Elementals!

Chapter 1:

The depths of the bone-eating well

Part 1: Goodbyes

"What do you mean mom! I don't want to go!" I just couldn't believe my mother! How could she?
"Ayama, I decided, and I won't change my mind. We're going, and that's final!" Mom looked at me with that stern expression. Great, now there's no turning back…
"We're leaving next week, so make sure you do what you need to do by then."
"But I don't want to go." I complained, it was my last chance to change her mind..
"Ayama."

I sighed, and went upstairs, to the room on my left, my room. Sure, it was a bit small, and sure, I complained about it occasionally, but I still liked it.
I don't want to go away from here, I thought, as I sat down on my bed.
I looked around my room, the white walls, which I wanted to paint so badly but wasn't allowed to.
The floor, a wooden floor, with two small carpets, one next to my bed, 'so my feet wouldn't get cold' I used to say, and one in front of my desk, so the chair wouldn't damage the floor. My bed was next to a window, curtains closed.
It took to much effort to open them, I always said.
That wasn't really the case, of course, but I liked it better that way, the sun had a nasty habit of blinding me through that window.
However, I tolerated it in spring. Then they were open, because that's when my favorite tree is in bloom.
I stood up and walked to my desk, I looked through the stuff on top of it.
My school books, my notes, I need to clean this mess up, I thought, otherwise mom will throw it away.
Yes, my mom has the nerve-wrecking habit of cleaning my room, throwing away important stuff or forgetting where she put it.
I started sorting out the papers, and cleaned the rest of my desk. I put the stuff I didn't need until next week in a box.
That way I wouldn't have to pack everything the last day.

After I finished, I walked out of my room, I had about 3 boxes filled up by now.
I saw my sister opening her door, and she spoke to me "Sis, I don't want to go either."
I looked at her, she had her long blonde hair in a ponytail, and looked at me, obviously she was sad.
"I don't want to leave my friends behind either. But mom won't change her mind. I already tried." I said.
"But sis? Do you know where we are going? Mom wouldn't tell me."
"I don't know either, she said she still had to choose, but wherever it is, it's still far away."
Then, we heard mom yelling " Ayama, Tikal, Atora! Come down here for a moment!"
Tikal and I looked at each other for a moment, wondering what's going on.
Then, another door opened, and my brother ran out. "hey ladies, come on, let's go downstairs!" he said, as happy as ever.
So we all went downstairs, and saw our mom sitting at the table. We sat down as well, and our mom started talking:
" I know you don't want to move at all, but I got this job offer from the office. I suppose I should call it a promotion, I'll become the manager of one of the offices."
We looked at each other, and Tikal congratulated mother.
She continued " But I can choose the country. So which one do you prefer? Canada, or Japan?"
Japan? I couldn't believe my ears! We could go to Japan? That's like a straight ticket to heaven! Games, manga, all on TV!
My face lightened up, and I saw Tikal smiling too. She liked anime as well. Atora looked happy as well, but then again he always is.
"So what do you guys think?" Mom was relieved, I'm sure she felt bad.
"Which one did you choose?" I asked. " I haven't chosen yet, I wanted you three to decide as well." I thought about it, and voted for Japan.
Tikal did as well, no surprise there, and Atora too. Mom looked content, and said she wanted to go there too.
She went to the phone and called her boss. Minutes later she hung up and said we were going to Japan.
I grinned broadly, Tikal did a dance, and Atora hugged mom. "I'm going to hang out with some friends, and tell them the news!"
I waited for permission, grabbed my coat, and went out.

I called a few friends, and went to our meeting place, a little restaurant, in a calm street.
We often go there to eat and chat, so we knew almost every regular there. I arrived there first, since I was already on the way.
I greeted Claire, the owner, and sat down at our usual table.

After a few minutes, a girl with short-length brown hair walked in, she wore a green shirt, jeans, and sneakers.
She saw me and smiled "Hey Ayama. How's it going?" "Hey Mel! Great, thanks! I have some news, but I'm going to wait until Vicky and Rachelle are here. How are you doing?" "Alright, nothing special to report." She grinned and sat down.
We drank something, and after a few more minutes and greetings, our club was complete. "So Ayama, what's the big news?" Rachelle said.
Everyone eyed me when I started to speak "Mom got a promotion, she's going to be a manager of an office."
"That's great!" Melany said. "Thanks Mel, but that's not all. We have to move." Mel got quiet, and so did the others.
"Where?" Vicky asked. I grinned "I hated the idea at first, but we could decide. Either Canada, or " I paused, the three girls looked at me expectantly,
" Japan." They were happy for me, but I could see Mel wasn't really psyched. She was my best friend after all.
"But I'll be visiting, and you can always come for a week or so." Mel smiled a bit.
We chatted for a couple of hours, until it was time to go home. I was happy, and exited, feeling a little sad as well. Tomorrow everyone at school will know. At 11 PM I went to bed.

Last week was fun, but also sad. The cherry blossoms were almost in bloom, so I liked the atmosphere.
My stuff was being loaded in a truck, to be delivered at the airport. I slipped on my coat and handed Atora and Tikal theirs.
They went outside, but I ran upstairs to my room. I sat down on the windowsill, I used to do that a lot. I loved the view.
Then I looked around my room, from here, I could see my secret hiding spot, a small dent in one of my walls. I had hid something in there ages ago.
I waited for the last moment to take it away, in case I'd lose it. It's nothing special, just a black heavy stone.
I took it out, it seemed much smaller than the last time I held it. It's a bit longer than an inch, I could cover it in my hand completely now.
It's been so long since I've held it, I only have memories of holding it with both hands.
I've had this stone for as long as I can remember, so it means a great deal to me. I put it in my pocket and ran downstairs.
Everyone was in the car already, a black Ford escort station wagon. It had a lot of space in the back, so only our important stuff was loaded in here.
I sat down in the front seat, passenger side. I didn't like this car, the interior wasn't maintained very well.
It's a car my mom uses, but it's from the office, so she had to share it with a colleague for some reason, and he wasn't to careful with the car.
I hope we will get something else in Japan, it's a silent wish actually.

