Hello, everyone. Here I am in vacation with my family in San Diego, California. I decided to take my netbook with me to work on my story meanwhile I spend my vacation. Sure, I'm away from home for at least two days, but it seems worth it though. :) Went to Sea World and had a good time and took a bite at In-N-Out. Yum…double-double burgers. :P Well, here's the updated chapter that I'm too excited for and for the fans as well. ^^

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Chapter 11: An Icy Wasteland

Vision was in darkness, weak to open them, but can hear rushing cold winds in his ear. Then opening his eyes, his vision was blurry; the image is all white. As the blurriness of his vision begins to disappear, the surroundings are all white and cold. He groans in pain as he hands touch some icy, cold material on the ground. As he observes it, he discovers that the white material was snow. Snow? Why is there snow all over the ground? Where am I? He thought. Kevin is completely confused. Where is he? What place has he been designated at? Kevin looks around his surroundings; snow everywhere. He wonders what has happen to him until he realizes that he has been sucked into a vortex and now he's in the middle of nowhere. He's lost, alone, and cold. The cold winds give Kevin a chill down in his spine. He questions himself if there were any civilization close to him. And so, he stands up and investigates this strange world he has been sent to.

Every step he takes, the snow crumbles beneath him. He shivers by the sharp cold winds as he jogs around the snow world. He comes across a large ice cave. It has a humungous entrance with terrifying icicles hanging on the ceiling of the cave. Kevin creeps slowly to the cave; not trying to make any loud noise. As he enters the cave, the winds make a horrifying howl. It brings chills down to his spine. He wishes he has something to keep him warm as he investigates the cave.

Suddenly, his weapon appears in a flash of light. His weapon, Sorin, then begins to transform. Its metallic appearance separates; forming into a torch. Fire releases from the weapon as its shape was like a torch and Kevin can use this as a tool. "Wow… That's…convenient!" He smiles, holding his weapon slash torch as he continues to investigate the strange icy world.

He is at the throat of the cave, going deep into the cold cave with wonders and mystery inside. Kevin carefully jogs in the belly of the cave, avoiding slipping. Inside the cave, his eyes spot bones inside the cave walls. His eyes widen to see animal bones not from the modern time, but prehistoric fossils. His hand touches the wall as he observes the fossil. The head of the creature was unfamiliar; it looks like a dinosaur. This gives Kevin fear in his mind.

"What is this place?" Kevin asks himself, turning his head as he heard ghostly whispers of animals. His hand shakes, his teeth chatters, and his whole body shivers of the terrifying howls coming from the cave. Can the bones and this cave be like a frozen graveyard? Since the bones are not from his time, did travel back in time? No, that's impossible. Time traveling is science fiction. There is no way I time traveled back. Kevin protests in his head. A shining glare pierces through his eyes; a light reflecting on the icy walls of the cave as he saw light coming from a tunnel. "A way out?"

Jogging towards the tunnel, the floor was slippery and it was a small slope. Kevin slides on the floor as fiction and gravity takes him to the tunnel; his shoes sliding on the floor. The light shines brighter and brighter as his torch slash weapon disappears in an instant and he finally got out of the cave. The sun shines above Kevin as the teen covers the sun from his eyes. His eyes meet to a world of ice and land. Everything was just ice and snow; all white and no life whatsoever.

"Where am I?!"

Suddenly, he hears a growl behind him. Heavy footsteps shake the ground; vibrating the human teen. His head slowly turns with his eyes turning the direction of the growl finding an unusual large bear. Kevin's eyes widen in horror; the bear was three times its size and it did not look like an ordinary bear. Its eyes glows red with a black symbol above his head which seems similar to the wolf creatures he encountered in the Thimus Caves. Sorin is summoned into Kevin's hand as Kevin holds his weapon defensively. The creature's red eyes see the weapon, Sorin, as it roars in anger.

Metroid: Other M – Ridley Theme – Music

The bulky bear charges towards the teen, raising its massive paw; swinging at Kevin as its claws make a CAH-CHING noise when the metal sword and the claws meet. Its impact is so strong, Kevin's feet sled on the icy floor. Kevin knows it is up to him to become offensive and try to stop this strange monster. Kevin swings his blade at the monster's upper arm. The bear creature roars in pain as it charges at Kevin; pinning him down. The bear roars in front of Kevin's face as Kevin grunts in pain as the roar hurt his hearing. As the bear was going to slash Kevin with its claws, Kevin's feet touch the bear's chest as he uses his whole strength to push the bear away from him.

Kevin keeps his balance, holding his weapon close to him. The bear shakes the snow off of its head as it glares Kevin. The bear once again charges at Kevin, but now predicting Kevin's swings. The bear whacks the sword from Kevin as it throws Kevin into the air. Then, its giant paws throw Kevin down to the ground.

