Loralle, Her Journey Chapter 4 part1

CHAPTER 4 (Part one)

Daniel

It was yet another week before Loralle travelled back down the volcano.

Her skin growing back had noticeably changed now, it was tougher and not fair anymore. It was now warmer and a darker colour and Loralle wondered if it was because of the magma or if the earth had sort of become one with her flesh...Or both.

What made her think that earth may be a part of her, now, was because she didn't have to put her hand onto the earth floor to move the earth anymore. Just thinking about what she wanted to do was enough. And the new warmth that flowed through her…At first, she thought it was because of where she was…But, it didn’t disappear!

Now that she was far from the top of the volcano, she realized her bodies temperature is constantly higher then it normally was! It seemed that her wounds, that looked like they couldn’t recover, were maybe being helped, due to her rise in temperature...? It did scare her a little, as she thought she was slowly being cooked! Then her mind would wonder of on who would possible want to eat something like her...Her mind ventured then, that maybe she wasn't being cooked, but instead, going to make a noise like she makes the fire power do sometimes and then she'll turn black again!

Her body was still painful though. So, until she was fully healed, she decided to lazily check out the Fire Tribe.

From a long time ago, she knew that each tribe had separate ways of living. One of those, was the food that they ate and how it was eaten. Being given the chance now, while recovering, Loralle was enthusiastic to see the small difference. Compared to the Water Tribe's raw sea food, the Fire Tribe cooked theirs but they had to venture further to get their food. They also seemed more into creatures that lived on the land, like tigers and bears, but those creatures didn't seem to be close by at all. Loralle wondered if it was because of the magma...If it was, she understood perfectly.

One obvious thing that she noticed she liked about the Fire Tribe...Was the warmth. Having been homeless, rained on and nowhere near a fire for the first ten years of her life...She felt like she was in heaven.

The slow flowing magma kept most of the Fire Tribe village warm and it was like a big, fluffy blanket on her. Of course, she did wonder if it was the place or her. It was so comfortable that Loralle continued to eat their food and stay, learning more about them discretely.

Not talking to anybody, she was still able to hear and watch the happenings around her.

The Fire Tribe had lost a third of their population after she had made the big line of empty earth in between the tribes. But...Half of those had returned. They really did feel like they had nowhere else to go...And, this place was their home.

In the last couple of weeks, the populace had been able to calm down since 'The Powerful Water Tribe leader' was still currently missing.

Sadly, the trades and shops in the village lost out and are still trying to get back on their feet.

The leader had been very quiet but, as the Fire Tribe being known to be less emotional, the people didn't seem to care!

Loralle scoffed and thought that if they had been so caring, would they have had overcome such a tremendous problem!

Actually, she didn't practically like the personalities of the Fire Tribesmen. It just reminded her of how uncaring the protectors were to her, and they were even from her own tribe!

***

When Loralle turned eighteen, a year and a half later, she was still at the Fire Tribe village. Her body had taken so much time to heal that Loralle worried for anymore future trails she may have to endure...What was strange, was that she was overcoming it faster...And not slower...

She felt like she had obtained some sort of other power! A healing power!

Having her skin, now, quite hard and a darker colour, as it had been awhile since she had needed her earth bind over her body, she looked totally different. But, having most of her skin being totally taken off her body, she would have thought it would have taken a decade to go to this sort of extent of being healed! There were no burn scars to say that she had gone into the mouth of the volcano at all! Unless, you call the colour of her skin changing colour a scar...She wasn't sure.

But...The protectors had found her...Three months ago, while she was with a new friend that she had made, they had started to chase her everywhere!

In all this time of freedom, Loralle had despised them for interrupting her journey!

After she had found out that two noble women had disappeared many years ago, she had openly stayed in the Fire Tribe to find more information about them, but only found that those women had never returned...And one of them had been the leader's late wife!

Loralle had been wanting to track down the other woman's origins, but she was now being interrupted!

Luckily, the Fire Tribe had gotten back to its former days and never changed, as they never cared for someone being chased after.

It was such an annoying event for Loralle, though, as she was getting close to her first human friend in her entire life! Granted, this friend thought she was male and had a crush on her, but it was still great!

But now...Loralle was very unhappy!

After losing them twice, she thought they would leave...Didn't they hate the Fire Tribe?

But they never did! It was quite troublesome!

She really wanted to continue her curious path of wondering if her new friend could gain the power of earth through her...

Of course, she continued to be discreet about it...And,  it wasn't easy!

She was a little girl of fifteen years of age, named Emily. Loralle is thinking of her friend taking the plunge into the volcano, asking herself whether it would be the right thing to do. As it was, Emily had a tough time accepting another power, Loralle was guessing it was because of the vengeance in the powers, and she thought for her to accept the earth power, she would have to be accepted by the fire element first. Well, that was what Loralle thought the problem was...

Nonetheless, Emily was being very loyal and patient and happily kept what she was seeing and learning a secret from others. She had also been a help to Loralle to get her to speak more frequently. Speaking words were not a problem now and her voice was no longer so hoarse, but she was still like a robot that used very easy words.

