Ally
I was exactly the creature I've seen in my nightmare: Something similar to a Kage, except with orangey fur and white markings all over it. I felt like I was surrounded by a moving chain of dancing flames, red-hot tongues dancing in the air and turned black flames for a brief second, but turned blue and back to red. The necklace I had worn around my neck was somehow on my right paw, tied around it like an anklet. Keesa screamed in horror.
"Oh, Ally!" Will sobbed, and I licked his hand (I didn't like it, but felt like an instinct), but he jolted back, and I realized that I was just a wolf forged out of evil demonic flames.
I promise I'll never try to hurt you, I tried to say with my eyes. I promise I'll never become a part of the evil Unborne, whom I'll never dare wish to see once again!
"Ally..." Keesa took a deep breath. Was I really that horrible? "We have to hurry. You've only just been a fire-wolf-thing recently! Perhaps it's not too late, and the Phoenix will help you! You are now a complete being of fire." She paused for a moment. "Perhaps fires help fires!"
I hope, I thought. But let's hurry!
I automatically assumed that Keesa and Will understood what I said. Keesa untied the necklace on my paw, and threw it away into the fiery woods. I whined, remembering how comfy it felt on my paw.
"Ally, that necklace was only before you turned into your... wolf state. It'll never help you now, so why use it?" Will said, and we began to trot up the volcano, keeping quiet and going way around the demons.
A large ledge hung before us, too high enough for us to reach. I whimpered, and wagged my tail, which began to catch on fire from the swirling flames.
Great. Just great. Now how are we gonna reach the top? I rolled my eyes.
"Erm," Will mumbled. He put one foot on a narrow ledge, then his other foot on a sturdy, burnt tree root.
Come on! I barked excitedly, and ran in a circle for a brief moment.
Will put his feet on small ledges and roots, climbing up until he met the top. But the tall ledge was so high, we didn't see two Unbornes waiting on the top, who must've saw us from below!
One Unborne kicked Will down, and he quickly caught hold on the ledge. The other demon stepped on his fingers... hard.
"You're a soldier, Will!" Keesa encouraged, trying to hide me from the Unbornes. "Being stepped on is only just a minor part!"
I saw Will grit his teeth, and I very softly barked, quiet enough that I could barely hear it.
Will took out a small pocket knife he never used, and managed to cut the Unborne. That demon rapidly began to lose black drops of liquid, and in a rage, both of the Unbornes hit Will so hard, he was launched off and twisted down the mountain and into the pool of pure water, covered in bruises and cuts.
Keesa clearly showed fury. "They've killed him!" She quietly told me, wiping streaming tears from her eyes. "My only friend...."
We'll avenge him! I promised, and I tried using the ledges this time.
"Ally! You're the one the Unborne want now!" Keesa hissed.
I bit onto the tree rote, which tasted foul. The flames that whirled around me disappeared, and I realized I could make them appear when I wanted them too.
I hauled my foreleg on the highest ledge I could reach, then pulled my whole body up onto the ledge. The disgusting demons grinned at me, the smiles devilish and hungry for my power I held.
"So you're the reincarnation of Rina, the girl who had killed our race! It was lucky enough No... blast it! I almost told you my beloved leader's name!"
I growled at him, and the flames swirled around me. I jumped onto his back, and bit his neck several times, fury entering my vision. I felt bloodthirsty, like I had a desire to kill, like a regular wolf.
The other Unborne could only stare at my in horror, but I showed no mercy. I bit his neck several times too, this time using my flames to bury him in fire while I chomped.
Keesa peeked her head out, and my vision turned to normal. Was that my new vision, and not the fire blossoms and Phoenix?
We rested on the ledge, Keesa panting from the heat and I panting from the energy I used up. I lay down, wishing to be my old self once again.
For once, I've never felt so miserable. Sure, the times when I thought about my mark made my tear up, but now I was a different person. I was a wolf for crying out loud. I was a wolf that was supposed to be forged out of demonic flames. Will was dead. Keesa was possibly dying from the heat. The Demon Lord was probably waiting at the top, and see me that I've lost my battle with the curse.
Suddenly, a large boom was heard ahead. I looked up and saw an ash cloud being sputtered from the crater, and white ash danced all the way down the volcano. Amazingly, the ash didn't go where me and Keesa was.
"Ally..." Keesa murmured. "Let's stay here for a moment." She coughed. "I wanna rest. It's really hot here."
I didn't feel the heat at all, because I was a flame, myself. I curled up into a ball, and while Keesa took a nap, I cried silently. I couldn't sleep at all. I just couldn't. My heart felt like it was going to burst, and felt like it was filled with molten rock.
~❂~
Keesa opened her eyes. The ash that had started off had accumulated while she slept, but luckily stopped.
"Oh, sorry. Didn't know that I had slept for a few hours." Keesa mumbled.
We set off again, and this time a little bit more slower, since Keesa grew weak and the ash was slippery.
"I'm sorry that I let you down," Keesa told me as we took wide paths around the demons. "I just can't really take the fact off that we couldn't get here sooner,"
I forgot for a moment that I couldn't speak, and my apology came out as a bark and yawn.
Keesa laughed for a moment. "And you're probably upset that Will died, too. I wish he was only just majorly hurt and survived. But that stuff only happens in the movies. Reality isn't a movie.
But it could be a book! I thought. Books are just stories of something that could be real, in another world. They either have happy or sad endings. Perhaps our book shall have a happy ending, as most books do.
"I agree," Keesa said, after studying my eyes for a decent period of time. "Maybe Will Samton is the one to have happy ending."
My tail wagged, and now with a fresh wave of energy, we ran faster to the summit. Closer and closer we went, the ash getting more slippery the higher up we went. Then, I got hit by a powerful blow, injuring my left foreleg. I turned my head. There was the Demon Lord.
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