CHAPTER EIGHT

Logan's Big Fight

That night Logan was lying in his bed, an arm behind his head and staring at the ceiling, deep in thought.

"You're an elemental;" he explained seriously. "A human that has the ability to control and element. And from what I've seen today, Kendall, you harbor the power of water. Logan, the power of earth. James, the power of air. And Carlos, the power of Fire. When you control an element, you get abilities that other humans don't have, other than being able to control the element. You're not twice as strong as the normal human."

"None of that is ever possible," Logan murmured to himself as he lifted his free arm over his head and looked at his hand. It wasn't glowing now, but Logan had felt a sense of power when he had used some of his 'so called' powers. Right now he was refusing to believe it, because he hadn't used his powers willingly, his body had used it when it wanted to. "There's got to be a reasonable explanation." He snorted and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, Logan, you got bitten by a radioactive bug and now you have powers."

He looked over to the side and saw Kendall in his bed, sleeping peacefully, as if none of this was bothering him at all. But Logan knew that it was bothering him, Kendall was the kind of person that didn't hide anything from his mother or his sister, and now there was no way that he would be able to tell them that he wasn't normal without them freaking out.

"If this wasn't happening, then it wouldn't explain how I felt…or my guardian being there." Logan replied and closed his eyes as he remembered when Sydney awakened the powers of him and his friends.

When his eyes were closed and Sydney touched him on the forehead, he felt as if he was transported to a nice grassy area. He knew he wasn't there, but he could swear that he felt the warm breeze and could smell the grass that was around him. And then, suddenly, he saw a jaguar standing in front of him. But instead of it being a normal jaguar, it was covered in camouflage colored armor and looked bigger than the norm. But oddly, he didn't feel afraid of the jaguar, he felt protected. And then when Sydney instructed him to open his eyes, it was there, right in front of him.

Shortly afterwards the guardians had disappeared in a bright light, and Sydney explained that they went back to wait, inside of them as they would only come out to help when called upon and when their powers were brought up high enough.

"But why would it happen to me," Logan continued to question, knowing that he wasn't going to go to sleep any time soon. He sat up and looked himself over, lightly touching his chest, barely being able to see the mark over his heart in the dark. "I'm not the kind of person that things like this would happen to." He gave a faint smile. "Then again, I didn't think that a person like me would ever come to LA and become part of a boy-band."

Suddenly Logan stiffened as he had an odd feeling wash over him, making the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He couldn't explain what it was, but he felt as something was calling to him. At first he tried to ignore it as he tried to go back to sleep, but that didn't work at all. The feeling didn't go away, and it only got stronger. Finally, annoyed, he got out of his bed and searched around for a t-shirt to pull on before leaving the apartment to get some air. He slid out of the Palm Woods with ease as Bitters was too busy watching a re-run of Gossip Girl in his office.

Getting back in is another story.

Logan walked along the sidewalk, not really knowing where he was going but not really caring at the same time. He shoved his hands into his pockets, looking around and then tilting his head back to look at the stars. He smiled as he was easily able to recognize some of the constellations that were in the sky, even the one that pertained to his astrological sign.

It wasn't until he was passing an alley way that the feeling suddenly came back to him. It sent a shiver down his spine, almost as the feeling was supposed to be warning him about something. He hesitated in front of the alley way, not sure why, and before he could move, he was hit in the chest, getting knocked flat onto his back.

Logan let out a groan of pain as he tried to sit up, trying to catch his breath. He heard someone chuckling and looked up to see Reihu standing in front of him, arms crossed over his chest and smiling evilly.

"What do you want?" Logan demanded as he painfully got to his feet, hand on his chest.

"Well, it's not what I want exactly," Reihu replied as he lightly tapped his chin. "It's more like what I'm supposed to do." He grinned and Logan could see that his canines were longer than usual. "And what I'm supposed to do is follow orders. Master Core's orders." He added somewhat spitefully. "And his orders are to capture you." He sniffed loudly before slowly moving towards Logan, his cat-like green eyes on him intently. "So let's make this easy for me and sit still while I bash your head in."

Logan instinctively started to move backwards, towards the traffic that was rushing through the street. No one seemed to notice that he was being threatened by this guy, but it was as if no one cared either. Logan quickly looked behind him to see that he was at the edge of the sidewalk traffic slowing down behind him.

"You have two seconds to agree or I'm going to get very violent," Reihu snarled, his teeth gleaming and his eyes turning to slits. Logan swallowed thickly and turned to look behind him again. "Time's up!" he declared and jumped into the air, kicking Logan in the chest.

