The girls sat around in a cirlcle, Portia near the center of it, since she was all flames at the moment.
"He really pisses me off!" said Portia.
"We know. You're flames just got hotter, cool off a little. We don't wanna get burned," said Xenia.
"He just left us here and said 'Survive, I'll see you in a week'," said Portia. "So here we are huddled in a make shift metal house in the freezing cold."
"At least we have a house. The ground is warmer now than it was a week ago," said Maddy.
"That's beside the point. We could've died!" said Portia.
"But we didn't, so shut up!" said Xenia.
"Who was that Chase guy anyway?" asked Portia.
"I don't know, but he was adorable," said Jada.
"I don't trust him," said Portia. "There is just something about him that says…"
"He oozes power…I can tell," said Maddy. "I can tell he is a strong willed person."
"You've been too in touch with mother nature again, haven't you?" asked Jada laughing.
"Shut up. It helps calm me," said Maddy.
All four of them started laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation. They stopped when there was a banging on the outside of their 'fort'. Jada relaxed and a door opened up in the wall. Brian stepped into the room and took in the girls.
He had a slight frown on his face, that he wasn't doing a good job of hiding.
"What's wrong?" asked Jada.
"I just got word that there might be someone after the Elementals," said Brian.
"Elementals?" asked Maddy.
"Yeah, it's just a nice way of going 'I'm a witch!'" said Portia smiling.
Jada and Maddy tried to hold in their laughter, but failed. All three of them sat there laughing at Portia's horrible joke. Brian cleared his throat and they looked at him, Portia still giggling.
"We are headed to Ipswich," said Brian.
"Where the hell is that?" asked Portia.
"It's not far from Salem, Mass," said Xenia. "If you paid any attention when we were in lessons then you would know that."
"Eh, bite me," said Portia.
A stout wind blew through the 'fort' extinguishing Portia's flames.
"Bitch," said Portia reigniting herself.
"We don't have time for this. We leave in the morning," said Brian walking out of the 'fort'.
"Well I guess we have to get ride of 'Fort Pain-in-the-Ass', huh," said Portia.
"That's kind of sad," said Maddy.
"Yeah. It's was kind of like home," said Jada.
"You only say that cause you made it," said Xenia. "Me, I'm happy with getting back o civilization."
"Well, no one asked you," said Maddy.
"Come on. Ipswich is waiting for us!" said Jada as the fort started to dissolve.
All four girls laughed as they walked over to the pickup truck Brian was in.
"I've had ya'll enrolled in school while we are there," said Brian.
"As long as I don't have to go to some stupid school that I have to wear a uniform, I don't care where we go," said Portia.
"Spencer Academy," said Brian handing them the booklet on the school.
"Damn," said Porita as the truck pulled off.