Over the course of two hours, Mikael and Robert managed to kill off the clan and feed on them in an attempt to accelerate their healing rate while steadily tearing each other to pieces. Their pelts had almost turned red as the combination of each other's blood and the clan's blood, but neither of them showed any signs of tiring, giving up or weakening despite the deep wounds decorating their bodies.
The beasts forced each other back before briefly stopping their assault to heal a bit, both of them panting heavily as they glared at each other. They lunged at each other again before meeting in mid-air and slashing, mauling and tearing into their enemy's flesh as they tumble to the ground, leaving a light crater in it when they hit.
Robert had his fangs latched to Mikael's throat and lifts him up as he slashed at his opponent then slings him across the clearing, the black wolf crashing to the ground again before struggling back to his feet, his wounds sapping at his strength as Robert creeps closer.
He prepared to lunge at Mikael, sprinting on all fours to build up momentum until he was stopped by a wall of ice spikes that shot up out of nowhere, effectively separating the two wolves and making Robert look to his left where he noticed Elsa glaring at him angrily.
"Leave him alone!" She shouts before Robert roared in response, lunging towards her instead. She barely managed to step out of the way and hits him in the head with an icy blast and steadily dodging his claws and fangs as he mercilessly swiped and snapped at her.
She had formed ice walls, spikes and even fired blizzards at him in an attempt to slow him down, but her assault just seemed to anger him more and make him move faster at times until he finally managed to swipe at her and send her flying to the side.
She grunts a little and catches herself with a pile of snow before turning her gaze to Mikael, who looked like he should have been dead several times over. "Come on...get up. Please get up." She said to herself lightly before Robert growls furiously, getting ready to pounce on her before Mikael forces himself up and rushed towards Robert, snapping down on his throat and sweeping him off his feet before slamming him against a tree then the ground.
Elsa rushed to her feet before Robert snatches Mikael off of him and sends an ice spike through his side,making him roar in pain and turn his attention back to her while Mikael slashes him across the back.
He turns to face Mikael and slashes at him a few times while his black furred adversary slashes back at him, each of them either deflecting the other's claws or tearing another chunk out of each other as Elsa catches one of Robert's arms in a block of ice, which gave Mikael enough time to get a few good slashes in before his other arm slapped him across the head and forces him to his knees.
He used this as a chance to land an uppercut and send him flying back as Elsa works her way to his side, taking a defensive stance beside him while Robert rushed back to his feet, his blood red eyes glaring at them coldly.
The white wolf roared furiously before charging at them again only to be stopped by an ice wall that was steadily pushing him back. Elsa started straining a bit when she felt Robert forcing it back towards them, but managed to keep him at a distance for the moment.
After a few minutes of slashing and pushing against the slab of ice, Robert finally just took a few steps back before leaping towards it, shattering it on impact as he unleashed another furious roar and aiming his claws at Elsa.
Mikael managed to quickly knock Elsa out of the way before Robert reached them then snapped down on his leg and slings him backwards while she got back to her feet, looking between them as Mikael puts himself between her and their enemy.
The two wolves snarled angrily before charging each other again, Mikael sinking his claws into Robert's chest before ripping chunks out of him as Elsa shoots another ice spike into his side while the white wolf retaliates by slashing his claws down Mikael's left leg, making him yelp quickly before slapping him across the head and knocking him to the side.
"Mikael!" She calls out before rushing to his side, Robert lunging at her again before she impales him on a line of ice spikes. He struggles to pry himself off the slivers of ice while Elsa wrapped her arm around Mikael in case his leg gives out.
The black wolf gave her a light snarl like he was telling her he'd be okay when they heard the ice holding Robert in place shatter as the white wolf lashed out at his restraints and shakes the light icicles from his bloodied pelt then glares back at them while he regains himself a bit.
He snarled and rushes towards them again before Elsa sends another blizzard flying towards him while Mikael tackles him from the side, making them tumble down hill before Robert slings him off and pounces on top of him, mercilessly tearing into him until he felt a chunk of ice force him off as Elsa follows them down.
