DarkTyphlosion
Soul Trainer
This 11-page story (and it isn't finished) took me about 3 weeks to write.
Be warned that it includes gods and other things from Greek Mythology. Well, I guess this is what happens when you play too much Age of Mythology and eat too many cookies....Enjoy!
The City of Dreams was circular in shape. It was an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The centre of the City was occupied by a fountain in which the waters of Heaven flowed. The inhabitants of the City were carefree, smart people, they worked and farmed and led simple lives. On the outskirts of the island there were four phenomena. The first was a mighty mountain that many had seen, but were too frightened to climb. The second was a lake that was always frozen over, and had never been seen by the citizens of the City before. The third was a mighty cave where the wind never stopped whistling through, and those that had seen it told of it as a Shrine of Wind, and the fourth was an impossibly huge tree. All of the people had seen it, and called it the wonder on the City. I have just described The City of Dreams. Atlantis.
Iiotlos was a young boy from Atlantis, and his family were heading to outer Atlantis towards the great mountain. They intended to be the first to climb it, but their mission went awry.
“Iiotlos! Come back here! You’re too far up!” his mother yelled up the mountain.
A grunt came from above.
“Yes, mother,” Iiotlos replied. He made a few more grunts, and he came into view, holding a large rock.
“Put that back! It’s too heavy for you to carry!” his mother yelled at him.
Iiotlos headed back up the mountain, but held on to the rock. He wanted to see the mountain’s peak. He tried to cut back on his groaning. He stumbled a few times, but he quickly picked the rock back up. He was almost at the peak when he shouted down, “Come up!” to his family.
His father, mother and sister trudged on up. Iiotlos reached the peak. What he saw amazed him. Before him, a vast pool of magma lay, bubbling and steaming.
“Whoa…” he breathed, and weakened his grasp. The rock crushed his foot, causing him to yell and stumble into the pit. His father heard his yell, and ran up the mountainside. He arrived just in time to see his son disappear into the steam and smoke.
Liskok, holding his deer hide ball, ran out of his house. His brother, Horilo, was chasing him. Liskok had placed a large spider under Horilo’s hat. Horilo hated spiders. Horilo chased him past the market stalls in outer Atlantis, past the farming fields. Liskok had a much more agile build than Horilo, and he used that to his advantage. He spun around and kicked his ball at Horilo. It hit with astounding accuracy. Horilo stumbled and grunted, but continued after. Liskok saw a glimmering patch of…something on the horizon. He continued running, and realized that it was a frozen lake. “How could that be?” he thought. “It’s mid-farming season. How it that possible?” He ran towards it. Horilo followed close behind him. Liskok stepped onto the ice. It immediately shattered under his feet and he fell into the below freezing waters of the ever-frozen lake. Horilo saw his brother disappear into the waters.
Winsaar approached the whistling sound carefully. As he got closer, he saw the cave. He had only thought that the Elder’s stories were myths. He had known about this all his life, but had never accepted the fact that it was REAL. The cave was a whitish green-colour. It shone with small sparkles that glinted in the sun. Winsaar breathed heavily. He surveyed his surroundings. No-one was in sight, and the towering walls of Atlantis were barely visible against the setting sun. Winsaar felt a surge of purpose. He carefully walked into the cave. He journeyed in until he found a large hole in the cave roof. He looked up, and in a language he didn’t know, said,
“Kormanisila Winfeg komasaiana!”
Before Winsaar knew what was happening, a surge of wind coming from the mouth of the cave blew him up and he flew into the harsh weather of the clouds.
The Great Tree stood proudly above Atlantis. The Atlanteans worshipped it like a god.
Kemsyta, a young girl, stood at the base of the tree. She looked up into its massive branches, and spied one that she could reach. Kemsyta won every jumping contest she had ever entered, and used her talent here. She grabbed onto the branch and hoisted herself up. She leapt from branch to branch, and, when necessary, grabbed hold of the trunk of the tree and climbed up. At last, she reached the top. She stood up, and gleefully looked at the rest of Atlantis. She felt a drop of water on her ear. This shocked her, and she slipped on the Great Tree’s leaves, and fell down to earth. She fell onto branches, and bounced and fell, so when she hit the ground, she couldn’t possibly be alive.
Atlantis had a mysterious power cast over it that was cast thousands of years before the incidents happened. The power was a magic so great that not even the gods of Greece knew what to do about it. The magic was cast from each of the four phenomena, so the magic was strongest at each of the four, thus forming a seal on them. The magic was so strong at the phenomena that, if a human touched it, the seal would react with the elemental powers of the phenomena, and would alter the human in ways that the mind could never imagine.
Hours after the death of Iiotlos, his parents went up to the mouth of the volcano again. His mother called into the magma pit, “Iiotlos! How could you leave me like this?”
As if an answer to her plea, the smoke cleared. A dark shape with gleaming green eyes rose out of the pit. The shape came towards Iiotlos’ parents, and it became clearer.
“Iiotlos!” his parents breathed, but it was clearly not him. Iiotlos’ dark hair was replaced by flame, his sandals were up in flames, and his hands were occupied by a large, flaming sword and a round, flaming shield. However, the most distinguishing thing about him was the green symbol on his bare chest that depicted the flames of the volcano. He looked up at the cowering man and woman and replied, “Who’s Iiotlos? I’m ElementFire.”
“Who?” Iiotlos’s parents gasped.
“I am ElementFire!” he shouted over the crackle of his flames. ‘I have been chosen by the ancient powers of Atlantis to put an end to ice. Now where is he? Where is ElementIce?”
“Iiotlos, what have you done to yourself?” his father whispered.
Horilo ran around the frozen lake, looking for his brother. He was angry with his brother, but he didn’t mean for this to happen! Where could Liskok be? Horilo felt a sudden chill. He then saw a dark shape in the shape of a human rippling out of the water. Its eyes were as red as blood, and it was holding a long sabre made of solid ice. Icicles hung down from his feet, his hair, and from his arms. A dark red patch on his chest depicted crystals of ice.
“Where is he?” the shape said in a raspy voice.
“Are you looking for me?” Horilo whimpered.
The shape looked at him, and said, “No. Why would the great ElementIce want a mortal?”
“Liskok? If that’s you, stop fooling around and start running, because I’m going to follow close behind.” Horilo threatened.
“What?” ElementIce rasped. “You DARE call me Liskok!?”
“It’s your name, Liskok,” Horilo said.
ElementIce flew forward with immense speed and picked up Horilo by the neck.
“You, a mere mortal, dare insult me!?” ElementIce said with a slash of his sabre.
Horilo felt a stinging chill before his death.
Winsaar was a smart boy, and he had told his parents where he was going before he left. His father, after dark, went out to look for him. Holding a flaming torch, he set off in pursuit of the cave. When he finally found the cave, he saw two shining brown things in the caves enterance.
“Who are you?” he yelled.
“Why, father, you do not know me? I am your son, but I have changed.”
His father shone his torch onto the figure. It looked like his son, but had brown eyes, a brown picture of a cloud on his chest, and had large, feathery wings.
“Winsaar? Is that you?” his father asked.
“Nay, father. My destiny as Winsaar is over. I am now ElementWind.”
“What? Winsaar, I-”
“I am ElementWind! My destiny as Winsaar has been fulfilled, I now live as ElementWind! The destiny of ElementWind is to destroy ElementEarth. So, tell me, father-where is she? Where is ElementEarth?”
“Winsa-oh, ElementWind- you mean there are more? More Elements like you?”
