Chronicles of the Wolf Book II: A Wolf in Sheep's clothing

Chapter 6

In all my time I had never witnessed a power like this before. Even when those creatures had attacked my home land when I was younger. This was something on a much bigger magnitude.

Once the flash had happened, I had awoken in a strange place. There was some sort of solid wall of ice around me. It was about five feet away from me and it encased all over in each direction. I looked around and saw Walker on the floor clearly unconscious, I heard his heart beat it was faint, but it was there.

“What in the world happened?” I said I looked at my hand and saw the amulet glowing lightly, I somehow knew that this thing had protected us.

I did not understand why I had pulled out this thing, almost as if on instinct. It was almost as if I was guided by something to use this damn thing. I looked at it and wondered if after everything that has happened Lacia had guided me to use it? I did not have time to wonder about that. I had a more pressing matter.

“What happened?” Walker asked as he stirred and rubbed his eyes.

“I don’t know,” I said honestly.

Walker looked around, he clearly was scanning this wall around us with that weird implant of his. After a few moments he frowned.

“What does that thing tell you?” I asked.

“It’s ice.” Walker said.

“I can see that,” I snorted dismissing that stupid implant of his.

“But that doesn’t make any sense.” Walker continued.

“I could tell that without that stupid implant,” I said.

“Don’t you realize how fast something needed to cool everything around us in order to cause this to happen in a matter of moments?” Walker said. I stared at him blankly, I of course had no idea.

“But did we get frozen or was the whole city frozen?” I asked.

“I think it’s the whole city,” Walker said. “How did we survive though, is what I am wondering about.”

“Its because of this thing,” I said pulling out the medallion.

I looked at the medallion like I was looking at the bane of my existence. There were things I still had no clue about this thing. It somehow had protected us from whatever had frozen everything around us. The question was, what had frozen everything around us? A weapon of some sort?

I had seen those creatures who had attacked my home world they had those weapons that instantly vaporized something into cinders. Could there be some sort of freeze blast that caused this?

“Even if there was something like that, I never heard of something that could cause that, instantaneously.” Walker said.

It took me a few moments to realize I had said my statement out loud.

“You mean to tell me that there is no such thing?” I asked.

“There could be,” Walker said. “I have seen things that they could use to instantly freeze things when something is on fire, but this…this is on a whole other level.”

“Star builder technology?” I asked.

“It has to be,” Walker said.

Once again Star Builder technology could possibly come into play. This could explain why the amulet had reacted the way that it had. The amulet was a known star builder item, whatever flash froze this city had to be something much more devastating that anything I had witnessed to date.

“The Bringer of Storms would unit beings that were said to be able to move mountains at their will, blow gales of wind, freeze entire continents in a flash.” I murmured mostly to myself. I however, realized this was exactly what we had experienced. “This is what the creature spoke of. We have to get out of here.”

I looked at the solid wall of ice. I tried to figure out if there was a way to get out of here. Then I began to think that if the medallion blocked this from happening maybe, it could melt the ice.

For the second time I grabbed the accursed thing and raised it towards the ice. Within moments the ice around the medallion began to melt. It soon gave way to a passage for Walker and I to walk through.

“Did you know it could do that?” Walker asked.

“No,” I said.

“Then how did you…” Walker started.

“Call it a hunch,” I said.

Once we walked through the opening we looked around and it looked totally different. The entire city had been frozen over. All the pyramids, all the buildings, all the roads, all the strange creatures, everything was just frozen. Completely frozen.

Walker looked around as if he was trying to figure out what had happened. I didn’t need that stupid implant of his to know that something extremely off the wall crazy had just happened. This power that the creature said that the Storm Bringer had, it was something that seemed even more dangerous than the Mask of Damus that we had journeyed to prevent from falling into the wrong hands.

“Scary huh?” a familiar voice said.

This made me jump. Walker also had jumped he had become so engrossed in looking at the ice that he had, in no way had expected someone to just randomly appear. I knew who the voice belonged to. I turned around and saw that strange being Hanuman perched on top of a frozen perch.

“You!” I growled.

“Oh, you Beghrest are always the same, all huff and puff but in the end you can’t even blow a house down.” Hanuman said.

“What the hell does that mean?” I said.

“Where did you come from?” Walker asked after he gathered himself.

“I just appeared here,” Hanuman said simply.

“How can you just appear here?” Walker asked.

“That is what you are concerned about?” Hanuman said. “Here I thought that you would be wondering what made this happen.”

“Do you know what caused this?” I said.

“Oh brother, do I know what caused this,” Hanuman said.

“And you are going to tell us?” I said.

“It is something that the slimy Norman Hunraken got his grimy claws on.” Hanuman said as he jumped off the perch and landed in from.

“And that is all you are going to tell us?” I asked.

“With that he has some devastating weapons in his disposal.” Hanuman said. “And I am not just talking about those weapons that freeze and whatever the heck else that myth talks about.”

“You know of this myth?” I asked.

“Oh yeah,” Hanuman said.

“How do you know about it?” Walker asked.

“The myth about the storm bringers is a pretty old myth, pretty much all worlds have a similar myth.” Hanuman said. “As a galactic journey-man I would have bound to have encountered this myth. But I can tell you, that myth was not talking about Norman freaking Hunraken.”

“Why do you say that?” I asked.

“Because, the guy may be a mad scientist that created all sorts of crazy things, he however would never be able to pull this off on his own, oh no.” Hanuman said. “And that my friend is where you come in.”

“Me?” I said.

“No, the other big silver wolf thing,” Hanuman said.

“Why me?” I asked.

“Because you were the one who vowed to protect the Opidium,” Hanuman said, and I growled at him. A second later I was on the floor barely able to move. “Do not forget who you are dealing with.”

“Duly noted,” I managed to say.

“You’re plan of attack should be to find Hunraken’s supposedly defunct experiments.” Hanuman said. “I am sure that they would have some juicy details on how to find the slimy guy and find out who is pulling the strings on him.”

“How the hell do we find these experiments?” I asked.

“There was one that lived in the female camp here,” Hanuman said. “Or so I heard, I would start there. There is a chance that she could still be there. I heard she was pretty maybe you can even ask her out.”

“If I wasn’t stuck to the floor, I would rip you apart,” I said, I was still stuck to the floor unable to move.

“Gee here I am trying to give you some pointers.” Hanuman said. “Also, another pointer: don’t go over there looking like a girl, seriously, Montezuma has some serious post traumatic stress about what happened with his sister.”

“Come again?” I asked, and I realized I was free. I looked around and Hanuman disappeared.

“He has to have some sort of instant teleportation technology.” Walker said as he looked like was scanning around the area. “That is the only thing that could be the only way that he is able to disappear like that.”