Loralle, Her Journey Chapter 10 part1

CHAPTER 10 (Part one)

Vanished

Loralle might have been upset the next day but she accepted the change of leaving her earth house. She's had to adapt to different situations ever since she was born and this was just another one.

She had made Mitch sit on the ground, then she put herself directly onto his lap! Then, she let the earth slowly take them back to the Metal Tribe...

Mitch knew he had a lot to do, but found himself happily dawdling to get back to his chores. Luckily, he knew that the Air Tribe were quite a quiet bunch that don't attack, so he wasn't too worried if war had happened or not in his absence.

"Why not come with me?" He asked Loralle, still holding onto her tightly.

"I come, find you later." She said, as she cuddled into him.

Sighing, Mitch stopped himself from picking her up and forcefully taking her with him. He kissed her briefly and let her go, thinking, if he dun get away soon, then he probably wun get away at all!

"Ok, find me later then!" He said and started to walk away. Not looking back, as he didn't think he'd be able to bear seeing those seductive eyes, he disappeared into a cave.

Loralle watched him leave, then sighed. How was it possible that she already missed him?

Making a strange face, she stood there trying to understand her feelings...

After a couple of minutes of trying to answer her questions, she frowned. There was no reasonable answer! She just missed him...That was it!

Was there some kind of other power?

A power...That made you happier...Made you forget about the rest of the world and made you miss someone that wasn't near you?

Loralle widened her eyes, maybe that's it!

What kind of power is that!?

If Mitch had heard these inner thoughts of Loralle's, he probably would have looked at her in complete astonishment! He wouldn't have known whether to laugh, cry, shake his head or get angry!

Finally, Loralle continued to the field of flashes, situated in the middle of the Metal Tribe village. It wouldn't be long now, she thought, till I'd be able to get the approval of the metal element. The final element...

Then what?

Uh?

Loralle blinked and scratched her head, what was she going to do after?

She was supposed to have found a way by now, to end the hatred...But she still had no idea! She had...Totally forgotten!

Thinking back, it had slipped her mind, even before meeting Mitch...

Felling bad for drifting away from her mission, she sat down and continued to get the metal power.

Going into the metal flying thing over a week ago, she had felt that she hadn't been quite ready yet to go into the field of flashes, because it had hurt her...

What was strange, though, was that she had already found the yearning that led into the big field of flashes...Didn't you only get that when you were ready for it?...

Nonetheless, she continued to think that she needed more power!

 

 

Three hours later, Loralle didn't feel any different. Why had she felt pain then?

Yet, now, she seemed to have the immunity needed for the metal power.

It didn't make any sense!

Of course, the reason that she was looking for but couldn't find, was because the flashes that were needed for the metal flying thing, were those from the field of flashes and not the usual metal power that everyone in the Metal Tribe had. Loralle, hadn't thought that even other Metal Tribal members had felt the pain from them also.

Looking out, into the big flashes, Loralle shuddered.

The water tried to drown me, earth tried to bury me, fire tried to turn me to ash and wind cut me all over...

These flashes...What will they do? She winced when she remembered what the metal power did to food.

Standing up, she went closer...Then put her hand inside the field. Nothing happened, at first, the flashes continued but her hand was untouched. They seemed to randomly go anywhere.

Suddenly, a flash reached over to her, as fast as it was, and hit her.

It disappeared just as quickly as it had come, but the damage had already been done...

Once the flash had touched her body, Loralle completely lost her consciousness...Her eyes rolled back and she heavily fell to the ground. Her nerves, muscles and flesh were all convulsing!

Her body trembled to such a high degree that her body, in which fell outside of the field of flashes, had trembled and convulses to the inside of the field.

Another flash came in a quick instant, five seconds later...

Her body started to show signs of the elements, as the flash went through her body.

Water was seen in her veins, , fire in her skin and earth in both her skin and muscles. A mixture of blue, light brown and orange flowed over her whole body, making her look like she wasn't human at all, instead, she looked like some divine being.

Her hair that cringed and puffed out, continuously was being combed by the air, but would puff out and cringe again within a second or two.

Frothing at her mouth, Loralle continued to convulse and tremble...Even though her heart had just suddenly...Stopped beating!

 

It was at this very point in time that the earth mound of fresh, green grass, reached to the other elements very quickly. The sudden change to the continent of Mondal scared everybody, as the earth mound came into each and every tribe and spreading a lovely green colour everywhere!

What happened afterwards, got the people more frightened as they watched their very own powers suddenly disappear!

The menacing lake was drained of water, the magma came through the earth, the giant cyclone stopped and evaporated and the flashes stopped flashing.

The magma pools, the air and flashes around the caves, all of the defences of each and every tribe...Disappeared!

