Ok, so thanks again to Lulu Bee for reviewing, and thanks to Lulu Bee, Ellie and anyone else who's read this for actually bothering to read it. Here's another two chapters for all you lovely people. Enjoy!

Chapter 7-

The next day was Saturday, so we had no lessons. After some foul porridge (believe me, the song 'Food, Glorious Food' has been sung many a time) we headed to our favourite spot, the roof, for what would probably be the last time that year. Once winter set in, we'd have to make do with the centrally heated, Wi-Fi accessible library. It's nowhere near as fun as the roof.

The best thing about having a top floor bedroom is that it's easy to get onto the roof. Nobody knows about the hidden stairs to get up there and on Saturday's nobody cares what you do. Sadly we can't get on the roof from about November to March because we'd probably get blown off or we'd freeze to death.

Anyway, up on the roof we began to talk about the bizarre events of the previous night.

"Do you think it was just a dream?"

"Well, how could we all have had the same dream?"

"I'd like to think it's real..."

"Yes Blair, but you read WAY too many fantasy novels."

"Well, I'm not jumping off this roof to test that theory."

"Wait guys. I agree with Blair. I think it was real. Grace look at your jumper." (Yes, we still have to wear the horrendous school uniforms on weekends)

We all turned to look at Grace. It took a few minutes but eventually we spotted what Hope was on about. The sleeves of Grace's school jumper were singed black, as if she'd been holding them too close to a fire. Her face told me that she noticed it too.

"Stand back people," she said. "I'm going to try something."

We inched back as far as we could in the small space on the roof. Grace clicked her fingers and just like last night, a fireball ignited in her palm without burning her.

"I'm pretty sure we weren't dreaming" she said.

"Um ok," I said with a grin. "Someone else try something."

"I'll go last," Abby volunteered. "I'm not jumping off this roof so I can die and discover that it's only Grace who has cool powers."

Ed screwed up her face in concentration. Soon she began to glow again. She opened her eyes and grinned. "Well I think we can safely say that Grace is not the only one with cool powers."

I tried to concentrate on making something happen with the water power that I was supposed to have. It began to rain. Hard. I couldn't tell whether I'd done that, or if it was the English weather. I knew we'd have to head inside if it kept raining, so I willed it to stop. As soon as I thought this the rain stopped and there was a blue sky and sunshine. Thanks to the wonderful English weather we hadn't seen the sun in months, yet here it was on an early(ish) October morning. We were all dripping wet at this point, but I said "at least it's stopped raining. I think I did that..."

Everyone was staring at me. "What? I suppose it might have just decided to stop pouring rain down, but I thought that maybe I... Crap. I look like a drowned rat, don't I?"

Annie put a hand on my shoulder. "No dear. WE all look like drowned rats. You do not."

Sure enough, I looked down and my school uniform was bone dry and a lot cleaner than before. I felt really bad for the others who were beginning to shiver. It was then that a bright idea hit me. I held out my hands and imagined the water that was on my friends in my hands. Just like that, they were dry too and I was left holding a ball of water, something that should have been a physical impossibility. I saw Chloe walking past at this point and decided to drop it on her head. I did so and the 6 of us sprinted across the rooftops, laughing like the complete lunatics we are, and hid behind a chimney.

Chapter 8-

5 minutes later and Ed, breathless with laughter, said, "Well, 3 down; 3 to go."

"I am flat out refusing to jump off this roof, guys. Sorry"

"I don't think creating an earthquake on the roof is a very intelligent thing to do."

"Yeah. I don't think the whole black lightning thing is a good idea up here either..."

I tried to think of how to test Annie, Abby and Hope's powers without killing ourselves or anybody else who happened to be walking below. I had some ideas, but whether they'd work, I had no clue. "Hope, if you're like Ed's opposite, could you maybe summon darkness in the same way she does with light?"

She shrugged and pulled a face similar to the one that Ed was pulling before. Those two are so alike in every way that we have often questioned whether or not they are actually twins. They are into all the same things except Ed has short hair and Hope doesn't wear glasses. Sorry, I get so easily distracted it's a wonder that I ever finish anything...

Anyway, while Hope was concentrating (and we were trying not to laugh) the sun went in and ominous black clouds filled the sky. A black haze began to crackle around Hope. The sky was growing darker and darker and I was beginning to feel a little twitchy and nervous. It was as if Hope had sensed this because she opened her eyes and looked really shocked and a little scared. She spun round panic-stricken before clicking her fingers and the day returned to the dreary affair it had been before we started messing with it.

