Elemental Girls

CHAPTER 6

POV: Aliyah

Its saturday, the sun started to rise as I woke up.

“Do we really have to find the book in the wild?” I asked Hera in my mind.

“Yes, so you can answer all your questions.” She answered.

“But why can’t you just answer it by yourself?” I tried.

“Because you will need a reference in knowing how to use your powers correctly, how to control it, and your limits. And most especially, what is the purpose of your powers.” She said, meaningfuly.

I sighed, giving in. “Okay.”

I got out of the bed to get ready to meet my friends as we have agreed to go back into the wild at 10am. But this time we will meet at the entrance of it, instead of Fiona’s porch.

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“Do you know where we should start looking?” I asked them.

“I don’t know, Dite is not answering me.” Wendy said.

“So is Hecate,” Esther told us.

“Ugh why are they ignoring us,” Fiona rolled her eyes, meaning Hera isn’t answering her too.

As we kept on walking an idea popped in my mind.

“You guys, the stones said that we have powers now right? Maybe we could use some of it, you know, to find the book?”

“Maybe, but I think our powers is connected to nature, not like its going to magically show us where the book is.” Fiona interjected.

“Hey aliyah, your eyes are white.” Esther told me. “Wait, can you try looking for any clues using that vision? Maybe we can see something through our colored eye vision! You know, like a scanner.” She suggested happily.

“Your right! Since when you are smart?” Fiona tapped her in the shoulder and we all laughed.

I kept on walking using this “white eyes” vision looking for anything that might help us, the girls doing the same, all eyes glowing.

“Wait....” I called them. “I can see something. Its white and its odd, and its floating! Something like a... ghost!” My eyes widening in realization.

“A ghost? Aliyah, did you bump your head or something?” Fiona laughed at me.

“No I’m serious! Its right over there!” I said pointing beside the tree where the white thing is.

“We can’t see it.” Wendy said. “Maybe because our eyes are not white?”

Hmm.. she has a point. I walked slowly and cautiously to the white thingy and when I’m close to touching it, it dissapeared.

“It’s gone!” I said, almost losing hope.

Esther went beside me to comfort me. “Its alright Aliyah, we’ll find it.”

“Umm.. girls? I can see fire.” Fiona said, looking alarmed.

“Where?” I said, looking around. “I don’t see any fire.”

“Right there!” She pointed somewhere, “Just a few steps ahead of us.” Then she ran towards it. And then gave a shriek.

“Its dissapeared too! I was about to touch it, it looks so... alluring.” She said.

That’s when it hits me.

“These are the clues! Maybe this will lead us to where the book is!” I concluded excitedly.

“Your right! As matter of fact, I can see water forming over there. I mean like a water blob.” Wendy informed us, her eyes locked somewhere behind us.

She walked cautiously to where it is, “Its gone now, Esther I think its your turn.”

Esther looked around us for a minute. “I can’t see anything..” she said sadly.

“So, what now?” Fiona said angrily.

“I’m sorry...” Esther said looking down. “Wait, Wendy can you move a little bit?”

“Huh? Okay, sure.” Wendy moved a little bit towards Fiona.

Esther clapped her hands and start digging the soil where Wendy was standing from.

“Err.. what are you doing? There may be some dog poop there or something, gross!” Fiona wrinkled her nose.

“I found it!” She said raising an old dirty book.

“Nice work Esther! I mean we did this as a team but Esther did all the digging.” I said jumping up and down.

“I still think you need to wash your hands first.” Fiona said to Esther.

Now how do we read this? Its so dirty, the pages looked liked it would tear apart if we tried to open it. Hmm... can we use our powers to clean this book?

“I got an idea. Esther, since you have the earth stone, do you think you can remove the dirt here using your powers?” I asked her. “Then I’ll try drying it with mine.”

“I think so, let me try.” Esther said.

She focused and stared at the book, holding her left hand up. Then woosh! The dirt is seprated from the book, as well as her hands, well most of it.

“That’s great Esther!” Wendy said giving her a high five while Fiona is tapping her back happily.

Now its my turn. I tried lifting the book with my air powers, drying it.

“I think it’ll do.” I said, inspecting the book. “ Let’s go somewhere to explore this book more.”

“We can go to my house, my mom is baking a cake before I left and I really want a slice of that right now,” Wendy suggested.

“Sure! As long as we get a slice too,” Fiona winked, agreeing.

We went out to the forest, holding hand in hand, feeling accomplished of finding the book.