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Chapter 8
Melody sighed. She had been waiting for what seemed more than an hour and still that stupid guard wasn't back with her audience or her necklace. She was starting to believe it was a lost case.
Melody went to get up from underneath the tree she had been sitting under when a flash of movement caught her eyes. The guard was back, finally.
"I'm sorry Miss Ikimono," The guard started, and Melody snorted, rolling her eyes. She knew what he was going to say next. That he wasn't able to get her an audience, yatta, yatta, yatta.
Face red once he was done, Melody struggled to stay calm as she took her necklace none to nicely from the guard and re-hooked it around her neck and stormed away from Theor Forest.
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"Asch?! What are you doing here?!" Jamie was mad, and it was taking all her control to make sure her face didn't match her or Asch's hair. She was furious! Van had said that she was going to do this alone! Why bother lying when he was sending Asch to make sure she didn't mess up?!
She had just walked into the area of Ortion Cavern where Van had said the replica equipment she was supposed to check up on was, and lo and behold, there was Asch the Bloody- Van's favorite God General with a bunch of kids she didn't know. Except for a certain one with extremely familiar blue hair…
"I could ask you the same thing," Asch retorted, calmer than Jamie.
"Asch," Natalia said. "You know this girl?" Jamie scoffed and ignored Natalia's question.
"What are you talking about?" She scoffed, fingering her sword like she was itching for a fight. "You mean Van didn't send you to make sure I didn't mess up? Or are you trying to cover it up so you don't get in trouble?" Asch glared at Jamie.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Asch growled, and Jamie unsheathed her sword, grip on it tight, while it hung seemingly loosely at her side.
"Asch," Kanna's voice rang out over the feuding red heads. "Natalia asked if you knew this girl." Asch ignored her, and Kanna sighed to herself. She should have figured that she was still being ignored. Well, maybe by Asch, but the girl he was arguing at seemed more than happy to answer her.
"Don't you remember me Kanna?" Jamie smirked, and Kanna jumped slightly and felt her face grow hot as the group turned and looked at her.
"Uh, n-no," Kanna replied, frantically searching her memory to where she would have met this red head before. Yet, as she searched her memory, she couldn't find one thing familiar about this girl. But, then, how did the girl know her? "Sh-should I?" Jamie just laughed, and it seemed creepy and awkward.
"Name's Jamie." She said. "And don't you forget it." With a sigh, Jamie had flipped her sword over her wrist and had re-sheathed it.
"I'm guessing this is the totally cliché part where we fight and you guys take me down," Jamie sighed, shrugging her shoulders. "But aren't we all better than that?"
"I'm not so sure about you, but I'm not," Jade said, his spear pointed at Jamie's neck. "Now, why are you here?" Jamie gave off a laugh that sounded more like a snort.
"Me? Tell you? That's a laugh." Jamie retorted, then cast a glance towards Kanna. She smirked, and before any of them could blink, Jamie was no longer at spear point by Jade. Instead, it was Kanna quivering, wide-eyed and afraid as Jamie held her katana at Kanna's neck.
"One move and her throat will be slit." Jamie warned, and Kanna felt her blood run cold. She couldn't die! No, she still had a job to do!
As if to emphasize her threat, she put a bit of pressure on the sword held at Kanna's neck, drawing a thin red line of blood along the girls' neck.
Kanna was trembling, truly frightened for her life. She didn't want to die.
Yet, in her position, there was nothing she could do. She was the hostage, at Jamie's mercy. Kanna closed her eyes, wishing for something, anything, to help her.
Unbeknownst to Kana, her fon slots were aligning and sucking in all the fourth fonons around her. Fourth fonons that were abundant in such a damp place like Ortion Cavern. The fonons cumulated in abundance in each of her fon slots, yet Kanna didn't know what she was doing. All she knew that it was just getting colder and colder and colder in the cavern for her.
She was shivering even more now, and it wasn't because of her fear of dying. No, it was because the cavern, to her at least, felt very close like the tops of Mount Roneal. If you looked at Kanna close enough, you'd see that her lips were curling past purple and diving towards blue, and her skin was starting to accumulate frost and the ends of her hair was becoming like icicles. The blood on her neck froze completely solid, the blood no longer oozing out of the slight cut.
As Kanna looked to the others, she was vaguely aware that they were still talking. Why couldn't she hear them? And why weren't they being affected by the cold like she was? It was so cold. Kanna just wanted to get rid of this cold- she was freezing! But she didn't know how. She didn't even know why she was cold in the first place. She just wanted the cold to go away…
It was like she was an icicle herself. One big huge icicle standing in front of that girl- Jamie, that was her name. One big huge frozen icicle…
Then, all of a sudden she was on the ground, on her knees still shivering like there was no tomorrow, Jamie back against the wall. In between the two was a huge blue-white icicle that had seemingly popped out of nowhere with no fonic arte being cast.
"Dammit!" Jamie cursed, trying to move her foot, but couldn't as it was stuck in the huge glacier of ice.
Kanna just continued to kneel in her spot, shivering. It was still so cold! Why was she so cold? What was causing her to be so cold?
"Kanna, get up." Jade's voice brought Kanna halfway back to reality. She was still shivering, but she struggled to obey Jade's voice and tried to get up. She had almost gotten to her feet when Jamie cast Infernal Prison, the flames quickly melting the ice that had separated her and Kanna, and releasing her foot.
When the water drenched Kanna, she felt her fon slots literally freezing over with the addition of more fourth fonons as well as actual water. She was even colder now, and she could feel her body temperature dropping quicker now that there was real ice on her body. Not even the backlash of fifth fonons from Jamie's arte helped her.
The water from the melted glacier-like icicle had had enough strength to push Kanna back towards the others, leaving her a safe distance away from the irate red head.
Her body was slowly freezing over because of the ambient amount of fourth fonons lurking in her body, Kanna realized. But how did she gather the fonons? Why did she gather them? How was she supposed to get rid of them?!
Slowly, against her own will, she forced herself to her feet, words coming to her as she stood, from where she didn't know. Kanna just suddenly knew them...
"Angel of Ice," She said, not knowing how she knew these words, slightly freaked out as she said them. "Freeze everything in your path! Frozen Tundra! (1)"
The next thing Kanna knew was pain as she felt the fourth fonons that had accumulated in her fon slots be forcefully ripped out, painfully and mercilessly tearing the ice that had covered them. She felt the cold being lifted from her body, barely registering what was going on around her.
Suddenly, her body received a shock from becoming warm again so suddenly, and she fell unconscious.
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