Heaven and Earth
Callum Parr
Chapter 2
Claire
Jessie walked along a dark alley; everywhere she turned there was homeless people, and rubbish. As she walked her ribs started aching, she continued to walk on but her head was pounding. She fell into a corner and rested, the water in the air started to swirl, puddles on the floor where dancing.
She felt weak at this point and almost tired, she tried to control the dancing water, but no use her power was weak, too weak. She saw people look at her as if she was a bug that needed to be squished immediately; she was getting paler and her temperature was increasing. The dancing water seemed to react to her weakness; it started to stop dancing, and instead split itself into pieces. Jessie stood up and managed to keep herself up, the water started to head for Jessie.
It started encircling her in vast amounts; pretty soon the water was slowly spinning around her in all directions. She could feel her body lifting in the air, the water started to spin faster and faster. Jessie fell into a deep sleep in the vortex, the people in the surrounding area was looking at the amazing sight. There was a mixture of scared and angry at the sight of a large water vortex bubble. The vortex bubble produced a strong eerie light, before shooting into the clouded sky above. The sudden sonic boom smashed windows for a twenty city block radius.
John heard glass smashing, and immediately got up heading for the door. He casted a spell for clothes and headed down the apartments corridor, he got to the elevator and pushed the call button impatiently. After thirty second of waiting he ran through a door to a flight of stairs, at god speed he was at the bottom.
He ran along the dark streets, past hundreds of people gathering around the dark alley way, from where the sonic boom originated. A woman called "What happened, all I know there was a huge noise and all of my windows exploded?" John ran past the growing crowd of people and swat, when he got to the alley way he looked up to the sky. What he saw was a water bubble, absorbing the clouds in the sky. He thought for a second, the slight doubt in his mind was causing him to panic. As he looked closely toward the sky he realised it was Jessie. Something was happening to the water bubble, something very strange. It was as if the water bubble was alive, it had a dark aura about it. About two minutes of waiting, the bubble split up sending water particles in all directions.
Still floating in the air Jessie was knew her body was different. She was now even prettier, but she also realised that she was wearing a white corset and a blue silk short skirt that flowed in the air, and she was also wearing a necklace with a fire verses water match stick on it. The crowd down below was frightened at the appearance of the Water goddess; it was her appearance that seemed intimidating. John was shocked at how she looked, Jessie heard a voice inside her head "So like your new look?" Jessie looked around at the dark midnight sky, "who said that?" she called out frightened. Two seconds later the voice replied "I did" in the air was a woman that looked like Jessie, she had the corset, the short blue silk skirt, long black hair, and flawless skin. "Don't be afraid child" said the doppelganger in a soothing tone. "w-who are you" she started to freak out. "I am Claire, your evil side." Replied Claire, Jessie couldn't believe what Claire was implying. "So you're like me, but evil?" Jessie asked, "Not evil, but I take care of trouble that you wouldn't do" replied Claire. "Like if someone hurts me real bad, then you hurt them back?" asked Jessie. "Yeah, close enough." Replied Claire.
Down below John was wondering what was happening; the crowd was packed with riot vans, army vans, and a heap of TV reporters. John couldn't help himself; he went up to an army officer and said "Tell me what going on." The officer just looked at him in a stern manor, "Looks like we got a freak, that's been absorbing all the water in a ten mile radius." Appalled at what the officer said, John smacked him in the face. Getting ready to cast a dangerous spell, an army general came running up to see what the problem was. "Is there a problem here, Johnston?" the soldier that was smacked replied "No sir" "good" replied the commanding officer, walking away. "You're so damn lucky I never saw that coming or…" said the smacked soldier, walking away. John had fear in his mind, not at the soldier, but at the fact Jessie could be up there.
Jessie was still talking to her dark side, "So now you know the things, that I cannot be unleashed, until you give permission or you are unconscious get it?" explained Claire. Jessie nodded "Okay, now you can go onto land, but just be careful, best to make a weapon first" Claire advised, Jessie held her hands out, the water in the air started to spin and turn, and formed two water balls.
"Look something is happening" called a scared pedestrian; the crowd looked at the sky to see Jessie slowly gliding down. "Everybody, stand back" shouted an army officer; John looked up to the sky with his hand around his mouth, "what is happening" he thought to him self. Jessie was a little more than fifty meters from the ground now, the army officers had there guns ready, but Jessie was one step ahead of them. The balls of water in her hands morphed into guns, a sleek design similar to gothic. Jessie raised the guns, the officers shot their guns but none of them hit her, Jessie looked like a vicious animal ready to attack. John looked at her scared of what she might do, "Stop, please Jessie" he yelled to her, but his words where drowned out by the screams of the fleeing crowd, she aimed the guns at the soldiers and boom. All the soldiers stood standing still for a couple of seconds, blood slowly poured out of the wounds. The crowd screaming louder now, Jessie disintegrated the guns into water vapour. "Help me, please Claire" she screamed into her head, a couple of seconds later Claire replied "Ok, but what I am going to do you will not like" Jessie was a little adamant at getting rid of the screaming in pain said "I don't care, just stop them now." It went all quiet for a short while, and then Jessie felt the change. It felt weird like her mind was swimming underwater, Jessie felt a pull on her mind and she felt a push at the same time. Claire was pushing through Jessie's mind with all her force, eventually Claire got through the psychic door of Jessie's mind.
Claire looked at the screaming crowd "Shut up" she yelled at the crowd, she landed on the ground with a force that sent out a blast, which cracked the road. The crowed ran amok, Claire closed her eyes for two seconds before rapidly opening them, her eyes turned a fiery red, her hair was made of fire, and her corset and skirt was on fire. The energy being produced from Claire was a lot different from Jessie, with Jessie her energy is soothing like a lake, with Claire hers was a marching band with guns. The tar on the road was bubbling rapidly, the traffic and street lamps where smashing before setting ablaze, the midnight sky turned red, the air in the area was stirring, Claire then built up enough energy to release the blast. The crowd screaming louder at the sudden heat went to attack Claire, she simply waved her hand and the attackers where blasted away. Claire was angry at the attack let the fiery energy escape.