Frost (AST)

## Appearance

Frost is a female member of the Joketsuzoku. She is an albino, with snow white hair, braid beyond the waist. Her eyes are pink and seem to glow red potentially from her magical ability. She generally wears a dark brown cloak and out in the daytime wears sunglasses. Under the cloak she wears a soft pink blouse and matching pants. She is particularly short, and together with her cloak, can often cause her to be mistaken for a boy, but without it she is seen as a modestly attractive young woman.

## Personality

Frost has a particularly adversarial personality, with an unusual distaste for men. While she can get along with Shampoo and other female Joketsuzoku, to outsiders she tends to be easily angered. Men in particular, of all types, she treats with particular disdain, generally assuming the worst of them. Frost gives particular reverence to Shampoo who she sees as an ideal Joketsuzoku for some reason. On the opposite side she has a strong hatred of Mousse. From this, one might assume she is attracted to women, but she is in fact heterosexual, even showing a modest interest in Dr. Tofu.

Frost, while talented in magic, does tend to get flustered and reckless rather easily in combat. She has been shown to mess up magic incantations, or to poorly consider her situation. Her disdain of men can also lead her to unnecessary confrontations with such even if the threat to her life is serious.

Frost's most peculiar personality quirk comes from her curse. Since she can split into twins, she frequently holds conversations with herself. Oddly this can continue even when the other twin is out of earshot, or even far away. While they don't share memories without merging, they generally slip in and out of the roles in the conversion effortlessly to the point an unaware twin can be completely oblivious to the fact the other has left or arrived.

## Background

Frost was discovered in Jusenkyo as a baby by the Guide. He figured that she’d been abandoned there due to my condition and took her to Nyuchiehzu where she was adopted into the tribe.

## History

Frost first appears in the story when she encounters Lotion and Perfume at Nyucheizu. There she learns that Shampoo was recently defeated and married to an outsider male who ran off. Infuriated by this, Frost set off to find Shampoo and the male in question.

In Japan, she arrived and after stalking Kasumi, currently trapped in male form, briefly, she concluded Kasumi was indeed vile and decided to kill her. However, her first attempt was a humiliating disaster as she completely messed up all her spells. Kasumi, seeing no threat, dismissed the encounter, but Frost persisted, taking up residence with Dr. Tofu as his new nurse.

After a short while working with him, she finally figured out her casting errors and was ready to confront Kasumi again. Unfortunately for Kasumi, Genma showed up and after being threatened, revealed Kasumi was currently at a Ski resort. Dr. Tofu, unaware of Frost's intents, offered to drive Frost there.

On arriving, Frost soon tracked down Kasumi and attacked. Due to the earlier encounter, Kasumi was completely blindsided and disabled. Fortunately for her, several of her friends and family intervened to keep Kasumi away from Frost long enough for Shampoo to intervene. Together with Dr. Tofu, they revealed to Frost Kasumi true sex and Frost gave up her attack. Frost was not willing to allow a woman to be trapped as a male so she used her own magic to reverse the effects of the cat-tongue point, allowing Kasumi to freely transform once more. Frost departed alone, assuming she would not be appreciated, but Dr. Tofu soon collected her and she decided to stay in Nerima for now.

Despite learning Kasumi was a woman, Frost's animosity toward her had not completely abated, and she was still very suspicious. Learning Mousse intended to marry Kasumi, Frost insisted that Kasumi reject this, explaining some of her hatred for him. Ultimately Kasumi would reject Mousse, although likely more due to Shampoo's own rejection of the option.

A while later, Frost convinced Shampoo to join her at a restaurant where Ranma and Kasumi were currently on a date in an effort to convince Shampoo that Kasumi wasn't for her. However, this backfired as Shampoo admitted she was in fact in love with Kasumi. With the arrival of Ukyo and Mousse, a confrontation broke out which Frost attempted to end with the use of a fear spell, but unintentionally only hit Shampoo with the spell. Shampoo's, so en-spelled, panicked and ran off, forcing everyone to search her out. While searching for her, Frost would speak to Kasumi, admonishing her for keeping Shampoo in limbo on their relationship. They would ultimately find Shampoo but Kasumi was forced to take Shampoo home as Frost did not possess a proper counter-spell, forcing Kasumi to stay with Shampoo to keep her calm. Frost's earlier words did appear to affect Kasumi as she would later agree to have Shampoo join her in her bed from that night on.

After this, with the arrival of Herb, Mint and Lime in Nerima, Ukyo would become trapped in her cursed form. Not knowing what happened, Kasumi took Ukyo to Frost in hopes the magus could figure it out. Frost did indeed discern the nature of the lock and after recovering the Chiisuiton, used it to track the Kaisuifu necessary to unlock Ukyo's curse. Together with Ukyo and Kasumi, the threesome raced Herb's group to the artifact. Both groups would arrive at near the same time and ultimately get into a conflict over the artifact. During the conflict, Ukyo would manage to unlock her curse, but Frost would destroy the Kaisuifu before Herb could do likewise. Infuriated by this, Herb attempted to kill Frost, but Kasumi managed to shock him out of this using a powerful Ha-Do-Ken. With Herb calmed enough to negotiate, Kasumi got Frost to agree to repair the artifact, giving Herb new hope.

