6 Conceal the Monster
POV Jack
I groan, “Where is the courier!” I am laying on Hiccups couch. He laughs nervously, “I think that it will arrive soon. I hope.” It was already evening and I am really getting bored to stare the ceiling in his cabin. Then I hear a knock at the door. I float in the air and then I fly forward. I slam the door open.
I see a broom floating in the air and I see the sign ‘Couriers of Flying Fairies’ on its side. Finally my package has arrived. I look down and I see a purple haired and eyed girl smiling to me. “Long time no see Baby Tooth,” I mess her hair and I chuckle. “Jack! Stop it!” She laughs and her voice is as high as before.
She is Toothianas, our teachers, niece. I have known her forever or at least it feels like it. She is older than me but like a midget. “Where have you been? I have been having some issues?” I pinch some of my white hair and I show it to her. She gasps, “I am sorry Jack but I was a bit occupied. They were tracking me for weeks and I had to be sure that I am not followed anymore,” Baby Tooth’s cheeks blushed deeply and she seemed to be sorry.
“No worries, I just missed a day at school,” I chuckled and added in my mind the fact that my cover was exposed. Suddenly Baby Tooth points behind of me, “He sees us.” She whispers and I glance over my shoulder. Hiccup is standing there, staring at us and seems speechless.
I clear my throat, “Since my potion was missing I kind of accidentally showed who I am to this fellow hre and to a girl.” I shrug my shoulders and roll my eyes. Baby Tooth giggles nervously and hands me my package.
The potion was in purple glimmering bottle. I took a sip quickly and soon I was on my knees. I never have gotten used to it, how it seems to take away the strength of my body. I mean it conceals some of my powers so I am not that much powerful as a half spirit with wind and ice. The pain I feel when I transform from my half spirit to human. Normally I keep the transformation going on with the potion that I take a sip every evening. Then it won’t hurt, it is more like a tickling sensation.
I am panting when I stand again. A glance towards the mirror and I see myself again with brown eyes and hair, even my skin changed from pale to fair. The sight makes me exhale deeply, I really hate denying myself. “So.. I need to get going,” Baby Tooth laughs and waves her hand at the door. Without turning around I wave a response to her.
After the door closed Hiccup runs to me. “Whoa! She was Tooth’s relative? And and that potion! How do you get that sort of potion! I think that it is forbidden to have transformation potions?” Hiccup is yelling in excitement beside of me. I sigh, “Yea she is Tooth’s niece. I have a person who does the potion to me, it is much safer to use it than be worried about it being forbidden.”
Hiccup stares at me when I stood up. “I will get going now,” I whisper before I step outside to the cool autumn air. I lift my capes collar up and I walk back at the school, making my way to my bed chambers. I go to a shower and soon I realize the scar that was left from the flames hitting my back. I touch the surface of the scar and it still hurts a little. Magical attacks always take longer to heal, I thought to myself.
Next morning I went to potion class. My seat next to Elsa Vinter is empty. Time to have some fun. Elsa is leaning on the chairs back support and turned her back to front area where the teaching happens. She is chatting with her friend Ariel.
I notice how Ariel ends her speech and stares at me when I walk towards them, it makes me smirk. When I reach Elsa I place my hand on her shoulder, it feels delicate actually. “You’re on my way,” I say to her and I nod towards my seat that is against the wall, next to Elsa. Her face turns red and she stares at me. She starts to breath in a shallow way and I take my hand away. Tears are forming on her eyes. “Elsa?” Ariel asks just before Elsa stood up and pushed me aside, starting to run in the corridor.
She just storm off and I am looking after her. Everyone is watching at me. “What did you do!” Peter hisses to me and I hum, “Nothing.” I grunt when they throw me against the wall. I squeeze Peter’s hand when he is strangling me by my shirt’s collar. “Y-you better let go or,” I managed to say even though my words were cracking because of the lack of air.
