CHAPTER TWO

"Cody, what are you thinking about?" Bailey asked as she leaned into her boyfriend's side, looking up into his face. Cody looked startled, as if he had been brought out of his daydream, and looked over at her. "You've been quiet since we left the house, what's on your mind?"

Cody shrugged as the two entered Liberty Park and started to walk around. Bailey sighed, looking at her feet as she tightened her hand in his, enjoying the feeling of his larger hand in hers. She had an idea what he was thinking about, there were always a lot of things to choose from; missing their friends, missing his parents, being upset that he wasn't taking classes at Yale.

When their last adventure ended, everyone started to move on with their lives, Zack got into a community college, Bailey got into Yale, and while Cody was turned down from Yale, he was alternating between taking college classes online as well as helping out Christian and Core with their studies. Bailey tried not to bring up where she was going to college around Cody, he was devastated when he found out that she was accepted and he wasn't. But they had both agreed that they didn't want to give up on their relationship so Bailey made sure that she visited him in Boston as much as possible.

But that didn't keep him from getting upset about everything that had happened. Boston was his home, but so many difficult things had happened to him there.

"I was thinking about Mom and Dad, actually." Cody said after a moment. He laughed lightly as he shook his head. "I guess Zack was thinking about it too, because they suddenly popped into my head." His smile faded. "I don't know, I guess just remembering all the times that Zack, Mom, and I would have a picnic in the park are making me a bit depressed."

"Oh," Bailey stopped walking, in effect, causing Cody to stop as well. "If you're upset, we can just go back to the house."

"No," Cody shook his head. "I'm fine, just nostalgic." He waved an arm as they started walking once more. "You know that we did a lot of training here in Liberty Park shortly after we awakened." He said, grabbing Bailey's attention once more. "I don't know how, but in hindsight it's probably because of the shift in balance of the two worlds, but our guardians made it able so that we could basically practice in broad daylight without us being seen by non-elementals."

"Really?" Bailey's eyes widened in wonder before she smiled. "They probably took all of their powers and manifested them in a way that it incorporated the 'invisible' elemental world that was foundering against our own to make it that you weren't seen."

Cody gave a proud smile, pleased that she was able to figure it out so easily.

The two of them were easily some of the smartest ones of their group of friends, and they easily got a bit tired with their friends that weren't as intellectually as advanced as they were. So it was good for them to be able to express their ideas to each other without rolling eyes or blank stares.

Bailey watched as Cody's eyes darkened once more.

He's thinking about them again. Bailey thought to herself, not sure what to do to take his mind off of it this time. He had Phantom with him ever since he was 11 years old, it must be hard for him to adjust without them around now. I guess I get how they're feeling, I miss Geneva so much.

While the others had learned from a young age that they were elementals, Bailey wasn't. She was a normal girl that had their elemental secret kept from them until she stumbled across Zack and Cody fighting against Koto and Reihu one day and things snowballed from there. While she wasn't an elemental, the Shaman of the Elemental world, and the keeper of Light in the elemental world, Geneva, inhabited Bailey's body so she could help them fight her brother, Gattaca, and bring him back home to the elemental world so they could rule it in harmony once again.

I wonder how she's doing. Bailey thought to herself, leaning into Cody's sighed as he put his arm around her shoulder. I wonder if Gattaca is doing better now. I wonder if things have changed.

"Bailey?"

Bailey looked up, her hair hitting her in her face as a gust of wind blew across the park. Cody smirked down at her, his eyes dancing with mischief.

"Now who's the one that's zoning out?" He teased, nudging her on the arm. Quick as a flash, his smile faded and he stiffened, looking around. "Did you feel that?" He asked.

"Feel what?" Bailey questioned, her anxiety rising quickly.

Cody let go of Bailey's hand and started to spin around in quick circles, his eyes darting back and forth, as if he was looking for something. Bailey watched him, her anxiety causing her to look around as well. But she knew that she wasn't going to be able to feel or see anything as it was. She wasn't an elemental, so she wasn't able to be connected into that instinct that they had to know that danger was near. But as it was, they weren't really elementals anymore either, the balance of the world was restored and their guardians went away, along with their power source.

So how was he able to feel something now?

"I just felt a warm shiver run down my spine," Cody replied, his voice cracking a little with emotion. "And I got the familiar feeling of wings across my face, which usually let me know that Phantom was around." He raised his hands to his face, looking a bit distraught, but mostly confused. "I must be losing it, I just felt-"

"Cody," Bailey took a breath. "Maybe you're not going crazy."

Cody slowly lowered his hands from his face as he looked at his girlfriend seriously. "What do you mean?" He asked.

"…You know how you said that with you guys that dreams are the most important things to you, because it helps you figure out some things that might be coming in the near future?"

He nodded.

"I…might have an idea that something is going to happen soon. Something big."

A/N: Sorry it's a short chapter, I wanted to show more of Bailey and it ended up being a shorter scene than I intended, and nothing else was that important to add onto it so… I'll update again soon.

Cheers,

-Riles