I'm laying on asphalt with ringing in my ears. My entire body is hot and my head is throbbing. My vision is blurry, but I can feel my glasses skewed across my face. I feel wetness on my arms and chest, like I'm laying in water or a puddle.
Through my blurred vision I can see a large ball of light. A fire maybe? I try to clear my thoughts and figure out what's going on.
The throbbing dulls and my vision begins to clear. The light is indeed a big ball of fire, but it's coming from a large white box?
I look around and I see large pieces of metal debris everywhere, and nearby a bunch of yellow metal barrels laying on their sides.
I follow the barrels to see a large company truck, with the sides blank. The front of the truck was smashed in, with the windshield completely shattered.
My eyes widen as I remember. I was in a car crash. With my family. Oh shit, Ami. Is she ok? Where is she?
Panicked, I search the area, or as much as I can while laying down. I saw that the door where I was sitting was open. Through it, I can see her.
My little sister. Bloody, in a car seat that's just a little too small for her. With eyes half open, and a jaw hanging low, I realize she's gone.
There was a man in the truck, and he carelessly got out and fell to the pavement. I didn't see him hit the ground, but I heard glass shatter. He cursed. I see him stand up and stumble to the car with my deceased family inside. He looked at the damage and cursed again. "At least no one can say it was me." His words were slurred and heavy.
He looks around and sees me, noticing I'm awake. ”Fuck," he says. The man stumbles and falls a few feet away. He crawls the rest of the way and gets his face too close to mine. Yeah. You can smell the alcohol on his breath.
"Hey kid," he says. "Hey, you know what happened right? Well, it's gonna be ok kid, alright? I'm gonna take care of everything." He gets up and frantically looks around, searching for something. His head locks onto something and rushes to grab it. He picks up what looks to be a large piece of metal with a jagged edge. He pokes the tip with his finger and winces. He nodded at himself then side-eyes me. "Look kid I'm gonna make this as painless as possible, but I can't make any promises."
He walks back to me and raises the metal above his head.
But as he was about to plunge the metal into me, the family car exploded. He was standing nearest to the car, so the explosion sent him flying over me, knocking the metal blade from his hands. The blade found its way into a barrel and sliced into it, lodging itself into it.
Flames from the car were leaping far and wide, reaching the puddle that I lay in. As it got closer, I realized that this puddle led to a nearby barrel, leaking a fluid that could very well be flammable.
And as luck would have it, I was right.
As soon as the flame touched the pool, the flame danced across the surface quickly engulfing me in fire.
I scream in surprise, and start flailing around, thinking I'm about to die. The adrenaline has kicked in and I'm climbing to my feet, still flailing my arms around. But something's not right.
In my panic, I slowly start to realize that I'm not hurting. I feel no pain whatsoever. I can feel the heat, but not the burning sensation that I figured would come with being on fire.
I look at my arms and hands to reveal that the cuts and gashes have started to heal. The blood dried, the skin began to mend together. What was going on?
"Oh god," the man says. I turn to look at him, and he's staring at his hands. He appears to have sobered up a little. It seems that as the metal was flown from his grip, it sliced open his hands. He looks up in pain and sees me on fire. He turns pale and scrambles to his feet to run.
I have to stop him! I think to myself. I reached out my hand to try and grab him, but he was already out of my reach. I reach out a farther and a jet stream of flames comes rushing out of my hand, but instead of looking like a flamethrower stream, it's more malleable. I could feel it wrapping itself around my hand, comfortably resting in my palm. The other end wraps around the man, and he screams in pain.
I panicked, never really have hurt anyone before. I gripped the fire and pulled it towards me. I don't know what happened though, because he was sent flying back towards me, like he was paper. I ducked and he sailed right over my head. The stream of flame retracted back to me as the man landed on the metal blade.
His screams were enough to give me nightmares, high pitched and full of agony. Hearing his screams makes me grow cold and the fire starts to die out. I hear sirens in the distance and I realize that this may not be the best place to be when the police show up.
I take a look at the barrels and memorize the logo on them. A picture of a crow with its wings spread wide and a conical glass in the middle.
I took a second to see where the sirens were coming from, and ran in the opposite direction.
As I make my way home, the fire around my body dies out completely. After what seems like ages, I finally make my way through the front door, and the adrenaline finally starts to wear off. The shock of the recents events hits me full force. My knees buckle and I fall. I begin sobbing as I mourn the loss of my parents and sister. And I just stay there, crying until I pass out.