Elementimals Sebastian's POV
Aimée Carter if your reading this can you help me with some names for the places and characters I can't thing of them. If anyone else has some names please just leave them in the reviews so I can see. Thank you.
My eyes flick open. I can't remember anything. I am is parched, looking around I see a fresh water pool with small bubbles rising to the surface. I bend down to drink to quench my powerful thirst and as I step back i look more at the water, the bubbles began to fade showing my reflection like a mirror. I study it for a moment before my brain registers what it is I am seeing. I gasp. Reflecting back up at me from the clear water is not a humans reflection but that of a wolf's. Not fully grown. Half grown maybe, but still clearly a wolf.
Still confused I turn and see a five pointed gold star on my side and in each arm of the star there is a symbol. A leaf symbol, a wind symbol, a lightning bolt symbol, a raindrop symbol, and a flame symbol. Each one glowed slightly. The fur on my body is blue with a black underbelly and chest, my eyes brown. The full shock finally registers and I yelp fleeing from my reflection and almost face first into a jet-black wolf with a lightning bolt symbol all over his body and dark blue eyes. I skid to a stop just in time.
"Are you lost?" Asks the wolf. I'm shocked again and think to myself, "A talking animal? How is that possible?!" My shock and fear must be clearly registering on my face because the wolf says, "Calm down I didn't mean to startle you!" I take a deep breath and think more about what is happening instead of wanting to scream. I look down at my feet which are now paws, and then back up at the wolf in front of me. "I suppose if I'm a wolf too, then it would make sense for me to be understand other animals. But what are these patterns on our sides? "I think to himself.
"Are you lost?"Asks the wolf. "Umm..I guess so." I mumble but just loud enough for the wolf to hear. "Then follow me. It's not safe here there are thieves and bandits all over the place and they will attack you." Then it seems that the star on my side catches the wolf's eye, but only for a moment. "What is your name?" I pause thinking. "Sebastian, my name is Sebastian." A distant rustling noise and murmur grabs our attention.
"We need to get away from here, they're coming!" Says the wolf urgently. We both start walking before I stop."Wait I don't even know you (Then again I don't know anyone here)." The wolf growls a little under his breath and says: "I'm Stormstrider." The rustling noise and murmur from before sounds again much closer this time. "And we need move faster, or they will catch us." Not wanting to be caught by what stormstrider is talking about we start running and whilst running Stormstrider asks me: "What Element are you?" I take a second to register what he could be taking about when I remember the patterns on our sides and say:"I don't know" Stormstrider skids to a stop and exclaims shocked:"How can you not know it's obviously under whatever kind of pattern cover you must have put on!" "Pattern cover?" I think to myself.
A low growl emanates from the bushes surrounding us and a Wolverine emerges out of the one in front of them.I notice that the Wolverine bares leaf patterns all over its body like Stormstrider bore lightning bolts. "What do you want Randall!" Stormstrider snarls. "You know how this works Stormstrider give us the goods and we let you keep your fur." Says Randal with a smooth tone. "I have nothing you'd be interested in!" Retorted Stormstrider furious. "That's not true." Randall replies with a sly smile. "Let's say we are short on recruits for our little group here."
"I'll never join your filthy band of thieves!" Stormstrider exclaims disgusted. I notice a gleam in Randall's eyes indicating that he wasn't talking about Stormstrider and automatically take a step back, Stormstrider realizing this goes to take a step forward to stand in front of me, when Randall with a seemingly impossible burst of speed shoots forward and grabs me by the scruff pulling me back to where he was standing before. "Give him back!" Stormstrider snarls.
Randall dumps me on the ground and snarls back "Make me!" Suddenly the lightning bolts on Stormstrider began to glow and the air grow thick with static so thick you could almost bite a chunk out of the air then a massive bolt of lightning shoot out of the sky lighting the trees above us on fire and hitting Randall full on. He crumples to the ground dazed. "Wow it only dazed him!" I thought as Stormstrider took advantage of the moment due to Randall recovering quickly, darting past Randall grabbing me by the scruff and bolting off through the forest sparks trailing behind.
Eventually he began slowing down to a stop, he put me down and panted "Ugh! I hate that guy, your super lucky that he didn't bring any more of his goons today and that it is beginning growing to be stormy, you do not want to fight him on your own, he may not look it but he is fast and strong… as you saw yourself." I nodded. He looks around and lowers his voice. "From here on we have to be careful, quiet, and keep our ears pricked."
