Fire and Ice

A Warning

Tom slammed his fists into the table.

"GOD DAMMIT!! THAT DAMN FROST GOT IN THE WAY AGAIN!!"

"Sir, we still have the army and once they obliterate him and Marco there will be no one to get in the way of your marriage."

"IF they get rid of him. I watched the battles that happened in Mewni five years ago and he always has a trick up his sleeve. Are all of the soldiers on the ship?"

"Yes King Tom. They just await your orders."

"Good. Send it to the Earth dimension but keep your distance from Earth. We need to give them a warning about what is to come so they can have a chance to hand over Marco and Jack."

"Are you going to let them go if they do?" Tom began laughing.

"You my good sir are very funny." He said. "Do you really think I'd want Star going to Earth and find talk about a huge army from hell that demanded that two boys who went by the names of Marco Diaz and Jack Frost be handed over? How long would it take for her to connect the dots? Not very long I'd say."

"So no matter what we destroy Earth." Tom walked over to a nearby table.

"Let me give you all a quick example of how this is going to go." He slammed his fist into the table and smashed it. Then he burned all the pieces of it that were left. "That is what is going to happen to planet Earth."

(Earth)

Jack came flying out of the sky and landed in front of Marcos house. He walked inside and saw Marco was sitting on the couch with Ambrosia. Biscuit sat beside them wagging her tail.

"How ya feeling Marco?" Jack asked.

"I feel... empty."

"That's probably because Tom ripped you out of Stars fate then tried to rip mine out and put his in."

"What!?!? You can do that?"

"It is illegal but yes you can. It's all good now though."

"So you put Marcos fate back into Stars?"

"No. I wasn't able to do that."

"So that's why I feel empty." Marco said

"Yeah. Sorry about that." Ambrosia noticed that for some reason Jack was holding his right arm behind his back.

"What you got in your hand Jack?" she asked. His cheery nature disappeared in his eyes and on his face.

"Nothing."

"So why is it behind your back?"

"No reason."

"Jack, did you injure yourself?" Marco asked.

"No. I'm fine."

"Show me your arm." Ambrosia said in a tone of voice that implied her order should be followed.

"I don't need you worrying about me for no reason."

"Show. Me. Your. Arm."

"Fine." Jack pulled his arm out from behind his back and showed what he was hiding. There were white lines on his arm that snaked up to just past his elbow like cracks.

"What is that?"

"It's what happens when you touch your own fate stream. That is one thing I recommend you don't try."

"That's nice and all but what's going to happen?"

"Worst case scenario I lose my arm best case I unlock a forbidden art of magic."

"You could lose your arm and you're okay with it!?!?!? Did you go crazy in the other universe!?!?!?"

"Nope. Now are you guy's hungry? I know I am. Probably haven't eaten in about two years with the travel time and all."

"Don't change the subject Jack!"

"There are worse things than losing your Ambrosia." Jack said with a harsh voice. "I've seen plenty of things worse than that in my life." Ambrosia shrank at his tone of voice.

"I'll go make some pancakes then. Why don't you help me Ambrosia?" The couple walked into the kitchen to cook.

(4 hours later)

Mrs Diaz's day had been rough. Working at a hospitable meant she met some interesting characters. On that day they had a delusional man come stumbling in muttering about some vision and how that apocalypse was coming. She had to look after him until they found out who he was and he'd been rambling about fire and ice and magic and monsters, the list didn't end. She could tell he was a delusional man and was going to need some form of psychiatric help. She pulled her car into the driveway and got out with her bag. It was one of those days were she just wanted to collapse onto the couch with a cup of coffee. That was something she wouldn't get to do. When she walked through the front door she saw a face she thought she'd never see again. Jack Frost. Sitting in her living room. Over five years and he was back.

"Hey Angie! How's it going?" he asked, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he had been gone for years. She stood there in silence for a few seconds before walking over to him and giving him a hug. "Ummmm... Not what I was expecting but okay." He hugged her back.

"Thank you." She said.

"For what?"

"Coming back for Star."

"Well I'm not back to her yet."

"I don't care. You came back." There was a bit of an awkward silence after that until Marco broke it.

"How was work mum?" Mrs Diaz let go of Jack and turned to Marco.

"It was exhausting. I had to look after some crazy guy who came in today. He was rambling on about the apocalypse, fire and ice, monsters and in general just crazy talk."

"That does sound exhausting. How about you have a rest and unwind."

"That sounds great right now Marco, I think I'll skip coffee and just have a bath." Mrs Diaz said. She put her bag by the front door and walked up the stairs. After she went upstairs Marco, Ambrosia and Jack sat just went back to what they were doing. A few minutes later the TV made a very high pitched noise. They covered their ears to block out the sound and it stopped. The show that had been on was replaced with Tom's smug face.

"People of Earth, I am here to give you a warning. You need not know my name so you can just refer to me as the king of the underworld. At this point in time I have an army that is ready to attack your planet. Do not think you can hide from us and start again, they have orders to completely destroy the entire planet. Now you are probably thinking that you can just blast us out of the sky with your fancy technology and your nukes and if those don't work then you can use your armies. Not going to happen. My army is a lot bigger and stronger than your pitiful ones. They would obliterate you. But there is a way for you to avoid all of this unnecessary bloodshed. All you have to do is have Marco Diaz and Jack Frost ready for me in three days when I come to your planet. They live in Echo Creek, California. Do not fail in this task. Your lives depend on it." The transmission ended and the cooking show came back on.

"Well shit." Said Jack.