We had said goodbye to everyone in the last week, so only a few people came to see us off at the airport.
Mel was one of them. I hugged her and said I'd mail her as soon as I got my pc up and running in Japan.
She smiled, and we talked a bit. Then we had to go, Mel and I had tears in our eyes.

The plane was comfortable, we had little turbulence, and the food was okay. It was better than my cooking, but that's just horrible.
I went to sleep after a while, because I stayed up before to try and avoid a jet lag.

"Ayama, wake up, we're going to land" I heard moms voice from far away. I opened my eyes and shot up.
Where was I? Then it hit me. I was in a plane going to Japan. I heard a voice "Fasten your seat belts, we are going to land."
I did as she said, and soon we were on the ground. All the time I looked out of the window. Japan was different, but beautiful too.
We called for a taxi, and went to our new house. Meanwhile, I thought about the dream I had. It was a strange dream, really shady, and a bit disturbing.

I remember reading a letter in that dream, and hearing screams and other noises outside.
I stood up from some kind of desk, and looked outside. At the same moment someone entered the room.
I also remember saying something like "I admire your determination, " however, the person interrupted me.
'It didn't take much effort to kill your guards, and that so called army of yours isn't worth using even a single spell on."
I tried to reply, but he stabbed me within a second after he finished talking. I fell to the floor, and said one last thing,
"after all these years, you still fall for it." Whatever that means. Then that person got mad, and attacked me again. After that, I woke up.

I snapped back to reality when Tikal asked if we were there yet. Mom said we were almost there, and I looked around.
I never noticed where we were going, but now I gasped. I recognized this kind of houses. We were one of the wealthier areas of Tokyo. "Mom, do we live around here?" I had to ask.
She grinned, "You'll see". We turned into a street, and we stopped in front of an old, yet huge house. We got out of the car, and looked at our new house.
I was speechless. The garden was beautiful, since it was the start of spring season, a few flowers were blooming.
Then I noticed the trees spread across the garden. They weren't in bloom yet, but they were Sakura for sure! I started to love this place!
Could it become any more perfect?

We walked to the front door, and mom unlocked it. We went inside and looked around.
It was really modern, despite the old looks of the house. We were standing in the hallway, which was really spacious.
On our left were two doors, and on our right there were three. There were stairs in front of us.
Behind the first door on our left was the dining room, and the second door was the kitchen, the living room and the study were behind the doors on our right, as well as the toilet.
Upstairs, there were doors for four bedrooms, a big bathroom, and another study. We also had a second floor, but it was completely empty, some sort of attic. No walls or anything.

"Do you kids like it?" We looked at mom. I said I loved it, but could we afford this?
"The company paid for it. We don't even have to pay the rent, it's like a live-in." I smiled, such a nice house, and all for free.
Mom's company, Easter, must be rich.
"Well now, go pick yourselves a room, I'll take the remaining one. And don't forget to unpack!" Mom went downstairs, to get our stuff.
I opened the nearest door, it was a beautiful light purple room. Tikal will like this one, for sure.
"Tikal! Over here, I think you'll like this room!" Tikal walked in, turned around, and grinned. "I chose my room!"
I smiled when Tikal ran downstairs, almost tripping over her own feet, and opened the next door.
I gasped, it was a crimson room, no, even darker. It was beautiful, although it was quite dark.
It also looked familiar, but I don't remember having seen such a room before. Maybe I'm just mistaken.
I stopped thinking about it and concentrated on how to decorate my new room.
I went downstairs and started to unpack my belongings.

Hey! It's me, Kyara Yukai. I have a few things to tell you:

1)The reason for the delay of my story is because I want to remember this day (9th October 2009). My dog died today, and I really miss him. He was my best friend, and I'm not so good with dates, also, he is kind of my motivation, so you'll notice him later on. I don't know in what way yet, but I'm gonna make it right, that's a promise.

2)I really hope you will enjoy the story, razzy and I worked very hard on this one. I'll try to update regularly, but I can't promise anything. This story was originally posted on quizilla, in a terrible shape, but I like FF better, so I'll be continuing it here. And I'm rewriting, since Arrowfoot the Dragon gave me a very supportive motivating review. I hope this version is better, and thanks a lot!

3)The concept elemental is used here, but Razzy refers to them as elementalists.

4) I made some changes with the titles, right now, I'm using sub-titles, but I'll leave those out later.

5)I'm going to explain the references I made, until further notice. I'll start with the first one in here, which is the only one.
The company Ayama's mother works for, is called easter, it's the evil company in shugo chara, which experiments with X-eggs.
In shugo chara, every child (and adult) has an egg inside them.
This egg contains a chara, which is the personification of what someone wants to be,
for example, someone who wants to become a programmer, would have a chara that looks and thinks as a programmer.
However, if this person were to give up on his dream to become a programmer, because someone convinced him it was impossible/stupid or something,
his egg would change into a negative egg, an x-egg.
This is the goal of easter, to create as many x-eggs as possible, to lure out the 'embryo', a magical egg that's supposed to grant any wish.
Although Ayama's mother works for them, she is oblivious to all that, only a select team knows about the existence of these eggs.

6)Please review!