Katherine Moss / Kate / Moss POV

   "Kate! Wake up! You'll be late for your first day of high school!" My mother called down the stairs leading to the basement, which happened to be all mine. "Kate Moss! Get up right now!"

   You really knew she was annoyed when she used my last name, that also happens to be my nickname, but wait! All hell breaks loose when she uses my full name. I'd better get up before that happens. "Coming, mom!" I groaned out as loud as I could in a half awake, half asleep state. I could almost hear her smirk in satisfaction and victory.

   As I got up, my mind wandered. Today was the first day of high school, here, also known as Elemental school. It's where you find your element, and practice it in a safe place. You'd think that teenagers my age - and my gender - would be prepared to make a good first impression, right? Not me, I'm a mess and completely unprepared in all ways.

   I scrambled out of my bed and looked around my bedroom for clothes with my hazel eyes. Fresh undergarments, black jeans, a purple tank top, a sky blue t-shirt, a light grey jacket, one purple sock and one blue sock found its way to my body after a few minutes of scrambling around.

   I then quickly brushed my long dark blonde hair until most of it was untangled and dashed up the stairs to scoff down breakfast, which was probably eggs and toast.

   When I got to the kitchen I not surprised by what I saw. My mother was standing there, hands on her hips, glaring at me with her flame-coloured eyes. Why? Because I was dressed in mix match clothes, and had not had a shower in a day or two.

   "Now..." she drawled, still fixing that glare on me. "Are you going to tell why you haven't dressed properly and haven't had a shower?"

   "Mom!" I protested, gesturing at my clothes. "I am properly dressed!"

   "Uh-huh," Mom grunted, and I knew she didn't believe me at all. "And what excuse do you have for not showering, might I ask?"

   I fell silent, desperately trying to think of a reason so I didn't need to shower.

   Mom was not silent, she knew I didn't have anything else to say in my defence, so she calmly ordered, "Go shower quickly, you don't have enough time to find better clothes, since your room is a mess, but we have no time to stall. Oh, and you'll face the consequences for not showering and dressing properly in the first place, later."

   "Ok, mom," I was not looking forward to the consequences.

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   I finished showering, got redressed in the same clothes - because it would take too long to find different ones in my messy room, as my mom pointed out - and ran back up the stairs in a hurry, since I was almost late for school.

   "Finally ready?" Mom asked without looking away from the eggs on the oven.

   "Yep, I showered," I replied, walking over to look at the eggs she was making. "When are those gonna be ready? I got about 10 mins before school starts and it takes 5 mins to get there, so..."

   "Oh," Mom chuckled with humour. "These aren't for you."

   "What?!"

   Mom glanced over her shoulder at me, then burst out laughing.

   "What?" I repeated, agitated. "Why?" I started to glare at her for laughing at me so heartlessly.

   After Mom got her breath back, she replied to my one worded questions in one little sentence, "These are the consequences."

   Her face was so stern looking, but I just kept glaring at her. Eventually she broke down into more laughs, as I demanded, "Why are you so heartless? And why are you laughing at me? And what am I going to eat?"

   Mom toned down her laughs to an occasional chortle, "I'm not completely heartless, I did very kindly leave some money so you can buy lunch when you're on lunch break at school. And I'm laughing at your expression!"

   I groaned with annoyance as Mom kept laughing like a little kid just discovering something funny. I snatch up the money from the countertop and storm out of the house, stopping to put my shoes on, a pair of sky blue runners.

   The cold fresh air is nice in my face as I wondered what element I might get. The options are, the basics, air, water, earth, fire. The advanced elements, which are like add ons from the basic ones. Your basic element gets stronger and you get an add on like thing. Air is control over weather, water is underwater breathing and better swimming, earth is increased senses - like hearing, sight, and smelling - and fire is control over lava as well.

   Then there's the elements that are super rare, and everyone hopes to get, but no one knows about. There's been a couple cases of it in my lifetime all across the world. Along with a rare element, you get one of the most awesome creatures ever as a life-long companion. A dragon. The same element as you. There are only rare element dragons though, which is why non-rare elements don't get them.

