Chapter 7

Chapter 71

(Inside the airport)2

“Alright.” Phillip thought, “I’m alone now… What’s my gate? Gate A3… That way… Maybe I can stop for some food… They can’t break $100 bills… How much money is in this bag anyways? It’ll last me long enough… But I’m starving… Maybe I can have a sit-down meal… No, my flight’s in 5 minutes… Maybe… HOLY CRAP!!!”3

There was an explosion, or what seemed to be an explosion. Someone had frozen a glass window near gate A3 and broken it. The frozen glass lay everywhere and people were screaming their heads off. Then a tall, thin man, at least half a head taller than Phillip with blond hair and blue eyes was riding what seemed to be on air through the broken window. If you looked closely you could see small crystals of ice under his feet. He wasn’t taking any steps, just floating. Phillip was just standing there minding his business as the tall blonde man slowly progressed toward him on his road of ice. The man dropped off of the road to stand right in front of Phillip.4

“Phillip I presume?” he said as he reached his hand out to be shaken.5

“Yes.” said Phillip as he regained his composure and he placed his hand in the other mans to take a firm grip, “And you must be the Ice Prince!” exclaimed Phillip as he started to flame at the hand.6

“Ouch!” said the man sarcastically. “But you’ll have to do better than that to get me off your tail.” The Ice Prince threw an ice ball the size of a baseball toward Phillips head. Phillip jumped back to dodged it.7

“And you’ll have to do better than that if you think you can stop me from getting that gem!”8

People around the area were frightened out of their minds. People getting off of the plane at gate A3 ran passed and pretended not to see anything. Naïve children were sitting around watching in awe as their parents tried to pull them away. Some of the tourists walking passed were taking pictures as if it were some kind of sideshow. The Ice Prince took care of the cameras by freezing them. He wouldn’t have that. Phillip was standing and ready to rock. He wasn’t nervous now that this moment had finally come.9

“Are we gonna do this or what?!” shouted Phillip over the screaming crowd.10

“Let’s go!” replied Austin (the Ice Prince) as he clasped his hands together. As he started to pull them apart there was a shape forming in-between them. His hands stopped moving and he grabbed an ice sword out of the air. “Can you do that?” he said.11

“No, but I can take care of it!”12

“Let’s see it small fry!”13

And so it had started. Austin jumped into the air and started riding the ice again. He curved behind Phillip and took a swing of his sword. He missed by a hair and Phillip lit his arm. The sword, just passing the arm that was on fire, melted. The Ice Prince didn’t seem to care too much. Phillip launched a fireball at Austin, but he was too agile. The Prince spun to the left to dodge and immediately turned back around to perform a quick move towards Phillip. Phillip reached out to punch him with his lit fist. The Ice Prince swerved left and then made himself a new sword and took another swing, this time skimming Phillip’s arm. Phillip was now bleeding. Quite angry with the battle so far, he totally ignited his whole body and dove at the Ice Prince. Throwing fireball after fireball, Phillip struggled to regain his place in this battle. Austin dodged every one, so Phillip unlit himself to think of what strategy he could use next. Austin put his hands out in front of them pointing straight at Phillip, unleashing a freeze ray that hit his bleeding arm. Phillip screamed in agony. He tried to ignite his right arm, but couldn’t because of the pain. He lit the rest of his body instead. Slowly but surely, the ice on his right arm began to melt. The Ice Prince took a dive with his sword and began to swing it furiously. He successfully made Phillips other arm bleed. Phillip, battered and bruised, screamed a scream that could be heard at gate A30 and tried the technique that the Ice Prince had just earlier used. He put his hands out in front of him and unleashed a wave of fire. It hit the Ice Prince, destroyed his sword and sent him flying backwards into another window that was not yet broken. Finally Phillip dove after Austin to embrace him as he was flying out of the window. Phillip, being on fire, burnt Austin till he was screaming bloody murder. As Phillip got hotter, he rose into the air on heat waves and was still heating up, and finally dropped Austin onto the pavement right next to the airplane. The Ice Prince was scorched lying on the ground.14

