It was like a SWAT team had invaded the house!
She bolted downstairs, running into her older twenty year old brother, Darryl.
“Who are they?” she hissed, smacking her brother’s chest.
“Let’s go Dexter!” Darryl shouted over another explosion.
Fire and thick black smoke started racing towards them at a speed that would get them incinerated within the next second.
The most incredible, horrifying shocking thing happened.
Darryl’s arm shot out and a blaze of water jetted through the tunnel of fire.
The floor disappeared beneath them and Emerie let out a terrified scream, unable to recognise her surroundings.
“Shh calm down Em!” Darryl ordered, hugging his sister as they fell through a large tunnel. “Dexter!”
Dexter nodded, arm shooting out on both sides.
A slab of earth shot out from beneath them just as Emerie’s feet slammed on top of it.
Her legs weren’t bent so the impact had shot ground shock straight through her legs, causing a hiss of pain to escape her.
“You idiots,” she growled, black eyes wild and frantic as she looked around desperately for an explanation in the darkness. “I need light!”
“Hush Emerie,” Dexter said in the darkness, his hand landing on the earthen sides that circled them.
Punching the wall, a large tunnel opened up ahead where a shaft of light peeked down.
Immediately Emerie raced off, desperate to find the light as the darkness reminded her too much of her nightmares.
She let out a gasp of relief as the sunlight poured down on her from an unknown source.
Her bag was starting to get annoying so she let it drop to the ground, panting.
“Far out where are we?” she snapped, her brother and Uncle running up next to her.
“They’ll hear you!” Darryl said, wrapping his arms around his sister and snatched up her bag off the ground. “Quickly Dex! Where’s the next portal?”
“Several miles from here,” Dexter said, leaning against the earthen wall for support, the sunlight only making him sweat further. “If I use the ground to push us forward, they’ll detect us.”
“Wait what’s going on?” Emerie demanded, smacking her brother into letting her go.
“No time,” Darryl said, extending his arm.
Water shot out from the trees above and it circled the trio.
The water shot out along the tunnel which Dexter created with his extended right arm.
His left was closing up the tunnel that led from their house.
“Get onto the river,” Darryl ordered.
“No.”
“We don’t have enough time; Emerie get –”
Another explosion disturbed the trio, causing the ground to break and the atmosphere to thicken with unbearable heat.
Fire appeared from nowhere, surrounding them hungrily.
“We’ve found them!” a voice shouted gleefully from above.
“Go!” Dexter and Darryl said, literally shoving the girl onto the river of water.
Immediately she zipped down at an incredible speed, unable to keep up with her surroundings as the sunlight faded.
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Choosing Fate
FantasyElementals, Destinies and Time Guardians. Three races gifted with powers that exist to maintain peace between humans and themselves. At birth, every child is given the decision which decides their fate and future. But Emerie was the strange exceptio...
