Felix felt rock and gravel underneath him as he lay motionless on the ground. He opened his eyes to see a huge pool of bubbling lava. A huge expanse of lifeless wasteland surrounded him. Holy shit! I'm on a volcano! How did I get here? All I remember is Jerome knocking me out. The ash in the air burned in Pewd's throat, causing him to cough. Surprisingly, he didn't feel hot at all even though he was right next to a pit of lava. Turning back around towards the molten rock, he noticed a small rock platform in the middle of the lava. Wait a minute, was that there before? Pewds took a cautious step towards it and a figure faded into view on the platform. It was an average sized person. It wore a black cloak with a hood that hid its face.
"Who are you?" Pewds asked. The person was silent for a couple of seconds, and then he responded with a powerful male voice that echoed across the lava.
"Trust in the Order" was all he said. He lifted his head and bright red eyes shone through the dark hood of the stranger as a fire rose behind him. The flame was shaped into a huge Imperial Dragon and it threw itself towards Felix. He screamed as the magnificent beast swallowed him, but the flame didn't burn. Pewds opened his eyes to find himself surrounded by fire. He tried to draw his breath, but the immense amount of ash in the air was suffocating him. He coughed and sputtered, his lungs hungry for pure air. Felix gasped one last time and he fell to the ground.
Pewds jolted awake in his hospital bed. He was greeted with three hooded people; they looked similar to the one in his dream. They stood silent around were he lay.
"Who are you and what do you want with me?" Pewds quivered in fear.
"Calm down Felix, we mean you no harm. We only wish to talk with you." The figure on the left hushed him. His voice was much lighter than the man in his nightmare. Pewds relaxed and sat back in his bed, waiting for the others to explain what they were doing here.
"We saw your 'display' out there earlier. We would like to be the first to say, congratulations." The figure on the right said with a female voice. Then, he remembered what had happened before he was unconscious. Oh my God! Is Mitch ok? He panicked.
"Congratulations for what? For hurting my friend?" Felix asked.
"No, for receiving your powers! You're a fire elemental!" The man on the left exclaimed.
"Where's Mitch? Is he ok?" Felix ignored the last sentence the man said.
"Don't worry, your friend is fine. What's important is that you have your power, and you got it earlier than everyone else!" The girl said. The person in the middle stepped forward finally.
"We would like to invite you to join the Order." The large man leaned towards Pewds. The Order! That's what the man said in my dream. Felix thought to himself.
"The Order is made of the smartest, strongest, and best students of WIPI. In the Order, you will learn how to master your ability and make it more powerful than any other!" The man in the middle exclaimed. This could be my chance to get ahead of everyone else! Felix thought excitingly. He is extremely competitive and he was searching for a way for him to get ahead of the others in terms of their powers.
"I'm in!" Pewds shouted and was quickly hushed by the three people around him.
"Very good choice Felix. Go to the North fields behind the gym at midnight tomorrow night for your initiation." The man in the middle instructed. All three people exited the room in silence. Who the hell were those people? Felix shrugged and tried to fall back to sleep, but he was already fully awake. He got up out of his bed and saw that he still had all his cloths on. Not surprisingly, the ends of his sleeves were slightly burnt. The click of the door opening startled him and he turned around to see Marzia in the doorway. She looked like she had been crying and she seemed scared.
"A-are you o-ok F-Felix?" Her usually smooth, adorable voice was now raspy and shaky. Pewds felt awful that he had scared Marzia, the most important person in the world to him, and he ran up to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm so sorry Marzia. I didn't know what I was doing. I'm so sorry that I scared you and that I hurt Mitch." Felix prayed that she would accept his apology. She hugged him tightly, showing that she forgave him. He chuckled, relieved that she forgave his seemingly unforgivable behavior. Felix stared down into those gorgeous, deep brown eyes and he gave her a deep kiss. They stayed like this for a couple more minutes, swaying side-to-side.
"So, you're feeling better?" Marzia pulled away from the kiss and looked into his flawless blue eyes.
"Yeah, I'm feeling much better now." Felix smiled at her.
"Do you want to talk to everyone? We're visiting Mitch a couple rooms down."
"Yeah, I have more apologizing to do." Felix nodded and they walked out of the room hand in hand. They passed three more hospital doors before Marzia stopped in front of the door that held Mitch.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" She looked at Felix and he nodded. Marzia pushed open the door and walked in first.
