07 .Near Hachijojima island japan, 10:00 JST

The forty years man's footstep echoed on the cold marble as he walked into the room, his hand on his chin. An eighty-year-old cleric bowed and welcomed him, as Magma nodded and seated himself cross-legged on the jade bed, ready for treatment.

"Congratulation your Majesty. Everything worked according to our plan" The old and wrinkled clerics bowed, smiled and tidy his long white beard with his left hand, before he took a bowl of menyan (stoned incense). He throw his finger to the charcoal under the menyan and it alighted at once, spread out sweet aroma everywhere in the room.

Mumbling the healing incantation, he moved around his king, threw sweet smelled frangipani flower, waved the bowl here and there, while splashing a bit holy water to his king's naked body.

The shadow danced on the arched wall as the fire flickered at his hand. Ominous statues stared blankly, yet the flickered light from the candle gave them life.

"I faintly remember about what you promised, that I, the king,  will gain ominous power by conquering the holy land"His eyes lazily moved, but the clerics secretly shivered.

"Yes, your Majesty, it is in our holy book" The Clerics nodded.

"It's been almost three week" The King said in a stern tone. "Where is the power you promised me? What else the Volcano God want?"

The eighty year old old clerics frowned "Probably you haven't test it, or it just need some times, or maybe it should happen when the heaven gate opened. The Gods never wrong"

Magma snorted.

I haven't test it? What do you think of me, stupid?

"I really hope that you concentrate on healing your soul your Majesty. No need to worry too much, God never fail his promises. Just do everything we can to please the Gods, and be patient."

The clerics add some more incense around his jade bed, bow and leave.

Silence reign.

The only thing Magma hear was only the crackling of the incense and his own soft breathing as his chest rise and fall.

Instead of getting a brilliant new power, my soul injured very bad at that war.

A few hundred seconds passed.

I wonder why that mighty Ice Ashoura refused to join my soul.

A memory of a teenager with platinum ice blonde hair flashes in his head.

The heir... of course...

08. Oregon, 08:00 UTC

The iron-wrought gate creaked and a sudden surge of heavenly smell wafted from the flower bushes that surround a Victorian house. A lanky young man stepped out. He slowly closed the gate, lifted his piercing blue eyes scanned the street as he walked out.

A kaleidoscopic light danced at his short platinum hair as the breeze played with the branch above. Some of the shadows fell at his Nordstrom blue sweater as he strolled. His eyes sometimes showed interest that betrayed his frozen face. But at most, those ice blue orbs just wandered somewhere afar, unfocused in his meditative trance.

Funny... two months before this, this was what I was dying to do. 

He took a deep breath.

I never know that wish could be this painful when it's granted.

Occupied with his thoughts, he turned and walked further and further away. Just after the first turn, a girl spotted him and she called.

"Hi, your name is Ryuzan, right? I am Mia, we are in the same class" She said, a bit blushed as she caught up.

"Oh, hi" Ryuzan nodded and continued to walk.

"Have you heard the geography gonna start a test....."

The voice of the girl trailed away in Ryuzan mind, and he drowned again in his thought. She continued to talk, but Ryuzan thought was too busy, that he didn't even hear it.

"Ryu..?" Mia walked faster, tried to catch his pace, and look up to his eyes. She walked backward and waved in front of his eyes.

"Oh, I am sorry... what was it again?" Ryuzan turned to her as if noticing her, alas his frozen and empty eyes tell the girl another story.

"Rude" She mumbled, leaving him.

09. Fight at the school ground Oregon, 07:30 UTC

At the school gate Ryuzan bumped on someone at the school gate and in an instant, his head jerked as that boy pulled his arm harshly.

"Hey! Watch it!" The burly boy pushed the platinum blonde's chest. His friend surrounded the tall boy in an instant, examining him from top to toe with their eyes.

"What do you want?" Ryuzan look at them, unimpressed. "I am not interested with the kind of you." He said, trying to proceed to the school ground but the other boys cut his way.

"The kind of you?!" The other boy, a skinny boy with a BTS jacket frowned. "What is the kind of us?"

Ryuzan rolled his eyes. "Just move. I don't have time to deal with you peasant."

The burly boy glared. "Say WHAT?"

Ryuzan sighed. "Forget it, just move."

With a swipe of his hand, the teenager's book fell to the ground. "Aww, sorry I didn't mean it," The burly guy said in mocked voice.

"I will help you" The BTS dude took the book from the ground, and give it to Ryuzan, but when he tried to take it, the boy smirked and threw them further away.

