The Frost Chronicles Book 3:Chapter 2: Felons? Really? Well that’s fun

[Kinshin]

Felons? Really? Well that’s fun

A car is speeding along a nearly abandoned road. To its left is a ruin. To its right is another similar ruin. In front of it is an even worse not necessarily ruined city.

“Why are we going through this city?” asked Nathan looking ahead through the windshield at the dilapidated city which must have reeked with the smell of blood, sex, and drugs. This city was not the Roanapur of the anime Black Lagoon it was significantly less organized.

“We have little choice it seems I made a wrong turn and also we have very little gas left,” replied John looking down at the map in his lap and sighed when he found that this city was not even on the map.

“Well, I’m sorta here though I think my last job died in a place like this from some sorta disease he got from a place like this,” said Alice trying to be reassuring but ultimately failed and made the entire car quiet with fear. John was also becoming paranoid for his life.

They entered the city with little difficulty and hoped they could just get a fill up and leave. John drove up to a broken down functioning gas station and parked at a fill-up station. He had a Debit Card with some money he had earned working a year ago. He was happy the school gave them money for expenses but what about gas money. Too be safe he had previously deposited that money into his bank account.

He exited the car and pressed the button above Regular Unleaded and pulled out the nozzle. He opened the port way on the side of the car and inserted the nozzle into it. Gas began pouring in and the price began going up and at high rates, higher than listed. When the car was full he removed the nozzle and put it back only to see a grand total of two hundred dollars which was an effective one-fifth of the money given by the school that was left over for their expenses. John wanting to avoid trouble swiped his card through the slot on the machine and paid. He heard knocking on the car door and looked back and saw men, scary ones at that approaching him.

Hastily he put the card back into his wallet and as unlucky as he was they attacked him revealing weapons ranging from crow bars to nailed baseball bats.

John being smart climbed into the car and pressed gas before even shutting his door. They drove away but not before a nailed baseball bat flew through the back window and hit John in the back of the head knocking him out.
In the heat of the moment Mike grabbed the wheel and drove away he attempted to leave the city but when he got back to the entrance they were assaulted again and then there was the sound of deflation and Mike just knew the tire popped. The men broke the glass windows and ripped the doors open. Those inside couldn’t do anything about it but they were scared and cried a bit. The men most definitely saw the two females and they beat Mike with a crow bar until he passed out.

“I’ll give you everything I personally own if you let us leave in peace,” bargained Nathan and the men looked up at this.

“Do you own these two right here?” asked one of the guys grabbing Ellis and Aeon out of the car by their hair. They both cried desperately for help even though they knew it was futile.

“No I do not sir,” said Nathan trying his hardest to keep calm even though he felt like panicking he wanted to panic. He felt his pocket on instinct and the man saw this and pulled out a gun from his pocket pointing it him to do this he had to drop both Ellis and Aeon out of the car and they fell onto the pavement with dull thuds each. The other men circled around them in obvious joy at what they had the chance to do.

“Keep your hands where they are!” shouted the man seeming a little crazy. Nathan kept his hand there and didn’t move it.

“What the hell!” yelled one of the guys surrounding the two girls. Half of them had dropped their pants and both girls should have been unconscious from the beatings they received. Nathan saw Ellis bloodied face and black eye and was shocked. Aeon on the other hand was standing up and she looked enraged.

“Do not insult my home!” Aeon roared the men began to laugh a little calming them. But of course they were sent flying. Nathan never saw how but they just went flying and landing somewhere else pretty far away. “Don’t you ever touch Ellis!” and the man in front of Nathan suddenly coughed up blood and fell.

“Who are you?” Nathan asked her hoping she would reply by the name he knew.

“I am Eileen Newal…” she said falling over unconscious leaving Nathan all alone. He hated being alone it was only second to being in the dark.

Nathan reached out of the car and picked up the man’s gun, cocked it and did a test fire out into the air. The recoil was not enough to knock him back but it still didn’t feel like he should use it. For his own protection though he kept it with him but put the safety on.


A few hours passed and the night set in Nathan didn’t like the night but now that John took away his fear he could sit through it sane. Every time he heard something he pulled out the gun.

