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I ran throughout a labyrinth of corridors, and I skidded at every wall. I needed to find Aednat. I needed to find Aednat. I ran down, down, down the halls, crashing through things as if I was a Cyclops myself.
I finally found her, curled up on the floor of a cage.
"Aeddie!" I sighed slowly, picking up her arm when she yelled.
"Shh!" I whispered through the bars.
"I… can't…. Let….. Go." She heaved and I noticed her arm was red and swollen.
Groaning, I began to think about the time I had healed Aednat.
I thought about the sadness, and eventually a tear worked its way down my cheek.
It landed on her arm, and with all my might, I wished for it to happen, and she was healed.
"Come, on! Create steam with me!" Aednat decided.
"What?" I asked.
"The plan!" She yelled.
"What plan?" I yelled.
"Oh, you won't know, just follow my lead as always!" She sighed in a sorrowful and annoyed manner.
"No, Aednat, I've got a better plan, come on, steam's not going to help us- at all." I groaned.
"Winter!" She growled.
I began to freeze and thaw the lock on her cage, breaking it.
"Aednat!" I gasped as I walked in, glancing at her chains.
"Did you do that?" I gasped again, staring at her broken chain.
"Yes-No-Maybe so?" She stammered, noticing her broken chain.
I chuckled softly, and I began to freeze her other chain when she yanked her hand away.
"I can do it myself." She growled.
"But it's fire-proof!" I protested.
"How do you know?" She asked.
"The type of metal. It's very coarse and rough, and a certain thickness, so it's fire proof. It's not ice-proof." I explained impatiently.
"Sure. Just bragging that your ice is better than my fire." Aednat snapped, and went back to burning her cuffs open.
"Ouch!" She yelped, her wrists turning red from the fire ignited (LOL) in her cuffs.
I groaned, and reached for her hands. "Let me do it." In pain, she didn't protest.
I began to freeze and unfreeze the cuff, making it rusty and useless, slowly, it broke open like a shell in my hand, and Aednat's raw hand showed through.
"Heal me!" Aednat yelled. "I can't use my powers otherwise, it'll hurt too much!" She protested.
I was about to, when I heard a yelling a stomping sound.
It was the Cyclops!
"Aednat!" I shouted. "Get behind me!" I began to shoot ice in front of me, freezing the floors and walls, covering the dust in a beautiful coat of ice, making it look like a palace, instead of an underground Cyclops cave.
"Get away!" I yelled to Aednat.
"I won't!" She yelled back. "Stop treating me like a baby!" She yelled, as I began to skate gracefully, but quickly, away from the slipping monsters.
"I'm not, I treating you like my younger sister!" I groaned back, catching her from falling and dragging her along.
"That's like saying 'I'm not a moron, I'm just mentally challenged'!" Aednat snapped back as we reached the farthest edge of the ice.
"Shut up!" I yelled back, suddenly mad at her.
"You shut your mouth!" She yelled back, and I realized we were having our first actual fight.
I looked over at the sliding beasts and grabbed her arm again. "Let's go!"
We ran through the halls, while yelling at each other.
"Where's Calder?!" I yelled, imagining the handsome prince in a dreamy manner.
"Where's Chet?" Aednat called back, growling the words, as if she hated him.
"This is all your fault!" She yelled.
"What?"
"You brought us here!" Aednat yelled.
"You wanted to go too!"
"No I didn't"!
"You were the one who wanted to talk to Mother and Father!" I accused.
"Nuh uh, Jerkazoid (LOL, you'll get if you read Sisters Grimm)" Aednat screamed.
"Just stop arguing!" I voice called.
A masculine, princely, hot, voice yelled out.
"Calder!" I yelled, recognizing the voice in an instant, and sliding around a corner, jumped on him.
"I was so afraid.!" I sighed.
Calder pried me off as I leapt back, and leapt onto Chet as well, hugging them both at the same time after. They had no idea how relieved I was to see them.
