The cold one

There was another very long silence in the room, they were all wandering what to do , the cold one is a very powerful being, some call him God himself, others believe he is God's right hand. Others believe he is not God's right hand God but the true definition of power, who had the supreme power to determine what is wrong and write . According to legend, the cold after creating humans a granting power to some, went into a deep slumber. He wanted his creation to take care of themselves and rule themselves so ,he created the continents and gave each one a ruler with unimaginable wisdom. The cold ones last words were "protect my handwork" . In the great hall these men and women were in deep thought. These people were powerful magic users from all the continents, they formed this coven after the great purge to protect themselves from those who wished to harm them, but this was just a reason on the surface. Though the legend about the cold one and his return has been told and retold these people knew what was really at stake. Aziza a very powerful sorcerer spoke out breaking the silence " We can't let it happen, we have done it before and we can do it again". After she finished speaking Xavier continued " Yes we've done it before but the cold one was without a vessel then , but now the great oak has started to shed it leaves. There was great fear and panic filling up the room. The great oak tree was fertilised with the blood of the Cold one. It has been monitored and concealed from all prying eyes by the coven. It has been written by the old that , the oak tree will start to shed when the vessel for the Cold One is ready. Aziza spoke again , since he hasn't materialised yet we can hit it at the core by destroying the vessel". What she said made sense but Hakim said " Where is the vessel, we been searching from east to west, north to south of every continent we know, and even lost a brother while doing so " after he raised this concern there was murmuring among them, sharing opinions. After some time, Xavier spoke with a cold tone " I have been doing my own research and investigations, I've gathered information over the years, since we couldn't find the vessel , I made a list of surviving magic users, and their surviving generation and broke it down to the ones who have been showing great magical abilities, since the Cold One is likely not to possess a weak body but a strong one." Whiles speaking someone interrupted and raised a concern, " But how sure are you that the Cold One will possess the body of a magic user and not a human." This raised a little uproar in the room by a group of people and others silent. Xavier looked at him without emotions and said " The Cold One is the most powerful being to have ever existed, and we all know that though the human body is complicated, it is very fragile and can't contain even a little cup of magic." After he was done speaking, he raised his left hand and asked "any other questions" but noone replied so he continued...

In the capital Ren woke up screaming and sweating profusely, Jade woke up worried and frightened, she moved over to Ren's bed, trying to calm her down, " it was just a bad dream, you're okay now" she said hugging and kissing her hair and forehead to make Ren feel comfortable and be at ease. After a while, she started crying in Jade's arms like baby. Jade asked whether she wanted to talk about the dream but she shook her head and Jade understood. She fell asleep right after ,and Jade went to bed too.

The next morning as the sun rose , Mr Stone, Ren's father came back to check up on the girls again, but to his surprise, they were still sleeping. Though Ren is usually the first person to wake up in their neighbourhood everyday, she slept in today which was quite unusual, but her father guessed they might have had a lot of fun and slept really late. He left them and started with his daily chores, but he felt a little off, so he went up to the girls room again,but the were still sleeping , it was almost midday , so he decided to wake them up the time around, he started calling out their names, Karen!!Jade!!Karen!!Jade!! . When he got there , before he could touch Ren , Jade woke up with a frightened look , and Jade started to move her legs but they were shivering, her father noticed this and asked what was wrong and what they did last night. Jade was the first to speak, " we went out to the festival, we came back really late, and talked through out the night". Ren chipped in " We just fell asleep around dawn ", it was the truth but half truth though. Her father believed them and got up to leave, but before leaving , he told them that their breakfast is getting cold, so they should get to it and left. The shock, fear, questions in their heads were drawn on their faces.