The Elementalist: A Short Story

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Four thousand miles away along the coast of Chile in outside of the port city of Mejillones, a young man sat with his parents in their small European style home eating dinner. Dinner was fish as usual but the young man’s mother could work wonders on the little they had. The young man’s father was a fisherman from America that brought his wife and business to South America after adopting Andrew, the young man. Actually he found Andrew while porting at small uncharted island on a trip from North America to South America. Andrew, twenty-two years after his father found him on that island in a small pod stuck in a sleep like state, had grown into a dashing young man. He may have been shorter only growing to about 5’4” and stocky with his whole body bulging with muscle but that could not over shadow his looks. …show more content…
His hair just long enough to run your fingers through was a mix of blonde, brown, black, and red hair and his eyes were layered with a light blue around his pupil that slowly darkened as it reached the next layer of brown. On the very rim of his eyes as the brown layer came to an end was a browning red. He figured that these weird features were just a trait of his people, the Elementalist. He only knew he was an Elementalist because of the documents he found in the lab he was discovered where we spend most of his time when he was not helping his father on the

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