Poké Beat
To Break the Ice
A howling blizzard whirled and whipped around the mountaintop, blowing huge drifts of snow through the air and depositing it on the glacier-like floor consisting of compacted snow. The entire world was white, except for the sky, which was a dark steel gray. However, through the whiteness, a small moving patch of brown was visible.
Eevee grimaced as she struggled against the vicious wind that blew through her tail and pushed back her ears. She kept one eye closed against the force of the wind and forced herself onward, moving forward literally one step at a time. She opened her eye slightly and peered out into the blizzard. Eevee then spotted the soft glowing blue light of an Ice Rock ahead of her. This caused both of her eyes to widen and her mouth to open up from a grimace and into a smile.
Eevee pushed herself onward, more determined than ever, and slowly but surely made her way towards the Ice Rock. When she was within only two steps from the Ice Rock, she suddenly felt herself being held down. She looked down at her paws, which were deep in the ice and snow, and she struggled to pull them out. She stopped to shake off the snow that had built up on her front.
Eevee growled impatiently at her front legs, and gave them another hard tug. Breathing heavily and squinting her eyes against the snow flying in her face, Eevee turned her head upward and swung her tail several times. Her tail glowed white and golden stars came out of it, arced into the air, and crashed down around her. After the Swift attack, Eevee hopped backwards and picked up her paws, turning around to look at them all as she smiled with relief at being freed.
Suddenly, Eevee's ears perked up and caught a subtle cracking. Eevee slowly turned to the Ice Rock, and then gasped when it suddenly sank into the ground. She cried out and ran towards the hole it left behind, but the howling winds held her back at first. Then, the winds suddenly died down, and Eevee stumbled forward towards the hole.
Eevee squeaked out fearfully as she fell into the hole, but she gripped the far edge of the hole with her front paws and hooked her hind paws onto the edge behind him. Her chest heaved in and out, her breath making big clouds as she stared into the deep icy pit. Eevee then took a deep breath and pushed off with all of her legs, propelling herself upwards and forward. However, at that moment, the wind picked up and pushed her back a bit. Eevee took a quick glance downwards, and pulled her legs in close as she fell down screaming.
Eevee fell straight down several feet and landed on an icy slope. She immediately slid down the tunnel on his rump, flailing her hind paws wildly in an attempt to stop herself. She then hit a bump on the tunnel and back-flipped upwards and landed on her back with her hind paws in front of him. Eevee cried out as her speed increased, and she began to slide up and around the tunnel.
She then shot out into a more open chamber, and spun out right before hitting a ramp-like bump in the ice. She spun wildly through the air, and landed up on her hind legs as the chamber narrowed around her. Eevee reached up and grabbed the top of the tunnel, and tried to stop herself by digging her claws into the ice. Eevee closed her eyes and grimaced as a loud scratching noise echoed throughout the tunnel as she continued to slide through. She opened her eyes a bit, then they shot open wide as she saw the Ice Rock at the end of the tunnel. Eevee was filled with delight as she leaned her head forward as she continued to slide towards the Ice Rock. Then, about a foot away from the Ice Rock, she stopped.
Eevee blinked her eyes, and then lurched her body forward in an attempt to free herself. Her claws were stuck fast into the ice, and she looked around in aggravation at her stuck paws. Eevee breathed in loudly, and then thrust out her chest towards the Ice Rock. She groaned loudly as she tried puffing out her stomach in an attempt to get in contact with the Ice Rock.
Eventually, Eevee gave up and hung spread wide in the tunnel for a moment, then huffed and shook her tail. It glowed white and launched another Swift attack. The stars shattered the ice around her, and she looked around nervously as the section of tunnel collapsed around her, and she was dropped into icy cold water.
Eevee sunk down fast, and held her breath for all it was worth, her cheeks bulging. Then, a large piece of ice struck her in the back, caused a large air bubble to fly out of her mouth. Eevee made a choking sound as she was pulled forward by a strong current. She flailed her hind legs wildly, her eye wide with terror as she placed her forepaws on her neck. As she tumbled through the water, she suddenly noticed the air bubble that was knocked out of her from earlier. She quickly reached out to it with her forepaws, kicking her hind paws wildly. She eventually caught it in her forepaws and sucked it into her mouth. Her eyes became slightly calmer, only for her to slam into a wall of ice with her back. The air bubble was knocked out of her again, and it floated in front of her for a second or two before it popped.
Eevee's panic stricken eyes looked upwards and saw a hole in the ice not too far above her. She quickly swam up out of the hole and scrambled onto the surface of the ice. Breathing heavily and shivering, she shook the water out of her fur the best she could. Then she took a good look at her surroundings, and saw that she was in a relatively large cavern of ice. She then noticed a pool of water closer to the back of the cavern. She carefully walked towards it, and noticed that the water seemed strangely different to her. She carefully dipped her left forepaw into it, then cried out in pain and took it back out. She gasped when she saw that ice had formed around her paw, and shattered it by slamming her paw against the ice floor. She sucked on her paw a bit, but this only made her shiver some more.
