Rachel Forging ahead as Jasmine Makes a Small Mistake as Marie Finds out the truth….

(Author's Note this is Part Seven of multi Part Chapter)

As Time continue on Rachel still pounding away shaping her blades as she repeated process heating, pounding, cooling repeat then placed the red-hot steel in Ashes to give it more of a peppered look then heated once again as the heat began to accept her in the bowels of this natural hell….

Jessica walked back and forth at the gates… Lady Jess one of the students spoke back you worry too much… I have to Rachel is my lover and my soul if anything should happen… Devil is tough we all see it you should too… thank you my dear friend…. When Seiko smiled, I had a feeling you would be here my student… I wanted to stop by, so she wouldn’t think we left her alone… Rachel knows we are here dear now catch… as Jessica caught the staff… show me what you have learned as Jessica and Seiko began sparring as the grand master watched on from her throne….

Back in LA after meeting the Hive and possible team up with them Jasmine and Marie decided to have some fun and enjoy the sights as per their bosses request to have some relaxation as Jasmine knew in her experience in the superhuman community this was a given…

Hey Jas are you there… Oh, sorry Marie… you spacing out on me Private jokingly… No Ma’am just love the sights and sounds not like Washington you know… are you crazy Washington has its own crazies you know bad part is most of them walk around in three-piece suits and expensive ties… both laughed it off… Jasmine can I ask you do you miss the action of field work… parts of me do Marie but thinking back on what happened in Zanzibar… that was not your fault how did we know terrorist took the building and rigged it to… But as the demolition and software specialist I should have done a detail sweep and I didn’t…

Look at me it was a group fault too I feel bad too they were my friends too… but each of the widows allowed you to be at each funeral… they wouldn’t let me… Jasmine is something bothering you, you know you can tell me anything Marie spoke… I know you care Marie and I appreciate everything I do but there are somethings I can’t detail to you to protect people I care about… I can fight for myself… PLEASE HELP MY SON HE IS UNDER THE WATER… Jasmine find the lifeguards I’ll go… Just be careful as Marie spoke to the woman and was pointed to the ocean…

Jasmine spoke I know this shit going to hurt but I got to try as she pulled her costume from her bag and quickly put it on behind some boulders but forgetting her sandals pointing to Jasmine’s transformation spot….

Marie was swimming out towards the area as her military training kicked in as she free dived to the bottom to see a young teen stuck under the water with fallen rocks…. Ma’am are you the lifeguard spoke I am fine I am with the Military and was on leave there is a young teenager trapped under water with boulders when people on the beach and in the water saw the flaming woman… What seems to be the problem we have a trapped teenager underwater… Say no more as Inferno tripled her body heat as she dove into the water cutting it in two burning the molecules to buy her time as she saw the teen…. HMMM here goes nothing as she began to melt the boulders loosening the weight…

Come on, Come on work with me here Inferno spoke when the final rock came free as the teen floated to the top as Inferno flew off quickly as Marie followed her towards the boulders… as Inferno Landed on hands and knees just as Marie got to the corner to see a sight she never thought she would see as Inferno began to revert to human form….

Weak so fucking weak Jasmine spoke when Marie spoke stay right where you are… Look I was trying to help… you are an unregistered Meta… Stay back please you don’t want to know who I am… Yes, I do Marie turned the reverted form of Inferno around… JAS… Hush please… you… you are… but how… are you going to turn me in to our superiors… talk to me Jasmine… not here Please…. Relax Jasmine I am not turning you in if it was not for you that young man would have been dead…

Can you take us back to the Hotel… sure thing Jas will you now let me in… Fine you win I will tell you everything… Jesus Jasmine you look like hell… water was too much I should have known but couldn’t risk passing out at Marie’s feet as she helped her friend to the car unnoticed….

Back in the Forge Rachel continued to pound and smelt the sword as it was taking shape as the heat fueled her One down one to go as she dipped the first blade in a heated acid wash as she started with the second blade not stopping as she pulled the chain to drench her silk covered self with fresh water to re-hydrate while continued to pound well into the afternoon while Jessica continued to train with the best Soldiers Shadow mages had to offer as she took them down with ease breaking for dinner and reflection as Rachel continued to work well into the night….

