Chapter 3 (1/2)

CHAPTER 3

The Fire Element

When she was finally well enough to travel, about teeks after, Loralle made her way towards the Fire Tribe Within this tis became known to her

One was that she could now use both water and earth together as one, as now they combined smoothly but before they hadn't She had realized it a few days after the earth house had been created The steps had the tiniest bit of water and the grass on her make shi+ft bed had been a little damp when she had tried to sleep on it the first time

Testing her powers, more so out of curiosity then to understand, it was obvious that without the approval of the element, she could not combine them Until she was approved for the fire element, she could not combine it with either the earth or the water powers

Loralle adued on this matter!

What else could she make? What else could she do? Her enthusias up and down!

Was water and fire so about this really did keep her occupied as she travelled towards the back end of the Fire Tribe, sitting, while the earth took her there The travel time was reduced even more so, now that her power had doubled in the earth power

But, as she travelled, she did also co else by accident

She had just begun searching the earth to watch people, like she usually didWhen she found that she could venture out further in the earthShe was able to see a lot er!

Upon this realization, Loralle curiously continued into the unknown, unseen territory With wide eyes and her heart beating rapidly, she found t areas!

From where she had received the approval of the earth element, one place was far to the north and the other was far to the south But, looking closer, these t places were together, just like the Fire and Water Tribes

Loralle had never thought that Mondal wasSo big! Will it get any bigger? She wondered

No one, she had heard of, had spoken of these two other places before She could possibly understand why, because of the large land mass between themButThey seemed somewhatFamiliar

Closely looking, and seeing the picture of the lands in her head, Loralle saw that it was very similar indeed, to the Fire and Water Tribes!

ExceptOne had a severe, giant cyclone in the middle of their small tribe and the other had what looked to be a field full of big light flashes, re from thunderstorms

It was quite an i stones on the outside of the field, as though they were holding in all those flashi+ng lights

They wereObviouslyTwo more elements! Loralle couldn't wait to meet her t friends!

Searching hly, Loralle found that their i, she wondered if there was so windy area or the area that lookedUnexplainableIt was quite a lot of rock hills

Loralle was shocked as she could see different coloured stones all giving off sht flashes everywhere! And there were so many of them! It was most likely their last line of defences How on earth would I get through that!?

It looked too quick to dodge

What made Loralle question even more so, was that, as their tribes so much smaller than that of the Water and Fire tribes?

As ot very close to the Fire Tribe and couldn’t think of any reason to the population of the neo tribes Was it because of the rapid air and the vast rock hills that lacks everywhere else? But with our tribes, it's the sao out to fight just like the Fire Tribe

Loralle shock her head, did they perhaps fight and losewar?

Surely, even if they had lost so many, their numbers would have more then what they have now

Loralle couldn't work it out But she o their personally to investigate!

S more about them! More power to behold, indeed!

It wasn't long after Loralle decided this, that she found herself in seeing distance of the Fire Tribe Sighing, Loralle stood up and started to walk instead

Knowing that her poere kno to both the Fire Tribe and Water Tribe, she wanted to try and stay away froood at!

Even though her fire poasn't as strong as her water and earth, she had been born fro that, by itself, ht even cause attention

It was at this time that Loralle started to wonder if her mother was from the Fire Tribe…With the s fro that wouldif she had inherited her water powers from her father, how else could she inherit the fire powers?

But then, Loralle thought of the earth power…

Like she always did when she was thinking too hard, she scratched her head

As far as she are, there was no Earth Tribe, if there had been, wouldn’t it have been back in the middle of the desolate earth place where she was accepted by the earth element?

Why was there no Earth Tribe? Do they perhapsLive under the ground?

How…Did she really inherit the earth powers?

With the earth powers having such a dead end, Loralle still couldn’t shake away the idea that her ht be part of the Fire Tribe

But, she decided, I’ll thinkher head a break

Coldly, Loralle looked ahead of her, at the incoround, and what she could see were people looking out from them

But…It was like that of the Water Tribe defences, so Loralle quickly overcame her curiosity

The better sight was behind them! It was a wall of fire!

It seeht in two different directions

Magma was on the bottom of the fire, but hoas it up continuously like that!?

As pretty as it was, Loralle was sure that the Water Tribe could break through it If they soaked theh it

Thinking further, Loralle remembered the Water Tribe had a different kind of wall It was deep water that flashed up every now and againDefinitely not as pretty as the fire wall!

Her thoughts will have to disappear for now It was tio back to the her of her past, that had suffered all those years It would be easier to stay unnoticed if she stays dirty, scaht as often as possible

So, what she was going to doWas be her ani very hard for her to accomplish!+

Squatting down to the ground, Loralle looked at the high volcano in the distance, al her neck sore All she needed noas her destination She would let her old self take her there!

And that was how she passed the fire defences and started to head towards the volcano

Obviously, the fire wall had been no problem, because of her immunity to it

Before anyone could have questioned her, she had disappeared After her weird and strange escapade, the people let her go, thinking that she was one of the 'crazy ones'

Indeed, her act was very easyAs she had done this for many years now

Loralle scoffed, actually, it wasn't all an actIt was really part of who she wasHer only friends were that of the powers that she had

It would be e to anyone else butLoralle didn't knohat being embarrassed was

She had spent ' with fire, earth and water What else had she to do? There was only so h the earth, eating and sleeping Playing cat and mouse with her poas to fill in ti too ed a little as she had decided to go and obtain each power’s approval

But the impression she had left behind at the Fire Tribe's defences, left quite a few people speechless

She had ju a fire ball, only to have that fire ball fly off, and she had chased after itThat hat half of the close by people saw and the other half of the people didn't understand the sudden silence, and a voice spouting so crazy!

What Loralle didn't quite count on, was how e volcano

Two days had gone by and she only found herself half way up

It was astronooes up and how hard it was to climb She even wondered if she had been taken it too easy with being able to use earth to get everywhere, because now that she hadn't used it, everything seemed to be so much harder! She had to stop several ti her a little uneasy as she wondered if her body was unfit It was just another thing to worry her, but she could only think of that later, as she took in a deep breath The volcano’s surface was steep and had no signs of life living on it She stumbled many times over lose rocks and had to detoured several tima

Loralle looked down at the Fire Tribe below her and decided that if she were to use her earth power, it shouldn't be seen by anyone from this point onwards

ButAnother thing that was bothering her, was how hot it was already beco her clothes very sticky Perhaps, this was the only tiender she really was! It wasn’t that much of an issue for Loralle, as it was often in her past that she would be wetBut, it was the first tiht that she should clean herself

What was different was that she wasn’t used to the heat in the slightest Neither was her sli fe to her If one could look past her dirty look and messy hair…They would see that her body would be so that males would definitely want to stare at!

Sitting down on a piece of earth, that was quite a distance away fro down the volcano, Loralle knew, that if she doesn't think of soht not make it to the top before she become ash!+

To stay out of sight, she built a small cave, where she was, and contemplated on her next step

For Loralle, that was the best piece of help, as she found that the earth around her was cooling her down While she waited for her body temperature to drop, she tried to consider ould happen to her