VERGLAS (Complete)

RABBIT FIRE

It is the time of dawn when we reached the motel and the roads are silent and empty like a soulless body. The trees aside, seems to be haunting. I am already scared and terrified from the incidents and now when I ran away from my home; I am kidnapped by a redhead woman claiming to be my Godmother.

 What is exactly is going on? When the God did started writing comics and manga books instead of people's fate, honestly I am dead serious about this. My life was all normal and boring till yesterday, but then I was about to get raped by my foster mother's boyfriend. I killed him in defence but discovered my magical frosty powers. Hell yeah!! I am a frosty b***h and I Can freeze everything like Antartica, but how?

“Stop thinking too much, it will only give you a headache!” Daphne said. 

You are one of the reasons of my headache, my so-called godmother. I am furious and I want to smash everything in front of me. This is not what I thought for myself. They have controlled me all my life and I Can't let anyone else control me anymore.

 “Careful, Silver! You are freezing the damn mirror.” Daphne warns me, and I look at the windowpane in front of my eyes and then look down at my hand. They are blue and covered with a thin lining of ice. I scrunch my brows and wonder, how did this happen?

“I think you need to rest a lot. Please, just go to sleep for a while. I will wake you up for the breakfast. Okay!” She smiles brightly at me, but I frown, even though somehow her smile gives me a warm sensation, like a mother’s lap, but she is still a stranger to me.

I nod my head gently and went to sleep on the comforter, but I get up immediately when I notice her leaving the room and ask her. “Where are you going? I have to ask you many questions.” Daphne turns and looks at me with concern.

She approaches me and puts her hand on my shoulder, “I will give answers to your doubts but now, just take some rest. You did an all-nighter and it is bad for health. You must be exhausted so take a rest and I am going to navigate the place, just to be safe.” 

I nod my head and she went out, asking me to lock the door behind. I did as she said; I lock the door and went to sleep. There are so many things and questions that are building up in my mind, and I could not sleep in peace, plus I am exhausted. I keep changing side and did not know when I dozed off in peace.

I open my eyes and find the surroundings foreign; I am not in my room. I shoot up straight immediately and gasp loudly; I lose a catch of breath until I saw Daphne sleeping on the couch. I recall everything that happened earlier; I put the pressure from my fingertips on my temples and start rubbing them. One hell of a headache, this is.

I stand up from the bed and went to look out from the window. I guess it is evening and the sky is cloudy; I wonder how long i slept because I have never slept that long before. I went to washroom to pee and wash my face. As I look at my reflection in the mirror; I notice something weird, actually different in my appearance.

I  observe my hair; they were lustrous and voluminous than before. It was like the molten silver is flowing through them. My face look a little different too, as my freckles disappeared, and my skin look pale as white as porcelain and there was a shine like a glass on it. My eyes were blue, but now they appear as a combination of blue and grey. I gasp and whisper, “Whoa! Is it really me? I look the same, but different. I really don’t understand what is happening to me? Daphne might know, I will ask her about this when she will wake up!”

I went out from the bathroom and approach Daphne, who is sleeping soundly on the couch. I decide to wait till she wakes up. She must be tired as well. She drove the car whole night to reach this place. I sit on the bed and notice a paper bag on the nightstand. I take the bag in my hand and open it. There is a burger wrapped in paper and fries in it. I Realise I haven't eaten for a day and I was starving so I start munching on them.

I was starving badly and now I had my stomach full in the morning and now it’s almost evening. I throw the bag in the dustbin and wonder what to do now as I Am getting bore and Daphne is still sleeping sound. I grab my bag and bring out my favorite book to read; at least I will be busy for some time.

It’s been only 10 minutes and Daphne wake up while greeting me, “Good evening Eira.” She smiles at me again. I gaze at her and close my book to keep it at side. I grab the nearby chair and sit on it, facing Daphne, who is looking at me in surprise.

 “Who is Eira?” I ask in determination.

She sounds dumbstruck for a second, but replaces the mixed emotion with a frown on her face. I look at her but she averts her gaze and i assume that she did not want to tell me, but I am not that easy to make a fool.

