The door swung open, the rabbit beastman from earlier barging into the storage area “Mia! We are ready fo-“ she paused, her thought process halted at seeing what was in front of her. The child that previously had shown off her amazing and inspiring magic, was now sitting on the floor in a dark room eating a sandwich.
“Hrm?” Mia, mouth stuffed with a delicious ham sandwich, turned around to face her “mreawdy?” she asked.
“…you know we have like, a dining hall…right?” Fria asked.
“Mhwo…mmeah…” Mia stood up, shoving the rest of the sandwich in her mouth, chewing rapidly until she suddenly swallowed, forcing it down. She coughed, shook her head, then straightened up “ready.”
“…well, that was… something…” Fria shook herself out of her daze “Well, goes to show first impression are not all that.”
“Rude.” Mia huffed, walking up to meet her at the door. On the other side everyone was either resting, or gone, the metal door remaining open.
“Hey kid! We are waiting on ya!” one of the larger men waved, drawing the attention of the other.
“Mhm.” She walked over, stopping at the open gate, the cargo area filled to the brim, leaving just enough space to walk in “Lots…”
“Well yeah, we are feeding a bunch of people now, usually its not this full.” The bigger man laughed.
“Honestly, we were in a bit of trouble.” Another chimed in.
“First the gem breaks, then the replacement mage bails…” the other rabbit beastman, the one that walked away, spoke.
“Mh, sorry.” She felt a bit sorry for them, especially since they were helping a bunch of people escape, but with this…
She cast her magic, sending wave after wave of frost to cover up the newly added crates and boxes, leaving everything covered in a thick layer of clear ice.
…she could help, she just had to keep it up and manage it, also help anyone who wanted to take anything out ‘should set up an igloo somewhere around here…’ she glanced towards the small storage area she was eating in ‘that would work.’ She’d also have the added bonus of not disturbing anyone with her mist.
“Same kid was eating a sandwich off the floor and then finished it like I was going to steal it from her…” Fria mumbled.
“What was that?” one of the larger men asked.
“Nothing, good job Mia, let’s get this closed up so we can head up and watch departure.”
“””aye!”””
The four of them followed by the remaining people in the room all gathered up, going to the sides of each door, once there one person from each side hit wall, causing a large lever to shoot out of it. Then the separate groups took hold of the lever, rapidly cranking it, causing the door to slam shut.
Mia clutched her ears, the quick slam catching her off guard, it was amazing how quick the doors closed, when she looked back up everyone was laughing and celebrating with each other, walking past her and towards the stairs.
“Good job again Mia, try not to go off hiding anywhere in case a cook needs to find you or something.” Fria slapped Mia on the back, before running past her and up the stairs.
Mia stood there for a few moments, noticing it was just her and three other men in the room “…now what?” she looked around, two of the men were busy with cargo, while the other…
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“How’d you get so strong?”
Was the rabbit beastman, the tall and lanky one that walked away. “Hm?” she looked at him, not sure getting what he meant.
“The ice, your magic.” He raised his hand, wind gathering in his palm to form a ball “how’d you get so strong, so young?”
“Ah, effort.” She stated bluntly, of course, not telling him about the time loop thing or how she was a hero ‘Hrm…I don’t like these conversations…’ she was getting sick of explaining herself, having done it multiple times in the past two days.
“Bullshit, you are way too young.” He slammed his foot down, drawing the attention of the other two “you must have found an orb or something, or cheated.” The wind in his palm kicked up speed “Do you know how long I trained!”
“…so?” Why is he getting so mad?
She started to spread out her mist, filling the space between the two, some of it getting sucked up into the wind ball ‘oh?’ she gave a small smile.
“So? SO?!” he took a step forward, then, noticing the mist, stepped back, hesitating.
“Yo Crim, what are you even doing?”
“Yeah, she’s just a kid, are you seriously about to fight a kid who can do that?”
