The Element Games

5

For the rest of the time, I helped Triton with hand to hand combat. When it came to fighting without powers, Triton usually has the upper hand. Without warning, a gigantic screen appeared out of nowhere and information appeared.

Day 1: Individual Training

Day 2: Team Exercise

Day 3: Rest/Interview

Day 4: Feast/ Final Meeting

Day 5+: Element Games

"All contestants please report to the dining hall for dinner." I sighed as I dropped out of my defensive position.

"Ugh," Triton put me in a headlock and wrestled me to the ground. I summoned two big hands made out of water to pry him off me.

...

The dinning hall was even more huge than the training room. It consisted of five tables each seating four people. I grabbed my brothers arm and led him to the table farthest away from Tranquility. He said that he was going to sit with Cloud, and walked away. When I sat down alone, three other people joined me. It was Feather, Phoenix and to my surprise, Leaf. Leaf's face was still a bit burned but to was recovering nicely. "So, how was you're individual training day Feather?" I asked. "Any pranks pulled any 'accidents'?" Now Phoenix was getting interested.

"Um... Well 'someone' rigged Tranquility's water dummy so that the expert setting was renamed the Rivers setting. She got mad and destroyed it within minutes." Then she started to giggle a bit. "And when she was trying to practice levitating, I messed with her so she flew into the wall." Phoenix, Leaf and I started to laugh uncontrollably.

"I knew I could feel extreme heat radiating from someone in the other room! I think I can still feel it!" Phoenix was almost chocking when our food rose from the middle of the table.

The meal didn't look like anything special. It was three medium sized blocks of a cuttable white substance. Followed by bowl of the same substance but liquified, and a goblet of clear liquid followed. I took a fork, cut a small piece of one of the blocks off and put it into my mouth. It was delicious. It tasted like fresh snow crab drenched in margarin and perfectly seasoned. My eyes widened and I took a bite of another cube. This time, it tasted like a baked potato stuffed with green onions, butter, and a bit of bacon. The third cube tasted like steamed vegetables that were seasoned perfectly. After I finished the three cubes, I moved on to the bowl. It was a lobster bisque that had a lot of lobster chunks in it. In the goblet, the clear substance tasted like a chocolate milk shake with Cocoa shavings littering the entire thing. It was all DELICIOUS.

Feather was happily munching on her final cube when Phoenix and I got up. "I'm going to bed. See you guys tomorrow." I slowly trudged up a set of stairs to find the bedroom with my name on the front door. When I found it, I saw that Triton was sleeping directly to the right of me. That's good. I took my stylus and jammed it into the lock on my door when I heard voices coming from down the hall. I quickly opened my door and scrambled into my room. When I heard the voices come closer, I looked through the crack between the door and the floor.

"Your so funny!" I heard the voice of the person I hate the most here, Tranquility. "Your so interesting Triton!" I couldn't believe this is happening. Then she whispered something to him, he gasped.

"I'm so sorry my brother did that to you! He can be so annoying sometimes." A tear rolled down my face as they talked about how horrible I was and how I deserved to die. I walked over to my desk that had a vase on it. I picked it up and threw it at the door. With a loud crash, the vase shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. I screamed in agony and flopped down onto my bed. I started to sob loudly. Triton must have not known that this was my room, because he suddenly started to pound on my door.

"Rivers! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry I said all of that about you!"

"Shut up and go away! I don't want to see or talk to you! I thought you were my brother! I was wrong! You're a MONSTER!" I grabbed my pillow and buried my head in my pillow, and sobbed even louder. Slowly, the pounding on the door stopped and I cried to sleep. Its only day one and these games have already taken so much away from me. My freedom. My brother. My state of mind. I can't stand it. It's like I'm already dead.