Frost would later help out with the events surround the love pill bracelet and recover the lifetime love pill herself.

Not long after this, Frost's twin arrived in Nerima and revealed to Frost there was an unaccounted for curse victim in the area, C-chan. After puzzling over the identity of this person for a while they deduced who it was. Frost would then offer Mousse a cure for his sight issues to prove to him this was not his problem with getting Shampoo to accept him. Mousse would recklessly accept. One drinking the concoction Frost made for him, Mousse would be confronted by Frost and her twin who would force him to admit he was C-chan. However, this was only the start of his troubles as he quickly learned they had tricked him into agreeing to become their familiar. Combined with the magic of the Chiisuiton and threatening to use the love pill, Mousse was now trapped in his cursed cat form, effectively enslaved to Frost.

In the days following, Mousse would make contact with Artemis and get the Sailor Senshi involved. However, unable to truly reveal the full nature of his situation, they only came to meet Frost in their Senshi form, and would eventually agree to help out with the repair of the Kaisuifu by providing energy.

After this Lemon would arrive in Nerima and after a failed scheme involving teaming up with Ukyo, turned to trickery. Lemon transformed herself into a perfect likeness of Shampoo and approached Frost, accusing Kasumi of raping her. Naturally this infuriated Frost who set out anew to kill Kasumi. The resulting battle destroyed the San Cheng Huang, and nearly took Kasumi's life but Ranko managed to intervene and convince Frost to confirm Shampoo's story. Naturally, the real Shampoo denied it, and Frost, assuming the worst, panicked and attempted to leave but was convinced once more to stay by Dr. Tofu.

With that resolved, Frost would withdraw, assuming Shampoo would be angry with her. When Kasumi and Shampoo were kidnapped and taken to the La Bac, however, she did lead aid and was forced to reveal her twin curse to all present to facilitate an escape.

Sometime later, Siren would arrive and reveal the enchantment planned for the Kaisuifu repair was of 8th circle and would require special permission. She would later return, granting Frost permission to complete it which she would, oblivious to the ongoing confrontation in Nerima between Kasumi's group and the Musk Kitsunes. She would finally succeed in the enchantment, being granted the official rank of an Archmage and was given a one week deadline to report to Jasmine, her new Grand Magus overseer, for further training.

During the week she was preparing for her training with Jasmine, the Sailor Senshi revealed there true identities to her and various others. While Shampo and Herb tested the durability of their armor with Makoto, Frost looked over the status display of Ami’s armor. It turns out their exposure to the energy unleashed by Usagi put their power output at 78 percent of maximum when it should be 20. Usagi’s armor turned out to not be a lost cost and she promised to look into it when she returned.

When it was discovered that Lemon was kidnapped Frost and the returning Gtrnda aided in her rescue. Since they had no item of hers. Frost Grenda performed a scry spell for all kitsune by tapping into the core of the pot and pail. This led them to to Copycat Ken, who turned out to be in fact a kitsune to some degree. After initial confusion and disappointment, Ken learned of their search, and showed them to a building he knew of.

They found the building in question to be very suspicious due to both Ken's history with it, and the many magics around it. Grenda put Shampoo to sleep for her to use her spirit walk ability to scout the place. Shampoo returned quickly, finding Lemon was indeed within along with about fifty people, including someone very spiritually powerful. After Herb brought up the potential to ask the Senshi for assistance, they headed back to the restaurant to plan and prepare for an attack to recover Lemon. Grenda refused to let her participate due to fear of what Jasmine would do to her if she got hurt. So she just helped Devlin lay down an avoidance aura.

Frost was testing how strong the Inners have become while making sure that they remained stable, when Usagi accidentally teleported herself to America. Frost didn’t know any teleportation magic and they couldn’t ask Grenda as it would force them to reveal that they were Sailor Senshi. Ultimately Ami was able to find away to fix things.

Kasumi went to Frost to ask her about a stone given to her by Cologne before she left. After looking over it curiously for a full minute she explained that that it was a speaking stone which is kinda like a mental photograph. She then activated it using some of her blood. While the holographic version of Cologne was annoyed to see the others there she had expected it so explained that the original Cologne may have discovered the location of the spirit of Queen Tranquility. Reaction to this was varied. Many were simply puzzled, the name lost on them, but Frost, Shampoo and even Makoto all went wide eyed in shock at the name. Kasumi recognized it as the last queen of the village.

Though shocked upon learning about the true nature of Queen Tranquility, Frost quickly composed herself. Halo-Cologne told then that the reason she hasn’t awoken was because she resurrected as a non-amazon. Ranma was the first to realize the significant of that. It seemed that Cologne’s plan was to find this woman and adopt her into the tribe as a loophole. Though she wasn’t sure if this would work as there were a lot of variable from the council to the woman herself not agreeing. Shampoo eventually figured out that Mousse was C-chan and confronted Frost demanding that she free him.

