Ultima Appears

One morning, Aster woke up in an unidentifiable mood. The sky was partly cloudy, so he couldn't be in a bad mood, but he also couldn't be in a particularly good mood either. He didn't know what to call it, and this vexed him.

He got dressed in his usual outfit of a silver jacket, black shirt, black pants, and white shoes. His hair was silver as well, and that only accentuated his strikingly green eyes. He was looking forward to this day as he was always looking forward to his "A" days. He had his favorite teacher, who was like a father to him, Mr. Sollack today.

Since his father died after Aster found that he had an affinity with electricity, his mother distanced herself from him. He didn't have any brothers or sisters, so he could only rely on his friends and teachers for support. He got the most support from Aqua, his best friend, and Mr. Sollack, his English teacher. His mother made sure to take care of Aster, however, for fear of the law, and she didn't want anyone to have to suffer for what had befallen her husband.

Aster knew that his father died because of him. As he walked to school, he always thought of his father, because his father walked with him everyday to school when he was younger, that is until that day.

-Flashback-

"Aster, are you okay?" his father asked.

Aster was in a particularly bad mood on the way home from school. Some of the bullies at school made fun of him because his father took him home everyday. Aster's eyes weren't their usual shiny green that they had always been; they were now dark and stormy, as was his mood. The sky began to match his mood, and before long, a severe lightning storm whipped up.

Aster's father knew that Aster was somehow causing this, because his eyes were now inverted (pupil white, cornea green) and electricity was flowing from his fingertips.

"Aster! Calm down!" he shouted, but that only exacerbated the situation, and Aster only became more fierce in his attack.

The majority of the lightning bolts were falling around the school, utterly destroying it, but there were a few that fell near Aster. His father grabbed him by the wrist, but that proved to be the biggest mistake that he will ever make, because once he grabbed his wrist, he was electrocuted by thousands of volts of electricity.

Aster finally came to once he noticed that power was draining from his body. He saw what he didn't ever want to see. He saw his father's body hanging limp from his wrist, his eyes glossed over and unseeing, and his skin charred from the electricity. Finally, the rain began to fall, and with it, Aster's own tears as he realized that he killed his own father.

-End Flashback-

Aster found that his vision was slightly blurred as he walked, "Heh, guess I'm still not over it, even if it happened nearly ten years ago…" he trailed off as the clouds in the sky got slightly darker.

As soon as he walked into Dante High School, he immediately started looking for Aqua, his best friend, and significant other. He found her with a few of their friends, some of which Aster found particularly annoying.

"Hey Aqua." Aster greeted.

"Oh, hello, Aster!" she had a big grin on her face, "I was hoping I would find you."

"What's going on?" He said, confusion and nervousness all over his face.

Aqua took in a big breath and said, "I finally got asked out!"

This piece of news struck Aster hard. He always liked Aqua, and in the few recent years he began to like her to an even higher extent, but never had he noticed that she had her eyes on someone else. He forced a convincing smile and said, "Congratulations." Unknown to both of them, the clouds in the sky were multiplying and they were steadily getting darker.

She began to explain what he was like and who he was to Aster, but he didn't hear a word of it. All he heard was those five words echoing in his head, making his mood all the worse. "I'm sorry Aqua, but I've gotta run." He couldn't hide the crack in his voice, and he took off without giving Aqua a chance to say what she wanted.

"Wait, Aster!" She looked down, "I wanted to tell you that I turned him down because I like you…" she trailed off and walked off to her first class in a very somber mood.

Aster walked into his English class, still wiping away the tears of rejection, he looked up to see a concerned face on the usually cheerful Mr. Sollack, "Sorry I'm late, got tied up in the bathroom." He heard snickering from the rest of the class, but he didn't care, all he wanted was to be with Aqua, and now he couldn't.

Mr. Sollack nodded and gave Aster a "We'll talk later" look, to which Aster also nodded. He took his seat, and class started as the bell rang.

First period just flew by for Aster because he couldn't focus on anything. When he came to Mr. Sollack before second period he asked, "What's wrong, Aster?"

"Aqua." He said simply.

"Ah, so that's it." Mr. Sollack said, "well—" he was cut off by a scream in the hallway. His eyes flashed and said, "Aster, wait here, we'll talk later, about a great many things." He got up and left Aster utterly befuddled.

Much to the contrary of his own conscious mind, Aster's subconscious forced him to look through the door, and there he saw a lithe woman with hair that looked as if it were charged with static electricity, and he also saw Mr. Sollack standing directly across from her, but his back was turned, so he didn't see Aster.

"What do you want here?!" Mr. Sollack called out.

The woman looked at him with a malicious smirk and said, "What do you care? You can't do anything about it, and even if you could," she charged a sword made of pure lightning, "you have no weapon."

"Ha, you are a fool." Mr. Sollack said in a bored tone, "You really have no idea who I am, do you?"

She glared at him, "You are just a simple school teacher with no power as I have, and now since you have insulted me, you will have to die." She lunged at him, but her sword stopped short with a flick of Mr. Sollack's hand.

"Again, I say that you are a fool, for you can't recognize me through this simple disguise." His brilliant blue eyes became inverted, and his voice was deafening, "My name is Ultima! In my veins flows the blood of Apollo! Remove thyself from my sight, or thou shalt be punished!" In the flash of a blinding light, Mr. Sollack, turned into his true form, the Light Elemental and leader of the Elementals, Ultima.

He had flowing, shoulder length, blonde hair, put up in a ponytail. Brilliant blue eyes that were still inverted were flashing and a pair of phoenix wings glowed on his back. His outfit was a white and blue sorcerer's outfit that flowed in the wind. In another flash of light, an ivory staff with a topaz gem on top appeared in his right hand, and a golden bow around his back, along with a quiver alongside the bow.

The confident woman, who was just threatening Ultima, was now looking terrified at who she just angered, "U-Ul-Ultima!! Rogue didn't say you were here!"

"Yes, well, Rogue doesn't follow me as I do her." He eyes looked as if they were piercing into her very soul, "She is a danger to this world, and I will not allow her to do any harm to a soul here." His wings flapped once and he began to hover above ground, "I will show you mercy but once. Leave!!" She complied quickly and in a flash of lightning, she was gone.

Ultima slowly turned and floated to the ground, "Aster, I know you saw everything, your subconscious couldn't help it; it was attracted to Thor's descendant."

Aster shyly walked out of the room into the empty hallway, as the school was quickly deserted with the woman's appearance, and walked up to Ultima.

Ultima's eyes returned to normal, and gave Aster a fatherly gaze, which warmed him and gave him confidence to ask what he wanted to ask, "What are you? I know who you are, but what are you?"

Ultima lightly chuckled at this, "I, am what you are, an Elemental."

Alright! I've finally introduced myself, disguised at first, of course, but now I'm in. Right now, I'm taking applications for people who want their characters to become Elementals. Send me a bio of them and what element you what them to wield. I'll keep an up-to-date listing of people who have taken the different elements. First I want to say that this isn't my idea to take applications, it came originally from Luna345, so I'll say thank you to her for giving me this idea, and for being the first to enter an application.

Tell me what you think! I really wanna know! I only got a few reviews last chapter so please REVIEW!!!

-Ultima