   It would be cool to get a rare element as my element, but I think I'm better off with a basic one. But most people have to wait until ninth grade until their element appears. I sighed with frustration, I was probably going to have to go through one more whole year until I finally got my element.

   My thoughts got easily distracted as the school comes into view, and I stopped and gaped at how big it is, tripping over a snow bank.

   "I know, right? It's so big the first time you see it," a girl that seems to be my age was looking at me with knowing brown eyes. Alright, she must be in my grade, she doesn't have the eyes of an elemental user.

   "Oh, hi, I'm Katherine Moss, and you can call me Moss or Kate," I introduced myself kindly, getting up and stretching out a hand for her to shake.

   "I'm Luciana Grey, you can call me Lucy," she reached out with her hand as her medium length dark brown hair fell out of her ponytail and the hair band fell to the floor.

   "Oh!" Lucy quickly bent down to get it but I beat her to it.

   "I believe this is yours," I held out my hand with the band swinging on one finger.

   "Thanks," she said, taking the hair band from my finger. Instead of putting it back into her hair like I expected her to, she put it on her wrist like a bracelet. Lucy must have seen my confused expression so she explained, "Air magic, when air blows my hair it tangles and knots it so easily, and its worse if I have a hair band in."

   I made an o shape with my mouth just as the bell rang.

   "Do you know where you go first?" Lucy asked me.

   "Nope, no idea at all," I replied.

   "Well, we can get lost together then!"

   "Sounds great!" I added sarcastically, but she seemed to not get the sarcasm, because she ran towards the school, fast. Very fast. I think her element will be air.

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   We made it to the right class after a couple minutes of scrambling around the massive maze of halls to find the office, where we'd get our list of classes, our schedules. The lady at the desk at the office gave us our schedules, and as she handed them to us, I looked at mine.

Katherine Moss:

1st Class: Air Element History Room 115 - 55 minutes

2nd Class: Earth Element History, Room 116 - 55 minutes

3rd Class: Fire Element History, Room 117 - 55 minutes

4th Class: Water Element History, Room 114 - 55 minutes

Half An Hour Lunch Break - Students are allowed to go off school grounds to eat if their parents gave them the signed permission form for it, otherwise go to the cafeteria.

5th Class: Fire Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Fire - 40 minutes

6th Class: Air Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Air - 40 minutes

7th Class: Earth Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Earth - 40 minutes

8th Class: Water Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Water - 40 minutes

Classes end at 3:30. Between each class, students get a 5 minute period of transfer time, where they are to move to the next class.

   Pretty basic, though we stay here really long. If I added right, we stay here for 7 and half hours, that's 8:00 am to 3:30 pm.

   "What do you have, Moss?" Lucy started to lean over my shoulder to see my schedule.

   "Here, how about we switch schedules for a minute so we can see each others?" I proposed, starting to hand my sheet over to her.

   She shrugged, "Sure."

   I took her out stretched schedule sheet and looked at it as she took mine.

Luciana Grey:

1st Class: Air Element History Room 115 - 55 minutes

2nd Class: Water Element History, Room 114 - 55 minutes

3rd Class: Fire Element History, Room 117 - 55 minutes

4th Class: Earth Element History, Room 116 - 55 minutes

Half An Hour Lunch Break - Students are allowed to go off school grounds to eat if their parents gave them the signed permission form for it, otherwise go to the cafeteria

5th Class: Fire Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Fire - 40 minutes

6th Class: Air Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Air - 40 minutes

7th Class: Earth Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Earth - 40 minutes

8th Class: Water Control Lessons & Attempts At Wielding Water - 40 minutes

Classes end at 3:30. Between each class, students get a 5 minute period of transfer time, where they are to move to the next class

   I glanced back at my schedule in Lucy's hands to make sure I was right. Yes, I was right, the only differences between the schedules are the name, and the 2nd and 4th classes. "We've got most of the classes together," I said, smiling widely. I don't know why, but I like Lucy, and I had a feeling we're going to be friends.

