Secrets Left Unknown (closed/started)

Grey Loraine (Rain) Sanders
My hands move back and forth in front of me, sweeping the air. Thick currents of wind gather together, following and obeying each slight movement I make. I will them to brush a strand of my blond hair out of my face, then I ball my hands into a tight fist and allow my winds to disperse. Being a weather elemental has its cool advantages.
I slowly shift from a sitting position to a standing one on the front porch of my family's cottage-style home. Sucking in a deep breath, I can sense everything around me: The trees slowly dancing with a few of my loose winds, soft rain falling to the earth somewhere in the distance, and even the bright colored flowers surrounding our cottage bobbing their heads to a tune only they hear.
Still squeezing my eyes shut, I command my listening winds to fly quickly away over the mountain tops surrounding our little town of Nowhere. I hope maybe this time they'll bring back some useful information about the world beyond ours that still remains a mystery.
My family has been here longer than all fourteen years of my life and only now have some of the townspeople realized that the tall mountain range is a set of walls built by who knows what.
In a matter of moments my hearing winds return, whispering back to me what they have listened to. I only receive bits and pieces of conversations or sounds, so
I make my best guess as to what others are saying.
"Got there... camera! Mountains... while flying... Renn! Watch it, Raina... Beware!"
My eyes snap open, attempting to put the puzzle of words together. So far I've concluded that Renn has found some sort of camera. (And as usual there is nothing
from beyond the barriers) I'm not quite sure what all of it means, so I decide to find out.
Dragging a small, low-hanging cloud down from the sky, I force it to surround me and harden with frozen rain water. Now I'm basically seated on a solid cloud which is hovering inches from the ground, being held aloft by my upward winds. I command my smallest hurricane currents of air to push me forward. The hardened
cloud is raised a few feet more before being swept away with me to find my friends. I call this "cloud surfing".
My legs hang over the side of the cloud while my hands and arms are controlling the movements and speed of it. In a matter of moments after zipping by a few more houses, bushes and shrubs and a small hill, I find some of my friends in a tight huddle inside of a grove of trees. I disperse my hurricane winds and replace them with a soft breeze to help me land the cloud near my friends. When my feet are reunited with solid ground, I turn the cloud back into its gaseous state before facing the group beaming a warm smile. "So, Renn I heard you've found something cool, right?" I question strolling up to stand next to Jewel.
"You're just in time, Grey," Renn informs me with a mischevious smirk.

Jewel:

Ben was being cocky again. Smirking, I rolled my eyes

Jokingly, I said, "Flying around talking to plants won't get us anywhere Ben. You need someone with some brains! Besides, a lion would be faster than all you guys!"

Without a blink, I transformed into my lionness form and shivered slightly. You'd feel weird too if you went from being a clothed human to a naked lion. But that's just my human half talking.

Stepping over to Raina, I rubbed my head against her leg, then sat beside her, looking over at the rest of the group, waiting for someone to continue.

>Shootingstars, I was thinking that Yin and Grey can be good friends, since they're both the really cheerful kind. Would that be ok?<
Yin and Yang

Yin giggled and then rolled her eyes when Ben landed next to them in his super hero form. "So dramatic," she said. And then when Grey floated over, Yin smiled and rushed over. "Grey!" She greeted, giving her friend a quick hug. Linking arms with Grey, Yin brought her closer to Renn and said, "Renn found a camera in the side of the mountain."

Grey got a puzzled look on her face, "What does that mean?"

Yin shrugged, "Somebody's spying on someone."

"We want to go see if there's more," Ben said to everyone's minds.

"And at the moment, everyone's arguing about who's the best one for the job," Raina said, her eyes staying straight ahead.

"Which is crap. Like any of you is better then me and my sister," Yang spat.

"Yang, it's fine, we don't have speed abilities like some of them do." Yin patted his shoulder.

"Yeah, but we've been alive countless years longer then anyone here," he argued. By now, everyone was getting brissly.

Yin sighed, leave it to Yang to start a fight. "You guys, does it matter? If it's so important-" Yin stopped as a bad idea got into her head, "Wait..if the camera was on when Renn took it out of the mountain, then don't you think whoever was behind the camera, got a pretty good look at his face?"

"So..?" Renn said.