“Aye, father. ElementFire, ElementIce and ElementEarth.”
“And you must fight ElementEarth to the death?”
“Yes. It is my destiny. Now, where is she?”
“ElementWind, I, I…I don’t want to lose you. You will always be Winsaar to me.”
“You do not know, then? You do not know where ElementEarth is?”
“No, my son,” said his father.
Kemsyta woke up to see hundreds of faces looking down on her.
“What?” she asked. “Where am I?”
She sat up. She looked at her hands. Where soft leather gloves had once been, there were now large gloves in the shape of tiger paws.
“Who am I?” she asked.
“You tell me,” a voice from the crowd said.
“I, I am…I’m ElementEarth.”
She covered her mouth in a horrified way.
She said, “I know that I was not always ElementEarth…I was…I was a young girl…but now…” her voice trailed off.
“But that is over! I am now the most powerful being on Atlantis!”
She pointed at the crowd.
“Now, I want you to all go and-”
As she pointed at the members of the crowd, they each collapsed and started struggling. She pointed at them again. They rose and shivered.
“Feel the power of the Earth!” ElementEarth shouted.
“Ouch…I sure do!” someone in the crowd said.
“Who said that?” ElementEarth demanded.
“I did,” said the person.
ElementEarth put her giant paw above her head. A long, jewelled, whip appeared in her hand.
“The Earth despises smart alecks,” ElementEarth said. “However, I have no time for this… Where is ElementWind? He will wish he had never been born!”
ElementFire headed towards Atlantis. He figured that ElementIce would probably go there. He had to wade through the canals, but his everlasting flame didn’t go out. As he walked past the farmlands, he left flaming patches in the farmer’s crops, and all of the farmers bowed to him and forgave him for destroying their crops. ElementFire reached Atlantis, and waited. All of the hustle of the normally busy Town Square disappeared as ElementFire turned the fountain into nothing but steam. He thought correct. He felt a distortion in the air, and saw a glistening path of ice being led by the one that could be none other that ElementIce himself.
“Why, ElementIce,” began ElementFire. “How nice of you to join me.”
“Stop it with the greetings, Flameboy,” ElementIce sneered.
“Why, of course, Icer!” ElementFire rose in the air. “Let the fighting begin!”
With that, ElementIce rose as well, and charged ElementFire. ElementFire dodged that and swung his massive flaming sword in a wide arc, missing ElementIce by inches. ElementIce lunged, but ElementFire parried the blow and sent ElementIce flying. ElementIce’s eyes glowed a stronger shade of red than before, and he yelled, “Draakh!” with a slash of his sword, sending a freezing wave of cold air in ElementFire’s direction. ElementFire screeched, “Farruit!” and his body was engulfed in flame.
“Thank you, Ice,” he said. “You have just allowed me to become a ball of flame.”
ElementFire tucked his arms in and flew at ElementIce like a comet. ElementIce took the full force of the blow, and landed of the steaming fountain which then froze over. The fireball that had engulfed ElementFire disappeared, and he staggered backwards into a house.
“Until we meet again, Icer!” ElementFire said as he got off the ground and sped away.
“Next time, however, Flameboy, I will be prepared!” ElementIce yelled into his wake.
ElementEarth stayed near the tree, because she found that it was harder to walk as ElementEarth. She couldn’t jump very high, but she decided that her new powers were better than being agile. She still had the gravity power that allowed her to intensify gravity on whatever she pointed at. She could also, by landing from a jump, start a small earthquake, but she decided that that power would be useless against ElementWind. After a while, she saw something with large wings flying in the distance. At first, she thought that it was a bird, but then she saw that it had a humanlike body. She conjured up some earthquakes, and, sure enough, ElementWind flew towards her. ElementWind landed In front of her and said, “So here you are, ElementEarth. Your puny little earthquakes have no effect on me, for I will be in the air!”
“Well,” replied ElementEarth as ElementWind soared into the sky, “I have another trick up my sleeve.”
“And what might that be, Elemen-”ElementWind felt the sting of the long whip before he saw it. He collapsed in a heap of feathers.
“Now,” ElementEarth said, “You are vulnerable to this!”
She jumped in the air to start an earthquake, but a strong gale of wind blew her off her feet. Another blow sent her tumbling into the great tree.
“You forgot the wind part of ElementWind, didn’t you, Earth?” ElementWind smiled.
ElementEarth got up to her feet prepared. When ElementWind sent the blast of wind, she hugged the tree tightly.
“No more of that, I’m afraid,” she said. “But,” she said as ElementWind flew up, “How about this!” She pointed at a tree in the distance, and concentrated on it and nothing but it. The tree immediately uprooted, and ElementWind stared at it as it hung in mid air. ElementEarth explained, “Yes, Wind. I was given the power of telekinesis!” She opened her eyes and now pointed at ElementWind. The tree spun towards him.
“I have now made you it’s center of gravity,” ElementEarth laughed as ElementWind flew frantically away from the speeding tree. She heard a cry from the distance that said, “You may have won the battle, but I’ll win the war!”
“Maybe,” she said softly. “We’ll see.”
The citizens of Atlantis had all seen the Elements, and they all didn’t like them. They were peace loving people, and hated war. They were hatching a plot, but it involved somehow creating another Element.
The people of Atlantis had a close affinity with the Greeks, as Atlantis was a Greek island. Therefore they worshipped Greek gods and believed in Greek beliefs.
Kirya was a young girl that led the people against the Elements. She had a kind heart, and was willing to sacrifice anything to get rid of the Elements and restore peace to the City of Dreams.
“Oh mighty lord Zeus,” Kirya prayed, “I am an Atlantean that requires your aid in my hour of need.
On Olympus, the mighty shape of Zeus stirred. A mortal was calling to him. He summoned Hermes, the messenger of the gods, and sent him to assist the young Atlantean.
Kirya looked in astonishment as the clouds opened up to reveal a glowing figure. The light dimmed, and before Kirya was Hermes, the god of speed. Kirya sank to her knees in a deep bow as Hermes inquired, “What is your name, mortal?”
“My name is Kirya,” Kirya replied, beginning to rise a little.
“How may I be of service to you, Kirya?” Hermes asked.
“Have any of the Olympic gods seen the Elements?” Kirya asked sadly.
“I don’t remember them saying anything about the Elements,” Hermes replied.
Kirya told him about the Elements. Hermes sped back up to Olympus to tell Zeus.
Zeus knew what to do. He went to the temple that Kirya was praying at and told her to go to the central fountain of Atlantis. Kirya obeyed, and listened to Zeus carefully.
“Kirya, to help you, I must make you into a fifth Element. It that okay with you?” Zeus’ voice boomed.
“Yes, Lord Zeus,” Kirya replied.
“To do that, I must strike you with a lightning bolt.”
“Y, yes, my lord,” Kirya stammered. This was beginning to worry her. Becoming an Element? Being struck by lightning?
“It would kill you, so when I strike you, think of nothing other than peace. Do you understand?” the voice boomed.
“Yes, I do.”
“Be ready.”
“Yes, Lord Zeus.”
Kirya thought of peace. She felt a jolt, and all was peaceful. She felt no different.
“Now,” the voice of Zeus boomed, “We, the gods, must teach you how to counter the Elements, because they will undoubtedly try to use their powers against you. My brother, Poseidon, being god of earthquakes, will instruct you on how to resist the earthquakes of Element Earth, Ares, Hephaestus, the blacksmith god, will make you fire-resistant armour, Athena will assist you against ElementIce, Ares will teach you to hold your ground against the powerful gales of ElementWind, and I will teach you how to use your new powers. So now…”
ElementFire shuddered. He felt the presence of a new Element, but he didn’t know where. He looked up into the sky and sighed. He then saw the great wings of ElementWind. He had known about ElementWind, but had never met him. He sent up a flare and shouted, “Hoi! Friend!”
