Chapter 12: Frozen

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'It's cold…vey c-cold.' Gou thought. She slowly opens her eyes and finds herself in total darkness.

'What happened? All I remember was that I was fighting that Golem…oh yeah I got hit and it sucked me into its body…' As she remembers what happened, she starts to move around terrified but couldn't move. She felt the walls around her, finding that the mud around her is frozen solid. 'Did I do this?' Suddenly the Golem shakes and muffled shouts were heard. 'Bo!'

"Bastard!" Bo shouts at the Golem and hits it with water over and over again. Every time she hit it would regenerate where she hit it. But out of anger, she kept doing it, no matter how many times it regenerated. The Golem doesn't fight back at all as she kept attacking it.

"You're going to pay for what you did! Come on fight me!" She shouts at it. "Fucker! You giant piece of Shit! Fuck-tard!" No matter what she said to it, it didn't budge. She form five water snakes and strike it in the back but it failed as the water was absorbed into its back.

"Fuck!" she cursed and continued to fight it.

'I have to help Bo!' Gou thought. She tries to move but there was barely enough space to do it. 'Ugh! It's no use…I can't do it. I'm useless…wait a minute! Maybe I can freeze it from the inside. I just need to concentrate.' She closed her eyes, trying to concentrate. 'Come on!' She tries to concentrate harder but nothing was happening. 'I have to do this. Bo is risking her life. My brother is out there probably in danger. I need to help them. I want all of us to get out alive! I want to be with my best friend. I want to spend time with my brother! I want to Makoto how I feel! I need to believe in myself! I can't give up!' Suddenly the ice around her starts to break but she didn't care. She continued to focus on mud. Then she sees the water inside of the mud in her mind.

'Water…' She focused more on the water. She flattens her hand and the water freezes. She continued the process till she saw a light of the light posts. Then she unfreezes the water around her and pushes it away from her. She quickly freezes it. Now she was in a large bubble with a few inches of mud around her. She raised the water in the mud and formed a medium sized column, the width size of a stop sign. She angles it to the path of frozen mud, ready to strike.

"Ah!" Bo attacked the monsters head but it had no effect. She crumbles to the ground, tired and out of breath. 'I'm sorry Gou…' Teas fell from her cheeks to the ground. She covered her mouth to muffle her whimpers. She looks up at the creature and sees a strange frozen spot on the middle of his chest.

Suddenly a column of ice blasted through the frozen circle. Then Gou suddenly comes out of the hole and jumps to the ground. Next she creates a thin layer of ice and slides away from the Golem. She quickly waves her arms and big waves of water surrounded her. She forms her arms as if she has a bow and arrow. The waves of water form into many frozen lances. She swiftly moves her arm forward and the lances strike the Golem. The lances struck the monster, making its skin less thick.

"Wow…" Bo awed as she watched Gou. Gou quickly slides back to the Golem and strikes the creature in the leg with a large lance, making the Golem fall down to the ground. Then Gou quickly moves her arms forward, creating ice on the creature. She moves her arms up, making the creature frozen solid.

Gou creates a large ice hammer and pounds it into the Golem. She slammed it many times, turning it into crushed ice. Finally, the monster was no more but shattered ice.

"Gou you're alright!" Bo shouts and runs to her and gives her a hug that lifts her off the ground. "I'm so happy you are okay!" Bo cries. Gou doesn't say anything but pats Bo's head. "How did you that? I thought you didn't know how."

"I had to really believe I could do it. There are a lot of things that I haven't done yet. I'm not going to give up even if I know that I can't win." Gou said with a proud grin. Bo doesn't say anything but smiles back at her and raises her fist to her. Then they did their special handshake. Then they pull each other into another hug. Suddenly Bo stiffens in Gou's arms.

"What's wrong?" Gou asked. Bo looked like she was going to be sick as her face goes a little green. "Bo!?"

"I'm fine. I just had a bad vibe that's all…Come on let's go. Your brother is going to catch a cold." states Bo.

"Wait a minute." Gou stops her. Gou turns around to the broken fire hydrants and waves her hand, freezing the water. "There you go. No clean up for us." She said happily. "Okay let's go." They go to Rin who was still unconscious and lifted him up on both sides.

"Man your brother weighs a lot." Bo complains.

"Is that all you do? Complain?"

"Is there a problem?" They bickered all the way back to Gou's place.

Somewhere in Iwatobi…

A fist slams down onto a table, making it quiver. The person in a white sweatshirt quickly gets up and throws glass to the wall. The person starts to scratch the table in stress, trying to figure out what to do.

As if a thought appeared in their mind, the person gets paper and a pencil and starts to write strange symbols. Then, the person grabs a dagger and cuts their hand and smeared it all over the symbols.

The symbols start to grow red, revealing the person's mouth that quickly formed a large sadistic grin. Then the person moves the paper onto the ground. Fire rose up from it and formed a person. The fire dies down revealing a tall dark man in leather, spikes, and chains.

"I am Hex." He said seductively. "What could I do for you today?" He bows. The hooded person throws pictures at his feet showing two fish-like girls. Next the person throws a dagger and money near the picture.

"I understand. Do we have a deal?" He reaches his hand out. The hooded person shakes his hand officially creating a deal.