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Question, does Cross seem a bit more mature? Yes, I am uploading this even though I have not received a single review for Chapter One. I am weird like that. This is my attempt at Chapter Two. I was having problems getting down the things that I wanted so I started story hopping. Please leave your opinions. I understand that I have some spelling and grammatical errors in the previous chapter. There will be some here most likely here as well. I will go through Chapter One and fix them all. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Don’t forget to review.
Chapter Two
Cross knew that in the guy’s eyes, she had just done something wrong. A part of her guessed that she had just violated someone else’s personal space. His space. But, these were the showers; Erin had said nothing about personalization. The droplets collected on her eyelashes and she blinked to move them. He didn’t appear to be purposely causing it. She had heard that some Fire Elementals were so powerful that no matter how much they collected their power some would always leak out. Looking at him she figured he fit into that category. “A Ravien.” She heard him growl to himself. “Pardon?” she asked. He ignored her question and started towards her. She rubbed water out from her eyes and starting taking steps back. That’s when she slipped. With a cry of surprise she hit the floor. “Owy.” She complained in pain. Why? Why at a time like this did her damnable clumsiness have to kick in? “You’re not allowed back here.” He finally said. “Who says?” she demanded stubbornly. “I say.” He growled. “And your word is law?” she retorted. “Do you see anyone else here?” he asked. “I figured that since men prefer to discuss the sexual parts of their lives with each other over the hygienic part, they had not yet moved back here.” She said sarcastically. “The shower back here is for me.” He said. She stood up, trying to forget the fact that she had been previously sprawled out in front of him. “I can see why.” She muttered. The water under his heat was evaporating constantly and would have all but vanished if not for the fact that she had not turned off the shower head. He crossed his arms and glared at her. She could tell he was getting annoyed with her. What was she supposed to do? Rather one guy then God knows how many on the other side. So, she decided to ignore him. Who made him ruler and king? She grumbled and shook water out of her hair as she walked over to the furthest shower head. Hearing the “kisssttttt” sound from behind her alerted her that she had just flicked water onto him.
The heat behind her intensified and she gulped. Why of all people, did she have to meet such an angry person? Why not a cheerful, sunny person? For once? No. Her luck was not that good. Something whizzed by her and she turned around sharply. Someone slapped the guy’s shoulder in a friendly greeting and then an arm was swung over her shoulder. “Cross, what are you doing in the male dominate part of the school?” came a question. “Ce … Cepheus.” She stammered. “Yo Stryker.” The bleached blond haired boy threw the greeting at him. “Blitz,” the Fire Elemental growled. “I see you met my baby cousin.” Blitz said poking Cross’ check. “Wish we had not.” Cross muttered. “Gasp. Was Stryker being mean again? Don’t worry about him. It’s that time of the month.” He whispered to her.
The heat in the room suddenly got even worse, “Kidding. Don’t boil us.” Blitz said waving a hand at him. “I didn’t know you were her Cepheus.” Cross said. “Yup. Lightning. Stop calling me that by the way. It be Blitz, the man with the magic fingers.” He vanished from next to her and appeared near Stryker, “And this little bucket of joy is Stryker. He’s a Fire Elemental.” He said slapping his arm. Stryker growled and Blitz evaded the rush of fire that suddenly covered his friend. “So why are you here? Your sense of direction isn’t that bad is it?” he teased. “The Revealer found my element.” She answered. “Really? Awesome.” Blitz cheered. “Its lightning.” She said. “Not so awesome.” He said. “Oh well. Always knew you were a guy.” He said grinning at her. “Fuck you!” she suddenly snapped at him in anger. He laughed at her and moved away as she swung at him.
What did she remember about her cousin? Their mothers were sisters and he had inherited his lightning from his father. He had discovered his lightning at a rather early age because she remembered him visiting when he was small and causing havoc. He never brought up her lack of memory when he visited after the incident and that was a quality that she liked about him. He had had blond hair once, but some said that the lightning turned his hair white. The white hair, even if Blitz’s was not natural, made them look related as well as being tall and lean (Cross is 5’7, Blitz is around 5’11). But, the one way you could tell they were related was their eyes. The one thing the Ravein line had; flecks of green over the brown of Cross’ and the blue of Blitz’s eyes.
