Frostbite | Hermitcraft AU | (OLD)

Chapter 10

"Can you please turn that off...?" Doc asked, annoyed. Iskall didn't respond; he was lying face down on the ice bed. Both Flytrapper and Snowfall were long gone, so the five prisoners were sitting alone. Doc looked over at the other three cells, which contained Xb, Bdubs, and someone else. Bdubs paced his cell, occasionally stopping to look through the cell door. Xb was also sitting on the floor, his knees to his chest as he dragged his finger across the icy floor. He glanced at the new cell beside Bdubs's, trying desperately to see who was in there. Doc looked at the ceiling, listening to Iskall's song for the 139th time. 

"ISKALL!" He yelled suddenly, making Iskall jerk awake.

"What the hell, dude..." Iskall mumbled, shifting a bit, "Why'd you yell?" 

"PLEASE TURN THAT OFF." Doc said, aggravated. Iskall reached for his phone, which lay abandoned on the ground.

"I can't, my phone's over there and I'm over here," Iskall said, as he stopped trying to get it. 

"ARGHHHH!!" Doc groaned, as he sank down to the floor even more. 

"Hey, Iskall?" Bdubs called from his cell, "Can't you get out?" 

"What makes you think that?" Iskall asked. 

"Well, you do have super strength. So you could just break out," 

Iskall looked up. "First of all, how did you know that?" He asked.

"They were talking about you earlier," Bdubs replied, "And they said something about super strength," 

"Oh-"

"So can you get out?" Bdubs asked again. 

"No..." Iskall said, lowering his head back to his arm. "My power doesn't work that way..."

"Then how do they work?" Bdubs asked, slightly annoyed. 

"They only work when I'm happy..." Iskall said. "And currently I'm not..." Bdubs groaned, rubbing his face. 

"I wish this stupid bracelet didn't exist..." He mumbled.

"Can't you just take it off?" said the other prisoner. Doc recognized the voice. 

"Beef?" 

"Huh? Wait, Doc's here?" He asked.

"Oh ya," Bdubs said, "He's over there. But why do we care about that right now?" They were quiet. Iskall gasped suddenly.

"I JUST REALIZED!!" He yelled, attracted their attention. "I STILL HAVE MY SWEDISH FISH!!" Doc groaned again. 

"Are you okay, Iskall?" Xb asked, looking over to him. 

"Japp! Jag är okej!" Iskall replied, reaching into his pocket. Xb looked at Doc, confused. 

"He said; Yep, I'm okay." Doc translated, very annoyed. "He clearly isn't, though." Xb nodded. 

"Nej! Jag är helt okej!" Iskall yelled, as he opened a pack of Swedish fish. 

"No, you're not okay, Iskall." Doc sighed. 

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3 hours passed, and both Snowfall and Flytrapper were still gone. Doc had gone fully insane; he couldn't stand listening to Iskall's song 59 more times. 

"ISKALLLLL!!" He groaned, as if he was going to listen, "PLEASE TURN IT OFFFFF....." 

"Nej! Det är en fantastisk låt," Iskall said, opening the third packet of Swedish fish, "Varför bryr du dig ens?"

"WHY DO I CARE??" Doc yelled, "HA! WHY DO I CARE, HE ASKS! IT'S MAKING ME GO INSANE!!!" Iskall chewed on the gummy, unimpressed. 

"Inte mitt problem." He said, tearing the gummy with his teeth. Doc groaned again. 

"Can you at least stop speaking Swedish?" Bdubs said from his cell. "No one can understand you but Doc." Iskall was quiet, as he continued to eat. 

"I don't think he's gonna stop anytime soon. Nor is this music," Doc said bitterly. They heard footsteps outside, no doubt it was Flytrapper coming back. This time she was carrying someone else, dragging them by the foot. Pink blood trailed across the floor, as she dragged them towards the prison. 

"Hope you all have been behaving," She said, ignoring Iskall's music. Doc looked through the ice of the door and saw who it was. That's False...Why would they want her? He thought, suspicious. She looked at Iskall, who was still eating the gummy fish.

"And you, love. Turn that music off or I'll destroy your only hope for happiness." Iskall stopped eating and looked at her. He quickly grabbed his phone and turned the music off; the silence filling the area quickly. Flytrapper scoffed, and dragged False to the wall next to Iskall's cell. Iskall backed into the back wall quietly and sat in the corner, clutching his bag of Swedish fish and his phone. Flytrapper dropped False by the wall, and tied her arms behind her and legs with her vines.

"Now all of you better behave," She said, as she turned to go. She turned to Iskall, "And I don't want to hear that music again." She walked off, her heels clicking on the floor. They were quiet, until there was complete silence. 

"I think she's gone," Bdubs said, looking through the ice door. He looked over to Doc. "What do you think they're gonna do with False?" Doc shrugged.

"I can't tell what her power is, so I can't really say anything." She suddenly jerked awake.

"WHERE THE HELL AM I?!" She yelled, trying to get out of the vines.

"False, you're-"

"Not getting out of these vines, yes I realized." She said, as she stopped struggling.

"Wait," Doc said, "You can-"

"Read your mind? Yeah, I can." She looked at Iskall, who was singing to himself. "And someone over here wants to cry,"

"I don't want to cry!" Iskall exclaimed, "I-I'm fine! Y-Yeah! I-I'm completely fine..." He buried his head in his knees.

"Yeah, he's definitely crying," False said, looking back at Doc. 

"Great! I don't care," Doc said, annoyed, "If you could read minds, can you read Flytrapper's mind then?" 

"I could, but she's not even here," False pointed out, "I thought that was obvious." 

"So you could read Snowfall's too?" 

False scoffed. "Of course I can!" She paused, "Who's Snowfall?"

"Well, he's the evil-"

"The evil alter ego of Etho? Huh, interesting." False said. They heard footsteps outside again, but this time it was both Snowfall and Flytrapper.

"Oh! You got her!" Snowfall exclaimed, as they walked towards the prison. Doc looked at False, thinking See who he wants, hopefully we can get out before he gets them. False nodded.

"Yeah, but be careful. She can read minds, you know." Flytrapper said. 

"I should make a cell for her," Snowfall said, completely ignoring her, "It's quite sad seeing her like that!" He built the icy cell around False, as she kept her gaze on him. "There we go!" He exclaimed, "She'll be quite comfy in there, I'm sure." He turned on his heel and walked away, Flytrapper right behind him. Doc looked at her.

"Anything?"

"Nope." She replied, "Flytrapper's mind was blank, while Snowfall's was full of...cows?" She glanced back at Doc, "Snowfall is weird," 

"No kidding," He said, "I'm sure all of us could agree." 

"That wasn't helpful, was it?" Bdubs sighed, "I guess, we're stuck here for another day..."