Holly

She ran into her room and pushed her bed against the door then finally collapsed on top of it. She felt her eyes burning and a moment later she could not stop the tears, of both anger and betrayal from trailing down her face. Uncontrollable sobs came from within her and she soon buried her face into the nearby pillow.

She heard a noise coming from her window and she immediately jumped off the bed and crouched. As the window opened she moved towards the wall and flexed her fingers. Once she saw the sandy colored hair, tanned skin boy who glided slowly to the floor she ran and embraced him, and the tears started once more.

"What's going on?" Will asked, pulling away from Holly and pushing her hair out of her face. What is going on? How the hell did this happen? Everything was great a week ago. Everything was normal…

One Week Ago..

Tuesday

Holly

Second day of school, and still haven't asked Corey. Holly slammed her locker shut and made her way to her first ancient history lesson. I need to get him on his own, maybe I could- There he was. She spotted him as she entered her classroom, sitting in the second row from the front. Corey looked up and motioned for her to sit next to him.

"Before I forget Kara told me to tell you that Casey's gone to her cousin's funeral, so the movies are off for tomorrow", Corey said as she sat down. All last night the three of them had planned a night out, just the girls, and Holly had been looking forward to it. Maybe next time.

Okay, thanks-", she was about to say more when a man, no older than thirty stood up and addressed the class.

"Hello, and good morning I am your teacher Mr Calvin. Me and my son-"

"My son and I" corrected one of the students at the back and an eruption of laughter followed. Mr Calvin smiled and allowed the laughter to die down.

"Alright, as I was saying my son and I just moved here so I'll be grateful if you don't expect too much of me. I will be replacing Mrs Morgan and in an attempt to better her teaching I have asked for one of my own subjects to be on the curriculum, and since we are the only senior ancient class it has been approved. So these next few weeks we will be studying something that is under debate right now, it is something newly discovered and is still being discovered but I find it most interesting. We will studying, what I like to call, the time of the Nations".

"Okay, read pages 24 to 30. By next lesson, I want you to have some background on their beliefs", as he finished the bell signaled the end of the double period.

"That was strange", Holly said as she began packing away her books.

"Yeah its some weird stuff", Corey added.

"Talking about weird stuff, I need-". Kara emerged at the door way and waved at Corey.

"Sorry but I've got to go meet Kara, see you later". He zipped his bag up and quickly darted out the door following Kara. Holly swung her bag over her shoulder and ran to the door, stopping only to see where they had gone. She glimpsed Corey as he disappeared around a corner. She began to walk but then picked up speed, fearing she would lose them. When she turned the corner her fear became reality. Damn. She took her timetable out and saw that she had a free period, and nothing to do. Oh joy. She spun around too quickly and crashed into someone, sending both of them sprawling onto the floor.

"Sorry", she said as she picked up the pieces of paper he had dropped. Passing the papers to him, she glimpsed that one of them was a map of the school, "Are you new?"

"Yeah, just moved here. I'm Will".

"I'm Holly, would you, by any chance, be Mr Calvins son?"

Will laughed, "Yeah that'd be me".

"What you got now?"

"Nothing"

"Me too! Want a quick tour? Well I don't know the place well, since I just got here myself but I can try".

"Yeah sure, why not?" Will replied.

Wednesday

Tony

"Make sure this is quick", Tony whispered into the ear of the commanding officer, who nodded and then turned to face his men. All up there were six of them, far too many for Tony's standards but yet the boss had executed that order. The commanding officer counted down with his fingers, and once his index finger completed the fist, the soldiers bounced into action, kicking down the door and splitting into two teams moving in throughout the room.

"Clear" the first team called.

Tony walked into the living room, with two soldiers behind him.

"Cle-" immediately he felt a wave of heat hit him, as though he was on top of a volcano. He spotted the man in the corner twisting his palms out, making them face both Tony and two other soldiers. One of the soldiers was about a meter away and his skin began to blister. He had planned to take him in without force, but Tony was always ready for the worst, having already put two tranquilizers into his gun. He pointed it at the man and pulled the trigger. A moment later the heat was gone, and the man collapsed on the floor. Tony walked over to the sleeping body and pointed the gun at his neck and let the second tranquilizer find its mark.

As he was leaving the building one of the soldiers approached him.

"I was ordered to give this to you sir", he stated as he passed Tony a black mobile phone.

Tony smiled and looked at his watch 1:22.

Eight minutes later the phone rang.

"I trust the plan went well", the man on the other end said. "I will be emailing you the details of your next assignment in a few days, I'm sure this one will fit in well with your own schedule". Dial tone. Tony, once again, discarded the phone and jumped into the awaiting limousine.

Zach

He was dead. No descriptions, no fancy words. Just: He was dead. Zach stood towering over the coffin, which his brother lay in, not wanting to look away. The seats began to fill, as people arrived and once most of them were pre-occupied, his aunt, Vanessa, came to the front and took his hand, and guided him slowly to a vacant seat.

