Monachi: Masters of Water and Fire (13 page)

I walked up to the clerk and asked, “Excuse
me ma’am, but do you mind telling me what city
in North Dakota we’re in?”

The woman looked at me and answered
dryly, “You’re in Williston.”
“Thanks,” I replied.
I went back to Tess and told her, “We’re in
Williston.”
She took out the map. I’m surprised that
she still had it. “I think if we start walking now
and don’t stop, we can make it back home by
tomorrow night; but if we can quickly find a
place to hide and rest for the night, and start fresh
in the morning, we’ll make it back home around 2
a.m. the following morning,” Tess stated.
That was a long time away. I couldn’t stand
another minute out here. We left the shop and
went outside. There had to be a quicker way to
get home. But what could we do? We can’t take a
train or a…
“Tess, I have the perfect idea!” I cried.
Tess turned to me and asked, “What is it?”
I said, “What if you cast a spell so that we
could just fly our way home?”
Tess thought for a minute. “That just might
work,” she finally replied.
I jumped up and down in excitement. I’ve
always wanted to fly, and now I just might. We
went back to Area 50-whatever.
Tess
thought
for
a
minute
and
then
grabbed my hand and started to chant;

“We want to fly way up high.
Fly us high, fly us low.
Fly us as fast as a crow!”

I flew up and matched her. I looked down,
a foolish mistake. “Um… what if the spell wears
off while we’re in the air?” I asked.

“Don’t worry; the spell only goes out if I
put it out,” she said with a smile.
I
smiled back. We
were finally heading
home.
Once again, Tess flew higher up, and once
again I matched her. We were now high enough
to be in the clouds, as I placed my hand in one. I
took my hand out as soon as a mini-cloud started
forming around it.
“This is amazing!” I exclaimed.
Tess flew to me. “Ditto,” she replied.
“It’s time to go home,” I said with a hint of
excitement in my voice as we now soared above
the cloud line, which now appeared like a blanket
covering the earth below.
All of a sudden, we heard a plane coming.
It was so deafening that I held my hands over my
ears. Tess shouted a spell over the noise;

I took my hands off my ears; I didn’t hear
anything anymore, at least not from the plane. I
decided I would give the people in the plane a
surprise. I flew up to the plane, but it quickly
passed me.

Tess gave it a go. She flew quickly up to
one of plane’s windows and kept speed with the
plane. She knocked on the window.

At first there was no reaction, and then
someone put their window shade up and saw
Tess. I flew to Tess and kept up speed.
I heard someone scream, “It’s a kamikaze!”
Tess
yelled
back, “Nope,
just
flying

humans; nothing to worry about.”
There was an awkward silence.
A girl took out her cell phone and started

recording. Tess held up her hands as if she were
about to play rock paper scissors. The girl at the
window held up her hands too. They played, and
Tess won.

Tess and I were both getting tired of flying
at this speed, so we waved bye to the people and
stopped flying along. As we watched the plane
fly on, Tess sighed. “Well, that’s going on the
internet.”

It was now sunset. The sky was a toasty
brown color, as the gentle, warm air was blowing.
The sun was beginning to hide behind the blue
mountains. Tess yawned. It may not be that late,
but we were exhausted.

Her
spell
must have also released the
plane’s sound from mute back to normal, as we
heard an unusual sonic boom coming from the
plane as it disappeared into the sunset.

We laid down in the grass as we looked up
to the sky. We were so far from home, but now
we knew that we wouldn’t be disturbed anymore
by those
people
. At least, I hope so.

“Do you think they’ll let us back in
school?” Tess asked.
I shrugged and replied with; “Probably not.
I don’t know if they will even let us go back into
the education system.” I closed my eyes. I soon
heard Tess’s heavy breathing, which told me that
she was asleep.
I didn’t find sleep so easily. I tossed and
turned. It wasn’t that I was cold, it was a warm
night. I was worried. What would life be like
when we got home? I finally drifted to sleep
about ten minutes after Tess.
We had a big adventure tomorrow.

It was now early morning. I woke to the
painful feeling of something hitting me in the
face. I opened my eyes. They were sore, probably
because tree sap dropped on them in my sleep. I
wiped my eyes off; it was sticky, as if it had just
fallen a second ago.

I looked around and saw Tess in the tree,
picking at the sap. “Did you drop this on me?” I
asked, showing her the sap that was stuck to my
hand.

“Yeah, I thought it might wake you up,”
she said, jumping out of the tree.
“Well it didn’t. It just made my eyes and
hands sticky,” I retorted.
“Ok, are you ready to go?” she asked.
I looked around. Did I have a reason
not
to
be ready?
Tess continued, “If you need to go to the
bathroom, find a bush.”
Now that she mentioned it, I did have to
go. After we both went to the bathroom we were
ready.
Tess began to chant;

“We want to fly way up high.
Fly us high, fly us low.
Fly us as fast as a crow!”

