Crime at the bar

It was raining heavily, thunders were flashing in the sky, but despite all the noise, the rain wasn't able to cover up the panicked screams of people. Inside a bar, several bodies were lying down on the ground in a puddle of their blood, some were struggling in pain while others were cold and without life. A man was holding a knife pressed against the throat of a worker while screaming at the three policemen in front of him.

"Don't you dare to move, or else this man is going to die!"

"Do yourself a favor and put the knife down, you have already reached a dead end, don't make this uglier then it needs to be."

The situation was tense, and the people both outside and inside of the bar were panicking, in the middle of the crowd, a camera and a reporter were already broadcasting the accident.

"We are currently in front of the bar named Caffè, where three police officers are confronting a dangerous situation.

From what we have heard from a witness who managed to escape from the bar, the police have been in a stalemate with the criminal for five minutes, moreover, several people are injured and in need of medical attention. These are all the news we have right now, please stay connected for other updates."

Inside the bar, the third police officer, who had a higher rank compared to the other two, looked at his left, trying to get a look at his earphones and said in a very soft voice.

"Are you sure?"

"Affirmative, the higher-ups permitted to shoot."

"But maybe we can salvage the situation..."

"Sir, the situation is out of control, the casualty rate is high, and the injured requires medical assistance."

After earing this the officer looked around himself, many people were staring at them with hope in their eyes, and the injured begged for help,

after hesitating for several seconds, the officer looked daringly at the criminal and yelled.

"This is your last chance, put down the knife now!"

"Go to hell!"

Suddenly all the noise come to a stop and only the echo of the shoot could be heard, everyone was looking at the officer with their eyes open wide, and then another noise echoed for a few seconds, it was the sound of something falling.

As if someone used magic all the people in the bar turned around looking for the source of the noise and saw the corpse, some people sighed in relief, others started to scream, and some took the chance and escaped out of the bar.

The officer who shot lifted his collar slightly with his left hand and said.

"Central, the situation is solved."

"Copy that, orders are to keep the people in check and contain panic."

"Roger."

The officer sighed and turned around while ordering his colleagues.

"Okay guys, begin treating the injured, I'm going to calm down the civilians, and check how much until the ambulances arrive."

Just as the officer was about to open the door and leave the bar, he saw one of the gravely injured closing his eyes and laugh weakly, this person was the first one to get stabbed, and he was the fifth to die.

The officer sighed dejectedly and proceeded to go outside, as soon as he stepped out of the door, the TV report dashed towards him and started to ask questions.

"Sir the noise from earlier was a shot right, what is the situation like?"

"The situation is now under control, now please make way some ambulances will arrive here soon."

"Are there any injured people?"

Just when the officer was about to answer, sirens started to echo loudly and a voice overlapped them.

"Alright, everyone needs to open up a path we need to get into the bar to help the injured. By the way, you can also go home there is no show to watch here."

After hearing what the newcomer said some people started leaving, while others decided to stay, for a reason or another.

"Officer, come here I want a report."

"Yes, sir. Ma'am if you'll excuse me."

"Wait what about my questions?"

The officer turned towards his superior and started walking, he wasn't in the mood to talk anymore, after all this was his first time killing someone, and despite looking calm and collected, the scene from earlier couldn't leave his mind, he was thinking about a way to change the outcome, even when he arrived in front of his superior he still couldn't stop thinking about it.

"Officer go and get some rest we'll take over now."

"Sir about the report..."

"No need, the report was just an excuse, that was the first time you killed some right, know that your actions saved the lives of many people."

"Sir if..."

"Officer there is no if in life, we can only do our best and it might not even be enough, now go and rest"

"Thanks for your hard work, Sir."

While the two policemen were talking a hole opened above the bar and the corpses of the dead ignited with a white flame, after a few minutes the flames parted from the corpses and started to flow toward the hole, resembling a million little fireflies, but no one reacted to such view as they couldn't see it, nor feel it. All the flames were burning brightly but as time passed the flames were absorbed by the hole and brought in an unknown space.

This world was immense, seemingly infinite, but flames of different colors could be seen everywhere, just like the sky at night, some were shining brighter than the sun others were on the verge of dying.

Suddenly in a remote region of this realm, the peace was disturbed by the same hole that opened back on the Hearth, the flames collected back there were now being ejected in this strange world, but there were no longer white flames only black ones came out of the hole, except for one little flame witch color was half white and half black.