"Oh, I thought you guys could be hurt, or something, or- SOMETHING!" I sighed in relief, hugging both of them again in a motherly manner. Aednat just stared at Chet and looked away, surprised by my bold hugs to the boys.
"We have to get out of here!" Aednat protested, breaking the reunion.
"Yes, and I have a plan, a great one!" I declared.
Aednat scoffed. "Yeah, right. I'm the one with plans."
"This time, it's me." I declared defiantly, and smiled an annoyed grin.
I slowly reached my hand down to the floor and began to grow a wall of ice, up, up, up, and up to the ceiling, trapping the other Cyclops on the other side.
"Okay guys, we have to work together to knock down a wall facing the outside, and then we can escape for sure. We won't have many supplies, but I'm sure we can survive as long as we don't get wet, or frozen." I said, waving my hands in the air as I talked.
"Oh-but.." Calder faltered.
"What's wrong?"
"I think that would be dangerous, I mean, what if the wall fell on us?" Calder protested,
"We'll be fine." I said, taking his hand. Calder's face darkened for a second, then lit up with surprise.
""Aednat, her hands, there're burnt!" He gasped.
"Yeah, heal them Winter!" Aednat said.
"Yeah-" The Cyclops had made it through the wall, cornering us on the other side.
"Move!" I yelled, Crashing through the wall with bolts of ice, grabbing Calder in one hand, and Aednat in the other, screaming and running as fast as I could. We reached the outer wall, and we stood there for a second. It was a dead end, we HAD to break down the walls, or else.
I groaned.
"Guys, we have to do this, or we're dead." I whispered, and composed myself.
"Come'n."
"I'll fight 'em off and guard Aednat, you can do the wall breaking!" Calder yelled, as he began to throw things and kicked and punched at any Cyclops near him, keeping Aednat behind. It was going to be a bloody battle, and I had a feeling that Calder would not survive long. Aednat Sulked behind Him, and threw crates at whoever who came near, but I knew they wouldn't last much longer.
"Chet!" I called.
"STRONG WINDS, A TORNADO, MAYBE?" I screamed over the unpleasant racket of people warring.
A strong wind began to blow, making my hair tangle in my face.
I turning away from the wind, sending ice cracking over the wall, as it began to creak and sway. Then it struck me. If the wall fell, so would the ceiling. I screamed at the others, "Get out from under the ceiling!" As the wall began to scream and sway, and began to fall backwards.
Cyclops shrunk backwards, yelled and screaming. The ceiling began to crumble, and we looked up into the avalanche. I wasn't sure who said it, but I heard "RUN!" and that's what I did.
I opened my eyes on a snowbank. I was wrapped up in blankets, and I shook them off, disgusted.
I stretched, and looked around. Chet was busy, unpacking the blankets he'd been lucky enough to recover from the wreck, handing them to Aednat and Calder, as he kept a few for himself. I let my shoulders relax. We were all alive.
I groaned as a pain whizzed up my back and I laid back down, letting my body rest.
"Aednat?!" I called, but there was no response. I let ti be, and got up, aching.
"We need to find a place to stay!" I protested, and the others turned to me at once.
"We do." Calder agreed.
"How?" Aednat asked coldly. "I'm freezing."
"We'll walk on, and try to find something." I suggested, and Chet nodded, while both Aednat and Calder looked skeptical.
"come on." I said, and I began to walk..
The wind blew my hair around, an my face was ruddy, I was sure.
I walked as far as I could, and the entire time, I heard footsteps behind me, scrunching the snow.
I was cold and tired, though the cold didn't bother me.
I heard the footsteps behind me slow as I did. Exhausted, I dropped, and I thought I would fall, but someone caught me.
Calder? No, it was a girl.
"I'm Raina, and this is my sister, Rhinestone, and we'll help you, young girl." I heard, before I passed out, with the teenagers faces etched in my memory.
Hey guys, sorry for the crappy, 1467 word chapter, and the linebreaks weren't working, so please bear with me. Thanks for reading. :)