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*Oh, something is wrong alright, thought Maya. Everyone disappeared except for her and Spirit. But there was something queer, something wrong with the environment. She didn't know what is was, but atleast she could tell that it wasn't the Dark. Spirit said she knew how to fix it, and she promised she would not run away. Maya did not know whether she should believe her. Then it occurred to Maya that she never really trusted anyone. In her town, she had been brought up never to believe what she saw or heard, unless the leaders said that they were trustworthy. Everyone was a suspect, anyone could be a traitor. Well, the leaders weren't around to tell her that now. She would have to do her own thing, and for once, trust another person, and trust herself. Maya sighed and reluctantly let Spirit go. "Do your thing," Maya said dismissively.

*Aly`s heart beat grew louder with every new second that passed. The time was growing near, but not yet quite there. Everything had to be perfect, not one blade of grass could be out of place, or it would ruin the balance. It was hard for Aly to think differenly about herself. To think that she was a person that deserved to live and enjoy life. She had grown up with no one. Everyone had always thought of her as a killer. Every storm, hurricane, disaster that happened that had killed or injured a vast amount of people, was her doing. Even her family had grown up to be distant from her, for they thought that if they came to close, they would be the outcome of her actions. That of course was not true. It was true that when she was upset, storms would occur, but she had always calmed herself before anyone had got hurt. That was why, she tried to remain as plain and as lifeless as possible. That way no one would ever become injured by her actions. Tears streamed down her face and soon, rain started to pour. However, unlike before, she was not able to control her emotions, for they had been bottled up inside of her all her life and they had finally erupted. The clouds grew grey and lightning struck to the ground, hitting a tree; which in turn hit her for she was nature. Aly`s cry grew louder, causing the thunder to sound at an alarming rate. Aly knew that the time was near, and it was only a few more moments. What she did not know was the storm that lurked upon Spirit and Maya. *

*Spirit felt the wind increase and the dryness in the air become moist, her skin tingled as lightning raced across the sky. It didn’t feel right, it wasn’t a normal storm, but Spirit wasn’t concentrating on it, she didn’t notice when Maya screamed, she was fixed on the person who was slowly being caught by the vines of the tree she had called to. They still hadn’t come into view, which surprised her, it usually didn’t take this long, she could feel the magic she was using to bind them weaken. The shadow of the figure was become a little clearer but Spirit still couldn’t tell who it was, she took a step closer. Her hand that was holding onto her book shook, she didn’t know how much longer she could hold on, she took another step closer and she knew it was too much, the book slipped from her grip, falling to the ground. She let out a gasp as the bind she had fell apart, the black shadow exploded out towards her, surrounding her in darkness. Everything was quite, she couldn’t see, hear, or feel anything what so ever, she had been blinded of her senses. She stumbled and tripped over her feet, falling to the ground, if that was what she landed on, she couldn’t tell. Suddenly she felt a cold pressure on her cheek, as if someone held her face, and then a breath of a whisper on her ear which sent shivers down her spine. Then just as suddenly as it had come, it vanished, the wind, the wetness of the air, and the tingle of electricity came rushing back at her. She blinked, letting her eyes get use to the light and then slowly stood up and rested her head against the tree trunk as she tried to clear her head. She thought of the whisper that was spoken to her, it had been in a different langue, but some how she had understood it, it was so weird. She opened her eyes and stared at the darkening sky, as she began to take in her surroundings again she spotted Maya laying on the ground. She quickly ran over to her, being careful not to lose her footing and dropped down beside Maya, she turned her over and rested her hand on Maya’s forehead, “What the hell…Maya, Maya, are you ok?” she called, what on earth was happening here.*

*Maya was awake. She wasn't conscious, but she was still awake. In a dream. She was standing on the highest mountain, watching the earth being destroyed by storms below her. Then she was in the hollow of a tree watching the raging tempests. Suddenly she was underwater, looking up at the dark sky and the blurred lightning. She changed places so many times; she saw the storm from so many points of view, all over the world. Then it came to a halt, and she was just outside of a trashy, feeble, little house. Maya was surrounded by poor people, and as she looked down at her own dirty, ragged clothing, she saw that she was one of them. Then the storm came full blow, and everyone crowded back into the house, but they hard work they put into building it was swept away by a gust of wind. She tried to use her telekinesis to reverse it all, but she didn't have it. Terrified, Maya looked up to the sky, and saw a face. A very familiar face that was contorted with vengeance. Before Maya could blink, she was stuck down with a bolt of white hot lightning, and everything went black. Gradually the black faded into grey, and she realized what she had seen. She had seen a furious, wrathful storm from the points of view of all the creatures of the world: an eagle, a fish, a squirrel... a human child. A poor human child who had done nothing wrong, but was a victim of the vicious revenge of the person whose face was in the sky before. It was Aly. Aly wasn't physically dead, Maya knew, even though she had seen Aly with all those other dead people. But in a sense, Aly had died. Her innocence, her sensitivity, her caring, everything that made her a good person, were dead. And Maya wasn't sure they could be revived again. Suddenly, out of the grey came a woman who she had never seen before. She walked right up to Maya, and laid a hand on her arm. She smiled sadly at Maya and said, "Justice will never be found in this world." With that she walked away and the grey followed her, fading slowly. Maya because to regain consciousness when she heard Spirit calling her name. She opened her eyes with a jerk, and spoke to Spirit in words she wasn't even sure she knew. The next thing she said could not have made much sense either: "She's dead, Spirit. She's dead."

