Melting Ice (genshin fanfic)

02- Freedom

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It was a really tiresome day, the outlander took a chance to quikly warm up before heading further up the mountain. He was almost finishing his comission and felt really down, whenever it was because the sheer cold he felt or the annoying comanion he kept by his side, he didn't know.

The Traveler finally made his way to the peak, he felt blessed to be able to survive this far. No wonder no one wanted to come here. "So cold.." the fairy shivered, looking around. "What's that wierd looking pillar? Maybe it has something to do with the shards from before"

The floating girl followed the Traveler as he traversed his way to break the shards scattered on the broken pieces of the pillar, making sure to avoid getting hit by monsters. As the best guide in all of Teyvat she had already mastered the arts of dissapearing in case of danger.

That trait of her was probably the thing that was keeping her comoanion from sewing her mouth shut. He could at least enjoy the screams of his enemies in piece, witthout the squealing voice of the creature that hunted his dreams.

The last shard was broken, a rumble was heard as the floating pieces of the structure reconnected in its original form, flying back up into the air. "Look, treasure!" Paimon flew the fastest she could at the sight of many chests, almost starting to drool just imagining the amount of thinks she could get from it.

"I've never seen so many in one place..guess the adventure payed off after all" the blonde smiled, if you could even consider his expression that, the exhaustion he felt was a bit too much for him and having his skin almost frozen by the cold wasn't helping. "Let's report back and quickly get out of here!"

The fairy hungrily opened the chests along with the traveller, not leaving a single thing behind. A selfish act if you ask me, but the pair had it tough for them in this jorney, could you really blame them. The duo was so blinded by the treasure and the feeling of normal tempretures that they ignored the domain the had just uncovered.

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It felt like eternity has passed, maybe even more. The girl had lost all concept of time yet the yearning for escaping that place never left her mind. The gods had betrayed her, they left her people to die, to suffer while she could do nothing but helplessly pray and try to free herself.

The girl got up, her legs almost unable to sustain her body weight. The cold had taken over her body a long time ago, how did she survive? No one knows, maybe the gods wanted her to suffer more, to be a reminder to the people that lived in there once.

She doesn't remember how she looks like and she's certain she's not that happy little girl anymore. Maybe her soul remains the same but she must look like a monster. After all, the gods have cursed her with this infinite, immortal life.

She stepped closer to the huge doors of the domain, somehow it felt like they were calling for her. The girl touched them gently, pusshing them slightly. It was an attempt of freedom she doupt to achieve, even if every effort was better than none.

Surprisingly for the girl, the door opened with her touch. She opened it wider, looking at her long lost home. "this.." she didn't know what to feel, she snow covered ground, the freezing cold, the ruins and that same sky that missed Celestia.

Stepping out felt like a blessing, maybe the gods didn't hate her after all. A cold breeze swang with the wind, a normal person would have shivered from it but that monster was already unable to sense tempretures.

It felt so empty, as the girl walked down the mountain, emptiness filled her heart. Until, she spotted something, something she didn't remember from back home "what are those..monsters?" the girl asked, curiosity taking the better of her.

She ran down in the direction of the big camp those monster were at, hidding behind a tree and observing. Their fur looked perfect for sustaining the cold of the mountain although she couldn't understand why they had masks on.

The girl got closer, trying to see if they were friendly or not. At such befitting time too, let me show you how much of a monster she is. Getting their attention was probably a bad idea, seeing a beast twice your size lift up his weapon was a shock for such a physically fragile girl.

At that moment it felt like everything had stoped, her legs couldn't move, all she could do was close her eyes in fear, raising her hands as a protection mechanism. She knew the blow was coming and it was going to be stong.

Wait

Of course it's not comming

Why would I kill her on the second chapter.

Plus, don't you wanna see her skills?

After a few seconds of rapid heartbeat, that honestly felt like minutes, she opened her eyes. The monster in front of her was frozen but so was the skin that came in contact with his axe. The girl panicked for a second, walking backwards to look at the skin on her arm.

It looked normal again, this felt really confusing. How did it unfreeze in a second, and how did the monster freeze. After walking around the beast to check it's condition, she determined it was completely frozen. "what if I..?" the girl mumbles, looking to her intrusive thoughts and touching the rock hard ice of the creature.

Her eyes widended slowly, her mouth agape as the creature desintegrated into small pieces of ice on the ground. Did she really freeze a creature from the inside out, in only an indirect touch. "no! This isn't true, it can't be..!" she decided to put it to the test.

Touching a tree should suffice, she was probably just imagining it there's no way she can actually freeze things. "oh.." she blinked for a few seconds, watching the tip of her fingers reconstruct the whole tree with ice. This was all to hard to process for her.

The girl let go of the tree, leaving it irrevertably frozen. She looked over, there was a lake there she was so focused on the beast she didn't even realize the crystalline water it had. A small smile formed on her lips as she aproached the big pond. She sat down, luckly for her the ground didnt freeze.

Leaning over to see the gleaming water, she saw the reflection of herself on it. Her eyes were now a deep shade of blue and her hair was as white as the snow on the ground. More noticeable than that, parts of the skin on her face was like small flakes of ice oeaking out. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before she took notice of another factor.

Small snowflakes started to be created from the water, soon turning it into one big block of ice. Unlike before, the whole surface of the water wasn't frozen but rather the part closest to her.Trying again, she leaned to the right, trying to enjoy the clearness of the liquid, once more, freezing accoured.

She shut her eyes tightly, gripping her hands into fists, the gods really hater her, to do such foolish things with her and the kindom she was part of. The girl sighs, opening her eyes again. "it's not worth it..they're not coming back even if I prayed.." the girl glances at the water, the snowflake didn't continue to spread, at least it didn't seem like it.

The girl instinctively reached out to try and touch it, but before she could she heard a voice. It sounded human, wich meant she wasn't alone in the mountain, maybe it was someone from her home. She turned to look back, it was a young man standing there, far from her. He called, worried about something she couldn't understand.

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A/N

Thank you so much for reading this, I hope you enjoyed