 “I asked you something, who is Eira? you called me earlier with that name.” I raised my voice a little higher.

Daphne looks at me dentately and replies, “It’s your name. Eira, the name given to you when you were born.” She looks depressed and guilty, but smiles slightly at me. Her revelation shocked me, but  I Am curious to know more.

“How do you know that, you were there when I was born?” I ask her, but she shook her head in disagreement. I decide to end the topic there, but I have to know about other things that are running in my mind. “You said earlier that you will answer all my of questions but now you are not replying properly.” I raise my eyebrow.  

Daphne sits straight with her composure erect and focuses on my face. I must say that she looks so elegant. I sigh loudly and look aside, trying to divert my mind to concentrate on the thing Daphne will reveal that.

“Who are you, and I want an honest reply?” I ask her in a serious tone. She sighs and rests her shoulders while looking at me.

 “My name is Daphne, and I work for a community, where people like us lives. You can call me your God mother. I was the one who left you at the door of the orphanage.” Her eyes shine; I guess it fills them with water. “I always monitored you, from far away.” she says with a guilt in her voice.

My blood boils immediately and I clutch my fist to hold on my anger. My eyes are red because of the rage in anger is building inside of me, “Why? why the hell did you do that? Why you did not raise me instead of leaving me in the hands of unknowns? You had any idea what kind of life I have lead till this time? It would be better if you have left me to die somewhere.” I stand up from the chair with tears already spilling from my eyes, I continue, “why did you keep me in dark all these years? And why did you show up now?” I turn back to her and cross my arms below my chest. I was literally panting from the sobs. I felt like they cheated me all this time.

Daphne left her chair and came closer to me but I stop her in mid way but raising my palm at her, she takes some of steps back and finally says, “Try to understand me, I did everything because you were meant to be hidden, from the enemies, until the right time. They gave me this duty to keep you safe. If I kept you with me that time, they must have found you by tracking me. To them, I pretended to look for you, but in reality, I was protecting you. I know you are thinking, that I am lying to you, but believe me, I am saying the truth.” She cries in front of me, and yes I don’t believe her but I can’t see her crying so I try to comfort her.

“Okay, I believe you, but how can I trust you? All these powers and magic are foreign to me. How I am related to all of this?” I ask her in confusion.

“As you can see that I am having these powers, same as you and I claimed that I Am your God mother, it relates us. A spell bound your powers. Until you will be 18, the spell will remain intact, but somehow it breaks, releasing your powers. I guess it triggered your powers when that man tried to harm you or you are too powerful to keep your powers bounded. I am not sure about that.” She explained.

“And what about these changes I am going through?” I ask her.

“What changes?” she asks in confusion. I elaborate to her about my changes. She seems to be confused too. “I am sorry; but I don’t have any explanation for your changes. I think we must see The Queen, maybe she knows.”

I furrow my brows, "Queen? Sorry I did not get you? You mean a real Queen? You are joking, right?” I look into her eyes for any hint of a mischief but they were dead serious.

“No, I am not joking. I am serious. We have a Queen and she will know the answers of your queries.” She looked determined. There was a confidence in her voice and I ask myself to stay calm, Calm your t**s b***h, we are still in the reality.

“So we are going to a different dimension? I mean Kings and Queens lived in medieval times or not to forget history books except the queen of England.” I huff and rolled my eyes, but to my amusement she laughed. I narrow my eyes and she stops laughing.

“No stupid, King and Queen are real, you are not just aware of it” she concerns. Of course, I was not aware of me being a frost monster. This reminds me of Ellen, calling me monster that night.

“Yes you are right, they are real, and so does Monsters. They lived inside us, and sometimes they win.” Tears shedding from my eyes, Daphne looks at me with concern, but I shook my head and wipe the tears away. “So where is this Queen live? I want to see her.” I glare at her with confidence.

 She nods her head and came closer to me, then whispers in my ears, “of course we are going to meet her but before that I have to change you a bit more.”

I looked at her with confusion but she gives a wicked smile to me, what’s cooking in her head?”