Pant, pant, pant
"We are back home. I am pretty sure no one is here anymore. It's been more than three years since we left, and I don't see anyone." Asher lays down exhausted from all the running; his sibling follows soon.
"What happened to Mom and Dad?" Dalia asks
"I don't know, but I think they are together." Asher, feeling a deep sadness in his heart, tries his best to not show his feelings to his siblings.
"Ok, now we need food. I am tired of eating only bread and water." Amadi whines to Asher.
"Don't worry; remember we have a secret stash of food beneath our home," Asher remembers his family hiding food beneath his room.
Asher and his siblings cautiously walk into the now-empty town. They start to see the once-colorful town become dull; the smell of death still roams everywhere. Most of the bodies were already decomposed or eaten by animals, making the area now growing a lot of nature.
Asher sees his old home, carefully opening its door. Entering and creeping at each corner to see if there is anyone there. After seeing that no one is there, he calms down and starts to find the food supply.
"Amadi and Dalia, find me a shovel, but be careful; you don't know what might happen," Asher orders them.
"On it," they both proclaim.
Amadi and Dalia leave Asher's vision, leaving him alone with his thoughts, reflecting on his parent's death. The thought moves him; the burning inside only expands due to that thought. Asher started to calm down, feeling more relaxed, feeling that everything was going to be ok.
"What the fuck happened? Why am I bleeding?" Asher sees a large, glowing yellow knife piercing his stomach.
"Another survivor?" A mysterious voice asks.
"Oh shit, am I going to die? Why won't the blood stop?" Asher felt his consciousness fading away.
"Ahhhh!!! Brother!! Help!!" Dalia screams with everything she has.
I am sorry; I caused this. Asher loses consciousness.
…
"When the lights shut off and it's my turn to settle down, my main concern is to promise that you will sing about me." A figure sitting down beside a campfire starts singing.
Asher notices how much the environment changed. His environment is at night, a large campfire with a figure sitting on a rocking chair, singing; the large forest is opposite the destroyed town he was now in.
"Where are my siblings!!?"
"Wow, you don't need to be angry. You need to find a use for the gift that I bestowed upon you to help the people around you. The fire inside you is a gift from me. Well, I bestowed it to an early version of me, but one day you will understand." K. grabs the fire inside Asher to show it.
"Wait, so you are me? How does that work? I don't want a gift; I want to protect my siblings!!" Asher ignores the fire to directly attack K..
"Damn Ink took all of your intelligence. Wait, no, that's next? Fuck! Ahh? Forget anything that you heard, but stop asking and just become strong. That's all, bye." K. starts to fade away.
"What, don't disappear! I need answers." The world around Asher starts to disappear.
…
"You fucker!!"
Boom!
Asher releases a large fire around him, causing the knife to explode.
Asher feels the fire that was once inside of him consume his body. The feeling leads to Asher only thinking about saving the people he cares about.
Asher leaves his room, seeing the enemy with a knife inside the stomach of both of his siblings. Asher feels a large surge of anger seeing his entire body get consumed by the ever-increasing fire.
Help
Asher runs towards the enemies, charging with his fist; the closer he gets to the enemy, the stronger the fire inside of his fist becomes.
Boom!
Asher gets blinded by the explosion, but his body moves by itself towards the other enemy. The enemy managed to dodge his attack. Asher finally sees again, seeing how the entire head of the enemy was destroyed by his attack.
Asher, full of rage, goes and starts attacking without a clear plan. He misses most of his attacks. The enemy manages to stab Asher with a knife, yet nothing manages to impact him. In reality, all of the attacks have an opposite attack, making it even stronger.
Boom!
Asher manages to fake out the enemy, landing a good uppercut, and blowing his entire head off. Asher feels the power die out; the fire now becomes a strong urge to nurture his own.
"Dalia, Amadi! Are you ok?" Asher starts to panic, only seeing the blood of his sibling pour out.
"Don't die on me; please don't leave me alone!!" Asher, crying, tries his best to stop the blood by putting his hand on the wound.
The fire that consumed him started to flow into the body of his siblings. Stopping their bleeding and taking the blood they lost, purifying it, and putting it back into their bodies.
"Thank you." Both of his siblings go to sleep as a side effect.
"You are fine. I am so happy. What just happened? Why did it happen to me? I was just stabbed, and now I am here?" Asher also felt a side effect of the burn.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"What is happening? Dalia, Amadi, hurry up, wake up, let's run away. They are here to get us." Asher tries his best to wake them up, but all his attempts become futile.