Cyclone watched as Solar doing his homework. Solar knew this kind of stare, so he ask without looking at Cyclone.

"Yes? What do you want, Cyclone?"

Cyclone rolled over his eyes. "Well, I was just wondering, why you broke my trophies?"

"..." Solar didn't answer it, instead he just stare Cyclone and continues his study.

Cyclone sighed. He has lost many of his favorite trophies in the trash. "Huh.. alright, fine. I don't wanna fight with you..."

Solar moved his eyeballs to the side, seeing Cyclone laid down on the bed, his eyes were closed.

"..." Solar stood up and approached Cyclone slowly. 'Sleep tight, while I had a lot of work to do...'

Solar then get out from the room and went downstairs. The quiet steps from his little feet made him unnoticed by anyone. Then, he heard someone said something about him under the stairs.

"I mean, didn't you realize, about Solar's attitude?"

It was Blaze's voice. Solar made decision to hear more.

"So? What's your deal, anyway?" Thorn was playing with Thunder.

"You see—"

"No, I can't see." Ice teased Blaze.

"Let me finish. You see, Solar's attitude changed just right after mom and dad died. First, he always get fight at school. Second, he often escaped classes. Third, he sometimes called some strange people. And forth, he broke Cyclone's medal without any reasons!" Blaze almost shouted, if Thunder didn't shut his mouth.

"Shh! Don't speak to loud!" Thunder whispered to Blaze.

Solar shocked. 'Oh, that bast*rd saw all of it !! Dammit!!' But, Solar still wanted to know more...

"Now, tell me, how did you know he calls somebody? We didn't have phones! And again, we're just seven years old!" Quake asked.

"I saw it. When after mom and dad were buried, he stole Tok Aba's cellphone and call some numbers at the attic. I didn't hear what he said, but I saw that he smiling."

Solar clenched his fist hard. Blaze actually saw it all. He did saw Solar called a man, but luckily, Blaze didn't heard what Solar said.

An idea came in to Solar's mind. He ran quietly to Tok Aba's room, which is beside the kitchen. Fortunately, Tok Aba was at the garden behind the house. He then quickly entered the room and snatched Tok Aba cellphone and quickly ran upstairs.

Solar went to the attic and closed the door and window. He took out the cellphone he snatched and dialled a number.

"Hello?"

Solar heard a rasp and grumpy voice over the phone. "It's me." He nearly whisper.

"Oh, you lil' boy. What do you want?"

"I want to change the plan. Plan B's gone."

"What do you mean?"

"I almost get caught with someone in my family. I need to cancel the plan."

"But, what about the money you gave me?"

"Just keep it. I'll think I'm going to replan once more after ten years." Then, Solar heard a sound from the attic door. "Well, gotta go!!"

TITT!!!

He put the cellphone into his hoodie pocket and got out from the attic.

"Well, well, if it isn't Solar in here..."

Solar shocked as he saw Blaze in front of him. "Blaze!!! W-what are you doing here??"
Blaze put his hands on his chest. "Oh, nothing. I'm just wanted to go to the attic. What are you doing here?"

"I—I—I—" Solar panicked. He's not telling anyone his secrets. That's when an idea came. He pulled out a puzzle box from nowhere. "I... I just took out some puzzles, for me and Cyclone to play with, since we aren't allowed to play outside... Hehe..."

But Blaze didn't seems to believe that. "Oh, really, now?"

Blaze approached himself towards Solar, making Solar step back a little bit.

"You know what, Solar? I always realized that you have Tok Aba's phone on your hand. What are you doing with that?"

Solar shocked as he saw Blaze held the cellphone. He tried to escape, but Blaze get in his way.

"Where do you want to run?" Blaze rose his eyebrows. Solar stopped, while held his breath. 'Please God, send a help for me...'

"Hey, whatcha doin'?" Ice came to the attic. Finally!!! Solar let go of his breath.

Blaze turned to Ice, smiled. "Oh, Ice. Nothing, we were just talking to each other."

Ice just nodded, "Oh... Well, Grandpa's calling."

Both of them smiled as Ice walked away. Blaze faced Solar.

"Let's talk about this later..."

"O-okay..."

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"What's in the box, Atok?" Quake asked as Tok Aba put a large box in front of the septuplet.

"Nothing.... Just things that I needed to show you. Please, gather around..."

The septuplet gathered around Tok Aba, they saw things in the box clearly. Seven element-like symbol necklaces, each were different colours.

"Woah... Necklaces!" Thunder yielded. Tok Aba only smiled.

"These are the Elemental Necklaces. These belongs to your great-great-great-great grandparents. Looks like you all have taken their places."

"Wait, you don't say, they were—"

"Yes, they were septuplet. But, the different is, there were three girls and four boys."Cyclone's word was being cut by his grandpa. "Ochobot, give these necklaces to each of them."

Ochobot took the necklaces from the box and gave to the siblings. "Each colour symbolised each person who wears it."

They shocked when the colours of the Necklaces glowed.

"The necklaces accepted you all. That's why they glowing. See, these are the colours of your clothes..."

It's true. Quake were golden yellow, Cyclone were blue navy, Solar were white cloud, Blaze were fiery red, Thorn were dark green, Ice were aqua blue and Thunder were red blood.

"... Cool!!" Thunder and Thorn looked at their glowing necklaces.

"But grandpa, what does it do?" Ice turned around and around his necklace.

Tok Aba looked at Ice for a sec before he put his fingers on his chin.

"I don't actually know that,"

"But didn't you wore it?"

"Yes, I only wore one, but I can't remember what's it's power... Oh well, seek for yourself."

Tok Aba stood up and walked to the front door. Before he goes out, the old man turned to face his grandsons.

"Just be careful with the necklaces, don't temper with it. It will follow instructions from the person who touches it. So, don't ever think about showing it to the people. Once you showed it, you just welcoming yourself to the enemies..."

"Enemies??" They all said together. Tok Aba nodded.

"Yes, enemies. So remember this forever, 'Ten Thousand promises, Ten Thousand ways to lose...'" and Tok Aba finally closed the door and be heading to the Cocoa Shop.

"What does that mean?" Asked Blaze. Thunder and Thorn just shook their heads.

"I don't know," Quake said. "But we gotta find out..."

"So, how about this?" Cyclone pointed at his necklace.

Quake stopped for a moment. "You know what, what if we just keeping it and wears it on the day we graduate? What do you say?"

Each of the six of them looked at each other, Thorn said after that. "You mean, like a wish?"

"Yep. Do you have any box?"

"Ooh, I have one. Wait," Thunder ran upstairs into their room for like, seconds and then came back again, brought a shoe box. "Here."

Quake took the box and put his necklace into it. "Let's just say, this is our wish, Capishe?"

All of them put their necklaces into the box and Quake closed the box.

"We wish that we open this box in the night of our graduation and finds the meaning of Tok Aba's word." Said Cyclone.

All of them smiled. Each of them went upstairs, except one.

Solar just stared at them, then he went to Tok Aba's room. He took out the cellphone and put it on the table. He stopped.

"... What's gonna happen next?" And just after he said that, his chest started to ache. Then, followed up with his head.

"Aaah!!" Solar even fell to the floor. His head hurts so much he couldn't heard his brothers.

"SOLAR!!!"
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Well, that's it folks!

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No comment from me. Just wanted to say,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Ciau ciau!!!

Next chapter:

10 Years later...