A/N: I just realized that I don't use tenses correctly. I apologize but I don't know how and frankly I don't care that much about it. I just hope it does not irk any readers out there so I apologize again. I still can't see the ending but I have one ending which would probably end in tragedy and I don't like that so I need to think of another. Also I apologize to my inconsistent updates, I just got a job and I'm submitting requirements and probably be adjusting to a new life since this is my first job so yeah..
Oh, and I think I added a little bit of profanities in here so please don't be angry.
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"Wha-!" Jack gasped. All of the sudden, the ground under him disappeared and he was falling.
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Chapter 14
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"Wind!" Jack shouted.
He can't feel the wind. The wind never left him this long.
He hasn't been this truly alone.
Ever.
"I'm sorry! Please come back! I didn't mean it!" Jack pleaded grasping the walls.
Don't leave me, please!
He has never been in a close dark place before. He barely could see and he was beginning to feel panic.
"Wind..?" he asked and wished desperately that he was right when he heard something.
"No.. no! What have you done to my plants?!" an angry voice said.
In his panicked and fear filled mind, Jack immediately came to a conclusion.
Spring spirits are here.
Jack tried so hard to hide himself in the already crimson dark cave inching closer to the voice.
He trudged towards it seeing a dimmed light where the voice came from. Jack swallowed.
"I'm sorry! There was an avalanche and everything was shaking! I tried to save everything, I'm sorry!" a little sprite pleaded hands trembling above its head covering it.
Jack suddenly stopped and got ready to defend the sprite if apparent harm comes towards it.
But there was only a sigh with no trace of anger left, only regret and resignation.
"Just leave" the voice was firm leaving no arguments and the sprite fearfully scrambled to leave the room.
Jack looked closer to see. For some reason his fear subsided but still moved with caution.
"Mar" An old man kneeled in front of a broken pot. Jack saw that the man was white all over, his skin, hair, clothes, all white. It's kinda blinding in the eyes.
Yeesh. This man can use a little bit of black. Jack's mind quipped.
Jack continued to hide having full view of the whole room. Pots of different plants were all perfectly arranged. Jack can't even recognize half of the dozen plants in front of the man.
At least he likes colorful plants.
Jack smiled to himself.
The old man straighted cradling the plant in his hands.
Daffodil. Jack thought it ridiculous. How could it survive here in a very cold cave underneath all those snow?
Now that Jack thought about it, it was kinda warm in the room.
The man moved and Jack was forced to conceal himself using a spell MN thought him.
He never liked the spell. He wanted to be seen not be invisible to everyone. But every muscle in his body told him to do so.
The man turned towards him and Jack saw that the man's face is full of sorrow.
The man cradled the plant with care. But the plant immediately withered and froze.
Jack's eyes widen.
Such strong freezing power.
Jack can only make a thing colder much like putting that thing closer to ten degrees but could never freeze it without his staff. And it would take him half an hour to freeze the stem of the plant.
Not that Jack deliberately do that but still..
This man is amazing.
The man sighed sorrowfully and put it on a vase where there were other frozen plants.
"Mar, meet Dem, Cir, Kei and Lik" the man sighed sadly.
"I'm sorry I killed you" he said voice so low that Jack barely heard it. Jack saw a single tear escaped the man's eyes.
He can't be a monster. Jack concluded.
A monster does not feel remorse. Jack thought again seeing the guilty look of the man.
But once a monster always a monster. A treacherous part of his mind said.
No! He's guilty and that's all that matters. Jack argued.
Just like you, huh?
Jack flinched and stared at the ground.
He's a monster and you know it. Takes one to know one. The voice said maliciously.
Guilt does not bring the dead.
Jack felt the wind and asked it to lead him far away from the man.
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After the incident, Jack had been monitoring the old man.
He now knew that the Old Man Winter hates humans and had done a lot of things to erase their existence.
Every catastrophe that happens, Jack was there trying to pacify the damage.
Eventually, everyone blamed him and no one even stops to ask him if it's him or why he did it. They just assumed it was him.
He knew he should've hated the man but he didn't.
He can't.
After all, why should a monster hate another?
He's not a monster. Jack thought.
A monster with that power would've already killed everyone. Jack reasoned.
