Before you guys begin to read this story, I highly recommend you finish reading my two previous stories in order to understand what's going on. The first one is 'FrostBitten: Test of Courage' and the second one is 'FrostBitten: Conquering Darkness'. This is the third instalment of the series. I hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Chapter One: Under The Cherry Blossom Tree
Frost's POV
So... tired... Star wouldn't shut up about her personal accomplishment last night, keeping both me and Mindy awake for the entire night. Drowsily and blankly, I stared out of the crystal clear window, admiring the golden maple tree that stood outside like a soldier, guarding my eyes from the shining sun. Today's the day that I go to school. It's not that I don't want to go... but... it's the fact that I have to re-introduce myself to the entire class again due to the principal having them all electrocuted. Thus, removing all traces of me from their minds. To be honest, I feel pretty bad for them all. What if one of them developed brain damage or amnesia because of that? Then again, he's one hell of a sorcerer... That reminds me. What the hell happened to everyone's familiars? Damn... so many questions that need answers...
"Come on Frost!", I heard a voice call me from my right, causing me to blink and release a distressed sigh from my damp lips. "You don't want to be late! Mindy's waiting for you!", The voice added, sounding a lot more cheerful. If Mindy's waiting for me, then I better hurry up. Blinking blankly, I pushed my chair backwards, emitting an ear-splitting screech that caused my blood to cool down to the point of freezing as I cringed dearly. Argh... Being alive and all is great, but why the hell does it have to hurt me more than before?
"Coming!", I called out and stood out of my chair with a slight grunt. With a deep, soothing breath of the cold air that swirled around me like spirits, I exhaled loudly and tucked my brown wooden chair in underneath the wooden coffee table that was bare of anything but it's glorious, creamy texture. "I hope it's just me and Mindy. I'd hate it if Star or someone else decides to walk to school with us", I mumbled to myself as I began walking sluggishly towards the front door, tapping the wooden floorboards with my grey running shoes with every step I took. Damn... This is all Star's fault.
Upon stepping foot into the living room, Nexus tapped my shoulder in a friendly way, causing me to stop abruptly and straighten myself to not show any disrespect towards him, seeing that he is in fact the KING of the Crimsons. He sat down on the yellow sofa beside his wife, April. He looked up at me, smiling warmly before opening his mouth to say whatever he had to say.
"Are you and Mindy ready to go on the next level?", He asked me, giving me a wink as my heart literally skipped a beat to what he had just said. Argh! My face is flushing as red as redstone! "Ow!", He cried, rubbing is arm right after April had elbowed him hard.
"Anyway", She said as she cleared her throat and too, stared up at me with her light red, glowing eyes that looked identical to Mindy's. Like mother like daughter. I suppose... Then what trait did she get from her father? "I want you to have a good talk with our daughter. She has some problems with being and she was wondering if you could help her out", She said soothingly, raising a purple eyebrow at me with a bright smile, obviously knowing that I would obligate.
"Yeah, I'll talk to her and I'll make sure that there's nothing wrong with her. After all...", I said and suddenly paused, feeling extremely shy to say it right before her parents.
"Go on. Say it. You love her, there's nothing wrong with that", Her father said as he continued to ease the pain on his left arm by rubbing it thoroughly.
"Oh! Look at the time!", I exclaimed, as I looked down at my left wrist, faking that I had a watch on. "I don't wanna keep Mindy waiting!", I said, making a good reason for me to depart and dodge a bullet.
"Hmm, you may have won this round. But it's not over yet", Her father mumbled, causing me to smile and nearly laugh. Haha! Mindy has such amazing parents.
"Have fun!", April said enthusiastically and gave me a firm nod, making her long, flowing purple hair bounce and shake from behind her.
"I will. Cya!", I said and raised up my right hand, indicating a wave before I took in a deep breath and turned forwards. With a quiet sigh, I began to walk away from the living room and turned right slowly, now facing the brown, polished wooden door that had a golden door knob to the left of it.
