Chapter 37, Fire, water, wind and earth

Shadowflight was numb. She stood up, raising her head from Raven's body and looking up, first at Geraldine, then Demon.

Geraldine was not smiling. She looked emotionless.

Demon was padding over to Geraldine.

"YOU!" Shadowflight screamed. She crouched then shot across the ground, but she did not get near Demon; he raised his paw without looking up and a bolt of red shot from it and hit her in the chest. She fell down, dazed.

Demon sat in front of Geraldine.

"Give it to me," he said. He put up his paw, pads up.

Geraldine put a paw to her mouth and slowly brought it away. A shining ball of transparent blue light came out, sitting on her paw, swirling around endlessly.

Geraldine passed it to Demon, and it hovered just above his paw.

Demon looked down at the ball for a long time. Then, without warning, he flung it into the sky with all his might.

It hurtled through the air, and burst into flame. Then it vanished into a huge raging fire. The fire turned bright blue.

"Do you wish to face your element?" Came a deep voice from all around them.

Demon smirked lazily. "Of course."

The blue fire disappeared, and there was complete silence for a moment.

Then all of a sudden the ground in front of Shadowflight began to shake, and it did to all the other animals in this room, except Raven.

Then it stopped, and a gaping hole appeared. Then slowly, something was coming up and out of it, and a second later, a huge fire raged in front of her.

Shadowflight looked around. Robin was staring, shocked into a very large pool of rippling water. Geraldine was jumping in surprise as a huge windy storm whipped at her. Shadowflight slowly turned her gaze to Demon, who stared calmly into a fire almost identical to Shadowflight's.

Demon turned and saw her watching him. His eyes were shadowed by anger. Shadowflight had been sure they would not have fire. She thought they would have water.

Suddenly Demon faced his fire again, standing up, his quill-covered tail drooping on the ground.

Then he dove into it. The fire raged loudly before settling down. Demon was nowhere to be seen.

Geraldine followed suit, jumping into her own storm and disappearing.

"Why are they doing that?" Robin yowled to Shadowflight. She ran to him and pressed herself to his chest.

"I don't know…" she whispered, feeling tears of exhaustion and anger in her eyes, "But I'm not going into another fire! Oh Robin, when will it end?"

He looked down at her, and Shadowflight realized his eyes held the marks of seeing too much in the world, of seeing to much death and betrayal. And Shadowflight knew that hers did to.

"I'm not sure it will," he whispered. His dark amber eyes traveled slowly over to where Raven's body lay on its side.

"I want to let go," Shadowflight whispered, she whished she could hold back her tears, she knew she had cried to much lately. "I keep trying to go on…to save everyone…but I can't do it. I should just let go…stop working hard to save everyone…because I can't. I don't have control over everyone and nobody does."

"I know," Robin whispered, "You can't." he paused and looked at Raven's body. "But you were put here to do something."

"What?" Shadowflight asked bluntly.

Robin's eyes moved quickly to Demon's fire. "To kill him."

"Kill…Robin, what are you talking about? One more death and I…" she paused, slowly raising her eyes to fix on his. "Did you just say that I should kill…kill Demon?" she had never thought of killing Demon, only of the way she hated him. She had never thought that she could have ended this whole mess way earlier, thought that she could end his life…make him leave the world…

"Yes," Robin said, "Kill Demon."

Shadowflight gave a huge sigh. Then, without a word, she turned around and padded over to her fire.

She looked into the flames, the heat cooking her face. Then she took a deep breath and walked in.

One thousand fiery claws tore her pelt into strips as pain burst before her eyes. She floundered in the fire, no blood was coming, but the heat caused to much pain on her already cut and burnt skin.

She looked at her pelt to see a few hairs shriveling up and disappearing.

Just keep walking! Shetold herself. She took a few uneven steps, before screaming in pain as flames went for her eyes. She squeezed them shut and started to run, her feet pattering against ground.

She opened her eyes. The flames had not yet reached her black nose, but they were on her neck and would soon come up and burn her to a crisp.

Shadowflight screamed and took another five steps. Then the ground vanished from beneath her paws. She fell and hit flat rock on her side.

She was stiff, she could not move, could not even blink. She was almost cooked, and black ash caked her body. The moisture in her body had been almost sucked completely away.

I need water, she thought she said, though really she had just thought it.

"Water…" she croaked. She felt as if her legs were bound together by robes. She moved her head up and saw she was lying in a large, soft green fire. It was not hot, the flames were cool and soothed her pain filled body.

The flames ahead of her continued cracking and sizzling. Then Shadowflight saw something coming toward her slowly, but it was so far away it was blurry and she could not make out its shape.

It came closer, and Shadowflight realized it was an animal because it was bounding. Still it came closer, and Shadowflight could see it was both orange and large.

And still it came closer. Shadowflight oculd now see a head and some black stripes on it.

Now she could see what it was. It was a huge orange tiger, with colorless eyes, and it was coming for her.

Shadowflight could not move, she was too weak. She stayed, stiff and scared as it came at her.

Its jaws opened wide and she felt it come at her…then it disappeared.

Colors were whirling and blurring around her, and Shadowflight had the sensation that she was spinning very fast through air and heat.

Then it stopped, and she slammed onto the ground in a daze.

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