He was talking and she snapped back to reality. “So you want me to hook you up?” he was asking his friend. “What?” Styker growled. “Well, even if she is a he trapped with a she, he in a she still has a she body. Not the best looking, but still, a she.” Blitz stated. “Cepheus!” Cross snapped at him. He chuckled and evaded her fist and appeared on the bench. “Let her shower man. Control your body heat.” He said. “I know you can’t help but ooze off your manly hotness,” that’s when the fireballs started. Cross slowly moved even further away to take her shower. Not wanting to be caught in the crossfire.
Stryker. Was that his real name? Most likely not. His eyes, they were so red; blood red, and black hair that fell into those dangerous eyes. She got a view of his back and bit back a gasp. It was littered with scars; scars that had once been deep wounds. In fact, his 6’4 frame was covered with scars in various different places other then his back. Even though she got the sense that he was the strong, stubborn type, she did not get the sense that he was a masochist. She bit her lip and turned away. Something about him, made her feel uneasy. Why did he look, a little bit familiar? She sighed and started up her shower again while the mayhem behind her spread throughout the room. Loud voices and crashing sounds; she figured that a nice peaceful school year was out of the question.
She stood in her room and studied it, making sure that everything was in place and that it looked good. After her shower she had dressed quickly and run out of the shower room. One reason being that she needed to leave the noisy place behind, another being that she wanted to get her room all made up. She sat down on the bed and laid back. Today was a leisure day for her and tomorrow was the day that she would start classes. She rolled over onto her side and stared at the wall. She had come to this school, not really expecting much. She had boarded the large cruise ship, manned by Water and Wind Elementals, and had spent much of her time just staring at the walls of her room. She had been surrounded by many people that let off so much power. Since her brother was a bit of a resident of the island he had met her at the port. She wondered about him sometimes. Even if he was laid back and a clown of some sort, he always had this air of sadness and guilt about him. She wanted to know why but every time she asked he always told her not to be nosey. She closed her eyes feeling very exhausted from the previous events. If this was how it was going to be, she knew already that she’d be late for classes or miss them entirely because she’d be too busy sleeping.
Maybe she would explore. Even if it was 6pm she could still wander the school grounds, just not go outside the gates. She sat up and put on some shoes before she walked outside. She passed some boys in the sitting room before she walked out the door. Looking around she saw that the halls were void of any people. She sighed in relief not willing to run into anyone at the moment. She tucked her hands into her pocket and started to wander the hallways. She read all the posters that she could and studied all the art. She ended up wandering into the main building after crossing the grass and opened a door. Inside it was well lit to reveal various awards that had been give to the school and various other things that represented its history. She looked over pictures of the famous students and went through a book of written history. The Old Language would show every now and then and she had no problem translating it. She found trophies for sports, seeing some for Blitz who ran the track team. She smiled and touched the gold plate that had her cousin’s name carved into it. She walked over to study a picture of the couple who had founded the school. They had been very talented people, so talented that Revealers had pulled out all the gender ordained elements from within them. They looked like a rather cheerful couple with a pair of laughing brown eyes each and graying hair. She smiled at them and walked over to a memoir of some sort. She stopped and placed her fingers lightly over the picture of a young woman. She traced the delicate jaw line and then stopped at the blood red eyes. She blinked and then realized that the young woman’s eyes were the same color as Stryker’s.
Screaming people, blood everywhere. A young woman falling to the floor covered in blood. “Coreax what have you done?!” that was Jyak’s voice. She heard herself scream.
Startled Cross pulled her hand away from the picture and stared at it, breathing hard. She flexed her fingers and then turned away. She sunk to the floor and sat there, feeling her heart thunder against her rib cage. She needed to control her breathing. She stood up on shaking legs and started to make her way towards the room. When she fell onto her bed, she dreamed for the first time in 14 years.
