Why did none of his brothers ever listened to him? 

Chanyeol looked around, one hand in his hair as his brothers scurried around to 'catch' the orbs of flame that bounced about due to them having forced Chanyeol to create some fireworks to ring in the new year.

"I told you this would happen," he said tiredly, watching Suho run after one of the bouncing flames, splashing water everywhere but at his actual target.

Xiumin shot rays of ice to douse the jumping fireballs, while Lay frantically followed behind to heal any plant or tree, or occassional random critter that was hit by Xiumin's ice. 

Tao would limit his power to each bouncing ball of fire that caught his sight, freezing it in time, but this took a lot out of him. 

Sehun quickly blew his winds to deprive the oxygen from the fire to douse them, though on occasion, the win would only strengthen the flames, causing Suho to yell out when a tree caught fire. 

Chanyeol would do his best to flick out any flames he deemed were too rampant for his brothers to handle, but he mostly looked around with a rather dejected look on his face, knowing that he wa sresponsible for the entire mess and wondering why he wasn't able to do a simple thing like create fireworks. 

He looked up when Kris was hovering past the plateau to point out to D.O. which fireballs were about to jump off so he could douse them with chunks of clay and earth. Luhan kept close watch, so he could telepathically move any fiery orbs away from the plateau, in case D.O. missed one. 

Chen and Baekhyun just sat on a formation of boulders, laughing at the whole situation. 

Chanyeol sent them a glare. "Yah, I don't think it's very funny."

"Oh, lighten up, Chanyeol—wait, you kind of already did, didn't you?" Baekhyun laughed, Chen clapping his hands beside him. 

"Ah, we're just playing. You've honestly gotten better, you just have to try to keep the fire in the air and make it dissipate. We'll try again next year!" Chen stated optimistically, but Chanyeol was skeptical.

It was easy for them to say, he had to do most of the work. The idea was for him to create the firepower necessary for spectacular fireworks. He'd shoot a form, pattern, or just a ball of searing hot fire into the sky, Chen would jolt it with lightning to create a more solid form and Baekhyun could make it as flashy as he wanted to, even adding different colors for effect.

But Chanyeol was the source to make this happen, and without him being even capable of shooting some fire into the sky without everything turning out into a mess, he doubted he'd ever accomplish his new year resolution to see fire do something beautiful.