“Urgh…” Nathan looked for the sound and found it in John who was beginning to wake up. He sighed with relief and happiness. He set the gun down and sat up beside Aeon and Ellis both of which he dragged into the car himself. They were still unconscious.

John sat up in a daze for a few minutes until he came to his senses and stomped on the gas on accident jutting the car forward slightly.

“John, we have to get out of here now,” said Nathan from behind John making John press the peddle again until he noticed it was Nathan behind him.

“Oh John, you are sorta awake!” said Alice rushing by and hugging John tightly. Nathan was confused as to where she, Imridge, Helen, and Noir went until now.

“What happened?” asked John feeling confused and his head was hurting so he put a hand on it as if he was attempting to quell the pain.

“We were attacked and they tried to hurt Ellis and Aeon and they knocked out Mike, they threatened me with a gun but Aeon saved us all and I kept the gun,” said Nathan full of relief that he was no longer alone but now he could cry.

John saw Nathan crying and reached out to hug his brother tightly. They sat there hugging until Nathan finally stopped crying. “Nate, let’s find somewhere to stay and give me the gun,” John whispered into Nathan’s ear.

Nathan gave the gun in his hand to John who let go of Nathan and turned back around. The keys were in the ignition and John turned them and the car sputtered to life.

“The tire’s out,” said Nathan having finally released his sadness for the first time in a very long time. He wasn’t done yet though.

“Really, well we just have to drive with it anyway. I don’t want to put on a new tire it will take too long,” said John pressing the gas and the car sped forward but kept making weird sounds from the tire. He drove through the city in utter disgust. He saw things no one should ever see ranging from murder to ****. He was barely able to hold in his vomit until they reached a building that seemed like the only safe haven in the town. He had no idea he was being followed.

The two exited and locked the car in every way possible. John even left Imridge to guard the car and if something happened to alert them as soon as possible.

They walked up to the door of the seemingly safe building and walked in and saw that to their luck it was a hotel. The manager was a fat stumpy man.
“What you here for?” asked the manager pulling a dirty looking sandwich from beneath the counter and eating it.

“We need somewhere to stay, how much does a room cost?” asked John knowing he could cover the cost whatever it was but not hinting at his money was the strategy.

“fifty a night,” the manager said licking his hands and thumbs of the grease and condiments that were splattered on them. It looked sick and disgusting.

“Can you go lower?” asked John bargaining hoping for him to not notice that they had money.

“forty-five a night but you have to leave by tomorrow morning and you can’t eat in there,” said the manager and John walked forward and pulled out his wallet and luckily went to an ATM a day ago so had forty- five Euros in his wallet. He sifted through it and handed the money to the manager’s dirty hands. The manager checked the money and pocketed it and reached into a drawer on his desk and gave John a key.

“Thank you,” said John walking back out the door with the key in hand and gun in his pants. He went outside and went to the car. He looked inside and everyone was beginning to wake up. He opened the door and helped Mike out first. Mike was bleeding from the head at least was so had a black-red streak down his face. Aeon just had a seriously ripped shirt and ripped jeans. Ellis had no shirt or bra let alone pants. This sight sickened John and enraged him. He saw Noir coiled around the car and Helen sitting in the car. Imridge was in the driver’s seat. He began shaking in pure madness. He wanted the ones who did this to feel pain.

“John, please don’t take revenge the girls are fine nothing happened to them. Aeon saved all of you,” said Alice holding John’s shoulder slowing the shaking a little.

“I-I’m sorry but this is just too much,” said John putting his hands on his eyes wiping away the moisture gathering there before he could cry.

She hugged him as if protecting him. “John, let’s just get them inside. And please don’t use that gun. If you do I won’t ever trust you again.”

“I’m sorry Alice I won’t use the gun or take revenge,” said John trying to find conviction in his voice but couldn’t he really felt like he would betray Alice’s trust.

“You were scared that you killed before in the Interzone right, well those were demons and mental powers not people. The people here though no matter how wrong and evil are still people and if you kill them you will have to live with that for the rest of your life,” said Alice seeing through his statement and noticing the lie within. She knew his feelings on the manner and wanted to leave him but knew that wouldn’t help him at all.

