The fires raged, obliterating everything its leaping flames touched. It was a predator, the town and its residents the prey. Devoured, all of it.
Save for one.
He walked through the inferno as if it wasn't there; his soulless eyes showed no hint of fear as the flames leaped around him- why should he be afraid when he was the fire?
The mans devil eyes swept the area he'd very nearly razed to cinder's, his mouth curling up into a slight smirk as he surveyed the devastation- the humans deserved it. Those incomplete life forms his Father called "His finest creation." Favoured more than His first creations- the angels. He, Lucifer, had been the very first, cherished more than the others- His Father's favourite.
But then the Human's came... he was expected to bow down to these insults to nature.
He refused.
And was cast out for it.
Suddenly, there was a solitary scream rising from a house that just caught ablaze. He looked towards the house with a blank expression- it was only a human. But something compelled him to go inside.
Ignoring the house falling down around him, he walked in. In the kitchen, he saw the human- she was sat in a corner of the room, her dark blue eyes wide in fear at the sight of the man walking through the flames, without even a single burn on him.
Lucifer frowned. This girl was pretty by human standards, dark blue eyes, and dark blonde hair, but he saw something else; a power residing in her he'd not seen since his days as an Archangel. This human had potential.
He crouched down in front of her, ignoring part of the burning ceiling fall down with a crash, spitting red-hit embers all over his back.
'Do you want to be saved?' He asked the girl, a slight smirk on his face, eyes glinting eerily in the burning light emitting from the flames.
The girl's eyes widened again. 'Who are you-?' Lucifer smirked now. 'Die now and never know, or live and find out. Your choice.'
But whatever this girl chose, she wouldn't be dying today- he needed her and the power she possessed, waiting to be harnessed.
She was silent, and then said. 'Whats the catch?' Lucifer grinned- he knew this would come up.
He tilted his head and grinned.
'I have use for you- you just have to swear to obey when the time comes.'
The girl flinched, but just then, a good deal of the rest of the ceiling fell in, landing near her, burning her hand on the embers.
Se looked into those eyes.
'I swear.'
Adena awoke with a gasp- that dream had been so vivid. Her mother trapped in the house... the man with the devils eyes...
But what Adena didn't know, was that it really did happen...