Darkcloud wandered the streets that night, never once stopping to ask for directions. She just found herself almost being pulled some where and no where all at the same time, so she wandered. Even as she wandered her eyes never left the pavement, though not much could be seen of her face as she had her trench coat collar pulled up and her fedora pulled low. The only sound she made was the soft clicking of her heels as they touched the ground.<br/><br/>As she walked thoughts kept racing through her mind, soon those thoughts turned into images, the images that she has been trying to keep repressed for a year or so now. The memories of her childhood.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"Aqua-aires, please listen to me," her mother said as she tried to get her young teenager to look up at her, "those powers you claim to have are wrong, evil even. You must never use those powers again, otherwise They will come and take you away."<br/><br/>Aqua-aires just sat there and rolled her eyes before saying, "Mother your just paranoid, you think that an unblessed sneeze is going to make them come and take me away in the middle of the night, I know what I am doing." she said so matter of factly that a worried look crossed her mothers face.<br/><br/>"No, you cant possibly ever know how to control the dar..." she suddenly stopped and looked around before quickly going to the door and closing it, then the windows to make sure the curtains where tightly closed. All the while whispering incoherently to Aqua-aires.<br/><br/>Feeling an anger boil up inside of her from an unknown source she leaped up from her chair and hardly controlling the strength and the volume of her voice she asked, "what are you so scared of, What could possibly be so bad that has you shacking like a leaf in fall?"<br/><br/>Her mother turned and looked as her daughter demanding answers from her. What she saw made her heart drop, for standing in front of her was not her daughter, but one that only looked like her, though her eyes looked like opals, and there were flashes of the pure elements swirling around her, almost as if they were competing with each other. "Aqua-aires, please, calm down," she had said quietly, though fearfully, before the memory faded into darkness.</span><br/><br/>The memory quickly changed to another. To a time shortly after the first.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"Mother, where are you?" Aqua-aires screamed as lights in all colors, shades and brightness flashed all around her, yet far off in the distance she could see what seemed to be a dark storm cloud coming her way quickly.<br/><br/>"Your mother isn't here." An ominous voice resounded all around her, though something about it warmed her then chilled her to the bone. "She can no longer see or hear you. She will no longer be there to hold you back. You can now go and be who you long to be, do as you see best for you."<br/><br/>As the voice spoke the colors were quickly fading and being taken over by the storm that was nearly over her. <br/><br/>"Go now and create your own destiny," the voice said as it spoke louder and even more ominous then before. As it started to fade she was covered in complete darkness from the storm.<br/>In the storm she heard sounds of that of a battlefield, though there was no one near her. Among the the sounds of pain and agony was that of joy, and unmistakable pleasure. <br/>Waking with a start, as she sat up in her bed holding her ears as the noises faded into one name, Darkcloud.<br/><br/>Panting she looked around hoping it was just a dream, though all around she could see that her home looked like an army had just ransacked everything, though in a circle around her bed was a shimmering light, that was whispering the name. As she looked at it more intently she was surprised to hear it say, "Follow your destiny, Darkcloud."</span><br/><br/>"Ever since" she said softly to herself as she continued to walk,<span style="font-style: italic">I have been Darkcloud, The Wanderer.</span>