chapter :2. The Frozen Prince part 2

Everything in front of me stopped. I couldn't move My breath was stuck, and a weird sound

was ringing in my ears.

Then, I heard footsteps.

Thud... Thud... Thud. Someone was walking towards me, getting faster. I could feel it—

someone had stopped time. People were frozen, blood drops were hanging in the air, and the smell was making my head heavy.

Then I saw a woman. She was walking slowly towards me. She smelled like rotting nerves, like someone had burnt blood.

She came and sat right next to me.

"In your language," she said, "I am the Goddess of Death. I have been looking for you for thousands of years."

She was speaking slowly.

Every word felt like it belonged to someone who had lived for ages. She was calling out to me, her face hidden.

"Please save me... please save me."

She sounded like a child crying for something. Her presence was making me feel like I was

disappearing, like I wasn't even there. I got scared and tried to push her away.

The moment I touched her, time started again.

Suddenly, everything was moving. Blood was

splashing on me. People were screaming. Some men with masks were just shooting everyone. They didn't care who was in front of them.

I felt a jolt. I saw that everyone was dead.

Then the terrorists started shouting. "What's happening?! I can't control my hands!"

One of them turned and shot the other one. The world felt like it was breaking like glass. I saw my own dead body for a second, and then a terrorist shot me in the head.

My eyes started closing. I could hear people screaming and crying, but this time I didn't feel pain. I felt peace.

Then a voice came into my ears. "Do you really hate them that much?"

It was my mother's voice.

"Maybe I don't hate anyone," I said. "And maybe I don't love anyone either

. I think I'm just a character... someone that a strange being created just so I could live.

That being always makes me feel its presence, but it never shows itself. But maybe today, it finally appeared."

"I was given this weird power,

but I can't save anyone. I'm no hero. I don't want to kill, but the one I wanted to save... they were already taken."

Suddenly, my eyes closed.

"Let's see what you really want," a heavy voice said.

Light hit my eyes. When I opened them, I was falling into the deep sea. It felt like time had slowed down.

Is this what happens after death? I wondered

. Why was that Goddess crying? Why am I crying? Why does she feel like a part of me?

I saw a blue light above me.

A ship was there, and I was going down. The sun's light was getting dim. I was crying, but the ocean didn't even feel me. Like I didn't exist.

Then the water started taking a shape. It turned into a mermaid, and she had

my mother's face. She smiled and hugged me tight. I still didn't feel anything.

"I don't want to die," she whispered.

Tears started flowing. I couldn't stop them. "I want to live! I don't want to die!" I had always wanted to live.

She let go of me and drifted away with a smile. That smile broke my heart. She looked exactly like my mother.

I reached out, trying to speak, but I couldn't. "Why?" I screamed. "Why does everyone leave me?!"

I kept sinking. But this time, it felt like space, not water. I was falling deeper.

The mermaid was above me, and the sun's light was fading. She was smiling. I tried to tell her not to go.

"Let's find out together... what you want," a voice said.

My eyes closed. I felt a jolt, like someone pulled me.

Then I heard car noises.

I opened my eyes and I was in the middle of a road. A car was coming, but it passed right through me. I was confused. This was 2016.

I was dead, so how was I in the past?

Then I saw a kid crossing the road. He was about 8 years old, wearing headphones. A truck was rushing towards him. My heart started beating fast.

I ran towards him, but I passed through him. Then another boy jumped and saved the kid. The truck swerved and crashed into a shop.

The boy who saved him was gasping for air. He was counting seconds. "44... 45 seconds..."

"Why did the seconds decrease?" he muttered.

People gathered around him. I saw his face. Blue eyes, blue hair, ice-cold air coming from his skin.

That was me.

My younger self was scared. He was 17 then, and he had just saved that 8-year-old kid. Why was I remembering this?

My younger self stood up and started running towards my old house.

"Mom! I'm coming!"

I felt something and ran after him. I went through walls and reached my house.

My younger self stopped and looked right at me.

"Who are you?" he asked.

My head became heavy. Who am I?

"Are you dead?" he asked.

"Maybe you're a ghost. I could hear things, but I've never seen a human soul before."

I remembered this.

Six years ago, I had said these same words to a ghost. I had already seen myself back then.

"What's the date today?"

I asked.

The kid started laughing. "I see a ghost for the first time and he asks for the date? That's funny."

He told me to go away. Then the door opened. A little girl with pink hair and eyes came out. Sara.

"Big brother, did you do something weird again?" she asked.

I said, "I just wanted to help people,"

and my younger self said it at the same time.

He looked at me with deep eyes.

"Brother, what are you looking at? Is there

something weird there?" Sara asked.

"Nothing," we both said together.

My hands started turning into smoke. I was fading.

Then I heard the voice I had waited years for. My mother's voice.

I ran inside the kitchen. "Mom!"

My body was disappearing fast. A voice said, "Humans are so strange. Maybe it's not them, but their desires that never end."

My mother looked at me and smiled. Then I vanished completely.

I was back in the deep ocean.

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