Elements: The Powers Within (Book 5)

I Found You (Chapter 27)

"Hey, Hiro," Red jumps down from the top of the staircase down to the ground where Hiro is standing. "The Magic Council wants to see you, said they have an Order for ya."

"Oh, okay," Hiro looks outside at the bright sun and chilly breeze. "You guys don't have one?"

"Nope," Red shakes his head, standing up from his graceful landing. He ruffles his hair with his hand and grins. "But you're gonna do great on your own. Plus, Scott's gonna give you something. Take it as gift for officially joining us as part of the Siblings of Magic."

"What?! No way!" Hiro's eyes light up with excitement. "You're telling me I'm literally one of you guys?"

"Yup!" Red smiles, happy at the news himself too. "The Magic Council just talked about it at the meeting, did you zone out or something?"

"I guess I did," Hiro laughs.

"Well, good luck, I'll send Scott your way," Red pats Hiro's shoulder before running off to find his younger brother. Once Red is out of view, Hiro starts to dance, swinging his arms and legs around as he walks up the steps.

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"So...I hear I have an Order?" Hiro pops his head into the room with Destin in it. The big man smiles brightly and motions for Hiro to come in.

"It's not fun but at least you'll be able to do something," Destin pulls up a hologram of a map. "There's a Bologo spawning area that just showed up. Your magic is the only type that can get rid of it, so can you do that for us?"

"Yeah, I don't mind," Hiro nods his head, studying the location. Bologo duty was never really fun but this is a different twist into the usual job. But what if I get sucked in? What if someone else gets sucked in? What if mages are already stuck in there? Please shut up anxiety.

"Thanks Hiro," Destin grins. "I know it's boring but we don't need mages losing their souls."

"Of course we don't, I'll go suit up and head out," Hiro smiles then jogs out to go to the changing area. His stomach dropping from his thoughts reminding of everything he should be afraid of.

He steps into the vast room filled with hundreds of outfits for all the heroes known and unknown. Hiro looks over at the hologram that pops up for him.

Hiro types in his name and his outfit flies towards him. He grabs it and with a quick mumble, he switches into his superhero outfit. His glasses not needed.

It's a brown and gold themed outfit that includes boots that reach his knees. Hiro admires himself in the mirror. There's golden shoulder armor and a gold belt across his waist. Hiro adjusts his mask that covers his entire face.

It has white holes for his eyes surrounded by a golden accent. The white has lens for him to see through. Once he's satisfied with what he looks like, he turns around from the large mirror that had appeared and walks out.

"Dude! There you are," Scott waves at Hiro, who stops in front of him with a small robot in his hands. "Take this, I made them for everyone I know. There's a lot of features, but it's mostly to keep you alive should anything happen and emergency contacts. So if you run into trouble and need backup, you call us from here. It's supposed to be untraceable except by me."

"That's so cool!" Hiro admires the sleek and small design. He puts the small robot into his pocket and smiles. "Thank you."

"Of course! You're one of us, gotta make sure you don't die," Scott grins, pushing up his glasses. "Robo here is connected with all of our mini robots." Scott points to the bigger, but still small, round robot with a blue core. It beeps in greeting.