Isaac

I sat with my back to the wall as the two fought. So many things went through my head, mostly what’s going on and why Jace started to act like an asshole. I sighed as I looked at the vortex.

“Sorry Jace, but you can’t win against the wrath of the sun.” I muttered. I saw the vortex flicker a bit and someone shot out of it and slammed into the wall. The being fell onto the ground as I looked at Jace, he had embers coming off him and his eyes glowed like flames. He walked towards me and looked at me.

“Have you calmed down yet?” he asked. I just stared at him.

“Stay away from me.” I said through gritted teeth as I clutched my stomach. He sighed at sat down in front of me. He looked over at the being and pointed at it.

“You, stay there.” he said as he looked at me. “You… you are making things so difficult.”

“Says the man who nearly killed me.” I growled at him. He rolled his eyes at me.

“You wouldn’t have died, broken bones sure but death no.” he shook his head. “Look I understand you’re angry, being thrown into a world much different than your own would piss a lot of people off but what I was trying to do is to burn that anger down but well.” he looked at the being. “Your mother had one hell of a safeguard.

I opened my mouth to speak but a spike of pain shot through me. Jace sighed and raised his hand. I saw embers floated off of him and sink into me. I felt the pain, melt away which confused me. I saw him grunt a bit as he spat out some blood.

“Hate when that happens, so what were you trying to say?” he asked.

“Your method of help needs an update. I'm don't despise my mother to point of hate, I'm angry because the fucker who sent me here did something to me and now the only emotion I feel is anger.” I told him. He blinked at me and looked closer.

“Oh now I see, hold on.” he put his hand on his ear. “Oi, get in here, training room six.”

After a few moments the door open and a large man walked in. He looked around before looking at us.

“What the hell happened here? Trying to burn the place down?” he said. Jace shrugged.

“Isaac Parker, met Gascoigne my second in command and what not.” he introduce to me. I looked at him as the man, Gascoigne, crossed his arms. “But I think you know him as the ‘God of Chaos’ Discord.”

The man frowned and looked at him. “You know I don’t like that name.” I didn’t pay much attention at that.

I decided to silent as I saw the manifestation of my mother look at me in worry. The man leaned in close to me, his yellow eyes looked at me that remind me of the Mad king but yet, different.

“I know what spell he’s under but if you were thinking I can dispel it I can’t, Chaos can only be taken off by the user or the victim breaks it.” he said. Jace looked at me with a straight look.

“So, do you know how to break it?” Jace asked. Gascoigne looked away and looked like he became annoyed.

“Yes.” he said.

“Well…” Jace rolled his hand as if he was trying something. The man sighed at this.

“He needs to remember the good old times when he’s not angry.” He said. He looked at Jace as he stared back. “I wasn’t right in the head alright, it’s a dumb spell that I won’t use for a long time.”

“Right so…” Jace looked at me. “Try and think happy thoughts.”

“I'll need time for that, I'm not that good in remembering certain things.” I told them as I rubbed the back of my head. Jace sighed and stood up.

“Well there’s no real point sitting here, come on let’s go somewhere more comfortable.” he said. He came over and picked me up. “Let’s go grumpy.”

We walked/hobbled over to the door. I looked back at the manifestation as it stared at me before flickering out of existence. When it did I felt some kind of warmth corse around me. We continued out of the room and walked down a hallway into another room. It was a bit nicer than the other room as he set me down on a couch. I looked around and saw a lot of books, weapons and other stuff. I also felt very uneasy about this place.

Discord, or Gascoigne or whatever his name is, walked over to a board with flyers and took one of them. He walked over and grabbed an axe looking thing and headed out. I watch him go before a cup was put in front of me.

“This will help with the healing.” Jace said. I took the cup and watched him started to do stuff. I took a sip of the stuff and, slowly, felt a bit better.

“Thanks.” I muttered. He was working on something before he put his hand on his ear. He nodded and looked back at me.

“Sorry, I have to do something right now, I’ll be back in a bit.” he turned to walk away but stopped. “If the thing works it will help sending you back.” And with that he was gone.

I muttered a bit as I sip at the drink. I looked around at the room and took in everything in here. The books, the weapons, the fireplace, the pair of glowing eyes looking at me, the-... wait. I looked back at the eyes as someone was staring at me.

“Hello!” the being said.

