CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Uriel had been stuck in the shadows longer than he anticipated.

Mother Nature and Father Time had been stronger than he anticipated, particularly when their powers were united. He surmised a sneak attack on their castle while they slept, when they had been at the most vulnerable would've been effortless. He could acknowledge he underestimated himself and those that were guarding the castle; someone must've discovered him early for the Mystic Melody sounded around him.

Alerting those to take cover and others to get ready to fight.

He shot into the castle with a vicious assault on those that got in his way; listening as their screams of fury and attack were unexpectedly cut off. The lights of their eyes instantaneously extinguished; they couldn't tell Uriel was using part of his powers no one had ever seen or lived to see. He projected an invisible force field in front of him that stole their souls upon touch. The more stolen souls, the stronger he became. Each and every sole quickly and quietly replenished some of his wasted energy.

Like a battery being used and charged at the same time.

Uriel blasted through the castle until he came upon the main room he knew Mother Nature and Father Time were to be. Their children, Geneva and Gattaca, had been practicing their summoning spells, honing in on their powers of light and darkness. The perfect contradiction to round off the powerful family. The large book of spells had been floating in front of the two children came crashing to the floor when Uriel came bursting through.

Mother Nature wasted no time getting her children to safety and the massive battle between the three had brewed, zapping all three of their energy until Uriel had been tricked. It was a dirty trick too, something one of the young nursery children would've produced. A simple matter of distracting the opposition and pulling the blanket out from underneath them when the time came. And yet Uriel fell for it and was banished into a pocket portal, sent to complete darkness. What they didn't know as he had managed to steal a little bit of their souls as well, taking in portions of their power. So he lied in wait, knowing they would be patrolling around to see if he was coming back, all of his options would be blocked.

Or would it?

He knew guardians were being sent to earth to protect the Elementals…what would it mean if he found a way there? And so he did. Opening a portal had been effortless; subjecting himself to the new world took more of a toll on his body than he would've ever thought. The moment he arrived he perceived himself weakening by the second, energy was deteriorating. Then the pain started. Little pinpricks then the ever burning fires from hell, their fingers licking all over his body as he wracked with suffering.

He needed a host. He needed something that would keep him along until he regained his strength.

Then he came across him, Akito Hiroshima, and Uriel managed to plant a piece of himself in that man in a curse never to be broken.

His presence started to take notice of those guardians and Elementals that recognized his power. However, it brought attention to others as the years went on. He found himself captured on film, on camera. People trying to capture him by any means necessary. No matter. The information they received wouldn't save their souls.

He managed to dispose of them just by a wave of his hand and a blast of energy.

But each shot of energy, not being able to take the souls of other Elementals continued to make him weaker and weaker. The souls of humans didn't have enough power to revive him, nor the ones that were unawakened. He needed to find a body to host him. Getting a human to host powers was something all those that inhabited the Element World, eventually learned how to do. He had seen that Trethaway fellow enough to know he wouldn't put up a fight.

It was a deplorable fight. It only took a moment of threatening…a fireball here, a thunderbolt there…then showing off his real power, and the man was putty in Uriel's hands. Then those four teenagers had to keep getting in his way with that element stone of light. He knew the power that one stone had individually as well as combined with the others.

If they obtained possession of those stones…

So he had to take them out, one by one, when the time was right. Blast that he couldn't get to the last two; they always somehow managed to evade him. And yet, he watched, projecting himself into others while he waited.

And it all fell down from there.

A/N: So you may have been expecting this 'look into the past' chapter to be about 'the original four'…then I thought having revealed Uriel in the recent chapters, it'd be better if I showed it his past in his POV a bit.

Cheers,

-Riles