The Elements

“AUCH! Can you be more gentle?? It really hurts!” I said and glared at River as he was cleaning my broken nose.

“I’m sorry but I’m so damn angry at you now! What the mushroom was in your head when you accepted a fight with Black?? He is like 2 times bigger and stronger than you. Oh, and let’s not talk about how much experience he has in fights comparing to you!” he said angry but stopped putting so much pressure on my nose.

I scoffed. “He was the one that came with the idea and I have never in my entire life backed down from a fight. Never have and never will. That’s for pussies and cowards. And at least he will have a smokey eye and red rosy lips for 2 or 3 days.”

Now was his turn to scoff. “You are unbelievable. You are as idiot as Flame. He does the same stupid things as you do, even if it means you can die or just be hurt very bad.”

“What can I say? He is my brother after all.” I said with a chuckle but I winced because my face hurts.

He observes my little wince because he went to the refrigerator and pulls out a pack of peas. “Put this on your face. I don’t want to see your face purple because I prefer blue. And take some pain killers. It will help and keep calm. Your face will be purple just today. Thanks to our fast healing genes.”

“Thank you and thank you fast healing genes, but now I’ll go to my room because I feel like blacking out.” I said and I dragged myself upstairs.

God, everything hurts. Today after Flying, where I make it out alive to my surprise, I had team work with the whole squad. It was pretty boring because all we did was to exercise some flying formations like the classic V formation and Finger-Four. The only entertaining thing was how Flame was so close to punching Ash because Ash wanted to be the head of the V formation but to his bad luck that was Flame’s place. After some shouting ,cursing and almost some punches, River put them in their place by telling them that he will be the head of the formation.

Today at fighting, Mr. Punch let us do some 1 vs 1 combat to see ‘how good the new jewels of the academy are’. His words, not mine. I wanted to just relax and do some laps but Black thought it would be better to piss me off until I accepted to fight with him. Ten minutes later I had a broken nose, a busted lip and my back hurts like a bitch because that motherfucker slammed my in a damn wall. He had a black eye, busted lip and 2 or 3 broken ribs. When things were getting a lot more serious, Mr. Punch separated us and sent us home earlier after he called River. Very bad move. For me at least because he kept screaming and shouting at me ‘what a stupid thing I did’ while torturing my nose.

In my way to my room, lost in my thoughts, I bumped into someone and we both hissed in pain. I looked up to see Black.

“Watch were the hell are you going! It already hurts to even breath so try to not bump into me at least today.” I was being damn serious. It really hurts me to breath.

He tried to smirk but his bruised face won’t let him so he looked like some creepy weirdo from horror movies. “What can I say? Throwing my opponent into the walls is my speciality.”

Speciality my ass.

I rolled my eyes at him. “And I’m a master at giving my enemies smokey eyes and replacing their ribs. What can I say?” I mocked him.

“Whatever. Just go and sleep. Tomorrow you will be as new and as fresh as a daisy.”

“Yeah, I’m sure.” I said sarcastically and I slowly started to walk away.

“Hey Light! You still didn’t told me your name. I just know that is something with a S.” he yelled after me.

“Sorry. A bet is a bet. No one won, so the bet is down. Night Black eye.” I said and chuckled regretting it right after my whole back started to ache in pain.

Before we started to fight we made a bet. If I win, he had to tell me what is he doing here and if he is a dark. If he wins I had to tell him my name, but since we both lose, the bet was broken.

He tried to smirk and failed. Again. “You are a very mean minion. Night Light head.”

I gasped and flip him the bird. “I don’t have a light head!”

He started to laugh and wince in the same time and it was so damn fun to watch. “Just go to sleep or you’ll have one because of the pain.”

I mumbled some profanities and walked into my room. Now I have a problem. I’m very sweaty and I stink, but I’m also tired and everything hurts. Shower or bed? Bed or shower? Bed it is. In no way in hell I’ll manage to go and take a decent shower in my actual condition. I let myself fall on my bed back first and I putted the peas back on my face. I was out cold in less than 1 minute.

I looked around to see where am I. I was in a garden where 2 kids where playing. It was a girl and a boy. The girl looked no older than 8 years with ash blonde hair and blue-green eyes and the boy looked like he was maybe 10 with dirty blond hair and blue-green eyes. Both of them looked somehow familiar. They were trying to build a castle from mud and to my surprise they were succeeding. Suddenly, a loud sound like a growl was heard from the forest behind the kids and a woman came out running from the house. She has black raven hair and green eyes. Why she looks familiar?

“Come on kids. We have to inside. Bad guys are here again.” she said and started to drag the kids in the house.

The girl was scared and the boy was angry.

“But mom! I want to help you and dad to scare them away! I’m a big enough to help you now!” the boy yelled and yanked his hand away.

The woman sighed exasperated. “I know honey, it’s too dangerous and you need to protect your sister. I give you this personal mission. Can you complete this mission for mommy?”

The boy puffed out his chest. “Of course I can.”

“Mama. They are coming!!” the little girl screamed clenching her mother’s hand and pointing at the woods.

There were 9 darks that looked like they went to hell and back. They had bloody clothes, crazy black eyes, long claws, scars all over their body and blood dripping out of their mouth and they looked rabid.

The woman looked at the boy again. “Take your sister now and go in the basement. The rest of your brothers should be already there. I’ll stay here and I’ll scare them away so you don’t have to be scared, okay?”

The boy nodded short and took his sister hand. “Take care mom.”

“Like always. Now g-” the woman wanted to say something but a dark send her flying in a tree letting the kids alone.

“Which one I should kill first? I heard that the most little ones are the most louder ones. Let’s test this theory.” the dark said and looked at the girl.

She started to scream when the dark opened his mouth to reveal some big and sharp teeth.

