The Elemental Sisters: Spirit

Where the hell did they go, I had gone back to their room to let them know when supper would be ready and no one was there. The two guards I had sent were nowhere to be found as well. Could they have left the castle grounds?

I headed back to the courtyard to check one last time. I saw Bram walking with four of the sisters.

"I have been looking for you guys. Where have you been?" I asked Bram, "Where are Ward and Akasha?"

"I'm here, you just can't see me." Akasha spoke as I looked towards where her voice was coming from. "Why are you invisible?"

"Correction, Spirit form. Not invisible, they are vastly different."

"And how is that?"

"Well, for one, if a person has the ability to see ghosts, they can see me, where if I were invisible, no one could see me." She pointed out. "That's beside the point we were out training and..." "You left the castle grounds?" I asked angrily.

"Yes... now let me finish, please." She paused, then continued, "We were training, and Colonel Delano showed up,"

"Did he hurt you? Are you guys okay?" I asked, looking at the sisters, Why the hell was he in our kingdom?

"Please stop interrupting." She scolded me again.

"Sorry, continue." I told her, liking the fact that she scolded me with no worry about who I was. Maybe I shouldn't have worried about her treating me differently for being royalty.

"We knocked him out, and he is currently unconscious tied to a tree, Bram stayed back to guard him until other guards arrive to help bring him to the dungeon." Akasha finished. "Ward, take three men and go retrieve him." Ward nodded and left.

"Supper will be in an hour or two. A Sprite will come get you when it is ready and show you where to go." "Thank you." Ari replied.

"We have to figure out how to make you corporal again or you'll be stuck like that." Gia warned Akasha. "I'm trying, Gia." Akasha stated in a frustrated voice. "I don't know how it happened to begin with." "She could be stuck in her spirit form?" I asked, concerned.

"Well, yeah, we control the elements, but even that has consequences." Sunama stated.

"Every gift takes a toll, even you must know." Huricana chided cryptically. "What?" I questioned.

"Sorry, a couple more hours and she will be back to normal." Ari shared. "Our gifts have consequences. We can all transform into our given element, but if we stay too long in that form, we stay that way. It is what we learn day one. Other abilities have consequences as well, Akasha loses her vision and gets migraines from the visions she sees and Huricana gets all jumbled when she hears a fore-telling from the wind. My emotions are tied to my abilities, so if my emotions get out of control, people and things get set ablaze, Sunama's abilities are linked to her emotions. If she gets really upset, she could flood the place and Gia's..."

"Would you quit giving everything away!" Gia snipped as she covered Ari's mouth. "He could use it against us." She hissed.

"He's on our side." Akasha pointed out as she became visible again.

"Hey you're back!" Gia exclaimed. "Did you figure it out?"

Akasha shook her head, "No, but I will."

"I hope." Popped into my head, she seemed worried about this ability.

"Is everything okay with your rooms, do you need anything?" I asked, not wanting to leave them yet, I wanted to spend time with Akasha and not get interrupted. I was drawn to her.

"Everything with our rooms is good." Ari confirmed as she ungracefully gestured for the others to leave and failing.

"OH, I get it. Guys get the fuck to the room Tyr wants smooch time with Akasha." Gia yelled as her sisters snickered.

Akasha turned red and as she turned and glared at them, saying, "Really subtle Gia, just you wait."

"Wait for what?" she asked, daring her to finish her sentence.

"Till you like someone, I will embarrass you big time she promised." Sending it to Gia's mind as she frowned, then Akasha looked at me, horrified.

"You heard that, didn't you?"

I shrugged and smiled back, "want to come with me to see how the guards are faring with the prisoner?"

She nodded and linked her arm with mine, ignoring her sister's comments as we walked away, heading out of the courtyard to the hidden door that only my personal guards and I knew about and away from the castle. "I apologize for my sisters."

"I don't mind. They are entertaining, and it helps me get to know you, so it is actually helpful." I smiled, teasing her.

"Not the side of me I want you to know."

"There's no shame in wanting to get enjoyment from life. The freedom of laughing and joking around is refreshing."

"Aren't elves supposed to be unable to show emotion?" she asked curiously.

"We are trained not to and to hide our tattoo in battle, but when we are around people, we care about and others of our kind. We can be ourselves and do not differ from any other group."

She nodded thoughtfully, biting her lip, distracting me, "It makes sense if you don't show your emotions in battle or control them, I should say then the opposing side can't use it against you." "Ye... exactly."

"So, is it true that your tattoo changes color with your emotions?"

We arrived at the meadow, and the state of the field stole my attention and hers.

She rushed over to the four men laying on the ground checking on Ward and Bram. They were injured, and Colonel Delano was gone.

"What happened?" I asked as I walked over to the men.

"There was a group of them that ambushed us and helped Colonel Delano escape." One man answered.

"Put pressure on it." Akasha ordered as she looked at Bram's wound. He had a deep cut on his leg and arm.

"Gia, I need you in the meadow." I overheard Akasha's mind speak with her sister.

"What can Gia do?" I asked Akasha.

"She is our healer, being able to control the earth element is perfect because she can grow medicinal plants, so my family trained her as a healer as well to accompany her abilities."

A few minutes later, Gia was running across the field with Ari behind her, and Sunama and Huricana were not far behind.

"That fucker got away. I knew we should have killed him," Ari yelled, her power slipping.

"Ari, calm down. We have enough people injured. Practice your meditation." Akasha offered.

Mumbling incoherently, she walked away and sat down cross-legged on the ground.

Gia knelt beside Akasha and assessed the wound. "I've got it she said to her." Akasha moved aside and gave Gia room. "Sunama?" Gia asked..

"Yeah."

"I need water to clean this wound. Can you help me?"

Sunama nodded and pulled water from the ground and used it to clean the wound and pull the dirt and excess blood away. After she was finished Gia created a vine to grow from the ground and manipulated it, stitching the wounds together, when she was done, she used an ointment from her bag that smelled strongly of herbs on the wound, "This will prevent infection." She shared as she finished up. "Thank you."

Gia stood up and brushed off her clothes. "No problem," she smiled, as she moved to look at the other men. Aside from some minor cuts and bruises, they were okay. "Can I come out of time out now?" Ari sneered at Akasha.

"Not time out, meditation to calm yourself down. And if you have your emotions in check, then yes." Akasha replied. Akasha looked at her hands and dress they were covered in blood. "I guess I should go wash up before supper."

"In a bathtub this time." I teased, remembering the scene from the lake, reacting to the memory against my will. Clearing my throat, I supplied, "I'll help carry Bram. We should head back."

Gia and Ari laughed, "Yeah, so you can have a nice cold shower." They giggled as Akasha glared at them.

I helped Ward carry his twin brother back to the castle and took him to the infirmary while the sisters went back to their room to clean up for supper.

"So, you and Akasha?" Ward asked, raising his eyebrows.

"I am just getting to know her, but I am interested. She is a born leader. I can see that already, and I think there is more to her than she shows." I replied.

"Not to mention her unique beauty not many young women can look that sexy with white hair." Ward teased.

"She is beautiful, and I admit that, but there's something more to it than that. I feel like I am being pulled to her." I frowned at him, not liking that he was interested as well. "What like a soulmate." He laughed.

I punched him in the arm. "Don't be a dick."

"Sorry you're just not one to talk about feelings, it is creeping me out, man."

"Noted I will keep my thoughts to myself."

I turned to leave, and he added, "A cold shower might do you some good." Before laughing like a maniac.

"Prick." I muttered as I walked away.