The Life Of A Freak

Chapter 7

I woke up and Kurda was there.

"What?" I groan.

"You slept for a long time, I sort of got worried."

"How long did I sleep?"

"Half the night. Darren is already off training for his trial, Hall of Fire."

"Oh, what is the trial like?"

"It is very painful, he may die in this one. It will be easier to explain if you go to the hall where he is at."

"Ok let's go then."

And we hurried to go check on Darren.

The hall was strange.

It was just some tubes in the ground that lead back out of the ground. Some vampires are sitting at the tubes. Mouth brought up and blowing into it.

Darren and Arra are above the tubes pointing out of the ground.

(The tubes are big, not small like I'm making it sound like. It is not big enough to fall into, but still big.)

Fire spits out from the tube under Darren and Arra quickly moves him to make sure he doesn't burn.

"The objective of this trial is to stay over the tubes for 15 minutes without burning." Kurda says behind me.

"Oh I see." I walk over to Darren and Arra. (Vanez is sitting this one out. Arra is very well balanced and Vanez would probably get in the way.)

"I see you're awake." Arra says, not everting her eyes from the tubes.

A whistling sound comes from a tube not too far from them. Then fire pops out of that same tube.

"Make sure not to make any unnecessary movements. You need to focus on your hearing." Arra says.

"I think you should focus on speed." I say.

"Oh?" Arra says. "Would you like to demonstrate."

"Uh, sure." I say stepping on the tubes and then fire shoots out of the tubes.

I run at full speed trying to avoid all the flames. I get hit and fall flat on my back. Kurda comes and pulls me up and takes me off of the tubes.

"How long was that?" Darren asks.

"A little less than ten seconds." Arra says.

Darren looks over at me and gasps.

"What?" I ask as I rub my very painful new burn on my forearm. This is really gonna scar...

"Y-Your hair."

I feel it and its up to my shoulders.

I don't react at all. Knowing my hair it will probably grow back within a day or two.

"Well, say goodbye to your hair." Vanez says.

"What do you mean?" I ask, genuinely confused.

"You hair was burnt off. You can not grow it back since it was burnt." Arra says.

I sigh. "I'll be fine without it. It just means one less thing to take care of."

"You look so different without it though..." Darren comments.

"Well, duh. I have had the same hair for my entire life, of course it looks different."

Darren's eyes widen. Along with Kurda.

"What?" I ask.

"Your... tail!" Darren says running up to me and grabbing my tail. I turn to look at it and it is on fire.