A Forgotten Hero - Volume 1 Chapter 4 I Can't Already Have A Kill Since Awakening

BANG! the sound radiated the cave, shocking me and the girl. Though I must thank it as it teared away this very awkward situation we are currently in. Basically, I am with no clothes inside a cave with a injured very red faced female. If someone walked through here right now, how on earth am I meant to explain this predicament and not look guilty?

While she is turned away I went behind the remaining ice rock to obscure her vision of me and preceded to ask “who are you” in a cold harsh tone.

“I..I am Alice, who are you? why was you inside of ice!” At first her tone was shy then was very curious of me.

I tried to say my name but before I could a sudden pressure dawned on my entire body, almost suffocating me to death. In shock of what happened, I noticed I was panting trying to catch any air I could.

Alice heard this, with a worried tone she asked if I was alright and was about to check on me but stopped as I assume she remembered that I am quite n.a.k.e.d here. She backed away once again with great struggle.

While trying to think of a name as it seems something restricts me to say my actual name I recall about a tale I heard when I was travelling about this enormous snowman that would reek havoc every winter and this monster would even shake the heavens themselves. At the time when I heard of this creature I wanted to find it and fight it to see if it is as destructive as its described. Though sadly I could never find it and claimed to be a bunch of lies, which in hindsight I should have guessed since my only clue was it lives in snow and has the power of ice energy being able to freeze anything in its area. The name of this creature was….” My name is Jack….Jack Frost” Odd enough when I said “Frost” I felt the room getting colder.

I poked my head slightly to see her reaction and my sight is her shivering, she sees me looking “Its very cold, how are you not shivering when you have literally nothing on” with a stuttering voice.

She was right, I haven’t felt cold at all in this temperature even though around this area most of it is filled with ice. Wandering if its because of this ice energy around me was helping actually since when was I able to use ice powers anyways? From what I know most people had an element that they are able to learn faster then any other elements otherwise known as having an attribute to an element but they are still able to learn other elements as well, it just takes more time, though their were people that wasn’t born with an attribute meaning they were unable to use any form of elemental magic or techniques. Sadly I fell in that category, in fact one of my known titles was the void hero since I had no capability to learn magic of the elements even though the other heroes had an elemental attribute which is also far stronger then a normal person’s attribute to an element.

Wanting to try this new power out, I try to concentrate and imagine my energy being wrapped around me in a storming fashion and as if the ice is alive it did as I thought, creating a mystical ice fog around my body leaving me head out. I practically looked like a ghost with a floating head.

“alright I am gonna come out now, don’t worry I am covered up”

Stepping out of the ice rock I see the girl expression being shocked about what I to assume is my ‘genius’ idea to cover myself. Though somehow I had a thought that she is looking at me like some kind of moron…..nah she wouldn’t dare to in front of me.

In as stern voice I asked her “so mind leading me somewhere to get proper clothing?”

“ah…alright but you have to help me with something” she shyly asked

She wants something from me? She is lucky I haven’t tried to freeze her to death! I was already not in the mood, my wish to destroy everything is ruined since the people in this world are people who had nothing to do with the past. Maybe if it was a 100 or 200 years since the betray, I would have still wanted to kill all in my way but we are talking about a 1000 plus years since then. Most likely no one even knows of what their ancestors did to me.

After some though “fine depending on what it is I will do it, now lead me somewhere with clothes”

A warm smile grew on her face as if hope returned from her heart, energetically she started to limp but then stumbled. “oh no..ow my legs” In a pained tone she expressed the pain she had as if it finally caught up to her.

Unwillingly I grabbed the girl and lifted her wrapped around my arms like a baby and asked her to give me the directions to what I assume is her village.

God this storm is pissing me off, luckily I surround us with a thin layer of my bluish icy energy protecting us from the violent winds and made sure the rain wouldn’t land on us. This was all good but with one problem, to me this felt normal but for Alice she was practically shivering around my arms, yet tried to look strong. Hopefully we get to this village soon or she may die from my energy before I lay eyes on the village. This was very inconvenient as all that surrounds me are trees, trees, trees and oh did I forget to mention trees! Thankfully though the wet mud on the ground freezes the moment I step on it reducing my likelihood of tripping like an idiot.

“we…are nearly..their…just through…..those trees”

Hearing her faint voice I knew if I didn’t hurry this girl would die, so quickly beginning to sprint cutting through the branches in my way while making sure none of them hit Alice, while running I nearly encountered close calls to tripping due to me getting used to my body since my body hasn’t moved for a long time. I could practically hear cracking in my joins as if ancient gears started turning for the first time.

Finally at the village with no time to observe the scenery with all the wind,rain and a literal freezing girl on me, she pointed to a small house which I hurried over to. Kicking the door open, I find an empty room which only had a small table in it I placed Alice down and proceeded to close the door….it didn’t close probably because I broke something. This door made of tissues? Why did stuff break easily. Anyways I held the door close and applied some ice at the gap for a temporary solution to keep the door shut.

Back to Alice I see her barely conscious lying on the floor, she stares at me, asking me “please at the room at the end of the corridor, my mum is their please cool down her temperature.”

Listening to her request I head to the room at the end of this thing, run down corridor and gently open the door to see a 40 to 50 year old women with ginger hair that is way longer then Alice’s hair. Shockingly her face looks quite smooth with only little wrinkles with red blush at her face. Placing my palm at her head I felt heat. She has a temperature and very big one! Understanding why Alice needed me reluctantly I coursed my frost to my palm and gently focused it entering the women causing her forehead to steam up, eventually some frost started to to show on this women’s forehead.

After a few minutes I felt the burning temperature subside making the women expression feel comfy and relaxed. I slowly stand back up and head to where I left Alice…..she is sleeping.

Are you kidding me? I am still n.a.k.e.d here and need clothes; she decided to sleep all soundly? Worried that I would accidentally destroy this house trying to find any sort of clothes considering this house is as fragile as I was when I lost my power. With the only option is to wait I head to what I guess is their kitchen and check the contents.

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Do these people eat f.u.c.k.i.n.g dirt? Their kitchen is empty as a the void I was in a awhile ago. My face is full of disappointment and question if Alice will even be able to get me clothes at all! However in all my disappointment I did feel a sense of sympathy for the struggles that this family has been going through. From the few minutes I have been here, I already grasped that this house and most likely this village is very poor.

Leaning myself at the wooden counter my only option was to wait until Alice wakes up, I would have waited in the same room but even though its hard to see me n.a.k.e.d through the smoke, I was still n.a.k.e.d and would be very hard to explain why a n.a.k.e.d man and unconscious bruised girl on the floor…