Chapter Twenty Six: Back To School!
Frost's POV
Three days in bed keeps the doctor away... But not a medically trained army veteran specialist and a few girls with healing powers! Agh... It's impossible for me to once live a normal life! Almost every week of day there's something going on an I'm always caught up in the centre of it all! Literally!
I sighed, blinking twice as I stared up at the ceiling of Cream's room. Everything inside it, just like her name, was the colour of soft cream. And just like her personality, everything was pure and cleaned to the shine. Even the timber walls for crying out loud!
Man... She must really love the colour white. And I'm surprised that I didn't go insane after being exposed to this room! It's almost identical to the structure of the 'white room' torcher technique! Damn, Cream's mind must be as stable as diamonds!... Diamonds... That's right... That girl... Ruby's sister... That idiot... She really messed me up when she tried to heal me with one of her so called 'ancient' remedies. I mean, she holds a glowing white sword over my left eye and damn did she give me one hell of a burn! I was bloody tripping the whole time! It was like I was on a drug!
But at the same time, I'm really happy that she did. However, that doesn't mean my eyes are 'normal'... Well... My left may be, but defiantly not my right... For whatever reason, I can see 'things' through it. Like... Ahh. Whatever. It's not like I'm going to show it anyway... That's if I decide not to... I'd hate people to stare into my eyes and ask me "Woah, do you have two different coloured eyes?"... Damn... If I was more confident than shy, I'd reply with "Yeah, yellow and purple! Of course I do! Did you think these were orange?!". Haha! I wish...
Anyway, school starts tomorrow for me and for the seventh time I think, I'll have to announce myself to the class, get along with every body until I suddenly have to enrol myself AGAIN because of my female form... Damn. More than anything, I'm bloody glad to be in this body. In my other one, I couldn't withstand all these urges and overflowing emotions whenever they'd touch me in various parts...
From what White told me earlier, the school I'll be attending is a fairly popular school, but extraordinarily rich. Also, to make things more fun, Drago runs it and our teacher will be Shard. The woman who tried so hard to make me hers... Thankfully Ruby was able to wake her up... Hmm... After that, I think I saved Jace's life by instinct and took a large shard of ice to my stomach...
I hope he's fairing well with the others. Knowing him, he's a lady killer. I wouldn't be surprised to arrive there with Star chasing him around with a piece of glass in her hand while half of the schools girls angrily chase after her in attempt to stop her... Haha! What an imagination I have... That'll never happen. This is a proper city with proper Human rules. Violence is a big no, and showing my race is an even bigger no.
It sure is boring to stay home alone... But I'm not complaining.
I sighed quietly, blinking once again as I continued to blankly stare up into the white, spotless ceiling of Cream's room... Everything fell silent the moment I shut my lips softly. Not even the sounds of the outside world could interfere with my wandering mind. My body grew stiff for a moment, then contracted. My hear rate eased down and my blood chilled itself to suit the temperature... Pushing all of that aside, there's also some serious things going on...
To kick things off, both Shine and Glow came from Insanity. They both share the same blood and family. However, they're both instead Despair and Hope. Those two were major factors that I used long ago. Hope for fighting for the right and despair that nearly caused me to give up against Charcoal... That's all I know about them right now, and also, Nova seems to be keeping one hell of a secret away from everyone. Now, I'm being honest here. But the thing that bothers me the most, is the fact that I can see grey inside of her chest through my right eye... It may mean a few other things but in my theory, it must have something to do with her heart... But then again, I'm not too sure... Then that leads me to something that bothers me. How does JACE know people's pasts just by looking through their eyes?... Secrets and more secrets...
Anyway, I can't blame them. I also like to keep secrets. And it's never good to loose trust in those who have been with you for a long time.
