Been a while since there was a new chapter for this one eh? Was busy with other stories, you know. Anyhow, this should be a good one if my head is up for the challenge.
The Ice Days IV
Walking in the darkness that concealed them, Raziel and his brothers hurried off to Dumah's clan, wondering what was in store for them this time. When they reached the place where last night's snowball fight had occurred, snowfall had turned it back to the way it was. And in the midst of it all was Seacia. She was placing the snow around her on top of more snow, by the look of it. Wondering what she was doing, the six brethren circled her. She was too enthralled with what she was doing to notice.
"What ARE you doing?" Rahab asked.
"Making a snowman. Wanna help?"
"A snowman, huh? Hmm, what do you guys think?"
"Have we anything better to do?" Turel said.
"Now that you mention it, no. Ok, Seacia, what do we gotta do?"
"It's quite simple: just make three big balls of snow and put them on top of one another and then make a face on him with whatever you want."
"Interesting...sure, we'll help," Easily, they made three boulder sized snowballs and tried to lift them on top of one another without much luck. Seacia only laughed and rolled around in the snow, clutched her stomach.
"Well if you think this is so funny then why don't you try?!" Dumah yelled, trying to lift the boulder-sized snowball off the ground.
"Be-because that's not wha-what you were supp-supposed to do!!" She laughed. The lieutenants dropped the gigantic snowball where it was and threw their hands up in the air.
"NOW she tells us!!" They cried. Doing her best to stop laughing, she resized two of the snowballs with her claws, then placed them one on top of the other.
"Hehe, there!! Now all we need is some stuff to decorate him with," she said. Melchah was already one step ahead of her.
"Already done," he said with a smile as he dropped the stuff on the ground. He had found some limbs, sticks, rocks, and had found an abandoned spear leaning against a nearby wall.
"Go Melchah!" Seacia cheered as he blushed. She showed them what to do and when they finished, he looked like three snowballs stacked on top of one another with two rock eyes that made him look evil because of the twig eyebrows, a stick mouth, two limb branches, and the spear was put in the snow to make it look like he was holding it. It was supposed to be a vampire guard.
"Well that was fun," she said sarcastically. When she turned to face her friends to ask them what they wanted to do next, she noticed that Raziel and Turel were gone. "Hey, where'd Raziel and Turel go?" She asked.
"I don't know, I didn't notice that they were gone," Zephon answered. She shrugged it off, thinking that they were planning something odd, and decided on what they should do next.
"Hey I know! Anyone up for a snowman contest?" They all raised an eyebrow at her.
"What are the rules?" Dumah asked slyly.
"All you have to do is make the best looking snowman. You can sculpt it out of snow instead of making it with three snowballs, of course," she explained.
"Ok, how do we know who wins?" Zephon questioned.
"Someone's gotta judge them."
"Who?"
"I'll do it, I just won't participate."
"How do we know you'll judge fairly?"
"Because I don't play favorites?" She shrugged. "Sides, can you think of anything better to do?"
"Good point."
"Can we group up?" Melchah asked.
"Yep, but only two partners, if any at all. No time limits though," Seacia replied.
"Ok, let's get started then," Zephon said. As they thought up things to make, Seacia busied herself with finding Raziel and Turel. It wasn't difficult to find them. They had gone behind a building and were making something out of snow.
"Hey guys, what are you doing?" Startled, they rushed at her, pushing her back around the corner till she couldn't see the pile of snow.
"Don't sneak up on us artists!" Raziel said.
"Yeah, you're not supposed to see it till it's done!!" Turel added.
"What in hell's name are you doing anyhow?"
"Sculpting!! Now shoo!"
"Hey wait a sec!! Why don't you enter into our little competition? Your brothers are doing the same thing," she said. The two looked at each other and nodded.
"Only if no one comes over here and looks at it before it's done, deal?"
"Deal." They then pushed her the rest of the way out till they reached the place where their brothers were busy making their snow objects. Then ran back to their secluded spot. "Well that wasn't very nice," Seacia said as she joined the others.
Dumah and Zephon had teamed up and it wasn't clear as to what they were making. Rahab was by himself with only one big snowball on the ground and he carving it with claws. Melchah, on the other hand, was just sitting on the ground in a corner, making designs in the snow. He didn't look too happy.
