The Cold Truth (Sting x OC)

Chapter 22

Crystal POV
Sting and I head over to the person closest to us, which happens to be Rocker. I sigh when I see his work. "It's nothing but I pile of broken ice chunks."  I look at Sting who is trying not to laugh. "You were to rough with the ice and clearly didn't know what you were doing. Next time instead of worrying rather or not I'll be unfair, worry about listen when I give advice to the others." I say before Sting and I walk to the next person, which is Lyon. Sting is laughing his ass off as Rocker growls.

I stop at Lyons piece, his is a snowflake. "Hm, definitely better then the last one. Although, I can tell you were not quite comfortable with the flame thrower they provided, the edges are a little rough. But otherwise, it looks very good!" I smile.

Lyon nods and I turn to Sting who is laughing louder. I sigh, again and drag him to the next station, which was Ichiya's. His wasn't much different then Rockers, but Ichiya's looks like he tried to do his guild mark.  "I mean..it's not as bad as Rockers.... But it's obvious you don't know how to handle ice. The edges are extremely sharp and rough, huge chunks are missing from your piece and it looks very unstable. But still better then he first one." I smile.

Ichiya nods, "tell my Erza dear I said I miss her dazzling parfume." He says doing a dramatic pose.

I swear drop and move to who's next, Sting has thankfully stopped his fit of laugher. We stop in front of Gray's, his was a really pretty mermaid in water. His piece was smooth, and the detail was amazing. You could see the pattern of the scales and the detail in the hair. "Now this one is really good. Nice and smooth, very detailed and everything flows perfectly, it's not boxy either. Very nice Oni-chan!" I smile.

Gray chuckles and hands me a piece of ice. My eyes sparkle and I hug him, "thank youuuuu!" I smile. He nods and we head to the next person which is  Rufus.

Rufus' was the Sabertooth Guild mark, but like Lyon's it was very clear he didn't feel comfortable using fire to smoothen it out. You could see scratches and small cracks on the ice. "You have the same problem Lyon does, it's clear you aren't comfortable with using heat. The scratches and cracks in the ice makes it look messy, however, being someone who has hardly dealt with ice it's pretty good."

"That will forever be in my memory Ms. Fullbuster." He smiles.

"Very nice Rufus!" Sting says.

Rufus nods as Sting and I head down the line, next was Kogura and hers was gorgeous, hers was a warrior with a sword in hand, she had long hair and bangs that covered her eye, and what looked like armor around her right arm. It reminded me of Erza in a way.

"This is incredible! It's so smooth and detailed! You can even see the little grooves that generally show up in armor. That's incredible! Although, there's a huge crack in the ice where the foot is which happens when there is too much weight on the ice. To avoid that, most ice sculptures will do the bottom last so that way there isn't too much weight, because the longer there is weight on that bottom part the more likely it is for the sculpture to break." I explain.

Kogura nods, "I understand, thank you." She says.

I nod and Sting and I head to the last person, Flare! And let me just say...wow. Hers was an ice palace! It was flawless. It was smooth and there were no sharp edges where it wasn't obviously meant to be, there wasn't a scratch or crack in sigh!  "This is simply amazing! It looks like the work of an actual ice sculpture! It's smooth and flows together, there's no crack or weak spots. This is incredible!" I say.

Flare blushes slightly, "Thank you." She says shyly.

"Well,I have to go discuss the placements with the other judges. But this is very good work Flare, good job!" I say with a smile.