ElementWind saw him and came in for a landing. ElementFire noticed his sleek, new weapon, the Skymitar. ElementFire introduced himself, and ElementWind followed suit.
“Brother Wind,” ElementFire started, “I can help you against Earth.”
“That would be great, Brother Fire,” ElementWind replied. “Then I shall help you against Brother Ice.”
“Together, our forces will become unbeatable.”
“Brother Fire,” ElementWind said, “Did you feel the…did you feel the presence of a new Element?”
“Yes, I did,” ElementFire replied.
“Follow me,” said ElementWind. “Come to the temple of Hera, the wife of the god Zeus.”
“I almost forgot about the gods, so help me Zeus!” ElementFire cried.
“We will pray to Hera for knowledge of the fifth Element.”
A most unlikely duo, Wind and Fire, set off to the Temple of Hera. They waded through the canals and apologized to the farmers, and eventually made it.
“Oh mighty Hera,” ElementWind began, “What is this new presence of a fifth Element?”
On Olympus, Hera heard a faint cry calling to her.
“The fifth of your kind is ElementLightning.” Hera said.
“Where can we find him? What is his purpose?” ElementFire inquired.
“All I may tell you about it is that ElementLightning’s a girl.” Hera replied.
ElementEarth was getting bored. She had not seen ElementWind for days, and longed for someone to talk to. She wandered west of the tree, and eventually came upon the frozen lake. She looked at it curiously. “What? It’s mid farming season!” She thought. How could it be froze-”
Her thoughts were interrupted by a light blue figure breaching out of a small hole in the pool.
“What on Earth do you think you’re doing?” ElementEarth shrieked as water cascaded over her. She recognized the figure as ElementIce, and immediately apologized.
“What are you doing here?” ElementIce hissed. “This is my shrine!”
“I can help you against ElementFire,” ElementEarth offered.
“How dare you speak that name in front of me?” ElementIce accused, pointing his weapon, the Icesaber, at ElementEarth’s neck.
“I dare,” she said. “And I will help you.”
“What makes you think that Ice, the mightiest of all the Elements would need help against his rival?” ElementIce stormed as he walked away.
“Because there is a new Element,” she said.
“There is?” ElementIce turned around. “What is the Element? Who is he?”
“I do not know. We must pray at the temple of Hera for answers.”
“Then come, Sister Earth.”
They banded together, marching through the farmlands as if they were gods themselves. When they reached the temple of Hera, They saw their rivals. ElementFire and ElementWind.
“If you came here to learn about the new Element,” ElementWind said, “It is ElementLightning.”
ElementIce lunged for ElementFire and took him by surprise. At the same time, ElementWind sent a gale of wind at ElementEarth, but missed and knocked down a statue of Hera. ElementFire was locked in a vicious swordfight with ElementIce, and chunks of ice and sparks were flying everywhere. ElementWind and ElementEarth were sending strong winds and pieces of the Hera statues at each other.
Hera felt a disturbance in her temple. She looked down to see the Elements defacing her temple. With a scream of fury, she sent ElementLightning there.
In a flash of light and the sound of a lightning bolt, ElementLightning stood in the middle of Hera’s temple. She was holding a lightning bolt in one hand like a spear and was clothed in flame-red armour.
“Elements!” she yelled. “May I have your attention please?”
The Elements stopped their combat to look at her.
“Your war is useless!” she announced. “It is but destroying our beautiful city!”
She was then hit by fire, ice, wind and an earthquake, but held her ground as if nothing had happened.
“I am the ultimate Element!” she said. “Even your strongest attacks won’t harm me! Now, will you surrender?”
“Never!” ElementWind, ElementFire, ElementIce and ElementEarth said in chorus.
“Until we meet again,” ElementLightning said, vanishing.
ElementFire and ElementWind met later at the volcano.
“This new Element…She is completely resistant to each of our powers,” ElementFire complained.
“There is only one thing to do,” said ElementWind. “We must somehow bind together, and use our mixed powers to get rid of her.”
“Great idea! But…how?” ElementFire said.
They thought and thought, until ElementWind came up with an idea.
“I have it!” he said. “Put your hand on my brown chest symbol.”
“Oh! And you put your hand on my red one…” ElementFire said.
They stood there for a few minutes, not knowing what to do next. After a while, ElementFire said, “We should try to use our powers.”
ElementWind sent a gust of wind at ElementFire, and ElementFire sent a huge blaze in ElementWind’s direction. After a huge explosion, ElementBlaze was born.
Watching ElementIce swim in the frozen lake, ElementEarth came up with an idea.
“Brother Ice,” she said when he surfaced, “I have an idea of how to get rid of ElementLightning.”
“Well, spit it out, then!” he hissed.
“We could fuse…somehow,” she replied.
“Okay, but how?”
ElementEarth thought for a moment and said, “Our elemental designs! We’ll touch each others, and then, then…”
ElementIce looked at ElementEarth’s heavily clothed body and said, “You have one?”
“On my forehead,” she replied, holding up her long bangs, revealing a bright blue design.
They put their hands on each other’s designs. ElementIce felt cold and slippery to ElementEarth’s touch. After standing in that ridiculous pose for a few minutes, both ElementEarth and ElementIce became very impatient. They both sent immense powers at each other- a block of ice and a large rock, and, before they hit, the powers of ice and nature fused, forming ElementOcean.
ElementLightning was enjoying a cup of nectar when she was startled by a sudden gust of wind. This didn’t feel like normal wind, or that of ElementWind. It had a warm feeling as well. She began to smell the salty smell of the sea, and this pleased her, so she continued to drink. At the exact moment that her lips touched her cup, the warm wind started again, but it was accompanied by a screeching sound. She looked up, and standing before her was ElementBlaze. His fiery eyes had a gleam in them, his curved, vicious looking sword gleamed green in the sunlight, although it was red with flame.
“Allow me to introduce myself. I am ElementBlaze, the combination of Fire and Wind,” he said.
“Oh, no…” ElementLightning muttered.
”Yes! The time has come for the Elements to rid Atlantis of lightning and continue the war!” ElementBlaze muttered.
The oceanic scent became stronger and stronger, until they saw a large wave gleaming on the horizon, which came closer, and crashed into the canal nearest them. The water continued to come towards them, and, when it was not so far away from them, swirled into the figure of an upright boy, clothed in vivid blue cloaks.
“I am ElementOcean, here to stop your…” his watery-sounding voice dropped off at the sight of ElementBlaze.
“And who the **** are you?” ElementOcean demanded.
ElementBlaze’s blazing, wavy hair suddenly enveloped his entire body, his arms turned black and held onto the blazing weapon tighter than ever, making the blade double in size. He sprouted black, flaming demon wings, and he said in a crackling voice, “I am ElementBlaze. I have come to end the reign of peace held up by ElementLightning.”
“Oh? That is my mission as well,” ElementOcean drawled.
They stood glaring at each other, and then turned to ElementLightning, who had stood up and prepared for a fight.
