Black Frost // John Proudstar

0.3 it's time

"Hey, it's time." Akira glanced up at John and really wished he would stop wearing tank tops that showed off his muscles and putting his hair up in a too nice bun that even she couldn't get right with her own hair. He was the first cute guy she had seen in a very long time and she hated to admit that she found him attractive. It only made leaving a little bit harder. There weren't exactly any cute guys roaming the arctic tundra.

"Cool." Akira said, standing and running her hands through her hair, icing back her bangs. She had grown accustomed, in the Arctic, to wearing ice in her hair as a way to pull it back away from her face. It was a little easier than stealing hair ties. Lorna kept comparing Akira to some girl named Elsa whenever she did this but Akira didn't know who Elsa was or what Lorna meant when she said Akira reminded her of Elsa. They said they'd never met another girl with cryokinesis before but every time Akira asked who Elsa was, everyone just smirked, like they were all in on some joke that Akira wasn't a part of.

John watched as Akira grabbed up her bag full of essentials. Inside Akira had packed chocolate to last her a couple of months if she was careful, new clothes to replace the ones that had been taken from her, a fake ID and other fake documents to get across the border and, a stuffed bear that one of the younger mutants had given her just before she had left the other day with her family. 

Akira had had a bad episode with her powers. She had frozen a better portion of the kitchen when she had gone in there to help Daya prepare food for lunch. Daya tried to talk her down, get her to unfreeze everything but Akira panicked and ran outside, flash freezing all the plants around her. Dropping to the ground, Akira pressed her hands into the dirt and had tried to will herself to stop, stop before she hurt someone but the ice spread out from her hands and into the ground.

"Yuki!" John shouted. She could hear him coming towards her but he couldn't. She didn't want to hurt him.

"Stop!" she shouted, throwing out her hand behind her. There were several gasps and Akira didn't have to look back to know she had accidentally created a barrier of frozen spires around her. All of them pointing out at anyone who tried to get near. "Just calm down." Akira whispered to herself. "Calm down. Just breathe."

"Yuki it's okay." John called out while he quietly ushered everyone to go back inside. "Just breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth like we talked about." Akira's hands shook. The sharp icicle spire grew larger. "In through your nose and out through your mouth." John said again. Akira could swear she was right behind him but that didn't make sense. How had he gotten past her barrier. 

When she had finally calmed down enough, she was able to shrink the icicles a little so she could get out of the little barrier she made for herself but she couldn't make them disappear altogether and the kitchen she wasn't even able to help at all. Marcos had to end up using his ability to melt most of the ice. As Akira sat in her room, head in her hands, there was a knock at the door that she thought would be John but when she looked up, a small girl stood there. 

Akira had seen her around before. Her mutation gave her cat like eyes, a tail, and according to Lorna cat like abilities. "Hello." The girl said lightly. She was clutching a stuffed white bear to her chest. 

"Hi." Akira said softly, not knowing what else to say. She couldn't just tell the girl to go away. That might hurt her feelings. 

"You're the girl who froze the kitchen right?" Akira nodded and swallowed hard.

"Yes, so maybe you shouldn't be in here. I can't control my powers." Akira murmured. The girl just stepped further into the room though.

"My names Maya." She said softly. "I wanted to give you this." She held her stuffed bear out to Akira and she stared back at the girl bewildered.