Midnight Shine

Hi I'm Midnight Fire. I'm your average homeless orphan trying to rough-it on the streets. Well almost ordinary. You see I have some special traits. One being I have wings, literal wings, literal black as night wings and yes I can use them to fly. The other trait are a little harder to explain. I can create a flame, but not just any flame a flame made of the very night sky, with just a thought. You would think this would make my life easier but not, it actually makes my life harder. I have to keep to the shadows so I don't get "discovered" by modern science. I'm 15 my parents died when I was 5 and I have been living on my own since then. I live in a little abandoned warehouse next to a bakery and I get my food from the alley between the warehouse and the bakery. This is the story of the event that changed my life for the better. This is the story of a boy, a mirror, and magical new world.

It all started on the worst day of my miserable life. I had just gotten fired from the bakery and was once again without food for the week. As I went in the alley between my warehouse I call home and the bakery I saw something glint in the back of the alley. When I went to investigate I saw the glint was coming from a small gap in the back of the alley wall. As I then turn around I see two people I really didn't want to see right now. The two customers I had yelled at earlier and also the two guys I had been bullied by every day since the day I had first started working at the bakery. I prayed that they would just keep walking and not see me, but to no avail. They looked right at me and laughed. I looked around for any escape and saw none. Then I remembered the gap in the wall behind me and realized that they were large enough that it would take them a few minutes to squeeze through and I could slip through easily. I quickly slip through the gap and enter the room behind the gap. As I look around the room I realize that I have just trapped myself in an empty room barren of all but a a tall mirror. I run to escape the room I had just trapped myself in only to be stopped dead in my tracks 200 pounds of snarling angry beefy man. Then giving up all hope I slide into a sitting position against the wall. Suddenly I remembered something I had read in an old book I had found in the alley a few days earlier. Some mirrors are just gateways to other worlds. Praying that I was right I push against the mirror's surface, and burst through the other side!