached for my face, and gently closed my eyes with her soft fingers. "Keep them closed. I need you to picture the inside of the earth with me, picture two tectonic plates colliding and one going under another. Picture the destruction, picture the consequences. Picture how the earth would shake. Picture how your waves will roar, and how they will fly over the ground. Let it go, let it all go. Use a place you have been, a place perhaps you didn't like. Start there, and then continue. Picture it, feel it, make it happen."

00:28 am

My eyes remained closed, I felt the overpowering feeling, and I let it rule me. I pictured Indonesia, and I began there and created destruction. I pictured two plates and one falling beneath the other, just as she had ordered. I let it all go. I felt my arms rise above my head willing the destruction to happen, and it did. The earth began to shake uncontrollably. I remained taken over. I heard her shout for me to carry on after a short while, and then I heard the sound of waves, loud waves, cold waves. Angry waves. My waves. My eyes wouldn't open. She allowed the earth to continue it's shaking. I couldn't stop the water. I was completely taken over. I felt the power leave my body and join with her power, making it all the more strong, and more addictive.

I heard screams, I heard crashing and crunching. We had created mass destruction, and had caused mass pain. The cries echoed through the waves, and through the rumbling of the surroundings.

I learnt from that day that she was never going to let me go. If it wasn't me, it would be someone else. Earth was taken over by something else, something that fed on pain and destruction. That something would live on beyond us - beyond her. It would find a way to cause more hurt.

The waves kept coming.