Elements: Rise of The Destruction (Book 1)

Plot Twist (Chapter 2)

The bell rings, and everyone runs out of their classes. Brenton opens his locker, takes out the stuff he needs, then throws his drawstring in there. Then, he grabs his bag, dumps the stuff in there, and rushes out.

He stops, right outside of school. Right. Alex is gonna walk home with me from now on...Brenton thinks to himself. He couldn't really get how the kid managed to smile so much. It kinda creeped him out, but, he pushed that thought aside as Alex came up to him.

"Hey, Brenton! Thanks for letting me walk home with you," Alex thanks.

"No prob," Brenton replies and starts to walk. He puts his hands behind his head and sighs in relief. A bright light shines behind him and Brenton turns around. The light shined for not even a millisecond if you blinked you would've missed it. Brenton didn't know if his eyes were playing tricks on him or not.

"Did you see that?" Brenton asks, looking everywhere around Alex.

"See what?" Alex asks, looking a little uneasy.

"I guess it was nothing," Brenton shakes his head and turns back around. Now I'm getting old, Brenton thinks of it as karma. A paper falls out of his bag pocket and Alex picks it up.

"You dropped this," Alex says and hands him the piece of paper.

"What's this?" Brenton questions and opens it up.

Hello Brenton,

You don't know me yet, but I know a little about you, from your parents. If you can manage, I would like for you to come to the woods behind 6 neighborhoods. I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about. Be there at 6 in the evening today. I look forward to seeing you there!

"What?" Brenton stares blankly at the paper.

"Oh! I got the same one! Except mine said Alex and grandparents but that's not the point...let's go together!" Alex suggests.

"Why would you accept a sketchy note like this?" Brenton asks, looking confused.

"Well, what's the harm in seeing what it is? It's all good dude," Alex answers and puts his elbow on Brenton's shoulder. He rolls his eyes.

"Wow..." Brenton's voice trails off. Well, I can't let him go alone..not like I can do anything but still. Brenton debates in his head. "Okay, I'll go with you. But this is a really stupid idea," Brenton agrees. Alex smiles brightly.

"Yay!"

Alex's hand glows, he then puts it in his pocket. A blade of grass turns into the flame, in less than a second it burns out.

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Owen pulls up his hood. With his hands in his pockets, he starts to go for the door. His backpack bouncing behind him. Everyone knew to not talk to Owen when he has his hood on, or at least, he never responded to anyone.

Even now people waved at Owen, he waved only to find out that they were waving to someone behind him. He quickly brings his hand to adjust his hood. That was embarrassing..! Why do I do this?

He never talked to people outside of class, and even then it was only for work. He just had trouble talking as a general statement. A very shy kid.

He passed by people laughing and talking amongst their friends. What's it like to not be pressured into doing something you love? Owen thinks. Shaking his head, he plugs in his headphones to his phone and plugs the earpiece into his ears. If you're forced to do something you love how can you even say that you're a living person? And I got deep again...