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Penelope jumped back as she saw ice beginning to form on Jackie's bonds. She fired her own sand to stop the ice's progress, but it didn't seem to have much of an effect.

In less than a minute the ice had covered all of her bonds and was making fast progress on the cage.

Penelope kept on trying to halt its progress with more sand, but nothing seemed to work.

"Samuel! We have a problem!" She called over to the blond leader as she continued to fire at the ice. Samuel looked over and his eyes widened.

"Shit." He swore and ran over, adding his own sand to the bonds, which had no effect.

"Everyone, get over here!"

There was a rush as around thirty people ran over and began adding their sand to the attack.

This slowed down the advance of the ice slightly, but it still kept going.

"Keep trying, we can do this!" Said Samuel, his voice not even shaking from how wrong everything was suddenly going.

Over in another cage, Billy looked over at the fuss and let out a whoop of joy.

"Go Jackie!"

There was a sudden rush of ice that overpowered the black sand and completely enveloped the cage and the floor below.

The Descendants of Pitch began to back off as the ice spread further, creeping across the black rock of the cave floor. Panic began to spread as one person touched the ice and instantly got frozen solid.

Everyone ran back screaming at their frozen comrade and Samuel kept on barking orders for them stand their ground, only for him to be frozen. A few others tried to regain order, but they were drowned out by the more hysterical Descendant's screaming.

And the ice just kept coming.

"Jackie! Jackie that's enough, you can stop now!" called Nigel, but Jackie didn't seem to hear him and the ice kept on spreading towards their own cages.

Tina, who remembered last time, quickly realised that Nigel was going about this the wrong way.

"Jackie! It's okay, everything's going to be alright. I promise!"

That seemed to get through and the ice's advance stopped inches from their cages. In her own cage Jackie opened her eyes.

I opened my eyes and saw pandemonium. The Descendants of Pitch were in disarray and were screaming as though someone had been murdered.

I looked around what my ice had caused and felt a little sick to the stomach. I'd frozen two people.

I'd never frozen someone before, so I didn't know if I could unfreeze them.

I tried to ignore the feeling of nausea and turned my attention back to the sand, my ice had completely coated it, turning it brittle.

I tugged one arm and the sand shattered, landing on the floor in large chunks. I pulled on each thread with the same result and suddenly I felt from my bonds and landed on the floor of the cage, which cracked under my weight and sudden brittleness.

Brushing sand off my arms I walked over to the wall of the cage and after some consideration, punched it, sending shattered and frozen sand everywhere.

I stepped onto my ice, naturally being protected from it, as the frozen person to my side gladly wanted right about then.

Ignoring my nausea about it I carefully examined the ice and sighed in relief when I saw that it wasn't Penelope. It wasn't great that I'd frozen someone, but I felt slightly better knowing it was someone who I could safely not feel so bad about.

I quickly noticed that the noise had died down and I turned to see that all of the Descendants of Pitch that were still standing was staring at me, their breath visible among the black coloured rocks. Deciding to put on a tough front I stuck out my chin and said.

"I recommend that you all stay right there, or you'll all become icicles, understood?"

In one simple movement they all backed off. One brave soul sent a whip of sand my way. In response I formed an ice blade by my wrist and slashed it. As the grains of sand landed on the ice it instantly froze.

This panic ice was more dangerous than I thought.

I walked over to the other cages, keeping a close eye on my audience. My ice hadn't quite reached the base of their cages, which was probably a good thing, I doubted that ice discriminated.

I tapped the bars on each of the cages and let the ice spread to their bonds so they could break out, either by breaking out themselves or just letting the ice do its work.

Once I got to Sally's cage I tapped the bars and looked in, then felt a ripping feeling in my chest.

More of her hair had turned black and she was definitely unconscious. She looked so small and frail in there, she was normally strong, so it was weird seeing her like this.

A humming noise behind me alerted me to Tina's presence and I turned to see her hovering above my ice. Looking at the others I saw that Billy and Nigel had both got themselves on top of the cages. They were afraid of my panic ice as well.

Without a word Tina flew past me and carefully picked up Sally, the latter's head flopping slightly as she rose off the ground. I had seen that these two were close, but I could see a look on Tina's face that almost bordered on motherly love and concern as she picked up the limp Sally.

A ripple of gasps came from the crowd behind us. Looking behind me I saw that they were fixated on something a little above us, but when I looked up I saw nothing.

"Oh crikey." I heard Billy say. Looking over at him I saw that he was staring at the same spot.

Nigel and Tina also looked up and their faces paled.

"What? What is it?" I asked, glancing between them.

"I think you should be glad that you can't see this one Jackie." Said Nigel, with a slight shake in his voice. That was worrying, I'd never seen Nigel scared before.

What was making everyone so afraid?

Beside me Tina recoiled and Sally shuddered as if faced with a sudden cold and more of her hair went black.

"What's happened to her?" I asked.

"She's been contaminated by the black sand." Tina said simply. That explanation didn't quite make sense, but I didn't think that now was the time to for a better explanation.

"Well, what can we do?"

Tina only shrugged, her face going even paler.

I heard a gasp from Nigel I turned and saw that black sand had covered the ice sculptures and the area went them. Once the sand fell away Blondie and the other person were free of the ice.

They looked around in confusion and then bowed to the same spot. The rest of the Descendants followed in suit.

A small gust of wind behind me told me that Tina had taken to the air with Sally in her arms. She had the right idea, our captors were distracted, so now was a good time to escape.

I looked over at Nigel and Billy, then raised my arms to form a safe ice bridge for them to walk across while everyone else was distracted.

"Sir! They're escaping!"

So much for that idea.

Feel free to try and guess who it is that Jackie can't see. You get cookies if you do (::)