Friday

Zach

He slowly opened his eyes, taking in his surroundings. He was in a blue-grey painted room, furnished with only a bed, dresser, desk and old computer. Hearing the unmistakable sound of rain he pushed the sheets off of him and stood up. He was already dreading having nothing to do that day.

"Zach! Are you awake yet?" He heard Vanessa call.

"Yeh, I'll be a sec".

As soon as he was dressed he walked out and into the kitchen.

"David is already gone and I'm about to leave, I was wondering if you'd like to tag along with Casey to school? Or if you want you can stay here", Vanessa was talking as she took a piece of toast out of the toaster.

"That would be great, to go with Casey I mean".

"Great, I already checked with the school and they said they wouldn't mind, you better hurry up she'll be leaving in fifteen minutes".

Li

An unmistakable grin spread across his face as he looked down on his finished work. The eyes of a full-scale model of a Koalaotter stared back at him. Since the first discoveries of the ancient civilization, he had been creating whatever long-dead species of animal the archeologists had found a full set of bones of. Once he finished taking pictures he sent it off to the museum, and then began on a much larger creature.

Holly

"We're going to have to organize it again for this weekend", Kara said.

"Yeah but let's make it a whole day thing, maybe we can slip in the beach?"

"We'll have to invite the boys then", she smiled.

Holly agreed and was about to add something else when she spotted Casey walking towards them with a boy behind her.

"Hey guys, I'd like you to meet my cousin Zach."

"Hey Zach, I'm Holly"

"I'm Kara, and this is Stan, it's nice to meet you. You here for the rest of the year?".

"Nah, just for a couple of weeks at the most", he responded. Casey spotted Will, and pulled Zach over to meet him just before he reached the rest of the group. At that moment Jake turned up and grabbed Kara, kissing her once again.

"Who's that?" He asked as he let her go.

"That's Casey's cousin, Zach", Kara responded.

"The dead one?" Over the past four days Holly had learned two things about Jake, he was stupid and he was a jerk. Holly also noticed Zach heard this, his hand clenched into a fist.

"No, this is Zach, James's brother"

"Oh jeez sweet Casey", he said as Zach, Casey and Will joined them, "You have a black cousin, now we got someone to fetch our drinks". He laughed but soon stopped as he saw no one else joined him.

"Have you got a problem? Or are you just plain stupid?" Zach asked coolly. Jake walked over and stood in front of Zach.

Zach

His face was millimeters away from Zach's and as he spoke Zach could smell that he had not brushed his teeth this morning. "I'm not sure, do we have a problem, black boy?" The anger Zach had kept hidden suddenly broke free, and Zach threw himself into Jake's stomach, and immediately caught the attention of everyone around him.

Will

Almost as if it was planned, or instinct the people near them instantly created a circle around Zach and Jake. Will was unsure what to do but quickly tried to intervene, just as Jake threw Zach off of him and stood up. Will grabbed Jake and tried to pull him away from Zach, but Jake elbowed Will in the stomach and he collapsed to the ground winded. Jake then turned and picked Will up off the ground and threw him out of the circle.

Will slowed down his decent before he hit the ground, hoping nobody was watching him.

But somebody was.

Holly

Holly stood as still as a statue, re playing what she had just seen Will had done. Right before he hit the ground, he seemed to have slowed down. He had been falling normally and then he wasn't, almost as if he could fly. But she had no more time to dwell on the matter. Two teachers broke through the circle, which drew her attention back to the two boys.

Zach was looking pretty good next to Jake, with only a bruised cheek and a slightly bleeding nose. Jake on the other hand had a light red smudge across his left arm, as though he had been burned. He also had the first stages of a black eye around his right eye. Both were being told off by the vice principal. Well, Zach's not coming back to school.

Once again they sat in the cafeteria, due to the rain. Zach had been allowed to stay, only because it was Jake's fault, but he was on a warning.

"Where's Corey today?" Casey asked.

"I'm not sure, but don't worry I already had the thought of asking all the boys to the beach tomorrow last night and sent him an email, and he said he'll be there…"Kara's voice trailed off as she spotted Jake enter the cafeteria with his mates. He saw Kara looking over at him and as soon as he arrived at the table Zach stood up.

"I'm sorry for losing my temper-" Before Zach could offer his hand and finish his apology Jake cut in.

"Now you listen hear black boy, you are going-" he suddenly staggered backwards as a hand came across and hit him across the face. Holly felt her jaw drop as Kara pushed Jake away from the group.

"What was-"

"Shut the hell up you jerk, how could I possibly have ever like you? You're stupid and racist and… stupid! I never want to hear your voice again!" By the time she had finished tears were making their way down her face, and everyone in the cafeteria had stopped.

