Well here we are again, it's always such a pleasure.
Hey there! So there's another challenge, keep an eye out! Now to add the chapter that will change everything! It might be confusing, but please bear with me. And now, onto to newt chapter of the Wings of Fire Human AU!
Point of view for this chapter is...Frostbite!
I don't own Wings of Fire.
"Hello?" Frostbite asked, hoping there wouldn't be an answer.
This was a terrible idea! Why did he go through with this?
Ash was going to hate him, there was no doubt about it, but he was way too young for this! He was only fourteen!
"Hello there…" a raspy, vengeful voice said through the receiver.
Frostbite gulped, Scarlet.
"Yes, I have...an...offer for you." Frostbite gulped.
"If you're one of the Jade Academy brats then no...I'm going to kill you."
"I'm not one of them," Frostbite lied, "I just want to offer something that has to do with them."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm offering the one you originally wanted, I know the story, don't ask how, or the deal's off."
"What are you asking in return? I don't like giving things to other people."
"I'm asking that you leave the others alone."
"Is that it?"
"Yes…"
"Deal. Where will we make the exchange?"
"Where you were originally stopped, the water reserve, or what remains of it."
"Alright then, I'll see you there, when?"
"Two days from now at midnight." Frostbite said, he'd rehearsed the time with Moon a couple times before, they had the perfect plan setup, deceive her, then stop her.
"See you then…"
Frostbite threw the phone on the bed, not wanting to hear that voice any longer. He didn't touch it until Scarlet had hung up, after what felt like a painfully long time.
"Hey Frostbite, what's up?" Ash asked, walking in to the odd sight of Frostbite looking at his phone as though it could blow up.
"Ah! Oh! Hey, uhh...playing games on my phone."
"Sure…"
"There was a jumpscare."
"Alright then," Ash said, obviously knowing that this was a lie.
It was a lie…why can't I tell him the truth?
"I know why...Frostbite...WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING!?" Ash shouted, making Frostbite jump about a foot in the air.
"Uhh...what do you mean?" Frostbite asked, knowing that this was pointless.
"Don't play dumb with me, you forgot the one thing that would make your 'perfect plan' actually work, with me not interfering!" Ash held up a small, black stone. he placed it on Frostbite's nightstand.
Oh geez, the mind block stone, he forgot about that one crucial detail.
"Also…A DEAL WITH HER? YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO JUST TRADE ONE OF OUR FRIENDS FOR A LIAR'S PROMISE FOR SAFETY?"
No! He didn't know what the plan was...
"Ash! That's not true, we're going to trick her."
"Sure you are...Frostbite, you're disgusting, and I'm stopping you."
"No! This was going to work...don't screw it up!"
"I'M GOING TO SCREW IT UP?" Ash exploded again.
"Alright, I know you probably hate me as of now, and what you're seeing isn't actually true, it's out of context…"
"I'll give you one chance to explain-"
"Thanks…"
"-Without the mind stone."
"Alright then."
"Start talking."
"We wanted to stop Scarlet before she had the chance to rise again. Moon said that you were protective, so we decided that we'd use her as bait, and keep you out of it…"
"Frostbite, I believe you...but HECK YES I'M PROTECTIVE! WHEN I CAME TO THIS SCHOOL-"
Frostbite cowered for a second after his sudden stop, afraid he would explode again, "When you came to this school what?"
"I promised her mother that I would do anything to protect her…"
"What?"
"When Secretkeeper, Moon's mom, found out about Moon being kidnapped and her dad being one of the kidnappers, Morrowseer, she was close to pulling her out of school, and only let her stay for a while to see Winter heal. When I went, she thought that two mind readers would put Moon in even more danger, and myself...I vowed to protect her…"
"Oh...wow…"
"So I'll be the mind reader that Scarlet wants, use me as bait instead...I'm worried for both Moon and Secretkeeper's safety for this one. More from herself than anything, I don't want either of them to do anything stupid…"
"Uh…"
This was going to ruin everything, but Ash had a point...and that was brave, promising that kind of thing.
"Alright."
"Call her, let me tell her the news."
"Which her? At this point I'm confused, there could be three people."
"Scarlet."
"Okay." he dialed and put it on speaker.
"What now?!" Scarlet yelled.
"Hi! This is Scarlet, right?" Frostbite asked.
"Soon to be Queen Scarlet…" she replied bitterly
"Well, new deal for you, the other mind reader was no help, right, I mean, they nearly killed you."
"I don't need to be reminded of those two idiots!"
"Well, I know a mind reader that could be more willing to help, so I'll send him instead, you leave everyone else alone, got it?"
"Fine, I'll leave them alone."
"Alright, same time, same place."
"How do I know that you're not just going to try and stop me?"
"You don't, but here the mind reader is…"
"Hey!" Ash said, "I'm the mind reader! Toodles!"
Frostbite glared at him, but then he heard Scarlet say something that sent chills up his spine.
"Just know, if you're tricking me, I have many, many ways that I could kill you."
"Fine then."
She hung up, and Frostbite threw his phone against the wall, cracking the screen in the process.
"Crud! Aw dang it." Frostbite raged, both scared and mad at himself for being dumb.
"How about calamari jalapeño cheddar?" Ash suggested.
"I'm sorry what?"
"My parents are really strict about swearing, so I made up my own."
"Oh…"
"They think it's funny."
"Well then calamari jalapeño cheddar."
Ash then broke down laughing, unable to control himself.
"Uh…"
"What's wrong with us?" Ash asked, "Here we are, setting a path for near certain death, and we're making jokes about squids?"
"Heh, yeah, we are weird, maybe if we head to bed, we'll be back to normal, it is really late after all."
"Ditto to that, I'm crashing, night! I'll need sleep for this crazy plan to work."
Frostbite watched as Ash fell asleep almost instantly, and he crashed onto his bed, not bothering to change.
This was going to be awful, and explaining to the others was going to be weird. This was going to be the scariest thing that he would ever do, and especially with someone so young being the bait.
Well, at least one thing was for certain, he did need rest if this was happening.
Wow, I need to write these longer chapters, but I promised a friend it would be out today...and I have a ton of schoolwork, so sorry about that. Anyway, the challenge is to guess what song the first line of the intro was...sorry for the short chapter, I'm out before you all kill me…bye!