"Hey Melchah, what's up?" Seacia said as she jogged up to him.
"Huh? Oh, nothing." He said. Something was troubling him, she could tell.
"Nothing huh? Well, if you say so," she said as she started to get up.
"Wait...ok, there is something wrong," he responded gloomily. Reverse psychology, works every time, she thought.
"I haven't got any ideas for what I should make. I tried asking for advise, but they only told me to scram," he told her.
"Oh I see. Hmm, maybe I can help you out," she suggested.
"Aren't you supposed to judge, not help?" He asked.
"I said I wouldn't participate, I never said anything about giving others ideas," she said as she grinned and she could see Melchah trying to hide a smile. "Ok, here's something you can do..."
Hours and hours later, they finally finished. Rahab had carved out a book. It even had a title, though what it said was unreadable. Dumah and Zephon had made what was supposed to be a vampire sucking blood from a human. Pieces of it were falling off and had to be put back on with snow. At Seacia's suggestion, Melchah just carved out his clan symbol, which seemed to be the best of them all.
"Hey Seacia, did you ever find Raziel and Turel?" Dumah asked.
"That's right, they said they were gonna be in this contest too!" She said as she began walking towards the back of the building. Just then, Raziel and Turel turned the corner with evil smiles on their faces.
"Hehe, ok, we're finished! You can go look now," Raziel said. Turel tried to hide his laughter.
"Are you sure we wanna see this?" Seacia asked suspiciously.
"Of course I'm sure, it's the best of them all." Turel laughed even harder and fell to the ground. Sighing, Seacia prepared herself for whatever it was they had created and turned the corner.
What she saw was not what she had expected. It was a snowman or woman, as it so seemed, that had the same body that she had made earlier. It looked like they had tried to make hair with their claws by scratching the back and front of it. Then there was what looked to be a large square made of tree limbs that was in front of the snowperson. The arms were made to look like their hands were on their hips.
"I give up, what or who is it?" Seacia laughed. The two vampires laughed hard.
"Think of the twigs," Turel said as he pointed at the square ,"as a mirror." Then he fell down laughing.
"A...mirror..? Wait a minute..." Seacia said she turned to face the vampires. "TUREL!!!! RAZIEL!!! I'M GIVING YOU TEN SECONDS TO RUN AS FAR AWAY FROM HERE AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!!!!!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Raziel and Turel stopped laughing immediately and started to run, cursing. "ONE!!!!!!" They went past Dumah and Zephon's sculpture. "TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!" They had gotten to Rahab's book. "TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They had made it to the beginning of a tunnel when from out of no where, Seacia appeared and picked them up by the back of their shoulder pads as they tried to turn around to run the other way.
"Oh man, we are so dead," Raziel started to say.
"This is all your fault, you know!" Turel said.
"It is not, you're the one who thought of it!!"
"It was not, it was yours!!"
"No, it was yours!!
"SHUT UP, it was BOTH your faults!!" Seacia yelled at them. They were silent. "Now, I know the exact punishment that I should give you. HEY ZEPHON!!!!!" Not wanting to end up on the other end of Seacia's wrath, he ran up to her. Then she whispered in his ear something and he ran off in the direction of Dumah's room, with Dumah right behind him. It was only a few minutes until they returned with a bag. Seacia gave the two vampires to Dumah and Zephon to hold while she looked in the bag. "Excellent! There's enough in here to do them twice!" She said as she took out one of the objects. Raziel and Turel screamed and struggled to get free. She came nearer to them, but then stopped and called Melchah and Rahab to come over to a spot where the others couldn't hear her. They spoke for a while, then came back. Seacia looked at Turel and then at Raziel, ripping off a piece of duct tape for each of them and covered their mouths. Then she whispered in Dumah and Zephon's ears. They grinned bigger every minute. When she finished, they nodded ecstatically. Then Seacia refaced the two prisoners. "If you, or any of you for that matter, do something like this again to me, you shall face the exact same punishment. Dumah and Zephon, strip 'em." Raziel and Turel yelled muffled screams and curses which were not understandable through the duct tape. When they finished, Raziel and Turel were shivering. Seacia took out two more rolls of duct tape and handed them to Rahab and Melchah. Then they closed in on the two vampires.
