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Chapter 10: Burning in the Snow

Nico POV

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"Where. Were. You?" I demanded, slamming the door in Tadashi's face. A darkness had risen inside my mind, taking over my senses. Bianca looked concernedly at me, all traces of laughing disappearing at once.

"Just taking a walk… Nico…" I took a deep breath, glaring at the floor and refusing to look at my sister. She could have died that night…

"Nico!" Bianca shouted at me, shaking my shoulders to no avail.

"NICO LOOK AT ME!" Bianca pulled my chin to look at her. Her cheeks were still red from the cold of the outside, and her eyes were filled with fear.

"I'm fine." She confirmed, stroking my hair as I embraced her like she was my lifeline. In a way, she was. We stood in silence for a while, me utterly terrified out of my mind. We needed to get away from this city. I had vowed to protect her, and I had almost failed that night. I coughed. It seemed as if something was in my chest, making it impossible to breathe. A soft red glow seemed to surround us, and I felt heat creeping into my very being. How hot it was… then Bianca shifted, me engulfing her tiny frame as we looked up.

The world was on fire.

"BIANCA RUN! UP THE STAIRS!" I shouted; flames were already licking across the wooden floor, and the door was blocked. Smoke filled my eyes and nose, making my eyes water.

Bianca was already halfway up the stairs when I too bounded up the stairs, then I saw the wooden beam above the stairs fall in slow motion, like a flaming wooden sword. Bianca's dark hair reflected the red hotness of the beam.

"BIANCA LOOK OUT!" I desperately lunged up the flight of stairs, every bone in my body straining to reach my sister.

Then there was a crash and flames. And it filled my whole being. I only noticed the tiny figure once again wrapped tightly in my arms, the flaming wooden beam only inches from our skin.

We were surrounded by a great wall of flames. It was like living Tantarus. Both ends of the once magnificent wooden staircase were blocked by the fire. My only thought was to protect my sister, and we stood there, hanging on tightly to each other until the smoke filled our lungs and the fire burned our eyelids.

…

"Nico…Nico wake up!" I vaguely heard a familiar voice in the darkness reaching out to me as I floated in an empty abyss. My mind was oddly disconnected from my body as I did nothing but listen to the conversation around me.

"When will he wake up?" a worried and comforting voice asked.

"He will in his own time, don't worry Bianca, Baymax will take care of him." A different but also familiar voice answered.

I slipped out of consciousness and surrendered myself to the pounding in my brain.

…

"Why are we here? Me nor my brother has anything to do with the Disney gang. Why are they helping us?" the girl's voice asked. In the back of my mind, I vaguely felt the twinge of panic and discovery. But discovery of what? I couldn't remember… The only thing I remembered was a girl with chocolate eyes and flames. Flames everywhere.

"Disney helps those in need." the male voice answered after a long pause. For some reason I felt the reassuring blanket of relief engulf my mind.

…

It felt like eons before I opened my eyes to face the welcome sight of Disney's hospital wing. Baymax stood over me, robotic eyes blinking and rousing the figure beside my bed. My vision was disoriented and blurry, and the light was a sight for sore eyes. When my eyes finally adjusted, I was met with my sister's wide eyes.

"Nico! Thank good ness! You can't imagine how worried I've been…" She cried, eyes watering as she nearly crushed my body with a hug. How long had I been out?

"What happened? All I remember is being trapped on the staircase…" I started.

"I blacked out too, but when I woke up they told me the Disney team had got us out through the roof. The entire lower floor is in ashes, but the 2nd floor is still salvageable. Neeks you were out for so long!" Bianca said, grabbing my hands and squeezing them.

"How long…" I asked, almost worried to hear the answer.

"Two weeks." She answered. I sat bolt upright. Two weeks?! I was out for two weeks?!

"Where are we? And what date is it?" I asked frantically, crossing my fingers that Bianca didn't find out my involvement with the Legendaries.

"It's December 18. The Disney crew saved us. I don't know why or anything, but they said they help civilians in need. Nico they saved us…this huge adorable white robot came and he made your burns good as new. We were just waiting for you to wake up. But Nico, you don't belong here. These are gang members!" Bianca almost whispered, and I looked down to see my body seemed to be good as new. My sister didn't know.

"But where will we go?" I asked, knowing we couldn't stay and my gangs' base.

"There's a hotel in the Princesses territory, it's safe." my sister said, and so we left. The Princesses territory was truly beautiful and quaint, and the hotel turned out to be charming. We were lost. I knew Disney gave me enough money to last us at least a year, but half of our home was burnt to the ground.

The very next day, Elsa knocked on our hotel room door and tackled me in a hug. Bianca was out with her friends, and surprisingly not much had changed.

"Nico we have to go to the Legendaries base. It's urgent. I was sent to summon you." Elsa said, tugging on my hand. We took Elsa's silver Mercedes to the Disney base and I rushed in, wondering what had happened in the whole 2 weeks I was gone.

I ran to the meeting room, throwing open the doors to be stopped short. Nearly all the important members of the Disney gang were present. But that was not what shocked me. There were tens of pictures and graphs of fire. How could they be investigating one fire so intensely?

Then I looked carefully at the pictures. What I saw made me stop. The school, the university, the hospital, the kindergarten, all in flames. This was not one fire.

Simba, standing in the front of the room, looked for once immensely relieved: "Nico, thank goodness you're ok. How are you?" he asked. But I was still struck by the photographs around the room.

"How big was the fire?" I asked, almost dreading to hear the answer. It was Elsa who answered me, placing a hand gently on my shoulder.

"They burned the entire Neutrality Zone." I gasped.

"46 dead, 10 of them children, all from the Neutrality Zone, including my mother." Simba told me, gritting his teeth in anger or anguish, I couldn't tell. He was positively livid.

"Dreamworks did this?" I questioned, knowing the consequences of this action would be disastrous.

"Who else?" Simba retorted, and I could see the dull look of loss in each of the members. There was a small voice at the back of my head, protesting: 'How is that possible? They had family and friends in the Neutrality Zone as well! Dreamworks wouldn't stoop that low!' But I ignored the voice, preferring to place the blame.

Simba addressed the entire group. "Dreamworks will pay for this in blood. They have violated the sacred rule in this city, and have killed the innocents. They will not get away with what they have done. We fight to kill. From now on, we are at war."

/"They burned the entire Neutrality Zone"/

^^ hope you guys liked it... ah there will be more fighting soon ;)

Also I was thinking maybe to do a Percabeth story for Christmas (one-shot? idk)...

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~NattyBooBoo