Chapter 5: I See Ice

"I-It froze! It just freaking froze!"

"How is it possible?!" Mr. Harrison's eyes wide open! Even the expert ice magic fairies he knew couldn't pull this off! 'How can a sixteen year old-!'

Zader was also flustered as if he's frozen too! His water energy became so cold, slightly reaching its freezing point! 'I-I can't freely move! Damn!'

A lot of the students murmured, and are confused, 'Why did it suddenly stopped... like a statue?!'

"Did the time stopped?"

They dropped their jaws as they slowly went out to see what really happened!

"Woaaah!"

"What happened?"

"Who is she?"

"Thana!" Theo dashed to her side and touched his arm gently.

As Thana opened her eyes, she is lost of words, it was so close! The tip of the griffin's fang touched her skin and it stopped! It froze in a snap!

Like the others, she can't utter a word either! She panted and breathe heavily to calm her raising heart and shivering hands. She lost all her energy and she felt colder than ever before.

"What exactly did you do?!" The worry in Theo's eyes can't hide from her! He wanted to be angry, but he can't right now! Especially, Thana got hurt- AGAIN!

Mr. Harrison managed to recover and regain some of his strength. He stood up from the ground, and dug his phone from his pocket and put it beside his ear, "Code 7, one creature appeared at Heaven's Gate." He clicked his phone away and seriously approached Thana that was weakly on the ground. He looked around and met every student's eyes, "This incident may not be a part of the trip, but I see that everyone was surprised and fascinated at the same time. For the meantime, go back to the school and wait for me there." One by one, the students left still engrossed, while Theo and his friends stayed with Mr. H at the so called gate.

Police started to approach the scene, and Mr. H automatically talked to them about the situation.

Theo held Thana's arm... gripped it, for her to stand up! Theo gritted his teeth, and whispered at her side, "You just suffered from a burn-out, why did you dashed yourself in front of a freaking flying lion!"

Unknowingly, Theo's making her more weak, but she didn't care. His hot fired temper turned to be even hotter than the weather!

She felt like her arm was melting, she felt nauseous, and the entire situation was draining! "I'm awesome, right?" Thana chuckled and smiled at him. She tried to make his brother's anger and worry lessen, but her hand automatically reached for her chest, it suddenly ached so bad like a heart attack!

"Thana!" Theo supported her while healer fairies ran towards them! 'At last! Help arrived!' Two healer faries squatted in front of her, provided her with a temporary cloud for her to lie on.

Zader, on the other hand was fine, just a few scratches. Jade tried to stay by his side while being checked by the healers, but she just can't stay away from what was going on, her eyes were on Thana. 'She usually doesn't care, why do something like this now?'

"That's stupid, and at the same time brave," Mr. Harrison smiled, he stepped closer and closer... "But how did you do that?" Mr. Harrison looked at the griffin that turned into statue. There's no sign of ice around its body but it's definitely frozen inside!

"I-I don't know," Thana answered in between her grunts. Her eyes shut, trying to endure the pain electrifying every single part of her body and bones... the thumping pain on her bruises and stingy small scapes.

'Is it really necessary to answer him right now?!' Theo tbought with creased forehead. But then, Theo looked at him surprised, "Mr. H, I think it's the boosting tonic, she had some this morning!" Mr. Harrison nodded his head like sorting everything out in his head.

"That could be it, but what she did requires a lot of magic strength, moreover skills. What boosting tonic was it?"

"It's a blue liquid one!" He grunted impatiently!

"Alright! For now, take care of her and follow the others back to school," Mr. H left them behind, and approached the griffin.

'The blue boosting tonic is not enough to create something like this!' Mr. H moved a couple steps away from the creature to approach one of the special forces agents that is supposed to be responsible for capturing the griffin.

"You did this old man?" A tall muscular man in a black agent suit marched towards Mr. Harrison. He removed his sunglasses with charm, and then he charismatically smirked! He lifted his head and checked the frozen griffin beside him. He pulled out his right hand out of his pocket, and knocked the frozen thing! The griffin's face was nearly touching his face but he wasn't bothered! "How did you do it?"

"Careful Alister, a sixteen year old who just suffered a burn-out two days ago froze that. It might not be as strongly frozen as what you have expected."

