Chapter Ten
"Higher! Raise higher!" Amber's voice echoed through the chamber. So this is what he meant when he said "It will be difficult," she thought, I wonder if I was this much trouble. She had been talking to Uriah. They had been practicing for the equivalence of a year, and he'd been progressing, but now seemed to be hung up.
"I said HIGHER!" she shouted.
"I-I can't!" Uriah strained. "I-It's too hard!" He had been trying to make himself raise up to the ceiling, but the highest he could go was to the second floor of the chamber.
"How can you master all of the elements, including the hardest of them all, Fire, and not be able to reach the top of this tiny place?" In truth, the arena was rather big, but not as big as Amber wanted.
"Well, I have mastered the elements, but flying isn't one of them!"
"What do you think Air Warriors, like myself do?"
"Fight? You're warriors."
"We're Sky Warriors! We fly! If you ever want to master Air, you must learn how to fly! Flying takes concentration. Less talk! More fly! Now raise HIGHER!"
"I can't concentrate on just this! I've got too much on my mind!"
"Well get that stuff off your mind! Do it! Or I'll have to show you how fling will help me hurt you."
The thought of being hurt by a girl angered Uriah so much that he could only think of out doing her. I'll show you, he thought, I'll show everyone! Including that stupid police sergeant and his daughter. That's who I'll try this on first. Then on Judge Cook and her family, and finally-
Thud!
"Ow!" Uriah had been so concentrated that he had forgotten about everything, except for being better than everyone else. While he was thinking, he had started to rise higher until he hit the ceiling!
"Good. Good!" His teacher below him said, rising towards him. "Your skills are complete. I can teach you no more."
"Well," Uriah said with an evil smirk, "Since you can't teach me, I'll teach you!" With that, Uriah conjured a huge gust of wind, that blew Amber, and everything else, away from him. Then he created a huge fireball, and used it to burn a hole through the chamber.
"I bid you farewell, Amber!" He shouted as he flew out of the chamber. "perhaps we'll meet again!" He turned back to look at her one last time. And if we do, He thought, I'll do to you what I've planned for them. He started towards the first place he decided to wreak havoc on...Irma's house.