Eevee looked at the pool of water again, and her eyes widened when she saw a large mass of Never-Melt Ice in the center of the pool. She stared at wonderment at the wondrous sight for a moment, but her attention was soon taken by a large rumbling sound. Her ears twitched behind her, and she gave a fearful cry and threw herself down and curled up in a tight ball. The Ice Rock suddenly burst through the icy wall and crashed tremendously into the opposite wall.
Eevee looked up nervously, and slowly stood up, breathing heavily as she looked at the Ice Rock with tears of joy. Eevee stepped lightly across the icy floor, leaping and jumping through the air, cracking a smile as she stared got closer to the Ice Rock. She twirled in mid air, giggling in anticipation as landed and slid over the ice towards the Ice Rock. She stretched out her left forepaw as she closed the distance. Then, without warning, the ice below her and the Ice Rock broke, plunging them into the water surrounding the Never-Melt Ice.
A helicopter flew through the sky, carrying a cargo of crates and a large block of ice. Within the ice, discovered in a cave and chiseled out, was Eevee and the Ice Rock. The bungee chords holding the block of ice in place suddenly came loose due to sloppy placement, and the large block slid across the floor of the helicopter and banged against the back door of the helicopter. The block hit the door with enough force to knock it open, and the huge ice cube slid out and fell down several hundred feet and crashed onto the ground below.
When the dust settled, the ice block had broken in two, with Eevee, still with her left forepaw outstretched, in one half and the Ice Rock in the other. Time passed, and the ice slowly began to melt under the Sun, which was currently high in the sky. Soon the Ice Rock's surface was exposed to the air, and Eevee paw stuck out from the ice. Her paw twitched a bit, and the digits wiggled a bit. Her leg attempted to stretch out a bit, and within the ice, Eevee's eyes moved around a bit. More time passed, and the ice soon melted from around her head, and she took a deep breath and looked at the Ice Rock in front of her in desperation.
Eevee narrowed her eyes in determination, and she put all her focus and energy in lurching her body upward. This caused the entire chunk of ice she was frozen in to jump up a bit and forward. Eevee repeated this motion few times until she was right up against the chunk the Ice Rock was frozen in. Eevee sighed in relief as she placed her left forepaw against the Ice Rock and closed her eye. She stood like this for a moment, but then frowned when nothing in particular happened. She looked at where he paw touched the Ice Rock, and realized that the spot she was touching was actually covered in normal ice. She tried to bend her paw upwards in an attempt to touch the part of the Ice Rock that wasn't iced over, but her leg was still frozen solid.
Eevee closed her eyes and trembled with intense frustration, and then threw her weight forward and stretched her neck out. Her nose came within a centimeter of the Ice Rock, and she whined and whimpered as her eyes fixated on the glowing rock in front of her. Then, she shut her eyes and stuck out her tongue as far as she could. He tongue then briefly licked the surface of the Ice Rock.
Eevee's entire body began to glow, and with a flash of light, the ice surrounding her shattered to dust. When the light and dust faded, Glaceon stood with her eyes closed and tongue sticking out. She slowly opened her right eye, and then her left eye, and then gave a gleeful smile before prancing around happily, cheering and laughing with joy. She pirouetted on her hind legs, letting her teal dangles swing around her as she spun.
Her blue eyes sparkling with true happiness, Glaceon nodded with satisfaction and fell back down on all fours. The moment she touched down on the ground, she cried out in pain and reared up on her hind legs, swinging her forepaws a bit before falling back down onto the ground. Glaceon hissed in pain as she clenched her teeth and saw wisps of steam rise from her forepaws. Then she cried out in pain again as the pads of her hind paws felt a searing pain on them, causing her to buck the air behind her before tenderly letting her hind paws slowly rest back down on the ground. She stared at the sandy round and blinked in confusion at first, then she looked up and around at her surroundings. Her eyes then became wide and horrified as she took in the seemingly endless, rocky, cactus riddled desert around her.
Glaceon stood completely still at first, her eyes directed straight ahead. Then she sat down on her haunches with a thud, and her breathing suddenly became fast and heavy, as if she were about to hyperventilate. Sweat beaded up on her rump, legs, and cheeks, and her eyes started to fill with tears, which then began to evaporated along with her sweat in the hot Sun. Then, she reached up with her forepaws and grabbed onto her dangles, pulling them hard with all her might. Glaceon let them go with a snap and then let out an agonized and anguish filled scream.
To Be Continued
(What? You'd think I'd let it end like that? Do you think I'm a monster?)