Together As One
Ch 5
Izz clutched his head in agony the next morning. Recently ever since he'd found out about the Flame of Equinix, he'd been getting head aches.
It was if somebody was trying to talk to him from within.
Leah watched as he took pain killers as she, Carley, Elisa and David ate breakfast.
"Does it hurt a lot?" Carley asked softly.
"Yes sometimes. It's… like somebody trying to talk to me inside my head." He answered but then he clutched it.
He was having another head ache but more painful.
He then heard a voice begin to speak.
"Hello Izzard can you hear me?" it said to him.
"Yes I can hear you. Who're you? Why're you talking to me and giving me these head aches?" Izz answered it.
It laughed at that.
"I'm the voice of the Flame of Equinix and it's time you let me out so we can have some fun!" it answered.
"No! I'm not supposed to let you out. I can't control the Flame only through anger and I don't want to hurt my friends!" Izz told it.
"Fool! Forget them. They're holding you back. If it wasn't for them, you'd be with your parents by now and ruling the kingdom.
Having friends makes you weak, happiness is for losers.
Only anger and hate can make you stronger." It told him.
Leah watched nervously as Izz's eyes became violet eye slits and his fur turned black with spikes.
"N-No! Stop! I control you, not you controlling me!" Izz yelled as he changed back to normal but fainted.
Carley caught him.
"Will he be alright? What he did was weird. What was that he changed into?" Leah asked her nervous.
"It's the form he becomes when he uses the Flame of Equinix. He can't control it and he becomes full of rage. I think that voice he was talking to belonged to the Flame.
Leah nodded as they walked to school.
But in her room Izz shivered as he woke up.
He was feeling nervous. But he heard the screams of his friends and that made him angry.
He then felt another head ache come on as the Flame's voice returned.
"Let me into your heart, blacken it with darkness. It's the only way to find those you care about who were lost." It told him.
"I can't! I'm not dark like you. My strength comes from helping my friends." He replied.
"You don't have a choice Izzard. Nobody ever loved you. Your parents abandoned you. They knew you were too dangerous to be in Aria.
Being with humans has made you weak." It replied.
Carley heard him scream in her head for help.
She was in the lunch room.
"What's wrong?" Leah asked her. Fear was in her eyes.
"It's Izz. Something bad is happening to him." She said. She could feel Izz's pain in her heart.
She was nervous the rest of the afternoon.
When class was over, they ran back to Leah's house.
Carley saw Izz stagger towards them in his Flame form.
"Izz you okay? You don't look good." Carley said trying not to show fear in her vocal tone.
"No, not okay. H-Help me before…. Prepare to fight!" he said, his violet eye slits glowing with magic as his spikes pinned Carley to the wall.
"What's his problem? It's like he went evil." Leah said as Izz shot a blast of magic at her but somebody stopped it.
It was Carley.
She'd became Ogre Child using her Ogreix.
"Leah it's not his fault. The Flame got to him. He tried so hard but we can stop it before he does something bad." She told her friend.
Inside of him, Izz had been wrapped up in the Flame's being but was still fighting for control.
Leah then saw her friend approach Izz as he clutched his head.
"Please stop! I don't want to have to hurt you. We're friends." Carley told him.
Inside of him, Izz smiled. She knew he wasn't doing this but he wasn't strong enough to make the Flame stop.
Leah watched as Izz shot a spike into her friend's leg but he fainted and became himself again.
"Did he stop?" she asked her. She nodded as she took the spike out. Some blood came out but bandaged it. It hurt.
When Izz woke up later, he was confused at the way Leah was giving the cold shoulder.
"I... let her use me to hurt you. I'm sorry, so sorry. I tried to control it but it got to me." he said crying.
"It'll be okay. We'll find a way you can control it without going mental." Carley said hugging him.
He smiled at her sadly.
Later that night he watched as she slept. He was thinking about what happened. He then left a note and left...
The next morning Carley woke up but found Izz wasn't there.
There was a note...