The Elements

[Gifted]

After school let out, Stephanie found Kailen. "You were right." She said with a grin. "School must be the easiest thing ever for you now."

As the clock ticked through the final minutes of school, a twelve year old blonde girl fidgeted in her seat, her eyes darting to the clock on the wall every few seconds. Those seconds she wasn't looking at the clock she stared down at her paper, supposed to be taking notes but instead doodling little suns on the corner of her notebook. She completely ignored her teacher droning on about the themes of some book she couldn't be bothered to remember the name of, even though she'd been studying it for a solid month. Her pink glossed lips parted slightly and her eyes half closed in quiet concentration, and as she finished the last line of her last sun they all began to glow faintly, each with a different coloured light. She smiled. In all her life, she'd never drawn anything so pretty.
The harsh sound of the bell broke her concentration and as she was jerked out of her trance the lights on the paper instantly went out. She crumpled up her paper and tossed it on the way out the door as she went to her locker to get her things.
"Hey Lucy, you wanna hang out today? It's my turn to pay." One of her friends appeared beside her lockers and leaned against the one next to her with a mischievous grin.
Lucy smiled an apologetic smile. "Sorry, I can't today. I have church after school."
"Church on a Friday?" Her friend snorted. "Who goes to church on a Friday?"
"I do." Lucy replied, swinging her backpack over her shoulder. "It's a special occasion. Anyway, I'm just going to pay my respects." She hied her bag over her shoulder, wrinkling her dark green shirt sleeve, and walked off. She was dressed appropriately for church for a twelve year old girl, her green shirt's V-neck not cut too low and her black pants not too wrinkled. She didn't wear jewelry, not since she broke her favourite necklace while playing with her friends. Or melted it trying to use the gemstone like a magnifying glass to burn things, depending on who you asked.
Lucy walked into the church only to find the place deserted. She knew the mass was over, but she'd still expected some people. With a sigh she went to pay her respects and then sat in a pew waiting for her parents or brother to come pick her up, trying to amuse herself. Of course, nothing she did out of boredom anymore was just a mere twelve year old kid trying to amuse herself.

It was around quarter to four when Matt came out of his room and sighed to Kenny. "Do you think we should go clean up the church now?"

[Raven]

Kenny looked up and smiled. "Yeah, let's go clean up." He had to smile, to reassure the both of them. He hated doing Judas' job, but it had to be done. He got up, taking Matt's hand as he headed back to the church.

"I do have all the time in the world," Kailen agreed. "And the best part is pausing time when I get a test so I can look up the answers without anyone knowing. Needless to say, I wait until someone else turns theirs in to bring mine up to avoid looking suspicious."

[Gifted]

Matt nodded and followed Kenny to the doors, intending on helping out in whatever way he could. They opened the door of the church, and Matt Edwards gasped at what he saw.
The whole church was lit up with brilliant light the way it hadn't been in a month. The lights reflected from their places high above the pews off the chandeliers which glittered like they hadn't in days, off mirrors which blinded like they hadn't since the source of light in the church had been taken away from them. Matt's heart nearly stopped as he saw the place looking as beautiful as it was always meant to, with only one person in the world who could make it so. But of course, he wasn't here.

A little blonde child was standing in the aisle, looking up at the ceiling with wonder on her face. When she heard the door open she turned towards it, and was delighted to see that the pastor had come. "I figured it out!" She told them excitedly. They could finally fix their problem with the lights! "You used to have two more light fixtures that aren't there anymore, didn't you?"

[Raven]

Kenny stopped dead, taking in the beautiful church, tears coming to his eyes, and some impossible hope rising in his chest... before it all crashed down again with the voice of a little girl. The disappointment was almost too much, and he reached up to wipe his eyes. "How are you doing that?" he asked her quietly, trying not to think about Judas.

[Gifted]

"I just put a light up at the front of the room near the cross and one- oh, you mean how dd I put lights all the way up there." She frowned, curling her hair around her finger and biting her lip. "Um... Didn't think of that..." She stepped back realizing in her excitement she'dblown her secret. "I'm sorry. Please don't think badly of me..."

[Raven]

"I would never," Kenny said gently. He went to sit down, motioning for her to follow. "We never had fixtures up there."

[Gifted]

She followed the pastor and Matt to where they were sitting and sat down beside Kenny. "But then, how did you light up the church like tis? I've been trying to figure it out for ages..."

[Raven]

"When did you find out about your abilities?" Kenny asked.

[Gifted]

"About four months ago. I've been learning them in secret ever since." she answered.

[Raven]

Kenny nodded. "Judas had the same powers," he said to her. "That's how he lit the church."

[Gifted]

"Really?" Her eyes widened. "Then do you have the darkness power too?"
"What?" Matt asked. He was trying to distract himself by listening to the conversation, but his voice was thick and his eyes were shining. Lucy didn't notice.
"Yeah, my brother can do some kind of darkness thing too, but he isn't as good at it as I am."

[Raven]

Kenny nodded slowly. There were more. Why were there more? "No, but I do have a different power." He held out a hand and a candle floated over to it.

[Gifted]

"Oh wow! That's so neat!" She grinned at the floating candle.
"There's another whole set? Why is there another set?" Matt asked Kenny. "Do you think it's just replacing the ones who've already died? Does she have to start over, do you think?"

[Raven]

Kenny shook his head. "Lucy, didn't you say you've had this power for four months?"

[Gifted]

Lucy nodded. "It went off in the middle of a power outage. I had homework due the next day, but I couldn't see the page in front of my face, and I was starting to panic, and then... a light showed up. I don't know why it picked me, but since then I can make lights of all different colours and sizes and temperatures, and move them however I want..."