Ghostly World

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Chapter 10 (It's all Elemental)

The city lights were astounding and the amount of ghosts walking the streets were frightening, but Beck managed to still, somehow remain calm. When he awoke, he had claws protruding from his hands and each claw had a certain element surrounding him. He didn't know what the hell was going on with that, but to him, first priority was finding out where exactly he was. As he wandered around, he was pretty sure he discovered his location. New York, most likely Manhattan. He just needed to confirm that somehow.

He'd been awake for at least an hour now and had been continually letting his claws go in and out his body, he'd even started to realize that he could get each element to appear on them as a whole. This was awesome but weird at the same time. "Okay, aside from this awesome power, where the hell is Jade at?" He'd have to find her soon, so how was he going to do that? He looked to his claws and smiled as he brought the air element around them. He spread his arms out and the air surrounded him and started to lift him from the ground. His eyebrows rose and he looked down to the ground. "Whoa…"

Chuckling to himself he moved his hands in front of him and swept them out to the side, sending him flying through the air. He laughed as the wind shot through his hair and tugged at his shirt. He still didn't know how to do anything complex, but hell, he'd learn. He flew across to the Empire State Building and started scaling it. "This is awesome! I always wanted to visit this building!" Once he reached the very top, he slowly descended onto the roof. Though it was more of a crashing, as he didn't know how to make a perfect landing yet.

He looked out at the ocean and saw the Statue of Liberty in the sunset. As astounding as it was, he couldn't help but to wonder how he'd managed to wake up in New York. He'd already found a ghost earlier that explained just why he was seeing ghosts, so now he wanted to know if his body was alive or dead. The rush of the wind was now gone and all that was left was a sad mourning of his heart. All that was on his mind was whether Jade was okay or not. Then there was his best friend, Andre. Where was he at? Where were all the others at? He closed his eyes and turned his head to the side. He needed to get his mind focused.

"I guess I'll see what I can do with my other elements…" Fire surrounded his claws and he slowly pointed them forward, taking a deep breath. He relaxed his muscles and let the power flow through his veins and come out in a quick burst. The flames were not very large, but he had a feeling they could be. As he opened his eyes he was in shock at what he saw. His eyes widened and he came up with the joke of being a human flamethrower. He pulled his elbows back and thrust his hands forward, creating a thicker and larger flow of fire from his hands. He laughed and retracted the fire to just a ball of fire around his claws. He spun his body around and snapped his hand in front of him, shooting a giant fireball through the air. "Awesome!"

His next move was the water element, it looked like a bubble on his claws, he had to think, Wolverine didn't have all this stuff. He closed his fingers to his palms, just letting the claws be the only thing pointing from the skin folds of his fingers. With one strong grunt of effort, water shout out from his hands with a high pressured power. "Now I'm a fire hydrant…cool…I wonder if I can make it freeze into ice." He closed his eyes and strained himself. His heartbeat began to increase the more he pushed out, but soon, most of the water had become ice. He pulled his claws back and stared at the ice block, gasping as it started falling to the ground. "No!"

Thinking fast, he switched over to fire and started shooting the fireballs at it, melting the block of ice before it hit anyone or anything on the ground. He let out a sigh of relief and let a rocky, yet vine-like shape overtake his claws. He hummed lightly and pressed his lips together. "Must be the earth element." He stared out at the ocean and tilted his head, he wondered if he'd be able to actually move the ocean one day. He tried to think what he could do with the Earth element. He could likely make grass grow, among other things. "I can't do anything with this right now…"

Instead of trying out the Earth, he moved onto the next element: Dark. His claws turned a thick black color and his eyebrows rose up. He could likely create a lot of pain with this one, or maybe not. He lifted his hand up and looked to his shadow. The sweat dripped down the side of his face as the shadow began sliding up the metal pole on the building. Controlling the shadows was apparently one of the things the dark element could do, how nice.

The final element he tried was the light element. He gazed in awe and wonder at his claws, which were shining a clear white and seemed to have the power of the sun in them. He knew light, it was plain logic that light repelled darkness and could possibly cause blindness. "I wonder if there's anyone else out there like me…I just can't believe I didn't know I had all these! Someone's got some explaining to do."

Suddenly he felt something slam into his back. He let out a loud shout as he was thrown onto the roof of a nearby building. He groaned out and looked up to see somebody flip off of the empire state building and land solidly on his feet. The man had claws coming from his hands and had a thin-like structure. His claws were also glowing with light. Beck stared at him, sweat going down his neck, this guy could see him yet had a certain thickness that seemed to make him alive. "I'm Jonah Brown, and I'm going to kill you."

"What? Why? What did I ever do to you?"

"Nothing."

"And how can you see me?"

"The Angel of Death contaminated me with darkness, I'm one of his demons now." Beck's heart sank and he slowly stood up. Angel of Death? He remembered Sinjin's betrayal and clenched his jaw tightly. His body still ached from that, he never saw it coming. Frankly, nobody did. No one saw that, or even saw Danny being evil. "I'm also of the Element Tribe: Light."

