The Elements

“Is she okay? Will she be fine? Is she still breathing? OMG IS SHE STILL ALIVE????”

*smack sound*

“SHUT THE FUCK UP! Of course she is fine. She has to.”

“But what if-”

“NO IFS. SHE IS FINE!”

“Can you both shut the fuck up.” I groaned and rubbed my head.

I slowly opened my eyes. I was still in the van with my head on someone’s lap. In front of me was a worried sick Hazel and Sparky was unconscious with her head on Ash’s lap.

Hazel’s eyes twinkled and he smiled. “YOU ARE ALIVE!!!” he yelled and hugged me tightly.

I sucked a breath because my ribs were screaming in agony as the big cut was. “TO TIGH LET GO.” was all I could say.

He quickly let me go and widen his eyes. “I’m so sorry, S!! I didn’t meant to!”

“It’s fine.” I lied miserably and tried to smile. I winced when my face started to hurt too.

“No, you are not fine. Stop trying to lie to us.” the person holding me said.

I looked up and I saw Black staring back at me with a pissed face on.

I tried to get up even if my whole left side was screaming hell no and I was stopped by a hand.

“Light, just lay there until we arrive home. You can’t walk with that kind of wound. We barely managed to stop the bleeding, so just don’t.” Black said but this time with a softer face.

I nodded my head.

Wow. We really made it. We saved everyone. TEDDY!

I winced again when I tried to turn on my right side. “Where are the people we saved??” I asked looking around.

“They are fine. We left them at the entrance of the academy so they can be identify and see if the teens can be enroll in. Why?”

I looked at Sparky. “Because I think that one of them is Sparky’s brother.”

Ash looked at me. “How you know that?”

I tried to smile again and I winced. “They have the same teddy eyes and he said that his parents are dead.”

He nodded his head and started to play with Sparky’s head while thinking at something.

Hazel looked at me with a smirk and I smirked back. ‘Cute’ I mouthed to him.

He squeezed his own cheeks. ‘I know.’

The car stopped and River’s head popped through the little window. “We are home. Let’s go in and treat those wounds.”

All of us nodded and I tried to get up but someone, a.k.a Black, took me in his arms.

I glared at him. “I can walk by myself just fine.”

“No you can’t.” he simply said and ran into the living room with elementar speed.

The rest of the boys appeared here in less than a minute.

Flame rubbed his hands. “Who’s first at doctor Flamest?”

“I think Shadow should be first.” River said and pointed at me.

I looked at them confused. “What?”

“Do you remember in health when Mr. Winter said the only way to disinfect a dark wound is?” Black said and I furrowed my eyebrows.

I started to get frustrated because I couldn’t remember when it hit me.

I widen my eyes and shook my head. “No. No way in hell I’m going that.”

River’s face was now red. “WELL, DO YOU WANT TO DIE??”

I scoffed. “Maybe I do.” I said and jumped from Black’s arms.

The only way you can treat my wound is by burning with fire the poison left there by the dark. I know, it must be such a wonderful feeling.

“Hold her down.” Flame said and suddenly I was pinned down on the sofa by Black, River, Lincoln and Hazel.

My heart started to beat faster. “LET ME GO. NOW!” I started to try to break free but it was 4 on one.

Lincoln and Hazel were holding my legs and Black, while River was holding my arms and shoulders.

River squeezed my shoulder. “Sorry, sis. It’s for your own good.”

Flame cut my shirt off leaving me in my black sport bra. I looked at my wound and I could feel the color leaving my face. It is 6 or 7 inches long, it was all black instead or red and I could see my ribs through it.

“First, we should pop your nose and ribs back in their place. You know, to start with the less painful things.” Flame said with a shrug and I tried to punch him with my right hand. Too bad that Black was holding it.

Flame put one hand on my nose and one was holding my face still. “Number from 1 to 5 and at 5 I will pop it back.”

“One, two-FUCKER. YOU SAID AT 5!!!” I yelped in surprise and started to yell at him.

“Yes, but if I would do it at 5, you would already see it coming and it would have been more painful. Now the ribs. Count again.”

