The 4 Elements by Mistflower the Warrior Cat (easy novels to read .txt) 📕

“What has gotten into her?” asked Liz with wide eyes. I covered my ears. The demon just flew off to prevent any fights. Natalie was unconscious. She was scared of a demon for some reason. I knew it was not a good time to laugh. I looked at the demon and used a stick and poked it. It got scared and flew away. I looked at Natalie with a confused look.

“You seemed to be pretty shaken up Nat.” I said. But Natalie just sat there, frozen like a frightened cat. We all stared at her.

“Natalie, it's alright, the demon is gone.” calmed Flame. With that, Natalie blinked and shook her head to get things straight in her mind.

“What happened?” she looked confused. We looked at her in disbelief. Was there some connection with the demons and Natalie? The purple sky cleared and the light blue sky revealed itself from the clouds and darkness. The sun was high in the sky. But Liz, Flame and I still looked at Natalie, who is still confused of what had just happened.

The night sky was above the blue sea. I looked up at the stars, wondering about the incident that happened today. Nearby, Natalie was crying. It was not normal to see such a strong girl sob that hard. I went to her and patted her on the back. She looked at me in surprise. “Shouldn't you be asleep?” she snarled.

“If I'm asleep, shouldn't you be too?” I asked.

“I don't rest that much.” she replied with a sniff.

“Why don't you tell me what happened and why you're crying.” I said.

“I'm a chicken. I can't see another demon in my life ever again.” she wiped a tear with her sleeve.

“And why is that?” I asked. She pause for a moment. Her eyes started to grow bigger. Her pupil turning smaller. She looked far to the horizon, staring at something. I looked at what she was looking at. There, all I saw was the dark sky meeting the water. I gave a confused look at Natalie. Suddenly, she let out a gasp and covered her mouth. She had seen something I couldn't. Or was she thinking? I took her hand and told her, “Tell me what you see.”

“Demon, pain, horror.” she mumbled still staring at the horizon. I looked at her in fright. Demons? Pain? What did she mean? Demons wouldn't follow us here since we have just scared one off today. I looked into her eyes, what I saw was frightening.

In Natalie's eyes, I could see demons surrounding her. Some were destroying her village. Fire was everywhere. The demons were closing in on Natalie. She started fighting. It was chaos. Then, I saw two people screaming as they disappeared into mist. Natalie stopped and froze there. That was all I saw in her eye.

I looked at her and managed to see a tear drop. She was probably startled by that experience. That's probably why she doesn't want to see a demon. But that doesn't explain why she's that scared. There seems to have a meaning why she is nice to me now, not before. I looked up at her. “Where's your parents?” I asked, thinking about the two people I saw scream and fade into mist. She looked up at me. Her eyes suddenly changing colour. It started to turn very dark blue. More like purple. There seemed to be a skull in the middle of her pupil. She slapped me across the face and went to sleep. I thought I heard her say I don't know.

I had another dream that night. This time, it was more like a memory, but not my memory. I was just practising some of my fighting moves with my friends. We laughed and played. It was perfect. There was also a man with a long white beard. It must have been Shi Fu. I ran up to him. He nodded his head. Suddenly, the sky turned dark. It turned into the purple sky I've seen before. The villagers in my village ran to hide. Yet, I was only a child. Maybe about 8 years old. My parents ran inside the house. We heard heavy breathing. Shi Fu told me to get my weapons ready. I did as I was told. My mom told me to be careful. Demons approached all at once. There were thousands of them. All attacking my village. I defended as much as I could. Suddenly, I was surrounded by demons. I looked around and saw my parents, suffering. They reached out and disappeared into mist. I was frozen. I couldn't concentrate. Tears streamed down my cheeks. I felt so powerless. No more mom or dad, no more friends, no more happiness. I was like dead. Suddenly, a demon lunged towards me and bit my arm. The pain the evil. I held it tight and looked at it. It was too late. I screamed in pain. I fell down in pain. More tears down my cheek. When I woke up, the village was gone. Everything, gone. Someone found me and took me to another place to live. I couldn't remember anything.

