This story is rated M for violence
Karena had gotten a letter telling her that an old friend wanted to see her alone. Along with it was a bronze pendent. The pendent was the size of a quarter and had rough edges. On the frnt was a spark like star representing ice and the other side had a flame for fire. It was from her friend Serina.
She and Serina were best friends at the circus years ago and had practically everything in common. While she learned how to use fire magic and Serina learned ice, Serina was always a step ahead, actually a few. They each had a pendent to symbolize their friendship and gave it to the other. They had a fight when the circus was destroyed that Karena left her to die when she actually was saving a baby from a fire.
She wondered why she wanted to get together. Oh, well she didn't care, it would be fun to see her again.
"Karena!" Karena looked around. Who had said that? Could it be?
"Serina, is it you?" Suddenly a cold wind came in it was like pins all over her body. She knew this feeling back when she was learning magic; when she trained with Serina and she used her....ice attack. She jumped up and grabbed a tree limb and pulled herself up as a huge blue white blast of snow flew down and froze the gground beneath her immediatley. "Serina, is that you? What are you doing you almost hit me!"
A girl jumped from a near by tree. She was tall and thin and had a pasty white exprssionless face but she was angry and it could be sensed. She wore a piece of blue clothe that wrapped around her chest and and tied in the back, her skirt was a white blue and she had a ribbon tied to each wrist. Her hair, white was tied in a long ponytail. Her blue eyes stared and her lips moved, "I was trying to."
"Serina? Why? Whats going on? Are you still angry about what happened? I thought you wanted to get back together and talk."
"You left me to die in the flames. I watched all I love be destroted and everybody died that day except you and me. You left me. I was saved from the rubble by people the next day. After that all I wanted was revenge on my "best friend" who left me. So I for the past few years have trained to kill. While your power and level never increased so you could help people. I have a level six ice attack, you are at one. You will die old friend, die slowly. You scratch my back, I stab yours."
"But, I was saving a baby. I couldn't get to you in time. I'm sorry." tears streamed down her eyes.
"No, you lie." Her hands began to glow ice appeard around her hands. "Level three ice, try to dodge this. ICE SHARD FLASH!" Shards of sharp ice flew toward her.
She's gone insane, I can't help her. She jumped to the side but felt cold cut her leg badly. She groaned in pain. A foot came. She took a blow to the jaw. "You will die you bitch! This is for killing my youth and love and spirit and life! See-yah!" She gave a double cross kick to her face. She flew back as blood flew. Serina had always been stronger but now she was beyond. This was painful
Serina had a argry face and smiled as she delived blow after blow. She called a powerful ice spell and Karena was froven in ice, Serina shattered it with a powerful kick as it connected to her stomach. The shards of ice cut her badly and her outfit was torn and she bled in many places. She lied on the ground, "How can I beat her? Shes to strong to beat. Must though."
"It's time to finish you off you wretched little whore! Level six, ICE STORM!!!" Ablizzard of ice flew around Karena and was blinded. She was lifted off the ground and was beaten by the cold and ice. She screamed in pain. It grew down and she fell to the ground. Not dead somehow. Serina chuckled, "still not dead? This should be the last time, then I'll go for your friends and fiancee."
"Nooo" Suddenly a rage filled her, she thought of all she loved, her friends, family gone, her lover Jin, and all she fought for. She staggered to her feet. "No, you will not, you're not the Serina I knew, your a bitch from hell and God as my witness, I'll send you back there. A flare of power filled her, a flash of knowledge hit her. She learned all the spells of fire to level seven then. Sparks appeared and Karenas hands rose, "Level seven..." fire gathered to her.
"No, this isn't possible, nooooo!! NOOOOOOO!!!!" she backed away in terror, anger, and amazement.
"FIRE TORNADO!!!" A tornado of fire span around Serina and she screamed in pain, for a long time. Her body could sketchly be seen in the wall of flames. It died and her body lay there naked but her power kept her alive and unburnt but naked, hurt and unconsiousce. Her body then dissapeared in a blink of an eye.
She must have been sent by someone else and been sent back to wherever. She smiled and looked at herself she was cold and realized her top had been ripped badly showing most if not all her left breast. She covered herself and went to the nearest town to heal and rest.