"It means your toast, Renn," Yang finished for Yin. "The people know who stole their camera and they're probably not happy about it. And now their big secret is out, they won't be happy about that either. They're going to try and stop the rumor spreading before it gets too far." Yang's tone was something like People are going to come and kill you, have a great life!

"What secret?" Raina said.

Yang was about to answer, and then got a puzzled look on his face. He shrugged. "I don't know, maybe that we're all being watched. Maybe that we're really captives here in this God-forsaken vally."

Everyone looked at eachother with a worried expression.

Renn:

Renn shrugged and pocketed the camera. Right now it was the only solid evidence they had, no way was he going to lose it. Then he grinned, some of the others were looking slightly scared but Renn noticed Ryan had a thoutful look on his face.

"You need to listen to your sister more Yang. Try and be a little more optimistic" Renn teased him then explained what he had quickly realized. "If they want to come after me they have to come into the valley. And if there's a way in..."

He trailed off as grins spread across the others faces. Raina finished the sentence for him. "There's a way out."

*Renn's father wasn't just any angel, he was an archangel. But he hasn't told his friends about that side of him. As far as anyone, even the people who captured him know, He's half elemental, half crow-shifter. He's kept the truth of his angelic heritage under the proverbial lock and key.*

Yin and Yang

"So, what you're saying, is that we wait for them to come in to get us, see where exactly they came in, and then slip out when they're not looking?" Yin asked, a smile spreading across her face. "Sounds like an adventure."

"Or a death trap," Yang said helpfully. Despite Renn's suggestion to be more optimistic, Yang still enjoyed pointing out the down fall of everything.

"Yeah, but we can take them," Grey said, "I mean we've got freakish powers on our side, what do they have?"

"Machine guns." Yang pointed out.

"Oh for the love of-- Yang, would you knock it off?!" Ryan said.

"No wait. Even though my brother is being..." Yin paused in a thought for a word, "...a downer, there is some truth to what he's saying. We have to do this carefully. If we're going to do this at all."

Suddenly a voice that hadn't been in the group, spoke up. "It doesn't sound like you have a choice. I think these people are coming whether you want them to or not. We just need to decide what we're going to do about it." Everyone turned to the sound of the voice and saw Eve approaching us.

At the sound of her voice, Yang looked at Eve and said, "It's about time you showed up." But Yin noticed that instead of the usual glare that Yang greeted everyone else with, Yang simply looked at the girl and then turned away with out any further rude comments.

Yin eyed her brother suspiciously and he returned the glance with a look that said, What are you looking at? Normal people would be offended and look away, but Yin knew her brother and gave him a mischievous smile.


>Ok, really crappy post. I apologize. But I brought Eve in for you, Brooklyn, hope that helps! <

Raina

Raina leaned on Kai who was still hovering around, for he still wasn't sure when the next full moon would come. And patted Jewel. "But wait? What if we don't like what's on the other side?" She questioned, looking in the direction that she heard majority of the voices coming from. "What do you mean? Asked Yin. "Like what if were here for our own good? Or we have a purpose here and we just haven't realized it yet? A gentle breeze blew by as the group stood there thinking. "What if she's right?," feared Yin, " what if were not meant to leave?" Yin began to tremble slightly. "Don't listen to her Yin. She doesn't know what she's talking about. Heck she doesn't even know where she is much less." Said Yang who was still bitter over what had happened earlier. Raina stood up straight and walked over to Yang who was out of arms reach. SHe stood facing the brooding boy and whispered, "I may not know what the building looks like or the color of the trees in the Fall, or where the heck I'm going, but I ALWAYS know where I am. You have two perfectly useful eyes yet you can't see Jack. Your completely useless. So don't say anything to me." She walked away and took her spot back next to Kai and Jewel. She hated when people underestimated her.

~Ben~

I admit, as soon as people began to speculate and argue, I zone out a little bit. Raina had just finished her little speech, and Yang was looking even more sullen, if that were possible.

Right. I projected. So we've got some theories here, and some evidence which doesn't really prove anything other then someone is watching us. I might be able to trace the electrical energy signature where Renn picked up the camera. It'd lead us right to the source, so we can see who or what is spying on us.

Renn nodded in agreement. "I'll take you there, anyone else interested can come as well. Grey, do you think you could do the cloud trick with anyone without flying who wants to come, which I'm guessing is everyone"

She looked around, doing a quick headcount. Meanwhile, Renn stretched his crow-wings out. He definitely got a good package, flight, electrical manipulation AND humanity.

