Mei Pieh Chi awoke to the smell of smoke.  Jumping out of her bed and running to the door she saw what awaited her.

In the cold of the night, the villagers came to her home; with the heat of fire in their hands, the villagers came to destroy.

"Go back to where you belong demon!" they shouted as they threw torches onto the roof.

 
Burn me a fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down

Mei Pieh Chi screamed as some of the burning timber scorched her cloak and skin.  Tears streamed down her cheeks, leaving trails down her cheeks.  She wished for strength, power to overcome her enemy. She cursed her vulnerability her fragility and hated the feeling of helplessness.

In the fire in the reptile house
In the colour and carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
the kissing and the colour come crashing down
Down down down
Down around me
Down down down
Down around
 
"You don't have to be helpless" a voice cried out in the dark.
I don't want to be hurt again.
"For that you need power."
I want power
"I can give that to you"
 I want them all to pay, for hurting me, for abandoning me.
"And they will," the faceless voice cooed, "Destroy this race that had done this too you."
 
 
Face in the fire on the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing down
Down down down
Down around me
Down down down
Around
 
Mei Pieh Chi was trapped between her burning home, the crazed humans intent on killing her, and the voice.
My Face in the fire my faith in the fire
In the
In the burn me down my
My burning down
In the fire in the reptile house
In the colour and the carnage fall me down
My face in the fire in the reptile house
And the kissing and the colour come crashing
Down
 
 
Time became irrelevant; unnecessary as she slowly opened her eyes and let the voice instruct her on her new found power. The strange magical energy began to gather in her body, swirling around her like a protective light green.  She closed, basking in the feeling it gave her.
 
The villagers screamed as the electricity left the demons body, entering their own.  Flesh melted, organs shut down.  

The men that spit at her burned, the women that hid their children from her burned, the village burned.
 
Crashing down


Only one figure remained.