Frost was packing for her trip when Mousse rushed into the clinic screaming her name. She initially believed that had finally come for revenge. However it turned out that he had seemingly been cured. It turns out that in some monumental stroke of luck, the other magics Frost cast on Mousse fixed the trigger mechanism on the curse magic giving him control over the change. Sadly this was a billion to one shot so she wouldn’t be able the others curse. While she would see if she could duplicate the process she told Mousse not to tell anyone as it was unlikely she would succeed. Since Shampoo was the only one who actually knew about his curse it was decided that he should tell her otherwise she’d get confused if she saw him get splashed and not change.

Kasumi and Shampoo told Nodoka about the Kimiko they met in Kasumi’s mind hoping that she could give them some questions to ask her that only the real Kimiko would know. Nodoka confirmed that all of the answers Kimiko gave were correct. Later when Grenda Shampoo and Frost were gathered in a room within the castle for one last briefing Grenda was left even more confused after Shampoo recounted the events of her encounter. They also gave up on her being a homunculi as given the work it takes the create one there would be no point with her openly admitting that she was a fake. As for the door Frost was only able to confirm that it was Moon Kingdom in origin. However this only made things more complicated since they did not know why it reacted to Kasumi. The only advice Grenda could give was to just be careful. With that Frost finished packing for her trip.

While Grenda tool Frost to Jasmine she wasn’t staying, though she did promise to do come by now and then, as would Jasmine's other Archmages, so Frost wouldn’t be too lonely. Jasmine’s hall proved to be rather nondescript little more than wooden paneling with a few scenery paintings to break it up. However, just as Frost was beginning to lower her expectations she opened the door to the study and stopped cold. The room was circular, with bookshelves arranged in concentric circles within, with breaks in the stacks allowing movement between. Given the room had easily a footprint in excess of the San Cheng Huang's, this was already impressive. However, the fact it stretched up into the sky above with no easy end in sight, and had a glass floor showing more stacks on floors below that likewise stretched out below for equal distance was mind boggling.

Even this was not the end of it. Frost was left shock which she was brought out of it by Jasmine stating that it wasn’t finished. Frost looked up to see Jasmine seemingly floating above her, before looking down at her own feet and realizing the floor was not glass at all, and she too was similarly floating. As she was processing this, Jasmine gestured and Frost found herself floating up to Jasmine's level. Frost gave Jasmine the books she brought who began leafing through them. Several minutes passed in silence, although Frost was still distracted by her new surroundings, now noticing even more ghostly versions of not only Jasmine but several other people, and even creatures, walking about the stacks of books doing research.

Jasmine regained her attention when she told her complete one of the 9th circle. Frost tried to protest that she wasn’t ready only to for Jasimine to cut her off and remind her that she was an Archmage now. Jasmine was giving Frost clearance for a 9th circle and expected her to pull off a 10th once she completed that. Jasmine then gave Frost another shock when she revealed that the all the various clones were attempting to perform a 13th circle spell. It was a bit of an ongoing challenge between all the 12th circle mages to see who can manage the first successful 13th. However she was simply doing the layout and expected it to be at least a decade before she accomplished anything.

Jasmine gave Frost her work book telling her that once it was complete she was free to go. When Frost asked about the fighting challenge she was told about, Jasmine confirmed that was in there as well. Though she did warn Frost about being restrained in challenging her otherwise she would become annoyed. It is revealed that the reason Frost was sent to Jasmine was because the council was curious about her fast progress. Jasmine wondered if it had something to do with her involvement with the Senshi. She warned Frost that while she the 12ths and the more trustworthy 11ths had figured it out some others might view it dimly.

Frost thought she might have come up with something but Jasmine told her not to elaborate. She gave Frost an automation to tend to her needs before she left, however she gave her one last revelation her older, original, and considerably more infamous name Morgan Le Faye. Frost naturally went wide eyed at this, spinning on Jasmine and almost impulsively asking a question before noticing the Grand magus gave her 'The true history of the round table' stating that she would have to read that before she elaborated any further.

During their duels Frost could use any magic she knew, while Jasmine was restricted to circle 7 or less. This would be hard enough, but Jasmine also rigged the magic battlefield they fought in to give her every possible advantage in the duels. Frost was never able to figure out how to defeat Jasmine so in her frustration Frost eventually decided to nuke the entire battlefield killing them both their avatars, and since she said that Frost had to defeat her, not survive the process she passed.

After her training was and she went back home Jasmine gave Frost a new cloak as a graduation gift. When she arrived back in Nerima she was embarrassed to find that she left Tofu’s entrance as a castle door. He arrived to find her turning it back. After he agreed to let her stay under the old terms, she asked how long she had been gone and was surprised that it had only been a few months. The two made small talk with Frost showing off some of the things she could do like create pocket dimensions. She eventually asked how everyone else was doing. This caused Tofu to awkwardly pause, before telling her what happened.

Tofu told her that that the others had been lost at sea. After screaming at him for waiting so long to tell her Frost conjured up a metal dragon to transport them as they searched for the others. During which she made him breakdown everything that had happened. Not realizing how fast they were going Tofu was surprised by how quickly Frost was able to find Shampoo. She tracked them down to an island and after braking through the illusion that hid it she and Tofu were quickly ambushed. Though Frost just put them to sleep and went on her way, Tofu following, although looking back at the sleeping guards.