   "Yes, sometimes that happens with the first timers," the lady at the desk had overheard our conversation.

   "Oh, thanks for clearing that up," I gave a polite smile at her, and glanced at her name tag. It said Brianna.

   "Well, you better get to your first class! You'll be late!" Brianna smiled back.

   I smiled one more time at her and then turned back to Lucy, "Lucy, let's go!"

   "Right," she replied.

   "Bye, Miss. Brianna!" I called as we speed walked towards our first class. It wasn't hard to find, as the element history classes are all near the office we were just at.

   "So, what element do you think you'll get?" I asked Lucy. "I think you're gonna get air! You're really fast!"

   One of the perks of being air is that you're a good runner, and since she's so fast, maybe she's air? Sometimes little bits of the element you get appear before you're eye change colour and you can use your element.

   "I don't know, my mom is earth and my dad is water," Lucy replied. "So maybe one of those. Or maybe air, you never know. What do you think you're going to get?"

   "Huh, I really don't know, I've never thought about it. I don't know my dad, and my mom is fire," I answered truthfully. "I really could be anything. I don't really know any of my distant relatives or anything."

   "Cool."

   "Cool?" I echoed. "What's cool about not have a clue on what your element is?"

   "It adds to the adventure!" Lucy glanced at me with a giant grin on her face. "Plus, it means you can be anything. So if you wanted to be water, you might have a chance of being water!"

   I grunted, "I guess so."

   "Here's the class!" Lucy said after a few more seconds of silence. "Right?"

   I glanced down at the sheet in my hands, checking to make sure we're about to walk into the right class. "Yup," I confirmed. "Room number 115."

   "Uh-oh. I think we're late."

   We walked in to see a man that looked to be about 30 with light blue-grey eyes teaching a class air history. "Hello?" He questioned. "Who are you?"

   I figured that he would know our full names so I answered, "I'm Katherine Moss, and this is Luciana Grey. I think we're late for your class."

   "Yes, you are, find a seat anywhere you want. There's a couple seats next to each other over there if you want to sit next to each other," he pointed to a couple seats next to a raven-haired girl and a menacing looking boy with blonde hair.

   I was suddenly very aware that all 20 pairs of eyes in this class were on Lucy and me.

   "Thanks," Lucy said. Then she grabbed my hand and started to pull me over to the two empty seats.

   I rushed over to the seats with Lucy and found a notebook that said, Air Element History, and had a spot for you to put down your name on both the desks. I sat in the chair next to the girl, while Lucy sat next to the boy.

   "I will continue the lesson from where I was," The storm-coloured eyed man said.

   I looked behind him and found his name, Mr. Nide. "His name is Mr. Nide," I whispered to Lucy.

   "He's a air element," she whispered back. "Look at his eyes. They are the colour of a air element."

   The raven-haired girl leaned in towards me and introduced herself quietly, "I'm Raven."

   "Hi, I'm Moss, or you can call me Kate," I introduced myself with my nicknames. I gestured over to Lucy, "That's Lucy."

   "You guys are friends?" Raven asked, tilting her head curiously.

   "Yeah, I guess so," I replied hesitantly. "We met earlier, but I think we are friends, right Luce?"

   I nudged Lucy, and she went, "What? Are you talking to me?"

   I sighed and answered, "Raven, this girl, wants know if we are friends or not."

   "Yes, I think we are."

   "Alright then, we are friends," I turned back to Raven.

   "Now we need to pay attention to the teacher," Lucy whispered sternly.

   Raven and I chuckled at Lucy's fake stern attempt to get us to pay attention to the teacher. It worked though, as we didn't want to get told off and we all actually were interested in air element history.

   I started scratching down notes on my notebook as the lesson went on, and as the teacher, Mr. Nide, gave us a break to near the end to catch up on note taking, I looked down at my notes, satisfied that I'd written down enough.

