She had exposed that she could bend all the elements. Now everyone would be treating her just like Sebastian said, a demon.
Aria looked from Julia to her mother, who was crying, to Beth hiding behind her mother with a face full of fear, to her father, who was, strangely, actually looking disappointed? To Penny, who seemed to have fainted.
Finally, Aria's eyes met her grandfather's, who looked at her the way she had feared the most, like a demon.
Aria tore her eyes away from Christopher, she did not like that look. She looked back at Julia and sighed. Slowly, all the blades disappeared. The water and fire mixed into each other and evaporated, the wind blew away, and the earth turned into dust and fell to the ground. Julia hugged Aria and said, "I was so scared. What happened to you? Why did...."
But before she could complete her sentence, Julia was separated from Aria by their grandfather and taken away. Aria knew that it was useless to struggle.
She could hurt people here and escape, but she really did not want to. Aria was tired, she just wanted to sleep. Soon, the army reached there and surrounded the area. Aria was standing in the middle with the army surrounding her. Everyone else was looking from behind.
Aria felt the irony and gave a bittersweet smile. Just because she could bend the four elements, she was to be branded a demon. The people who used to smile upon seeing her were now looking with fear in their eyes.
Aria looked all around and found the faces she was searching for. Her family. Aria gave them another smile and then looked up at the sky. "The stars are beautiful tonight...." was all she could say to herself when the soldiers, thinking that she was going to try something, knocked her out.
Aria woke up and tried to open her eyes. She wanted to rub then but could not move her hands. She slowly opened them and found herself to be in a completely dark cell. She slowly sat up as her eyes adjusted to the dark and looked around. The cell was small and smelled really bad. She saw that her hands were inside some kind of metal gloves due to which she could not even move a finger. These were tied to a chain which was fixed in the wall of the cell. Her legs were cuffed and tied to a chain too. All in all, she could not move even one inch, except lying down and sitting.
Aria thought, "I know it must still be night, but there's not even a window here. I guess this is where they keep the 'demons'." She scoffed to herself.
Aria was terribly hungry as she had eaten only some pastries, that too at tea time. She shouted, "Hello...." But she stopped at the sound of her own voice.
Aria's voice sounded hoarse and her throat was incredibly dry. Aria gulped her saliva many times in an attempt to moist her throat. Then she said, "Hello, anyone out there? Could I get some water? I really need it. And some food too, If it's not too much of a hassle."