Prologue

Aurelia's POV

"Humans lie without a second thought."

That line has been imprinted on my mind ever since I was a child, those words made me see the real brutality of the world. Cruelty doesn't choose any gender, nor age. Whether you're a child or a full grown adult, it will always come to those who are unfortunate.

Those lines had been the only words I kept clinging to as a child in order to survive in this world full of lies.

Ever since we were children, our peers would always hold such interest in both me and my brother. We weren't normal, and those who weren't normal are treated like fine specimens, a treasure, a rare one.

Axel and I are born with unusual powers that this world couldn't adapt to, something that every person wants to get their hands on. It's either Scientists, the Government, or some sick and retard business men who would sell us for a great deal.

I used to live a happy and content life along with my brother. I had the family, wealth, and home that I could return to everyday. Everything changed when someone attacked our home.

I wouldn't forget those figures that I saw, men in black cloaks with a strange mark on their chests. A mark that I'd often see on my Father's study. Those vile creatures burned our Manor to ashes, nothing was left of our home, me and my brother barely escaped the fire.

Father died while protecting us, while Mother sacrificed herself in order for us to survive.

I didn't know what to do back then, my one year old brother was crying in my arms while I ran away into the forest, our burning house behind me. I didn't know how many days had passed since then, I didn't know anyone, and I didn't know the cruelty of the world.

A woman had found us in the woods, she brought us to her small cabin, she showed us kindness, and in return we were grateful. But things aren't exactly what they look.

A week later, she brought us to an old building and that's where I first saw the horror of the world.

Women, and children were being sold as slaves at an auction for entertainment.

To this day, I could still feel how I was so sick to the stomach by the scene. It was horrible, on that day, my innocence was taken away from me.

Axel and I were sold differently, I felt as if my blood had run cold at the realization that they're going to take my only remaining family away from me, just like how they took Father and Mother away.

I couldn't stand it anymore.

I remembered the whisper in my ear, and how the voice soothed my nerves, she asked for permission, and I let her. That's when things went downhill. I felt as if my body was being possessed.

The next thing I knew, everyone on the auction had become ice and frozen to death, the whole room filled with frost and sharp icicle, a blizzard on top of our heads. I can still recall the terror on their eyes as they freeze to death.

The voice inside my head rang out like bells, eliminated. All I wanted to do was to be at Axel's side.

But that wasn't it all, police men came into the building, horrified at what they saw. Their accusing eyes immediately went towards me, the only girl standing in the whole room that looked like a horrible snow storm had passed through and the freeze to death bodies of the people.

Monster. That's what they called me. A cold blooded five year old monster who murdered all the people inside that room. They feared the power that I possessed. Even if I myself knew nothing of it, the voice in my head was the one that controlled me.

They arrested me for my crimes, even though I was still underage, that law didn't apply to me because I was something different. A threat to humanity they might say. Instead of locking me up, they gave me to the crazed scientist who experimented on my body. Of course, my brother wasn't able to escape the same cruelty.

They examined and made us undergo experiments in order to grasp the knowledge about the power that I possessed.

That's how I grew to hate myself. Why wasn't I normal like the others? If it weren't for that voice I wouldn't be suffering like this. If those cloaked figures didn't take away my home and family none of this would have happened. If I wasn't easily deceived by that woman this couldn't happen.

I hate humans and everything in their nature.

I couldn't help but think of how cruel humans are, they're so weak and fragile, yet they can do more damage than the monster that they call me.

The cold tiled floor of my prison hit my face as one of the nurses pushed me inside the room they locked me in until their next experiment.

I didn't move until I heard the door lock behind me, the familiar clinging of keys filled the silence of my prison.

With a shaky breath, I pushed myself from the ground, my limbs shaking from the nonstop experiments they made with my body. The strange things they kept on putting on me have been weakening me through the years that I stayed in this underground laboratory.

It's been years since I've been brought into this place, I haven't seen the outside world ever since. I wonder if it's still the same green and blue that my memory supplies me with. All I can see inside this hell are plain white and grey. Nothing seemed to matter as the years passed. I've long accepted the fact that my freedom had been taken away from me, I would die on this underground from their brutal experiments.

I've lost my will to live.

The only thing that's been keeping me from giving up is Axel. Whenever I see him, he gives me strength to still push through everyday. He's optimistic and always a ball of sunshine while I was the exact opposite. The cold has long eaten away my will.