"Okay, and why do you want to kill me?" Jonah growled and started moving towards Beck, who was moving backwards. "Though if I'm already dead-"

"You can be killed. We have specific orders from the Angel of Death to take you out." Beck's eyes drooped momentarily, then he lifted his eyes up sharply. He wasn't going to be taken out now, he wanted to live again. If that was possible, he didn't even know if he'd ever be among the living. "You see, the supernatural realm is filled with mystery, there are so many things your father never quite told you."

"My father? What does my dad have to do with this?"

"So many things." The light inside of Jonah was burning away at the darkness in him, but the darkness was still overpowering. He needed to get out of this, he needed help. It wasn't like Sam, where once she was a fallen, there was no longer any inner light. "For one, you and I are of the Elemental Realm. There are six different tribes: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Dark, and Light. Each fills a pivotal role. The men control the elements, the women control the weather…Now only the royal line can hold all six elements." Beck's eyes widened and he took a quick step backwards, sweat started rolling down his neck as the realization began to dawn on him.

"Back up a minute…I'm royalty?"

"You all are. You, Andre, Tori, Trina, Robbie, and even Cat, are all some form of Royalty. Jade is the weather controller, her family line is the one that was supposed to be of the Elemental's royal guard. So she's not quite royalty, but of the royal guard."

"I don't understand…" Jonah rolled his eyes and folded his arms over, narrowing them with a deadly glare in his eyes. Sweat was rolling from his forehead, he needed to retract the light on his claws or else this would continue eating away at the darkness inside that Sinjin injected.

"The Shadow Realm began a war several years ago, their first attempt to take over all the worlds. You and your friends were all part of these worlds. All except Tori's family was forced to leave their realms due to this attack. That is how you've all come to reside on Earth. Your father could explain more of that."

"My dad…My dad is a king?"

"Yes, but your grandfather is currently in rule at the Elemental Realm. My family would have been, but my father abdicated the throne in his time."

"So…you're not inherently evil then?" Jonah narrowed his eyes and twitched his fingers. He wasn't sure why he was bothering to explain this stuff to Beck, why he didn't just go ahead and kill him right now. Perhaps the light in him was resisting that effort, but he would kill Beck soon enough.

"You know the iCarly gang, correct?" Beck slowly nodded his head and recalled everyone from the big party. "Carly, Sam, Freddie, Valerie, and even myself, have been darkened by Sinjin. I have natural light inside of me, therefore while I am made evil by Sinjin, the light is fighting it. Sam was of the Light Dominion, an angel, but it doesn't matter much for her…she's a fallen now, complete darkness."

"I see…" It scared him to think that the iCarly group might be after him, and if Jonah was already more than well aware of his powers, then they must be too. If that were the case, he needed to learn his powers quickly and warn them. "So you haven't answered my question. Why kill me?"

"Simply said, you are all members of the royal lines in your worlds…which simply means you are also some of the strongest in your worlds. Sinjin was going to take all of you and use you to destroy the head angel of the Light Dominion, Tori's father." Beck gasped and his eyes grew large. His muscles tightened and his heart froze on the spot. Tori's dad was the head angel? Did that make him the strongest one? "Now none of you had your powers awakened, minus Trina, so it would be easier to have corrupted you early on. Danny was only supposed to knock all of you out with that device he used…but he fucked up and caused you to leave your bodies and wander as ghosts. That's going to automatically awaken your powers, as you can see."

"Yeah…I see that…" Beck looked to his hands and swallowed hard, what could he do to get back into his body? To save his friends, to save the world? "There has to be a way…"

"There is. Sinjin doesn't want any of you to discover the item needed to return to your bodies, he doesn't want you to discover its location either. If you did, he acknowledges that it could be quite hazardous to his plans. That's why he corrupted us, who have already had their powers well awakened and aware, so that we could kill you." Beck swallowed hard and stepped back onto the edge of the building, he had to wave his hands in the air to catch his balance before he fell off. He peered back to the street several stories below and swallowed hard, could a ghost survive a fall?

"So regular humans can't see us?"

"Right…I've already said too much. Too much talking, not enough fighting." Jonah clicked his heel on the ground and charged towards Beck.

"No, wait!" Beck put his arms up defensively and screamed as Jonah slashed his abdomen with his right claws, pushing him over the edge. Jonah smirked deviously as his prey descended headfirst to the pavement. "Come on, think fast, think fast…" Beck shot his claws out and with them, shot out the air element. He screamed and flipped his body so his feet could point to the ground, then he slowly came to a halt in midair. He looked up the building and his eyes widened as he caught Jonah's angered eyes.

Jonah then leapt off the building with his arms stretching forward. He kept his deadly gaze as he plummeted towards the ground. What was he doing? He couldn't control the wind. Beck almost yelled for him to grab something if possible, but what happened next surprised him. Jonah waved his hand in the air and a light arc formed beneath him. He slid on it, then created another just below that caught him and let him slide off. This continued until Jonah finally flipped forward and landed on his feet, his back facing Beck. "Did you think I wouldn't know how to slow my fall, Beck?" Beck's heart started racing and he started trying to think of an escape. He wasn't dumb enough to fight when he wasn't even close to understanding or mastering his abilities.

