Hello readers! I just wanted to inform y'all or rather warn everyone that I'm not the best of writers and this is my first time. So, I hope you expect it if you conclude the story is not good enough. Thank you!
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"Wh-What is that?" Someone managed to mutter as they all stared at the mighty structure of... Flaming Ice?! The ice and the roaring flames both had hues of blue and white making the dark silhouette of a young figure in the center visible. It was in a standing posture with his hands stretched out and his messy hair looked like they were winded upwards (blown upwards by wind).
'Whoever that was, why was it there and why?' was the question on everyone's mind.
The flames had completely disintegrated the few that tried inspecting causing no one to dare take a step further after that. Towards the front of the mass crowd stood a little girl of 11 years who stood rigid with fear and cupped her mouth with her two hands in angst. A little tear droplet flowed down her cheek as her face frowned in pain. Though she didn't know that person or hadn't experience any similar situation before, she was scared and she wanted him/her out of there for some reason. No, it wasn't out of pity, it was out of something else... Fondness? Whatever the reason, she felt she had to do something.
More heroes shot MAGIC at the ice and yet nothing happened. All forms of magic targeted at the structure did nothing to the flames nor the ice causing people to panick even more.
'What would happen if this thing is left here? Does it change or grow? Would it just disappear? Would it crack open?' many people were too worried about the possible effects, it took them a moment to figure out a pink haired girl flying through the air towards the ice with a whirlwind of fire around her waist down to her feet covering her legs with a whirling motion and blitzing her higher through the air.
"Khloe!!" Another girl of 15 years who was part of the heroes cried out but Khloe paid her no heed.
Khloe stopped not too far from the ice. A distance which ashed many heroes yet she flew towards the ice and as it became hotter, the only resisting force was the increasing wind pressure. As she arrived still floating in the air, she stretched her arms towards the figure and touched the ice surface with her fingertips. Briskly, there was a reaction from inside. She let out a smile of hope and this time placed her palms on the surface of the ice. The fire touched her but it didn't burn and it was almost like she had some tolerance to it.
She tried her best to concentrate and focus until she heard something crack which was loud enough to leave everyone silent. Unfortunately, she couldn't get another crack and let an aching feeling consume her heart. Why was she so worried? Crying wasn't her thing but, to cry for someone she didn't even know...
"Wake up, please," she helplessly whispered to the figure in the ice.
Immediately her words came out, the figure's eyes startlingly went open but they were glowing WHITE. Khloe was taken aback in shock but she was overjoyed by this occurrence.
"Please, break free," were her words before the flames slowly dispersed leaving the ice to crack in multiple places. Though everyone wondered what was going on up there, this had explained the situation- the ice was cracking open. No one had to tell the crowd to expand before the structure cracked open and fell apart but Khloe was at a disadvantage...
The ice had cracked open and the floated in the air. Everything moved at slow motion for a moment but Khloe sighted an ice. No, it was more than ice… their texture.
'Weird. Are they supposed to glow?' Khloe thought.
Immediately, Khloe heard a buzz causing her eyes to widen as her observed 'ice' shot a ray of light towards another which in turn shit to another once again. As she still floated with the whirling flames which took a lot of Rune Energy, she retracted as the ice turned crystals shot light from each other while they refracted the light between themselves but the refraction got closer to the crystals around her then she realized she was surrounded by crystals. Her eyes widened in realization and she subconsciously turned to the figure who now pointed it's right index finger towards her with his glowing white eyes.
"Help, please… don't," she weakly muttered.
The figure's movement slowed down and suddenly a dark energy that layered over his actual body dispersed leaving him to fall to his death. Without hesitation, Khloe flew towards him well aware of her weakening energy. Deciding to end this quickly, she grabbed him by the arm and flew towards a safe spot for landing. She hadn't gone far when her whirling flames dispersed.
"Crap," Khloe said in disappointment.
As everyone watched the scene from below, the girl who had earlier called out Khloe's name knew fully well that Khloe was at her limit causing her to release her weapon, take a stance and boost herself so fast and far in the air. Meanwhile, as Khloe tried to start something to help her land, she suddenly felt dragged upwards but the force and jolt of the unforeseen change in direction lead her to free her grip on the boy's arm. She looked up to the older female now holding her wrist.
"Zoe, the boy!" She yelled causing Zoe to look down and notice the absence of the boy Khloe previously held.
