Running out of time

Chapter 21 Roy - Avery and the FSC

"Avery, what are you doing here?" I asked

"Well, I was with my sister Leona, remember my twin? And this guy came in looking for her, next thing I knew I ended up here"

I suddenly pieced it together. She wasn't meant to be there, her sister was. I couldn't say that to Avery she's a good person, she's always had to stand in Leona's shadow since we were little kids. Avery is one of Olive's friends and Leona is friends with Maria Simmons. Leona has always been more popular than Avery but not to me. To be honest I would sometimes forget she existed but Avery? I spent nearly as much time with her as Kye and Olive. That used to be my group. Kye, Olive, Avery and me. Now I have Ben, Anna and Lucy. That's when I saw her. Lucy was staring at me she looked sad, I was going to talk to her then Avery spoke up.

"How did you get here?"

"Oh uh well, I was just in the park then-" I was cut off by Terrence.

"Roy, the four of you are being requested by the FSC in half an hour" he began to walk away "oh and Roy, put on something nice" I looked at the clothes I wore. "What's wrong with this?!" I yelled after him as he was about to exit the room hands in pockets. "Everything"
"That hurts, I picked this out hoping you would like it"
"I don't"
"Terrence, you are so hard to please"
With that, he walked out of the room at his own pace. Silent but deadly.

"I better go. It was nice seeing you here, you better find your guardian now"

I followed the rest of my friends out the door. Ben and I continuing up the staircase to the boys' floor whilst leaving Anna and Lucy on the girls' floor. Our floor absolutely stunk. I think it's Ben.

When we got there two other people were staying in our room.

"What are you doing here?" Ben asked

"Dude that's my bed" I called as one of the guys sat down on my bed.

"This is room 307 right?" The first one asked

"No," Ben said shaking his head

"Oh," the other boys said in unison

"Get out, you're wasting our time" I responded as they hurriedly tried to take their things away.

"What are you doing here anyway, aren't you still meant to be with the other newlys?"

"That wasn't a joke?"

"No! Go on shoo!" Yelled Ben as the two darted out our room. "I wonder what they think they are doing"

"We'll never know" I replied shaking my head.

"right, we better have our showers an change into something nice quickly if we want to make it to the meeting on time considering we only have one bathroom" commented ben

"and we've already lost nearly 10 minutes already just kicking those weirdos out of our room"

"right... I shotgun the shower first" yelled ben sprinting past me into the bathroom.

"good!" I yelled back at him through the wall "you stink"

-

"sorry we're late" I muttered to everyone in the room. The members of the FSC looked disgusted by how we entered and motioned us to sit down. There were 4 men and 2 women sitting in front of us. All of them were wearing black robes with sashes of various colours on them. The oldest, a man with a long grey beard wore a deep purple sash embezzled with gold patterns. A lady looking like she was in her late 40's wore a vibrant blue sash. The rest all wore orange sashes.

"As I was saying" began the old man " I am the leader of the school council, the FSC is split into four divisions, the first being the school council, the next two are equally important, the defence council and the attack council. the last of the four council's is the high council. They are close to the schoolmaster, they are his advisors - You'll be lucky if you make it to that rank but with your potential, I can't imagine any less" We all looked at each other with the same expressions on our faces. What potential?

"Fiss, I think you need to tell them about themselves first" The blue one spoke up.

"Oh of course," The old man said putting his hands together.

"You four are very special, you each are in control of a pure element; Fire, earth, water, air" He looked at us and smiled. "You four are extremely powerful, the last time we had a pure element enrol in the school was 16 years ago and she became the headmistress" he mused. Anna raised her hand timidly "Does that mean that Ms Ruth is a pure element?"

"Yes" smiled the lady in the blue. "Fiss, you forgot to introduce everyone, we practised this remember?" Fiss' eyes lit up with remembrance.

"I am Fiss, my second is called Helen, the lady in orange is Jasper and lastly the man you see here is Yato... You happy?" He turned to Helen. "Now, back to the topic, we just wanted to say that if you end up being a lot more powerful than your peers don't fret, this was the way it was meant to be... now if you have any questions tell them to your guardian who may bring them up with us. You are dismissed."

"We hope not to see you too soon" Called out Helen. we all shared these unsure looks and stepped out of the office.

"Well I'm going to take a nap before school starts," Ben said turning on his heels and walking towards our dorm room. Lucy and Anna were about to turn away but I grabbed Lucy's shoulder.

"Are you ok?" I asked

"Yeah" she muttered. I didn't know what else to say so there was silence as she walked away from me.there wasn't really anything I could do so I followed Ben up to our dorm and sat on my bed.

"Mate, you alright?" Asked Ben drying off his wet hair with one of the towels. "Yeah, we should probably get a good nights sleep before school tomorrow"
Ben nodded and sat down opposite me on his bed. Apart from the bathroom on his side of the room, it was symmetrical.

I lay on my bed in the dark until I finally fall asleep.