Season 1 episode 1: Origins

First-person POV

Elementals...ever since I was a young boy, that's all I've ever grown up on, it was all I ever knew..that there are people who possess powers beyond human capabilities. Able to control the very earth beneath us to the skies in the clouds. From the water in the ocean to the wildfires you see on the news. My mom and dad were nothing like that, they weren't gifted with any of them which in turn made me normal..or a prime subject to George and his friends' relentless behaviour

A small boy was in front of another with his arms raised in a fighting position with his body shaking

???: "L-leave them alone! They don't deserve you kicking down on them!"

The small boy in front then got pushed back and Mason then fell straight to the ground below as the one who pushed him then laughed at him with his fist engulfed in flames

George: "Oops~ Looks like someone had a small accident here let me help you up, Mason."

George then grabbed the defenceless boy now named Mason by his shirt and pushed the boy into his other group of friends who were laughing with him, as the small boy fell onto the ground again near one of the boys who looked down at him with a certain level of sadness

George: "Well, what are you waiting for Alex? Beat him up already! Don't just stand there like a statue!"

The boy that Mason was below raised his fist and huffed but Mason could almost hear the faintest 'I'm sorry' from him but right when the fist was close to him, another boy who seemed to tower over the boy, looked at him with a pissed off expression with another boy

Jake: "I think it's best if you go on your way now. Wouldn't you agree?"

Jake then had his hand glow with green energy

George: "And lookie who we have here. Looks like the Schools "hero" has finally come to save another from another ass beating. Don't you get tired of doing this all the time?"

Jake: "What I'm tired of is you picking on others for not having elemental powers like us!"

A few seconds later Mason got up and wiped the stray tears from his face. With George laughing at the banged-up boy

George: "Seriously? You expect me to care about a Defective? They're not like us Jake! They could never be like us, and they never will be, so why don't you stop this silly charade of yours and join me? Together, we can make anyone pay for messing with us!"

Jake: "I'd rather punch trees until my hands bled, thanks for the offer though"

George then looked at him and got close to his face and had his hand make a fireball

George: "You best be careful with what you say...you may end up like Defective over there"

Jake: "Go on then. Make my day"

The two boys were in what looked to be a never-ending staring contest until George huffed and then turned away

George: "Tch, whatever, I don't need this noise. I've got other kids who don't constantly have their oh so mighty hero to save them anyway. Let's go guys"

And just as he was walking away the rest of his group were walking with him with one of them staying and looking at the two as he clenched his fist

George: "I SAID come on! Don't make me say it again Alexander!"

Alex: "R-right! Coming!"

The boy then ran off to his head

Jake then sighed and his arm turned back to his white coloured skin

Jake: "I swear that guy just pisses me off, everything he does"

Jake then turned to the boy who was behind him and gave him a smile

Jake: "Sorry about him, he's never been one for friendly greetings"

The small boy wiped away the snot from his nose and wiped his tears with the sleeve of his shirt they then looked away and looked down at his toes with tears in their eyes

???: "Why...why care? S-shouldn't you be picking on me? You should be calling me names like 'Defective' or at least that's what George calls me..."

Jake then bent down and looked at him from his level of eye view

Jake: "Then it's a good thing not all elementals are like him right?"

The small boy then cracked a faint smile and sniffled a little bit while nodding his head

???: "Y-yeah..I-i guess so"

Jake: "So, what's your name, huh?"

???: "M-Mason, my name is Mason Tokumitsu."

Jake: "Mason huh? That's a cool ass name your mum and dad must be cool just like you to give you such a cool name"

Mason's face then contorted into a sour expression with his smile taking a noticeable dip with Jake noticing

Jake: "What's wrong? Is it something I said?"

Mason: "No, no it's nothing really, don't worry about it."

Jake wanted to push on the matter, but felt best to just drop the subject than continue on with the way Mason looked after he made mention of his dad

Jake: "O-oh.. okay, sorry for bringing it up."

Mason: "I-it's okay, seriously...it doesn't matter. What happened in the past stays in the past right? And besides I never really knew my dad like that. He died before I was even born I only really know I have one through my mum since she said he died in a fire as a firefighter trying to save someone."

Jake's eyes began to lose their colour with his smile dipping in tow, he then clenched his fist and smiled at Mason and yelled

Jake: "Be my friend Mason Tokumitsu!"

Mason: "W-wait what!"

Jake: "You heard me! Be my friend!"

Mason: "But you barely know me, let alone that we don't even know the first thing about each other!"

