THE FIFTH ELEMENT 🌊 🔥 🌪️ ⛰️ ☯️
Chapter 36🔥🔥🔥
JAKE'S POV
All through the night, I kept thinking about Cassie. I had a good time talking with her and I genuinely enjoyed her company.
I'm thinking about asking her to a proper date with me. That's if she's interested.
I got really jealous when I heard about Damon asking her out. But since Cassie told me she doesn't like him that way, it's all good.
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When I got to the school combat center the next morning, everyone seemed to be already training.
Well it doesn't hurt to be late sometimes.
I scanned the crowd in hopes of catching a glimpse of Cassie anywhere but was disappointed when I didn't see her.
I guess she's running late.
During combat I was hoping to be paired up with Damon.... If Cassie hadn't stopped me the other day, I would have definitely enjoyed hurting him, he keeps pissing me off just to see my reaction.
"Hey Jake." Madeline said to me and I turned to see her standing so close to me. I took a few steps away from her quickly.
She gave me a blank look. "What? My breath doesn't stink does it?" She asked me and raised her eyebrows.
"No. Ofcourse not. Just didn't expect to see you here. Got a little startled." I say and conjured up back my blazing knives that I was playing around with before I was interrupted.
"Right. Sorry." She said and rolled her eyes.
I simply nodded at her and sent the blazing knives flying around the center. I was very careful not to graze anyone with the flaming knives.
"That is so cool. When'd you learn how to do that?" Madeline asked.
"A while now. Don't you have training to do anyway? I mean don't look at me. I'm already awesome and capable. But you on the other hand..." I said to her and she gave me an eye squint.
"You're so full of yourself..you know." She said while flexing her hands and fingers.
"I know." I replied.
"Anyway, I was meaning to ask you, where's Cassie? Isn't she supposed to be with you?" I finally asked.
"Cassie right. Apparently someone sent for her early this morning." Madeline said while building up particles of sand which were forming into a stone of some sort.
"Oh. Who was it? " I asked her and she shrugged.
"I don't know. One of the guards came to get her." She replied
"I see. And you didn't think to ask who was behind the call?"
"I did but the guard Insisted on not telling me anything, there's nothing I could have done. And Cassie wanted to go with him so.. couldn't really stop her." She replied and rolled her eyes.
I let out a heavy sigh.
"Chill will you? I'm sure she's fine. Probably talking with the Elementals as usual. If you haven't noticed, they're all giving her special treatment around here." Madeline said and slowly dropped the rock that was formed from all those sand particles that joined together.
"I don't know. I suddenly feel uneasy. We can't really trust anyone around here. Not even the elementals." I said while holding up my chin in thought.
"Yeah right. You know You're practically one of them since your Dad isn't here now." Madeline said and that brought me back from thinking.
"Don't speak of my father." I say coldly.
"I'm sorry. I forgot. I didn't mean to." She tried to explain.
I didn't say any other thing to her and walked straight out of the center.
I met Damon outside, he was chatting with some of his fellow wash ups.
I was going to ignore him but he threw something at my direction. I looked down and saw the bottle of soda that was thrown.
"Hey hothead! Where's Cassie? Haven't seen her all day. Don't tell me you're holding her captive inorder for her not to see me." He said to me.
I clenched my jaw in anger.
"Why don't you ask your mother. Last I heard, she and her crew sent for her since this morning. This is lunch break now, so if anyone is keeping her captive, it's definitely Your mother." I said to him and made my way to the abandoned building.
I was hoping to see Cassie there.
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SAGE'S POV
Something is definitely going on. I've been hearing whispers and gossips the entire day.
And now I overheard Jake saying something about my mom keeping Cassie captive.
How true could it be?
Did Damon say something to Mom about Cassie?
I have to find out for myself.
I looked for Damon all over the training center after lunch break.
"Hey. Need to talk to you." I said to him abruptly and went outside the center.
After some minutes, he finally showed up.
"What is it now?" He asked me.
"Did you say something to Mom about her?" I asked him.
"Huh? About who?" He replied innocently and I gave him a fierce look.
"Wait, is this about Cassie? Okay no I didn't say anything to Mom. Atleast not yet." He said to me.
"Are you sure?" I asked again.
"Yes. What is this about anyway?" He asked me.
"Aren't you hearing the rumors in there?" I asked him.
"What rumors?" He was completely clueless.
"The one about the elementals keeping Cassie captive since early this morning." I said to him.
"What? Come on, don't tell me you listen to rumors now. Jake only made that shit up. And even if the elementals did send for her since this morning, I believe she's safe and kicking wherever she is. She'll probably join us before we know it later today. Besides, no one can really keep Cassie captive with that power of hers." Damon said and gave me a small grin.
"Right. Okay. You're probably right." I say to him and walked out before he could say something else.
"Rude!!!" I hear him shout out loud.
I went back to the center to meditate on my own. No one wanted to pair up with me today. Sucks Cassie isn't here. Atleast I would have had a partner.
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After training was done for the day, everyone slowly scattered, each clique going back to their various dorms to take a day's rest.
Now it was getting weird. Cassie still hadn't shown up anywhere. On my way to my dorm, I kept on thinking about doing or not doing what I was about doing.
I reached the hallway that connected my room, Madeline and Cassie's room.
After pacing about, I decided to just do it.
I raised my hand and shaped it nicely before knocking three times on their door.
Someone opened up the door almost immediately.
"Cassie!?" Madeline called out with a high pitched voice with a hopeful look on her green plastered face but it changed back to disappointment just as quickly.
"Oh. You." She said with pursed lips.
