Fire creates things and yet fire destroys things.
Fire has been one of the most important things humanity has ever discovered, from a simple lamp to a red laser light that kills cancer cells and saved millions of human life, it all comes from the main idea, heat.
A million years ago, a hairy man sitting inside a cave was trembling due to the cold wind passing through the cave's entrance while the cave's moist surface continues to tickle his arched back and bigfoot. This guy has a long low skull, small more primitive teeth, and a large face. Every part of his body is screaming 'I'm a Homo Erectus b*tch' that scientists discovered to be living millions of years ago.
His big eyes looked at the entrance of the cave warily, he knew that once 'something' enters this small cave he's in, his crude stone handaxe won't be able to protect his currently weak state. It's been 3 days now since he ate any kind of food and it's also the third day since those "small water drops" kept pouring outside prohibiting him from searching for any food thus leading to his current pitiful state.
"Crash! Rumble!"
The cave reverberated from the thunder wave along with the sounds of lightning hitting something near. He stumbled to stand, he is more afraid of the cave collapsing burying him inside than dying from the freezing temperature outside. As he walks to the entrance of the cave the rain suddenly stopped, and there he saw the discovery that changed the course of mankind's development forever, fire.
Many said humans great ancestors discovered fire, but what if, fire discovered humans? And was put there intentiona-
"You have the fire, right?"
Kyle stopped walking as he looked back at the girl following her. It's the same girl wearing the panda hood and a blue skirt, this time though instead of hate you can see a glint of curiosity in her emerald eyes.
"…What's your name kid?"
He asked.
"Nascia Schiavone."
She said with her eyes blinking as she also stopped walking.
'Italian name… If I look closely she has some Italian features…'
"Listen here, kid. I only asked for a light, I don't know and I don't care where you'll use that pyro mini of yours but if you don't stop following me you'll end up as another 'horrible accident at the back skirt of NYC' headline. Go back now kid before I call the police to deliver you back to your momma."
He said as he ignored her reaction and continued walking down the empty back street to his apartment.
"…I have no mama!"
She said irritation obvious from her voice but she still followed Kyle or to be specific 'she's going in the same direction' as Kyle.
'How does this guy knows I have a mechanical pyro inside my bag?'
She asks herself, carefully inspecting the strange guy in front of her.
'No one cares if you have no mama girl…'
He sighed inside as he ignored the curious girl. He knew that the girl can protect herself from the back street of NYC for he experienced the unbelievable force from her punch earlier.
'And why should I worry about her, tsk what a waste of energy.'
Time passed quickly as Kyle reached his apartment. The apartment he's staying in has 3 floors with 3 rooms on each floor. He saw the girl talking to the apartment's owner, probably paying for a stay. He climbed up a floor above then stopped at the second room. He picked up two pieces of hairpin hidden at the pot of devil's plant in the bottom as he reached for his doorknob.
"Clack."
A clacking sound came from the door as it is now open. He left the hairpin at the pot again as he inspects his room.
3 pieces of black jeans, a white t-shirt, and boxers can be seen at the top right corner of the room, 2 identical pink uniforms with the "Badger Burger" logo on them were hanged at the window. Besides personal things like towels and toothbrushes located in the small bathroom, there's nothing much inside as the mattress and pillow were the property of the land's owner.
"Welcome back."
He muttered as he took off his outdated black shoes, socks, and everything else besides his boxers. Shortly he hit the mattress with a 'bang' then began typing the pin he got earlier to his phone.
[Ding! You received 187$ from a blue pin X1079•••••••••!]
[Bank Money - 652,234$ Withdraw Depos-]
He shut his phone down as his eyes closed and his mind began its adventure to the void…
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Walking inside a crumbling balcony, every step I take feels like an illusion as an unknown force kept pulling me back to where I started. I shiver as the cold breeze touched my cheeks, sounds of laughter can be heard coming from every possible direction as the force becomes stronger. Using all my strength I struggled to strive forward as I saw my skin wrinkling followed by my veins exploding as my limbs grew numb due to decapitation. There I saw her head in front of me, her emerald eyes looked lifeless, as her bleeding head held by a demon approached slowly from the darkness smiling at me.
"Kyle… Kyle. Save m-"
Her head exploded into hundreds of pieces, covering me.
