BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. Kelly rolled over onto her side reaching for her ever so annoying alarm clock. After a few seconds, she noticed that something felt wrong. Her eyes flew open and she began to breathe heavily with panic… she didn't know where she was, but she knew she wasn't in her room. Within a minute or two she calmed down, realizing that she was on the attic floor. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment; she had had the most awful nightmare. Piper poked her head into the attic spotting Kelly on the floor. "Honey, what are you..." Her voice trailed off as she noticed that Kelly was lying next to the vent. Suddenly Kelly knew that her nightmare had been more than a nightmare, it had been real. Her stomach lurched and she thought she was going to be sick. "Oh my god," she whispered to herself. Leaping up from the floor she ran out of the attic. With every step she took her legs felt more and more like Jello and she knew that if she didn't do something fast she would cry. "Kelly please wait. Kelly… Kelly?" Kelly could hear her mom calling out to her, but she didn't listen. Spotting the bathroom door open at the end of the hallway she made a dash for it. Slamming the door closed behind her Kelly clicked the lock on the door knob. Only when Kelly was sure that the private bathroom was truly private she let the tears come. She could feel their warmth flowing down her cheeks, faster and faster. Her eyes stung and her mouth was dry. She heard a soft knock on the door. "Kelly, can I come in." Piper's voice was muffled. "Please?" Kelly did her best not to cry as she answered her mother. She didn't want to appear any weaker and less powerful than she was. "No." Her voice quavered as she choked back the tears that were pushing at her eyelids. She knew that her attempt to sound strong wasn't working. Tears began to slowly trickle down Kelly's cheeks again and she tried to hold them back, but it was no use. She knew deep down that she just had to cry. After a minute or so Kelly heard Piper's footsteps returning to the attic, but the tears continued to roll down her face one after another. She curled up onto the floor and wrapped her arms around herself as she silently cried.
"SILENCE!" The loud chatter that had been going on immediately seized as everyone in the room turned to stare at Em Reaf both in respect and fear. "That's better." An evil grin spread over Em Reaf's face as she paced the hard dirt floor of the demonic meeting place. She snapped her fingers and a fire erupted from a large pit that was located precisely in the center of the underworld. "Much better." Taking her place on the large stone platform positioned in the front of the meeting place Em Reaf felt a bit of self esteem course through her veins. There she was as the new source standing in front of her demonic army. "And daddy said I'd never make it," she laughed to herself, thinking about how he never supported her. Every demon dreamed of someday becoming the source of all evil. Every demon including Em Reaf. But for her, her dream of becoming source was more than a dream, it was an obsession. Ever since her father had taken her to see the original source Em Ref had sworn to herself that someday she would take over his place as ruler of the underworld. She had been just a young demon at the time, still young enough to be vanquished by the nothing. Her powers were not especially developed for her age and overall she was just an ordinary demon whose dreams of becoming the source would remain dreams forever, nothing less nothing more. When Em Reaf had been around 13 she had shared her dream with her father. He had laughed at her, so Em Reaf did the first thing she could think of, she vanquished him. A smile crept across her face as she thought of this. "Look at me now dad," she whispered. A loud yell came from the back of the room. "What are you waiting for, let's get this started." Anger bubbled in the back of Em Reaf's throat, but she forced herself to stay cool as she effortlessly flung an energy ball in the direction of the voice. No one would rush her. Ever. Everyone turned to stare as the demon who had spoken erupted in flames, screaming and yelling. "Anyone else care to comment?" She asked. There was complete and udder silence throughout the underworld. "Good, we have work to do." Em Reaf laughed mechanically as an image of Kelly's head appeared in the pit of fire. "Demons, meet our new target."
