Animentals

Quick Facts

 * Title: Animentals
 * Genres: Fantasy, Modern, Organization, Adventure, Slice-of-Life
 * Major Characters: Noah Reed, Christopher Underwood
 * Places:

Plot
10 years ago it mysteriously started. Bizarre occurrences of random animals bursting into flames or turning into raw energy. 2 years later the events inexplicably stopped. Now, it's starting to happen again.

Animentals
River: A giant river otter with control over the element of water and can turn her entire body into water for camoflauge when swimming. Noah's Primary animental.

Quick: A roadrunner with control over the element of air and can generate vortexes by running in quick circles. Noah's unexpected second animental.

Bola: An Asian elephant with control over earth, and a special exception in that she has some control over both branches. She can cause tremors by stomping her feet and can speed up the growth of plants with a gentle touch of her trunk. Bola is Christopher's only animental partner.

Unnamed Dog: A unknown stray dog who accidentally realized its fire abilities...namely being on fire.

Facts

 * When animals first awaken as animentals, their intelligence sky-rockets.
 * Handlers often carry containers which house their animental partner in their elemental state. This is particularly handy for large animals like Bola. (I.e. Bola as a bunch of dirt)
 * With the use of Ark collars, they can even speak.

Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark was founded when the animentals first occurred, ten years ago. They seek first to help these animals understand and master their newfound abilities, second to prevent them from harming themselves or those around them, and third to understand why this is happening in the first place. The founders were Noah Wagner and Damon Alexander. They also created Ark collars in order to bridge the communication barrier between humans and animals.

The Masters
Not long after Noah's Ark was founded, Damon broke away. He saw a different, much darker potential for these beasts. If they could be controlled then what would stop their controller from taking over the world. They use black collars to control the animentals, but without allowing them speech.