Logan stumbled back and landed on his back in the street. Car horns blared and bright headlights filled his vision. Logan squeezed his eyes shut, knowing that he was about to get hit. Miraculously, he could feel himself roll backwards onto his feet and flip backward, landing on the hood of a car. He flipped backwards against and he landed on the sidewalk on the other side of the street.

"No way," Logan breathed to himself as he looked across the street at where he just was. "This can't be happening."

"Shit," Reihu muttered under his breath. "He shouldn't have been able to do that, he shouldn't have awakened yet." He narrowed his eyes in thought and then they grew wide again. "Dammit, those idiots must have awakened him." He rolled his neck and cracked his knuckles, getting ready for a fight. "No matter, I'll just have to kill him, Core can still use him."

Logan looked for a place to run as Reihu jumped on top of cars to get across the street, his eyes on Logan the whole time. Reihu jumped up high into the air, did a flip, and then fell towards Logan, a foot aimed towards his chest. Logan squeezed his eyes shut and crossed his arms over his face. Logan's eyes popped open when Reihu's foot connected with his arms and Logan easily pushed him away. He lowered his arms and saw that they were glowing green. All of a sudden a voice seemed to pop into his head.

Concentrate hard, the voice said in a calming manner. You have the power, you know you do. Don't worry about the science behind everything, just go with the feeling. Concentrate hard and you can do great things.

Logan opened his eyes, suddenly feeling a rush of power and Reihu looked scared before he looked extremely pissed off.

"Just because you've awakened doesn't mean that you're going to win." Reihu snarled. Before Logan's eyes Reihu's canines grew longer, he grew ears on the top of his head, his hands and feet turned into paws, and then a lion's tail came out from the back of his pants.

"You're…part lion" Logan breathed in disbelief, he didn't understand how nobody was seeing this, but as he looked around he noticed that everybody that was around them had frozen. The cars in the street had frozen too. "How is this possible?" he grabbed onto his head and squeezed his eyes shut.

"I've created a shield so that whoever is inside it gets frozen and whoever is outside of it can't enter." Reihu explained. "And your world isn't normal anymore; it's not going to be normal ever again." He cracked his knuckles again. "Enough talk!"

Reihu crouched low and charged right into Logan's stomach, causing him to cry out in pain as the two flew back and he crashed into the wall of the building behind him.

"Lion Scratch!" Reihu called and right before Logan's eyes, his nails grew longer and he slashed them across Logan's chest. Logan cried out and writhed in pain at the three gashes on his chest.

Glaring fiercely, he shoved Reihu away from him and moved forward so his hands, which were still glowing green, were resting on the ground. "Rock Cracking!" he called and moved his arms apart. The ground underneath Reihu's feet cracked and moved apart. Reihu jumped out of the way and darted forward, slamming into Logan's side.

Logan was knocked onto his side and he rolled back across the sidewalk. He got back onto his elbows and gasped as Reihu launched himself towards Logan again, a triumphant look on his face. Thinking quickly, Logan raised his feet up, catching Reihu on the stomach, and moved his knees up to his face, launching Reihu over him. Reihu landed on the ground with a heavy thud and Logan rolled to his feet.

You can figure out where he is, from the vibrations in the ground. Concentrate hard, Logan.

Logan closed his eyes, breathing heavily as he moved his feet apart. Surprisingly, he could feel vibrations in his feet from the ground. It was as if it was a heartbeat that he was feeling. Concentrating hard, he could feel Reihu getting to his feet and breathing heavily in frustration. He could even feel it when Reihu launched himself into the air.

Quick, he's coming from your left.

Logan opened his eyes and spun on the ball of his right foot, lashing out his left, and kicking Reihu across the face. Reihu crashed into the building behind him, leaving an imprint in the brick and fell to the ground. He got back up as if crashing into the brick building didn't hurt him at all.

"Ok, you're going to pay for that one!" Reihu growled dangerously low. He charged forward and kicked Logan in the chest. As the brunette stumbled back, Reihu grabbed him by the shirt and punched him in the stomach and then across the face. Logan fell back on the ground and Reihu jumped on top of him, holding onto the front of his shirt and growling.

Logan's head swam as he tried to focus on not blacking out. He knew that Reihu was stronger than him and that there wasn't much else that he could do. Reihu grinned evilly as he grabbed onto Logan's neck and started to squeeze. Frantically, Logan tried to throw Reihu off of him, as the edge of his vision swam. Reihu squeezed harder, his grin growing malicious.

