Elemental

Ch.1

I sit and watch my hands twiddle and I turn weeds into sunflowers. Sunflowers happen to be my favorite plant. As I start on my eleventh weed, I hear my mother call my name. I don't get up. I don't want to go into my flower pot house at the moment.
So I sit and look at my leafs on my ankles. Everybody has them who was born from a plant, as I was. Mine were starting to change color to the season. Orange for fall.
I hear my mothers footsteps come toward me. And she says, " Calla Lily Violet Willows, you get your little blossoms into the kitchen and water the plant right now, or you can go see your friends today." She says this not in a harsh or mean tone, but a calm strict kind of way.
I say," I don't get it. I can make plants that can water themselves on a regular basis. Why do I have to do it manually?" She looks at me warmly and says," because my Calla, you must learn responsibility, especially for what you have to in-." " in-what ?" I say.
"Nothing. Never mind. Go water the plants now".
That was strange. Oh well, now I have to water the plants and we have about a thousand in our home. Seems about right since we are people of the plants. We were all born from a plant and possess the ability to upkeep plants very well.
I wanted to go see my friends now. I thought of them while I was watering. My friend Thames, he was born of the sea. I bet he could help with the watering.
As I finish, I hear my little sister Ivy Rose singing a song to the plants. She's a complete natural at the planters life.
I go to my mothers room and she is in her moss bed covered in her petal blanket. I ask " can I go see Aura, Thames and Eban?"
She peeks up and says, " I suppose. Why do you hang around the rock guy?" "Mother", I say, " plant people and rock people are both from the earth element. Why should it matter? Plus, he's a good friend." " alright", she says. "Whoever is a friend of yours, is a friend of mine". She smiles.
I walk towards my friend Aura's house first. I don't go all the way to her house since she lives to high up in the air. Aura is a child of the wind. She is so one with the earth and that's what I love about her. She's so pretty with crystal blue eyes and white hair. I'm jealous of her beauty. I'm plain. I have auburn hair, gold eyes and nothing else to me.
I call up to her house in the sky, " Aura Breezes, get your winds down here!" Then she floats down to me.
"Sup rosebuddy?", she says.
"Nothing much my windy friend"
Aura is 17 like I am. So are all my other friends.
Then our friend Eban comes toward us. I say, "hi Eban." He says hi back.
Eban is a child of rocks. He seems hard on the outside but is soft on the inside. He has dark hair and pretty hazel eyes. He is always kind to everyone but quiet at the same time.
He doesn't say much after that and Aura and I start a conversation the fire people. The people of fire were exiled from Terra, the place we are from. They were hostile and cruel and our elders of the elements believed that society could maintain without them.
Nobody knows where they are now. Nobody really talks about them but now and then, Aura and I speak about it.
" what did they do for our society anyways?" Aura said. " I don't know make coals for fire? "
" now we can just have the people of rocks do that" I say. " I'm glad they're gone the thought of my leaves next to them makes me cringe".
Aura laughs and we stay quiet for a while until we reach the river where our friend Thames Tides is from.
As we walk up I spot Thames on top of a rock in the water. He yells" hi guys! Watch this!" He leaps of the rock and ones a perfect flip right into the water. Thames is an upbeat person. He swims up and says, " hey Aura, you mind?" She shrugs and blows a powerful wind to Thames and he is instantly dry.
We laugh and talk about random things until we reach our tree house. Thames and Eban climb up the rope. Aura flies up there and I grow a stem beneath my feet and it grows until I reach the tree house.