“Gwah!” I ended up tripping flat on my face in the mud. Heart pounding out of fear I turned around out of instinct unsure if I really wanted to see what was chasing me. I looked up and saw two red eyes glaring from the dark slowly walking towards me. I could feel the soul leaving my body at that point.

I immediately got up and started running again, this time dropping the dead weight attached to my back. I sprinted in the dark, and this time the only difference when I always do this from my usual routine is that this time I am running for my life.

I could hear the hoarse heavy breathing coming from the beast behind me, it was definitely getting closer, and I had to find a way to lose it. I had to think fast at this rate, I looked around for a way to get away and the only option I had at this point is to run into the woods, like the literal foliage, which in this case was sharp brambles and thorn-coated shrubs and bushes.

“Dammit!” I said to myself as I got up and sprinted through the growing forest flora and I could feel tears forming at my eyes because of the pain I felt as the foreign objects pierced, punctured, and tore through my flesh. I could feel blood running down my arms and legs as I covered my face with my forearms. I could barely see where I was going and I didn’t know where I was going, but at that point I didn’t really care anymore.

Then right as I saw some kind of opening in the foliage which I thought was the city at the time, I tried to head straight for it then I felt something wrap around my ankle.

“Argh!” I fell down again. This time when I tried getting up, I couldn’t because right in front of me was the thing that was chasing me down. Very large and growling, it slowly revealed itself completely in the bright moonlight, dark coarse fur, emanating a dark aura.

I could feel my pulse starting to race, I couldn’t think of anything to do, and when I tried to, it already pounced straight for me. Then out of some kind of instinct I raised up my hand in front of me and I yelled out something foreign, something I myself have never heard or said before.

Then immediately I felt some kind of energy surge out from my hands, and made a barrier between me and the beast, and when it hit the barrier it was launched back really far.

I couldn’t really tell what just happened but I took that chance and this time I ran straight for the city, as I immerged out of the foliage I could see a large white tower from the distance.

I focused back onto the snow trail and continued walking in the now heavy blizzard. Thinking back to that moment, I think that might have been the first time I actually used Onirigin energy, the source of my powers.

That day after I got back to my mentor, he told me about the Onirigin. He knew about me being a demon when I was first sent to him. During that time, he also told me what I was; it was my first time finding out.

Now I am definitely a lot better at using my energy than I was before.

“Maxima Prominence.” I said as I snapped my fingers. Then almost instantly I was surrounded by a thin stream of fire. It got warm pretty quickly as the fire started crawling around my limbs and forming a ring around me.

As the snow started melting away, and it got a little bit warmer, I was already more or less covered in flames. Also as a demon I can’t burn, as far as I know I am completely fireproof. I still feel heat, but I definitely can’t burn.

I couldn’t make the flames any hotter or bigger, because I know for a fact nobody normal can actually use magic, at least not the same way that I can. If anyone saw me right now their first reaction would probably be something like-

“RIFTLING!”

Yeah something like that- wait what?