I woke up and it looked like I was inside someone's innards. I was in a awful green slimy bed. I felt queasy and the stench of the room didn't help at all. Loue sat by me on the edge of the bed. I was expecting him to say something like 'Wow that was amazing!' or 'You're really strong!' But of course, he did not say that.
"Gretel opened the next door for us." He said. Really? After that that's all I get? I guess we're trying to stop the Eld Witch but still!
"I'll be waiting for you" Loue said and walked out of the room.
I tried to sit up but my back ached. I decided to get up at my own pace. But that was to slow for me.
"Come on Liddell, only losers show pain." I told myself and struggled through the pain.
When I walked out of the building I was disgusted. I saw the sign that read, DEMON MOUTH INN. Yuck! I started to walk to the gate room but everything felt like it was in slow motion. My heals clanking on the stone below me was louder and slower. The candle lit Jack O Lanterns shine was dimmer. Have I been here? Why is everything so familiar? And ever since I've been here…Why have I felt sick to my stomach?
Many thoughts ran through my head them everything around me stopped. Like someone had hit a pause button on the world. Then I heard a booming voice that's felt like it was all around me. It sounded somewhat familiar.
"Please, Liddell. Don't let me die, we are friends…Very good friends. Never betray the ones you love Liddell, unless they betray you…"
Then everything went back to normal. I looked around but all the shadows looked as if nothing happened.
"Hey!" I called out to a shadow near me. "What was that all about!?" I asked.
"What was what all about?" I asked in a crackly voice every shadow had. That was the answer I feared. I decided to give it up and I dashed to the gate room. I saw Loue by a room that looked frozen solid. Loue had a slight smirk on his face, he seemed to be very pleased with himself.
"Are you okay?" He asked looking serious. It looked like the happiness was sucked out of him. (Haha! See what I just did right there sucked, as in vampire... Okay never mind ignore my idiot side.)
"Yeah, I'm fine, why?" I asked trying to hide the face that I'm startled.
"Your eyes…" He began to say and tilted his head a little.
"Never mind. Are you ready?" He asked but the expression on his face didn't brighten.
"Yep! Lets go." I said with confidence and headed to the icicle coated door.
Right when I walked through the door I got goose bumps all over my body. I instantly started shivering and wished I was back in Shadow Town. A small amount of snow beautifully fell from the clouded sky. There was at least ten feet of snow on the ground. The whole kingdom, as far as I could see looked like a blank canvas. I had to admit, it was beautiful. Better than heat I guess.
"Lou-Lo-Loue? Where are you?" I called out. I couldn't find him then a saw a black bat flying in place. "Oh, bat mode…" I said then walked on further into the cold frozen wasteland. After I reached a few blue crystal-looking trees I stopped moving.
"W-Whi-Which way is t-the castl-l-l-le?" I asked Loue, barely managing the words out.
"Well, you see," He began to say. "When we went to Rem Sacchras, I um, left the keys in the lock. My body filled with rage.
"Are you kidding me!" I yelled at the bat like an idiot.
"Can we just move on?" he asked.
"Ugh! Fine!" I agreed then moved on.
Great! Now where do I start? Out of all the things I remember, why cant this be one of them? I don't know how far up I walked, But I turned to a path on the left and then there was kind of a circle. On the left there was a man lying in front of the entrance to a cave. I ran over and talked to him.
"W-water!" He said. His voice was cracking.
Okay, so now my mission is to get water? This kingdom is crazy. A little to the right and up there was a thin path, so I walked up it. Blue spiky balls moved like crazy all over in this weird circular area. At the front of the circle was a path right in front of me.
'Here we go' I told myself. I tried to dodge all the spike balls but it was hard and I mean, HARD. I jumped to the right of one, right into another one. I jumped to the side away from that one and behind me, BANG. Spikes in the back. I found my opening and ran for it. Finally, I made it. I began to walk up the path until I made it to a circle created by beautiful green holly. A giant white…Thing, was standing in the middle of the circle but he wouldn't let me go up any further. He said something I couldn't quite understand. Something about being blessed by a spring spirit. Great. this is exactly what I needed. Another obstacle in my way. I walked back through the blue spiky balls and luckily only got hit by about every single one. Then walked downward. I walked down then diagonal. I came across a crack in the ground, the other side wasn't far away but to far to jump.
Part of the snow was glittering.
"You need the Ice Star" Said a snowman by me. Normally, this would be unusual, but after what I've seen for the past days, it fit right in.
"Ice Star?" I asked, obviously confused.
"I kept the Ice Star from your first time around," said Loue. "I'm sure you could use it again." Then he gave me a star looking snowflake.
"Eh. It's fitting" I said then aimed the starflake at the sparkly part of the snow. Instantly snow moved then froze over forming kind of a bridge. I walked across it to a place that looked like a cavern. Except, there where weird things around it. They looked like spirits. There were many of them in several different colors. I walked up to the red one and it addressed itself as the spring spirit.
"Save it," It said "Save the holly land."
It must be talking about the place I was just at with the Muffy!
Muffy? Where did I pull that name from? I went back to the spiky blue balls and attempted to avoid them. Then I saw it.
"Y-You stupid Yeti wannabe!" I shouted.
"grahhhhh!" It shrieked then started to come at me.
All he seemed to know was ice magic. Which was highly convenient considering I had the Rem Sacchras sigil. Gretel stopped using magic and used physical attacks when she found out it was a reflector, but this guy was to stupid to catch on. I didn't have to use any magic at all, it killed itself with it's own attacks. I herd Loue snicker a little but I ignored it. I looked at where the Muffy had been crushed to bits and there laid snow grass.
