When Disaster Stikes! By AceArtStudios

No. III

Snow falls asleep after a long day of running about town with Sarea. Waking up the next morning.. Or at least he thought he was awake. He found himself surrounded in a sphere of ice, the walls just thin enough to see through but to strong to break. Snow punches and scratches desperately at his spherical cage. Snow felt so isolated, so trapped, so dead.. The ice wall suddenly shattered and a small sapphire is revealed, encapsulated in ice spikes that looked to have veins of water flowing through them. Snow tries to break the sapphire free in curiosity, his glove getting colder and colder every passing second. Eventually the sapphire breaks free and Snow inspects it more, he wanted to talk but his voice felt frozen in place. As if a giant lump of cold air would escape his throat. Snow stared at the sapphire before looking up and seeing something stare down at him. A shadow like figure. He woke up after a few moments of being stared at, his arms and hands feeling frozen solid and full of cramp.

Snow found himself laid on a roof, starring up at the sky. Snow sat up and looked around, rubbing his cramped hands through his boxing gloves. He yawned at the morning sky "Ahhhh god." he spoke while yawning, his arms stretching to each side of himself. He stood up and looked down from the roof to see the beach again, it looked much larger and it still looked like the water was slowly running away. Snow jumps down and walks toward the beach, stepping into the water "The hell is going on here..." Snow spoke curiously. His eyes watching the waves slowly retreat. After watching the waves he looks to either side of him, he starts to swim in the water and by swim I mean floating on the surface and hoping he won't drown. With every second he could feel himself get dragged out into the sea, eventually being dragged under the water and into a pipe, Snow saw various fish get dragged ahead of him. Snow tried not to panic but he was running out of breath.

5 seconds, he swam with the current. 4 seconds, he got trapped on some barbed wire that happen to wrap around his foot. 3 seconds, he untangled himself and kept with the current. 2 seconds, he sees the end of the pipe. 1 second, snow gets out the water just before he was about to pass out. After coughing for a few moments he looks around "Woah..." Snow see's a large underwater dome made of ice. With veins of water running through the ice, as if it was blood supplying oxygen to the heart. "Y'know what..." Snow spoke quietly before almost shouting "This place ain't bad for being underwater!" Snow laughed and walked forward. Minding his step since the floor was coated in jagged spikes of a deep frozen blue ice that looked covered in permafrost. The air is chilled like ice cubes in a glass of water. Snow gets to a stable and non spiked platform.. across from it there was a large fractal crystal structure with a very blue gem in the middle of it.