Finally...

...we know who we're up against! A guy who calls himself "Lothos" showed up yesterday to see the Guardian. Guardian didn't want anything to do with him, and based on the recap we got afterward, there was a huge fight between the two of them. Apparently, Guardian and Lothos used to be in this society of people on the lookout for Spirits, but when Guardian took the high road to train and protect us, Lothos went downhill. We don't know a lot aside from that, but at least we finally have a clue about who we're fighting, and we know that Lothos is also looking for Bianca. Things are getting more tense, but at least we're not totally in the dark anymore.
~Thalia

Halloween, Spirit-Style

Happy Halloween, everybody! Yesterday we learned that it's ten times more fun to decorate for Halloween when you have elementals on your side. I, for example, got the earth around the Guardian's place to compact itself into a little graveyard--totally made of dirt, of course--while Marcie lit candles all around the perimeter. Since Coal and Isaac couldn't really help in the elemental sense (Light and Dark can't really be molded or used as decoration), they decided to deck out the whole area around the place with fake spiderwebs, skeletons, and booby traps. The trick-or-treaters all agreed that we had the best decorations on the block, even if our candy haul was minimal--we don't really bring in the profits, so all we could afford was a bag of tootsie rolls to distribute among the little goblins.
Anyway, we're getting back on 24/7 Bianca watch now. As usual, any help is appreciated, and I love hearing from you.
~Thalia

Back in New York

Hey, guys. It's Thalia again, and I am now vowing to not let Minni post again unless it's an extreme emergency. That was horrific. It was all correct, but... ugh. I'm wholeheartedly sorry. Anyway, we're back in New York to resume our training at the Guardian's place, since that's where all the official training stuff is. Bianca continues to elude us, so the guys are scouring the 'Net for clues and such. Any tipoffs would be appreciated. Thanks!
~Thalia

MINNI GETS A POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heeeeyy! Alrighty, so today Thalia is sick 'cos she picked up some virus or something in Nicaragua and now she told me (Minni, the Water Spirit) to post for her. I'm not really sure what she wants me to say, 'cept that she's sick and can't post. Lessee...
Oh! So that girl we were tracking that we thought got abducted by the Bad Guys? We have a name now. Bianca de la Rosa. Coal told me that means "Bianca of the Pink," which is why this post is written in pink text. In honor of Bianca of the Pink.  
Sooooooooo... I guess that's about it... We're in Maine right now, and the Jedi (that's what I call the Guardian 'cos he's all wise and stoic) is working on our training even more than before. He said that if we're gonna go against this unknown Bad Guy at some point, we should know what we're doing. And now my calves are sore from all the running, since APPARENTLY we can't just train with our element. We have to be all "physically fit" too. >.< Not my idea of fun. Actually, I've got a little free time right now, so as soon as I sign off, I'll be logging on to my Pokémon game. Later! ^_^
~Minni

A Solid Lead?

Okay, so you may have been wondering why it's been a while since I've posted. Well, Isaac (genius that he is) found a real solid lead for the Spirit! Unfortunately, she was in Nicaragua. Where I couldn't find a computer. Even more unfortunately, she was gone by the time we got there. The Bad Guys seem to have gotten to her first. >:( We don't even know who we're going up against! It's really infuriating. We've been training more than ever, and I'm finally starting to be able to fight, but there's STILL nothing to fight!

Searching for Spirit

-sigh- Hey, everybody. It's Thalia again. We've been searching around NY for the seventh Spirit to no avail for the last... while. It's not going well. Every time we get a lead, the trail fizzles out and we're left with nothing. We still don't even know who the Bad Guys are! We're running on empty, and it's really very disheartening...

Oh! Okay, I gotta go-- Isaac's here with donuts and news!
~Thalia

A Little More About Us

So, last time I made the giant mistake of letting Isaac do the post... and then Marcie took over... I am very sorry about that, readers. Especially since this means that now Minni, Sean, and Coal want turns. I'll do my best to dissuade them, but I can't garuntee anything.