A half an hour later, Raziel and Turel looked like gray mummies. Almost every inch of them was covered in the sticky, horrible tape, even their hair. Seacia had told the two other brothers to purposely not cover up their mouths with anymore duct tape. That way, if she wanted them to speak, there'd be only one layer of tape she'd have to rip off.
Seacia violently took of Raziel's gag. "Any final requests?"
"Yeah, what in hell are you gonna do now??"
"Sorry, but that is not for the prisoner to know until it has been done." She put the tape back on as soon as he started yelling. Then she ripped off Turel's gag. Immediately, he started to scream for help. She put the gag back on. "Ok, Rahab and Melchah, you go get the rope, Dumah and Zephon, if you will join me in making live snow vampires," she said as she motioned for them to start piling and shaping snow around the two mummies, who were having a hell of a time standing up straight, though the others were trying to hold them up. Once they couldn't hop and they could stand on their own, the three began to make the second ball of snow. By that time, Rahab and Melchah had returned and began tying the two ends of the rope around Turel and Raziel's chest. Then, leaving their heads uncovered, Zephon and Seacia dragged them to the top of a building. They took the rope that bound the two and put it around a nearby flag pole that stretched out from the side. They then placed the snow vampires on the ledge and went back down to the ground.
"Well, that's it! Come on, let's get going," Seacia said.
"You're just going to leave them there?" Dumah asked.
"Yes, your kin will find them eventually." Then Seacia buried their clothes underneath the snow and flew up the snow vampires with their clan-symboled flags. She placed them around their necks as they struggled to break free. She flew back down and started to walk away. The four lieutenants stared at her for a moment and then hurried to catch up with her.
Meanwhile, up at the ledge, Raziel and Turel were still struggling to get out of the duct tape and snow. In fact, they struggled a little bit too hard. They both fell of the ledge and were stopped by the rope. When their fall was stopped abruptly, the snow fell off, leaving them winded. It would be hours till someone noticed they were there, but it gave them time to think of revenge...
I know I'm probably gonna get flamed for that, but I don't care, I liked it, though it wasn't how it I intended it to end. Oh well.
The Ice Days IV
Walking in the darkness that concealed them, Raziel and his brothers hurried off to Dumah's clan, wondering what was in store for them this time. When they reached the place where last night's snowball fight had occurred, snowfall had turned it back to the way it was. And in the midst of it all was Seacia. She was placing the snow around her on top of more snow, by the look of it. Wondering what she was doing, the six brethren circled her. She was too enthralled with what she was doing to notice.
"What ARE you doing?" Rahab asked.
"Making a snowman. Wanna help?"
"A snowman, huh? Hmm, what do you guys think?"
"Have we anything better to do?" Turel said.
"Now that you mention it, no. Ok, Seacia, what do we gotta do?"
"It's quite simple: just make three big balls of snow and put them on top of one another and then make a face on him with whatever you want."
"Interesting...sure, we'll help," Easily, they made three boulder sized snowballs and tried to lift them on top of one another without much luck. Seacia only laughed and rolled around in the snow, clutched her stomach.
"Well if you think this is so funny then why don't you try?!" Dumah yelled, trying to lift the boulder-sized snowball off the ground.
"Be-because that's not wha-what you were supp-supposed to do!!" She laughed. The lieutenants dropped the gigantic snowball where it was and threw their hands up in the air.
"NOW she tells us!!" They cried. Doing her best to stop laughing, she resized two of the snowballs with her claws, then placed them one on top of the other.
"Hehe, there!! Now all we need is some stuff to decorate him with," she said. Melchah was already one step ahead of her.
"Already done," he said with a smile as he dropped the stuff on the ground. He had found some limbs, sticks, rocks, and had found an abandoned spear leaning against a nearby wall.
"Go Melchah!" Seacia cheered as he blushed. She showed them what to do and when they finished, he looked like three snowballs stacked on top of one another with two rock eyes that made him look evil because of the twig eyebrows, a stick mouth, two limb branches, and the spear was put in the snow to make it look like he was holding it. It was supposed to be a vampire guard.