“For the Elements!” ElementOcean and ElementBlaze cried as they lunged at ElementLightning. ElementLightning had covered herself in a veil, deflecting them both. ElementOcean reached out his hand, and a column of water rose up, and formed a trident. He then pointed it at ElementLightning, whose veil had died away, and a jet of water shot out of each of the trident’s points, and formed one large jet of water. ElementLightning held out her spear of light and attempted to deflect the blow, but she was pummelled with the jet of water and collapsed. Not to be outdone by his rival, ElementBlaze summoned a tornado and blew into it, creating a huge vortex of fire. He pointed his curved weapon at ElementLightning, and said a short command. The whirlwind flew towards her, devastating everything in its path. It hit with a devastating force, and she got sucked up the vortex. Her burn-resistant armour was blown off by the force of the wind, so she was scorched to no end until the winds and flames died down. ElementLightning hurtled to the ground, but the impact was weakened by a column of water.
“Now,” ElementOcean said, approaching ElementLightning, “Do you surrender?”
She leapt to her feet and said, “I will not stop until Atlantis is safe from you!”
She pointed her spear of light and blasted both ElementOcean and ElementBlaze with two lightning bolts. ElementOcean’s liquid body conducted the blow, and he fell to the ground with a yell. When his body hit the ground, sparks crackled around his body. ElementBlaze took the full force of the bolt, but did not suffer any side effects.
“I hope that you take that into consideration next time you think about starting war on Atlantis,” ElementLightning warned before vanishing into a bolt of lightning.
ElementBlaze waited for ElementOcean to awaken before striking him. ElementBlaze stared at the sparking body, waiting for a groan or action of some sort. He occasionally prodded ElementOcean with his flaming sword, and watched his liquid body turn to steam and then regenerate. He decided that ElementOcean would be a much more difficult opponent to defeat than any single Element.
ElementOcean was secretly awake. As a regular Element, his eyes would have fluttered open by now, but ElementBlaze had once poked his forehead, so ElementOcean reformed it so that it would keep its eyes closed. He decided that the next time that ElementBlaze poked him on his forehead, he would open his eyes and jump up for an attack. ElementOcean heard a snort from ElementBlaze, and he then felt a fiery pain in his forehead. He opened his eyes and spun around in a vicious attack, catching ElementBlaze off guard. The watery trident of ElementOcean cut through ElementBlaze as a knife does to butter. ElementBlaze stared at the trident sticking out of him, and looked in horror at the panting ElementOcean. ElementBlaze pulled away from ElementOcean, but the trident was still protruding out of his torso. He then flared up in a delirious attempt to get rid of the watery weapon. He grew flaming, demon wings and wrapped them around his body; he flared his hair and spun around, causing the flaming hair to rest on the trident. He squeezed the weapon desperately, and it sizzled and disappeared into steam. ElementBlaze recovered from the shock of being stricken and panted heavily. ElementOcean stood, staring at the ground, with a look of amazement on his face.
“Blaze,” he spat, “I have an idea.”
Later, ElementBlaze and ElementOcean were standing face to face, with hands on each-other’s Element designs.
“I am sure that the only way to defeat ElementLightning is to fuse ourselves in one way or another,” ElementOcean said.
ElementBlaze summoned a flaming tornado with his extra hand, and ElementOcean cast a tsunami. They collided in the middle, Forming ElementSteam. ElementSteam looked at herself. She shook her long, wet, steaming hair, and held her steaming spear as if it was a snake. No part of her body was not heavily steaming.
“Let’s see how ElementLightning reacts to this!” she shouted, throwing her spear with deadly accuracy at the centre fountain of Atlantis.
ElementLightning was praying to Zeus for more help with the Elements when ElementSteam barged in.
“This is getting really annoying,” she muttered under her breath at the sight of ElementSteam.
“ElementLightning! You have finally met your match!” ElementSteam said.
“We’ll see about that,” ElementLightning replied.
They started circling each other, spears at the ready, teeth bared. They lunged for each other at the same time. ElementSteam’s spear hissed whenever it collided with the spear of ElementLightning. After a vicious lunge, ElementSteam jumped away from ElementLightning. ElementLightning thought this was the perfect time to cast lightning at her opponent, so she did so. ElementSteam had been waiting for this. Just before the bolt hit her, she turned into steam, and the bolt went through her without shocking her. The steam version of ElementSteam formed a ball, and went hurtling at ElementLightning. At the last minute, ElementSteam became solid and had her spear at the ready, pointing in front of her. ElementLightning was still too shocked to notice, so the spear of ElementSteam pierced her armour and heart. ElementLightning dropped dead with a roll of thunder. It immediately started to rain. The heavily panting ElementSteam separated into ElementOcean and ElementBlaze, who then separated into the normal Elements. ElementFire, ElementIce, ElementEarth and ElementWind stood momentarily stood, but then collapsed into unconsciousness.
On the banks of the river Styx, ElementLightning was arguing with Charon, the boatman of Styx.
“I will not carry across if you cannot pay,” Charon grumbled.
“I cannot pay. Take me across!” the disembodied soul of ElementLightning demanded.
“I will not.”
ElementLightning summoned a ball of lightning.
“This will be your pay if you don’t take me to Hades!” ElementLightning threatened.
“Yes, fine. I’ll take you across,” Charon hissed.
ElementLightning subsided the lightning ball and stepped onto the boat. Cursing, Charon took her across. At the gate, Hades was waiting. He growled, “Well, well, well. What have we here?” at the sight of ElementLightning.
“Lord Hades,” ElementLightning said, falling into a deep bow.
“I expect that Zeus will want your soul back into your body, and will pay dearly to get it,” Hades said. “And any minute now, that wretched Hermes will come by to get you.”
The dark river Styx suddenly illuminated, and down came Hermes, grinning like a cretin.
“I have been sent by Zeus,” Hermes announced, “To retrieve ElementLightning’s soul.”
“I will let you take her,” Hades began, “If she can tell me what her given name was.”
ElementLightning had been so caught up with fighting and praying recently that she had completely forgotten her name. She thought back to when Hermes had asked for her name….What had she replied?
“It was…Ki…Kir…Kirya…Kirya! My name was Kirya!” she said.
Hades grumbled and said, “Take her! I have no use for her.”
As an order from Hera, Hermes took the unconscious ElementLightning to Hephaestus, smith of the gods.
“As an order from Hera, I command you to make this girl completely impervious to Fire, Ice, Wind, and Earth in every one of their forms possible,” he announced.
“I will do my very best,” Hephaestus said, limping over to Hermes to pick the unconscious ElementLightning up.
ElementFire was trudging up the mountain to the pit of molten rock at the peak. With a dull wave of heat and a jump, ElementFire reached the top. He leapt into the crater, with a splash. The magma sizzled against his skin soothingly. ElementFire bit his lip. Even for him, lava took a bit of getting used to. He inhaled the inferno calmly. ElementIce would simply melt here, ElementFire thought as he fell into a deep sleep.
The waters of the Ever-Frozen lake shimmered as ElementIce dove into its deep waters. The frosty water soothed and healed the melted sores that he had assumed while he was ElementSteam. Once he was refreshed, he took off in search of ElementFire.
The wind in the Cave whistled even louder as ElementWind meditated. Using the sixth sense bestowed upon him by his calm minded state, he saw ElementFire in his fiery resting place, and ElementIce freezing the once-beautiful Atlantis with his ice cold weapon. He looked for ElementEarth, but she was nowhere in sight. Without a second thought, he continued the search for his enemy.
ElementEarth slipped into the Cave as silently as she could, which was not easy, considering her tendency to start earthquakes. She crept in, and there, in plain sight, sat ElementWind, his wings folded behind his back. She grimaced as she conjured up her whip with a snap of her fingers.