“Ah!” I yelped in surprise, reeling back from where I sat. The being that was staring at me was a small girl with dark orange hair and yellow/orange eyes. She wore a black t-shirt and some shorts. She blinked a few times at me.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.” she said. Taking a deep breath, I exhaled with a sigh.

“It's fine.” I said. The girl walked over and sat beside me on the couch.

“You sure? You’re still somewhat jumpy.” she said.

“Really I'm fine, you just caught me by surprise.” I said, giving her a smile. She narrowed her eyes at me.

“Okay, you're not jumpy but still angry, why is that?” she asked. I opened my mouth to answer but stopped. How does she know about me being angry?

“It's nothing you should be worrying about, life problems and all that.” I said to her. She looked at me for a moment before realizing something.

“Ugg! I did it again!” She looked at me with a sad look. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean too.”

“You didn't do anything wrong to apologize for.” I said, tilting my head to the side. She looked away, shifting uncomfortably.

“Well, I was told reading emotions is somewhat rude yet I slip up at times so…” her expression turned to more sad and she couldn’t met my gaze.

“You can read emotions?” I said in confusion. “Neat.”

“It’s not so neat when others get a bit annoyed at you for it. It’s like reading other people's thoughts.” Her expression turned sour. “Good thing I don’t do that, that would be dumb. Just the idea of it… blarg.”

“At least you have an ability that is basically harmless.” I said as the tip of my thumb lit ablaze. Her expression changed to wonder as she looked at the flame.

“Oooo, that's cool~.” she blinked a few times and looked away. “Ermm well… it’s not really harmless…” She shifted a bit and looked at me. “Have you ever heard of a… emotion overload?”

“Can't say I have.” I answered.

“Well… in simple terms I can overload someone with an emotion that they act out to whatever I’m feeling. It only happened once and…” she pulled her knees up to her. “It wasn’t pretty.”

“I'm sure it wasn't your fault.” I told her.

“It wasn’t!” she yelled. Her expression softened a bit. “Well… maybe it was I don’t know, I just felt angry at the guy. It sucks to be reminded that I’m parentless.”

“I know the feeling.” I sighed out.

“You do?” she asked me.

“Yeah, I lived the majority of my childhood as an orphan before the orphanage burnt down, leaving me in the streets.” I said in a calm tone.

“Well, one way to warm up for the holidays.” she said with a grin. I snorted at that. “So… did you ever find your parents?”

“I found my mom but I always wonder if I shouldn't have.” I said with a simple nod.

“What do you mean by that?” she asked.

“Well for starters, she left me without a note on why. That was the thing that bothered me my whole life. Even now that questions still plagues my mind.” I said, closing my eyes.

“Well, at least you seen her. That counts for something.” she looks away from me and sighed. “I’m still looking.”

“I don't doubt that you'll find them.” I said. She looked at me for a moment.

“You know, I don’t really want to see my mom. I have a feeling that I won’t be able to but… I want to see my dad.” She curled up a bit. “I really do…”
I don’t know why but I pulled her into a hug. She was surprised at first but hugged me back, she somewhat reminded me of myself when I was younger. After a moment she pulled away and wiped her eyes.

“Thanks, I needed that.” she said with a smile.

“My pleasure.” I replied. At that moment I realised that I didn’t feel all that angry anymore. “Hey, can you check my emotions again?”

“Umm sure?” she asked me. She stared at me which made me uneasy, it was like she was staring into my soul. Her head tilted to the right a bit. “Huh, I don’t feel any anger. Is that normal?”

I smiled at her. Whatever that asshole did is now gone. “Yeah, it normal. Hey I don’t even know your name.”

“Never asked, well I’m Stella!” she stuck her hand out. I took it and shook it.

“I’m Isaac Parker.” I replied. We sat there in silence until I heard a door opened. I saw Jace walked out muttering to himself.

“Sure~ tried to warn him that try to time sync two realities would destroy both of them but does he listen, no~.” he continued muttering, not noticing us staring at him.

“Is he… okay?” I asked Stella.

“I think so, I feel that he’s frustrated about something. I guess he came back from another world.” she answered. I nodded and looked back at Jace. Then something made me do a double take.

“Wait, did you say, another world?” I asked.