Jake: "Well I know your name now and that's a start!"

Mason: "But I don't know yours!"

Jake: "The name's Jacob Miller, you can call me Jake"

Jake held the little boy's hand and dragged him off

Jake: "You and I are playing hide and seek!"

Mason: "H-huh!? What do you mean? I never agreed to this!"

Jake: "You go hide I'll try to find you"

Jake then put his face on the closest tree and began counting Mason who was still grappling with the situation he was suddenly thrown into began to run and as he did his once droopy frown turned into a big bright smile he laughed to himself and as they played various games with one another there was only one thought on Mason's mind

Mason: "Thank you, Jake..for letting me know I can make friends again"

A lot has changed since that day what I didn't know? It was just how fast that change came

12 years later

An alarm clock with an extremely loud beeping sound brought Mason who had obviously grown up now with hair growing on his chin and his hair seemingly in a frazzled state with him yawning as he looked at the clock and it read 6:12am

Mason: "Oh good I can get an extra hour of sleep in before I have to get ready"

As Mason put his head back down he then heard a knocking on his door that he tried tuning out with the pillow underneath his head and grabbed both sides and put each side on both ears, the door then opened to reveal a woman who looked to be in her thirties with wrinkles on her hands and forehead

Sarah: "Come on Mason! Time to get out of bed and ready for the next semester of your new school year!"

Mason: "But I don't want to go. Can't I stay home nothing important happens on the first day anyway"

Sarah: "If you don't get out of that bed right now, mister, you'll miss seeing your friends on the first day back, and I'm sure classes have changed, right?"

Mason: "That's true, but if I go, then that means I have to deal with 'him' again...a-and I don't know if I could go through it another year with him. Not again..."

Sarah then sighed as she put her hand onto Mason's and squeezed with a sad smile

Sarah: "Mason, I know you don't like the people at school and I'm sure that it gets tiring. But I don't have family near where we live to be able to just drop you off at their place and let you wait out the first day of school. I know it's hard and I wish that things were different for you, really I do...But I don't have anyone else who could stay with you other than me. If you don't want to go to school, that's okay. I can't change how you feel, but please at least 'try'. For me?"

Mason then slowly removed the pillow and saw the sombre expression that was written on her face. He then took a look at the photo of his mom and dad and then sighed as he put his head onto the headrest

Mason: "You know that guilt tactic is gonna wear out soon, right?"

Sarah: "It still gets you to school, doesn't it? Come get in the shower and get ready I still need to drop myself off at the workplace I'm at so I can put food on the table"

Mason: "Alright, alright I'm going"

Sarah got off where she sat and not a second later Mason gets up with his Star Wars pyjamas on as he took them off to get in the shower, he then saw himself in the reflection of the small mirror for the cabinet he has in his bathroom which he then took out his toothbrush and a capsule that had pills with some spilled out inside the cabinet itself he then swallowed the ones in the capsule and washed it down with a half empty glass of water, he swallowed them and shivered a little

Mason: "For pills that are supposedly used to make me sleep they couldn't at least make them taste good?"

Mason got inside the shower and turned on the water, inside the shower Mason stood still letting the water rush down his back with his breathing quickening in pace as he tried grabbing the nearby tiles but could only ball them into a fist his heart rate increased as he closed his eyes he heard a strange voice call out to him

???: "You are the next generation...you've always known, haven't you?"

Mason then lets go of the bated breath he didn't know he had and pulled back the shower curtain thinking someone was in the bathroom with him but when he did the only thing he saw was the door and the bathroom, he looked around looking paranoid but he didn't see anything or anyone he then sighed to himself and went back to showering

Time skip

Mason and Sarah were in the car with the radio on blast as Mason looked out the window with Sarah having her vision directed onto the road ahead. But the car comes to a sudden stop as a police officer is beside it with what seems to be earth elementals already working on the broken streets and fix it

Officer Thomas: "Sorry Ma'am this road is closed for today since a Cryptid was causing problems for us, we got the lunatic after an hour or so but the roads need repairs sorry if this comes as a inconvenience to you"

Sarah: "No it's quite alright, I'll just stake the shortcut then"

Sarah began backing the car up as she sighed

Sarah: "Wish something could be done about these rogue elementals..makes you kinda glad we weren't born like that, huh, Mason?"

Mason: "Yeah, I guess"

Sarah looked at Mason and saw his face begin to lose the smile he once had and her smile began to fade slightly in turn but she regained it and turned to him

Sarah: "Hey, look at it this way, at least you'll have an excuse for running late, right?"

