Reborn

14 - Strange Happenings

I'm going to go see Frozen 2 in theaters in it's opening weekend!! I am sooo looking forward to it!

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They all obeyed and knelt down on the ground, hands on their heads, eyes glued to the ground.

Well, except for Olaf and Sven.

Olaf hopped from one "foot" to the other, unable to contain his joy at winning the game. "I won! I won! IwonIwonIwonIwoooon!" He clapped his "hands" together and squealed. "What's the prize?"

BANG!

Olaf screamed and curled himself around Sven's neck as a bullet slammed into the ground where he had been standing a second ago.

People stepped out of the darkness, surrounding them, guns all aimed at them...or more him.

Fear quickly turned to anger.

"What exactly do you think you're doing?" he snapped, jumping down from Sven's neck and glaring at the nearest person. "You could have killed me!"

"That's the idea, dummy," Sven grumbled, though the humans couldn't understand him.

Olaf was too furious to hear him, though, and pointed a "finger" angrily at the man. "It is not nice to shoot at people!"

Elsa had never cringed so hard.

The man stumbled backwards in shock. "It..." he looked around at his equally shocked companions, who were starting to unconsciously lower their weapons. "It, it speaks!"

"Well, of course I speak, silly," Olaf said incredulously. "I think this man's unaware that people other than himself talk," he muttered out of the side of his mouth to Elsa while still looking at the man.

Elsa rolled her eyes, but remained focused on the men around them. They were whispering urgently amongst themselves, frequently glancing over at them or frantically gesturing towards them. Are they arguing over how to dispose of us? Or aren't they sure what to make of Olaf? She surreptitiously glanced around, taking in the two men who were watching them, guns trained on them. She instantly took in their surroundings and the positions of everyone to her.

She shot out her hand, instantly freezing the guns of the two men guarding them. The others all clamored in fright, hastily aiming their weapons at her.

A series of ice spikes pierced straight through their group, sending them running into the hills.

Elsa shot out both her hands and ice instantly crystallized around all their weapons.

"Run!" she ordered.

"OOF!" she exclaimed, her back slamming into a tree trunk a few metres away. Elsa tried to roll away, but she toppled sideways, landing heavily onto her side. She was suddenly aware of a great weight on her hands. Craning her neck upwards, she saw that her hands were encased in...ICE!?

She tried to unfreeze it, but it wouldn't work. It's not my ice, she realised. That's why it won't unfreeze at my command. Looking down, she saw that her feet were encased in solid ice like her hands.

She was completely stuck.

Shit!

The ground soundly shook and vibrated. Two large feet wrapped in animals skins dotted with...snow? stopped just before her face. Her heart stopped. Gulping, Elsa's eyes moved upwards as far as they could.

A large, olive-skinned man stood infront of her, glowering down at her with a smug smirk. His muscle-dotted arms were crossed infront of his equally muscle covered bare chest. His black hair was long and was done up in braids. He wore a dark skirt-like thing around his middle with a tasset over it. There was no weapons on him.

Then Elsa noticed that a dark purple light glowed from his hands and tiny ice and snow particles were swirling around, prepared to strike again if he had to.

She gulped.

A voice suddenly spoke from behind, causing her to jump - well, if she could have. "You have come." The voice sounded old and was cracking with emotion. Huh? "You have come, like it said..." Her ears perked up, but whoever was speaking trailed off, giving no indication that he or she was going to finish the sentence.

The large man infront of her merely raised an eyebrow, seemingly in response to some unseen and unspoken command, and the ice instantly vanished.

A hand rested on her shoulder, though she couldn't see who it was just yet. "Come. You must hurry."

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I've been thinking about making a sequel to Reborn titled Fire and Ice. I was thinking Reborn would be the build-up, or like a part 1, and Fire and Ice would be the part 2, the finale - like Avengers: Endgame, Mockingjay Part 2, etc. Would that work? Or do you think that I should leave Reborn as a stand-alone novel?

Thank you.

Have a great day/night!