A story inspired by a song: a girl name Claydie is a Elemental, which are people who either have fire, water, earth, or air powers. Elementals have to train to find their true element. Claydie finds her element, and turns out to be really good at it. But there's a time Claydie must put her knowledge and powers to a test. (This story may contain songs.)
Claydie had no idea why people didn't like her. The only people who truly cared about her were her parents. Claydie would run home every day with 2 or 3 bruises from being bullies. But the bullying intensified. Claydie had told her parents, but her parents (almost completely out of money) said she had to stick with this school for her education, and they couldn't give her a new school because of the lack of money. They taught Claydie to avoid the bullies, but it was almost useless. Her main bullies were Sade (earth element) Clyde (water element), and Breeze and Windy (air elements, they are sisters.) Sade was the leader of the three others.
Once, Claydie was almost late for her class. She rushed to her first class, but a sturdy hand grabbed her collar.
"Where'd you think you're going?" Whispered a voice with a water accent.
Claydie recognized the voice. She looked around to see Clyde's aqua blue eyes and dark blue hair. He yanked Claydie back, causing her to fall. His cold fingers curled around Claydie's neck, about to choke her. Claydie had been training her powers and how to recognize when they were coming, even though they would come surprisingly to other people. Claydie felt her short blazing orange hair get warmer. She knew it. It was coming. The warmth spread quickly though her veins to her hands. The fire was going to come out. As soon as it started, it burst out of her hands. She lifted her hands quickly to Clyde. Clyde, who had water element, jumped back with a scowl on his face. Claydie pressed her palms against the floor, and the fire descended from her hands to the school floor. She ordered it to go toward Clyde, and it listened. Even though Claydie lost many fights, it didn't mean she didn't know how to defend herself. Yelping like mad, Clyde had water burst from his own hands and shot the flames. While he was distracted, Claydie ran to class.
"Miss Grooms. You are late." Mrs. Ansy said with her fancy accent.
"I....am sorry. It's hard to walk all the way to school in the rain with no umbrella." Claydie said. It was true. The rain was pouring down like buckets from Heaven, and Claydie's Inner Soul did not like the wetness and had departed from her. When Inner Souls depart from Elementals, the Elementals are like humans, powerless, and.... well, humans. But when Claydie had arrived at school, her Inner Soul had come back to her. Mrs. Ansy, understanding what Claydie meant, nodded.
"Marked tardy." She said.
Claydie bowed her head in respect and sat down.
"Now, as I was saying, you must think, think HARD. Just to control what you do, and where your powers come from. Remember, what, when, where, and why.... and sometimes how."
Mrs. Ansy drew a stick figure. and on top of that, she wrote, "What, when, where, why, (how)." Claydie lowered her head to take notes. Suddenly, the door opened so abruptly that half of the class (including Claydie) jumped. A dripping wet and red-face Sade, a scared-looking Clyde, and Windy and Breeze, who were looking down in shame.
"Sade, Breeze, Windy, and Clyde. What are you doing 16 minutes late in class?" Mrs. Ansy asked. Despite being kind to Claydie for being 14 minutes late to class, she half snapped at the four of them.
"And Miss Sade Bronco, why are you dripping wet? What are umbrellas for? If you don't need yours"- Mrs. Ansy eyed the green and blue polka-dotted umbrella that Sade was holding-" Then I'm sure Miss Claydie Grooms would like to use it."
Sade bowed. (That's what elementals do for body language to apologize, show respect, and some other stuff.) Sade and her three other friends walked to their seats, each of them bowing as they passed Mrs. Ansy and her cold glare. Her eyes softened and she looked at the rest of the class.
"Now, as I was about to say, practice your skills. Make sure to use the for 'w's and if you can handle the 'w's easily, and the 'how'." Claydie smiled a bit as she took a peek at the angry dripping-wet Sade.
