Stretched out on an 'ice-bed', North Pole was enjoying an afternoon nap when she was awoken by her brother Antarctica.
"North, I think you should wake up."
"Global ZZZZZZZZZZZ...Ice melting."
"Wake up," he insisted as he shook her awake. North opened her eyes and sighed.
"What?" she asked sleepily.
"While you're here napping, I had to use all my energy to bring back the cold. We have intruders and it was all I could do to freeze their transportation."
"They'll die in the cold," North said, closing her eyes again to sleep. "No human can live here forever. They'll leave like the others. Now let me sleep."
"But I know that these are not ordinary people, North. Their trespassing and we should get rid of them," Antarctica insisted again. However, North was only ignoring him now.
Unhappy by his sister's ignorance of the situation, he jumped on her and they both tumbled off the 'ice-bed'. Angry with her brother now, North lashed out on him and the two had to fight it out with both determined to end it in HIS/HER way. But North gave up in the end, frustrated and angry that her nap had to be disturbed.
"Fine, then! I was going to get up anyway," North said with a huff. Antarctica knew that she was lying and that she probably would have napped for another ten minutes, if he hadn't woken her.
"So what do you want me to do?" North said, forcing herself to calm down. Antarctica smiled with an evil gleam in his eye.
"Why not welcome our visitors?"
The children were more than glad when the sun finally showed itself a few hours later, but there was still no sign of the residents that stayed at the station that they took refuge. By then, it was obvious that the residents had disappeared somehow.
"I guess it's just us and the two ice-lovers," Amelia concluded.
"I wonder how we're going to beat them?" Kibu said.
"They'll probably be as strong as Yao was; which is not much."
"Yao was a human, Amelia," May said, "These two equal the strength of a country, both."
"Did it get darker all of a sudden?" Francis asked. They all looked up at the sky and realized that the sun was gone, and the cold became violent again.
"Oh, great!" Elizabeth said as she bundled herself up as the snow fell and blew in their faces as the wind picked up. Two figures appeared as snow blew around them.
"Looks like we have company," Ivan said as he held his arms in front of his face to keep the cold snow from stinging his face.
The wind and snow died down as the two figures made themselves visible.
"I thought there were survivors from the crash," the man smirked.
"You're right, they are more than mere humans," said the woman.
"Who are you?" Nancy asked. The man took a bow.
"How rude of us! Welcome, outsiders from the north. I'm Antarctica and this is my sister North Pole. But most everyone calls her North for short."
"So you two must be the ones who are causing all the ice," May guessed.
"It's beautiful, don't you agree? We're thinking about making the whole Earth this way," North smiled, obviously proud of herself.
"Uh-huh," Nancy said sarcastically, "vell, sorry to rain on your parade, but ve can't let you do that."
Standing taller from his bow, Antarctica frowned.
"Excuse me? You have a problem with ice?"
"Vell, no. But the vorld can't be covered in ice. It vouldn't exactly make people happy."
"In case you hadn't noticed," North growled, "Ice is melting because of you humans."
"We're not humans," Amelia frowned, "We're only half human."
Both brother and sister looked surprised.
"Only half?" Antarctica sounded a bit confused, but then he chuckled. "Oh, that explains it! You're the little brats of the G8."
"It's G7 now," Ivan mumbled.
"Of course, the ones who beat that useless Yao," North said, pleased. "Well, that's one thing we should be thankful from you. Our master is finished with him."
"What happened to Yao?" Ita asked, feeling a bit uneasy.
"Nothing yet," Antarctica smiled, "But our master is displeased with him."
"And who is your master?" May asked. Antarctica and North chuckled and Antarctica took a few steps towards May. May swallowed hard as she looked up at him. He was a bit...taller and bigger than Yao was.
"Our master is king of all the nations, but your parents have...let's say, ignored his laws."
"What do mean by him being king?" she frowned.
"I'm sure you'll find out someday. In the meantime, he has given us permission to freeze the Earth."
"You'll just have to tell him that we say no!" Amelia said, charging at him. Antarctica stepped out of her way, quickly and calmly like it was nothing.
"I'm not in the mood to play with you, Missy. Ta." The wind picked up again and the snow blinded the children. When it cleared a moment later, both Antarctica and North were gone. But so was Ivan!
"They took Ivan!" Francis said.
"What do they want with Ivan?" Ita asked.
"Vhatever zhe reason, it can't be good," Nancy frowned.
"We need to go after them!" Amelia said.
"But we don't know where they went," Kibu said.
"Then we look!" Amelia insisted. Everyone agreed to look for the sibling's hideout.
May was in deep thought and Amelia waved a hand in front of her face.
"Um, dudeet. Hello." May woke up from her thought.
"Oh, sorry, Amelia. I was just thinking about Antarctica and North. Did they seem a bit...I don't know, unnatural?"
"What do you mean?"
"When they were here, they didn't meet their eyes to us. And when Antarctica walked up to me, he didn't make eye contact to me, almost like I wasn't there."
Like a video tape rewinding, the children thought back about the whole situation with the two siblings. Kibu nodded.
"Hai, now that I think about it, it did seem as if they looked past us."
"Yeah," Elizabeth frowned, "that was a bit weird. Why do you think that is?"
"Thier eye colour vas a bit faded."
"That's it!" May concluded. "It makes perfect sense! They're both blind, no wonder they acted like they couldn't see us! Because they can't!"
"But when I lunged at Antarctica, he stepped away like he did see me," Amelia said. "How do you explain that?"
"The blind see differently than we do. Their sight is relied on sound and sometimes on what moves on the ground around them," Elizabeth explained to her.
"So they see by sound and feeling? That's kind of creepy," Amelia said.
"It's the only way for them to understand what's around them," May said. "And if they can move and react as quickly as we can, this may be a bit harder than it seems."