The Elements of Rage | ✔

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"My halo can be my cage too."
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I sit, staring at the wall. I do nothing but stare. I am still, unmoving and immovable. Since Kitrina took my powers and ran her tests, she has left. I have been sitting in this cell, alone for who knows how long. My long, black hair is matted and snarled, despite my best efforts to comb through it with my fingers. My pale skin has never looked so pale. Probably because of the lack of sun.

Oh, the sun...

I miss it. I really do. I never thought I'd miss the sun. It always was more of an annoyance. I'd complain about the sunburn, it being in my eyes. The saying really is true. You never know what you have until it's gone. Maybe it's silly or simple, but I just want one moment more in the sun, its rays warming my face as I smile at the hope and beauty that the sun brings.

I also miss the moon. I have a fascination with the moon. It's a glowing, beautiful orb in the sky that keeps me company when everyone and everything else falls asleep. It's just gorgeous, really.

Even more than the sun and the moon, I miss my boys. Kolton, Nekoda, William, Darkon, Gage, Boaz, and Asher.

I clench my jaw and shut my eyes, shutting out the thought of them. I can't think about them. It's too painful.

The boys, the liked the other me. The Rage Falls that was powerful and strong. It's not that I'm being dramatic or thinking that they only liked me for my powers or anything like that. No. I mean, I myself have transformed. I'm like a different person now. I lost my powers and, in their place, grew more strength. I've been training as much as I could every day. I'm much stronger physically, mentally, and emotionally than I have ever been in my entire life.
Abraham has changed me too. It is as if I have been angry ever since I lost my family. Now, though, I feel... acceptance. Like I finally am able to accept all that happened to me and because of me. I'm no longer in a state of constant anger. I feel calm, almost subdued, even.
Kitrina did not break me. She broke Rage Danger Falls and then left, taking her powers.. And I am her broken pieces, coming together, healing, fixing the puzzle that had never before been solved. I am a new person entirely.

I am immovable.

And it is time for me to get out of here.

I rise to my feet and scan the cameras. They are my key to getting out, I'm sure. The glass has proven impossible to break, the walls even stronger. The red light of the cameras just blinks and blinks. Time to fix that.

Jumping up, I grab the camera and hang on. Electricity courses through me, causing my hair to stand on end. My back arches and a scream tears its way through me as it erupts. Electricity courses through me, but I manage to remember why I grabbed the camera in the first place. The camera is so sturdy and mounted so well that it is able to support my weight. I hold on with my right hand and bring back my left. Curling my fingers into a fist, I slam it into the camera, over and over.

The electricity stops coming from the camera and the red light goes out on all of them. The room is plunged into darkness. I release the camera and fall to the ground, landing on bended knees. Rising, I realize that I can still hear the electricity.

Looking down at my hands, I see one hand is completely frozen, the other made of stone. Lightning courses through my veins and electricity sparks and snaps between my fingers. Purple, white, blue, yellow... The endless colors of lightning are beautiful. And deadly, as I soon learn.

Raising a fist, the room is illuminated in light as a fire melts through the ice.

My powers are back, and it seems they brought a friend. The lightning that zapped me... There must've been so much of it that jump-started my cells, restarted my powers and then stuck around.

My entire body turns into stone and I throw myself at the walls, again and again. Each time, I fall to the ground, more sore and broken than the last time. Each time, I stand up, more determined and strong than before. Finally, I break through and find myself in the hall. It too, is pitch black.

A part of me wants to find Abraham. A part of me wants to listen to his directions. A part of knows that it is unlikely that he is still alive.

So I don't go.

I don't look for Abraham. I don't try and find him.

I am selfish. I want to survive. The fact that he is most likely dead, it only reassures me. Makes me feel better about my heartless decision.

"Goodbye, Abraham," I whisper, my voice breaking from disuse.

Clenching my fists, I summon up all my powers. I can't use the electricity, though. It still sparks out of me and jolts anything nearby. I didn't use to have electric powers and don't know how to use or handle them. A ball of thick ice surrounds me and protects me. Fires erupt around me as I send the compound up in flames. The outside of the ice shield is beginning to melt and I know that it is time to go.

Using my earth powers, a crack splits through the very earth and I use my air powers to launch myself up into the air. I seal off the burning compound, closing it off forever, leaving it and all inside to die.

As I land on the ground, a tear slips down my cheek silently. I stare at the wreckage. But I don't say anything. I have already said my goodbye to Abraham. There is nothing more that I could ever miss here.

My gaze finally travels away from the compound.

This is it. I am free.

Free and surrounded by desert as far as the eye can see. It is then that I remember what Kitrina said. That we were miles away from the nearest town.

Closing my eyes, I gather my strength and determination. Then, I pick a direction at random and set off at a jog.

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Q: Do you use a twelve hour clock or twenty four hour (also known as military time)?
A: I use a twelve hour, but sometimes switch to twenty four hours when I get bored, lol.