"Hey Marzia, where did you g-" Deadlox cut off his sentence once Pewds walked into the room. Everyone, including Saph and Jake, was standing around Mitch in his bed. Bajan was lying down under the covers, with a large red burn on his neck. Felix's heart sank as he saw Jerome on his knees on the side of Mitch's bed so that they were face-to-face. I did this…Felix thought to himself. Bajan looked over to Felix and he felt his gaze piercing into him. Will he forgive me? Pewds wondered. And then, Jerome turned towards him and his eyes lit up with rage.
"GET AWAY FROM MITCH!" Jerome flung himself towards Felix, but Mark held him back.
"Jerome, I'm so sorry! I should have never hurt Mitch in the first place. I was being a complete fucking idiot. I deserve much more than being knocked out. I hope you two will forgive me." Felix apologized. Mitch could see in his eyes that he was being sincere.
"It's ok dood…I think someone else has something to say as well." Mitch looked at fluffy. Jerome looked down on the floor.
"I'm sorry for setting you up." He muttered.
"So, we're all cool now?" Pewds smiled.
"Yeah, we're cool dood." Bajan nodded. "So how's it like having your powers?"
Everyone in the room gasped.
"He has his power?!" Ken exclaimed.
"Yeah dood, how else would I have gotten these burns?" Mitch pointed to his neck. Felix was about to tell the group about the strange dream he had and the cloaked people that appeared in his hospital room, but something stopped him. I'm trying to get ahead for a reason, no one else should know. Everyone came up to Pewds and congratulated him on becoming a fire elemental, until Ms. Wattman walked into the hospital room.
"Hello Felix, I see that you've all made up. You're still going to have detention for two weeks in Ms. Sullivan's room at 7:00 pm every day starting today. Since it appears that you've acquired your power, you will be transferred into Fire Elementals 101." Ms. Wattman explained, and then quickly scurried out of the room.
"Why's she in such a hurry?" Sky asked Saph.
"She's been working hard on something lately." She replied bluntly. The nurse burst into the room.
"Mitch should be in here for one more day to make sure the burns can heal properly, so I need you all to leave soon." The nurse said.
"Hey, I thought you had a healing gift, why can't you just heal his burns like you healed Mark?" Cry inquired.
"Since this injury has been made by an elemental, I can't heal it. I can only heal normal injuries." The nurse explained.
"That's inconvenient." Minx muttered. The nurse turned towards the door and sighed.
"I feel like you guys are going to be in here too often." The nurse rubbed her forehead and exited the room. Felix glanced over at the clock and saw that it read 6:50 pm.
"Oh shit I have to get to detention! See you guys later." Felix waved and sprinted out of the room.
"Do you guys wanna go play video games in my room?" Mark asked everyone and most of them nodded.
"I'm actually going to stay here with Mitch if you don't mind. I'll catch you guys later." Said Jerome.
"Ok, see you later!" Yami called as everyone else left the room. Jerome waved goodbye, then turned back to Mitch.
"I'm so sorry biggums. I feel awful for setting you up like that." Jerome gently hugged Bajan, being extra careful not to hurt him further.
"Yeah, it's alright dood."
"YEAH! #Merome?" Jerome chuckled.
"Hahaha! Yup, #Merome." Mitch laughed.
(The next morning)
"WAKE UP FELIX!"
Ken, who looked distressed, jostled Felix awake. He yawned and stretched before he jumped out of bed.
"What the fuck Ken?" Pewds groaned.
"We have to get to class, you slept through your alarm!"
Felix gasped and rapidly got ready for the day. Throughout this rushed activity, Ken occasionally stared at him.
"Ken you look like you've seen a ghost. Is anything wrong?" Felix asked as he quickly brushed his long blonde hair.
"You should tell me! You were muttering things in your sleep."
"Really? What was I saying?" Pewds turned around to face Ken.
"I don't know, I couldn't make it out."
"It was probably just a weird nightmare." Felix shrugged and continued to prepare for the day. But he knew that it wasn't just any nightmare. That night, he had dreamt of the cloaked stranger again. He was looking foreword to the sleep since he spent an hour finishing cleaning the supply closet. For some reason it wasn't completely clean from last time someone had detention. But this had ruined his sleep, so Pewds was grumpy.
Ken went to his Introductory S7 Education class with everyone else, while Felix rushed to the Fire Elementals 101 door. He took a nervous breath and entered the classroom. The room was almost identical to his previous class, but the desks were moved into groups of four. Most of the other students were already seated, since the class was about to start. Three students, two guys and one girl, motioned for him to join them at their table.
"Hello, Felix. Welcome to Fire Elementals 101." The girl said with a familiar female voice.
"Hey are you-" Felix was interrupted.
"Yeah, my name is Riana, and this is Alex." Riana pointed to the guy sitting across from her and he waved at Pewds. Riana had dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes. Alex had fiery red hair and brown eyes.