“Time to have fun.” the dark said and lunged at the girl.

“NOOOOO.”

“No!” I yelled and I suddenly woke up in my room.

I was in my bed wrapped in my blanket and full of sweat. Everything was dark and when I looked at my phone I saw that it is 3 AM.

What the hell happened? It was just a nightmare? But why it looked so real? What happened next? Is the girl okay? What the fuck!

My mind was full of questions. I was shaking and soaked in my own sweat. I decided to take a shower ’cause I can’t fall asleep after that. I walked into the bathroom and to my surprise, my back wasn’t hurting anymore.

The perks of being an elementar.

I stayed in the shower until my fingers became pruned. I stepped out of the shower and wrapped myself in a big towel. I went in the closet and pulled out a pair of black shorts and a red t-shirt. I put my hair in a messy bun. I looked at my phone again and now it was 5 AM. I stayed 2 freaking hours in the shower?? Well, since I’m already awake and in 1 and a half hour the idiots will wake up, I should cook the breakfast today.

I tip toed downstairs, trying to not wake up someone. I let out a sigh of relief when I arrived in the kitchen. I turned on the light and I started to pull out the ingredients I need and the utensils. I want to make bacon, fried eggs, waffles and some pancakes. I never did pancakes in my entire life but I saw River making them it doesn’t look to hard.

After 1 hour

You know what? Let’s forget about the pancakes. I already burned 5 pancakes and I am so close to throwing the bowl with the composition into the wall.

I sighed and threw away the burned pancake. “At least I made the eggs, bacon and waffles so I’m not that bad.”

Someone burst into the kitchen yelling “WHY IT SMELLS LIKE BURN HERE??” and looking frenetically around.

I turned around to see River. “Good morning you too.”

His eyes focused on me and he furrowed his eyebrows together. “Shadow? What are doing up so early? And what are you doing next to the oven? Are you trying to kill us???”

I rolled my eyes at his attempt of a joke. “That was so fun that a part of me died from laughter. NO you idiot! I cooked breakfast and tried to make some pancakes.”

“Now I get it. The key word is tried right?”

I scratched the back of my neck. “Yeah....”

“Okay Shadow. I really appreciate what you did, but what do you say if you’ll let the cooking on me?” he said with a chuckle.

“That’s a very good idea.” I said fast and took a seat.

“Good. Now let’s see how many pancakes I can do from the remained composition.” River said and started to make the pancakes.

I put my head on the table and yawned. I’m still tired but I can’t sleep right now so I decided to distract myself by looking at River flipping the pancakes into the air. Wow, he really is good. I meant at cooking you little perverts! He is my brother! But he still looks good, what can I say. I studied him for a moment. He has dirty blond hair and blue-green eyes. He is very tall, I think 6′2 maybe? And very muscular. If I wouldn’t know River and I would see him on the street, I would be afraid of him. Just look at him! He can kill me just by sitting on me. But in reality he is a big softy unlikely Flame. He looks bad and it is bad. He looks exactly like River. The only way you can difference those two is by their comportment and their dimples. Flame has one on his left cheek and River on his right cheek. The only resemblance between me and the twins are the eyes. As for the rest, we are completely different.

“What are you thinking abouy lil’ sis?” River asked pulling me out of my thoughts.

I smiled at him. “I was thinking about how different I’m from you and Flame. The only thing we have in common is the eyes and the sarcasm.” I said and he started to laugh.

“Yeah. I think the sarcasm is a feature in this family.”

“What feature?” Flame asked when he entered the kitchen followed by Lincoln and Hazel.

“The sarcasm.” I answered him and he started to laugh too.

“S? You are already up? That’s so bad. I wanted to wake you up with Mr. Trumpet.” Hazel said evilly.

“Screw you with a spoon. Morning Lincoln.” I said and turned to Lincoln.

He just looked at me and nodded his head.

“Morning. I’m hungry.” Sparky said when she walked in. No, let me reformulate. When she was dragged in by Ash.

He puts her on her usual spot. “I told you that I’ll make you get out of your bed.”

“Whatever. I’m hungry.” she said and flipped him off.

“Hello hungry! I’m papa River! Eat.” River said and placed a plate full of food in front of her.

From that moment she stayed silent. No word came out of her mouth.

“Morning.” a very sleepy Black mumbled when he walked in.

“Where’s Sky?” I asked when I saw that he was missing.

“Still asleep. He wasn’t feeling very well yesterday. He had his ass kicked in Fighting.” Lincoln explained.

“Oh.” was all I could say.

“Everyone take a seat! Breakfast is served! Oh, and Shadow cooked everything except the pancakes.” River said and placed a plate in front of everyone.

“No I didn’t poisoned the food. And I really am not hungry.” I said and pushed my plate away.

Everyone stopped and stared at me. They didn’t even blink.

“What?”

“Are you okay?” Sparky asked looking worried.

“Yeah. I’m just no hungry. That’s all.” I said with a fake smile.

Some of them bought it and went back to eating, but some of them didn’t. Sparky was still glancing at me from time to time, Lincoln was staring at me with a I-don’t-believe-you-face and Black was glaring at me with a face that screamed ‘You’re lying and I know it’.

‘What happened?’ a voice said.

I started to look around but everyone was eating. What the fudge?

‘Stop looking around. It’s me. Lincoln.’

I looked at him with questioning eyes. How can he talk with me without moving his lips?

‘This is my super power. I’m telepathic.’

Oh. This makes sense.

‘Now. What happened? Just think your answer and imagine it like a message and sent it to me.’

I nodded my head. ‘I had a very bad and very real nightmare. After what I saw, I feel like vomiting even when I look at food.’

He looked at me a little surprised. ‘I have very bad and very real nightmares too.’

I looked at him shocked. What the actually fuck.