Me: Hiya! I am happy you're reading this chappie, and just coming this far, I'm terrible, so, I'm just happy. But, I don't blame you if you don't like it, most people like reading fics with romance and relationships in it, but, I don't write those, so sorry. Well, I don't know if I write those. . .well, it's not the main subject anyway. I'm confused. Don't worry that happens a lot, so before I explode. . .or implode, the story is there for you to read. Enjoy! (or at least try to)
Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Sigrid Nansen a.k.a. Icemaiden or (yes, there's more)Ice, (you'll find out).
Claimer: I do own this idea, yada yada yada, you know the whole thing.
ChapterFour: Snowstorm
Sigrid lay there freezing and shivering, clutching her pale blue arms and her pearl teeth chattering. Chloe suggests to Clark, "Heat her up!" He didn't get the idea she was thinking of, so she took her pointer and middle fingers, pointed each at one of her eyes and pointed at Sigrid, indicating his heat vision. Clark nods and focuses on the procatically frozen girl, hoping he wouldn't warm her up too much. He begins to heat her, waiting until she'll stop shivering. He ceases when she rolls off the couch, into slush.
"Whoa!" Chloe exclaims at the unexpected fall of Sigrid. She runs over tothe girland places her back on the couch with Clark's help. Chloe rapidly shook the girl and screaming, not like she was worried, but, just to wake her up. "WAKE UP! SIGRID!. . .uh, Clark, any ideas?" Chloe inquires of her Kryptonian friend. The reply: a shrug of the shoulders. Chloe continues on her shouting spree, "LEX LUTHOR! NORWAY! BLUE SKIN! ICEMAIDEN, WAKE UP! Will anything wake her up? 'Cause that's all I got." Chloe walks over to the couch and engages in a conversation with Sigrid.
"What will make you wake up, we need to know what happened, it's for your own good. We'll protect you, what happened, Sigrid? Or do you want to be called 'Icemaiden'?. . . . . . . .By the way, I was wondering, who's Teddy exactly?" Chloe shrunk down into the armchair across from the sofa when Clark shot her a 'Stick to the subject' look. "Sorry. I was just wondering. Anyway, Sigrid. . .uh, Icemaiden, can you hear me?. . .I can't take this, it's so boring! I'll be right back. . ." Before Clark can stop Chloe, she's walking off to, well, somewhere.
Clark sits there tapping his fingers against one another and rocking his feet, "So. . .uh. . .ahem, how've you been? C'mon Chloe, I don't do well with unconscious people." As if on cue, Chloe walks up, through the snow and ice and slush with a bucket. As she sways through the snow, ice, and slush, water falls out of the bucket on to the snow.
"I don't think cold water will help, Chloe," Clark points out as she continues forward towards Sigrid.
Chloe snickers and defends, "Who said it was cold? Uh, Clark, could you take her outside, please?" Clark, knowing now what she had intentions of doing, picks up Sigrid, and takes her outside. He gently lays her on the ground and backs away. When he stopped moving, Chloe dumped the water on the girl, and the water was a nice and warm temperature. Sigrid started waking up when only the first half of the bucket was dumped, so, she continues to be drenched as she sits up.
"Ooh, he, sorry about that," Chloe fakes a smile as she dumps the very little water left onto the lawn and sets the empty bucket down.
"Are you okay? What happened?" Clark asks of Sigrid.
She takes a deep breath and replies, "I'm fine. . .wait, to tell you what just happened, I guess it's sorta mandatory that I tell you the past, like, why that happened, huh?" Chloe and Clark both nod answering her. She continues, "Okay. The Norwegian government were studying a race of humans, or, somewhat humans, called Ice-people. They were just a myth, and they had the power to project ice and snow from their bodies, so the scientists wanted to recreate, or just create, these legendary Ice-people, and I volunteered. . .side effect: blue skin. . ."
"So this has nothing to do with the meteor shower?" Chloe asks.
"What meteor shower? If this happened here, I wasn't there, 'cause I've lived in Norway my whole life," Sigrid proudly states.
Clark reminds, "Anyway, what just happened now?"
"Oh, well, you see, there really is a tribe of Ice-people and a real princess called Tora Olafsdotter, also known as 'Ice'. She took my position in this small super hero clan that some other super heroes were trying to create, it was going to be international, and I was going to represent Norway, until Tora showed up. She took my spot and I respect that. But I came here because she's been trying to kill me, and I haven't the faintest idea why. She followed me all the way here, and practically made me an ice cube just now," Sigrid answers to Clark's reminder of the question that was in his mind. Sigrid quickly adds, "And, being made to the Ice-people's standards of their abilities, I also can project ice and snow from my hands. So, half of the slush in your house is from me. I'm sorry, Clark." She demonstrates by shooting snow forth from her hand to a tree near by. Both look at the tree then to Sigrid who's innocently smiling as she remains sitting on the grass.