I woke up in horror. It's like I've had that dream before. Like, in the very beginning of this journey. I was so scared, I didn't have the appetite to eat. I stared at the fish, then Natalie, reading a book. She looked at me and scowled. I looked back at my fish and took a bite. I shut my eyes and thought back to the memory. Who was I thinking of? I had never had any memory like this before. I looked at Natalie one more time and left the breakfast table and went towards Lavender. “Hey boy! Want to practice some moves?” I exclaimed. Lavender looked into my eyes and saw something. I wasn't sure what but he kept staring at it. “Lavender?” I asked. Lavender finally got his mind straight and jumped up and down and squawked. I turned back at the breakfast table and saw Flame sharpening her copper gold daggers. Her dark brown hair covered her dark brown eyes. She still wore the red cotton shirt the day I met her. It had yellow decorations that seemed either like fire or flowers. I turned and saw Lavender still waiting for a lesson on how to make her more powerful. I sighed with a smile and bent my knees. “Let's test your reflexes.”

I got a stick and sharpened it with my nail. There has to be an easier way. I looked at the river nearby. Suddenly, it hit me. A grin spread across my face. I pointed my hand the the water and concentrated. This wasn't something new, levitating water, but I hadn't done it in a long time. I slowly rose my hand and a fountain of water followed. It was a masterpiece. It slowly came towards me and the water froze into ice. I took the piece of ice and it slowly became the shape of a knife. I took it and started sharpening the stick. “That's not what the powers are for, you know.” a voice crept behind me. I looked behind me and jumped. It was Flame. I was always a bit scared to see Flame. Whenever she talks to me, it's like I did something wrong. She was like the 'leader' of the group. I looked at her and just stayed in my position, hoping nothing bad would happen.

“I know.” I admitted, “It's not like I'm gonna risk a nail, right?”

She giggled and replied, “Your pretty interesting when people get to know you.” She took a seat beside me and moved her bangs back. I stared at her brown eyes. They were beautiful. I guess I never really got to see her eyes since her bangs always blocked the way. I saw that Lavender was just resting there, staring at the river. It was my chance. I threw the stick at him. He reacted and snapped it in half.

“Good job!” I said.

“You know, Natalie is great at aiming. You can use some practise from her.” added Flame. I ignored her comment and petted Lavender. Suddenly, the compass was glowing. I had totally forgotten about that! I took it and looked at it. The fire symbol shone.

“What's that?” asked Flame. I turned my head and trembled. She peeked over and looked back at me.

“Umm...” I stumbled, “Something.”

“I guess we all have secrets to keep.” she said. She lifted up her sleeve. I saw a burn. It was scary. The shape of a skull. I stared at it.

“What's that?” I asked.

“Something.” she replied. I sighed and turned back to her.

“Can you please tell me?” I asked. She sighed and looked down.

“Fine.”she sighed, “This happened a couple years ago, there was a fire at my village. It was terrible.”

“Wow.”

“And, there was this guy. He was my life.”

“Name?”

“Daniel. He was my -”

“Boyfriend.” I interrupted thinking of Carl. I hadn't thought about him in a long time.

“You can say that. Anyways, in the fire, I came out perfectly fine except for this burn on my arm.” she explained. I looked at her arm. Lavender looked at me and shot out some dark smoke. I smiled.

“Continue,” I said, turning back my attention to Flame.

“He didn't make it out alive. The fire, it was just, so, strange.” she tried to explain. I thought for a moment. Then thought that the dark lord must have something to do with this. I turned to her and just stared at her hair. I managed to see a tear, stream down her left cheek.

“We all have obstacles.” I comforted. She looked up and picked up a pebble. She threw it as hard as she could. I bounced several times and finally, landed in the water with a plop.

“I continued without him from that day on.” she concluded, and pulled down her sleeve. Flame gave the river one last look and walked away. Lavender looked at me, I think he was trying to say, “There's much more you don't know.” 

At camp, Liz came up to me. It's been a long time since I last talked to her. “Hey.” she said. I looked back at her.

“Hi.”

“Sorry for the incidents.” she apologized.

“I understand.” I replied. There was an awkward silence for about ten seconds.

“You wanna practise our elemental powers?” she suggested.

“Sure, if there's really nothing to do.” I giggled. I got up and we headed towards a valley.

“Where's Lavender?” asked Liz, noticing that Lavender wasn't here. I looked around and found Lavender, jumping. No, more like trying to fly.

“There's that little chicken.” I joked. We laughed again.

“You're funny.” she added after the joke, “Lets start with levitation, well, for you levitation.”

“And you?” I added.

“Control.” she replied. So I started to make my way towards the river, till I felt a gust of wind blow behind me. I turned around and saw a mini tornado form from the ground. I looked at Liz, who was turning her hands and fingers. The tornado grew