And then there's the children of the Fire Tribe, who are taught to fight at a young age. To some of them that want to fight, she had asked them why.

But all of this had come to a screeching halt because of the protectors continuously were chasing after her!

War had not happened all this time, yet, they still wanted her! Why couldn’t they just give up?! How she wished to turn into a tree so that she could hide from them! Go Away!

As she ran away from them, she used her earth powers to go up walls and fire powers to look normal. Her fire powers looked very extravagant, some had asked where she was in the legion, as they wanted her protection, knowing that she was strong! This had made her smile, very happily! Yes, I'm very strong! Haha!

This time, when she gets away from the protectors, she bumps into Daniel, the Fire Tribe leader's second son.

"Try not to break anything that isn't yours while running away!" His yell had stopped her.

Knowing who he was, she wondered if he was potentially her brother by blood. Would he answer any of my questions?

Before she could talk, he did, "Where are you from? Is this some kind of training for the war?"

Loralle sighed, "War, over."

Daniel laughed, noting her speech was a little different, "Won't be for long, the Water Tribe are filling in the big hole. We are waiting for the water to rise, then we are going to put magma over it to create a bridge for us to cross."

This was news to Loralle...How long had the Water Tribe been doing this for? And the Fire Tribe already have an idea to use when it was done...

Would it work? The water would cool the magma...But wouldn't it sink to the bottom? She really did try to picture it in her mind.

"Ah...You don't think it'll work?" He asked.

Instead, Loralle asked another question, "Why fight? No one die."

He gets mad, seeing a Fire Tribal member asking questions, that wasn't normal. She also gets mad at his uncaring manner and spits out molten around her body. Everybody wanted war! Everybody!

This is only the first time that they get angry at one another...

He admits, "You're powerful...You should go into the legion."

She yells, "No!"

Daniel gets mad again but she stands her ground. He wants her to help because of their enemy having someone so strong.

She stats that, "...That person, not want to fight."

"How could anyone know that? Maybe they are just biding time."

She doesn't say anything, it seemed useless. He was talking to that exact person! She thought that he was very stupid!

He interrupts the silence, "Why are you so dirty? Your power is that of a noble...Yet, you look totally undignified. How about I escort you home?"

Daniel stopped, why would he care?

She laughs.

"Why are you laughing?" Daniel wonders why this mangy mutt of a person didn't seem to respect him!

"Home? Noble? I have no home! I free!" Loralle stood firm and determined to her words.

He seemed captivated at first...But he raged because of her indifferent tone, "You have guts to talk like that! I'm the second son of the leader and I don't even talk like that!"

He knew it was a lie, but 'he' had made him angry!

"I not care!" Loralle spat. She had to admit, she wanted information from him, but he was just too much of a jerk and she gave up on it. Honestly, she didn't want such an angry brother!

"Did you already know who I was?" He asked, upset that if she did, she still talked to him as such!

“Yes.”

“And you’re not scared of the second most powerful fire power! Our bloodline has been the leader's of the Fire Tribe for hundreds of years!"

“No.” She was not scared at all! In fact, she really wanted to beat him up there and then!

“Why not?” Daniel was truly curious! Her defiant attitude, he admitted, was something he hadn't seen before!

“Because…My birth...Now…” Loralle stopped...What would change if she told him who she was?...They would probably all try to kill her!

“What?”

Thinking, Loralle saw that she was practically immortal. Immune to water, earth and fire. I don’t fear death, I fear…

Lifting her hands, she knew of her immense powers. She feared herself...She feared others being played with without their knowledge...

She can't tell anyone who she is, otherwise, this long war time without change will just continue...

Water suddenly came at her, surprising him and shocking him at the same time. He watches 'him' run away. Who is that young man!?

Why are they after 'him'? Who are those people? With them having water powers...

He decides to follow and sees 'his' agility from roof top to walls then to trees. then, out of view...

He knew that he should report what he had seen...That people from the Water Tribe were here...

Daniel smiled, perhaps something good can come out of this!

Loralle finally gets away, again, and finds somewhere to sleep.

Two days later, Loralle was playing with a different lot of children with Emily, when Daniel comes.

“Teaching them how to be peaceful!? Leave.” He acted straight away to have seen what was going on!

“Why fight?” Loralle asked.

“Because we fight, always fought.” Daniel didn't understand...Why the why? This was how it was always!

“Why?”

“Stop it!” Daniel yelled. No one needed to question it! All of us hate the Water Tribe, so we fight! Was she stupid!?

Loralle smiles at him, stopping him. This person’s smile is quite pretty!

She’s thinking, and hoping, that he’s starting to open his mind to questions...But, she was wrong...

Loralle suddenly had a vicious idea! She was mostly afraid of losing her friend, so, she will get answers from Daniel instead!

Binding him up with the earth bound, she turned to Emily, saying, "Be back later."

Loralle smiled as she took off with Daniel, who was trying to get out of the earth bound unsuccessfully, and went towards the huge volcano.

Since she had decided that he wasn't her brother, she could take the chance with his life with absolutely no regrets!

Chapter end