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~main overview~
‘A new foster home, a new school and probably more drama.’ These were the thoughts that were going through Jude’s mind when he entered the new Territory that they will call home for however long that him and Callie were staying there.
Callie was fire attributed, a gifted fire attribute as she could bend her flames around her body without being hurt. The foster system labelled her a high risk for it. They described her as a dragon, which is the given name for anyone who can control fire to that degree. Not many people could even do that with there attributes. When you can control an attribute to this degree it means you are ready to take on another element. An attribute is what your born with while elements are the things you gain later in life.
In world history, Only one person has managed to even control 1 attribute and 2 elements at once, so most people accepted that as the limit a human can handle.
Jude doesn’t know what his attribute is or if he has one. He might not have one. Or it might be because he’s never used it since Callie has been fighting all of his battles for him. However Callie knows more about Jude’s abilities than Jude does.
The home they were moved to was a big family of 5. Lena and Stef being the couple that have taken them in. Lena was a light attribute with the element of sound while Stef was a fire element. It was beautiful seeing them around together, there skin was shining when they were around each other. Its what happens when you have found your true love. Its beautiful witnessing it because its a rare thing to happen these days.
Mariana and Jesus being twins have the same attribute which is earth. Problem being a twin is your normal power is cut in half unless the other twin is around. So they’re pretty much inseparable, even when they argue.
Brandon on the other hand is a sound attribute. This doesn’t surprise anyone since hes a musical genius. He doesn’t do anything else with his ability other than make music for the reason he dislikes violence, a bit like Jude.
~Chapter 1 starts here~
‘School is back and I’m dreading it.’ This is all that Connor Stevens could think about. He wanted this year to be more interesting than his other years back at Anchor Beach such as gaining a new element? His overly controlling dad calming down a bit? New friends? True love? he didn’t know what to expect but he hopes it’s something good more than nothing bad.
Connor starts stacking the books he needs and puts them in his bag unaware of the time.As he finally noticed the time, he realized he was going to be late if he didn’t hurry up. Rushing downstairs to kitchen and then rushing to eat his breakfast, didn’t even have time to say bye to his dad as he was rushing out the door with his skateboard. ‘Not like he ever say’s goodbye to me’ Connor thought as he was skating to Anchor Beach using his lightening to speed himself up a bit more.
Arriving at the school, it felt like Connor had a summer vacation. The only difference is a new sign on the outside of the school building saying ‘no power producing on school premises unless permission is given.’ Meaning Connor would have to skate normally which made him grunt in annoyance.
The bell goes for everyone to get ready to get to class. Connor puts all of the non needed stuff for school into his locker and heads to his first lesson which is Science.
He walks into the classroom to claim his seat and just sits there on his phone playing a game which everyone else hates. Flappy Bird. Without realizing, everyone is now in class and the lesson has started, Connor still focusing on the game. at 250 now and still going and that’s when the teacher slaps a ruler down on his desk causing Connor to jump.
“Mr Stevens please hand me your phone and actually focus in your first lesson of this school year, your missing out on a lot of important details that’s being given out,” sharpy Mr Argon said.
Connor hesitantly handed over his phone to Mr Argon so he could place it on his desk. He continued with his speech.
“This year is going to be one massive project on how us as humans managed to develop these powers. We never use to have these powers. In human history they only started to come about 1000 years ago as we saw the first ever human use it. The attribute he used was Lightening. Many people called him Thor the lightening God” Mr Argon goes on.
“Now for this long project you will need a partner. I’m doing the pairings as we speak.” Mr Argon finishes while writing the list of people on a piece of paper at his desk.
‘Why do we not get to pick our own partners, this is complete bullshit’ Connor thought in his head. Suddenly the classroom door opened with Vice Principal Lena walking in with what looks like a new kid. Connor thinks to himself, ‘A new kid? A New Kid! A interesting start to the year! I should be friendly with him, he seems fragile and pretty nervous. hes going to need a friend.’
The Vice Principal was talking to Mr Argon to make sure that Mr Argon got all the necessary details about the new kid. as this science project needed good pairings of attributes together. He did not mention this to the class because he would become even more hated by the class. Connor noticed the questioning face on Mr Argon when Lena mentioned something. He couldn’t quite make out what she said but it sounded along the lines of ‘unspecified abilities.’ whatever that means. it wasn’t going to stop Connor from trying to become friends with the new kid.
“Everyone, this is Jude Jacobs, hes a new student to our school so please welcome him as much as possible. Connor he will be your partner for the science project. Your also excused from class to show Jude around. The vice principal is running late to a meeting so she could do with you being useful” Mr Argon said with a sharp undertone at the end.
“Um sure, I don’t mind, I’ll try and make him welcome here. When I’m done showing him around, is it okay if we go the library to research for the project, and ill let him know what the project is? Connor says excitedly.
“Okay but I’ll be letting the librarian know that your going to be there for class. so don’t try and get out of learning. Also collect your phone at the end of the day.”
“Okay, thank you” Connor says giving a smile towards Jude. “ Come on, lets get to showing you around”
Connor and Jude walked around the school laughing and joking, which gave Jude a warm feeling inside, he was starting to feel welcome. Connor could see Jude was starting to feel a lot more confident in his surroundings and talking to Connor.
They headed to the library. While they were walking, Connor had discussed the project that they were doing and how its focused on where attributes and elements came from and that they are being studied. Connor noticed that Jude went white in the face as if he was going to be sick which Connor started to worry.
“Jude are you okay?”
“Um, I have something to tell you but you can’t tell anyone else” Jude explains while shaking.