John didn’t comment he was just filled with overwhelming thoughts of madness. He motioned for Nathan to come out and help. Alice let go of him and felt very sorry for him.

“What is it,” said Nathan out of breath as if he rushed from the building to the car.

“I need help getting all of them inside,” said John holding up Mike by the underarms and finally mike was beginning to move for real. He blinked a few times in rapid succession and felt a splitting pain in his skull but thought nothing of it as he thought he was being attacked still.

“Mike’s coming to,” said Nathan looking at mike blinking rapily.

John set Mike down on the ground and he was able to sit up. Soon he was able to stand.

“What happened?” asked Mike looking at Nathan feeling delirious and holding his head with a hand.

“We were attacked by some bad guys and now we are at a hotel for the night. If you are well enough please help get Aeon and Ellis out,” said John walking back to the car and taking of his shirt and putting it on Ellis. He grabbed her and dragged her out of the car and carried her semi-conscious body to the area beside Mike and she rocked back and forward from consciousness to unconsciousness constantly. Until she got stable.

“They, ra-***** m-me,” she said beginning to cry and shiver as if something actually happened.

“I wouldn’t let them do that,” said Aeon already out of the car by her own power.

“What do you mean didn’t they do that to you too?” asked Ellis still crying but feeling a little less horrible and smutty.

“No, Reficule still has power even though he had been defeated by Crystal and Leon and he gave back my memories but left two persona so I will be unconscious again in a little while,” said Aeon walking over to Ellis and sitting beside her and holding her tightly.

“Aeon, I still love you,” proclaimed Ellis crying even worse than before but this was also a serious blow to John’s feelings.

“No you don’t, if you did you wouldn’t be confused about your feelings,” replied Aeon once again being assaulted by Ellis’ confused feelings. Aeon of course would be happy with Ellis but didn’t want to be with her and Ellis didn’t even understand that the person she really likes is John.

Ellis was struck deeply by these words as if she had never heard them before. She wanted to cry like never before but she already was.

“For now let’s just go inside,” said John clicking the lock button on his keys and turning on his heel to walk back inside the building.

After a few minutes they were all inside and in their room with all their luggage. It was rather cramped but it was spacious enough for them all to sit on the carpeted floor.

“John where did you get that?” asked Ellis after Aeon had once again fallen unconscious. She was of course pointing at the outline in his shirt.

Nathan began to speak up but John spoke first, “I found it for our protection,” he pulled it out of his shirt and Mike and Ellis gasped, Nathan gave it no mind because he finally had peace of mind.

“Throw it away! you don’t know how to use it!” said Ellis panicking and fearing for John. She grabbed for the gun but John kept it away from her.

“NO! it will protect me I know how to use it!” raged John scaring Ellis and making her unhappy. Noir and Alice went to comfort her and John was abandoned by Mike as well.

“I’m going to sleep,” said Nathan crawling into the bed Aeon was placed into to and pulling on the covers. He didn’t sleep no not yet.

“Fine, I guess when I’m the only person who understands how dangerous this place is I get abandoned, I thought you guys of all people would understand,” said John in a pissy mood now. He just slid over to a corner and tried to fall asleep.


Early in the morning, the sun was rising over the city once again revealing the cesspit of filth produced by the lawless. John rose and saw that everyone else was awake and waiting for him. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked at all of them. Not a one had a happy expression and none of them looked happy that John was awake.

“What’s wrong with you guys?” asked John fearing they hated him now. He hated that possibility he wouldn’t be able to stand such loneliness. He felt rage that they didn’t reply for so long. He was on the verge of tears until his one and only love spoke up.

“You are a wretched excuse for a *******! After all we went through you still are going to carry what could have killed all of us and act like it’s fine!” said Ellis turning away from him in a rage and walking out the door slamming it behind her. This statement crushed John’s sanity more than it had ever been tried in the Interzone or their dreams.

“She’s right,” said Mike walking out the door as well he was followed by Aeon who spit John a look of utter disgust. Nathan was at her heel.

