Anna awoke to the sound of thunder in the distance. Her eyes burned from her concentration in the battle that had taken place just hours before in this very meadow. She ran her fingers through the knee length grass she was now surrounded by, feeling as though she was in a dream. A sour, charred smell brought her out of her stupor.
Where am I?
Her head throbbed as she rose to a sitting position, taking in her gruesome surroundings. A wave of pure fatigue sat in as her memory came back.
A horn blared and men shouted. Thousands of men in front of her raised their swords and ran towards her. She does the same. The Legion behind her does as she does, clashing into the immense opposing force. The clanging of swords and spears on their opponent's shields was barely audible over the sound of her blood and adrenaline coursing in her ears. In front of her, a middle aged soldier raised his war axe above his head while one of his comrades, a younger boy, came in on her side swinging with his sword. Anna's mind slowed the scenario as she had been trained and dodged the axe making the younger soldier run into it, falling to the ground. The Axe wielder shifted the weapon in his hands swinging it from his hip towards Anna's midsection, who ran at the burly soldier with a war cry forcing him to the ground. Behind her, the young soldier had gotten up and was looking for his chance. Anna saw exactly what the young one was going to do immediately when he charged straight at her.
With her steel gauntlets, she knocked the sword out of her opponents hands, which visually stunned him, giving Anna her chance to knock the poor kid out with a swift punch to the temple. She'd almost forgotten about Axe Man when the big iron head scraped down her armored right arm and into the ground. She grabbed the head of the axe and quickly turned left prying the weapon from its holders hands, bringing it around with her body and into the side of Axe Man's head.
Nearby, a fellow soldier was outnumbered three to one. Well that hardly seems fair. She grabbed the previously occupied axe handle and wedged it out of its owner's corpse, and threw it sideways at two of the men taking one out immediately as it stuck into his side. The other was pushed into the ground when his comrades body slammed into him. The third had turned and came after Anna, who moved out of her attackers path, tripping him as he past. She didn't give the amateur soldier a chance to correct his mistake, bringing her iron clad boot straight down on his head. The fellow soldier had finished off the last enemy and had turned, giving Anna a nod of thanks.
They had fought side by side until a call was heard across the battlefield. "Archers!" a distant voice ordered. An instant later the sun was blacked out by a storm of arrows making Anna's comrade visibly shake with fear. She picked up a fallen's shield, friend or foe, she hadn't cared. There was a storm of arrows on its way, and she had been careless enough to not bring her shield. She raised it above her and the soldier, trying to cover as much of themselves as she could. The shield shook violently as the arrows struck. In the corner of his vision she saw the soldier jerk and drop his sword reaching for his stomach. As the last arrow fell, Anna threw the shield down and caught the falling soldier. Her surroundings blurred as she focused and broke off the arrow at where it had entered the poor young man's body. A shaky hand clasped her own and pulled her down to where a raspy, breathless voice spoke into her ear, "Thank you, Captain..-" a cough of blood came up and out of his mouth. He gritted his teeth, "-See you in Hell, huh?"
She gave a little smirk at his remark and nodded the affirmative as she watched his eyes become glassy and his body become motionless.
The next five minutes were a blur of blood, sweat, tears, and steel and Anna had lost the inner battle she had been fighting within herself. She let the monster free and slaughtered any and all who had faced her, making the center of the field a semicircle of dead centered on her. To her left and right, her comrades pressed on fighting. To her front stood several hesitant enemies who were visually shaken by Anna's large body count and the thin splatter of blood that was across her face. With the war cries behind her, she ran straight at the soldiers in front of her with several allies following behind and beside her. Before she reached them, however, she was slammed into the ground hard by an unknown force. She looked up feeling nothing but curiosity from the invisible force that had hit her. There, just in front of her, a hooded figure stood, palm raised in her direction.
What royal asshole did they send this time?
As if on queue to answer her thought, the figure said "I am Tibris, King Chadra's Sorcerer. You are Anna The Soulless, yes?"
Anna only smirked and stood up in an offensive stance, ready to attack at the right moment.
"Well, are you going to answer me, or am i just going to have to kill you like the rest of your pathetic legion?"
When Anna didn't answer him the second time, the mage smirked and looked down, shaking his head slowly from side to side. In this brief moment, Anna had crossed the distance between the two nearly reaching her target when Tibris grabbed her by the throat. He's good, but how good?
Anna brought her elbow down on Tibris's arm, making him lose his grip and causing his body to bend slightly forward and connect with Anna's hard hitting, metal covered knee. Anna reached down, grabbing a small blade out of a wrist sheath, plunging it into Tibris's neck. Gurgling and trembling, He slumped to the ground, a small portion of the knife's handle sticking out of his now bloody throat.
Anna looked up, Exhaustion from the past hours events swept over her and fatigue clouded her vision as she fell to her knees and then her surroundings turned blackness.
The battle.. Did we win?
It was to dark tell if the bodies lying near her were friend or foe, but she knew there was too many to count. Exactly how many by her hands, she would never know. Flashes of lightning washed over the landscape briefly giving her images of the gruesome aftermath of what seemed to be a gruesome slaughter. Bodies were burning and the awful smelling smoke burned her nose every time she inhaled. Between the flashes, she caught sight of a figure a few yards away. It's skinny almost bony appearance sent chills down her spine. She quickly stood, grabbing her second sheathed wrist knife and backed away slowly. She knew she could take on hundreds of men.. but this was no man. Another flash revealed several hunched figures near the standing one. It seemed they were dead, but when she focused on one she saw it was.. trembling or shaking violently. After many flashes, two more figures stood by the first, blood covered their faces and strings of flesh hung from their showing teeth. After the last lightning bolt flashed, their heads snapped up at Anna staring her straight on with bright red eyes. Anna wasn't the type to freeze from fear, she was born a warrior and had been trained all her life to fight, kill, and win. On this occasion, however, her fight or flight instinct took over and her mind screamed at her to run and don't look back. And yet, she stood there frozen, peering back into those haunting red eyes staring right back at her.
She began backpedalling slowly and when the middle creature held out its arms and screeched the the most blood curdling noise she had ever heard, she turned and bolted into the woods near the meadow. The only thing carrying her and her heavy steel and iron armor through the woods was the pure adrenaline that was pulsing through her body.
Did i lose them? What the Hell were those things? The Legion has to be near here. There's no way we lost that battle with over five thousand men. Could we have?
A/N Okay, so this is a story i wrote when i was about 14 and it wasn't Elsanna, so if there's a he or him or her that i missed changing to a female version, let me know. My original(and still unfinished) story is on Wattpad if you wanna go check it out. it's the exact same except i replaced 'Rhen,' my own fictional character, with Anna. Elsa was already in the story though, except she was going to have a different name and all that haha. Anywho, thank you guys for the continued support for my other two stories. This will be my first AU, so please ask questions if you get confused about the lore and stuff i'm gonna be making up... and there's a lot of that, so be ready. So, favorite if you liked it, follow if you wanna get notified when i update, and also please leave a review! i wasn't sure about posting this and could use some criticism and/or motivation to update this story. And yes, I have to other stories as well, but ill be updating them more unless this one picks up traction.(hopefully! lol) Thanks Guys! and Gals!
