Tulip | Secrets of Earth | Book one

Chapter Nine

Today Tulip was going to make herself better. She was going to change into a new form. She could feel it. This farm was going to do good for her. Today Mrs. Carly asked her to plow the field. Hunter said she needed to find her place. And she intended to do so.

The field was huge. She couldn't do it as a Grass or any other form she had. She needed to try something else.

"Tulip, focus on moving the ground," a flower said spouting out of the ground.

"Alright. I will move the ground. And become better at this." She focuses on the ground. Thinking it should hover. Closing her eyes she forced the image in her mind.

It will move. It will move. She kept chanting in her mind. The ground shook a little under her feet. She opened her eyes and saw the ground was moving. Not hovering but moving. It was plowing itself. She was thinking about the formation in which it would have to move but hadn't considered it would move into that position.

Tulip looked down upon her clothes. They were brown. Like the dirt and rocks. They were like her Lightening form. Pants and a shirt instead of a dress.

"Earth. My new form is Earth!"

"New form huh?" Hunter barked pawing by. "You mean earth like in soil, yes?"

"Yeah. Soil. And rocks."

"You wear dirty clothes. But you haven't even touched the dirt."

"It supposed to match the element." Tulip was quick to find her instincts with the form. She plowed the entire field in a matter of minutes over hours.

She heard the door of the house screech and quickly changed back into her Grass form.

"Well, I'll be," Kelven said coming out of the house, "You finished the plowing faster than anyone I know."

"It was easy, sort of." Tulip couldn't believe he was so impressed, but did he see her? She should have heard him before the door opened.

"How did you do it?"

"It's was the same way you would do. Isn't it. Grab the plower and plow?"

"Not that my dear. No human alive could go that fast."

"Well, I can. And I'm a scrawny little thing." Tulip was sweating a little. She didn't like the lies. It stung her tongue and tore at her stomach.

"Hmm, I'll be watching you, kid. I don't like slackers nor liars."

"I ain't no liar sir." The lies kept stinging at her tongue and her stomach was in knots.

"I'll still keep my eye on you." Kelven walked back into the house still peering at Tulip before closing the door.

Dinner was silent and Tulip wasn't hungry. She never was hungry, but she ate to be polite. Yet the knots kept her from eating.

"So the field was done pretty fast, huh Kelv?" Carly said breaking the silence.

Oh no, Tulip though, Why did she have to bring up the field?

"Yeah, fast."

Kelven glanced at Tulip. She was still forking at her carrots. She didn't have to look up to know he was staring at her either. His eyes burned into her.

"So how did you do it? I know you didn't do it like I would. With the plower."

"I'm stronger than I look. The plower wasn't that hard to push."

"I'm a grown man and that plower is heavy. There was no way you were able to plow that field and be done within minutes. And I told you to plow it, and within ten minutes you were finished. How is that?"