Elements: Can You Trust Me? (Book 3)

What's the Plan Now? (Chapter 21)

"I still can't believe that's how you guys found out," Darkness stifles her laughter as they pull up the picture of Red Sport.

"That's got to be Coach," Water points out. "It's her name after all."

"But why is she a assassin who kills people? Shouldn't she have realized that this isn't right?" Earth questions.

"She may have a reason you don't know," Darkness shrugs. "But how do we get the other three to remember? Red Sport is uncatchable, you know I tried and got injured."

"This is such a mess..." Water shakes her head. "Can we take off our masks? I want to know what we all look like."

Shrugging, everyone takes off their mask. They didn't look any different, just a little older. A little more muscular too, but that's to be expected. Owen with noticeable facial hair, Sasha with more poof to her hair and Urana with longer hair.

"How much time do we have until this is permanent?" Earth questions.

"As long as we can remember our real lives," Darkness answers. "The moment we forget, this becomes permanent, time continues in the real world and we are as good as dead in the real world."

"Damn," Water rubs her temples. "We have to come up with something to get the others to remember..."

"Just have Darkness kiss Fire," Earth shrugs. "That's bound to work."

"It won't," Darkness bits her lip.

"Why?" Water questions and Earth looks confused.

"Because..." Darkness takes a deep breath. "Because in this world...I think...that maybe we have feelings for each other so if I were to kiss him then it would make no difference to remind him. It would just be confessing my feelings."

"Well crap," Water sighs. "This is ever so wonderful."

"Do Alex and Ava have feelings for each other?" Earth questions. "In this world anyway..."

"Beats me, those two act the same way," Darkness shrugs. "A little more mature but that's probably because we're older here."

"Then kiss one of them," Water suggests.

"That's just weird!" Darkness's eyebrows knit together. "Besides, I don't think a kiss will work! I'm pretty sure each person requires a different wake up call."

"Well, that's just great," Earth rolls his eyes. "Coach is out of the question right now and we have no idea how to get our friends to remember..."

"Maybe we should just focus on Coach? If we capture her and take off all of our masks at the same time that might just work to wake the four of them up," Darkness suggests.

"That's actually a good idea!" Water smiles. "It's gonna be hard but we have to do it. Slyly too, so that they don't suspect anything."

"Okay then, we've got a plan," Earth nods. "Let's go back to our places for now, we don't wanna ruin anything just in case this becomes permanent."

A scary thought for the three of them to take in as they make their way to their respective homes.

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Urana wakes up to the feeling of wrong. Now that she knows for sure things weren't right, it only made things worse. She couldn't even sleep because of that fact alone and because she kept on seeing flashes of memories she wasn't sure were her's.

"Oh, you're up!" Brenton smiles from the doorway. "That's good! Get ready quickly, I'll be making breakfast." He turns on his heel and walks away.