"Wow!" said Ed. "That was pretty cool. I thought I was your polar opposite. I'm pretty sure I can't do anything like that."

"Well, have you tried anything else? I mean besides glowing in the dark. Maybe you can make White lightning..." Annie was waffling on excitedly.

"Omg. That would be so amazing. But just for the record, I did make the sun shine, before Hope ruined it with her stinking, if insanely awesome, darkness power."

"I'm really sorry, but I didn't ask for this to happen. We can't all be so positive and make sunshine and rainbows. Powers of darkness come on. It makes me sound evil and it's scary. I had no idea what was going to happen back there. I honestly thought I was going to hurt someone. I had no control and I'm pretty sure the lightning wasn't too far away..."

"No need to snap at me. Get a grip," said Ed." you're being ridiculous. You think you're the only person who's having issues with this? You're wrong. Were all making this up as we go along."

Hopes face turned murderous. I thought she was about to punch Ed.

"Well me and Annie haven't even tried our powers yet," cried Abby. "We don't even know if we have the damn powers you're getting so upset about. Can we please stay on task and work out our insecurities later. Someone's going to realise were missing sooner or later, so we'd better get this done."

Hope and Ed backed off then, but continued to give each other the evils. I just assumed they'd make it up later. They normally do.

"Ok, ok," I began puzzling again. "Earth is a pretty vague term to use. We know you can do stuff with rocks and the ground, but were not on the ground. Hmm... Oh! What about plants?"

"Plants?"

"Yeah. That's what I thought of when I heard the phrase 'earth power'. Plants come from the earth, so maybe you have something there."

"Well, I suppose it's worth a go." Annie closed her eyes and took a deep breath. As we watched, a blanket of grass spread from her feet to cover the whole roof.

Ed lay down on the grass. Let's just say that we were glad she had shorts on under her skirt. "Well this makes the roof a much better place to relax." she closed her eyes and clicked her fingers. The sun burst from behind the clouds and we all smiled. Even Hope.

Abby coughed loudly. "Still not jumping off the roof. Ideas?"

I couldn't be bothered to think of this one too. I'd thought of everybody else and I'd decided that it was somebody else's turn. Plus, I actually couldn't think of a way to try powers if air.

Eventually Grace spoke. "Wind," she said with a smile.

"Please tell me you mean what I hope you mean," called Ed who was still sunbathing on the new grass.

"If you mean wind as in the kind that could blow us off this roof, then yes, you would be right."

"Well, here goes nothing," sighed Abby. She held out her arms and took a deep breath. Suddenly the most powerful wind imaginable Rose up. I instinctively held my skirt down and I was very glad I did. We had to cling onto the nearest chimney to avoid the painful death that comes from falling 5 storeys.

"Whoa. Sorry guys," shouted Abby over the roar if the wind. She let her arms drop to her sides and there was calm again. Abby looked totally unruffled, whereas I was pretty sure my hair looked like a total birds-nest.

"Well, at least we now know that Mr Jameson was telling the truth," grinned Ed who had got up from her sunbathing to avoid getting blown away. "We have unspeakably cool powers and now we supposedly have to save the world to fulfil our roles as guardians. Any ideas what were meant to save the world from?"

We all shook our heads. We'd have to find out when the time came. We heard the bell go for lunch. If we didn't hurry we'd miss the chocolate cake, and that day they were serving the nice stuff which didn't taste suspiciously like bread.

Abby turned to look at the rest of us. She had that expression on her face which meant she was about to do something extremely dim. She said, "You know, now that I know I have powers over air, I have the strange urge to jump off this roof and fly to the lunch hall. Before they start serving bread-cake."

Before we could say anything to stop her, Abby had taken a running jump. There was a small part of me that was waiting for the impending splat that should have followed something like that. However when it didn't come, we ran to the edge, only to see Abby floating about 6 feet down. It was a few moments before she spotted us, but when she did she stuck out her tongue and shouted, "So long suckers!" she dropped the ground and landed on her feet before sprinting off to lunch.

Even though we knew we would never catch up with her, we legged it to the stairs. We were in for a fun time, but we never guessed that something sinister was brewing behind Ed's conjured sunshine.

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