Kimi woke up in her room, she yawned and got up, "whelp time to get ready." She said, getting dressed and going downstairs, "ma! What's for breakfast!"
"Egg's and pancakes." Kira said, flipping a pancake onto the plate beside her, "how was your sleep?" she asked.
"It was good mom." She said, sitting down at the table.
"Is your sister awake?" she asked.
Kimi shrugged, 'I don't know." She walked over to the stairs, "Kate! Wake up!"
Her little sister Kate ran down the stairs, her hair in pigtails, she had on a white T-shirt and a black skirt that ended right above her knee's, "I'm awake Kimi." She said, walking into the kitchen and grabbing a plate of pancakes.
"You ready for freshman year Kate?" Kira asked.
'It's the same people as last year," she said, "not that much of a difference."
"Only this time you're with sophomores, juniors, and seniors, not just freshman."
"So?"
Kimi rolled her eyes, 'just so you know, Senior guy's will be trying to pick you up, they do it every year."
'Like I'd fall for anything they say." Kate said, taking a bite of her pancakes, "I'm not an idiot."
"That can be debated." Kimi said with a smirk, "now lets go, we're running late." the two girls both ran outside, saying a quick goodbye to their mom, and ran to Kimi's car.
"So how are you and that Sean guy?" Kate asked as they got in.
"We broke up a few weeks ago." Kimi said casually, not really making it sound too important.
"Wow, and you didn't cry about it?"
"Oh I cried, but It's not like we all didn't know it was coming," she said, "Me and him have been drifting apart for months."
"But still," Kate said, "you didn't talk to mom or me about it, you just kept it to yourself."
Kimi turned down the street heading towards the school, "it wasn't that important." She said again, pulling into her parking spot, "just hope you don't go out with a dumbass like Sean."
"Please, like I'd go for someone like him." She said with a snort of disgust. They got out and walked towards the school together; as they walked in they saw two boys standing in the office, "who are they?" Kate asked.
"I don't know…" Kimi muttered, looking closely at the two, one was about her age, with long purple hair and grey eyes, he was muscular and tanned, his white T-shirt defining his muscles, his blue jeans were ripped and baggy on him, the boy beside him was slightly shorter and had a Sherpa hat on, his clothes were outlandish, it looked like he just put things on randomly until he was happy with what he had on.
"I don't know them," Kimi said, "They must be new here."
"Oh…" she said, "…the one with the Sherpa hat is kinda cute."
Kimi rolled her eyes, "shut up," she said, walking away.
"What? It's true!"
Kimi kept walking, until a hand grabbed her arm, "Kimi." Sean growled, "We need to talk."
"Let go of me Sean," Kimi said, 'There's nothing to talk about.'
'Hell yeah there is!" he said, "I'm not going to loose you.
"I told you Sean there's nothing to talk about!" Kimi said angrily, raising her voice.
"Don't talk back to me!" he shouted, raising his hand, making Kimi flinch.
"Hey!" someone said, grabbing Sean's hand, he had a distinct Irish accent "The lady doesn't want te be bothered."
Kimi looked to the side and saw the purple haired boy standing there, holding Seans hand in place, "so I suggest ya leave before things get ugly."
"And who are you to threaten me?" Sean growled.
"Do ye really want ta find out?" he asked, a weird glint in his eyes.
Sean took a step back, the kid let go of his hand, "Now get out of here." Tommy said.
Sean quickly ran off, the kid turned to Kimi, "You all right?" he asked her.
"I'm…I'm fine." She said, "thank you."
"Any time," he said, then held his hand out, "I'm Tommy Pickles, Just moved here last week."
"Nice to meet you.
"Hey T," the other boy said walking over, he had the same Irish accent, "everythin' alright?"
"Just fine Dil, jus' an idiot, tryin' ta get the girl."
"Oh, did ya give'em a good thrashin?"
"Nope, coward ran off."
"Nice" He said, then turned to Kimi and Kate, "I'm Dil by the way."
"Nice to meet you," Kate said quickly, shaking Dil's hand, as soon as their hands touch there seemed to be a spark between them, making Kate jump, 'whoa…that never happened before."
