Firestarter

prologue

The first Firestarters appeared around 1672 in a small town named Salem, Massachusetts. Seventeenth century Massachusetts Bay inhabitants had a strong belief in the church, meaning they also believed in the Devil. These people called themselves "Puritans." They believed there were those who were chosen to go to Heaven, and those doomed to burn in Hell.

Elizabeth and James Howe were a couple living in Salem, and they had six children. One of their daughters, Gemini, was ten years old when the Salem Witch Trials began. She claimed she felt as if she were being pricked by pins, she fainted often, and overheated quickly. Her parents took her to several doctors who told them "she was under an evil hand." Her condition continued for two more weeks and she eventually died in her sleep. When her parents tried to wake her up in the morning, her body caught fire. The raging flames engulfed the house, killing all the kids and Elizabeth's husband.

The villagers panicked and decided there was only one way to cleanse the town of the evil spirits. To make matters worse, Elizabeth was accused of practicing witchcraft and was hung along with 11 others in the gallows. This was only the beginning of the crisis that began in 1672. The witch trials were a series of court cases, planned in order to attempt to solve the unknown phenomenons occurring in the town. People were hung, burned, and drowned in the harbor. The townspeople figured that if they killed those they believed to be evil, then the devil would eventually leave them alone.

Due to Gemini's case, other children and adults with dates found on their wrists were locked in a stable, left to live in poor conditions. They were rarely fed and many died, all on the days the numbers on their wrists proclaimed. Chaos broke out. The remaining people in the stable teamed up together in order to plot an escape. They knew they could no longer be inhabitants of Salem, and they would have to find a way to run away before they died or were executed. They called themselves the Firestarters due to the fact that they all seemed to share one thing in common: the ability to create flames from the palms of their hands. They figured they were minions of the Devil.

Deeply religious, they accepted their fate and began to create a plan to take over the town and eliminate the executions and trials being held. They burned the stable to the ground with combined powers. Those stuck inside escaped through the flames, unaffected by the excessive heat. Multiple buildings in Salem were singed, burned, or bombed. Each Firestarter played a part in the uprising.

If one were to go to Salem today, the grass where structures once stood still smokes and spits as a reminder of the history the poor town endured. The leftover shrubbery is scorched charcoal black. New life never grows where those noble buildings once laid their foundations. A group called "The Hunts" was formed against the Firestarters, created soley to hunt them down. They drained them of power by shooting them with special freeze guns, made exactly for ending their existence. Eventually, all the Firestarters were found and killed, leaving a flaming scar on history. The phenomenon never occurred again .... Until now.

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