Monachi: Masters of Water and Fire by Jade Sánchez Read Free Book Online Page B

a
helicopter; the same two girls described on the
radio. Who wouldn’t want to see that?
The
police
flashed
their
badges,
and
everyone left. Tess looked at one of the officer’s
dead in the eye, like they were having a staring
contest or something. “Boo!” she said and they
backed away. It was awesome.
Tess was taken out first, straight into a box
where they yelled “Get in the uniform, and don’t
even try anything funny, its magic-proof.” 15
minutes later Tess came out of the box with the
uniform on. It looked odd on her.
I was next to go into the changing box.
They pushed me in and yelled the same thing
they did to Tess.
I looked on the hook where the uniform
was. It looked like it was going to be difficult to
get on.
When I finally did get it on after 15 minutes
I came out of the box.
Luckily for
them, these uniforms were
magic-proof or Tess would’ve set them on fire by
now.
They grabbed us by our arms and lifted us
up onto a moving platform, and off we went.
Where were we going now?
When we finally reached our destination, it
looked scary; like the
ultimate prison.
It was
made of pure stone on the outside. When we got
to the
entrance
it
took ten
minutes to
get in
because there were so many locks.
It was pretty clean and white on the inside.
I wanted to take some red paint and splash it all
over. When we got to the front desk the lady
didn’t even look up, but we were clearly visible.
We were wearing pitch black in an all-white
facility.
She said, “Their room is ready, the one at
the end of the hall.” The officers nodded. They
dragged us; I’m not kidding they literally had to
drag Tess across the floor, to our room.
When we got to the room, they threw us in.
“Have fun! This is your room while we rebuild
the burned lab,” they said; glaring at Tess. They
slammed the door shut.
I looked around. It was like a cheap motel
room. It had a bunk bed on one side of the room.
It was made of wood, and had red pillows and
blankets, which stood out from all the white.
I looked into the bathroom. In a way, it was
nice. It had a toilet, toilet paper and a shower, and
that’s it. No towels, or soap or shampoo.
Tess looked at me and asked, “So who gets
the top bunk?”
I raised my hand. “Me, I want the top!” I
climbed the ladder and laid down on the bed.
Tess sat on the bottom bed. “We were so
close, and we lost it. Lost it all,” she sighed.
I climbed down from the top and sat next
to her. I put my arm around her. “We still have
each other right?”
“Yeah, we do.”
“Then what else matters? We’re both still
alive, and we’re still together.”
Tess smiled, and laughed.
“What’s so funny all of a sudden?” I asked.
“I’m just happy we don’t have to do the
living museum research.”
I laughed, “Me too.”
When I climbed back onto the top bunk, we
both stared up at the celling. “What do you think
was going through everyone’s mind when my
hair started on fire?” Tess asked me.
“Probably; ‘OH MY GOSH WHAT THE
HECK IS HAPPENING TO TESS’S HAIR? IS IT
SUPPOSED TO DO THAT?’ Or something weird
like that,” I replied.
Tess laughed “Yeah, probably,” and then
quickly sat up.
“What’s up?” I asked.
Tess pulled on my foot. “Get down here. I
want you to try something!”
I jumped down.
She took me by the arm and dragged me to
the bathroom. I was so confused on what she was
doing. She took us over to the sink, covered up
the drain and filled the sink up with water. Then
she looked at me and said, “Do something.”
Puzzled, I asked, “What do you mean?”
Tess let out a big sigh and said, Remember
when you made that water levitate in the van,
when Carson brought us drinks? Do that now!”
“Tess, you brilliant idiot, these suits are
magic proof.”
“Yeah, but you levitated water using your
mind, not your hands or your body.”
I
shrugged, thinking that it wasn’t the
brightest idea, but it was an idea nonetheless.
I looked at the sink and