Phoenix gets out from his host and everyone catches Roy before his body touches the ground. At the same time, Jack Frost wakes up and looks around with a dazed look on his face.
“Oh…what just happened?” Jack Frost wondered.
Father Frost approaches him and when he looks up at his teacher, he finally remembered what he did.
“Father Frost…I’m sorry for what I did. I…I had caused so much chaos,” Jack apologized deeply.
Father Frost puts his cold hand on Jack.
“My boy…I’m the one to be blamed. I failed you as a teacher. I was being hard on you. Will you forgive your teacher?” he asked for the boy’s forgiveness.
Alice leaves Roy to Marta and put her face closer to Jack Frost. She shows him the essence of darkness in the shape of black orb in her hand.
“Jack Frost, do you remember who gave you this essence?” she asked.
Jack looks at the essence in her hand and remembered everything.
“That essence…I got that essence of darkness from a spirit,” Jack answered.
Martha raises an eyebrow after hearing Frost’s answer.
“A spirit?” she said.
“Yes, a spirit. Her appearance was so intimidating, I could never forget what she looked like until now. Tall figure, long black hair, pale skin, glowing eyes, a grin full of sharp teeth, long dirty pointed nails, dirty feet. She only wore a simple long white house dress and walk barefooted but I think she had just taken the life of human as there are bloods at the lower part of her dress. She came from the darkness and just as I was about to run from her because of her menacing aura, she suddenly approached me with that grin on her face,” Jack Frost explained.
“What did she say?” Alice asked.
“She said,” Poor child. Your master must have treated you poorly. Do you wish to be powerful, just like your master?”. At first…I thought that she must be planning to take my life or anything but when she told me that she meant no harm, I accepted her offer,” Jack continued.
“What? Why did you do that?” Vine asked with shocked look on his face.
“I was tempted. After all…who doesn’t want to be as powerful as your teacher? What kind of student doesn’t want to make his or her master proud? I want to make my teacher, Father Frost proud so I accepted that power. But…as soon as I accepted the essence, I couldn’t control it. It was the first time I ever struggled against such power,” Jack answered.
“And so, you ended up losing consciousness while the essence controlled you all this time,” Martha said.
Phoenix’s spirit flies closer to Frost.
“Darkness…while it does give the bearer a power…it could instantly control you the moment you dropped your guard. You should have known this, spirit of winter,” Phoenix’s voice echoed as a spirit.
Alice turns her sight on Phoenix and Frost.
“From the way I feel it when I forcefully took it from you to save you, the essence gives a burning aura of its power but…I don’t feel any of its influence at all,” she said.
“Then how did it control him?” Vine wondered.
“It manipulated my feeling. All of my feelings to Father Frost. What he taught me, how he treated me…it amplified my hate to him until I blacked out from that explosive feeling,” Jack answered.
“To put it simply, it overwhelmed the negative feeling of the carrier first. Either you are fully awake but carry an explosive anger from that essence’s effect or black out and it controlled you in the same manner as puppetry,” Marta voiced her conclusion.
Both Alice and Vine feel a goosebump from hearing her explanation.
“Scary…Should we even hold onto it?” Vine voiced his fear.
“Don’t worry. I’m the one carrying this thing so that no one will get affected by the essence’s influence,” Alice assured.
As she assured, everyone notices Roy waking up.
“Oh…” he mumbled with his eyes slightly opened.
“Big brother, you are awake,” Alice said.
Marta helps Roy stands and he looks around with a dazed look on his face.
“Where is this? Where are we?” he asked.
“We are in the realm where the Frost spirits lived,” Alice answered.
“And…probably trained too,” Vine added in a whispering voice.
Roy looks at them with wide eyes
“Frost? As in Jack Frost?” he said.
Phoenix approaches him and
“Forgive me…,” Phoenix said.
“Phoenix?? Why are you apologizing to me?” he questioned Phoenix’s intention.
“I possessed you without your consent,” Phoenix said and lowered his head.
Alice gave a silent stare when Roy turned his eyes at her and turned his eyes at Phoenix.
“I get it…You don’t have much choice, Phoenix,” he said.
Phoenix’s eyes widened and flies around happily before perching on his shoulder.
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