Loralle, Her Journey Chapter 5 part1

CHAPTER 5 (Part one)

Emily

While Daniel is tormented on how to continue with Loralle, she had found Emily and taken her to the cave.

It was quite a surprise as Daniel hadn’t thought to dress himself yet. And when Emily and Loralle walked in, Emily pointed and stumbled over words, “You…You’re the second son of the leader!”

This information, she had found out after Daniel and Loralle had left earlier.

“She’s your friend?” Daniel asked, a little surprised. How had she made a friend from the Fire Tribe?

“You tell friend.”

“Uh?” Ordering me around again, Daniel thought.

“Speak…Tell.” Was all Loralle said.

Daniel sighed. How annoying!

“She wants to hurt you.” He said with a sneer.

Making earth jump up from the ground and hit Daniel, Loralle yelled, “Lie!”

Daniel fell and didn’t know that he revealed himself, until he saw Emily’s squeal and reaction of looking away and covering her eyes.

“Dammit, woman! Why’d you do that for!?” He yelled furiously.

“No lie!” She yelled back.

He put on the shorts quickly, before putting a hand to his face to where he had been hit by the earth. How embarrassing! Hit by a woman! No wonder people are after her! They probably want to kill her!

Sighing in protest, he sat back down again and looked at Emily, “She wants you to ask to use the fire power, so sit down and focus on it.”

“…She?” Emily said, looking at Loralle, a bit confused.

“Yeah, sit and focus on your fire power to ask if you can use it. Once you feel the urge to go to a certain location, you know you’ve achieved it.”

“More.” Loralle said.

Daniel scoffed, “Stop ordering me around! I’ll tell her more when she finished the first thing, alright!?”

Loralle slowly nodded, “Yes!”

He sighed again in frustration.

A thought had crossed his mind earlier, while she had left to get Emily, but like hell he wanted to offer her a spot in the tribe!

Emily was silent all this time. Finally, she spoke, “You’re…Female?”

Loralle nodded at her easily, but Emily was upset. All this time she had thought she had been a male! A dirty, weird male but one that was nice and not like other males. No wonder she had felt Loralle was different to others when she wasn’t even a male to begin with!

Being angry at being lied to all this time, Emily began to walk out of the cave, but Loralle stopped her, “I teach more, after.”

“What are you teaching her!” Daniel was now worried how his tribal members were being treated by this person!

Loralle made earth stick up from the ground and both Daniel and Emily scooted away in a hurry.

Putting her hand on top of the earth, Loralle said, “Touch.”

They both shook their heads in earnest. No way!

“Touch!” Loralle yelled.

Daniel narrowed his eyes, his temper rising even more and Emily tried to shrink, hoping not to be noticed.

Loralle’s patience had run out. Water shotted out from her hand and went towards both Emily and Daniel, roping around their wrists and forcefully bringing them to touch the earth, that was sticking out of the ground.

Both tripped over their feet and knocked into one another.

“Oww. Dammit woman! Never…Ever!” Daniel cursed.

Emily, on the other hand, looked at Daniel with wide eyes...He saw those innocent eyes looking at his bare chest and went silent.

Loralle didn’t see their intimate connection, instead, she focused on the earth, asking it to let Daniel and Emily see the Fire Tribe down below them.

Both Daniel and Emily snapped back to reality when they saw this vision.

It was a stunning thing…But hatred seeped into Emily's eyes, easily seen by Loralle.

Loralle wondered why she couldn’t still see these visions without the hatred. What she had noticed, was that Emily hadn’t had that hatred, until she saw the vision. Daniel, on the other hand, didn’t seem to change very much.

Sighing, she made the earth and water disappear. It seemed like, if she uses it personally, it is fine. But as soon as they use it personally, when they haven’t been accepted by their own powers…Hatred comes.

Loralle was certain, now, everybody would have to get acceptance for all elements for everyone not to gain any of the hatred! Having been approved for one element still didn’t mean a second elements hatred would be overcome without the approval…Or...It was all so complicated!

She thought of what Daniel’s position was. He, being approved by fire now, didn’t have the fire vengeance but…If he was to gain the earth power, without the approval, then he would hate all other powers again. Thinking thus far, Loralle couldn’t help but feel rather lucky that she had three powers for most of her life, without the approval and she still hadn’t been affected by the hatred. Why hadn’t she been effected so much? Was there another power that helped you accept other powers?

The trails she had taken…It seems they are all one sided, as afterwards people accepted her using the powers but for them to personally use them, they would have to take the trail themselves. Scratching her head, she continued to think...

It was like another inner problem of the elements, that they also didn’t want people to obtain more than one power…

Not long after that, Loralle lost her train of thought to the complexity about it all. All she knew was that achieving the end of this hatred of the elements, it would take much longer than one lifetime!

During the time Loralle was questioning the entire populations time to change, Emily had overcome the hatred, as the visions had disappeared.

But she hadn't gotten past Daniel’s bare chest. And with her staring at him, with her innocent, curious eyes, Daniel cracked a smile, already starting to show off!

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Loralle had sunk into a sitting position, thinking, while Daniel explained a little more about what had happened to him. To be more precise, he was boasting!

He showed his fire power, wanting Emily’s approval. Beyond that, he told Emily about the warm water bath he had, stating that she will need his assistance to clean her body, when she returns. She went beet red hearing this, staying silent in embarrassment.

Daniel wanted to waste more time, so he started to boast even more about who he was and what he’s achieved within the Fire Tribe.

As Loralle turned back to look at them, she wondered how they could communicate so well. It would be hard to say what was going through her head as she watched the other two chat.

But after some time, Loralle got over Daniel’s endless chatter. “No more. You, focus.” She said, as she pointed at Emily.

Daniel wasn’t happy getting interrupted, he was sure that he would have the cute, innocent girl wrapped around his finger at any time now. He made some low remarks of Loralle’s bossy nature, but didn’t continue his banter.

Emily’s eyesight reluctantly left Daniel’s, to look at Loralle and saw her resolve. Since they had spoken in more detail, Emily knew what Loralle meant and nodded slowly.

As Daniel and Loralle waited for Emily to find the yearning to the mouth of the volcano, Daniel couldn’t wait till Emily would come back!

He slowly turned to Loralle and got closer to her. “How about making a pool of warm water…So Emily will be able to clean herself better when she comes back?”

“Pool?” Loralle asked, eyebrows raised.

Daniel smiled, already excited, “Yeah! So, it’s easier…Instead of a small bowl….”

Loralle smiled. It was a good idea. Needing to wait for Emily anyway, she looked around and, suddenly, the earth shook as the cave became bigger. A hole was formed, large enough to stand in, then Loralle put out her hand. Warm water went into the hole and filled it up.

Daniel couldn’t hold in his excitement! “Wow! Yes! That’s it! Thanks!”

Loralle nodded, but Daniel didn’t see it as he removed his clothes and went in the hole with warm water. It was strange to him to see how the water was already warm. He’d been at the front lines of war before and was sure the water was always colder. What he didn’t know, was that Loralle is able to mix her powers now and water is easily heated by the fire power.

He couldn’t understand it, normally water was something each and every member of the Fire Tribe stayed away from. Since Loralle gave him that warmed water bowl, he liked it very much! Of course, it by passed him that not only does he no longer contain hatred for other powers, but Loralle, being approved by those powers helped also.

Playing with the water, he saw bubbles and laughed heartily.

Emily had troubles concentrating due to this spectacle but when she had opened her eyes to see, she saw Loralle look at her impatiently. So, she tried again to focus.

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Chapter end