Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special Novels & Stories

he muttered. He glanced around. This was his apartment. Everything was exactly as he remembered it. And yet, the air was warm and comfortable. That made no sense. In December 2050, the world had plunged into a new Ice Age. A supernova explosion 500,000 light-years away had triggered a global cataclysm, later called the Frostfall.

"Yes, there on those peaks I heard we can see flying snow leopards but also mammoths, snow camels or white squirrels. And ... huge minotaurs with six horns.” But the girl quickly ran in another direction leaving Alexander to talk to himself. After taking less than twenty steps running, the girl stopped at a magic, transparent wall, behind which there was a bizarre creature, looking like a huge flying lizard. She could, in one gulp, swallow the two children in her womb, if it wasn't for that magic shield. All the creature's enormous nest was full of snow and ice, even if immediately behind it, where Elizabeth sat, it warm and nice, and the snow was completely missing.

"Who is their master?" "The Ice-Wyrm," the Oracle replied, and the golden light around them shrank down, like it was withdrawing. "A ancient, colossal beast of absolute zero. It came from the deepest trenches of the Great Glacier. It felt the death of its children, and now it’s broken through the permafrost. It’s currently leveling the Obsidian Claw packlands, chasing the silver light that slaughtered its army." Kaelen cursed—viciously—hauling me upright, and Caleb’s golden eyes popped wide with panic. Jace was already mentally doing distance calculations, like his brain didn’t even blink.

"I see you lurking out there. We were concerned you’d decided to retreat. Get in here." Lyon stepped into the humid room. A large immersion tub sat in the center, filled with several inches of frigid water and mounds of ice. Rafael was submerged within it, bare-chested and focused, his powerful musculature tightening against the thermal shock. His skin was pale from the intense chill, creating a stark contrast against his dark hair and those piercing, frost-colored eyes.