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I couldn't help but smile at the little white snake. I slowly floated down to Dreamland. I took in some of the scenery around me. Trees with multicolored leaves and fruits, people who weren't quite humans, and then the big guild that I was floating down to on a bubble. That was a sentence I never thought I'd say.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLhuyopXWN
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I floated down one of the chimneys on top of the building. There were instructions echoing inside.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaMimSi9Oy
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"Please remain seated until you come to a complete stop," the animatronic voice echoed.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUUQq7DgRK
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The bubble and I popped out of the bottom of the chimney. Inside the building I saw at least 20 people. Most of them were busy working on something in front of them, but others were watching me come out of the chimney.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6XNm9qblu
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The bubble came to a stop and popped. I almost fell but was caught by one of the people nearby.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFpfxoWcIw
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"So, you the newest member of Dreamland?" He asked.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1qrW7QqJC
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"Yeah," I said. "I'm Ai."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFVxdu1FgK
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"Well, Ai, it's nice to meet you. I will be teaching you how to control and not fear your new powers. You can call me Outa. Come this way."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9n9Ujav8O
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He pulled me into a room with two chairs in it. The room looked like it could withstand an atomic bomb.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVrQqcHfuy
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"Okay then," Outa said. "Let's start your training. Question 1: who was your escort? The animal that brought you here?"556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGjfHnCO8l
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"Fie, the little white snake."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsOc7W4csr
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"Okay. And what did he say your power was?"556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnpOCpD3QH
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"Fire and water."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SK0lN3o6t
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"That's impossible. Only a select few people have the ability to control two different forces. And only half of those can control two apposing forces. What's your real fear."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AZe1xIy5D
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"What do you mean? Those are my only fears."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2PURHZoEk
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"Okay. If you insist on lying to me then I'll have to give you a test. Stay right here. I'll be back."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3WjDcy8TH
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He stood up and walked out of the room. I waited for about five minutes before he came back holding a small orb in his hands.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3ngYSUp2K
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"Hold this," he said handing me the orb.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKneKVadvH
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I grabbed on and it began to glow both the changing colors of fire and the colors of water at the same time. I quickly dropped the orb. I never wanted to be near fire or water again.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsrvhQt3H6
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Outa quickly reached out and grabbed the orb an inch before it hit the ground.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJULRjlfbne
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"I believe you," he said in shock. "And I also believe your fear of water and fire is more severe than I thought."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdshroUU8W
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Before I even realized it, I was huddled in the corner of the room.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIE9zy5Bi9J
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"And this is going to be a lot of work. Come with me. If we're going to train you we're going to need some special help."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgTgDp2ITi
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He pulled me off the ground and we walked back into the main part of the building. He walked up to one of the people at the front desk and started talking to him.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCd9QUKJUJ
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"I need your help," he said immediately.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsldTrntvb
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"With what?" The man asked.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd09KhffVBL
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"This girl here," Outa said putting his hand on my shoulder, "has a fear that I won't be able to cure without some help."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKkPW9KX6o
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"Why would I care?" The man asked.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9dMECJm60
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"Because she's special. She has two fears."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3pKcgPO7w
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That caught the mans attention.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lk5YL3EQK
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"What fears?"556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpa0JHZKLt
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"Fire and water," I said.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKXqcx5oMF
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"Fine."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9VMCxs2Pi
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We all walked into one of the rooms deeper into the building. It was bigger than the room we were in before. It had a couch instead of chairs.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF9SkseQg8
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"This is Obi," Outa said.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡendf7S6cHf
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"Sit down," the Obi said.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuuMrMNQ3T
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I sat on the couch and Obj walked behind me.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAj2vMLkaHs
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"What we're going to do is make you relive the experiences that traumatized you until you can conquer your fear," Outa said. "It may seem a bit forceful but it is the best way to let you conquer them. Hold your hands up for me."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq75AnBwQ0n
