Elektra smiled back at Payne and jumped as a boy with long red hair opened the door to the limo. He looked rather odd to Elektra, for she had never seen a boy with such red hair, but he had beautiful green eyes. "Hello," she said, a little shyly. She saw plants in his hands and wondered curiously why he would bring them along.

She gestured to him to sit by her and looked over at Payne. He looked a tad nervous and asked him, "You okay, Payne?"

Definitely an amazing yard. After all, with the amount of work he and his sister put into it... And his parents. He slipped into the car, smiling pleasantly.

"Good. Would hateto get in the wrong car... He closed the door, but, shortly after there was a rap on it, and Tristan jumped as Terra was there yet again... He moved over and rolled down the window.

"I want to go with you!"

"I'm sorry Terra dear..but Mom and Dad need you... You've got to keep them happy and cheery okay? Don't let them miss me too much.."

Another hug through the window and he rolled it back up and waved through it as Terra hurried back into the house...He turned to his future classmates.

"Tristan Vine..."

"Of course I'm okay," Payne stammered. He leveled himself, smiling at the boy as pleasantly as he could. He, too, noticed the plants adorning the guy's wrists, and couldn't help but wonder about it. How DID his yard get so obscenely perfect?

Payne decided he was just being too quick to come to conclusions, and he piped up a bit, "I'm Payne; nice to meet you, Tristan. Your yard is extraordinary."
He felt as though he should be nice, for he didn't know this teenager. He could be different. Payne, also, knew how it was to be in a weird predicament around people he didn't know.

The light-eyed dark-haired boy pushed a lock of his hair away from his face, tucking it behind his ear. He continued looking back and forth at his two peers. This would either be an amazing experience, or an awful arrangement.

Elektra turned back to the boy who had just came in. He had just introduced himself as Tristan Vine. Interesting name, she thought to herself. It well suited the plants in his hand, alright. She nodded and said, "My name's Elektra."

She made a small smile and went back to daydreaming about Cephiro. Just the name of it intrigued her deeply. Sighing and now wanting to make small talk she said, "Nice yard you have there. Who was that little girl that came up to the window?"

He smiled cordially. "Terra... my sister...though foster sister is more appropriate. I'm adopted..." Nor was he ashamed of it.

He gave a smile and shrugged a littl, running his hand around the plant on his wrist. "Thank you. It is a group effort however, though I do have a way with greenery..." He wasn't goign to admit he spent the last hour telling each plant goodbye...

"Aww how cute." she told him. But when he said he had "A way with greenery", she immediately looked at Payne, with a look that said, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?". And she smirked, realizing, maybe the academy did know. But then again, she could be wrong. And this could all be a freak coincidence. Just finding out if this Tristan person had powers would be totally awesome!

She nudged Payne, hoping he would ask, not wanting to ask him herself.

Storm hurried around grabbing things and putting them outside where her parents were at. Finally all that she need was her lighter. "Where did I put you...ah!" She grabbed it grinning, forgetting that she put it by her bed after playing with it lastnight. Flicking it on her skirt and watching it light us. She had the dire need to touch it and have it in her hands but she pushed the temptaion away. Gripping it tightly in her hand she ran down stair and out the door.
"Im going to miss you guys like mad." She mummbled hugging her father.
"Miss you too Red." She pulled away just as a slim black limo pulled up. never been in one of those before. Looking up at her parents.
"Love you." The smiled. Picking up her bags and walking over to the driver who grabbed them and wisked them away. Opening the door she noticed a girl and two guys. "Uh, just making sure im getting into the right limo, this is for Cephiro Academy right?"

As she was still waiting for Payne to ask, a girl open the door and ask something. Finally! Another girl to join us on the trip to Cephiro. Elektra nodded and motioned her to sit down. She was much more comfortable talking to a girl than a boy, but was still a little shy.

"Hello, my name is Elektra. What's yours?" she asked. Looking from the girl to Tristan, she noticed they almost had the same color and style of hair. Heh, how funny, she thought.

He was a little confused. "What? Somethign about my talent?" That's how he refered to what he did with plants... talent... Did they know about that? A cold pit formed in his stomach. What if they were here to carry him away and keep him in a lifeless room! What if..What if there was no Cephiro Academy and this was all a hoax...

