The Creator

chapter 7: the Ember

          I woke up the next morning. I got up and made my breakfast. I was proceeding with my day like any normal day until I got a phone call. I looked at the caller ID and it said it was Amanda 'I wonder what she wants' I thought 'she normally texts me when she wants to talk' I opened the phone and said "hey, it's Lucien" my typical starter when someone calls me. She was breathing heavily, and she sounded panicked from the shakiness in her breath.
          "Amanda what's wrong?" I asked and she whispered "Lucien... I can make fire." I was confused. "What do you mean you can create fire?" I asked. "Like the fire maiden!" She yelled suddenly. She sounded even more panicked and she said "listen, just... just come over here." She hung up the phone. I got dressed and headed out. After I got there, I knocked on the door. Amelia opened it and said "Lucien thank god you're here"
          I walked in and saw Amanda. She was completely freaked out, and I saw why. She had small flames eminating from her body. I used my magic and I could sense it. This was the same power that the fire maiden used. "What the hell is going on!?" She yelled. I walked up to her "I'm not sure how, but you appear to have gained the fire maiden's powers" I answered. She looked at me and calmed down somewhat, but then she said "well what do I do!? I can't control it, and if I cant control it, then people will think im the fire maiden that attacked the school."
          I put my hands on her shoulders and shook her a little bit "don't worry. I understand your concerns, but this is temporary. You just have an overflowing amount of mana from using these powers for the first time. I experienced it too when I first used my powers, I could summon stuff like it was nothing because of the overflowing energy." She nodded "well how long will this last?" She asked, more calm now. "I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure your fear and other negative emotions are perpetuating it. Emotions have a strong control over one's mana"
          She breathed to get herself to calm down. Soon her flames started to fade away, and after a few more minutes, they were gone. I paced back and forth, whispering to myself "how is this possible? Was she given this power by the goddess? What's going on?" I kept asking myself random rhetorical questions, trying to work things out. There was only one person who could answer my questions. I said "let me see if I can talk to the goddess"
          The girls looked at me and Amelia asked "wait, you can do that whenever you want?" I reponded "no, but im gonna try" I told the girls to be quiet as I started meditating. Extending my mana outward trying to project a message. 'Goddess, if you can hear me, let me speak with you' I sat there for four full minutes before passing out.
          I woke up immediately to see the goddess. "Hello Lucien, I'm glad you found a way to contact me" she said with a smile "tea?" She asked, grabbing her teapot. I smiled kindly and said "no thank you, I'm here to ask about Amanda. Do you know how she got those powers?" The goddess set the teapot down and said "when someone with a divine power such as fire, creation, destruction, nature, etc is killed by another person without a divine power, the power is transferred onto them."
          I nodded and asked "so she can do everything the fire maiden could do?" She nodded and replied "although, the fire maiden had 10 years of experience, it will be a long time before she can achieve what Agnimitra did." I raised an eyebrow and asked "agnimi- what?" She took a sip of tea and said "Agnimitra was her real name, I orignally gave her the power of fire, but then she turned evil"
          After that, she let me go and sent me back. I woke up and looked at them "well it worked... the goddess said that you gained the power of fire by killing Agnimitra" the girls looked confused. Before they could ask I said "it's the fire maidens real name." After that, amanda asked "what do we do now?" And then I replied "well that depends, do you want to use your powers to help me?" She nodded with a determined look "then lets get to training!" I said with a smile.
          We went to my car and we drove about 45 minutes away to a clear, rural area where nobody would see us. Amelia came along to watch. We walked out to the gass and I said "before you use your powers, you have to understand mana and how to use it efficiently. If I knew how to better use my mana at the beginning then I would have advanced much faster."
           She looked at me, prepared to listen. "Your mana is your life force, all living creatures have it as far as I can tell. It is like your soul, and magic is like a manifestation of that soul. The energy originates from your heart. Much like your blood, your heart is constantly pumping put mana. This mana is typically expelled through just existing, but people like you and me have extra mana which we can use. To use this mana you need to imagine your heart like a pool of energy and the veins that your blood flow through fill up with this energy untill it extends through out your whole body. After that, all it takes is throwing it outwards and that should create some fire. Although, to use it efficiently, you need to learn how to control your output. However, for now just see if you can use it at all"
          We stood back to let her try. She closed her eyes like she was trying to visualize what I told her. She extended her hand forward and a huge gust of flames were sent outward "holy crap! You did it amanda!" Amelia said, astonished. Amanda stood there for a few seconds before falling over and passing out. "What was that?" Amelia asked. I walked over to her saying "she has a very small potential output of mana, so she used it all in that one blast.
          After she woke up, she trained on how to use smaller gusts of fire so that she could be more efficient. We proceeded to train in this place for the next several days. One day, on our way back, we heard an explosion. I hurried and created my gear in additon to masks for the both of us. I then started driving. As we headed to the commotion I asked Amanda "what's your name?" She raised an eyebrow and I continued. "they are gonna assign you a name if you dont give them one so you risk having a bad name to be known by, so what's your name?" She thought for a second and replied "the ember..."

A/n hey guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter, let me know if you caught any of the foreshadowing for this, like amanda's last name "emberly"

As i promised here are the shoutouts

mnesotha
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