Mason stifled a chuckle

Mason: "That's one way to look at it I guess"

Time skip

Sarah then pulled up to a driveway with a sign out front that read Bamlyn High school, she then put her car in reverse and parallel parked between two others and as she did that Mason got out of the car and unclipped his seatbelt before opening the car door and got out as Sarah wound down the passengers window

Sarah: "Alright my baby, I'll see you after school okay?"

Mason: "Mom! Seriously I'm 17 now turning 18 in June, last thing I need is other people hearing you calling me baby"

Sarah: "Oh hush, it doesn't matter how old you get you'll always be my baby~"

Sarah said teasing Mason with Mason playfully rolling his eyes

Mason: "Okay, okay I'll be going now. See you when I get home"

Sarah: "Have a good day and don't forget you have sword practice afterwards!"

Sarah wound the window back up and then put the car in ignition and pulled out of her parking space and then drove off with Mason heading inside of the school as Mason went inside

Mason then looked around the area and smiled a little he then walked in stride and as he did a foot stuck out and before he knew it he fell on the ground face first with a boy laughing as he revealed himself to Mason

George: "Looks like a total wipeout! Gets too easy to do that you know"

George clicked his fingers and two other boys grabbed Mason and took off his bag with the other pinning him against a locker George looked at him then looked at his bag

George: "Looks like you've got some cool stuff Defective, and some money too...looks like you aren't so useless after all hey Alex! Make sure that Mason goes home with a little gift for me yeah?"

Alex then walked up to Mason and clenched his fist and aimed his fist at him but couldn't bring himself to do it

Alex: "D-do I have to? I mean we already have his stuff no?"

George: "Oh Jesus Christ Alexander stop being such a pussy and clock his face in already! Unless? you WANT to be like him again"

Alex then raised his fist again with his hand shaking but as he did a gust of wind blew into boys faces with Mason looking up and they helped him up

Ben: "You really have nothing better to do than to steal my friends stuff every new semester of school huh?"

George: "Well it is tradition at this point, wouldn't want to break tradition now would we?"

Ben: "Oh cut the crap George all you are is a bully to those who you think are weaker than you"

George: "Talking a lot of shit for a guy who recently got in, or do I have to remind you of the greeting I gave you when you were a kid?"

George got face to face with Ben but Jake then held onto his shoulder

Jake: "Please, I'd like to see how that went again"

George then put his arms down and huffed

George: "Leave the defective, we'll find someone else to bother!"

The two other boys following his lead dropped Masons bag which made everything spill out and also him as he laid himself onto the ground, Alex wasn't too far from Mason and slowly reached out his hand

George: "Alexander! I said let's go!"

Alex then retracted his hand and ran to George following him with Mason sniffling and his tears falling onto the ground

Mason: "Just when in thought that I'd somehow be safe this year guess I turned out to be wrong as always huh?"

Mason said to himself as he picked his stuff up off of the ground with Ben and Jake helping him, Jake grabbed the last thing and gave it to Mason who took it from him

Mason: "Thanks for the help again guys.. you're always there when I need it huh?"

Mason wiped his tears while laughing

Mason: "Too bad I can't seem to last more than a minute without you two"

Ben and Jake then looked at each other in worry but Jake was the first to look back at him

Jake: "Mase, you sure you don't want one of us walking you to class? We won't mind"

Mason waved his hand as he scoffed at the idea

Mason: "Don't bother, as George says right I'm defective I'll be fine on my own"

Jake: "Mas-"

Mason: "Guys it's fine, really.. I-i'll just seen you soon okay?"

Mason then walked ahead the two with Mason wiping his eyes with the sleeves of his hoodie

Mason then got to class and sat down with his head on his desk as he then sniffed the snot in his nose as the teacher then walked in after him

Mr John: "Alright Class! Today is a special day because today I'll ask you this? Who here is ready for a camping trip!"

The class then yelled in uproar with others talking or something but Mason didn't care. Why should he? It's not like something 'eventful' were to happen on the trip to him...right?

In a distant barren wasteland a person in a black robe had a blade near his hand with his hand crackling in blue lightning

???: "Did you find him?"

???: "Yes I found him, he seems to be resigning in a Camp now as a counsellor to boot"

???: "Send out my fifth royal, he'll know what to do once I give him the instructions"

???: "Alright and then after?"

???: We go back to finding him of course...finding Jason"

The end?