'Before All This.'

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Shima and Tempis: lol. My dad is trying to figure out how I got on the computer, when he put a password on it....:)

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Lol. I want to be a wizard too! Anyways, I hope I get this posted before you can't get to a computer!
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"Are you trying to tell me, that the river is complaining it's too dirty?"

"Hey, you doubt me?"

"What is your speciality anyway?"

"Elements."

Dairine sighed, shaking her head, and bending down to trail her hand in the water. It didn't seem dirty to her, but in the past couple of weeks, her new partnership with Ronan had shown her that she shouldn't doubt him when it came to stuff like this. She had seem him talk a fire out of spreading, even calmed wind down, and now she was even beginning to understand it herself.

"So, what are you dirty with?" He spoke softly in the speech.

Dairine listened intently, and her ears picked up a slight murmur, which sounded distinctively like liquid.

"Dirt? What do you mean your too dirty with 'dirt'?"

After awhile, Ronan began to get frustrated, trying to explain to the water that it was supposed to have sand or mud at the bottom, but it didn't seem to be listening.

"It seems," he said, turning to her, "that we have a slight war going on between the water and sand."

"We're going to need Kit in here, then."

"Why, Kit?"

Dairine smiled. Although they had promised Nita a long time ago to try and get along, and they had even begun to speak to eachother in a civilized manner, there was still that resistance between Ronan and Kit.

"Alpha male." Dairine remembered her sister saying. She knew that it would be complicated if Kit and Ronan had to work together.

"Because, Ronan. Kit's specialty is..."

"I know..I know...but we're talking about sand."

"Sand is made out of rocks, Ronan."

He sighed in annoyance. "Fine."
A few hours later, Kit and Ronan were not having any luck. Nita and Dairine sat nearby looking thoroughly amused. Both boys scowled at the pair of them, and they laughed.

Dairine knew why it wasn't working. Besides the fact that the sand and water were in deep conflict and not listening to neither Kit nor Ronan, the two wizards weren't listening to eachother either. Their pace was inconsistent, their definitions in the speech of the water and sand, themselves, and even eachother were very different and they would not listen to eachothers ideas. Finally, Dairine, with her impatience, stood and walked over to them.

Pushing them both down, she spoke sternly in the speech.

"You two need to calm down."

"Yeah, ditto, Squirt."

"First of all, you both need to shut up."

They blinked at her in surprise.

"Secondly, I want you two to tell eachother your ideas, without interrupting eachother."

They mumbled, and spoke for awhile, then turned to Dairine, who was standing over them, her arms crossed.

"Next, I want you two to put aside all your dominant emotions."

They looked at her, confused.

"I want you to stop all your anger, jealousy, dislike, whatever is stopping you from working well with the other."

They rolled their eyes.

"Done?"

"Sure. Whatever."

"Fine! Yes, we're done." Kit corrected himself under Dairine's glare.

"Now, I'm going back over to Nita. I want you to discuss what your going to do."

Without waiting for an answer, she bent down and spoke to the water and sand.

"And I want you guys, to follow the same steps as they did. Okay?"

They murmured back and silenced themselves and Kit and Ronan began talking to them.
Nita watched in amazement as Kit and Ronan worked silently together. No arguing, no violence. She blinked at her sister, and then grinned.

"Dairine.....I think we just found your speciality."

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Ohhhhh! Cliffy! Lol, sorry, but I'll try to update as soon as possible. I just finished watched Master of Disguise! Yay! Anyways, please review!