Chloe's POV

My sister, Crimson, was hard at work for the next hour or so after that strange encounter with Sensei. I mean, she works hard, but not this hard. She flew around the training course in her silver gi, and every move she made, she either did perfectly, or did it fifty times until she got it just the way she wanted. (I don't really get why we have colored ninja uniforms...we're ninja, we're supposed to blend in not stick out like roses in a patch of daisies!)

"Crims," I called to her.

"What is it chlo?" She called back, not even slowing down.

"Don't you wanna...I don't know...take a break?!" She finally stopped after her like hundredth time through the course. She walked over and put a hand to her chin.

"Break...what is this break you speak of?" I face palmed and slumped over as she grinned.

"Sarcasm..." I began. "Very...not funny, five laps around the track!" I pointed to the track not too far away.

"Oh, come on," Crimson crossed her arms in front of her chest and looked me dead in the eye. "You're not seriously..." She stopped and her smile faded. "You're seriously serious."

"Yes I'm serious! So if you can do that training course a hundred times without stopping then you should be able to run five laps easy peesy," I mimicked her position, so it looked like one of us was looking into a mirror or something.(Except for hair, and gi color but, whatever.)

We sat there and stared at each other for a good minute until she finally gave in. "Fine."

My face lit up. "Your gonna take a break?"

"No I'm gonna run those laps."

"I narrowed my eyes and flopped myself on the floor to sit and watch my sister over exert herself in physical training.

In the middle of her third lap, I heard about four different voices coming from about...a mile away from us? How was that possible? 'Think, Chloe, think...' I thought to myself. 'What was my element again...' I tapped my fingertip against my head and thought deeply, then it came to me.

"Nature!" I shouted unintentionally. My sister turned to look at me with a raised eyebrow and a lot of question in her expression. I smiled sheepishly as I went back to my thinking. 'Ok, so how can I hear voices from that far away, and what does it have to do with my elemental power?'

My sister stopped. "Wait, you hear voices?"

I jumped and looked at her, really startled. "I never said that!"

She pointed at me. "But you thought it!"

"Since when can you read minds?"

"Since when can you hear voices?"

"Touché..." I mumbled and listened closer to the approaching voices. "Ok, so there are four voices...all guys," I informed her. To my surprise, she stopped running and stood silently. "Scratch that, there are four guys all talking, but there's five people..."

"How can you tell?" Crimson asked me.

"I don't know..." I said thoughtfully.

"Your tapping into your elemental power," Sensei's voice came from the doorway.

"Wait," My sister said. " You heard five people, right?"

"Four," I corrected her.

"Whatever," she rolled her eyes and continued. "How come you didn't hear Sensei?"

I shrugged.

"That's not important right now," Sensei insisted. "What's important is that-"

"Yeah! I can't believe that Cole actually beat my high score on-oh, hey, Sensei!" A boy in a red ninja outfit walked in with three other guys and one girl. The boy in red had a crazy hair-do, and I couldn't help but wonder how much hair gel he had to use in order to get it that way.

"Please don't ask him..." My sister muttered under her breath, and I almost screamed. I keep forgetting she can do that.

"Welcome, ninja," Sensei walked my sister and I to the door and we waited for our formal introduction...or at least I did, Crimson wasn't really in the mood to introduce herself.

My mind started drifting as we stood there and watched the five new-comers. 'How did I know they were coming?' I wondered to myself.

'Maybe it's because you could feel them when they made contact with the earth. You are the Ninja of Nature after all,' Crimson's voice echoed in my head and I turned to look at her, eyes wide. "How-" I whispered. She wasn't even looking at me. She looked like she was just barely paying attention to Sensei when she answered me mentally.

'You're a pretty loud thinker, Chlo.'

I rolled my eyes. 'Whatever.'