The two other workers chimed in, one of them pointing to the metal door to the Fridge, the entrance of which had developed a layer of frost sticking to it after it had chilled from being closed.
“…tch…” Crim flicked his hand, halting his magic then he heard a loud THUD next to him, causing him to jump to the side “…the heck is that?” on the ground was a palm sized ice sculpture of his head, smiling with his mouth wide open and his tongue hanging out, the word “DUMMY” written atop its skull. The ears were notably not finished.
“Too early, not done.” Mia huffed, cheeks puffed out. She had been forming that little sculpture from within his wind magic, the ball holding it in place as she made it using the sucked up mist ‘got stuck on the words…’
“Y-y-you-! Where you even listening?!” he yelled, his face red.
“Hrm? No.” Mia answered honestly, the little sculpture had proved to be much more of an interesting activity than getting yelled at for something that wasn’t even her problem.
“You…I…” he stammered, his face burning a deep shade of red.
“Just give it up kid, she’s fucking with you.”
“Seriously, look down.”
“…” He looked down, atop his boots were a pair of snowmen with a little bunny pet “…” he raised his hand, wind rapidly gathering in his palm, sucking up everything in the vicinity, until it suddenly stopped “wa-?” he glanced up towards his raised arm, seeing it frozen solid, unable to be lowered.
Mia folded her arms, all that wind had sucked up her mist, making it incredibly easy to freeze his arm “Continue?” she asked, freezing the ground behind her, the ice rising up to form a chair. She took her seat on her own ice throne.
“Fuc- OW!” he dropped to one knee, his head snapping to the source of the pain, his frozen arm had developed spikes, that had reached out from his arm and stabbed into his shoulder “This chea-Owowow-“ he dropped to his knees, the needles digging further, drawing blood.
“Continue?” Mia repeated ‘Really, why is he so mad at me?’
“Hey you two, no need to go that far.” One of the workers spoke up, but shut up once Mia glanced over to him.
“Fffuck, you. FU-“ A portion of the ice covering the arm broke off, swinging down and stabbing him in the side.
“…” Mia raised her arms in a shrug ‘Ami, what should I do about this?’
[What? Don’t want to kill him?]
‘No, maybe… but I don’t think I should?’
[Just hit him in the back of the head or something.]
“Right.” Mia leaped up from her throne, it partially melting behind her to flow into her open hand, taking the form of a rod “Big enough?” she tested the weight in her hand, giving a few experimental swings.
“W-w-wait! I yield!” Crim, seeing the small child swing around am ice rod the size of her entire body, started to sweat “I-I’m sorry! I’ll stop!”
Mia walked up, stopping right infront of his face and placed the end of the rod atop his head, pushing it down.
“!?” Crim choked, he couldn’t raise his head “I-i-i-i-“
“Ok, I’m not watching an execution.” One of the men dropped what they were doing, fleeing up the stairs.
“I, uh…I’ll go get the captain!” the other followed after him.
“Hrm…” Mia watched them leave ‘just gotta wait now.’ She looked back at the rabbit, a pool of liquid forming around his knees “…ew” he peed himself “Why?” she asked.
“I-i-i-i-i…I need to get… stronger…” he groveled, kneeling as far as he could “I…want to…why are you here!” he shot up “Someone strong like you! You should be helping them! But instead, you are here freezing food! Coward! Cheater! If strong people like you were here then my…our-!“
“IDIOT!”
Mia ducked as Fria flew over her head, landing instead on Crim, pushing him to the ground and shattering the ice around his arm. “?!” Mia shot up, ready to attack the two to defend herself but was shocked to see Fria was beating the shit out of Crim.
“Idiot! Moron! Dumbass!” Fria hit him across the face with each insult, tears running down her face, Crim long since had passed out.
“…uhm…” Mia was left there, stunned, she then froze up, feeling a hand touch her shoulder. She looked up, seeing Jackie.
“Did something stupid…” he sighed “Reaaaally stupid.”