Just checking again, exactly how many people want to come with me and Renn, and how many others want to go and find anyone who isn't already here or try and diagnose the camera, see if theres anything we missed. Like it's make and it's footage. Maybe whoever put it up filmed themselves putting it up. I asked the group, anticipating a even spilt, as that would be the most efficient way of getting to the bottom of this.

Grey Sanders
Listening to the conversations buzzing around her, Grey feels a sick, sinking feeling bubbling in the pit of her stomach. She attempts to act perky and optimistic when she wonders aloud, "What if we're all thinking the wrong way?"
"What do you mean by that?" Renn and Yang question at the exact same moment.
Before Grey can respond Yin chimes in. "Ooh! I get what she's saying! So maybe we're just over-analyzing this!" Yin glances at her friend next to her.
Grey grins.
"You're saying that it's a coincidence that Renn found a random camera in the side of a mountain?" Jewel asks with a harsh edge to her tone.
That's stupid, Ben responds in the groups' minds.
"No," Grey explains. "These cameras could be simply something someone else from Nowhere put up."
"Really?" Yang asks sarcastically. Grey teasingly sends one of her hot summer winds toward Yang, slapping him in the cheek.
"Ow! Hey!" he roars. Everyone laughs, lightening the mood. "I'm serious," he continues. "That doesn't make any sense. Why would someone from here set up a camera?" Yang rubs his sore cheek, a sour expression written across his scowling face.
"I mean I guess it's possible," responds Ryan before shrugging.
"I was trying to look at different reasons that," Grey begins pointing to the device in Renn's hand, "could be up there, hidden."
"Because someone's spying on us!" Raina concludes, folding her arms across her chest.
Everyone exchanges nervous glances.
Grey sighs nervously, accidentally allowing the rain stored above them in the clouds to fall to the ground. Giant water droplets splatter the earth and slide down the huddle of friends' heads.
"Grey!" Yang shouts angrily.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to," she answers quickly. With a wave of her hand, Grey shuts off the downpour. "Sorry..."
After a few more moments of conversation, Renn concludes, "Grey, do you think you can do the cloud trick with anyone without flight?"
Counting the number of kids who can't fly, Grey realizes she's never used so much power at the same time. She hopes she can handle it.
Wiping away a few loose raindrops off of her nose, the girl looks over at Yin for encouragement. Yin beams a smile and clasps Grey's hand.
"Are you ready?" Grey asks Yin while the others form a plan.
"You know it."

(btw I didn't see that Camulaeus had posted so I typed this out but had to change a little to go with what he had typed. Sorry! And by the way, of course Grey and Yin can be friends!)

Glacies Ventus

He was frustrated at everyone seemingly having forgotten him he looked around the group still remaining balanced on Renn's shoulder. He left Renn's shoulder and reverted to his human form, seeing the shock on everyone's face he gave them a second before he deigned to speak. Renn right as he had hopped off had taken his crow from. If I hadn't hopped off he would have made me take flight rather than let me get off. "Ladies, and whatever gentlemen are present," he chuckled to himself as he took in some laughter. "You have forgotten all about one thing I could easily help find the cameras and trace the dead spots in the mountains to their source."

Everyone looked at me and Yang was the first to speak, "so nature boy waits till the last minute to talk and speaks gibberish once again. What does any of that mean Glacies?"

Yin looked at me apology in her eyes,"I'm sorry about Yang but I must admit I don't understand either I'm not sure anyone understood."

I let out a peal off laughter sounding like a chorus of birds, "honestly, I expected few of you to, well maybe Ben would but he was the only one I thought might. All of nature gives off some sign of life especially those mountains they're young and still growing I can commune with nature. I search the mountains for veins in the rock that are dead and follow them then we'll find where they go to. But, I'll need to find one of the cameras first." I looked at Grey, Ben, and Renn before continuing. "All I have to do is find the dead spots in the mountains, you guys can find the cameras and knock them out and I'll follow the wires to who ever is monitoring us. If any one wants to come with that would be welcome but Ben and Grey no matter what you two should go to the mountains the electricity you two can discharge will make it easier to take out any cameras. Renn should stick with them too he seems to know where they are and could find them even with out what I can do."

