Chapter Five: who I am

"W…wh…wh…"

"I was right after all," Raquel said with a smile. Jena mouthed a "wow" and "cool".

"What is happening to me?" I cried.

"Relax, I will help," she said nonchalantly. I scoffed.

"I'm the one turning into a freak here so I cannot relax!!!" I yelled.

"You're not a freak, just a gifted someone I guess," Jena said with a shrug.

"Gifted! Jena, you won't understand how I feel right now, I just froze a damn pool," I sobbed. "Am I Jack Frost's younger sister or what?!" Jena chuckled and Raquel smiled.

"I say gifted because I understand how you feel,"

"No, you don't!" I yelled.

"Really?" She smirked. "As I've always said, Arabel, I'm an unquenchable fire," she said with a cocky smirk. I gasped as her eyes turned into a sharp lava color. Her hands burned up with flames and with one wave, the water was back to normal. Her eyes returned to normal, her lips still maintaining their smirk. It was unbelievable "Still think I don't understand?"

What the…!

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"And that's how it started," I finished my brief explanation of how everything started.

"She can't just suddenly develop powers, I thought we were the only ones?" Jena said to Raquel who had her eyes shut the entire time.

"We aren't. There are other supernatural beings on earth, the only difference is that I'm not from this reality and your powers come from me." Raquel replied with her eyes still closed.

"And you tell me now!"

"It wasn't relevant. As a being with too much power, I'm not allowed to interfere with the works of the beings in this reality," she said softly, "my duty as the vessel of this universe is to protect it from the others and maintain the balance. With that said, Arabel, who is Christabel to you?" Mom?

"My mom," I said confusedly, "why?"

"She's the reason you are like this,"

"Pardon?" I asked shockingly.

"Your mother is the last daughter of the winter witch,". Winter what? What is this? A fairytale book?

"The what of what now!" Jena exclaimed.

"The winter witch is the ruler of winter. She has limitless powers to it. With one wave of her hand, the whole earth will be nothing but frozen stone but I'm sure the flora witch won't let that happen. To humans, the flora witch is a roman goddess or what they will call mother nature but she is more than that."

"Sorry, how does my mom get involved in this?" I asked skeptically.

"In other to sit on the cold throne, you need five things. The crown and the scepter, a symbols of the throne. The mark of winter, to dominate over winter. The symbol of the great snow dragon, the divine beast of winter. The cold stone, for immortality and the most powerful of all, the crystal heart. With those five sacred symbols and items, the winter witch is born."

"Quelly, can you get to the point?" Jena hissed.

"Be quiet, Jena," Raquel's voice echoed as she opened her glowing white eyes. Jena looked away instantly but I couldn't. "The winter witch had three daughters for three creatures of ice. The first was Icy, the heiress to the throne but strangely, she only had the mark of winter on her, the rest weren't there."

"Let me guess, my mother had the rest?"

"Not entirely true but similar. They all shared the sacred symbols. The second daughter had the symbol of the snow dragon and your mother has the cold stone in the middle of her heart. The crystal heart, however, did not exist in either of them. They were to rule together, side by side but that didn't sit so well with Icy," she touched my hands and I gasped. I could see everything the way it happened. "After the winter witch died and the scepter and crown were given to her as the firstborn…"

"She went killer frost on them," Jena said chucklingly. Nice of her to find it funny.

"The second daughter risked her life to save your mother, her real name is Crystal. She changed it when she fled," I watched my mother as she wandered in the street. Tears ran down my cheeks. I saw how she met Iso's mother, how they became friends, how they met my dad… How I was born. I removed my hands and wiped the tears off.

"Icy's dark craving for power led her so deep into the darkness that the winter mark abandoned her and was replaced with the toxic dark mark. She became the dark empress of winter, the ice queen. She searched endlessly for your mother and got a hint after you were born. A daughter of winter should feel no pain but the pain she went through when giving birth to you alerted The Ice Queen. Your mother knew she would be found out and kill you so in other to protect you, she faked her death and ran away."

"So she's alive," I said scoffingly with tears.

"Hidden in the temple of the elder beings. The oldest of all mystical creatures." Her eyes stopped glowing.

"Why didn't my powers come out since?"

"Because you had none but when you died in that accident, you returned as a daughter of winter, plus, the time for the real winter witch is near, the one to be born with the crystal heart and all the symbols of winter… even greater," she replied standing up.

"I'm gonna die, huh? That bitch will come after me."

"Not yet, but before that, you must have the sacred one in your womb because her light is the only one that can save you."

"Do you see me getting married in the next thousand years?" I snapped but she smiled.

"You do not see what I see, Ara. I am the eyes of the universe, the vessel in which they spin. My knowledge is beyond normal understanding…"

"Then make this all go away!" I cried.

"As I said, I'm not authorized to interfere with fate and destiny. I can lead you to the right path but never use my powers to stop it. You have a rare and forgotten symbol, the power of the great snow eagle, the second creature born in winter. When your mother dies, the cold stone will be yours and then everything will be passed on to her," she shook her head pitifully. "I cry ahead, Ara, you do not see what I see." She said sadly.

"So I should just randomly get pregnant?"

"You will meet him at the right time but for now, you will stay indoors in a place I shall take you to. I will assign something to teach you how to use your powers before the final stage comes and then him." I shrugged. Her voice was firm and cold meaning there was no other choice for me but to dance to the tone of destiny. At least I know who I am now.