A/N- Wassup people! It is TOBN on December 17th...right? I have started to write this earlier, but I guess if you are reading this, it is the 17th! So..yeah!

And it is the dreaded FOURTH DAY! The Shadow mentioned it so many times...what could it mean? You are about to find out!

But not before you hear what I want from FreshTV/Teletoon...or someone who can get me this:

"On the fourth day of Christmas, a person gave to me:

Four Wooden Stakes
Three Bad-Ass Vampires
An Ethan and a Benny
And the Third Season of MBAV!"

Shoutouts to the one and only...

MBAV Fan- I will be as nice as I can: your guess was pretty close, but it wasn't right. Sorry Fanfic bud, but I will tell you this: The French girl is a pretty important character. Thank you for your review!

What? You never know when Jesse might show up ;)

So with that, enjoy the next chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own MBAV or its characters. Just my OC Sky and this plot!

ENJOY!

P.S- I dropped a major hint in this, that his hard to find. So listen carefully!

Holiday Friends: Chapter 4: Frozen in Her Tracks

10:00 am

Sky woke up on a breezy December morning, the snowflakes glistening through her window as she awoke from her well-deserved slumber.

She had dreamed vibrant things the previous night. Defeating the Shadow...then finding out who she or he was...then a kiss under the mistletoe. It was...perfect!

And if only life could bring me that happiness...She thought to herself as she sighed.

It has been four days since the Shadow had began "The Freeze Of Whitechapel", as people have described it. News reporters and weather specialists have suggested everyone to stay in their homes. But alas, the Shadow had reached into their houses too, spreading a frozen outbreak all across Whitechapel. Who knows who could be next?

Sky fiddled with her blonde curls as she brushed them evenly. She had many other things to worry about.

Like what she was going to wear today.

It may not have been the main priority to some, but to Sky, it was. Especially when she had a meeting with Benny in the gardens. She knew she had to bundle up, but then again, it is nice to dress up once in a while.

After pondering in front of her closet for more than five minutes, she decided to wear a beautiful green sweater-like dress and deep red tights. She carefully placed a woolen beanie onto her luscious curls as she threw on a jacket and some boots as she walked out of the house, feeling absolutely wonderful.

She biked through the snowy streets, securing the two bottles in her bike-basket. She continued to dig her tires into the soft snowy sidewalks until she reached the Whitechapel Gardens, where she saw young children play in the snow, making snowballs and snowmen. Sky just loved Christmas for these reasons; everyone just decided to go along.

If only everyone were like that...Shadow. She thought bitterly as the name echoed through her mind.

The Shadow has been threatening to spill all of Sky's, and the other's, secrets nowadays, and it really bothered her on how much they know. For all she cared, the Shadow could be physic and Sky would still want to punch her.

Sky parked her bike near the benches of Whitechapel Gardens. She clutched onto her warm bottle as she sipped the hot chocolate floating inside the cup. She smiled as the warmth surged through her body.

Now this is what Christmas feels like. Even if the weather is cold, everything should feel all...warm and cuddly. She giggled to herself at her word choice.

This is a party. Just wait until Benny shows up.

Shadow swirled into his house, clearly excited for its plan to finally unfold.

It wanted to make the gang think their safe by giving them four days to figure out who was causing this...frozen havoc in the city. But not to her surprise, they never found out. Sure they had some good, no, fantastic predictions, which were pretty accurate, but they still never put two and two together.

So Shadow was going to show who was boss. It fiddled with the gun in its hand as it walked upstairs slowly, the footsteps it made creaking every once in a while.

It finally found the room it was looking for. It smiled as it tipped the slightly-opened door open wide to see the boy standing, slipping on its jacket. It was clear that he was going out to see someone, and Shadow hoped that it was who they thought.

The boy hummed a little Christmas carol as the Shadow tightened its mask. When he turned around, the Shadow stared right at him.

"Who the hell are you?" The Shadow smiled as it pointed the gun at him, smiling ecstatically.

"Doesn't matter. What matters is who you gonna call after your little slumber."

The boy backed away fast, but it wasn't fast enough.

The Shadow shot. The small red bullet hit the boy's arm. The boy yelped in pain as it numbed. Actually, his whole body started to numb, numbness spreading to each bone in his body. He looked at the Shadow in fear.

"What did...you.." But the boy never got to finish his sentence as he swayed a little before he slumped into the Shadow's arms, his eyes closed tightly and his body limp, as if he were drugged...which he was.

"It'll do you good. Less pain right?" It whispered as it ran its fingers through the boy's brown hair. It laughed as the boy's body stayed still, no response coming.

Shadow snapped its fingers and in a cloud of smoke, it was gone, along with the boy's body.

11:39 am

Sky looked at her phone once more, clearly bored. She checked the time. Benny's late by more than an hour and a half. Where would that boy be?

Sky pondered as she completed the mobile game...for the third time in the time being she was in the cold gardens. She was starving and she had finished her hot chocolate hours ago. Not being able to take the temptation, she grabbed what was supposed to be Benny's hot chocolate and took a long sip of its warm, chocolate-y taste. She sighed in comfort. You snooze, you lose as they say... She thought happily as her phone vibrated.

