The Beginning
I clenched my fists as the memories rushed me. Pictures of great battles between wind and fire flashed before my eyes. An innocent looking girl, quite beautiful actually. I came to with my friend standing over me repeatedly asking me if I was ok. It was still hard to see, the sunlight was so bright it was blinding. My friend asked me once again "are you ok man" I replied to him with "YES!! I'm----fine I just need to lay down for a while". So he helped me up the steps to my front door and opened it and walked me inside. I walked to my couch and laid down on it. My friend remarked on that when I was "out" (he had said it in an emphasized way) that I had clenched my fists I looked down and noticed both of them were bleeding. I went to the kitchen to wash them and he helped and then his cell phone rang with the ring tone "yo momahs callin back-proly just to chat" which always made me giggle. He answered and said "ok---ill be there in a few minutes" and put his phone back in his pocket. "Dude I got to go home my mom wants me home for some reason." I replied "okay don't worry about me ill be fine" I said as I turned off the sink. He ran out the door and as usual for some reason never closes the door on his way out so I went and shut it and walked to my couch and laid down. I reached into my pocket to pull out the stone that I had picked up rite before the----visions? ---rushed me. I looked closely at it. It was a pearly white looking stone about the size of those bigger marbles, it was translucent and looked as if it had a symbol for----I think wind engraved on the inside and no matter what angle I looked at it the symbol looked the same---as if it turned with your point of view. I dozed off and woke the next day at about 11 am and both my hands were patched up. Apparently my mother patched them while I was asleep and then went to work. I went in the kitchen to get something to eat and noticed a note on the fridge from my mother. It said " how did you hurt both your hands were going to talk about it when I get home and your buddy came by he was wandering if you were ok for some reason idk signed love yah from mom" I thought to myself she's so weird! Then laughed. As I was cooking ramen (yes I no not the normal breakfast food but I happen to like ramen) as it was cooking I remembered about the stone I had picked up while me and my friend Dylan were running. I reached in my pocket and pulled it out and more memories flashed before my eyes this time it was a little less Intense ---it was bearable. The pictures this time were more great battles except this time it was a team of wind, fire, ice, lightning, earth, and water fighting a team of darkness and evil trying to take the world over for some unknown reasons. The team called themselves the elemental heroes who are sworn to fight for the good of earth. I faded out of my flashbacks to realize that my ramen noodles were on fire apparently was out for a while I grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out. I cleaned up and looked down at the stone I had in my pocket. It had a very faint green aurora surrounding it and I felt a strange presence from it. I snapped out of my dazed state of staring at the stone when a knock on the door came. I went to answer—before I even got to the living room the person walked in. before I even seen who it was I already knew it was Dylan. He's the only one my mother gives permission to knock then just walk in like that. My mom really likes him for some reason. She thinks he's a ---character? But still enjoys his company. I suppose she mite as well have gotten used to it because were always together----like ALWAYS TOGETHER!! Can't stress that enough. As he walked in he said "sooooo-- what's with the smell" I told him "I accidently caught the kitchen on fire". As crazy as he is he said "REALLY!?! Is it still there I like fire wish I had fire powers ALLL THEE TIIIIMME!!!." I looked at him with a kind of stare that says "THE HELL!?! IS WRONG WITH YOU" and said "Dylan—the hell is your problem!?! I set the kitchen on fire and all you can think of is your weird fantasies about having mystical powers" I paused for a while and turned around and said "weirdo" under my breath. He followed me into my kitchen where I still needed to clean the mess up. Dylan asked me how I set the kitchen on fire and I told him that I "dozed off on accident" if I would have told him that I had another weird flash back thing he would've been worried about me. I got done cleaning after listening to Dylan ask me about a million times am I sure he doesn't want help I said yes every time. I went into the living room and turned don the TV and started to watch one of my favorite shows chowder. I asked Dylan if he would think I was crazy if I told him something. He told me without trying to laugh "I already know your crazy but yea-go ahead and tell me---what is it" "well you know that stone I picked up I thought looked cool? "Yea!? Why" "well look at it" I said as I pulled it out of my pocket to show him. He looked at it and said "what about it?" I said with surprise "you mean you don't see the weird green aurora around it---come on!! Be fur real!" "No dude really I don't see anything?"