Then another girl opened the door and his worries appeased a little.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Tristan."

She smiled and sat down."Storm Orin at your services." She looked around and notice that not only was there a guy with the same color of hair as her but a girl with turquoise blue hair. Odd group indeed she figured. "Hopfully my arrival hasnt interfered with your conversations." She said, her lighter out and flicking it agaisnt her skirt once more.

Payne seemed to be in daze; basically thinking the same thing Tristan was. If Tristan did have 'powers', it would be much more than a coincidence. He felt as if he were going to throw up, imagining the tests that would be run on the group. What if they were dissected? Alive? Slowly, Payne snapped out of his morbid thoughts.

He looked up quickly as another girl entered the limo, and he smiled pleasantly.
"I'm Payne; nice to meet you," he said, almost immediately following her introduction. His blue eyes darted down to spot the flame, and he used his abilities to put it out. Payne was not fond of flames at all, especially in a car.
Gasoline+Flame+No way to escape= dead Payne. On a side note, Payne wasn't crazy about math, either.

"So, guys," his voice cracked due to puberty and his nerves, but he quickly leveled them both out. "Why do you think we're being shipped off to some crazy, out-of-no-where school? I didn't even apply."

Elektra smiled and began to think of an answer to Payne's question. Well out of nowhere was a strong term. True, it was too strange of a place to put a "regular" boarding school. Unless they had something to hide..

She pushed away her earlier thoughts of paradise on the island, and instead thought of it as a trap. If everyone on this trip had special powers, this could just be a way to get them all in one place, and they had no where to run if there was no other places to hide on a deserted island. But then again, Elektra would have no problem getting out. Still, she couldn't leave the other students to getting experimented some more.

She came back to Earth and replied, "Neither did I. But i do have some sort of hunch." she said, staring Payne down, then at the other people in the limo

Storm staired at her now extengished flame "What the?" she mutterd to herself. Her flames never been blowed out before, heck she still had it burning on the windest day of the year. She glanced around at people she was sharing a ride with.
"Ah, what hunch would that be?" She ask the other girl, Elektra.

Startled, for no one has really wondered what was going on in her mind before, she didn't expect anyone to really care. Elektra thought for a bit, debating whether or not her hunch was reasonable. She didn't really intend to tell this girl what she was thinking, for she didn't even know if Tristan or Storm had any powers. So she changed the subject and asked, "Why are you carrying a lighter with you?"

She began wondering this as soon as she noticed her flicking it against her skirt. She never really like fire that much. It was the total opposite of water. Fire. Then she started thinking if this Storm person had the power of fire! No, Elektra. Your just getting carried away. She probably just carries it around because she likes to light candles or something.

Storms eyes widen, no one usally asked why she carrid a lighter around with her, they just assumed that she had a smoking habbit of some sort. "Um..well...its hard to explain." that and you'd think me crazy. She looked down at the lighter in ther hand, last time she told showd someone what she could do they ran and called the cops. After that happend her parents didnt want her messing around with it again. Could she really trust these people and show them?

Payne decided to cut to the chase. He and Elektra were the elements air and water; the other girl had a lighter, and the other boy had an amazingly, and almost suspiciously, perfect lawn. They had to be the missing elements, didn't they? There was nothing else the four had in common; he and Elektra were taken from the orphanage, while Storm and Tristan were from two completely different homes.

"We're all elementals, are we not?" he said, without a hint of shyness in his voice. It was odd, though, he'd never spoken with such security and sureness in his voice. He prayed his assumption was correct, and blushed a bit afterward. In his heart he said yes, while his brain still knew it was improbable.

Improbable didn't mean impossible, though. Payne, letting his eyes wander up, stared at Storm. She seemed to be uneasy when answering questions about her lighter, which was surely a giveaway, wasn't it? Payne's eyes trailed a bit further to the side, and rested on Tristan. He seemed to sound suspicious when questioned about his yard, and even had real vines twirled about his wrist which were, oddly enough, not budging. Payne convinced himself that his assumption was right.

Storm looked at Payne surprised. Elementals eh? was that what they were called. She figured if he was brave enough to say that out loud then she could show them what she could do. Flicking her lighter she placed her hand over the fire, welding it into her hand. Feeling the warmth glid over her skin, she sighed pulling her hand away the flame. Her hand was on fire but yet not burning. She lowerd the flame so it was so hazardess and looked at the others shyly.