“What is going on!” Morgana, our teacher, arrived to the class. “I just saw miss Elsa who ran to principal North,” Morgana glared at us. Peter dropped me and I am panting on the floor, gasping for air. Then her eyes lock at me, “And you mr Frost. Better get going to North. Skipping classes is highly inappropriate.”
I nodded to teacher and I walk to North’s room. “You wanted to see me uncle?” I say when I step inside. I am now staring at him and.. there is Elsa. The whole room is in deep ice. “What happened in here?” I whistle when I look around the room. “I am the monster,” Elsa cries and storms off, almost making me fall.
Uncle North sighs deeply, “Someone called her a monster. I have been working with her a lot, she hates herself and her powers.” I glance over my shoulder, “Is that so?” A sting of guilt hits me, I just called her a monster not so long ago. “I..I think that I can check on her,” I whisper and leave the room.
I ask the wind to tell me where she is. It surprises me when scent of vanilla is brought to me by wind. Does she really smell like vanilla? Well, at least I know where she is now. She uses the same tree as I do when I am in my thoughts.
She is crying and I watch her for a while, snowflakes are floating in the air. I clear my throat, “Y-you alright?” I sit next to her and she flinched, moves few inches further away from me. “I am a monster,” she says and buries her face in her hands. “N-no you’re not. You don’t look like one,” I said simply.
“I am!” She screams and blast of ice spreads from her. To me it didn’t do any harm but gladly other students were still on classes and no outside. “I said things I didn’t mean to say,” I rub my neck and watch her panting. She shook her head, “I am. You see! My powers are out of control again!”
She reaches onto something from her pocket. Gloves. “What are you doing?” I stare at her when she puts the gloves on. “Concealing,” she whispers and stood up. “That is stupid,” I snapped and went behind of her. “If you want to control your powers you need to love them first,” I pull her other glove off and she tries to get it back. I won’t let her. “And when you love them, have some fun,” I said to her and pulled the other glove of.
My hands go under hers and I lift them up. “Let it go,” I whispered to her ear. “I will help you to control them but first, let it go,” she swallows loudly and nods to me. Her hands shiver when I see the blue glow forming, creating snowflakes. I suppress the enormous amount of power that I feel coming from her. Now there are only few beautiful snowflakes floating over our hands and not an explosion of ice and snow that could happen if I would let it happen. I glance at her, her expression is focused. “You’re doing great!” I chuckle.
Then she glares at me and stops, “You’re just saying that since I accidentally made you as my man slave!” She removes a strand of hair from her face and looks angry. “Whoa, just whoa!” I gasp and retreat. “I am here because I wanted to and.. I kinda feel guilty about calling you a monster,” I exhaled and she kept on staring at me. “Okay Frost,” she whispered. “Thank you,” she turned around and her arms wrapped around me.
“Hey! No hugs!” I gasp and she tightens her grip. Suddenly she looks at me and a sly smirk runs to her face. Wait, she can do the same smirk that I do? “I as your master order you to be around people more,” her words made my heart drop. “N-no.. I don’t want to be with people,” I begged from her.
She sighed, “Fine but now you will tell me why. And why did you call principal North as uncle?” I groaned, “You really wanna know?” She nodded and I let myself to fall to sit against the tree. I patted the grass, “Sit.” She sat next to me, maybe a bit too closet since when wind passed us her loose hair strands were tickling my cheek.
I cleared my throat, “All started when you-know-who wanted to be acknowledged years ago. He started to gather minions.” Elsa spoke to me, “Yeah.. There is now Hades, Gothel and Drago.” She fiddled on her short dress and seemed nervous. “You’ve seen someone, huh?” I look at her and she nods. “Y-yeah, Gothel killed my parents,” she whispered.
“I am sorry. Many of us have lost someone because of You-know-who’s wish to gain more power,” I stare at her and she seems confused. “Wish for power?”
