Red flame 2

Chapter 4

He was right. It was always me. And I didn't know how to control. Flame was controlled, and it was never her, it was me, who couldn't keep control, I was out of control. I needed flame, to pull me back, and she abandoned me. Hiding in the shadows. She was right, I was stronger with her. I was more in control. I was weak before her. And she kept me grounded.

"ELLA," Loki says. I look at him. I shake my head. Heimdall looks at me and then at Loki.

"Loki, she's the beast, you have to tame her, she will destroy everyone, including you," He tells Loki. He wasn't wrong. I couldn't control this.

"I won't bind her Heimdall, I can't," He says looking at me, and his eyes are in tears. I could see the hurt behind his eyes. I let my pain and guilt get me. And it was hurting him, and everyone I loved.

"Loki, if she controls flame now, she's dangerous, and she's unsettled, I love Gabbie, but we have to bind her," Annabeth said. He snaps to her.

"NO, what friend would bind their best friend, that's no friend, her power is what makes her special, and I will not bind her," He says. She stopped talking to him. I remained silent.

"Ella, darling, please, control this, don't do this, please," He pleads. I don't listen, my guilt eating me.

"Gabrielle, it's time I took over."

Red flame burns through me. Her mind and soul, becoming one with mine as she makes every bone in me twitch, every muscle, every vein, shifts. And I wasn't transforming, I was being pushed to the back, locked away, but I held on.

"LOKI, SHE'S FIGHTING, I CAN TAKE OVER, BUT SHE'S TO-"

"NO FLAME," I yell. Loki looks around, everyone looks at him to make a choice. He looks back to me.

"FLAME FIGHT, HELP HER," He yells.

And in that moment, I hear fear in him, because of me. And My body bends back, eyes burning red again, flames shooting into the sky like portals. And for once I wasn't there. I was no where near them. I was gone, pushed back into the deepest part of me, while flame walked around as me. My body she now possesses, is calm, no flames, or wings. It's as if she cooled me down.

I could still see everyone, everyone I loved. They were here, but I was only looking from the inside. She was in control now. And that's what hurt me. She took over and betrayed me. She betrayed everything I had ever done for her. She was now portraying someone who was considered a monster by her own loved ones. Loki looked at her, panting as if he had run a marathon. He had been panicking. For me, but now she wore my body.

"Flame?" He asks. She nods. I couldn't say anything to him, tell him anything, because she controlled me now.

"It is I, Prince of Asgard, I have her locked away, for her safety as well as you and your people," She said. NO!! I don't talk like that. Mom and dad looked scared. And now, the plan was messed up. I didn't know if she would help them win the battle. And my guilt was keeping me angry, which kept me locked away.

"I am so sorry Ella, I truly am, this is for your own good," Loki says, turning around. He's crying and Flame is just standing there, red eyes and all, and she's feeling sympathetic?

"I am sorry as well, I know she means a great deal to you Prince, as you do to her," She said. Great now she was being sentimental with him. Wonderful.

"I'm fine, I love her," He turns to her, "But she was in trouble, and I did this to help her."

Loki walks away, tailing Annabeth and Percy into the mansion. I couldn't tell them how I felt, she wouldn't tell them anyway. She didn't care for them, just me. But she also knew they cared for me, and she did too, so she did this for that reason. And I know I was being dangerous and weak, but why did she lock me away? And she wasn't even trying to communicate with me. I was a prisoner in my own mind.

Thor felt bad for Loki, I could see it. The girl he loved was being hid away in her mind, and flame had taken over her mind and body. It wasn't something I was proud of, and I hated her for this. I was so sorry about all of it. But she wouldn't know, she didn't ask me. My heart was breaking, causing hers to break too. She felt empathy. The flame could feel emotions.

Something the flame was not capable of before. And now she was feeling it. It was unreal. It was like, she was becoming me. And maybe she was, but she would never be me. I was the only one who could love Loki like I loved him. Flame would never be able to love him that was, and he would never love her like he loved me.

            "Flame, it is very good to see you, in person," Heimdall says, causing me to roll my eyes, from the inside.

            "Gabrielle says, you are a disgusting pig," She says. Of course, let's just say what I feel, because we all knew that Flame wouldn't just speak to someone like a normal person.

            "She is angry, I spoke the truth to her, it is understandable," He says watching her. This was awkward. Something was not right about him. He didn't seem, right. I knew it, but maybe I was mad at him for telling me the truth.

            Loki had already walked away, as did Annabeth and Percy. But Hades joined them. And soon after, mom and dad also joined them. Along with Anna and Thor. And since I didn't control my own body at this point, I knew flame would follow as well. But as soon as she turns to leave, she stops, in the middle of the courtyard, and there we seen him, the man on the cliffs, the one that favored Loki. He was looking our way. I felt a pang of fear, and disgust.

            "Is that the frost giant, there," she says using my finger to point him out. I could see him from her eyes.

            "It is, but we can see him now."

            "You couldn't before. I just told her 'no.' She looked confused at him and decided to turn around. She didn't want to look at him, as much as I didn't want to. It wasn't Loki, the one we knew. It was that thing that took his shape. The thing that knew him. As we got closer to the mansion, I felt a pang of embarrassment. For Flame and I. She didn't know how to speak with people. She was an open book, and that was not good. She could tell anyone my deepest secrets.

            We entered the mansion, and the team was assembled in the living room. Or as they would call it, the main room. Didn't matter, there was a couch, table, and a few chairs. Regardless, it was the main focus. Everyone noticed our sudden tardiness, and to my surprise, they didn't care. They looked to Thor, who was talking about the tomb, the prism and much more. They obviously didn't want to include flame or me.

            "Just leave, we aren't wanted here."

            "No, I will not," She said, aloud. They all noticed her sudden outburst. Great, now they think she's crazy. Or maybe they thought she was hearing things and said the first thing that came to her mind.

"Who are you talking to," Hades asked, Loki noticed too, and he was squinting his eyes, trying to figure it out. But Heimdall ginned.

            "She speaks with Gabrielle, she's holding on," he said. Loki looked shocked and shook. He got closer to her.

            "Is she in there flame?" He looked guilty and regretful. But he thought he was doing what was best.

            "She is, and she says for us to leave, that we aren't wanted," She said, being very honest with him. Why did she have to tell him the truth?

            "Ella, I'm sorry, I truly am, but you need to control it, and the only way besides binding you, was for flame to take over, until you were settled," He said. I didn't want to respond to that. But big mouth Flame could not keep herself quiet, and she was so truthful, it hurt me.

            "She thinks you are all weak, that she didn't have a problem, she was just fine, but that's not true, Gabrielle, you were out of control, and deep inside you, you know that," She said.

And she was right, I knew that deep down. I was out of control. I let guilt and rage fuel me, and now I had to live with the consequences.  I stayed silent, not speaking a word to her, I knew I messed up again. It was never the flame that had the problem it was me. I was not right, I was made to be powerful, and I was.

            "She is silent," Flame said. Loki bowed his head in defeat, tears beginning to form in his eyes. He walks away, leaving us all standing alone.

"She has faded, hasn't she," Heimdall asked. Flame just nods. And I was gone, Just completely gone.