Author's Note: Sorry for the wait. I've moved so I'm going to be away while I get my life together again. To be honest, I may wait until Christmas time to continue with this story. Not sure yet. Anyways, enjoy this chapter!
To get to the buildings lower levels Snow, and the leader, would need to go through the main lobby. Then they would need to take either the stairs or elevator. Stairs being the better option. Snow could easily glide down them while the elevator may be unable to handle Snow's weight. Not only that but Snow was an emotional bomb at the moment. They couldn't risk him freezing the elevator cables by mistake.
Trying to sneak into the building, swarming with humans, was going to be difficult in itself. Add on top of that trying to slip in a centuries-old elemental was going to be a bigger challenge. Obviously, the leader was not going to help the situation. Honestly, he's probably going to try and sabotage any schemes that Snow came up with. Easiest solution: they needed to avoid humans altogether.
Snow grabbed the leader and froze his scarf to a building wall, purposely avoiding freezing the human's skin.
"Stay put, sugar cakes," Snow said with a grin.
"Looking at the dull brown bricked building Snow started to develop his plan. The building had at least four windows around the lobby area. Not a lot of windows for such a large room. Means they're trying to hide things. Multiple floors above it. So no crashing things through the ceiling. Snow placed a hand on the outer wall and allowed his power to frost it a bit. Yep. Walls were reinforced which could cause some problems. Best bet: use the windows.
Calling upon his powers he shattered all four windows simultaneously. Before the humans could respond Snow started to fill the building with snow. Pushing the humans out.
Snow grabbed the leader, breaking the ice's hold, before rushing through one of the windows. With Snow's size, he had to break pieces of the surrounding walls with his icy. They didn't give immediately but they did eventually crumble. They managed to enter the building while everyone was darting towards the exit doors. During the chaos Snow dragged the leader behind him, Snow rushed to the stair making sure the actual snow would block the view of him. Reaching the stairwell Snow slammed the door shut. Laying a hand on the door he froze it in place. It would buy them some time if they get followed. Having one obnoxious maniac was enough.
"Good job, Snowflake," the leader said eerily cheerful.
"I can do cute nicknames too, Mister White Christmas," the leader mocked.
Snow just ignored him. He is not important right now. Heat is. He needed to get to Heat.
Taking a single glance over the edge of the stair's railing Snow jumped. It was quite a ways down. Snow had to give the leader props for not screaming the entire way. Snow chuckled to himself.
He eventually landed, after several floors, gently at the bottom of the stairway but roughly dropped the leader.
"Where to next?" Snow casually asked. Trying to appear under control when it was very apparent that he wasn't.
"This is where my mind gets a little fuzzy," the leader innocently smiled.
Immediately, the walls and floor iced over. Snow was super close to doing some serious damage to the leader...
-Snow had a quick flashback to a tiny frozen baby bird-
Need to be in control again. Snow took in a deep breath before letting it out.
"Okay. How about we make a deal. You take me to my brother and I'll give you a ten-second head start to capture me. For those ten-seconds, I won't use my ice powers on you or your other humans. Deal?" Snow was fairly confident that he could handle himself against a few humans. He's a huge ice elemental. How hard could it be?
The leader stuck his hands out, "I'll shake on it after you release me,"
"Very well. Until we reach my brother my powers are fair game," Snow warned as he snapped fingers. The ice melted off the scarf which Snow snatched back to wear again.
"Okay. It's this way," the leader said as he marched down a hallway.
"By the way, why do you wear a scarf if you like the cold so much? Just curious," The leader questioned./div
"Heat made it for me. Of course, mother nature helped him. Back when he was little he was worried I would get too cold," Snow replied as he squeezed a piece of the scarf in his hands.
"Hm, I bet the scientists would love to see how cold you could actually get. They've been doing something similar to your brother for a while now," the leader casually said. He was obviously trying to get a reaction from Snow and he got one. Snow could have a good poker face when he wanted to, but his ice powers always gave him away. The entire hallway walls were ice now. Doors were frozen shut. Cameras shattered.
Great. Snow thought. Now the humans would definitely know he was here.
"Just take me to Heat," Snow exhaled.