"Dark Darts!"

Reihu roared angrily, the sound coming out of his mouth sounded exactly like a lion's roar, and at that closeness, Logan slapped his hands over his ears. There was the sound of a punch being thrown and Reihu was thrown off of Logan. Logan coughed, choking for air and he rolled to the side to see Rhuben grabbing onto Reihu and lifting him up off the ground by the front of his shirt.

"You might as well get out of here and tell Core what happened," She warned dangerously. "Because we all know that it's going to be worse if he has to find out for himself." She paused. "And he will!"

"Damn you," Reihu suddenly looked like a little kid. "Why don't you come back? You're so strong and you can really help us."

"Never," Rhuben released him and he fell to the ground, his lion features disappearing. "Now get out of her before I have to kick your ass."

"And what if I don't?" Reihu snapped back, getting to his feet. Rhuben looked him over, almost forgetting that he was just a kid at 14 years old and that he was the kind of person that tried to act tough when in reality he was just scared and wanted someone to talk to him.

"Then you get this," she replied with her purple eyes glowing brighter. She held up her hand and a dark orb surrounded it, crackling with electricity.

Reihu looked sad for a second before glaring at her and jumping high into the air, grabbing onto a fire escape on the side of the building, and disappearing from sight. Rhuben turned around, her purple hair turning back to black and her eyes turning back to blue.

"You ok?" she asked as Logan pulled himself off of the ground.

"Yeah," Logan replied as he lightly touched his lip which was split and bleeding. The three gashes on his chest had stopped bleeding but they still burned.

"I need to get you to Sydney so he can heal you and you can get back to the apartment." Rhuben stated, barely looking at him. "Follow me." She turned and walked briskly down the street, Logan following her as quickly as possible. He noticed, as they walked, that the people and cars started moving again. They finally made it to an alley that was partially covered at the front by a bunch of broken boxes. The two climbed over it and Logan saw Rhuben's brother and sister sitting around a fire. "Syd, we need your services."

"For what?" Sydney asked calmly as he walked over to Logan. His eyebrows rose when he saw the cuts and the bloody lip. "Never mind, I got it." He turned around and motioned to Noah. "No, can you bring me that water bottle?"

"Sure." Noah got up and grabbed the water bottle before walking it over to Sydney. He turned to Rhuben. "What happened?"

"Reihu jumped him," Rhuben replied and sat down next to her sister, warming up by the fire and grabbing a box of crackers that was on the ground. "After Sydney told us that he had helped them awaken, it didn't surprise me. He was just lucky that I was there or he would have been brought back to Wingz Corp."

Sydney made a sound of agreement as he uncapped the bottle of water. His hands glowed blue as he waved his hand over the water bottle's opening. "Water Spirits, help me heal." He moved his hand away and the water moved out of the water bottle in a snake. Logan's eyes widened as he watched. Sydney moved his hand forward and the water moved onto Logan's chest. Before his eyes, the gashes healed as if they were never there. Sydney moved his hand back over the bottle's opening and he closed it again.

"There you go." He smiled warmly.

"Pat, get him home." Riley stated simply, not looking at him.

"Alright," Patrick replied and stood up, large dragon wings sliding out from his shoulder blades. "C'mon Logan." He reached a hand out towards him. Logan just stared at him, eyes wide. "Listen, we promise that we're going to be able to explain all of this to you really soon. The most important thing is that you get home and get some rest."

Logan nodded before grabbing onto Patrick's arm. The wings on Patrick's back gently pushed down and before Logan knew it they were in the air, gently gliding over LA. The view was spectacular, something that not a lot of people were able to see. Patrick flew on until he found the Palm Woods and then he gently touched down behind the Palm Woods.

"Are you going to get in ok?" Patrick asked, his wings gently fluttering behind him.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Logan swallowed in reply. Patrick gave a short nod before taking off into the air again. In a daze, Logan made it back through the front doors of the Palm Woods without Bitters seeing him and got back to the apartment and into his room where he promptly fell onto his bed and passed out.

The next morning he was being shaken awake by Kendall.

"Logan? Logan? Logie?" he called.

"What?" Logan asked as he opened an eye and rolled his head to look at his friend. Kendall looked at him in concern and that caused Logan to wake up fully. "What is it?"

"How'd you get that split lip?"

A/N: Here's the next chapter and it's longer than the last ones. Yay! I hope you guys like the fight. And if you're mad that Logan lost it's actually very reasonable as he was only just awakened, making Reihu stronger than him. I'll update soon. Most likely tomorrow.

-Riley