"No, he wasn't dead. He was possessed and went crazy. As you may remember, I was the first to go, as I was with him when it happened. Before that, we were great friends."
Out of nowhere, Ross suddenly feels as if something inside of him had been impaled. Not physically, but he no longer felt whole. He clutched his stomach for a moment. "Excuse me, I feel ill."
Ross ran towards the water and nearly made it, but ended up on the ground retching. It felt like he was trying to swallow fire, but couldn't keep it down. He managed to half walk-half drag himself to the water. He was so flustered once he was underwater that he couldn't transform, but this time he didn't need to. He only went to the water because it felt like he was holding a fireball in his pocket. He took out the orb and observed it. It was no longer the deep blue that it was when he had first received it, but it seemed to be intermixed with flecks of a swirling orange color.
There was only one conclusion he could come to: Pyro was dead and his element had been intertwined with Ross'.
He didn't know who had killed his friend, but he would find out who and he would avenge Pyro. Ross stormed out of the water, but had more or less collected himself by the time he reached Airis again. "So what's the plan?"
((So....Sorry if this seems OP....It just seemed to fit really well .-. I'm willing to change it upon request.))
((And besides, fire is a pretty important element...It wasn't considered one of the four elements for nothing ;3 ))
((Lastly, to clear up any confusion, Ross isn't the new Guardian of Fire or anything, this was just a way to have Pyro's element, if not himself live on. Basically, Ross can minorly control Fire*, but only when it is involved with water, and only by using the orb.))
((*Side Note: The fire Ross controls is not the typically fire that we are familiar with. It's a sort of...wet fire, which I know sounds weird, but hey, this planet isn't Earth.))