*Maya sat bolt upright, pressed her hand against her forehead, and coughed a couple times. How could she explain to Spirit what had just happened? "I don't know why I fainted," she began, "but I had this really weird dream and....Spirit, what is going on here, anyway? Because I'm pretty sure Aly has everything to do with it. I saw her face - twice. The first time it was along with a whole bunch of people I know who are dead, and the second time it was in the sky. No, that's not the right way to explain it..." Maya stuggled for words. "Her face was made of clouds. Her face was the sky. And she was an angry storm, and so many people were suffering. Spirit we have to stop her." Somehow, Maya added mentally. "And Aly's dead. Not dead, but all the goodness in her, her old self...died." Maya could tell she wasn't explaining things very well, but how are you supposed to explain something that you don't even fully understand? Aly was a part of nature now. Technically, that's what happens to everyone when they die; their remains decay and become part of the soil. But Aly had become nature in a far more literal sense. Maya burst out in what she thought was the right explanation. "Everything that is going wrong in nature right now, Aly is doing it somehow. Don't ask me how. I don't know. I don't know if I know why, either. She must be dead, in some way. It's really complicated - I don't even know myself what is going on, but people are getting hurt, and Aly is losing herself more and more. We need to do something about it." Maya started to sound really desperate. She was panicking. For once in her life she didn't know what to do, and there was no one to guide her. "Spirit we need to DO SOMETHING!!!"

*Spirit felt something build up in her, she didn’t know what it was, angry, sadness, or hate, she couldn’t tell, she never was any good at telling what emotions she was feeling; it most defiantly was not one of her talents. But she knew one thing for sure, she was sure that she was getting pissed off at Aly, or who ever had talked to them. No one who messed up natures ways on purpose would get away with it, the tress had been Spirit’s home for as long as she could remember and she would be damned if someone got away with hurting it like this. Spirit jumped to her feet, her hand clenched in a tight fist, she was pretty sure she felt the anger boil through her veins, but also she felt the sadness of the trees and flowers, and the hate, maybe that was Aly’s, Spirit could always feel how the trees and wind felt, and maybe since Aly was some how within the wind and sky that she could feel her too. “Aly! I know you are still out there, so you better listen to me! I understand that you are pissed at the people who hurt you, I can relate, both my parents were killed because for some reason it was their fault for the accidents that occurred, just like you were blamed for the weather. But Aly, can you really blame them? I mean they are humans, they hate things that are different from them, and they won’t accept things that make no sense to them, they’re scared and when they get scared they turn to the only thing they know, which is providing you with pain! Your not the only one, you know, I mean look at me and Maya, all three of us are not normal, do you think our lives have been easy? And you know what else Aly! You know what you are doing right now? You are doing the exact same thing as they did to you, you think your helping other or maybe even yourself, but all you are doing it turning the tables, do you really want to fall so low as to become like them? If you haven’t realized that hurting others will do no good then maybe you really should continue, go on and kill not just the bad humans in the world, but the ones who have done no wrong and do not understand why such horrible things are happening to them!” Spirit felt the wind against her face, if Aly didn’t understand that, then Maya was right and she was dead.*

*Spirit stared at Aly, she seemed so weak and small it was hard to imagine her doing all this damage. For a moment she pitied her and wondered how someone who seemed so nice could just crack like that. Once Aly disappeared again, the feelings went to, but only to be replaced by anger. If this was the path Aly had chosen, then she was going to have to go through Spirit, “If that’s the way you want it Aly then bring it! Because the only way you’re going to be able to succeed is if you kill me first!” With that she walked back over to her book which lay on the ground, she picked it up and safely placed it back into her pouch. Then she walked over to Maya, “Maya, it’s up to you, but if you’re not going to help then you should get away and don’t try to stop me.” She waited to see what Maya would choose to do.*