'God damnit,' Tsukune thought to himself, 'What the hell am I gonna do now?' This question came to mind due to the road to the Yuki-onna village being covered in thirty feet of snow and rock. 'Well, better start hiking…" he reached into his car and grabbed his bag from the front seat and tossed it over his shoulder. He quickly checked his phone, at a text he had received the night before.

Tsukune, major battle earlier today, something happened, need help. Please come.-Mizore-chan

'Thirty miles out, late in the day, temperature falling fast,' he looked off to the south. A solid black front was moving towards the mountains fast, 'and a snow storm. Great.' He unlocked his seal and placed it in his bag. The energy from his vampire side flowed into him. He could feel a slight shift in his energies from the blood he had ingested from the alpha he had killed the night before.

He took a deep breath and started bounding up the avalanche slide.

Two days earlier

Mizore Shirayuki found herself tired. She had been out on a scouting mission all night brought on by increased yeti traffic in the area. Two of their village's population had been killed.

Needless to say this had not made the Snow Priestess happy.

Mizore had been set as the head of the team sent out due to her combat prowess. A good thing too; they had come upon a cave full of the beasts. The others with her were good fighters, but simply not in the same league as she was.

Flashback

Their hike had been interrupted by the howl of one of the beasts, the five of them were quickly set upon by a dozen of the foul things. One of the women in her group fell quickly to the arms of a particularly large yeti. Mizore had shifted and produced a wave of ice shrapnel that speared the beast, felling it. She summoned a spiked club of ice and jumped into the fray, smashing another in the head.

A yeti fell to one of the males off to her right; however the male on the left was…fencing with two yetis, barely holding ground. "Fall back fifty feet!" she called out suddenly. She broke off combat with the yeti in front of her and threw up a wall of solid ice.

She and her companions dashed down the hill and started building columns of ice, as the yeti finally broke through the wall, they started using the ice columns as disc shooters, peeling off a razor sharp layer at a time, flinging dozens of them at the yeti, quickly turning them into a spray of blood.

Mizore called for her companions to gather up the fallen yuki-onna as she collapsed the ice cave over whatever may have been left inside

End Flashback

She looked down at her hands, covered in blood from the yeti she had killed. She sighed outwardly as she headed inside her cabin to wash. Their group had been harried all the way back, rocks crashing down around them, taking one of the males and the female that had fallen earlier. Others from the village were heading out in force to recover the bodies.

Mizore was staying behind to rest.

Word came in several hours later that the yetis were massing in the high mountains, obviously prepping for battle.

Over the next twenty four hours, Mizore built ice walls around the village, and around several key buildings in town. She and her mother directed others to fortify the main gate with ice columns taller and wider than the ones she had built on the mountain. Her mother was currently busy compressing down ice into decent shields to make them useable in hand to hand combat. When the battle started, Mizore would lead the offensive measures, Tsuara would handle the defense.

Mizore had several ice clones placed at strategic intervals outside the village. They would light signal fires at one mile, half mile and quarter mile distances to warn the village. For now though, she would spend time with her family. Her husband would be helping man the defenses.

She entered her home and found it cold and dark. Her family, her two beautiful daughters and husband, was sitting huddled up in the main room. She sat down with them and allowed her youngest to crawl up in her lap and press against her.

Her husband placed a sheltering arm around her. She loved her husband as a friend, one that had provided her with daughters she loved. However, she knew she was no more than a friend to him. Theirs had been a marriage of necessity.

His wife had died in an avalanche a year previous to her graduation. Having graduated from Youkai Academy and having witnessed Tsukune's marriage to Moka, she had no choice save to marry him. He was gentle and soft-spoken and was extremely kind to her. He allowed her to choose when to consummate their marriage, allowing her the time necessary to adjust.

She would always be thankful to him for that. They became strong friends before she allowed him to seed her womb. Oddly enough, she became pregnant after their first time, something that few other yuki-onna experienced.

Her mother had the same happen to her with Mizore, but childbirth had wrecked her, unfortunate to Mizore as she had always wanted a sister. 'I guess that blue haired bimbo over in Las Vegas is good enough,' she thought fondly of Kurumu the succubus. They still saw each other once a year, however she had to fly there to see Kurumu due to her banishment.

She allowed herself to drift off to thoughts of her friends and family, half asleep with her children in her arms and her husband holding them all.

A horn blared, awakening her. 'That was supposed to go off at the half mile mark,' she thought. She looked around her house, finding it empty. 'Hataro must have taken the children to the priestess's hall.' Mizore dashed out to the main gate in the darkness, finding it well guarded.

She took her position at the wall, "Men, Women, prepare for war," she called out, "It has been hundreds of years since a battle of this scale has occurred on our lands. Let's remind these beasts of why the yuki-onna RULE THIS LAND!" a cheer rose up behind her.

The advancing horde was hundreds strong, no, there was a fog on the mountain, more shapes formed behind the front ranks of beasts. A fire went up at the quarter mile mark. This provided illumination. The front ranks gleamed, as though covered in metal, she squinted, "They have armor…WHAT THE FUCK!"

She reached out with her powers, joined by several others who were quite strong, they froze the fog and clouds over the mountain, causing a short ice shower, but allowing the full moon to cast illumination over the yeti force. Their force was clearly clad in armor, heavy and crude, but armor none the less. She refocused again, a smile creeping to her lips.

They didn't have boots. "Yuki-onna, make these yeti dance!"