I took a moment to stroll over and lean against a tree placing a hand against it, "You guys head on but listen to the wind Grey I'll keep you guys updated on anything I find."

Jewel

Before anyone could leave, I felt something swelling in my chest, and my sphinx brain took over.

Causing me disomfort and pain, human words came out of my lion jaw, "Running like wolves to catch your pray, planning and plotting, hesitating then acting, the wolves run round and round, victory in their mind, no doubt set in. As the wolves run round, they notice to late something greater has been behind them the whole time."

When the riddle concluded, I let out a yelp. Feeling my lionness formdissolve, I sat in human form, clutching at my jaw with both hands, suppressing my tears.

"Guys," I said, my mouth quivering from the pain, "Are we in danger."

When the last sentence came out as a statement, rather than a question, I knew: this wasn't good.


*sorry, did this via smartphone. Teeeny tiny keyboard, and a little amount of time. Hope this is ok. Will post for Kai later*

Grey Sanders
When Glacies gives me the opportunity to use my lightning bolts, I am all for it. I don't get the chance to use electricity very often so I'm excited to get ready to zap some cameras (if there are any more). I balance a strand of purple lightning in between my pointer finger and thumb to show that I'll go along with Glacies' plan.
Once he concludes his speech, finishing up with the part about me harnessing my listening winds to communicate with the others, my heart flutters with anticipation. Grinning cheerfully again I add, "Yeah just pay attention to the weather, also. If you hear thunder rumbling but don't notice lightning, then that means me or someone near me needs help or we're in danger. Does that sound okay?"
Everyone nods once. Suddenly, Jewel transforms into her majestic sphinx state bearing one of her riddles about wolves, or something like that.
When she's done Jewel turns back to her normal girl appearance, clutching her sore jaw.
"Are you okay?" I ask moving towards her. I kneel beside her on the damp grass, shaded by the sun from the thick oak growing above us.
She doesn't respond, deep in thought so I saunter back over to Yin who whispers something in my ear I can't quite understand.
"Are we in danger," Jewel says like a statement. She stands up slowly, searching our faces for a response.
Ryan knits his eyebrows together nervously while Glacies pushes away from the tree trunk he's resting against. Yin exchanges an uneasy look with me.
I decide to say something, trying to move away from the dark subject. "In a way, we always are so there's nothing to worry about. Right?"
My friends mumble to themselves for a second before Ben replies, Of course it's gonna be dangerous, Grey, but we'll get over it.
Raina tries to find the source of his voice and faces the "electric man" as I like to call him. "Way to be an encouragement, Ben," the girl sarcastically states.
Glacies says, "It is true. For once Ben has a point."
I don't want to admit it, but I know he's right. Not about the Ben part, but about the danger. To be quite honest I'm scared and anxious about the outcome of this situation, and I know I'm not the only one with these feelings.

*Errr... Renn can't turn into a crow, he just used that as a convenient lie since his wings are black, and out all the time. And if someone wants to get hurt I would like Renn's healing powers to be exposed.*

Renn:

Renn was losing patience. It seemed they'd hashed out a descent plan but something kept happening to keep them here. He didn't bother reminding them he could manipulate electricity too. Better if the others thought he was just a shapeshifter. It was safer for them that way.

He snapped his wings out and leaped into the air, pumping hard for altitude and then hovering over the clearing. "I'm going. You guys can make your own choices about obeying Jewel's warning. But if I'm stuck in this town much longer I will go crazy." Renn turned and mounted higher into the sky pushing for height. But part of him listened fo the sound of the others taking to the air.

