Elemental Wind Force: Beginning Breezes

Chapter 1 - First Day of School and New Friends

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir

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Stevenson Island
September 1
12:25 pm

Two small kids, the older one 8 and the younger 4, were on their way to school. It was the younger one's first day of school and his sister had the responsibility of getting him there. Her long, red hair was flying out behind her as she rode her bike a few meters ahead of her little brother, who was trying his best to keep up with her. He didn't complain about how fast she was going, though. He was just too excited about finally starting school and making new friends and seeing old ones.

The ride was a good five minutes from their house, but that didn't matter to them. They were just glad when they finally reached the school's gates. The school was small. Two classrooms with mixed grades. The younger years being from Nursery to grade 4 and the older years were grade 6 to 9. Grade 5's spent their mornings with the younger years and the afternoons with the older years.

"Ah Terra, I see you managed to get your little brother here safely." The younger years' teacher said as she came over to where Terra and her brother were putting their bikes with the others.

"Yes, Ms. McKenzie. He had a little trouble keeping up with me, though." She responded with a big, toothy smile.

"Ok Jay, let me take your backpack so can go play. When you hear the bell, it will be time to go inside for your first class." Ms. McKenzie said as another new kid showed up with his dad behind Terra and Jay. They stepped off to the side so that the adults could talk.

"You must be the new Airport Manager, Justin Doucette, correct?" Ms. McKenzie asked politely.

"Yes, I am and this is my son, Terry." Justin replied just as politely.

"Terra, why don't you show Jay and Terry around the schoolyard while I take their backpacks inside." Ms. McKenzie suggested as she took Terry's backpack from him and his dad left to go back to work.

"Ms. McKenzie! The Transportation Students are here!" One of the older students shouted from across the schoolyard.

"Ok! Thank-you Ryan!" She shouted back as she promptly changed course to meet said Transportation Students. Terra, having spotted another new student among them, followed her and waited until she had retrieved all of the backpacks and life-jackets of the younger years with the help of one of the older students. Terry and Jay had followed behind her, curious as well.

After Ms. McKenzie was away from them, Terra went up to the new girl that was standing nervously in the middle of the field, not knowing what to do. She gave her a big smile and got a small, shy one in return.

"Hi, I'm Terra. This is my little brother, Jay and this is Terry. He's new too. What's your name?" She said quickly and excitedly, pointing at each boy as she said their names.

"....Kayla...." Came her quiet and shy response.

"Come on, I was just about to show these two around the school. You can join us." Terra said with another smile as she grabbed Kayla's hand, who nodded her head nervously in reply. Terra started explaining things as they walked, followed closely by Jay and Terry.

"That white building you passed when you entered the schoolyard, Kayla, was the Old School. It's used as a storage-shed for outdoor sports equipment now. This field we're in is the Sports Field. This is where a majority of the larger games are played during recess. The large, tannish coloured building up ahead is the New School where we'll be taking our classes. Gym class is either held out here in the field or over at the Community Center, depending on the weather and/or what our teachers have planned for us that day. The playground is on the other side of the school. So is the Sliding Hill that's only used in the winter. You're not allowed passed the Water Treatment Plant if the hill isn't open."

After she'd shown them where everything was, they went over to the swing set and talked to each other until the bell rung to go inside. They'd learned how old they all were, what their favourite foods, colour(s), activities, games and other things were and where they all were originally from. One thing they all had in common was Beyblade. They all loved the game and each had their own customized Beys.

A fast and strong friendship was formed between the four of them in those remaining 35 minutes of the lunch-hour recess that would last as they grew up together. Most of the time, you could always find them hanging out together around the school during school hours and hanging around their favourite spots after school and during the week-ends. They even managed to get their parents to agree to spend the holidays together (except for Christmas on a few occasions when it was decided that each family needed to go spend time with their other relatives that lived in other parts of the country). The point is, you could never separate any of them unless one of them was sick and even then, they almost always got sick at the same time.

They eventually started participating in local tournaments and a few out of town ones together as they got better and better at it. They were even unofficially declared as Stevenson Island's official Beyblade team as they'd always act like one; practicing together, giving each other advice and tips about stuff they'd individually found out worked or helped improve each others techniques.

It stayed like this for many years; Terra, Jay, Terry and Kayla spending most of their time together Blading....

Even when something bad happened....

Something upsetting to not just one of them, but all of them....

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Next Chapter: The first of several time-skips. We find Terra and co. 6 years down the road when tragedy strikes. What is it? Who does it affect the most? How will they cope with the outcome of it?

Find out in the next chapter: Chapter 2: Tragedy

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A/n: Well, that's chapter 1. Hope you all enjoyed it. The original version of this is posted on Fanfiction. That version is unedited though and was upload to the site when I had just started writing fan fiction.... So it's definitely not the best simple of my writing. I'd rather if you just ignore it and forget that it exists or that I even mentioned it.

So, you're probably wondering why I decided to publish this now instead of later. Well, I decided that I just couldn't wait any longer. I've been sitting on this trilogy for so long that I'm just going to start posting the old chapters that I already have done while working on the others I started on when I still used Fanfiction to post my work.

Now, a word of warning before you go. I don't have a beta and I'm not looking for one. So while I'm good at finding and fixing mistakes on my own, some still do get past me. But, I promise that I'll do my best at catching those mistakes.... spelling wise at any rate.... grammar is a different story.... -///-¡

Anyway, thanks for reading and don't forget to review. Just make sure that it's helpful criticism and not harmful flaming.

Until the next chapter! Later!

R.S.