"Yeah. Me. Cassie isn't back yet I see." I said to Madeline.
"As you can see." She replied still with the pursed lips.
"So um, where do you think she is?" I asked her.
"Don't you think you should be asking your mom that? I mean with the Rumors that just kept flying around today and all." She replied sassily.
"What is your problem?" I asked her getting utterly annoyed with her attitude.
"What is my problem? Fine I'll tell you. My problem is you just showing up here asking me about Cassie as if you actually care about anyone in this school. You're not friends with anyone and you're not friends with Cassie. So why the sudden concern? I mean didn't you even bang a door on her face one time. Even when she was being nice to you? And didn't you also dump your whole lunch tray on her head the first time she got here?" Madeline vented.
"Oh wow okay. I get it. I'm a bitch, and I don't try to hide it or cover it up. I don't try to fool people into thinking I'm a good person because I'm not. Atleast I own my truth unlike some people who are far worse than I am and still try to cover it up like a facade." I say to her and she raised her eyebrows.
"So what are you trying to say?" She asked me.
"Forget it. I shouldn't waste my time on you. I came here to find Cassie, she's obviously not here, so I'll go look somewhere else. You can go continue with your little skincare bullshit." I said to her regarding her face which was covered in a green beauty face mask.
"Hey! Where even are you going to look for her exactly?" She said lastly to me.
"None of your business princess." I said and left the hallway.
I decided to go ask my mom directly.
Perhaps she'll tell me what's going on.
When I got to her office door, I caught someone who was evesdropping on my Mom.
"Seriously?" I said calmly and the person suddenly jerked away from the door quickly.
"Oh my goodness. You scared me." Phoebe said to me with a low hushed voice.
Phoebe. She's from the Air clan. I remember our duel clearly. Ofcourse I beat her in the fight. That was fun for me.
What is she doing here?
"You wanna tell me why exactly you're evesdropping on the principal?" I asked her still trying to keep cool.
"It's not what you think Sage. And please keep your voice down." She said to me and I took one step closer to her.
"Okay fine. It is what you think. But it is more than that. You're not going to believe what I just heard." She said to me still whispering a bit.
"What? Tell me." I insisted.
"Fine. It's about Cassie. She's been kidnapped." Phoebe said and I furrowed my eyebrows in disbelief.
"What!?" I heard someone say behind me and immediately turned.
Cara. Great. Just great.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" I said in aggressive whisper.
"I could ask you both the same thing. And did you just say Cassie was kidnapped? By whom?" Cara asked Phoebe and me.
"You should keep your voice down." I said to her And instantly regretted it.
"Keep my voice down?! No! Someone's just been kidnapped!" Cara practically yelled.
I let out a heavy sigh while Phoebe face palmed herself.
Great. Just great.
It didn't take up to 5 seconds before someone opened up my Mom's door from the inside.
It was one of the elementals.
"Uncle! Hi. Didn't know you were in there." Phoebe said to Mr Anderson. The bald Air elemental whom I've known almost my whole life.
"Phoebe?" He said to her and scanned both Cara and I as well.
"What are you kids doing out here?" He asked.. looking at each of us.
"Um....I was just passing by. I mean we were just passing by. Right Sage?? Cara?" Phoebe said and looked at me and Cara for confirmation.
I frowned at her in return.
And knowing Cara well enough
"No. Not right Phoebe. Is it true Cassie's been kidnapped?" Cara asked Mr Anderson boldly.
He looked over to Phoebe in disappointment.
"So you were evesdropping on us child. I didn't teach you to be sneaky." He said to Phoebe.
"So it's true then. How did that even happen?" I finally spoke up.
"Honestly, that is what we're still trying to figure out. Since you three now know about this, you should come join us in finding out exactly how she was kidnapped right under our noses." Mr Anderson said to us and extended the door for us to come inside my mom's office.
When we got inside, Ofcourse Madeline's mom and my mom were seated. They were having a conversation but stopped when they noticed us. Surprisingly Jake was also there. He looked really angry and worried at the same time.
They always call him in for any crucial meetings. As expected because his father was once one of the elementals but since he disappeared, Jake had to represent him.
"Sage. What do you think you're doing here?" My Mom asked me.
"Who kidnapped Cassie? And how did they get inside the school and also leave without being detected?" I fired my own question at her.
"Mr Anderson, what is this? Why did you allow students in here. We don't have time for this." Mrs Stone said to him.
"Relax. They already know. And I believe soon everyone will know about this. All the students are involved as long as this war is concerned." Mr Anderson said to them.
"He's right. There's no point in keeping the children in the dark anymore, I can feel this war coming closer and it's terrible that we've lost our number one leverage. Cassie. Whoever the enemies are, they know, with Cassie by our side, we could easily win this war, that is why they took her." My Mom explained.
"I'm sorry ma'am but, you guys keep mentioning about this war, our enemies? Who are they? And why attack us? We haven't done anything to them." Cara spoke.
"The only thing you all did was being born and gifted in the right proportion. You have pure elemental magic flowing in all of you. But there are some others almost like you that doesn't have elemental magic as pure as yours." My Mom explained to them.
I already knew all these all too well. My family does. I don't know why my Mom is mentioning it here.
"So because of that, they want to attack us? That's crazy. It's not our fault they're not pure breeds." Cara said.
Meanwhile I almost didn't notice Phoebe staring at me.
She looked away immediately I caught her staring.
Why was she looking at me while my mom was narrating that?
Does she suspect something about me?
Can't be it though. Maybe it's something else.
She seems very sneaky indeed. Must watch her closely.
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