Elemental Wind Force: Beginning Breezes

Chapter 2 - Tragedy

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean

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6 Years Later
July 27
1:45 pm

Stevenson Island's Bey Park; the one place where you could find a lot of the local kids that enjoyed the game everyday of the week. And this was exactly where Terra, Jay, Terry and Kayla were right now with the rest of their friends. Of course, they only considered their small group of four as true, best friends.

At the moment, everyone was laughing because Terry had just cracked another joke, like usual. Some were laughing so hard that they were on the ground. Case in point: Terra, Jay, Ryan and a couple other old school mates that were back for the summer vacation.

"Ok, ok, ok. Enough, my side's starting to hurt." Jay wheezed out as he tried to get over his laughing fit.

"Mine's been hurting since I started laughing. I'm injured, remember?" Ryan coughed out while he clutched at his sore and abused sides, still not able to stop laughing. He was at university on a sports scholarship, having been planning on becoming a pro soccer player. Though right now, he was benched because of the injury he'd received during his last soccer practice that caused several ribs to be bruised and one or two to even be cracked.

"Right, sorry dude. I forgot." Terry said half-heartedly as he was also trying to stop laughing.

Terra was the first to regain control of herself. She swiped a few tears away as she picked herself up and brushed the dirt off of her clothes. She was still chuckling slightly though.

"Ok, now that we've all had a good laugh, who wants to Bey Battle with me?" She asked, getting several shouts of agreement from different areas on the ground as most people were still trying to get up. 'Course, this started an argument on who's turn it was to battle her. She just rolled her eyes at them and waited for them to sort it out.

It was short lived though, as an RCMP officer and Terry's dad showed up. Both had sad looks on their faces. Terra got a sinking feeling when she saw them.

"Terra, Jay, could you come with us, please?" Justin asked softly. They shared a look with everyone else before following the two adults to a more private area of the park.

"You may want to sit down for this. I'm afraid that I have some bad and upsetting news for you." The officer said just as softly as Justin had spoken a few minutes ago.

"What would this news be?" Terra asked warily.

Meanwhile, Terry and the others were sitting and talking quietly now. All of them were wondering what his dad and that officer needed to talk to Terra and Jay about. A silence eventually fell over them as they ran out of ideas of what it could possibly be all about. It stay like that for several minutes.

An inhuman sounding shriek fill with agony and grief suddenly echoed throughout the park, startling everyone/thing in or around it.

"That was Terra, wasn't it?" Kayla asked quietly.

"Yea, it was." Terry replied to her question.

Silence fell over them again as the mood took on a thick and tense atmosphere. A few minutes later, the officer reappeared as he made his way to leave the park. Terry stopped him though.

"What happened?" He asked anxiously. The officer hesitated on answering his question for a moment.

"Their parents were killed. The plane they were on crashed." The officer finally stated quietly before continuing on his way. The silence that followed after that statement was stunned.