The Frozen Heart (Ziall)

Chapter 11 ~ Alliance

Chapter 11 ~ Alliance

~Niall's POV~

My brain can't seem to process the images my eyes are picking up. 

Zayn is killing people with a smile on his face. Liam's father is standing behind him, the flames not hurting him. 

No... 

Zayn is not a heartless killer. He wouldn't side with the mad professor and kill people. He wouldn't. 

Yet, here I am, staring at the proof right in front of my eyes. I don't want to believe it. 

"Niall? Come on." Liam urges me and pulls my shirt carefully. 

I can't rip my eyes of the fire. My feet start moving forwards slowly, then faster. 

"No, Niall!" Liam pulls my shirt harder. "We can't go back for him. It will ruin everything. Come back." There is panic in his voice, but I don't stop. I have to get Zayn away from him, reason with him. 

Liam then tackles me to the floor. "We can't!" He says again. "I'll explain to you what happened, but we have to go now. Now, Niall!" 

I stare up at him from the grass and push myself up. "He is right there, Liam. We have to get him away too! He is killing people." 

With that said I turn my back to Liam and start walking to the hospital again. 

"I wish it didn't have to come to this." Liam mumbles behind me. 

Before I know it, he grabs my bare arm and twists it behind my back. I yelp in surprise and try to pull away, but he keeps a firm grip on me as he pushes me back into the woods. I feel his arm hand freeze around my arm and I know he will soon be completely covered in ice. 

"Liam, no." I pull away from him and turn to look at the damage I have done already. 

Instead I see a completely different Liam. His skin is white with blue shades of blue. His hair is white. He the same, but different at the same time too. But, most importantly, he is not frozen. Not even his hand. He rubs the snow crystals off him like dust before he turns back into the Liam I know. 

"W-what?" I'm dumbfounded. 

Liam sighs. "Come on, please, I have a plan set out. I will explain everything as we flee." 

I look back at Zayn one more time. 

My breath stocks when I make eye-contact with him. Zayn nods at me and walks away then, following Professor Payne. 

"Okay." I say and walk further into the woods with Liam. 

~*~

"I guess you have figured it out by now." Liam speaks up after walking in silence for a few minutes. "I have one of those special gifts myself." 

"Does your father know?" 

Liam chuckles and shakes his head. "Not that I know. I'm glad he doesn't though. He would have tried his tests on me." 

I shiver and nod. "Keeping it a secret from him was good thinking. But, what is it exactly you can do?" 

"My body immediately adapts to the situation I am in." He tells me. "If I go swimming, I get gills and webbing between my fingers so I will be able to survive under water." 

I nod. "That comes in handy." 

"It does." 

"And Zayn? What about him? Why did he side with your father?" The memory of it still haunts me. Most of all I want to forget about it, about everything that has happened to me.