I remember the massive bolt of lightning he called from the sky and ask how he did that, but not wanting to risk stopping and getting caught he ignores my question and keeps running. Understanding this I manage to keep up his pace until they reach a large bush like all the other surrounding us and he stops suddenly and I watch as he looks around to verify that no-one was there, nudges the bush forward with his nose and reveals a secret tunnel, once again he looks around us ears pricked and sniffing the air. "You go in first." He says. I do as I'm told. He enters behind me fixing the bush and hidden door behind us, then he walks around me to lead the way.
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As we were walking through the tunnel I saw that it was lit by large lumps of flaming coal stuck in the walls or at least it looked like coal. "Where are we going?" I ask once again. Stormstrider willing to answer questions now that they were safely in the strange tunnels replies "Howlett" "Are we close?" I question. "Sort of, the tunnel goes on for a while, it will be about ten minutes until we reach the end." "Ok." I say accepting the answer.
True to his word about ten minutes later stronger light appears at the end of the tunnel.
Upon exiting the tunnel I gasp as I see a beautiful valley-hidden village with small wooden houses here and there even appears to be a plaza with a little cafe and what looked to be a kind of outdoor school in front of a lake a little beyond.
I look around myself in awe as he leads me through a couple of houses but before I can see anything more, Stormstrider pulls me into one of the houses. "This is where I live, come on inside." I do as I'm told and Stormstrider brings me through the first room to two doors he enters the second pushing it open, revealing a spare bedroom due to how empty it was aside from a clear pool of water in the middle and a couple of windows with a good view of the busy plaza. Sitting down Stormstrider demands "All right, who are you? Randall doesn't just want anyone to join his dirty band of thieves, so he wants you for a reason!" I thought for a moment "Should I tell him that I'm not from here? That I'm human and that I can't remember what happened and how I got here in the first place? What will he think? Does he know what humans are?" He concludes that he should tell him anyway, and that's what he does.
Stormstrider stares for a moment seeming to take it all in, and seemed to mumble, "So that's what the flash was..." Then exclaims "But humans don't exist!" He pauses for a moment deep in thought. "But if they did that would make you from the human world." I nod happy at not being called crazy and quite surprised that Stormstrider believes me so easily. "Yes." I agree. "And that explains why you looked so surprised when I used my electric ability." I nod again. He pauses again as he looks at the star on my side. "Hmmm, what ability would you have? I have never seen this pattern and if your human then that pattern would be real and not a covering as I once thought." He mumbles. "What do you mean by covering?" I ask.
"Well some of us are born in different place than normal. For example, I was born in the mountains so I'm an Electric Elementimal like most Mountain thunderwolves, but some are born elsewhere. So if a Mountain Thunderwolf was born at, let's say the beach, they would be a water Elementimal and have water symbols. But most of us not just wolves all Elementimals look down on them for looking different so they try to hide it. To do that they get a powder to cover up the pattern and put the pattern of a lightning bolt over the water pattern therefore hiding it. Normally The Patterners do it so it's convincing enough to fool others so they shouldn't be picked on. Usually its the young ones from your age up." Explains Stormstrider.
"Is my age that obvious (Not that I can remember that either.)?" I ask. "Well to me, yes, even though you were human, your clearly a wolf now and as I'm also a wolf I know how any wolf looks like at any age, so for me it's easy, though for other Elementimals it's not so easy." He stops for a moment, thinking. "I should enrol you at the school but I don't know what to say about the star. First we should take you to The Patterners. That star on your side is too unusual and people will ask questions. I believe that you should keep the whole human thing a secret.
The Patterners might ask questions but they are great at keeping secrets so we can trust them. It's their job not to." "When will we go?" I ask curious. "They open at ten at night when it is safer to go without being seen by others." He answers. "What time is it now?" "About five in the afternoon." "Ok, so then we leave in five hours?" "Actually, better wait till eleven. Some kids sneak out to see if others have different abilities just so they can pick on them for being different, but they don't wait long they grow bored quickly and leave."
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While waiting for the time to go by, we set up the room with a bed of moss. "Bed moss, so named because it's good for bedding." Explains Stormstrider. "Mist it in the morning so it can stay alive, it will be wet a for a couple of hours but the time flies by."
Later while still waiting for the time to pass I was watching Stormstrider through the doorway of my new room. He was going through three little bags made of grass. Looking closer, I saw that he was transferring what looked to be berries from two, to the pouch in the middle.
The next few hour felt like days because, after sorting the berries into the pouch Stormstrider told me to wait while he went and traded for some supplies leaving me alone in the house with nothing to do. Bored out of my mind I paced back and forth until bored of that too, I went and sat by the pool in the middle of my room. "Why am I here." I said to himself, and then looking at the star on my side in the reflection I thought about why I had a star with all the elementimal symbols when everyone else apparently only has one.
