Storm Rider

Disclaimer: characters belong to Richelle Mead, I'm just borrowing them to play with

Chapter 3: The Storm

House arrest. That is how I was coming to think of these past few days. Candace called the center and told them that we wouldn't been in for a while. No one left the house any more. Candace and Charles spent a lot of time talking, but they didn't tell us what they were saying.

Ivy was confused. She wanted to see her friends but Candace wouldn't let her.

The first day was weird though. Charles pulled me to the side and asked me what kind of websites have I been on and if I was giving away any information. We weren't allowed to join any social networks, so of course my answer was no. I guess he wanted to figure out how the gentry found us, but I was wondering why they were after us in the first place.

I was becoming incredibly bored. There was only so many hours of repeats I could watch. How come there never were any good new shows on the weekends? Instead I was in my room listening to Disturbed drawing in my favorite sketch pad.

Candace cleared her throat. I looked up from my sketching of bat girl.

"I know the past couple of days Charles and I have seemed odd. But it's for a good reason, trust me" she said.

"I do" I said with a nod.

"Okay, good. Put on your shoes, you're probably dying for fresh air."

I put on my shoes like she said and went down to the living room and waited. Everyone else was ready except for Ivy. Once she heard we were leaving the house she had to change clothes, brush her hair, and find her favorite shoes.

Once she was ready we left. I had no idea where we were going but I walked and listened as Ivy chatted.

We went to the store, where we got to pick out any snacks we wanted and then we got to red box two movies of our choice each. We were going to have family night, something we haven't done in a long time. We usually get together and spend all day watching movies, eating popcorn and junk food, and playing board games.

Everything was going okay.

Just as they got home, though, they were attacked again.

This time walking wraiths of fire were walking down the street setting everything ablaze. They just couldn't catch a break. The fire demons came charging at them.

"They're going for the house, they're going to burn it down" Candace shouted to Charles. She was trying to hold them off but there were too many of them.

Charles disappeared but came back a few minutes later with a water hose. I wanted to help out, but Candace told me to stay back and watch Ivy. Plus she said that they'd burn me if I touched them. I hated this feeling of helplessness and not being able to help. Anger swelled in me. If the physical heat of my anger could burn this whole block would be on fire. No wait, this whole block is on fire.

The sky was getting darker and the fire demons stood out even more. There were originally seven but now they were down to five. This wasn't looking good. I squeezed my eyes tight and wished for the power to make it all go away.

Something funny happened. There was a spark inside of me. My blood felt electric. There was a loud crash of thunder and then it was raining hard.

Violent winds and hard water was beating back the demons. I could barely hear over the sound of the thunder but I knew we weren't the only people on the block any more. There were two people standing in the street in between Candace and the demons. The taller person pulled out a wand and with a pop the last of the fire demons disappeared shrieking as they went.

The rain lightened up and I felt exhausted.

"ISAAC!"

My knees gave away under my and I felt Ivy trying to hold me up.

"Let me go" I muttered. There was no way she could hold me.

The adults were rushing towards us now. A woman got to me first, one of the new comers. She had curly light red hair and weird blue eyes.

"Whoa, you look like your father" she said.

She knew my father?

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Jasmine, we've got company" the other woman shouted. I looked over to her at the sound of her voice. She too had red hair, it was tied up and her eyes were a startling purple. She looked so familiar.

Darkness slowly took over me.