Chapter Fifty Five: The Apple Before The War
Frost's POV
Out of every single apple I've ever seen, only this one actually looks like a genuine gem instead of a fruit. Literally. It's so red that I almost thought that it was the ruby she gave me when she 'died' in the snow last year. Haha. This is one of a kind! It's perfect circular shape. Perfect colour and texture. Heck, the taste must be perfect as well!
I wonder how she got it in the first place... I'll ask her straight after the meeting. Me, White and Phase sat down around a circular wooden, highly polished and sanded table which wielded absolutely NO splinters. We sat on flat wooden stools, each tucked in lightly underneath the round table topped with two plates of butter and bread and another with salad. Those were for the two of them. For me however, was a single, genuine, extremely light red apple given to me by Ruby earlier today.
I held it in my right hand, hovering just in front of my smiling face. Phase cleared her throat, making me blink and lower the apple down to my chest and shoot a quick glance at her before moving on to White who happily munched her salad from the tip of a white plastic fork. Her pale, furry, cat-like ears twitched and twisted left and right as she melted to the taste of the lettuce and capsicum. I flushed red and blinked before looking back down at my apple to see my own reflection staring back in a vivid red colour... I wonder how I should take the first bite. It looks amazingly delicious...
People in silver armour and weaponry passed by left, right, up and down noisily. Each and every single one of them emitted a loud clanking noise that played like a broken recorder. However, the noise didn't really bother us all thanks to Phase who can lower the volume of noise outside of a specific area drastically. And in this case, it was our table. Thank goodness for that!
I pulled the apple back to my face, taking in a deep breath of the cool, fresh air and exhaling in anxiety... Here it goes! Slowly, I pushed the apple to my mouth as I opened it wide and sunk my white, glistening teeth into it carefully... As my teeth sunk into the flesh of the apple, it's amazing juices came gushing out like a river and rained onto my taste buds magically... My eyes widened, my heart skipped a best and my soul began to move to how DELICIOUSLY sweet it was... Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, I tore the final strand of flesh from the apple and parted with it slowly... A long stream of juice ran down the right side of my chin and dripped onto the table as I chewed then finally swallowed the amazing chunk... Unbelievable! I have never tasted such a thing! What kind of an apple is THIS?! These two HAVE to try it!
"Frost? Are you alr-".
"Phase! White! You got to try this!", I exclaimed and fired my right hand towards Phase first who sat diagonally to my left, holding the apple just in front of her face. She jumped a little in shock to my sudden movements. She turned a slight red and stared down at the amazingly red apple which wielded a large bite mark of my own, exposing the yellowish-white fleshy inside to the outside world.
She looked at me with widened eyes and an opened mouth in both shock and embarrassment to what I said and to how sudden I said it. White chuckled at her reaction, making me smile as Phase hummed and focused her light blue eyes onto the bright red, shiny apple that I held in front of her face, urging her to take a bite and enjoy it's fantastic texture and taste.
"S...Sure", She stuttered out and gently cupped the apple in both her hands. I let go of the apple, allowing her to slowly pull it up to her face and open her jaws wide enough to take a good bite out if the apple...
Her teeth sunk into it perfectly, emitting a satisfying crunch which echoed thoroughly into my mind, making me blink and watch her closely as her eyes widened all of a sudden to the sheer epic taste of the apple. Haha!
"Woah... So... So good! White! You have a bite!", She exclaimed in amazement and enthusiasm to the bursts and explosions of sweetness that poured onto her tongue right out of the rupture she made. "How did you get this apple?!", She asked immediately in a muffled manner, munching the piece inside of her mouth as she quickly gave the apple to White and stared me in the eye with her light blue ones, eagerly waiting for an answer:
"Ruby gave it to me", I simply answered and looked at White, watching her take the first bite of the ruby coloured, gem-like apple with one hell of a satisfying crunch before immediately melting on the spot. Haha.
"Where... Did Ruby find this?! Or did she make it?!", White cried with a mouthful of the deliciously sweet apple, making her sound muffled as she continued to chew and munch on it's amazing texture and flesh as well as drinking it's juices dry.
"I'll ask her after the battle talk", I claimed and extended my right hand out to retain my apple. Gladly, White smiled and returned it to me without hesitation and swallowed the remaining contents down her throat. "You guys ready for war?", I asked them out of the blue, taking back my apple and taking a bite from it which made me absolutely love my life and melt on the spot. Oh... Damn this is good!
"Yep! I'm all set to be in good use for you Frost!", Phase exclaimed cheerfully with a cherry red face and a large smile that made her look absolutely adorable. I smiled softly, swallowing the chunk of apple that I ate and took another bite as White too, said she was ready. Great! We're all set then... When these two finish eating their breakfast, we'll head straight to the middle tent and commence the battle planning. We have around three hours left till the war breaks. And that's not a lot of time...
