Chapter 8: Fire?!

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The group of teenagers sat at their table in the cafeteria, planning their next adventure.

"I mean the guy did say we can come back and do the escape room again. Apparently there's different exits and different endings." Evan said, leaning back in his chair. "Yeah but we already did the escape room. We need to do something we haven't done yet." Skyler sighed. "But there's not a lot of things to do around here."

Nathaniel flipped his hair out of his eyes and looked over at Shidge. "What do you think?" Shidge smiled. "Oh I can think of plenty of things to do. But nothing you guys would enjoy."

Hunter rolled his eyes.

"Attention students." The principal's voice rang out over the intercom, and all the kids silenced. "It seems there is a slight problem in the science wing of the school. Please evacuate that section of the school until the problem can be ceased. Thank you." The intercom shut off. 

"Slight problem? What do they mean by that?" Sam asked as he glanced down the hallway, where all the Earth and Healing students were evacuating the area. 

Shidge ran his fingers through his hair and smiled. "I don't know. But I'd love to find out." 

"No. No. We are not deliberately breaking the rules like that." Evan declared. 

Valery looked up at him, her eyes big. "Please? I'm curious myself." Evan sighed. "Fine. But don't let anyone find out we're doing this. It could cause a lot of problems." The other teens nodded in excitement and they all snuck out of the cafeteria quietly. 

Screaming could be heard from the experimentation room. "What's going on in there? I hope everyone's okay.." Valery mumbled as she slowly inched towards the large sliding glass doors. 

Sam's eyes widened slightly as they got closer. "Wait. I know where it's coming from!" He opened the door roughly and sprinted down the hallway towards Exam Room 3. 

"Sam! Sam come back!" Shidge yelled as the other teens took off after him. 

Sam burst through the doors and wall of heat from the flames almost knocked him backwards. 

"WOAH FIRE!" 

The teens skidded to a halt behind him. 

"Shidge! Use your powers!"

Shidge stepped forward, swirling a large ball of water between his hands. He threw it against the flames hard, and they sizzled as they slowly fell. 

"Quick thinking." Nathaniel said as they examined the damage. 

A tall lanky boy stood behind the damaged equipment, and pushed his safety goggles up. His dark brown hair had a white streak in the front, and his nose was very angular like his jaw. His brown eyes shifted amongst the damage and then flashed back up to the teens. 

"So sorry about that. I was trying to experiment with some of these new chemicals we got in, and it just got out of control."

He shook the ash out of his hair and grinned. "I'm Randall Fujikawa. Nice to meet you all."

Nathaniel smiled. "I'm Nathaniel. This is Shidge, Hunter, Sam, Skyler, and Evan." He said pointing to all of his friends individually. 

They all smiled nicely.

"Attention students, the emergency situation in the science wing has been taken care of. You may resume your classes as usual. Thank you." The intercom blasted through the room.

"Well I'm sure glad you guys got here when you did. If not, this could have been a lotttttt worse." Randall grinned and started wiping down the tables. "Would you guys mind giving me a hand? You'll need to put some gloves on first of course so you don't get burned."

The group of teens all gloved up and began helping their new friend clean up the burned mess. 

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