CHAPTER NINE

Things Finally Explained

"Wow, Logan, I can't believe that you got into a fight," Carlos murmured as he stared at Logan, mystified. Logan winced as he slowly removed the ice pack away from his lip.

"It's not as glamorous as it looks, Logan." He replied coolly.

"I didn't say it was glamorous, I just think that it's odd that a scrawny guy like you could take him only get a split lip." The helmet-clad boy stated as he leaned back in his seat. Logan rolled his eyes before replying.

"I actually had been scratched across the chest, but Sydney healed it for me." Logan replied.

The four boys were sitting at the kitchen table in their apartment. Thankfully Mrs. Knight and Katie had left early to get some food or they would have had to find a more secluded space to talk about what was happening to the four of them.

"So, what do we do now?" Kendall spoke up; he had been quiet for the past few minutes because he was thinking about their jobs. "We have to go to the recording studio today, but what happens when we're singing and all of a sudden Carlos accidentally causes the microphone to burst into flames?"

"You just need to learn how to control your power." The four boys turned around to see Patrick sitting on the couch, arms behind his head and looking up at the ceiling. "You have a good place here. Maybe we should move in here."

"Do you guys ever knock?" James asked as he raised an eyebrow, following his friends over to the couch.

"Nah," Patrick sat up, a mischievous twinkling in his eyes. "That wouldn't be any fun, besides its funny to see you guys try and figure out where our voices are coming from."

"Yeah, oodles of fun." Logan replied dryly, his voice muffled by the ice pack.

"How's your lip?" Patrick asked, his eyes softening when his gaze landed on the smart boy. Logan shrugged in reply and Patrick smiled. "It's probably the worst thing that you're going to get that you can't heal as easily." He hesitated. "At least, it's easier for Sydney to heal bigger wounds. It's better to leave the smaller ones there."

"What are you doing here?" James asked in confusion.

"I came here to take you guys with me to a meeting place," Patrick replied mysteriously. "We're going to answer all of your questions."

"Really?" Logan looked interested.

"Really," Patrick nodded. "Everything you need to know, but you have to follow me to the place." He noticed that the boys were hesitating. "Don't worry, you can trust me." He turned to Logan. "My sister saved you, so that should be able to believe that I'm not going to ambush you or anything."

"He's right." Logan replied after a second of silence.

"Alright," Kendall nodded. "We'll follow you." He turned and waved an arm towards the front door. "Lead the way."

Patrick nodded once more before walking out of the room and out of the apartment building. Bitters watched them as they walked by, having not seen Patrick ever before, but he didn't say anything about it. There were always new people coming to the hotel, so it didn't surprise him that he didn't know who that was.

Patrick walked over to Palm Woods Park, looking around to make sure that no one was watching him. When he reached the Palm Woods wishing well, he closed his eyes as his hands glowed yellow. He moved his hands out in an arc and then opened his eyes, turning back to the guys.

"Follow Me" He walked forward and before the boys' eyes, Patrick disappeared from sight.

"What the?" James spluttered. "He just disappeared."

"That has to be an illusion of some kind." Logan murmured.

"Maybe not," Carlos replied simply. "It's like they said before, and you have to realize this Logan, what's happening to us is unexplainable by science and we should just go with the flow." He turned when he noticed his friends staring at him. "I can be serious when I want to be."

Kendall looked around before walking forward into the same space that Patrick was in. To his amazement as he stepped forward, he felt as if he had walked into saran wrap, and then he looked around, realizing that he was at a small wooded area with a pond trickling nearby. The Jacksons were all sitting on the ground in a circle; a few spaces were empty, obviously for the boys.

Kendall cried out as Logan, Carlos, and James walked into his back, sending him face first onto the ground.

"Sorry Kendall." James apologized as he helped his best friend up off the ground.

"Glad you guys could make it." Riley stated as she pointed to the empty space on the ground, inviting them to sit. The boys did as they were told and Rhuben spoke up.

"So, before you start asking your questions, we have to explain something first." Rhuben replied and then let out a deep breath. "The existence of elements in the real world."

"You mean there's another world out there?" Kendall asked, mystified.