Anyway. Since you know which one of us has the affinity for which Spirit, I thought you might be curious as to how things are for us as teenage kids trying to do something extremely out of the ordinary. It really is weird. See, when Isaac found me, I was sitting in a tree in Central Park, watching the people of NY do their stuff. (Yeah, now that I think about it, I guess that IS a little creepy... it's fun, though. It feels powerful, to watch an entire town go about its business without the slightest idea that you're watching them.) He called me a Dryad, and some other things like Tree Spirit, Nymph of New York, etc. I thought he was flirting with me. Apparently, he had figured out that I was the Earth Spirit, and he wanted to gain contact.

The funny thing is, he didn't know about Minni. Marcie figured it out, actually, when the four of them abducted me in an alley later that same day. Minni pounced to my protection--she's my best friend, so she's allowed to pounce for such things--and Marcie hissed at her without even thinking about it. Somehow, Spirits can sense each other (apparently. I still can't) and since Minni is Water and Marcie is Fire, there's a natural dissent between them that caused Marcie to unconsciously hate her from the first second. Minni accused them all of being nuts, but when they took the two of us to see the Guardian (the Jedi Master, as Minni calls him), he immediately assured us that they were correct.

So that's how we got here. Questions?
-Thalia

What We Are

Hey, everybody. Thalia's got training today, and so she told me to post a few words about what exactly an Elemental Spirit does.
We can control our elements. That's about it.
Isaac

OW! Fine! Geez. Okay, that was Marcie hitting me with a book for not doing a good enough job explaining. Y'know what? I think I'll let HER do it, then.

Ahem. This is Marcie, and I will actually be explaining what an Elemental Spirit does. We can control our elements, but it's not quite that simple, either. I'm Fire, so obviously I have a very close connection with--you guessed it-- fire. That doesn't mean, however, that I can just be like, "Yo! Fire! Come burn this guy Isaac 'cause he's annoying me!" and expect anything to happen. There has to already be some fire for me to kind of influence, or something flammable for me to give a little spark to.
The same principle applies to everybody else, too. Minnie can make the pond behind the Sanctuary into a wave pool, but she can't make it rain unless it's already humid and warm, or even stop the rain (she can sort of get it to miss us on the downfall, though, which is nice). Isaac isn't a flashlight, but he can intensify light that's already there, or dim light if it's too bright. Ditto on Coal, except that he does it in the opposite way since he weilds Dark.
I think that's about it. Hopefully Thalia can come back and do this next time.
Marcie

We, the Spirits

Hey, everybody, it's Thalia again. Yesterday I told you that we had six of the seven Spirits together, so I figure that today you might be interested to know who's who.

Earth = Me
Air = Sean
Water = Minni, my best friend
Fire = Marcie
Light = Isaac
Dark = Coal
Spirit = ???

Like I said, we're looking for Spirit, and our previous hunch turned out to be completely wrong. I can't tell you where we are, but if anybody knows anything-- like if there's been suspicious activity where you live, or you find that you can see auras or talk to ghosts or something-- please, comment. We're chasing shadows here, and the longer it takes us to find the seventh Element, the more likely it is that whoever it is that's hunting us down will find them first.

Thalia

Welcome

Hey, everybody. This is Thalia Lane, the Earth Spirit. ...That is so weird to say that I'm still not sure it's true. I guess that since this is my first entry I should kind of explain what's going on, so you aren't all totally lost.

What you know about magic and stuff is wrong. Unless, of course, you happen to be in the group with me right now. Still, that's six people out of the whole world, and I doubt the rest of you are totally caught up. Anyway, here's the gist of things: Every so often, the Elements of the natural world wake up and take the form of humans. Generally, all the Elements don't wake up at the same time, because there are seven individual Elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Dark, Light, and Spirit. For some reason, though, they've all woken up at the same time right now. It's the first time in several hundred years, according to the Guardian. He's our mentor, by the way.

SO. I named this blog "Thalia's Elemental Mission" because that's what I'm on. A mission. Phase one is down (getting to the Guardian), but Phase two is proving to be a little harder. Phase two involves finding the Spirit... spirit, I suppose... and getting him or her to come with us. Phase three is staying alive, and obviously has to be done during the other two Phases as well as after.

Isaac wants to discuss some strategy right now, so I can't write any more today. I'll be back later, and try to explain a little more.

Later,

Thalia.