Back in La Jasmine shot up quickly… Jas… Marie I guess you know now I am Inferno… I do but part of me somehow always known that… how I tried to hide it… Dear listen all those times you made excuses to disappear then moments later Inferno was on site and I find it odd that when you are here so is, she…

Are you mad that I tried to protect people I care about…? I am your friend you should have told me… I WANTED TOO DAMNIT but… But what… I was afraid to ok… well you don’t have to be Marie spoke back tell me when did all of this happen…

Remember the incident in Zanzibar and the explosion… when you pushed me out of the way… well I remember I was engulfed in flames as it burned through my uniform Marie and then I felt a splash as the fire intensified beyond any human threshold as I nearly drowned into that vat… OH! MY looking worried at her friend recounting the events… the flames continued to seep into my very frame and core as the fluids I choked upon… when I came to I was at the Triage doctors was stunned to see I was not charred or severely burned…

Marie can you tell me what else happen please I have to know… Marie smiled I tried my best to save you as the place was coming down all around us and everyone who served in our unit was killed or burned alive, so I grabbed an ax and began to destroy the vat in dire attempt to save you my friend… but in doing, so I also was doused with that substance why did it affect you but not me… Jasmine spoke defeated I don’t know Marie I am so… So Sorry for everything….

When did it manifest… my power Jas Asked back… Yeah, Marie spoke one night I began to burn up in the ward no matter what I did I couldn’t cool off when I went to the sink I saw my eyes turn pure molten lava like as my blood boiled as my skin began to burn setting off the alarms alerting security I was scared, Afraid I was turning into a monster and needed to be free to escape…

Jasmine that night you destroyed an entire hospital room lucky no one else was in the vicinity of the blast … so I didn’t kill anyone then… no dear friend… good… when our team was shipped back home I tried to confront the widows they left behind they despised me and wished it was me to the point I nearly lost control… but you didn’t… no but I ran away and when I did so, I began to feel the burn once again…

What happened… my body began to set itself on fire Marie at first it brought the explosion to the forefront then warmth and then power as the air molecules began to heat around me as I ran destroying my clothing in the process my feet lifted off the ground next thing I knew I was beside a Boeing 747 I was flying and in the first time in my life I felt free…

Oh, dear come here… Marie I am so sorry I never told you I didn’t want you to find out this way… it is ok… I am glad you are ok my friend… what will we do about asshole if he finds out about me, I’m done for… he won’t…. How do you know he will not…?

Because I am not going to tell him he may be my superior but you are my best friend we came up together in camp understand me. thank you, my dear friend, you are so welcome…. Now I don’t feel so alone… and you will never have to be…

Jasmine beside the flame and heat what other powers do you possess… I found out I can control and flames from any fire source and bend it to my will… like the other day with the wall of flames, throw heat blast and fireballs from my fingers, melt concrete and other harden surfaces… wow that sounds incredible… I am still scratching the surface in my one year nine months and seventy-seven hours as Inferno I still learn what my body and these powers can do…

Jasmine spoke Marie I knew you saved me that day and you contaminated yourself as well… what did the doctors tell you… they didn’t find anything Jasmine no traces or ill side effects maybe it depends on person to person… I don’t know dear Jasmine spoke maybe Mutagen-X works when person is highly stressed out or in a near **** state… I guess we will never know then Jas Marie spoke back…

Why did you do it… do what…. Became a superhero… maybe it was because I wanted to fight for those who couldn’t fight back Like Pete, Amber, Tom and Franklin and the civilians I came across trying to save them as best as I could…

Want to know something… Sure Marie what is it… Wait right here I’ll be back while heading to her bedroom and found her private surface laptop and came back to the living area… all those people you say you are trying to save… what about them take a look…

Listen the fire lady came out of nowhere melted the hijackers guns without a single touch it was like putty in their hands…

When another person said I was attacked at night when I thought I was going to die when a bright fiery flame shot out of the darkness and knocked out my assailant thank you whoever you are on the life of my daughter thank you for saving me…

This is just a few of your good deeds dear friend, and I am proud to say I now know the real you and I promise to keep your secret safe looking over at Jasmine who passed out asleep… wow she must still feel the effects of the salt water from earlier as Marie covered her friend up and said sleep well my friend you deserve it as she too went to her room and quickly fell fast asleep in her comfortable bed…