"Well that was fun," she said sarcastically. When she turned to face her friends to ask them what they wanted to do next, she noticed that Raziel and Turel were gone. "Hey, where'd Raziel and Turel go?" She asked.
"I don't know, I didn't notice that they were gone," Zephon answered. She shrugged it off, thinking that they were planning something odd, and decided on what they should do next.
"Hey I know! Anyone up for a snowman contest?" They all raised an eyebrow at her.
"What are the rules?" Dumah asked slyly.
"All you have to do is make the best looking snowman. You can sculpt it out of snow instead of making it with three snowballs, of course," she explained.
"Ok, how do we know who wins?" Zephon questioned.
"Someone's gotta judge them."
"Who?"
"I'll do it, I just won't participate."
"How do we know you'll judge fairly?"
"Because I don't play favorites?" She shrugged. "Sides, can you think of anything better to do?"
"Good point."
"Can we group up?" Melchah asked.
"Yep, but only two partners, if any at all. No time limits though," Seacia replied.
"Ok, let's get started then," Zephon said. As they thought up things to make, Seacia busied herself with finding Raziel and Turel. It wasn't difficult to find them. They had gone behind a building and were making something out of snow.
"Hey guys, what are you doing?" Startled, they rushed at her, pushing her back around the corner till she couldn't see the pile of snow.
"Don't sneak up on us artists!" Raziel said.
"Yeah, you're not supposed to see it till it's done!!" Turel added.
"What in hell's name are you doing anyhow?"
"Sculpting!! Now shoo!"
"Hey wait a sec!! Why don't you enter into our little competition? Your brothers are doing the same thing," she said. The two looked at each other and nodded.
"Only if no one comes over here and looks at it before it's done, deal?"
"Deal." They then pushed her the rest of the way out till they reached the place where their brothers were busy making their snow objects. Then ran back to their secluded spot. "Well that wasn't very nice," Seacia said as she joined the others.
Dumah and Zephon had teamed up and it wasn't clear as to what they were making. Rahab was by himself with only one big snowball on the ground and he carving it with claws. Melchah, on the other hand, was just sitting on the ground in a corner, making designs in the snow. He didn't look too happy.
"Hey Melchah, what's up?" Seacia said as she jogged up to him.
"Huh? Oh, nothing." He said. Something was troubling him, she could tell.
"Nothing huh? Well, if you say so," she said as she started to get up.
"Wait...ok, there is something wrong," he responded gloomily. Reverse psychology, works every time, she thought.
"I haven't got any ideas for what I should make. I tried asking for advise, but they only told me to scram," he told her.
"Oh I see. Hmm, maybe I can help you out," she suggested.
"Aren't you supposed to judge, not help?" He asked.
"I said I wouldn't participate, I never said anything about giving others ideas," she said as she grinned and she could see Melchah trying to hide a smile. "Ok, here's something you can do..."
Hours and hours later, they finally finished. Rahab had carved out a book. It even had a title, though what it said was unreadable. Dumah and Zephon had made what was supposed to be a vampire sucking blood from a human. Pieces of it were falling off and had to be put back on with snow. At Seacia's suggestion, Melchah just carved out his clan symbol, which seemed to be the best of them all.
"Hey Seacia, did you ever find Raziel and Turel?" Dumah asked.
"That's right, they said they were gonna be in this contest too!" She said as she began walking towards the back of the building. Just then, Raziel and Turel turned the corner with evil smiles on their faces.
"Hehe, ok, we're finished! You can go look now," Raziel said. Turel tried to hide his laughter.
"Are you sure we wanna see this?" Seacia asked suspiciously.
"Of course I'm sure, it's the best of them all." Turel laughed even harder and fell to the ground. Sighing, Seacia prepared herself for whatever it was they had created and turned the corner.
What she saw was not what she had expected. It was a snowman or woman, as it so seemed, that had the same body that she had made earlier. It looked like they had tried to make hair with their claws by scratching the back and front of it. Then there was what looked to be a large square made of tree limbs that was in front of the snowperson. The arms were made to look like their hands were on their hips.
"I give up, what or who is it?" Seacia laughed. The two vampires laughed hard.
"Think of the twigs," Turel said as he pointed at the square ,"as a mirror." Then he fell down laughing.