"One new message"

Sky smiled, expecting it to be Benny, telling her that he was coming... if not, Ethan, telling her that Benny might be late.

But instead, she opened a unknown caller. And the message had a picture file attached to it. She gasped.

I have him.

And if you ever want to see your precious little boyfriend "spellmaster" alive, you'll come to the abandoned warehouse nearest to where you are now.

Bring anyone you want, but you have exactly fifteen minutes to gather your party...or I'll shoot.

Yes...I am willing to murder your beloved. Won't it be disappointing if his emerald green eyes were never to be seen again? That's what I thought.

So if I were you, I'd hurry up; reading this message cost you a minute. Then just thinking about what is happening to him will cost you another.

And I guess it'll take another minute to take in what you see in the picture. So that is twelve minutes left. Hey, twelve days of Christmas...every minute you waste will lead to another chance that you might never see the spellmaster alive on Christmas eve. Funny coincidence eh?

So I suggest you hurrying up, or he's next.

~Shadow

P.S- The following picture has been photo-shopped...courtesy of me of course. Don't you just love technology?

Sky's thoughts raced. It...It got Benny. And if I don't hurry..I'll lose him.

Her eyes then fell on the picture file that was attached. As fast as she could, she opened it to see a dark picture, with writing written in blood red colors.

It was Benny, his body slumped in a chair, tied up in the dark. The photo-shopped writing said something far more dangerous.

You already wasted three minutes. So hurry before the object near his head might shoot. Seconds my friend...it takes seconds.

And as Sky squinted to see what the Shadow might be talking about, she gasped as she spilled her hot chocolate onto the snowy ground.

A drawn gun was pointed to the sleeping Benny's head.

"No...no no no no NO!" She almost yelled as she picked up her cup off the ground as she texted her friends fast.

Meet me in the warehouse near the Whitechapel Gardens. Shadow...it has Benny.

Hurry; we have twelve minutes.

~Sky

And with a click of a button, she sent the message to all her friends and sped off on her bike to get her spellmaster back.

11:49 am

Sky parked her bike as fast as she could, while taking a glimpse at her phone. Two minutes early...was that fast enough?

She hoped and prayed that she was right and that her friends were in as she ran in.

And she was right.

Ethan, Erica and Rory were standing near the entrance as they caught sight of her. Ethan ran up to Sky as Erica pulled her into a tight hug.

"Oh my gosh Sky! What is happening?" Rory spoke as Sky looked at him, exhaustion building up inside of her. "Shadow...it has kidnapped Benny..and he's somewhere in here...so run as fast as you can to find him."

Erica and Rory nodded and zoomed off as Ethan and Sky ran to see if they could find Benny anywhere. Suddenly, Ethan caught sight of a sticky note on one of the steel shelves. "Sky! Check this out!" Sky hurried to Ethan's side as they read the note together.

You don't think I'd actually show up now? No..what type of plan would that be?

Instead, it is a game of Hide N' Seek if you want to call it. And two minutes extra? Great; it'll do you good. Hurry up, or spellmaster's dead. Wanna know how? Well...I'm capable of a lot guys.

And you wasted a minute reading this. Good thing you called vamps right?

One minute left on the watch..and I'm gonna activate the trigger. And you all know that I'm cold enough to do that.

~Shadow

"We found him!" Erica's voice rang through the echo-y warehouse. Ethan and Sky exchange looks of hope and fear as they sped off, following the vampire's voice.

Finally, they found Benny, Rory and Erica right beside him. There was a control panel right beside him, attached to a slick black gun. Sky ran up to the control panel, her thoughts racing.

"It's a deactivation device that will stop the gun from triggering. We need to shut it down." Sky said as she rushed to break it. Ethan stood by her side as Sky saw the flashing seconds on the panel, the pole holding the gun creeping closer to Benny's limp head.

10...

9...

8...

7...

Sky's fingers flew across the not-so complex control panel, sweat dripping from her forehead from anxiety. She was lucky to be a nerd at this moment.

6...

5...

4...

3...

2...

The numbers continued to flash down as Rory and Erica watched in shock. Ethan was nervous as everyone else as Sky nervously pushed the button.

1...

A loud beeping noise emitted from the machine as the pole holding the gun drew its way back. Everyone shot a sigh of relief as Sky ran to Benny's side as she untied Benny carefully. Erica helped as Rory frowned.

"He has been seriously drugged. He's not even waking up." Ethan nodded as he caught glimpse of a small red bullet in Benny's arm. He carefully pulled it off as he examined it. "What is it?" Erica nervously asked. Ethan sighed.

"It's a Mega-Lixer 6.2. Saw them in hunting shops. They could bring a bear to sleep for over a year." Rory's eyes widened. "That is a long hibernation!" Sky nodded. "That stuff is strong. Benny should be waking up now though; it only works if the bullet is still in the person. It slowly emits poison that drugs the person."

