The Elementals #2 by Kiki XoXo (books for new readers .txt) 📕

"Well.. even if you are marrying him.. you still let Elijah have you blood." He smirks, and I move away. I get what he is wanting now.  I try to take my hand back. "Oh come on Lyra, you know you want me to." He whispers. 

"No." I say. Why is he able to hold on to me so tightly? It's like he got super human strength!

"Yes." 

"Sebastien knock it off." I warn him. No matter if I want him to kiss me or touch me at all it's not right.  I'm with Thayer. That's why I tried to not let anything happen with Elijah... but with the dumb bond it's a little harder to say no to him. I stop trying to pull away from him, I send him a glare and it just seems to encourage him. "Seriously. Stop before any of the others wake up." 

"You just told me you still have feelings for me. I'm not going to give up, Lyra. I know we are ment to be together, even if you marry Thayer or have a bond with Dr. Drake." He says and he lets go of me. "I will wait." 

"Well.. it will be a while." I inform him, stepping away. As I walk away though my head begins to spin. Even though I'm getting married and have a bond with a vampire he still thinks we're ment to be together? I wonder why... I sit next to Thayer, taking a quick glance at Sebastien who is in the kitchen still. He made himself busy with cooking breakfast. I watch him, trying to figure him out.  He is going to wait for me? That's a very romantic thing to say...a lot of things he said to me were really romantic. How is so sure? Why does he have these strong feelings for me? I don't understand boys.. or men. 

Of course I also have all the guy troubles at the same time as a war too. What am I going to do about Donatello? My true nature!? Holy shit, the world is just out to get me! I can't do this! People are going to die in this, I can't let anyone get hurt because of all this. Everyone here is willing to risk their lives. How fucked up is it though that the queen is part of the problem? I mean that is crazy! She built this place why would she want to destroy it? I wonder what Donatello wants to do once he wins? If he wins. Evil never wins in the stories, but it seems he has a huge advantage in this war. What happens when this war lasts years, and my true nature turns out to be evil? Then what? 

A pound on the door pulls me from my thoughts. Thayer next to me shoots up, and Sebastien turns the sink off in the kitchen. He glances over at me, and walks towards the door. I skuttle to my feet running over with him. Who would pound on Theodore's door this early. It's only six in the morning. I've been up since probably three or four from Elijah... god today is going to be long. I grab the knob, pushing Sebastien behind me. Thayer is up and coming over too. I pull open the door, and slam it shut. 

"We need to get out of here now!" I yell, waking everyone up. 

"What? Why?" Theodore asks, alert and ready for anything. I already have almost everything we'll need packed and ready to go, once everyone is standing up and wondering what's going on. "Lyra?" 

"There are explosives tied to the bottom of this thing. We need to get out before they go off." I say ushering people out the door and down the stairs. We all get down and away from the tower/loft and we get far enough away to still be able to watch without being in danger of getting hurt. I do a quick head count making sure everyone is out with us. Once I know we are all here and all okay, I hand out the box of pop tarts for everyone to eat for breakfast. 

Now, I wonder who set up the explosives? I mean, if the queen did it.. then that would mean she is for sure trying to kill her kids. But if Donatello did it... ugh. I don't know and I guess it doesn't really even matter.

"I have to go back!" I hear Sebastien, but it doesn't exactly register what he said until he is already half way up the stairs, and everyone is yelling for him to come back. I'm up and moving right away, and I told everyone else to stay where they are. I run after him, and see him looking around the kitchen. 

"What in the hell are you doing! We need to get out of he-" The ground starts shaking, and there is a loud boom from outside. "Sebastien!" I yell, keeping my balance. Shit this place is going down. 

"I need to find that key!" He yells back. " My father gave it to me, and said to never lose it." I smile at what he is doing, but I'm still not happy.  I help him look, and after a minute I get it. We run towards the door and stairs but when I swing the door open I see the stairs are gone and a fire is buidling up the wall. 

"We have to jump!" I yell! I see fear cross his face, and in that second the tower tilts loosing part of it's side. It sends both of us flying back into the loft. "Sebastien!? Are you okay?" I hold the wall for support, looking around for him. Where did he go? I don't see him anywhere! 