Jace's POV
I smiled warmly, holding a large white, transparent plastic bag that yielded two large soft drink boxes in my right hand. It hung down low to my knees and was as heavy as a boulder, threatening to pull off my shoulder right out. The girls went shopping inside of the store before both me and Chaos who anxiously and desperately awaited for their return... How did it end up like this? Chaos, who stood to the left of me, held EIGHT bags worth of groceries that were filled to the brim and threatened to tear the very bag due to it's weight. But due to his amazing strength, it was nothing... But what really got him so pissed, was the fact that they'd been inside of there for a good TWO hours! Argh! I might loose it! I bet this is Star's doing! She's always pulling stunts like these!... Damn her! I'm normally calm and collected and would only hurt and steal from the bad people, but now I feel like playing a good game of baseball with her!... Ok... I need to calm the FUCK down!
"Jace... Don't ever make the same mistake ever again...", Chaos whispered, causing me to blankly blink and quickly look over to my left at him with a small smile. He looked down at the ground in grief and horror with trembling eyes of madness. What's gotten into him all of a sudden?
"Mistake?", I asked calmly and curiously.
"Not just any mistake... Whenever you hear the cursed, legendary word by a girl, you must run as fast as you can and barricade yourself at all costs", He stated... Huh?
"Legendary word?", I whispered in awe as a change in the wind occurred, chilling me to the bone as this mystery was about to completely unfold... I inched myself closer to him, desperately wanting to hear just what the legendary word was...
Suspense built up within me, causing major anxiety to infiltrate my heart and soul as my mind slowly became consumed with dread...
He grit his teeth, trembling even more before finally, he opened his mouth and spoke the word...
"Shopping".
"Eh?".
"Shopping...".
"Say that again... I couldn't really-".
"Shopping! Whenever you hear that, you MUST run!", He snapped... For crying out loud! He really wants me to explode! Dammit! THAT was the legendary wor- GAH! Forget it! I'd rather save the eruption for Star when we get back! She'll pay!
Frost's POV
Six hours till I'll have to dress up for school... Damn. If only I could waltz in without having to state my name for the seventh time then I'd gladly go. Well, only IF my eyes didn't have two distinct colours.
Pushing that aside, I'm actually quiet relieved. Now I can have a normal life for a change without having to worry about getting myself killed in the middle of the road by a lightning bolt or by the beach by a hydra. I WILL abide the human rules for as long as I live in their territory! Unless of course, a bullet manages to find its way into my clothes... I have to consider the fact that I'm being hunted down by many opposing forces, INCLUDING a race called 'Them' or 'They'.
If all goes well, then I'm expecting to have a blast tomorrow. If not, then I'm expecting a knife to the gut. It's as simple as that... I just hope with my entire life that Star and Melody don't decide to turn me into my counterpart... Cause if they do, then we're talking blood... And by blood... I mean insanity.
I have never feared myself this much in my entire life. Just remembering what I did to myself gives me unstable anxiety and paranoia that slowly leads to insanity... But in my female form... Just seeing a significant amount of blood will trigger me. I don't know why, but I think it has something to do with the dark energy I accidentally channelled directly into my mind...
I blinked blankly, my body laying still, twisted and facings the left on the light blue bed me and White had to share for 'reasons' that have yet to be told to me. She slept directly in front of me, snoring very, very quietly as her delicate figure inflated and deflated slightly every breath. The room was very dimly lit as the only source of light was the crescent shaped, light blue moon that shone through the three wide opened windows to the left of the room. The curtains were held to the sides via a thin, light brown rope attached to a small, white, handle-like knob to the walls on either side. They were tied up in three good loops of rope that was around a third of the total length.
I blankly stared at White's amazing, adorable face with a neutral look, observing her thoroughly as I managed to pick out a few similarities between her and Mindy... Really close ones... But what really bothers me, is the fact that Mindy WAS White Heart before she disappeared... And now White is... It rings a small bell, but not significant enough to ring an alarm... I have this weird feeling that SHE may be Mindy in another form... Either way, my heart warms whenever I look at her face... She's so cute, innocent, trustworthy and can easily relate to me... This feels like the first time I slept with Mindy back in the games.
