9 The tears of the weak

Falling ever so slowly and it made a beautiful site to see, but the participants were not fooled by the delicate nature of the snow and its beauty.

From the snow they could feel the boundless and immense power that was hidden in the snowfall.

They could tell that the power within the snowfall was enough to freeze them to death and they all could tell the owner of the snowfall was even more dangerous than the snowfall she gave off a feeling of the deepest frozen pits.

The figure in white walk slowly and with almost impossible swiftness, it was almost as if her feet never touched the ground.

Her presence was enough to put out all the fire in the surrounding trees turning a blazing fire into a field of white beautiful snow, she walk over to where Cloud who was lying on the ground.

When she reach Cloud she examined him and was relieved to see that he was alive, than her gaze turn to the other participants her gaze was filled bloodthirsty and killing intent her look alone sent cold sweat down their spine than she picked up Cloud and disappeared.

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By the time Cloud woke up he was lying next to a fire, feeling had returned to him now and all he could feel was the unimaginable pain and a bunt smell that came from his body.

Cloud opened his eyes and was surprised to be alive and what was even more surprising was that there was a white figure sitting next to him by the fire.

Cloud looked at the white figure with surprised and felt disbelief, seeing the look on Cloud face the white figure introduced her "Hi you can call me Snow and I could have killed you at anytime I wanted to remember that".

Her words sent a cold sweat down his back, she could have killed him at anytime yet she saved him. That thought alone sent Cloud into a depressed state for now he knew that he was weak, too weak to take the exam and he was also inexperienced in the art of fighting.

Cloud remained quiet for long time thinking about how naive he was to think that he could make it in the seekers exams, the reality that he was weak broke Cloud for tears started falling down his cheek.

The fact that his was weak was something Cloud could not except it felt like Cloud was losing everything he has ever believed, every dream he had, every goal he set it and felt like he was losing his reason for living.

Cloud also remembered how he had gave in to his suicidal tendencies and tried to kill himself, as long as Cloud could remembered his mother had only made him make only one promise to her and that was that h would never give in to the whispers.

A promise that he would live no matter what troubles he faced on his adventure and now he failed and broke that promised.

Snow watch Cloud silently for a long time, it surprised her to see him crying and could not understand why someone who had just escaped death would be so sad.

So with a low voice she asked "why are you crying". Hearing the question Cloud didn't want to answer at first but then he remembered that this girl saved his life and he can repay her by begin honest with her.

So without even opening his eyes knowing how shameful it was for him to expose what a loser he was, with low voice field with pain Cloud told Snow his life story.

After telling her everything Cloud waited to hear her laughing but she remained quiet for a long time and then she said " I don't think you are weak and I do not understand your curse bloodline but the is one thing a know that is you are one of the strongest people in the exams, you just don't know how to use that strength.

That is why I saved you because of your strength and I need your help but for now you don't need to worry about how you can help me what you need to worry about is recovering and training ".