(He said with a kind of slowness as if he was thinking Gone crazy---err much! I told him never mind it and asked him if he wanted to go run he replied with an over excited "HECK YES!!" I told him I need to go to the wal-mart anyways, so we decided we would run there it was only about third of a mile anyways. So I grabbed my house key---even though I hate the darn things and wish to faze them out, I always end up losing them witch is stupid. I locked up the house as we were leaving. Normally when were running Dylan's faster then I am by a noticeable amount—despite the fact he's bigger then I am. Not like fat but muscle. He's is surprisingly fast for being his size, he's not really like HUGE but—yea. I was ahead of Dylan and wasn't trying to run faster then him at all he was falling behind me at a abnormal pace so I actually had to slow down he said I got faster I didn't believe him I said "nope your getting slower or something" "No really I'm running as fast I can and your ahead of me that much your defiantly getting way faster". He chuckled after he got done and said "maybe it has something to do with your glowing stone" I sighed and said "I knew you'd think I was crazy I started running fast as I could and left him in my dust as I was hastily making the distance between us further I heard him say "HOLY!!! I was only kidding man!" I looked over my shoulder and yelled back "see you at Wally world bud!" then chuckled. As I was running on the side of the road where the speed limit was about 50 mph a truck approached me from behind and I stayed along side it for the entire way to wal-mart. When I got in front of wal-mart I came to a skidding stop to cross the street to get to the parking lot. I waited for Dylan to catch up he was about ten minutes behind me. When he finally caught up to me I asked him in an overly egotistical way "what took you so long slowpoke" as I winked at him ^_~. I wasn't even breathing hard he was though. He asked me "When----did you---get so-----fast" breathing heavily between each pause. I replied to him "Well that's the first time I have ran after I found this stone" I pulled it out of my pocket and noticed it was glowing a brighter green now then before. I held it up to him, he said "yea yea whatever I got it, you don't have to rub it in my face you know" We both crossed the street and walked into wal-mart and as usual both went straight to the nurf swords and grabbed a couple of them and had a miniature sword fight in the store everyone was looking at us but we thought it was funny until wal-mart employee told us to knock it off. We wrapped up our battle regardless of what the wal-mart dude said and then went to the food section to get pizza I planned to ask my mother if Dylan could spend the night at my house and I figured it be a higher possibility of her saying yes if I had food for us. So I thought I would buy pizzas for us. On our way to the pizzas Dylan saw one of his friends and tried to back up to line himself up with the isle that they were in and couldn't stop going backwards slipped and knocked an entire "display island" over. You no the things they have in between the isles in wal-mart. I was like "PEACE!! I don't know who he is and walked off" While I was walking around Wal-Mart I reached in my pocket and pulled my stone out and as soon as I touched it a overwhelming energy took over me I felt as if I could fly. And I was so energetic I ran through the Wal-Mart to the pizzas and got them and then ran to directly were Dylan was. Me and him had a connection I always knew where he was and how he felt. I know it sounds weird but it was true. He asked me where I went I said the pizza isle with a very quick and over hyper answer. He looked at me like (O,.o) and I replied to him "what I'm hyper!" "Yea I can tell" "don't judge -_-' not like you've never been hyper—and you're the one that knocked down an entire display so shush" "HEY!! Shut-up I didn't mean to and I couldn't stop PLUS I got over excited and you have no room to talk…remember the time you were in school and you dropped your entire tray" I replied with a undertone voice "shut up…..shut up…..shut up" interrupting him. After we got done arguing we went to the checkout counter and saw a friend of his that moved to California. He freaked out and was like "OMG!!! Give me a hug" and he almost fell AGAIN! What a dork. As I was paying for the pizzas I heard them talking about how they used to know each other and she changed her phone number and all this other stuff not of importance I guess. I was thinking in the back of my mind what this stone I had found was. What were these "memories?" What power did this stone have and how can I prove it to Dylan? So many questions flooded me. I didn't know which one to answer first I supposed I would try to get Dylan to believe me he could help me answer the rest of the questions as long as he beloved me. He was quite smart despite