Family
Chapter 126 Elementals
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
(Author's Note: Special shoutout to LegionnaireBlaze for the suggestion of adding Patience from the Elemental episode to this chapter. I'm also going to introduce a very special character, whose going to play a special role later in the story. A role a bunch of you have been asking for. I'm not going to say anything else right now. Enjoy the chapter.)
Jack returned to the Citadel chunk with his new weapons and landed near the rest of Shadow Spite. Shen walked over to Jack and took in his new armor and weapons.
"Pretty sweet huh? I'm all geared up and ready to cause some real havoc. I'll even help move this project along." Said Jack as he slammed his scythe into the ground near a mound of crystal and metal scraps.
The mound fell apart and the pieces separated and began to take on new forms. Soon there were nearly sixty humanoid skeletal figures made out of crystal, metal, and rocks standing before Jack.
"I give you our labor force/army! I shall call them Creepers!" Declared Jack.
The newly created Creepers shuffled towards the Citadel chunk to help work on constructing the ship. Jack smiled and then he spotted Dr. Cerebral nearby. The prankster villain walked over to the scientist.
"Hey brain doc, since I provided you and your buddy with a large work force, how about you build me, some robots. I want robots that have my looks and are filled with all kind of deadly tricks and treats." Said Jack.
"Fine I shall construct some robots for you." Said Dr. Cerebral.
"Oh goodie!" Cheered Jack with evil glee.
Miles away at the secret lair, Nyx and Ying had just arrived and we're getting a tour from Klarion and Teekl, who were glad to see the two. The little group encountered Maja and Nyx told her about her recent robbery in Wizard City. Maja was impressed by the witch's actions and she greatly enjoyed hearing about Nyx humiliating Huntress Wizard.
"So what exactly are you guys up to here?" Asked Nyx.
"Oh we're just going to spread a whole lot of chaos everywhere." Said Klarion.
"What do you mean everywhere?" Asked Nyx.
"I mean everywhere. First this planet, then the universe, and finally the multiverse itself!" Laughed Klarion.
Nyx was overjoyed by this and she couldn't wait to see how the chaos was going to spread. Later that day Nyx planted the three seeds and a couple hours later, three pods emerged from the ground. The first pod had six little piglets wearing clothes. The piglets were dressed as a magician, a cowboy, a doctor, a construction worker, a bumblebee, and a baker. The second pod had six star shaped wands, and the last pod was filled with ice cream. Nyx was thrilled with the piglets and she called them her Pig Posse.
Meanwhile in a secret lab facility miles away, Sylvester was walking down a long hallway followed by Pyro, Maleficent, and Frost. The scientist and the clones entered a much larger hallway that had several doors, with windows on them. The facility was specifically designed to create clones for future battles. Sylvester had began combining DNA to create new clones to help the organization and he was showing Pyro around to see if there were any worthy candidates to join his team and replace the warriors, he lost. Pyro looked into one room that contained a skeleton made out of ice and a large white dragon with horns made out of ice. Frost looked in one cell and saw a fiery skeleton and a bat creature that seemed to be made out of fire.
"See anything you like?" Asked Sylvester.
"Not yet, so far these new clones lack the edge and class that Diana and Mitsuhide had." Said Pyro.
"I see, will just keep looking then." Said Sylvester as he lead the group down the hallway.
The scientist stopped in front of a particular door and opened it. The room was dark, but Sylvester could make out a tiny figure curled up in the corner of the cell. This clone was a combination of both Simon and Betty's DNA, but unlike Frost the clone was female and she had the body of a five year old. The clone had blue skin and wild untrimmed white hair and the only thing she wore was a dirty brown one piece dress.
"Hello subject 144, how are you doing? I brought your brother for a visit." Said Sylvester as he stepped aside to let Frost into the room.
The clone seemed to quiver in fear at the sight of Frost and she pushed herself deeper into the corner. Frost sneered at the clone with disgust. Sylvester had created the clone several moths after he created Pyro's elite team and the thought of such a weak creature being related to him disgusted Frost.
""I don't see why you keep this little snow mouse around, she's completely useless. What good is she anyway?" Said Frost.