"You're not taking him away from me! I won't let you!" She yells before a blizzard starts forming around the clearing, coating the crimson coated environment in snow as Mikael and Robert got back to their feet, the raging storm not hindering their senses in the slightest, however it seemed to soothe some of Mikael's pain.
While Elsa navigates her way through the blizzard, Mikael and Robert had sniffed each other out and were using it as camouflage in an attempt to ambush each other until Robert sniffs her out and starts creeping her way, completely ignoring Mikael for the moment.
Elsa looks around, using her hand to block the raging winds so she could see a little clearer until she noticed the two lupine shadows moving through the storm in an attempt to catch their opponent off guard until she heard a loud roar coming from her right.
When she turns to face the source, she noticed Robert forming through the blizzard about to lop her head off until Mikael pounces and tackles him back to the ground, snapping the beast's arm and tearing a huge gash in his stomach before they landed.
Robert roared before sinking his claws into Mikael's back and flinging him off then snapping his arm back into place as Elsa skewers ice through both arms, his legs and his torso, angering him more and making him shatter the spikes before slinging them at her, a couple cutting her arms and legs and knocking her down.
She yelps as she hit the ground and meets the demon's fiery eyes as it rushed towards her, sending him back with a powerful gale that would normally freeze it's victims solid before they hit the ground, but werewolves proved to be extremely durable against the cold so he simply jumps back to his feet before Mikael lunges at him, slapping him across the head and stomach as he landed and spilling his insides.
Robert howls painfully before returning the favor, reaching through Mikael's stomach and pulling as much as he could out before the black wolf starts gnawing his arm off, making his adversary throw him to the side like he was nothing then turn his attention back to Elsa who rushed to her feet to help Mikael.
When she sprints towards the mortally wounded werewolf she had grown so fond of, Robert rushed to separate her from him and lashed out at her before she instinctively summons a giant snowman, similar to Marshmallow to at least distract him while she tries to tend to Mikael.
Robert and the ice golem roared at each other before the white werewolf lunges at it, the force of his landing nearly dragging the construct to the ground before it grabs him and slammed him down.
Elsa used this as an opportunity to rush over to Mikael, who was trying to stuff his insides back in his stomach and snarling irritably every time something falls out until she reached him and starts helping him a bit.
He yelps and struggles a bit when she touched the wound until she lightly pets his head. "Sorry..." She said softly before helping him close the wound. "This is going to hurt, but it may help keep it closed while you heal." She says, making him lay his head down before she closes his wound with small ice shards, making him yelp and snarl in pain when she did until his healing rate starts kicking in again.
Elsa's ice golem slams it's fist towards Robert, making the ground shake when he dashed out of the way and swiped at his leg, making it roar before kicking him backwards.
He kicked his hind legs back before pushing himself through the air and slashing at it's shoulder, severing it's arm off and stumble back with a roar as he catches himself on a tree behind him, using his claws to swing around and crash into the ice golem's back, the impact nearly forcing it to the ground before it caught itself and forced itself back up while Robert tears into it's neck.
It reached back and pulls him off to throw him down again before he starts pulling it's fingers off and climbs up it's arm, pulling it off when he got to it's back again and making it roar furiously and shoot ice spikes out of it's back.
Robert managed to evade the spikes when they shot out and starts clawing and slashing at the side and bottom of it's neck, eventually sending it's head crashing to the ground with it's body following suit as he leaps into the bushes behind them.
Elsa jumps and turns around when the ice golem crashed to the ground, her eyes frantically searching for Robert who had disappeared while Mikael weakly sniffed the air, his attention locked on the brush surrounding them.
He growls when he noticed Robert creeping around, making her look down at him then follow her gaze as the bushes before the white wolf lunges at her, unleashing a thundering roar as he did when Mikael manages to push her out of the way before he pinned her down, the beast's claws lightly scratching her arm as he flew past her.
