Flame

Chapter 13: The Argument

"Dad! We're heading down back to the boat start walking back down now! Hurry!" I shouted down the phone and hung up. It was rude but this was urgent.

"Ryan!" I shouted, trying my best to run but not look weird in front of everyone in the café. "Ryan!" I shouted, my voice now full of panic. I ran up to the table we were sat at and found both the boys chatting away, oblivious to me calling them. I grabbed the arms of his shirt and pulled at him. His head snapped in my direction and he tried to shove my hands away.

"What are you doing? Flame stop that"

"Get up right now" I warned

"But the chips-"

"Get up, hurry we have to go!" He stood up as I pulled at his shirt, tugging him away from the table.

"Flame, calm down" He put his hands on my cheeks and I stopped trying to tug him away. My hand however, stayed grasping onto the arm of his shirt. I let the coolness of his palms calm me down as I took deep breaths and closed my eyes. My blood (that must have been boiling from the panic attack I nearly had) seemed to cool down, as if it were being replaced with cool water. I let out a sigh and felt my body relax

"Now tell me what happened"

"A guy"

"A guy?" He removed his hands from my cheeks and crossed his arms, a frown on his face

"He bumped into me, started to apologies and I noticed... I noticed" I stuttered and shook my head. I pointed at my wrist with the tattoo on, then at my back, then to Blaze "The fifth element. That was him"

"What? Are you ok? Did he do anything to you?"

"No, no, I'm fine"

"Does he know you're an element"?

"About that..." I hesitated as blaze moved up my arm to my shoulder, his claws gently digging into me as he walked.

"Flame" Ryan prompted

"He was suspicious of me. He heard you call me Flame, and he looked at my hair and was looking at me funny. Then when I saw the tattoo's, I called blaze down, and he watched me from a distance and so I put my hand up so he could see my tattoo and... and..." Ryan reached out and held my arm as I took another deep breath "And so then he knew. He called his bird down and it was just like Blaze only black and had a sort of glow around it. Then we just stood their, facing each other as if we'd declared that the fight had begun." I looked at my feet as I felt Ryan tense.

"You practically told him what you were?" I nodded "And now he knows" I nodded again "Flame! Are you kidding? We're still split up and we will be until the end of this damn cruise. We're weak Flame, he could target anyone of us then that's it, game over!" I gulped and looked away from his gaze.

"Ryan I'm-"

"Sorry? Well that's not going to fix it is it? We could die Flame. Die!"He shoved his hands into his pockets and pulled out a €10 note. "Keep the change Erion. Keep really safe and keep your tattoo's hidden from now on. You've got my number, I'll text you everyone else's after ok?" Erion nodded before giving a worried glance to me.

"I'll be fine. We all will" He nodded as Ryan grabbed my arm and pulled me out the café.

We quickly walked down the same path as we had before to get to the boat. Ryan still clung onto my arm, and uncomfortable as it was, I let him hold on and drag me along with him. He was furious I could tell, and he had a right to be, but I could also sense that he was keeping it in because the waves of the ocean weren't that stormy. If he didn't keep calm there might have been a tsunami.