'Yikes!' Alister automatically pulled back his face, and cleared his throat. "O-ohh, glad-glad you called us! I didn't expect you to be a high school teacher after retiring from the Special Task Force Unit."

Mr. H smiled at him, "Keep it down Alister, they don't know I trained you. If they would, I would probably be ashamed."

"I-I? What?!" 'What was that suppose to mean?" Mr. H turned around without a single interest on him anymore! He put his hand up as a sign of goodbye and marched away, "Woah, that old man is really something!" He shook his head sideways while staring at his former leader's back. 'He's still so annoying, tsk!' "Hey, you two! Take this creature to the sanctuary while it can't devour us all!" 'Now where is that sixteen year old? Hmm...'

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"What is this place?" Thana's eyes went crazy from looking around; It's a huge building, white walls, furnitures, it's a white everything place! Every room have a transparent window in the door; inside, different fairies works on different things! Every room is lit up by different shades of colours and- surprisingly one of them created a loud bang and black sparkly-dust explosion!

"Oh! That hurts," Alister grimaced. "But! It's amazing, isn't it? Well, welcome to the Research Institute of Magic!" Alister opened one particular door wide open for Thana and Mr. Harrison behind her. "And this is where the magic happen- like literally!"

"Oh! Harry, it's nice to see you again!" A lady in a lab coat hugged Mr. H like they had never seen each other since forever! "What made you come here?" Her eyes sparkled as she smiled to her guests.

"Creature crisis, can we talk in private?" Her eyes weirdly looked at Thana, to Alister, and back to Mr. H, she nodded and brought him into her small kitchenette located inside a closed space in her office.

"Here they go again! Counting me out! See those people, they didn't even introduce theirselves!" Alister crossed his arms as he slumped his ass on a swivel chair and turned himself around!

"Uhm but, you didn't either. Sorry, who are you again?"

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Mr. Harrison looked at Thana through the blinds and closed it. "She's just a teenager Dana, but her magic is rare, and I haven't encounter someone who has an ability like hers."

"Is she the one we are looking for? If not, we would be in huge trouble."

"I'm not sure yet but get a blood sample, examine her magic energy. Do what you have to do, but this only stay between us." Dana nodded her head, but their attention suddenly diverted that caused their heads to look at the door; they stepped out and stared at Alister.

"Code 7! I repeat Code 7! Special Forces unit one and two dispatch to heavens gate now!" It repeatedly announced!

Mr. H and Dana also stepped out of the kitchenette, and paid their attention outside her office.

"Unbelievable!" Alister picked his ass up and slammed the door!

Dana awkwardly looked at Thana and Mr. H and just shrugged. She looked at Thana again and flashed a smile, "Sorry about that, I'm Dana by the way. I heard, you took care of the creature problem."

"Not really, I also didn't know what happened back there. It's... weird."

"Really? That's interesting! I'll just grab a little blood sample and a sample of your magic energy to make sure you're okay."

"But- the healers told me i'll be fine! I'm feeling fine," Dana took a quick gaze at Mr. H and pressed her lips together.

"I-I'm just makin' sure honey. Now, relax your arm please," Dana gave Thana a clear test tube for her to fill with her magic energy. She then wrapped a thin rubber string around her upper arm, and prepared to get a blood sample.

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The lights from the building of Research Institute of Magic was one by one turning dark. Dana's office was filled with nothing but a single weak light from her small lamp and her computer. It's midnight and she's still staring at Thana's samples. "Right, a sixteen year old..." She anxiously played at her pen, clicking it rapidly. She bit her lower lip and grabbed the samples and put it inside her drawer, and locked it! "I really hope, we are not wrong this time!"

Someone's outside the door looking at Dana and heard what she just said. 'What are you planning this time?'

Dana removed her lab coat and replaced it with her black leather jacket. She turned off her computer and walked out from her office with the thought of her research. Dana opened the door of her car and stopped her car in front of the Sanctuary. 'What is she doing here?!'

Dana walked with worry as she opened a door in the restricted area. There are guards outside the door and the person tailing her can't seem to see what was inside. "Shit!"

She turned on the light and there appeared a huge block of ice! There's a person inside! "You're still there... a little more time. I need a little more time to get you out of there!"