Mia
After our weapons training we had to go to lunch. I was a bit excited, I never used to like seafood, but now, it's all I want to eat!
I went with Dani to our room to put up our weapons.
"So, you like the first day so far?" She asked me, opening her compartment for her throwing knives.
"Sure, it's going to be hard work. How long do you think we have to be here?" I asked with my hands on the handle, will it be so long that I won't get to see my mother again?
"I don't know honestly. Maybe it won't be too long, maybe it will," She said turning to me. I turned to her with my trident still in my hand. "I hope we don't have to stay long."
"Me either," I paused. "Hey, he did say to get some water." I grinned. She smiled at me.
"Yeah, I'm mighty thirsty!" She agreed. I put my trident up and turned on my faucet in the bathroom. I waited till the circular sink was almost full, then I turned the sink off.
I raised my hand up slowly, a jiggly oval shape came up and I took it over to Dani.
"Put your lips to it, and sip." I instructed her. She did and the oval slowly got smaller and smaller until it was all gone. Then I did the same. It felt different, because it wasn't sliding in your mouth, it felt like you're drinking up a bubble.
"What do you think they will give you for lunch?" She questioned me. Obviously I was going to get seafood, but what kind?
"I have no idea." I said draining the rest of the water from the sink.
"Me either, I'm thinking maybe hot wings." she told me, waiting for me to dry my hands.
"Is that what you're craving?" I wondered, because I was craving salmon.
"Yep!" She laughed as we walked out together to lunch.
We all sat down on the same seats we had that morning when the man told us our responsibility. How could he entrust teenagers to fix mankind's problems? It's almost like we are superheroes or something. Where are the scientists anyway, and how much time do we have before what's left of the world is gone?
When the waitress brought my food on a blue platter, my mouth was basically drowning in drool. I had lobster, Dani had sik sik wat, a spicy food with chili peppers, paprika, and chicken, and Astrid had watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew.
I barely had enough time to finish my food, I did have to crack it myself. All of our watches started to beep at once and we had to go to our next class, power practice.
We went to the training room, for the first time I really noticed how big it was. It had a rope bridge above us, and lots of rope swings. There was work out equipment and spring boards for gymnastics a plenty. The room was so tall that I couldn't see the ceiling, but I saw a ladder leading up there, so I knew we were going to be doing something in the air. The last thing I saw was eight chairs, the simulation chairs, I thought we were going to stop getting those, the simulation chair is the seat they put you in when giving you the serum to make you forget that it's not real.
Then I remembered that in this period we were supposed to see what our limits and exceedings are with our powers.
There were different sections for each element... And I had a pool with a waterfall leading into it. I practically ran to my section. I put one toe in the water at first, I have always been scared of drowning, but I guess I have to face my fear right? Then I tried to put one foot in the water, It felt like glass, the water was acting like a flat surface. Then I put my other foot on the water. I was standing on water, without falling in! Maybe this wouldn't last, I tried doing a cartwheel, to see if this would stay through. It did!
I decided to play around with this, how about if I did a front layout? It worked. I was definitely controlling this. So I did a back tuck and fell into the water all at once.
I swam around underneath the water, getting used to the feel. I started to make bubbles float out and combine to make a heart. Then I let go and made it splash back into the pool. I giggled, then I realized that I couldn't laugh underwater, in surprise I covered my mouth. Did I just breathe under water? I stopped covering my mouth and let out a little gasp. I really could!
I got out of the pool and did a back tuck into the pool from excitement. Then I made different shapes again. First I tried a basic square, then a oval, then a circle. Next I tried more complex shapes like an octagon. Finally I started making weapons. I made a sword, then a bow. Finally, a trident. It was a bit hard to make the point exact, but I did. Once I had, I grabbed it, it felt like jello the way it wobbled against my hand, then I threw it against the wall and it had burst into a watery mist.
I was so proud of myself, I was actually finding out about my power! I started spinning and spinning in the water making waves form around me, lifting me upwards, higher and higher in the air. Then I stopped and the water spread out on all sides of me in tiny little drops, like rain really. I paused and saw a boy looking at me, with yellowish hair. I didn't realize anyone was watching me, but I guess I should do the same. I will need to find out what the skills of my other peers are.
Eventually my body got tired of water tricks though. I haven't eaten a lot of my food so I didn't have much energy. So I decided to check out the environment of the other Elementals.
First I went to Dani's, hers was a room that looked like the same material as a fireman's suit. Probably so she wouldn't catch fire to the school.
Dani saw me and smiled. Then she spread her hands out in a clenched position, then unclenched. Fire balls exploded out in a circle motion leaving a black mark on the floor, I didn't worry too much because it looked like she knew what she was doing, before I knew it the fireballs reversed backward, forming Dani again. She had just exploded herself and reformed!
I smiled back and went to my peer's next section. It was the little girl called Iris. She had an area full of different kinds of plants on a table. She currently had her back to me, so she didn't see me watch her speed up the growth of a lilac. It started to grow, just like it would normally, only faster.
