Dani
After Mia and I had gotten to know each other a bit I looked around the room. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. At my house we had the bare minimum, a screen door that half the time didn't really even work anymore, a desk that would half the time show our messages and half the time it wouldn't, it was nothing like the glass floors with lava on my side and water on the other under it and the globe shaped showers. The showers even had body dryers on the inside so you didn't have to walk out cold to dry yourself! Also on the wall was a secret compartment that had throwing knives of all sizes, on the other side Mia had one with tridents. In my closet were jumpsuits like Mia, except mine were red and had a fire symbol instead of the water droplet that her's had. The only bad thing was the beds that felt like rocks. How was anyone supposed to sleep on that?
The first day that we had gotten there we hadn't done anything, more people came in and there was a total of about 8 including me. I didn't get to meet any of them though and I didn't see Raidon or Conrad again. We didn't even go to dinner, they brought our food to us. Today though they set an alarm for 8:00 and expected us to wake up, put on our jumpsuit things, and go to breakfast.
When the alarm went off I turned around and hit at the alarm clock wildly so that it would stop beeping, but it wouldn't stop! Mia came over and pulled my blankets off of me, I groaned and curled up for warmth and squinted my eyes from the burning light.
"You have to get up!" she told me sternly.
"Five more minutes." I pleaded with her like I used to do with my mom every morning before I was dragged to this place.
"Fine, but by the time I'm out of the shower I expect you to be up and getting ready." she told me, then she went into her bathroom and turned on the shower.
I pulled up the covers to my chin and then looked up at the ceiling. I couldn't get back to sleep! I sighed and then stood up and pulled out my clothes and slipped them on. I felt too tired to bother with taking a shower, so I decided that I would take one tonight. I then brushed my teeth and put my hair up in a ponytail. Then I noticed something a bit different.
"My hair's red!" I yelled, grabbing at it to get a better look. Mia ran in to see what the problem was.
"Your hair's always been-wow!" she exclaimed. Sure, my hair had always been an orangey red, but it had never been fire engine red!
"Did you dye my hair last night or something!" I asked her.
"No!" then she seemed to calm down and realize what was going on. "My hair turned a shade of blue a while after I figured out I was an elemental. This is normal."
"Normal? I look like The Little Mermaid!" I exclaimed. Then we both started laughing at the ridiculousness of everything.
Mia looked at the time on our watches that showed our schedules and what time it was then said, "We need to go!" Then we both headed out to the dining room.
The room was huge with a long dining table through the middle. There were three seats on each side and then a seat at the heads of the table. Raidon was at the head nearest to the door, his hair had changed too to a brighter yellow color, and on the other side was a boy that looked about the same age as Raidon with white hair. He didn't necessarily look like his hair had gone grey from age, but like he was born with very light hair.
I sat down on the left side of Raidon and Conrad sat on the other side of him. Conrad's hair had only changed to a darker shade of black. Then Mia sat on the other side of me with a girl that had blonde hair that was so bright it was almost blinding. On Conrad's other side was a girl with brown hair that looked about 9 or 10, and then a girl with green hair that looked about 8 years old.
The door opened once we had all sat down and everyone got quiet. It was the guard that had taken me to the car and most likely given me a concussion. "I assume that you're all wondering why you are here." he said. Yeah, no kidding. "A few years ago some scientists developed a serum that would kill all plant life." the girl with the green hair gasped at this, making me smirk a bit. "They weren't going to use it, but it was taken by some other scientist that spilled it on purpose, and it spread throughout the country. The scientists didn't expect this, but it also affected the humans making Elementals. Does everyone know what those are?" Everyone nodded and he continued.
"You are the only Elementals that are strong enough for what we need." he told us.
"What do you need us for?" the girl with the blonde hair asked.
"We need you to stop the serum from killing plants and ending all life. Here you will train to use your powers and how to fight, so you can fight the scientists that spilled it to save humanity."
"How are we supposed to fix the plant life?" the girl with green hair asked worriedly. She was way too concerned about these plants and not about us humans.
"The scientists also stole the antiserum that would reverse everything. You need to obtain it to fix it all. Each of you are the purest forms of all elements, it is the only way." He explained. Then he walked out of the dining room and we were left staring at each other in shock, then all chaos broke out.
