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Frozen Night

By Djinn Xpert

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Chapter One: Departure

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"Gotcha!" Alex laughed, as his snowball hit Mia's head.

Mia laughed, too. Then she threw a snowball at him, but Alex ducked.

"Alex! Mia! It's time for lunch!"

"Yes, Mom!" Mia said, running back to the snow-covered hut. Alex followed after her.

Alex was picking at his food.

"Alex, what's wrong?" Mia asked.

"Tomorrow is my parent's death anniversary," replied Alex sadly.

"I see..." Mia said softly.



Alex put the flowers on his parents grave. The Snowstars were flowers which could survive extreme cold and thus were able to grow up there in the frozen Imil. They also had great healing properties and were used in many rituals.

Alex knew one thing - they had died saving him.

Alex's parents were never good ones. They were criminals, and were usually out somewhere commiting crimes, only coming back once or twice a month. The village children thus stayed away from Alex; their parents feared his parents. But Mia was different. Mia was friendly, kind and loving. And so were her parents.

Alex hated his parents. He hated them. He envied Mia - she had a caring father and mother. But one day, from the Lighthouse came lizards. The winter had been particularly harsh, and the lizards needed food. They deviated from their usually diet of the Lighthouse's abundant jellyfish and chose something which could keep them full longer - humans.

Alex was attacked when he was gathering wood outside one day. His father and mother were returning from a looting in Bilibin and saw him. They leaped forward to help, killing all the lizards but were mortally injured.

Alex's parents died before his very eyes. He was just 10 years old.

Four years had passed since then.

Alex woke up the next day with his pillow drenched with his tears.



"Alex, you've already mastered healing." said his teacher. "Now I'll teach you some combat Mercury Psyenergy."

Alex had learnt in 4 years what took others 20 years.

"Try it." his teacher commanded.

Alex obliged, easily using the Psyenergy he was just taught. The shards of ice tore a tree down.

"That was called Ice, now I'll teach you Frost."

Just one try... The mayor was amazed.

"Call for a council meeting immediately." The mayor told his manservant.



"He is too dangerous." The mayor said angrily. "He has learnt too quickly!"

"You should be happy he is this good," protested Miern, Mia's father.

"What if he turned against us?" A council member said. "I mean, remember who his parents were..."

"Alex is Alex!" Miern shouted angrily. "It has nothing to do with Andrew and Froseria!"

"Let's call for a vote, then." said a female council member calmly.

When the council was adjourned, Miern left with tears in his eyes.



"Banished?" Mia cried. "No... It can't be."

"I didn't want it either," Miern said sadly.

"Isn't there anything you can do?" Miern's wife, Mary asked.

"I will protect Alex from them til the end!" Miern pledged bravely, but yet he knew all was lost.

"No..." Alex said. "I'll go. You mustn't get into trouble because of me."

"Then I'll go with you!" Mia sobbed.

"No." Alex said again. "It's tough out there. You don't deserve to go through it."



When Alex was leaving town, Mia came to him.

"Alex," Mia said softly. "Take this."

Alex accepted the sword. It was the Mia's family's heirloom, the Ocean Blade.

"I can't take this..."

"Take it." Mia said. "Dad wants you to have it."

"Thank you so much." Alex said softly. He put his hand around Mia's waist, and they kissed.

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I can't believe I did this. An Alex-is-good fic! Well the hate parents thing is inspired from Misato in Evangelion and the monster attack Imil thing is inspried from one of Alex's fics... can't remember which one.

Basically, the whole thing is inspired from something - it's not original!

Sequel will come.