Tales of the Eeveelutions

Battle In the Ice Caverns

The day had finally come. The battle for who would be king would take place in just a few short hours. The king had already come.and taunted Trace and Tara, even revealing to them that the cave was so cold eevees would be sent there to see if they were strong enough to survive and become glaceons.
Tara again didn't pay much attention to the king and received a cold stare from him. Trace on the other hand tried his best to keep the king entertained since he was hoping to be free once the king left. Or free to go watch the fight that is.
After a few hours of being left alone Trace saw a glaceon on the other side of the ice wall that he and Tara were in the other day. He watched as the door slowly opened and the glaceon popped her head inside the room and motioned for them to come over quietly.
Tara and Trace did as they were told entering the door before the glaceon shut it behind them. They followed her closely as she lead the way through some twists and turns until they reached a long hall way. Trace was relieved to see something else other than a icy room for three days.
"Okay you two, I think we will have to go out the back way if we are to avoid the guards who might recognize you. Fortunately I have a cart nearby we can hide you in until we get outside." She said calmly as she walked down the hall.
"Thank you for helping us miss..." Trace said and forgot he didn't know her name.
"My name is Rarity. I did it more for Hailstorm since I owed him a favor. Though I do dislike King Zerro and his war like ways. He made most of us glaceons grow up knowing nothing but war." Said Rarity.
"That sounds awful. Never being able to do anything else in your life except go to war." Said Trace.
Rarity looked back at the young eevee glaring at him some.
"Perhaps it isn't the best life, but it's all we ever know. I just hope the prince can change all this soon." Said Rarity.
She lead them through a set of Halls, passing by several low ranking guards and servants. They reached the back door with no problems coming up as Rarity opened it and looked around outside. The location was clear of anyone who would be hostiles to them, so she lead them outside.
The cold air hit Trace and Tara like a slap on the face and made them close their eyes from the wind that blew hard and caused the snow the swirl around.
"Careful you two, I don't want to lose you both in this, so stay close." She said and walked forward.
The young Eevees nodded together as they followed closely behind the glaceon. She seemed to have a difficult time walking through the snow even though she, herself was a glaceon. They seemed to have continued to walk forever in a direction without end to it or did it feel like they were going in circles, Trace didn't seem to be able to figure it out at all. All he could do was put his faith in the glaceon that lead them through this awful storm in hopes they would arrive to their destination.
Finally after a long hard walk they arrived at a cave that seemed to be filled with light inside of it. Once they went into the cave there seemed to be a warmth from inside but there was no fire to provide any comfort or warmth to them.
Trace looked around and saw that there was statues of ice on either side of the cave, a long line on each side leading down the tunnel. Each statue looked similar yet different facial or body style for every one he saw. There was writings on the bottom of the statue at the feet of each one.
"These are all the greatest of warriors from the glaceon kingdom. Each one fought and died in the wars or defending their kingdom in some manner. Some did great deeds that brought them honor and glory." Said Rarity.
"This is so awesome and beautiful!" Trace said a little more loudly than he meant to.
"Shh! Quiet or else we will be heard and chased back out into the storm! Do you want that?" Said Rarity a bit angry.
Trace shook his head and Tara only looked at him before turning away to start walking after Rarity who began to lead them down the tunnel. Was this where the fight was taking place?
The three came upon two separate tunnels inside the cave. Rarity took the left without hesitating while Trace stopped and listened hearing voices coming from the other tunnel. Of course he decided to trust Rarity and followed her down the tunnel she was leading them into. They seemed to being going up and the tunnel seemed to spiral some as they kept going until the reached the exit of the tunnel. Rarity stepped on a ledge and looked down with Tara coming up beside her. Trace went on the other side of Rarity and looked down as well.
What was below them was the royal family all in a circle around two glaceons, the king and the prince. Both seemed ready for battle and were standing fairly still. A third glaceon came out of the circle stepping between the two males before raising a paw in the air.
"This battle determines who shall be the king of the glaceons. The last one standing wins the match. There shall not be any cheating of any kind, for if you are found guilty of cheating you forfeit any rights to being a total member. Now without further to do, your majesties battle!" The glaceon said before jumping out of the way and the king and prince began their battle.
