The ice circled around her footsteps as she stepped forward. Her took one more foot step and slid slightly. Serana was just down the mountain. Feeding on a deer they had caught just minutes before. Elvina would scout around while the vampire drained the animal. Elvina would then eat herself. But this time she choose to head towards the top of the cliff.
They had just found the third of five way shrines in the area. There would only be one more in the area, then the last would be the furthest away. Elvina could barely believe the amount of time it was taking them to reach their goal. Although her sense of time had escaped her, by the length of her hair Elvina had to guess a few years had passed since their initial departure. Her hair was touching her lower back now. Although the woman did keep it braided and up out of the way.
Elvina looked over the icy tundra. Obvious from her slipping earlier it was a frozen lake. Something she could hardly believe. The entire space was walkable. She walked forward more towards the center of the frozen wasteland. It was nothing but white around her. This was a different kind of blindness. The sun reflected off the snow making it tricky to see. Nothing compared to the caves though. She never wished to go back to that dark place.
Something caught her eye. A stone pillar sort of structure on the edge of the lake. She slid again, the small stagger reminding the woman that she needed to watch her footing. Of course, crossing the ice lake was probably not the brightest idea. They would need to cross it any way. Making her way to the structure she looked over the strange symbols that lined the wall. It was something she recognized at the same time. The scratches, they drew her in like a moth to fire. She walked right up to the symbols, running her hands over the frozen stone.
They were deep, and not put there by man. She assumed at least. She heard her name being called over the frozen tundra. Turning her head she saw Serana at the start of the cliff side. Making her way over towards the blonde woman. The huntress turned back to the wall to see a glow coming from the wall. Her vision started to blur rather suddenly as she felt both very warm and cold. The words lifted from the stone and circled around the woman. She backed away as a force pushed her back. That force being a clawed talon of a dragon. Elvina flew back like a rag doll. Her head struck the ice with so much force it left a crack in the ice.
Her ears rang and her vision blurred from the impact. Her body would not move. She looked to the air to see the dragon circling around her body. Serana screamed for her friend, but the words did not translate. Elvina got the feeling to move, which she did. Crawling from her crack in the ice on her hands and knees. The dragon landed just where she had been sitting. Biting forth. She saw the ice spear of Serana's spells fly past the creature as she made her way towards Elvina. The dragon gripped the ice as it crawled forward. It jaws snapping just behind her. Elvina stood up and ran. Her stability failing her as her head left her completely dazed. Her world was spinning.
She reached for her crossbow. Loading it as quickly as she could. The dragon swiped her, claws ripping a hole through her armor and pushing her back further into the side of the mountain. Elvina found herself pinned. She reached her crossbow up threw blurring eyes and shot. Loaded another and shot again. She repeated, hearing the dragon step closer and closer towards her. She shot again, hearing a pained screech from the dragon. The huntress took the second to run from the cliff side.
Her head still swirled around itself. Throwing her off balance. She fell into the ice, landing on her hands and knees. Finding it hard to even stay awake. Her mind just wanted to sleep. She heard the dragon's claws in the ice again. She picked her crossbow up again, seeing for just a mere second. The Beast had one bolt sticking out of his head. Elvina stood up. The dragon was moving slowly itself from the precise shot that had landed before. She aimed, concentrating all of her will power to make the shot. Taking a deep breath and releasing. At the same time pulling the trigger.
The bolt rang out from her crossbow. Flying through the air and into the other bolt. The bolt pushed through the dragon's head. Hitting its brain. More importantly its brain stem. Severing it from its body and killing it instantly. Elvina watched as the Dragon froze in place before falling to the ground in one hard thud. The ice shook, but Elvina stayed in her stance. She saw Serana… or rather three of her. Circling around each other. That was it, Elvina collapsed and her world went dark.
"Elvina!" Serana called as the vampire caught up. Smelling the blood on the woman. Human blood… She froze. Looking at the unconscious woman in the snow. There was red where her head was. Leaking into the snow.