Jace's POV
Two hours and a half until the war begins and right now, all of mine and Star's men are out there in their, standing ready for war on the grassy plains battlefield. Me, Star and the remaining colours sat around a silver round, large table on wooden, splinter-free stools that had enough comfort to keep me from going insane before the end of the battle talk. I had both my fists clenched, resting on the table in front of me as I shot glances at everyone from left to right, observing their facial expressions to check if they're willing to play as hard as they can in this war. From experience, Frost, White, Sino, Star and I will probably be the biggest pieces on the battlefield. But Frost will be the largest no doubt. Meaning that he's going to be targeted by the most biggest piece on the other side. Grey.
Our surrounding was nothing but many wooden crates stacked at the edges of the large dark green, circular tent where we all shaded in to avoid the harsh sun that beamed down upon the land like lasers. I cleared my throat, blinking and tensing myself as I took in a deep breath of air and exhaled loudly, grabbing everyone's attention forcefully. Then, I began to rehearse my brilliant plans aloud with the best manly tone of voice I could muster.
"OK!", I began, blinking once again and taking in a deep breath of the fresh air that smelt of many lovely perfumes from the girls that sat around. "In exactly two hours and twenty nine minutes, war will break out. Now, I have a plan and I want you all to follow it as strictly as possible. Use your imagination ladies! First thing's first. They have an army of ten million, and we have a million. We're numbered one to ten by the enemies. However, according to Sino who observed their slow march towards us, they march in three separate segments. The first one has Blue leading a third of the army, the first one to take us head on. Behind her army, is Orange's. And finally, behind hers, is Grey's. They only consist of foot soldiers, meaning that we have the upper hand all thanks to Star's dragons and my dark knights. We'll attack Blue with a classic pincer attack and have Frost and White mow then down from the middle with everything you guys have. Blue will easily be defeated by Red, Yellow and Green. Now, onto Orange. We'll have to keep our distance with her army and use long ranged fire to take out her army. Again Red, Yellow and Green will attack the Colour. Finally, against Grey... Well, it'll be a full-on clash with me and Star at the front lines while Frost stays at the back. The worst case scenario is Frost getting touched by Grey. And finally, we'll storm Highpoint and kill off the final guardian", I finally finished and exhaled lightly before taking in one hell of a deep breath of air. I cleared my throat, looking around from right to left at everyone and stopped at Frost who stared down at the table with drowsy eyes and a look of defeat. I smiled softly and was about to say something but Star beat me to it. Damn her...
"Hey, Frost. Are you feeling well?", She asked in a slightly worried tone of voice as she shifted a little forward and extended her right hand towards him with a curled open palm. I sniffed, blankly blinking as everyone's attention suddenly locked onto Frost. He didn't reply. Nor did he have any reaction. Is he day dreaming?
"Stop it... You're scaring the crap outta me", Yellow said in fear and worry as she slowly backed a good inch away from his right. What the hell's going on to him?
"He can't help it. I bet he's frightened by the war. Hehe", Red joked immaturely, making White grit her teeth from his left and was about to place her hand onto his shoulder, until all of a sudden, her eyes widened uncannily. I blankly blinked in fright, nearly falling out of my seat while White slowly opened her mouth and raised both her hands to her throat... Is she... Choking?!
"Hey! White! What's happening to you?!", Yellow cried in fright and worry as she thrashed out of her seat and rushed to White's aid, standing behind her and effectively smacking her upper back to help relieve the choking sensation. I was utterly
shocked and unable to comprehend HOW or WHY she's choking out of the blue.
Yellow's POV
You're not dying on me! HYA! As hard as I could, I threw my right hand straight for her upper back in a curled ball of fury. My punch emitted a small sonic boom at the same time it made contact with her back, effortlessly breaking a rib of hers as she gagged and gurgled. I reeled my arm back and hopped a good half a metre back, watching her slam both her hands down against the silver round table and arch forwards whilst letting out an uncontrollable, hoarse cough.
"White! What's wrong?! C'mon!", Red cried and rushed to her...
I quickly rushed to her as well. To her left, I stood. My left hand softly rubbing her back as she continued to cough non stop until a good three seconds later when she finally, coughed up a small metallic ball... It plummeted hard onto the table, almost putting a dent onto it and forced us all to go silent and fear the situation... It rolled slowly, emitting a loud, scraping noise as it approached the unmoving Frost who too, looked like he had the same problem as White... What happened to these two?! Dammit! We can't afford to lose them before the war! We'll lose-
"It's too late... Frost and Phase are in the point of no return. They're with Black...", White muttered weakly with a frown... No... My eyes widened. My body trembled in fear as I slowly turned my head to my right to see Frost, staring down at the table with a small grin plastered to his face... Oh? I blankly blinked... He's ok? That's a relief... I thought for a second there he was going to turn into Black and kill us all here... But what's with the grin?...