Ryuzan frowned. "What the ..." But another boy picked it up from the ground and throw them to the other boy.

"HEY!" Ryuzan tried to catch the book, but the BTS dude pushed him so hard that he stumbled to the burly guy who punched him. The lanky boy's body bounced back as the boy hit him hard. He coughed a bit.

"Hit him more!" The other boy laughed.

The other boy with the spotty face kicked him from the back, and the other boy punched him at his face.

His body reflectively moved to avoid the punch but stopped on the way and as the punch hit the side of his head, Ryuzan staggered but then frowned.

Should I just let them mash my face? Is this what it's means of no fighting? No unwanted attraction!? Jesus.

"HEY STOP THAT!"

Ryuzan snapped out from his silent thought. So is the five boys who hit him, all stopped and turned their head to the girl who just yells. Hanging from her hand, was two aggressive inline skate shoes

"STOP THAT I SAID, OR YOU GONNA TASTED MY WRATH!" The short girl yelled again.

For a few seconds, the bullies laughed hard. "You think?" The Kpop boy grinned.

"What you gonna do? Tickle us?" The big jelly stomach mocked her.

"Watch out!" The spotty boy said. "She gonna yell Moon Crystal, Makeup!" He mimicked sailor moon with girly sound. All boys laughed hard, except Ryuzan who snorted.

Stupid girl.

The girl pouted and walked to the nearest boy, punched and hit him squarely.

"You mean this prism power?" She turned, elbowed the second guy, and sidekick the other boy in a flash.

In just several microseconds, all the guy that manhandled Ryuzan had their share of kick or hit, while her white short pleated skirt waved around, revealing her blue legging underneath. Her hair turned blurry, as she went on hitting and kicking spree.

For a few seconds the boys froze, unable to react as the girl dragged Ryuzan away "Are you okay?" She asked, her face worried.

Ryuzan glared, "I am perfectly okay thank you," He said stiffly visibly offended.

Rey pouted "Ungrate-FOOL!" she hissed but then flicked her nose, tilted her head while thinking and said, pointing at him like a teacher. "You should've said "Thank-you, my-he-ro!" She said slowly as if teaching a toddler.

Ryuzan rolled his eyes. "In your dream"

"Whoa!" The burly guy awakened from his shock.

"You got guts" He said, grinned, but then his face turned harsh when he said, "GET THEM!"

She smiled victoriously, but as she turned back, her expression morphed to shock.

The four boys ran to them menacingly,.

In a flash, Rey took the marker from her pocket, as if drawing a sword.

Necklace swinging to the side, the boy with dirty yellow hair punched! Rey moves to the side and dodged clean, her hand stole the opening at his stomach, yet the boy didn't feel anything. "Did that count as a punch?" He grinned as he threw another punch.

At the next second, a fat spotty face boy swept her feet, but the girl spotted it, jumped in time, while her hand moved fast at his back.

He stopped as he felt the marker running past his back. "Are you trying to mess with me?" Anger filled his words as he threw another punch, this time with full force.

Grinning, Rey dodged but the punch grazed her nose, realizing that the fight became harder.

The dirty blond hair with gold necklaces howled with laughter as he saw the spotty guy back. "It suits you man, you're kind of an O lately, and she just draws your fave lunch, donut!" He slapped his leg.

The spotty face ashen as he gritted his teeth. "See yer own jacket, treasure!"

The dirty blond guy was still laughing when he pulled over his jacket. But his laugh stopped at once when he saw his jacket.

Stuttering "MY BTS ARMY JACKET!" He yelled in anger, as he attacked Rey in high speed. "YOU EVIL!"

"Congrats" Ryuzan mumbles from nearby, while moved swiftly, but almost lazily to avoid attack on him. "You made them want to hurt you now"

Meanwhile, Rey busily avoided a punch, jumped away from a sweeping foot and make a roundhouse kick to the big boy and get a hit from the dirty blond haired boy.

"Wouldn't put my foot there" Said Ryuzan, while avoiding another kick with just a slight movement as he glanced at Rey. "Or there"

Rey fell as the BTS guy sweep her foot clean. He was about to kick her but when his feet almost touch her, she threw something and vanished, reappeared just ten centimeters from her place, and the kick missed.

"Cheating" Ryuzan mumbled, saw the ice shard she threw a fraction of seconds before. "That move is cheating"

"AARGH!" She hit the spotty boys in anger "IF you're so great, then WHY do just let them at the first place, or you just said all that cos you JUST-CAN'T-DEFEND-YOURSELF!" With each last four words, she threw punches and kick, miss all but one.