"NOOOOOOO! AHHHH! Haaah! Hah, hah, hah, hah…"
Kyle took a sharp inhale as he smashed his chest violently.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
He coughed forcefully as he saw his red phlegm splatter in the mattress under the bitter moonlight.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!"
There's no time for confirmation as he wears his rusty black shoes and slams the wooden door open. The
"Bam!"
The decayed door immediately collapsed as he picked himself up then ran quickly to the floor above.
Thousand of things are running inside Kyle's mind right now, but he does not want the incident 11 years ago to happen to him again. So he just runs with all his might, he has no idea where he's going but his instinct is telling him to slam that first door open. He kicked it hard with his right foot as the door crumbled into dust.
'What the hell? I didn't kick it that strong!'
As the dust settled in, he saw the same panda hooded girl kneeling on the floor with a knife at her hands pointed at her neck, while mumbling something indiscernible.
"F*ck!"
Kyle screamed as he runs as fast as he could kicking the knife out of the girl's hand. her mumbling halted as she looked at the knife in the ground, her eyes crimson red with greenish veins glowing every time she breaths.
"KRAAAA-"
An earth-shattering screech filled the place as every window, glass, and cellphone screen in the vicinity bursts and the whole building quakes. But as soon as Kyle saw the demon's eyes his doubt vanished as he got on its back, wrap his arm around its neck and chokehold it.
It struggled to break free from his clutch, using its hands and fingernails it began scratching Kyle's arm and a portion of his neck but Kyle endured the onslaught of its attack by lowering his head.
The demon realized it couldn't break free easily. Using its elbow, it struck Kyle's side. Once, twice, thrice. Kyle felt his ribs cracking, breaking if he gets hit one more time. He softens his left hands' grip as he waited for the fourth strike. The demon thought he finally got Kyle as he increased the power for this blow. Seeing this, Kyle let go of his right arm, used his right knee as the axis and his left foot as the lever as he slides through the demon's back. Caught in surprise, the demon was a second slower in stopping his elbow from hitting the wall.
"Crack!"
Wall or bones, Kyle has no intention to find out where the sound comes from as he grabbed the back of the demon's head and shoved it at the bed in front.
"Crash! Crack!"
The bed easily broke down as the demon's head crashed directly on the wooden floor creating a hole.
'F*ck! hard hea-.'
"Ack!"
The demon's feet struck Kyle's abdomen as he flies a meter above the ground, blood spurting from his mouth. The demon got back up, rearranged his neck then kicked Kyle's stomach twice.
"Kack!"
Kyle cried out from the pain as he couldn't feel his sides anymore, a couple of his ribs breaking from that blow.
Seeing the human's pained face the demon got excited as it prepared to kick Kyle again. But this time Kyle rolled backward picked up the knife earlier then struck it to the demon's feet!
"GRAAAA!"
The demon cried out as it tried to lift his foot off the ground but it's a pointless struggle as the knife was too deep.
Seeing this Kyle endured the pain from his body as he jumped high at the demon with all his might! He raised his right shoulder to block the demon's swipe as he reached for the demon's head! Using the insane momentum from that swipe he used the head as a 'pole' as he kicked the wall in mid-air and through that power he knee strike the demon at the back of its head!
Shortly, both of them plunged to the floor with a thud as the demon falls unconscious. Everything happened so fast that the fight lasted for less than a minute.
"Hah, hah, hah." Kyle crawled in the ground exhausted. He felt like he just got hit by a truck by the state his body is in right now.
"Shit!" Nevertheless, Kyle has no time to rest, as he knew demons recover insanely fast.
He gathered the iron-tasting blood from his mouth, picked up a small black notebook from the sole of his shoes with indecipherable characters. Using his blood he created a circle on the wooden floor, adding strange symbols to it. At one of the pages of the notebook, he draws a panda with a single horn. His hands floating as he finished the majestic drawing in less than 5 seconds.
Kyle saw the demon's fingers twitching. Scared witless, he put the book inside the circle as he immediately opened the demon's mouth and poured some of the blood from his mouth to her.
Both the demon and the book floated a few inches in the air shaking violently. A few seconds later a blue flame began engulfing the demon as it began screaming, albeit it looked like its screaming as the silence continued permitting the room together with the cold breeze of the night.
Kyle's vision grew blurry. His last memory that night is the fire covering Nascia, as his body finally collapsed to the cold floor. The consequences of his liberty in the battle finally kicking in…