The Elemental
Sage
The Saga Begins
Hiking wasn't the easiest thing when you have to run the whole time. I have been in track for about a year now, and have gotten pretty good at running. Being one of the fastest kids in school made me pretty popular. But that all changed when one day my mom that I was mature enough to learn a secret she has been keeping from me my whole life.
She really didn't pick the best time to tell me that I had the power to control the elements, but she already told me so there was nothing I could do about it. The only real reason I didn't want to know was once she told me I couldn't stop thinking about it. That's when I find out the first element to master...rock.
I found this out the hard way. I was outside playing fetch with the dog and started thinking about what mom said that's when things got bad. I through the stick and the ground started shaking and a huge rock shot up from the ground and I heard screaming. That's when I decided to stop doing anything that had to do with moving my arm fast. That's when I ran into a problem, track, in track I had to run but running involves movement of the arm. But I couldn't quit track. Track was something I had to do my mom said I should get in to sports but I was very good with my arms so that pretty much crossed out every thing besides track and soccer, but I pretty much hated soccer so that left me with track. So that's why I can't quit track. Well I'll have to worry about that later for now I have to worry about the elements. There are four main elements so let me think. There is water, wind, rock, and fire. I figure I should go with the least deadly first. Well that pretty much crosses out all of them. Water drowns you and floods homes and stuff like that. Fire burns stuff. Wind creates tornadoes and hurricanes. Well that leaves rock; rock can be deadly depending on how you use it. The only natural disaster that includes rock is earthquakes but that is caused by pressure. So I went with rock. I went to talk to mom and ask her how I control it.
Unfortunately she was no help she told me the only thing she knew about it is that I can control it and I need an elemental staff to have full control, but then she told me that I had to be able to at least control rock. She told me I need control over rock because I need to be able to make the staff out of stone. So I went outside to get in on some training. Well I decided to train by trying to move little stones, but as you know things don't always work out for me. I tried to move a couple rocks across the kitchen table I ended up moving the table (it was made of granite). I got in trouble. Of course I saw that coming, because when the table moved it fell over and busted in to pieces. So she told me to go outside and train out there. So I did. I went out into the woods to look for this hill slide that happened a few years back but I never really thought much of it. Well anyway I kept looking a couple times I got lost and had to go back to a trail marker that someone put up but must have forgot about a while back. So I kept looking and when I finally got there I was exhausted. So I sat down to rest for a second. Once I was done resting I started training. Since the past couple of days I have been move large pieces of rock and more dense pieces, I thought I could start by lifting big boulders and moving them to another place. Well it didn't really work out I tried picking up a pretty good sized boulder but ended up nearly killing myself by making the whole hillside collapse. So I decided to use less power. I tried that but this time nothing happened.
Then I realized that it has nothing to do with power. It's all in the focus. So I focused on a big boulder that was nearly the size of the hill. All of a sudden the boulder, not really slowly but more violently, lifted off the ground. I was proud of myself at first but then I lost focus and it fell. Completely ignoring what just happened I heard a crash. I looked down the hill. to see what the damage was. The boulder had fallen into the statue of the mayor, luckily only minor damage. Fortunately the mayor really didn't care for the statue. So I repeated what I had previously done (except with a smaller boulder more like a large rock but I still used it). Only this time I kept my focus. Well apparently I got this rock thing down. So I kept repeating the process over and over again. So I decided to take a break and headed back home.
Chapter 2
The boy made of stone
I got through the woods and got back on the street when I saw what looked like a giant rock heading for me. The only thing I could do was cover my face and hoped that worked and it did two pieces of rock seamed to jump in the air and block the boulder. While I was paying attention to that I felt a sharp pain in my right arm. I looked and there was a rock jammed inside my arm. All of a sudden all the rocks went back into the ground and I fell to my knees in pain. The rock had left a hole all the way through my arm. I put my hand around it then I saw another large piece of rock come out of the ground but this time it came straight for my arm and completely covered my arm in rock.
I went to break it off but then it went back into the ground. I had just glanced in the direction of my arm when I noticed it was completely cover in stone I tried to break it off, but then I realized it wasn't on my arm
It was my arm.
Well my life is just great I am less popular at school now and my arm weighs 1 ton. I only knew this because I weighed to see if I could lug it around all the time. Well I couldn't so I decided to use my power to keep it up. I tried to put a seal on my arm to make it weigh less. That really did go as I planned. I just ended up blowing a huge hole in my rock arm. So I had to fix it. I figure I should just remember how it turned into rock and what I did to make it do that. Let's see I was scared but that wasn't it. I sat and thought hard to see if I could remember what happened. When it came to me, I was in pain so I had held my arm hard against where I had been hurt. So I decided to do that. But then I realized if I did it in the house the rock would come through the floor so I went in the backyard. I focused on my arm and put my hand where the hole was. All of a sudden a piece of what seamed like a huge boulder hit my arm.
I thought I should be scared but then I realized that the piece of rock infused with my arm and had thickened it and fixed the hole. The downside is my arm weighs twice as much as it did 2 minutes ago. So I went to mom to see if she knew how to put a weigh less seal, as I call it, on my arm. She told me that I had to "experiment" with my powers to find what I was looking for. In other words she was no help. Well I put the seal on hold, for now. Well I can't believe that the weekend is almost over. I don't think I will be able to pass any of my classes with an arm made out of rock. Especially because I write with my right arm, and I can barely hold it up. Well I think I may have found the solution to my problem. If I just focus on making the seal separate from my arm it might work. So I took a rock that looked a little round and… SMASH!! A giant rock fell right in front of me and threw me back 10 or 12 feet. I looked up to see what looked like a person covered in stone. I asked him what he wanted with me but apparently he can't talk because all he did was throw another rock at me. But then I had an idea maybe I could control rock with my rock arm maybe I can master rock.
I didn't have much time I picked myself up and acted like I was throwing something at him and my plan worked a rock went hurling threw the air and hit his arm, Shattering it into pieces. Unfortunately he just pushed what was left of his arm into the ground and his arm grew back. Understanding he was indestructible I ran for my life toward the park. Apparently he was to fast because before I knew it he hit me in the back with what felt like a sharpened rock. I went to pull it out but it was already gone when I reached. I turned around and he was gone. I decided to not worry about it but I couldn't stop thinking about it. So I decided to look for him. When all of a sudden I heard a crash and the building in front of me seamed to explode. And I flew backwards. I thought I was going to die, but then I realized that I could control rock to. So I made my rock arm go to the right and the rock exploded. I fell to the ground. At that point I couldn't take it so with a sharp movement of my arm a rock went flying through the air and thrusted into the man made of stone. When it hit him I widened my hands. The rock seamed to explode and I saw him bust into pieces.
I walked back to my house after he like you know died. So anyway when I got back home there was nobody there. I looked in a mom's room, but she wasn't there. I looked in the living room, nobody. Then I suddenly realized that there was a huge gaping hole in the side of the wall. At first I couldn't believe it, but then I knew why there was a huge gaping hole in the wall…the man made of stone. I commonly referred to him as mmot. It was a perfect name and it sounded dumb, but I wasn't going to keep on calling him the man made of stone. Well I had to find out where he had taken them. So I set off…
Chapter 3
The way I made the staff
I followed the road where it had been crushed by mmot. A couple of times I had seen a building with the windows smashed and some of the stone broken. Well my search hasn't been going so well. I haven't found them, and the trail went on forever, when finally it stopped at a cave. I didn't really have time to go in, when out of the cave a huge spiral of rock seamed to explode right in front of me. I had no time to move so made the stone go back in the cave.