ElementWind’s perfectly honed mind instantly broke at the sound of fingers snapping.
Be warned that it includes gods and other things from Greek Mythology. Well, I guess this is what happens when you play too much Age of Mythology and eat too many cookies....Enjoy!
The City of Dreams was circular in shape. It was an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The centre of the City was occupied by a fountain in which the waters of Heaven flowed. The inhabitants of the City were carefree, smart people, they worked and farmed and led simple lives. On the outskirts of the island there were four phenomena. The first was a mighty mountain that many had seen, but were too frightened to climb. The second was a lake that was always frozen over, and had never been seen by the citizens of the City before. The third was a mighty cave where the wind never stopped whistling through, and those that had seen it told of it as a Shrine of Wind, and the fourth was an impossibly huge tree. All of the people had seen it, and called it the wonder on the City. I have just described The City of Dreams. Atlantis.
Iiotlos was a young boy from Atlantis, and his family were heading to outer Atlantis towards the great mountain. They intended to be the first to climb it, but their mission went awry.
“Iiotlos! Come back here! You’re too far up!” his mother yelled up the mountain.
A grunt came from above.
“Yes, mother,” Iiotlos replied. He made a few more grunts, and he came into view, holding a large rock.
“Put that back! It’s too heavy for you to carry!” his mother yelled at him.
Iiotlos headed back up the mountain, but held on to the rock. He wanted to see the mountain’s peak. He tried to cut back on his groaning. He stumbled a few times, but he quickly picked the rock back up. He was almost at the peak when he shouted down, “Come up!” to his family.
His father, mother and sister trudged on up. Iiotlos reached the peak. What he saw amazed him. Before him, a vast pool of magma lay, bubbling and steaming.
“Whoa…” he breathed, and weakened his grasp. The rock crushed his foot, causing him to yell and stumble into the pit. His father heard his yell, and ran up the mountainside. He arrived just in time to see his son disappear into the steam and smoke.
Liskok, holding his deer hide ball, ran out of his house. His brother, Horilo, was chasing him. Liskok had placed a large spider under Horilo’s hat. Horilo hated spiders. Horilo chased him past the market stalls in outer Atlantis, past the farming fields. Liskok had a much more agile build than Horilo, and he used that to his advantage. He spun around and kicked his ball at Horilo. It hit with astounding accuracy. Horilo stumbled and grunted, but continued after. Liskok saw a glimmering patch of…something on the horizon. He continued running, and realized that it was a frozen lake. “How could that be?” he thought. “It’s mid-farming season. How it that possible?” He ran towards it. Horilo followed close behind him. Liskok stepped onto the ice. It immediately shattered under his feet and he fell into the below freezing waters of the ever-frozen lake. Horilo saw his brother disappear into the waters.
Winsaar approached the whistling sound carefully. As he got closer, he saw the cave. He had only thought that the Elder’s stories were myths. He had known about this all his life, but had never accepted the fact that it was REAL. The cave was a whitish green-colour. It shone with small sparkles that glinted in the sun. Winsaar breathed heavily. He surveyed his surroundings. No-one was in sight, and the towering walls of Atlantis were barely visible against the setting sun. Winsaar felt a surge of purpose. He carefully walked into the cave. He journeyed in until he found a large hole in the cave roof. He looked up, and in a language he didn’t know, said,
“Kormanisila Winfeg komasaiana!”
Before Winsaar knew what was happening, a surge of wind coming from the mouth of the cave blew him up and he flew into the harsh weather of the clouds.
The Great Tree stood proudly above Atlantis. The Atlanteans worshipped it like a god.
Kemsyta, a young girl, stood at the base of the tree. She looked up into its massive branches, and spied one that she could reach. Kemsyta won every jumping contest she had ever entered, and used her talent here. She grabbed onto the branch and hoisted herself up. She leapt from branch to branch, and, when necessary, grabbed hold of the trunk of the tree and climbed up. At last, she reached the top. She stood up, and gleefully looked at the rest of Atlantis. She felt a drop of water on her ear. This shocked her, and she slipped on the Great Tree’s leaves, and fell down to earth. She fell onto branches, and bounced and fell, so when she hit the ground, she couldn’t possibly be alive.
Atlantis had a mysterious power cast over it that was cast thousands of years before the incidents happened. The power was a magic so great that not even the gods of Greece knew what to do about it. The magic was cast from each of the four phenomena, so the magic was strongest at each of the four, thus forming a seal on them. The magic was so strong at the phenomena that, if a human touched it, the seal would react with the elemental powers of the phenomena, and would alter the human in ways that the mind could never imagine.
Hours after the death of Iiotlos, his parents went up to the mouth of the volcano again. His mother called into the magma pit, “Iiotlos! How could you leave me like this?”
As if an answer to her plea, the smoke cleared. A dark shape with gleaming green eyes rose out of the pit. The shape came towards Iiotlos’ parents, and it became clearer.
“Iiotlos!” his parents breathed, but it was clearly not him. Iiotlos’ dark hair was replaced by flame, his sandals were up in flames, and his hands were occupied by a large, flaming sword and a round, flaming shield. However, the most distinguishing thing about him was the green symbol on his bare chest that depicted the flames of the volcano. He looked up at the cowering man and woman and replied, “Who’s Iiotlos? I’m ElementFire.”
“Who?” Iiotlos’s parents gasped.
“I am ElementFire!” he shouted over the crackle of his flames. ‘I have been chosen by the ancient powers of Atlantis to put an end to ice. Now where is he? Where is ElementIce?”
“Iiotlos, what have you done to yourself?” his father whispered.
Horilo ran around the frozen lake, looking for his brother. He was angry with his brother, but he didn’t mean for this to happen! Where could Liskok be? Horilo felt a sudden chill. He then saw a dark shape in the shape of a human rippling out of the water. Its eyes were as red as blood, and it was holding a long sabre made of solid ice. Icicles hung down from his feet, his hair, and from his arms. A dark red patch on his chest depicted crystals of ice.
“Where is he?” the shape said in a raspy voice.
“Are you looking for me?” Horilo whimpered.
The shape looked at him, and said, “No. Why would the great ElementIce want a mortal?”
“Liskok? If that’s you, stop fooling around and start running, because I’m going to follow close behind.” Horilo threatened.
“What?” ElementIce rasped. “You DARE call me Liskok!?”
“It’s your name, Liskok,” Horilo said.
ElementIce flew forward with immense speed and picked up Horilo by the neck.
“You, a mere mortal, dare insult me!?” ElementIce said with a slash of his sabre.
Horilo felt a stinging chill before his death.
Winsaar was a smart boy, and he had told his parents where he was going before he left. His father, after dark, went out to look for him. Holding a flaming torch, he set off in pursuit of the cave. When he finally found the cave, he saw two shining brown things in the caves enterance.
“Who are you?” he yelled.
“Why, father, you do not know me? I am your son, but I have changed.”
His father shone his torch onto the figure. It looked like his son, but had brown eyes, a brown picture of a cloud on his chest, and had large, feathery wings.
“Winsaar? Is that you?” his father asked.
“Nay, father. My destiny as Winsaar is over. I am now ElementWind.”
“What? Winsaar, I-”
“I am ElementWind! My destiny as Winsaar has been fulfilled, I now live as ElementWind! The destiny of ElementWind is to destroy ElementEarth. So, tell me, father-where is she? Where is ElementEarth?”
“Winsa-oh, ElementWind- you mean there are more? More Elements like you?”
“Aye, father. ElementFire, ElementIce and ElementEarth.”
