Mimi: Random question. Anyone else write stories while listening to music by The Fold?


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To Rina Hawaki: Kai and Nya's parents disappearing will be answered in LPLB, but it's really not any different from the reason why they disappeared in the series. The day Truculentus came to get rid of Clay just so happened to be the day Ray and Maya were captured by Krux.

To Guest: This may be a bit weird to say, but phew, I'm glad you felt that way. I've been trying to make my chapters emotional but I wasn't sure if they actually were.


-Several days after Clay came to Kai's house, before Nya was born


No one's POV


The clanking of iron on anvil could be heard from the shop, "Four Weapons" early in the morning.

"It's so loud," Kai groaned when coming downstairs.

"It's already past nine Kai," Ray put his sword down onto the anvil.

Clay was less crazy when coming downstairs but he screamed when he saw the fire.

"火事だ!火事だ!逃げろ!(Fire! Fire! Run away!)" He ran around the house in circles. A small cloud appeared above the fire and Ray, and started to rain.

"Clay," Ray groaned, facepalming. Taking off his apron, he waved the storm cloud away and dried himself.

"FIRE! FIRE!" Clay continued to scream, running in circles around the sofa. Maya caught him and tried her best not to drop him as Clay continued to flail his arms like crazy.

"Calm down Clay," Maya stated, "The house isn't on fire."

"I don't get why you think fire is so bad," Kai lazily said, "Fire is cool!" Maya glared a warning at Kai. He should know fully well why Clay would be paranoid around fire.

"No, it's not!" Clay replied back.


Maya was cooking when Clay saw the fire. He screamed and summoned a cloud. Dinner was soggy that day.


Kai and Clay walked near the fields when they saw a controlled fire. Clay freaked out and extinguished the flames with a rain cloud, earning them strange looks by the firefighters nearby.


Kai laughed mischievously and aimed a magnifying glass on a blanket, focusing the sunlight to a small point. Smoke started to appear and Clay quickly extinguished it with a beam of water.


"Hey! The last one was a good thing!" Clay retorted, "You would have put the blanket on fire!"

"I wanted to see if what the TV said was true!" Kai argued back.

"But tell us the next time you do something like that," Ray went over to the anvil, "Fire can be dangerous."

"See?" Clay mocked Kai, "Fire is not cool."

"But," Ray continued, "It can also be very useful."

"Ha!" Kai smirked to his cousin.

"Do you boys want to see me finish making the sword?" Ray put on a dry apron. Kai nodded eagerly. Ray had never let any of the boys come near the anvil or fire before, so Kai hopped over to his dad happily.

"Not too close though, Kai," Ray chuckled. Kai puffed his cheeks, but obeyed.

"No!" Clay squeaked, hiding behind Maya.

"I promise the flames won't hurt you,"

"How do you know that?" Clay looked at Ray.

"I'm the Elemental Ruler of Fire," Ray smiled, "I'll chase away any evil flames."

"Well...ok," Clay mumbled.

"You two boys can watch from a safe distance," When the two boys did what they were told, Ray summoned fire with his right hand. Clay latched onto Kai's arm but willed himself to see what his uncle was doing.

What was hours felt like several minutes for the two boys. Both were transfixed, at what Ray was doing. The dull lump of iron had slowly turned into a long, shiny sword.

"Done," Ray wiped his forehead and admired his sword.

"So cool!" Kai ran over and jumped up and down, wanting to hold the sword. Ray chuckled at his son's excitement. Clay, however, did not run over to his uncle, but instead hesitantly walked near the fire that was still burning. It was a warm color, the fire. It glowed a lively bright orange at one moment and a rich mellow orange at the next with the color of lava in the center. The flame seemed to call Clay. Ray stared intently at both Clay and the fire.

Clay really didn't know what he was doing. He raised his hand and tentatively reached for the flame and the flame leaned towards him.

"You're going to bur-" Maya stopped Kai from interfering. Ray smiled and slowly moved his hands. "Daddy… you're," Ray nodded at his son. Clay's finger touched the flames, but he didn't get burned. He only felt a gentle warmth. He poked the fire with finger and the fire danced back as if it was ticklish. Clay when laughed out loud and grabbed a shard of the fire.

The small flame danced around in his hand and Clay saw the beauty within the thing that had robbed him of his original life. The beautiful colors, not to mention the ability it had when harnessed, awed him. After minutes of examining the small flame on his palm he put it back into the fire. He turned to his uncle with a big smile and said,

"Fire is cool,"


Mimi: Short chapter. But something I thought up of… last year. Like legit, I wrote this in my notebook last year, when I was still in middle school, on March 24, 2017. This feels super weird.