They found Kasumi resting against a tree in its shade. Beside her, Shampoo was asleep, her head leaning on Kasumi's shoulder. Frost paused when Kasumi kindly greeted her, calling the girl out for being so casual since she had been missing without a trace. Kasumi admitted that after everything that had happened she hadn’t had the time to consider that. Herb informed them that everyone was fine they were just down that way enjoying the sun, while Shampoo was trying to speak with the Great Tree. Soon the amazon opened her eyes, stretched quickly and jumped to her feet with a smile hugging her fellow amazon. Kasumi asked how Frost was able to find them, Herb gave her a slight frown when she admitted that that she had traced her but everyone else seemed to let the matter go by without question.

After only a moment they arrived at another clearing where the rest of Kasumi's group were situated. On seeing the newcomers, everyone took notice and moved to greet them. With everyone together they explained what had happened since they were gone. Learning about Toma Frost called him a degenerate, coincidentally Toma and his men showed up just as she said it. Herb told her to hold her tongue and let them handle it. Kasumi managed to calm him down and since she vouch for Frost and Tofu he decided to let the matter of his men drop. Though seeing as they had away to leave he told Akane she could give him her answer before promptly turning to leave, his men bowing slightly and quickly following.

Akane hung her head and explained to Frost that Toma wanted to marry her and how she had been stalling for time. She initially took Ranma’s sawing how weird Toma was for liking assertive woman, but really couldn’t argue when he reminded her that it was only after she slapped him that he chose her. Kasumi remembered Ranko’s anti magic ability, but after some experimentation Frost determined that she could be flown back, though she wouldn’t be affected by the momentum canceling magic.

Akane asked if they could just leave, Kodachi called her out for trying to ghost the prince and Herb mentioned that there was no telling what trouble that may be caused down the line if she just disappeared on him. Unable to argue Akane realized it was best to get it over with and headed off, the others soon following suit. Herb motioning for Shampoo to lag behind to briefly talk, something noticed by Frost but she said nothing as they soon followed as well. Dinner was an interesting yet uneventful affair. The whole group gathered around a huge dining table with abundant food served of various varieties. Only Toma from the island's people sat at the table, at its head naturally, as his retainers served and observed everything. The topic of the proposal had been avoided as the rest of the group did what they could to keep small talk going so Akane had time to strategize.

While everyone enjoyed their meal Frost eyed hers suspiciously realizing that everything was an illusion. Noticing Tofu looking at her she looked between him and the plate in front of her several times in silent question and Tofu could only shrug prompting her to sigh. Tofu looked to the prince, deciding to change topics as a distraction by asking Toma about Togenkyo Island. No one knew why only males were born on the island, not even Shampoo could get anything from the Great Tree. Hearing about the water Tofu asked Herb if he tried it. Frost flipped out when Herb answered yes calling him out for mixing curses. He just rolled his eyes and told her he just analyzed the twos potential interactions without actual experimentation. The result was fairly obvious.

Kasumi commented on her regret that Genma would receive a cure; Ranma commented that he most likely would have just turned into a pandaman. No saw Kasumi amused smile at this thought. As the table went quiet for a moment, Toma finally took this as the opportunity to speak on the main topic on his mind. Akane told that she couldn’t marry as she had other plans. When he asked her what they were she impulsively told him that she was in love with Ranko.

Toma, to no one's surprise, was quite confused by this revelation and stared at Ranko for several seconds as he tried to process what he had just heard. After Ranko who went along with Akane’s claim confirmed they were dating he challenged her to a fight to determine her worthiness. Despite everyones caution Ranko was confident in her victory given that Toma exclusively used magic. It was only a short while before the main hall within the tree was prepared with a simple open circle where Ranko and Toma could have their duel. Kasumi's group sat themselves at the perimeter on one side, while Toma's retainers and some other guards and islanders took a similar position opposite them. Ranko jumped down onto the battle floor confidently as Toma floated down onto his side.

There concerns proved well founded when Toma unleashed the Kankaho technique. Luckily he hadn’t fully mastered it and being far less skilled in hand to hand combat then he was with a sword allowed Ranko to find his timing and ultimately defeat him. Shortly later, the group was gathered at the dragon and already boarding as Frost was modifying the interior. Toma and his retainers were seeing them off and Kasumi took the initiative to thank him and wish him well for their group. She rejoined them just as Frost was assuring Ranko that it was safe.

Ranma and Akane made sure that Ranko was okay, but Frost just asked her Herb and Shampoo what they actually ate. Herb told her not to worry about it, but this led to the others asking what she meant. Again he told that it was nothing to worry about as the food was perfectly healthy. Frost switched the topic to what she missed.

