CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Power

Sydney had to wait for about a week before he was able to leave WingzCorp. The ones that worked there were constantly on alert, making sure that the Big Time Rush guys didn't try and break into the building to steal their friend. That caused every division (BlackWolves, DarkLions, DragonGang, and Spirit-X) to be on high alert and constantly be in training to get stronger than ever before.

Finally the day came that Sydney was going to leave WingzCorp, after saying a quick goodbye to his brothers and sisters he started to get to work. Before he left he pulled up the security grid on his laptop and tapped into it, bring it down long enough that he could get out.

As everyone else scrambled around to get the security grid up and running, he slipped out of WingzCorp and made his way to the Palm Woods as fast as he could go.

"What are you doing, Master Kendall?"

Kendall looked up from his hockey magazine and smiled when he saw his guardian sitting on the edge of his bed, looking at the magazine over his shoulder.

"I'm just reading," Kendall replied as Kadin walked off of the bed and onto Kendall's shoulder, tilting its head to the side. Kendall laughed when he saw the confused expression in Kadin's eyes. "What?" he questioned.

"What is it that you're reading?" he questioned. "It looks like shiny…" Kadin paused as he thought. "Ok, I don't really know what it looks like but it's really shiny."

"It's called a magazine," Kendall explained and put it aside as he rested his back against his bed as Kadin walked down his shoulder and into his lap, laying his head down onto his paws. "Do you really not know what anything is here?"

"Nope," Kadin stretched and closed his eyes. "I only know everything that was in the Element world, but everything here is very strange and different to me and the others."

"I getcha." Kendall nodded. He froze when there was a knock at the door, followed by the sound of his mother calling his name. "Quick! Hide!"

For the past week, Kendall, James, Carlos, and Logan had been working on getting stronger. Fairly quickly they learned how to control their powers and how to keep them from blowing up all of a sudden. (They learned that the hard way as Kendall had once emptied the Palm Woods pool of all of the water in it.) Through their own work they figured out how to control using their heightened ability of speed when running and they learned how to control the strength they used when they were picking things up.

It was helpful for the guys that Katie knew what was going on with them as she was able to set up a diversion for all of them whenever something strange happened or whenever they had to leave to work on their powers, but everyone was starting to become suspicious of them. The police were around the Palm Woods more often, trying to figure out what happened with Jo and constantly questioning Camille to see if she could describe the guy that took her.

Along with that, Camille and Stephanie were around the guys more often, because they were afraid of being taken like Jo was, and they always found a sense of comfort whenever the guys were around. That made things more stressful for Carlos and Logan. Carlos and Stephanie had always been close friends ever since she arrived at the hotel and Carlos was starting to feel that he couldn't keep his secret of being an elemental from her anymore, even though Logan made sure that none of the guys told their secret.

But Logan was getting even more stressed as well. With the constant school work that he was doing to stay ahead, the recording and dance sessions at Rocque Records, his having to work on his powers and making sure that no one around them found out, his research on elementals to see if there was anything that explained what was going on, trying to track down Jo, and being around Camille. It was hard for him to juggle everything and it was starting to make him crack.

Now Mrs. Knight had always been perceptive of her kids but now that she was the guardian of James, Logan, and Carlos and had cared for them for so long, she was perceptive to them as well. Kacy Knight isn't a nosy person, so she hasn't gone up and asked them what they were up to or why there were so jumpy all the time. But she knew that if whatever it was got too big, Kendall would go and talk to her about it, he always did.

Now, the only thing was Kacy didn't know that the kids were elementals and she didn't know that the only reason they were always so jumpy was because their guardians had been coming out a lot more lately, as they were trying to bond with their Masters. (The relationship between and elemental and their guardian is really important.)

"Where should I go?" Kadin sounded panicked himself.

"Under the bed!" Kendall replied as he pointed towards his bed.

Kadin wrinkled his nose as he looked at Kendall's messy side of the room and then over at Logan's clean side of the room. He looked over at Kendall and then turned and hurried under Logan's bed, making sure that he pulled his tail under the bed. Kendall glared at the spot, slightly miffed before turning back to the door as his mother walked in.