“The Ice Prince has melted!” Phillip boasted as he rose back into the airport. After he had extinguished himself he stepped back into the not-quite-sure-what-to-think crowd. No one really knew who was the bad guy in the situation and who was the good guy, but they had to go by Phillip’s word, because he was the only one who appeared to be conscious.15

“What’s going on here?!” yelled a security guard in the general direction of the broken windows. “Those windows were bullet proof! How did anyone manage to break them in the first place? You, boy! You look a little suspicious judging by the blood on your arms. Tell me what just happened.”16

“I can’t tell you very much, but what I can tell you is that if you don’t want it to happen again, we need this flight to leave now before that unconscious man down there wakes up.” Phillip replied17

“I asked you what was going on!” the security guard shouted.18

“Well if you must know, we are both mutants, I am from SMTM and there is a very, very, very evil man who is planning to kill me and all other mutants on the planet, and I am one of the four who is going to save us all. There are four gems located at different points on the Continental United States, and my four friends and I are out to find them. They are what will be the only means of stopping this very, very, very evil man. If I had time to sit and chat, I would, but as you can see, I really don’t.”19

“Well who’s the dead man down there then?” the security guard said pointing at a barbecued black figure lying on the ground.20

“He’s not dead, just unconscious, and his name is Austin Chace. He is in league with the very, very, very evil man who wants to kill us all, so if you wouldn’t mind, I’d like to get on this flight before he wakes up and kills me.”21

The security guard was speechless. He had no clue as to what to say to what had just been said to him. He wanted to let Phillip go, but technically he wasn’t supposed to. Phillip, not really caring what the security guard thought, boarded the plane. He really loved stupid people at that time.22

“Mojo,” Phillip said into the microphone of his ear piece, “What do I do now? I’m on the plane, but they probably won’t take off!”23

“Why? What just happened?”24

“Well, the Ice Prince showed up, and I just beat the snot out of him, but he’s only unconscious cause I didn’t want to kill him, and this security guard just gave me a friggin questionnaire that I really didn’t want to answer, my cover is totally blown, about half the people in the airport know that I’m here, and on top of that I’m bleeding from both of my arms and it hurts really, really badly.”25

“But you are on the plane?”26

“Yes.”27

“Ok. Here’s what I want you to do. First go up to the pilot, and then tell him exactly this…”28

A few moments passed.29

“Ok.” Phillip replied and went into the cockpit.30

“Sir,” Phillip said to the pilot, “Do you see that man down there?”31

“Yes” the pilot replied.32

“Well he is about the most powerful man you will ever meet, and he is going to wake up in about, hmmm, I’d say, ten minutes, and he is going to board this plane and kill anyone who might be on it, so if you wouldn’t mind taking off, that’d be great.”33

“I can’t really take off unless everyone is on the plane, unless otherwise specified by my authorities. So, take your seat, dream boy, and we’ll be off soon.”34

“You really don’t understand…”35

“Just go kid.”36

“Ok.” Phillip said impatiently.37

“Mojo, it didn’t work. What do I do now?”38

“Ok, do this.”39

A few moments passed.40

“Ok.” Phillip said and made his way back to the cockpit.41

“Sir, I really don’t want to die today, and I really don’t want to go over what I just told that security guard in there, but I will tell you on the flight over if you just take off.”42

“I told you I can’t do that kid!”43

“Ok, what if I was to offer you this.” Phillip said as he opened the only bag that he had to show the pilot his dream salary.44

“O… Ummm… I’ll get fired.”45

“Mojo!”46

“Tell him that you’ll take care of that!” said Mojo.47

“Who’s Mojo?” said the pilot48

“That doesn’t matter, but I can take care of you getting fired.”49

“But I don’t want to get fired!”50

“That’s my point! I can keep you from getting fried.”51

“Can you really do that?”52

“YES!” Phillip shouted anxiously, “Now if you would please just take off already!”53

“Money first!”54

“Here! Now please just take off!”55

“Alright!” said the pilot a little moodily.56

“Thank you!”57

After a matter of about ten minutes, they were in the air, on their way to Vegas.58