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I held my hands up and he pulled a large rock out of his pocket. He stared intensely at the rock and it began to change shape without it being pulled. I watched in amazement as the rock snaked itself around my wrists forming cuffs.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMUgzI2FaC
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"Just to make sure you don't hurt anybody. Now we'll be watching to make sure nothing happens that may worsen your fear. Okay? Now close your eyes."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQs9IOLZDn
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I closed my eyes and felt two fingers press against each of my temples.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgc0tiJDUR
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I jumped into the first floor of my house and searched everywhere. I noticed the two bowls sitting on the kitchen table. I ran upstairs and checked everywhere. Then I went into the bathroom and relived the rest of my nightmare. We went over it 13 times. Each time I screamed and felt the pain mark my shoulder in the shape of a hand.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfKv5PhLnm
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I had a realization. It wasn't the fires fault that Mom and Rin had died. It was the person who had set the fire they were the one to blame. They were the reason behind Mom and Rin's death. The fire was not to blame. I felt a certain peace fall over me. I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4irEa2nUNI
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I opened my eyes and looked behind me to see both Obi and Out partly in tears. Another thing I noticed was that the couch was I fire around my hands. But I wasn't afraid. In fact, I liked it. It didn't burn it actually felt good. It was a warm comforting feeling.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMh5V8FxO1
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"I'm now going to teach you how to control your fire powers mostly because I don't want the building to catch on fire," Outa said. "Imagine the fire itself while keeping eye contact with it. Do you have an image of it in your head?" I nodded. "Good. Next I want you to imagine it lifting itself off the couch. It might be hard because it's your first time."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDuNgGasC58
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I imagined the fire lifting itself off the couch and that's exactly what it did.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UTKNU8jPU
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"You're better than I thought you'd be. Now imagine it getting bigger."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVDdOsoPRp
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I did and the fire became huge.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHjd8Bv9e0
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"Good. Now imagine it disappearing."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnYcRW7cfM
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I did an the fire was gone.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZu2A5YA6zB
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"That's amazing! I've never seen someone master their powers that quickly. Now you can pretty much do anything you want with fire. Even walk through it without being burned. Now close your eyes again. We'll be reliving your fear of water now. Is it as bad as your fear of fire is?"556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28ZvysoR5P
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I nodded and closed my eyes. I felt two fingers press against each of my temples and was suddenly underwater. I felt the pain of the fishes teeth biting down on my ankle. I saw Dad swim down and pry me out of the fishes mouth and get pulled down in my place. I relived this one over 20 times mostly because it was my fault. After a while I had the same realization as I did with the fire. Except this time it wasn't the water, it was the fish who was pulling me under. I felt the rest of the wait be life's off my shoulders and I felt a sense of freedom.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMWYDdbQqP
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I opened my eyes and saw Obi and Outa with the same half in tears look on their faces. I could feel water at my feet. I looked down and noticed that my feet were in a foot tall pool of water.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjoZLTkzFM
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"Good," Outa said. "Thanks Obi. You can leave now."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyc22rva6G1
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He walked out of the room. Letting most of the water out with it. Outa removed the rock cuffs from my hands.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ90EltLRin
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"Water is a lot like fire. It's mostly in the air like some of the chemicals that make fire. You can pull water out air if you want to. Now imagine the same thing that you did with fire. Imagine all the water on the floor connecting into one place."556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSKV1fU59x
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There was a medium sized ball of water floating above my hands.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9sfIbFS3C
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"Good, now imagine it dispersing itself into the air." I did and the ball of water was gone.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqyjn7EHIQ
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"You should be able to breath under water now.Now I'm going to try to teach you how to use them both at once. I may not be good at this because I, like most people, only have one power. But I want you to try. Start by holding out both of your hands." I did. "Now imagine water appearing in one hand and fire appearing in the other." I did. A small ball of water appeared in my left hand a ball of fire appeared in my right. "Good. Now let's see if you can control them both at once. Try making the fire go in clockwise circles and the water go in counter clockwise circles." I did and that's exactly what the fire and water did. We spent the next hour making more intricate shapes and patterns with the water and fire.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGXfLbZk43
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"Congratulations!" Outa yelled. "You have officially master your powers of fire and water. You are now free to roam the world of Dreamland!"556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjz0re1Tb75
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I walked out the door and started to walk to the nearby mountains. I looked back once but kept walking. I was going to do exactly what Mom wanted me to do.556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VjoEdwgfs
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I raised my fist into the air. "I'm going to live!" I announced for everybody who felt like listening to here. 556Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlREOWdibG
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