The Elemental's War: Storm Breaker

One ~ What Life Brings

"If you decide to love me, you can't leave."

"I know," he said. "I won't."

"Yes you will," she insisted, "'cause you have no idea who I really am."

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The rain was heavy on the tin roof of Lainie's hideout. Thunder rolled loud in the distance, and she could feel the earth shake around her. There wasn't a wall between her and the outside that could muffle the violent cracks of lightning, but she didn't care. Oddly enough, this was how she liked the world, because this was how she felt peace. The chaos outside balanced the own storms that roared within her.

The thunder cracked again. Louder this time.

She outstretched her hand to catch what drops of rain she could. The wind was howling, throwing the rain against the ground with ferocious intent, but as her hand left the cover of her shelter, the water fell slower. The rain wasn't heavy anymore. The wind didn't slam the water against her arm. Instead, it fell silent, with gentle brushes across her fingers like water dripping from a faucet.

She smiled.

Peace.

When she was seven, she wished for nothing more than to be normal. She cried for it as her powers came in for the first time and was pulled from the world of normal children to master them. "Normal" was all she ever wanted as seclusion caused lonely days to drag on, but she was never going to be. Because she was an elemental of the Aqua Clan. The power to control water flowed through her more than her own blood, and that was just how it was.

She sat on the cold ground of the shelter as she pulled her arm back under cover, releasing the rain into the natural chaos it belonged in. The sight of the rain pleased her more than anything, and as she tucked in her knees and rested her head along her arms that were laid across them, she wondered how something so uncontrollable could create such a strong sense of control within her own self.

The life she grew up in was nothing short of unique, but still she never felt the sense of belonging the other elemental's in her life had felt. The feeling was only emphasized by her eyes which glimmered with a light purple, rather than the trademark water elemental glow of a crystal blue. Although she still possessed the near-white hair sprinkled with silver strands, and the skin which glowed with a fair tone of ivory as all water elemental's did, her eyes still always remained in question.

Her father would try to reassure her when she was younger by simply stating that deviations in the designs were merely a mark of a unique soul. The words were comforting for a moment, but the sense of being out of place still bothered her, and the desire to be normal grew evermore.

When the rain fell though, all of that went away, and all she felt was complete and utter peace.

The loud rumbling of the storm started to dissipate into the distance. Her chaos was heading onward to another destination, just passing through, and her time at peace was almost up.

She let out a sigh.

If there was one thing she could wish for if she wasn't allowed to be normal, it would be for a storm than never ended. Maybe then all those who were afraid of a little chaos would stay away, and she could sit in her hideout that was no bigger than a small bathroom and no more intricate than an outhouse, and never have to worry about finding peace again.

That only made her think back to the old adage that was spoken to her one too many times in the last fourteen years since she started training: "Life isn't fair". She was more than sure she wasn't the only one told that growing up, but she did always used to think in return: if Life wasn't fair, it could at least be accommodating. But Life still was never very good at getting back to her requests.