Chapter six:
L's P.O.V.
It's quite a bit later but I have managed to reach the mountain and have started climbing.
I know I need to go to a good spot that is most likely a place that I will not be found. I keep climbing and I glance around for good ways to keep from people who may be looking for me.
Light won't take long to know I went to the mountain but it really is the best place since there's so much space on it then it really won't be easy to find me.
I find a small cave and I quickly step in to take a rest as I am exhausted right now. I know I can't stay long since if Light has figured it out by now, which is ninety percent for sure that he has, then they will be here as fast they can. I know there's no way they'd just let me escape after finding out about my powers so they will look for me more than likely thinking that I might hurt someone. I close my eyes and force myself to stop thinking about it for now and when I open my eyes again I glance outside seeing a very light snow fall that'll cover my tracks. I look away from the outside and I know that I am a good way up the mountain since I found easy paths but I'll need to figure a direction to keep going…. I guess I could head as high up as I can. I lean my head back to the stone wall staring at the rocky ceiling. "Yeah. Up as far as I can then I can figure out what to do from there." I say softly to myself.
Just rest here for a little more then I'll keep going.
I'll find a place to rest again but I'll need to keep moving soon.
This swirling storm inside me will not leave me alone and I doubt it ever will.
Light's P.O.V.
Dad's car had pulled up and he gave me a ride to the mountain so we all would have more energy to look for L when we got there.
I watch out the window in the back of Dad's car and I am lost in my worried thoughts. 'I wonder if he's at least alright. He probably will be ok since he's L but still the mountain is a very dangerous place.' I think to myself.
"There's a jacket in the back. I brought it for you since we will be going up the mountain to find him." Dad's voice snaps me out of my thoughts.
I glance to the side and notice a jacket laying on the seat beside me though it's been there the whole time I didn't really see it since I was so worried about L. "Thanks Dad." I say turning to look out the window again.
"I'm sure he's ok after all he is L and as you know very well he's a lot stronger than he looks. Don't worry too much, we'll find him and bring him back." Dad says gently knowing I'm worried.
"I know but I'm still worried. The mountain is a dangerous place and it won't be easy finding him since there's so much space on the mountain." I sigh.
"Yeah but we'll at least try and if it turns out we can't find him we'll have a bigger search party help. Alright?" He tries to assure me but I can tell that he actually wants to find L thinking he might hurt someone especially if someone he may not know appears looking for him. "We need to get him to stop the snow."
It makes me angry making me clench my fist and teeth slightly.
I want to find him and prove Dad along with anyone else who thinks that he will hurt someone wrong!
"We're here." Dad suddenly says pulling up to the parking by the mountain.
There is no road up the mountain and only hikers dare to climb it since there isn't really a path there like a hiking trail.
I grab the jacket as we get out and the others pull up getting out of their cars as well.
Everyone had brought a jacket that we put on and we all look up at the mountain.
"You really think he came here?" Matsuda asks not taking his eyes off the mountain.
I nod. "Yeah I am. If you look you can see that the snow storm is worse than down here or even in the city. I'm almost certain it is because it's closer to who is causing it."
"The snow will have covered most of the foot prints especially up there but down here there's still signs of them. We'll follow them until they stop and go from there." Watari says pointing to the foot prints leading up the mountain that we can see here at the bottom.
We all nod in agreement and the team brought a back pack each to be ready for this trip. Once everyone was ready we began heading up the mountain and I hope that we'll find L.
Even as I was walking in the city I had noticed it was getting slowly colder and it will be especially cold as we continue to go up.
I look at the foot prints we are following with Watari at the head of the group then me with the team right behind us. I know we are walking beside the foot prints since we want to make sure that we can always retrace our steps if needed at least for a while. I look up to where the storm is worse which is up the mountain and I silently speak to myself in my head wishing that L could somehow hear me. 'Please let us find you and help you. Only good will come from it and we won't hurt you.' I look back in time to not run into Watari.
We have been walking for a good amount of time and now there is a cave Watari is looking at.
"It seems he took a rest here before continuing. We will still have to keep climbing though I don't know how high we'll have to go. But we'll rest here for the night. If we keep going since it's already getting dark then it will be dangerous." Watari explains looking back to us.
I nod a little hesitantly in agreement. I don't want to stop and I want to keep going but I know that Watari is right and we need to make camp here since it'll be too dangerous to continue at night.
We do just that setting up camp inside the cave with a fire just outside where it mostly protected from the wind.
I don't really say much to anyone as I keep looking up the mountain or to where we need to go by what the fading foot prints are telling us. I say maybe one word every now and then but other than that I'll either nod not really paying attention or not say anything at all.
This worry is really getting to me and I wish there was some way we could keep going.
"Here Light." Watari says and I smell food.
I look to him seeing that he is giving a bowl of really good smelling soup. "Thanks." I say softly as I take the warm bowl from him eating knowing I'll need my strength if I am to help L. I also know that I don't have much of an appetite thanks to the worry but I still make sure to eat at least a good amount of food.
L's P.O.V.
