Fire Star (a Merome story)

{chapter six} Smouldering Remains

JEROME'S POV

The choking dust swirled down my throat and I cough hoarsely, all around my back is thick silt and charcoal but no fire. I can remember fire, so much fire. Everybody was burning and Mitch just stood there in the flames. Burning them. Screaming.

Around me the three bodies of the gang lie as burnt ash skeletons on the tiles plaza floor, I have to clutch a hand over my mouth to stop myself from gagging. I don't want to look round, not to see the next body but it's there.

There on the floor next to me is the smouldering remains of Mitch's checkered hoodie.

SKY'S POV

I had failed. My friend was most certainly dead and I had failed. I dropped down from my hiding place. I was always an absolute coward, could never stand blood or hurt. That's how powers were, they reflected your personality.

When I was a 'freak' I was the biggest pacifist in the school, I liked to think what people were thinking and asked them questions constantly. Ty was always an emo kind of guy and tended to go alone. Ashley loved kittens and was constantly dreaming of being a healer. I didn't know about what powers Mitch would have got if he lived.

With waterfalls of crystal tears rolling down my face, I sprint quickly to the place where I like to think, in the park. People's thoughts echo around me there. They all went something like this:

"Steven Moffat's finale was utter crap, who even writes a regeneration like that. I mean the Daleks were too much let alone the S-" thought the girl with the arm tattoos.

'Ex-Girlfriend.' The guy in the batman skin thought.

"Explosion." Thought the other one

Explosion? Explosion... Explosion?! Why would anyone think that, anxiety would be one option but this thought sounds sincere almost real. Now where could a thought like that have come from? The guy is walking away now, quickly. I need to follow him. I get up from my thinking spot.

"Wait! You said, you thought an explosion?" I shout after him, he turns around. The man next to him groans indignantly and curses at the top of his lungs.

"Stupid mind spies!" It's the guy with the batman skin, he nudges his friend next to him with the red cape and sunglasses who looks nervously up at me.

"Yes- uh- yes I saw. He was running after this guy with something like purple blood on his head. Then everything just exploded, nobody saw except me and Ryan." He points to the guy next to him with the batman suit on.

"Hi." the guy trills sarcastically "I'm Ryan and can make spiders appear for no bloody reason it's actually quite a crap power to have."

I blink at them both as I notice their hands are intertwined. They both immediately shake themselves and their hands fall apart. One of them mutters something so I decide not to pry too far into their minds.

"Can you guys stay here for a while? I think one of my friends might have been hurt and I'll need your help."

SETO'S POV

"Chapter One. Long back when, deep in the caves of Elipsia grew an ancient dark power as old as the universe itself." I read, "a power so ancient and so dark that it would consume anyone who even went near it. One day it would darken the world. One day it would blacken the souls of billions." I turn the page again, "It started as a disease, it possessed and it tore until it found a host, making them stronger, better, darker-"

"Help me!" Shouts Sky in my mind.

"-in the soul of a human, a diplomat-"

"Stop reading that fairy tail shit!"

I jolt bolt upright up in my chair and rush over to the teleporter on the wall.

"Take me to Sky.... Take me to Sky...." I think and soon enough I was standing in a crowded street in front of two guys with Sky standing next to them.

"I can explain everything! They saw it Seto! There was a giant explosion and- and- I think Mitch was there." He gasps.

I stare at him blankly. Process words.

"We need to go there. Now. Mitch could be in trouble or worse, dead." I command them, "You, with the glasses. Where did you see the explosion? We need facts."

"Well um. It was right in the middle of the city um and I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to go there." Glasses guy stutters.

"Well that's right where we need to go."

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Edit 11.11.18

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