Elements of the Chosen Ones
A/N: Thanks AC! ; P Please review! Sorry this took so long!
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Chapter 4: A Normal Day?
"JoHanna! Wake up! You'll be late for school!" JoHanna's mother shook her awake. "JoHanna!"
JoHanna slowly came awake. "Wha… school?" she murmured. "Ahhh! School!" JoHanna jumped out of bed and ran around the house a lightning speed getting ready for school. "Oh no… I'll be late! I can't be late! Oh man…"
Twenty minutes later, JoHanna jumped into the car. She slouched against the seat and sighed heavily. She glanced at her mom who grinned as she pulled the car out of the driveway. "What?" JoHanna asked irritably. Her mom laughed.
"I've never seen you move so fast! Heh heh heh… You should have seen the look on your face! Ha ha ha!"
JoHanna couldn't help but to smile. "Yeah, I guess it must have looked pretty funny. At least I'll still be at school on time."
A few minutes later, they pulled up in front of the school.
"Well, I'll see you after school." JoHanna's mom smiled.
"Okay, bye Mom!" JoHanna called back.
JoHanna rushed around the side of the school to the basketball courts where the other kids hung out before school. She quickly found Cassie and Molly. "Hey! Cassie, Molly! I had the weirdest dream last night!" JoHanna called as she walked up to her friends. As she related her story, Cassie and Molly's eyes grew wide.
"Isn't that awesome?" JoHanna asked when she was finished. JoHanna saw the look on her friend's faces and fidgeted uncomfortably. "Uh, did I say something wrong?"
"Well, uh, ya see…" Molly stuttered.
"We had basically the same dream, only we were on a different part of the island." Cassie finished. JoHanna just gaped at them, an idea forming in her mind.
JoHanna suddenly got very excited. "Hey, what if..."
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"I'll tell you later." She sighed. Everyone filed into the school to begin their second-to-last day of school.
JoHanna's day went smoothly. Choir, Gym, Algebra, Literature, German, and Social Studies. Then came lunch. JoHanna had been waiting all day to talk to her friends. She rushed to the cafeteria. JoHanna grabbed her food and sat down at a table to eat. Cassie and Molly were already there.
"What took you so long?" Molly asked.
"Mrs. Reece didn't let us out right away." JoHanna grumbled. The three friends sat eating for a moment, each lost in their own thoughts. Cassie, troubled by the silence, finally spoke.
"So, JoHanna, what were you gonna say before?" she asked. JoHanna thought for a moment.
"I don't… Oh! I-it's nothing." She replied.
"Tell us!" Molly pleaded.
"Now!" Cassie demanded.
"Alright, alright!" JoHanna laughed, throwing up her hands in defeat. "It's kind of stupid, though."
"I don't care!" Cassie yelled. "Tell me! Now!"
JoHanna sighed. "Well, I was thinking that the dreams might be real. But, when you think about it, Mirrodin isn't on any maps, and there is no ocean near us." JoHanna looked at her friends to judge their reaction.
Molly smiled. "That's what I was thinking, too! I say we go to the fort this afternoon after school and find out!" Cassie and JoHanna quickly agreed.
JoHanna relaxed for the rest of the day, knowing she wasn't the only one who thought the dreams were real.
Three girls sat in their tree fort, fidgeting uncomfortably.
"How long have we been here?" Cassie asked grumpily.
JoHanna checked her carabineer watch. "About an hour."
Molly sighed. "We've talked about everything worth talking about, and played six games. Maybe…maybe the dream was just a dream after all."
Just then, there was a swirl of light as the strange orb appeared. JoHanna and Molly were so relieved that they started laughing and hugged each other. Cassie just smiled.
"I am impressed you still had faith." The orb said. "You must come back to Mirrodin now." The three girls, even Cassie, were glad that they were going back. Yet again, the orb, or the Wise One, began to flicker and fade. Cassie immediately jumped up, filled with anger and frustration.
"Oh no you don't!" Cassie yelled. "This time you're showing us how to get there! We can't just wait around for you to come here all the time you know!"
JoHanna and Molly were apprehensive; they didn't like Cassie yelling at something so powerful like that. They got ready to restrain Cassie if they needed to, all the while glancing nervously at the Wise One. The orb stopped flickering and just floated there, as if sizing Cassie up.
"You know you could not defeat me. You do not even have control of your magic yet." The Wise One spoke with a new, hard, tone to its voice that caused the girls to back away in fear. They thought they heard the orb sigh. It spoke softly. "Yet, you are right. I cannot allow you to be stranded here in times of peril. Very well. I will show you." Golden fire lanced from the orb towards the tree and seemed to hit an invisible wall. The fire spread until there was a giant golden portal suspended just above the wooden platform. The girls stared in amazement.
