Elementals

Chapter 17

Earth - Year 3204
Northern Academy

Breeze:
I consider it unbelievable that I didn't connect the dots earlier. Of course I'm sitting here talking to Rocky, Blaze's sister. It's the same girl that I saw in Blaze's dream a couple of nights ago. The only reason why I recognized someone from outside my own academy would have to be because it's her. My partner is having nightmares about her death. Sometimes I feel so stupid for not recognizing those things. Maybe it wasn't as simple as I'm putting it out to be, but still I feel like I should've seen it before Rocky had to say it.

Now that it's mentioned that Rocky is in fact dead, how is it that I'm sitting here talking to her? I mean, what is this place anyways? This isn't real, I've already established that...well apart from the fact that I'm hanging out with a dead person. There was something about the way I got out of that bed earlier when she was in the room with me. I was looking at myself as if I was...no, I don't seem to be already. They were still working on keeping my alive. I have to still be alive, right?

"Are you trying to figure it all out?" I then hear from my left as Rocky is looking at me, slightly grinning in fact. I smile weakly before I turn my attention towards the colors up in the skies. "I'm not so sure I'm succeeding with it no matter how hard I try." I let out at first. "Go on then...ask me." She says as I turn my head towards her. "Fine...what is this place?" I ask. "Depends on what you mean about 'this place'. I'm sure you know your way around the area in general." She goes on acting all smart on me.

"I'll clarify: the place where I'm hanging out with a person I know to be dead and I'm looking at my own body down there at the academy as if I am too." I let out as she turns really quiet. I've probably been a little hard on the choice of words here. I probably should've chosen some better words...less precise than just saying the words out loud. She seems to be in her own thoughts for a little while as the silence takes over for a moment.

"If there's one thing I do know, it's that you're still alive. You're not like me, you're not dead." She says. I turn towards her. "How can you tell?" I ask her even though I know that it's true. "You would've sensed the wind coming up here if you were. You'd be a lot stronger..." She lets out. "That makes sense...I guess." I let out trying to process it. "But why are you here? I mean, don't you have a place to be since you're...you know..." I let out but I'm a little hesitant on finishing the sentence. "You ask a lot of questions, you know?" She says after a while. "I wonder how my sister deals with that." She then lets out.

Rocky is a lot like Blaze I'm discovering. Despite the fact that I barely feel like I know Blaze, I still feel like I see a lot of her in Rocky. The fact that they are twins makes it easier to understand. "She hasn't had to deal with it yet." I let out after a while as Rocky looks at me. "I've kinda kept my distance from her considering I knew she had just lost someone and...She doesn't really trust me either, especially not since she knew of my relationship with my brother." She nods weakly.

"Right, then there's that douche-bag of a brother..." She lets out as I nod. Of course she knows of him. "You need to cut the cord. He's just dead-weight wandering around inside your mind and your heart. You can spare him from a spot in there. He's proved to you time and again that he doesn't deserve to have one there." Rocky goes on as I nod to myself. I know this...I know all of this, but for some reason I can't get my attitude towards that trail of thoughts.

"I've wanted to cut the cord for a long time. I've just never known how to do it." I let out. "It'll come to you." Rocky says as she stands up to have a look at the colors playing above our heads. I follow her lead on that and get up on my feet as I hear her take a deep breath next to me. "I still think you should show this to her...to Blaze." I turn thoughtful of that. She's mentioned that before. "You mentioned that earlier...why do you think it's so important for her to see it?" I then ask Rocky as she sighs deeply.