I wonder how close we can become and how far we can go together... Cause I know for a fact, that she really likes me... And that's where my problem starts... I'm WAY too shy to even admit that I like her... But when things get serious, I get as close to her as possible to try to comfort her at all costs... Strange, yet it feels like the right thing to do.
Hmm... I can't believe how weak she's gotten since the Colour Plane... Back then, our abilities and strengths were identical. I hope she's been hiding it under her skin...
Thank goodness that this school doesn't require a bag! My back would probably break due to how far it is from our home! Literally! And guess what?! We aren't even half way! Argh!... I need to cool off from this heat!
"You seem stressed", Melody chuckled childishly at me from my left, causing me to grit my teeth and cringe slightly in annoyance. I lowered my head, opening my eyes to see the light grey, rough surface of the concrete pathway that we all walked on in an orderly fashion, each wearing our school attire. Me, Jace and Chaos's attire consisted of a black, buttoned up shirt with the car nicely done, black long pants and finally, black leather shoes... Well, for them. I decided to wear my light grey sports shoes cause you'll never know when someone will try to slice you into quarters. Also, I have my Night's Melody strapped to my waist from within my school clothing JUST in case anything drastic happens. The girls had to wear black miniskirts that covered a third of their thighs and literally ANY shirt they wanted! Talk about 'fairness'!
"I'm not stressed", I stated in a proud tone of voice, wanting to prove it. I raised up my head, looking straight ahead at the countless of pedestrians passing by to the left of us as we took the right side of the pathway, just on the edge. Endless cars and buses passed by us, creating a loud rhythm of beeping, screeching and roaring. They all blended nicely together, easily brightening the day and forming an easy-going atmosphere that told me not to worry about anything... "I'm just tired. That's all".
"Is that so? Nothing happened last night?", She asked.
"I slept late", I replied immediately with a low tone of voice as a group of men in black suits passed by us amongst the large group of pedestrians that kept on coming. Strangely, I felt some bad vibes coming from them that immediately flipped on my instinct side to take my body as I kept my eyes on them... Suddenly, my eyes widened broadly to one of them as their faces looked EXTREMELY familiar... Way too familiar. I blinked, hearing the others hold a muffled conversation as all of my attention was drawn towards that man... Where did I see him before?... Dammit... Things like these always have to happen. This is probably a foreshadow of things to come... Just like every other fucking thing!
I sighed to myself, blinking once again before quickly twisting my head to look forwards... A flash of black blinded me momentarily right before by heart suddenly skipped FIFTEEN beats, causing my entire body to go numb for a good three seconds right after I smashed my head into something as hard as a rock. Argh! I fell onto my butt hard, straining my lower spine as my legs extended out slightly. As fast as possible, I slapped my head with both my hands, applying a lot of pressure to suppress the pain that bashed at my brain like a bricks were pouring onto me from three kilometres up. I cringed to the pain and let of a small yelp before opening my eyes to see what on EARTH I bumped into...
"How clumsy can you get Frost?!", Star exclaimed and sighed right after in annoyance and anger from my left, up above as I stared into a pair of diamond-red eyes that shone like a blood moon... A girl? Argh!... My head won't stop throbbing! I shut my eyes tightly in pure agony, trembling to the pain right before a pair of hands grabbed me from under my arms and immediately pulled me up to my feet. I opened my eyes slightly, seeing Chaos quickly and carefully pick up the girl to her feet as a few people stuck around to see what was going on. I can't blame them... It looks like someone here had a heart attack... Literally. Fifteen beats of my heart were absent and really hit me hard... I need to watch were I'm going next time!
"Are you ok? Does it hurt anywhere?", Chaos quickly questioned the girl he helped up as I grit my teeth in pure utter pain and agony, holding both my hands on my forehead with exceedingly powerful force to nullify the throbbing pain. Brain haemorrhage! No doubt! Argh!