"She's a interesting subject, unlike most of the clones here, she has personality traits similar to the ones she was cloned from. It's almost like she's actually the offspring of both her DNA donors. I want to study her mind to see how it works. It could provide us with the info to help us truly understand our enemies." Said Sylvester.
"I don't see why you should care, you got me and soon I'll kill both those old ice makers." Said Frost.
"It's for the sole purpose of research." Said Sylvester as he and Frost left the room.
The next room the group looked in had a clone that was a combination of Betty's DNA and Lucinda's angel DNA. The clone had light blue skin, white hair, two angel wings made out of snow on her back, and wore a white dress. The clone was also shackled to the floor. Sylvester smiled at the clone, who glared back at him.
"How are you today subject 118?" Asked Sylvester.
"I still desire end you vile and sinful life monster. Thou are creating monster and abusing the gift of life. You take great pleasure in the suffering of others, especially that little girl. A reckoning shall come and justice shall be served." Declared the clone.
"What's with her?" Asked Maleficent.
"Apparently the angel DNA mixed with Betty has made this clone righteous and filled her with a strong sense of justice. It has made her a bit unstable and unlike most of the clones, we have yet been able to control her or get her to side with the organization." Said Sylvester.
"What's her connection with the brat?" Asked Frost.
"Well I put both the clones in the same cell together for a little social experiment and they both seemed to form some kind of sisterly bond. Subject 118 comforted and soothed Subject 144. It was quit interesting." Said Sylvester.
"What would happen if we killed one of them?" Asked Frost.
"My guess is that the one that was still alive, would go into a mad rage or fall into a deep depression that would lead to suicide. However both subjects interest me and I wish to study them further." Said Sylvester.
The group continued on and as soon as they were gone the clone moved her wings ever so slightly and an icicle fell out and into the clone's hands. The clone stuck the icicle into the lock and began to fiddle with it.
"Do not fret little one, for soon you and I shall be free of this place and faraway from here." Said the clone to herself as she worked to pick the lock.
At the Ice Kingdom, Simon was using his powers to cut a hole through the crack in his floor. Simon saw that the hole went down and went to a lower lair of the mountain. The icy monarch flew down the hole and came across a large chamber and began to examine it. Simon's foot bumped against something small and he looked down to see it was a plastic coffee cup covered in ice. The old wizard's eyes then landed on a large sphere of ice that was on the other side of the room. Simon examined the ice and rubbed some fog off of it to see if there was anything inside. The icy monarch looked inside and let out a small gasp as he saw what appeared to be a human shape frozen in the center of the ice. Simon couldn't see any of the figures features, but it was humanoid.
"Oh my! There's a person trapped in their and by judging this ice and that coffee cup, this person has been frozen for a long time. It could be a human trapped in there! I better tell Betty about this." Thought Simon as he flew back up the hole to tell his wife.
Betty was amazed at the news.
"So you think the two of us should free that frozen person now?" Asked Simon.
"We should, but first I think we should get Finn involved in this. If that frozen person is indeed a human, I think that the first thing she should see should be another human. This person has probably been through a lot and we need to introduce them back into the world and explain what happen to the planet, since the war. We don't want to freak this person out and put them into shock." Said Betty.
"Your right." Agreed Simon.
Simon quickly made a call to Finn and told the young boy what he found. The young teen showed up in the Ice Kingdom along with Jake and Phoebe. Finn was overjoyed at the news that he was possibly going to meet another human. The group headed down to the chamber to look at the ice sphere. Phoebe wondered around the chamber and came across the frozen coffee cup. The fiery girl picked it up and studied the cup very closely. The cup had the word Starbucks on it and for some strange reason the name sounded familiar to Phoebe, but she had no idea why. Betty noticed that Phoebe was holding and studying the coffee cup.
"What's Starbucks?" Asked Phoebe.
"It was a chain of stores and cafes that mostly sold coffee back in the days before the war. I believe they were all wiped out during the war." Said Betty.
"I see. You know this is the first time I've heard of Starbucks cup, but...for some strange reason I think I've seen cups like this before, but I don't know why." Said Phoebe.
"That's odd." Admitted Betty.