   The hour went by fast, and soon we were getting up and filling the doorways to get in and out of the class with our bodies in haste to get to the next class. Me and Lucy had to part ways - she had to go to the bathroom - but Raven had the same class as us this period, so we traveled through the halls together.

   "What element do you think you're going to be?" I broke the silence with my question.

   "I don't know," Raven answered. "I think, fire, maybe?"

   "My mom's fire, it's pretty cool."

   "My mom's air, but my dad is fire."

   A comfortable silence settled between us as we walked towards the next class, earth element history. I started to get a good feeling about elemental school. It was going well.

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   I immediately set off to find the cafeteria to find my two friends, Lucy and Raven, as the bell went.

   It seems louder than the earlier times it went, which is strange. Quite louder.

   As I came up to another hallway I bumped into a guy with bright green eyes. Green for earth, that means this guy is older than me and has already found his element.

   "Oh, sorry," the guy said, picking up my fire and water notebooks that had slipped out of the pile of papers and notebooks I was carrying and on to the floor for me.

   "That's ok. No harm done," I told him. "I'm Moss by the way."

   "Moss... Sounds like a earth element nickname to me," he looked up at my eyes and saw that they we're still their natural colour - hazel. "But you're not earth."

   "No, Moss is technically my last name, but most people call me that. Also, I'm a beginner, I don't have my element yet."

   The boy makes a grunting sound that sounded slightly like a 'oh'.

   "Oh," I called to him before he could move away. "Did that lunch bell sound any louder than the other bells?"

   He hesitated for a moment before he answered by question, "Well... No, it did sound any different than before and all through last year. Its always the same, they never change it. Why?"

   "Oh, ok, it's just I thought it sounded slightly louder than the other times it rang today."

   "It didn't," the boy grunted one more time before following the few remaining people that we're still heading for the cafeteria.

   I followed them too, and I soon met back up with Lucy and Raven in the cafeteria, sitting at a table.

   "Wow, the great and awesome Moss grants us with her presence!" Raven said, sarcasm dripping from her voice while she did a little fake bow. "Seriously, we thought you'd never make it through the maze of halls out there."

   "It's only been a few minutes since classes stopped!" I laughed out loud at Raven's sarcasm and told her what had happened in the short time between 4th class and then. Of course, I left out the bit where I asked him if he thought the bell was louder than usual. That was embarrassing.

   "Awww," Raven cooed after my explanation. "Moss and... earth boy... sitting in a tree! K-I-"

   "Hey! I don't have a crush on him! He barely talked!" I protested against Raven's teasing. Lucy had been silent the whole time, but you could tell she was trying to hold laughs in. "I don't even know his name!"

   Raven's teasing expression didn't stop as she continued. "Y... You.... You don't know your crushes name, Moss!" she screeched loudly.

   "Raven!" I yelped, protesting. "One, keep it down, other people might have heard you say that with my name! Two, he is not my crush!"

   Lucy broke her silence as she said, "Actually, it wasn't very loud. Not loud enough for other tables to hear, Moss."

   "You're joking, right?" I asked, glancing at one of my friends, then the other while they exchanged looks with each other. "You're not? What?"

   "No, we're not joking, right, Raven?" Lucy confirmed, much to my disappointment.

   I looked at them, confused, "Then... then what's happening to me?"




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Welp, that's the end of chapter 1, I kinda published the unfinished version - part of this chapter - so if you are one of the like, 3 people that read it while that unfinished bit was published, sorry, didn't mean to publish that, it wasn't edited yet.

What do you think is happening to Moss?

What do you think her element is going to be? So far she has extra hearing.

Also, the next couple chapters should be done faster than others, cause I'm doing the Wattys thing, so I have to be done something like minimum 3 chapters and 10,000 words by August 30. And, if anyone knows, can they tell me if you need to put #Wattys2016 in your title or your tags to enter? I've seen people do both....

Word Count (without the A/N): 3185