“And you must fight ElementEarth to the death?”
“Yes. It is my destiny. Now, where is she?”
“ElementWind, I, I…I don’t want to lose you. You will always be Winsaar to me.”
“You do not know, then? You do not know where ElementEarth is?”
“No, my son,” said his father.
Kemsyta woke up to see hundreds of faces looking down on her.
“What?” she asked. “Where am I?”
She sat up. She looked at her hands. Where soft leather gloves had once been, there were now large gloves in the shape of tiger paws.
“Who am I?” she asked.
“You tell me,” a voice from the crowd said.
“I, I am…I’m ElementEarth.”
She covered her mouth in a horrified way.
She said, “I know that I was not always ElementEarth…I was…I was a young girl…but now…” her voice trailed off.
“But that is over! I am now the most powerful being on Atlantis!”
She pointed at the crowd.
“Now, I want you to all go and-”
As she pointed at the members of the crowd, they each collapsed and started struggling. She pointed at them again. They rose and shivered.
“Feel the power of the Earth!” ElementEarth shouted.
“Ouch…I sure do!” someone in the crowd said.
“Who said that?” ElementEarth demanded.
“I did,” said the person.
ElementEarth put her giant paw above her head. A long, jewelled, whip appeared in her hand.
“The Earth despises smart alecks,” ElementEarth said. “However, I have no time for this… Where is ElementWind? He will wish he had never been born!”
ElementFire headed towards Atlantis. He figured that ElementIce would probably go there. He had to wade through the canals, but his everlasting flame didn’t go out. As he walked past the farmlands, he left flaming patches in the farmer’s crops, and all of the farmers bowed to him and forgave him for destroying their crops. ElementFire reached Atlantis, and waited. All of the hustle of the normally busy Town Square disappeared as ElementFire turned the fountain into nothing but steam. He thought correct. He felt a distortion in the air, and saw a glistening path of ice being led by the one that could be none other that ElementIce himself.
“Why, ElementIce,” began ElementFire. “How nice of you to join me.”
“Stop it with the greetings, Flameboy,” ElementIce sneered.
“Why, of course, Icer!” ElementFire rose in the air. “Let the fighting begin!”
With that, ElementIce rose as well, and charged ElementFire. ElementFire dodged that and swung his massive flaming sword in a wide arc, missing ElementIce by inches. ElementIce lunged, but ElementFire parried the blow and sent ElementIce flying. ElementIce’s eyes glowed a stronger shade of red than before, and he yelled, “Draakh!” with a slash of his sword, sending a freezing wave of cold air in ElementFire’s direction. ElementFire screeched, “Farruit!” and his body was engulfed in flame.
“Thank you, Ice,” he said. “You have just allowed me to become a ball of flame.”
ElementFire tucked his arms in and flew at ElementIce like a comet. ElementIce took the full force of the blow, and landed of the steaming fountain which then froze over. The fireball that had engulfed ElementFire disappeared, and he staggered backwards into a house.
“Until we meet again, Icer!” ElementFire said as he got off the ground and sped away.
“Next time, however, Flameboy, I will be prepared!” ElementIce yelled into his wake.
ElementEarth stayed near the tree, because she found that it was harder to walk as ElementEarth. She couldn’t jump very high, but she decided that her new powers were better than being agile. She still had the gravity power that allowed her to intensify gravity on whatever she pointed at. She could also, by landing from a jump, start a small earthquake, but she decided that that power would be useless against ElementWind. After a while, she saw something with large wings flying in the distance. At first, she thought that it was a bird, but then she saw that it had a humanlike body. She conjured up some earthquakes, and, sure enough, ElementWind flew towards her. ElementWind landed In front of her and said, “So here you are, ElementEarth. Your puny little earthquakes have no effect on me, for I will be in the air!”
“Well,” replied ElementEarth as ElementWind soared into the sky, “I have another trick up my sleeve.”
“And what might that be, Elemen-”ElementWind felt the sting of the long whip before he saw it. He collapsed in a heap of feathers.
“Now,” ElementEarth said, “You are vulnerable to this!”
She jumped in the air to start an earthquake, but a strong gale of wind blew her off her feet. Another blow sent her tumbling into the great tree.
“You forgot the wind part of ElementWind, didn’t you, Earth?” ElementWind smiled.
ElementEarth got up to her feet prepared. When ElementWind sent the blast of wind, she hugged the tree tightly.
“No more of that, I’m afraid,” she said. “But,” she said as ElementWind flew up, “How about this!” She pointed at a tree in the distance, and concentrated on it and nothing but it. The tree immediately uprooted, and ElementWind stared at it as it hung in mid air. ElementEarth explained, “Yes, Wind. I was given the power of telekinesis!” She opened her eyes and now pointed at ElementWind. The tree spun towards him.
“I have now made you it’s center of gravity,” ElementEarth laughed as ElementWind flew frantically away from the speeding tree. She heard a cry from the distance that said, “You may have won the battle, but I’ll win the war!”
“Maybe,” she said softly. “We’ll see.”
The citizens of Atlantis had all seen the Elements, and they all didn’t like them. They were peace loving people, and hated war. They were hatching a plot, but it involved somehow creating another Element.
The people of Atlantis had a close affinity with the Greeks, as Atlantis was a Greek island. Therefore they worshipped Greek gods and believed in Greek beliefs.
Kirya was a young girl that led the people against the Elements. She had a kind heart, and was willing to sacrifice anything to get rid of the Elements and restore peace to the City of Dreams.
“Oh mighty lord Zeus,” Kirya prayed, “I am an Atlantean that requires your aid in my hour of need.
On Olympus, the mighty shape of Zeus stirred. A mortal was calling to him. He summoned Hermes, the messenger of the gods, and sent him to assist the young Atlantean.
Kirya looked in astonishment as the clouds opened up to reveal a glowing figure. The light dimmed, and before Kirya was Hermes, the god of speed. Kirya sank to her knees in a deep bow as Hermes inquired, “What is your name, mortal?”
“My name is Kirya,” Kirya replied, beginning to rise a little.
“How may I be of service to you, Kirya?” Hermes asked.
“Have any of the Olympic gods seen the Elements?” Kirya asked sadly.
“I don’t remember them saying anything about the Elements,” Hermes replied.
Kirya told him about the Elements. Hermes sped back up to Olympus to tell Zeus.
Zeus knew what to do. He went to the temple that Kirya was praying at and told her to go to the central fountain of Atlantis. Kirya obeyed, and listened to Zeus carefully.
“Kirya, to help you, I must make you into a fifth Element. It that okay with you?” Zeus’ voice boomed.
“Yes, Lord Zeus,” Kirya replied.
“To do that, I must strike you with a lightning bolt.”
“Y, yes, my lord,” Kirya stammered. This was beginning to worry her. Becoming an Element? Being struck by lightning?
“It would kill you, so when I strike you, think of nothing other than peace. Do you understand?” the voice boomed.
“Yes, I do.”
“Be ready.”
“Yes, Lord Zeus.”
Kirya thought of peace. She felt a jolt, and all was peaceful. She felt no different.
“Now,” the voice of Zeus boomed, “We, the gods, must teach you how to counter the Elements, because they will undoubtedly try to use their powers against you. My brother, Poseidon, being god of earthquakes, will instruct you on how to resist the earthquakes of Element Earth, Ares, Hephaestus, the blacksmith god, will make you fire-resistant armour, Athena will assist you against ElementIce, Ares will teach you to hold your ground against the powerful gales of ElementWind, and I will teach you how to use your new powers. So now…”
ElementFire shuddered. He felt the presence of a new Element, but he didn’t know where. He looked up into the sky and sighed. He then saw the great wings of ElementWind. He had known about ElementWind, but had never met him. He sent up a flare and shouted, “Hoi! Friend!”
