Snowcon Forest

Skate with Me

"Come oooon Snatcher! If you move any slower the surprise will be a puddle by the time were get there!" Hat Kid whined as she tried, and failed, to get the shadow floating behind her to move faster.

Snatcher sighed but continued to float after the excited girl. Honestly, he had no idea why he had agreed to follow the kid. She had run up to him, all smiles and excitement, and told him that there was "something super cool you have to see!"

Originally he had planned to ignore her until she left, but something about her pathetically adorable teal eyes looking up at him, and that quivering bottom lip, made his resolve break, so he had agreed to follow her.

Of course not before telling one his subjects what was happening, who then passed the message on until everyone knew what was happening. Prince or no, he still had the duty of being there for his subjects and that meant them knowing where he was so they could find him if they needed to.

The sound of the wind making the branches sway back and forth snapped Snatcher out of his train of thought, returning his focus to the hat brat who was still leading him to whatever this "surprise" was. Honestly, he had much more important things to do with his time than humor the kiddo. Like read a book, torment whoever was stupid enough to trespass in his domain, or do literally anything else.

No, he was not in the slightest bit curious about whatever the kid wanted to show him!

He was very curious.

Finally after walking, or floating in Snatcher's case, for what felt like an hour the duo apparently reached their destination. It was at the furthest edge of the shadow's domain, which automatically made him extremely nervous. There were very few trees in this area and the only real feature seemed to be a large patch of ice.

"Tada!" Hat Kid cried, gesturing to the ice behind her. Snatcher blinked, completely confused by what he was supposed to be seeing. What the...

"Uh kiddo, that's just ice-" He began to say before he was rudely interrupted by the child.

"No!" The girl shouted, frowning at the uncreative shadow. Come on, it was easy to figure out what she was talking about! She put her hands on her hips and huffed. "It's a skating rink! I found a place to skate!"

Oh.

"Kid I think you forgot something." Snatcher said, voice dry and exasperated. At the child's confused look the shadow gestured to his lack of legs with a wave of his hands, more than ready to clear up the issue.

"As you can see, I DON'T HAVE ANY LEGS!" Instead of cringing away from the loud shout or apologizing for being so inconsiderate of his ghostly nature, Hat Kid merely laughed.

Snatcher felt his eye twitch.

Boy, it was a good thing Snatcher was already dead because he was certain he would have died from all the aneurysms the kid was making him have!

"Of course I remembered silly!" She replied, giggling and not noticing, or caring, about the irritated expression on his face. "I figured you could just do that copycat thing you did during our fight and look like me, then we can skate together!"

"And why," Snatcher began to say, leaning down so he was closer to the child's height. "Would I ever want to look like you?"

Hat Kid huffed and pushed her chest out. "I think the real question is who WOULDN'T want to look as awesome as me!" Honestly, what a dumb question! She was sooooooo awesome, of course Snatcher would want to be as awesome as her.