Raven

We piled into Ghastly's van and went to this large apartment flat. It was really clean and tidy, with everything white and blue. Neat. I had no idea who we were going to meet, but if Tanith knew this Sensitive, I'm sure she'd be nice. Sure enough, a young girl about my age walked through the door and frowned. She had a legit reason because Tanith had used her lock-breaking skills (I need her to teach me that :)) to just waltz into this apartment. The girl wore an olive green shirt with a pair of beige pants and her eyes were a sapphire blue. She had a bracelet on her arm filled with necromancy magic and her hair was like Sparrow's, a raven black. 

"Tanith?" she asked. "Didn't I ask you not to walk into my house? I'm an irresponsible 12 year old that's living with my two best friends. We freak easily." she said.

"Sorry Storm." Tanith shrugged. "I find you a house and I don't need the keys to walk in. Seems fair."

"Next time I'm adding a locking sigil on my doorknob. I figured a new one that will activate itself after deactivation when the door shuts. Don't tell Sorrows, because she'll be chasing after me for it." the girl, Storm? answered. Tanith grinned and so did Valkyrie. Storm then looked at Sparrow. "Wow. I never knew Serpine's been busy, but hey, I'm just a kid who has a information network as large as China's. Probably because we look sort of alike. I'm Chrysanthemum Storm, a Sensitive with the ability to read and control minds. I'm also part Necromancer as well, which most of you have figured out. My friends are Torrent Ash, whose in his room studying and Jasper Willows, whose right now somewhere out there and I'm not bothered to go look for him."

"You're only 12?" Dexter asked. "You look more mature than Fletcher."

By then, a boy also me and Sparrow's age walked into the room. "Chrys... why are there people in the living room?" he whispered. He had blond hair and blue-gray eyes, and in his hand was a book on Elemental Magic. He wore an orange shirt and brown rumpled pants, with his hair in a total mess. He reminded me a bit like a messy version of Fletcher.

"Hey Torrent. These are Tanith's friends, and I'm sure you've heard of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant, Dexter Vex and Saracen Rue."she smiled at me and Lexi. "And these two girls are Alexandria Sparrow, that's the one with emerald eyes, and Raven Moonglass, the blonde. And, wait a minute, Ghastly Bespoke?"

Saracen sighed. "Hey kid. Chrysanthemum, would you mind if you could look into Ghastly's brain to see if he's really Ghastly? You know that he died, but here he is insisting that he never actually died. I'm not very sure about that, since Shudder died and he, although a miserable old sod, was my best friend."

Chrysanthemum nodded. "Sure. But can you not call me Chrysanthemum? It makes me sound so old and posh. Storm or Chrys is fine. Girls, you guys can either stay or go with Torrent into his room. Some people find it disturbing when I peek into people's minds." Sparrow looked like she was about to bolt away from Ghastly, so I started to make my way to the door, and soon she followed. Val and Tanith stayed where they were, so Torrent walked behind us and herded us into his room.

His room was even worse than Tanith's house. It was a whirl storm of books lying around, some wet? some torn and even a laptop in the corner, broken into pieces. "Hi, Torrent. I'm Raven Moonglass, and your full name is?"I started.

"Torrent Ash." he said and continued to read his book.

He sure was a boy of few words. "Ash, that's what you like to be called, right? Could you help me with Elemental magic? I'm still a beginner and I've got a match to practice for so I've got no idea how to do magic except for floating things around the room." Torrent Ash actually looked up when Sparrow spoke, his eyes wandering to the loose strands of black waves that fell around her ears. Oh my god... Did Torrent have a crush on Lexi? I wouldn't be surprised, since Lexi was actually pretty in her own way.

"Uh, okay sure. Can you show me what you can do?" Torrent asked, and Lexi put a hand out. She started to levitate a book that was lying strewn on the floor, flew it across the room, and then spun it around. Another book joined it, then another, and another, creating a book-congo line around his room. Soon, all his book were neatly lined up in size order, and she placed them on the shelf. She put the laptop bits in a neat pile on Torrent's desk and soon his bed made itself. After Lexi was done tidying up Torrent's room, she looked slightly exhausted. This made me smile a bit, as I had been a natural in Elemental Magic and Necromancy and had learnt it quickly without tiring. Lexi was naturally brilliant in physical fighting, but in magic, she wasn't that much a quick learner.

Torrent still looked impressed. He sighed saying, "I wish I could control the winds as steadily as you. I chose Torrent for a reason. Are you ready? You might need an air shield just in case." I put up my hands and created a wall of air in front of me and Sparrow, on the left and front, while Lexi created a wall of air on the right and at the back. I filled in the top just in case. Torrent could tell that the walls were in place, because the moment I created the top wall, he raised his hands by his sides, in a jesus pose.

And then he created a hurricane.

A swirl of wind and water surrounded him, creating an impenetrable shield around him. He then started flinging out spears of water and wind, before collapsing onto his bed. Sparrow rushed to his side and helped him up, and as he struggled to sit up, I saw the other side of Lexi. The caring, pleasant side of her personality, the opposite of her sarcastic and humorous side. Torrent looked pale and drained and slumped onto the wall. 

"Hey Ash! How ya doing?" a voice behind me startled me. Behind me was another boy, probably Jasper Willows, by the looks of it. His green eyes were not like Lexi's, who were bright and shining. His were a gray-green, almost turquoise, and his head of strawberry blonde hair contrasted greatly. He gasped when he saw Torrent slumped on his bed with Lexi supporting him, and when he glanced at me. "Ok... who are these people?"

"The... They are Alexandria Sparrow and Raven Moonglass. Raven's the blondie, Sparrow's the one with emerald eyes." Jasper raised an eyebrow at the name Moonglass. Just because he didn't like it didn't mean that he had to react.

"Hey Raven, hey Alexandria. I'm Jasper Willows. I'm an energy-thrower." he grinned at us. "Dude, Ash, why are you draining yourself again. Spend your rage on something useful. Where's Storm?"

"In her room, with the Dead Men and Tanith Low. Ghastly Bespoke is back and she's helping them figure out if he's real." Lexi said, "and please, call me Lexi or Sparrow."

Jasper shrugged. "Oh well. When will heroes work out things by themselves?"