“Okay, what is it?” Connor being curious to know
“I don’t know what my attribute is, or if I even have one. so I’m not much help when it comes to knowing about attributes. Sorry.” He says with a sad look in his face.
“That’s fine Jude, I’m not going to judge you on it. It makes you more interesting to be honest”
“Really?” Jude lightens up a bit
“Yeah, If you don’t have an attribute, then in the current world today, that means your rare.” Connor explains with a tinge of excitement
“ Oh, well your the first person to see it like that “ Jude looks up to Connor and smiles.
They got to the library and studied Connors attribute of lightening. and then studied Jude’s sisters attribute of fire. Jude explained that his sister Callie was extremely gifted and referred to as a dragon and that she was most likely to get an element soon. Connor was shocked. This made him wonder why Jude still hasn’t got his attribute. ‘Usually people are born with attributes but Jude doesn’t know what his is. By the sounds of it his family all have attributes so in theory Jude should have one.’ Connors thoughts and curiosity were flooding his brain, he wanted to get down to the bottom of what was holding Jude back.
All of this talk about Attributes was making Jude’s brain go everywhere, he couldn’t handle it. He was starting to get stressed, anxious especially around Connor since he knew what he was talking about. Jude hasn’t had much schooling on Attributes or elements or any type of subject on any subject at all due to be moved to different foster homes. Connor doesn’t need to know about the foster homes but Jude feels like he needs to escape to an open area. Jude looks out of the window and sees the beach. For it being still summer the beach was quite empty.
“ Connor, I need to go.”
not giving Connor anytime to speak he just runs out of the library and heads straight for the beach. he was still running while he started to feel different. He stops in the middle of the empty beach with his heart rate is going extremely fast for it to be normal. All Jude can think about is just getting out off the world at the moment. Jude starts to feel solid, he was heating up, sweating. The wind picking up and all he could see was a bright light. he strangely felt light on his feet as if he was floating but still feeling sand. There was a ringing sound in his ear that he couldn’t shake.
Connor got outside and was in pure shock. What he was witnessing was unbelievable. he could feel all of the powerful energy flowing towards him, 7 attributes or elements being used at once. he didn’t know what it is because Jude said he doesn’t know his Attribute. but All Connor could see was rock formations coming from under the sand representing earth, the Oceans water flying over his head and going around a sort of tornado being formed around Jude, Lightening clouds forming above Jude striking down at the sides of the tornado fire underneath Jude’s feet causing him to slowly lift in the air. sand also lifting but staying in a stationary position around Jude unaffected by the other attributes/elements representing gravity. Connor could feel the sound waves giving Connor goose bumps. Only vice principal Lena can give Connor the same effect from this far.
Connor could see Jude was out of control because he wasn’t responding to anything. nothing at all. Connor had to do something but he didn’t know what. Suddenly a massive wave of energy came towards Connor making him fall backwards and stay like that. He didn’t know what to do, and Jude was getting worse and worse. Soon the empty beach started filling up with people from the school witnessing what Connor was seeing. They didn’t know who it was though creating the massive energy surge. Connor eventually forced himself up and making sure he used his own lightening to keep him standing. he slowly started moving towards Jude to try and get in the mess.
“Connor! What are you doing! Don’t be stupid! This is going to kill you!” People were shouting at Connor. What they didn’t realize is that Connor was being drawn. He didn’t want to lose a new friend but he didn’t know what he was being drawn by.
It surprisingly started getting easier walking towards Jude. Which is when Connor noticed his own hands glowing. He didn’t know what was going on until he noticed a shield forming around him. Connor has gained a new element unintentionally. He didn’t know which one it was but he was thankful for it.
He walked towards Jude, he got closer and closer. all he could think of was pulling Jude down back to the ground and holding him. He didn’t know how he was going to stop the energy but he needed to. each step started to get heavier as the shield was starting to wear down. ‘this shield isn’t going to last longer, I need to get to Jude as fast as possible.
Lena walks out to witness the event and she just falls onto her knees to what she was witnessing and whispers, “Jude”
The sound of Lena is sharp so it cut through the echos being created by Jude to reach his ears. This was to try and break him out of the anxiety attack that Jude was having., she was also redirecting the light being produced by Jude into her palms. The student was witnessing what Lena was doing and was amazed with the power she held even when shes at half the power shes at without Stef being there.
Connor finally got to below Jude with the help of Lena making things easier. he grabbed Jude’s arm pulling him back down to the ground. He hugged Jude, this made Connors new found element react by causing his body to glow blue.
Lena noticed Connor turn blow, and she smiled. ‘So Mr Stevens, your one of the rare ones’ she thought to herself.
Connors blue glow was causing the powers to subside as if they were being absorbed. after 5 minutes of the blue glow, Jude pulled his head back from the hug to see who it was, When he saw Connor he collapsed into him. Connor landed on his knees holding Jude.
“Hey Jude, everything is going to be alright, just stay with me” Connor said smiling but was shaking from being scared for losing his new friend.
Rested in Connors arms, Jude looked up to see a couple of tears forming in Connors eyes. ‘why is he about to cry, what just happened?’ Jude thought to himself. he pulled his hand up to touch his nostril, he pulled his hand in front of his face and saw blood on his hand, He looked back at Connor with a slight smile and Jude started to glow. Connor knows what the glow means. he saw himself glow to. Jude fell unconscious to causing the glow to subside.
“no no no no no not now Jude, you are not doing this to me now!” Connor starts panicking and looks back at Lena. She nods as if she knows what Connor was thinking. So Connor starts creating lightening around him and then disappears.
“The glow.” Lena said to herself as she left to go to the hospital to be with Jude.