My Dad looked to me with eyes of pure shock “I didn’t know how…” I looked down on him and watched as he slowly stood, I took a breath and opened my mouth clenching my fist I slammed my hand down on the table next to me “Stop being indecisive.” My father looked down on me and sighed and gestured for me to sit at a bar stool I did and set my text to speech device on the bar as my Dad sat next to me. “Your mother was a royal fire elf I am a half-blood ice elf. Your mother and I lived in the magic realm and because your mother was a royal and pregnant with a half breeds child we were banished to the human realm. She used magic to hide our elf forms and we lived as normal humans, we promised never to tell anyone. Now you can not tell anyone and you can’t show anyone your chest,” I looked to my Dad confused “I already live in the human realm what else can they do? Are there other magical beings that have been banished?” My Dad sighed “what do you think humans will do if they find out there is something they can’t control… They will strap it down and turn it into a weapon. Humans are evil and want to control everything.” I looked at him and them at my fingers “When I got into that fight my fingers were red and white and red dots were on my face and my eyes were glowing why not now?” My Dad looked at me and sighed “emotion controls your Elf form most likely because your mom used it so much while you were in the womb.” I stood confused and what other myths about strange are real? “I need to go think.” He nodded and I walked off going to my room and flopping on my bed I looked to my phone and texted Roger “I am a fire and ice Elf.” I chuckled at the thought I had lost my mind and shook my head. I lost my mind and I was a magical creature next thing you know Santa is real. “Okay, so what did your dad tell you?” I walked him through what my dad told me and he said he would help since my dad worked all the time, “Tomorrow after your human school I will take you to the cliffs and work on it there.” I knew where he was talking about the cliffs by the ocean where no one hung out really due to the fear of a rock slide which happens often so people avoid them. “That's a far walk so it may take me a while to get there.” I looked to Meatlug and got up to make get their food, I poured the food into the bowls as my phone dinged I pulled it from my pocket and looked to the screen “it’s fine we can get a ride from Jonas.” I felt my body fill with utter panic and I froze
Malcolm: “But we are going to need to say something so he won’t come along"
Roger: "I will come up with something on the way.”
I went down backstairs and worked on the painting of the tree in the living room and ended up finishing that night my Dad looked to the wet paint “Where did you see those flowers?” I shrugged and he chuckled “We had flowers like that back in the magic realm there glowed at night and your mom and I used to grind them up and pour them on each other so we could play tag at night.” I looked at my dad and walked away and he touched my arm “Did you see your mom?” I nodded and he smiled “she is truly beautiful huh?” I brushed off the grasp of his arm and walked away, he still hadn’t mourned my mother I caught him talking to her a lot and he would act like she was there when he watched a movie resting his arm on thin air as if it was around her shoulder. I went back to my phone and looked up Elves I got a lot of crap and very little useful information I looked around my room and to the empty wall next to my desk I set up the plastic and tape and began to draw little elves running on my wall making it look like they were running on my desk. I drew the elves all night long and in the morning I had three little elves one green one blue and one red. They had little dots on their faces and shiny hair and cute outfits. I got ready for school and my phone dinged I ran to it as if the world would end, It was Sparkles “Morning Muffin want anything to eat before I head to school?” I sighed in disappointment thinking it was Jonas “No I am good thanks though”. I finished getting ready and headed out Drifter seemed rather excited to go, we left the house and began our walk to school. When I got there I saw the worried glares of most of the kids I then saw the principal walk up to me “Mister Malcolm I was told you were not to come to school for a few more days are you sure you are ready to start back up again?” I nodded and she stayed by my side as I walked Jonas’s car drove up and Sparkles was driving she got out and looked at me then looked away as if she wasn’t supposed to talk to me. I watched as the others got out Roger looked at me and waved Jonas hit his head and glared him down. I walked into the school and the principal finally turned off down a different hallway I went to my locker to see notes and a pile of fake flowers I opened each letter to find them signed by names I didn’t know and then I saw one with a drawing of a dragon dancing I looked to the green dragon and thought of Roger it was unsigned. I saw the red jewel in its chest and two red horns I turned it over to find ‘dragons aren’t too bad.’ Written with a heart I looked around and saw Roger leaning against a nearby locker, “you are so cute when you are lost in thought my little muffin.” He touched my face and his hands were really hot, I looked away as my face got hotter “I have to go before I get into too much trouble bye bye my little Muffin.” He walked away and waved I stood and covered my face gathering the fact that just happened I tried to shake it from my mind and tried to act like it didn’t happen. The day passed quickly and Roger and I texted the whole day talking about him mostly which was quite annoying. He then decided to tell me how he got to the human realm. So he was working with someone who wanted to study humans but he was worried that humans might attack him and asked for a dragon escort. A dragon, because they are strong, have a great sense of smell, and are rather fearless. The guy Roger was with was a bit of a coward he got scared by a bunny that jumped from a bush and ran then created a portal to get him out of the human realm well Roger went to look for him and couldn’t find him and was now stuck in the human realm. He was forced to flee from the cops and ended up in this town and he knew there was no way that the human study guy would be able to find him. Jonas hunched over my phone and found me texting Roger he looked kinds defeated and turned away. When the day finally came to an end I walked to the parking lot and waited under the tree that Roger had told me to wait under. I saw him walking up to me and he smiled and gestured for me to follow him I followed him to the car and he put his arm around me as we walked. Everyone looked at us confused Jonas glared him down “Roger what are you doing?” Roger pulled me closer “The Little Muffin and I need a ride” Jonas shook his head “Roger we can’t have another person and a dog.” Roger smiled and gestured to himself “it’s fine he can sit on me,” Jonas dropped his smoke and the others looked to him and chuckled “Where are you going?” Jonas stomped on the smoke and leaned on the car “Down by the cliffs and because he said he wanted to show me something.” Jonas looked to me doubtfully and shook his head "No we don't have room for liars." Roger groaned “Fine you caught me I am taking him on a date way to put me on the spot chief!” I looked to him frozen and Jonas choked and coughed he finally caught his breath and I stood in disbelief “Get in the car.” I got in and Drifter sat on Jonas's lap and I sat on Roger’s lap, Sparkles drove the ride was in utter silence and no one said anything when we got to the cliffs he let us out Ruffles scoffed “Kinda gay.” Roger grabbed him and pulled him from the car pushing him on the ground he grabbed him by his clothes and brought him closer glaring him down. “Anything wrong with that?” Ruffles tried to push him off “Fuck off you ain't the boss.” Roger picked him up by his throat and lifted him off the ground and whispered something to him then dropped him and put his arm around me Drifter jumped out of the car and followed by my side. I heard the car drive off and we headed under the cliffs, “Okay so go ahead and take off your shirt.” I slowly took off my shirt and he looked into my eyes and touched my chest the jewels weren’t there. “Sit down and close your eyes,” He gestured to a rock and I did as he said, “now focus on your heart and body feel every little thing it does.” I sat there and it seemed like forever before he gave me something else to do “Picture fire and ice the way they shine and feel. Feel the pulsing in your fingers and in your toes and open your eyes.” I sat there for a while and nothing happened. "Think about your mom the way she looks the way her smile made everyone else smile. I felt my breath escape me for a moment I sat up opening my eyes to see my fingers red with frozen like white tips, I pulled my hair into view and it had red tips. “Now with these powers comes a lot of shit and I mean you can’t get mad easily or you might freeze someone or catch them on fire.” I nodded and he gestured to the water. “Close your eyes and slowly walk toward the water thinking about it freezing.” I did as he said and I stumbled around picturing it freezing, it took me quite a few tries of coming out of the water my pants soaked. “You aren’t focusing…Just follow your guts.” He clutched his heart and hunched over I went to his side and he pushed me aside and I watched as lumps formed in his back and violently moved and broke through his skin. Wings bursted out and his body grew and hardened with green scales minutes passed, a dragon stood before me. I looked up to the giant thing in front of me it stood straight on all four legs. It let out a low growl and lowered it’s neck to me looking at me with its eyes were white and had burn marks around them. It opened its mouth and its tongue came out and