Four friends, Four elements, Four children,
There would be four, four of them in total and one guardian,
All conceived on the same day, at the same moment but born months apart,
One born in the winter months, only 3 months after conception, they will survive due to their father's strength,
They are born of the water element.
The second born a month later, a tiny little thing full of power and energy,
Born of the Air element.
The 3rd was born on time, and unlike the others, this one could pass for normal if it wasn't for their parents',
Born on the hottest day of the year, this one is born of the fire element.
The final child was born late and in the fields, the first thing the baby saw was mud and trees,
A child of the Earth element.
Their guardian, born in the middle of the year, will grow and train to do the one thing they were put on this Earth to do,
To protect the four of them, to find them, and collect them and train them to become stronger and use their powers to help the Clave and all of mankind.
There is a sad part to this story, the five couples who bare these children will become sterile directly after their births, ...and they won't get to keep their children.
In order for the four of them to survive infancy, they must be taken away from their birth parents and spread out throughout the United States. If their parents keep them...the children will die. The only one who can stay with their birth parents is their Guardian.
They will get together fifteen years from now because that's when they will be needed. Until then, no one is to inform them of the truth about their existence. Evelynn, Leonardo, Gilbert, Diana and Henry.
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"You're going to go to the premiere of the new 'Clearly Cursed' movie right?" Hillary asked her best-friends as they walked to school together like they did every day. "I saw the trailer for it online and it does look pretty awesome! People are saying it's going to be like the new Star Wars! They're going to build a huge empire around it!"
"Why? It's basically the same recycled shit over and over again. Some kid finds out they're not human and ends up saving the world with a couple of hotties." One of her friends, a girl she'd known since Grade school, said with a bored tone.
Hillary laughed and pointed up to a billboard they were passing under. "Well everyone else seems to have gone crazy for it!"
There was a blown-up movie poster, along with screen-titles and information like the actors and the directors and the producers. It was basically a line of the main characters, looking all gloomy and grim, weapons in hand and ready to face off against their enemy who's picture was visible but slightly faded in the background. It looked like any other, cheesy movie poster.
"...You just want to go because you think the guy playing Duncan in this is cute!" The same grumpy little friend said with an annoyed grunt. "...I think he's blind."
"He's not blind!" Hillary screeched in response. "He's eyes are just sensitive to the light! Jeeze Diana, what's your problem today?"
Diana sighed and tucked some of her light, golden blonde hair behind her ear. "...You'll find out later."
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"Hey Leo! Get the hell out of bed! We need to get you in make-up and wardrobe right away! You have an interview at 10, a promotional photo-shoot at 11, lunch with me, the director and Janet and then from 1:30 to 5 you have Q and A with some of the top writers."
Leo groaned and forced his eyes open, looking up at the gray ceiling of his trailer. The dimly-lit lights still stung his eyes even though they were on their lowest setting. Everyday it was the same old routine, get up, follow his schedule, get back to his trailer, eat a TV dinner, take a shower and then go to bed for the next five hours. He hadn't been this tired in his life but he didn't have a choice! He'd signed the contract and now these guys owned him basically.
He sat up and stretched, reaching for his sunglasses on the nightstand and then grabbing his vest off the back of the bedroom door. He'd recently gotten into the habit of sleeping in his clothing to save time from changing. It was easier this way and he'd realized that falling asleep in a pair of jeans wasn't as difficult as he had once thought it would be.
"Leo? Leo! LEO! GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NO MISTER OR SO HELP ME-"
The young actor groaned, "I'm coming! Hang on a minute, alright dad?"
It sucked having his father for a manager. He was so angry all the time and all he ever did was yell, and criticize whatever his kid was doing. When Leo had first started acting, his father had been a little more encouraging and actually said that he was doing a good job...and than mom had died and nothing had ever been the same. Leo didn't even recognize his father anymore and his siblings didn't talk to him anymore unless they were calling him "Mr. Hollywood" and shit like that.
What he'd give to have the life he had before his mom had died.
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Henry leaned up against the brick wall of the convenient store and yawned, watching people as they went inside and out. Somedays, people would stop and talk to him but today, they didn't do anything but glare at him and give him disgusted looks. They liked to look down at him and Henry really didn't blame them. It wasn't hard to tell. One kid coming in with his parents stopped and looked down at him,
"Hey mister! What are you doing here?" The child asked, despite his parents' protests to enter the store without conversation.
"I live in the alley beside the building, little buddy." Henry forced a smile, "I'm waiting out here to see if I can collect enough money to get something to eat. If I don't, I'm going to have to go dumpster diving again."
"Why do you live out in the streets?" The child asked, his mother tugging on his arm, desperate to end this conversation and get him inside the store. "Why don't you live with your parents?"
"I don't have any parents. I'm an orphan. I was in foster-care for eight years and then I ran away from home. Not that I had much of a home to begin with." He forced a confident smile, "But I'd rather stay out here than go back there."
"Let's go Tucker, if we hurry up, I'll buy you a bag of chips as a treat!" The boy's mother coaxed. "Come on. Come on."
The child looked at Henry for an answer and the boy laughed, "That's a pretty good deal. I'd take it kid."
The young family went inside and when they came back out a few minutes later, the little boy, Tucker, handed Henry a small bag of chips before running off with his parents.
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Evelynn looked out at the courtyard from her dorm-room window and smiled at the scene below. Her school was having one of it's annual carnivals to help raise funds for new supplies and it was always the high-light of the year. The only time of year where everything was fine and one hundred percent awesome! The best time of the year!
She pulled on her jacket and ran out into the hall, kicking shut the door behind her and hurrying along. She didn't want to miss out over anything!
There were booths lined up, food booths full of a ton of foods from around the world, game booths including those dart-games, fishing booth games and a dunk-tank. There was even a kissing booth nearby. In the parking lot there were rides, all the good, fun ones that made you want to barf and spun you around so much you almost lost your head. The tilt-a-whirl, the spider, the scrambler, the paratroopers and even a mini-rollercoaster.
Evelynn had always been a bit of a thrill junky so the rides were the one thing she ever really did here.
She started off running towards the rollercoaster, her silky black hair blowing behind her in the wind as she ran threw the crowds. She didn't even blink when she passed two adults, eating chili-dogs and looking around at everyone as if trying to find someone they lost. Their faces grew serious when they saw her go by.
"...That's her." One of them said to the other, "...She looks so much like her mother...It has to be her."
The other nodded, "Yeah...she really does. We should follow her...just to be one the safe-side." He sighed, "...Her birthday's in a couple of days...she'll be fifteen. Every downworlder in town will be out after her. We have to make sure that doesn't happen...I'll call the others."
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Alright so this isn't really much but it's the first chapter and I promise that it's going to get better! Anyway, it's pretty straight forward but if you can guess which couple is the parents of which kid, I'll incorporate you in this somehow! Read, review and follow!