“Yeah, I don’t know much but he’s someone that has the power to go to other worlds without a rift. There’s supposedly others that can do the same thing.” she explained some more. I looked back at Jace and thought back to see the other Celestia. So… there’s more of her?

I saw him put up some pictures up onto the board. I moved a bit to see what they say.

When he was done he turned around and saw us staring at him. “When do you two get here?”

“We were here before you came!” Stella said. Jace looked at her and nodded.

“Right…” was all he said. I looked down at the half filled cup in my hands. “Hey, you alright?”

“Yeah, I'm fine.” I answered. I placed the cup on the table in front of me. “Better even.” Saying this, I was greeted with a look from the man. His eyes went dark for a second before raising an eyebrow.

“I don't sense and chaos so I guess when I was gone you broke the spell.” he said with a smile. I only nodded my response.

“I guess talking to someone with a similar dilemma helped in some way.” I told him, shrugging my shoulders as I did.

“Really.” his eyes went over to Stella for a second and back to me.

“Hey! He can also do some cool fire stuff too!” she said with a grin. Jace snorted at that.

“I've already seen that first hand.” he said with a playful tone.

“He’s like one of those fire dancers!” Stella said.

“A what?” I asked.

“Wait, you don’t know what a fire dancer is?!” Stella asked. I looked over at Jace for something.

“A fire dancer is a performer, one that uses fire in their performance.” this got him to lean in a bit. “How much do you know about fire magic?”

“Fire magic?” I said in confusion.

“Yeah, fire magic it’s… wait, can you tell me how your worlds magic work. Don’t go into very much detail, the cliff notes will do.”

“If I remember correctly, magic has eight different categories. Illusion, Alteration, Destruction, Conjuration, Restoration, Mysticism, Thaumaturgy, Enchanting. I may be wrong so don't quote me on that.” I said to him. He nodded at this.

“I see, that’s some of the basic magic schools, though normally Elemental is one of them.” he said.

“Well, they aren't where I'm from.” I told him.

“Right, well since you told me that I have to give something back so... “ he raised his hand up and let it sit there. nothing happened for a minute before I saw a flame corse up his arm and into his hand. The flames didn’t seemed to burn him.

“There’s many schools of magic here but they can be settled into some groups, Elemental, Arcane, Dark, and Light.” he nodded to the flame. “Fire magic or just having the ability to control fire falls under Elemental.”

“Well there's a reason why I'm the only one with these abilities and to be honest, it's both highly unbelievable and defies everything I've been taught in science.” I said with a chuckle.

“Well that’s the thing with magic, you know one thing then find out that it’s another.” He leaned back in his chair. “Do you hate these powers?”

“No, I never did and probably never will.” I answered him.

“I see, most of the fire users I met say that if you hate it they will bite back at you, the whole fire reacting to your emotions that sort of thing.” he explained. He paused for a moment before looking at me. “Odd question but how much… training and understanding on your flame do you have?”

“Understanding as is in…” I said, waiting for him to finish my sentence. He leaned back a bit and shifted.

“Oh boy, he’s going mentor mode.” Stella whispered to me. this earns her a glare from Jace.

“In all my travels, I learned that fire based magic is both easy yet hard. It’s easy to pick up and start throwing fireballs around and what not but, it’s hard to master. Understanding fire is to understand both life and death.” he explained. I blinked a few times.

“You had me but then you lost me.” I said. He chuckled a bit and opened his hand, the fire came together into his hand as a simple flame.

“Every being in the world, in all worlds, have a spark of fire in them. You ever wonder why mortals are so interested in fire, that’s because in the beginning there was no fire, there was no magic, the world wasn’t black and white, only gray.” He moved his hand around the flame as it died down. I only raised an eyebrow before he continued and once he started, I began playing with the fire in my hand.

“Just gray, for who knows how long which lasted until one moment, in that moment there was a spark and a small flame was born.” he lift his hand and there was just a small flame. “You know what happened to the one who found this flame?”

“Huh?” I muttered, snapping my gaze back to Jace. He didn’t look happy.

“Am I boring you?” he asked.

“When you put it like that, yes, yes you are.” I answered him truthfully. He sighed and closed his hand. He muttered a bit under his breath.

“Okay, let’s try this; fire is both the life bringer and the destroyer. You can’t have one without the other, without fire there’s is no life.” he said quickly. It took me a moment to realize something.