Firmly, I stood still and felt myself all over, making sure that I was more than prepared to face Mindy... I want to be perfect whenever I see her. Quickly, I scrambled my hands all over myself, fixing up my jet black, buttoned uniform from the collar all the way to the last black, shiny button. Alright... I think I'm prepared. With a great sigh, I grasped onto the shiny golden door knob with my right hand and firmly twisted it as my heart began to beat against my chest. What's the matter with me? This isn't a date. We both know that we love each other, yet I'm so scared to see her. Agh... No. I can do this! I am a man! I defeated Charcoal on my own and survived! Upon receiving a great amount of courage due to motivation of my will, I turned to knob a tad-bit more, stopping abruptly as I received a satisfying 'click' from within the golden door knob.
Hesitantly, I pushed the door open slowly, creaking as it widened more and more. I closed my eyes momentarily to block out the new lighting, awaiting for my eyes to readjust themselves anxiously. Taking a quick, deep breath of the fresh sailing air, I opened my eyes to see the most beautiful figure standing before me, holding her hands behind her back as she smiled at me brightly with her head tilted to the right.
"What took you so long?", She asked, taking a good three steps towards me as I stared into her beautiful light red eyes with passion and love. She wore a a light grey buttoned shirt that was as spotless as the air, a black miniskirt that covered a third of her creamy white thighs, white socks that made it mid way to her ankles and grey sport shoes. "Come on, we're going to be late. And plus, a new student shouldn't be late on their first day of school", She added and blinked as she tilted her head to the other side. I smiled at her, feeling my cold heart suddenly warm up to her gorgeous eyes and face. She's so... Agh. No words...
"You're right", I said and gave her a firm nod as I walked up to her, stepping onto the grey stone pathway on front of the yellow mansion. "Let's get going then", I chuckled and stopped in my tracks as I was not five inches away from her. I'm a few days older than her and we're about the same height. Staring into her amazing, light red eyes, I felt the wind brush against my face from my right, causing me to snap out of my little trance that held me for some time.
"This way", She said calmly as she suddenly grasped onto my right arm with both her arms. Hugging it and putting all of her warmth onto it, causing my heart to throb intensively.
"What if someone sees us like this?", I asked worriedly just before she chuckled to my reaction.
"Don't worry about it Frost", She said cheerfully and sighed quietly. "Anyway, let's get going, shall we?". Just then, she released my arm and ran up ahead of me by a few meters then stopped, twirled around and smiled brightly at me, causing me to flush a slight red as I too, smiled back and walked up to her.
"Are you sure that you know the way?", I joked to enlighten the already calming mood. I took in a deep breath of the fresh oxygen that was continuously being produced by the plants of the garden infinitely as I caught up to Mindy.
"Yep. I know it better than the back of my right hand", She said as we both walked off the stone pathway and onto the dirt in an orderly fashion. "Not long until we make it to the school's pathway", She sighed, sounding like she wanted to say more. Maybe we should start a conversation. After all, the walk towards school may take some time, so why not.
"Your mother told me that you have some problems", I said uneasily as we continued to walk towards an opening of pink trees far up ahead, looking almost as if they were just drawings on a canvas. Immediately, she sparked up and made a cute yelp. She looked at me from my left but I just looked up ahead for reasons unknown to me. "She wanted me to have a talk with you... Are you alright with that?", I asked and blinked, feeling the sun's warm rays of sunlight coat my skin with happiness as the silence swirled around us eerily, but at the same time, soothingly.
"Well...", She began uneasily as she turned red due to what seemed to be embarrassment. "Promise me you won't get upset or anything like that", She added, causing me to blink and immediately turn towards her with a small smile across my face that told her not to worry.
"I promise", I simply said, anxious to hear what is was that has been bothering her for quiet some time. Why didn't she tell me about this earlier? Was it THAT serious?
"I... Feel... Like maybe...", She began, trying to find the right words to use as she stuttered and flushed a much more darker shade of red. Mindy?
"It's alright if you don't tell me", I said, wanting her to just smile once again, but sadly, it didn't work.
"Like... Something. I can't describe the feeling towards you properly", She said out of the blue, returning back to her happy, calm mood that I have always loved about her. "Pushing that aside, people are now calling us the Reluctant Heroes".