The group decided to use Phoebe's powers to melt the sphere. Simon constructed a wall of ice for him, Betty, Jake, and Phoebe to hide behind as soon as the ice was melted. Finn stood to the side as Phoebe fired a low level stream of fire at the sphere. As soon as the ice was melted enough, Phoebe gave Finn a thumbs up and ducked behind the ice wall. Finn stared at the sphere and watched as a the figure began to move.
"Ug...where am I?" Groaned a female voice as the figure pushed itself out of the ice.
Finn was a little startled to see that the figure was a grown women, but what surprised him even more was the color of her skin. The women had the same blue skin tone as both Simon and Betty. Now Finn knew that humans weren't supposed to be blue and he first thought was that the women had a magical item that made her skin blue like Simon and Betty, but as Finn looked at the women he didn't see anything that looked like a magical item on her. The women stumbled to her feet and Finn saw that she had dark navy hair, that was pulled back into a double bun. She was wearing light blue lipstick, circular sunglasses, a dark pink-red button-up shirt, and white pants.
"Um hello there." Greeted Finn trying to be polite.
The women turned to face Finn and a startled look appeared on her face that changed into excitement.
"A survivor! That's great! The war wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be." Said the women.
"Yeah...the war." Said Finn nervously.
"Hey...can you tell me how long the war has been over?" Asked the women.
"Um...it's been over for a thousand years." Said Finn rubbing the back of his head.
"A THOUSAND YEARS! Oh man that's...a lot! I really didn't think this whole plan through!" Screamed the women as she put her hands on the side of her head.
"Yeah...that is a lot of years. My names Finn by the way." Said Finn trying to calm the women down a little.
"I'm...Patience St. Pim." Said the women as she calmed down a little.
"Nice to meet you Patience. I found you down here and freed you." Said Finn.
"Um...thank you it's nice to meet you. You don't seem weirded out by my...um skin condition." Said Patience.
"Well it's not that weird, I've seen other people with odd skin conditions." Said Finn.
"Wait you have? Can you tell me what some of them look like, it's really important." Said Patience as she looked at Finn intensely.
"Um...is there any particular description your looking for?" Asked Finn.
"Well you see I...had these three best friends back before the war and they all had skin conditions. One was an old man with red skin with white hair, a guy that's a little taller then me with light pink skin, black hair, and a mustache, and a really short guy with light green skin. When the war started we were separated." Explained Patience.
"Well I don't know anyone that fits those descriptions, but there's a ton of people in the world, so they...might be out there somewhere." Said Finn trying to assure the women.
"That's great! Let's head out there!" Said Patience as she began to walk forward.
"Hold on Patience, the world's changed a whole lot since you've been frozen." Said Finn.
"I figured that, so the world hasn't been conquer by mole men or aliens has it? That would be pretty bad, though I suppose a world being controlled by evil robots or a dystopia ran by a crazy dictator would be worse." Said Patience as she faced Finn.
"Well it's none of those exactly. I'm going to introduce you to some people and they're a lot different from me." Said Finn as he waved over at the ice wall.
Simon and the others came out and a freaked out expression appeared on Patience face as she saw Simon and Betty.
"Oh my GOD the government made clones of me and now the clones have come to capture me and take me to their cooperate masters, so they can figure out how I work, dissect me, and harvest my DNA! I knew I shouldn't have given blood at that blood drive! Well your not taking me G Men!" Shouted Patience as she raised her hands and they began to spark with energy, before they fired a beam of energy at Simon and Betty.
Simon quickly reacted by firing a blast of energy from his own hands. The beams stuck one another and exploded into a cloud of snowflakes. Everyone started at the snowflakes in shock. Simon turned to face Patience.
"Young lady, I can assure you that I'm no clone created by the government and from what I just saw you do, I take it that your skin color isn't a mere skin condition." Said Simon.
Patience starred at Simon and Betty and removed her sunglasses. The blue women seemed to be studying the crown and tiara and a look of recognition appeared in her eyes.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry about that! I totally didn't see you had those old magical items on. It's been a really long time since I've seen pops creations and I see they finally found some worthy masters." Said Patience with a bow.
"It's ok...and do you mind telling us how you know about our items?" Said Betty.