"The snow almost glows up here. Not a footprint to be seen." I say to myself a little sadly and I glance back stopping in my walking. "I guess it's a kingdom of isolation with me as the king." I almost sigh then I turn back to the direction I was headed. "This is a good place for me to set up where I'll stay." I say. "The wind is howling like the raging storm inside. I couldn't keep it in and heaven knows I tried." I cross my arms gently over my chest for a few moments. I then let my arms drop from that position as I push myself to keep walking just a little more steps while speaking and I use one finger to the motion as if scolding someone or something. I use a slightly stern voice. "Don't let them in, don't them see be the good boy you always have to be. Conceal don't feel, don't let them know." I then pause in my walking again. "Well now they know!" I almost shout. I raise my hand up with my palm up to my chest only to quickly move it up a little. I smile softly as I speak while a small bit of snow beautifully comes from hand to make almost an oval shape for a second though it quickly turns to small swirl patterns. "Let it go." I no longer hold back the happiness of freedom in my voice letting my emotions come out instead of keeping them inside.
The snow from my hand disappears into the air and I turn to look at my other hand doing the same thing.
"Let it go!" I say as I watch it appear then as it begins to disappear I turn away with a smile still on my face. I begin walking forward again and I make do what I did before but this time I raise my hands to a little above my head that tilted back to watch the bigger snow swirl patterns in the air. "Let it go." I say again, both times I do it. I do it with both hands about a second after the other since I took one step between each and they seem to mix slightly but in a really beautiful way. I keep walking forward another two or three steps bringing my head to its original position with my eyes closed. I bring my hands up in fists to my chest opening my eyes with happiness and the feeling of being free. "Turn away and slam the door!" I unclench my fists and with my hands that are now flat I wave them across my chest from an X like position to my sides.
The snow I had made in swirl patterns just behind me in the air falls to the ground quickly but I don't pay mind to it.
I glance to the side seeing a small curve of snow that is like a ramp going up so I use both of my hands close together to create snow like before. I sweep my hands across my body making the snow go to the ramp like snow. "I don't care!"
It sweeps across the top of the snow then as it is almost fully up the ramp like snow it curls into something that looks like swirls pointing in my direction. It then starts to drift towards me in the breeze.
I turn seeing another ramp like snow and so I do the same thing sending snow to it. "What they're going to say!" I then begin walking forward again.
The snow reacts like it did on the other ramp.
The two move in the breeze behind me as if about to mix but the breeze pushes them apart only for them to disappear into the air.
"Let the storm rage on!" I really feel free here and there's no way that anyone will be hurt by powers again! "The cold never bothered me anyway." I say to no one giving the air a small shrug with a happy smile. I then continue walking forward seeing a hole, that is like if a path was there it collapsed leaving a hole too big for anyone to jump, up ahead but it's a safe distance away. I turn around to look back seeing my footprints are being covered nicely and I look to the city which is mostly blocked by the mountains cliffs. "It's funny how some distance makes it all look small." I comment as the city disappears from view thanks to the mountains cliffs as I keep walking back. "But the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all!" I bring my hand's up to level with my chest but still at my sides as I say that the fears can't get to me at all' looking determined along with happy. I then turn around and jog almost running towards the hole stopping a little in front of it. "It's time to see what I can do!" I bring my hands up to either side of my head in fists and I throw my hands forward quickly uncurling them from their fists as my upper body moves a little forward as I send some snow towards the hole.
The snow forms a stair case that looks to be covered in frost but it's made out of frost and it is a good size. The railings are almost like something someone rich would have and at the end of the railings is what looks like swirls that make the ends of the railings.
"To test the limits and break through!" I rush forward stopping right in front of the stairs looking down at them. "There's no right and no wrong. No rules for me!" I put one foot onto the first step making a section of it turn to ice that's like crystal. "I am free!" I begin running up the stairs making where I step turn to ice that's like crystal along with bringing my hands that are in fists to my chest making an X shape. I swing my hands to the sides uncurling my fists with my arms fully outstretched hovering by almost touching the railings as I use my power to make the whole thing into a beautiful ice that's like crystal stair case. I move my hands a little forward so the stairs continue to be made starting with frost only to turn like the rest of it as I continue running up them. "Let it go!" I call to the wind. "I am one with the wind and sky!"
The stairs are curved so though they were going up they curve so it reaches the other side of the hole. The stairs are strong so they will hold for a very long time meaning I'll have to make sure it doesn't fall or anything every month or so though that doesn't bother me.