I sigh and lean against the tree, my body slowly falls down and I lay on the ground. “Yup, power. I mean you’re elemental wizard, right?” I glance at her and she nods in agreement. “He wished to have wizards of special powers to join his forces, to aid him to control both wizard and muggle world. Just imagine!” I exclaimed.
“H-he wanted me back then? My parents died for me?” She cried. “They died to protect you, like mine did. They made their choice,” she is still shivering. “At least wizards can fully make their choices,” I whispered.
“What do you mean?” She snapped at me. “My mother was married to my father so she had given herself to him. She choose not to join to You-know-who when she was kidnapped and tortured, she instead killed herself. She even tried to protect me,” I whispered while my voice was cracking. I flinched when Elsa’s hand landed on my knee.
“Sorry to hear that but I still don’t understand why--,” she started but I interrupted. “You-know-who knew that spirits can be controlled when you take something personal from them but it can only be done once. My mother was already sort of ‘taken’ and yeah.. Later he found out that I existed and he tried to get me, he was more thrilled when he realized that I posses both wizard and spirit powers which is really rare. Spirits normally end up together with spirits, not humans.”
My cheeks started to warm up. “Control of the spirit can be gained by taking something personal from them like a strand of hair or something as innocent. I think that You-know-who would have gone by tasting some of my blood since he is who he is and some say that it gives some spiritual powers to the one who drinks it also,” I say to her and I see how she is blushing too.
“You on the other hand tasted my lips, you stole my first kiss so to speak. I wish that you will not use me since you’re now the one in control,” I look at her and I swallow the lumpy feeling. Then I cleared my throat, “But on the bright side, You-know-who can now do whatever he wants to get me to do what he wants. Now I don’t have to do it because he says so,” I smirked to Elsa who muffled a giggle just now.
Elsa looked soon at the ground, “So.. you’re life has not been easy either?” I shook my head, “No. I have been hiding all these years after my dad, stepmum and sister were murdered.” I pinched my hair, “That is the reason why I look like this. And why I avoid people, I cannot have anyone else die for me. Teachers know about me, uncle North is my father’s uncle actually,” I smile faintly before I stood up.
“Could we be friends?” She asks from me. I shook my head, “No. I don’t need friends.” Then I left her standing in there. I wanted to turn around and say, ‘hey, sure we can be friends. I would love to be with other people’. I couldn’t, it would be too dangerous to people around me. Now I need to make sure that she won’t try anything stupid like making friends with me. Geez.. and a girl as a friend might backfire at me. What were I even thinking?
POV Merida
“Has your sister been doing ok?” I ask from Anna who is reading a book on her bed. We are studying about potion ingredients. Tomorrow will be a test. Anna slammed the book shut, “She has been acting a bit odd but she is ok, not a scratch on her.”
I sigh, “That is good. Hey, I need to go to the library? Want to follow?” I ask from Anna who smiles and jumps up, “You bet!”
For my misfortune she kept speaking of Kristoff. She must like him. A lot. “He asked me to the Hallloween ball!” Anna squeals and runs in front of me. “That is a good thing right?” I look at her and she is nodding. “I don’t know what to wear!” She suddenly gasps. “A dress?” I say with sarcasm.
“Uh, hi..” Someone speaks in front of us. Peter. “Hi!” Anna says happily, she is almost over the moon now. “I was wondering,” Peter looks down and then at me. Oh hell no. “Could I take you to the ball?” My eyes widen from shock and Anna squeals again, “YES! Yes she will!” Then she giggles and takes my arm, pulling me to a deserted corner in the library. “This is great Merida! Now we both have a date!!”
I am staring at her, “You kind of made the choice for me and besides he seemed a bit confused when we left him here.. And.. he is odd sometimes.” I roll my eyes and Anna pokes me, “C’mon! It will be great! And Punzie and Elsa are there! We can go to the ball with them now since we have dates!” I sighed, “I guess you’re right.
I see some movement, “Hey.. Isn’t that your sister?” I whisper to Anna who turns around to look at the direction where I was pointing at. “Yea, yes she is.”
