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[A couple of days later...]
The entirety of Taured... Had been frozen, by a single woman in the span of a few days.
The entire Mediterranean sea had been flash frozen by her on Wednesday. Everything that swims and doesn't just dead. Flash frozen. That also means the entire country... But she chose to advance on Eiswelt. And the freezing here was gradual—Not instant like in every other state. It's safe to say that the world soon knew what was happening here.
The Eisturm Tower and most of the bridges connecting Eiswelt to the rest of Taured and the outside world alongside the military outpost in the Northern Quadrant of the city got flash frozen on Wednesday, the metal itself shrieked and twisted as the metal froze. The bridges fell, the people died.
We were aware of the sea freezing and the snow fall but nobody knew the source... yet.
And so we didn't evacuate that day.
The next day, Thursday, she froze the entire Western Quadrant of the city, shooting down anything that moved and didn't. The entire quadrant was both melted and frozen together due to mysterious red thunderbolts she kept releasing from her hands, the media believed it to be lasers. The air started smelling like burned fuel and ozone from her attacks. Mixing with the cold air into a heady and suffocating smell, like death.
By Friday she also froze and DESTROYED the South Quandrant of Eiswelt, the military had started fighting her actively, every second they could spare. The President long evacuated.
By then every breath a person would take crystalized in the air. Taured became a snowy wasteland, ice so unbelievably thick it reached the seabed. All the water was frozen. Nobody knew how long this would last. We all hoped it would be over soon, and for most it did end...
By Saturday? She earned the nickname "The Storm" by the citizens, now everyone was actively trying to make it to the harbors and ports to escape by ship. Eiswelt was the last city standing in the entirety of Taured, a country that spans 765 kilometers (473 miles) from West to East and 853 kilometers (530 miles) from North to South. Gone.
[Eisturm Tower, 5:22 AM, Sunday]
My parents and I were running to the military outposts near the Eisturm Tower, Aunt Lara didn't join us.
She remained at home.
I didn't know it then but that cube summoned her, "The Storm" they called her...
She flew from building to building, laughing maniacally, her eyes scanning the city as if looking for someone. She was fighting off the remaining Taured military, all of them by order of the President who fled, were all rushing to Eiswelt to fight her off as the 5.5 million remaining citizens of Eiswelt, and in turn Taured, rushed through the streets to escape by boat, but to little to no avail.
Alexander Karawei: "Eyes ahead son... Come on, quickly!"
We ran forward through the back alleys as cars were being flipped and ice spikes rose out of the ground everywhere.
Every time she bounced or jumped, every time she landed through buildings... Every time she punched, or shot out icicles. More and more ice and blood covered the land.
She fought against some of Taured's best men. And machines.
The Enforcers, a specialized unit of the Tauredian army, they had massive mech-like suits made out of a special alloy.
The kind that absorbed physical trauma... But didn't do much against ice.
As we got out of the alleyways and went under the Eisturm Tower she got knocked straight into the observation room at the top by a chopper. The air itself screamed as ice crawled up the Eisturm Tower from her back, glass shattering like a thousand wind chimes. Freezing mid air and falling down onto the ground like shrapnel.
It's safe to say the entire thing rattled with the force of her landing, freezing upon contact... She cackled loudly, the sound echoing off the buildings in the rapidly changing landscape.
???: "Nice try! But you can't fight metal with metal."
She dashed forwards just as we ducked under a falling truck, right on top of the alleyway we passed through. A spike came out from between the two buildings and trapped the truck above us, making a makeshift roof in the alley.
The two buildings forming the alleyway started collapsing as Ice twirled and twisted underneath the ground.
Eleanor Karawei: "C'mon sweetie... We're almost at the port. Oh Lord have mercy!"
The strange woman fell down before us after taking a particularly massive blow from an Enforcer, looking back she locked eyes with me and grinned.
???: "Karawei... It's SO nice to finally meet you face to face! We have so many plans for you..."
She turned around as she caught a falling chopper, throwing it into the building across where the Enforcer was, the chopper exploded and the explosion itself froze solid. A terrifying sight as the Enforcer was consumed by it, like a rose.
Another one jumped down from the building in front and landed on her, she shot out a thunderbolt from her foot and jumped up into the sky. Battling the enforcer.
We took this chance to run, the navy was already guiding people onto giant freighters so that we could escape...
We didn't.
She turned and ran towards the port, jumping up into the air and propelling herself with some sort of red energy blasts from her feet. Hovering on the air and freezing it, letting the shards rain down like bullets onto the city below.
She slammed her fist down into the first freighter, flash freezing it... It fell and crashed into the other three ships, also freezing them.
And then suddenly a giant ice spike came out of the ground and destroyed the port. It was the biggest one in the country, 48 km² of ships and containers... The spike however triumphed in size and sheer volume, reaching the height of the Eisturm Tower itself, coming in at over 250 cubic kilometers, that's 60³ miles of pure ice. 5.5 million, dead.
My mom fell to her knees out of sheer terror, my dad started praying silently... Muttering something in latin... For some reason I didn't do anything.
I looked around calmly like someone walking through a field of wheat.
I felt something... But it was such a unfamiliar feeling it just didn't register within me. Like déjà vu.
She dashed forwards once again, gigantic ice wings forming from her back as she began flying high above the city, launching up into the sky what looked like red thunderbolts from her hands. They went into the clouds and the sky roared, the strange electricity coursing through the clouds causing an instant snowstorm where the thunder rained down onto the city.
The last thing I remember? Her red glowing eye looking into mine as I was falling to the ground... And a gentle warmth on my forehead.
And then?
...
Nothing.
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Author's Note:
Hey! Thanks for reading another chapter of Divinity, yeah so... this strange woman is op.
Um. You'll learn more about her later.
I still dunno what to put here so here's a bear: 👋🐻👍
Uh... yeah so if you guys have any questions just ask ahead in the comments. That's it.
So... cya in the next one!