And backness,

Chapter Eleven: Cold War

It had been five weeks since Jack had unleashed the army of beasts and few spirits had managed to reach their way to Santoff Claussien, however Yuki-Onna remained the only Winter Spirit, however Winterfell and several of his wolves did arrive several days after the battle, said wolves were currently following Jamie (no doubt under Yuki-Onna's orders), but there was something comforting in the old wolves presence, along with Noel and Yule.

Yuki-Onna herself had taken over Jamie's training with a blade, along with Reece, Holly and Dawn, all of whom were teaching him the unique fighting style of their season, Jamie had to admit that combined together the four styles mixed in with Pitch's combat style make a fierce combination.

He had several times duelled the Rulers, who although powerful couldn't match the five styles at Jamie's command, then again, as Natura told him, that Jack always was the best duellist of them all, better and wiser than Manny in the art of sword play, fiercer than Reece and at the same time calmer than Dawn.

Jamie had also started lessons with Natura, on archery and art. The Nature queen seemed to have her own plan, and didn't plan on involving anyone but Jamie and the Nature spirit's, however Jamie started to notice the glares Manny, Galactica and Father Time sent towards him,

Several days after the lessons had begun, Jamie found Yuki-Onna grabbing her sword and daggers,

"If those pompus idiots will not stand up to Jack, I will" Yuki-Onna told Jamie, "It is… possible that this is the last time I shall see you, and if it is, I wished to tell you, that it was a honour to meet the Last Light, and to fight in your honour, and if I meet my end, then I know you will succeed"

With that Yuki-Onna stepped several paces away, "Goodbye Jamie Bennett… Believer"

With that Yuki-Onna flew out of the window and Jamie watched as he figure vanished into the horizon.

(The Ruins of Winter Palace)

Yuki-Onna landed down and looked around, there was only a single figure there, no beasts, no creatures, she looked up at Jack who looked down up here with contempt,

"Jack, it is not too late to help stop this!" Yuki-Onna called,

"Yuki-Onna, your warmongering will stop here!" Jack shouted to her,

"it is not I who seek war Jack!" Yuki-Onna told him,

"THAT IS NOT MY NAME!" Jack boomed, "I Am Black Ice!"

Yuki-Onna frowned, "Jack… Jamie is safe… we're all safe, its time to let this go"

"I will protect Jamie from the likes of you" Jack told her, drawing out his swords, Yuki-Onna frowned, "you like my new blades, Maim and Frenzy"

"Jack, I ask you not to do this, to see reason!" Yuki-Onna called,

"your lies will no longer reach me" Jack leapt forward slashing his blades around, Yuki-Onna brought her own blade around before flipping over and kicking Jack's back sending him crashing to the ground, Yuki-Onna span around and landed down as Jack stood up,

"Impressive" Jack growled as Yuki-Onna created a wall of ice and shattered it sending the shards at Jack, a small ball of fire appeared in front of Jack and the ice melted, "Most impressive"

Yuki-Onna smirked before seeing Jack running through the flames, the two blades slashing at her, she brought her blade up and blocked the strike before both leapt backwards,

"Winter's Wrath!" Both called at the same time, the two attacks hit each other and created a massive spiked tower of pure ice, both landed down and looked over at one another,

"Please Jack, let us go and see Jamie, he will be glad to know you're alright, we all will!" Yuki-Onna called,

"Don't. You. Dare. Say. His. Name." Jack growled rushing forward, his blade slashing around, Yuki-Onna blocked several attacks before one caught her off guard, a small line of blood from a cut cheek, she dabbed her finger on it before scowling,

"That's it, no more miss nice Princess!" Yuki-Onna growled as she rushed forward, vanishing in a puff of snow, Jack looked around, but remember Yuki-Onna's unique power of hiding in snow banks, Jack summoned the power of the North wind, blowing all the snow away, Yuki-Onna was launched backwards, as she leapt back up.

Both combatants looked at one another, Jack sent a blast of wind at Yuki-Onna and she moved backwards, closer to the statue, she ran forward and Jack followed suit, blocking the attack Yuki-Onna was forced backwards, before another blast of wind launched he backwards, Jack leapt before plunging his blade forward.

But he stopped.

Yuki-Onna had collapsed to the ground, blood staining the snow, the Winter princess had slammed into one of the spike on the tower, piercing her heart.

Jack looked down at his former ally before turning around and walking away, back towards the ruins, feeling a blizzard building.

(Santoff Claussien)

Jamie knew what the result of the duel was, he almost felt Yuki-Onna's death as it had happened, as had Reece, Dawn, Holly and Natura, the group walked into the planning room, Manny, Galactica and Father Time, looked at them,

"Yuki-Onna is dead, she tried to turn Jack, but he killed her" Natura told the trio,

"Then how many Winter Spirits do you have?" Manny asked,

"a dozen or so" Reece told him,

"Then we should summon the entire force to face the army of beasts, we have Intel that there massing somewhere around the South Pole, with any luck we'll have an army ready to deal with the creatures before they can cause any real damage" Manny told them,

"And the loss of all but 3 members of the Nature Council doesn't mean anything?" Natura asked,

"Not compared to the thousands we're going to lose if Jack and his army unleash their force" Father Time told her, before his eyes looked between the group,

"but we do have one weapon, one force that we can unleash, the likes of which has never been seen before" Father Time told them, holding up a small object.

A Book.

And done…

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