"Well...I don't know them exactly, per say, a different me knew them." Said Patience.
Everybody starred at Patience in confusion. Jake stood next to Finn and began whispering to him.
"Is it me or does this women seem really nuts to you?" Asked Jake.
"Well...she was frozen for a thousand years and I think there's more to her then meets the eye." Said Finn.
Patience was looking at the individuals and her eyes landed on Phoebe, who was still holding the coffee cup. The blue women walked over to the fiery girl and the two starred at one another.
"You like hot chocolate with a bunch of marshmallows, but sometimes you prefer coffee with cream." Said Patience.
"How...did you know that?" Asked Phoebe slightly flabbergasted that this women knew, what she liked to drink.
"It is you!" Cried Patience as she suddenly grabbed Phoebe and embraced her.
Phoebe was stunned by the embrace at first, but for some strange reason it felt comforting. Patience stopped hugging and stepped back to look at Phoebe.
"I have to say this new life you've taken is very interesting and your made of fire now, which is totally rad by the way!" Said Patience with a grin.
"Thanks." Said Phoebe.
"Ok hold on timeout! Can we sit down and have you explain what's going on? Who exactly are you Patience? You have ice powers and you seem to know a lot of important things." Said Finn.
"Alright I'll explain everything, you freed me, so you have a right to know everything about me. You all better sit down, because I'm about to lay something heavy down." Said Patience.
Everybody sat down as Patience fired a blasting of freezing energy to form a chair for herself to sit down in.
"Ok many many years ago, when this planet was still young and life was just beginning to form on it, four deities saw the potential of the Earth and they wanted to help it along. The gods were Froza the God of Ice, otherwise know as the Frost Father, Solaro the Cosmic Flame. Sugarey the Goddess of Candy and Goo the God of Slime. The four gods met with a wise deity known as the Cosmic Owl and Death himself to discuss how they could help the Earth. A big plan was made to have the gods give Death a small part of their essences to Death, who would change these essence fragments into living beings. These new beings would have some of their godly parents's powers and abilities connected to their souls and they would have the ability to reincarnate as soon as they were dead. And thus the first Elemental Demigods were born. Many eons went by and the four elemental's lived their lives, they would always find their way to one another and being together allowed them to remember their past lives and even gave them visions of the future. Eventual I was born and I was the Ice Elemental at the time before the war. It was a tough life. I was treated as an outcast because of my skin and I was pretty lonely, until one day in the park I bumped into a little green skinned man named George. We both looked one another over and there was this connection. The two of us became friends and we started to hangout in the park. Then one day we encountered an old man with red skin named Ben sitting on a park bench, who we became friends with. As time went by the three of us became close best friends and one day we went to a nearby cafe, where we met a pink skinned man named Eric. We started to hangout with Eric and as we spent time with Eric the memories of our past lives came back and we all realized we had special powers. It was incredibly! We began to understand that we were important and that perhaps there was a bigger plan for use and that we weren't outcast. Things were going good for us, until one day at the cafe we had a terrible vision that told us that something big and bad was going to happen and it was going to change everything. I still remember the vision we all saw. It was of a creepy dead creature with curved horns. We didn't know what it was, but we all sensed it was evil and it simply desired to kill everything, including us. The others believed that we were destined to die, but I on the other hand was doubtful. I believed that the vision was a sign that was simply warning us and that we could save ourselves using my powers, so that we could survive. The others said I was in denial and to simply accept fate and get reincarnated. This was the first time I ever got angry with my friends and we argued. Days went by and there seemed to be a growing tension around the whole world. I eventual made peace with my friends as I desperately tried to convince them that we didn't have to die. Then the world started to fall apart with war and I managed to freeze myself and hope that my friends would survive and that I would see them again." Said Patience.
"So your saying...that I'm the reincarnation of the Fire Elemental?" Asked Phoebe.
"Yep you are and you were an old dude in your last life." Said Patience.
"That's totally...weird." Said Phoebe as she tried to picture herself as an old man.
"Well if it makes you feel any better...I was a one armed women in my last life." Said Finn.
"Really?" Asked Phoebe.
"Really." Said Finn.
"Are...you some kind of Elemental?" Asked Patience.