wrapped around me I touched it and watched as it froze and I escaped it grasps and ran away growling it chased me and pinned me down with its feet. I shielded my face with my hands and I heard a cracking popping sound and looked to see a dome of ice covering me. The ice broke and I ran away from the claws that dug through the ice I stood and felt something change I stood strong and stomped my foot and watched as the ground under me froze my feet froze to the ice. I pulled my feet from the ice and watched as he slipped I walked toward him and raised my hand above his huge mouth that was as big as I was. I gracefully waved my hand and watched as ice from the ground grew and wrapped around his mouth like ropes holding his head to the icy ground. I followed the gut feeling and yanked my hand up and watched as the ground below my hand rose ice grew to my hand into my grasp forming a staff. Roger went back to his human form “Wow that was good.” I looked at ice on the beach, “Now we work on close combat. You can do this stuff at home just not with ice like sticks but today we are going to use ice.” He picked up some stones and began to throw them at me I tried to hit them with the staff but failed most of the time when I heard a car driving I began to panic “Throw your staff in the water and meet me on the hill after you have calmed down.” I threw my staff in the water and sat down and closed my eyes thinking about being calm and normal a pain filled my chest and I couldn’t breathe. I opened my eyes gasping for air and tried again. When the jewels were gone I grabbed my shirt and threw it on and went up the hill Jonas stood leaning against the car “Oi it’s a bit early…” Roger said rubbing his head, Jonas lite up a cigarette and looked at us “So you two are a thing?” I looked to Roger and he shook his head “no I just wanted to talk to the guy see if I could get to know him people like me can get people like him to open up no problem.” Jonas looked to me and looked down “Well make sure to tell everyone that when you get to the house.” He nodded and I got in and looked around for Drifter I got out and looked around and thought he must have run away when Roger went into his Dragon from I should have been paying attention. I ran down whistling, Roger and Jonas followed calling out for Drifter. I ran around the ice and began to panic as I searched for him, I ran around whistling and I began to breathe heavily as I ran around it was all my fault that I was never going to be able to see him again. I collapsed on the ground and my hands clung to my head and I felt like my breath was taken from me. Tears formed in my eyes as the thought of losing him flooded my mind, I remembered my mother’s funeral. I stood and shook my head and began to wipe away my tears and I whistled for him, I ran off from the others we split up to find him. After what seemed like hours of looking we finally found him then the questions about the ice came flooding from Jonas, Roger quickly changed the subject and the rest of the car ride was in utter silence. Jonas dropped off me and got out of the car I saw that my father’s truck was gone and smiled “You wanna hang out in my place for a while?” He looked down on me as if he was upset “No.” I watched as he got back in the car and I turned back to my house and walked in Drifter at my side we walked into the house Meatlug ran to my side and I fell to my knees a wave of utter exhaustion flooded my body, I made my way to my bed and easily fell asleep. Everything was pitch dark the feeling of water at my feet I slowly turned and the sound of the water moving around me echoed through the darkness. I saw my father I walked toward him and touched his shoulder he fell into the water and disappeared I turned to see Jonas he was hunched over I opened my mouth to call for him but no sound came out he turned as if he had heard my silent cry. His eyes were black and dripped down his cheeks his mouth smiled and he charged toward me. I turned and ran only to be meet by Roger he grabbed me and threw me down and Jonas appeared before me he pinned me down and I watched as his mouth slowly opened and his tongue wrapped around me and pulled me in the utter darkness of his stomach I couldn’t breathe but I couldn’t die. I thrashed around and tried to make it stop. I clawed at my own neck as wires wrapped around my throat, and I watched as my skin began to fade to white and I caught fire. I screamed my voice rang out in the darkness but did nothing to end the nightmares, but it only got monsters to appear, my mother stood over me she was joined by Jonas, Roger, and my father. A light broke out and the monsters fled and disappeared, the choking feeling stopped and I took a deep breath coughing and taking as many breaths I could before they were stolen from me again. I looked toward the light and saw fire burst toward me I sighed and let it take me closing my eyes hoping for the nightmare to finally come to an end.
Comments (0)
See all