Cold Strike 2

Chapter 10 - 37: Hero of Embria

Grey: "Fuse?"

Winter: "Maybe I should've been more clear. When I was in Furia, I heard a certain someone mention about a fuse going into the portal chamber, and I wanna take it. The problem is, I don't know who has it or where it's even located. Scorch or one of his idiot friends could be holding onto it. Or it might already be in the portal chamber."

Grey: "Oh! I can answer that question for you. It's not in the portal chamber and none of them are holding it. The only person who's holding onto the fuse is a guy dressed in a Blue Shirt."

Winter: "Cool, Where do I find him?"

Grey: "I...don't know where he is."

The Princess began to create an Ice Blast of her own from the palm of her hand. Blue Light began to shine as a result, and Grey sensed that this was dangerous.

Grey: "No, wait! I swear! I really don't know! He could be anywhere by now! They never told me what room he's in or where he stays!"

Winter: "That doesn't sound honest to me."

Grey: "I'm telling the truth! If I was lying, I would've said I know where he is! But I don't!!"

Winter: "But I'm sure you know about the displacement of peasants!"

Grey: "No, Please!! Don't kill me!! I'm just a tour guy!! I don't get involved in that kind of thing."

Winter: "Well maybe you should have."

Winter aims a fully charged Ice Blast toward Grey, And he begins to plead for his life. Black Ice then stepped in to stop her.

Black Ice: "Winter, That's enough!"

Winter: "Geez, I wasn't gonna kill him. I wanted to mess with him..."

She sighed and deactivated her attack, placing her hand on the side. Grey removed his arm away from his face.

Grey: "I-I can go free, right?"

Winter: "Sure, I guess...But tell anyone that we're here, and my friend won't be here to save you this time. Got it?"

Grey: "Y-Yes! Understood!"

Winter: "Get out of here."

Grey got up on his feet and started sprinting really fast. As he was leaving, Winter turned to tell Derek and Black Ice what she wanted the two to do.

Winter: "I need you two to find the guy in the Blue Shirt. Start by searching this whole place. If he's not there, search in those rich noble neighborhoods."

The Princess turned and tapped into her band to set the location of the armory.

Derek the Advisor: "What're you gonna do?"

Winter: "Isn't it obvious, My Number One Advisor? I'm heading to the armory so I can steal their weapons. Then the Revolution can truly start."

She aims her wrist forward and opens up the portal to the armory location. Before going in, She looked back at both of them and said, "When this is done, we'll meet up behind the portal chamber entrance. I hope you got the fuse by then."

Black Ice: "We will. Do what you have to, But don't kill any soldiers. You don't need any more heat than you already got."

Winter: "Can't make no promises on that."

After saying that, Winter jumped into the portal and it closed shut.

Location: The Embrian Castle - The Portal Chamber

Commander Storm: "What's taking Grey so long? She should've been back with the camera by her."

Scorch was leaning up against the wall with his eyes closed and his arms folded over his chest. His nose twitched a bit, and his eyes were suddenly opened wide.

He moved his back away from the wall and warned the others that, "She's here!"

Alden looked at him and asked, "Who's here?! Winter!!"

Scorch: "Yes! No-wait! She's gone! She was just here a second ago! Now she's gone!"

Commander Storm: "She might still be here, But where exactly?"

As he asked that question, Grey entered the room.

Jasper: "Grey, You're back."

Grey: "Y-Yep! I'm back...unfortunately I couldn't bring the camera..."

Scorch, Sapphira, Storm, Alden, Audra, and Jasper noticed how strange Grey was acting.

Commander Storm: "I thought you said it'll be quick and swift."

Grey: "You're right, It was but...I got caught up."

Prince Audra: "In what exactly?"

Grey: "I dunno...stuff?"

Sapphira: "Doesn't sound convincing to me."

Grey: "It's true! I was caught up in so much stuff that I wasn't able to get the camera. People were coming to ask me favors and whatnot."

This didn't seem to make sense to Alden, and he called him out on it, asking why couldn't he just decline those favors. Grey responded, saying that he couldn't just say no to him and those people seemed desperate.

This almost sounded convincing until Scorch decided to ask, "Then why did I smell Winter's Scent?"

Grey had trouble answering this question, But eventually he thought of what to say.

Grey: "No way...You must've smelled something else, or it could be false."

Scorch: "My Scent Tracker is never false. If I can smell Winter's presence here, I can definitely say that she's here. Well...She was here, Until she vanished. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"