10: Visit

"Where are you going? I thought Iceberg…"

"I'm going anyway!" I called back.

Iceberg had left a week ago, and since then I have been going insane. I turned to Aeroslash one final time before taking the first step of the task I was embarking on.

"Iceberg? Where the heck are you?"

No response.

I ventured onward through the village of snow. I looked down, hoping to see footprints, but all I saw was scarlet stains on the ice.

"MY ARMY ALREADY DESTROYED THIS AREA!" a voice echoed in my head. I froze.

"NO!" I cried.

"FOOLISH DAUGHTER!" "Shut up, you jerk!" I hissed.

"HE COULDN'T HIDE!"

I angrily whacked the ice underneath my feet with my fist. Malignity surged through my blood.

Iceberg couldn't be dead! I hated the thought of him being dead!

The blood stained ground flashing in my mind like a horror movie. I stepped forward and noticed an icon written in blood on the ground. A giant C with spokes on the edges. The signal that Black Doom had been there.

"NO! NO! I won't believe this!" I screamed.

"Believe it!" a black and red creature crawled our of a nearby clump of snow, "Black Doom has won phase one of the…"

"SHUT UP!" I yelled. I yanked the alien off the ground and threw it, him, or whatever it was as far as I could.

I had to be dreaming. My dearest friend in the world was just dead.

"I'm not! No one would do that!"

I froze.

"Iceberg?"

"Who else?"