FAWE

A Dark Friend

Ava. So glad you could join us. Please, sit down, the Water teacher said, gesturing to the large swimming pool that took up the middle of the Water Extreme room. I sat down, crossing my legs.

We were just talking about control, which I think will be helpful to you, he said, smiling. I knew that the words hid a threat, but I didnt rise to it. I simply looked into the teachers wild green eyes, and waited for him to continue.

Okay, then, he said, his smile diminishing slightly, Control is very important, children. Without control, you will end up killing someone. Which is very bad. Already, I hated this man. He talked to us like we were children, yet he looked no older than twenty-five.

Now, can anyone tell me how you can control water without killing someone? he asked, walking along the edge of the pool. No one answered, and he frowned. Well, now, I thought that one of you would have a bright idea, he muttered.

A sigh escaped me, and I stared at the water. Blocking out the teachers droning voice, I focused on the slight waves rippling through the clear blue. Someone had their feet in the pool, which was causing the ripples.

Gently, so very gently, I opened the cage keeping my calmness inside. The gentle water flowed out, cautious and afraid. I let the power of calmness and peace fill me, and I started moving the water.

A small ball, no bigger than my pinky fingernail, rose from the ripples. Another joined it, then another, another, another. Soon, I had a long chain of them, coiled into a spiral.

I summoned more water, forming it into shapes. I didnt focus on them much, and just let them form into whatever shape they wanted. I called more water.

Summoning some happiness from within me, I twisted a cold breeze around the new ball of water. Quickly, the water started to freeze. I poured more power into the breeze, making it spin faster and faster. Soon, the water had frozen into a spiral. I let the breeze fade.

I turned towards my other projects, which floated in the air before me. I put all of the abstract shapes of water onto the spiral of droplets, then placed the twisted ice on the top.

A gasp echoed through the room, and I looked up to see who made it. All eyes were focused on me, and the teacher had stopped his monologue. He stared at my creation with wide eyes, mouth agape, and chest barely moving.

H-How did you make that? he asked, taking a step towards me. I shrugged, looking back at my sculpture, and answered, I dont know. I was just bored.

You should not be bored in my class, he said, flushing slightly. I looked him straight in the eye and said, Then dont make the class boring. You droning on wont teach us anything. I may be new, but I at least know how to control my power. I know how to do things that you never could.

The flush crept higher up the teachers cheeks, and he said, I would be careful if I were you, child. I have years of experience behind me. I snorted, and rose to my feet. I lifted my hands, and my sculpture broke into triangles of water. I summoned a wind to chill the water, and soon I had daggers and spear points of ice surrounding me.

And I have power behind me, I said, resisting the urge to smile. The teachers face turned completely red, and he yelled as he threw bolts of fire and water at me.

The smile I had been fighting graced my lips, and I leaped forward. I threw ice at him, dodged his balls of fire, and turned his own water against him. Power filled me, along with a strange, ethereal calmness. I was the center of a maelstrom, the calm eye in the middle of a hurricane. I was the calculating mind behind a madman.