"Y-yeah," Dil said with an uneasy laugh.
"Well my name is Kate, this is my sister Kimi." Kate said.
"Nice to meet ye both." Dil said,
"Yeah." Tommy said, watching Kimi, "Nice to meet ya both."
"Alright, well we got to get to class now," Kimi said, "come on Kate."
"Right." Kate mumbled, and followed Kimi, when they were far enough away, Kate got in front of her sister, "Sean was hitting you?"
"Only every now and then." Kimi mumbled, "That's why I broke up with him."
"You should've told me." She said.
"It would've just started more drama, and I don't need that right now."
Kate sighed and nodded, "well, at least we know one of the new kids like you."
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh come on, if that Irish rogue hadn't been there, you would have been slapped into next month, but he stood up for you, like your knight in shining armor." She sighed, "Oh just thinking about it makes me all fuzzy inside."
"You need to quit reading romance novels." Kimi said, "Maybe he just didn't want to see a girl get slapped."
"I don't know, but I know he likes you."
"Just get to class Kate." Kimi said, walking into her math class.
Kimi pulled up to her house, swerving around a moving truck to get into her parking spot, "what's with the moving truck?" she asked herself.
"Kimi!" Kate shouted, running over, "guess who just moved into the house beside ours!"
"Don't tell me…"
Dil walked over, a crooked grin on his face, "how are ya?" he asked.
"Fine, thanks." She said.
'They invited us over for dinner," she said, "and mom won't let me go unless you go, can we please!"
Kimi sighed, "sure," she muttered, 'Just let me put my stuff up."
After she put her stuff up she walked over to her new neighbors house, before she could knock the door opened and Tommy almost crashed into her.
"Oh, sorry." He said.
"It's alright." She said, "Where are you going? I thought you invited us to dinner?"
"My brother did, I have some…business te take care of." He said, quickly walking away, "Good seein' ya again lass!"
Kimi watched him leave with a thoughtful expression, but shrugged it off and walked inside.
Dil and Kate were talking in front of a gigantic rug that was hanging on the wall, "aren't rugs supposed to be lying on the ground?"
"Normally," Dil said, "but ye see, this is a peace of art work, took me great grandma over six years te make it."
Kimi looked at it, and realized it was a gigantic picture, people and animals were sewn into it, in some places, the humans were hunting the animals, in others the animals were hunting each other, in one it looked like the humans and the animals were sitting together talking, then in the middle was a large circle, four people sewn in around it, two men and two women, all of them held something in their hand, she looked closely at one and realized he was holding fire in his hands, another one was holding water over her head, the one looked like he was levitating rock in front of him, and the last one held her hands high, what looked like wind was flowing around her.
"That's the symbol of elemental balance." He said, pointing, "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water, if that balance was thrown out, the world would end."
"Wow…" Kate said, "why'd she sew that in there?"
"Well, our family is an old one, tellin' stories about the balance of the world and stuff like tha'."
"That's so interesting," Kate said, mesmerized as Dil talked.
"It's fake." Kimi muttered.
"Kimi don't be rude!" Kate said.
"What? It's a legend, this stuff doesn't happen, and I'm pretty sure humans can't touch fire without burning."
"Haven't ye heard of a torch lass?" Dil asked, making Kate giggle
Kimi rolled her eyes, 'you know what Kate, I think you can chill with Dil, I doubt he'll try anything," she turned and started walking out.
"Where are you going Kimi?" Kate asked.
"I don't know, somewhere."
Kimi sat inside a teens club that she went to a lot, it was a few weeks after the arrival of Tommy and Dil, she talked to them every now and then, but they were so weird, she even caught the two in their back yard, fighting each other with swords! I mean who does that! She sighed and rubbed her temple.
"Why you lookin' down Kimi cub?" someone asked, she turned and saw Phil Deville walking towards her, "Phil! I haven't seen you for a while." She said.
"Yeah, just got back from vacation."
"You just got back from vacation so you came here to party?'
"Yep!" he said happily.
Kimi laughed a little, 'how's Lil?" she asked.
"She's great,' he said, "She won a tournament for soccer over in England.
"That's cool." Kimi said.
"So, you wanna dance?" Phil asked.
