12 year old Miranda Hadley is bored with her life. All she does everyday is go to school, get homework, come back, do the homework, eat, sleep, then repeats the cycle all over again. Her lack of close friends doesn't exactly help much. But, when she's walking home from school one day, she's attacked and a secret she'd never known before is revealed. She's an Elementalist, a person that can manipulate one of 9 elements with the power of her mind. She's whisked away from her old life to Hetche, a school where she is taught to better harness her new found abilities. But trouble is brewing deep beneath the Earth. The Shadow Tiger, a chaotic demon is loose. She and 8 others are assigned to trap it in 7 days, or all hell will break loose. Do they truly have what it takes to cage it and save the world?