"Good morning sleepy head, how'd you sleep" a tall slender woman with pretty brunette hair asked me as I came down from my room "I slept good Mom. What's for breakfast?"
"Straight to business huh no "I slept good mom how'd you sleep" just food, food, food y'know when you get fat one day dont blame me"
"First of all I don't sound like that and I do too much to get fat"
"Thats not how it works honey now sit down for food" My mom like to mess with me a lot more than she probably should but 12 years of living with her I've come used to it, but I don't like that stupid high pitch voice she uses when she mimics me cause I don't sound like that … I'm grown.
After finishing my thoughts about how im not some little kid and complaining to myself about my mom's teasing she sets a plate of over easy egg with sausage and peppers. "Ugh" I say out of pure instinct to the peppers they look so gross and .. damp "Stop being a baby and eat them your grown now aren't you"
"How'd you know I was thinking that?!" I was saying that in my head wasn't I? Or was I mumbling again? "I'm psychic." She said that with so much conviction I nearly believed her "No you're not" I say in a monotone tone to show how unamused I am at her teasing "Nope I am but only to my family, speaking of which" oh I know where this is heading now "Go get your dad and brother please tell them breakfast is ready!!" "Okayyyyy" I respond back exaggerately just to poke fun back at her.
My Dad and Brother, Tristan, are right where they always are in our backyard training, well my Dad is training to keep strong for work while my brother just tries to keep up with him since "He wants to be at least as big and strong as daddy when he's older" which is honestly a tall order since my Dad is huge he's practically all muscle since he has to hunt elemental beasts for a living It's especially difficult because my dad doesn't even have an element. About .5% of the population has elements mainly only the families with ancestral blood have a chance of getting an element about 85% of all people with elements come from those families the other 15% just come from random lucky individuals. It's most people's dream to become an elemental(a soldier that has elemental powers) the king's personal force who goes out and basically does all the fighting for us regular citizens. They're the main ones responsible for fighting wars, killing elemental beasts and for protecting the country of Argia. Personally, I don't get the hype. I'd much rather live here with my family and my best friend Art. It's too bad everyone else around me wants to go to the elemental institute and train their elemental powers to fight for our country including Art and Tristan, and for Art his dream might come true soon since my generation has there elemental aptitude test soon like really soon only a week til every kid in the country has to go get inspected to see if they have an Element, apparently elements all have to be developed by 12 or it won't be possible to have one so january 5th every young boy and girl who turned 12 in the past year needs to go get tested to see if they have an element. It's the only day school has every single student there not only because everyone wants to see if they have an element but because if you don't go and get an elemental aptitude test you can never find out if you have an element since they can't awaken by themselves apparently that's why people have to go the institute because they have to get it awakened to be able to use it and after people develop their element the institute swears them to secrecy on how there awoken and if they tell anyone they and the government finds out, the elemental and whoever they told gets executed on the spot. So people rarely spill the beans.
"Dad!! Tristan!! Breakfast!!" As soon as I called out to them both my Dad and Tristan stop whatever stupid looking workout they were doing and started running full speed towards the house to get food so naturally, I sprinted to beat them both there.