Jace's POV
We have to be careful even more now. Frost is acting funny and his eyes have no pupils. It's just plain colour in his eyes... If I'm correct, then he's under some hypnotic spell... But we don't have the time to snap him out. The battle starts in an hour... We're ready for this!
White's POV
Right now, no matter what, Grey is going to make sure that we all make it to her army in the freshest condition because of Frost. He's under her spell and at the same time, he's inside Black's domain... It's like she wants to completely get rid of Frost... And... Make him become Black Melody entirely... Argh! I have to keep this to myself no matter what... I hope he's alright in there... He has Phase with him so I'm sure they'll both make it through and save us all... I hope... But... I doubt it...
Star's POV
The strategy is flawless. Our army is unstoppable and most of all, if things get way out of hand, me and Jace can pull something off... As long as Frost does NOT get caught by Nova! I never would have thought she was the type to get so easily corrupted... Looks can kill... Hehe, just like me. Ah! I have to get my armour on now! I hope my sister's doing fine back at home! Wish!... But first...
"Have you found out who the guardian in Highpoint is?", I asked the smiling Jace to my left with a small smile plastered across my face as we stared off into the endless horizon where millions of black dots slowly and steadily matched their way towards us. We stood on the grassy plains, right at the front of our army of a million that were prepared for an all out battle.
My thousands of dragons hovered above the army, beating down a massive gust from their wings as up to five men rode them with bows and arrows. Jace's dark knights stood firmly in their deep, rusty black corrupted armour which looked like a single touch could infect you with endless despair and imminent death. On the other hand, my white knights wore shiny white armour that looked fresh out of the metal forge and glinted the blazing overhead sun like beacons. Perfect support troops.
Jace's men were armed mostly with CRUSHING weapons such as war hammers, two handed blades, spiked shields and some even were twice as large as the regular knights and wielded two giant battle axes...
My ones, had uncannily large bows, rapiers, one handed blades combined with a shield and some were about half a metre taller and wielded two blades. My dragons were typical ones. All except for one. And no, it's not Drago. This one, beast of a dragon is Nexus's one. He's one of the five or I think four dragon tamers in the world! It's name is Anxiety. A strange name but it's fitting for an epic dragon like that. However, we promised Nexus that we'd ONLY use it against the final wave OR if White gets into a deathly situation... Haha. Ack! I'm thinking so much!
"Not yet. But I suspect that Highpoint IS the guardian itself. If you know what I mean", He stated, making me blankly blink and raise my right eyebrow before turning to face him to my left. Eh? Highpoint itself?
"I'm not going to ask you why, but if that's what you say, then I'll go with it", I said with a smirk. He sighed then widened his smile as he vibrated for a split second, holding back an urge to laugh for some reason which made me turn a shallow shade of red. "Eh? What's so funny?", I asked him.
He gulped, shaking his head left and right, making his dark blue, long, epic hair wave fluidly with his movements before crossing his arms over his chest... Damn does he look good in that black trench coat! Underneath that is his black armour plates... I wonder if he's comfortable underneath all those layers of covering.
"Nothing... I just remembered something", He claimed and sighed warmly.
"What?", I demanded, eager to know what made him nearly burst out laughing from out of the blue.
"It's nothing. I'll tell you after", He said, making me bloat my cheeks with carbon dioxide and narrow my eyes at him, annoyed with his hesitation. He's always like that... Hmph!
"I'll tell you after", I said, mocking him and deflated my cheeks as they became a little sore. He chuckled. "Idiot. Why not now? We have another forty boring minutes", I winged like a little school girl to him and clenched my fists tightly into balls of pure hurt and annoyance. Grr!...
"Ahaha. You're so cute when you're like that", He suddenly chuckled at me, making me recoil and open my mouth as my face burnt a bright red... C...C...Cute? What is he saying all of a sudden?!
"H...Hey! Who do you think you're talking to like th...that?!", I exclaimed in embarrassment and shyness at him. Geeze... He knows how to push the wrong buttons on a girl!... He laughed at my reaction immediately, making me grit my teeth and dig my nails deeply into my palms... Oh ho ho! When this is over, I will impregnate HER with as much eggs as possible! Hehe...
Shora's POV
Corozin is at war? With who? Humans again? Damn... We would help if we could but... We're too far from Corozin... Me and my sister Silica are in a different continent and the only means of transport are ships which almost ALWAYS requires a what was it?... 'Mage' to be on board just to get across safely. Yesterday, I got a phone call by some dude named 'Litch'... He called himself the... umm... 'Final Product?' and asked if I could lend Frost some I dunno, a million BUCKS to Frost when the time comes... Ahhh... I don't know... But I can't turn down anything about Frost. That guy's one of a kind. And I intend to keep it that way... But just who is this Litch guy?
"Kill To One Day Be Killed".
"If You Want To Settle Something, Do It Face To Face, One On One. Don't Be A Coward".
"The Victor Will Always Be The One Who Controls History".