People began to stand up and say speeches they had been rehearsing; once they had finished the coffin began to be lowered into the grave and by then Zach had begun to let the tears slowly trail their way down his cheek. Just before they turned into an unstoppable flow he felt something stick to his cheeks. He moved his hand to his face and pulled off a line of ice from each cheek. What the? Before anyone looked over her dropped them on the floor and covered both with his feet.

Holly

Holly and Will sat at a table in the cafeteria, watching as the door opened and Kara, Corey and Stan walked through their hair and jackets drenched with water. Kara's face lit up once she saw Holly and they all made their way quickly over to her table.

"And so we meet again Will", Kara said as she sat down, "So glad you found this table Holly, the cafeteria is packed cause of this stupid rain", she paused and then added "I guess Will is part of the group now, which is good cause now we have even numbers again", Kara smiled as she said this last part. You mean now we're all paired.

Holly felt her phone vibrate and quickly took it out of her pocket. Kara must have noticed that she smiled as she put it away. "What was that about?", she pried.

"My dad's coming home tomorrow".

Zach

The soft depressing music filled the room, demonstrating the mood of each and every one of the people with in. Food and drink were passed around and people made small talk with him as he passed them by. He finally found solitude on the balcony. Zach leaned onto the barrier and stared out. He heard someone's footsteps approaching and turned to see his cousin walking up to him.

"Hey Casey", he said as he turned back around.

"Hey Zach, I'm sorry about James, he was a great cousin, can't imagine how much better he would've been as a brother". Zach could only nod afraid he might cry ice once more.

"I- well my family and I were wondering if you'd like to come and stay with us for a while. With everything that's going on, we would love having you around, just till your dad gets better and all". Zach could hardly forget his dad, turning to alcohol once his mum died, taking his anger out on Zach. He wondered how he'd survive without James there to help- protect him.

"Yeah, that would be great actually. Just for a while though, till he gets out of rehab", for the ninth time.

Thursday

Holly

Holly ran down the street, stopping only to avoid crashing into a passing old lady. As soon as she reached her house she opened the front door and excitedly asked "Is dad home?"

"Not yet, he'll be home at about eight", her mum replied. Mathew came through the door and looked at Holly, who shook her head in answer to his unasked question. She walked into the kitchen and looked up at the clock; 4:38. She still had nearly three hours. Oh joy.

Zach

Zach sat at the kitchen table, waiting for Vanessa and Casey to turn up and take him away. On the table's surface were two puddles of water, one still had the remains of a small triangular ice cube. In his left hand he held another whole one, concentrating on keeping it frozen. He had been experimenting all day, trying to kill some time. The bathroom was a winter wonderland, having frozen an overflowed sink and bath plus a running shower. Zach stood up and the ice cube slipped out of his hand, Shit. Zach was about to reach out and catch it but he didn't have too, the ice cube was hovering a hairs breath away from his palm. It felt like he had an invisible hand had reached out and grabbed it, just as it slipped. He moved his hand to the left and the ice cube followed. This is some crazy shit.

Tony

He stared at his watch as the taxi began to slow down, right outside an old-looking house. He opened the door and paid the driver who quickly drove off. Tony then proceeded up the driveway eagerly.

Holly

All four nations believed that there were civilians among them in which had the power to bend the sacred four elements, Earth, Fire, Water and Air and in turn, they could bend anything that was made of the same energy/substance.

Holly could hardly believe what she was reading. Suddenly her room was dark. Feeling her way to her door, she opened it, and light entered from the hallway.

"Hey mum, where do we keep the spare light bulbs?" She shouted from the top of the stairs.

"Bottom shelf in the closet, up there", she responded. Holly opened the closet and quickly found the boxes. She switched off the light switch and pulled her bedside drawer underneath the now dead light bulb and climbed on top of it. When she had taken out the now-dead-light bulb she hear Mathew near her door, but didn't think much of it. She felt around for the bulb socket, and at the same moment that her fingers slipped into it her brother stepped into the room, and seeing it was dark switched the light on. Holly felt a tingling feeling enter her fingers and suddenly sparks began to jump from her fingertips on her other hand. She felt no pain, just the slight feeling of something moving within her. She quickly took her fingers out and the sparks stopped instantly. Holy shit.

Tony

He opened the front door, quietly placing his briefcase onto the floor, next to the coat stand. He heard someone to his left and saw his wife folding washing into four neat piles. He crept up behind her and embraced her. She jumped and quickly turned around. Once she saw who it was they both began to laugh.

"Tony!" She embraced him once more.

"Miranda. Where are my kids? Where are Mathew and Holly?"

A/N: Please review thoughts. Sorry it took so long, bit harder to write then the others, and its double the length :S.