Agnisotra: Origin Tails

After making a grave for my sister and weeping for her I decided to kill the brats who did this to her. They didn't even leave the remains of my sister to bury! She got frozen solid and shattered into a million pieces! It is an empty grave! I didn’t sense her returning to the spirit world nor is she reforming… I will freeze them solid and have them decorate this room as statues. I will have to turn this whole room into a freezer to keep them frozen though, my sister always told me to not come near the root with my ice magic because it's not good for the root.

Ugh, do I have to go outside and kill these brats? I can't use my ice magic here and that brat with black and white hair and that sword seems to also be able to use ice magic so I can't let him near the root either. Ugh, this is such a pain! I made a mirror with my ice magic and looked at myself. I'm all alone now. I brushed my long white hair and fixed myself up. I looked like a mess after crying. That ice brat seemed a bit special though.

I looked at my light blue almost white eyes. He had similar eyes to us. But he's a guy, he can't be from the snowwoman race. Hmm, he also seemed to have no issues defeating my sister. I thought only spirits could defeat other spirits! Is he a spirit? I remember that he had 3 ice things behind him, were those tails? I should've paid more attention to the traits of different races when I was younger. I left a lot of things to my reliable sister but she is gone now. There were a lot of things she told me to do or not to do and I barely listened. Now that she is gone, I miss her. And I wish I listened more to her. Those brats don't seem like a big problem to deal with besides that ice brat, ice versus ice doesn't get us anywhere, and on top of that, he can damage spirits. I should've listened to Guyani and practiced how to create fire with wind magic. Something with adjust oxygen levels and then you just need a spark? I tried this out but nothing happened.

Ugh! This is so frustrating! I want to go outside and kill those brats but I can't go too far from this root else my power will decrease. I think my sister explained it as something like that spirits needs a place of power to be anchored to. If they go too far from it their power will drop and when it drops too low, they will have to return to it. Or I have to make a contract, but I don't want to make a contract with a stupid mortal and even if I wanted to the ones that had an affinity for spirit contracts are extinct, or at least there aren't many of them. You know what! I haven't been outside this cave since I got here! Time to kill some brats! But first I will have to place the seals on the root. They are here to protect it from getting destroyed but also so that its energy doesn't go out of control and harms the tree. I looked at the Bei root. I forgot what the function was of the big tree but all I know is that if the root disappears my place of power disappears. I luckily do know how to do these, my sister kept using this as a chore for me to do when I got lazy. I made the first seal and it almost instantly disappeared. Did I get it wrong?

I'm sure I did it correctly, I've made so many seals in my life that I can't be mistaken. I made another one and this one disappeared too.

"What is going on?" I stomped but I realized throwing a tantrum wasn't going to help. Okay, there was another way to do this, it takes a bit longer but it makes more robust seals. It took me 5 minutes but a seal started to form. It almost got to completion when it began to freeze and shatter. What! Don't tell me that this is the work of that ice brat! I tried making the seal multiple times but they kept freezing over and shattering. That asshole! I secretly was also a bit impressed because I had no idea how he managed to do this. Maybe I should kill the other 3 brats and make him tell me all his ice tricks. I was properly pissed now. I prepared to go on a warpath. I think there is a settlement above ground, but I don't care as long as I can kill those brats. I just have to make it quick before my power starts to drop from being away from the root too long.

I headed towards the entrance but I met an ice wall. Ha, nice try kiddo but this is nothing to an ice user! I tried to cancel the wall but it just seemed to absorb my magic. What? I heard the sound of something freezing and an ice trap exploded. Ugh, silly trap, I tried to dispel this trap that froze my leg to the ground but this too sucked up my magic, moreover, it didn't melt or disappear. What?

"WHAT IS THIS ICE!" I still don't understand how normal magic was affecting spirits so easily. Hmm is this normal magic though? I feel my magic draining towards the ice.

"Whawawa? What is going on!" I tried to blast the ice with element-less magic but it got absorbed too and the ice on my leg grew. "Wait wait! I don't want to go out like this!" I think the ice listened since it stopped. "Oh, you’re listening, hey ice can you get off me?" Nothing happened. "Please?" No response.

I lost my temper again and started hammering on it with my fist. "Let me out!" Another trap went off and froze my arm. "Noooo!" I tried to wriggle out but I was stuck. "Please let me out!" As I started crying. "I only want to kill some brats; I’ll be a nice spirit afterward!"

No response. My tears dried up and I was still stuck. I started to become angry but I had nothing to vent it to. I couldn't move, using magic would only make these ice crystals grow. This ice brat, I'm definitely going to make him my slave and make him teach me how he did this! My energy kept being sapped but since I was still relatively close to the root it didn't affect me too much; it did take more than I got from the root at this distance though. Maybe if I run out of spirit energy it will disappear. I will disappear too for a while but I will reappear at my place of power after a while. My only concern is how that ice brat killed my sister. She isn't coming back, if his ice has that effect I'm screwed. Suddenly letting my energy drain seemed like a bad idea. But I had no way out! Ugh guess I'll go into hibernation mode; it is meant for when the place gets too warm for snow-women or yuki-onna as we were called long ago but I have no choice now. I will just have to hibernate until something makes that ice brat dispel this ice. They will probably return here anyway to deal with the root. They can’t enter the cave with this here. I shifted to hibernation mode waiting till the brats would return to this place.