Finally after what felt like forever but was actually just an hour and a half, Stormstrider returns with a full bag of food such as bread and more berries. Looking behind Stormstrider I see he is pulling a small cart with some small bushes in plain clay plots. "What are the plants for?" I inquire. "I will tell you tomorrow. But for now I will prepare some food for dinner.
You just have to try these berries and see if you like them—" He pauses quietly laughing. "—I know I do." "How to you prepare them do you just eat them raw or do you do other things with them?" "You can eat them raw, make them into jam, roast them, I prefer them roasted. It brings in the flavour, also I only have paws so I can't make jam, plus I can't spread it you have to trade it." "How do you roast it?" I ask. "Oh I just zap it with electricity, easier than going to Blaise and asking him." "Who is Blaise?" I question.
"He's our neighbour, a Fire Elementimal and one of the only Flame Lions left, and the only Fire Elementimal in the village as well. So it's good that he lives here and not in any of the open towns and villages." Explains Stormstrider. "Why is it good that he lives here?" I ask starting to wonder if I should stop asking so many questions. "Fire lions recently have been disappearing, never to be seen again, no one has a clue about what is happening…." He paused. "I wish the other kids wouldn't pick on him, but what can I do? It's up to their parents to get them to stop." He paused again. "I'm sad for him, he is constantly bombarded with their taunts. He tries to acts as if it doesn't even happen, but he can't ignore it for much longer, it is clearly getting too much for him. I can tell he needs a friend." Stormstrider stares out of the window for a moment then looked back at me and smiled, I smile back.
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They spend the last hour eating the berries and Stormstrider tells him about village, the school and the roles that different Elementimals play in the village. "The Elementimals with hands are good for the cafe, trading zone, Patterners need hand too. Fast and strong Elementimals are good for leaving the village and going to the open towns and villages like, for example,—, or—." Stormstrider explains.
Before they knew it, it was time to go to The Patterner. Stormstrider grabs the pouch he had prepared earlier and they set off. "Will The Patterer think this was done by another Patterner?" I ask before we went in. "Probably at first he might try to clean of that "pattern" to put the right one on, but he will find out the truth when it doesn't come off." Stormstrider smiles as he thinks about the face The Patterner would make when it doesn't come off.
As they walk in together, I see that there is only one Elementimal there a small tamarin with the leaf pattern sitting on a wooden stool by a bench coming out of the wall. He jumps as he notices Stormstrider. "Oh, I wasn't expecting you Stormstrider." The Tamarin looks at me. "Who is this?" He asks.
"Amir this is Sebastian, I've brought him to have his pelt done." Says Stormstrider. "Ah yes, I understand I will do it right away." Said Amir. "Come here Sebastian." I obey. Then he notices the star. "Who did this, I don't know anyone who does patterns like these? Are you sure you want to get rid of this? He asks It is rather a remarkable design if it weren't so unbelievable I would've thought it was real! He chuckles a little. "Yes, you will understand when you try to wash it off." Says Stormstrider. Amir had a perplexed look on his face but didn't say anything and went straight to work trying to wash off the star but found it wouldn't come off. "Hmm, why.. can't.. I.. get.. it.. off." Grunted Amir, he sat back suddenly his eyes wide and turning toward to Stormstrider he exclaims: "This pattern can't be real!" Stormstrider smiled internally and says "Well it is, I thought it was fake too when I met him." Says Stormstrider.
"Where did you meet him?" He inquires. "Outside the village in the forest while I was going to —* for supplies to deliver to the shops and cafe, I was bringing him back here when we were ambushed by Randall." Stormstrider says recalling the earlier events of the day. Amir turned back to Sebastian. "What element are you?" He asks me "I don't know." I answer plainly. "That is quite unusual, well then you had better learn." Amir states, he then turns to Stormstrider and continues. "It's a good thing he is around the age when he should start school so he can learn." "Though he will be a few weeks behind, it shouldn't be too hard to catch up."
"We could talk to the Principle I think she could help, well maybe not she might think it's stupid and not believe me when I say that he may or may not be all the elements, hmmmm." He pauses for a brief moment. "OH! We Could just say that he is electric." Suggests Stormstrider. "I think you should just tell her, she will probably believe it, she would love to try and teach multiple elements on one person." Says Amir. "Hmmm, I guess your right, lets just go with it." Stormstrider agrees.