"Sorry but I got to get home." She says standing up; "I'm late enough as it is."
"Alright, see ya Kimi!"
Kimi walked out, making her way to her car, a growl made her look around, 'Hello?" she asked, "Who's there?"
She heard another growl, and this time she saw a large wolf-like thing, "it's a dog." She said with a sigh of relief, then cracks appeared in the dogs skin, a soft red glow coming from the cracks and a fiery aura coming around it, it opened it's eyes, showing them to be an angry red, "Not a dog…" She whispered, "Not. A. Dog!" she shouted, running back towards the club, the monster running after her. Before she could get in another one jumped in front of her, she almost screamed, she turned and ran from both, running into an old factory, the two things right behind her. "Help!" she screamed, "help!"
One of the things lunged at her, only to be kicked to the side by someone she had just met, "T-T-Tommy!" she stuttered.
"Yep it's me," the Irish kid said, and then pointed to a ladder "Now move yer ass lass!"
Kimi started running up the ladder, tommy stood in front of the ladder, he jumped as one came at him and kicked it into the ground, the other he punched and sent it into a pile of pipes, he climbed up the ladder, 'well isn't this fun?" he asked with a grin,
"Me and you have a different definition of fun." She said out of breath.
Tommy laughed, "that or ye haven't been havin' the right kinda fun!" A roar made tommy looked down, "alright, lets get going because they just woke up, and their pissed." He pushed her to the side as a large fireball almost hit her, engulfing him in flames.
"Tommy!" Kimi screamed.
Tommy ran out of the fire, completely unscathed, only his clothes were a little singed, "I'm fine, now run!"
Kimi took off running, tommy right behind her, "how'd you survive that!" she shouted at him.
"I have my ways." He said with a smile, "now ye might want te cover yer eyes."
"Why?"
"This is why," tommy turned around and held his hand up, open palmed, a weird red circle appeared in his palm, "Phoenix fire!" he shouted, sending bright golden flames at the wolves.
"H-how did you…"
"No time," Tommy said, running past her, as he ran past he grabbed her arm and pulled her along, "keep running, that only stunned them."
Kimi looked behind her and saw the wolves getting back up.
"Damn it where are you Dil!" Tommy snarled.
"Why don't you just blow those wolves away!"
"Because their fire demons, I can't kill fire with an even bigger fire!"
They continued to run, until they got to a dead end, Tommy turned around, "Lass, get behind me." He said.
Kimi got behind him, "no arguments here." She whispered.
Tommy formed a fire barrier between him an the wolves, "it won't hold them back for long," he muttered, falling against the wall
"Okay, how can you do this!" she shouted, running over to him.
'I'm a fire mage," he said.
"Mage?'
"Mage, magician, wizard, ye know, magic user."
"B-but…no one can use magic, it's a made up thing."
"Does this look made up!"
She looked at the fire barrier and the wolves trying to get through it, "no, no it doesn't."
"Exactly," he said.
"So…blow them up with a spell or something,"
"I can't," he growled, "I'm a fire mage, I only use fire, and I'm low on magic energy, if they get in, we're both screwed.
Kimi watched the barrier start to fail, she took a few steps back, "Tommy get up," She said, "come on, maybe you can blow a hole into the wall."
"I don't have the energy." He muttered.
Kimi watched as the wolves broke through, one jumped at her, one jumped at Tommy.
"Stay back!" she shouted, holding her hand out, suddenly the wolf stopped, twitching, ice and frost started to form on it, it screamed as it started to freeze, it's legs locking in place, the cracks in It's fur had turned an icy blue, finally it stopped screaming, it had turned into a solid ice sculpture, then shattered.
The other one watched Kimi warily, until she collapsed, then it moved in on her, ready to kill her for killing it's companion.
Before he could, a large bolt of lightning came down and slammed into it's neck, ripping it in two, Dil jumped down from a overhanging walkway, landing by Tommy, "damn, thought you said you could handle them."
"Oh shut up," Tommy grumbled, making himself stand, "did ye see what she did?"
"Yeah I did…it was awesome!"
"No, it's bad." He said, 'she could've killed herself!"
"oh yeah…lets get her back to the house.