Clark remembers the apology, and forgives her, "That's fine, it needed to be redecorated anyway. . ." Clark looks over to Chloe who's getting tremendously excited. 'I wonder what's going through her mind,' Clark thinks. He now directs the conversation to his blond friend, "Chloe, don't go off and do something stupid."
Chloe grins and plays with her fingers a little before she replies to the statement, "Well. . ."
That's all Clark needed to hear, "Well", she was probably gonna come up in defense and say she wasn't gonna do something stupid exactly, but she knew what he meant, so she left it at that one hesitant word. "Chloe," he whines. "Do you actually want to come to a near-death situation, or actually come to death?"
"The 'near-death situation' intrigues me more than the plain old 'death' deal, so I'll steer towards the one where I'm still alive," she comments while looking at Clark's serious face.
"How about you just ignore the whole thing altogether, you don't have a say in whether you die or not, you could well be killed because this Tora person would think you're a friend of Sigrid, and would threaten to kill another person. . .just, don't get involved," Clark refuses her answer.
Chloe looks at Sigrid who's patiently and quietly sitting, and actually a little frightened of Tora as she thinks about the situation more and more. Chloe debates again, pointing at Sigrid, "Look at her Clark! We have to help her, I mean, isn't that what we do. . ."
Clark cuts her off and corrects, "That's what I do, and on occasion, I'm not a hero 24/7, I have a life, and I intend to live it."
"Clark!" Chloe exclaims, completely surprised and disappointed at his attitude. "First of all, yes, you're the one who comes in and saves people directly, but I do help, we work as a team. Remeber that word? Team. And second, it's not 24/7, yet, it's not occasional, it's just when the time comes, and when you know when to do the right thing, and the right time to take action on doing the right thing is now. We have to help her, hear me out Clark, she could die. Personally, I don't want to think about that because she's a really nice girl, and I also don't want to think about it when I could've done something, and I didn't. . ." Chloe looks down at the ground, not wanting excitement or adventure anymore, just wanting Sigrid safe. She was ashamed of wanting someone else's life to be endangered just so hers can be worthwhile.
Chloe looks again at Clark, who stands there unconvinced still, he just would not budge, and she had no idea why. He was nice to Sigrid, he just didn't want anyone he knew to die, probably. "I thought you were the person who always saved the innocent person's life, who always felt good when the innocent would go home to his or her family or home, or somewhere comforting. You know you're better than this, Clark," Chloe scolds, then walks over to Sigrid, who's tearing up, and calmly and in a genteel way, assures, "You can stay at my house tonight." As Chloe walks away, she sends one more disappointed look at Clark.
At Chloe's place, Sigrid sits on the couch trying her best not to cry, and Chloe handing her a tissue. Chloe sits on a chair near the couch and tries her best to calm her down, "It's okay, you should be safe here. And if this Tora character followed us, I have the temperature up, so the ice and snow will melt. And if she has anything else she can do, my cousin is coming. She is trained in combat, well, self-defense, but she can defend other people."
Sigrid takes a big breath of air, still attempting not to cry, and objects, "It's not that I'm crying about, it's that, not to be self-centered, I thought that he would care and help me."
Chloe sighs and agrees, "I know, me, too. It's probably just too much responsibility, or growing angst. . ." 'growing alien angst,' Chloe thinks.
"Um, I was wondering back at the farm, but didn't want to be rude, uh, how do you guys help people out?" Sigrid asks looking at Chloe who looks back at Sigrid blankly.
"Well, uh, you see. . .it's not my place to tell, I'm sorry, I would tell you, but it's not my secret," Chloe loyally and morosely answers.
"Oh," Sigrid nods, "I understand."
After a long silence, Chloe suggests, "How about some TV?" Sigrid shakes her head up and down indicating a 'yes'.
Right when they settle for a channel, a knock was heard on the door. "That's Lois," Chloe tells Sigrid, then yells through her home, "COME IN!"
The door swings open squeakily, and footsteps are heard as the person enters the living room, then the door shuts laggardly and hushly. The person walks over to the thermostat and turns the temperature down some, while saying under her breath, "It's too hot." She walks over to the couch which is facing the opposite way of her, towards the television.
"Hey, uh, Lois, could you get us some pop corn?" Chloe wonders of her cousin. Instead of walking towards the kitchen, the girl puts her hands up towards the ceiling. . .