So the next hour Amir did his job of using a black powder to cover my blue fur colour and star, then using electric yellow for the pattern itself. Finally when Amir was finished I looks almost identical to Stormstrider except smaller and with brown eyes, not blue eyes. "There perfect, do you like it?" Asks Amir. "Looks great!" Exclaims Stormstrider. "You could pass off as my son that's so good, do you like it Sebastian?" "Definitely!" I reply grinning. "Good, good, now go you've got a big day tomorrow." Amir says satisfied with a job well done. Stormstrider goes to give Amir the pouch of berries he brought but Amir refuses saying: "No no, there's no need to pay consider it a first time free, and don't worry about coming back tomorrow I used the stuff that only comes out with watered down nectar, but will fade on its own after about 5 days, bye now, see you again soon."
We say our goodbyes and good nights and return home. We enter the house, and I'm greeted by a blue glow I look up at the ceiling and gasp, the entire ceiling is illuminated by bioluminescent moss that I didn't notice earlier growing on the ceiling. Stormstrider smiles at my awe and takes me to my room and says: "Straight to bed, I may have to wake you up early to take you to the school for enrolling, okay?" I nodded. "Good, see you in the morning." Stormstrider exits the room leaving me alone. "What a day." I whisper to myself before padding over to the bed of moss, lying down and falling asleep almost immediately.
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I open my eyes blinking hard so as not to fall back asleep, I gets up, take a long stretch and, shakes the rest of myself awake. I walk over to the Pool in the middle of the room and look at my reflection in the water. "It wasn't a dream I really am an animal no wait an Elementimal." I think to myself. I pad over to the window and Look toward the school in the distance my insides clenched a little. "Don't think of it as your first day, Sebastian, that will make it harder to make a good first impression, if everyone sees you looking nervous what will they think? You don't know what Elementimal kids are like they could be harsh, kind you don't know, so be confident!" I say to myself. I sigh.
I hear the sounds of preparation coming from the main room and as I exit my room I see Stormstrider going through the bags looking inside them and around, growling slightly. "What's wrong Stormstrider?" I ask. "I'm looking for a school bag but none are suitable, I may have to trade for one." My face falls a little, I'm a little surprised he is going through so much trouble for me. "Oh no, i'm happy with any old bag." I protest. "But you need a good one for a good first impression!" Stormstrider argues. "Trust me, it's fine."I insist. "Well, if you say so, but they will make fun of this." Stormstrider warns. "Don't worry i'll be fine." My inner voice says.
I watch as Stormstrider gathers an assortment of delicious smelling fruits and berries. "Okay, these are for you to eat at break, oh and if you do learn how to use any electrical abilities before break you can cook them yourself." Says Stormstrider half joking half serious all enthusiastic. "Okay, are you ready to go? He asks. I nodd. "Alrighty then, let's go."
ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER
As they walked through the plaza I see shops opening for the morning, hear someone in the cafe going through things getting ready but accidentally knocking something over because there is a little crash. We went onto a path that led out of the plaza and continued on that for about two and a half minutes until they reached an arch made of living wood with flowering vines growing all over it. "How do they keep the wood alive to make that?" I ask. "Earth elementals make these sorts of things, they are often used to help build our homes, our house is also alive didn't you notice?" Explained/asked Stormstrider. "Cool and no." I chuckle half- heartedly. As we enter I realise we were walking towards a small building that seems strongly inviting, even though it looks like many of the other houses in the village maybe a little bigger. We walk in.
As we walk in I see a well decorated room with many kinds of flowers in clay pots by the windows, a little wooden desk with an apple on it, and behind it a large, sparkling pool illuminated by the window, I can almost see sparkles rising from the water the sun hit it so perfectly. Then I notice bubble starting to appear on the surface on the water, and a split second later a large otter with the water symbol broke the surface spraying water droplets all over the room, seeing us she jumps a little then introduces herself to me after greeting Stormstrider. "Oh, hello Stormstrider what are you doing here- OH hello who is this?"
"Well, Onyx this is Sebastian, I brought him to the village yesterday and…..well… how do I say this delicately….. he may have the capability to control all five elements this isn't his pattern, we went to the patterers to cover it up we put this there so it didn't attract attention, though he can't control any elements yet we were hoping you can teach him here!"
The otter freezes for a moment after hearing this but recovers quickly, blinking several times and says simply "Ok, Stormstrider I believe Sebastian welcome to the school! I think you and Stormstrider may want to keep your possible abilities quiet right?"
Now it is our turn to freeze. " She believed it so easily?!" We both mentally say while awed. "Ok, then Sebastian i'll leave you with her, ok?" I nodd. "You know to get back to my house right?" "Yes" "Ok then, come straight back when school is finished." "Got it." "Do as your told, ok?" "Yes"
Stormstrider the gets up and walks out of the door but before he exits he turns around and nods in my direction. I nod back.
*Could not find name for villages or towns.
This is the first part it's been a while since I've done anything on the story I just uploaded it so people can read it. It's my own original story I own it please don't steal it I've been working hard on it.