When Frost woke up the next day it took her awhile to remember that she no longer had to keep the rigorous schedule she had while training with Jasmine. Getting dressed she headed out into the doctor's clinic only to find Mousse already doing some inventory. He informed her that he was staying there and after informing Tofu that she would be busy throughout the day she told Mousse, who had been staying in one of the clinic rooms that he could stay in her pocket dimension. While initially suspicious Mousse agreed to see it, giving her a chance to finally ask what she’d missed since she’d been away. Mousse told her what he knew, mostly about the senshi.

After hearing that there was no reaction to his transformation she told him he no longer had to wear the medallion. Mousse asked Frost if she could replicate his cure, but she told him that it was fluke cause by numerous different variables working together at the same time. Not the least of which is that you had to have Moon Kingdom genes. She revealed to Mousse that she had been adopted into the clan. This caused her to start expressing her fears about her above average magical knowledge, and her mysterious birth. While she was unwilling to draw the thought to its conclusion, Mousse was easily able to figure out that se was afraid that she was Sedna. she admitted that he was right, but since they had nothing to confirm the theory like senshi armor, or a special power all she had was her fears. He also suggested that she simply ask the Ascended, but her evasive answer told him that she was afraid they’d say no. He was smart enough not to say so out loud however.

She changed the subject to ask if anyone suspicious asking about Lemon. Seeing his confused look Frost realized that he was never told about Lemon’s kidnapping. Mousse agreed to help her set up some sentry spells. She went to the restaurant hoping that Usagi was there so that she could repair her armor. Knowing how packed the placed got during this time Mousse decided to accompany her. As he led her toward the back entrance he asked how she could forget he wasn’t there when Lemon was kidnapped. It turns out that time moved differently in Jasmine’s pocket dimension. To everyone else Frost had only been gone for her it had been nearly two years.

Once Mousse introduced her to the staff he was no longer needed so headed back to the clinic. Within the pocket dimension she found Kasumi, Shampoo, Genma, Makoto, and Akane who appeared to be finishing up their morning spar. She confirmed to Makoto that she had not only fixed Usagi’s armor but Seiya’s as well. After some small talk Frost learned that Usagi was in the castle and headed off there promising to fix their bath which no longer had hot water. She also asked Kasumi add a couple of new doors. Now that she knew how Ranko’s powers worked she devised away to allow her to enter the dimension.

Frost was surprised to be greeted by Spring. She had been staying their since Frost left to deal with a problem of Shampoo, though she and Kasumi felt that it would be best if Shampoo told Frost what it was. Frost was able to fix Seiya and Usagi’s armor without any complications. While they were happy with the results Seiya knew there had to be a catch. Frost explained that due to the change in energy cores Seiya could only run at 90%, as she continues to ascend it should eventually reach equality, but it will take awhile.

As for Usagi defensively her armor is stronger then it was before and while there is an upper limit, it’s regenerative properties should overcome that. Unfortunately all of Sailor Moon’s offensive attacks is powered by the Ginzuishou, so since its been destroyed she has to go back to using her tiara. While annoyed at having to use an attack she hasn’t relied on in ages Usagi knew accepted as it was better then nothing. Frost also informed her she had a sonic attack. While Usagi remembered using supersonic waves she had no idea how to activate it, Makoto could shrug when she looked at her.

Frost had found a few other functions that had been deactivated for some reason. Though the only one that would work with the knew core was the invisibility function. However when they tested it out it turned that it only turned her clothes invisible leaving Usagi in her underwear. After that they felt it west best to keep the other functions off as well. Frost assured a flustered Usagi that there were no other surprises. With that out of the way Frost finished her examination Usagi didn’t have any power fluctuation other then a few instances. Due to her embarrassment Seiya and Makoto explained that she had gotten everyone drunk. Frost could only guess what prompted that, but the others gave no further clarification.

Makoto brought up how it made them aware of Shampoo’s issue, the same one Spring brought up earlier. Though like her they felt it was up to Shampoo to explain. Seiya decided to get back to work and soon the party broke up, leaving Frost once more in the dark. However, such was soon to end as just as she exited the room she found Shampoo already waiting for her along with Siren. Siren greeted Frost by congratulating her on her new promotion. Afterwards she got right to the point stating that Cologne had already told her that Usagi and the others were the Senshi, as well as the speaking stone. Though that wasn’t relevant to what she and Shampoo wanted to discuss. It turned out that when Shampoo's old moon kingdom blood reactivated, it also gave her a regenerative healing factor, which was how she survived her poisoning at hotel la bac. Frost didn’t understand this was a bad thing, it turns out that her healing factor also purges foreign substances, poison, alcohol, as well as beneficial drugs like a certain daily regiment of pills that she's been using.

Frost took a second to get the clue, but finally did. After getting over the fact that Shampoo and Kasumi had been sleeping with each other Frost was about to ask if she was pregnant, but Siren headed off the question. Shampoo wasn’t pregnant, but she was annoyed since Cologne didn’t inform her that her wedding night contraceptive was still in effect. In fact the reason here was so she could reinforce its magic, even that wouldn’t last much longer however. The original spell is both difficult and expensive to perform so Siren asked Frost leverage something specific to Shampoo's new condition. This would still be hard so Frost asked about more conventional means. Unfortunately Shampoo’s body interprets even that stuff as foreign.