Letting go of Khloe's arm, she gathered Rune Energy at her feet and blitzed applying more speed to her body and reduce the air resistance to further increase her speed. Luckily, they were really high in the air so, it'd take a moment for someone to fall to his death.
Soon, she arrived where he was and pulled him close to her. Using her left hand to hold him near her, she gathered rune energy at her right palm and faced it towards the ground. As they reached a distance from the ground, Zoe proceeded to create a massive shockwave with her right palm causing them to fly back high into the air. As she was boosted back up, she turned and faced the sky when she noticed Khloe was falling down also.
'Damn. I have to use that,' she thought.
Then, she pricked her thumb with her sharp claw-like nails causing to blood trickling out, what's more, she placed her palm on the air once again but this time it formed a diamond shaped Rune Diagram.
"Summoning Style: Dark Phoenix," she muttered causing a dark shadow to flow out of the other end of the rune diagram.
The shadow shot towards her after the Rune Diagram dispersed and engulfed both her and the boy leading it to take the shape of a huge bird and then flew at a great speed towards Khloe and overwhelming her as well. The shadow creature proceeded to fly away somewhere safe and private as landing in front of an observing crowd didn't seem like the best of ideas.
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Zoe crashed back hitting her spine on the huge stem of a tree then sliding down resulting in a sitting posture with the tree stem as a backrest. After regaining her energy, she shot a glare at Khloe who winced a little.
"First, you use the Fire Tail when I strictly warned you not to and then you completely ignore my call when you flew up there," Zoe started, getting straight to the point.
"S-Sorry. I just felt I had to save him, somehow," Khloe stuttered.
"Second, how did you cause him to break the ice thingy," Zoe replied confused.
"I don't know, it felt like he was listening to what I said and I could feel it," Khloe answered.
'Listening? She did make him break it after all.' Zoe thought before glancing over at the boy but she stopped and stared.
Khloe looked up to Zoe since she wasn't saying anything but found her staring at the boy. She traced her eyes to him and also stared in shock. His eyes were open, his mouth were slightly parted but he remained in the position he was before– lying horizontally in between Khloe and Zoe. Khloe moved closer to him and watched as a drop of tear fell from his eyes towards his ears but was followed by something she didn't expect…
Khloe made two signs with her hands and slammed her palms on the ground beside him. Immediately, a Rune Diagram was formed under him.
"Sealing Style: Tai Seal," she muttered.
He's body had started to crack but the crack was blue and the leaking Rune Energy could be sensed. She had immediately performed Sealing Arts to prevent further loss of Rune Energy which could consequently lead to his death.
"I wouldn't let you die," Khloe whispered.
"Thank you,"
She paused for a moment.
'Did I just hear him speak? He said something.'
Eventually, she assumed that it was her imagination, dismissed the thought and turned to Zoe after she was done with Sealing his body. Tai Seal is a special rune technique that manipulates the rune energy in a person hardening the energy and freezing all activities inside that person.
Zoe just stared at her in awe as Khloe's reaction time, knowledge and ability were that of a prodigy's. Zoe smiled and stood up.
"C'mon let's go home," Zoe said.
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I opened my eyes gently to the warm call of the light that surrounded. I tried to move a bit, sat up and then stood up. I was basically in an empty white room but my chest hurts and I feel… SOUR.
"Hello!" I called out after observing and taking a few steps.
"Welcome…" a female voice said
It certainly didn't sound robotic or anything. I parted my lips to speak but before I could utter a single word, I got pull into something with a mighty force. It felt like I was pulled through a blackhole tunnel with a light at the end getting closer…
I opened my eyes gently to the war– wait, what? This time, I was greeted by a face that looked over me. I quickly sat up and crawled away from the person who now squatted a meter away from me.
"Who… are you?" I asked nervously.
"Well that isn't important, is it?" The young person asked.
"Yes, Yes it is! I get pulled in here by Freyr knows what and I don't remember anything heck, I don't even remember my name and this image of a pink haired girl keeps popping up in my head. Then, I'm here in the middle of nowhere…" I helplessly said.
"You're confused. You just want to know where you came from and where you'll go next," the man replied.
"Yes, at this point, anyone would be," I stated.
"You're being born," he stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What?" I curiously asked.
"Put simply… YOU NEVER EXISTED,"
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Hello! First chapter ✌️... Awful, right? Anyway, thanks for reading to the end. I really appreciate it... I wanna finish this story... Y'know, to learn from mistakes and all so I'm going on with it! Yay!