Chapter 4

The fight for their lives

As Diana and David stood there, horrified by the scene, their minds refused to process any of the possibilities. Diana stepped nearer towards the ice block, where David’s mother and friends lay frozen in strange positions. “Who could have done this? ”

He shrugged. “I have no idea. We have to get them out. ” But Diana gestured for him to keep quiet. “It’s near by. The thing that did this. ” David looked at her questioningly, but Diana just said, “Let’s go outside. ” But as she moved, David grabbed her hand, and held her. “Are you sure? ” he asked, with concern in his eyes. Diana smiled.

“Don’t worry. I’ll be OK. Now just follow me. ”

The two of them walked out of he house, and looked around the beautiful garden. But no one was in sight. Everything seemed normal outside, nothing seemed to be harmed. “Strange, ” Diana commented, but too bad she didn’t look up.

In a second, something really hard hit the floor right in front of the duo. It was so hard that they were flung of the ground. “WHOA! ” they both screamed, and landed hard on the hard soil. David recovered first, only to get a very nasty shock.

The ground in front of him was filled with shattered pieces of ice. ”What the heck? ” David exclaimed, shocked and confused at the same time. Ice again. This was starting to irritate him. Where was the ice coming from?

He got his answer in a minute. The next second, a figure came down and hit him at lightning speed. It was so fast that he couldn’t see who that was. He fell, and was hurt really badly. Whoever that was had strength. Inhuman strength. David could hardly feel his limbs.

But now Diana was worried. She hadn’t seen David getting attacked, and after hearing David’s shout, she got even more nervous. But she calmed herself down, and helped him up. But then, as she turned around, she got hit. Pissed off, she stood up, and got quite a surprise.

There was a teenage girl standing there, on the garden a few metres away from them. She looked a little older than them, and had long, blue hair, and large green eyes. She was quite a sight, with the most terrifying anger written all over her face.

Diana backed away, looking strangely at the girl. She looked extremely angry. “You caused all that ice? ” Diana asked, realising that that was a stupid question.

“What do you think? ” she snarled. And charged at Diana.

Diana was, unfortunately, not quick enough to dodge the tall girl. Diana was shorter than her, and was no match against her strength. She was easily sabotaged, and remained on the garden grass, weaker than she ever felt.  She tried to sit up, but failed. But she could turn her neck to look at the teenager.

“What was that for? ” she shouted, and she regreted that an instant later, when a searing pain hit her.

“That was for causing our family almost 17 years of pain. ”

“I don’t even know your family! ” Diana really shouted this time, until she realised something.

The girl smirked. “Tut tut, didn’t listen carefully to what I said.  And by the way, name’s Jane, ” she said, before giving Diana a very, very hard punch.

A few seconds ago, before she had passed out, Diana realised that Jane had said ‘our family’, not ‘my family’. And as she thought that and drifted away, Artemis was walking down the lane reaching the mansion.

Some other stories by shanette:

• Another piece of news.
• Dog
• Artemis Fowl and The four elements