Sparks by Finley Chow

Author:Finley Chow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RhetAskew Publishing
Published: 2022-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

MR. GRIMM AND his lackeys were backed against the walls as if stuck to flypaper, their eyes reflecting the curling red corona of a ruined hospital bed. I must have looked like the devil himself, walking through the flames, rising out of hell to condemn their souls. While I had no intention of going that far I did want them to pay for what they had done to me. How dare they treat me like an exotic animal to be poached and plundered. They would not soon forget their mistakes.

“Now,” I drawled, my words curling like crashing waves, “who wants to be burned alive first?”

Mr. Grimm did not show any sign of fear, but his eyes were darting around like black beetles looking for a way out of the mess he made. How badly I wanted to make him show his terror. I longed to make him kneel before me and beg for his pitiful life. It would be so easy to make that a reality if I just—No! I chided myself, giving myself a mental slap on the wrist. The beast had gotten clever, slipping into my thoughts as a seamless extension of myself. If it played tame, it could get close enough to whisper its horrible desires. Its forked tongue tickled the inside of my ear, hissing terrible little thoughts straight into my brain. I would not be so easily fooled though. I was not asea in an ocean of impressionable uncertainty anymore. I knew who I was.

“You have five seconds to run,” I warned, conjuring a sparking fireball the size of an apple in my hand.

No one moved, their feet stuck in place and their mouths agape like deer staring down a speeding car. I squeezed my fingers so that the fire sputtered and spat bursts of flame and arcing sparks. Like lighting the wick of a firecracker, I sent them into motion. Mr. Grimm jerked into action, wrapping his talons of hands around Dahlia and used her to propel himself to the far side of my bed and to the exit beyond. John and Dahlia followed like lemmings, stampeding in their desperation to get out. The door slammed behind them with a resounding bang, leaving Amanda and I in silence.

I stood where I was atop the smoldering hospital bed. The flames licked against my legs, snaking up my limbs like burning pythons. There was no pain, instead the sensation was one of pleasant warmth on my skin that made my toes curl. The power was an intoxicating thing, an ambrosia of the gods never meant to pass mortal lips. My vision was an aurora borealis of glowing gold. A smile lifted my lips and I took a deep breath of before snapping my hand closed, the inferno around me snuffing out in an instant.

“Now that is the Brian I remember,” someone said.

I turned around, momentarily shocked by the invasive noise. I had gotten so caught up in the moment, I forgot Amanda was still there. Yet she was sprawled on her hospital bed, her body language causal despite her being strapped down.

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