This chapter finally has a little KiKi romance, plus Relsey meets Shala and Wyea, and then it all concludes with a flashback. Enjoy! :D 3
Kelsey blinked herself awake. She was lying on a stone floor, holding hands with Ren. She sat up and shook her husband awake.
"Wha-?" He mumbled.
"We're here," Kelsey said with a small smile.
Ren got up and kissed her lightly. Then he looked around. "Where are we?" He asked.
"The City of Light, I assume."
"Shala and/or Wyea in sight?"
"Nope."
"Good." Ren helped her to her feet. "Let's go look for that unmeltable ice thingy."
"Not so fast."
They turned to see the two brothers standing behind them.
Ren raised an eyebrow at Kelsey.
"Sorry," she said, shrugging. "I was tired."
Ki&Ki
The first mile or two up the mountain was easy. Even the third mile was okay. It was around the fourth mile, when it began to get dark, that things began to get challenging for Kiagra and Kishan.
The blizzard was another obsticle.
Kishan, who was trekking along behind Kia, was severly annoyed that the girl had yet to stop. His face stung from the icy winds and the snow falling from the sky, and it was becoming so dark he could barely see two feet in front of him.
"Shouldn't we take a break?" He yelled at her over the roaring winds.
She stopped and turned. When she did, her hair elastic broke and her long black hair unbraided itself and blew to the side. "Okay," she called back. "I'll turn into a tiger and see if I can see better. Then I'll start looking for a cave. Just follow me, okay?"
"What if I can't see you?"
She paused a minute. "If you get out of sight, I'll find you. Don't worry." Kia turned around and morphed into a tiger. Kishan was glad her green eyes illuminated the path in front of them ever so slightly.
The traveled until Kia stopped suddenly. Kishan tripped over her and fell on his face. The tiger snorted and morphed back into the girl. Kia kneeled down and held out a hand. He took it and she pulled them both up.
"Why'd you stop?" He asked.
"There's a cave about three feet from here," she said, looking around. "Though the wind obscures our view."
"Okay, so where is- OW!" Kishan ran into a wall of rocks.
Kia laughed. "My guess is... right there." She helped him up yet again and led him into the cave.
Kishan began a fire and Kiagra sat near the mouth of the cave, hugging her knees to her chests. Her hair was now down around her shoulders, only slightly mussed. She was so lost in thought that she didn't even jump when Kishan put a cloak over her shoulders.
He sat down next to her. "Come on, Kia," he said gently. "It's cold out there. Come in further."
"No," she said quietly.
"Why? You'll freeze,"
"Maybe that's... for the best," she whipered.
"What?! Are you crazy?!"
"Maybe so," her voice was so soft Kishan could barely hear her. "If I die, then all of Lokesh's curses will only be memories. If I die, then it'll be better for Kelsey and Ren, because then they won't have to bother talking to me anymore." She turned her head to face him, and Kishan was suprised to see tears in her eyes. "If I die, then maybe..." she took a breath. "Maybe you'll be happy."
"What do you mean?"
"You hate me. Don't deny it; I can just tell. I know it crushed you when I became cursed like this. I know I'm the reason you gave up trying to break the curse in the first place. Don't say anything about that; Kelsey told me everything. I know I insult you and pick fights with you, but that's mostly because I hate myself and think it's better if I loose the war we're having."
"So you're saying your suicidal," Kishan summed up. "Because of me."
"Pretty much. No, wait, not suicidal. I just want myself to suffer. Is that bad?" She blinked at him, and for once he saw the twelve year old girl she used to be. The girl he told everything to. The girl who he trusted.
Until he broke her.
All of her.
Kiagra Naomi's Flashback
The drive was long after that. I talked to Kishan most of the time, telling him about me.
"My name is Kiagra Naomi and I'm twelve years old. My father is Hindi and my mom's white." I then proceded to tell him about my dream.
When we got the Shenandoah, we piled out of the car. I took a rope and tied it around a reluctant Kishan's neck.
"He won't be allowed in the park anyway," Amali said. "No pets, 'member, Kia? That family with the dog got arrested," she reminded me.
"Oh well, this one's kind of necessary. But just in case, do you think you can... you know?" I blinked at Kishan.
He sighed and turned human. Amali started cracking up and my mom screamed.
"Hello, Kia," he said with a smile. "I love hiking."
We hiked behind everyone else in my family for about half an hour, until Kishan said he needed to become a tiger again. But during that time he told me everything about his life. Every little detail about his brother Dhiren. He finished off with the story of Yesubai.
When he finished even that story, as we got back to the car, he said, "Take my advice, Kia, and never fall in love. It'll only be snatched away from you in the end."
He turned back into a tiger, but only after he saw another man in the distance, approaching me with haste.
"Hello, you must be Kiagra Naomi," he said, kissing my hand. "My name is Anik Kadam, or Mr. Kadam. How would you like to come to India with Kishan and I to break his and Dhiren's curse?"
Relsey
Shala laughed. "Oh, we're not going to kill you," he said.
"Uh-huh, sure," growled Ren. "That's what you said last time."
"But this time we really won't," Wyea said.
"Yeah, we just want to ask you a question," Shala added.
"What do you want with the Lily?" Wyea asked.
Kelsey frowned. "What lily?"
Shala grinned. "The Ice Lily. You said somethng about unmeltable ice, right? That's the Lily."
Ren sighed. "We want the Lily to help break the curse one of our friends has. In the prophecy it said that we'd need the unmeltable ice. Can we have it please?"
The two brothers looked at each other, and a silent conversation happened between them.
Finally Wyea spoke to the couple. "No," he said. "You can ony have it if you give us something in return."
Kelsey shuddered. She didn't like their deals. "What?" she asked hesitantly.
"Snow," Shala said, longing in his voice. "We want you to make it snow."
'Sup y'all! How was this chapter? Hmm, I think the next flashback or so should tell you how Kia got cursed. Now that I think about it, this story is almost over!
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Me: Don't worry, folks! If enough of you ask me, I'll write a sequel! Please review or PM me, and I repond to ALL PMs! 3 u all,
-K
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