Runaway Elements (full)

Lup Eoliene- Wolf:

Wolf's head spun from the familiar dislocation that normally followed a posession. He looked up at Lidz and saw both shame and fear on her face. He felt like growling, Leo had really done a number on her. Did his twin realize Wolf couldn't stop thinking about Lidz? She was smart, strong, and pretty. And Wolf couldn't get her out of his head.

He smiled sadly at her. "So, now you know my deep dark secret Lidz."

She started and glanced down guiltily unable to meet his eyes. Wolf reached out and cupped her face. Pulling it up to so that he could look at her. "Don't worry about it Lidz. It's not something I was really hiding. I just don't like to announce it in flashing neon lights, unlike Leo."

Lidz laughed and seemed surprised that she could find anything funny in this situation. "It's also why I've been running from my twin. Not because I'm scared of him. But because I don't want Leo to back me into a corner, where the only way out is over his dead body."

"You really don't care?" Lidz asked hesitantly.

"No, I don't." Wolf's tone was descisive. "I'm not proud of the things I've done. But neither will I spend the rest of my life wallowing in guilt. Especially not when my friends are in danger. And judging by Leo's emotions right now, I'm thinking Arthur went off on his own and got caught again."

Lidz ¬

Wolf's hand felt warm against my cheek as he spoke- like electric, shivers passed over my skin where his skin touched mine. I placed my hand over his and smiled.
"He was caught?" I closed my eyes briefly. "He left ... he froze time, I think I can ..." I could feel the traces of time in the air, the bitterness of Leo's- I shuddered at the memory- but underneath that, vagualy, Arthur's signiture, his imprint on time. It led to ... it led to ...
"A Cave north of here," the voice shattered the quiet, and I jumped. "Did you here that?" I whispered.
"What?" Wolf asked.
"The ... voice," My hands shook ... was this one of Leo's tricks? But then an image flashed in my head- Arthur with his head pressed back against the wall, muttering. He'd heard it too. "I imagined it," I said, "I'm crazy," I shot him a lopsided, wolfish grin, pulling him up. "Let's go ... north, I have a feeling- North," I nodded my head.
I looked at Wolf, staring into his lovely eyes, before wrapping my arms around him, pressing my face into his neck.
"Thank you," I whispered.
"What for?"
"For saving me,"
I didn't need to add who from.
He was on all pur minds.
Leo.

Arthur Thomastien
The PIA Building

My captors tried vainly to make me talk. They asked me questions about my childhood, family, and power, but not once had I spoke even a word. It bothered even Leo that I was suddenly silenced. Even Aly couldn't make me talk. No matter what she and her little posse did, I held my tongue like if I took an internal vow of silence. After three hours, Aly and her posse left me alone with Leo. Leo growled, "You better talk, Fireboy. I'm in no mood for your games."
I thought, Leo, you wanted me to play. So that's what I'm doing. I'm playing with you. Oh boy, am I enjoying this.
Leo smacked me across the face and demanded, "Speak or I'll cook you alive!"
I shook my head and make a small ball of ghostfire appear. I put my hand in the ball, then pulled my hand out. My hand was untouched by the flame. I grinned slyly, then sat against the wall.
Leo left me alone, cursing.
I chuckled. I was enjoying my time agitating Leo and his underlings by keeping my mouth shut.

OOC: I'll be away untill late sunday, so I'm taking my character out of the equation for now, thanks to Leo

Lidz:

We trooped north, and after ages of searching, we came across a cave with a purple light.
"It's Arthur's ghostfire!" Eve cried, rushing forward. She picked the globe it and gestured at it. It was flickering occasionaly- purple, then black then purple, black, purple, black ....
"Does this mean he's OK?" Rain asked, watching the flickering colours. I nodded. He's waning in strength, I believed he was being ... tortured.
"He's being tortured," Wolf said, staring at the ball, "It's Leo,"
Mt stomach clenched, but I smiled at the fact we thought of it at the same time.
"Gah!" I cried suddenly, as my head exploded in pain. I fell to my knees and clutched at my head. My nose began to feel sticky, and I could feel the familiar power of Leo coursing through my veins. He was making me ...
I coughed, and cried. My tears mingled with the blood on my face.
"Ow..."
"Lidz? Lidz!" Wolf's voice was urgent, but my vision was going black. I shuddered once, and fell onto my side on the floor.
"Wolf..." I mouned. "It's Leo..." My whole body was aching, and my strength was waning out of me. I could feel my body stiffening, and I saw, through the thin slit I could still see, a brown, crusty cacoon forming around me, as I struggled to keep it off me. I reached out my hand for Wolf, but the cacoon swallowed me whole, and I knew no more.

(OOC: Lidz isn't dead- I thought that since I'm going ot be gone till sunday, she could just be held up. I just thought that Leo could target her, and hold her in a cacoon of fire, to use as a hostage for both Wolf and Arthur. She's not dead ... just unconcious till sunday. Feel free to still mention me, but I'll free myself, or notify someone to free me when I get back ... does this make sense? In a nutshell, she's unconcious till sunday, until I tell someone to free her. Have fun while I'm gone!)