While arguing with himself, Jack sensed an upcoming blizzard. Jack's eyes were like saucers.
It's Easter!
Jack flew fast, the storm coming from north. He pleaded the wind to go faster and faster that he couldn't see anymore. Panic bubbling at his chest, Jack eventually felt the eye of the storm and immediately worked trying to stop its onslaught.
The blizzard was so strong that it took him three hours to calm it and another two to tame it enough to stop it. He had never stopped a storm in his life and he was pretty sure that this storm was the wildest and biggest storm he'd seen after Mother Nature incident.
He would've been happy that he stopped the blizzard if it haven't destroyed a lot and killed a lot.
He saw a small doll lying broken in the snow and the small relief he felt was replaced by enormous guilt.
I'm not fast enough. Jack thought, eyes brimming with tears.
Out of the corner of his eyes, Jack saw a grey blur but with his mind filled with guilt, he dismissed it. After all, all his surroundings are white and grey is just dirty white.
Kinda like him, personification of snow, of white but beneath it, he's dirty.
And everyone knows it.
It's pretty hard to miss really.
After a while of trying to control his emotions, something suddenly grabbed him and slammed him on the ground.
The wind was knocked out of his lungs and he tried to depend himself from his attacker.
"Yah heartless monster" Bunny gritted his teeth at him.
Jack was lost for a second. Grey overgrown rabbit tackled him to the ground and was snarling at him.
He would've found it funny if it weren't for the thing the rabbit said and the situation at hand.
Despite of himself, Jack seemed relax and smiled without it reaching his eyes at the rabbit.
"And why do I owe you a visit, rabbit?" Jack asked raking his head thinking.
I might've forgotten something. Jack chuckled dryly, his dark humor showing.
Jack tried squirming his way out of the rabbit when Bunny punched the ground beside Jack's face. Jack stiffened.
"You're not going anywhere, ya gumby" Bunny growled.
Jack stared at him. He knew he can probably get out of the rabbit's hold using the snow that surrounds him but he's tired. He might end up burying each other.
So Jack just looked away.
Be done with it.
The rabbit seemed furious and started to scream profanities at him.
"Yah larrikin piece of shit. Yah should try and burn you to the ground as yah kept trying to bury mortals. Yah good for nothing bringer of death"
It hurt but he knew that already. Doesn't mean that it lessened the blow but he didn't expect it to be otherwise.
The rabbit completely lost it when Jack decided that if he looked nonchalant about the whole accident, maybe he'll be left alone.
Bunny started punching Jack.
"You! Ah guess ah know why nobody likes you!" Another punch, Jack tried to depend himself covering his face.
"Yah never thought of any-" A punch in the stomach. Jack stopped himself from vomiting. "body! Yah think yah can just kill and laughed about it!" Jack swallowed hard.
"I didn't mean it!" Jack said quickly.
It's the first time he tried to reason with his attacker. Jack usually defends himself physically but somehow he wanted, no needed to explain himself.
He wanted to tell this rabbit that this is not what he wanted.
The rabbit looked disgusted of Jack and abruptantly stood away from him.
"So yah think it would be fun, huh? Yah're sicker than ah thought!" Bunny snarled.
"No, please! I tried to stop it but-" Jack struggled to stand up but the rabbit punched him again and shoved him to the ground.
"Yah didn't bother to stop it from happening! Yah might fool everyone that yah stopped this but we all know that's useless! Yah think that just because yah stopped the dang blizzard yah did okay?!"
Jack stiffened. He certainly at least once thought of that. He thought that maybe trying to stop the calamities would make him at least less of a monster.
"It won't change a thing! Many died and my gummies were broken because of you! Yah did a great job being a monster!"
Jack looked at the ground. "But I never wanted this" he mumbled.
The rabbit laughed cruelly. Jack flinched.
"As if anyone would believe that. Keep telling yourself, kid" Jack tried to stop his tears from falling.
Really? What was he thinking? No one would believe a monster.
And everyone knows you're a monster.
"Your kind should've just dropped dead and everyone would've been grateful if yah did. Yah don't deserve to live." Bunny glared dismissing the fact that after all this time, no one told him the kid could cry.
Bunny thumped his foot and vanished.
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