Devil Ash Disarray by Mitchell Olson

Author:Mitchell Olson [Olson, Mitchell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
Published: 2015-12-24T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One: Ash Bounces Back

When Shiva Satan awoke the next morning, silently slipping out of her bed and stealthily strapping on her armor, she did not expect to hear sounds coming from the kitchen. Someone had woken up before her for once. That, or some criminal was breaking in. The girl hoped for the latter as she grabbed her bolas, exited her room and headed downstairs.

To her disappointment, she only found Ash in the kitchen. The human boy wore an apron and bounced around the kitchen floor like a pinball, moving from one area to the next in a hurry. He turned away from the stovetop where he was frying something loud and sizzling in a pan to chop some fruit when he spotted Shiva.

“Oh, hey!” he said. “Good morning! So this is what it feels like to be the first one up, huh? It’s kind of nice. Peaceful, you know? Anyway, take a seat. I’ve got breakfast coming up.”

The boy moved on from chopping fruit to a nearby crockpot where he stirred a gray gravy-like substance. When it was good and mixed, the boy turned his focus to the oven where a loaf of bread was slowly rising, emitting a mouth-watering aroma throughout the kitchen.

“Uh… morning?” said Shiva in utter shock. “Looks like someone slept well last night.” The royal girl took a seat at the formal dining table next to the kitchen where she could still converse with Ash.

“Didn’t sleep a wink,” Ash replied, moving from the bread over to flip the strips of meat in a fry pan on the stove. “I felt way too good to sleep. Those pills Goddard gave me really did the trick. I can’t even believe how good I feel, it’s… hang on.”

Ash lifted the fry pan as a grease fire raged on the stovetop. He pointed his index finger at the flames and conjured a BB-sized fireball, firing it like a bullet at the stove. Within seconds the grease fire was contained. The stove flames shrunk down to the usual size, and Ash set the fry pan down once more.

“How did you do that?” asked Shiva in astonishment at the boy’s technique.

“Oh, that? It’s a simple trick once you get the hang of it. I learned it from Uverstarr, actually.”

“That kid actually taught you something?” Shiva asked, raising her eyebrow.

“Well, not directly, no,” Ash admitted. “I did ask him about it, but I couldn’t really make any sense of his instructions. But I thought about it all last night and I think I’ve finally worked it out. Watch.”

Ash held his palms close together a conjured another fireball. It started small, but the boy took it from tennis ball sized to basketball sized in a flash.

“You can practice by starting with a big fireball,” Ash explained. “I realized that in order to snuff out flames like Uverstarr does, all you have to do is figure out how to suck out all the air from it. So I started doing this.”

Shiva stared at the big glowing orb of flames under Ash’s control.

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