I chuckled to how true it was. Every single one of us always think about life as we fight, double thinking and showing mercy. In my mortal body, I have tamed myself to not kill anyone anymore. I regret killing with all my heart... They must've had families to take care of... Gah. I can't let that bring me down tho! I have to keep my composure as much as possible!
"Oh!", Mindy exclaimed, sending a sudden shock into my very system as we both stopped in our tracks. "I forgot to tell you about something", She said, looking straight into my eyes with everlasting love as I too, returned it. Damn... I'm so lucky to have someone like her in my life.
"About what?", I curiously asked, blinking blankly as we fought in a tug of war with our very eyes, smiling at one another.
"You see, your parents wanted me to tell you that they'll be coming in three weeks time. And by then... they said that they expect us to be married", She whispered, blushing hard as I too, blushed excruciatingly hard. Dammit! My nose tingled the slightest and stung like a bite, indicating a nose bleed. What a way to ruin the mood!
"But we're too young!", I exclaimed aloud, making her giggle to my reaction like she intended to gain this reaction from me.
"Don't worry Frost! I'm just playing with you", She laughed, trying to maintain herself as she held onto her stomach like her life depended on it. "That was priceless! Haha", She continued laughing her voice out at me, making me feel somewhat embarrassed but at the same time, amused. Well, I got played!
"YOU TWO LOVE BIRDS! STOP FOOLING AROUND AND GET YOUR ASSES OVER HERE BEFORE THE BELL RINGS!", I heard that one, excruciatingly annoying voice yell at us from the right... Agh... Just hearing it... GIVES ME A FRICKEN MIGRAINE! "HURRY UP! YOU DON'T WANT ANY RUMORS ABOUT YOU TWO NOW DO YOU!", Star yelled... I swear... If I had brought my swords instead of my pistol and dagger, then I would've CUT HER BLOODY HAIR!
Nova's POV
"Wow", I whispered to myself upon seeing Mindy and Star walk in through the wide opened metal gates, holding a conversation among one another. With them, was a boy who I was very curious about upon the first glance of his grey cat-like ears... He must be Mindy's boyfriend or something like that. But I'm not interested in that... I just need to figure out if my suspicions are true or false... According to the books I have read and who I am, he and Mindy must be the duo... and I'm the third out of them two. Black Heart, White Heart and Pink Heart. If his name's Frost Richtofen, then it's completely obvious.
I took in a deep breath of the cold, soothing air that blew gently across the grassy field, shuddering the windows of the buildings and making the cherry blossom trees dance to it's influence. I looked around, seeing if anyone was too, looking at the new kid and to my surprise, MANY girls were looking at him as they chatted amongst themselves like children telling secrets to one another... I smell trouble... Especially since the school's 'tough' guy, Brutus, was too eyeing Frost with a look of hate... Out of everyone in this school, he was the toughest... well... not against me of course. But I have to hide it unless I want 'Them', to come after me once again.
"Frost, you should definitely choose sword fighting as your sport. After all, you ARE the best at it", Star exclaimed encouragingly to the boy who's name happened to be Frost. A coincidence I think not!
"That's a great idea! I'll join too", Mindy said, making Frost let out a quiet sigh before smiling at her warmly. Agh! My heart just skipped a bloody beat! That was damn adorable! Hiding from under the shade of the cherry blossom three I stood under, I watched as another three figures approached the small group from up ahead, looking like they knew them.
"Finally!", The one who looked ALMOST identical to Frost exclaimed happily as she stretched out her arms to the side, making weird moans as she did so.
"We've been waiting for a half hour for you guys", I barely heard the girl with blonde hair say due to how low she said it... This group... looks too much like the Reluctant Heroes... Or maybe, they ARE the Reluctant Heroes! Hopefully Frost is in the same class as I am! I need to know ALOT more about him, seeing that he's Black Heart...
And there's chapter one! I hope you all enjoyed it cause there'll be ALOT more chapters to come! I'm going to make this story last at LEAST a good Thirty Chapters. Leave a review on what you though of this chapter and what you would like to see later on! Until next time, stay epic!
"I'm all outta juice!"
"Get to the chopa!"
"Do whatever you can before you go to war, cause you'll never know if you'll make it out all in once piece..."
"We talk for peace, yet we fold our fingers behind our backs"
