Chapter 12 The Son
As they eat, Fifo and the others share what happened in the water and they fill them in on the frostbite. The seashell stew tasted briny and earthy with a hint of smokiness as it was cooked in a cauldron over a driftwood fire, using a conch shell as a ladle.
“This is really good!” Slor smiles slurping.
“Right, so worth it!” Fifo says.
“ How are you guys healing?” Aurora asks.
“We’ll be fine.” Slor reassures.
“Says the one who can heal immediately.” Jnoque smirks as Slor sticks her tongue out at him playfully.
Dyani takes out the map. “Hmm there seems to be multiple pieces over here.”
Aurora looks and looks nervous. “That’s near the arctic…”
Solaris looks at the map. “ Isn’t there a closer piece here?”
Dyani looks “ um.. well it’s probably better to get the farther ones first right we can get that one anytime.” He says a little on edge.
“Well I’m a fast flyer so I think it’ll be fine.” Dponá says.
“I guess we just need to get all the pieces as fast as possible.” Aurora argues. “ Exactly which is why getting 3 will be better.”
Blaze butts in “ it doesn’t matter the order you get them in as long as you get them all.”
Aurora hesitates but decides to drop it.
They finished eating.
Fifo looks at the mermaids. “ I’m going to go with them..” They confess.
The mermaid sisters nod “ We will wait for your return.” Moonga reassures.
Fifo sighs as they join the others hoping onto Dponá.
They watch them take off.
“ We should prepare in case the ocean freezes over…” Amber encourages.
Moonga sighs. “ Be safe Fifo….”
Watching the beach leaving their sight Fifo stays quiet. Slor looks at them “ so how’d you end up living with mermaids?”
Fifo looks up “Huh oh um I just..needed a place to live on my own and I found that beach and while I was trying to build the cabin I kept finding that supplies would end up washing ashore.”
They smile. “Eventually I saw something moving in the water so I went to check it out and Moonga was trying to get away while trying to leave some fish for me to find wash up later.”
“ We got to talking and I met the rest and we became friends.”
Aurora is quiet
“You ok?” Jnoque asks.
Aurora sighs “ I’m just worried about my home if Iceal decides to use that sword they will be the first ones affected..” Blaze looks away as the other spirits just look guilty.
“So how did this Glacius turn into a sword?” Fifo questions.
“It was a spell in a book that he stole from Ignitia’s library. It was a spell that could turn someone into a weapon and used his new form to spread his icy hatred all over..” Ignis tries to explain but Blaze butts in. “Grr Ignitia! He had the bright idea to use the same spell to stop him!…to kill Jan-Glacius with our combined abilities!”
“For the spell to work for whatever weapon we turned into to be at full strength everyone had to be on the same page..” Emberion adds.
“It was a group decision-“
“The hell it was!!” Blaze growls “Ignitia literally forced me and Lav to do it and none of you stopped him! Then in the Emberstar he literally forced us to use our energy to fight and try to kill Glacius!”
“ I don’t understand,” Slor says, “ why wouldn’t you want to fight him after what he was trying to do..”
The spirits go quiet Blaze scowls and says bitterly.
“ He’s my son..”
Glacius watches Iceal train for a while feeling drained from all of the energy that he gives to the Frostbite to give it its power. “ We’ve been here all day. I say you take a break for the both of us.” Glacius encourages.
“No.” Iceal spat. “ The only way to get as powerful as possible is to keep going!” “ If you don’t I’ll stop you from using the Frostbites abilities!” Glacius bluffs. “ Ugh fine!” Iceal huffs and goes to walk back to his hut.
Glacius sighs as they go through the village. Winter fawn quickly getting out of the way, giving him a sense of unease.
One little Winter Fawn wasn’t looking where she was going and ended up bumping into Iceal.
“ Hey! Watch where you're going brat!” Iceal shoves her aside scowling. “It was an accident, Iceal, no need for unnecessary-” “Shut it! Weapon!” he snaps, catching Glacius off guard by swinging the sword to his side, yanking Glacius with it causing him to yelp.
Iceal then shoves the child away, hurting her as he walks off dragging a now more timid Glacius with him.
“What!” The group yells surprised.
“Yes, Glacius is my son.” Blaze confirms.
“So how did all of this happen?” Aurora explains.
“Before everything our group was known for traveling around and having adventures.” He sighs. “ When me and Lav had Janie we decided to stop adventuring and settle down to raise him.”
“At that time we were all thinking of setting down and retiring.” Emberion comments.
Ignis butts in. “After a few years Ignitia suggested one last big adventure Blaze and Lavara were hesitant to leave Janie but Ignitia was insistent and they eventually agreed and since Janie was old enough to be left alone at the time.”
Blaze scowls distastefully, folding his arms “ We should have never gone…”
Solaris continues. “The trip took longer than we thought and the letters they sent to Jaine never made it to him.”
“When we got back he was so..bitter…and hurt…. He wouldn’t look at us or talk to us..” Blaze glares to the ground as Dponá lands, tears threatening to come out but ends up evaporationing. “He thought we abandoned him….”
Aurora and co didn’t know what to think.
“So..” Dyani says somberly “ what happened..?”
Blaze looks away searching for how to explain when Dponá speaks up.
“Hey sorry to interrupt… but I see a village…”
Jnoque freezes looking up.
It was the human village.
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