"Twinkle, twinkle, little star...

  How I wonder what you are..."

  She sang it like a lullaby of death.

  I winced as my blood painted the floor .

  Snow like razor sharp particles kept cutting me.

  I closed my eyes.

  Some grazed me while I deflected some . Everything has a weakness, you can fool a fools, but not the wise .

  I took a deep breath .

  There I found it weakness. The particles moved in a similar pattern all I need to do is exploit a flaw in one of them then...

  I speed blitz dodging the attacks as they came .

  I was now at eye level with the girl she looked into my eyes .

  "Your eyes look funny ",she laughed.

  "They're like a star , I've never gone outside before...", she extended her hand towards my eye while I crept my dagger towards her neck.

  The floor was like a huge snowflake it rotated anticlockwise. I swang back and the snowflakes changed direction, they impaled me before I could react.

  She pulled back her hand and sticked out her tongue.

  "You're no fun "

  "Damn what a pain ", I sighed.

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  "Magma Sword."

  His katana materialized , glowing, hissing, magma licking its edge.

  He cut through the limbs with fluid, elegant strikes

  like dancing with an orange phoenix.

  The monster screeched, flailing in rage.

  The floor beneath Blaze melted into lava.

  He vanished. Speed-blitzed.

  But the creature moved too , attacking from behind.

  The child turned just in time ,

  Mike's eye nearly pierced by a stray blade.

  Blaze glanced back.

  The katana's afterglow still shimmered in his gaze.

  Mike didn't blink.

  The monster's scythe touched the moisture in his eye ,

  and disintegrated.

  Ahead of him , the reborn glow danced across the monster's head.

  One clean cut.

  Decapitated.

  The child collapsed into his arms.

  "No more surprise attacks, not bad for a third sphere demon", Blaze swang around his katana.

  "I should check on the kid Kaein said his strong, but then aga-"

  His katana disintegrated by a liquid that went through the floor.

  He looked up.

  An eye stared down from the ceiling.

  It twitched.

  Then cried out acid like tears.

  "MUST PROTECT HOME!" it screeched.

  "Oh sh-"

  I was bleeding out.

  FOCUS. FOCUS . FOCUS.

  A massive snowflake swung toward my neck.

  I caught it with my teeth and shattered it.

  I laughed.

  She giggled.

  I smashed the floor shattering the huge snowflake.

  "That was your weakness all along "

  She melted ,"Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder what you are..."

  A steem feeled the room then created more bigger ice flakes .

  "Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky...".

  "I'm a friendly mice "

  I took a deep breath .

  It do or die.

  I charged forward, cutting through waves of snowflakes.

  One hovered at eye level , and I leaped off it with one foot.

  Time slowed...

  Everything turned white.

  I was face-to-face with the child , no longer monstrous.

  Just a little girl.

  She cried,

  "I couldn't protect our home..."

  I knelt.

  Patted her head.

  "You did great.

  Your parents would be proud.

  Don't cry ,be proud."

  Snowflakes spun wildly.

  I hopped across them as if they were stone paths.

  Back in the white void..

  She smiled.

  She turned and ran toward a glowing figure.

  Her parents embraced her.

  They cried.

  "You are free at last, my children,"

  the mother said through her tears.

  The mother turned to dust then recollected into a black katana with a dark aura.

  I reached out , both hands on the blade.

  The white room crumbled.

  And in that moment, I sliced through the child.

  The force split the world.

  The slash didn't stop.

  It ripped through the house and through the monster above Blaze.

  The house crumbled.

  Blaze threw himself over the child,sprouting flame like wings from his back and shielding him from the collapse.

  Everything glitched.

  Suddenly ,

  I was standing again.

  Gripping the black katana.

  Blood rained from the sky.

  Everything was destroyed.

  The sun began to rise

  Blaze clawed his way through rubble, alive but barely.

  He looked at me.

  I looked at my hands.

  Again, I had acted without free will.

  Again, something else pulled the strings.

  What was that?

  Who am I?

  Am I truly a pawn?