She rushed to her feet as Robert lands, using the momentum in an attempt to strafe around and ambush her from the side until she summons a block of ice that hits him in the head and sent him tumbling to the side.
He let out a quick yelp as he tumbles down the slope before jumping back to his feet and charging at her, dodging most everything she sent at him until he reached her, swiping at her mercilessly only for her to either just barely evade his attacks or only suffer light scratches until she kicked him in the stomach, luckily hitting the wound Mikael left earlier and stopping him for a minute.
He roars furiously before swiping her away, but not before she sent a sheet of ice creeping across the ground to throw him off balance and send him sliding across it until he caught himself again.
She catches herself in another pile of snow as Robert slides towards her, attempting to snap down on her arm before she encased it in ice and tries to wrestle him, their eyes locking the moment he bit down on the icy brace while his snarling and growling echoes through her ears.
Mikael started struggling to his feet when he saw her trying to wrestle Robert off, still pretty weak from the blood loss and the deep wounds that were steadily trying to stitch themselves back together, noticing her skewer an ice spike through him with her free hand before he sends her flying to the side.
The impact of her landing knocks the breath out of her, but she managed to get back to her feet while Robert pulls the ice out of his chest and throw it to the side before trotting to her, uttering an angry snarl when he did.
She sends a barrage of ice spikes flying towards him, at least half of them landing at different points on his body and making him stagger a bit, but not slowing him down any.
The closer he got, the faster she fired and the more it started sapping her energy only for him to just shake it off until he got close enough to slash at her stomach, making her instinctively jump back so she wouldn't be gutted, however the tips of his claws did bite into her flesh a bit.
She yelps lightly before rushing to her feet and surrounding herself with a small blizzard, managing to keep him at bay for a minute and expanding it every time he took a swing at her.
He started stepping back as the blizzard grew, roaring furiously before taking a few quick steps back, locking his attention on the trace of her he could make out through the storm before lunging towards her, swiping her to the side and making her slide across the ice as he strafes around for the kill.
She sits up and fires a stream of ice at him, which slowed him down, but didn't stop him and gave her time to stumble to her feet and back away while managing to keep him at a distance.
Robert fought his way through the steady assault before rising up on his hind legs and trying to move faster to little avail, but he was slowly gaining speed until he grabs her by the head and throws her backwards.
Luckily, she lands in a pile of snow from one of her previous landings and climbs out while Robert utters a blood curdling howl before she instinctively looks to the side, noticing that Mikael had disappeared.
She climbs out of the snow and takes a defensive stance as Robert starts circling her, making her instinctively follow suit while her icy blue eyes lock on to him, waiting for him to make a move.
He pins his ears down, hunched his shoulders and snarls as they circled each other before barely moving out of her line of sight then strafing around to try and take her from the side, making her gaze shoot towards him as she sends another barrage of ice spikes at him and making him stagger a bit before continuing his charge.
She fires a small blizzard at him when he shook the ice spikes off and sent him backwards a bit, but didn't really slow him down too much as she starts strafing to the side in an attempt to evade him.
He digs his claws into the sheet of ice beneath him when the blizzard forced him back and charges forward again before getting caught on another set of ice spikes, making him shatter them and shake off light shards while he pulls the spikes themselves out of his body and leaping over the barrier to continue his charge.
She fires another ice stream at him as she strafes side to side to try and throw him off her trail until he sprints left and tries to take her from her right until she summoned an ice wall to stop him.
The sudden impact of the ice wall made Robert fly backwards before he charges forward again and leaps through it and pins her to the ground. She stabs an ice spike in his neck in an attempt to get him off of her, but it just made him pin her arm down and try to bite down on her head before she catches him by the shoulder and hold him back.
Her strength starts fading when he starts forcing her arm down, his jaws opening wider when he got closer to her head and was just about to snap down on it until something bites deep into the nape of his neck and hooks two sets of claws into his forearms, pulling them up when it did as it starts pulling him backwards.