ElementWind saw him and came in for a landing. ElementFire noticed his sleek, new weapon, the Skymitar. ElementFire introduced himself, and ElementWind followed suit.
“Brother Wind,” ElementFire started, “I can help you against Earth.”
“That would be great, Brother Fire,” ElementWind replied. “Then I shall help you against Brother Ice.”
“Together, our forces will become unbeatable.”
“Brother Fire,” ElementWind said, “Did you feel the…did you feel the presence of a new Element?”
“Yes, I did,” ElementFire replied.
“Follow me,” said ElementWind. “Come to the temple of Hera, the wife of the god Zeus.”
“I almost forgot about the gods, so help me Zeus!” ElementFire cried.
“We will pray to Hera for knowledge of the fifth Element.”
A most unlikely duo, Wind and Fire, set off to the Temple of Hera. They waded through the canals and apologized to the farmers, and eventually made it.
“Oh mighty Hera,” ElementWind began, “What is this new presence of a fifth Element?”
On Olympus, Hera heard a faint cry calling to her.
“The fifth of your kind is ElementLightning.” Hera said.
“Where can we find him? What is his purpose?” ElementFire inquired.
“All I may tell you about it is that ElementLightning’s a girl.” Hera replied.
ElementEarth was getting bored. She had not seen ElementWind for days, and longed for someone to talk to. She wandered west of the tree, and eventually came upon the frozen lake. She looked at it curiously. “What? It’s mid farming season!” She thought. How could it be froze-”
Her thoughts were interrupted by a light blue figure breaching out of a small hole in the pool.
“What on Earth do you think you’re doing?” ElementEarth shrieked as water cascaded over her. She recognized the figure as ElementIce, and immediately apologized.
“What are you doing here?” ElementIce hissed. “This is my shrine!”
“I can help you against ElementFire,” ElementEarth offered.
“How dare you speak that name in front of me?” ElementIce accused, pointing his weapon, the Icesaber, at ElementEarth’s neck.
“I dare,” she said. “And I will help you.”
“What makes you think that Ice, the mightiest of all the Elements would need help against his rival?” ElementIce stormed as he walked away.
“Because there is a new Element,” she said.
“There is?” ElementIce turned around. “What is the Element? Who is he?”
“I do not know. We must pray at the temple of Hera for answers.”
“Then come, Sister Earth.”
They banded together, marching through the farmlands as if they were gods themselves. When they reached the temple of Hera, They saw their rivals. ElementFire and ElementWind.
“If you came here to learn about the new Element,” ElementWind said, “It is ElementLightning.”
ElementIce lunged for ElementFire and took him by surprise. At the same time, ElementWind sent a gale of wind at ElementEarth, but missed and knocked down a statue of Hera. ElementFire was locked in a vicious swordfight with ElementIce, and chunks of ice and sparks were flying everywhere. ElementWind and ElementEarth were sending strong winds and pieces of the Hera statues at each other.
Hera felt a disturbance in her temple. She looked down to see the Elements defacing her temple. With a scream of fury, she sent ElementLightning there.
In a flash of light and the sound of a lightning bolt, ElementLightning stood in the middle of Hera’s temple. She was holding a lightning bolt in one hand like a spear and was clothed in flame-red armour.
“Elements!” she yelled. “May I have your attention please?”
The Elements stopped their combat to look at her.
“Your war is useless!” she announced. “It is but destroying our beautiful city!”
She was then hit by fire, ice, wind and an earthquake, but held her ground as if nothing had happened.
“I am the ultimate Element!” she said. “Even your strongest attacks won’t harm me! Now, will you surrender?”
“Never!” ElementWind, ElementFire, ElementIce and ElementEarth said in chorus.
“Until we meet again,” ElementLightning said, vanishing.
ElementFire and ElementWind met later at the volcano.
“This new Element…She is completely resistant to each of our powers,” ElementFire complained.
“There is only one thing to do,” said ElementWind. “We must somehow bind together, and use our mixed powers to get rid of her.”
“Great idea! But…how?” ElementFire said.
They thought and thought, until ElementWind came up with an idea.
“I have it!” he said. “Put your hand on my brown chest symbol.”
“Oh! And you put your hand on my red one…” ElementFire said.
They stood there for a few minutes, not knowing what to do next. After a while, ElementFire said, “We should try to use our powers.”
ElementWind sent a gust of wind at ElementFire, and ElementFire sent a huge blaze in ElementWind’s direction. After a huge explosion, ElementBlaze was born.
Watching ElementIce swim in the frozen lake, ElementEarth came up with an idea.
“Brother Ice,” she said when he surfaced, “I have an idea of how to get rid of ElementLightning.”
“Well, spit it out, then!” he hissed.
“We could fuse…somehow,” she replied.
“Okay, but how?”
ElementEarth thought for a moment and said, “Our elemental designs! We’ll touch each others, and then, then…”
ElementIce looked at ElementEarth’s heavily clothed body and said, “You have one?”
“On my forehead,” she replied, holding up her long bangs, revealing a bright blue design.
They put their hands on each other’s designs. ElementIce felt cold and slippery to ElementEarth’s touch. After standing in that ridiculous pose for a few minutes, both ElementEarth and ElementIce became very impatient. They both sent immense powers at each other- a block of ice and a large rock, and, before they hit, the powers of ice and nature fused, forming ElementOcean.
ElementLightning was enjoying a cup of nectar when she was startled by a sudden gust of wind. This didn’t feel like normal wind, or that of ElementWind. It had a warm feeling as well. She began to smell the salty smell of the sea, and this pleased her, so she continued to drink. At the exact moment that her lips touched her cup, the warm wind started again, but it was accompanied by a screeching sound. She looked up, and standing before her was ElementBlaze. His fiery eyes had a gleam in them, his curved, vicious looking sword gleamed green in the sunlight, although it was red with flame.
“Allow me to introduce myself. I am ElementBlaze, the combination of Fire and Wind,” he said.
“Oh, no…” ElementLightning muttered.
”Yes! The time has come for the Elements to rid Atlantis of lightning and continue the war!” ElementBlaze muttered.
The oceanic scent became stronger and stronger, until they saw a large wave gleaming on the horizon, which came closer, and crashed into the canal nearest them. The water continued to come towards them, and, when it was not so far away from them, swirled into the figure of an upright boy, clothed in vivid blue cloaks.
“I am ElementOcean, here to stop your…” his watery-sounding voice dropped off at the sight of ElementBlaze.
“And who the **** are you?” ElementOcean demanded.
ElementBlaze’s blazing, wavy hair suddenly enveloped his entire body, his arms turned black and held onto the blazing weapon tighter than ever, making the blade double in size. He sprouted black, flaming demon wings, and he said in a crackling voice, “I am ElementBlaze. I have come to end the reign of peace held up by ElementLightning.”
“Oh? That is my mission as well,” ElementOcean drawled.
They stood glaring at each other, and then turned to ElementLightning, who had stood up and prepared for a fight.