Then, each and every single person fell unconscious as their powers were zapped from them as well!

The earth mound retreated to go with the powers it had taken...The earth, water, fire, air and metal elements all raced towards a certain location.

This all happened in a space of ten seconds, as all this power came together, and a big blinding light covered the entire continent of Mondal!

With no one able to witness this spectacular event, they didn't see that the one who took everything...Was none other than Loralle...Who was still unmoving, still not breathing and her heart, still not beating, laying on the ground.

When the light entered her body, the light disappeared to see normal light return to the continent of Mondal, as it was beforehand...But, to Loralle...Changes were happening, and one of those changes, was her coming back to life!

 

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"Finally, Freedom!"

"Yes, we have been returned to our natural state."

"Yeah, was fun though aye!?"

"To be put here and used like that! Blasphemous!"

"Now that we are together again..."

"No! You wanted to be the leader! You're always the leader!"

"It doesn't matter anymore!"

"You always take his side!"

"Let's jus go n have some fun aye!"

"Agreed, I want to get out of this dump of a land!"

"Agreed, we have spent enough time here."

"Hey! Hey! Let's go see Arculas!"

"...Very well."

 

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One day later, everybody on the continent of Mondal awoke. It was a pandemic! There was no water power, no fire power, no metal power, no air power and no earth power!

Dead fish, squid and other water creatures were found at the bottom of where the menacing lake used to be. The volcano, that had blown up the top of the earth covering, no longer had magma at all! People who were in their magma homes when they fainted, found themselves in empty pits and the woman were crying over their lost homes.

The Air Tribe gathered together and looked around with a little bit of fear. They looked at their earth homes, seeing them still there, and remembered Loralle. Luckily, they had a lot of fruit and didn't have to worry about relocating their tribe.

The lights in the caves no longer worked and Mitch found himself in the complete darkness upon waking up. Following the light that was outside of the cave , he looked around to see the changes in the Metal Tribe.

What was goin on?

"Ah...Boss...I can't..." That person didn't continue to speak.

The boss looked over to the field of flashes to see...Nothing. No flashes anywhere!

"Go n find out what's goin on! Nathan...Go n find Loralle!"

"Yeah, Boss!"

He had...A really bad feeling about this!

 

"Boss...Someone...Someone from the Air Tribe has come to stand in the middle of the tribes!"

Mitch bit his lip, for an hour there were no answers, none! And now...

"Jus let em stand there fa now...We might av weapons but...If they still av powers..."

"Yeah...I'll jus watch em then!"

Mitch nodded, then looked around, wanting to see Nathan. He hadn't returned...

Turning to another suburbanite, he said, "Help Nathan find Loralle."

"Yeah, Boss!"

He had a niggling feeling ever since awakening...What was goin on!? Why have the Air Tribe suddenly come? Perhaps...They are having troubles too?

Mitch sent another person towards the Air Tribe to spy on them, strangely enough they seemed happy too.

 

 

Daniel, who had been confined, had felt a change in his body as soon as he had woken up.

But, he didn't care...He was put into this cell, what felt like a long time ago, and still thought he was the reason everyone died, not knowing that they were, in fact, were still alive...He had...Willingly gone into confinement because he felt like he deserved it.

When the Fire Tribe had came out to meet up with the rest, who stayed at the Water Tribe village, Daniel's father had heard everything from his eldest son. On purpose, they hadn't told Daniel anything and no one was to go down to see him as punishment...Until this day.

Both his father and brother came running to him and asked, "Have you lost your powers too?"

Daniel looked up, blinking...Was he perhaps dreaming? Did he...Die?

"Daniel! Speak!" His father's voice! His father's body!

"Daniel!" His father's angry, familiar voice!

Without knowing, Daniel had slowly come to stand and be at the front of the cell. "Fath...er?"

Actually, his father was a kind man...He loved his children very much. "Yes, we lied to you, so you would learn your lesson...Quick boy, answer my question!"

A tear ran down Daniel's face as he answered, "No...I lost the powers..."

Daniel smiled and wiped his tear away. Right now, the powers were nothing, he was just so glad to see his father again!

His father sighed and looked at his eldest son, "Let him out."

It was a reunion that Daniel would never have thought, in a million years, would happen!

He hugged his father till he was pushed away, then he hugged Emily, not letting her go for hours!

It felt like it had been years, but it was only days. Days of thinking he had killed the whole Fire Tribe. Days of loathing himself and Loralle. Days without anybody to talk too!

He had never known what loneliness was, or betrayal or losing something precious.

And now...He was just so damned happy! He also came to know that what Loralle had done was all an act! That she hadn't intended to kill anyone! He wasn't sure if he wanted to thank her or to call her a bitch!

 

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