Monachi: Masters of Water and Fire (8 page)

“There’s no place like home,
there’s no place like home,
there’s no…”

I turned to her and she was floating, five
feet up in the air! “I said
there’s no place like home
not
there’s nothing like Tess floating!
”

“Ok, just stop yelling.” I tapped my shoes
together one time, and she fell to the ground.
“You couldn’t have done that a little
lighter?”
“Sorry.”
Tess
got up, “Well that was weird. I
wonder what I can do.” She tapped her shoes
once again; and suddenly, as I started to walk
towards her, I froze.
I mean instantly, and mid-walk. I just froze.
I couldn’t move.
I could see and hear, but I couldn’t move,
not even my mouth.
Tess just stood there.
Then she tapped her shoes again
and
I
resumed.
That was weird, but I
wanted to
try
something else. “Hey Tess, could you do that
when I jump up, I want to see if I would stop in
midair. But this time tap your shoes together two
times.
“Sure, why not?” Tess tapped her shoes
together once…and then…as she tapped her
shoes the second time, I jumped…and I froze - in
mid-air.
Tess tapped her shoes again and I fell to the
ground. It was very cool, what we could do with
our feet.
“This magic and stuff, it’s all a bit Harry
Potter don’t you think?” Tess said.
“Yep, you can put it like that if it’s
not really
happening,
but it is happening. To us,” I replied.
All of a sudden the door knob turned.
We were both frightened of what might
happen next.

Someone came booming
in and
grabbed
Tess
by
the
arm
and yelled, “You, the chief
wants to see you. A nd you too!” He grabbed
my arm and dragged us out of the room and
into…
a
dog
cage?
Tess
got
flung into one of
the cages. The man quickly locked it with a key. I
got thrown into another one, and then it too was
quickly locked.

He carried us into another room that had
about ten scientists in it. He put the cage on the
table and said, “Let the tests begin!”

One of the scientists said, “Your magic-
proof suits will be disabled. You will have to
bust
out
of
the
cage
using
your
powers. We
provided a bucket of water for you Maddy.”

All of a sudden our suits got a little less
tight.
Tess
started
her
hands
on
fire
and
started melting the lock. I lifted the water from
the bucket. If I could turn it into a key, I could
unlock the lock.

I tried to give the water some shape, and it
began to form a rectangle. Then it began to look
like a key. I made it go into the lock, and it
clicked. I opened the
door at about the same
time Tess
managed
to
get out
of
her
cage.
Then, Tess un-zipped her suit. She had clothes
on underneath, as did I. I too, un-zipped my suit
and got out of it.

No wonder Tess etched
“Put it over your
clothes,”
in the box when we were putting the
suits on.

Once we
got out our suits the scientists
started backing up. “Be scared of us,” Tess said.
She had a plan, like she always did. She shot
flames at the wall. She was about to set this whole
facility on fire.

As she ran towards the door, I
followed
right behind.
She extended her arms out, and with her
hands
clasped
together
she formed a
fireball
extending out past her fists and hurled it at the
door, melting the lock. She kicked the door open
and we ran out of the room.
We looked around; we honestly had no
idea what we were doing. “This way!” Tess
pointed. We ran that way and ran into a dead
end.
Ok, so we had no idea where to go and
how
to get
out, and
to
make
matters
worse
the building was burning. It wasn’t too bad now,
but pretty soon we’d be in a maze of flames.
It’s
really hard
to
see
the
glass
as
half
full
right
now.
Right
now
it’s
halfway to
its
destination, which could be full or empty.
Tess
looked
around,
muttering “What
would the Doctor do?” Well Tess, it would be
nice if the Tardis could come pick us up right
now.
Tess
pulled out
her
imaginary
sonic
screwdriver; she even started humming,
because
it’s
sonic,
and
started
waving
her
hand
in
different hallway directions. All of a sudden, I
did
hear
a
humming sound.
It
wasn’t coming
from Tess. I knew that much.
“It’s a sign. T i m e
to go this way!” she
said,
dashing
down
the
hall
towards
the
humming sound.
As we were running down the corridor, we
turned around and noticed that the fire had now
filled the hallway behind us and seemed as
though it was headed for
us, with no other
intention except to burn us dead.
We turned around and continued running
from the
fire,
and that’s not easy to out-run.
Suddenly, Tess tripped over her feet, and rolled
at least a few times, and crash landed right into a
garbage can. The garbage can then tipped over,
spilling all over the hallway, just far enough to
catch the contents on fire behind us. I grabbed
Tess by the arm, picked her up, and we continued
running as fast as we could away from the fire.
And from everyone else.
When we got to the end of the hallway we
were
at
the
front
door.
We
found
out
the
humming was a very soft alarm.
Tess
dashed
out
the
doors
and
jumped
onto the
concrete.
I
walked
out
the
doors
as
she lay on the ground. “What was that for?” I
asked.
“It’s what The Doctor would’ve done,” she
answered, getting up.
We were finally free…for now.

A long time ago Tess went to the school
councelor, because she said that ‘
the Doctor’
came
to her.

It’s true - I swear she said it. I believed
her. I mean c’mon, wouldn’t that be cool if it
did happen?

But
to
this
day she
still swears
that he
came
and
that
he
could
come
back
at
any
moment.

I asked her what happened, and why he
came by; because he doesn’t ever just drop by to
say hi.

She said that she was in her room reading
in silence. Suddenly,
she heard a sound. She
described it as the sound of the universe,
like we
all know what that sounds like, right?
She
looked
up
and saw
a blue
police
phone box in the
middle of the room.

