• Chapter 8
    Glitter Freeze

    Year-1010 Location-Glitter Freeze Outskirts
    At the edge of the city known as Glitter Freeze an angry crowd stood round a single man. "Your a loon Charrington!" someone yelled from the crowd.

    "Not yet, but I will be soon" Charrington yelled as he ran into the frozen wastelands surrounding Glitter Freeze. "In 1000 years time I will end everything!" he shouted as he disappeared from sight.

    Year-2010 Location-Glitter Freeze Castle: Throne Room
    "So this Charrington guy, what makes you think he's still alive after all this time?" Jack said as he examined the frozen room.

    "He went off to the Abyss, it makes you insane, but it grants you infinite power." Queen Julie said as she stood up.

    Jack had a confused look on his face "So why am I the chosen one?"

    "Because you've already been to the Abyss." Julie said.

    Year-1980 Location- Glitter Freeze Castle:Throne Room

    King John of Glitter Freeze sat silently thinking about how to calm the people's worries about Charrington returning. Queen Julie walked in and said "Something fell out of the sky toward the Abyss".

    John looked up at her and said "Well did check out what landed?"

    "Not yet, I will now" she responded as she sat down on her throne and transported her mind to the Abyss. After sometime she came back to her body and said "It's a child, John you've got to go help him."

    John suddenly vanished and reappeared at the Abyss, next to the vortex a child about three years of age was looking into the Abyss. John quickly grabbed the child and transported him back to Earth, before any permanent damage set in. John turned around ready to transport back when he was attacked. In the following struggle, John got torn apart and never returned to Glitter Freeze.

    Year-2010 Location-Wasteland outside Glitter Freeze

    After hours of walking, Jack's only way of telling that he had moved at all was the fact that he couldn't see Glitter Freeze anymore. If you were to ask him yourself, he would tell you that he was lost, and uncertain that the Abyss and Charrington really existed. Within another hour of walking Jack found a rock to stop and rest on. He sat down and said "I've been searching for hours, this is getting me nowhere". Jack decided to lay down and rest for a short time, and continue his journey in the morning. As Jack slept something odd happened, the ground around him reshaped and a large vortex erupted out of the ground. Jack woke up as he was launched into the air by a rock borrowing up into the sky. He landed with a hard thud.

    Jack got up and looked around, "Where I am?" he asked.

    A raspy voice responded to his question, saying "Well my dear boy your at the Abyss". Jack was shocked when the man spoke, and quickly looked for the source. The man stepped out into the darkness of the shadows. Jack looked at the man carefully and noticed, even in the dark that he was different than described. The man cleared his throat and in a raspy, dry voice he said "I stared into the Abyss to gain knowledge, the experience was so traumatic that my eyes dried up, my skin burned, and I became insane." Jack was shocked that they wanted him to kill this frail, charred, blind man.

    "So how did I get here?" Jack asked Charrington.

    "The same reason why no one can find the Abyss, it moves around the wastelands all the time. It took me forever to find it myself. But you, yeah your different than most are you not? Your the power of the Abyss in your blood, I can feel it." Charrington said as he walked up to Jack and touched his cheek.

    "So Charrington I don't wanna waste anymore time here, I'm going to kill you now." Jack said as he pulled out a sword.

    "Now how are you going to do that? I will live as long as the Abyss exists Jack, now it's you that will die." Charrington said and with that his body started to change. His skin ripped off and he grew three feet taller, he had the features of a skeleton and some horrible beast from a fantasy story. "Prepare to die!" Charrington said, as a giant stinger grew from his chest and began to strike at Jack.

    Jack jumped out of the way and hid behind a rock, another strike and the rock was gone, so Jack ran. When the stinger struck a third time, Jack just barely got out of the way. The stinger got stuck deep in the ground, he took this chance to jump onto it and run up it. When at the top of the stinger Charrington grabbed Jack and started squeezing him until the air started to leave his lungs. Quickly dieing Jack remembered that he had some of the power of the Abyss and started focusing on it. Suddenly, Jack's body started to glow and get hot. Charrington dropped Jack because of the heat and slowly backed up.

    As Jack's body grew brighter and hotter he started rising up into the sky, soon he stopped and said in an angelic voice "It's over Charrington, You shall not harm the people of Glitter Freeze." In an explosion of white fury Jack and Charrington were enveloped in a white bubble of energy. The power was so incredible that the ground shook like an earthquake, the shaking could be felt all the way in Glitter Freeze. Most of the townspeople rushed out of their homes and stared out at the wastelands.

    Jack landed on the ground after the blast ended, his power now completely drained, he grabbed his sword as he got up. He looked around and saw the remains of Charrington's body, he had been destroyed. Satisfied at a job well done Jack started to leave the Abyss, but as he did a disembodied voice said "I told you that you couldn't destroy me, now your body will be mine!" Jack fell to the ground and shook as Charrington fought him for control. In a last stand he stood up and grabbed the sword, walking toward the vortex. Charrington tried taking over in this time but could only watch. As Jack approached the vortex he smiled, after standing there smiling for a little bit he jumped in.

    Jack fell what felt like hundreds of feet before finally landing on a very hot surface deep inside the vortex. Ahead of him was the cord of the vortex, the place where all the energy radiated from. With the sword in hand he walked up to the core and plunged it deep inside. A large crack formed in the core as a result, the vortex started shaking and violently releasing energy as Jack just stood there and watch. The reason he didn't run off was the fact that Charrington was desperately fighting for control, and neither could make the body move. The Abyss soon exploded in a large ball of fire, it's power destroyed with it.

    Julie and Jim watched on from Glitter Freeze as the Abyss could be seen exploding, Jim said "Well it seems he did it, you think he survived?"

    Julie looked over and said "No I don't think Charrington was going to let him leave."

    The fires where the Abyss and vortex once were burned for many months after the battle, but as time went on it was as if the Abyss and Charrington never existed.

    One Year Later

    Jim stepped out into the Glitter Freeze Square and removed a sheet from a statue, a crowd cheered in response. The statue was one of Jack standing at arms in an epic struggle with Charrington. Jim looked up into the sky and said "This is for you my old friend, wherever you are."

    One Year Earlier

    The vortex exploded and launched Jack's body into the sky. It flew for a few miles, before it crash landed several miles away from the Abyss. In a large crate in the ground Jack coughed and pulled himself up. "Abyss destroyed? Check. Charrington destroyed?.........Check." Jack said as he got out of the crater. "Now how am I getting back?" he openly said as he examined the wastelands. Nearby a portal opened and he quickly entered it. On the other side of the portal Jack found himself back in his hometown. Jack found this a suitable reward for all that he had been through. With his power gone, his insanity left with it .He smiled because for the first time in his life he didn't have the need to kill.

    THE END