Genesis

Chapter 2 - Concieted Flirtatious Tree Man

Death is weird. I mean, you know it's gonna happen, but then you never know when it does. Or if you will. If you will die.

Though I'm pretty sure falling onto the Empire State Building a thousand feet in the air will do the trick.

Cloudy was above me, encouraging me to request a ride from the wind. I think she was actually nuts. I was flailing around, cold air whipping at my face, the strange purple clouds growing smaller.

I was willing to take a risk for my life.

"Uh, Wind, I request a ride! Please save my ass!" I was ten feet from the point of the Empire State when I just suddenly stopped, wind blowing through my tangled hair.

I told the wind to take me up in a small whisper, and I met cloudy up where she let me fall.

"Well, good job Genesis Ertheviny. Central Park is ten minutes that way!" She said in a cheery voice.

This will end well.

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After about twenty minutes of almost bumping into building and pissing the wind off, we finally made it to the entrance of Central Park.

"I do not trust you flying around pointy branches and trees, so we are just going to walk to the portal." Says Cloudy, her high voice starting to irritate the hell out of me.

"Portal?"

"You see, hidden in the portal is the agency, it looks almost like a summer camp, Percy Jackson's if you will." I nod, getting the picture. I just hoped there wouldn't be any donkey men prancing about playing the recorder and letting their hindquarters hang around.

"Oh, I almost forgot!" Cloudy snaps her fingers and calls out something in a different language to the wind. In a few seconds, something snacks me in the back of my head. I turn around to find the wind brought me my navy backpack, and I grab and hug it to my chest.

"Thank you! Oh my gosh I forgot about this thing. But aren't I going back to the foster care center? Won't they be worried?"

"Nope! The center is a fake! We send junior elements there. All the people in your age group and older are fakes. You come to train when your ready, but they are usually ready by the time they're eleven. But your special, Genesis Everything."

"Yeah, why do you call me that?" I ask, I decided to be astonished and angry about the rest of the fact that my entire life was a lie later. "Its Ertheviny. Like earth and tiny, only with a 'v'."

"Your name is an anagram for everything. Genesis means 'beginning'. You are the beginning of everything." She smiles at me as I stare at her. A branch slaps me in the face.

"Ooh, Earth is here! I'm gonna bounce! Bye!" Cloudy waves at me and jumps up, after she gets past the tops of the trees she bolts so fast out that I couldn't even see her anymore.

I look around, and I'm alone.

"Hello?" I whisper.

I jump when I hear a deep, attractive voice.

"Nobody is going to hear you if you whisper it, you know." The voice chuckles.

Suddenly the ground before me swells up until a large bump forms in the gravel. the bump grows taller and skinnier until it almost takes shape of a human. Arms sprout out, features form, and it seems like clay is molding itself into a man. Green hair grows into a buzz cut on the top of the head, a crevice forms into a mouth, and he steps away from where he came as a handsome dude.

"What the actual-"

"I know, Earth is so very handsome." He cooed. I guess you could say he was... grounded. I mentally smacked myself. "Much more than his stupid ugly brother, Water. With his stupid water hair and amazing nose-"

I roll my eyes at his rambling. "Um, can we leave?"

"Oh, right. We're here. Now to get in, grow me a... sunflower!"

I lift an eyebrow, and cross my arms. "A sunflower?"

"Earth has always wanted to make one of my children grow them, but as a beginner it is too powerful form them to do, but you are different. You have the power to control all the elements. So Earth expects more from you."

"Wait, wait, wait. All the elements? So, who's child am I then? I don't understand am I really that powerful-"

"Just shut up and grow me a sunflower, hon. Earth has a appointment for a pedicure in an hour." He says, cutting me off and ignoring all my questions. So in rebellion, I take the mature action of crossing my arms, shifting my weight to one leg, and pursing my lips. Earth mirrored my stance and raised an eyebrow.

"Wow, Genny." He says with a whistle, looking me up and down. I scowl.

"What, you idiot?" I snarl.

"You're pretty sexy when you're angry."

Just as I was about to chew him out for calling his student 'sexy', a tree branch near him smacked the back of his head, making his head fly forward. He grumbled and started yelling profanity at me, but all the while I was having a mini panic attack, staring at the branch that had since gone back to it's original position in the tree.

"Even if it does't seem like I have that much hair, it takes a fuck ton of time to get it that way, you-"

"Did I just fucking do that?" I yell over him, a wild, crazy look overcoming my eyes.

"I can not express this enough, but you need to shut up and grow me a fucking sunflower before I kick your ass to the core!" He yells, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"I'll kick your ass to the core." I mumble, as I stare at the ground, and a particular wild flower catches my eye. A red champion, as she had called it. She told me it was her favorite, because I was her champion. I think to her, those few months, and I calm myself. That flower always used to calm me whenever I saw my little photograph of the bouquet I had made her when I was a child. She had put it in a cute purple vase and taken a Polaroid picture of it, and I kept in my wallet ever since I had gotten it, right next to the 5 yen coin she had given me from her trip to Japan years ago. I thought back to lying in beautiful flower beds filled to the brim with the flower. Suddenly the flower starts to multiply, until they started to surround me, untill the had filled the green space, until they had started to twist up the trees, and my ankles, and Earth's ankles. Earth had this surprised look on his face, of complete astonishment. Of overall awe.

"It's not a sunflower." I mumble, bending down and picking one of the flowers,.

"It's extraordinary." He says in a whisper, squatting down and running his fingers over the hundreds of flowers surrounding us.

"Do I pass?" I ask with uncertainty.

"Hon, you surpass! I have never seen anything like this from a new student, not ever. I will open the portal." He gracefully lifts his hand from the pool of flowers. He then walked over to the tree that I had earlier made smack him, which I was still very surprised and excited about. He put his hand on the trunk and started mumbling in a jibber use language I didn't understand.

The trunk started vibrating. Then, shaking. The tree itself was shaking so violently the ground started to rumble, and the flowers sound is started swaying and glowing. The whole park was having an earthquake, then the tree started to get a blue crack in it, and the crack grew, letting more of the blue glow out until a giant hole was broken from the tree, and I, scared as fuck and grasping at the ground below me, stared in awe and terror as Earth dug his fingers into the hole and started ripping pieces of the bark off, making the hole larger.

Once the hole was about the size and width of a average bedroom door, Earth removed his hands and looked down at me. My cheeks reddened as I was literally grasping onto blades of grass and flowers for dear life, but Earth just motioned me forward with his hand, and directed me to go inside the tree-hole. He then stepped inside himself.

And me, being all alone outside the magic portal to nature land, pried my fingers off the grass, stool up shakily, and stumbled into the abyss of blue light.