"GAH!" Kevin cries in pain, landing on the ground with a thud as the air escapes from his stomach.

Kevin coughs, his body retracting the oxygen back. Heavy footsteps come running towards the teen. With all his strength, Kevin holds his weapon facing the bear as the creature was coming closer. Quickly, Kevin throws his weapon at the bear. The bear roars in pain while the metal sword spins back to Kevin as the boy gets on the bulky monster and thrust Sorin into the creature. The bear shakes Kevin off as Kevin lands roughly on the cold ground; glaring at the bear-like-creature.

"Who's the tough guy now?!" Kevin taunts, facing the creature with a proud victory stance.

However, the bear will not give in just yet. The bear quickly charges at Kevin as the teen was ready to defend himself. But, it throws its body towards the modern human; crashing its weight at the boy. The creature hits Kevin throwing him into the air as he throws him down one more time. Kevin weakly gets up; suffering in pain in all sources of his body. Then, he feels picked up from the air as the bear brutally attacks the defenseless teen; throwing him at a dead tree. His sword slowly slides next to the teen. His eyes barely open, his body trembling from the sheer pain the creature has give him, and he was weak.

The bear comes charging to the brown spiky hair teen. It was now or never. He reaches for his weapon; his hand shaking from the pain; grunting as he uses all of his strength to get. His finger tips touching the cold metal handle as the bear is just a few feet away. Finally, he gets the weapon and quickly faces his sword toward the massive bear as he closes his eyes ready for anything.

Music Ends…

There was silence; no heavy footsteps nor a terrifying roar coming from the creature. Kevin feels a blank of white in his surroundings; thinking that he was dead. However, he hears the winds still blowing and he can feel the coldness on the ground. He slowly opens his eyes, holding Sorin in his hand as the weapon felt stuck into something. He realizes the sword was into the bear's mouth. Dark mists escape from the creature's body as the formation of the anatomy begins to form into snow; piling on Kevin. The boy pants in exhaustion and is relieved that the fight was over. He was weak and tired as his vision is becoming to a blur. He sees a man in a black coat; afar from the teen; watching him as he was closing his eyes.

"What…do they…want…from me…?" he weakly questions himself, watching the strange man leaving into a dark vortex. Soon, the teen falls unconscious; his world just turns black.

"Justin! Kevin!" cries a feminine voice, opening her eyes and laying on dry grass and everything else was just ice and snow.

The female human looks around in her surroundings. Where am I? Why am I rested in here? Am I in the Ice Age…? She thought. Her eyes locate an opening of land of snow; it is a way to get out. She begins to walk, but her feet wobbles and falls on the rocky ground. How can she be so weak? It might be the case of time traveling for so long. She wonders to herself: Am I really in the Ice Age? I don't recognize this world at all… I might be in a different time period. Questions ask into her mind as she was stubborn to learn and discover where is at. But, something else catches into her mind. Her friends! Justin and Kevin! How can she forget about them?

"Justin! Kevin!" she calls them, her voice echoing through the icy world. "Where are you!?"

There was no answer; she knows that something in her mind that her friends might be in trouble. With her strength that she has left, she crawls on the cold hard ground. Her legs were probably weak by the cold air and there's a chance that blood retracted back into the body.

"Well, it seems like you're finally awake"

Sara jumps after hearing the strange unfamiliar voice. Her blue eyes search for mysterious voice until she heard a thud on the ground. Her head turns to see a saber-tooth in front of her. Its fur was dark brown with three-inch sabers and green eyes. Sara squeals in horror backing away from the feline. She is afraid that this saber might be a threat to her; considering she has no allies to aid her.

"Please don't hurt me…" Sara begs, cuddling herself from the saber; scared that this saber might hurt her. "I did nothing to you…"

The saber makes an eyebrow, smirking at the human girl. "Now, why would I hurt a human that I just save? I never had any visitors…"

After hearing the brown saber-tooth's comment, Sara is confused. Is this saber the one who laid her on the dry grass bed? "Y-You saved me…?" Sara asks, staring at the saber curiously.

"Well, sure I did. I mean I just saw you falling from the sky and all," the saber explains, circling around Sara. "I never knew it rained humans or…" the saber observes the girl, staring at her clothes. The saber has not seen these types of clothes that Sara is wearing; judging by the fact that she is modern human. "Whatever type of tribe you're on… What type of human or tribe you're on anyway…? My surprise that you humans can talk."

Sara couldn't answer to the saber that she is from the future. It can cause some serious changes to the history to the time. But, there was no other way. She can the only one with the saber in this world or is she…?

"Well, you see-"

"Don't worry, Sara! I'll save you!" cries a voice coming from above.