"Hi, mom!" He greeted with a wave and a large smile.

"Where you just talking to someone, honey?" Kacy questioned as she looked at her son with a raised eyebrow.

"No?" Kendall replied as more of a question than a statement.

"Oh, I thought I heard you talking to someone," Kacy looked around the room before smiling over at her son. Kendall smiled back, looking down when he noticed that Katie was standing behind his mother, leaning over and looking at Kendall with a raised eyebrow. He made a face at her and looked up at his mother again. "Anyway, I noticed that you and the other boys seemed to be more…quiet lately."

"What do you mean?" Kendall questioned, turning his head to the side a little.

"I mean, you aren't running around the Palm Woods wreaking havoc and usually I'm getting calls from Bitters complaining about you." Kacy replied, placing her hands on her hips as she studied her son.

Yeah, he was definitely up to something.

"So what you're saying is that you miss us getting in trouble?" Kendall questioned, narrowing his eyes a little.

His eyes darted around and he looked under the bed again, his eyes nearly popping out of his head when he saw Cairo, Carlo's guardian, sticking his head out from under Logan's bed and looking up at Kacy with a curious expression in his eyes. He looked up at his mom, who noticed him suddenly looking alarmed.

"What's wrong, honey?" she reached out and ran her fingers through Kendall's hair.

Normally that movement would have relaxed him, but that caused him to freak out even more as Cairo had walked out from under the bed, with Kadin's teeth planted in his tail, being dragged after him. Cairo looked up at Kacy as he went.

Katie looked down and noticed that Cairo and Kadin were in plain sight and nearly had a heart attack herself. Glancing over at her mother and her brother, she dove forward and grabbed the two animals and shoved them back under the bed as Kacy turned to see her daughter sitting on the ground.

"Katie, what are you doing on the floor?" she asked incredulously.

"I fell." She replied simply.

"Sweetie, are you alri-"

"Mom, why don't you go and get a first-aid kit?" Kendall grabbed onto his mother's shoulders and shook her gently. "We don't want Katie to be hurt."

"Sure, I'll just go and get it from under the sink-"

"No, we ran out of everything." Kendall stated, thinking quickly. "Because Carlos was doing something stupid as usual and Logan had to use up pretty much everything." He laughed nervously. "So we need to get more of everything so if you could go and get a first-aid kit from the store a few blocks down."

"Alright," Kacy looked at her son with an odd expression and left the room quietly.

Kendall and Katie both sighed in relief as they heard her footsteps move away from the door. Kendall got down on his stomach and reached under the bed, grabbing onto Cairo's paw and pulling him and Kadin out from under the bed.

"I tried to stop him, Master Kendall." Kadin stated quickly, climbing up onto Katie's shoulder and looking down at Cairo.

Cairo moved down onto his stomach, his ears flattening. "I just wanted to know what was on her feet; I'm still trying to understand the point of shoes." He sounded sad.

"How can you be a guardian who has been alive for hundreds of years and still act like a kid?" Katie questioned as she rubbed Kadin on the head.

"That's because your guardian is basically the elemental that he or she is the guardian of," Sydney stated as he swung through the bedroom window. "So they pretty much adapt to the personality of the master. Carlos acts like a kid, so Cairo acts like a kid."

"Hey," Kendall looked relieved to see Sydney. He cleared his throat and looked at Katie before looking over at Sydney again. "Katie, this is Sydney. Syd, this is my baby sister, Katie." He quickly introduced them.

"Hey," Sydney gave a short wave. "I don't have time for introductions," he licked his lips, looking serious. "I need to talk to all of you guys."

"We're the only ones here right now." Kendall replied. "The other guys are working on their powers and stuff and my mom will be home soon and-"he stopped talking when Sydney closer his eyes and brought his hands together in the prayer positions.

He started to steadily glow white and opened his eyes; he extended his hands, putting his arms out to the sides. The glow started to subside and Sydney brought his arms down to his sides and opened his eyes again.

