by Haley Winn
Chapter 3
I took out my phone and sent Mallory a quick text: Jessie set flame to a store.
My phone vibrated when she texted back: Get your trouble-making asses at my house NOW. She’s on the news!
I muttered "Crap." and explained to them. Dylan shook his head and Jessie shrugged.
“If I get caught at her house-" Dylan warned, but I cut him off. He and Mallory were sworn enemies since fifth grade. I had no clue why, but she enjoyed kicking him in the ass and he liked turning everything she said into something perverted.
“You won’t.” I fixed him with a stern look and walked towards Mallory’s street. She was one of the only ones of us with her own house, though it was small. Plus, her parents weren’t divorced and were much older than all of ours. The house next to her held her brother Collin’s family; her brother, his wife Heather, his stepson Cameron, and two-year-old Cainen (Collin and Heather’s son together) who was probably Mallory’s favorite little person in the world. The toddler was just starting to talk and had already started calling her ‘Mal’ and me ‘Hay’, since I often visited him whenever at her house.
Mallory was an Electress, which meant she controlled all types of electricity, from small static shocks to lethal lightning strikes. Her species was the second most powerful, second only to Darkness because of her ability to instantly kill mortals, though she would never ever consider that. Her eyes glowed an intense violet, with green contacts covering them. Her skin was milky pale, with freckles dotted across her cheeks, and reddish-brown curls trailed to her shoulder blades. Her opposite Powera was Ice.
Dylan was a Darkness. He had dominion over the night and held control over this black, smoke-like mist that could suffocate or pick up things. He could also see in the dark. His opposite was Light, a rare type.
My friend Brooke is what you humans would call a grass type. In reality, she was an Earth Protector, who took care of the environment and had control over all plants. Pollution affected her greatly, and sooner or later she would need to take a journey to the Powera headquarters to be cleansed of it all. Her color was green and she had no opposite Powera.
Emily was an Eartheen, also called a Geo. She could bend rocks or solid metal with just a flick of her hand. Though it took a lot of her concentration, she could also summon lava from places where the plates of the earth were very thin.
Poulé was an Ice type. His powers were the ability to freeze anything, and also to paralyze with just a touch of water. His weakness Powera was an Electrician/Electress, which was one of the reasons why Mal hated him so much.
And last but not least was Ethan. His Powera was an Animalia. He could summon animals, from elephants to little worms. His color was gray, and he also thirsted for blood, mainly because of his tiny little wolf gene.
As we approached Mallory’s driveway, I smelled that she must have contacted them all. We all had a different smell that only other Poweras could smell. Being around so many others made the smell of smoke and burnt wood next to me stronger. I was sure I smelled like the ocean, but there was no time to ask.
I sprinted up the driveway, quickly waving to Cainen who was seated on his front porch with a huge box of Legos in his lap.