"I'm good!" He pokes his head up from the chair. I get mad for a slight second that he was thrown into a chair, and I was thrown into a wall. I get over it quick as the building keeps tiping. "What do we do?" He yells. I look around, trying to figure that out. There isn't any rope up here, and beisdes the fire would burn rope. There isn't another set of stairs we can go down. In fact that's the only door to get up here, other then windows we're stuck. 

Window... I can fly! I make my way to the window a couple feet away, being careful how I do it. there isn't really a flat level ground anymore, so I have to step on the wall and floor. I work on getting it open before I even get Sebastien, besides I'm not sure how to get Sebastien down here safely, I end up breaking it, and the whole window frame pops out, but it topples to the ground shattering. 

"Sebastien!" I yell, looking for him up in the chair.

"Here!" I he says, right behind me. 

"How did you get here?" I ask,  facing him. He points to the path he took, showing me how he just hopped from furniture to furniture. "Well... great.. that's awesome. Now we have to jump." I tell him again, and he nods. I'm confused at how... strong he is being. I mean running into a building with explosives is one thing, but he doesn't look scared at all now. Also earlier when he grabbed me, his grip was strong. The tower goes through another quake, and Sebastien moves closer to me and the window steadying me and himself. 

"You gonna catch me or something?" he asks as a joke. But it gets me wondering how I'm going to do this. Because I more then likely can't carry him. We both get thrown again from the tower tilting more, I hit a wall again, but Sebastien wasn't so lucky. He is holding onto the wall of the tower hanging out. "Lyra!" he panics slightly not.  I grab his other arm, thinking. What can I do? 

"I'm going to jump!" I yel over all the loud cracking and creaking. 

"What?!" 

"I'll jump, and when I tell you to let go!" I reply. 

"I trust you!" he says. Our eyes meet for a split second, and an unspoken promise is said between us. We will always protect each other. I nod and let him grab the wall with his other hand. I take a deep breath, and jump out. I twirl right away, not having time to waste. For some reason the tornado takes for ever, but it catches me mid air. Once I'm stable and have everything under control. I look up at Sebastien, he is still there.

"Sebastien, let go!" I yell, and he looks down seeing me. He lets go, and he falls directly into the middle of the tornadoe next to me. I move us both away from the towering, and then slowly lower us down. "Well.. that was.. interesting." I sigh, wipping off my pants and scratching my head. "We should head back to the others." I say. But I notice Sebastien look up at the falling tower, and I see he isn't happy. I try and look to see if there is something certain he is sad about. Glinting in the flames, I spot a silver chain with a golden key on it. "I'll give it! Go to the others." I say, and before he can say anything I jump flying up.

The key is the whole reason he ran into the loft, so I'm not going to not let him get it. I get up there and grab the chain that was caught on the corner of the curtain rod. Grabbing the key to make sure that I don't lose it on the way back now down, I feel something on my foot. What ever it is it distracts me a second and I lose some of my control. I start to fall but something on my ankle grips me, and I start dangling in the air. Now hanging upside down I panic. I still have the key, but I'm stuck. I look up, and see dark shadows or fog wrapped around me foot. Donatello. The fire is getting bigger, and now I'm really freaking out. Fire and I don't get along. The fog arm thing starts pulling me back into the loft, and I struggle trying to kick my leg free. It's grip is to tough, almost as if ifs bitten into me. Glancing quickly at the golden key in my hand, I look back down at Sebastien. He is being held back be fog too. I look at the key one last time, and then I aim it th best I can upside down and throw towards him. Then I'm back in the loft, and the fog arm  drops me. Looking around I don't see anyone. I make a run or at least the best run I can do for the window. Once I get there I go to jump out again, but I get dragged back inside. 

Landing in the chair that Sebastien was first thrown into, I whip my head around looking for th fog. It's already gone. Taking another look at my surroundings. I see that the flooring and the walls by the door are starting burn and catch fire. The ceiling above me cracks, and I begin panicing. If the ceiling caves in it's going to give the fire more oxygen! I'm a dead girl if I don't get out of here. Where can I go? If I go to the window again I might get dragged back here. Donatello has to have a plan, or an idea. This is some test... I wonder if he will save me before I can get killed. I highly