Spirits---- Elemental stones

Sunset in the fields

Percy regretted saying he knew the way as he was worried he really didn't. Luckily he managed it and all four boys ran out into the fresh air, pushing and shoving each other about. The sun was setting and it lit the fields with a beautiful golden glow.

Azuri ran quickly in front of the others before cartwheeling to a round off and into a back hand spring;clearly experienced in gymnastics.

"Oh stop showing off Azi!" Zac called, a little more confident.

"What?" He grinned, "can't help it if there's a wide open space in front of me"

"This place is massive" Percy commented as he turned to look at the school.

White walled towers rose up into the sky, capped in emerald green which glinted brightly in the last rays of sunlight. A lot of it looked like a castle and had probably been standing for a few centuries or more. The other parts were clearly new, with gleaming, wide, double glazed windows and flat metal roofs that had been painted the same green, but didn't give the same affect.

"Apparently, most of it has been magically concealed and there are way more floors" said Zac, happy he could get involved.

Whilst the others were distracted with the school, Tayz had immediately tried to copy Azuri's cartwheel hoping to be cool too. The boys turned round just in time to see him topple over into a puddle hiding beneath the long grass.

"Damn, i didn't see that!" He moaned, slowing getting up from the ground, his trousers drenched.

"It is getting quite dark" Percy looked at the horizon, where only the top curve of the sun was visible, "and I'm starving, I bet dinner is soon" Percy's stomach grumbled in agreement.

"Shame really, would have loved to spend a bit longer out here" Azuri sighed, "but who knows what could come out of those woods at night"

"But surely the school is protected" Zac glanced nervously at the shadows beneath the pine trees.

"Yeah of course it is, the dark Spirit is out there somewhere, we can't be left defenceless" Tayz reasurred.

"Still, those woods are giving me the creeps, let's go" Zac didn't hesitate in running towards the school.

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Playing the board game with Izzy had turned out to be a lot of fun-egging on the tiny hologram elf soldiers and setting up attacks. Izzy had won by ten soldiers it was that close but Amy didn't mind as she was meant to be cheering her up, not making her feel worse.

But soon there was no need as just as they had packed up the board, Izzy ran squealing to the tapestry doorway where a slender elf girl stood. The elf had just teleported and was looking fairly startled, even more so when Izzy squeezed her into a tight hug. Elves really were beautiful and Amy found herself fascinated by the point tip ears and the long, warm, auburn hair plaited into one neat braid trailing over her shoulder. Her moss green eyes brightened when she realised it was her friend hugging her.

"Amy come over and meet Amber!"   Izzy was positively ecstatic.

"Hi" Amy walked up timidly, one of the things that were rather intimidating about elves was the height, "I'm Amy, just met Izzy"

"Really nice to meet you" her voice was silky with a hint of a strange accent, "I'm sorry I was late, my brother insisted that I saw the unicorns first and by the time we had finished the queue and the crowd at the front of the school was massive"

"I'm just glad your in the same house as me" Izzy smiled.

"I'd be doing some serious complaining if I wasn't!" Amber laughed, "and what about dorms? Are we in the same dormitory?"

"Well I really hope we are, but they havnt told us yet" izzy said, completely forgetting Amy was there.

"Oh I can't wait to see it" Amber looked around excitedly.

Amy suddenly felt really awkward, even though the two had only met on a bus that day as izzy had said, they acted like they had known each other forever. So slowly, unnoticed by the others, she made her way to the tapestry, appearing out in the hallway with a large sigh. She got on with boys better anyway.

The corridors were mostly empty as everyone was in their house room and the silence was almost eerie, especially with the giant portraits sneering down their noses at her. She was definitely in the old part of the school and the feeling of the past seeped from the walls, air thick with sadness. Rovesier had definitely seen some terrible times. With a shaky hand Amy swiped away a thick tear that had started to trickle down her cheek. But the school wasn't the reason. She had never spent so much as an hour away from Percy and starting this new school was going to change everything. He would have a new group of friends and no time for her.

No. She couldn't think like that, she was Percy's twin sister and he would never abandon her.

With all the thoughts rushing through her head, it hadn't occurred to Amy that she had just entered a massive library. Bookshelves covered every wall and the ones in the middles seemed like they were carved into giant tree trunks where they stood and the walls were built around them.Pathways wrapped their way up to the higher levels, the planks that made them looking dangerously old. Amy thought it best not to venture up there on her own.

Even on the first day students had still been careless and books, pages, notes were scattered over areas of the floor, some got stuck to her shoe. She paused to lean against one of the only book-less parts of the wall to take it off, when suddenly there was not wall at all and she passed through, landing with a loud thump on a soft, red carpeted floor. Rubbing her bruised hip, Amy slowly stood, looking around in wonder at the room she had fallen into. There were no windows and the only light came from flickering candles which looked newly lit as none of the wax had melted down, strangely though every surface was covered in a thick layer of dust. No one had entered this room in years.

There wasn't much furniture in the room; just a small bookshelf, a large portrait, some ornament displaying the dust and a long wooden table. Amy took the candle from its stand and held it up to the silver framed portrait— it was of four figures on four white horses. One was an elf robed in green and a crown of flowers on his head, one was a woman wearing a flowing red and orange dress and the cloak had a broach of gold in the shape of fire, the third was a man with a sea blue cloak and navy robes, a shining sword at his side. The final figure was definitely the leader and bore a beautiful gemmed crown, from what Amy could see it was a fairy as he had two golden feathered wings lifted high.

"Who are you?" She whispered to herself in wonder and placed the candle on a stand on the table. There were five objects on it, two she would never be able to get into unless she was desperate; a chained book, Whatever secrets it withheld must have been terrible for it to be encased in thick chains and a sparkly rainbow pebble which was encased in a strange substance which she could tell meant it to stay put. The other three objects, however, were laid on three red cushions. They were pebbles similar to the one in the substance—one red, one green, one blue. All three were set onto delicate chains of silver and Amy could almost feel the magic pulsing  through the air around them. Slowly she reached out and gently picked up the blue one which had swirling carvings that glowed like molten metal, as soon as she touched it, the glow seemed to get brighter and brighter and she felt a buzz of energy shoot through her arm. With a gasp of surprise, Amy quickly dropped the stone onto the pillow before backing into the wall she hoped would let her out.

She passed through, loosing sight of the strange room and without hesitating ran from the library unable to think.