Roman's Story

Roman raced across the courtyard and passed many mumbling people, the subject was all the same; the new guardians. Earth, wind, fire, and water. The elements that make up the earth. The four guardians before had disappeared, so they were looking for the new protectors of the earth, and roman had happened to be one of the Water mage's in the trial for the new water Guardian. She also, woke up late, and was now running behind schedule. Running through to where the other mage's were, she frantically looked around, and tried to calm her nerves a bit. She saw a couple of familiar faces, and each face she thought had a better chance at becoming the next guardian then her. The only thing on her mind, was breathing in, and breathing out.
“You might want to pass me along that gold bracelet of yours.” Came a familiar voice from behind her. She jumped a bit before turning around, and giving a kind of anxious smile. Looming in front of her was her mentor like teacher, Professor Derenese. He had taught her a lot of tricks in the game of water elemental magic, and was the one person in this school who she felt believed in her as much as say, her brother would. Looking down at her small wrist, she unclasped the gold chain of her mother. She wanted to protect that at all cost, as her parents had died when she was five and it was the only remnant that they were ever alive for her, as she could barely remember them. Her brother was also very protective of it also. Handing it to Derenese, he slipped it into his pocket, and patted it down as if a sign to say it was safe and secure. “Good luck.” He smiled as her, as he ran off to talk to some of the others.
Roman pulled her long black hair up into a tight pony tail, not wanting it to get in the way of her sight as the trials progressed on. Finally looking around the space, she noticed what had been set up. Of course there was a rather large pool, well actually an extremely large pool there, and then a couple of weapons and targets set around. She could get a small sense of what the trials could be like. Almost on cue, a professor walked through the large set of doors. She was a pretty important person here, but Roman had her mind on much bigger thoughts so she really couldn’t remember her name. “Let the trials begin.” She hollered out, with a very wide and boisterous grin on her face. All of us went to where it would both start, and that was by the pool. “Trial one!” She cried out in glee, continuing on “All contestant must swim five laps and back, we will time you. The twenty slowest ones will be out of the running. Enjoy yourself!” She ended off with. I took a long breath, and as they called for start, I Dove into the water, and began swimming, keeping my mind only focused on so. I had finished before I knew it. Crawling out of the pool, I saw I obviously wasn’t the first person out already, but was certainty not one of the last. I let out a small sigh of relief knowing I had passed at least on.
As they progressed on and on, they had many water filled changes before they finally got onto the weapons part of the testing. And the first one was archery. Roman smiled in a sense of relief knowing that this was what weapon she was trained more to use, and what she was truly good at. And so when she lifted up her bow and arrow to aim, she took in a breath, and exhaled as she shot, hitting the bulls eye spot on. Lowering her bow, she didn’t know how to feel at that point. She looked around at how many little people remanded, and that’s when it truly hit her that she was getting really close to the finale.

It really hit her hard when she realised she was in the finale. She had passed the rest of the trials, without even thinking about it. “Final trail!” The professor called out, an even bigger smile playing on her face then when we started. “Roman Carlile, and Demenka Feragon are to dual it out in are arena. There element of course will be added, we’ve simulated a very storm and powerful rain storm, with the bonus of thunder and lightning. Good luck to both of you.” As we got prepared the thoughts on her mind was how she was petrified of lighting and how much she hated Demenka. Looking over at her opponent he had the same cocky smile on as the day she caught him calling a girl fat. She pretty much kicked his ass, and the head master let it slide, as this was not the only time Demenka had been bullying someone, she got sided with. She really hadn’t seen him do it since. He walked up to her and said “May the best man win.” And to which she replied “Real men have balls. We both know you don’t have that.” Before going and getting ready in position. And as they started the storm, a tiny part in roman was screaming on the inside. And then the trials started. The whole thing from that point passed by pretty fast. She remembered Demenka shooting massive waves at her, and her using that to only fire back at him, things led to another and she saw that he was drowning. She realized she didn’t want to win that way. Getting him out of the water filled area, she pounded on his chest, trying to get him to spit the water out, as he did. In return as thanks he punched her in the side of the face, knocking her to her back. He pinned her down, about ready to almost snap her neck, before she slipped her hands away, in return flipping him over. Standing up she pressed her foot down hard on his throat, blocking his wind pipes. She called for a water arrow, and then aimed it right smack in the middle of his head. He slammed his hand hard on the ground, and through what little could be heard from his voice, he called out.
The nest events really passed by her with no reaction. She was fatigued, and had a black eye, and it said what battle they had lasted for hours. Professor Derenese stood by her side at that point, and all she could feel was him slipping the gold bracelet back into her hand; and his smiling voice telling her congratulations.

Romans heart was pounding so fast, and her eyes blurred up and her head throbbed as if she was going into shock. But that all tumbled away as she heard the harsh, almost whispered words appear saying “Give me the guardians...” Her heat stopped then. “What the hell was that.” She said, as the whole arena almost seemed to shake. Roman started running towards where the entry doors where, and outside. The sky seemed black and angry, and she had to cover her mouth from the smoke that seemed to be around. A large was also brewing up a large rainfall. Roman did her best to try and subdue it, so it only left as a smaller trickle, glad as it would probably stop some flooding that could have happened.

Running back inside, she stepped up onto the podium the announcer had been on for the trails, and called out “Alright, calm down!” in her most booming and loud voice. When that failed, she practically yelled “Quiet!” and people settled back down. Bending over to ask a professor if they had a basement, he said yes, and she called back out “Alright, this roofs not going to hold up, we have to get everyone to the basement, it’s our safest bet as it’s to dangerous to file you all outside.” She stated. Now addressing all the authoritive figures here, she said “Get them to safely as easily as you can, you might need to rush.” They all nodded, and everyone started following the orders. Roman stepped from the podium, and went to help.

As the final people started making it through, she called out “Make sure everyone squeezes in, sit on people if you have to.” At that point some of the professors tried pushing her into the basement, and she refused. Running back towards the doors so she wasn’t there when the roof collapsed, she only barley got there when the roof tumbled down. Putting her arms over her head, she made it just under the door frame so huge debris wouldn’t hit her.

Roman was left with a couple scratched and bruises, but from what she noticed she was fine. Moving back to where they filled to the basement, she saw parts of the structure covering the doorway, not letting them through. With no one to help, and the unkind weather to now deal with, she started lugging away the pieces, getting the stairwell back where they could climb up before they lost their oxygen. She was glad not many of the pieces where too heavy. Eventually after an hour of doing this, she got through. A professor came from the below surface, and roman simply said “Keep the calm” They nodded, and they went off too it. Roman then left the arena, trying to find someone who could explain what was going on.