The world will burn.

They sent a raging fire across the country. No one knows where it came from, only that it kills everything it touches.

I ran with my family, out of our village to the next one over. We barely escaped, most of our belonging were burned as we fled. I watched my friends die, I watched my house burn, and I watched everything I loved disappear.

As we drove off, I could see the fire following up, like a serpent stalking its prey.

We drove faster and faster, not seeming to loose the trail of fire.

Then, it caught up.

The fire reached our car and set everything aflame. All our possessions gone. The only thing we had left was each other. We all raced out of the car and started to run. The fire kept on running with us.

It caught up to my dad first. We heard his screams but we had to keep on running. Then it got my sister. She was crying and yelling, but we couldn’t stop. Not for anyone. Next it grabbed my mom. She screamed so loud and so much. Lastly, it caught up to my brother. My most trusted family and bestest friend. He tried to out run it, but he was too slow. The fire ate him whole. He was gone

I stopped in my tracks, not caring if I was ravaged by the raging fire.

I fell to my knees, sobbing and traumatized. Everyone is dead.

The fire caught up to me, and right as I thought I was going to get eaten, it started circling around me. Sparks flew up from the fiery serpent in every direction. The fire circled faster and faster until everything in my sight was an orange blur.

The fire started to close in around me. I was shaking and scared and crying. I wanted someone, anyone to get me out of here.

The fire closed in. I was alive.

I looked down and everything was ok. The grass was green, and the trees were blossoming. But something was off.

I touched the ground and it was scorching hot. Everything I touched felt like it was burning.

I looked down at my hands. They were on fire. The fire looked exactly like the one that was consuming everything.

Intense flashbacks of my town, my family, and the fire swarmed in my mind.

I knew what I had to do.

The world will burn.