Taking that as a definite yes, and watching the others shy away from the flame, Payne placed his wrists against one another, opening his hands. From his palms exited two, slightly-visible balls of spinning wind. The wind surrounded the flame, making it disappear slowly. The teenager smiled a bit at Storm, sticking his hands in the pockets of his hoodie.

Ice blue eyes scanned the limo, and he smiled at Elektra. He already knew she had powers, and, now discovering Storm did, he knew the academy knew, as well. It wasn't a coincidence... what were they going to do to he and his new acquaintances?

Payne's vision slowly trailed to the silent Tristan, and he gave him a knowing look. It was odd to explain, but he knew Tristan was questioning the school's intentions as well. Payne sighed, mulling over the thoughts in his head.

Storm staird at her hand where her lovly flame had been.
"My flame, its gone, gone gone gone!" She said placing the back of her hand on her forehead. Yes she was being dramatic but that was just her. She laughed it off and turned to Payne,
"Im guessing you the one who put my first flame out when I first got in the car." She glanced over at Tristan wondering what he could do.

Tristan gave a smile as he listened. Apparently, there were other gifts besides his own. He gave a nod. "I... I have a talent with plants.." Extending his am, he let the plant wriggle it's way like a snake from a snakecharmers basket.

Then he let it fall. "Please, I hardly mean to be rude, but I'd appreciate it a lot if you'd kindly keep your flame away from my plants..."

Elektra was absolutely thrilled! It was true, everyone did have a special ability. Smiling, almost beaming, she decided to show Tristan and Storm what she could do. She took out her canteen of water. She took of the cap, slower than usual to add a little dramatic affect, and put it on her lap. Putting her hand over the flask, she moved her hands in a pushing and pulling motion and smirked as the water once again emerged from her valued canteen.

Putting the water back inside, she put her cap back on and said, "Well, as you can see I have the ability to control water." she sighed happily, feeling overwhelmed. She had even more people than she could have ever imagined have something in common with her. And better yet, it was with the thing that she was most insecure about.

Storm looked at him alarmed.
"Oh dont worry! I dont set fires to things, 'specialy plants. Im some what of a planter myself, even if I dont have your gift." She blushed. "This is amazing, and to think I thought I was a freak that people would want to cut up and experiment on." She said as she watched Elektra show her water ablilty.

"I'm really glad about this, guys, but, at the same time, I can't be too sure about the school's intentions. Just think, how'd they know about our abilities? Why do they want us all in the same spot?" he leaned inward, toward the other teens. The limo driver, he was sure, was in on whatever the situation happened to be as well. "What do you think they want with us?"

A part of Payne wanted to believe they'd have a great time and they would make some new friends. The whole thing was just... insane, though. Either it was a humongous coincidence, the school wasn't a school (and was an experimental lab), or the school new and wanted to heighten their abilities. This entire thing was odd, so Payne decided not to question himself about it anymore. He wanted to know what the others thought, because they probably had their suspicions too.

He noticed he was leaning in kind of far, and he was talking more than usual. Did just having his secret off his chest make him more secure about himself? He gave a small smile to everyone in the back seat, running a hand through his hair slowly.

Elektra shook her head, "I don't know what they want with us. But I'm just glad I have people that i can relate to. So enough about this crazy school," she turned to Storm and Tristan. "What's it like to be adopted?" she asked, slightly leaning on Payne now.

She always dreamed of being adopted by people who love her. But her dream always got fogged up by the fact that she had a strange ability. Sighing, she looked back up at Storm and Tristan.

Pulling her legs up to her chest, carful not to expose her self, and leaning her head on her knees she sigh.
"Even if they tryed to expermint on us, we wont let them. We can fight back, their normal after all." Turning her head. "Being adopted. Its..."She sighed. "Nice. The family that adopted me is wonderful. They cant have kids, which is sad when you think about it, but im glad at the same time. Bit selfish but I hated the Orphange I was at. It was horrible there." She looked at Elektra. "But, I mean, it really all depends. Some kids arnt as lucky and get adopted into a abusive family. It may not be like physical abuse but mental."