King Zerro and Prince Hailstorm both charged towards each other before both hit one another with a freeze shock move, and than both fired a ice shard at each other but the attacks canceled each other out when the to shards hit each other and exploded with some electricity forming in the air. Zerro was the first to use another attack and hit Hailstorm with a powerful ice beam attack sending the prince flying towards a wall where Hailstorm used his feet to prevent himself from slamming into it and jumped back onto the battle floor where he used the blizzard attack on the king. The ice type attacks didn't seem to be making much a difference in this battle and Trace wondered how long this battle would take with ice type attacks. 
The two stared each other down as the blizzard raged around them inside the cave, the other glaceons all stood still though some seemed a bit nervous or so what Trace could tell. He was thankful they were high enough to not be hit by the blizzard attack or it might have caused Trace and Tara to be frozen.
King Zerro attacked first charging through the blizzard and aiming a ice fang at the prince who nimbly moved and hit the king with a Aurora beam to send the king flying backward. Once the king regained his footing he glared at his son and used avalanche. The cave seemed to rumble some and ice and snow fell all around the prince with him falling to the ground after the avalanche moved hit him. He slowly got back up and glared at the king as neither one was willing to back down from this important fight.
"It's time to end this Hailstorm. Once this is over you will never be king!" Said Zerro who seemed to be charging up another freeze shock.
Hailstorm looked at his father and stood his ground and once the king came charging towards the prince, he tried to dodge it but the king was prepared and hit the prince on the side sending him rolling through the snow. Hailstorm seemed to be in pain as he stood up and when he looked towards his for, a ice shard hit him directly and he laid back down in the snow breathing heavily.
"Ha! Pathetic. You call yourself my son. Perhaps I should end you here and give you a proper death. Maybe I should spare your life and make you serve me until the day I decide to free you." Said King Zerro mockingly as he walked over to Hailstorms body, he pressed a foot onto the prince's neck. "If you are concious, say you yield to me."
Tara gasped and seemed about ready to cry from what she saw as she whispered, "Hailstorm, please get up."
As if he heard her, Hailstorm opened his eyes and smacked Zerro's paw off of his neck and in one fluid movement he stood up and hit the king with a freeze shock. The king stumbled back and fell to the ground and before he could recover was immediately hit by a ice shard that was electrified as well. Than Prince Hailstorm stood close to the king and seemed to be a bit tougher and his fur seemed to glow a little. The king though slow to stand attempted a ice beam but Hailstorm dodged it.
"Now it's time to end your reign father!" Shouted Hailstorm and used ice ball to attack the king five times each time a harder hit than the last. After the fifth hit the king laid in the snow unconcious. The glaceon who announced the match at the beginning walked over and picked up the king's front leg three times, all three times the leg fell limply to the ground. He turned to Hailstorm and held up his right front leg.
"King Zerro is no longer able to battle, I here by announce Hailstorm as the new king of the glaceons!" Said the announcer.
A few glaceons cheered while others appeared to be a bit nervous that the old king was defeated. Now what would the glaceons do?
Tara started jumping around excitedly and accidently slipped on the edge and fell towards the floor. Hailstorm and the other glaceons heard Tara scream as she was falling , but before she could hit the ground Hailstorm ran as fast as he could jumped into the wall that allowed him to get higher into the air to catch Tara and both of them landed on the floor in a tight embrace with Hailstorm landing on his back. When they stopped sliding on the slick floor, Hailstorm was the first to react.
"Tara! Tara are you alright?" He asked his voice shaky.
"Yes I am, thanks to you my king." Said Tara who gave him a smile.
Hailstorm smiled back, but his eyes showed his fear he was feeling deep down.
"Please be more careful in the future. If I lose you, I think my world would fall apart." Hailstorm said.
Tara looked at him in shock and gave a quick glance to the other glaceons.
"Are you sure you should be talking like that infront of your people my king?" Tara asked a bit nervous of what the other glaceons would think.
"I don't care what anyone has to say about what I'm about to say and do. I know it hasn't been long but I know so much about you from what little I've known about you. I can tell that you seem to have your heart set to remain here in the glaceon kingdom so I have to say this. Tara, I love you and I want you to be my queen." Said Hailstorm.
Tara's eyes began to fill with tears as her smile grew as big as it ever had before. She couldn't believe her ears when Hailstorm had said those words. Her heart felt like it was about to burst open as she confessed to him.
"I love you too King Hailstorm, and nothing would make me happier than to be by your side and live here with the glaceons." She said.
With that King Hailstorm pulled Tara closer to him and kissed her lips taking her by surprise for a second, but she leaned in and kissed him back. Suddenly, Tara began to glow and grow bigger. After a few seconds Tara stopped glowing, and there laying on the new king was Tara as a glaceon.