With nothing left to do Shampoo departed, leaving Siren with Frost. Siren asked Frost how her training went revealing that she new that Jasmine was Morgan le Fay. Frost expressed her frustration at Jasmine’s extreme pragmatism. There conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Spring who wanted to ask Siren if they were heading back. They would be staying a little longer since Siren was waiting for Guan Li to finish training Saki. Spring congratulated Frost, causing Siren to jokingly consider becoming a Grand Magus.

As a graduation gist Siren gave an amulet that contained a light blocking spell. While grateful Frost asked why she didn’t just give her sunblock. Getting a steady supply, at the proper potency while also being safe to the Bayankala Mountains was a total nightmare. Siren, Frost’s mother, even Cologne and tried and the best they coud get was sketchy bargain brand products. Siren went to get some breakfast while Frost studied the scroll that contained the contraception spell. Spring joined Frost in looking over the scroll even though it was pretty advanced for her level. Even then Frost was surprised at the gaps in her knowledge. Spring excused Siren not teaching her as her being busy with various things. Knowing how much her master procrastinates offered to teach her. Excited Spring left to go suggest it to Siren. A short time later, as Frost was about to declare short term defeat with the scroll, Herb looked within the room.

Much to her surprise he came in, followed by Lemon. When Herb asked to discuss a matter of curiosity she initially thought he wanted to talk about Jasmine. However Herb wasn’t aware that Jasmine was his grandmother. The Musk don’t talk about women in the family, and it was even worse in the royal family. Herb didn’t even know his mother; however Sorora did tell him that she was in contact with Jasmine on occasion. Jasmine told Frost the same thing, she and Herb agreed that the two weren’t close they just had a mutual hatred for Garnet. What Herb actually wanted to discuss was the Togenkyo Island water having brought a canteen of it for her to examine. He wanted to know if the magic on the water was the same fruit from the island.

Frost confirmed what Herb suspected the magic from the water was contaminating any food grown on the island. Lemon began to panic at this revelation, but Frost assured her that it was too weak to be effective. This was however the reason why all the inhabitants were born male. Frost ask why he didn’t bring this up why they were there, but given the unique situation between the islanders, and those of the villages on the islands they pass he didn’t want to upset the balance.

Herb asked to examine the curse placed on Lemon next and there were similarities. Ever since Toma mentioned, that those afflicted would be unable to love a man in female guise he thought of the Kitsune curse. While they weren’t the same Frost that the same person had cast them. Before either of them could say anything mixing these two curses wouldn't be a cure, it would be a disaster for whoever did such. Any clue to its source was still a big clue. Herb allowed Frost to keep the water as he had been planning to have her dispose of it anyway. Lemon lingered behind after Herb left. She almost ran after hearing the hostility in Frost’s voice when she noticed her, but she gathered her nerves and apologized for everything. Frost coldly told her to save it. Even bowed as she was, Frost could see Lemon shrink even more. Frost opened her mouth to say more, but thought better on it, and just gave a disgusted grunt and told her to just stay out of trouble. As the magus walked out Lemon gave her a look of worry, but also some relief.

It was some time later when Frost finally succumbed to the need for food and headed out into the restaurant, by this time, the morning rush had passed, and it had quieted down substantially allowing her to easily reach the kitchen to find someone she knew. Crystal was the first to approach her, and simply directed her to take a free seat. Frost was initially uncomfortable, but Kasumi said that anyone from her regular group is free to have regular meals here at no charge. Crystal joked that Frost was providing everyone free labor. Frost was looking over the menu when she was interrupted by Siren.

With a fake smile Siren asked about Frosts talk with Spring. Not wanting to beat around the bush Frost called her former master out on her constant procrastinating. She pointed out all coincidences that happened between them. How she suddenly started training Spring the moment she sent Frost away to Cologne, only to ditch her in Japan to cast a simple spell that anyone could have done. Frost was about to tell Siren that she was focusing to much on what happened wasn’t, but and angry Siren cut herself off. Calming herself down Siren told Frost that she wouldn’t let it happen again. Frost countered that Siren was overcompensating; sometimes you just have to forge ahead with what you got. With that out of the way Siren brought the conversation back down by asking Frost how much time did she spent with Jasmine. With a sigh told her entirely too much, a sympathetic Siren told her that Spring was spoken for. They were interrupted by the arrival of Guan Li and since Siren had already eaten she left the two to their own devices.

Later Siren had to be called in to help finish Ranko’s entrance to the pocket dimension as Frost had exhausted herself. While Siren was quick to tease Frost, she chastised her former student for overworking herself by trying to do everything in one day. Despite this drawback the door worked perfectly and Ranko was able to enter the pocket dimension for the first time. Siren explained the mechanics, but Ranko didn’t really understand forcing her to simplify it. With that Siren motioned for Guan Li and Spring who were sitting a ways away to join her. Saki who was with them joined them as they walked over. Much to Spring’s enthusiasm Siren told her that they’ll make up for lost time when they get back and her time there had put her a bit behind in her instruction. Siren said her goodbyes with a parting wave and headed out. Spring likewise waved and headed out, while Guan Li turned to Saki. She told her to keep up her training even suggesting she joined the morning training. Kasumi was happy to allow her, but Saki felt that it was bit out of her pay grade.