Arthur Thomastien
The PIA Building

I watched Leo come back with a cocoon being carried by a small group of humans. I sensed an imprint of time inside the cocoon. I thought, Oh, gods. Lidz! Leo's got Lidz! I tried to keep my face blank, but I couldn't. My face betrayed me.
Leo chuckled wickedly and asked, "Do you have feelings for this girl?"
I held my tongue and sat with my back against the wall. Leo figured out my own weakness- my feelings towards Lidz. I looked at the cocoon, feeling my heart ache.
The voice scolded, You went out on your own and put your Elemental siblings in danger. You should've stayed in that cave, Razi.
I held my tongue still. If I were to live up to the name Muta, I had to be silent.

They'd got Lidz! And they weren't even near us. It made me worried. Could Leo do that any time he wanted? Could he get us right now? I shuddered at the thought.
"Lidz! Lidz!" Wolf yelled. He tried to go after her, but she was gone.
Then, the best thing that could possibly happen happened. It started raining.
I looked up into the rain, savoring the feeling of the rain on my skin. This day had left me drained. I needed a moment to reccuperate, and this gave me the chance to. I breathed in the wonderful scent of the rain. It gave me peace and calmed me.
"Lidz!" Wolf was still yelling. I came back to the real world. We had to save Lidz. And Arthur. Again.
But I was ready for it now. With the rain falling on my hair, and the water dripping down my arms, I felt like I could handle anything.

*Laid up sick with cold. STOP. Hard to think. STOP. Will post later. STOP. End Message.*

(OOC: Poor Sylverdawn. Hope you get well soon. )

OOC: Get well soon!

Lidz:

I stirred, the shell still encasing me. I shuddered; even though the cacoon was- I found out on closer inspection- fire, it was strangley cold. I wasn't touching any sides of the shell, I was hovering in the centre of it. But the worst thing was Leo.
He kept sending me images.
Of Wolf.
Of him.
Both of them from their past. Wolf saving the man, the man Wolf killed, but I ignored them, or tried to. It was hard, because even if I had my eyes open or closed, the images kept coming- burned into my eyelids. I held the picture, and the feeling of Wolf's hand on my cheek throughout Leo's image sending, and at one point, he saw it.
I felt his imprint, his elemental soul, or whatever the thing was, feeling it's way through my head like ghostly tendrils, until they found it.
They recoiled and hardened, and my head began to throb. I remebered how Leo had sworn he would have Wolf, as if he was property, so to really piss him off, I made the image sharper, bigger, clearer, and held it in the centre of my mind like a beacon.
It was a stupid thing to do, and like I knew it would, it pissed him off. Majorly.
The shell encasing, although it had been cold, began to heat up. The heat sent shocks up my body, smothering it. I was sweating madly, and my skin was flaking, going red and burning as if I'd grabbed a red hot sparkler. I gritted my teeth, holding onto Wolf, Arthur, the Elementals, until I the last thing I heard was,
"Let her go, Leo!"
Before the shell surrounding me shattered like glass, hitting me with red hot sparks, and I hit the ground hard, it was cool against my burning skin, and darkness swallowe me.

*I'm back, but still not 100%. Go easy on me kay guys.*

Lup Eoliene- Wolf:

Wolf's voice cracked through the air like a whip as he confronted his brother. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the humans edge warily away from him. Not surprising. Wolf had no clue what to do with all the power he had blocked away. His body rippled with lightning, blue-white sparks crawling across him. Wind swirled around Wolf, ruffling his hair and clothes.

The lightning was a fire Leo couldn't touch, a cold flame born of the heavens. And the sky was Wolf's domain, not Leo's. His twin froze and stepped away from Arthur and Lidz instinctively. This was why Wolf had been able to control his brother's impulses for so long. Because when it came down to it, Wolf outstripped Leo's power by miles.

When Wolf began to supress his abilities it had upset the balance of power between them. That was when Leo had changed for the worse. Ultimately it was Wolf's fault that Leo was like this. Wolf closed his eyes in resignation. "The mistakes I have made, I will rectify myself."

Wolf opened golden eyes that glowed with pale light. "Come on Leo, let's do this. Playtime's over."

Leo shook his head vehemently. "You won't kill me Wolf. Not yet, at least."

Smiling sadly Wolf contradicted him. "No I won't kill you. But I can lock you away."

"No prison can hold me." Leo shot back cockily.

"What about the south pole?" Wolf asked. And he could see the confusion on his friends faces. Lidz lay unconscious on the floor but Arthur was awake, tied in the chair. Eve and Rain had followed him into the room. "A place so cold your powers would be diminished. And you can neither swim across the ocean nor fly through the sky to escape. A place where you can live out the entirety of your life in solitude. And where you can never hurt anyone ever again."