Jake raised his hand, about to hit her and then thought better of it, "You're going to pay for doing this". With that he walked off.

Holly

Her laptop was dead so she was sitting down in the living room using her dad's, looking at Facebook. Having added most of the people in her grade she could see everyone knew about what had happened. Every single status was mentioning some part of it. Some people were talking about the fight, others were talking about Kara and Jake. Apparently the story had snowballed and now everyone thought Kara had been pregnant, and when Jake did not step up, she had an abortion. Holly let out a sigh, Poor Kara. She was about to turn the laptop off when she someone was still logged onto an email she didn't recognize. The inbox was empty except for one email sent this morning before school. The phone began to ring and she thought nothing more of it.

11:21, everyone was in bed, except for her dad, but he had been called out earlier today so he was probably staying at a hotel. Holly swung her legs off her bed and unscrewed the light bulb in her lamp, which rested on the bedside table. She stuck her finger into the socket and with her other hand flicked the switch. Immediately she felt the electricity trail up her arm and through her chest, escaping out of her other hands fingertips. She watched the sparks as they jumped over one another and off her fingers. I wonder…She clenched her fingers and felt the flow continue, stopping at where they had once escaped. After about forty second she opened her hand and the sparks surged out into a beam, which dented the wall, her hand had been facing. Holy shit. The sparks returned to her hand. Once again she closed her hand but kept it closed for as long as she could. Suddenly the electricity forced her hand open and she quickly swung her hand over towards the window. The yellowy beam was longer this time and faster, flying a hundred meters, over two houses and then hitting a tree in the back yard. Immediately a flame came to life, engulfing the tree and spreading across the lawn. "Oh my god", She swung her door open, grabbing her mobile, and bolted out of the house towards the now-burning home. She quickly dialed, and the phone was picked up right after the second ring.

"State your emergency?"

"Fire! Quick hurry up, its at 124 Iridiscent Street"

"We're sending people there now, can I ask who is speaking?"

"Holly Qingting, I don't live in the house, I live up the road".

"Alright can you tell me-", Holly had reached the house and quickly ended the call, shoving the phone in her pocket. On the front lawn was a man, who was placing a three-year old on the ground. Holly could hear screaming, and quickly made her way into the house. This is my fault I have to fix it. She ran up the burning stairs, towards the sound. The floor began to cave in under her feet and she jumped into a bedroom as both the floor and the wall crumbled in, revealing the backyard and the now-dying flames. She looked around the room and spotted the source of the screaming. A woman was sitting in the corner holding a crying baby, slowly sobbing.

"I'm Holly we need to get out!-" half the roof caved in and flames surrounded Holly and the woman. She grabbed the woman's hand and started to run down the other end of the hallway, towards a window. Holly smashed the window as the woman began to scream, her hand having gone into the flame, which had crept up behind them. Holly grabbed her and pushed her toward the window, which she then climbed out of. The flames suddenly progressed further and blocked her path to her freedom. Smoke was filling her lungs and she suddenly collapsed, the last thing she remembered was the flames leaping away from her as she hit the ground.

Saturday

Holly

She awoke as her body was suddenly jerked off the floor, just as the floor gave way. She opened her eyes, as the wind whipped her face and found Will's face staring straight ahead. She turned her own head and saw the house getting smaller, she blinked. Suddenly the ground was getting bigger and fast, they were falling! How the hell did we get so high! But right before they hit the ground they slowed, and then landed.

"A bit of smoke inhalation, but you'll be fine. You did a fine thing saving that woman, but it was a foolish thing, luckily by some miracle you weren't burnt", Holly hopped out of the ambulance at hearing this and was scooped into the arms of her mother.

"That was so stupid, Holly, why the hell would you run into a burning building? You could have died!"

"Mum, I'm fine, now can you let go?" Her mum released her and Holly ran up to Will, who was standing awkwardly on the other side of the road. She embraced him.

"Thank you so much, you saved my life. And you can-"

"Shh, I don't want the whole world knowing, can we keep it between you and me?" He seemed to be pleading, but Holly had not known she was speaking so loudly. She nodded.

"Thanks, well I'll see you in eight hours".

"What? Why?"

"You are still coming to the movies and beach right?"

"Oh yeah completely forgot, you know with the fire and everything", she sarcastically said. They both laughed and Will checked know one was watching, and then took off.

Holly

"You do know that you two would make our group exciting again". She tore her eyes away from Will's chest.

"Wait, what?"

"Oh please, you've been staring at him since we got out of that trashy romantic movie, I bet you didn't even notice Corey didn't show up". Something inside her told her something was not right with that, but she quickly forgot that as she turned on her side.

