Elementals

A small whirlwind danced around his fingers, twirling until it wrapped his whole hand into a tight fist. I gulped and inched backwards, his grey eyes a brewing storm.

"Let's not do that whole you-pretending-not-to-see-what-you-just-saw..." He said, sharp and curt, "because you'll just piss me off." He stood from the velvet chair he was sitting on, and somehow every book on the shelf felt the force of this action as they shook with slight fright.

"Ace, calm down, I don't think she's a threat," a voice to his left uttered and I turned to meet a pair of vivid green eyes whilst a yo-yo travelled up and down a string in a manner of impressive wrist flicks. Ace tutted and glared at his companion before he transferred his anger on me.

"She's a threat if she doesn't stop recording."

He gestured towards my phone, which was supposed to be recording the inhabitants of the school's library, but instead of books safely placed on wooden shelves, I was met by novels and dictionaries floating in the air as one man perused through them.

The storm in Ace's grey eyes hailed upon me through my phone screen and I quickly locked my phone. He stepped closer, and with a swift movement of his hand, grabbed the rectangular device without the slightest touch. It whizzed through the air and landed in his palm, but I was just too shocked to even react. He just did some sort of wizardry.

"Don't go breaking her phone, just calmly delete the video." The companion with green eyes stepped towards Ace, tossing his yo-yo onto the chair. Ace's glare deepened when he held the phone up to me and pointed at the keypad that asked for my passcode.

But before I could even answer, I was shoved forward when the door behind me opened to reveal two other students. One stared curiously at me with striking deep blue eyes as the other adorned amber, which almost looked red as the daylight entered and played with the dust. It revealed flecks of orange in his irises.

"Who's this?" The blue-eyed individual asked Ace, but he didn't respond. He continued to glare at me like a child giving you the silent treatment.

They stood together in the middle of the room, the sun's rays highlighting their figures in an artificial halo, and I had to compose myself at the glow that burned brighter. Brighter than a flash from your phone's camera when you're trying to take a picture outside at midnight.

Water, fire, earth and air swayed in their eyes. I took a step back at the sudden rush of dizziness, and at the sudden wave of familiarity hitting me like a baseball bat coming in contact with a flying ball. Home-run.

And there you have it.

Arms gripped me tightly, helping me stand. All four pair of eyes looked at me with a sense of knowing. They knew. Just as I knew that I'd stared into these same eyes a lifetime ago.

A memory flashed in the recesses of my brain as quick as one would turn off the light. They stepped backwards once they knew I was stable enough to stand, confusion and shock morphing into their faces.

"Why are you alive?" Ace asked.

© Lindsey Alimodian