It is an everday tuesday nothing speical happened. The sun is shining and there are only few clouds on the sky.

Moaning from tiredness Quinn stood up and walked outside to take a bath. After eating his breakfast he took his schoolbag and started to walk to school.

Watching cars move by while walking on the side walk he slowly moved to school. It took him about 5 minutes. It only is a short walk from his house to the school.

While walking through the school gate he saw people slowly coming in. Some from the parking place others through a meadow connecting another road to the school.

Some were standing around or smoking outside the school while enjoying some free time before school would start eventually. On his way to the classroom he greeted some people who he recently has contact with and likes to talk to.

Quinn looks at the clock. Only 5 more minutes until school will start. The next 4 hours school is uneventful. Learning new stuff is always welcome and interesting.

While listening to the teacher his view strides to the window on the right side. He moves past it and then . Suddenly he Quinn starts to pay attention. Somewhere far in the distance he sees smoke starting to rise.

A fire ? What is strange is that the fire seems to be a lot bigger than 1 or 2 houses burning. It more or less seems as if a whole city block is burning. Qinn starts to pay a lot more attention.

Suddenly some other students also notice the strange event taking place a kilometre or two away. 

´" Teacher there seems to be a fire" one of them mentions. The teacher is now also looking outside. In the distance fire trucks are racing to the outbreak. "Its ok there seems to be no danger" Mister Duncan states. "Lets just continue the lesson". 

He starts to continue talking about  Mendels law and evolution in general. After 10 minutes another teacher comes into the room. All classes are asked to come outside" he says.

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Slowly the class is trickling outside. Everybody is gathering on the school yard.

Then the headmaster comes outside and starts to speak in the front. " We need to leave" We got a call from the city department, there seems to be something serious going on in the city centre." "Somebody mentioned something about terrorism" " But relax, we just need to evacuate and nothing serious will happen.

Everybody follow their teacher. The younger students will leave first. Everybody follow me ! " The student  slowly start to move through  the school gate and away from the city centre. 

On the way to the gate Qinn sees the group he usually hangs out and moves to them. One of them, Alex smiles at Quinn. "Hey whattup, did you hear that, terrorism crazy right?" " i cant  believe it either !“ „ setting the whole city block on fire, how many terroists would that be ?“

Another of the group, Cass mummurs „And my parents are in middle of“ He seems almost close to crying. There are already some tears running down his face. Everybody stays silent. "Hey cheer up they probably moved away or escaped when the fire started.

" "Not all hope is lost" Alex tried to cheer him up. Quinn still saw some stress in his face. The walked for a couple more minutes when everybody started to get nervous. The gunshots  were clearly becoming louder and moving towards their group. " Start jogging" the teacher said.

"We will change direction" "There is no way" Quinn thought. Everywhere around them were people moving and the crowd of following the students coming from the city centre where becoming more and more stressed.

More and more people came running from the direction of the city centre.

And then Quinn saw it in the far distance. First he thought it was person burning. But that didnt seem to be precise. The person literally seemed to be moving fire. Setting everything on fire, people and buildings alike. 

It felt unreal as Quinn saw literal concreate burning and turning into magma. "Run" "Its coming closer" people screamed. The pain screams in the distance were awful. Quinn felt as if he was in trance.

He madly rushed away from the burning man. Not  being aware other than his fear. The heat was constantly rising and the burning man was coming closer and closer.

Some of the younger students where becoming slower they coudnt keep up.  Some stayed behing but. All where burned. It was awful. The burning man was now only 100 meters away.

Flames closing in from both sides. 50, 20, 10 and then 0 meters. All Quinn felt was pain and his conciousness started to black out. This is the end he thought.

He didnt care about dying in the short seconds he felt the pain he only wanted it to end. This it he thought.