Before she turned around I went to the next section, Astrid's. There were lights and windows everywhere, but I didn't see Astrid. I almost went on to the next section until Astrid suddenly appeared out of thin air! She grinned widely and then continued on with the same trick.
I had to walk across the room to get to the other side. The next person's section was a white haired boy named Gale. He had a thin, cloth like material hanging in the air above him, he looked up at them and pressed his hands in a stopping motion. The cloths moved out of the way, like an invisible force was moving them. Then he caught me staring and smirked, I grinned and then went on to the next section.
The boy, Raidon that was watching me earlier, had two poles on either side of him and started to zap them with his finger from electricity by pointing. The bolt of electricity seemed to be a bluish color, but I couldn't really tell if they were, I did, after all, only see them for a few seconds. I quickly walked away and went on to the next person.
It was Jade, she only had grass and dirt in hers, but I had no doubt that she was powerful. She proved me right to that. When I looked at her she was moving big clumps of the ground, probably three times her size, in a big dirt mound.
The next person was the boy with black hair named Conrad. He was a Dark Elemental, so he only had a few dim lights in his, but I didn't see him anywhere. Then he popped up in the far corner. He was traveling through the shadows, or over them, or however you can transport yourself with shadows!
The class was almost over by the time I had gotten over to my section. So I dipped my legs in the water and rested. All the students at the school were wearing the same uniform, but in different colors. I'm guessing that each of the outfits were adjusted to each person's powers. Dani's was fireproof, mine was waterproof, and Raidon's was made so that it didn't burn off when using his lightning powers.
It was all so crazy how much my life has changed over the past two days. I was just a normal cheerleader, at a normal school, eating normal things. Maybe, this place will be my new normal. Maybe, I could learn to make this place my new normal.
My thoughts were interrupted by my watch ringing. We had to do our next training exercise, Combat.
All of our training was in the the same room, so we didn't have to go anywhere, but we did have to gather up in the middle of the room where our training instructor was to give us further commands.
"Okay, you each will each have to fight against a partner, preferably your opposite so that you can be ready for anything," I had a few opposites, so which or do I choose? "I will be assigning your partner. Water, your partner is Fire." he commanded, assigning everyone their partners very, very slowly. I have a name, and it is not water!
We each paired up with each other. I was next to Dani, Astrid was next to Conrad, Jade was next to Iris, Raidon and Gale were next to each other.
"So, are we just supposed to take each other down?" Dani asked me.
"He hasn't explained the rules yet, but that's probably the basics." I told her.
"True." She agreed. Then the man started talking again.
"From here on you will know me as Instructor Cole-"
"How come you haven't told us your name before this?"
"I find that if you know my name before you know that I am in charge of you, it takes away that, ruling over you," He smiled. That gave me the shivers, he seemed really mean, but I guess we'll get used to it. " So, as I was saying, my name is Instructor Cole. Here are the rules, you can only use your skills and bare hands." He told us.
I regretted this, I hate fighting. I don't want to fight my friend!
We were taken to a big arena, it had all the elements in, basically like a giant nature sanctuary. We were standing on grass with trees and other plants scattered around, there was a stream of flowing water, I hadn't worked with flowing water before from a stream, the flow was always made manually, then there was a small volcano for Dani, I haven't seen her manipulate lava yet, so I will be in for a surprise.
The others were facing each other with their hands out in front of them. Why should we be doing this? Wouldn't it just make us hate each other if we know that the other can beat us?
"Do we really have to do this?" I asked Dani.
"I guess, but, if we really do, then let's give them a show." She grinned. I grinned back, then a countdown started at five and went down at one.
I immediately put up a wall of water shielding me from the lava that I knew was going to go right after me. I started to spin, making the water get tighter and tighter around me until I could reach out of my little cocoon. The water got thinner and thinner, only making me get taller and taller until I was way up in the air. The lava was moving towards the bottom of my little whirlpool I was in, that would cut off my water source, but we knew what we were doing.
The lava was nearly to me so I let the water fall down in a wave, carrying me on it. The lava was starting to create steam, the steam rose higher and higher, but the cool temperature of my water and the hot temperature of her lava created a small tornado that either of us could control. Our elements would have to work together in order for this tornado to be defeated.
Our other team players immediately took notice of what we were doing, they all stopped fighting and started to gather their elements around. Dani smiled at me and I smiled back at her.
Gale was trying to keep it under control at least in one place, he hadn't yet figured out how to stop something like this from happening.
I kept all of the water away from the tornado, while Dani was trying to get the lava back in the volcano in hopes of the tornado stopping, but we were both losing control fast.
The tornado was getting to be too much and I couldn't help but lose control. The water got sucked right up, I didn't have enough ground to keep my balance and I got picked up by the wind. My water sprayed everywhere as it repelled against the wind. Everyone got knocked down, especially me. I was focusing with all my might to keep the water from washing all my friends away.
I was pushing the water into a ditch that Jade must have made, but I could feel my consciousness fading away. When I had gathered up all the water and it was running onto the hole, everything went black.