Blaze

Chapter 14-The flame within

Blaze woke up early in the morning after having a nightmare about Silver who now called himself Flame. She remembered what happened the previous night and because of what happened, she realized that her life would be changing forever with Silvers newfound power.

After getting ready for the day Blaze quickly made her way to the city. When she got close to the city she saw flashing blue and red lights. She had no idea what it was, nor did she care that much, all that mattered to her was getting to Chris and telling him about what happened last night.

When Blaze came into view of the store, she saw something that confused her a bit. Instead of seeing the sidewalk with a few people walking around, she saw white cars surrounding the store, then she realized the blue and red flashing lights were coming from the cars. That's when she saw the word "police" written on the sides of the vehicles. Blaze started to worry about what was going on so she ran to the store but when she was a few feet away from the door she saw yellow police tape around the store, and on the tape it said "police do not cross".

She looked around and noticed some people inside of the store talking, they were all wearing their police uniforms. What is going on here? Blaze thought to herself. She ignored the police tape and ducked under it then she walked to the open door of the store, but she noticed the glass on the door was broken and shattered on the ground. As she was looking at the glass a female officer noticed her and walked up to her. "Excuse me." Blaze looked up from the ground to see the female officer standing there looking at her.

"You are not supposed to cross the tape." The officer said to her. "I'm sorry but I have to know where Chris is, he works here." Blaze explained. "May I ask you a few questions miss?" Blaze hesitated before nodding and the officer started to ask her some questions. "How often do you come to this store?" "Everyday." Blaze answered. "How many people work here?" "Well I only know of Chris that works here, he seems to run the whole store on his own. My brother use to work here though, but now I do, I like to help Chris out and make a little of my own money." "I see, I need you to confirm if this is Chris." The officer said. "Come with me."

Blaze followed the officer into the store and towards the front where she saw a large thick white sheet on the ground, but it looked like there was something under the sheet. The officer walked over to the top of it then she lifted the sheet up and pulled it down a little bit, revealing Chris's head. Blaze stared down at his head with wide eyes. He was bleeding badly all over his face, he no longer had any hair and it looked like his face had been burned. It was very difficult for Blaze to even recognize it was Chris.

Blaze put her hand over her mouth, she felt sick to her stomach by just the sight of Chris. She wanted to know what had happened to him, so she started thinking of different things that could have caused this. However, her thoughts were interrupted by the officer. "Someone came in here and killed him not to long ago. We believe he was burned to death. However, there are no signs of anything in the store catching fire. Someone had to of done this to him. My guess is that someone who hated him came in here and somehow burned him to death. There are no signs of anyone else in here though, whoever did it was very good at not leaving a trace."

Blaze turned away from Chris, she couldn't take the sight of seeing him like that anymore. Her only friend and the only stranger that was ever nice to her was dead. Blaze walked to the open door of the store and she stood outside by the broken glass. She thought about how much Chris had done for her and her brother then she looked down. That's when she noticed a piece of broken glass had a black burn mark on it. Blaze bent down to the glass and she picked it up. She looked at the burn mark closely then she saw a fingerprint in it. At that moment Blaze remembered her brother showing her that he had fire powers. I know who did this. Blaze thought to herself before narrowing her eyes.

Flame.

Blaze dropped the piece of broken glass then she took off in a full sprint to the forest. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her so she arrived by her cave quickly. Blaze stood in front of the cave then she looked around.

"Flame!!!!!" Blaze yelled out as loud as she could. "Oh you finally got my name right." A voice said. Blaze turned and saw Flame standing nearby. His outfit had changed to a black trench coat with a red and orange flame design running down the sides and at the end of the sleeves near his hands. There were four pendants on each side of the trench coat in the shape of a flame. They were connected to the ones on the opposite side by a red string across his chest. Under the trench coat he was wearing a black shirt with black pants. His shoes were red heeled boots with a pointed tip that reached his shin.

"Do you like my new outfit? I had it custom made." Flame asked. "I don't care about your stupid outfit! You killed Chris!!" Blaze yelled. "I'm honestly surprised you figured out it was me so fast." Blaze could tell Flame didn't care about killing Chris, and that made her very angry. "You don't even care that he died! Chris was the only person who would help us out when we needed it! He gave us food, water and other supplies to help us live! He even gave you a job at his store! How could you do this?!" Blaze continued to yell.

"I did it because I had to, he would have only slowed me down if I left him alive." Flame explained. "How would he have slowed you down? What are you trying to accomplish?" "He would have slowed me down because you were going to tell him about my new power. If you did he would have trained you harder so you could defeat me. He probably would have seen me as a threat." "You don't know that." Blaze said. "Yes I do." "What are you trying to accomplish by doing this?" Blaze asked again. "I want to make your life miserable like mine was. Killing Chris was only the first step, and his death won't be the only one, yours will come." Flame threatened.

Blaze took a step back without saying a word. "I'll come back for you, mark my words, you will suffer like I did." Flame turned and walked off deep into the forest.

Blaze watched him leave then she thought about him killing Chris. Instead of being overwhelmed with sadness she was overwhelmed with nothing but anger. Blaze narrowed her eyes at the thought of Flame being so careless then she bawled her hands into fists.

"You will regret everything you've done today Flame! I won't let you hurt anyone else!" Blaze yelled out then she sighed. "He has really changed, and that means I need to change." Blaze walked inside of the cave.

"I have a lot of work to do."
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