Fire Chapter

Episode 1: Awakening of the Flaming Brave

This place is a prison!

And won't be taken a lie!

The weird punk music played in my car as I was on my way to classes. I bobbed my head alittle as I passed through straight green lights on Cumberland Street. My name is Kelvis Mcdowell, I'm 20 years old currently attending college and is sucking at it so far. Speaking of which I was just on my way to a class now, because I had a run in with an old friend I'm alittle late...so I was kinda speeding. I took the old short cut behind a mini mall to get to the university. It's the quickest route but the thing about this little short cut is it is surrounded by stop lights.

About 8 of them, I was passing by the 5th light and at about 85-90 miles. I just kept bobbing my head to the punk rock when all of a sudden the 6th light had turned red along with the 7th and 8th. I was already hitting 85-90 and the stop light was right infront of my car, I decided to run the light after all there wasn't a single cop in sight. I pressed down on the gas alittle harder like I was in Fast in the Furious or something. In a blinding zip I sped past the 6th light and straight onward to the 7th.

As I was flying down the street a large big rig truck had drove up, my heart instantly dropped to my feet as I turned on the wheel pressing the break peddle through the damn floor. With that my car went into a 360 spin as the truck beeped it's loud horn and slammed into the rear of my car causing it to spin more. The truck attempted a stop as well and a turn but the cargo trailer on it's back made a long sliding turn towards my car trapping it in a pinch. My eyes widened as and I froze completely seeing the truck's trailer crash into my car. Somehow a long steel rod from the trailer slipped out and like a spear it stabbed me square in the chest.

I felt no pain...I was simply astonished in completely shock only seconds before a white flash overtook my eyes.

My name is Kelvis K. Mcdowell...and I am now dead. I lay here in a pond of pure white, all I can see around me is just white. I had the sensation of me floating in water, with only my face, hands and feet sticking up from the water. The rest of my body was submerged in this liquidy substance. The only question now is...am I going to Heaven or Hell. No more classes to worry about or being on time, I couldn't say goodbye to my friends or family. What a miserable death that was...

"I've found you..."

"Hmmm?" I looked up to see a the outlining of a seemingly invisible creature. All I could see was an outline of red the rest was completely invisible, incased in the white glow of this realm.

"Kelvis, you have been chosen...."

"Are you God?" I asked.

"No. I am a spirit of the world." With that the creature stepped forth but I wasn't afraid of his approach. He didn't have the feeling of a creature that would want to do harm, there was...a gentleness coming from him. "My name is Ifrit."

"Ifrit?"

"Yes, and you have been chosen...to fight with us."

"To fight...fight who? Is this what I'm destined to do God?"

"...I am no God. But I do believe in Fate...Fate has chosen you to weild the power of Flame."

"I don't know what your talking about."

"Then allow me to fill you in."

"Please do."

Ba-dump....

Ba-dump....

Ba-dump.....

"Huh?"

I opened my eyes to a dark secluded room filled with unlit torches, I was laying on a large circular glass slab. I leaned up and turned around to see that the statue inside of it was completely gray as if it had lost it's life. I also seen my reflextion, my hair...instead of black it was spikey and orange like a flame. I wore a red short sleeved coat over a white t shirt with red matching pants. All over my pants and jacket were gold and white belts and belt straps. I pushed off of the ground into a daze.

I felt like I'd gone a really insane ride then suddenly got off. "Where..." Was all I could muster looking around at this weird place. I had no idea why but this place also seemed kind of...familiar to me.

"You are inside of the..." A voice out of nowhere spoke.

"Chamber of the Fayth." I finished for it. I looked around seeing not a soul in sight, yet I already knew the answer to this question. "Who..."

"It is I, Ifrit the Aeon of Flame." The voice replied. I turned around to see floating behind me was a small baseball sized flame with a pair of eyes and two tiny little horns. "You have awoken."

"Ifrit, that name sounds familiar." I said looking down at my shoes.