Grey Sanders
As Renn leaps into the air, his wings pulling him higher into the sky I realize he's right. "We're not going to get anywhere if we keep talking about it. I know part of it's my fault," I say. "I'll go ahead and harness a couple clouds so those who can't fly can cloud surf. Okay?"
Yang retorts, "It really is your fault we're still standing here."
I roll my eyes, ignoring him. Yin looks at me apologetically but I just smile to show her it's fine.
I concentrate on the weather and pull down my clouds before hardening them to make them a solid. I call my upward winds and hurricane winds to surround the thick white "boards". While I'm doing this, Glacies transforms into his bird state and follows Renn.
Peace out, Ben plays in our heads. He shoots up into the sky, heading for the mountains.
I finish creating the floating cloud boards so I push them over to the few who need them. Yin grabs hers excitedly as it flies in front of her and says, "Thanks!"
"My pleasure," I reply half-grinning.
"I'll just follow Glacies or someone," Raina tells the remaining group, turning into a pixie form and buzzing away.
Yang reaches for his board reluctantly. "Listen, I don't need Grey of all people to help me fly," he mumbles.
"Just get on the cloud please," I say. "I'll even create seat belts for safety. It'll be made out of electricity but it won't hurt you." I zap each of the boards, adding the blue crackling seat belts.
Yang rolls his eyes and climbs on.
Jewel giggles and watches me as I gather my tornado air around me to lift me about ten feet off of the ground.
"The cloud boards are pretty easy to use, just tip them to whichever side you want to go."
A look of uneasiness settles in Jewel's eyes as she clutches her hardened cloud. "What about my riddle?" she asks us.
"Just get over it," Yang remarks. "I'm going now." He slowly tips the front of his cloud upward, willing my winds to do so too.
"It's going to be fine, Jewel," Yin assures her.

Minutes later I'm near the tip of the mountainside when I notice Ryan as a dragon hovering next to a large niche in the stony wall of the mountain. He sees something, no doubt. I soar towards him, but before I even reach him I know what he's discovered. Ryan has spotted another camera.

Ryan

Part of Ryan wanted no part of this mystery; his life was fine. Yeah, it was boring at times, but it was his life. The other part of him wanted to tear it apart until he found the answers. If that meant he had to use his dragon form, well, he had to use it.
He was twenty or so feet behind the others, looking in the lower parts of the mountain as his friends started at the top. Something glinted in the corner of his eye and he flew over to it, clutching to the rock face and turning human. Grey hovered over and saw it just as he was tearing the wire from it.
"Now we have two." He said, slipping the device in his jacket.
"Let's go find the rest." Grey said, soaring away.
Ryan sighed and pushed himself off the side of the cliff, morphing in his dragon state before he dropped too far.
Shouldn't we find the others first? Tell them about it too? Nemesis would love this puzzle. Rachel could fly and take one of the others with her. Adrian and Katcintra wouldn't like being left out either.
He kept scanning the side of the mountain as he thought. Renn had found another and it looked like Glacies had two clutched in his talons. Grey and the twins were lucky too, a good hundred feet to the right of Ryan. He couldn't see Raina and Jewel so he assumed they were with Kai on the other side of the mountain or something.
Something was bubbling in the depths of his stomach, making his bones chill. He clung to the rock again, human, and glanced around once more. Then he noticed the small crevice carved in a single straight line before him. Tracing it with his finger, he found it connects with another, which connects with one more.
"Oh God." He whispered to himself. "I think I just found a door."


*Just curious, who exactly went to go find the others? Obviously not the people ShootingStars had Grey mention...but did everyone go on the hunt for cameras?*

Raina

You could feel the air around the little circle begin to cool down as Grey got more and more of her clouds and winds. The air became dense and Raina felt like she was being trapped in a tiny box. "I'll just follow Glacies or someone," Said Raina, trying to get out of the uncomfortable situation. The next minute they were all in the air soaring high above some of Grey's left over clouds. "What do you think we'll find she asked Jewel, who was surfing next to her. "Uh, I don't really know. I guess we just have to wait and find out." She smiled a reassuring smile towards Raina, but felt she needed it more than she did. They finished the rest of their journey in silence due to the fact you couldn't hear over the moving winds. As they get closer towards the mountain side Grey get 's a questioning look on her face. "What is it Yin asked? "I'm not sure? It looks like it may be another camera, but I'd have to get closer to be sure. Grey gently lowered the non-fliers to the ground and walked over to where the rest were huddled. "What did you guys find?!," She yelled at Renn. "Looks like another camera. But if you look closer it looks like there's a little speaker coming out of the side." He looked up and saw every one standing around, except Yin who was playing with a flower that was growing in a hair-line crack, and Raina admiring her surroundings. "So what are se suppose to do with it?" Questioned Yang. "Well maybe Ben can go see where the power goes and maybe he can turn it off?" Answered Ryan.Yes I get to do stuff!! Answered BenIn their minds. "And I can go try and circle the mountain one more time if that would help?" Ryan offered. Raina brought herself closer to the group. "So what next?" They all looked around unsure.