"I'm Sebastian." The largest man said. Sebastian was larger (as in muscles) with short black hair and gray eyes. He must have been the one that invited me to join The Order. I didn't expect to have this class with them!
"Alright students, quiet down!" Everyone turned to the front of the room where a man stood. He seemed to be in his 30s and his hair was jet-black. The man wore a red button up shirt and black pants.
"Today we have a new student, and his name is Felix. Felix, my name is Mr. Burns and I will be your Fire Elementals 101 teacher." All of the students looked at Pewds. Some of them gave him stares and some were whispering to each other. They must know about the fight. Felix assumed.
"Now, today we will be practicing on focusing energy onto one part of our bodies. We're going to go to the practice fields to do this so follow me." Mr. Burns lead the class to a large field behind the boy's dorms. There were various holes, burns, and other marks scattered around the clearing. Mr. Burns led them to a large, asphalt square.
"Everyone spread out on this practice square, it's made so that we won't start a fire when we practice." Mr. Burns explained. Felix grabbed a spot near one of the four corners.
"Ok, now everyone clear your mind. Focus all of your energy on your pointer finger. Feel all of your essence move into it." Pewds closed his eyes and cleared his mind of everything. He pointed his finger so that it was in front of his face and focused all of his energy on one point. When he opened his eyes, his finger was glowing a slight red. He looked around to see that the Riana, Alex, Sebastian, and only a couple other students had mastered this. The three from The Order looked at him, impressed. Pewds smiled to himself for his achievement and getting the recognition from them.
"Now, be careful not to focus on any part of you that is clothed for now. You might catch your cloths on fire." Mr. Burns explained. After a couple of more minutes, the class returned to the classroom. Only a couple of more students completed the activity correctly.
"Before class ends, I would like for each of you to take this." Mr. Burns handed each student a spray can as they walked in.
"What's this?" Felix asked.
"It's fireproof spray. I would suggest you apply it to all of your cloths and books while your powers aren't easy to control." Mr. Burns explained. Everyone in the class nodded and they started heading out the door. Before Felix could leave, Alex grabbed his wrist.
"Midnight tonight right?" Alex questioned Pewds.
"Yeah, in the North field." Felix nodded and walked back to his dorm.
(Back at Felix's dorm)
"Dammit Saph! You beat me again!" Ken cried out while Saph soaked in the glory of her victory. They were all playing Worms in Felix's/Ken's dorm room. Saph was really beginning to warm up to the Youtubers, they never ignored or neglected her and they were always fun to hang out with.
"I can't help it man! I'm just too awesome for you to handle!" Saph boasted. Mark laughed from the bed behind them. He loved seeing her like this. She used to be so shy and reserved but now they had trouble with getting her to shut up!
"Ok, who wants to lose next?" Saph giggled. Yami walked over and grabbed the controller from Ken.
"Your rein of terror is over Saph!" Yami yelled in an overly dramatic voice.
"Bring it!" She laughed. Just as they started another game, Felix walked into the room.
"Hey Felix, how was your new class?" Cry asked
"Fine." Pewds blankly stated and put his can of fireproof spray on his desk.
"What's that?" Sky pointed to the can.
"It's fireproof spray. I'm supposed to put it on my cloths so they won't burn accidentally." Felix explained.
"Cool, so what did you do?" Jerome sat back and asked.
"We worked on heating up different parts of our bodies to really high temperatures."
"Cool, we're playing Worms. You can play next after I kick Yami's ass!" Saph laughed.
"Yeah, right! In your dreams!" Yami exclaimed. Just a second later, Saph used an air strike against him and killed off his remaining worm.
"Yeah right! In your dreams!" Saph mocked him. They played Worms for a couple more hours. Saph had beaten everybody, Sky, Deadlox, Yami, Cry, Felix, Marzia, Minx, Jerome, and even Mark. Before they new it, it was time for Felix to go to detention.
"Hey Felix, do you wanna hang out after you get out of detention?" Marzia asked Felix, as he was about to walk out the door.
"Umm… uh… no sorry… I have lots of work to do…maybe tomorrow." Pewds stuttered as he left the room. Marzia let out a disappointing sigh.
"Ok, lets get back to kicking all of your asses at Worms." Saph laughed.
Hahaha! Good to see Saph warming up to the Youtubers. Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading the chapter! Tell me what you think! Uploads might slow down from time to time because (believe it or not) I have a life outside of writing for you guys. I also have a lot of schoolwork to worry about as well, so I hope you understand if I take a little longer to upload . See you guys later! Bye!