The Elementals

Chapter 1, Part 4

 I was in my personal hover-craft going to town, when I accidentally knocked over someone’s hay stack. I immediately stopped, got out, and ran around frantically, because I thought I hit someone. When I saw I had just hit hay, I calmed a little bit, but I almost set it on fire. Then Noah came around a corner, just a common boy, but he didn’t look common to me. He was very skinny, at the time, but healthy. The thing I noticed about him was his piercing blue eyes, and the way that the blond hair made them pop.

“I’m terribly sorry!” I said, “I wasn’t watching and you’re hay was right there and I’m sorry!” I wasn’t normally like this. Usually I handled things calmly, but I was worried that I had hit someone. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.” says the boy, “Are you alright, did the hay damage your vehicle?”

“No I’m fine, and so is my hover-craft. What’re you using the hay for?”

“There are test being done on horses in the AnimalTech lab. Breeding, not anything harmful. Just to see if we can make the species better. I’m working there this summer, and so it was my job to get hay for them.”

“I see.” I say, “Do you need help moving it? It looks like a lot of hay.”

“Yeah,” he says, “Thanks. I’m Noah, by the way.”
“I’m…” I didn’t want him to know my real name, that would give away my social status, me being royalty. No one has really seen me, because I’m not really social, and I don’t go to the city much, I was just running an errand for my aunt.  “I’m Kylie.”

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We were holding onto rope that was tied around a large hay bale, walking down the main street and up the hill towards AnimalTech.  We got weird looks as we walked.

“So, What’s your story?” I ask, just making small talk.

“Nothing too exciting, I’m just a common teenage boy from the South. I’ve lived in the Capitol my whole life, in the same house even. I haven't even been out of the Kingdom. You?”

“The same, I guess. I’ve lived here my whole life too, but I’ve been to all of the other kingdoms. They’re all so beautiful, and unique. The mountains of the North, the dense woods of the East, the light plains of the West, and I’ve even been to the Underwater Kingdom. It’s not really underwater, obviously, but it is surrounded by water. It’s a beautiful island nation.”
“Wow. You really have been everywhere,” he says.

“Yeah.” I say. He looks at me, almost asking for a reason why. “Um, my family’s into traveling.”

“I see. Tell me about them”

“Well, there’s my dad, he’s kind of an energetic man. And my mom, I don’t really know how to describe her.”

“She’s that good of a mom, Eh?” He asks. I’ve been spacing off, thinking about my now dead parents, my hands heating up. I come to, and look over at him.

“Um, yeah, I guess so.” I’m still upset about my parents, and my hands are hotter than ever. If I don’t calm down soon, they’re going to - shoot. My hands catch fire, which of course, is great, because first, I’m holding rope attached to hay, which are both highly flammable, and second, I haven’t told him who I am yet.

“Woah!” he says. He jumps back, letting go of the rope. This is great because now I’m holding the rope myself. I drop my rope, which is now blackened and burning, and look up at him.

“Also, I’m an Elemental.”