what it seemed like. He would defiantly be able to help me so I had to prove him this stone was no ordinary stone. I got finished buying the pizzas and walked out into the parking lot and we saw my mother and she drove us both home to my house. On the way home he was talking to me and was telling me who that girl was and saying he was on "Cloud 9" which was our expression for being EXTREMLY HAPPY! And I was listening but thinking how I could prove to him this stone was no ordinary stone. Then a light bulb when off in my brain. I HAD AN IDEA! I thought maybe if I gave him the stone for a while it would be reveled to him that it was no ordinary stone. Maybe he would see the green glow and feel the energy I feel coming from it. So I told him "Hey if I let you hold onto the stone maybe you will see the aurora" you'd think my mom would be like what but she's completely oblivious to everything that goes on around her as is the rest of my household which is just my sister but yea what do you expect she's 13…I think? Dylan replied to me "yea maybe---"then said under his breath "if there was one" "HEY SERIOUSE!! Here" I handed him the stone and said "hold onto it—OK?" "Yea ill hold onto it but don't expect me to see 'This aurora'" He said "this aurora" with an emphasis and motioned quotations with his hands as he said it. "come on dude stop making fun of me for about three hours to be serious about this if you don't see the aurora then you can call me crazy all you want" "ok jeeze I was only kidding don't have to get all defensive and stuff about it." Then my mother interrupted us and said "so why did you buy pizzas Alex" (which by the way was my name) "I bought them so me and Dylan could have something to eat if you let him spend then night----can he?" "Umm I don't know most likely a yes----aaah what the heck? Yea he can spend the night as long as you guys aren't to loud" "thank you mom Dylan do you need to go to your house to get anything" he looked at me and said "yea I need to take a shower and do some chores before I can leave---so about a few hours before I come over----Hey mom will you take me to my house so I can do those things ill find a ride back to your guys house when I get done" He's the only one my mom lets call her mom. I don't know why she likes him so much—but she does which is a good thing. My mom replied to him "yea Ill drop you off at your house" She turned off onto his road and as we drove into his driveway I said "you have the stone right?" "Yea I have it" he said as he pulled it out of his pocket to show me getting ready to get out of the car. As he got out of the car I said "see you later rite?" "Yes do I ever lie" "Ok then buy-buy" I said as I waved to him as we backed up and drove down his driveway. "Hey mom?" "Yes honey?" "Your going to help us eat these pizzas rite" "I'm not hungry" "Well I bought two so you could have some too and ---yea" "Ok ill eat some of the pizza only like two pieces though" "Thank you mom." We pulled into my driveway and got out and went inside. I went to my room and cranked up my speakers witch I had playing my "sonic moosik" playlist on . Me and Dylan and another of my best friends Courtney absolutely LOVED sonic and its fandom. Courtney or court as we called her likes shadow Dylan's favorite is sonic and then mine is silver and strangely enough my favorite song is his theme song dreams of an absolution. As I was singing the gem that I had picked up popped into my mind I don't know what made me think of it but I did. As I was thinking I reached into my pocket almost against my will and felt a round object there and pulled it out. IT WAS THE GEM!! And it was pulsing with green aurora. I swear I gave it to Dylan before he left. I KNOW I DID!! Just then a knock had come at the door and I heard it open. I knew it was Dylan. My mom had said "hey Hun welcome home" he said back to her in a frantic "Hi mom thanks for letting me come over and stay the night where's Alex?" "He's in his room—what's wrong honey...are you ok?" "Yea I just lost something don't worry ill be ok" I herd him approaching my room as he open my door I held up the stone and showed him and said with a 'toldyah so' tone "SEE!! I TOLD YOU IT WAS NO ORDINARY STONE!" He had huge eyes and his jaw was on the floor. (Not really...it's just a figure of speech) He said with astonishment "I had that in my pocket when I got in the shower because I pulled it out to see if it was glowing or anything---and then I got out of the shower and it was gone----I freaked out I thought I had dropped it in my sink or something! ---I thought you'd be mad at me because I lost it" "Well I told you it was not normal---I was singing and then reached in my pocket and it was there I was like NO WAY at first but then thought WAIT this will prove him wrong" "well your not so crazy after all" he said as he chuckled. "Well now you can help me solve the mysteries of this gem. Like what is it? Where did it come from? How old is it? And what powers does it have? ---These mysteries have to be solved. We have to figure out what it is!!"