CHAPTER 75: EVOLUTION.

Sunshine opened her eyes slowly. The world had stopped spinning, which was the last thought she had before passed out. She was no longer laying on a hard surface but a soft one.

She realized that she was sleeping on a bed, in the bedroom she shared with Hades. Hades was also in bed; his arms were wrapped around her. His chest was pressed against her bare back.

"How did I get here?" She responded to the question with a question.

"Thank you for helping." she said softly.

Hades touched his cheek, feeling the spot where her lips had been. It was a bit cold, like she had been drinking some ice-cold water only seconds before. A minute passed and the cold remained there.

Hades exhaled, "Okay, maybe I looked but that was only because I was covering you. I tried warming you with everything I could think of, but nothing worked. So, I figured the heroic movie famous skin-to-skin thing could work."

He placed the gun on the side table and turned back to Sunshine, looking at her through worried eyes. Without hesitation, he reached down and touched her forehead. He pulled on her hands which were tightly gripping a bed sheet to cover her breasts which were hidden by only a bra.

She pulled up her clothes while wondering where the pattern had come from. In her previous life, it had not been there.

She exhaled and cold steam poured out of her mouth. Her breath had undergone some kind of change too!

He grimaced as he waited for the pervert accusation to slap his face. She had no idea how many times he had debated with himself on whether this was the correct move or not. In the end, he had made the decision because an angry but alive Sunshine was better than a dead one.

He figured that she would not come out of hiding so soon. It was 3:03 a.m. and he had a feeling that he would not be sleeping again for the rest of the night. He changed into gym clothes and decided to go and train his body and speed.

Sunshine blinked. "I’m sorry--heroic movie what-- now?"

He exhaled and shrugged. "I apologize and I did not look if that is what you are worried about."

Hades’s hands moved around as he urged her to recall a scene that he had seen in at least twenty movies in his lifetime. "You know, the guy takes off his shirt and the woman takes off hers as well and they cuddle skin to skin through a snowstorm or something like that."

She nodded along as he explained. "And the clothes...." She pointed from her chest to his.

After the cup shattered as she folded her hand, she jumped up and gasped. Was this a mutation in her powers or a growth? Discover stories at

Sunshine was in the space wondering how Hades had not frozen to death when he hugged her. Those thoughts did not matter as much as the change in her powers. She wanted to test them again, so she found another cup in the space and did the same thing she had done outside.

The sky was dark, it was hard to know if it had cleared up, but it was still raining.

She stretched her arm out toward a cup that was sitting on the table. It made crackling sounds like something breaking and turned into a frozen sculpture. When she folded her hand, it shattered, startling her so much that she twitched.

Sunshine laughed. "I know what it is Hades; I am just teasing you." And she was trying hard to hide the sheer embarrassment she was feeling.

Hades exhaled loudly and sat down more comfortably. "I considered putting you in a weather under suit, but I would have to strip you completely and I figured you would not be too happy about that."

She shifted her legs and sighed when she realized that she was dressed below. Her eyes widened a little when she recalled the words of the system.

She raised her eyebrows.

Rushing to find a full body mirror, she took off her clothes and observed her naked body. The only change she saw on her skin was a snowflake like pattern on her inner right wrist.

"Eh!" She shrugged. "When it comes to saving life, gender tends to go out of the window." She jutted her finger at him and narrowed her eyes. "Also, you are an idiot...a sweet, dependable idiot. When someone is undergoing an awakening, you don’t hug them, you keep a distance so that you are not the first thing they kill."

What else had changed?

"Are you okay now?" He asked her in a strained voice. Updat𝓮d fr𝙤m

She rolled on the bed and got on her knees, right next to him. Leaning in, she kissed him on the cheek, surprising herself and him.

This was science, something that a lot of people did in the winter in the last apocalypse.

The twitching woke Hades who sat up immediately and reached for a gun. With a weapon in hand, he looked at Sunshine and then turned his head toward the window. The curtains were always open because they needed to see the sky at all times.

Awakening!!

In her last life, all she could do was freeze things. If she wanted to break what was frozen, she had to do so manually.

Taking her advice, he shifted away from her.

They were in bed skin to skin!!

Sunshine gasped. Had she truly awakened? In her past life, she had awakened the power of cryokinetics. Was it the same now? Back then, she had not known that was changing until she froze a mutated crow that was determined to have her for lunch.

Quickly, she rolled away from him and vanished into the space.

He shook his head. "I found you in the living room, on the floor. You were freezing and I had no idea what to do. I called a doctor, and she came and checked on you, but she could not figure out what was wrong with you. I remembered what you said about body temperatures rising or falling when one is awakening so I sent the doctor away and carried you to bed."

If he was not meant to awaken like her, he needed to be able to keep up in other ways and carry his own weight.

"System, system, what is going on with my body?" she hissed.

[Simple system note: Your body has undergone evolution. You are the cold; the cold is you.]