After Mom scolds Me, Tristan, and Dad for running in the house. We finally get to eating "So Rein you excited for your elemental examination?" My dad ask me, He's the most excited about the prospect of the exam since he made me learn how to use a sword ever since I was a kid just in case I got one. Truth be told, after getting beaten up by my Dad since I was 5 I kinda started hoping to get an element just so I could get him back for being annoying for 7 years. "Ready as I'll ever be" I say sarcastically trying to drive the point that I really don't care about it "C'mon kiddo you finally get to see if you can have the honor to fight for our country and wear a cool battle suit and be rich and protect us and be one of the strongest people in the country and..." before he started rambling on about all the advantages of getting an element I cut him off "I know, I know you've told be all about how cool it would be to get one" Protecting them would be the only good thing that would come out of getting an element "and again the reason I don't want one is because I'd rather just stay here with you guys and Art til I grow old and die" As I've told him hundreds of times now I'm sure "Oh then Honey how are you gonna get a wife I don't think a grown man living with his parents is gonna have much success out on the dating field" My mom chimes in naturally teasing me "I don't need a wife girls are annoying and hard to deal with. Like you Mom" I shoot back trying to get under her skin in return "Oh Ray am I annoying and hard to deal with?" My mom ask my Dad "Of course not Maiko" gross "Well guess your wrong rein maybe girls just don't like you so they're annoying?" My mom continues trying to piss me off, So this time I just ignore her and instead change the subject "Tristan how's learning to sword fight going?" I ask my brother since he just recently started getting trained by my dad. For some reason my dad started training him at 6 instead of 5 like me, I think it was because my Mom apparently found some research saying that it's bad for young kids to work out since it stunts their growth or something , so she made my Dad wait a bit longer. "Ith going gud" Tristen says with his mouth full getting a glare from my mom, After he finishes chewing and swallowing his food he continues "Dad started sparring with me last week and I was able to hit him yesterday!" Now my Mom glared at Dad since Tristan wasn't supposed to start sparring any time soon I don't think. "Ahem" My Dad starts meekly "It's true, Tristan here is a natural with the sword when he gets his element he's gonna be one the strongest elementals in the country" My Dad says enthusiastically I don't get why he does that my Brother most likely won't get an element since were not of ancestral blood, were just commoners so its like a less then 1% chance. In fact no one from our town ever has become one so I don't get why he keeps getting his hopes up when one day chances are they'll be crushed.
Ding dong* Hearing that snaps me out of my daze and makes me get up to leave for school "Bye Mom, Bye Dad, Bye Tristan!!" "Bye Honey and don't worry these peppers will be here for, when you come back!" My Mom shouts back and I shiver at the thought. After slipping on my shoes and grabbing my backpack I open the door. I see my auburn hair friend Art "Could you be any slower dumbass" starting off as nicely as possible like usual "Sorryyy I'm not waiting at the door for when you ring the doorbell"
"Well as long as your sorry I can let it slide I guess"
"Oh how kind or you good sir" I say back sarcastically while bowing, and then we start our walk to school.
As we're walking to school we start talking about some of the gossip going around in our class "Oh yeah did you hear Kim and Izzy said they got saved by an elemental!!"
"Are you deadass that's sick!!... wait why'd they have to get saved"
"For someone who talks about how much he doesn't want to be an elemental you sure like them a lot and I think it was because they were attacked by an A class Beast."
"Well just cause I don't want to be one doesn't mean I don't think they're cool" I say meekly because I don't want him to start teasing me and say how I'm saying I don't want to be one for attention. Cause I'm NOT.
"Yeah and get this it was an Elemental from SUB ZERO!!"
"YOU'RE LYING!!" Sub Zero is the most popular and best Elemental group. Since it was difficult to control an army of Elementals one of the first kings decided to separate them into teams. There are 8 teams in total all with different names and leaders who directly report to the king. The squads all have different sizes with Sub Zero being one of the smallest, its the elite elementals of our country which is why it's so hard to get into even if it's the most sought out group to join. "I KNOW!! It was crazy when they told me and Elijah yesterday after the club." Art is on the club basketball team and he's one of the best players despite us being in our first year of middle school "They told me not to tell anyone by the way so keep quiet" Art said with a stupid grin on his face, it was at times like this I was grateful that my best friend was so popular cause I get all the goods on all our classmates. "I solemnly swear not to tell a soul" I say while saluting my friend to swear my allegiance to my gossip cow. "Thank you soldier" he says, saluting back "Yeah no they said the Elemental didn't want anyone to know they were since they were here on some secret mission or something."
"Wait actually, What could possibly be happening in this town" I say quizzically since this town is basically without incident, the last thing that happened here that had anything to do with crime was a robbery a few years ago, and it wasn't even like a cool robbery like a heist it was just some lame guy running away after stealing some jewelry from a street salesman. The only reason I know about it is cause my Dad was the one who stopped him. Besides that I don't think any crime has come out of here ever. "Yeah, that's where the story ends since after killing the beast and making them promise to not tell anyone he ran out of the forest to go work on this supposed mission"
"Damn really that's where the story was really getting good too man" look like my gossip cow finally ran out of milk for a bit.