Sheepowolf

Part 2 "The Ice Age"

The lion took the artifact of the cold and endowed him with dark power, and threw it through the mirror next to the college where Sheepa studied. At that moment, when the portal closed, the artifact manifested dark power and a giant deer appeared, consisting entirely of ice and snow, it immediately began to spread cold and greatly lowered the temperature. Anthropomorphic animals that were on the street immediately froze and froze in ice blocks. There is only ice all over the village. On the mountains in the temple of Japanese macaques, Furgan's disciple said:
- Master, is the young girl you've chosen sure she can handle it?
- I don't doubt it at all - Furgan said confidently.
Sheepa woke up in the morning and immediately shrank from the intense cold. She had no idea why it was so cold, because it was spring. Looking out the window, she saw snow and ice everywhere. She screamed:
- What? Why is there ice everywhere?
- What's wrong, mistress? - Yin asked with a yawn.
- It looks like the spirit of the cold has broken free and he is furious! - Yang said in a frightened voice.
- Oh, Yang, it's so sad and scary, and dramatic! - Yin said dramatically, grabbing Yang by the shoulders and shaking him.
- So, don't panic, we need to stop this somehow, - said Sheepa, - But if I go out without warm clothes, I will turn into an ice statue....
- Do you need clothes? A fur coat and a hat? Not another word! - Yang said and created a very warm jacket and hat for Sheepa, as well as boots and gloves.
- Well, that's great, Yang... Are you taking her to the Himalayas? - Yin asked her friend.
- Unlike you, I'm trying to save the situation! - Yang said.
- Quiet! Don't quarrel! We must act! - Sheepa said.
Looking at the floor, walls and window, she noticed that they began to freeze, and the door was frozen solid. Sheepa tried to break it down, but nothing worked. Yin pulled ahead of Sheepa and said:
- Come on, step aside. I'll do it now.
Yin immediately touched the door and it collapsed, it was just Yin using the still weak power of her ability.
- Please - Yin said.
Yang stopped Sheepa before going outside and asked:
- How can you run on ice without skates? Do you even know how to skate?
- I can do it a little. And what? - Sheepa said.
Yang did not answer and created skates on his feet instead of sneakers. Yin gently pushed Sheepa forward with the words:
- Come on, be brave. Go ahead!
Sheepa, having traveled a distance of two steps, fell. Yin and Yang weakly slapped their foreheads with the palm of their hand. Shippa immediately got to her feet and tried to stay on her feet. It's very slippery. You need to get used to the ice and remember how to skate. Finally, the girl was able to control her legs and was able to skate. She ran to the source of the infection. Yin shouted to Shippa:
- It seems to us there. Follow me!
They went to the very epicenter of the freeze. Shippa was already bent in two halves from the cold. My ears were shaking and covered with snowflakes. The glasses were completely frozen, I had to wipe them from time to time. Suddenly, a giant deer appeared before their eyes, the artifact of which was now on its fur neck. Noticing the Sheepa, he allowed the Nightmare to see who was now the bearer of the Yin Yang artifact. The lion said to himself in surprise:
- Is this little girl the new owner of the Yin Yang artifact?.. For the first time I see that the talisman was given to a young unreasonable lady.... Nonsense! Only those who have traveled a long and dangerous path deserve an artifact, I'm afraid, Master Furgan, you made the wrong choice of an ally....
After the Nightmare told the spirit controlled by him:
- What are you waiting for, Frost? Attack her and take the artifact away from her!
The ice deer began to breathe icy breath on Sheepa, which caused a strong snowstorm in her direction, the girl could run away to the nearest tree and hide behind it, the deer lost her. Yin said:
- I dare say that this is all a matter of Dream paws...
- Who?  Sheepa asked.
- It's a long story....- Yin said.
Sheepa said:
- We urgently need to figure out what to do ... Hmm....
The girl looked at the deer's neck and said:
- Of course, the artifact is on his neck, but we need to get to it somehow. I have a plan.
Yin and Yang began to listen to her attentively. Sheepa began to explain the plan:
- Yang will create heat and, together with Yin, will distract the giant deer, and I will try to take the artifact away from him when he weakens.
The spirits nodded, Yang created a kettle with very hot water, he and Yin ate it by holding a cold handle. Yin said:
- Couldn't you have created something more ridiculous?
- My gift is to create what the owner asks for for good purposes - said Yang.
Sheepa said:
- It's time to act. Go ahead!
Yin said, flying next to Yang, in front of the deer's nose:
- Catch us if you can, icicle!
They poured hot water from the kettle on him along the way. The deer gradually began to melt and weaken from this, it became smaller and smaller. When he became less harmless, and the icy breath from the snowstorm began to subside, the deer fell exhausted in a small state, at that moment Sheepa run up to him on skates, took him gently in her arms, and removed the evil-stricken artifact from his neck. The girl threw the artifact to Yang and Yin and they banished the evil from the artifact. The artifact itself was a medium-sized brooch in the form of a snowflake. The deer has become normal, small in size, you can say the height of a domestic cat. The deer looked around and at first was afraid of Sheepa, but she calmed him down.
Meanwhile, the Nightmare said something in its lair that Sheepa would not hear:
- Well, you did it. But believe me, you have yet to meet the strongest spirit!
Yin and Yang began to restore and destroy everything that was not there. Soon the town and village began to bloom again in spring glory.
The deer lowered its ears sadly, feeling guilty, but Sheepa said:
- It's okay, baby, it's not your fault. It was all arranged by a Nightmare...
Sheepa asked those two:
- And what should I do now?
- Now it's time for you to meet the keeper of the artifacts and return the loss to him - Yang said.
They went home first, and then to the mountains. The girl beat the gong, an old man opened it for her. She said:
- Good afternoon...
Yin said happily:
- Master Furgan, we have found the first artifact. An artifact of the cold.
Sheepa handed Furgan the artifact of the cold, who gladly took it and, nodding at the same time with a kind smile, the old man said:
- Thank you, young lady. But remember, you still have to go through the real trials. Let me give you something as a gift.
The old man went inside the temple, hiding in the darkness and returned a couple of minutes later, holding something like a notebook in his hand. He handed it to Sheepa and said:
- This is so that you can learn everything about the spirits, about their abilities and habits.
The girl was flipping through the pages of a notebook with Japanese paintings and pictures of perfumes. The girl thanked Furgan for the gift. They both bowed to each other, clasping their palms together. Soon, Sheepa was home. She was flipping through a notebook, reading it. She asked Yin and Yang:
- So why did the spirit of dreams become the spirit of the apocalypse?
- All because when Master Furgan was still young, he entrusted this artifact, as he thought, to the best of his students. That student was smart and strong, but very angry and proud. When he staged a riot and grabbed a box of artifacts, we weren't there in that box, he threw them all into the river, and especially he threw his dream artifact, which he regretted. He was exiled, and the Dream itself, as it seems to me, suffered a lot of abuse and lack of freedom of speech, became angry when he felt free. And if the spirits suddenly find themselves free with artifacts and without a master, they will remember how powerful and dangerous they are and destroy the entire planet - Yin said.
  Sheepa was shocked and horrified. But she was distracted by her aunt's voice. The girl run downstairs to have dinner, at the same time she would bring something delicious to her friends. Tao eavesdropped on Sheepa's conversation with the spirits and thought at first that she was crazy, but then he quietly maliciously told himself:
- I'm going to find out your secret anyway, cousin....

To be continued...