I scoffed. “The hell I will.”

“Okay.” he said and popped back my ribs.

I wanted to scream but my lungs were empty with no air in.

“Told you to count but you wouldn’t listen. Now, let’s start with this naughty wound.” He said and a little flame started to come from his index finger.

I started to wiggle trying to break free.

Flame tsked me. “Fine. The hard way then.”

The fucker placed himself between me and the couch’s back so his legs are keeping me still.

When the fire hit the wound a shock of agonizing pain shoot through my whole body. I started to scream and struggle harder to break free. The boys tighten their grip on me and my heart was about to pop in my chest at how fast it was beating.

“Calm down, Shadow. Try to relax and it will be a little better.” Flame said like I was at some blood donation.

I pushed my back on the sofa and got up a little. “HOW AM I SUPOSSED TO RELAX WHEN I CAN HEAR AND FELL MY FLESH SIZZLING??!!!”

My eyes started to change colors and I started to struggle more and I almost managed to break free.

“Hey! Look at me and just stop thinking about this. Think about....I don’t know. Jellies, food, Sparky or think about how you kicked 5 darks on your own while me, Ash, Lincoln and Flame struggled with 6. You rock girl.” Black said and smiled at me.

His words would boost my ego if I wasn’t in this situation. I was looking around trying to find an escaping route.

“You can’t escape so stop looking around. Just choose an object and concentrate on it. Think about its form, color, dimension, weight, etc.”

Flame was now at the middle of the wound, were I was stab twice and it was deeper than the rest of the wound. My body went numb from all that pain and I screamed louder than ever. I couldn’t hear what they were saying. I could just see how the mouths were moving.

Black’s head popped in my blurred vision but I couldn’t understand what was he saying.

Concentrate on something stupid!

Right. I concentrate on his face. I never realized before that he has freckles on his cute little nose or the little and lonely freckle above his left eyebrow. Wait. My left is his right or my left is his left. Okay, now I’m in pain and confused.

Suddenly, the pain wasn’t so unbearable and Flame get off of me.

Black smiled and patted my head. “Good job Light. You did it.”

I couldn’t help myself and I said “Woof woof.“, even if I was panting like hell and I was still shaking a little.

He rolled his eyes and all of them let me go. “Your sarcasm is still intact I see.”

“Of course it is.” I said and looked at my wound.

Now it was all red and swallowed but it looks better then before.

“Sparky is still asleep?” Flame asked and put some yellow cream on my wound.

“No.” Ash answered while I was looking at Flame with my eyebrows raised.

“This is a cream made with fairy tears, vampire saliva, calendula and it was enchanted with some weird spells to make the healing faster.” Flame explained and started to bandage the wound. “You should wake her up because I have to clean her wound too, even if it’s just on her foot.”

Ash nodded and started to shake Sparky.

“Get up. I have to wrap the bandage around your body to hold the ribs in the right place to heal correctly.” he helped me to get up and wrapped the bandage around me, securing it with adhesive bandage at the final.

He patted my shoulder. “The ribs and your nose will be fine until tomorrow but that wound will be there for at last 1 week so try not to make sudden moves.”

I couldn’t help myself again. “Please don’t make any sudden moves. You don’t know the half of the abuse.”

“Welcome to the room of people who have rooms of people that they loved one day, docked away.” I snapped my head in the direction of the voce to see Sparky smiling a little at me.

“SPARKY!!” I yelled and tried to run to her.

Key word: tried.

As soon as I was standing on my feet, they started they gave up and I started to fall. I closed my eyes and waited to hit the ground and reopen my wound maybe, but it never came.

I opened my eyes to see a smirking Black. “I knew that you would fall for me in one day, but I never thought that that day will be today.”

I could fell my face heating up because that was a good pick-up line, but I covered it with an angry face and I slapped him. “In your dreams Black! And now be a good fucker and help me to walk at Sparky.”

He was still smirking but helped me anyway. Sparky had a pedobear face on and she is damn lucky that she is injured or I would’ve slapped her too.

