Ahrimanes Legends: Book 1, From Burning Ice: Chapter One: Jacob

I slowly made my way to the edge of the podium. I clenched the mike in my hand and opened my mouth to speak. The whole school was in front of me. I spoke. "Hey, students. Ready for a, uh, great year?" I was supposed to say another great year, but we hadn't had any of those yet. "So, students. Student council needs new members. As prez of the group, I want to... er... congratulate a few people." I almost said potentially kill. I squeezed the mike with all my force. I could feel dents being made. "So, first up, Alex Lisa-Coveck. Then we have... Jenna Patowski... then... Jason Evergreen... then...." I saw the name and snarled loudly into the mike. I had never been able to control my anger. Everyone stared. I let out a quiet growl then said, "Leo Pit." Alex, Jenna, and Jason walked up. Then Leo. He came up, tossing his hair to-and-fro, and I snarled into the mike again. "And Leo..." I roared. Loud. The mike screeched like tearing Styrofoam ripping across a nail-raked blackboard. "He... earned... a... special..." Mrs. Bleenf walked up. She took my hand and quietly whispered, "Honeypooch, c'mon back to your seat." I tore my hand from hers and shouted, "NO!" It echoed across the stadium. The mike was crushed to dust in my hand. I felt the need for chaos. I clenched my fists and fire flew up in the edges of the gym. Everyone screamed and rushed for the exit, but I put my hand forward. The doors shut and locked. Fire roared behind me. I couldn't see anything, for my long brown hair was in my face. I was burning my own skin. My once-Asian skin was now turning to a yellow tan. I saw Leo Pit climbing out of a broken window, and heard him say... "Chaotic Man ruins the day once again." I roared again and ceased the fire. Everyone had run out by now. I shuffled out of the door. Mae Lin and Blaise were already there. Mae Lin sighed. She put her black hair up in its clip. "Jacob. You need to stop throwing these tempers. It's kind of ruining our school budget." Her gold and purple eyes twinkled. Blaise looked at me like I was an idiot. "Mae Lin's right. Dude, you're kind of.... uh.... you have a very bad temper." I sighed. "Whatever. Like I care." Mae Lin puts a hand on my shoulder. "I know it bothers you, Jacob. I just do. Tell us the truth. We're your, like, best friends. Oh, and... er, take off the bangles. It makes you look like you have a 24-karat arm." I shrugged. "Nah. It's just a few bracelets. Who would care?" 

Now that the school was just smoldering embers, we walked into the woods. Mae Lin's phone started to ring. She picked it up and said, "Mae Lin, how may I be of service?" As the speaker answered, you could practically see the smile fall off of her face. She turned it off. Her face looked like a carved stone. Hard and rocky, yet you could see humane features. She put the phone in her pocket. "Guys. My mom- she was crashed." I gasped. "No. That means... she's dead and we have nowhere to live? Omigosh, what'll we do?" Mae Lin did a face-palm. "She's not dead. She's in the infirmary. She had serious brain damage. If she goes to a nursing home, assuming she lives, we can't live with her. Jacob, seeing as how you're adopted and your dad's dead, and Blaise, as your parents are mentally unstable, you guys can't live with me anymore. I can't even live with my mom anymore. I guess I have enough for a few days in the hotel. Let's go." We followed her to some hotel called Everforever Suites. Mae Lin walked in for a few minutes then came out. "We have one day. Come on." We followed her in. Then we came to a very swanky bedroom. Mae Lin went in the bathroom to change, then Blaise, then me. We all came out in pajamas. Me black, Mae Lin yellow-and-red, and Blaise white. Mae Lin sprayed her teal hair streak with her weird gel. I went to bed by myself. Blaise and Mae Lin went to sleep in the same bed. Guess it was the girls and boys bed. I was the only boy in the boys bed. I then fell asleep. 