Eve:
I imagined a place like what Wolf was talking about. A place you couldn't escape from. A place where you were cut off from your element. Entirely. Forever. I shuddered at the thought. To me, it sounded worse than death. I'd rather they strip me of my soul than my element.
Leo must have thought the same, because his face got really pale looking. For the first time, his expression changed from the calm, confident, and heartless smirk, but he really looked scared. Terrified. The fear made him look younger, like a little child.
Leo was always talking about getting his brother back. But maybe it was the other way too. Maybe Wolf wanted his brother back too. Maybe this was his brother, or who his brother used to be.
Then the moment passed, and Leo was back to being Leo. Whoever had been behind that look, it was obvious that he'd been gone and buried a long time, and probably never would be back, permenantly. It seemed Wolf had accepted that though, if he was willing to seperate him from his element forever.
However awful this would be for Leo, it probably would be ten times worse for Wolf, knowing he'd done that to his brother. But Wolf was willing to go through that. For us. And he barely knew us. That must take a lot of courage. I respected Wolf for that. I might even love Wolf for that, though in a big brother sort of way.
"You wouldn't," Leo hissed. Though it was clear from Wolf's face that he would. I glanced at Rain. She was staring at Wolf. We were ready. All we needed now was for Wolf to give the word.

Arthur Thomastien

It suprised me to insanity that Wolf confronted his twin, but I was stuck to the chair that Leo pinned me in. I said, "Hello. Guy caught in a chair here."
Eve and Rain managed to get me out of the chair.
I got to Lidz and tried to find a pulse. I brought me relief that she had a steady pulse. I felt my ghostfire attempting to escape, but I held it back. I kissed Lidz's lips.
The voice said, You still have a job to do, Razi.
I murmured, "I rather drown than do the job."
The voice scolded, Seshat wants her children and you refuse to do what you were told?! You insolent boy.
I murmured, "I could care less."

I hear Arthur say something.
"What?" I ask.
"Nothing," he says. I was only destracted by Arthur for a second, but Leo took the opportunity and scorched my hand. I jumped back with a hiss and summoned the water to put out my hand. It hurt a lot and didn't look so nice either. But I wasn't going to let that happen to me again.

Will do sylverdawn!

Lidz¬

I groaned, and my eyelids flutered open. I saw the eyes of Arthur, staring at me anxiously, and Eve and Rain both focused on...
A fight.
Wolf and Leo.
I gritted my teeth and pushed myself onto my knees. The pain brought tears to my eyes, my skin felt like it was all going to peel off.
"Eve," My voice cracked, and I coughed quietly, "Could you...?" I gestured to the burns. She understood immedietly. The water glided over my them, cooling them, and I felt so much better. Arthur smiled at me, I smiled back.
"Leo didn't hurt you too much, did he?" I asked.
His eyes flickered to the broken shell. "No,"
I felt wind ruffling my hair, and I was drawn back to the fight.
My heart strained with worry as I watched them battle. Once before they had been equally matched, but not today. Wolf had the upperhand. Wolf caught my eye, and hesitated for slightly too long, and Leo's fire blasted him in the stomach.
"No!" I yelled, I tried to scramble forwards, but Arthur held me back, telling me it was too dangerous. "No! I need to see if he's alright! Let me go! WOLF!"
Wolf hit the wall, and slumped to the floor. He was barley concious. I summoned the light from the room, stealing heat from Leo's aura, and blasted Leo as far away from Wolf as I could manage.
"Wolf!" I screamed, straining to get loose from Arthur, "Someone! Help him! WOLF!"

Lup Eoliene- Wolf:

Pain coursed through Wolf's body, his nerve endings fried by the fire blast. The world spun around him and Wolf's vision began to go black. His eyes opened to slits and he gazed across the room at Leo stumbling to his feet. Leo's face was white with shock. The twins eyes met and for just a moment Wolf felt the connection they had once had. Then everything went dark.

Leu de Ardere- Leo:

"Not possible. Wolf can't die, he just can't." Leo's mind whirled as he grasped at straws. Wolf should have blocked that blow. The most that fire should have done was singe him. But no, his new friends had distracted him. And now Wolf could very easily die if his wound wasn't treated quickly.

The pieces slid into place and suddenly he had a plan. It gauled him but the fact was Leo's human allies didn't have the ability to treat Wolf. But Arthur had grown up in this city. Chances were good the other fire elemental knew a healer. In that moment, Wolf's survival was the only thing in his mind.

Leo's hand snapped out and black flames rose up. Blocking Leo and the humans from reaching the other elementals. Leo turned smoldering eyes on Arthur, Eve, Rain and Lidz. "You better make sure he survives. If he dies so help me you will wish for your own deaths before I am through with you."

He saw everyone's jaws drop in shock at what Leo was saying. "Just go!" Leo roared, the black flames blazing with his anger, fear, and desperation. The clock was ticking.

*Okay Wolf is not going to die. But it would probably be a good idea if the gang took their reversal of fortune and beat a hasty retreat.*