Your Destiny
"Now Steve, give me some wonderful news." Mr Tiny told the Vampanese in front of him, who had taken to leaning against a tree, his arms folded over his chest as he looked at him. Mr Tiny on the other hand, was leaning on his staff, looking at Steve with excited eyes.
"There isn't anything to say." Steve shrugged.
"What is happening with Shan? With that useless Crepsley, or my main aim young Katie?"
"Nothing really, Shan and his monkey girl are still together, Crepsley is with his woman, thing." He shrugged.
"What about Katie?" He asked impatiently.
"She's fine I guess." He shrugged. "There isn't much left to say after the last time we met up."
This suddenly caused Mr Tiny to get angry. "I will be at their little show tonight, and we will see if nothing happens then." He then left Steve on his own.
"I don't want her hurt, I have to warn her." He thought to himself, before he flitted back towards the Cirque and found Katie playing a flute. "Well, it's now or never."
"Hi Steve." Katie smiled her usual smile which had Steve's heart clenching ready to burst, whenever he had the chance to see it.
"Oh, hi Katie." He smiled back. "What are you out here for; I thought you had to be in the show."
"I do, but I was waiting for you." She told him, as she stood and walked to him. "So, are you ready to go?" She asked as she pulled her long coat over her body.
"Um, yeah sure." He told her, and when she offered him her hand, he took it without a question and flitted away from the Cirque with her.
When they got to what looked like a simple old and abandoned building in the centre of town, Katie let go of his hand and she walked inside with him, going down to the basement to where the others had given her a room to change. Steve stood in the doorway, acting as her guard as he watched her take off the long coat she was wearing. When she took her coat off, her outfit stunned him to silence (look at the link in the beginning of this chapter) and he watched her fix her bralet before she looked at him.
"Does this look okay, or do I look too much of a tart?"
"You look fine." He told her. "You look very, Arabian." He told her playfully.
"Be serious Steve." She rolled her eyes.
"You look absolutely gorgeous." Evra told her as he pushed past Steve and walked to her, sliding his arms around her.
Katie blushed at his wording, before she slid her arms around him. "Thank you." She stood on her tip toes and kissed him gently.
Evra kissed her back just as gently, though he showed off to Steve, which Katie didn't mind since she just took it as he enjoyed it. Steve rolled his eyes as he looked away from them, he didn't want to ruin his friendship with Katie, so he hadn't told her how he felt, but this was getting beyond heartbreaking to have to watch. Soon after they broke apart, Madame Trusca walked to them.
"Katie, you're up." She smiled at the girl, who unwrapped herself from Evra's arms, and after a quick kiss, flitted off.
As Katie got to the top of the stairs where she needed to appear from, she heard Mr Tall reel off his usual introduction.
"And now, a beauty as hot as the Arabian dessert, as cold as the North wind and as flexible as the newest leaf, I gave you the Arabian beauty, that is our elementist, young Katie!" As he said her name, Katie had her eyes closed, and the doors suddenly blew open, which caused a few screams from the audience. Then Katie's whole body suddenly seemed to disappear from where she had been stood, and she appeared in the middle of the stage.
"I need a volunteer." She told the audience, who all looked shocked that she had appeared, and yet none of them moved. "Come on, someone brave, who isn't scared of a little girl like me." She told them, sweetly. She let her eyes wander the crowd, and she carefully moved to walk between the chairs, soon stopping at a man. "How about you, Sir?"
The man looked at her dumbfounded and he just nodded, taking the hand that he was offered and walking to the stage with her.
"Is your coat on fire?" She randomly asked, and people gasped as the man's coat suddenly caught on fire, yet it didn't burn him. When the man started to freak out, Katie took hold of the fire in her hands as if it was a solid object, and she flicked it, causing it to shoot up her arms. "Are you singed?" She asked the man, who looked down at his coat and shook his head, before she done some more tricks with him, using different elements.
The entire show ended with a round of applause from their audience, after the audience had left, the doors suddenly burst open.
"Katie, the show is over." Corma Limbs told her as she looked around but she didn't see Katie anywhere.
"That wasn't me." Katie told her as she walked up the stairs, her coat fastened around her as she held Evra's hand.
"No my dear, it was me." Mr Tiny told her, and the minute he made himself known, Mr Crepsley walked to Katie and Evra and stood in front of them, to protect them.
"What are you here for Mr Tiny?" Crepsley asked him.
"I came to see how my little star was getting on." He looked at Katie. "Her power is tremendous, isn't it?"
