Loralle, Her Journey Chapter 3 part1

CHAPTER 3 (Part one)

The Fire Element

When she was finally well enough to travel, about two weeks after, Loralle made her way towards the Fire Tribe. Within this time, a few more things 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 shift 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 admitted to herself that she was, indeed, very intrigued on this matter!

What else could she make? What else could she do? Her enthusiasm nearly made her start jumping up and down!

Was water and fire something that could be combined in the first place? Thinking 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 come across something else by accident.

She had just begun searching the earth to watch people, like she usually did...When she found that she could venture out further in the earth...She was able to see a lot more distance then before! Mondal got bigger!

Upon this realization, Loralle curiously continued into the unknown, unseen territory. With wide eyes and her heart beating rapidly, she found two new 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 two new places were together, just like the Fire and Water Tribes.

Loralle had never thought that Mondal was...So 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 them...But...They seemed somewhat...Familiar.

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!

Except...One 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, reminding her of lightning from thunderstorms.

It was quite an impressive sight to behold as she saw some big, strange looking stones on the outside of the field, as though they were holding in all those flashing lights...

They were...Obviously...Two more elements! Loralle couldn't wait to meet her two new friends!

Searching more thoroughly, Loralle found that their immediate areas seemed somewhat unstable. Sighing, she wondered if there was some way she would be able to go through the very strong windy area or the area that looked...Unexplainable...It was quite a lot of rock hills...

Loralle was shocked as she could see different coloured stones all giving off smaller light 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, why was their tribes so much smaller than that of the Water and Fire tribes?

As more time passed by, Loralle got very close to the Fire Tribe and couldn’t think of any reason to the population of the new two tribes. Was it because of the rapid air and the vast rock hills that lacks everywhere else? But with our tribes, it's the same...The water is only in the Water Tribe village, yet, they go out to fight just like the Fire Tribe...

Loralle shock her head, did they perhaps fight and lose many of their people in a big war?

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 made the complete decision that she must go their personally to investigate!

Smiling greedily, she was looking forward to understanding 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 powers were known now to both the Fire Tribe and Water Tribe, she wanted to try and stay away from people as much as possible...Which was something she was good at!

Even though her fire power wasn't as strong as her water and earth, she had been born from two nobles. Her fire power was still something that, by itself, might even cause attention...

It was at this time that Loralle started to wonder if her mother was from the Fire Tribe…With the small amount of information she had on her mother, her coming from the Fire Tribe seemed to be something that would make a lot of sense. Considering if 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 was aware, 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 perhaps...Live 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 mother might be part of the Fire Tribe.

But, she decided, I’ll think more about that later, as she wanted to give scratching her head a break.

Coldly, Loralle looked ahead of her, at the incoming defences of the Fire Tribe. She saw that some small magma pools were already on the ground, 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 seemed to go along the whole way as Loralle saw it go out of sight in two different directions.

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

As pretty as it was, Loralle was sure that the Water Tribe could break through it. If they soaked themselves beforehand, they should be able to run through it.

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

Her thoughts will have to disappear for now. It was time to go back to the her of her past, that had suffered all those years. It would be easier to stay unnoticed if she stays dirty, scampers around and stays out of people’s sight as often as possible.

So, what she was going to do...Was be her animalistic self, not something very hard for her to accomplish!

Squatting down to the ground, Loralle looked at the high volcano in the distance, almost making her neck sore. All she needed now, was 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 easy...As she had done this for many years now...

Loralle scoffed, actually, it wasn't all an act...It was really part of who she was...Her only friends were that of the powers that she had.

It would be embarrassing to anyone else but...Loralle didn't know what being embarrassed was.

She had spent much time 'playing' with fire, earth and water. What else had she to do? There was only so much time she could take of watching everyone else through the earth, eating and sleeping. Playing cat and mouse with her powers was to fill in time when she wasn't thinking...Or thinking too much. Of course, things changed 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 jumped out, nearly catching a fire ball, only to have that fire ball fly off, and she had chased after it...That was what half of the close by people saw and the other half of the people didn't understand the sudden silence, and a voice spouting something about someone being crazy!

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What Loralle didn't quite count on, was how much time it would take for her to climb this huge volcano.

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

It was astronomical on the distance it goes 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 times in order to rest...Making 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 times to be further away from the slow, flowing magma.

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.

But...Another thing that was bothering her, was how hot it was already becoming. She was already wet with sweat, making her clothes very sticky. Perhaps, this was the only time that people would be able know what gender she really was! It wasn’t that much of an issue for Loralle, as it was often in her past that she would be wet...But, it was the first time that she thought that she should clean herself...

What was different was that she wasn’t used to the heat in the slightest. Neither was her slim body that showed that her age has matured into a young female because of her clothes sticking to her. If one could look past her dirty look and messy hair…They would see that her body would be something that males would definitely want to stare at!

Sitting down on a piece of earth, that was quite a distance away from the flowing magma going down the volcano, Loralle knew, that if she doesn't think of something, she might 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.

Chapter end