ChapterTwo
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Again, still slow, but it's getting there.
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"Sam?... Sam are you ok?" I lightly shook her shoulders as I waited for her response. I was planning on her waking slowly, but to my surprise she suddenly shot awake, lunging at me. She landed on top of me, her hands balled up with fistfuls of my clothing at my collarbone. I couldn't help but laugh her, the look on her face was priceless – teeth bared in the most unintimidating looking snarl I've ever seen. Slowly she released my clothing and threw her face into the crook of my neck. "I'm so, so sorry! I didn't mean to I s-swear!" I smiled and gave her a pat on the back. "Hey, no harm done. It's not like we're on concrete or anything." As soon as the words left my mouth, realisation struck me, and apparently Sam as well as she sat up and got off of me. I too sat up and looked down at the bed of white we sat on that stretched for miles in every direction. The ground was covered. The trees were covered. And now, my back was covered as well. "It's f-freezing here K-Kris. W-where are we? It's s-so c-cold." she was sitting in a ball with her hands rubbing at her arms, trying to create some warmth through friction. Personally I thought it was a nice change from the overwhelming heat the layers of clothes were causing. I took off my outermost jumper and handed it to her, helping her put it on.
"B-But Grandmother said-""I know what she said" I cut in "I believe that this is why she had us dressed this way. She and Grandfather both knew that we would not be waking in our beds this morning" She shook her head and took a step back. "No. No you're wrong" It was clear that the extra piece of thick material was helping her. "She wouldn't send us away without telling us" She persisted. I took her arm in mine and began walking us towards the sunrise. There was no point in us standing still, was there?
The walk seemed relentless. Everywhere we looked there were trees and snow. Nothing else. Sam was getting colder with every step she took. I gave her my last jacket and the pair of track pants I wore over the top of my jeans to try and keep her from freezing. I was now walking in just a black singlet and blue jeans (plus my boots), the cold wasn't affecting me anywhere near as much as it was her. Sure I gave a light shiver every now and then, but the temperature was still somewhat relaxing for me.
After hours of walking, Sam dropped to the ground. The wind was too aggressive; she was slowly freezing to death. "Samantha?" I knelt down to her and lightly touched her face. At the contact of my fingertips to her cheek, she pulled away from me. "M-My god!" She yelled as she nursed her cheek with a thickly sleeved hand. "Your f-fingertips are f-frozen!" I sighed; a small gust of light blue wind left my mouth. I told her that I was fine and that if she needed rest then we'd take shelter amongst the trees, out of the wind. While she settled I examined my hands. My fingertips, to the first knuckle had frozen over with a light blue ice. I tried picking it off, but it was no use. I still had full function in my hands though. Was this normal? Perhaps it was just a kind of frostbite? With Sam shivering against an ice covered tree, I took the opportunity to climb above her and try to see if there was any sign of civilisation around.
Once I was at the top of the tree the only thing that I could make out in all the white was a … palace of some sort. I heard a stick break not too far from us and immediately jumped down in front of my sister. Her, relying on her greatest sense- hearing- also made out the noise and shrank back closer to the tree, trying to keep herself from view. You wouldn't have spotted her if you weren't looking for her either. Her white hair and jumper blended with the snow perfectly, and her black pants looked like the bark of the tree. Moving around to the other side of the tree to look back into the empty white field, I stood my ground, waiting for whatever made the noise to come into the clearing. A man wearing black and yellow came out of the white wind, looking right at me. My body tensed further as I saw that he was not alone. Flanking to the left was another man, dressed in blue and black; as soon as I could see his face, his eyes locked onto mine. They were getting too close, only 5 or so metres away, and still, not a word was spoken.
They both stopped; the yellow one put a foot behind him and crouched into a fighting pose. "Give us the girl" He said in a deep, unrelenting voice which made the muscle in my mouth twitch. My eyes flicked between the two and came to rest back on the man in blue. Behind me I could faintly hear the sound of Sam's breathing, it seemed as though she was having a panic attack. The one in blue started to walk forward again, stopping only a foot away from me. I didn't move. I could feel the cool air surrounding him, making my skin break out in Goosebumps. "Leave" I commanded in a hard even tone, once again causing the blue mist to escape my mouth. The man in blue quirked an eyebrow, watching the blue air as it disappeared into nothingness.
Both looked quite odd by my standards, the only parts of their skin showing was their eyes and some muscle around their arms. Upon hearing my voice Sam moved from behind the tree and was now trembling just behind my legs, still in the foetal position. She had the hood of her outermost jacket on her head, and hid her eyes from the two men standing before us. The man in yellow saw my distraction as a perfect opportunity. A low growl came from his throat as he yelled "GET OVER HERE!" Without warning a Kunai connected to a chain shot out of the man's hand, coming towards us at an incredible speed. There was no time to move, no time to react at all. Only time for my mind to process one thought.
'I vowed to never let anything bad happen to her'
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ChapterTwo complete. Hooray!
I'll upload chapter Three ASAP, I promise!
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