And then when one of the boy's feet flew, Rey tried to dodge it as it coming her way but she was too late, it landed on her stomach. Pushed by the force, she retreated one step, loss of breath.

Ryuzan's face reddened in anger. "Oh, you lil devil!" At that moment he realized that the school ground empty except for them.

Annoyed with his apathy and snarky comment, the girl yelled. "Are you gonna help me or what?" Her focus divided and another attack threw Rey to the ground. Her breath gasped and she coughed. Rey's eyes glared in anger to the opponent, as she inhaled deeply to gather power, and her hand began to change its color to blue.

The platinum-haired boy noticed and before the power came to her, he closed his eyes, mumbling something. Soon, chill wind gathered around them, give them cold shiver in the middle of that summer day, and the sky blackened as a shadow of dragon looming behind Ryuzan as he whispered. "Frozen soul, bow to me," He said as his mind focusing his power to the bully.

In an instant, all five boys fell to the ground, their eyes closed, their face white as a paper, and their fingertips bluish.

"You.. you.. killed them?"Rey shocked.

Ryuzan snorted. "That would be unnecessary"

The girl touched one boy with her hand. "Faint," She mumbled.

As she raised her head Rey realized that the person she's been 'protecting' walked out from the scene.

"Hey, don't tell me you will gonna leave them there?" She protested.

Ignoring her, he entered the hall and vanished.

"They will awake in a minute" His whispered voice really clear on Rey's ear.

"Cruel!" Rey stamped her feet but then she held her hand in shock and yelled. "THE MATH TEST! I FORGOT!"

The girl ran inside.

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Buzzing with voices, the school hall almost emptied as the pupils entered the class. The tall boy felt a bit weak, but he forced himself to run to the class. Seeing his physics teacher ahead he rushed to catch up, slipped inside just as the teacher entered. He spotted an empty chair nearby at the third row, an ideal place and claimed it.

"Good morning all, I bet you all now know about the space, but to know exactly how it created, and all, open chapter seven"

The chair scraped the floor as Ryuzan sat himself down and open his backpack. The teacher turned on the smartboard and the rustling sound of the book and murmur heard as the class opened their books and the class started.

The teacher babbling about the space as the pupil listened excitedly. The classroom warmed up as the strained golden sunshine make the dust dancing about as the teacher explained about nebula.

I was eleven when I learned about this. I guess homeschool has its own advantages.

"Humans landed on the moon but nowhere else. Yet, researchers still try to find ways that humans can live on other planets. The space frontier.."

Ryuzan twirled his ballpoint pen as he drifted into his thoughts. The sky outside the window crisp blue and all the pupils on the running track sweating as it was a very hot day, but inside his hand, a small cold smoke enveloped the pen and froze it in an instant. He sat straight, turned his head around. From the corner of his eyes, he saw a girl just beside him secretly painted her nails under the desk, a boy far in front, doodled at his notes, the girl in front of him texting secretly under the table and almost everyone else busy taking notes or listen carefully to the teacher. He stood his own book straight and hid the pen. Slowly inhale and exhale, he channeled his shoura to the pen, opening the message inside the ice shard sent to him. The pen defrosted and his steward voice whispered in his ear.

"Your majesty, Herr Dieter Gunther's last sentinel has arrived. I will send it to your hand right now"

Damnit, it's in the middle of the class Albert!

He inhaled and send another shoura power to his palm, where a whirl of snow dust slowly formed.

Abort, I am in the middle of the...

But, under the snow dust, a blue twinkle star started to forming threads of blue lights, twirling and forming a small transparent bird.

His brow knitted and his lips narrowed.

Too late

As the bluish transparent little penguin completed, it jumped from his opened palm and dived to his head. A blue shiny light rippled around the place the bird touched his temple and vanished inside.

He felt a strange icy sensation bathed him from head to toe, and slowly, as he opened his eyes, his surrounding blackened, and then some sparks with blue threads of light sketching snow and above him painted pink, red, blue, purple of Antarctic's sunset sky as he entered Dieter Gunther's memory.

Another spark of light twirled and formed a solid full grown man beside him. As the memory completed the boy could clearly see that the person beside him wore all white army suit with a bit sliver of light blue and grey Antarctica camouflage, complete with a similar helmet with blue transparent five stars on his shoulder. At his chest, his name, Dieter Gunther embroidered with blue threads. The blonde short haired man seemed uneasy.

As Ryuzan looked around all around them was snow dunes reflecting the color of the long Antartica sunset, at his right the peak of Mount Markham reaching the cloud, and far right, was the white and blue peak of trans-Antarctica mountains. Under them was a fast whiteness with a speck of human building at mc Murdo station a bit far almost looked like dirt in this clean white environment.

