Ch. 10
When I awoke, the cave was pitch black. I summoned the air inside to tell me if anyone was there, but my friends were gone. I was alone. I blasted the wall that I thought was the door, but nothing happened. I used every last bit of strength, and when nothing prevailed, I resorted to yelling out curses and kicking the wall. I ended up with a sore throat and a throbbing foot.
I sat down in misery and thought of what had happened. I had finally found the love of my life, and I blew it. I had given up the very reason that we had come to save Suki, or so I thought. Now I was more alone than ever, and the others were probably thinking that they should have sent me back to the school when they discovered me hiding behind the tree back when we had left on this journey. I hoped that in the future, if I ever got out of here, they would never trust me again.
I tried desperately to stop the tears from flowing, but soon enough, I was sobbing. After all of the tears were gone, I heard a knock on the wall of the cave.
"Jake? Jake are you in there?" someone said. It sounded like Suki, but I couldn't be sure. I hesitated, thinking of my betrayal, but I soon came to my senses.
"Umm, yes I'm in here!" I yelled.
"YES! We have been looking everywhere for you!" Suki said, "Me and the others… Well, I'll explain later. JOSEPH! YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!" I heard a rumble of what sounded like thunder and one of the walls of the cave slid open to reveal Suki, Joseph, and Jasmine, all grinning madly.
"Joseph has control of the earth, and he finally has the hang of it! We were all in caves on the other side of the swamp," she said, motioning another other rock formation across the wetlands we had been in earlier, "We gave up looking over there, and we came over here to look for you. You know the rest."
We rounded up our things, except for the stone, which the man had taken, and moved into a larger cave that had three large chambers. One of them, Joseph and I shared. Suki and Jasmine had one, and the other was where we could cook and eat. Since Joseph could control the earth, we had a way in and out of the caves. Suki made a fire, which I coaxed to grow larger and larger until it was large enough to warm the cave and the other chambers. Jasmine filled buckets with water to put out the fire, and set to work making some food. Soon, she left with Joseph to get more firewood and mushrooms for making dinner.
Later, as we were sipping the soup that Jasmine had made, I happened to look out of the cave at the right time.
"Umm, guys? Isn't that the guy who captured us?" I said and pointed out of the cave.
"Oh, yes, I suppose it is. WAIT, GET HIM, HE HAS THE STONE!" Suki yelled and dropped her bowl of soup in pursuit of the thief. Jasmine muttered something about wasting good soup, but followed Suki along with my brother and me. We weren't as fast as Suki, so I summoned a gust of wind to speed us up. When we were ever with Suki, I summoned an extra gust to carry her. We had almost gotten the man, when he saw us. Dropping the bag he had been holding, he summoned his own gust of wind to stop us from advancing. I was so shocked that he shared my power that I didn't even fight back. Suki wasn't as surprised, she kept on running through the wind. When I snapped out of it, Suki was ahead of us and so I gave her another boost. I fought the other guy's wind with occasional boosts for Suki, but the effort of it wore me out, and I collapsed to the ground.