"Don't worry about me, worry about Frost!", The girl replied in worry, forcing my eyes to widen to how on EARTH she knew my name... I blinked, allowing the sudden shock to abolish my agonising pain like morphine as a few of the others gasped in utter shock and surprise... I stared into her face, slowly lowering my hands back to my side as Chaos let go of her gently and took a step back to give her room.
"Frost? Wait, how do you know his name?!", Milk immediately demanded, knowing for a fact that almost EVERYONE we've encountered that knew my name before hand, has tried to either kill me OR turn me into a girl and take me in as their bride or whatever. Damn... Ouch! My head...
"How CAN'T I know his name?!", She replied viciously like a wild animal at Milk as she stared at me with a face of both anger and worry... Just who IS she?
"What do you mean? You're talking like he's related to you!", Milk snapped with anger, giving it her all as she kept her guard up as high as possible. If this girl attacks me, Milk will most likely use her yellow orbs to protect me at all costs and White will probably draw out her Moon's Rhythm in the form of a dagger. Just an assumption... And I hope that it's correct!
"Because we ARE related!", She announced... E...Eh?! What?! Impossible... I don't have any siblings! Not even Serenity is my little sister, but I still treat her as one! Wait... Maybe she's my cousin? FUCK! Dammit brain! Don't make false assumptions!
"Eh?!", White exclaimed in pure shock and excitement for whatever reason... She must be so happy right now...
"What?!", Star blurred out in pure horror...
"He's my older brother!"... Give me a break! There's no way in hell that she's my little sister! I mean, LOOK at her! Her hair is the blackest of the black, her eyes are colour of my left and her face looks... Wait... It looks similar to my Frosty's and mine... Only younger... No. Anyone could look like me. Haha...
"W...WHAT?!", Melody shrieked, causing many of the passing people to gasp in shock to the sudden loud noise of her high pitched voice... "N...no way... Frost's younger sister?!".
"You never mentioned her", Jace whispered behind me with a quiet, depressed sigh as if he had enough with the situation and just wanted to move on.
"Of course I wouldn't. I don't even HAVE a younger sister let alone a family member besides my parents", I replied in a growl, obviously furious at the girl that stood before me claiming to be 'related' to me... Damn her!... Wait a second... She's wearing a black miniskirt. ARGH! Does that mean she ALSO goes to OUR school?! Dammit! What did Forsheer do to this world?!
"Bullshit", Jace sighed.
"It ain't bullshit! I don't HAVE a little sister!", I claimed. But Jace sighed once again like he knew the truth... Hold on a second...
My eyes suddenly broadened as I stared directly into the girl's beautiful light red, shiny eyes with my light red and light blue ones, realising Jace's amazing ability to actually LOOK into people's past just by looking at them in the eye... He can't be serious... I don't have a little sister! My parents genes and DNA structures don't even MATCH her appearances!... FUCK! And I'm one to talk!
My dad had has silver hair and my mom has light red for crying out loud! How on EARTH did my hair even become this black! ARGH! I'm fighting a war with myself right now! If I somehow go insane...
"H...How old are you?", White asked with excitement hidden in her cheerful tone of voice that caused me to blink twice as I continued to stare into the girl's eyes...
She smiled happily, tilting her head to the right, causing her long, jet black hair to happily droop to the right in an adorable manner before she answered.
"I'm exactly five seconds younger than Frost!", She announced... WHAT?! IMPOSSIBLE! She's my fucking twin?!
"Impossible! I was born alone!", I exclaimed almost immediately to counter what she had stated. She grunted, obviously annoyed as she stared at me with glowing light red eyes filled with disbelief and anger...
"Alone? Please don't anger me", She sighed, shaking her head left and right in annoyance... Argh...