The small flame floated closer to me. "Yes, we've met before. In between the paths of life and death. I found you adrift in the sea of eternity. Using the last of my strength I reincarnated you into a new body with new found strength."

"What? Is that...true?" I asked looking down at my palms. Now that you mention it I have muscles that I've never had before and I felt. So much stronger.

Ifrit floated around me doing a quick cycle. "Yes it's all true, you have been reborn a Brave."

"Brave?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

" Yes it seems I need to explain it all again to you. The first time you were abit out of it." Ifrit started. "This world is known as Spira, in this world there has been a great ordeal with a creature known as Sin. Since it's defeat the creatures known as Fiends have arisen to power being led by the Arch Fiend Omega Weapon. We Aeons, beings of celestial light and province have arisen to fight against this threat. But fighting them is quite the complication for us. We can only be summoned and not materialize ourselves into this world. So we must lend our powers to humans whom have pure spiritual power. These chosen few who are fused with us Aeons will become Braves. A being with absolute power of the element and a fusion of both Aeon and Human. As a countermeasure however the Fiends as well have saught to merge with humans. This new species of Fiend and Human is known as a Daemon. Thus the war between Brave and Daemon began."

"And I'm one of these Brave guys?" I asked staring at Ifrit as he floated around the tomb freely.

"Yes, you and I are fused both soul and body alike." Ifrit replied with a straight face.

"Man...tch...to think I was just some ordinary guy on the way to a late class." I said rubbing my forehead while taking afew steps back. I lazily fell backwards and leaned against a wall in the tomb.

Ifrit approached me abit. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah...yeah I'm fine just...just gimme a second to take this all in." I said looking up at the ceiling.

"Kelvis, the people, the world itself is counting on us to free them of this plague known as the Daemons. Will you Fight?" Ifrit asked.

I looked down at my bent knees with my hands clapped together keeping my knees bent while I was scrunched against the wall. I looked up at the ceiling now and let out a breath of air. " Yeah, yeah I'll fight with you...I owe you my life Ifrit. I was suppose to have died in that car wreck. So I owe you one." I said standing to my feet after a quick decision.

RUMBLE RUMBLE BOOOOOM!!

There was a long and heavy trembling of the room as afew stones and sand leaked through cracks of the ceiling in this room. It sounded like a bomb had gone off, I looked up then at Ifrit. "Let's move." Ifrit said with that I nodded. For some reason fear had left my heart, I took off running towards the door to the Chamber of the Fayth and it slid upward letting me out. I ran down the steps and through the cloister of trails until I'd reached an elevator.

Ifrit as a little flame had followed me onto the elevator and we'd gone straight up. I dunno why but I anxious to get to the top and see what was going on. I had arisen onto the top floor along that bridge leading to the door where the entrance of the temple was were abunch of priests with large gash marks on their chests and backs. Some of their heads were sliced clean off of their bodies. I kneeled down near a breathing priest who was covered in blood. "Hey Hey...Hang in there man!" I said shaking him.

"Eh...eh...gahh...huh? Th-The...Chosen..." He said with a smile seeing me before falling into a cold sleep.

"What happened here?" I said feeling abit dizzy from seeing all of this blood and dead people. It was the first I'd seen dead bodies in person and lemme tell ya it's nothing too glamorous.

Ifrit floated up along side me. "A Daemon, they'd probably done this try and get to you." He said.

"Daemons...do this?" I asked raising an eyebrow while standing to my feet.

I dashed out through the door leading to the temple only to see more dead bodies and a figure walking away from the scene and out of the temple. I dashed down the stairs and out of the door to see the full back of the man, he had spikey green hair and wore a lavender button up with some black leather pants and five earrings on each ear. He walked out whistling with his hands in his pockets. "STOP!" I shouted. I could somehow feel a dark haze coming from him.

"That aura he is definitly...a Daemon." Ifrit said glaring at him. The man slowly turned around showing many piercings on his face.

"Sup" He said with a grin.