Ice To See You Again

Prologues

A Million Years Ago:The Creation Of The Crown

The Earth appears in some sort of cretaceous period, At this time, the world is divided into ten realms each watched over by an "elemental"; a powerful kind of proto-wizard specializing in one of the ten primordial "elements"; water, fire, earth, air, life, death, electricity, magic, light, and dark. Urgence Evergreen, the elemental of ice/water, gathers the other elementals - Chatsberry of the earth , Balthus of the fire, Slimmy D. of the air and so on- atop his icy tower to discuss about the asteroid. Their meeting is spied on by Evergreen's young assistant, Gunter the dinosaur. The other elementals do not seem too worried by the asteroid , as "Not a asteroid impacted our world once every thousand years with no lasting disaster?" Evergreen would normally agree, but as he states "This, Balthus is no ordinary asteroid. See how it swirls? It arches for our

extinction!" (A green glowing thing that arches for the extinction of all life. Sound familiar?) Chatsberry points out the cons in even bothering trying to stop the comet, to which Evergreen responds with a plan build a powerful crown, "a magical crown whose phantasmal circuitry will bond to its first wearer, and grant him his one deepest wish." (destroying the comet, hopefully) He then immediately reveals that he has actually already built such a crown, but it requires the "ruby eyes" of a legendary lava monster dwelling in a volcano as a power source. The other

elementals protest this plan, explaining the apparently incredible dangers of "wish magic." They explain that even if all life is killed off by the asteroid, their elements will live on, and then from that life may one day be able to return. However, "A misplaced wish could cause irreversible damage, to the verry structure of existence." Evergreen becomes annoyed with the other elementals, and as they attempt to stop him from continuing out his plan to get the ruby eyes and use the crown, he freezes all of them to keep them from interfering. Gunter and Evergreen then leaves for the volcano to get the ruby eyes. It is revealed on this journey how much Gunter looks up to his master Evergreen, and how badly the young dinosaur wishes to learn magic from him. However, Evergreen is highly neglectful and a little abusive towards his young apprentice, and silently swears that Gunter will probably always be too young to learn magic. When Evergreen is fighting the lava monster and is almost killed, Gunter kind of comes to his rescue by attempting to use one of his master's magic bottles to attack the monster.

However, he fails and just acts as a distraction, but this is good enough for Evergreen to regain himself and finish off the monster. Rather than be thankful towards young Gunter, Evergreen is even more annoyed than usual and punishes him for not staying put as he was commanded. Back at the ice tower, Evergreen binds the ruby eyes to the crown and prepares to wish away the asteroid. But before he can, the now enraged lava monster bursts into the room and begins rampaging. The creature knocks out multiple columns and the ice tower begins to collapse, just as the asteroid is about to impact. Evergreen is trapped under the rubble and has lost his hold on the crown, which Gunter managed to pick up during the chaos. Unable to escape and

beginning to panic, he commands Gunter to put on the crown and wish away the asteroid in his stress . However, Evergreen underestimated the dangers of wish magic, and did not listen to Chatsberry and Balthus' warnings about knowing what one's heart truly desires. For young Gunter, his truest desire is not the asteroid's destruction, but to learn ice magic and be like his master. The crown grants him this wish, and Gunter begins to sprout white hairs and shoot bolts of ice, all while referring to himself in the third person, as Evergreen would have done he is literally becoming his master. With this, the crown's one wish has been fulfilled, and it is now eternally infused with that wish. Anyone who wears the crown from now on shall gain the powers of the ice elemental Urgence Evergreen, and be possessed with the name of young Gunter. The Ice Crown has been created.