Elemental

Chapter 1 - It was an Accident

I find myself running down the school hallways. Running away from my physics teacher, Mr Alphys. How did I get here? Let's go back to yesterday, shall we?

*Transition to the night beforehand, brought to you by MCR's emo phase*

I was doing my homework in my room while playing with my dog Sparky. I was trying to finish writing this physics paper as it's due tomorrow, knowing me, always leaving it to the last minute. Sparky comes up next to me and starts barking.

"Yes, Sparky?" I say, he usually does this because he loves my tricks. But you see, these aren't any usual tricks. I sprayed water in his face by flicking my fingers towards him. He jumps around with excitement asking for more. I giggle to myself and pushed some wind into his face. He loved that, he kept on bugging me for more tricks by jumping around on the spot, so I created a small tornado to go around my room. That should keep him busy for a while. I continue on with my work while hearing Sparky run around my room after the mini tornado.

Okay, so this times this gives me... I immediately get taken out of my thoughts by Sparky jumping on to my lap. He startles me where I accidentally set my work on fire. Yes, I do struggle controlling my powers. I'm trying to learn though. I quickly use water to put the fire out, but I'm too late to save my work. I look at Sparky.

"Look at what you've done," I say to him, he just sits with his head hanging down, knowing he did something bad. I look at my work then look at the time, it's too late to fix.

*Back to present, brought to you by Danger Days, the true lives of the fabulous killjoys*

"Miss Anwarah!" He yells at me while he's struggling to catch up. I admit defeat. No matter how far I run, my mum can still come after me about my work. I stop in my tracks to wait for him to catch up. He stops behind me, out of breath.

"Tahlia, you better have a good excuse for the reason why you ran out of class as soon as I asked for your paper." He says to me with breaths in between his words. Well, me saying I'm an elemental and my dog startled me which made me accidentally set my work on fire would result in me in being admitted into a mental hospital.

"I'm sorry sir, I didn't finish it and I would have been disappointed with myself to hand up an incomplete piece of work. But, I guess not handing one up is more humiliating." I explain to my teacher, knowing what will happen next.

"Well, either way, this is unacceptable. I expect to see you in after-school detention today."

"Yes, sir."

"Now, get back to my class." With those words he turns around, expecting me to follow him. I hang my head down in defeat, following my teacher back to the classroom. We enter the room and everyone starts clapping, with my personality I bow in front of the class, proud of what I just performed.

"Oh shut up." Mr Alphys says, being disgusted with the whole class. "Tahlia, find your seat." I walk to the back of the classroom and take my seat. My Alphys continues on with his lesson from where I interrupted it. I lean on my left arm, trying to pay attention. My eyelids become heavier, and heavier as I'm struggling to stay awake.

"....Li.."

"....Lia.."

"Tahlia."

"Tahlia!" I wake up startled, resulting me to fall off the chair I'm sitting on, onto the ground. I look up seeing Garret in front of me, looking disappointed as ever.

"Come on, Tahlia! I have places to be!"

"So? You could have left without me!" I yell back at him.

"Yeah! But, it would have looked weird with me just watching Tyler do his football training alone, wouldn't it!" He yells back. Tyler is the stereotypical popular guy at our school. Long, luscious blond hair, thin with a six pack, and the face of an angel. Of course, every girl is in love with him, including Garret. Garret just drools whenever he walks past the locker room seeing Tyler shirtless. I don't see what's so great about him, he cheats, he breaks girls hearts, and he uses his good looks to his advantage.

"Alright, alright. Help me up, and I'll come with you to watch Tyler train." Garret jumps up and down with excitement.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He screams with joy. God, he reminds me of Sparky sometimes. He holds out his hand waiting for me to hold for help and he helps me up and we head to his heaven, whereas I like to call it hell.

We walk out of the classroom and walk down the hallway.

"Oh, I hope he's training without his shirt on today!" Garret says.

"Oh please, if he does I hope you've brought spew bags."

"Ha, ha, ha. Very funny."

"Miss Anwarah!"

Crap, I've forgotten about detention.

"Tahlia, you've been summoned."

"I know," I say as I force both of us to walk faster.

"Why are we walking so fast?"

"Just keep moving."

"Miss Anwarah!"

I quickly pull Garret around the corner into the IT film room, I see the teacher hunting me down stop outside the classroom, looking in different directions for me.

"Girl, you need to..." I cover up Garrets mouth so we're not heard. The teacher gives up and walks back to where he came from. I release my hand from Garret's mouth and he takes a deep breath.

"Okay two things. One, what the hell was that about. And two, why are your hands so hot?" Oh no, I completely forgot about my powers while holding his mouth. If I was anymore uncomfortable I could have burned his face off.

"Mr Alphys gave me an after-school detention and I completely forgot, so I chose to run rather than accept defeat," I explained.

"Girl, you messed up."

"Come on, let's go watch Tyler prance out in the puddles, pretending to play a manly sport."

We head over to the football fields and I start to get even more uncomfortable thinking Alphys is out to get me still.

"Aww, he's still got his shirt on." I hear Garret complain.

"Look, man, I'm concerned about Alphys. I'm just gonna walk home." I say giving the big guy a hug.

"Okay, you miss out on the best but then. Watching him in the change rooms."

"Gross! Bye bro!"

"Later, girl!"

I walk home with my backpack and take the usual shortcut through the ally ways through the city. Smelling all of the fast food and pollution in the air and the sounds of road rage. I love this place. I put my headphones in and listen to Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal album.

I continue walking down the final ally way, and something grabs me. My instant reaction is to scream and try to break free. A masked man is holding on to me, trying to restrict my hands and mouth. I break free and run ahead out of the ally way and I see a massive van. The man catches up and grabs me again, I scream again and he manages to hold onto my mouth. I've come to my last resort, I have to use my powers. I close my eyes and I force the earth to shake, creating an earthquake. He gets distracted for a moment, I take this chance to break free and I create flames in my hands and push them onto him and he runs into the van to make their getaway. I'm proud of myself for my self-defence. I turn around seeing a small group of people, staring at me. They have just witnessed me beat this man. People can't know about this! What am I supposed to do now?