Juris

I used to spend hours upon hours reading history books.

I was mostly interested on how people back then didn't have element powers. They all lived together, nobody was separated by elements, but rather it was by race and culture.

This is what I never understood. How did elements develop? There's nothing in history saying how element powers came about. There were theories from our teachers, but nobody knew. Nobody knew how elements came.

Nobody knew they were still here either.

That guard, who showed me his brown eyes, eyes that I've never seen; he is one of them, a piece of history.

The people outside my cell are one of them, too.

This cell is better than the white room Hanson used to put us in, but it is no where close to comfy. It's plain; gray stone walls, a steel door that has yet to be opened, and a square opening, with bars lined up in it. It leads outside, which is where those people are. The people that I thought were dead are outside my cell, thinking that I'm some sort of piece of history. They stand and shout, and haven't shut up since I got here. I haven't dared look outside, I'm too scared to see.

I'm scared to see if history wasn't even history at all.

But I freeze when I hear someone fiddling with the door.

In comes Hanson, the scientist who claimed he has permission from the government to capture four elements, to test them together.

I look at his eyes; gray.

"What is this, some world where there are millions of elements? What are you, a cloud element?" I point to the outside, "and why are they here?"

"Calm down, Juris."

"Don't." I say. He doesn't have a right to say my name. He doesn't have a right to tell me to calm down.

"You're going to get answers," he says.

"I've been waiting to get answers since I first saw you," I say, and he knows what I mean. When I was first captured, which now seems like it was years and years ago.

"And today's the day."

Guards then come in, the same ones with the black masks. They grab me, not forcefully, but enough to make me follow. We walk down the long hallway all the way to a door that leads outside. More guards surround me, and it startles me. Why are they all of a sudden covering me?

I then know why. The people that were outside my cell come running, cameras flashing and nonstop shouting. I put my head down, almost embarrassed. I'm different. I'm not like them.

I'm not like them.

The thought scares me. When I was captured before and met different elements, I knew I wasn't like them.

But this is different.

I'm so different, that these people are following me, taking pictures and talking about me through microphones.

Finally I'm gestured into a vehicle, and I go inside and sigh, relieved to be away from them.

But I doubt I will ever get away.

Hanson sits next to me in the backseat, and I clench my jaw and look out the window, too angry to even face him. Instead I rest my head back into the seat, staring outside. As we drive, I notice the green grass starting to fade away, replaced with brown grass and dirt. I notice trees fading away as we drive, too. I want to ask Hanson why, but I don't think I can even talk to him without wrapping vines around his neck.

Then I wonder why he is riding in the same vehicle with me. Aira was captured too, and I haven't seen her since. Is she here? In that same building?

Is she alive?

My eyes water at the thought, especially when Paytah and Lana pop up in my mind. I haven't seen Paytah in person since a day before he was taken, and I haven't seen Lana since that night she left. They are probably dead, killed by the enemy.

But whose the enemy now?

I catch myself wiping a tear from my cheek, and can sense Hanson staring. I clench my fists. I wonder if he knows about Lana and Paytah. I wonder if he knows how they were killed, or if they were killed. But I don't want to hear it from him, I don't want him to tell me that my two friends were killed because of him.

"Why did you ruin our lives," I whisper, but I know he heard it.

"I'm trying to save your lives at the moment. Don't jump to conclusions." He says.

"I don't need you."

"Trust me, you need me." He says, and before I can look at him he turns away.

My emotions are changing every second. I'm mad at Hanson, then I'm desperate for my friends, then I'm grateful that I'm still alive, then I'm scared and filled with anxiety at the thought of Paytah and Lana not making it.

Then it repeats and repeats and repeats.

But a different emotion runs through my veins as the vehicle stops abruptly. Once again a crowd of people are hovering around, and Hanson has to practically drag me out. I cover my face, because I don't want the attention.

I don't want to be reminded of how different I am.

I look down, only seeing shadows hovering around. They go away as we go inside. I still hear mumbles, but I finally have the guts to look around. It's a big building, but very plain. Gray walls, a set of closed brown doors are only a few feet away from me. Two guards stand at each side of me, Hanson is nowhere to be seen. I lost him in the crowd.

Now I really am alone.

We walk closer to the brown doors. We walk straight through them as they open, and the guards and I make our way down a long aisle, with a crowd of people inside. I look around at all of them, surprised by the way they aren't yelling or taking a picture. Instead, most look at me with disgust.

I make a conclusion that I'd rather have the cameras flashing.

I look ahead, and straight is a man sitting higher up, looking down at me.

But then I look down from him and to the left.

Aira.

She's standing there, her body trembling, as two guards are standing at her sides too. Her blonde hair is a frizzy mess, whoever these people are haven't let us have a shower.

I look at her, then at the crowd, then at the man.

Court. We are in court.

Then out of nowhere, Hanson comes walking out, changed into a suit and tie. He is our lawyer, he's fighting for a win.

He may just be fighting for our lives.

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Hello!!!
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This book is going to be...CRAZY!!

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