"A...mirror..? Wait a minute..." Seacia said she turned to face the vampires. "TUREL!!!! RAZIEL!!! I'M GIVING YOU TEN SECONDS TO RUN AS FAR AWAY FROM HERE AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!!!!!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Raziel and Turel stopped laughing immediately and started to run, cursing. "ONE!!!!!!" They went past Dumah and Zephon's sculpture. "TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!" They had gotten to Rahab's book. "TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They had made it to the beginning of a tunnel when from out of no where, Seacia appeared and picked them up by the back of their shoulder pads as they tried to turn around to run the other way.
"Oh man, we are so dead," Raziel started to say.
"This is all your fault, you know!" Turel said.
"It is not, you're the one who thought of it!!"
"It was not, it was yours!!"
"No, it was yours!!
"SHUT UP, it was BOTH your faults!!" Seacia yelled at them. They were silent. "Now, I know the exact punishment that I should give you. HEY ZEPHON!!!!!" Not wanting to end up on the other end of Seacia's wrath, he ran up to her. Then she whispered in his ear something and he ran off in the direction of Dumah's room, with Dumah right behind him. It was only a few minutes until they returned with a bag. Seacia gave the two vampires to Dumah and Zephon to hold while she looked in the bag. "Excellent! There's enough in here to do them twice!" She said as she took out one of the objects. Raziel and Turel screamed and struggled to get free. She came nearer to them, but then stopped and called Melchah and Rahab to come over to a spot where the others couldn't hear her. They spoke for a while, then came back. Seacia looked at Turel and then at Raziel, ripping off a piece of duct tape for each of them and covered their mouths. Then she whispered in Dumah and Zephon's ears. They grinned bigger every minute. When she finished, they nodded ecstatically. Then Seacia refaced the two prisoners. "If you, or any of you for that matter, do something like this again to me, you shall face the exact same punishment. Dumah and Zephon, strip 'em." Raziel and Turel yelled muffled screams and curses which were not understandable through the duct tape. When they finished, Raziel and Turel were shivering. Seacia took out two more rolls of duct tape and handed them to Rahab and Melchah. Then they closed in on the two vampires.
A half an hour later, Raziel and Turel looked like gray mummies. Almost every inch of them was covered in the sticky, horrible tape, even their hair. Seacia had told the two other brothers to purposely not cover up their mouths with anymore duct tape. That way, if she wanted them to speak, there'd be only one layer of tape she'd have to rip off.
Seacia violently took of Raziel's gag. "Any final requests?"
"Yeah, what in hell are you gonna do now??"
"Sorry, but that is not for the prisoner to know until it has been done." She put the tape back on as soon as he started yelling. Then she ripped off Turel's gag. Immediately, he started to scream for help. She put the gag back on. "Ok, Rahab and Melchah, you go get the rope, Dumah and Zephon, if you will join me in making live snow vampires," she said as she motioned for them to start piling and shaping snow around the two mummies, who were having a hell of a time standing up straight, though the others were trying to hold them up. Once they couldn't hop and they could stand on their own, the three began to make the second ball of snow. By that time, Rahab and Melchah had returned and began tying the two ends of the rope around Turel and Raziel's chest. Then, leaving their heads uncovered, Zephon and Seacia dragged them to the top of a building. They took the rope that bound the two and put it around a nearby flag pole that stretched out from the side. They then placed the snow vampires on the ledge and went back down to the ground.
"Well, that's it! Come on, let's get going," Seacia said.
"You're just going to leave them there?" Dumah asked.
"Yes, your kin will find them eventually." Then Seacia buried their clothes underneath the snow and flew up the snow vampires with their clan-symboled flags. She placed them around their necks as they struggled to break free. She flew back down and started to walk away. The four lieutenants stared at her for a moment and then hurried to catch up with her.
Meanwhile, up at the ledge, Raziel and Turel were still struggling to get out of the duct tape and snow. In fact, they struggled a little bit too hard. They both fell of the ledge and were stopped by the rope. When their fall was stopped abruptly, the snow fell off, leaving them winded. It would be hours till someone noticed they were there, but it gave them time to think of revenge...
I know I'm probably gonna get flamed for that, but I don't care, I liked it, though it wasn't how it I intended it to end. Oh well.