I crawled towards the darkest corner of my prison, leaning my back I brought my knees up to my chest. I didn't move from my position even after hours had passed, I knew the scientists were keeping their eyes on me with their surveillance camera. Waiting for me to use the coldness inside of me.

It's so foreign, the cold that I felt the first time I used my powers, the chill it brought me as I let the voice inside my head take control.

Ever since then, I didn't hear her voice once again. It was like she never existed in the first place.

The scientists are already fed up with me, they knew I was purposely hiding my powers away. Because I wouldn't use it, they couldn't examine it further. They tried things to make me use it, but they were only successful a few times. The more they messed with my head, the more the cold inside me grew stronger.

The cold only comes out if I wasn't stable, the tricks they tried wouldn't work twice. It's only a matter of time until they found out my weakness.

"Axel, I miss you... I hope you're alright..." I couldn't help but whisper, that's when I noticed the way my breath hitched.

Raising my head in horror, the whole room has frozen up, harsh icicle spurting out from everywhere.

The alarm immediately rang, before I knew it, I was already being dragged away into the laboratory. My unexpected burst of power wasn't something they'd easily pass by.

I didn't bother struggling as they pulled me harshly, every step that I made turned into ice.

"Hurry! Before she snaps out of it! We can't let this opportunity slip away!"

Their frantic movements and whispers filled the room as everyone stood on alert.

They pushed me inside a small room made of glass where they could easily inspect me, they stood around the glass gazing at me as if I was some kind of special animal.

"I want to see you..."

I murmured underneath my breath as they forcefully made me sit on the steel chair, immediately locking my arms and ankle in place. I sat there unmoving, and watching them with dead eyes, the warmth already gone. They started putting those strange wires on my body again, and the strange head piece that supposed to know what's on my mind, and monitor everything about me.

One of the Head Scientists went inside the glass room, staring at me like a wild animal finally given it's food, he's thirst for knowledge about my powers had always been on the high level.

"Finally, you willingly unleashed your ice without even us having to do anything. And here we are, thinking of what we should do next with your brother." A crazed laugh escaped from him.

I glared at him through my lashes, "What did you do to him?"

My voice came out as low, harsh, and cold. The Head Scientist looks taken a back because that was the first time that I openly responded to their taunting.

"Ahh, that's the girl I first saw on the auction, such beauty before me!" He went on with that crazed voice once again, "Those glowing white blue eyes, and the coldness that comes out from you has been worth it from this years of waiting!"

I remained silent as I continued to glare at him.

One of the Scientist went inside the glass room, "Mr. Drul, the guests had arrived and your presence is greatly required. The Government said that these guests should be taken properly and specialized their needs to the utmost satisfaction."

The Head Scientist nodded, "I should be on my way then, continue with the observations on our precious specimen."

He stopped on the doorway and looked back tauntingly, "Don't worry, I still haven't decided if we should gouge his clock eye out for us to look into because that brat hasn't done anything useful to further our research yet. Wouldn't that be wonderful? He can only see his precious sister with one eye now." With those words he walked out of the glass room while waving his hand.

The little life left in me felt like it was being wrapped up in pure ice, cold as ever. Gouge his clock eye out? They can't do it! Those eyes have always brought joy to Axel, he was always proud of his one golden eye. It represents his hidden power that no one still knows up until this day, despite having no clue what that eye meant he wasn't ashamed of it. He'd like to flaunt it around as a sign that he wasn't different from me, that we're the same and that he'd be there to face the scientists with me together.

My shoulders shook at the thought of them harming my brother. I wouldn't let them! I won't let them hurt him any further. But what can I do? I'm nothing but a living vessel full of coldness, the only thing that's keeping me from going insane is my brother.

'Unleash me... Let me out once again... Let's show the world what we can do together...'

Cold dread settled on my stomach as I heard the voice once again, after years of silence, it finally decided to let it's presence known again.

'Will you seriously let them do as they please with your beloved brother? Use me once more...'

"How?" I said in a broken whisper.

'Accept the coldness... Unleash the ice...'

When I opened my eyes, I could feel them glowing, my senses also felt heightened. Across the glass I saw Axel being pushed down on the bed forcefully, while he's trying to break free from them, he's thrashing and screaming wildly, I can see the fear in his eyes.

That's when I saw. His left eye, where he's golden clock eye lay, crimson tears rolled down his cheek that came from his left eye.

"Stop..!" I couldn't help but cry out as I tried to break free from the steel chair.

Before I knew it, everything from the laboratory was frozen, the scene from twelve years ago felt like it was playing before me once again.

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