The stars shone bright over the school grounds. As three people walked towards one of the buildings, the moon emerged from behind a cloud, casting more light over them.

"Lovely night," Jack mumbled to himself, looking over at Ashley as they walked side by side behind Gale. Said young sorceress was carrying a strange book.

"Yeah. Be better if I wasn't about to pass out asleep," the fire elemental muttered, letting out a yawn to prove her point. She looked over at the library, watching as Gale opened the door.

"I need absolute solitude to do this. Make sure no-one comes inside," Gale said before disappearing inside.

Gale's POV

I looked down at the book in my hand, feeling nervous about what I was going to do. If this spell worked, I could create a clone of myself. At the very least, I could always use the spell to send a clone to class if I was feeling ill or anything.

"Okay, where's the spell," I mumbled to myself, flicking through the old pages of the book. I soon found the spell I was looking for, readying myself. In order to create the clone, I needed to use all elemental spells at once and reabsorb the combined energies.

Mentally, I said the spells to manifest the elements of fire, water, air, earth, electricity, fear and shadows, feeling them swirl in a ring around me. I looked at the spiralling colours, a bright orange for fire, a deep blue for water, a grey/green for air, an emerald green for earth, a golden yellow for electricity, a dark red for fear and a purple/black for shadows. I took in a deep breath, inhaling the multitude of colours.

At first, I felt nothing. Thinking the spell failed, I turned to leave, I looked to my back to see a swirling vortex of all elemental colours, then watched it turn black before unimaginable pain shot through my entire body.

? POV

I reached out of the vortex above my head, trying to pull myself out of this prison. It wasn't necessary as I felt something raise me out. I could hear a pained scream, then it dawned on me why I was free. What a foolish girl.

I felt myself lower to the ground, looking over to Gale as she gasped for breath, no doubt still in pain from releasing me. It was like looking in a mirror when I looked at her. Except that where her clothes were orange, purple and dark blue, mine were different shades of grey. Another difference is our eyes. Hers are dark brown, whereas mine a as black as night.

"Hello Gale. Nice to finally see you," I giggled, looking down at her.

"What are you? Did the spell work?" she asked, barely looking up at me.

"In a bad way. Instead of a clone, you released me. I guess I'm just your evil clone," I mocked, kicking her in the side with my boot clad foot. She landed on her back, allowing me to place my foot on her stomach before she could get up.

"If you're a clone, I can just reabsorb you," she gasped, still lacking breath. I just laughed, a full blown evil laugh.

"Sorry hun, but I'm now my own person. You may have given me life, but then, you can't take it away from me that easily," I chuckled, lifting my foot away. As she tried to get up, I grabbed her, picked her up and threw her. Another main difference, I'm a full vampire, she's not.

She hit the wall hard, falling unconscious instantly. I quickly changed my eyes to brown as the door burst open and Ashley and Jack burst in.

Ashley's POV

After hearing Gale's scream, Jack and I couldn't get inside fast enough. Looking around, we saw Gale standing there, looking a little out of breath.

"You okay?" Jack asked, hands cackling with electricity. My hands were glowing with flames as I looked around, not sure what to expect.

"Yeah, just not used to using so much power in one spell is all," she sighed. Still feeling something was wrong, I turned to leave. When Jack turned, I barely saw Gale move as she grabbed him by the throat and pinned him to the wall.

"Gale what the...!" he shouted, cut off when 'Gale' bit into his neck. I could barely move from the shock of what I was seeing. It was then I noticed someone's limp form near one of the walls, but I had no time to find out who it was when 'Gale' charged at me. I dodged, my shock turning to anger as my fiery hands burned brighter and hotter.

I charged at 'Gale', quickly covering the short distance between us. Before I could truly strike, she grabbed my wrist, gave me a sadistic grin before sending who knows how much electricity though my body.

"And you two are among the most powerful people in the school. What does that say about everyone else," 'Gale' mocked, kneeling down beside me. I looked at her, seeing that her eyes had turned black.

"Just what are you? You can't be Gale," I gasped, trying to summon a flame in my hand, but no luck.

"My my, you're smarter than I thought. I'm not Gale. Weak girl could barely stay conscious through my release," the imposter sighed, her eyes mocking, though who they were mocking I didn't know.

"Why did you bite Jack? And where's Gale," I managed to say, my voice starting to fail me as the electricity still coursed through me.

"Gale's sound asleep over there. As for your first question, I needed power. See, to trigger my magical powers, I need the blood of all elementals. Except for shadows. And because I have Gale's memories, I know who they all are, Ashley," she giggled, slowly lifting my limp arm. I hissed in pain, seeing as my arm still hurt after that battle a few days ago.

"Hope you don't mind if I have a little drink?" she mocked, slicing a fingernail across my wrist. As the blood slowly oozed out, she flashed me a fanged grin before biting down, drinking my blood and the elemental energy within it. With a good few volts flowing through me, my body will wouldn't respond, even with the waves of pain.

"My, that was so good. I'm surprised Snow and Winter haven't bitten you yet. Oh well, see you around," she said, turning to leave before she stopped. "Oh, by the way, if you make it out of here alive, tell everyone my name. I'm sure it will cause a storm," she laughed, firing a massive ball of fire at the ceiling before disappearing. Before I blacked out, the last thing I saw was the fireball explode, causing the ceiling to collapse on top of us.