“For the Elements!” ElementOcean and ElementBlaze cried as they lunged at ElementLightning. ElementLightning had covered herself in a veil, deflecting them both. ElementOcean reached out his hand, and a column of water rose up, and formed a trident. He then pointed it at ElementLightning, whose veil had died away, and a jet of water shot out of each of the trident’s points, and formed one large jet of water. ElementLightning held out her spear of light and attempted to deflect the blow, but she was pummelled with the jet of water and collapsed. Not to be outdone by his rival, ElementBlaze summoned a tornado and blew into it, creating a huge vortex of fire. He pointed his curved weapon at ElementLightning, and said a short command. The whirlwind flew towards her, devastating everything in its path. It hit with a devastating force, and she got sucked up the vortex. Her burn-resistant armour was blown off by the force of the wind, so she was scorched to no end until the winds and flames died down. ElementLightning hurtled to the ground, but the impact was weakened by a column of water.
“Now,” ElementOcean said, approaching ElementLightning, “Do you surrender?”
She leapt to her feet and said, “I will not stop until Atlantis is safe from you!”
She pointed her spear of light and blasted both ElementOcean and ElementBlaze with two lightning bolts. ElementOcean’s liquid body conducted the blow, and he fell to the ground with a yell. When his body hit the ground, sparks crackled around his body. ElementBlaze took the full force of the bolt, but did not suffer any side effects.
“I hope that you take that into consideration next time you think about starting war on Atlantis,” ElementLightning warned before vanishing into a bolt of lightning.
ElementBlaze waited for ElementOcean to awaken before striking him. ElementBlaze stared at the sparking body, waiting for a groan or action of some sort. He occasionally prodded ElementOcean with his flaming sword, and watched his liquid body turn to steam and then regenerate. He decided that ElementOcean would be a much more difficult opponent to defeat than any single Element.
ElementOcean was secretly awake. As a regular Element, his eyes would have fluttered open by now, but ElementBlaze had once poked his forehead, so ElementOcean reformed it so that it would keep its eyes closed. He decided that the next time that ElementBlaze poked him on his forehead, he would open his eyes and jump up for an attack. ElementOcean heard a snort from ElementBlaze, and he then felt a fiery pain in his forehead. He opened his eyes and spun around in a vicious attack, catching ElementBlaze off guard. The watery trident of ElementOcean cut through ElementBlaze as a knife does to butter. ElementBlaze stared at the trident sticking out of him, and looked in horror at the panting ElementOcean. ElementBlaze pulled away from ElementOcean, but the trident was still protruding out of his torso. He then flared up in a delirious attempt to get rid of the watery weapon. He grew flaming, demon wings and wrapped them around his body; he flared his hair and spun around, causing the flaming hair to rest on the trident. He squeezed the weapon desperately, and it sizzled and disappeared into steam. ElementBlaze recovered from the shock of being stricken and panted heavily. ElementOcean stood, staring at the ground, with a look of amazement on his face.
“Blaze,” he spat, “I have an idea.”
Later, ElementBlaze and ElementOcean were standing face to face, with hands on each-other’s Element designs.
“I am sure that the only way to defeat ElementLightning is to fuse ourselves in one way or another,” ElementOcean said.
ElementBlaze summoned a flaming tornado with his extra hand, and ElementOcean cast a tsunami. They collided in the middle, Forming ElementSteam. ElementSteam looked at herself. She shook her long, wet, steaming hair, and held her steaming spear as if it was a snake. No part of her body was not heavily steaming.
“Let’s see how ElementLightning reacts to this!” she shouted, throwing her spear with deadly accuracy at the centre fountain of Atlantis.
ElementLightning was praying to Zeus for more help with the Elements when ElementSteam barged in.
“This is getting really annoying,” she muttered under her breath at the sight of ElementSteam.
“ElementLightning! You have finally met your match!” ElementSteam said.
“We’ll see about that,” ElementLightning replied.
They started circling each other, spears at the ready, teeth bared. They lunged for each other at the same time. ElementSteam’s spear hissed whenever it collided with the spear of ElementLightning. After a vicious lunge, ElementSteam jumped away from ElementLightning. ElementLightning thought this was the perfect time to cast lightning at her opponent, so she did so. ElementSteam had been waiting for this. Just before the bolt hit her, she turned into steam, and the bolt went through her without shocking her. The steam version of ElementSteam formed a ball, and went hurtling at ElementLightning. At the last minute, ElementSteam became solid and had her spear at the ready, pointing in front of her. ElementLightning was still too shocked to notice, so the spear of ElementSteam pierced her armour and heart. ElementLightning dropped dead with a roll of thunder. It immediately started to rain. The heavily panting ElementSteam separated into ElementOcean and ElementBlaze, who then separated into the normal Elements. ElementFire, ElementIce, ElementEarth and ElementWind stood momentarily stood, but then collapsed into unconsciousness.
On the banks of the river Styx, ElementLightning was arguing with Charon, the boatman of Styx.
“I will not carry across if you cannot pay,” Charon grumbled.
“I cannot pay. Take me across!” the disembodied soul of ElementLightning demanded.
“I will not.”
ElementLightning summoned a ball of lightning.
“This will be your pay if you don’t take me to Hades!” ElementLightning threatened.
“Yes, fine. I’ll take you across,” Charon hissed.
ElementLightning subsided the lightning ball and stepped onto the boat. Cursing, Charon took her across. At the gate, Hades was waiting. He growled, “Well, well, well. What have we here?” at the sight of ElementLightning.
“Lord Hades,” ElementLightning said, falling into a deep bow.
“I expect that Zeus will want your soul back into your body, and will pay dearly to get it,” Hades said. “And any minute now, that wretched Hermes will come by to get you.”
The dark river Styx suddenly illuminated, and down came Hermes, grinning like a cretin.
“I have been sent by Zeus,” Hermes announced, “To retrieve ElementLightning’s soul.”
“I will let you take her,” Hades began, “If she can tell me what her given name was.”
ElementLightning had been so caught up with fighting and praying recently that she had completely forgotten her name. She thought back to when Hermes had asked for her name….What had she replied?
“It was…Ki…Kir…Kirya…Kirya! My name was Kirya!” she said.
Hades grumbled and said, “Take her! I have no use for her.”
As an order from Hera, Hermes took the unconscious ElementLightning to Hephaestus, smith of the gods.
“As an order from Hera, I command you to make this girl completely impervious to Fire, Ice, Wind, and Earth in every one of their forms possible,” he announced.
“I will do my very best,” Hephaestus said, limping over to Hermes to pick the unconscious ElementLightning up.
ElementFire was trudging up the mountain to the pit of molten rock at the peak. With a dull wave of heat and a jump, ElementFire reached the top. He leapt into the crater, with a splash. The magma sizzled against his skin soothingly. ElementFire bit his lip. Even for him, lava took a bit of getting used to. He inhaled the inferno calmly. ElementIce would simply melt here, ElementFire thought as he fell into a deep sleep.
The waters of the Ever-Frozen lake shimmered as ElementIce dove into its deep waters. The frosty water soothed and healed the melted sores that he had assumed while he was ElementSteam. Once he was refreshed, he took off in search of ElementFire.
The wind in the Cave whistled even louder as ElementWind meditated. Using the sixth sense bestowed upon him by his calm minded state, he saw ElementFire in his fiery resting place, and ElementIce freezing the once-beautiful Atlantis with his ice cold weapon. He looked for ElementEarth, but she was nowhere in sight. Without a second thought, he continued the search for his enemy.
ElementEarth slipped into the Cave as silently as she could, which was not easy, considering her tendency to start earthquakes. She crept in, and there, in plain sight, sat ElementWind, his wings folded behind his back. She grimaced as she conjured up her whip with a snap of her fingers.
ElementWind’s perfectly honed mind instantly broke at the sound of fingers snapping.
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