Now You Are Going to Die

The once quite girl stood ablaze in the forest. The fire had engulfed Ava only leaving a shadowy figure in the center of the blaze the lapped at everything around it. The moisture in the air had started to disappear once you got closer to the blazing girl. Because of the lack of moisture the plants around the area had started to dry up leaving them vulnerable to the hot flames. The flames had licked an pressed to the leaves until they caught the flame and carried it to the rest of the tree, and eventually to the trees around them. On the ground, you would easily find the path of the girl if you followed the ash, and burnt grass. Far away the dark gray smoke could be seen rising in the air, and the closer you got the more the smell of smoke became apparent.

Lylee was relaxing in the forest until she smelled smoke. She looked around in alarm and began to stand up. "A forest fire?" she whsipered, looking at the ashes on the trail. She knew immediately what to do. She followed the smoke and held her breath. The air was thick and she had to squint her eyes. "I hope nobody is harmed," she thought.

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The smoke led Lylee to a burning girl. She hid behind an unaffected tree and looked at the girl in confusion. "How is she not in pain?" Lylee thought. It took Lylee a moment to realize that the girl was the source of the fire and despite the flames, she decided to talk to this burning girl. "Cool gift,"" she said, poking her head out of her hiding spot.

And the path is what Garrett followed. He was a little later than Lylee, and therefore she had gotten to Ava first, but Garrett saw the smoke from a good two dozen kilometers away. A forest fire!? They spread!
At that point the boy picked up the pace, cutting through the trees rather than staying on the path. He ran through the undergrowth and foliage, every now and again getting nicked by the occasional sharp thorn. He needed to find the source and try to stop it. But just, how?
Then, suddenly, he found the source. He had yet to see Lylee, but he sure saw the flaming girl. The fact that she appeared to be unharmed meant only one thing; that was her power.
"Stop! It'll spread to the sch--"
As the boy ran into the clearing, he suddenly seemed to disappear into the ground. It was all sudden and spontaneous. One moment he was there, mid jog, and the next he was engulfed in the shade at his feet. A shadow remained where he had stood, unaffected by the light of the sun and the fire.

There are a few things you learn once you've been at Beata Academy for a while. If there is more than one person running away/towards something, it's probably best to follow. Even if those people were running into what appeared to be a quickly growing forest fire, you might as well join them. So that's exactly what Jayden did, tossing his guitar over is back, held there by a strap so even though the constant bouncing was annoying, it would still stay on. He followed the path, showing up not much after Garrett- though, he only heard the young man's comment. When he showed up in the clearing he only saw the two young ladies and, curiously, a randomly placed shadow. Careful to sidestep that, Jayden looked around and noticed the girl currently covered in flickering flames. He looked over at Lylee, raising an eyebrow in confusion. Was this normal? Did anyone know why this girl was setting the forest on fire?

From the treetop he had perched himself in while training Sebastian smelled the distinct and pungent aroma of burning wood. "Smoke all the way out here?" he thought to himself as he levitated himself up above the canopy only to see a large, smokey spire erupting from the forest, "Annnndddd, the probability of that being a good thing is probably pretty low." Sebastian immediately began moving from treetop to treetop, using his ability to almost float himself across the long distances, with only brief moments of pause in between leaps. Upon reaching his destination Sebastian would see that the fire had drawn the attention of other students as well; Lylee was there, as was a boy that he had yet to meet formally, and... a girl on fire?

Sebastian's first instinct was to run and help her, but noticing that neither of the other two students were in a particular rush to help her and that she seemed to be experiencing no discomfort from the flames all he could do was chalk it up to her being a pyro of some sort. Lowering himself down from the branch he was perched upon Sebastian waved to Lylee and the other student and made his way over to the flaming girl. Careful to keep some distance between them as the heat of the flames danced about her, Sebastian decided to speak up, "Excuse me miss... is there a particular reason you are lighting the forest on fire?"

The reason as to why this was happening was unknown to the by standers, and as to Ava herself. For some reason the girl was angry about something, and the fire around her was just expressing her anger. The fiery girl was so caught up in her thoughts she was unable to hear, and see the people around her. As Ava continued to think her anger grew, and so did the flames. The area around her was starting to become bare, and charred, exposing the people in the area or at least reveling them a little. If anyone was close by they may want to step back or end up losing their clothes or a finger or two.

Lylee's tree was beginning to get burned so she quickly took a step back. "Sebastian! I don't think she can hear you!" she called out over the flames. She winced as a a cloud of sparks fell on her hand and immediately put her healing hand on it.  She looked around at the other students and saw Jayden give her a look of confusion. She shrugged in reply and hoped someone here had the power to stop the girl. "I know I don't,"she thought.

As tensions heightened, the shadow that Garrett had sunk into began to move around the clearing. In it's path seemed to be dark particles, floating in the air for a few evanescent moments before drifting away. The shadow started to inch towards Ava ever so slowly, silent and stealthy.