“I don’t need any of you traitors!” yelled John after them despair beginning to set in. Alice even left him behind and alone. He grabbed the gun and pulled it closer to himself as if it was his best friend. He whimpered in silence for a few minutes until he heard a scream. As desperate as he was for love he darted out of the room gun in hand cocked and ready. Bursting through the front door of the building and saw the situation.

Aeon was being held hostage by two armed men, Mike was unable to do anything as the men dragged Aeon away into a crowd of more men. “Let her go!!” Yelled John pointing the gun at them in what could have been a very courageous act if he wasn’t armed.

“John, no you idiot put it away!” called Ellis knowing that the two men wouldn’t hesitate to shoot at John.

“Yea, listen to yo ***** or I gon shoot,” said one of the armed men pointing his gun at Aeon’s head while the other pointed a gun at John.

John hated this stalemate, the one time he had power in this kind of situation he couldn’t use it. For a second he thought about giving up Aeon and letting them take her. For another second he thought about shooting and letting Aeon die. For a minute he thought about a plan that would require his first homicide if he had aim.

He slowly angled the gun at the man who would shoot him so as to not be noticed. He took steady aim and hoped it would work.

The sound of a gun firing took away any hope of Ellis’ that John would do the right thing and any shred of love she had for him. The man aiming for John fell over in agony blood pouring from his chest “NOOO!!!” screamed Ellis. The man aiming for Aeon aimed at John and the other men pulled out weapons of all kinds and charged forward only a few carried guns. John fired again and the man holding Aeon fell and Aeon dropped to the floor unscathed. John fired into the mob of people taking down one with every shot thanks to the density of their numbers. He had no bullets left but he killed a police officer who was with the mob attacking them. The mob in utter confusion continued blindly forward at John who threw the gun at one of them and ran filled with thoughts of killing the men pursuing him. He entered a back alley and was caught against a wall. The men were pouring in with a dangerous bloodlust. John had one last plan it was stupid but could work.

He ran forward as if to attack this armed mob and that he did. He pushed through taking hits as he went but he didn’t notice these with the adrenaline rush of murder and fright. He made it out of the alley and continued running he felt his breathing become harsh and difficult. It hurt a lot more than it should. Looking back on it he wasn’t supposed to have vigorous physical activity like this thanks to Ellis and himself.

He reached their car and jumped in the front seat. Somehow everyone was unscathed and in the car waiting. He put the key in the ignition and drove out of the city luckily Nathan, Mike and Ellis had already taken everything out to the car earlier that day.

He drove until he was out of the city and miles away. Only then did the adrenaline run out he pulled over and got out. Alice stood in front of him. He fell onto his knees and cried. “Why did I kill them!?” he asked not directly asking Alice or anyone just himself.

“John, you are an insane unstable mentally challenged but overall good person with good intentions. There were other ways you could have gone about the situation most of which involved no bloodshed at all. But you wanted to prove to us that you could use the gun which was the single stupidest decision I have ever seen you make. But, in truth you did what you thought was necessary and it worked but John you have to live with this slaying for the rest of your life. Just like in all of your times in the Interzone and every time you were in someone’s dream. I won’t leave you John, I am your Guardian Angel and no one can take that away from you,” said Alice who then hugged John tightly who began crying deeply wailing soon enough his chest caught up with him and he fainted.




Preview for the next chapter:
“So John is a murderer? Well that’s sorta nice though he had already sorta killed demons and fears,” said Alice.

“I don’t want to be with a ******* who can’t solve problems without a bloody murder,” said Ellis drawing on a few of her parent’s words.

“Oh come on guys, you know this doesn’t affect any of your feelings anyway,” said Eileen.

“You aren’t in this timezone! You weren’t even born yet daughter!” said Alice.

“Mom, you aren’t supposed to spoil events fifty years from now. Next Chapter: Return to Normalcy. John you better wind up with Ellis so that I can have a job with Mom in fifty years,” said Eileen.




Don't pay attention to the Preview for the next chapter it is meant to confuse you until next year lol.

Well there was no duel this chapter due to it not needing one.