The fire speaks to me

"I can't believe it!" I said to myself while putting on my costume, "My first convention... This will rock!"

"Hurry up!" Dave yelled from downstairs.

"Just give me a moment!" I yelled back, "It's not my fault that this costume is really tight!"

"Yes it is! You made it!" Alex replied, "Now hurry up and get down here so we can see it!"

I hurried and zipped my black suit up before buttoning the light brown coat that I had on. After checking the mirror one last time, I put my skull mask on and walked down the stairs.

"So guys, how do I look?" I asked my friends, "Am I missing anything?"

"Nice, man. Although, you are missing one important thing." Dave replied with a smile.

"What is it?"

"Duh," Alex said while rolling his eyes, "You forgot your gun."

He then handed me a fake revolver with incredible details on it.

"You don't think I'm gonna get kicked out for having this do you?" I asked with concern.

Dave just started walking towards the front door, "Maybe, but it looks awesome, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, I guess it does. They'll probably just check to see if it's real, right?"

Alex started pushing me out the door, "Yeah, sure, whatever. But we need to leave now or we'll never get there!"

"Alright, jeez. Don't get your tights in a bunch." I replied while locking my front door and hopping in Dave's car.

Alex glared at me before putting his mask on, "You and me both know that Deadpool is awesome whether he wears tights or not!"

I just chuckled at him while Dave started his car. We were then finally on our way to Comic-con.

"Ugh, this is taking forever." Alex moaned, "How did you lose your helmet?!"

"Shut up!" Dave angrily replied while searching through his trunk, "I know it's back here somewhere!"

I decided to help him look, so I started digging with him until finally I saw a bit of green poking out, "I think I found it!"

Dave saw the helmet after I pointed to it and he ripped it out. He then started inspecting every little bit of it to make sure that it was alright.

"Alright, you have your helmet, can we go inside now?" Alex impatiently asked while tapping his foot.

"Yeah... sorry about that, I just freaked out a bit." Dave replied, "You can't have a Master chief costume without the helmet."

"Guys, come on! Let's get in there!" I yelled to them as I ran to the entrance.

Alex and Dave started stumbling after me and we all raced towards the entrance. After taking a moment to go through a quick security check, we admired all the stands and shops selling stuff and all of the other cosplayers walking around.

"Wow... this is awesome!" Dave said before giggling like an idiot.

"Get a hold of yourself, we haven't even been in here for ten minutes and you're acting like a child." Alex replied in a joking manor.

"Hey Alex, look, Deadpool stuff!" Dave said while pointing in a random direction.

Alex suddenly started looking in the direction that Dave had pointed while yelling, "Oh my gosh, where?! Where?!"

Both Dave and I started laughing like idiots at him while he just stood there annoyed.

"Ok, he got you on that one." I said, "But seriously, we should probably make a plan."

"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to go look around." Alex said while walking off.

"Yeah, me too. I'm hoping to add to my Halo collection." Dave also said while walking off.

"Um... but..." I stood there for a moment before yelling to them, "A-Alright, let's meet back here in an hour!"

I could faintly here "Yeah" and "Whatever". Having nothing else to do, I walked towards the shopping area. As I walked past all of the shops, and the other people that were crowding the place, there was one spot that seemed to stick out. It was mostly because nobody was nearby, but the owner also seemed very shady.

I walked up to him and asked, "What exactly do you sell here?"

"Why, I'll sell you whatever you want," He responded with a smile, "In fact, I think what your costume needs is this little Beauty right here." He said before pulling out a nicely crafted gun, which of course was fake.

I just stared at it before saying, "No thanks, I have my own." Before pulling out my revolver.

"Oh... um... How about this antique ruby necklace?" He asked while pulling out a nice ruby necklace with a silver chain, "Or maybe some of these beautiful rings?"

"No thanks, I don't need any jewelry." I said while secretly wondering what he would pull out next.

"Really? Oh my... I have a crystal cat eye, an ankh or maybe you would like these boots?" The merchant desperately asked.

"Still no on all of that. How did you even get this stuff?" I questioned.

"Well, what do you want then?!" He asked while leaning closer the me.

I decided to look at his merchandise for a moment longer before deciding, "I want that zippo lighter over there."

"W-What? A lighter is all you want?!" He said with an incredible amount of disbelief on his face, "Alright fine, that will be thirty five dollars."

I dug into my coat pockets to get my wallet and I fished out two twenties, "Here, you can keep the change. I was just messing with you that whole time." I ended with a laugh.

"You know what?" The merchant agitatedly asked while grabbing the money.

"What?" I asked in return while he grabbed the lighter.

"That's not a very nice thing to do." He replied while grabbing a small bucket and tossing its contents onto me.

"Ahh! What the hell man?!" I yelled before getting a good whiff of whatever was now on me, "Wait... was that gasoline?!"

The merchant got a huge smile before saying, "You shouldn't do mean things to mean people..." He then took the zippo lighter that he was still holding, lit it and tossed it at me.

I was too slow to react in time and the lighter hit me right in the chest before my whole body started catching. I was soon completely on fire and freaking out the whole time. Every bit of my body hurt worse than anything I've ever felt before, until I fell on the ground and my vision started fading. The last thing I could see was a crowd of people rushing toward me, including Dave and Alex. And the only thing I could hear the whole time was that psychopath merchant laughing like my death was the funniest thing he had ever seen.

Finally after my vision was gone and the merchants laugh couldn't be heard anymore, a new voice showed up, "Welcome, young one. We will get acquainted soon enough, but for now you must rest."