Guan Li shrugged this off telling Saki to not to let a bit of wounded pride in being shown up, hold her back. With that, Guan Li waved as well and headed through, Siren closing the portal after she was safely through. Saki told Kasumi that she’d at least give it a try and headed off herself with a wave. With them gone Ranko asked if the exhausted Frost would be okay. Kasumi turned to the magus who still looked exhausted and told her that she should head home and get some rest. Frost agreed that she overexerted herself and forced herself to stand so she could leave.

The next day after resting Frost decided to spend it reserving her mana. She exited her pocket dimension to enter the one at the restaurant only to find Kasumi, Herb, Shampoo, Makoto, Ranma, Genma, Lemon and even Akane gathered around a kitsune. Peach returned to Japan to warn everyone that Lemon’s mother had slipped away from the Fox Clan and was likely looking for trouble. Kasumi was forced to assure Peach that the door didn’t bypass the barrier before they could get things on track. Herb asked if Palm planned on taking Lemon, however Peach honestly didn’t know. While it was a possibility it wasn’t likely as no clan would take them if Palm just forcibly took Lemon back. Kasumi suggested that Palm would just take Lemon and live on her own. Though she didn’t explain why Peach knew that was just as unlikely. Her theory was that Palm was coming after Kasumi which is why she was there. Peach would act as Kasumi’s bodyguard while Kasumi stayed in the barrier until they get things sorted out.

After explaining Palm’s ability to them Peach called them out for not confirming she was who she said she was before letting her in. Shampoo would be the key to detecting Palm. Sadly, all they could really do now was wait for Palm to do something, either give up and go home or gets fed up and confronts Peach. Peach’s final instruction was to make sure that Ranko came nowhere near her. With that she left to prowl the neighborhood. Frost asked why they didn’t just let hand Lemon over, but they had asked that before she arrived. Given the circumstances the Fox clan wouldn’t respect the choice and consider it coerced.

With that the group began to break up, but Herb came over to Frost, while Ranma likewise lingered. He asked they could track Palm using the same spell she used to find Lemon. Unfortunately it needed tons of magic and the artifacts required were still recharging. Frost also suspected that Palm had already taken steps to avoid being found. All she could really do was set up some extra security measure. Herb nodded and headed out, leaving only Ranma. He explained to Frost how he was trying to integrate some magical theory into his techniques. He asked for her help as she would have more knowledge on theory then Spring. After Ranma demonstrated the little he could do so far, Frost realized what the problem was. He was using the wrong magical language. Seeing that the newer forms of magic wouldn’t work she gave Ranma a guide to Glyphic and older form.

Another new day brought Frost once more through her pocket dimension door to the San Cheng Huang. After spending most of the night deploying sentry spells she couldn't help but yawn as she did just as Kasumi waved her over, apparently in a lull to their morning training. She asked Shampoo to talk in private so that she could analyze her body. Kasumi and rushed over to the others for a quick talk as Shampoo and Frost started walking off telling them she’d join in a minute. She asked Shampoo how things were going with Mindscape Kimiko. Shampoo told her that everything was fine, but seeing Frost’s skeptical look she admitted how annoyed she’s become that Kasumi keeps wanting her to check up on her. Frost began her examination when Kasumi rejoined them.

Shampoo stood within a small magic circle within one of the rooms of the castle, sighing with boredom as a ring slowly cycled, rising and falling around her. She herself was naked, although she showed no signs of this bothering her. In fact, Frost, who was standing nearby taking notes was probably more disturbed by the situation than her fellow Amazon, her eyes occasionally stealing a glance at Kasumi who was simply sitting nearby patiently, apparently unconcerned. The scan continued for a moment longer before Shampoo decided to make small talk by asked Frost what it was like to be a twin. The scan showed that Shampoo’s regenerative abilities made contraception impossible. Though Frost had some ideas of how to get around that, however they were all either complicated or very expensive. They ended up going with the least difficult one.

With that out of the way Frost asked Kasumi about the situation with the artifact. When Kasumi casually called Mindscape Kimiko mother an annoyed Frost called her out for getting too attached. She also made Kasumi confirm what Shampoo told her. While she understood what Kasumi was going through Frost still stressed that it had to stop. She suggested that they think up a new name for Mindscape Kimiko to better distinguish her from the original. Kasumi considered it but couldn’t bring herself to just give Mindscape Kimiko a name so the sent Shampoo to ask her for one. While Frost meant the next time they check up on MK she was surprised that Shampoo could do it then and there using spirit walk. So as they waited Kasumi gave Frost access to the pocket dimension to check on the hot water situation.

Shampoo said that MK wanted to be referred to as Guardian much to both Kasumi and Frost’s surprise. While an odd name it worked as Kasumi wasn’t going to confuse that. Frost was surprised to find out that Kasumi hadn’t actually talked to Guardian since that first time. She suggested that now that they had a name Kasumi could ask to enter the artifact. When Kasumi came to Frost was reasonably confident the artifact is not harmful, but playing with it was still risky. With that Kasumi and Shampoo rejoined the other while Frost went back to work.

