The Elementals #2 by Kiki XoXo (audio ebook reader txt) 📖

doubt it, so I can't rely on that idea. Above me there is another crack, and pieces start chipping away. I need to move. I get to the floor and army crawl my way into the kitchen where I can use the counters to lean on. Once I'm stable again I look around. Try a different window. I go to the window above the sink, and begin kicking it to try and break it open. The room is starting to fill with smoke, so I work faster. Once I get part of the window out, I slip through the crack and I plummit to the ground. I get grabbed again mid air, and pulled back in.

 

"Fuck!" I lose my cool, for a moment, as I get placed back in the chair. I don't know what else I can do. Why do I keep getting put into the chair? What is it with the chair? I look at it for a second. It seems normal... other then being tilted and falling over with the building. The entrance to the loft is gone engulfed in flames, and the smoke it making it harder to breath and see. Takings a second to get my thoughts together, I look for another option. Another loud creak rips through the air, and part of the cieling by the entrance colaspes. The flames shoot higher  spreading into the area more. Then the building starts to tilt more, and I end up standing against wall. All the furntire is against the wall now, and it's hard to get through all of it. I make my way back up to the kitchen, closer to the fire. I'm crazy, I have no idea what to do! Fridge tumbles over, sending foor flying and it crashs into the counter. 

 

I spot it then flying out of the fridge, it's like a glass orb. That I don't remember seeing it there last night. Everything going slow motion, my body jumps towards it in the air. If it hits the wall it's going to smash, and I'm getting the feeling that it can't break. I get a grip on it and pull it in, and I realize now as thing start going normal speed that I'm going to crash into the wall! I twirl forming a tornado, and I move myself towards the window. Then I go spiraling through the air, now I'm falling again I take the couple second I have to look at what's in my hand. It's a clear glass ball with a black fortex looking thing moving insde of it. It's a teleportation globe! Starting about another tornado, I drift slowly to the ground and towards the group. Still looking at the globe, I feel another tug. I look down right away and sure enough the damn fog is back. My tornado faulters and it stops. I end up dangling upside down again, and I almost dropped the teleporter.  

 

In the distance I can hear everyone yelling and panicing about how to help me. The fog isn't carrying me anyway. It's just holding me in place. The device... I have to use it. Where is it going to take me? Or can I choose? I take a glance down at the group and I see that Sebastien made it to them with out any problems.   Thrusting a hand down towards my feet I freeze the fog, and it works. Then I slip out and I fall towards the ground. It's to late to form a tornado! I'm going to be a squashed bug!  I look at the  teleporter, and back at the guys. I toss it to the ground and watch it shatter for a split second before I get sucked into the black. I get slammed onto a hard surface, and I scramble to my feet. It's pitch black still, but I'm not falling or moving at all now. 

 

"Hello?" I ask, moving my arms around me trying to feel for something. There is a loud clap that comes from behind me, I turn around ready to fight if I need to. I get blinded by a bright light, and I use my left hand to block the light as my eyes get used to it.

 

"Welcome, Lyra." I hear Donatello. Turning around again, now getting a look at my surroundings. An arena. Like the coliseum in Rome.  "I'm so glad you could join us." He smiles, sitting up on his chair looking down at me.

 

"Us?" I look around, the seats are empty. I only see him. Out of know where people start pouring in, and taking seats around the stadium. "What is this?" I narrow my eyes at him.  

 

"Well... I wanted to see how your coming along with your powers, so I brought you here to my arena." He sounds happy and totally crazy. "You're the enterainment for tonight. If you don't win in the end, then that tells me you weren't strong enough to be kept around."  

 

He is throwing me in here with a bunch of things to fight?! Well so much for him being a good loving brother.  I watch as the seats fill fast, and I look for familiar faces. Donatello is the only one I recognize. I didn't realize he had he his own people. He is originally  from Spridge then he got banished. Then from behind his chair another person walks out from the door behind him. Rashell. She smiles down at me, and sits in the chair next to Donatello. They whisper a couple things to each other, and then he claps his hands silencing the crowd. 

 

"Tonights entertainment!" He yells cheerfully gesturing to me standing in the middle of the arena.  The people go nuts yelling and clapping. "HUSH! Now her apponent!" He gestures to under him, where there is a gate. It rattles open, and a guy my fathers age comes walking over.  He is huge though. He has brute strength. "Let the battle begin!" 