"No...though I did find out recently that my biological mother is the Goddess of Adventure." Said Finn.
"Whoa! Right on!" Said Patience.
"I know we just met...and you told us some real crazy stuff, but I believe everything you told us to be true." Said Phoebe.
"That's great! You were always the wise trusting one in our little group and those traits still show. Now let's find the Candy and Slime Elemental and get the band back together!" Declared Patience.
With the help of the others Patience was taken out of the chamber and shown the Ice Kingdom. Patience liked the Ice Kingdom and decided that she was going to live there. Finn thought about who the other two Elementals could be and he decided to make some calls to Bubblegum and Slime Princess asking them to go to a little coffee shop in the Candy Kingdom and both girls agreed. A few hours later Bubblegum, Slime Princess, Phoebe, and Patience were sitting around a table outside a coffee shop. Introductions were made and a waiter came to the table. Bubblegum and Slime Princess were fixing to order, but Patience stopped them and said she would order for them.
"My pink friend would like a coffee with lots of sugar and Slime Princess would like a coffee with a lot of cream. I'll take an ice tea and my fiery friend would like a hot chocolate."
The waiter nodded and went off to get the orders. Bubblegum and Slime Princess starred at Patience slightly stunned that she knew exactly what they wanted.
"Ok...Patience, how exactly did you know what we wanted?" Asked Bubblegum.
"Well your reaction, just confirmed who you are, so I'll tell you. You see your reincarnations of the Elementals of Candy and Slime and I knew your past lives and they got the same drinks you like." Said Patience.
"We're what?" Asked Slime Princess.
"Elementals and you got some wicked awesome powers." Said Patience.
"Your saying...that the two of us have powers? I think your mistaken." Said Bubblegum.
"I know it sounds crazy, but hear her out." Said Phoebe.
"Why don't I see if I can get you to use your powers. Let me see your hands." Said Patience.
"Alright." Said Bubblegum as she and Slime Princess handed Patience their hands.
Patience took the others's hands and she raised them up into the air and gave a light squeeze. At first nothing happened and then a stream of slime blasted out of Slime Princess's hand and a stream of jellybeans burst from Bubblegum's hands. Phoebe starred at the display in awe, Slime Princess let out a wild cry of excitement as she took her hand away from Patience and fired a last of slime into the air, and Bubblegum took her hand away from Patience and starred at it perplexed. Patience smiled and fired a beam of ice into the air.
"You see I told you, you had powers! The two of you are Elementals and I'm the Ice Elemental." Said Patience.
Patience then went about telling her story about the Elementals, but when she got near the end her eyes started to water a little.
"They chose to stay, they chose to stay and die instead of coming with me, they were my first and only friends and they chose to die. Do you know how that makes me feel?! I was alone, I saw the explosion occur, the cafe we always went to blew up with them in it, so I froze myself, and hoped that I could find them again, and I did, all of you." Said Patience as she wiped her eyes and looked at the others.
"Well I'm glad you found us, we might not be the friends you remember and we might not quit remember our past with you, but I want us to be friends." Said Phoebe.
"You were always so kind and wise, I'm glad those traits are still with you." Said Patience with a smile.
"I like you and I want to friends with you to." Said Slime Princess.
"As do I." Said Bubblegum.
"Thank you all." Said Patience.
After a few hours of hanging out the group went their separate ways. Patience went to the Ice Kingdom, went to the palace, and was shown to a room by Betty.
"Thanks again for letting me stay and live here." Said Patience.
"It's no problem at all Patience. Our home is your home and if you ever need to talk to me about anything, just let me know. I know what it's like to go through a big transition, so I can understand what your going through. I just want you to know that there's a lot of good and wonderful people in this world and no one will judge you on your looks or abilities. Think of this as a fresh start." Said Betty.
"Thanks...Betty. I really appreciate it." Said Patience with a smile.
"Your welcome Patience." Said Betty before she walked away.
Patience went into her room feeling incredibly happy. This was the first time she felt like she belonged somewhere and it wasn't just a little group of friends. Now Patience felt like she belonged in the world itself. The Elemental smiled at the thought. Patience had a feeling she was going to really like her new home and life.
To be continued.
