4 The Beginning (4) and The Lords of the realm (Intro)

It was two weeks into the school term. Li Jing had moved into the school Dormitory after an eerily twisted persuasion by Wang Yuanji. She told her mother that there was no use being a day student as the school was an hour and half drive from their house.

Her mother had refused to concede to her pleas but when Li Jing reminded her that she was to take her final examinations this year, her mother agreed and filled put the necessary forms.

She didn't tell her mother that the boarding house was only available to the Elementals. And it was invisible to the normal human eyes. To a normal human,

They would be seeing uncompleted buildings instead of the boys and girls hostels. Anyone that could see the hostels, was not human and Li Jing was not human.

As the hostel rooms housed two students per room, Li Jing's roommate was Hua Jun. Who was a student of class 12B. She didn't like her roommate one bit.

Hua Jun's favourite colour was pink and so, her side of the room was decorated in different shades of pink. With Pink LED lights and pink floral patterned bed sheets to add to the girlish aesthetic of her room corner. Li Jing's corner was painted sky blue, with star galaxy themed bed sheets.

She had moved her bean bag couch, reading table, night light and so many other items from her house to her hostel room.

FLASHBACK.

"What?" Li Jing asked, staring into the awe struck faces of the twins sitting before her. "Seriously, you guys are freaking me out. Please say something. "

The twins simultaneously glance at each other, reach a silent agreement and turn to Li Jing. "Your eyes." They both say, at the same time.

Li Jing misinterprets their expressions as surprise. "I know right? They change colours when I use my powers. I think it's totally cool. What do you guys think?"

"Yeah cool." They both say.

There is an awkward silence before Li Jing breaks the silence. "Well let's go to class. I haven't introduced myself to everyone yet."

This seems to snap Wang Xiu Ying out of her reverie. "Yeah, Class. Let's go, else we will be late." And to Wang Yuanji, she gives her a meaningful look. "Aren't you coming?"

Wang Yuanji seems to understand the meaning of that look and robotically, she says "No, I have an english paper due in about ..." she takes a look at her wrist, seeming to glance at an imaginary wrist watch. "... five minutes. Bye guys. See you in class." She says, without any emotion whatsoever in her tone.

Li Jing's smile drops. Why are they acting wierd?

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Wang Xiu Ying kicks the door of class 12B open which somehow startled the noisy class into silence.

"To make sure there is nothing placed on top of the door, I don't want a repeat of this morning." She explains to Li Jing.

"Hey people!" Wang Xiu ying announces as they enter the class, "we have a new student!" She shouts and drags a very embarrassed Li Jing out from her back to face the class.

"Hey everyone. I'm Li Jing."

"Tell them your star sign, you idiot." Wang Xiu Ying furiously whispers to her.

"Uh, I'm a cancer." She says and looks down. She desperately wishes she had long hair, which would have covered her face in a situation like this.

The class grows increasingly silent then suddenly, everyone cheers and someone even throws some glitters into the air.

Wang Xiu Ying shoves her way through the celebrating classmates and points at a vacant seat at the back of the class in the third row. "This is your seat now. Mine is right infront of yours."

She says and points to her own seat. The class is huge. Four rows, and ten seats in each row.

The tables at the right and left sides of the class close to the wall were the only single desks. While the remaining two rows were made up of double attached desks. So in a sense, it was six rows of desks.

Li Jing was seated on a double desk so she had a seat partner. She wondered who her seat partner was.

"Silence."

One word, but spoken with such authority that the class immediately obeys the command and goes silent. Li Jing looks up and rolls her eyes in annoyance. It was Principal Zhao.

The Lords of the realm (Intro)

To govern the ways of the Elementals and the way they used their powers were four Emperors.

There was once a fifth Emperor but the tale of his downfall was so sordid that none of the Lords of the realm ever spoke about him. The Great Emperor Shang.

Covetousness and Pride comes before one's downfall.

Emperor Qing. He looked tough on the exterior and was severely gifted in martial arts. He was much shorter than the average man. His hairstyle was separate from the rest of the four emperors own in that he wore a particular hairstyle called the queue. The hair on top of the scalp is grown long and is often braided while the front portion of the head is shaved. He controlled the effective manipulation of the air by the Elementals.

Emperor Han. His greying hair was very long and partially concealed by a sort of hat that he wore to cover his hair. His hair, when not packed into a bun behind his head, tumbled down his back to his laps. He had stopped cutting his hair from the point when he turned fifteen. His long hair gave him a sort of youthful look and his thin lips always seemed to be stretched into a smile. His Emperor robe was a bit more colourful than that of the rest of the Emperors.

Emperor Han oversaw the overall manipulation of the power of earth by the Elementals.

Emperor Xia was slim and tall. His brownish greying hair was always swept up into a bun on top of his head and fastened by some sort of gold clip. He liked to talk and voice his opinions.

He and Emperor Han were the noise makers of the Lords.

Emperor Zhou was the mystery of the group. He always wore a straw hat that was too big for his head and that concealed half of his face.

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