 

The man charges at me, and I take off running away. Ignoring the crowd as they laugh at me. This can't be happening! Battle to death? This is all maddness! I run around a wagon looking thing, and I slip under it when he can't see me. I watch his feet as runs around the wagon twice, and then it seems he realizes he is chasing nothing. The the wagon gets lifted, and thrown and I'm laying on my stomach three feet away from him without cover. 

 

"Oh shit!" I mumble, looking up at him. He is smiling but he only has two teeth, and there is a pile of drool dripping from his mouth. I thrust my arm out, and a strong gust of wind throws him back ten feet. The crowd roars as I get to my feet wiping myself off. He gets to his feet seemingly unphased. Just very mad. He stomps his feet like what sumo wrestlers do, and charges again. I move away at the last second and he looses balance trying to turn around. He falls again, I used this as my chance using ice I freeze his feet together. I look up at Donatello, who is just watching. He is really watching though. Watching me, seeing if I'm worth it. 

 

"Finish him." He says, and everything turns slow motion. Kill him? I don't think I've ever killed anyone. Birds... I know I've killed birds. If I have killed somebody then it was because they were attacking me or my friends. I haven't ever just murdered some one! I stand my ground, not doing what he said. "Do it. Now."

 

"No!"  He claps his hands, and a bunch of guards all around the arena point guns at me. I hold my hands up in defense.

 

"Do it."  He says again, and I can see his hand ready to tell the guards to shoot. I look over at the man with frozen feet. He is struggling to break free, and isn't paying me any attention. "Show us what you can do Lyra." Donatello cheers, agging me to do it. If I don't kill him... the guards will kill me. "You know you want to." I hear a him whisper in my ear, I turn looking at him again. How did he do that?  He nods with a slight smile. 

 

"You're wrong." I whisper. His smile disapears and I can see him thinking. 

 

"No, I'm right. I can see it in your eyes. It's your instinct. It's either him or you." His voice whispers in my ear. "Do it." I turn away, he is right about one thing. It is him or me. I have to get out of here.  Get back to everyone else. He has to die. I take quick steps over to the man, and I stand behind him casting a shadow over him. He stops fidgeting and looks up at me. He growls and spits at me, it misses me and it just seems to piss him off more. He wiggles trying to reach and grab my legs. I step back slightly, wishing there was another way. 

 

"You are weak! You wont do i-" the man begins laughing, and my foot flies kicking his jaw clear off his face. He words echo in me. You are weak. You are weak. You are weak.

 

"I am not weak!" I say, freezing his insides and then I stomp on his frozen body. He shatters, and I step back looking at what I just did. My breath is caught in my throat, as I calm down looking at the chunks of ice on the ground. I step away from the mess.

 

"Very impressive Lyra." Donatello praises me. I whip around facing him, looking at my hands. I'm shaking horribly. I just killed a man. "You're ice powers are progessing better then I thought they were." He smiles. "Now your next task." the gate opens again, this time a girl comes out. A little child. she might be seven years old. I notice the blood all over her, and he red stained lips. Her pale skin, is gray and her eyes are black. Vampire... a hungry vampire drained of blood. A child.  She spots me right away, and the hunger in her eyes makes me feel hungry even. She licks her lips, and then she runs at me. I jump over her, happy she is hungry and drained it slows her down. My jump didn't do much it got a second more time, I turn and she launches at me. We both go toppling to the ground, and I get a grip on his hers fighting her back. Her fangs are out, and she also is dripping with saliva. Her snarles, get louder as the struggle gets harder. Once I get my feet position correctly I kick her in the gut, and she is bucked off of me. I run towards the broken wagon, looking for the best piece of wood. No messing around this time. I'm not going to get bitten by a vampire. I grab a wheel and snap it over my knee just in time.  I turn swinging my arm, and stab in the the chest area not the heart. It makes her stop though, and she looks down at the stake punctured through her skin. I grab another piece of the wheel, launching myself at her. Now I have her on the ground. Her eyes go wide and watery, human like, but it doesn't phase me. The stake hits home, and beneath me I watch as a tear slips down her cheek and she start eroding away to dust. I stand up as the last of her existence disapears. The crowd has gone mad with cheering it hurts my ears. 

 

"Very nice. Smart thinking." Donatello congradulates me. "One last test." the gate opens again. A snake slips in, and I watch it closely. What's with the snake? It slithers in closer, and then it grows. Hair starts growing, and then arms and legs. It's a gorrilla now! I step