"Ok, now everything besides elementals has frozen, we have all the time in the world," he sounded impatient. "Now, get the guys back here." He rolled his eyes and made a scoffing sound when he saw Kendall take his cell phone out of his pocket. "No! Use your powers, talk to them telepathically!"

"We can do that?" Kendall seemed mystified. He also felt hurt at the same time. Usually he knew what he had to do to get his friends to do something and to come together as a team. It worked all the time with hockey, but now that he had these new powers and he was still trying to get used to them, it was as if he wasn't the leader of his friends anymore.

The thought made him upset, more upset than he thought it would.

"Let me" Sydney closed his eyes and concentrated again as his guardian appeared at his side, in his large form.

"You must excuse Master Sydney," SpiritSaru apologized. "He is very impatient because he has to tell you something that is very, very important to you guys and to the world."

"The world?" Katie and Kendall repeated.

"Alright," Sydney opened his eyes again. "They should be here really soon." He looked around the room and made a sound of excitement when he saw a hockey stick in the corner of the room. "Wow a hockey stick!" He rushed over and grabbed it. "I love hockey, how long have you been playing?"

Kendall and Katie looked at each other strangely.

"Sometimes you forget that he's only eight," SpiritSaru added in an amused tone.

Everyone turned around when there was a rush of wind and the door burst open to show Logan, Carlos, and James squeezing through the door. Sydney watched, giggling a little, when he saw the three of them try to force themselves into the room.

"What's going on? What happened?" Carlos waved a hockey stick around like a weapon.

"I need to talk to you guys," Sydney stated and instructed them to sit down. He didn't start speaking until they sat down and gave him their undivided attention. "Ok, so we know that you guys have noticed that we've been gone for a long time and that we haven't been able to help you with the stuff that you probable have questions about and we're sorry about that." He started.

"Yeah, where have you guys been?" James questioned.

"I can't tell you," Sydney shook his head. "But what I can tell you is that something big is going to happen soon. I don't know what, but it is. And you guys are going to be the only ones that can stop it. Back when the elemental world was first created the four elements; Fire, Water, Earth, and Air were the ones that were holding peace throughout the element kingdom. Unfortunately, as there is with most stories like this, there were some evil people that didn't like it; they thought that they deserved to be the only ones with the power of elementals so they tried to take them away."

"But the main rulers of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air tried to fight back and no one knows the results of it," Sydney licked his lips and continued. "And over the years as the elemental world and the human world merged together there were scientists that learned about the fight and tried to figure out as much as they could about elementals. Unfortunately one of the scientists liked the idea of having control of all of the elements and made an organization to try and do so."

"WingzCorp." Logan nodded.

"Haven't we heard this story before?" Carlos questioned, raising his hand.

"Yes, but not exactly," Sydney replied patiently. "Anyway, what I want to say is that the power that you guys are capable of using is so big that they're not going to stop to get your power, even kill you. I'm just sending you a warning."

"But how strong is the power that we have?" Kendall questioned.

"Strong enough that one of you can destroy the world if you don't gain control over it," Sydney replied simply. "With the four of you together, well, let's just say that it wouldn't be a good thing. The power that you have now won't do much damage to Core or any of them, but what you have to do is learn how to control the power for yourself or you'll, accidentally, destroy the world."

"So what you're saying is that while we're being a band we have to go and save Jo from WingzCorp, defeat WingzCorp as a whole, and try to make sure we don't destroy the world on accident."

"Pretty much." Sydney nodded.

"Is there anything else that we need to know?" Katie asked, throwing her hands into the air.

"Yeah," Sydney bit his thumbnail. "WingzCorp isn't the only one that you have to go after, we don't know what the other divisions are, but we know that WingzCorp can't be the only one out there."

"Anything else?"

"Yeah, there's a prophecy."

"And?"

"You're going to die."

A/N: Ok guys, this is what I decided to do, this story brings in the idea of the guys being elementals and showing their first few battles against WingzCorp and the sequel, which will be up soon, will focus on them trying to save the world. So I think there are a few chapters left in this story and I may take a small break between the two stories. I hope you guys liked this chapter.

We're now on Christmas break so we should be able to update faster now.

-Riley