As soon as she finished, we began to rise.
We flew for what seemed like half an hour
when we saw a distant city. We flew a bit faster,
until we were about a quarter of a mile away.
Tess
released the spell
as we touched softly
down. We continued to walk towards the city.
When we got to the city, the first thing we
did was go the nearest store to see where we
were. I went inside, and right up to the clerk and
asked, “Excuse me, what city are we in?”
She was slow to answer, but she replied;
“Billings Montana.”
I went to Tess, who was waiting outside.
She already had the map out. I told her; “Billings
Montana.”
She looked at the map for a minute. “We
are so close to Boise!” she finally yelled out.
We hugged.
“How are we going to fly unnoticed, if
we’re above a city?” I asked.
Tess thought about it.
It was silent for about two minutes. Then
Tess cried out, “I’ve got it! We can turn invisible,
but in a way in which we can still see each other!”
I thought about it.
It wasn’t a bad idea. I nodded.
Tess jumped up and down in excitement.
“Ok, all
you need to say is; ‘Make me
unseen except to…’ and then say my name.”
As Tess
waved her
hand, I
cleared my
throat and said;

I didn’t notice anything, but I was hoping it
worked. I wanted to make sure, so I went inside
the shop and walked right up to the lady at the
counter and yelled; “Hello!”

The lady looked around. “Who said that?”
she asked, looking frantic.
I left the shop and joined Tess outside.
“Ready to go!” I said to Tess after I came
out of the shop.

“We want to fly way up high.
Fly us high, fly us low.
Fly us asfast as a crow!”

She chanted yet again. We began to rise,
which now seemed oddly familiar.
Even though it seemed as if we had just left
about an hour ago, I noticed that it began to get
dark
“Time flies with you when you’re flying,”
Tess
remarked.
I guessthat’s true. I looked out into the
sunset. I could tell that we were almost home.
Now that we were getting closer, I started
to miss everything that I was going back to. I
missed how my friends would come and hang
out with me. How we would mess with some
boys. I even missed all of my teachers.
It soon became pitch black. It was hard to
fly but we managed. After all, you get used to the
dark after a few days.
Next thing I knew, Tess was slapping my
arm, saying; “Look down! It’s Boise!”
I snapped
back into reality and looked
down. Were my eyes playing tricks on me? I flew
down and found our houses.
Tess shouted…

Once my feet touched the ground, I dashed
into my house
and
shouted, “Mom! Dad! It’s
Maddy! I’m home!” I heard a door open upstairs
and the thumping sound of feet coming down.

Once the thumping stopped, I ran to the
edge of the stairs. My mom and dad were there
holding a candlestick. They dropped the candle,
and its flame went out before hitting the ground.
I threw my arms around my mom and started
balling. “I missed you guys so much!” I said in
between weeps.

After about a minute, I let go of her and
hugged my dad. He picked me up and spun me
around. It made me feel like a little girl. When he
put me down we didn’t stop hugging.

I went up the stairs, and once I got to the
top I turned around and looked once more at my
mom and dad, making sure it was real.

It was.
I grabbed some things from my room and
headed for
the bathroom. I
took a long, hot
shower. It felt so good. I loved water.

Afterwards, I went back to my room and
got into my nightie. While doing my
hair, I
received a mind message from Tess;
“Meet me in
your backyard.”

I replied,
“Sure. Just give me a minute.”
I
finished blow drying my hair and went outside.
I saw Tess standing over by my cherry tree.
She was wearing the same clothes. “You didn’t
get changed?” I asked her.
“I’m going to take a quick shower, then
take a bath. But for some reason I feel as if we
aren’t done with
handling
the government,” she
declared.
“What makes you think that?” I… didn’t
need an answer.
I heard a door get kicked off its hinges.

I began to panic. I thought this was all over.
The people, or actually just one man, came from
inside my house and into my back yard. “Don’t
worry, I’m unarmed,” he said while holding his
hands up.

Tess raised her hand.
“Who are you?” I asked.
“I’m Officer Liam DeLong.”
“What are you doing here?”
“I came here on behalf of the planet.”
Tess put her hand down and asked, “What

do you mean on behalf of the planet?”
“You see…” he began. “Look up at the
sky.”
I looked up. I saw nothing but stars. I was
still confused.
Liam
slapped his palm
to
his
forehead.
“Look behind you, at the sky!” hehalf shouted.
We both turned around and looked up. There
was a gigantic fireball coming our way.
I looked back at Liam.
Now frantic, and looking straight at me he
said, “I need your help.”
“What can Ido?” Tess asked. She felt as if
she were no help.
“You see, we need you to stop that thing
from hitting the earth. All we need you to do is
go to the nearby lake and send a blast of water at
it.”
“How am I supposed to do that?”
“Use your telekinesis with water and send
a gigantic blow to it, knocking it off course.”
I looked back at the fire ball. It was getting
closer. I stared back at Liam. “I’ll do it,” I said.
He looked over at Tess and said; “We also
need you.”
Tess responded by saying, “For what? I
create fire.
Not
the best weapon against a gigantic
fireball.”
“We are aware of your ability to cast spells.
You can fly us over there and back faster than
anything.”
Tess shrugged. “I guess I’ll do it,” she
finally replied.
“We need to get going, or the world
implodes in ten minutes!” he exclaimed.