I peak through the windows hoping to see Saul, I can’t normally get in to this area without being noticed by my past so in a disguise, and a direct route to here is much obliged. Not that I would thank Michael for bringing me here. No sign of Saul.

I exit through a hole in the bush in the back and hide behind a dumpster making sure no one is around. I enter the dumpster and sit down in the neatly decorated inside, 2 steps down and you enter the real property, the Levine Safe House Secret House Number 99. I let out a sigh of relief, and say ” ok necklace I promise I won’t take you off this time. I just… I was told to give it back so that’s what I tried to do. I’m sorry if that would have been bad for you. Or… err me. Now, De-elementasize.”

Magenta returns to her true self and ponders for the next 24hrs while returning to her main residence and preparing for school. She goes to school the next day and meets Michael during lunch.

“Alright Michael I have my ground rules ready for this so-called training.” She says as she sits at his lunch bench away from other students. She notices his lunch and his posture while sitting on the floor arms behind his head as he expected me. “Before you say anything I need to tell you some things first.” He says as he does a reverse pull up from the ground to the bench to sit next to me.

“Look you are in danger; I am not the only one looking for the holder of Fire. The enemy knows you are here, that encounter was not happenstance. A possible trap, and worse yet… I interfered, we sit near each other and now you want to converse with me. That change in behavior is suspicious for those who are keeping watch at anything not typical of human behavior; that choice may have intervened with everything I have been working the last 2 years for. That’s how long I’ve been looking for you, for this; to catch up and do this.”

Magenta’s mind trails momentarily to a flashback of her and Saul running and escaping. Her heart sinks, was this also what Saul meant when he said I was meant for so much more than the life I was living? She collects herself and comes back to Michael talking.

“Please listen to me… the entire story of what this all means will sounds crazy, and will be so much. I won’t be able to tell you everything because not all of my memories have successfully downloaded from the Arriba Zone.” He points up and to his head solemnly. “What you need to know now is what I know as of now. You have a team that is here to help you… ooooor you have to find them. And there are at most 3 enemies in the near vicinity. Major enemies or barely just scouts depending on where their headquarters are located.”

“Headquarters? Major enemies? The Arriba Zone? So,… then why me, is it because of my family? Am I just born this way or did something happen to me to make me this way? You said this necklace would only work for me is that true? If that is true then what happens next?”

“It’s hard to say, the downloads I’ve had, haven’t been the most… clear. Like the signal isn’t quite getting through. We originally thought that the power of the necklace was split amongst more than one person, but the way it reacted to you makes me believe that there can’t be any other person who could have a piece of the power.”

“Wait..WAIT… so that means that there is a chance that I may not be the person you’re looking for? Then I want to continue with my boundary list at this point. I want you to help me find Saul first and foremost, you seem to have powers that may help in the search for him. I have plenty of experience for the type of fight you are wanting to use me for and I am willing to help…” mainly because I can’t take this thing off, “and if I am not the person you are looking for you have to promise to take this thing off and leave me alone to live the rest of my life or as long as it lasts with Saul and uninvolved from what you are doing here, as I move on with my life.”

“I know that I am not wrong, so that’s is a deal. I will help you and we can discuss in detail what you would like me to do when it comes to your missing friend.” He responds and continues, “we can not meet each other at school until I make sure that you are part of my cover story. Otherwise, for now you and I will have to meet a little bit more privately” he reaches across the table to reach for my hand and I panic and cross my arms; and he flips it over and makes a fire in his hand. “Let’s move on to your training, you need to be able to make fire at will like this before we can go over the attacks that existed from ancient tradition. The trainings shouldn’t take very long, it honestly can’t take that long…” He trails off and then turns off the flame and he continues, “lets meet after school today and discuss things further, our cover story and everything moving forward. For now, I must continue to search for the next Holder.”

Surprised I respond, “you already found another one?” I think to myself that maybe this whole thing won’t be so bad if I am not the only one doing this; I say “How many members will this team have?” He says “Maybe, I maybe found another one, only you will be able to tell for sure. As the Holder of Fire you are the chosen and volunteered leader of this team. And, as far as I know.. there are only 5 members…” his voice trails off as his mind wonders to some far off thought, I whisper to him that I am going to go and walk away.

I turn around and look at him sitting there, I think to myself; could he really help me? I can’t be what or who he is looking for, but so long as he can help me look that is the only thing that matters to me. I go to 5th period and see the girls from the Garden, her name is Lyla and she still mad stares at me. We sit in the same seat but in opposite sides of the room, sometimes while passing papers we make eye contact and her face shows her annoyance. Since I’m way in the back I keep trying the flame trick that he mentioned and nothing works, she looks over and I feel a Zap in my hand and smoke start to ignite, in unison from across the room we say ‘Oh shit!’ and we look at each other suspiciously. I point to her and mouth “did you do that?” and she mouths the same thing then continues in a surprised face to our unison that ‘No I didn’t you did.’ The teacher continues to teach and we look forward and we get distracted with that moment for the rest of class. I think back to Michael saying “I maybe found another one…” and look to Lyla; could she be a Holder?