The Hunt for the Power Stones

Chapter 72 - Nathaniel's Insane Idea

Back at Lake Mareotis James could not believe his eyes, he could see in the distance Queen Athina, "I'LL BE BACK" he yelled. He turned around and told Jeffrey "C'mon boy, Lets go" James began heading back to his friends on his horse. Nathaniel had trusted James and stayed back to help Malik and Gabriel. Nathaniel ran to a water stream he saw nearby. He filled up his water holder and ran back to his friends and tossed water at their faces. 'HAA" both men took a deep breath, "Ahh my chest, how am I alive," said Malik, Malik's chest was purple and severely bruised. "The Ice shard hit your amulet and broke the stone," said Nathaniel. "remind me to thank Amelia next time I see her," he said as Nathaniel helped him up, Gabriel was also very tired and drained, "Hey guys, Malik, I'm so glad your alive, I thought you..." "I'm fine, where's James, what happened, where's Morpheus," said Malik. "Don't worry we are safe, Cerberus saved us and Gabriel" replied Nathaniel "Where's James..." repeated Malik, "He went after Adeline" "ALONE" yelled Malik, "She jumped us and we had to fight her while you too sleepy heads were out." "Is James okay?" added Gabriel, "GUYS, GUYS, GUYS," it was James coming back, "Good. Your awake" said James "Good you're alive" replied Malik, "What happened" said Nathaniel, "Adeline the Bitch she escaped barely back into the castle, If I had 1 more arrow she would have been DONE, But that's not the craziest part, QUEEN ATHINA IS IN THE CASTLE", "WHAAAT" yelled Malik, while still holding his chest, "We have to go now, she could be in serious danger" said James, our 4 heroes jumped on their horses and dashed for the lake, Moments later they emerged through the trees onto the riverbank, "Now how are we supposed to cross" said James. "Gabriel, the teleportation stone is broken, can you get us across?" said Malik, "I don't know, I can try," he said, he summoned his forcefield spell and placed it over the water but as he was about to step on it the spell broke, "Aghh" Gabriel fell to his knees, "Sorry guys, I can't I'm not strong enough, I'm Sorry", "it's okay we'll find another way" replied Malik "Nathaniel any ideas?" he added. Nathaniel just thought about the items they had and thought how easy it would be to just use one of his many stones. He looked around in his bag and 'I GOT IT, I know how we can get across, it's a dangerous idea but it could work" Nathaniel pulled out the amulet and put his bag on the ground, "What are you doing" said James, Nathaniel took out the box of stones "Woah, what the hell are you thinking" said Malik, "we use the Sapphire Ice stone on the amulet so we can use the stone on the lake and freeze a path to get across" "Hmm, that's risky, But what choice do we have" said Malik. Nathaniel volunteered to be the one to use the stone, he carefully opened the box and multiple beams of light came out from the glowing stones, Nathaniel put on his gloves and slowly pulled out the sapphire ice stone. When Nathaniel put the stone close to the Amulet, it changed shape to fit the Amulet hole perfectly, Nathaniel slowly pushes it in, twisted and "click" the Amulet glowed a beautiful bright blue, Nathaniel carefully put the Amulet around his neck and "whoosh" a small wave of wind blows around him, Nathaniel's eyes turn an Icy blue but then suddenly, "FWOOSH", Fire lights Nathaniel up, "AGGHH" he yelled, Malik quickly pulled out one of his sheets and threw it over Nathaniel, Extinguishing the fire. "WE FORGOT; THE ICE STONE CAN NOT BE OUT DURING THE DAYLIGHT" said Malik. Nathaniel quickly stopped screaming once the fires were gone and he was completely covered with the sheets, "FUCK that hurt" said Nathaniel, "Let's just get this over and done with" he added, Nathaniel carefully grabbed tightly the cloth and walked close to the river, he closed his eyes and aimed his hand at the water and he visualized the frozen lake. Nathaniel flexes his arm and out fired his frosty Ice crystals; the water began to freeze instantly. Slowly and slowly the lake was turning to ice, Nathaniel wanted to be sure it wouldn't break when they stood on it, so he stood his ground until he could no longer, Nathaniel stopped once he was sure of the ice floor. He got on his knees and slowly took off his amulet, He stick his hand out into the sunlight and it was fine. Nathaniel quickly grabbed the Ice stone and twisted it and "click" the stone came off. Nathaniel was putting the Ice stone back into the box of stones when Malik said "Let's go"