"I…I don't know what I was thinking." Jonah glanced back at him and held his dangerous smirk, he knew he could easily win this match.

"Come on, fight me. I guarantee you'll die." He turned to face his prey and clenched his fists tightly. Beck tried to recall the fighting style of the X-men's wolverine. He could mimic that well enough. Jonah raised his eyebrow as Beck straightened himself out. "What? You're actually going to fight me?"

"Yeah…I'd rather not die, I need to get to my girlfriend."

Jonah scoffed and poised himself for attack. "She's probably dead anyway." Beck shook his head and ran for Jonah, then twisted his torso and shot his claws out. Jonah lifted his claws up and blocked Beck's blow. "Nice start, good form, but you're open." Beck glanced to his left side and his eyes widened as Jonah slashed his claws towards him.

"Whoa!" He quickly recoiled and backed away from his attacker.

"Nice dodge. Pity it won't happen again." Jonah's face sharpened and he gradually approached Beck. "It's usually better to fight on the buildings because people can see me." Beck chuckled nervously and continued to backstep, until he ran into a man who resembled an old time mafia man with a scar on his face. Jonah stopped moving and stared at the man with narrow eyes while Beck's eyes widened.

"Al Capone? How is that possible? You're Chicago, not New York!" The man sneered at Beck and reached into his overcoat.

"I'm visiting New York temporarily." Beck watched the man's arm and felt his heart begin beating as the man started to pull a Tommy Gun from hiding. He thought it strange that he was starting to feel fear when he'd never really felt fear before. Jonah chuckled and folded his arms over.

"I'll leave you and Mr. Capone to play your little game. Have fun." Jonah took off and Beck shouted at him. He returned his attention to the gang member and swallowed hard as the man pointed the gun in his direction. Beck peered to the side as more gang members started to surround him. Al Capone chuckled briskly and grinned widely.

"Say goodbye."

"Wait a minute…" Beck looked to his claws and smirked slightly, he had no reason to be afraid. He had the power of all six elements at his disposal, there was no reason to be afraid. "I got this. How about you say goodbye."

"What are you going on about?" First air, Beck flew up into the air and waved his arm, sending a gust of wind against a small section of the gang members, blowing them into the streets and buildings. Capone's eyes widened and he pointed towards Beck. "Kill him!"

"Not quite, sorry." Next came the earth. Several grassy roots shot through the pavement and grabbed at the men's feet so they couldn't get away. Capone began shooting, but Beck created a light shield around him and deflected the bullets. "Awesome!" Capone grit his teeth and watched as Beck sent consecutive fireballs into some of the gang members, burning them and setting them on fire.

"Ignore the flames, just shoot!" The gang members were screaming and beginning to worry for their fates. Capone watched as Beck tore into his men with high pressured water. Currently all of the gang members, those that weren't now dead, were unconscious. Capone's cigar dropped from his lip as Beck slowly descended into a shadow. "Where the hell are you?"

"I'm in the shadows obviously. The Dark power lets me do this I guess." Capone's heart started racing as his eyes darted all around him, he could hear Beck but he could not see him. "There are still several things I don't understand, but I guess I will in time. Everything I just now did, I was experimenting. Right now, I'm trying to figure out which shadows are what, so that I can come out of the right shadow."

"What…" Capone lowered his arms and quickly twisted around, peering down at his own shadow behind him. His body froze and sweat started dripping down his neck. Could it be? "No…"

"I've locked into a shadow, now unless I decide to move away from it, there's nothing you can do."

"Fuck you!" Capone started running down the street, but his shadow remained right behind him. Beck chuckled once as Capone rolled on the ground and began firing bullets into his own shadow. With that, Beck silenced. Capone breathed heavily and backed up to a tree, chuckling nervously. "There. There you go. You can't beat me. You can never beat me!"

Capone dusted off his shoulders and breathed out a sigh of relief, he'd done it, he'd killed the kid. He almost felt bad, considering the guy was a ghost and would be finding out the mystery behind the death of those in the afterlife.

"Better you than me, kid. Sorry." He looked up the tree he was next to and faced it with a smile. Small things like this were the things he could deal with. Being dead for so long was weighing in on him, but no matter as long as there would always be nature.

He put his gun back inside his overcoat and placed his hands to his hips, slowly inspecting the bark on the tree. Behind him, a shadow was quietly rising from the shadow given off by the tree. The shadow reshaped and revealed itself. "Thanks for walking through other shadows along the way, Capone." Capone's eyes widened and claws shot through his chest. He gasped, his body trembling, and looked down to see a hand holding his heart. "Once you did that, I could get out before you started firing into your shadow. Any shadow within the area seems to be something I can jump into. Sorry it had to end like this."

"N-No…" Beck released the heart and drew his hand back. He watched quietly as Capone crashed into the ground. He wasn't sure if he just killed a man or not, he really didn't want to have to kill someone, even if they were evil. He closed his eyes and turned around, walking away slowly as Capone's ghostly body started fading away into the unknown. "I need to find Jade, Andre, and the others now…"

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