She got up from her bed and went over to
the
box, and at the moment the doors swung
open. Out he came! He was alone.

“Hello, I’m The Doctor,” he said.
“I’m Tess, what are you doing here?” she
asked. She knew who he was but she was trying
not to be rude.
“I don’t know. I was in my box and it
started
going
crazy like
something
else
was
driving it. Then I ended up here.”
He went up Tess, face to face,
and said
“Who are you really?”
Tess backed up a step.
He
went
inside
the
T ardis (the phone
box), and nudged her to come in.
She went in, and acted surprised on how
much
bigger the
inside seemed. “You
can
fit
another room inside of my room?” she said.
He
nodded,
went
over
to
a
compartment,
punched
in
a code,
opened
up a latch, and grabbed some kind of futuristic
looking
scanner
out.
He
then
scanned
Tess’s
body about ten times over with it; all the while he
was
saying, “Nothing
can
override
my
controls,
nothing.
But
you somehow did, and
that’s impossible. Your just a kid, plus it takes
something scary strong and scary big, yet I ended
up in your room.”
He put the scanner onto some other device,
messed with a few controls, and flipped some
switches. Lights started flashing, and as it started
making whistling noises, he exclaimed, “It
says
that
you’re
not human,
but
it won’t
identify
your species.”
He looked at her and smiled. “Well you
can go now;
it’s
nothing
don’t mind
if
randomly,
around you.”
to worry about. Just
a
blue
box
appears

Tess smiled back, “Thanks for everything!”
She stepped out of the box, and went back into
her room. And with the sound of the universe,
the Tardis disappeared.

After that episode, she was convinced th at
she
was
a time
lord. It
makes
me
wonder.
M aybe
it
really
did happen. Maybe it didn’t.
Sadly for Tess, she’s no time lord, but
she is a
Monachi
.

We
looked
around.
We
had
no
idea
where to go, or what to do.
Tess
got
up
and
shook
her
head.
I
looked at her cast; man did that thing protect
her.
I
ran
ahead a bit.
How
long
have
we
been gone? It felt like about an hour or two,
and it somehow
looked different.
The streets
were bare, with no sign of life.
Tess stood next to me and pondered. We
were in a dead city. It looked like there was
nothing left of it. There
wasn’t even a car in
sight.
“What
happened?
How
come
no
one
is
around?”
I asked myself.
Tess looked around.
There were no signs of life anywhere.
We went into a local shop. No one was
there.
“Did the whole population of Washington
D.C. just vanish?” Tess asked. She took
a map
and said, “So we’re right here, and we need to
get all the way over there.”
“How long do you think it’ll take?” I asked
her.
“Three to four days.”
“That long?
We
might
as
well
just
hi-
jack a jet, or a car.”
“That’s an idea!”
I don’t think she was kidding.
“You honestly think we can hi-jack?” I said
in disbelief.
“No,
but
I
have
a
pretty weird idea. I
have no idea if it will work, but we have to try.”
“What’s
your
idea?”
I
asked, afraid
of
the answer. Tess is a good person, I’m being
honest. She can just have crazy ideas sometimes.
“Ok, so we rob a bank and catch a plane
to Idaho,” Tess revealed.
“No. do you have another idea?” I quickly
responded.
She then said, “We dress up as animals
and…”
“No. D o you have a normal idea that is
legal?” I asked.
“No. Only crazy ones that are illegal,” she
answered.
I turned away.
What choice do we have; walk the whole
way?
Not
to
mention
we
still
have
a
huge
chance
of
being
captured. But, let’s
face
it;
they
will
never
stop
looking
for us.
We
will
always going to be running from the law.
Will we ever catch a break?
They are always going to capture us, and
want to conduct
tests.
We
can’t
live
life
like
this; running from everything.
“Tess, I
think we
should just
give
up.
They will never let it go. They will keep hunting
us
down, and
finding
running.
We
keep
on
us.
There’s
no point in
running,
but
we aren’t
getting anywhere,” I said to her.
“Maddy, if there is anything I’ve learned
these last few days is to never give up. Don’t
give in to the enemy. If you cry, I’ll wipe all of
your tears. When you scream, I’ll fight away all
of your fears,” Tess said with a smile.
All of a sudden, a huge, black, shadowy
human-like figure suddenly appeared behind
Tess.
“Tess, b e h i n d you!” I screamed.
It was too late.
I t grabbed Tess from behind, turned her
around and blew some kind of pinkish-white
powder into her face that quickly knocked her out
cold, leaving her limp in its arms.
“Tess! Tess!” I kept yelling, as it carried
her away. I couldn’t let this thing,
this monster,
take Tess away. I conjured up a water ball and
tossed it at him. It struck
the thing
right in the
back, but it had no affect at all! I started to run
after them,
but he went even faster. I couldn’t
let this thing get away.
I needed Tess.
She’s the last friend that
I
had, and
I
wasn’t going to let her get murdered too.
I started running like my life depended on
it. Technically, Tess’s life depended on it. I was
gaining on him; I was so close to them now, and
so close to Tess.
I grabbed the back of his shirt and yelled,
“Let her
go,
she
didn’t
do anything
wrong!”
He stopped and kicked me off his back. He then
ran into a shop, taking Tess with him.
Even though I was already on the ground, I
got on my knees. I now recognized what Tess
last said to
me. It
was
part
of a song. When
she said;
“If you cry I’ll wipe all of your tears.
When you scream,
I’ll fight away all of your fears.”