The Underground Elements

The Letter

(Author's note: OCs are mine and I own nothing.)

It was a cloudy day in El Marcos, New Mexico. I was at Ben's house, hanging out with him and Maggie. The short redhead was sitting upside down on the couch, reading an old comic book while Ben and I played a video game. Anything to take my mind off of what was going on. Only four months ago, we found the Element Stone in that hollow tree. In that time, we've fought demons, sirens, gorgers, and other creatures. Not to mention, we've also fought my grandfather, George Gold, and I had to deal with the truth of my past.

Maggie looked over her comic, her brown eyes glanced at me. "Hey, E, do ya happen we know why all the angels have been so quiet?" She asked as Ben paused our game. "Ah mean, Ah've been trying to get a hold of Wat for like a month. No word from 'im or any of that other angels.'

I nodded. I could understand her frustration. For the last week, I've been doing all I could to get in contact with Sha'o. I've even taken to talking to any crows I find.

"Yeah, Geo hasn't been answering my messages either," Ben said. When we mean messages, we mean dreams calls. It's basically a Skype invite. "And Danny hasn't got any vision lately, right? Well, that means Sol hasn't given him one."

I nodded. "There's probably some going on that will take the help of the angels," I told them, pushing back my bangs. "For all we know, it could be so big that we can't even do anything about it." My prediction was about to be put to the test, even if I didn't know it.

We grew in silence before going back to what we were doing.

Not long after, we heard a knock at the door. Ben sighed, getting us as I paused our game.

At the door was an out of breath Luke, leaning on the door frame. I had to resist the urge to run over and make sure he was breathing properly. "Luke, what'ch need?" The older boy asked, letting in the blond. "Need some water?"

He shook his head and followed Ben back into the living room. Luke went straight for me, sitting on the couch behind me.

"Eve, you think you could teleport to Mt. Ebbot?" He asked, making me blink.

Maggie looked at him like he was crazy as she sat up. "Why Mt. Ebbot? Why not Mt. Helen? Don't ya know what happens when someone goes up the mount?"

Luke nodded, running a hand through his hair. "I know, its just something crazy happened and now I need to get there," he explained as Ben sat back down. "A phoenix of all things came into my room earlier, leaving behind this note."

He gave the slightly burnt note to Ben, who held it carefully in case it turned to ash. Looking over his shoulder I read it. "Greetings young Elements," began the letter. "I'm writing this to help. The people, monsters under Mt. Ebbot, have been kidnapping children that have gone exploring on the mountain. We, the mayor's office, would like to ask your team if you could help us. We know this is a lot to ask for, but we are worried about the next child that might fall."

I stay silent as I read that. I remember hearing about something like this when I was little.

When I was eight, I had just been moved to Ebbot city, the town at the base of that mountain. One of my foster brothers had said he was going to explore that mountain. He didn't come home for dinner that night.

No one knew if the four children that disappeared were dead or alive. And that's just the iceberg of it all. I saw that they went to try and find the kids, but no one could figure out how they went missing.

"Ok, I'll try and port us over there," I told him. "But I'm going to need to stop by my place and grab a few things. You might want to get some stuff too, never know what might happen."

Luke nodded. "Thank you, Eve, you won't regret this."

I hope so, Luke, I hope so. 

(Auther's Note, first fic on the site, cool. Criticism is noted and if you see anything big mistakes, tell me and I will try and fix them)