She opened her mouth to say something but I cut her by pulling her in a hug.

‘Shut the fuck up Sparky.’

She chuckled and I could hear the smirk on her face. ‘But I didn’t uttered a word.’

‘Yet.’ I completed her sentence.

She pulled back and looked at me up and down. “You look like crap.” was her conclusion.

I rolled my eyes at her. “You don’t look better neither.”

She has a black eye, her white clothes are now grey and the wound on her leg looks bad. Okay, I look more horrible then her but I’m not saying that out loud.

Flame cleared his throat. “Sparky, you are my next patient. Take a seat.” he patted the couch.

I squeezed her shoulder and she looked at me confused. “Good luck. You’ll need it, but I’ll be here for you.”

“What the fuck is going on?” she said while Ash put her on the couch.

“I’m doctor Flamest and I’m going to clean your wound.” stops to inspect her wound. “Well, it looks better than the wound my last sarcastic and rude patient has.”

“FUCK YOU FLAME! With a spoon!!” I yelled at him and looked at her wound.

Definitely a knife wound, and it was on her tibia. It was also black but at last it wasn’t deep and big.

“Sparky, to clean your wound he has to burn it. And we gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn.” I said trying to make her feel a little better, but by her poker face it didn’t worked.

“Hold her down, guys. Now, while she doesn’t try to run.” Flame said and Ash, River, Lincoln and Hazel pinned her down. “Now” he raised his index that was on fire “time to get it done.”

When the fire hit her leg he had the same reaction as me. She screamed like there’s no tomorrow. To keep her legs still, Flame sat on her femurs while River and Lincoln hold the tibias.

“YOU GO GIRL! FIGHT YOU BITCH!” I yelled at her but I don’t think she heard me.

God, I want so bad to go there and free her, but I know that this is for her own good.

After some screams, curses, and sweet talk from Ash, Flame finished and they let her go. I was tapping my foot like crazy and I was biting my finger in frustration the whole time and now that they stopped I sighed in relief.

“Told ya, that you go girl.” I said and winked at her.

She smiled a little while Flame bandaged her wound. He told her the same thing he told me and he started to clean Hazel’s cut that was on his right forearm.

I looked at Hazel in awe. “How the fuck it comes that you aren’t screaming and kicking around?”

He smirked. “Because I’m awesome. And because you get used to it and it depends on how deep and big the wound it. Mine is almost a scratch while yours reaches the bones.”

I nodded my head and yawned. “I’m tired so I’ll go upstairs and sleep....” I trailed off while walking in the direction of the stairs.

I looked at the numerous stairs and sighed. If I’m wincing at every step I make, I can’t imagine how it will be at the stairs. I climbed the stairs until the pain was to much and I had to stop. When I looked back, what it felt like thousands of stairs, in reality were just 5 stairs.

Maybe I can sleep here. I thought but then I realized how stupid I would look.

“Need some help?”

I shook my head and looked at Black. “No.”

Mental facepalm. Really Shadow? You don’t have time to be an independent idiot!

He smirked. “Are you sure? ’Cause the sad puppy face you have on is saying something else.”

I glared at him. “Screw you with a carrot.”

He started to laugh like the idiot he is. At last he has a cute laugh, unlikely me because I sound like a dying whale.

What I just thought?

I turned around and started to climb again, winching. I yelp in surprise when my feet weren’t touching the floor anymore.

I glared at the idiot. “I said no.”

“And your face said yes.”

I really hate that this idiot knows how to make me shut up. Not in that way you perverts!

We entered my room and he placed me in my bed. “Thanks.”

He smiled instead of smirking. “It was my pleasure to have in my arms such a piece of art.” he said and bowed.

I started to laugh and wince in the same time. “It hurts you idiot! You did it on purpose!”

“Maybe I did or maybe I didn’t. Who knows?” he shrugged and walked out of my room.

I wrapped myself in my favorite blanket and I buried my face in the pillow.

“He totally did it on purpose.” I mumbled and in the next second I was knocked out.