~Second Chapter! (I think there's only going to be three lol). :)

I woke to screaming voices and the sound of footsteps. There was the smell of smoke in the air. Blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I pushed my covers off and shuffled my feet into my shoes. I had gone to sleep after my brother had explained that the first time my power would show is when the prophecy would be set into action. Tired from the day's running and my brain trying to process the information, I had fallen asleep immediately afterwards. Maybe it hadn't even registered properly that I had powers, and a family!

Wait- I had a family!

I was just about to revel in happiness at this newfound knowledge when my door burst open and my brother stumbled in.

"Quick! Get up! The building is on fire!" he threw a damp cloth at me before rushing next door to knock on their door as well. For some reason, in my heart, I knew that this was it. The fire was the doing of the other clan, and the prophecy would soon come true. My heart started beating faster as it set in that what I had to do would change hundreds of lives.

I stifled a scream as the floor tilted under my feet. I had to get out of here. People were depending on me. Spying my hoodie in a corner, I zipped it up and draped the wet cloth over my head. I then sprinted down the hallway, following the mass of people who were rushing toward the exit. I groaned and covered my mouth and nose with the cloth as the smoke got thicker, but this was the only exit left; the others had already collapsed. I winced as I tried to breathe in as less of the smoke as possible, coughing when I breathed too deeply. My throat was burning dry and my eyes were watering, and planks of blazing wood were falling from the sky. I wasn't sure if I was going to make it out alive.

Turning the last corner, I spied lantern light glowing in the darkness. Out on the concrete, there was a mass of people; all holding each other, with children running to their parents and loved ones embracing, but I knew there were many lost to the fire. I searched the area for my brother. He wasn't there! I scanned each of their faces, but they all stared at me sadly.

My brother was still inside.

Gasping, I spun around. I had to do something! My brother, the person who showed me I had a family, someone who spent fourteen years searching for me. He couldn't be gone! But the fast collapsing building said otherwise. I stared expectantly at the exit, willing that he would make a last minute exit, but suddenly when the last exit in the building collapsed, I knew that all hope was lost.

My eyes started clouding. From the smoke, or tears, I did not know, but they streaked a line down my ash covered face as I fell to the ground. No. no. no, no, no! He- no! All the memories, of my terrible childhood, of my wish to have a family, of my patiently waiting to be adopted- only that didn't happen- and of finally gaining a bother streamed back to me as I sobbed. I couldn't lose him when I had just gotten him back! Something in me just snapped as I opened my mouth and tilted my head back, letting out a cry of despair, pouring out all my feelings and memories into one long scream.

Suddenly, there was a loud crack of thunder, and out of nowhere, rain, long thick sheets of rain came tumbling down from the sky, putting out the fire with a loud hiss. I blinked away my tears and stared.

Had I done that? But the fact was, my brother was still gone.

Gone.

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