Is this seriously happening again?

Jake's POV

I lay awake in my bed… I couldn't sleep… I was just bored… That is, until someone screamed at the top of her lungs. I was sure it was Lexi. I leaped up and sprinted into her room. KD and Zak were already by her side, trying to wake her up.

"Stop, hold on!" I commanded. I looked at her, closed my eyes and tried out my power. For the first 30 seconds everything was blank. She just wasn't there. Her soul was NOT even in her body.

Then she felt relief, then terror. Next she was burning and once that stopped, stubbornness filled her mind. She resisted something. Then there was more burning. This time it didn't end though. She just kept burning, and I would know because I am the fire element. I tried to control it, but when that failed…

"KD!" I suddenly jumped. "She's burning. Soak her! Wake her up! Go! I can't control the fire."

KD jumped in surprise, but did abruptly as told.

Lexi's POV (slightly before…)

As soon as I hit bed I was out like a light bulb that had just sparked out. I was whisked away to dream land just as soon. At first I was in my bed but then I was looking at myself and I materialized by myself in the bed. My real body grew dimmer, faint and paler but then I was out of there. It seemed to be pleasant enough. I was in a field and there was no sign of Argost and even better I didn't see or hear one cricket. I was there for what seemed to be forever but I was sure it was only a few seconds. Then night came and there was a light rain shower. I tried to stay dry by going under a tree and then I fell into a hole and went on a crazy fun underground slide and I screamed out, not of fear but out of fun.

I hoped I hadn't done that out loud. When the slide ended I frowned and felt warmth. I walked slowly forward and I caught glimpse of one other being. It was Kari. She was alive but she seemed to be struggling with something. I moved forward to help but the ground gave way in front of me I pulled back as invisible rocks crumbled down into the darkness.

Then I heard a splash and I saw a light, light up down below. It was magma. It splurted upward and then color and light spread from that illuminated the rest of the scene. A cave filled with magma and HUGE Dragons surrounded me. I gasped in realization. They were going to sacrifice Kari.

"NO! KARI!" In a dream you' think you'd be invisible like everyone else but all the dragons' attention snapped away from Kari and directed to me. I involuntarily growled.

"Lexi! GO! They will burn you alive!"

"I can't leave you!" Then a blast of fire exploded at the tips of my toes. I yelped.

"KARI! NO!" I took off. My legs moved. I told them to wait and tried to stop them but they took off, along with me.

"KARI!" I shrieked. Fire exploded around me and I was trapped. The water exploded in front of me and I returned to my body and jolted up.

"KARI!" I screamed. I shook cool water off me and rubbed it out of my eyes. I panted out.

"Lexi! Shh! It's okay!" KD told me.

"You had another nightmare," Zak said. I opened my eyes. The whole house was in there. Max, Sadie, Jake, Rose, Ali, KD, Zak. Excuse me… almost the whole house. Bailey, Jen, Emma, and Eric were absent. I was actually relieved not everyone was there.

"I knew this was coming again!" I said frustrated. I let myself fall back on the pillows. "I am so sorry I woke all of you up!"

"So much for tons of rest," Max mumbled. Sadie hit him, without him giving a response, so it must not have been hard.

"It's fine, Lexi," Ali tried to reassure me.

"If it helps I wasn't even asleep." Rose said.

"Really?"

"Yeah, I was actually planting a tree." Then Jake caught my eye. He was just sitting there, frozen with a look of pure concentration on his face.

"Jake? Hello? Are you in there?"
"Uh yeah… That was weird," he said shaking his head.

"What?" Everyone turned to him.

"You weren't even in your body. I was only able to read well… blankness…"

"I know, that was the weirdest one yet. Argost was gone, but this one had Kari."

"You still felt all the pain and fear though from whatever was happening," Jake continued.

"I know, actually that always happens. In one dream I drowned in a sand pit and I woke up with sand in my mouth. I think that's the only one I remember."

"You could've told me that!" Zak said.

"Sorry, you didn't believe me for anything else… You should all go back to bed. See what other rest you can get."

"And you?" Zak asked.

"I'll get more rest if I don't go back to sleep."

Jake shook his head and left the room in a daze. Rose went back to planting her tree and Ali went back to bed.

"UGH! Bailey was right!" I said to KD.

"I'm such an attention hog! Even in my sleep! I just had to scream! Stupid… uh… what was it? Roller coaster? Hmmm… Slide?" I mumbled to myself.

"What?" KD asked. "When did she say that?"
"Earlier."

"You're not an attention hog. Just lately… well… you and Zak are kur or kurs or whatever, you have to have lots of attention because of that. A lot of weird stuff happens like that for you."

"Thanks for that… but I'm not consoled," I told him.

"I knew it probably wouldn't," he sighed.

"Get back in bed. If we are going to fight a creature tomorrow you need all the sleep you can get." He sighed, got up and went back to his air mattress. Zak left as well.