"What is it?" asked JoHanna. "How are we supposed to do that?"
The fire lanced once more from the Wise One, but this time in the direction of the girls. Cassie, JoHanna, and Molly tried to shield themselves with their arms, but the flames engulfed them. A burning sensation spread throughout their bodies, yet it did not hurt. In the next instant the fire was gone, leaving the girls unharmed and blinking in confusion. "I have transferred some power to you." The Wise One explained. "You now have the power to open a dimensional portal."
"Has that been there all along?" Cassie asked.
"Yes" came the reply.
"How come we didn't, like, fall through or anything?"
"It can only be opened by magic."
They stared at the portal in silence, each wondering what it would be like to summon actual magic.
"It is time to go." The orbs voice broke the silence. It floated over to the portal. "Don't be afraid." it said; and then it was gone.
JoHanna suddenly felt herself moving forward. "Hey! What the…?" JoHanna realized that Cassie and Molly were pushing her forward.
"You go first!" Molly said.
"Why me?"
"What if that thing burns us to a crisp?" Cassie asked.
"Gee, you guys are great friends." JoHanna mumbled. She felt herself start to be pulled into the portal. JoHanna gripped her friends' wrists tightly. "You're coming with… Aaaahhhh!"
The girls' yells were lost into the afternoon air as all three girls were sucked into the portal. The portal closed behind them, and all was as it had been.
The girls found themselves twisting and turning through a vast sea of interdimensional space. When they finally managed to steady themselves, Cassie, JoHanna, and Molly felt like they had entered "The Twighlight Zone." Strange sights and pictures floated by. They stared, bewildered and amazed, as they floated between dimensions.
"This is cool!" Molly exclaimed as she pulled out a bag of popcorn and began to eat it. Cassie and JoHanna stared at her.
"Where did you get that?" Cassie asked.
"I found it." Molly replied around a mouthful of popcorn.
"In a dimensional portal!" exclaimed JoHanna.
"Yup!" Molly smiled. Cassie reached over and knocked the popcorn out of Molly's hands. "Hey!" She whimpered as she reached for the bag of popcorn, which had now floated out of her reach.
"The popcorn is the least of your worries, Molly. Look up ahead." JoHanna said. Her friends looked to where she pointed. Ahead of them was another portal like the one they had entered through.
"Finally, a way out of this crazy place." Cassie muttered. JoHanna and Molly nodded. They could feel the portal's pull. "Ready?"
The three friends grabbed each others hands. "I still want my popcorn." Molly whined. The next instant they were pulled into the portal.
Cassie opened her eyes. When they had fallen out of the portal, they had all landed in a heap. We're going to have to work on that. Cassie thought. She sat up and pushed the others off of her. She was then overcome with nausea and lay back down with a groan.
"Humph. First time through the portal does that to ya," a familiar voice growled. "Eat this." A bitter tasting berry was thrust into Cassie's mouth. Reluctantly, she chewed and swallowed and immediately began to feel better. Cassie opened her eyes and sat up.
"Shadow!" Cassie cried and hugged Shadow to her. The others ate the berries and rejoiced at the sight of their Spirits as well. Shadow smiled slightly.
"Alright already," he said as he pushed away. "You're crushing me." Cassie laughed.
The girls stood up and dusted themselves off. The temple towered before them. Through the arched doorway, they could see a long hall with torches lining the walls. It looked like something from a movie.
The girls' gazes were torn away from the temple as the Wise One materialized before them.
"Hey…uh…Wise One? Do you have any other name we can call you by? Calling you 'Wise One' sounds kinda weird." Molly said. The other girls nodded their agreement.
"I wasn't planning on telling you," the orb answered, "but I suppose you deserve to know. Wise One is the meaning of my name. My name is Sarutanga."
"Awesome!" JoHanna exclaimed, "Okay, Sarutanga, why are we here this time?"
"It is time to begin your training," came the reply. "In order to defeat the evil, it is necessary for you to master your magic. I must warn you: when you unleash your magic, you will change form."
"What?" Cassie exclaimed. "What's 'changed' supposed to mean?"
"You will be able to transform back and forth from a more powerful form." Sarutanga said calmly. "Come. There will be time to talk later. Learning to control your magic comes before all else."
The orb disappeared into the temple. The little Spirits looked at the girls. JoHanna, Cassie, and Molly moved hesitantly into the arched doorway. The next moment, they, too, disappeared into the temple, the Elemental Spirits close on their heels.
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A/N: This chap. was longer. Thank you to all who reviewed!