Noah nodded. "That's correct. The element world. You see, there are two worlds in existence. Our world, which is earth, and then the element world." He licked his lips and continued. "The two worlds co-existed, the element world 'sitting' on top of our world." He used air quotes around the word 'sitting'. "And over time they started to come together, and when it finally did, the two beings that lived there started to co-exist."

Rhuben took up the explanation. "And with the two worlds in coexistence evidence of the element world appeared in the human world with things that were unexplainable. There were new 'species' of animals that started to exist. Normal animals with armor on, even more aggressive, and being able to display powers that no one else was able to do." She took a breath and continued. "Eventually this started to show up in humans, they could control things that were never able before."

"Like the power of water, fire, earth, and air?" James asked.

"Exactly," Rhuben replied and then looked grim. "But there are many more elements out there, some that haven't been researched yet."

"When the two worlds started to co-exist the humans in our world were incarnated with the power of those who existed in the element world." Riley explained. "Which is how you get the elementals. Normally there are only 1 in five people that have elements, but the five of us are special." She paused. "And so are you four."

"How?" Carlos breathed eyes wide as he soaked in everything that they were saying.

"The four of you are incarnated with the power and spirit of the four strongest elementals of the element world." Riley replied. "This means that you could quite possibly be the most powerful elementals in the world."

"Being an elemental you have your power," Sydney jumped in. "And you have some of the same abilities, but you also have different ones that comes with your power. For example, Riley has the power of fire and being an elemental in general makes it that she's stronger than most humans and fan run faster than most people. She can withstand a lot more pain, such as if she is hit by a car, she wouldn't be hurt as badly as a human." He swallowed and continued. "And she has a guardian, a wolf named DalFang. And because of a wolf being her guardian, she has the ability to use the animal power from him for her own gain. Meaning she can smell things easier and has better hearing."

"With Sydney, his guardian is a monkey named SpiritSaru," Riley replied. "That means that he has a weird obsession with bananas," she laughed a little bit. "And he is able to scale trees and buildings faster and easier than most people."

"Your guardian has the same element as you," Sydney went back to explaining. "And your guardian has many different forms. There's the human form, where it can turn into a human to walk around with you so people won't be suspicious when it comes to other people who could quite possibly be watching you. Then they have their regular form, like you had seen in your apartment yesterday. And then there's their small form, where they look like their normal guardian form but smaller so they can look like pets."

"Unfortunately," Patrick sighed. "There're some bad people out there. And there's this one man named Core, who tests things with elements." He hesitated. "He wants to know everything about elements and wants to take the power of the strongest ones and keep them for himself. He is the head of an organization called Wingz Corp. And what he does is he has four little teams that work for him, the Black Wolves, the Dark Lions, Dragon Gang, and Spirit X. And each of those teams has four or five people that work in it. The Black Wolves all have the power of the wolf, the Dark Lions all the power of the lion, Dragon Gang all has the power of the dragon, and Spirit X all has the power of the lion." He paused. "Like us." He motioned to him and his siblings.

"What happened was when we had first found out our elements, we were taken in by him and brain washed," Rhuben explained. "So we worked for Wingz Corp. To make a long story short, we soon realized that what we were doing was wrong and left. But not before Riley and I took something of theirs." she smirked over at her sister, who smirked back.

"What happened was, when Rhuben and I had awakened, our guardians started to come to us, but Core was waiting, as he had been watching us for a while and ended up taking them, using our guardians for tests. While in Wingz Corp, Rhu and I found them and left the organization with our guardians."

"Unfortunately, it pissed off Core so much that he vowed to get revenge to take our elements away." Patrick butted in. "To say the least. At the time we were the strongest elementals of our time and he wanted out powers." He fell silent. "So what he did was he had taken kids from their homes, who were elementals, and tested them, doing surgeries to make it like they were. He infused them with the powers of the wolf, lion, dragon, and monkey to make it that they could turn into the animal for extra strength."

"That was…Koto, Reihu and them" Kendall stated after a second of thinking.

The Jacksons nodded in reply.

"Yes, they were all stolen from their families at birth and taken into Wingz Corp to be tested on." Rhuben sighed. "And now they've been after us, following Core's orders."

"Then why have they been attacking us?" Carlos' voice quivered.

"It's like we said," Noah sighed. "You hold a great power and they're trying to get it. And they won't stop until they do."

A/N: Let me know if you were confused at all PM me and I'll try to explain it to you.