Inferna

She walked her long, powerful walk, confidence rising like heat with each stride. Fire lined the path that she walked, letting off a heat that no man could survive. She was in her final form at that moment. She had risen to the above world to do the works of the books. The books that had controlled her fate even before her birth. The gods would pay for tainting every soul of the underworld. They would pay for leaving her with no option but death or indestructible power, power that lacked mercy, even for her parents.

1 Year Before Her Transition

"Her time is approaching, though we are not sure what her fate is, we can only hope she continues our legacy," Madame Cesc replied, matriarch of the family.

"Her 21st celebration is upon us, though she detests having our blood running through her fresh veins and she is not sure what the year brings, she can't run away from it. She can only be ready."

"You are right, my love," Sulten responded in his usual calm but husky tone.

"I mean, what good would come out of her doing the world any good? She must run terror through cities, like we did in our days," he chuckled as he kissed his wife's hand, staring deeply into her dark eyes. Sulten frowned, "Or die a death that she did not bring upon herself."

Sulten was Cesc's husband and the two had met in the village of Golgotha many centuries back, where he had spotted the dark beauty sitting at the foot of her father. It was at this tour of Lithon's lair, Lithon being the god of the underworld. The name alone shook cowards to the ground. Everyone dreaded him but ran to his mercies when their cries were declined by the gods from above. Praya however, saw something different in this man and the two soon became lovers. The first night, which brought about Cesc, they made a love so passionate that the walls of the underworld shook with strange vigor causing nothing but chaos to the above world. That night left Earth with one of the deadliest earthquakes to date - January 23, 1556 in Shaanxi, China.

The above gods had written in their book of prophecies that the very first grandchild of Lithon would possess powers greater than he. If the first was a boy his powers would be felt at birth, causing severe complications to the mother, therefore vanquishing the bearer. If it was a girl, her fate would be somewhat different. The prophecy spoke of two fates of the female, either she receives the power on her 21st birthday and becomes the head of the underworld or the power brought about is so unbearable, that she is consumed by it and therefore combusts, poof. She has no power over either option. The couple was happy that their first born was a girl but the heavy doubt about her fate was painful.

The Transition

Inferna felt heat at her fingertips, then her arms and soon her whole body was as hot as an inferno. Cesc and Sulten stared upon their daughter, who was tied to the bed at each limb. Her screams brought about a fear and pain they had never felt before, their sweet daughter was dying. Lightning and thunder followed with each tug at her bounded limbs, the pain visibly unbearable for the young female. Her body illuminated like metal above a hungry flame. Cesc buried her head in the side of her husband's neck, she couldn't bear to see her daughter die. Then it happened. Inferna broke lose of her bonds. Her eyes reflecting nothing but the terror she would wreak through cities, towns, the world. Her parents then foolishly rushed to her side, hugging the daughter they thought they would lose tonight. They were both wrong and right. Her powers began to seep through her skin, creating a gigantic flame. The heat was too much, in an instant she saw the horror in the eyes of her parents as they felt the powers of her true form. The heat caused them to disintegrate into ashes.

She fell to her knees, unable to shed a tear. She did not quite understand what had just occurred but she knew who was going to pay for it. She cursed the gods for what she had become.