I woke up at 7:00 in the morning, by Mae Lin. She was all dressed, and her hair was in a basket-weaved braid, which I had no idea how she did without looking at her head. Blaise was currently in the process of rubbing her eyes and yawning. She was getting quite pro at it. Mae Lin was wearing the same short blue dress and black mock-leather jacket from the day before. Blaise was still in her night clothes. I was trying to fall back asleep. "WHAT? I'M SLEEPING. BOTHER ME LATER." I said loudly. Mae Lin groaned. "Our H-time is up. YOU should be up too, Jacob." I could already feel my hands burning. I flipped over on the bed, then rolled off. I opened my eyes and was on the floor, looking up at Mae Lin's gold and purple eyes. Blaise was sitting up, completely finished rubbing. I stood up and walked to the closet. I took the hotel's pinstripe jacket and my own black shirt. I walked to the bathroom to change. Once I had my jeans on, I loaded my backpack with my things, which included: a silver necklace that had a tiny picture of black fire hooked to the end, a pillow, a black journal, a dozen black Ticonderoga pencils,  and a Polaroid camera. I didn't see how the camera could be of use. I kept it anyway, even though I never used the thing. We left the hotel, all of us wearing funky black jackets. Blaise and Mae Lin both in Mock-leather, me in pinstripe. I dragged my feet as I walked and jawed at the passers-by. I twirled my fingers and walked with swagger. In other words, I was B-O-R-E-D. Then Mae Lin stopped. "Here we are!," She said loudly and triumphantly. Blaise looked stunned. "The airport? Mae Lin, are you crazy?" Mae Lin stood up. "NOPE!" She took us both by the hand and marched up to a boarding plane. I grunted and thrashed around. "You're going to get us killed!" I murmured through gritted teeth. Then she pulled us to a Prada store. She bought two identical dresses that were only different in color, ruby red and emerald green, and two pairs of identical shoes that were only different in color, ruby red and emerald green. She pulled out a credit card that probably had five bazillion dollars on it. Then she bought me a black suit with black pants, a black fedora, black dress shoes, black aviators, and a black dress shirt. She payed for all of it and we put them on. She then went to some Gucci store and bought her and Blaise ruby red and emerald green purses that were everything but color identical. As we went out, I  said, "First- what is all of this for? Second, how much money have you spent? Third- Can you go buy a soda? I'm starving." She bought a coke then said, "We need to board a plane without money. If we wear this, it'll be pretty convincing that we're a millionaire's kids. I only have enough for a haircut for us all." Blaise and I groaned. She went to the nearest hair place and bought us... ugh. Hair stuff. We came out looking like manicured, hair-done, well-dressed, extremely rich kids. Mae Lin took out lipstick she put a ton on then gave it to Blaise. Blaise looked startled. "If you think I'm wearing that, you're crazy. Mae Lin glared. Blaise sighed. "You are crazy. But okay." She put it on and we walked to the boarding plane with swag. The conductor looked at us and said with a kind of scared tone, "Er, kid- I mean, Sir, Madam, and Madam, where are your tickets?" Mae Lin looked at him with a completely convincing shocked and arrogant stare. We copied her. She stood up straight and scoffed. "You mean you don't recognize us? I'm Paris, and this is my brother and cousin, Prince and Ariana." We nodded haughtily. Blaise and I had never stood up more straight then we were right now. Blaise had her elbow tucked into her waist, but her hand was out with her purse dangling by her middle and pointer finger. The conductor looked really convinced. But he said, "W-what are your last names?" Mae Lin acted completely, in a snobby way, taken aback. "Sir, don't you know that we are Bill Gates's kids?" She was totally stretching it. Blaise straightened her green dress then said, "I happen to be the daughter of, uh... Cassandra Gates!" I almost did a face-palm. There was no Cassandra Gates. We just hoped the conductor would fall for it. Mae Lin played along. "Yes! My brother and I, Prince and Paris, and my cousin, Ariana, who is the extremely rich and impatient daughter of Cassandra Jewel Gates, the horridly rich sister of William Henry Gates III, also known as Bill Gates, Inventor of MICROSOFT® and MANY other incredibly great things! Now if you please, let us board before we miss our plane to New York City, where we have dozens of meetings set up, along with many, many appointments and VERY exclusive interviews with people like Oprah Winfrey and Taylor Alison Swift! Now, LET US THROUGH before we sue you out of house and home!" The conductor forced a smile and said, "Go right through, your greatest and most honored highness." We walked in single file to an empty seat. We crashed onto the seat, but Mae Lin muttered, "Guys! We have to act haughty 'till we reach ground!" We waited. Then the plane took off. I went to the bathroom, and on the way back from the seat, I bumped into someone. They said, "Watch it, circus freak! Stop being a clumsy idiot! You just messed up my level of Halo that I just started!" I turned to face them, and even I cold feel my eyes turning fiery. The person looked kind of scared, but I growled, "Who honestly cares about your little Halo level? It's about as important as half a penny." The person looked taken aback. "Exca- UUUSSSE ME? I don't go around sassing YOUR business, Mr. Dictator!" My hands caught flame, and the person gasped. They shot to the wooden rim of the seat and spread around the plane. I closed my eyes. This was all just a dream.

"Passengers, I'm sorry, but the plane currently is on fire. Please take the life vests from under your seat and attach them to your body. Adjust the strap to your comfort and go through an exit door. Please, do NOT panic! Thank you, and have a nice day." Everyone started shrieking like howler monkeys. They could probably hear us in Asia and Russia. Mae Lin looked at me, then turned away. Then she said, "I thought you would control your anger. This is ALL YOUR FAULT!" I snarled. "MY fault? It seems like it was YOUR IDEA to DO THIS!" She turned away. But I knew, for once in a long time, I KNEW, she was right. People were going to die. And I started it.