Chapter 9: Finding The Ice Rose
Jake sighed and turned to me; 'Where is it do you think?'
Where is what?' I frowned as I scanned the room for anything I may have missed.
'This all mighty Ice Rose,' Jake said
'Oh. I dunno. Suppose we have to search huh?' I shrugged and looked around me. There must have been at least 12 different doors. I was hoping that there were no hidden horrors behind these several closed doors.
Jake sighed, 'Pick a door, any door. Ladies and gentlemen. Prize behind everyone. Get your head chopped off, lose an arm. Come on down and pick a door' he muttered sounding like the announcers at a school fair selling off the Laughing Clowns game or something.
I turned to glare at him: 'Not helping, Jake'. I took a deep breath and walked towards a door on the left. I felt life my nerves would shatter at a moments notice.
I counted to ten slowly and threw open the door suddenly. As soon as it was open, I ducked low to the floor. I knew that it might not help but if I was to avoid decapitation I would duck.
I heard Jake let out a chuckle, 'A dud. Hahaha!' he broke out into my favourite full bodied laugh, 'Bella, stand up. It's a dud. There's nothing there'.
I raised my head slowly, only to see a wall of ice before me. The door was concealing a wall of ice. But it didn't trick me. I glared at it as if trying to see through it but it was too thick. With a sigh I turned away and walked back to Jake.
Then pain hit me like a sledgehammer: 'Bella! Help me! Behind the ice It's behind the ice. Get the Rose!' Edward's voice rang through the cavern and made my head throb. Then the room faded and I fell sideways.
The next thing I knew was the was something cold pressed against my cheek. I opened my eyes to stare into the eyes of a russet wolf.
'Jacob…your nose is cold!' I gasped. That wasn't right. He was warm all the time.
'Relax Bella,' I heard Sam's calm voice. I turned. He was pulling on a parka over his well muscled chest, 'At these temperatures up here, even our noses get cold. He decided to phase so I could be the brains and he the brawn'.
I sighed, 'Okay. Wait…brains…brawn? What?'
'Bella, we heard the echoing voice outside. We need to break down that wall. This Ice Rose is behind the ice and we need to get it so we are going to ram it. Well that is if I don't find a better way in first'. Sam explained, helping me up.
We walked back to the wall and scanned it carefully, taking in every bump, crack and detail to find a way to open the wall. We found no obvious way in. So we were going with brawn. Jake's method…sure…forget chiselling your way though, just ram it with your skull. That ALWAYS works.
And it turns out it does. The pack lined up and ran at it one by one with their hard skulls lowered like battering rams. Wolf after wolf the hit and staggered away with a mild concussion, as they slowly weakened it. Eventually it was Jake's head butt that sent the wall crashing down. He staggered away like a drunk with his tongue lolling out the side of his mouth.
I laughed, 'Well you always were a bit of a block head,' but he was too dizzy to care.
I turned back to the now empty door way, into a beautiful icy room with ice crystals everywhere. In the centre of the room, on a ice pedestal, sat the gorgeous Ice Rose. It was a rose caved into crystal that threw light around the room light Edward did in the sunlight.
It was making a gentle humming ring as if it had struck by a piece of metal.
I looked at Sam. He was gazing mutely at it. The rest of the pack also gazed at it in the different states of almost unconsciousness.
Suddenly my own legs defied me and carried me towards the Rose. I was startled back into the real world when I bumped into the pedestal.
'Ow,' I mumbled as I started dumbly at it. I was temporarily blinded as a ray of sunlight hit it, brightening its glow.
My hand stretched out slowly and closed around the Rose. It was icy cold from being in this arctic room for so long. It was heavier than I expected because I almost dropped it but I managed to save it.
I turned to look back at the pack with the Rose in my hands. They snapped out of their dreamy states and focused on me and the Ice Rose.
'Now what?' I asked but I knew I shouldn't have.