Radioactive Water (Louis Tomlinson) BOOK 2

Chapter 17 - Frozen air and Liam icicle

Chapter 17 - Frozen air and Liam icicle

"This is not going to work Liam, I just break free," I said with a sigh.

After the news had finished, Liam had tied me up against a chair. When I had asked him why, he had said, 'To prevent you from doing more stupid things.'

Liam had sat himself down on a chair in front of me, to keep a close eye on me I assume.

"I seem to be a trouble magnet anyway, those ropes won't do anyone some good," I tried to reason with him. It was true though; wherever I went, trouble seemed to follow me.

"Louis," Liam said, "shut up."

I arched my eyebrows in a sassy way and Liam groaned, "It's not really nice to tell people to shut up, Liam pain in the arse. And I won't shut up, not now, not ever!" I yelled, struggling against the ropes and trying to break free. I never liked being tied down.

"Uhm.... Louis?" Liam shakily asked, but I did not seem to hear him.

A whirling sound was heard and Liam shrieked. My eyes shot open in surprise and they widened even more when I saw Liam was pressed against the ceiling.

"Don't just stare at me, help me instead!" He yelled down.

There was a strong wind howling in the room we were in; furniture was flying around my head and a vase with a flower bumped into Liam, who – as if a chain reaction was activated – started whirling around the room too. I felt bad for Liam but it was such a comedic sight that I could not help but laugh lightly.

"Don't laugh, it's not funny!" He shrieked, but before I could reply or even do something, he had flown out of the room.

With my sensible hearing I could hear Niall yelp from downstairs, upon seeing the TV fly out of the window.

The wind howled past me and cut though my ropes, setting me free. I lightly rolled my shoulders and stood up. It was a weird feeling; seeing the room around myself being destroyed by a tornado, and yet it barely seemed to affect me.

Unknowingly, I seemed to have activated one of my powers.

A freezing cold suddenly crept up my bones and I shivered. Ever since I was changed I was nearly immune to sudden temperature changes, but this was truly cold. A bone splitting cold crept up my spine making me shiver.

My eyes widened in slight awe when I saw the air everywhere lightning up in an icy-blue light. Minuscule small orbs floated all around me, producing the freezing cold I was feeling. I knew a normal human-eye couldn't see them, for they were too small. But I was able to see them with my heightened senses, but barely.

It was the air. The air was frozen. I immediately knew who the cause was of this.

Niall. The only one I knew who had the ability to control ice.

I knew the Irish man was powerful, but I had no idea he had the ability to freeze the air.

My feet carried me downstairs and my eyes fell on Niall; he was kneeled on the floor with his palms pressed flat against the ground and his head bend. When Niall heard me coming, he looked up and his unnatural light blue eyes focused on me; his blue orbs giving me an accused look. I gave him a sheepish smile and said, "It seems like I can't fully control my powers yet."

"You need to focus," he told me and looked back at his palms.

That was when I noticed a light blue glow – the colour of ice – has completely surrounded Niall, but when I looked closer, I noticed it were thousands of those glowing orbs surrounding him; casting a strange blue glow on his pale skin and giving him something alien and foreign. I also noticed that, the closer I got to Niall, the colder it got.

"How did you manage to freeze the air?" I asked, holding out my palm to touch some of the freezing orbs.

"It was some kind of instinct that made me do it," he replied, narrowing his eyes and focusing on his powers, making the orbs surrounding him glow brighter.

"Louis, listen to me," he added after a while, "I can't hold this out forever. You need to neutralize the air when I remove my powers off it," he told me, his eyes looking sharply in mine.

I nervously gulped, "How do I even do that? I didn't even notice when I activated my own powers," I said.

"You just need to focus. Let your instincts lead you," was his reply.

My eyes closed and I took a deep breath. Forcing my heart rate to slow down and forcing myself to calm down. When I was calm enough, I opened my eyes and nodded towards Niall who lifted his powers. He slumbered towards the floor as he did so, exhausted.

The air unfroze and I connected my palms together. Thinking about how I wanted the air to be; calm and gentle, like the waves of a calm sea, instead of this vicious indoor tornado. A weak, flickering light surrounded me; different shades of blue with swirls of green, I felt the power pulsing though my veins.

I don't control the air. I am the air. The ability to summon strong winds to blow the enemy away. The power to slice through the heavens and earth alike.

The howling of the wind stopped and when I looked around, I noticed that everything was back to normal. Well, almost normal.

It was a complete mess. The TV had flown out of the window – together with the PlayStation – and shards of broken glass were everywhere. The table that used to be inside the kitchen was split in half. Paintings and wallpapers were ripped off the walls and torn apart.

I pulled a face, "I'm sorry about your house," I said to Niall, who had managed to sit up; exhaustion clear on his face. There were bags under his eyes and his platinum blond hair hung limply in front of his clear eyes.

"Don't worry about the house, it's okay," he said, waving my apologies off.

"What even happened to Liam?" I asked, realizing I couldn't seem to find him anywhere. I just hope I hadn't blown him away to far...

Niall pointed towards the corner of the room, and when I looked, I raised my eyebrows in honest surprise. At first, I had thought it was a gigantic ice crystal, but when I looked closer, I noticed that something was inside the crystal. More precisely, someone. And that someone is Liam.

"What did you do to Liam?" I asked in amusement.

"I put an ice shield up around him to prevent him from flying out of the window. Which might I say, almost happened," Niall replied casually, his blue eyes taking in the crystal.

"It's a Liam icicle," I whispered, "how do we get him out? Do you want me to melt the ice off him?" I offered, already forming a small flame in the palm of my hand.

Niall looked horrified at my offer and was quick to sputter, "No! No fire! I don't want to risk you burning him to death!"

"Sorry. But just let me do it," he added, in a gentler tone upon seeing my shocked expression.

He stood up – swaying on his legs as he did so – and he stumbled towards the Liam crystal, nearly falling against it.

"Are you sure you're well enough to unfreeze him? It's a big crystal," I pointed out, slightly worried.

"I know what I'm doing. And unfreezing someone takes less energy than freezing something itself," he replied, pressing his palms against the crystal. A sharp, blinding light emerged from – what seemed to be within – Niall's own body, wrapping him and the crystal in a blanket of blue-white light.

The light disappeared and revealed Liam – unfrozen – and Niall.

"Awesome," I whispered under my breath. Realising – with a heart sinking feeling – it would take a while for me to control my powers as well as Niall seems to control his own.