I got up from the bed and decided to find Rose. I snuck past KD who was fast asleep on the mat and I snuck into the main hall. Jake was in his room obviously thinking about my dream, whatever it could've been to him. He didn't notice me as I slipped through the halls and entered the one that led to Rose's castle garden.

I turned and ran smack into someone.

"And where are you going?" Questioned a cold voice.

"Outside to see Rose finish planting her tree."

"Always seeking attention."

"Why Bailey?"

"What?" She asked a little shocked I hadn't retorted. She twisted her long sandy blonde hair over one shoulder.

"Why do you hate me soooo freakin' much?"

"It should be obvious."

"Attention?" I guessed. "Well, I don't look for it! It just comes."

"Sure. Your arm probably didn't even hurt, and you probably weren't screaming for real."

"What? Of course I wouldn't! Why would I fake that?" She opened her mouth. "Don't answer that," I snapped.

"Prove it!" She hollered.

"Fine, what do you want me to do? Wait, how in the world could I make my arm glow like that. And why would I want everyone hovering over me? I want freedom, and personal space."

"I don't know! How about the next time something happens, don't draw attention to yourself. And Zak can make his eyes and palms glow, and you can too when you control animals, so either of you could've pulled that trick."

"Ok. You know what? I tried. See ya! Oh and by the way…" I pretended to think something over.

"Do you like KD?" I asked brusquely.

"Uh… no…" She shifted uncomfortably. I had her now!

"I thought you liked Jake." I taunted.

"I did. I guess something happened when KD stabbed Argost," she admitted, just for an excuse.

"Well drop it. I mean you practically raised him! That's just sick!" I said.

"It wasn't like that!" She protested, her voice becoming high pitched.

"Sure! Anyway you say it its weird… Ugh! Bailey just go to bed and bug off!"

"Oh whatever!" Bailey skittered off to her room. And slammed the door, and I was prepared for the sound of the door splintering at the force but it closed lightly, probably due to Bailey's air altering powers.

I walked outside and into Rose's garden. The plants and flowers were beautiful. Some of them shimmered or sparkled under the moonlight. I walked on a path until I reached the center were Rose was kneeling and bent over a sapling. She was gently pounding the dirt around it into place.

"Nice, tree," I said.

"Thanks! This one is going to be really pretty!" She said in an excited hushed voice.

"What kind is it?"

"Oh, I don't know…" She giggled.

"Huh?" I asked her. That wasn't strange at all. Yeeesh!

"It's a mystery tree! Only I can find them, and I can tell if one is going to be really pretty. We'll know soon. They grow very fast."

"How fast?" I asked trying to keep conversation.

"Like two or three days."

"Wow," I watched the little tree shine with perfect health.

"I can feel that this will be one of the most magnificent one of all!"

"I bet." I looked for something more to keep the conversation going and to keep me busy.

"Hey, what's the deal with the new elements?" I decided the other convo would die to soon, so I changed the subject.

"Sadie, Max, Emma, Jen, and Eric? Oh, Jake was just touring around your world and sensed some weird energy from an alleyway so he went to investigate. There he found them and they had harbored the thought that they were made to be destructive beings. From what Jake's heard from their minds they are all siblings. Emma and Eric are twins. They're the youngest. They control light and dark."

"Knew that," I acknowledged.

"Sadie is the oldest and Max is the middle. They control plasma and such, yeah you've heard this, of and Jen is the second oldest."

"Well I knew about the powers but what happened?"

"Jake took them in told them to come to this world, gave them a home here, and then called KD to come assist with them."

"Oh, so that's where he went."

"They have some trouble controlling their powers so Jake is training them. Ali, Jake and I are helping them the most. Bailey would rather stay out of things and KD… well none of his water abilities really match up to theirs… but he has excellent control and he is very strong with his element so we just wanted him to demonstrate how stuff works."

"Wonderful," I muttered.

"Hey, can you still control plants?" She asked me.

"Uh… Ah…Well, I haven't tried in a while. Matter of fact, I stopped because it became hard. I don't even think, I've gone animal in a while! Ga-"

"Can, you uh… try?" Rose asked, nodding to the tree.

"I can only try."

"Ok, cause I'm dying to see this one!"

I turned to the tree and focused. I held my hands up to it, and thought growth-encouraging thoughts. I kept my eyes closed, but from my other senses, I smelt a wintery evergreen smell, and I heard it growing. I also heard Rose gasp in delight. I was glad that I was able to make at least one person happy. Then I suddenly felt nauseous. My head started to spin and my eyes shot open. At first, my sight was greeted with a glorious sparkling, pure white maple tree. It glistened, and snow started falling from the sky, making it give off an even warmer glow.

Then it felt as if someone had rolled a sleep grenade to me because I fell to my knees.

"Lexi!" Rose called. "I'll get-"

"No!" I ordered sharply. "Don't get anyone."

Then I fainted on the spot.