Frost stepped out onto the deck and immediately set to work scanning the horizon through what would seem to be a mini telescope. Within mere moments, though she was already sighing in expected disappointment. She was interrupted by Ukyo and was shocked to see her sitting on one of the benches, looking at the various flowers that surrounded the deck absently with little interest. Frost couldn’t help but think how gloomy Ukyo was as she examined the girl in front of her. Frost wondered in she should ask what happened to her but decided to against it and just told her that she was checking out the local ley lines for hot water. She quickly realized out of context that made no sense, but surprisingly Ukyo simply murmured her apparent understanding and said no more. Frost stole a glance back, but the chef had apparently already lost interest and was looking the opposite way at another set of flowers. Seeing how depressed Ukyo was Frost found herself wishing the old angry one was back.

At that moment, Ranma opened the door to the deck and joined them, waving silently to Frost before turning to Ukyo. Ukyo to blush slightly and turn to him, although even this didn't seem to fully lift her heavy aura. This caused Ranma to suggest that she take Crystal up on her offer. Cutting Ukyo off before she could say anything telling her that her cooking was great, sure it wasn’t perfect but it was still some of the best around. Ukyo needed to start cook normally for a change without the pressure of the tests. Frost agreed that sometimes you just need to unwind and get back to basics. Ukyo looked up, glancing between the two and conceded. They agreed to sort things out after school. With that he asked Frost what she was up to. It turns out that she was trying to figure out to figure out the local ley lines to see if there is any extra power to be had. The barrier reinforcement imbalanced the power supply for the pocket dimension.

Ranma ask if the telescope she was using to view the ley lines could see energy flows in the body. This annoyed Frost thinking he planned on using it to fight told him that it was to expensive to lend out. Frantically waving off the magus' suspicions Ranma explained that he wanted to use it on himself as while he could feel the general nature of his energy flow he needed specifics. Calming down Frost told him that it still wouldn’t work as the scope was to cumbersome to carry around. While disappointed Ranma ended up having an epiphany after thinking about it some more. Frost went back to scanning while Ranma and Ukyo left to get ready for school.

Palm ended up attacking Akane, Kodachi and Ranko luckily they were rescued by Kane and Shan. The whole group was now at the restaurant within the pocket dimension, along with Kasumi, Shampoo, Herb, Ranma, Frost and even Lemon. Peach told them they were lucky as she neared the completion of her treatment of Akane. Kodachi was sitting nearby, recovered but looking unamused while Kane was doing her own treatment of Ranko who was still struggling to breath without coughing. This is far more troubling than Peach was expecting. Granted this was not directly that serious, they all would have recovered in time, but it was dangerous regardless, and Palm may have been intending to kidnap the three.

Ranma was the first to ask what they do next. It’s obvious that Palm wasn’t just going after Kasumi, Peach can't protect everyone all at once, and they can't all hold up in here indefinitely. Herb pointed out that this was most likely Palm’s goal when she attacked. Ranma suggested that they call the Fox clan, but was disgusted when told that since one of their own isn’t at threat they wouldn’t be here instantly like last time. For now all they could do was continue to wait. There was also the fact that they needed to bring the others to the pocket dimension so that they wouldn’t be in any danger. Ranma went off to call the dojo with Herb telling him to wait for Peach she could escort them. Akane left to go get some cloths. Kodachi decided to take her chances at home. If Palm chooses to attack her again at least they would know the extent to which she would stoop, the others nodded and started to break up into smaller groups to talk.

## Abilities

Frost is a natural weaver and currently the second most powerful Joketsuzoku magus and very accomplish at this, achieving the 8th circle of incantation well ahead of the average, although not to the point of being record breaking. She has shown a deep understanding of Jusenkyo curses, and appears to speak not only Mandarin, but also Japanese, Latin and English. She is talented enough to repair the Kaisuifu and to analyze other magics.

Her known arsenal of spells includes fireballs, lightning, a silence spell, a spell that allows her to walk on snow without trace, a spell to reverse the effects of the cat-tongue pressure point, a spell to create a field of ice, a general destruction spell, tracking spells, a forest of thorns spell, and fear among others. She has been shown, however, to not be advanced enough to deal with potentially trapped enchantments, to identify the source of an enchantment, or demonstrated any teleportation or other travel related spells.

Her skills increased significantly after she received training from Jasmine at which point she achieved 9th circle incantation and was promoted to archmage. Frost knowledge of magic is considered unnatural to the point it was even commented on by Jasmine herself. Not only was she was able to come up with a 1 in a billion cure of Mousse’s curse, she was able to fix the Senshi’s armor. This should have been extremely difficult but was a simple task for Frost. This combined with the mysterious circumstances of her birth, Frost fears that she might be Sedna.

## Notes

The reason most of her spells are in English or Latin, is because most of her study material was originally in Latin or English. Frost claims that Siren hogs all the Chinese texts to herself so she doesn't have many spells in other languages.