Near the Ross sea, in front of them, a bunch of pale Tosca buildings of NZ's Scott Base and a bit far from those colorful buildings of US's McMurdo base with the epic red mall. Both of them looked like toys from this height.

At his back, with a telescope, he could see small colorful buildings at Vostok's Russian base and also, a bit of the south geomagnetic pole this year. A perfect surveillance spot.

The snow crunching under someone's boots behind Ryuzan as he ran to them. As the teenager turned to his back, he can see clearly that the new man wore the same uniform, but with four transparent blue stripes on his shoulder. Sergeant.

He read the name embroidered in grey on his chest.

Einhardt Eggbert?

Ryuzan's lip twitched.

"Herr Gunther!" The Sergeant saluted, the snow splashed as he slapped his feet and tapped his side of left arm diagonally in front of his chest.

The person beside Ryuzan saluted back. "Soldier, report the condition"

"Yes, Sir. Everything rearranged to randomize position no A23. The scientist settled into McMurdo Station. Snow monster randomized to zigzag camouflage position"

"Anything out of ordinary? How's the temperature reading?"

Reaching for his pocket the Soldier took a small transparent tablet made from blue acrylic plastic out, as the soldier tap a light button on the side, the tablet turned on and show graphic diagrams. He swiped the surface and it showed maps with some red dots and a clump of oranges.

"Just a slight raise temperature reading around McMurdo. It probably another tool set up for their research sir. Our data show it was some tourist that went to see the sunset and first aurora of this year."

"I was so sure I feel unusual temperature raising yesterday. And the Prince alerted us too when he went down from training." Her Gunther sighed. " If only Sadhu still here"

So my report treated seriously at the frontier. Good job.

The sergeant frowned and asked. "What about Lord Sabkosh?Is he feeling ill?"

"Lord Sabkosh have some serious business off the country" The general answered.

A deep voice reverberated as Ryuzan heard Herr Gunther thought.

I just wish it is as simple as that... Sometimes wise people and strong people are a bit too arrogant for their own good.

The General thought for a few seconds. "Send ice shard to the closest person to McMurdo. Recheck any unusual temperature reading at every sensor."

The Soldier inhaled and twirled his palm with a bit of force. A shard formed. A few seconds after that, it vanished. But, it reappeared.

"It.. it failed" The Soldier a bit confused.

Herr Gunther turned "It what? It is not possible unless.." But the Soldier in front of him fell on his back, his eyes closed. There was a burn mark on his chest.

"SHIT!" Herr Gunther threw ice shard. Ryuzan warped along as Herr Gunther and he reappeared behind one of the Ice dunes, about twenty meters away.

Throwing himself to the ground, Herr Gunther laid low, his eyes swept the snowfield in a hurry, something he could point out to be a cause of the death of his sergeant.

Frowning, he channeled his Shoura as he closed his eyes and opened it again. Everything around Ryuzan turned blue and orange, as Herr Gunther use his temperature sighting. The teenager heard his voice once more in his head.

It must be lavalander. There's no way anyone could burn through someone's chest unless they use lava bullet. But where?

He cursed under his breath as Ryuzan see one by one big clump of deep blue on his sighting missing one by one.

Ice monsters. Why, how? Their position just randomized, and they were warping to the place

He inhaled deeply, a transparent Eagle with spikes formed in front of him.

His Ashoura. Ryuzan thought.

Making triangular ice crystal Herr Gunther threw it to the Ashoura's head and it absorbed it.

The teenager nodded silently.

He writing his memory and wrapping it to send to the king.

Fly, Pata, be my eyes!

Her Gunther shot his index finger and the Ashoura flew to the sky. Ryuzan felt as if the bird bring him with it, further and further away from the body of Herr Gunther. Down below, Ryuzan saw a bump in the snow moved behind him.

"CAREFUL!"

He yelled.

As if the man heard the warning, the general turned his head so fast and warped. Mid-air, Herr Gunther threw something metal to the intruder, but suddenly, with a loud scream, he fell flat to the ice.

Above, Ryuzan spot a big burn mark appeared on his chest, while beside him, losing the link with the shoura inside the general, the Eagle Ashoura transformed to strands of light and dissolved. The prince of ice turned around as everything around him gradually thinning down. A woman snark.

"Ryuzan Starlight! Don't daydream!"

"Yes?"

The boy answered, confused with the question.

The whole scenery around him dissolved, the class reappeared and he could see everyone in the class around him gaped.

Uh Oh.