“You know if we're from different worlds, than what you have just said is basically utter bullshit where I'm from. No offense.” I said to him.

“Swear jar!” Stella said. I looked at her as she smiled. I looked back at Jace and he just looked at me.

“What is fire to you?” he simply asked.

“To me fire is my rage, my hate, my anger, my friend, my ally, my passion and my creativity. Fire is many things to me but I like to call it my guardian angel.” I said, arms crossed. Jace looked at me and chuckled.

“You said what I just said doesn’t apply to your world yet, you just prove it does.” I looked at him confused. “The thing about fire is that you… kinda can’t teach someone to understand fire, they need to learn that for themselves, for you it’s a guardian angel, for me it’s a cycle that never ends, each and everyone has their own view on it.” he explained.

“Right.” I told him.

“Also you’re sitting in front of me so you do have some knowledge on not blowing yourself up.” he quickly said. I rolled my eyes at this.

“Umm, what are your abilities?” Stella asked. We both looked at her for a moment. “What? I’m curious.”

“What about my abilities?” I asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Well, you have fire… whatever, but what can you do with it?” she asked.

“A lot of things actually. For instance, I can shoot fire out of the palm of my hand, act as a torch, engulf myself in fire, fly but that needs some work, move the sun and commit arson. I can also manifest weapons but that's a work in progress.” I said. As I talked I saw her eyes grew in wonder.

“Cool~.” was the only thing she said.

“Really, you think it's cool?” I asked, a little surprised. She nodded quickly.

“Yup.” she said with a smile. “I seen others do things with fire but to talk with one, that’s so cool.”

“This is a first, people usually leave me be after calling me a freak.” I said in a surprised tone.. Her expression changed to a confusion.

“Why?” she asked.

“The people back home fear the unknown. When I was around your age, I was considered a mystery, an anomaly who “Shouldn't exist”, but then came others with the same age that often taunted my lack of social skill and often called me freak because I could do this.” I said as I flicked my thumb, causing a spark. The spark landed on the wooden floor and ignited bedside my feet.

“Is that all.” I shushed her as I lowered my hand towards the little flame. Nothing happened and it felt as if the trick wouldn't work until the flame flickered and snapped. It slowly took the form of a child like being and two bright yellow dots acted as the eyes. It blinked before seeing my hand and placing its tiny hand onto mine before climbing onto it.

“Because of this.” I said, holding my hand up as the being in my hands looked at our surroundings. Stella looked at the figure with curiosity.

“What is it?” she asked.

“This is my little buddy.” I answered just as the fiery being stared at Stella and blinked. The two stared at one another for some time, I saw Jace looking at the being with a straight face.

“She was my only friend back when I was little.” I said to her just as a pop was heard. The fiery being in my hand suddenly appeared on Stella. She looked that the being and giggled.

“Hello~,, ” she said.

“Does she have a name?” I heard Jace ask.

“I always called her Wisp, I never knew why.” I told him.

“I see.” he said. Jace looked off away from me before standing up.

“Where you off to?” Stella asked.

“To see if I can get Isaac back home.” he paused and looked at me. “Unless you want to stay for a little longer.”

“I wouldn't mind staying a while longer before heading back.” I said with a small smile.

Jace eyed me for a second. “Right, well I’ll go and see how long to rig up something to help get you home, sure we have means to open rifts and stuff but it’s random and the only way to get the chance to send you back if I been there.”

“You mean I can’t get back?” I asked with a frown.

“I did not say th what I mean is that getting something to help pinpoint your world will take time.” With that said he stood up and walked out of the room.

“He does that all the time, he says something then just goes and do something.” Stella said. I turned to her and saw Wisp sitting crossed legged on her head.

“Wisp seems to really like you.” I said to her. Wisp, after hearing this, flopped head first on Stella’s hair. “She's never this friendly to strangers.” I noted as Stella let out a fit of giggles. Without warning, Wisp jumped off of Stella and landed on the floor without harm before shifting her form.

I smiled at this while Stella looked in awe. Wisp took the chance and climbed up to her before laying across her lap.

“Right, I forgot that Wisp likes to think of herself as a cat. Though she will changed into a variety of different animals, including fictional ones.” I said as I scratched behind Wisps’ ears, earning a purr like response from the fiery animal.