Benny, as on cue, slowly started to stir. "G-Guys?" He croaked as Sky pulled him into a tight hug. "You're awake. And alive!" She exclaimed, happy tears dripping. Benny nodded. "I guess. What happened?" Erica sighed. "The Shadow...it drugged you and almost shot you...that person needs to DIE!" She yells, her voice echoing the warehouse. Suddenly, a machine whirred as a small note flew down.

"What is this?" Sky pondered as she read the note aloud.

Congrats. You saved him if you are reading this. Pays off being a nerd huh?

But sadly, your victory is short-lived. For this was all a big diversion. Sucks eh? Read my lips; I DON'T CARE

Because I promised someone will be done today. For the past 3 days, I gave you time to solve this. But it looks like you aren't smart enough to huh? Even after all those notes I dropped? I am quite surprised.

No matter I guess. Because I promised that at noon it would happen. I gave you long enough. To Sky; you told. So your the one who'll suffer in front of your friends. They'll see you suffer. How cold of them that they'll won't be able to save you huh?

Your victory...and I guess it's appropriate to say that...it's been frozen in its tracks.

LOL :)

Too bad though, looks like Benny won't be asking now won't he? The irony in that ;)

~Shadow

P.S- You didn't really think that gun was gonna shoot a real bullet now would you? Nah...that would be too...warm I guess. Need something colder..more..diabolical I guess. Ha ha. *Cue evil laugh*

The gang exchanged fearful looks. "What does that even mean?!" Rory yelled as the pole with the gun swayed back. A note was stuck on it.

Look down.

Sky fearfully looked down as she realized she was in a painted yellow circle. A sudden force pushed everyone but Sky back. "SKY?!" Benny yelled as the gun pointed right to her. Sky turned to face him as she tried to escape the unexpected force field surrounding her. Her eyes locked with his once more.

"Benny! Solve this; promise me!" His eyes read fear, not knowing how to respond as tears ran down his eyes. Erica and Rory tried to move towards her, but something was pushing them back. Ethan gasped. "We can't get out!"

But it was too late.

The gun triggered and out came a cold mist.

"SKY!" Benny's voice echoed the warehouse as the cool mist surrounded Sky. She breathed her last breath as her feet started to freeze. She looked at Benny one last time.

"Be careful."

And with that, Benny watched in horror as Sky froze right in front of him, her icy reflection glistening in his glassy eyes as the force field pushing them back broke, making them all fall forward.

"S-Sky!" Benny landed on the floor, scraping his elbow. A small cut of red appeared, but he frankly didn't care.

"Not her...TAKE ANYONE BUT HER YOU DAMN SHADOW!"

But nothing could take back what has been done.

Sky was frozen to the core.

"No..." Erica whispered as she sobbed into Rory's shoulder. Ethan sniffed back tears, knowing they lost Sky because...

Because she knew too much.

And she told.

Ethan realized how cold the Shadow actually was. Even more colder, this was all because of some cliched reason; immortality and power.

But Benny handled it the worst, crying at her frozen feet. "She's...she's gone. It's all my fault..if I was more careful...if I noticed it..." But Rory's stern voice that had popped up cut him off.

"NO!" He yelled as the whole warehouse fell silent. The gang looked at him, but Rory's expression never changed.

"You shouldn't be blaming yourself Benny. Frankly, none of us should be blaming ourselves. The person responsible for all this SHIT, is this so-called Shadow." Benny nodded slowly as he continued. "And this very moment, doesn't mean we lost." He looked at each one of the people standing in front of him. He sighed as he looked into Sky's frozen eyes, knowing they held fear and knowing that she would want them to move on. He braved a smile.

"It means we have to work harder to win."

The Shadow crept along the streets, knowing it was successful. She had witnessed everything, and it was proud.

It walked through the snowball fights and through the field of snowmen. It walked into its secret lair as it took of its coat. Shadow's eyes fell on the chart it made and smiled as it checked of another name.

Sky Bryans.

"Check." It whispered happily. And it stood there for a mere 3 seconds before what it was waiting for rang.

Something loud caught the attention of the four people, staring at the sudden outburst of smartness coming out of Rory, and bearing the fact that they'd lost one of Whitechapel's protectors. They all turned up to catch glimpse of the big clock in the gardens.

The Shadow rushed out of its lair and smiled as snow surrounded it.

Twelve loud bells rang throughout the city, notifying to some that it was lunch break, or it was time to get back to work.

To Benny and his friends, it meant the loss of the first battle.

To Shadow, it meant success.

But to everyone, it meant that they'd have to work even harder to finish what Sky Bryans started. Benny and his friends wanted to avenge her, while Shadow wanted to destroy them all.

Alas, to the city, twelve bells meant one thing and one thing only.

It was noon.

A/N- And that marks the dramatic fourth chapter! Hope you enjoyed; I enjoyed writing it! And cue the independence day speech from Rory! Great job!

So I'll see y'all at the next chapter...things will start to spiral from here.

Drop a review and have a hot-chocolate-worthy day!

In Fangs, We Trust.