A/N: Hello my beautiful readers, my promises seems empty words without meaning. But it's been such a long time and realized that I left the chapter in the doc manager. And after that, my computer broke. So in my birthday a few days ago asked for a new one, as you might suppose my wishes came true. Here I am now with a new fresh chapter. I hope I didn't let anyone down.
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Jack was looking at the ceiling, thinking about the decisions that he has made. He was laying on the bed; North came to see Jack a few hours ago to put him into bed and tucked him in. Every night North would come to say goodnight. Maybe everything was fate. This looked like the perfect time to go out; it was past midnight so nobody would be up. Perhaps some yetis were still around the place.
He rubbed his eyes for the exhaustion and looked outside with determination in his eyes. Jack put himself back on his feet and inspected under the bed searching for his staff. It was closer to the wall on the other side of the bed. "This is the only way to do it" He sighed and almost forgot that he threw it there. Back when North had asked why he was carrying the staff around everywhere he goes.
Jack stretched out his arm to grab it and when he got it, he made his way out of the bedroom not, without first taking his old brown vest. He closed the door behind him slowly. Jack walked absently out of the bedroom as he managed to go step by step cautious praying to himself it would not make a sound with every step he took. He stopped in the hallway when he reached in front of the principal door and carefully twist the knob of it.
He went outside without realizing the pair of eyes that look at him from afar.
Once he went outside, Jack found himself shaking slightly as he shrugged due to the warm breeze that caressed his face. Like summer breeze "Strange" he thought. The moon is his only companion in this trip, with the light this offered to make his path brighter. His eyes went wide open as the realization of how bad he let this continue out of his hands. He got down on his knees to grab a bit of snow in his hand, he saw in what it seems an hour. However, it was a few seconds, the ice meltdown out of his hands. His eyes darkened and cleaned his hands with his vest.
Jack tightened his grip on the staff as he started to run far away from North's workshop to use his power as a solution to the problem. After running until his limbs began to burn from exhaustion, he rested his hands on his knees as he took deep breaths to calm down his heart pounding in his chest. Jack looked up with narrowed eyes searching for anything suspicious or dangerous. When he makes sure of it, Jack put both hands on his staff and place it in front of him. And he closed his eyes focusing his power through his mind to his hands. Jack waited and waited for a long time, but nothing happened "Come on, come on. Please work" he whispered and repeated. Later many times, Jack turned around and threw his staff away from him all his strength.
"Well, it didn't work as you expected. Pity isn't it?" Someone said from behind in a sarcastic tone.
Jack glance at the place where the voice comes from. He was stunned by where he was standing seeing someone who didn't expect. A boy who looked older than him in appearance. The complexion of the boy was tanned, his hair was put up matching the form of the flames. His hair was red in one side, and in the other was blonde and bright as the sun. The boy was wearing an orange robe with a hood trying to hide his face.
"Helios" Jack growls the name just as it was forbidden by the whole world "What are you doing here? I told you, and to the others to go away and leave me alone"
"That's not the way you should talk to your big brother" Helios closed his eyes and moved his index finger in disapproval "You know, lately I've been having fun like you have. You know, working is boring sometimes. It is better to bring everything to a total chaos" a grin on Helio's face started to appear as he moved closer to Jack.
"You..."Jack's mouth and eyes open wide as the realization hit him "You're the one who's been doing all this" he clenched his hand stronger that his knuckles began to turn white. "You want to fix my problems through bringing more dilemmas, when Mother Nature knows-" Jack couldn't finish his sentence, because from one moment to another he felt pain in his cheek and in seconds he was in the ground full of ice.
"And you have the audacity to say those words" Helios laughed out loud like it was a bad joke.
Jack looks at him and lets a grunt come out of his mouth "Give me a break" he says as he tried to get back up on his feet. Before he could even rise up. Helios kicks him in the back, to keep Jack still on the ground.
"Before you were chosen we were happy, and we were in peace. Now there is not a day that mother is all day worried about her little Jack" Helios said mocking at him in a cynical way. "All that I hear is Jack here, Jack there. I'm sick of it" He says with anger in his voice. Helios frowned when he sees Jack's shoulders trembling. Helios thought Jack was crying but he was wrong, when Helios hears Jack laughing slightly, he feels some frustration running in his veins.
"Is this a joke for you?" Helios raised his voice almost as a scream and getting his fist ready to punch Jack's face
"I laugh of you, being jealous of me. When you might have everything. A family who cares and loves you. But here you are wasting your time on me" Jack said faltering caused of the pain in his side, he tries to take deep breaths. However, just after he finished his sentence. Jack feels a strong kick to his abdomen that sends him flying off the ground for a few seconds before he collides with a colossal rock. He let a scream as he feels the agony of the impact on his back.
"It's bothering me that, you are screwing everything up and you knew it" Helios looked thinking of something else as he looks at the horizon "You, badly grateful and spoiled brat. Mother talks so highly of you when you are such a shame for our family." He let out a huff and shakes his head "You can't run too long from your responsibilities, I still can't believe why they chose you as the spirit of winter. You don't do anything when we wear out trying to keep everything in balance, all you do is bring trouble." He was walking from one side to the other of the risk "Sometimes we wondered between us if MiM was in his senses when he chose you"
Helios attention was caught of Jack crawling to his staff slowly and, he waited patiently for Jack to attack him at any moment. Jack reaches the staff and tries to rise up but as soon as he was again on his feet. Jack feels his legs shaking, not being able to take the weight he falls to his knees. He wanted so bad to pull off the smirk on Helio's face that with his trembling arms, he raises up his staff. Both hands quivering, he holds tight as he tries to keep pointing at where Helio's was standing. Jack focus to strike him with his powers and shakes his staff. But nothing came out. He tries several times, still nothing.
"You can't even use your powers now. Pathetic" Helios starts to make his way to Jack who was looking down; shocked at his hands with his staff.
He was in front of Jack when he grabs his arm with the fire still on his hand, this makes Jack's vest and shirt being incinerated. Also, his skin being burned badly, that makes Jack close his eyes and groan of pain. He tries to escape from Helio's grip but this made the pain worse than before.
"Let me tell you an advice as your brother" Helios put himself on his knees in front of Jack who was full of bruises on his face and some part of his clothes was torn apart, he took Jack's chin bluffly and Jack grunts at the contact of his fingers that were still burning "You have to know when to give up" he smiles at him and winks.
"Consider yourself lucky, when I am angry" Helios put his hands together and flames start to come out of them "I don't have mercy, but take this as a gift" he focuses on him and throws a blast of fire from his hands. The blast hits Jack on the chest and he falls almost unconscious to the snow.
The view of jack begins to be blurred but he can see Helios beginning to walk away from him "Wait" he whispers almost inaudible, he stretches his arm trying to reach him. but as soon as he does that, Jack found himself coughing and feels blood coming out from the corner of his mouth. Jack turns around to be face up, looking at the sky. Eventually, the temperature starts to go down, and the snowflakes started to fall.
A smile began to appear on Jack's face "At least something is fixed" he thought as he sees the snow falling. Jack becomes to be on shortness of breath, more and more as the time passed. The last thing to appear on Jack's mind was blurry images of people he cared about; North, Mother Nature. A woman with a little girl who both were smiling, the little girl was waving her arm as she was tempting him to follow her. Before he could even approach closer to them, darkness began to appear around him. His limbs were numbed, Jack couldn't feel anything. Before closing his eyes, he can hear the young girl screaming in the distance for him.
Jack!
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