“She reminds my of Stripe.” she said as she pets Wisp.

“A pet of yours?” I asked her. She shakes her head.

“No, he’s Jace's pet, him and Fluffy.” she paused for a moment. “Just to let you know, Fluffy doesn't really work for her as a name.”

“It doesn't matter as long as the one with the name likes it.” I said as I stood up with a grunt. “Is there a place I can eat nearby? I'm hungry.” I asked her.

“Well, there's a few in Fairgate and the closest one is… the Mage’s Tavern.” after she said that I heard a growl from her. Her face turned slightly red.

“What's wrong?” I asked, worried that I might've done something wrong.

“I uhh… forgot to get lunch.” she nervously chuckled. “Uhh, after I do one thing mind if I join you?”

“Sure.” I said with a shrug. Wisp hopped off of Stella and onto the floor before waiting for her. She stood up and headed out the door. I followed to see her now pushing a wheelbarrow full of something black. As I got closer I saw that it was burnt meat and charcoal.

She pushed it around the building, which I got a good look at. It looked like a building decorated for Fright night. It had a nice gothic charm to it. We continued walking until we were in front of a dug out cave in the ground. The size of the entrance made me feel uneasy.

“What is it that you need to do here?” I asked Stella.

“Giving Stripe his lunch.” she said as she pours the stuff in a big bowl. she turns towards the cave and took a deep breath. “CHOW TIME!”

At first, nothing happened. Then I saw a glow from the cave, it grew brighter until something came out. It was large, mean, and smoke was coming off it. It came right to us and stared at us with six glowing eyes.

“Isaac, meet Stripe, Stripe meet Isaac.” Stella greeted us. I quietly stared at the large dog like beast in front of me. Not the weirdest thing I've seen.

“Boop.” I said, giving the snout of the dog a light poke. The dog snorted some flames at me.

“Aww, he likes you.” Stella said. She looked at the dog and pointed at the big bowl. “Chow!.” The dog walked over to it and began to eat. A thought came to me as I watch.

“Didn’t you say Jace has another pet?” I asked.

“Yeah but she can get her own food, you can see her sleeping on top of the Workshop.” Stella said. I glance over at the building and saw a large black mass on top of the building. It was rising and falling as it sleeps.

“A Wyvern, sick.” I said with a grin.

“Yup, anyway Onwards to food!” Stella said with a grin. I chuckled as we headed off into town. As we walked I saw that the town, Fairgate I think she said the name was, looked a lot like Everdale. There was a few buildings that were new but the ones I knew about were in the same spots.

“What’s with the face?” Stella asked me.

“I'm just a little surprised with how similar this town is my hometown.” I answered.

“Huh, I never thought about how similar places are in different worlds.” Stella said. “Say, how is your home?”

“Well, it depends. I have cozy little home with enough space for both me and a friend to live together while still leaving space for me to continue my hobby but because of my mother, I'm allowed to live in the royal palace.” I told her.

“Royal Palace? As in the same palace where the two princesses live?” Stella asked.

“Um, yeah.” I answered her. I watched her put two and two together.

“Your mom works at the Royal Palace?” she asked me.

“Well yeah, royalty works in a palace, right?” I told her. Her eyes went wide.

“Your mom is royalty!” she yelled. This drew some attention to us but I saw the others shake their heads and went back to what they were doing.

“Yes but please don't yell it out.” I said with a groan. She frowned at this.

“Can you blame me? you would yell if you’re talking to someone who said that they are royalty.” she replied.

“I don't consider myself royalty, I'm just a guy who grew up in a small town.” I told her. She opened her mouth then closed it, shaking her head.

“Right, anyway we’re here.” she said. I looked up and saw the building. It was a dark building with a sign with a book open with a knife and fork above it. I saw some tables out front. After waiting for a few minutes a man with ashy blonde hair walked out.

“Hey there, welcome to the Mage’s Tavern.” he said. He looked over at Stella and smiled. “Looks who’s back.”

Stella smiled as the man pulled out a notepad. “I’m guessing you’re going to have the same old huh, that means…” he snapped his fingers and a manu appeared in front of me. “I’ll bring some water as you decide on what you want.”

“Thanks Arctic.” Stella said as he left. We found an empty table and sat down. I took a look at the menu in my hands to see what they had.

