Frozen Heart

Chapter 33: Stuck

The snowstorm picked up really quickly and you two made it just in time, you looked out of the window and watched the snow cover the whole road, even Signoras doorstep. She removed her cape and put it aside sitting down on her sofa,

"A typical day in Snezhnaya, eh?" she looked over to you, smirking. You were a little worried though,

"You seem to be not bothered, this will slow down our mission, you know that right?" you walked over to her and sat down opposite to her. She shrugged,

"I've already contacted my unit, they'll proceed when the snowstorm is over"

You scratched your head, a little unsure of her statement. She raised an eyebrow,

"Are you doubting my skills as a leader?"

Her question baffled you,

"What? No! I never said that! I want to be sure of our current situation. This snowstorm won't dissappear any time soon"

"You're right, but we'll have to wait now." she answered and looked outside the window, watching each snowflake find a place on the road. You two sat there awkwardly, she let out a quiet deep breath,

"Our plans for Sumeru are done so far. Why don't we train?" she asked.

You looked around her home, it was pretty big, but it had a bunch of expensive stuff all over the place. She chuckled,

"Of course we're not going to train here." she stood up and walked behind her staircase, opening some kind of hidden door. You followed her down, as you arrived in the basement, you were baffled, leaving your mouth wide open. Signora looked over to you and smiled,

"It's not that shocking, really" she closed your mouth and walked into the middle of the big room. The basement had different kinds of materials for training you physically, with your vision and delusion. You walked into the middle of the room and readied yourself,

"Y/N, remember what I told you." she said to you in a stern tone. You nodded, that was a sign for her to attack.

Signora summoned ice spikes right under and behind you. You blocked them with an ice-scythe, jumping up and launching yourself at her. She threw an ice-spear at you with little ice-bombs attached to it, you threw your scythe at it and let it break with the bombs. You summoned an ice-sword and landed right next to Signora, going right after her eye, she turned around and kicked you across the room, you caught yourself by stabbing the floor with your sword, right before crashing into the wall. She snapped her fingers and summoned a cold mist into your direction, you pushed your sword further into the ground and summoned multiple ice-shards coming from the floor, going towards Signora. Her eye widened and she barely dodged them, her leg was injured and bled. You wanted to stop, but she raised her hand,

"Proceed."

"Wh-what?" you stood up and dissolved your sword.

"You heard me, go on. Don't give your enemy a chance to rest."

Signora summoned an icy whip and whipped into your direction with it, the end of the whip had thorn like motifs and they looked very sharp, only one touch would be able to cut your skin. She missed you by an inch and she pulled back quickly, repeating the patterns multiple times.

'How's she so fast with that long whip?!'

You felt your movements get slower, feeling the whip scrape past your body, soon, it fully hit you. Your back was hit and it started to bleed, you groaned in pain and kneeled down. Signora retrieved her whip and stopped now, she wanted to move to you but her leg was hurting. You shook your head and stopped the bleeding by closing up the wounds with your cryo powers. You summoned your sword again and picked up speed, attacking Signora head on, she was startled by your fast movements and couldn't calculate what was happening. You looked her in the eye as you passed your sword right next to her head,

"I am..very sorry" you apologised and let go of your sword. She raised an eyebrow and held you up,

"For wh..-" she looked down at her leg, which already formed a small pool of blood. "Right."
Signora and you helped eachother to get out of the basement. She led you to the guest room and sat you down on the bed, getting the usual materials for your wounds.

"Let me treat yours first, please"

She stared at you for a few seconds, admitting defeat and sitting down next to you. You got the needed supplies out and started to treat her wound, it wasn't a very deep cut, but deep enough to cause such bad bleeding. Without realising, you moved her dress up a little to get to the rest of the wound better, her body suddenly heated up and you panicked, thinking you might have done something wrong.

"Did I hurt you?! I-" you looked up, only to see her be all flustered and embarrassed. You scrunched your eyebrows and were a little confused, she moved the dress and you just understood. You kept your mouth shut and just proceeded to treat her wound, closing it up with bandages.

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"For your body being only pure lava, your blood was not that hot.." she said and stood up, sitting back down next to you.

You looked at your leg and were also surprised that she didn't burn herself by touching your blood.

"This doesn't matter anyways, turn around now." you commanded her. Y/N turned her back to you. You removed your gloves, not wanting to ruin them and put them aside.

"Tell me if anything hurts."

She nodded and you started to treat her wound, beginning by removing her clothing from the back, then cleaning the wound right after. It looked worse than yours and you felt bad, why must you always hurt her? You carefully put some ointment on the wound and made sure it was spread evenly, you took your time and felt her scars, they felt old and different. They weren't scars from anything human or animal-like, they felt God-like, as if a God was eating her from the inside.

"Signora..?" she turned her head to you, looking a little concerned. Staring at her scars made her feel insecure and uncomfortable. You removed your mask and slowly took her in for a hug, resting your face on her shoulder,

"Has anyone ever told you how pretty you are?" you asked her, remembering the compliment she gave you a while ago. You felt her heart beat faster and you smiled, burying your face in her neck.