Infernal Flames and Sorrowful Ashes

Chapter 3: Origins

 **Dream/flashback**

Ember found herself lost in the hallway of an extremely luxurious house. The walls were painted in a bright yellow and beautiful, purple violets. She had been here many times before in her dreams and this place did look familiar, but she could never remember who the owners of the house were.

Ember walked slowly she shivered as her bare feet walked against the cold floor and saw a room where she could here the giggling of a little girl.

 “CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE I AM!?” Ember shouted, but no one could here her, nor even see her. Being unnoticed in her dreams was a good thing though because she was naked and covered in bandages.

“As long as this is a dream, then I have nothing to worry about.” Ember thought as she opened the door and there was a little girl who was at least five or six with black hair tied up in pigtails and green eyes, just like Ember. She was wearing a pink dress that seemed to have been quite common with most toddlers or young children these days.  The girl was also playing with dolls and a teddy bear.

“Cute.” Ember thought. She then heard someone else coming in. A man in his forties clad in a white lab coat and his black hair was messy and unkempt, as if he had spent twenty-four seven working away.

“Ember honey, I need you to come with me. There are two people want you to meet.” the “scientist” said.

“What are you talking about, I’m-“ Ember then looked down at the girl and she realized that the little girl was her from Ember’s early years. She also remembered that no one could hear nor see her.  

The younger Ember looked up at the man and said, “Okay Daddy.” He then picked the girl up and wrapped her in his arms. Ember walked down stairs to see what it was and the younger Ember and her father were talking to two men with a black suits and grey hair.

“Are the experiments ready yet Prof. Marcus Mclaine.” the man asked.

“No, just give me a few more days. My daughter….” He was then interrupted.

“Your daughter what?”  the second suit asked.

The professor didn’t respond as he looked at his daughter and then at the two suits. He then sighed with a sense of grief.

The first suit then spoke “Your boss doesn’t care about what his granddaughter wants. You know that he is your father too professor? As far as I’m concerned, he was the one who took part in these ‘Nazi’ ghost experiments.”

Shock was in Marcus’s eyes and he set his daughter down. “Ember, go to your room.” he said with little emotion in his voice. The girl obeyed and headed up the stairs while the other Ember watched and listened to the argument.

“I want nothing to do with his dirt-cheap nazi ideals and his sick ghost experiments that he tried to use to help them win World War II, now get out and leave me and my daughter alone!” He shouted as he slammed the door in the two suits’ faces.

**end dream/flashback**

Ember woke up, with the cold iron of the collar against her skin. She checked the clock and it was still midnight and Danny was either asleep or hunting down another ghost. She only had one small question on her mind.

“Was that my……… father?”

She only fell asleep again, believing she would need it for tomorrow.

To Be Continued