As I reach the end of the stairs at the other side of the hole I take a few running steps off the stairs onto the ground that like this mountain has snow on it. I move my hands more forward making the ends railings become exactly like the ones on the other side with the extra snow swirling beautifully into the air. "Let it go!" I spin around in a circle as I slow to a walk again seeing the snow disappear into the air. I stop a meter or two or so from the stairs and stop looking a little up towards the top of the mountain which is a good distance away but closer since I am so high up. "You'll never see me cry!" I almost taunt it and I raise one foot ready to stop the ground. I look down to the ground. "Here I stand!" I stomp my foot on the ground as I say the word stand making a giant beautiful snowflake pattern made out of the same ice as the stairs on the ground big enough to create a big room. "And here I stay!" I say as the snowflake grows until it is finished. "Let the storm rage on!" I say as I glance around my hands raised in light fists ready to do more. I uncurl my hands and reach down making my hands go a little behind me with my arms almost straight. I bring them forward moving my hands across the air at the same time until my palms are level with my chest, my palms are facing upward and my head is also looking up.
The ground beneath me where the snowflake is rises up as the snowflake with a floor of solid ice that's like crystal under me. The snowflake is darker than the rest of it and the place I am making that's going to be where I am staying from now on now is rising up as ice that's like crystal columns support the floor I am standing on. It also makes more columns and part of the walls be created as I want it to so that the place will be done a lot faster.
I lower my hands as the walls and columns finish to where I want them making it a small castle made for one but big enough to comfortably live in with extra space though I guess it kind of is a little big. Not that anyone will see it from the city at this distance up the mountain unless they climbed the mountain coming close enough since it's on the side of the mountain hidden well enough. I just have to fill in some gaps now. "My powers flurry through the air into the ground!" I say as I move my hands to fill the small space between the frames that are all the same in a half diamond like shape that can be used as doors or windows. I take two steps back then look to the snowflake on the ground waving one hand palm down in the air above it without crouching down making the snowflake pattern glow dimly red then I move to the center of the snowflake facing one of the open half diamond shapes. I sweep my hands back then I sweep them forward towards the shape making snow that looks like sparkles spiral up the columns towards the area that's to be the roof disappearing right by it.
The roof is formed triangle by triangle speeding up a little as it keeps on building till it's a roof that is like a pyramid kind of shape just in ice that's like crystal.
"My soul is spiraling in frozen factors all around!" I say watching the roof for a moment.
The next thing made as a continuation with the roof is a beautiful chandelier like object made out of ice that's like crystal and no lights on it. It almost looks like it was made from a frozen drip coming from the tip of the pyramid on the inside of the roof. It is a perfect touch to the room.
"In one thought is a crystal in icy blast!" I say as the chandelier like object finishes forming it's three dimensional shape. I lower my head and face the opening opposite to the one I was facing before. "I'm never going back." I turn my head to glance to an opening that is facing where the city is along with the dark sky that starting to become a little brighter in the about to rise sun. I let myself think about what happened before at the task force headquarters making me frown but my next words remind me that I am now free. "The past is in the past!" I try to push the weight of the world that I have been feeling like a weight on my shoulders though invisible it is there. "Let it go!" I manage to straighten a touch and maybe I'll be able to stand straight again sometime as the weight lifts off my shoulders as I remain free hidden here. I ruffle my hair slightly so it falls more around my face a little making my hair seem a little straighter.
It's something I figured out how to do and it makes me look sexier as others put it but I only did it once while out then never again till now.
I look down to my clothes thinking that maybe I should change with only one to change. I look back up to the opening and raise my hands with my palms facing my body up my body slowly without touching my body.
My powers change my clothes as it goes up my body and as it reaches by my neck I bring my hands up so my arms are slanted with my hands above my head.
"I will rise like the break of dawn!" I say as I watch the change.
One arm at a time so I can watch as the change goes up half way up my arm before doing the same with my other arm.
I am fully changed into a light and a little darker blue outfit with some snowy frost patterns on the openings and some other parts of my new clothes. I am now wearing a pair of good looking a little tighter fitting pants with a tank top that has snowflake pattern like webbing sleeves making it a long sleeve shirt if you count the snowflake pattern like webbing. I also have almost white light blue shoes with a snowy pattern on them.
The clothes are just the right colors and patterns in the right places to make my outfit look really good on me.
I lower my hands to my sides which also makes anything I may have missed when making the castle like home. "That perfect boy is gone!" I say as I walk towards the opening that overlooks where the city is as the sun is in a slightly higher spot in the sky then where it rose from turning the sky a nice blue. "Here I stand!" I spread out my arms as if to say 'here I am!' to whoever though I am alone. I walk out through the opening to the balcony just outside of it. "In the light of day!" I quickly bring my arms down so they are straight against my side up to the elbows which I have bent upwards with my hands in fists once again. I then lower my loose fists so my arms are almost completely in line with my body but bent slightly. "Let the storm rage ON!" I shout the word on as I stand in the middle of the balcony. I then let my hands come out of their fists as I watch the ground far away from where I am for a moment.
Two open doors made of ice that's like crystal of course are made behind me opening outwards and if closed the snowflake shape on them is complete as it cuts it exactly in half.
I smirk slightly as I repeat the words to no one with my regular indoor voice again. "The cold never bothered me anyways." I raise an eyebrow slightly for a second with my eyes half closed not really caring to understand why. I then turn and walk back inside hearing the doors slam shut behind me as if on their own but I used my powers to do so. I don't let that stop me from walking to wherever I want inside my new home.