(PROLOGUE) The World has always been a chaotic place. Since the dawn of time, the inhabitants have killed and been killed for survival, greed, revenge, or simply for the thrill. However, there has never been a being alive that has stood against the power against the Elements and survived in an all out war. While there may be resistance to them, in the end, the Fire will always consume the paper, the Water will always sink the ship, the Earth will always split the landscape and destroy the city, and the Wind will always obliterate the farm and blow away any opposition. It was for these reasons that the Elemental Furies were created. These Avatars were the embodiment of these devastating forces and could control them at will or simply let nature take it's course. They were meant to keep order among the inhabitants of the world, while maintaining balance on the stability of the world itself. It was thought to be the perfect solution to keeping peace in the world. Nobody would dare stand against the might of these four mighty forces of nature. However, it turned out the solution would not solve the problem. The Humans grew at an explosive rate and began fighting among-st themselves. When the Furies went to quell the situation, the humans didn't want to hear their pleas for a peaceful solution. When it finally came to no other option but force not even they,much to their surprise, could handle the might of hundreds of thousands of angry humans. Not only had the Humans' numbers increased faster then expected, but so had their intelligence to invent things. The Furies were not aware of how far the Humans had evolved and, while they put up an admirable and praise-worthy fight, they weren't able to overcome it all. To make matters worse, the very energy that had been used to create them dispersed into and across the world leaving their powers' location unknown upon their defeat. History has already proven that Humans are a violent and impulsive race who will do anything to maintain dominance even if it means betrayal. If they managed to find the fallen Elemental Furies energy and find a way to harness their power then it could cause more devastation then anyone could fathom.
It was just beginning to feel like summer for the past few days and everyone was out enjoying the sunshine and warm temperatures. However, on this particular day the sky had clouded over and a miserable downpour pounded the streets of. Pyra hated days like this. She didn't like getting wet and it always reminded her of something sad happening because of the dreary somber look weather gave and she figured it should only rain when such an event happened.
On this particular day she figured she would brave the weather, for once, and try and find something interesting to do in town. She knew that she would most likely just return home simply soaking wet and miserable but she also knew that she may be lucky as well might actually find something fun to do.
As she made her way through town she noticed that an awful lot of sirens seemed to be ringing. Cop cars, ambulances, Fire Trucks. she then thought to herself **man...what the heck's going on out there? don't often hear that many sirens going off at the same time...maybe they finally figured out that i had something to do with that jackass' house down the street getting messed ...he deserved it. he kept eyeing me and my friends up. it's not like anything major happened or anything, i just left a little bit of a ' piss off ' mark on the side of the house**. As she kept walking she somehow got the feeling that it wasn't anything to do some house that she had vandalized. Instead this felt a lot more foreboding and almost gave her a small sense of fear.
When she got to the scene she couldn't believe her eyes. All around the scene there were dead bodies. At least 10. All of them looked as though they had been eviscerated mercilessly and brutally. The strange part about it was that there wasn't a single piece of evidence to suggest an attack; not a weapon, evidence of a struggle, nothing. All that was evident was the mass amount of blood strewn across the street. Even more chilling were the victims faces. None of them seemed to have shown any sign of fear or surprise or any other kind of emotion. Almost as though the shadows or the air itself had killed them. But it was clearly obvious that such a thing was absurd as the brutality of their wounds clearly had the markings of a blade of some kind. A sword or dagger perhaps
As Pyra scoped out the scene, a small lump formed in her throat as she caught the sight of a small girl who had, sadly, been caught in the cross-fire and, like the others, was shown no quarter. She couldn't have been more then six or seven and of all of the victims, she probably would have been the one to have shown the most emotion. Her eyes were still half open, although they had long since begun to glaze over from their natural blueish-green. She had a small look of confusion on her face, as though she didn't understand what had just happened to her, mixed with a look of exhaustion and perhaps even a small amount of fear, almost as if she had run a long way trying to evade someone or something.
Pyra couldn't help but feel a little angry. She knew someone had done this horrible thing and they had no care whatsoever if a child got killed or not. As the rain continued to pour down she chuckled to herself "Maybe, it's a good day to rain after all. At least there won't be a single dry eye in the city." her small chuckle however quickly turned into one of sorrow "I'm sorry this had to happen to you...I wish I could have been there to help you guys. None of you deserved this particularly the little girl."
At that moment a police officer approached her " Excuse me Ma'am, but this is a murder investigation. I must ask you to leave unless you have any information that might help in bringing down the ones responsible for this crime." Pyra smiled at the Officer and nodded her head "i'm sorry Officer. I hope you find the ones responsible for this. The sooner they're off of our streets the better for all of us.". The Police Officer then smiled and nodded to her "Thank you Ma'am. Have a good day, and try to stay safe out there." she then smiled back at him before walking away "Thanks Officer you too." Pyra left the scene with an uneasy feeling she couldn't see anyone around the area besides the many police officers, but still she felt shaken for some reason "whoever did that is a messed up person...i better watch myself unless i want to end up like them.".
Unbeknownst to her, she was already being followed from a distance. the shadowy figure smirked wickedly"Ooooh I found another one! I like this one. she's a a pretty little thing, that I want aaallll to myself. No one else can have her but me". The figure chuckled wickedly and then continued to follow her at a safe distance leaving only a blood trail behind...