Discovering Elements

Delusion(Kaiti)

I woke up when the moon was still high in the sky, a shrouding mist held over the encampment, stirring slightly to the tossing and turning of Merlin. I walked out into the woods to see if I could find any berries to calm my stomach. The marshmallows did not agree with me. I was thinking of how we were out of s'mores ingredient when a shadow moved in my peripheral vision. I turned around, quickly but the shape was gone. Not even the faint light from the moon gave whoever-whatever it was away. I began to bustle towards camp when a tree appeared in my path. Knowing full well the tree I had plowed into had not been there a second earlier, I looked around. I felt as if my head was playing tricks on me.

I instantly wished I had not looked around. An army of spiders surrounded me, red eyes staring unnervingly towards me. A girl around my age stood in the mass, her brown hair and black eyes sending a jolt down my spine. As I stared at her rather than the leggy nightmare around me, her eyes seemed to shimmer and temporarily change to blue before turning back to black. She raised her hand as the horrors grew closer. I tried to scream, but my throat made no noise. The spiders pounced as they got in five feet of me, their abnormally long legs crossing the distance easily. As they bit me, I howled in pain. I stood up quickly, ignoring the agony across my body. A wave of water came and should have washed the spiders away. The spiders seemed not to notice, but the girl's image began to waver. Her eyes squinted in focus. I took the moment to send a wave directly at her, she acted normal; unlike the spiders. As she hit the ground, the spiders didn't even scuttle away. All my bites were gone. I ran over to the girl who still was there.

"Who are you?" With the dim light I could barely see her, but her eyes were blue and hair a platinum blonde. She looked up at me and vanished. Knowing full well her power was not teleportation, I kicked in front of me. She cried with surprise and reappeared. I held her arms and dropped down, pinning her with my weight. She shifted through opaqueness, but I didn't need to know where she was. Suddenly her face shifted, becoming more wolf than girl. I felt her arms grow hair and claws scraped my arms rather than fingernails. The wolf-thing growled but shifted back to human. She began crying. As I felt bad for her, I noticed that none of the wounds sustained during the wolfy stage stayed. My arms had no blood.

"I'm going to ask you one more time, who are you?"

"The light and the dark"

"Visibility is not touchable, so what would I being doing now"

"You can do more than normal, so you must feel the same way, no?"

"That I can do whatever I please? Definitely no"

"You do not understand! You are a god. We are gods!"

"You belong in the loony-bin"

"Ha ha, you turn you back on your powers, but know that they cannot help you when it comes to me"

"'fraid not, but you sure can try right?" Her mouth pursed, making her face look like she ate a lemon. Her insanity was way past crazy, but I could shackle her for know. At least, in ice. I closed my eyes and concentrated on the air surrounding her foot. It slowly got colder. My focus on such a closed area started slipping. I put in even more efforts and I heard a scream. I opened my eyes to see her encased in ice, unable to move. Her eyes flickered quickly, pointing out that she was alive. I dragged her, hoping I could fix what I had done.

"Where have you been, and what is that?" bombed upon me when I entered the camp. Izak and Merlin rushed over and helped me carry her over to the fire.

"Does anyone know what to do, to unfreeze the girl. I don't know how to unfreeze yet, if it is possible I can."

Merlin spoke up, his expansive library coming in handy, "We need to thaw her slowly, or she will go into thermal shock. She should be fine after that", ending in a drawl that showed he hoped. Izak stepped up, worry etched on his face. He put his hand on the human popsicle and ice started melting.

"Slow down! Like a hair-dryer heat not campfire" The steam coming off diminished, water slowing also. He took his hand off and raised them into the air. The air around the ice started to distort, showing the heat spread all over. It took maybe five minutes before the ice was fully melted. Her eyes started flickering open, although her face was still a deadly pale.

"Let me go"

"Not until you tell us why you attacked me and who you are"

"Fine" In which she started telling us.