4 Elements

Chapter Four - The Truth & School

Chapter Four - The Truth & School

Tomorrow was the start of school, my ticket to get back in to the real world, into reality. Since the day of the dinner a couple of months ago Max, Ash, the King and me have been working our sorry butts off to get me to where I should be for my age but that only took a few days. After that the King decided to teach me the advanced stuff like you know fighting, law and other things you don't learn until you go into university. Oh yeah I can hold my own know, even managed to beat Max. Lilly made sure that I got some 'meat on them sticks I call bone' -her words not mine- she also made sure that I got into my old habits like dancing and singing. I mean if I did 8 hours learning with Max and Ash she then made me do two hour singing and dancing.

I have to admit when I did start to sing and dance I felt free, I felt ... normal. I still found it hard to do things sometimes when they reminded me of the past, when they reminded me of mum, dad or the twins.

Lilly made sure that I was up to date with music, dance, cars and gossip. Uncle Danny even started to bring in some car designs the company was planning on and asked me for help, to say the least I had finished the plans that night and given it to him the next morning.

I still haven't forgotten the promise that King James made, that he would come before school starts and tell me everything, tell me the truth. He did come as promised I was in the music room playing the piano when he found me. He had started clapping when I finished my piece on the piano, when the heck did he get in here? I thought to myself.

"I didn't forget my promise Alisa. I will tell you everything you ask" he said as he came to sit down next to me on the stool. A bit shocked at his words I had thought that he would say that I didn't need to know, that I didn't really want to know. Thinking of what question to ask him first I answered him with "Why didn't they say anything? Anything about being a Bender" my voice coming out chocked up.

Taking a deep breath and releasing it he thought about the answer before he told me, "It all started with your mark. No one in the history of benders has had one like yours except what the legends say about the first Bender. She as well is said to have had four stars in her mark than the one star the rest of us have. But like I said it is a legend, there is no written proof. Your parents believed the legend and new that you would be in constant danger if anyone except a few selected knew about you. Your parents knew you were special Alisa and they tried their best to keep you safe but somehow the Turned found out and you know the rest" he had a distant look in his eyes as he told me this.

Thinking about it for a bit, it made sense why they didn't tell me but were they ever going to tell me?

"They had planned to tell you and your brother and sister as soon as you had turned 13 years old but they didn't get to" he read my mind as he answered my thoughts.

"Why did the Turned want me?" I managed out of my closed up throat, my emotions mixed.

King James turned to look at me, his eyes filled with so much sorrow and sadness that it made my insides turn just that little bit more. "The Turned wanted you Alisa. They wanted you and your elements" his voice clear of the self-confidence that it normally held, taking a breath trying to get control he carried on "If a bender knows what their element is the Turned can take it off you when they say one simple spell that rips you of you element. And Alisa you have four that was a bonus for them but you didn't know; you didn't even know we existed. Which I guess can also be seen as a good thing because the few people that have had their element taken from them become soulless, they don't move, don't eat, don't drink they end up dying after a few months because their body cannot cope without their element" he finished.

I think that's all I really do need to know. King James got the message and left me to my own thoughts.

That night I had the worst nightmare of them all, I had killed my family. Since the day I escaped every night I have nightmares about the Turned, my family, even me. I woke up screaming that night soaked in sweat, trying to control my ecstatic breathing I got off my bed stumbling my way across the room.