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"Burn her!! Burn her at the stake!" The whole town chanted as they watched me get tied to a wooden plank. I saw the giant logs at my feet and the people that were excited for me to die. A priest and his entourage walked towards me through the group of people.

"Will you admit it now? That what you did was wrong... That you are evil, a devil. If you admit it, we'll stop this whole thing, you get to continue living, and your life of heresy will end." the priest said as he looked up at me.

"What is there to admit huh!? What exactly did I do? You raided my house, destroyed my property, and set me up to die. I did no harm to anyone, I secluded myself from everyone... I didn't even talk to anyone... At all. So tell me... Who are the real evil ones here!? Oh, you want to know something else? I'm not even a witch. I know of no witchcraft or sorcery. You're about to burn an innocent human being... And for that... I hope you all rot in Hell." I stated as I stared down at him.

I'm gonna die. I'm only 25, I haven't even lived yet and people want me dead. I wish I really did have that kind of power, then I'd kill everything and everyone in this hell of a town. I thought to myself.

"You still refuse to admit your wrong doings you witch!?" The priest said in a demanding tone.

"I told you. I'm. Not. A. Wi..." as I was saying this, I saw something... No, someone in the crowd, who caught me off guard.

Why does she look like me!? I don't have a twin! So... So how is it... That I'm staring at myself!? As I thought this, they started the fire and watched as it grew. I stared at the woman who had my face and she pointed her finger up towards the sky. She mumbled something and everything around her stopped moving... Except... For her. She looked up at me and began to walk towards me through the crowd. As she got up to me, she began to whisper something, an...incantation. As she said it, she began to rise off the ground... She... She was floating! She stopped at face level and looked at me.

"Wow. It worked out well didn't it? The plan for you to take my place here. This just went so smoothly for me." She said.

What... WHAT!? WHY!? WHAT HAVE I DONE!? WHY DO I NEED TO SUFFER LIKE THIS!? I thought in anger.

She smirked. "Well, that's not why I came to see you anyway. I came to give you what you want."

"What... What I want? Like my freedom? You came to help me?"

"No. That's not what you want. You want power... Don't you?" She asked.

"Power?"

"The power to destroy everything. I could give it to you... If you want it." She said.

"I... I want it!" I stated.

"Good." She said. She placed her finger on my chest and said yet another incantation, only this time... It sounded kind of sinister. As soon as she finished, I felt something... Pain, like I've never felt before, like my veins caught on fire or like my blood was flowing backwards. It was immense. It was torture. she watched as I screamed in agony, as I squirmed from the pain and wished that I had died.

"If you want to hate anyone... Hate us, the Heava sect. If you want to kill anyone, kill us. I gave you this power because they wanted me to. Not because I felt bad for using you. You'll have a want for more power soon enough. And when that happens, you'll have to find me. Until then, you'll suffer more than you ever have. Your power craving will never cease, you'll murder all who oppose you. You'll be like this... Until you're strong enough to kill me." as she said this, she snapped her fingers and disappeared back into the crowd. Time resumed and the fire burned, only this time, it burned faster. It reached my body and continued to burn. The people rejoiced and I lost consciousness from the smoke and the agonizing pain. Soon after, my heart stopped beating.

"The evil has been purged! No longer will we have to live in fear of the witch among us. No longer will she curse us or plague us with her evil ways. We have devoured her evilness with flames and sent it to hell. For if the heavens allow it, she'll be born pure and anew. Her wrong doings have been taken care of." The priest said.

"It was a given that this would happen, seeing as I had her take my place. She should've been strong enough to accept the power I've given her, did I choose wrong?" The witch questioned herself as she walked away from the crowd.

*Gasp* I opened my eyes and looked around from the stake. "I'M NOT A WITCH!" I screamed as the fire blazed bigger and hotter than before. Everything around me burned to cinders. The stake, and rope that bound me were burned to ashes as I reached the ground.

I... I know I died. I felt my heart stop, the pain from suffocating is still present... But, I feel... stronger. There's another feeling too, power? Is this that power she gave me? I thought as I looked at my hands.

"S-she-she... Really was a witch! Run away!" The priest yelled as he looked at me in fear.

As the crowd began to scatter, I looked in the general direction they were running in and put up walls of fire to block their path.

Huh? How'd I do that?! Is this the power I'm feeling? I thought as I looked around.

"F-fire! Fire!" Someone screamed out as the walls appeared. Others who were standing and running where the walls came from met their fortunate ends, unfortunate for their loved ones and those watching, but fortunate for me.

"Did you think I'd just let you live? You all who wanted me dead?" I said in anger. "I was innocent, I bothered no one, not one of you even knew me. Yet... you... you cheered for me to die. You people.... YOU PEOPLE!" I screamed as fire engulfed me. "Let's see how you like it then!" I said as I set some people ablaze where they stood. This... this feels amazing!!!

The people became even more frantic. With no place to go and others dying, they could only assume the worst.

"Dear Goddess!" The priest who tied me up there watched as the entire town went up in flames, as people tried to hide, or get away anyway they could. "I... I don't want to die..." The priest said in fear.

"Hmm?! You don't want to die? Are you scared? Now you're scared? You weren't scared when you put me up there, or when you raided my house, but now... NOW YOU'RE SCARED?! HUH PRIEST?!" I said as I flew toward him. I grabbed him by his neck and stared at him.

"Why didn't you listen to me? I told you I was innocent. That I wasn't a witch. All I did was live on my own, I didn't even bother anyone. So why did you kill me?! Was it her? That witch?" I asked and pleaded.

"Witch? It was... Heava. She told me you were a witch and showed me all the horrible things you've done!" The priest said.

"Hea...va?!" I said out loud.

Heava?! That name again! Wait, the goddess Heava?! She's real? I thought to myself.

"Heava had you kill me... She told you things, and you just believed her?! You don't even know me, do you? You don't know a thing about me huh? You just did it because your Goddess said so?! Did you even question it?" I asked.

"I'll never question what my Goddess asks of me, doesn't matter what it is. I'll kill anyone for my Goddess. Heava is the only one I need to listen to. Whatever she tells me, I do." The priest said.

"You don't even know my name... Do you?" I asked him.

"No, I didn't need to. I just needed to kill you." He responded.

"Hmm. Well, before I kill you, and everyone else here, I should let you know huh?" I questioned.

"K-kill me?" He asked.

"Yes. Kill you. You stupid priest. Ah, oh yeah. My name is... Griselda." I mentioned as I stared him down.

"Griselda... Heh, I guess she didn't see you as much of a threat considering she didn't bother telling me your name." He said as he stared back.

"You know, it's funny. Your Goddess, the Heava sect.. They gave me these powers. The pain was excruciating. I still don't know all that I'm capable of. I do know though, that I won't let you go till I find out." I exclaimed.

I grabbed his arm with my other hand and burned it off.

"AGGGHHHHHHH" He screamed.

"Hmm, well that's fire. I wonder what else I could do. Care to find out, priest?!" I contemplated as I continued to test things out on him.