CHAPTER 37
THE FIFTH ELEMENT 🌊🔥🌪️⛰️☯️
Chapter 37☯️☯️☯️
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Cassie's POV
When I opened my eyes, I tried to take in my surroundings. Everything looked a bit blurry, I blinked a few times before I could make out something.
Everything looked old, starting from the windows, curtains, the chairs that were sitting beside me, even the wooden floor.
I looked over to the side and saw someone wearing a white coat. Like a doctor.
That's weird. Is this a hospital?
But it all looks so old and odd.
I didn't know when a slight groan escaped my lips.
The man on the lab coat turned to me and smiled.
It was Ken Griffey.
"Cassie! You're awake. Finally. How are you feeling?" He asked me.
"Huh?" I asked in confusion.
"You must still be in shock. Well that's okay. You'll be fine in no time. Oh and also, I hope you don't mind, needed a little bit of your blood for more tests for my staff. Couldn't wait for you to wake up, so I helped myself." Mr Ken said to me.
"You what?" I asked tiredly.
"Don't worry, I didn't take much. Just a little bit. I'll have someone feed you well later because I'll be needing a lot more of your magical blood for my experiment to reach perfection." Mr Ken said while inspecting the pile of blood on his hand.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked him weakly.
"You won't get it Cassie. But trust me, I'm just trying to help people win a war. Life's been unfair to them for a long time. It's time to take back what is meant for them." He said to me.
"War? Wait is it the same war people at school keep talking about?" I asked him.
"Um I see you know about it. Good. With your help, the war will be won quite easily by us." He smirked.
"Who's Us? You and your little friends?" I spat.
"Oh about them, I sincerely apologize on their behalf. It wasn't supposed to go that way. If you were more cooperative, it wouldn't have been that way." He said going back to his equipments.
"What are you going to do with me now? You have the blood you want.... now let me go." I said to him and he chuckled.
"No. I don't have enough blood yet. But Once I have enough, I'll let you go. So do not fret." He said to me and smiled.
I looked down at the chair I was sitting and saw that my feet were glued to the ground and the wooden chair I was sitting on has a strong branch that wrapped my hands tight to the arms of the chair.
Must be some earth magic trick.
I let out a heavy breath.
This is sickening. I really hope someone at school has noticed me being gone.
Madeline or Jake. Perhaps one of them will be the first to notice I'm missing and come for my rescue.
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After what seemed like forever, Mr Ken Griffey showed up in front of me again with a syringe.
"Seriously? What now?" I said in disgust.
"You've been sitting for quite a while now. I need to show you around. I don't want you thinking you're a prisoner or something." He said to me and I furrowed my eyebrows.
"How thoughtful of you." I spat at him.
"But first, I have to make sure we're safe to let you walk freely so I hope you don't mind, it's just a little precaution." He said and brought the syringe close to my arms and injected whatever gross thing that was in it into my arms.
I felt funny for a second but shook it out a few times.
"What the hell was that?" I asked him.
"We like to call it 'Magic blocker', it'll block out your magic for just a few hours. Sometimes minutes, depending on the person's level of mastering of their magic." He explained.
I chuckled bitterly, "You're sick."
"It's nothing personal Cassie." He said and brought out something that looked like a phone.
"You're needed now." He spoke into it and put it back in his pocket.
After a few minutes, a guy showed up. I remember him. He was with those kids that came to capture me.
Although he didn't speak much.
He walked straight to where I was sitting.
He stretched out his hand towards me and suddenly the branches that wrapped around me, slowly started retreating back to the wall, I held my hands immediately it got free and rubbed where it was tied, it was red and bruised now.
My feet also detached from the ground.
Immediately I saw I was completely free, I stood up from the chair and went in for the run.
I ran towards the door the boy came from in hopes of escaping.
My hopes were crushed when I opened the door and saw two of those kids standing right in front of the door.
The ice girl that punched me to unconsciousness and the crazy blue flamed boy. Great!.
"What do you think you're doing?" The girl asked me with a raised eyebrow.
"Where do YOU think you're going?" The blue flame boy asked me with a smirk plastered on his face.
"Whatever." I said defeated and went back to where Mr Ken Griffey was standing.
"So.... are you showing me around or what?" I asked him and he smiled.
"Ofcourse. Please follow me. And you can also ask any question you want." He replied.
I can't believe he isn't seeing anything wrong with what he's doing.
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Mr Ken Griffey gave me a thorough tour of where they were leaving.
It was a mess. Nothing like the school at all. This place looked like an outskirts of the school. It looked old and abandoned.
We passed several other kids my age probably. Most of them wore black attire.
From what I noticed, they all had powers too. Just like everyone back in school.
"You must be wondering why all these people are here." Mr Ken said to me as we continued passing by many people.
"Yeah actually. How come they're not in school? I thought there was only one school for elementals." I asked him curiously.
"There is only one school. But the school turned their backs on them. Abandoned them just because they were a little different." He explained.
"Different? In what way?" I asked.
"You see Cassie, people tend to fear what they do not understand." Mr Ken said to me.
I remember someone saying this to me.
"I don't get it." I replied.
"Everyone you see here Cassie, is special. They all have special powers. Not the regular elemental powers we all know. We were made to believe that Fire , Water, Air and Earth were the only truely accepted elemental magic there was. Nothing extra. But we were wrong. Each element has sides or rather locked portion of it. But some people were born with the locked part already opened. While some were born never to discover the locked portion of their magic." He explained.
I think I was beginning to understand what he's saying.
Like how Damon has Ice powers but is a water elemental.
"So you're saying there are powers within a power?" I asked him and he nodded and smiled.
"You're getting me. I like that." He said.
I kept silent and he continued.
"Tell me Cassie, does one choose how they want to be born? No. They don't. So why would they be judged just by what they were born with? Why should they be cast out of their homes and scraped of their rights? Why treat them like plagues when the gods created this gifts themselves? It isn't fair. These people have had enough. It's time to take back what's also theirs to have." Mr Ken narrated while staring into the air.
"What do I have to do with all these? I'm not the one discriminating anyone. So why involve me?" I asked him.
"Oh Cassie. You have everything to do with this. Your parents. They were at war because of this. Your mother couldn't handle the fact that your father supported us. But I will make you see reasons with me. To see why your own father was against the school as well." Mr Ken Griffey said to me.
I tried to understand what he was saying.
My parents?
"What are you talking about? Do you know who my real parents were?" I asked him and he smiled.
"Yes. But I didn't know them well enough. Although I can take you to the one who does. This man will tell you everything you need to know about your parents. Perhaps after talking with him, you might even join our side in this war." He said to me.
I chuckled slightly.
"Don't be delusional. And fine.... Please do take me to this Man, let's have more chats and get this over with so I could go back home.. " I said to him and he nodded.
"We'll see. Anyway let's go. There's someone you should meet." He said to me and lead the way while I followed by swiftly.
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