Sigrid kept watching the TV, laughing at what the dog just did, but she practically gags when she feels something on her hand. She looks down to see what it was, and it was water, it appeared that either there was a leak or some snow melted on her skin. She hopes that it was the leak thing. But, her dread increased when she saw a couple more snowflakes fall in front of her face and onto her lap. She leans to where Chloe is and whispers, "That's not Lois. . ."
Chloe whips her head around, seeing nobody, no sign of a person in sight. Chloe stands up and starts to walk around, due to some suspicion. "Lois?. . ." After silence and no reply, Chloe concludes, "Lois is probably in the bathroom, and if it's not her, it's probably a delivery man. Don't worry, it's not Tora. And Lois will be here, if she's not already." As if knowing that Chloe said that, her cell phone rings.
"Hello?" Chloe answers.
Lois replies, "I'm so sorry, I can't come. Some jerk came and turned the inside of the Talon into a snow globe, sorry."
"You're not coming. . ."
"Sorry, Chlo, I can't."
Chloe was speechless and she herself began to become a pinch frightful.
"I have to go, some kids throwing snow balls at the janitor. Bye."
"Lo-is, okay. Don't panic Sigrid, please don't panic," Chloe pleads of the Norwegian.
Sigrid turns as pale as her blue skin would let her, and she barely could get out, "T-tora, is, uh, is he-h-here?"
"Stay here, I'll go look around," Chloe orders as she walks off.
As Chloe walks farther and farther away, Sigrid becomes more and more frightened. She almost faints when Chloe's not in her sight. She pulls her legs up and holds them closely against her body and she begins to slowly rock back and forth,deliberately shutting her eyes. She feels happier when she feels someone sit on the couch next to her. 'It's Chloe!' She exclaims in her mind. But to her dismay, as she relaxes and opens her eyes, it was definitely not Chloe.
"Hello, Sig. How'd you get here?" The girl asks. "I thought that you were frozen, or did your friends help you? Don't worry, that'll be taken care of real soon. . ."
The girl stands up still facing Sigrid, and her face becomes more serious. Sigrid wonders, "Why are you trying to kill me, Tora?"
"I feel like it," Tora answers with a sly smile then shoots ice at her rival. Sigrid purposefully falls to the ground and ducks on the other side of the sofa. She counts in her head to three and pops up to attack Tora, who, wasn't there.
"Where'd she go?" Sigrid inquires of herself, but gets her answer when snow is spread about her back.
"Here!" Tora exclaims proudly.
Sigrid swiftly whips around and shoots ice at Tora from her palm. Tora is pushed back from the pressure a bit and begins to project ice and snow upon Sigrid, who follows suit and does the same. They both attempt to have more power to push back the other, but the snow and ice meet in between them and fall, which the pile continues to rise.
Bent on taking out Sigrid, Tora whispers to her, "Your blond friend is dead." At first, Sigrid was in shock and forgot to protect herself and was pushed back against a window, causing it to crack. She then becomes furious that Chloe was dead. She produces ice balls in her hands and whips them at Tora over and over again, who finally loses her balance and falls backwards. Sigrid then realizes, that Tora was most likely lying, she was always persistent.
Sigrid walks up to Tora who lies on the ground and a cut on her forehead. She leisurely gets up trying not to fall again from woosiness. Sigrid, being the kind person she is, waits to see if Tora wasn't seriously injured. But she being kind is also vulnerable and is blown back by snow against the wall, and the snow continues to push her back, putting pressure on her.
As she was losing herself, Chloe busted through a door and shouts at Tora, "HEY!" Surprised Tora ceases to shoot forth ice and snow. Chloe, satisfied she got Tora's attention, orders to Sigrid, "Get outta here!" After that, Tora looks towards Sigrid, ready to prevent her from doing so, but then Chloe jumps onto Tora's back having her fall. "I said go!" Chloe repeats and keeps tackling Tora.
Sigrid nods and runs out the door, not knowing where she was going, hoping whereever it was, it was someplace good.
Me: I know, that was pretty long, sorry. I just wanted to write up to the expectations of the title, you know what I mean? And man! You people practically never review, why is that? Jimmy Neutron people, now they review a good amount, whether it's good or bad.That is what I was hoping to get, reviews whether good or bad. PLEASE review! What's holding you back? All you have to type is 'Good job' or 'you need to practice with...' anything will be okay! So please please please review! I know, I know, I'm pathetic. But if you surprisingly do review, please no cussing or indication of cussing, and flames are appreciated. Thank you!