"What just happened?" someone asked.
"This doesn't even make sense."
"I can't do that!"
"He's leaving the fate of the world on teenagers?" Someone asked loudly.
I saw the blonde girl trying to calm everyone down with no avail. "Everyone be quiet!" I yelled above all the noise. They all quieted down and looked at me, but I motioned for the blonde girl to say what she wanted to. She smiled at me and then started talking,
"If we're going to fight these scientists or whatever we should at least know each others names. I'm Astrid." Then we went around the table saying our names.
Mia said hers, then me, then Raidon and Conrad.
"Jade." said the girl with brown hair.
"Iris." the girl with green hair said.
"Gale." the white haired boy said.
"What are your powers?" Mia asked curiously. We didn't get to show them though, because eight people with aprons came in with trays each the different colors of our hair and our outfits, red, blue, green, etc.
A waitress handed me my red one and I opened it to see some sausages. "You each will have a different diet based on your powers to make them stronger and easier to control," one of the waitresses told us. "For example, water would only eat seafood." To which Mia responded with a scrunched up nose.
So, what would mine be like? I wondered. I tentatively took a bite of my sausage and it was really spicy, but I loved it. I took a big bite then and everyone else started eating their own foods. They all seemed to like it, even Mia.
"I wanna try your sausages." Raidon said, he had a sour cream breakfast casserole. I nodded my head and he grabbed one off of my plate and took a bite. His eyes widened and he swallowed it quickly, taking a big drink of water.
"What?" I asked him.
"That's hot!" he said.
"Well, I am the fire element," I told him. "You should have expected it to be hot. What's yours like?"
"Really sour, but good." he answered.
After we were finished eating, the trays were taken back by the waitresses and we all walked to our next class together, weapons training. We got there and one of the guard looking men were waiting for us in a plain black jumpsuit. He was about our age, but he looked much more menacing, and yet very handsome at the same time. He had dark brown hair that almost looked black and icy blue eyes.
"I'll be your weapons trainer until you leave. You'll each have a different weapon based on your powers since your powers can only do so much. I want each of you to walk in front of a target on the back wall. " So I walked over to a target and waited for further instructions.
The trainer walked around the room and gave everybody their weapons. Conrad had guns and Astrid, who must be light, got a bow. Raidon got a sword that was shaped like a bolt of lightning and Gale, who must have been air, got a spear. Mia got a trident and then he came to me and gave me ten throwing knives. Jade got a dagger, I was guessing that she was earth, and Iris got a whip that was made of vines woven together, I thought that she had to be plants.
"Now, all I want you to do is practice your aim. If you don't have an item you can throw, I'll help you separately." the trainer told us, so Raidon, Jade, and Iris went to the back with him while the rest of us started to work.
We were all surprisingly good at working with our weapons. At first my knives would hit around the perimeter of the inside circle, but slowly they went further towards the middle until it hit the exact middle every time.
Raidon and Jade were fighting each other with their weapons and they were both intense and pretty evenly matched. The trainer started out teaching them how to swing properly and how to block, then he let them fight and they were doing way better than I could have imagined on the first day.
The trainer was helping Iris the most though. It wasn't that she wasn't any good, but there wasn't anyone to fight with her. So the trainer fought her with a shield so that he didn't get hurt.
Eventually the trainer started walking around to see how everyone else was doing. he corrected a few peoples arm or shoulder positions, but overall he didn't really have to do anything. It was almost like we had been training with the weapons for a long time.
"Ok guys, go to your rooms and put up your weapons. Then I want you to get some water and go eat lunch." the trainer said and then we all walked out. I caught up with Raidon who had gone out first with Jade since they were closest to the door and walked beside him.
"Hey Dani. Have you met Jade yet?" he asked me.
"I don't think I have yet. Hi Jade." I said, giving her a smile. She said hi to me too and split off to talk to Astrid.
"What do you think so far?" Raidon asked me.
"I'm not sure. I feel like this is all some kind of nightmare that I'll wake up from soon." I admitted to him. Then Gale and Mia walked up to us and we split up to talk to our new friends.
"This is all so weird!" Mia said.
"I know," I admitted as we walked into our room together. "I'm not sure whether I like it or not."