After minutes of reading, I decided and placed the menu down.

“So did you decide what to get?” Stella asked me. I nodded just as Wisp came into view before being picked up by the girl.

“The roasted fire salamander sounds neat.” I told her. Arctic came back with some water.

“So ready to order?” he asked looking at me.

“Yeah, the roasted fire salamander.” I said before handing him the menu.

“And what would you like to drink?” he asked as he wrote the order down on his note pad.

“I'll just drink the water.” I said. he nodded and finished writing that down.

“Alright, you will have your food shortly.” he looked up at us and smiled. “You're in luck, the show is about to start.”

Wondering what he means I turned to see a group of people gathering. From where we sat we had a good view of what’s going on. There were some people starting to perform a show, there were jugglers, dancers, a comedy act with two guys, even a boxing match. Stella and I watched the acts and I heard her getting excited by it. Part way through our food arrived, Stella getting a burger with fries and a pop, we ate as we watched.

“I forgot they were here today.” Stella said after swallowing her third bite.

“You've seen them before?” I asked, taking the last bite out of my food.

“Sortof, they are a traveling group that performs in towns all over. I only seen them a few times.” she answered. As she was a quartered way through I saw a woman walked out with two sticks and wearing black pants and shirt.. She had tan skin and cyan coloured eyes. What was notable was her hair, it was intertwined red and yellow pulled into a ponytail. When Stalla saw this she got really excited about. “Ohhhh! You're going to see her!”

“Who's she?” I asked, curious to know.

“She’s…” she stopped for a moment. Her started to look a bit embarrassed. “I uhh, don’t remember her name, I'm not good with names, but she’s a fire dancer.”

“Huh.” I said as I looked back at the woman. She looked around at the crowd and kneeled down. After waited for a minute she slowly stood up, spinning the two sticks. At first I wasn’t that impress but as she spin them the ends of the sticks caught flame. She began to move in clockwork, I watched as she moved the sticks as if they were connected into a staff. She broke them off and spinned them, it was somewhat hypnotic. She looked around and smiled as she started to go faster. Faster and faster until it looked like there was two rings of fire around her arms. She moved around towards the crowd a bit then back, letting them to get a closer look. She threw the rings up into the air and catching them when they fell. Then she did something that surprised me, she threw one of the rings of fire towards the crowned. It hits the ground in front of them and kept on spinning, it went around in circles until there was a ring of fire around her, cutting herself from the crowed. The other ring stopped in her hand as she brought it close to her head, then into her mouth. I heard some gasps in the crowd as she pulled out the stick and smoke came out of her nostrils and mouth.

On the other end of the stick the fire went out as she stand there, hopping in place. She then kneeled down and blew out a wave of fire from her mouth. People cheered and clapped from that.

“Say, can you do that?” Stella asked.

“I very much doubt that I can.” Was my answer.

She did that a few time and after the last one she fanned her mouth a bit before giving the crowed a toothy smile. People laughed at this and she spun her stick and put her hand near her mouth, putting up one finger. Her eyes darted to the side. I narrowed my eyes as I saw something move in the ring of fire. The fire grew in size and formed into more of a serpentine body. The woman turned and she was face to face with a serpent like dragon.

The two of them circled one another, the woman blew out more fire, what was interesting was that it was in different colours. Blue, red, green, purple, pink, and yellow. The dragon snorted out some puffs of fire, as if it was laughing, it then lunged towards the woman. She rolled out of the way and was on one knee as the dragon turned to look at her. They kept doing that, the dragon trying to attack her and she dodged it, it came to a point that she was smiling and tapped the dragon's body with her stick to make it go in an angle. The dragon was sent up into the sky and kept going until it arched back and came straight towards her. Her face turned into a worried one and and put her arms up before the fire dragon landed on her.

There was only fire, everyone was shocked at what just happened. I looked at Stella as she too looked worried. After a moment the fire begin to bloat up a bit then burst into flaming butterflies. The woman stood there with her arms out smiling, her outfit changed a bit as well, it had a dark red flame pattern on it from the bottom of the left pant leg to boths ides of her shirt, like the fire wrapped around her. People cheered at her as she bowed to them, I saw something fall from the sky towards her. Without looking she grabbed it and I saw that it was her other stick.

I clapped as well as Stella was clapping quickly. “That was awesome! Wasn’t it!?!”