Anna walks to Elsa, “what are you doing?” Elsa jumps on her spot. “N-nothing,” she whispers and we look around the bookshelf where she was peeking to something. “On spy duty again?” I laughed to Elsa. “No! I am just observing,” she sighed. She had been following Jack Frost again.
“Why can’t you let it be!” Anna exhaled. “Because.. And I feel now kinda responsible,” she whispered. “Because he saved you?” I gasped and she nodded. “I don’t think that stalking is a good way to give a thank you,” Anna said and hugged her sister. “Ask him out already,” Anna whispered to Elsa’s ear.
That was a bad call. “No!” Elsa yelled and I felt the coldness ascending from her. She is panicking. “Anna. Time to back up,” I pull Anna from her sleeve. There are only us four, Anna, Punzie, me and Elsa herself who knew about her powers. She is elemental. Actually we all have something special to hide, unfortunately Elsa has trouble controlling hers.
The library starts to freeze and I use my levitation power to throw stuff in front of us. “Elsa! Calm down!” Anna tries to go to her sister but I stop her. Then I see someone walking past us in rapid speed. He walks behind of Elsa who is panicking and staring at her hands. Soon everyone would notice the ascending ice since it is slowly reaching towards the more popular parts on the library.
The guy places his hands under Elsa’s and whispers, “Calm down.” I glance at Anna when I realize that it is Frost. “H-he isn’t f-freezing?” Anna is shivering while speaking. “N-no, d-doesn’t seem l-like it,” I rub my hands together. I startle when for a moment I see a flash of blue shade in Jack’s eyes. Did I just dream it?
Jack smirks and he moves his fingers. The ice stops moving. Elsa wakes up from her trance and flinches when she notices Frost near her. Did he just stop her ice powers? “Let me go!” She yells to him and Frost spreads his arms, letting Elsa run away from him.
Anna hugs Elsa and Frost passes us. He leans towards Elsa and we all held our breath. “Remember our secret,” he winks his eye to Elsa and I glance at Anna. She is as confused as I am. “Don’t freak out anymore, ice girl,” he laughs and leaves us.
“What was that!” I raised my voice. “H-he..” Elsa whispered but Anna interrupted, “I think that he has same elemental power that Elsa has. Elsa sighed, “Yeah!” It was almost like she felt relieved. “Anyway I must go to my class,” Elsa said and took a book from shelf. It seems like she has Magic history lessons next.
When we had taken out some books to study for the test tomorrow Anna and I spent the whole day outside, reading.. and reading. Could something be more boring! “I am hungry,” Anna whispered and I heard her stomach growl. We laughed together and decided to go for dinner.
I waved my hand to Elsa who was walking towards us. She stopped in front of the dining halls door and waited for us. She had a huge book pile on her hands. Suddenly the pile of books was on ground. It was Jack Frost, he had come out from the dining hall and pushed Elsa. Her books were scattered all over the floor, he just kept staring at her with disgust in his expression. He did nothing to help Elsa gather the books.
“Hey! That wasn’t nice!” I yell after Frost who just chuckles and waves his hand in air. “What is up with that guy!” I exclaim when I and Anna are helping Elsa with her books. “He is tormenting me again!” Elsa sighs. Yeah, that she got right. When we got in the dinner table I saw Elsa almost boiling up. She slammed the books on the table and growled, “I just hate him! Hate, hate and hate!”
Anna sighed, “But he helped you before, didn’t he?” Elsa nodded, “Yeah but the way he is treating me makes me so mad. I swear that I will freeze him next time!” Elsa crossed her arms and I laughed. “Show that full of himself guy what we are made off!” I cheered Elsa who gave a sly smirk. “I sure will, I have an ace up on my sleeve,” she chuckled.
A/N
I hope you enjoyed it, My Snow Storm
And thank you @lol-i-ship-it for the art again ! :)
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