"Frost. She IS your twin... After your birth, she came exactly five seconds after you and was sent to an infirmary for after-birth injections... You both had the same defects however... Chain-marked bruises covered both if your bodies, thus resulting in major internal bleeding. Dangerous for an infant... After that, according to YOUR history, you died along with your parents and she was sent of to an orphanage in the Spider Kingdom... Which is this city..."... Jace whispered into my ear, forcing my eyes to widen as broad as day... That explains a lot of it... Like those injections I received as a child... Now I mention it, those syringes given to me by Sindy's father looks very similar to the one used on me... I wonder what those were...
"I guess I have nothing to say...", I whispered in a disappointed sigh, blinking once before asking my 'twin sister' a question in a calm tone of voice. "Your last name is Richtofen right?". She gave me a cheerful, happy nod. "I see... But it'll take a lot more to convince-".
"School starts in FIVE minutes! And we're not even half way!", Melody exclaimed from our of the blue, giving me one hell of an electric shock, forcing me to jolt my head backwards accidentally and smashed it against Jace's forehead with the mass of a speeding blunt bullet... OUCH!
I screwed up... BIG TIME!... How much did I fucking shake while rehearsing my own FULL name in front of the class?! And not only that, the teacher, no other than SHARD herself, pointed out that I was the twin brother of KIZZO! My name and HER name does not go well
together! Dammit... Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!
I sat silently on my own desk that was located to the far left corner of the room, just in front of a double closet. To my left, was a spotless windowpane that reflected my being almost perfectly whilst showing the spectacular view of the field outside. My attention was directed straight at Shard who held a whiteboard marker in her creamy white right hand in the style of a pen, ready to both talk and write. She wore a simple light blue shirt along with a dark blue miniskirt that matched her 'cold hearted' nature. Her socks were a bright white colour and reached up to her knees, her shoes were a brilliant light blue and finally, her icy light blue hair collapsed behind her in a ponytail style. Directly in front of me, sat White and to my right, was my 'sister' who glanced a couple of shots at me here and again with a cheerful smile across her face... I wonder why she's so happy to see me. And HOW she knew that I was her brother straight away... Instincts maybe? Or probably Drago sent her. Either way, I don't think she's aware that I'm Black Heart. I hope to keep it that way...
"Today will be the start of our journey to learn about this continent's history. Now, as you man know, we occupy a small percentage of the entire continent. Would one of you explain to me why?", Shard said like a REAL teacher, instantly causing me to blink as I was really interested in this topic.
A student from the far right of the room raised their hand straight up, making our teacher quickly face towards whoever it was and pointed right at them with her right index finger. They dropped their hand down quickly and answered.
"Because the rest of the continent is a wilderness", They stated. Hmm... Only a quarter of the continent is wilderness... The rest is civilised except for certain area. Hearthfill, Highpoint and Lancer... From what Drago told me, if we destroy all three of these kingdoms, then whatever it was that defeated the Colours back in past will be released and starved from all of the built up energy. Meaning that it'll be equivalent to the one back in the past...
She lowered her hand down and chuckled warmly. "Sorry, but only a fourth of the continent is wilderness".
I blinked and was about to raise up my arm to answer until suddenly, my twin sister darted her right arm up, causing me to turn to her with a curious look...
"Lizzo", Shard said, granting her permission to lower her arm and answer her question.
"It's nothing but ruins of the Great War held many thousands of years ago and small civilisations continue to exist outside of the walls. Plant life and animals included but are going extinct rather quickly", She answered... Is she for real? I've been out there for nearly a week and I did NOT see a single ruin. Even if it was all inside of another realm! And I know for a fact that there are still hundreds of kingdoms still existing as we speak...
"Correct!", Shard replied happily, making Lizzo smile cheerfully to her little praise... Correct?... I'm not even going to ask how or why, but I think the only reason why she was correct is because the outside of this continent is kept hidden in secret and was replaced with false info for cover-up...
Drago's POV
Tonight, the Test Of Colours will commence! Haha! This test should harden Frost, Black and White a tenfold! If that comes true, then defeating all three kingdoms and the colossus won't be a difficult task... I hope...