"It is, but that doesn't mean that you can have her." Mr Tall told him as he joined Crepsley.
"She will have to join me eventually; it is her destiny to give me her power."
"You want it, and then you'll have to take it over my dead body." Katie told him, as she gently squeezed Evra's hand.
"What is this destiny?" Corma asked as she looked at Katie when everyone else did.
"Search me." Katie shrugged. "I didn't even know that I had one."
"Everyone has a destiny, young Katie." Mr Tiny drawled. "It's what gives us our point in life."
"Maybe you should come back to the Cirque, where we can discuss this properly." Mr Tall asked, as the other left, leaving Katie, Evra, Crepsley and Steve with him and Mr Tiny.
"Maybe I shall." Mr Tiny smiled, watching Katie as she left, dragging Evra with her. When he finally got outside, he found Evra standing alone, since Katie had flitted back to the Cirque. "Where has the young one gone?" He wondered out loud.
"She wanted to get away from a snake like you." Evra told him.
"I assure you that it is you who is the snake, boy." Mr Tiny told him.
"That's enough." Mr Tall told them, as Steve and Crepsley flitted away and he and Evra got into Mr Tall's car. When they were away from Mr Tiny, Mr Tall looked at Evra. "Evra, I want you to try and find out what this destiny is."
"Don't you trust him?" Evra asked as he looked out of the car window.
"No, I do not, especially not when it comes to Katie. I care for Katie's safety just as much as you do." Mr Tall sighed. "I've known her longer, and in all that time I've never seen her as happy as she is now with you."
"What was she like when you were young?" Evra asked him, looking over to see Mr Tall smirk at the memories that flooded his mind.
"She was quiet at first, she still wore a version of the hood she wears now, but it's not as light. Her appearance has never changed; though her hair seems to be of a longer length now, her eyes...Those glistening eyes...They've never changed." He smiled at the memory.
"You sound like you loved her." Evra commented.
"I did back then, but she never knew that, she always thought of me as her brother. But I'm happy that she has you now." He told him.
Evra nodded. "Do you think that she will be alright, you know after all of this?"
"She will be, Katie is a strong person in body, mind and spirit, and it will take a lot to harm her." He sounded confident.
"Yeah but, I don't think she has come up against something like this before." He sighed, going back to the window, smiling to himself when he saw Katie waiting for them; she had changed out of her costume into jeans and her hoodie.
Evra had gotten out of the car door before it had even slowed down and he walked to her, pulling her into his arms.
"Are you alright?" He whispered to her, when she hugged him back just as tightly.
"Yes, well I am for now. Are you alright?"
He nodded, resting his head against hers as he saw Mr Tiny's car pull up.
"Shall we talk out here?" Mr Tiny asked, looking at Katie, Evra, Crepsley and Mr Tall. "But I'm afraid; Snake Boy will need to go inside instead of being attached to the girl like a leech."
"His name is Evra, and I want him to stay." Katie told them.
"I'm sorry Katie, but Evra will need to go and join the others." Mr Tall told her, looking away when her eyes widened in what he presumed to be fear.
Katie looked at him in betrayal, before she looked back at Evra. "Please, don't stay too far away." She whispered to him, as she kissed him.
"I won't." He promised her quietly, before he walked away when their kiss ended. He could feel Katie watching him walk away, but he didn't want to turn around because he knew that she wouldn't let him leave.
"Now, shall we talk about this destiny?" Mr Tall started, which made Katie look back at him, as Mr Tiny produced an old looking book. Everyone looked at the book in almost curiosity, and Katie looked back at her father as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
Mr Tiny opened the book to a page that he had saved before hand, and it showed an ancient looking picture of a girl who was surrounded by the elements – fire, water, wind, earth, lightning and even thunder.
"It says here, that one day a girl with the power to control the elements, and she also holds the gift of an immortal life." He looked at Katie, then back to the book. "Her destiny is to be consumed by her girl of fire and to bring destruction to the world through her love of fire and to watch things burn."
When he finished speaking, everyone was silent for a while, until Mr Tall sighed and looked at Katie. "Katie, you know how I feel when it comes to the safety of the Cirque and everyone in it."
Katie looked at him. "But aren't I part of the Cirque? Don't I deserve to have your love and protection?"
"I'm sorry Katie, but if this is your destiny-"
"No, I make my own destiny!" She suddenly shouted. "If you want me to leave, and then fine, I will! But remember, you were the one who asked me to come back!"
Mr Tall and Crepsley watched as she simply disappeared inside the Cirque for the night, though Crepsley knew that she probably wouldn't be there in the morning.