Will

She was lying next to Kara, both were trying to get a tan but when the sun keeps hiding, it makes it difficult. She flipped onto her side, revealing her back to Will, and more. He followed the curves of her body, which led to her-

"Oi Will, if your done staring, you kind of have to throw the Frisbee back, it's how the game works", Will picked up the floating Frisbee and chucked it back at Zach and Casey. He then proceeded to get out of the water and sit down next to Holly. "Want to go for a walk?" He asked her. She immediately answered.

"Yes".

Holly

Shit that sounded to eager, almost desperate. Trying to think of something to make it more casual, she shrugged and added, "Why not". She stood up and brushed the sand off of her and the two of them began walking towards the rocks.

Will

"So Holly, got a big family?"

"Only a brother, don't ever see any cousins, so I don't think I got any, and I hardly see my dad. What about you?"

"Just my dad and me". My mum and sister's are gone…"What do your folks do for a living?"

"My mum doesn't work but my dad's in military, so he travels around a lot".

"I didn't relies their was anything here like that, is that why you came to how humble Island?"

"Humble? You've got two towns, and practically the best beaches, it's not a 'humble' island". By then they had reached the rocks.

"You know, There's a couple of ancient abandoned houses, around the other side, wanna go and take a look?"

"Yeah ok".

Will

All right so I like her, there's nothing wrong with that, this isn't a soapy so we won't find out we're related or anything…

"Wow, this would've been beautiful once", Holly exclaimed. They had nearly reached the other side, having had to climb a couple of hills. There was another beach, overgrown with shrubs and other forms of plant life. Small fish continually jumped out of the water, flipping in mid-air.

"Wow! They are Elephant Koi's" Will excitedly said.

"They don't look like an elephant…"

"Well they use to be much bigger, bigger then an Armallian submarine".

Holly

She watched the small fish jumping out of the water, as they made their way to the building most intact. Armallia, She remembered that that was the country furthest south; she also remembered that in the time of the Nation's the land once belonged to the Southern Water Tribe. They walked up the steps of the large building, to a verandah. Holly say two more balcony's on either side going down both sides of the house. The building was built against a cliff, and had an amazing view of the surrounding area.

Will held the door open for Holly who entered into an almost lobby-looking room.

"The government tried to keep, the buildings around here intact, but soon they realized it wasn't worth the money. Since nobody could remember who or what lived here, either that or nobody could give a damn". Holly walked up the staircase directly in front of her, and spotted something in a glass case against the wall. She walked up to it and saw a faded picture of a small toddler playing in the sand. His hands were up in the air and his dark hair was tied up in a ponytail at the top of his head. There was a label underneath it, which Holly could not read.

"Hey come here". Holly went back down the stairs and walked out into a courtyard.

"Wow…" Even though it was overgrown she could still see it was big. There was a still, flowing large fountain in the centre with pristine water flowing out of the miniature pillar, coming out the middle. "It's…beautiful". She couldn't help but smile.

Will

Hey Holly, I really like you, wanna go out? No that sounds stupid, Hey Holly how's life? What would ya say 'bout going out with me? That's even worse-

He turned and faced Holly, and suddenly felt someone's lips on his. He pulled away but when he saw it was Holly, he pulled her closer and their lips met once more.

Holly

"Well somebody had a good time today, what happened that's made you so happy?" Her mum said as Holly walked in through the door.

"Nothing just had a great time, made some good friends". Great friends. She saw her dad's laptop exactly where she had left it the previous night, "Is dad still not home?"

"No, must be still caught up with work, probably filling out all the re-location forms". Nodding Holly opened the laptop and found it still on, with the strange email still up. She minimized it and got Facebook up, and sent Will a message; Wanna meet up at the park down the end of my street in ten minutes?

She instantly got a reply; Yeah of course. Smiling she closed the window and opened up all the files on the computer, might as well kill some time. She began looking though each file until she came to one password protected. She typed in his usual; TMHM, and 'access was granted'. She couldn't believe what she was looking at, this can't be her fathers stuff. There were files on hundreds of people around the world, with medical reports, school reports and life monitoring reports as well as some having 'experimenting reports'. She quickly closed the file. It can't hurt to take a look; it's probably just some re-location stuff he needed to print off… Once again she fell for her curiosity and double clicked on the email. She immediately regretted it. as she was staring at a picture of Corey. On the email there was his address, a monitoring report and under the title ABILITY, typed in bold and italics was; raw earthbending. She scrolled back to the top of the email and saw the words; apprehend. She felt her insides tighten and she quickly closed the computer and ran to the staircase.

"Hey, I'm home", hearing her dad's voice only frightened her more. She took two steps at a time and slammed her bedroom door closed.

A/N: Once again reviews, anyone who can guess where Holly lives right now then you'll get a cookie. There are a few clues there, and no the koi's aren't a clue.

Disclaimer: People who get the right answer may not receive a cookie.