"Sweet! I think this is one of the things we need to get the ice key from Babayaga!" I told Loue. But he just looked at me curiously, probably wondering how I knew that. The think is, I would tell him if only I knew myself. I headed back to the spring spirit walking through the cold winter night. I crossed the frozen bridge once again and talked to the red spirit.
"Thank you." It said. "Please take this as a reward!" Then the spirit slowly faded away. It was water, now I can give it to that guy in front of the cave! I ran back as fast as I could to the man. I was exited! I finally, (To a level) knew what I was doing. I talked to the man again and handed him the water.
"Thanks!" Said the man. He wore an irritating orange bubble vest. He had a jolly voice that sounded like a joke. "Here, I found this on my way out of here, I have no use for it but maybe you can do something with it." Saying that, he walked off. What he had given me was an Iceberg Tip.
"Sweet!" I chanted out loud feeling pretty confident. Another idem for Babayaga! Then I walked into the cold ice cave.
The cave was cold and dark I walked forward a little then to my right there was a small rounded path that lead to a circle part of the cave. I took a few steps and followed it to find that there was a treasure chest incased in ice. I jabbed it with the end of my umbrella and chipped it away. I opened the chest to find frozen tears. I hope this will be useful later, so I put it in my bag and walked on. I went through many twists, turns, and stairs until I finally reached the top. There was a treasure chest incased in a layer of colored ice. I took out the frozen tears I had found and use it. I opened the chest to find the last ingredient, the flower petal. Finding Babayaga's shrine was almost instinct. It was really easy. I walked into her shrine and instantly saw her collection of gruesome skulls. I guess she puts her own twist on where she lives. Like they say, your room reflects your personality. Unorganized and disgusting…Yeah, that sounded like Babayaga. I approached the old woman and saw her floating above a rug. She looked at me with her one yellow eye.
"Why hello, Liddell." She said in a cracky voice "Liking the snow?" She asked then handed me a divine pill. It heals all alignments. I was starting on a collection of these. I shoved the pill in my bag and pulled out all three ingredients. I exchanged it for a funky looking key. I asked Babayaga directions to the castle and I was on my way.
I was only in Babayaga's shrine for a short time. But it was still long enough for me to forget how cold it is. I walked outside and instantly the cold snowing night blasted a icy wind right at me. My teeth chattered and I shivered horribly. How could someone live in a place like this? I found more glittering snow and used the Ice Star to make a bridge. I walked down and saw the castle front.
"Yay!" I shouted and began to run to it.
"Wait! Liddell!" Loue shouted but it was too late. I did not see the giant ice pond in front of the castle. I slipped then slid on my knees to a corner of the wall that surrounded the pond and the castle.
"Great." I said, "Another puzzle." Luckily, this one wasn't hard to figure out. I just had to slide by the rocks to stop me then I slid inside the castle. And there was more ice. The whole flood was frozen solid. It looked like an ice skating rink. I tried many combinations of sliding to the walls and the rocks and crawling. (Yeah, crawling. Admit it, we all wanted to do it at this part of the game.) Then finally I made it in front of the queen's room. Loue turned back into human and quickly ran inside. What is wrong with this world? I walked inside to see Hansel lying on the ground and Loue supporting her head. She looked like a beauty. A long blue dress, with long white-blue hair. She had beautiful facial features and a big crown on the floor that seemed to be on her head before. She was much taller than Gretel and looked older. She is Gretel's twin, but she looked older by a few years. Maybe it was the pink and the candy that made Gretel seem like a child. Hansel opened her eyes the same way Gretel did. Shockingly, instantly, and the same red was in Hansel's eyes. Instantly I knew, here comes another fight. Loue quickly got up and searched the sigil. Hansel stood up.
"Here it comes!" I told myself. It was already cold in the frozen room, but Hansel's attack made it twenty percent worse. She blasted me with a freezing cold wind of air. It looked like just wind, but tiny ice shards where hidden inside and tiny cuts opened on my face and a single drop of blood came out of each one. She repeated this attack while I tried avoiding them and using my baby magic. Why couldn't Loue give me some insane magic to use throughout this awful experience.
"Anytime now Loue!" I shouted at him while rolling to my side, escaping a cold deadly blast of air. Then Loue Threw what must have been Rem Borealis's sigil. I pointed it at Hansel and a giant icicle in a diamond shape came out. It was blue and had a tint of every color of the rainbow in it. It hurled at Hansel and hit her in the ribs. She looked hurt but she could keep going. If I can keep this up I should win soon. But here's the issue, whenever I move, I slide. Hansel didn't seem to have this problem. Then instead of the usual icy wind attack, Hansel lifted her arms above her and stood on her tip toes with her legs together and began to spin. A storm began to form around her then she blasted it toward me. I may not have hit the wall so hard if I didn't slide after the attack.
"Come on Hansel! Is that all you got!" I yelled and shot another icicle at her.
She dashed at me but I used the sigil as a machine gun and shot icicle's at her repetitively. She eventually slipped and shut her eyes and didn't seem to get back up. Loue and I both ran up to her trying not to slip on our way.
"Hansel!" He called out touching her face.
A strong wind began to blow in the castle and made Loue's cape blow in the wind. She opened her eyes but still had a frown on her face. Loue didn't seem to question it though.
"Is that Liddell?" she said in a voice as pure as winter's snow. I just smiled and looked at her.
"Come on Liddell, lets go." Loue said when Hansel's servants came. And we left to Shadow town again…