“Yeah, I have to admit that was pretty cool.” I said with a small laugh. I saw the woman walked out of the circle to make way with another performer, a man who look he could break diamonds, she walked towards a table near us. As she was about to pass us she stopped and looked at us with a smile.

“Enjoyed the show?” she asked.

“We enjoyed it a lot.” I answered with a nod. She chuckled at this and looked at the crowd as they watched the man who was holding up a huge bolder.

“You and everyone else enjoyed it, but let me just say that Dragons breath does a number on one's breath.” she said as she pulled out a small box and opened it and shook out two mints and popped them into her mouth. “I’m not a fan of my breath smelling like brimstone.”

“Gotta wow the crowd, right.” I said to her.

“Got that right.” she looked at the two of us for a moment. “Mind if I sit with you?”

“Sure!” Stella yelled. I just shrugged as she sat down. “I’m Stella and this is Isaac”

“Well hello to you two, I’m Drisa it’s nice to meet you two.” she greeted us. We looked back the show as the man had two boulders floating around him as he did some poses. I honestly thought I saw a sparkling star near him. “Hey, nice tattoos you got there.”

“Thanks, I've had them made when I was eighteen. Took a few sessions but it paid off.” I said with a smile. Wisp raised her head from Stella’s lap and noticed Drisa.

“Aww, who’s this?” she said as she wiggled her fingers at Wisp.

“This is Wisp.” Stella said. Drisa wiggled her fingers in front of Wisp as she smelled them. She thought for a moment then brought her hands together near her mouth. I notice that she too has a tattoo on her right arm that I didn’t notice. It was a trail of fire wrapping around her arm to her shoulder that curls around a sun. She blew into her hands and I saw them glow a bit. She opened them and a small flame floated down and it shifted into a small lizard. It looked around and at Wisp. It leaned in to flick its tongue at her then tense up and turned into smoke. Drisa frowned a bit.

“Dang it, almost had it.” she said. She muttered something and pulled a small book from her pocket and began to write in it.

“What did you try to do?” I asked her.

“Tried to make a fire elemental, I tried to get one for a while now but I can’t seem to give it a form that doesn’t turn to smoke.” she said without looking.

“Oh, you mean this.” I said before blowing a puff of fire before moving my fingers in a certain order. As I did this, Wisp looked at the fire just as it formed into a Phoenix.

Hovering above the table, the phoenix lets out a caw before perching itself on my left shoulder. Drisa stared at me for a minute before slamming her head on the table with a groan.

“Am I really that bad at it?” she muttered. The phoenix looked at Drisa with a side glance before dissipating into a cloud of fire to which I inhaled back.

“You're not bad at it, it just takes time.” I told her. She looked up at me and sighed.

“I know, I know it's just annoying.” she replied. She leaned back in her chair to look up at the sky. “Everyone tells me that it will take time or I just need more practice, and I have been for the past few years.” I only shrugged as a response before hearing a meow from Wisp.

“I really don't know what to say that could help you. I first did that as a kid and well, Wisp was the result.” I said as I gave a soft pat on Wisps head.

“Actually, you helped me by listening. Letting me vent to someone that knows what it's like is a bit of weight off my shoulders.” she said with a sigh.

“Are you really that troubled over it?” I asked her. She shrugged.

“Naa, not really it just bugs me at times.” she said with a smile. I chuckled.

“So what else can you do with fire?” I asked, clasping my hands together and giving a glance towards Stella as she had been quiet for the longest time.

“Me?” Drisa asked. She looked at me surprised.

“Yes, who else at this table can use fire.” I said to her. She opened her mouth then closed it a few times.

“Uhh… sorry for being shocked it's just, and it's going to sound surprising, no one really asked me that before.” she said. I frowned.

“How come?” Stella asked. Drisa frowned and crossed her arms.

“Because everyone knows what an Elementalist can do.” she began to rant. She threw up her hand in annoyance. “Like seriously it’s not all ‘I can throw fire around!’ or ‘I can fly!’ or blah blah blah. Just because being an Elementalist doesn’t mean that everyone knows what they can do.” she fumed a bit.

“Okay, I think we get it know.” I said with my hands up, trying to avoid her continuing rant. She took some breaths and looked at me.

