War of the Elementals
By Tem 'Light' Ki'blade
Chapter 1: Dreams and Presents
Tem sighed, as he lay awake in his bed, staring up at the ceiling, his father's words ringing in his ears. 'I don't want anymore of this hero talk, Ki'blade's are warriors, and no son of mine will stray from that. I will train you tomorrow until you give up those silly dreams, follow the Ki'blade tradition, and agree to join the Elementai when you're seventeen.'
'I don't want to join the Elementai, I want to be a hero, the Elementai are just warriors for hire from the government, they help people because they are paid to not because they want to,' Tem thought to himself, sighing again, 'But what could I do, I'm only ten years old, I wouldn't know how survive alone….' Tem heard the back door creak open and quietly shut. He got out of bed and looked out the window and saw a familiar figure running to the stone fence surrounding the back yard.
Tem quickly got dressed and snuck to the back door, opening it quietly, trying no to wake his dad. When Tem got outside, he saw the figure that he had finally identified as his eight year old brother, Axonn, who was trying to climb the fence.
Axonn had made it up half way before falling to the ground. Tem walked up to Axonn, who had his eyes closed as he lay on the ground, and said, "Slow goings bro?"
Axonn quickly opened his eyes to see Tem and breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "Don't scare me like that; I thought you were dad for a second."
Tem held out his hand for Axonn and said, "Oh because I sound just like him."
Axonn grabbed Tem's hand and pulled himself up and whispered, "You know what I mean, and keep your voice down."
"Right sorry," Tem whispered, "So what are you doing out here this late at night."
"I'm running away, I can't stand being in this house anymore."
"What are you talking about, I'm the one dad is training to death."
"Yeah, but he treats you like one of his own, ever since my birthday a few months ago, I don't even exist anymore. All because I didn't end up like you and get those powers," Axonn whispered as he turned his back to Tem.
"So you're just going to leave, just like that?"
"Yes, just like that."
"You can't leave, your only eight years old, where are you going to go?"
"Remember uncle Zack who lives in Wind City, I'm going there, I just know I can trust him," Axonn said raising his voice a bit to add emphasis, turning back to Tem again as he said it.
Tem sighed and said, "How do you figure that, he's our dad's brother, and we don't know that much about him, how can you know?"
"It's better than staying here, if I have to I'll just head somewhere else, I'm just not staying here." Axonn turned away from Tem but turned his head back to Tem, before climbing the wall once more, to say, "Give me a head start before you wake dad."
Axonn started to climb and reached the spot in which he fell last time, and again lost his footing, but this time Tem grabbed his feet and pushed him to the top. As Axonn sat on the top of the fence Tem looked up at him and said, "Now pull me up."
"Huh?" Axonn said.
"I'm going with you, I can't let you go to Wind City alone," Tem said smiling.
"But what about dad, he might not come after me, but he will come after you."
"Then when we get to uncle's house, we'll just have to make it seem like we stopped there for a bit and then left," Tem said, starting to climb to reach Axonn, with a smile, "You wouldn't mind me and my 'powers' tagging along."
Axonn laughed, reaching his hand down for Tem to grab, saying, "No I don't mind bro."
Tem climbed up, almost reaching Axonn's hand, before he fell as well, but when Tem reached the ground, he fell right through until there was nothing but darkness all around him. He fell through the ground and everything turned black, leaving Tem to fall into nothingness.
"Tem." Tem heard a voice calling out to him from the darkness and he couldn't help think it was familiar.
"Who's out there?" Tem yelled out into the darkness as he continued to fall.
"Tem, wake UP!"
Tem quickly opened his eyes and blinked at bit waking up from his dream. 'Great, the same dream again,' Tem thought to him self.
"Finally, you're awake."
Tem looked up to see his younger brother standing over him. Axonn, now fourteen, was 5'7". He was wearing a black jacket and a red t-shirt. His hair was black, long, and pulled back into a ponytail. He was also wearing blue jeans and black shoes. Axonn, like Tem, had blue eyes, but unlike Tem, Axonn wore glasses.
Tem rolled over and looked at his clock, it said 7 o'clock. "Why are you waking me up this early? Training isn't till 9," Tem said turning face down into his pillow, closing his eyes again.
"Don't you remember what today is?"
"The day you let me sleep in till 9"
"No, it's your birthday," Axonn said smiling.
Tem sat back up and thought for a second and realized Axonn was right, "Holy crap it is isn't it, time sure flies when you're training to be a hero, huh," Tem said, but paused to think more. He than continued to say, "But why do you seem excited, we never really do anything special on birthdays, except maybe a cake."
"Uncle said we are going to do something special today, maybe we'll go out for dinner for once, instead of eating here all the time," Axonn said as he started to leave the room, "Hurry, I'm curious what he has planned."
Tem stood up, reaching his full height of 5'10". Tem went into the bathroom, took a shower, and went to the mirror. He combed his hair, though, unlike his brother, it was light blue, and spiked it up with gel. Tem went to his dresser and put on a black t-shirt and white pants. He grabbed his socks and black shoes and walked out of his room and went to the backyard.
The backyard was larger than most, it held a large dirt arena. Tem and Axonn's uncle Zack had been training them for a while now, Axonn in swordplay, and Tem in his power.
Tem walked out to find Axonn and Zack dueling with one handed long swords, dashing at each other, crossing blades, and then jumping back, repeating this over and over, waiting for the other to back down. When Zack saw Tem come out he dodged the clash, causing Axonn to head speeding into the dirt. "Finally the birthday boy awakes."
Tem laughed and walked to Zack. Zack was about 6', had blue eyes, and his hair was light blue like Tem's but it was starting to turn gray. He was wearing his usual blue jeans and plain white t-shirt with dirt on it.
"Axonn said that we are going to do something special today," Tem said as he walked onto the dirt arena.
"Yep, I got two presents for you now that your finally 17, and a challenge for you," Zack said, putting his hand on Tem's shoulder as he walked past, heading to the deck. Zack revealed two hidden presents.
"I see the presents, by what's the challenge?" Tem asked.
"Open the presents first."
Tem grabbed one and opened it. In it was a white jacket. "A jacket?"
"Yes, it was your fathers, his father gave it to him when he was your age, and I thought you should have it."
Tem put it on and it seemed to fit him perfectly. He grabbed the other presents and opened it to find an ordinary looking pair of black shoes, just like the ones he was wearing right then. "…and shoes."
Zack smiled and said, "These aren't ordinary shoes. You see your power, electrokinesis, the ability to control electricity with your mind, is a limited kinesis compared to the rest, yet very strong. These shoes, passed down through the first born of the Ki'blade family line, they store electrical energy to be used at any time."
"Cool," Tem said as he put on the shoes.
"Now, for the challenge," Zack said, in a serious tone, "You must fight Axonn."
"Wait what?" Axonn yelled as he finally got off the ground.
"Why?" Tem asked.
"Because I need to test both of you, the battle will be in 1 hour, just enough time for breakfast. You both better get ready."
Tem looked at Axonn, not knowing how he could fight his brother.
^. ^ End of Chapter 1 ^. ^