She looks up when she felt Robert's grip loosen to see Mikael dragging him backwards then forcing him up off the ground before pulling large chunks of flesh out from his arms and neck then throwing him to the side as he tried to howl in pain before skipping across the ice.
Mikael bites down on the chunk of flesh in his mouth before swallowing what didn't hit the ground and dropping the pieces that were stuck to his claws with it while Elsa gets back to her feet, trying to catch her breath when she did.
Robert struggles to his feet, the fresh wounds to his arm and neck making it difficult even with his healing rate trying to stitch them back together. When he finally got to his hind legs,he looked to Mikael then Elsa with a kind of disoriented look before charging at Elsa.
She sent another blizzard flying towards him while Mikael starts charging at him from the side to make him slide backwards before charging again only to run into another ice wall that stuns him and makes him stagger.
Mikael took this as an opportunity to rush past him before snapping his jaws into his ribs and tearing his heart out, the wind coming off of him making his limp body spin then start to drop before Mikael catches him halfway down, forces him to his knees, wraps his claws around his upper jaw then rip the top half of his head off, watching the corpse drop before unleashing a thundering howl that not only shatters the ice wall, but makes the ground, trees and even the mountains shutter at it's force.
Elsa studies Mikael curiously as he drops his enemies head and hunches over, panting heavily when he did. She rushes over to him and lightly grasps his arm. "Come on..." She said gently before carefully coaxing him to follow her, which he does with a weak snarl.
They wandered through the forest for what felt like hours as they tried to find a safe place to rest for the night, but Mikael's wounds were slowing him down despite a good few of them having healed up already, however a few had opened back up and Elsa was still exhausted from the fight.
She looks over at Mikael to notice his head drooping and his eyes slitting like he was fixing to pass out, which makes her shake him lightly to wake him up a bit. "Don't give out on me now, Mikael...here's bound to be a safe place where we can rest...somewhere." She says in a light tone before yawning and staggering a bit, Mikael helping her straighten up a bit when he felt her stumble to the side.
His ears perk up after a minute and he sniffs the air before gently coaxing her to the left, letting her know that he found somewhere they could rest. She turns in the direction he was coaxing her towards and they slowly make their way to this unknown sanctuary.
after another half hour, they came across an inviting, serene grove that had a light stream running through it, trees and bushes dotting the green earth beneath them as Mikael collapsed in front of the stream, letting Elsa go to keep from dragging her down with him before lightly lapping the chilly water from it while she scoops a little into her hands and takes a few light sips from it.
She looks at Mikael who lifts his head up from the stream, having healed a little more now since they got here and slowly walks over to him, lightly stroking the nape of his neck when she reached him.
"Thanks...if you hadn't gotten back up when you did..." She starts before he gently nudges her leg and lets out a light whimper, which made her smile softly then kneel down beside him, carefully wrapping her arms around his neck so she wouldn't irritate his wounds.
He lightly rests his head on her shoulder when she embraced him and slowly draped his arm over her before his wounded left leg gives out and makes him fall to his side with a quick yelp and making Elsa fall on top of him when he did.
She wiggles under his arm for a minute before carefully resting against his side, gently stroking down his neck as their bodies start relaxing with each other and Mikael looks back at her long enough to lightly lick her shoulder then lay back down as he starts slipping into unconsciousness.
Her eyes shot to his head after she felt him lick her and a light smile crosses her face as she snuggles closer to him, still minding his wounds before letting out a soft sigh then closing her eyes and falling asleep with him...
Okay, I know I said I probably wouldn't post another note after the last chapter, but I needed a bit of a filler, so here it is.
Honestly, I was hoping to drag this out a good little bit and post it tomorrow, but I had a little more time than I usually do today and managed to get a good bit done on it, so I figured I'd go ahead and finish it.
Anyway, there should be one,maybe two chapters left to this, I honestly can't say for sure, it depends on how long I can drag the ending out before I get to it, so yup.
I thank all of ya again for reading and hope this chapter lived up to y'all's expectations and proved to be as interesting as the others.
Till next time...