“Sorry about that, it’s just annoying to hear people just know what they can do.” she tapped her fingers on the table. “Although now that someone has finally asked me, I kinda don’t know how to explain it.”

“Well why not show us.” Stella suggested, gaining our attention as well as Wisps’.

“I would say that you already saw but that was me performing so… come with me.” she said as she stood up. Standing up, both me and Stella left our spots clean enough while Wisp stretched her legs.

“Alright let's go.” I said. We followed her some ways outside of the town. We found a field wide enough to not burn things down. She turned to us and looked like she was thinking.

“Right, so other than the stuff you saw when I was performing, I can do this.” she snapped her fingers and made some orbs of fire floating above her. She held them there for a bit then dismissed them. “There’s also this.”

She brought her hands up and started to snap into her hand. I saw sparks fly a few times then she started to rub her hands, there was a warm glow from them. The last few snaps a small flame ignited. She looked at us and grinned a bit as she turned around, she brought her hands up and blow into them, making a jet of fire burst out in front of her. She shook her hands and smiled at us.

“The Dragon’s breath from the show is more of a trick I learned, this is more of a basic version of it.” she explained.

“Cool!” Stella said in excitement.

“Pretty cool.” I complemented. Drisa put her hand up to her chin for a bit then frowned.

“As much as I hate to say it, other than performing, basic fire spells are pretty straightforward.” She smiled sheepishly. “Sorry.”

“There really isn't much to be sorry for.” I told her with a slight shrug.

“Well, that’s the thing you talk to anyone who uses any other element they can do so much more but, fire is some what straightforward as to what it can do. Heck Dragon’s breath is as easy to learn like a simple fireball.” Drisa said.

“That's where I'm going to have disagree with you. Fire isn't as straightforward as you think. Wisp.” I said before calling Wisp. The fiery feline in question shifted her form before moving in a small call fire.

Holding my hand out in a familiar fashion, the flames of Wisp engulfed my hand before taking form.

From out of the flames and in my grasp was a simple wooden bow. I chuckled at this, knowing that Wisp wants to put on a show. Drisa eyes went wide at this.

“Okay… that’s cool.” she said. I looked at Stella and saw stars in her eyes. Taking the moment to move on, I held out my other hand as an materialized from the fire.

Getting into position and drawing the bow, I smirked.

“Give ‘em a show, Wisp.” I said and as a response from the fiery entity, the bow shifted and changed.

With the changed done, the arrow let up before I let go. The sounds of both arrow and bolts being fired were heard. The arrow created a spiral of flame whilst attracting the metal bolts and keeping them up.

The spiraling torrent of fire then moved upwards into the sky before erupting in fire works. With that done, I let go of the bow just as Wisp changed back into her cat form.

“There's a whole lot more things that fire can do.” I said while turning towards Drisa. I saw her having her book out, writing stuff down.

“Okay, that was cool.” she said. I turned to look at Stella.

“That. Was. So. COOL!” she yelled. I smiled.

“Thanks.” I said as I rubbed the back of my head.

“That gave me some ideas for some stuff I can do for my act, gives it more of an wow factor.” Drisa said.

“Glad I could help.” I said to her with a nod.

“Yeah, also I have to say when I mean about fire magic being straightforward, I don’t mean it by that, just some spells are straightforward.” she pointed up to the sky. “That was something that can’t be said to be straightforward.”

“It is for me and my mother.” I said with a shrug. She smiled sadly and shook her head.

“Well with what I saw I know I still need to work on it, gave me a boost to know this.” she said.

“Alright. So what now?” I asked her before sitting down on the grass.

“Well I have to head back so my boss doesn’t freak out, it’s nice to meet and talked to you.” she said.

“You too.” I said as she began walking away.

“So what do you want to do now?” Stella asked.

“Don't know.” I said, flopping onto the grass. She stared at me then did the same.

I stared up at the sun, feeling myself getting sleepy. It was getting increasingly difficult to keep my eyes open and as they closed, I could see a familiar figure above me but because of my tiredness, I wasn't able to react as the figure took hold of me.

“There you are, I've been looking everywhere for you.” His voice, dripping with insanity and hate. “You brought this on yourself for breaking the rules of my game.” Was the last thing I heard before succumbing into the sleep.

Author's Notes:

I always like fire dancers, they're really cool

See you all in the next chapter. :)