Sara quickly picks her head up to see Justin with a stick falling from the cliff; ready to attack the brown saber. The saber sighs as he backs away in one step as Justin falls on and into the snow with a hole created; imagining his entire body. "Ow…"

"Uh…friends of yours?" the saber asks the human girl, looking at the hole where Justin is buried in.

"Yeah…" Sara answers, walking towards to her buried friend. "Justin? You alright?"

Then, Justin quickly gets up, the snow flying towards the saber and Sara. Justin shakes of the snow off from this body as he pulls his beanie off of his head and pouts; wiping off the snow from his beanie. "Oh… I hope my beanie isn't damaged…"

After cleaning off the snow from his beloved beanie, Justin quickly grabs his stick and stands in front Sara; defending her from the brown saber. "Stay away from my friend, you brown feline! If you don't, you'll face my wrath from my ultimate stick!"

Like nothing, the brown simply whacks the stick away from the beanie boy as Justin yelps in surprise as the stick flies away from the boy. The saber evilly grins at the blond teen as he made his victory, "I think your 'ultimate' stick just flew away."

"Oh yeah, well…" Justin thinks for a moment. He looks at the snow as he plans an idea; he gathers the snow and forms them into snowballs. "I got snowballs!"

"Oooo… scary… That sure will make me run away…" he answers sarcastically.

Sara chuckles as she holds Justin at his shoulders. "Justin, it's okay. He actually saved me, so you don't have to worry about anything."

Justin eyes Sara confusingly, then to the saber and back to Sara. "Wait… Why would you save her if you're a saber-tooth tiger? Don't you sabers eat humans?"

"It's rare for us sabers to eat humans," he explains to the blond boy. "But, we do fight humans when threatened or maybe we just don't like humans…"

"Well…thanks for saving me, by the way. But, where are we anyway? Are we in the Ice Age?" Sara asks the brown saber, curious where Justin and her are at.

"Well, 'princess', you are in what we are stepping on is a frozen wasteland, and yes, we still leaving in the Ice Age." The saber explains.

"Still? What do mean by that?" Justin asks with an eyebrow.

"Were you humans hibernating or something? Did you know that the whole entire continents broke apart?!" the saber said, surprised that the humans that he is talking to don't know what just happened.

"The ENTIRE continents broke!?" Sara exclaims in shock, thinking that it's impossible for the continents to brake so quickly.

The saber did not answer, but he walked away. Sara and Justin were puzzled. They exchange looks, reading each other if one of them knows what was going on. They follow the brown saber stopping to the frozen beach; staring to what is known as oblivion; all the lands were cut in pieces. There are now islands and the continents became smaller and smaller.

"Just a few weeks ago, the continents were together and then it broke like an ice cube falling on the floor. Or continental drift in a nutshell…" the saber explains sadly, showing the two clueless humans what had just happened.

"How is that possible? That's very unscientific…!" Sara said, looking at the frozen sea.

"That's crazy…" Justin answers astonished, his jaw sort of opened.

"Now, we are stuck in this frozen wasteland… We can't escape this place…" the saber sadly answers, laying the cold ground as he sighs.

"How long have you been living here?" Justin asks.

The saber didn't want to answer, but he has no choice. He sighs, and then answers. "For about three weeks… I was separated from my family after the continents broke apart. All of those weeks…I have never seen my parents…I've been alone here for so long…"

"And you wanted some company, huh?" Sara questions him. He nods in agreement, understanding that all wanted was someone to talk to. Sara feels sympathy for the saber; he wasn't such a bad guy. He is nice and he saved her too, maybe she and Justin can befriend him. "Hey, how about I be your friend?"

The saber looks at her stunned. Is she offering to be his friend? The brown saber was speechless, but speaks. "You want to be my friend?"

Sara smiles. "Sure, my name is Sara and this here is Justin."

"Justin Sternling." Justin said, completely giving his full name away.

The brown saber smiles, thinking that these humans aren't so bad to be friends with. "Kota… That's my name…"

Sara chuckles, "Nice to meet you, Kota— it's actually a very nice name too."

The brown saber, Kota, blushes under his brown fur staring into Sara's blue eyes. He never hears a compliment coming from his name. He smiles at the human girl and also thinks to compliment her name too. "Thanks…and I think Sara is a nice name too… It suits you."

Sara turns red and smiles, surprised of getting a compliment from a saber. "T-Thank you!"

Kota chuckles as the human girl chuckles as well. Justin stares at them and wonders what got them to be so 'friendly' together. It's like they like each other which was kind of awkward for the beanie boy as he intrudes their moment. "Sorry to break your little laughing, complimenting moment here, but we got a situation."

"What's that, Justin?" Sara asks her blond friend wearing the beanie.

"Where is Kevin?!"

Okay, I wanted to end here so I can update. It seems that Sara and Justin forgot about Kevin and now it's up to them to find him with Kota. Hope you enjoyed and please stay tuned. I think the next chapter will be exciting! ;)