Goodness me oh my!
I had to mostly re-do this chapter because it started way different, hence the long wait!
This chapter is not Beta'd, sadly, but no worries! All faults there for are my own!
Enjoy!
Elsa isn't sure how she found the door so easily. She had thought it would have taken her at least half an hour, but here she stood, looking at it. Like her teacher had said, it was in perfect condition. No signs of the time that passed.
She gave one look behind her and frowned. Since when did nightfall arrive? She had been sure it only just struck noon when she came here. Strange.
An eerie silence was in her ears, not even wind making a sound, but she could hear her heart beating. The longer she stared at the door the more frantic her heart was beating. Be it nervousness or anticipation she's not sure, but she finds herself reaching out to the iron door.
Elsa startles and jumps back as it silently opens to let her in. No sound, no strain, just silent and smooth. The hairs on the back of her neck stand on end and she feels uneasy, but she finds her feet moving.
The door opened into a gathering hall, small, probably enough to fit maybe twenty people. Family, Elsa guesses. Nothing special, just two bowls on each side of the next door, where the ashes of coal or wood that used to burn lay.
As she nears the next door it too swings open, welcoming her inside. It's a little eerie, but Elsa was a little curious right now. Although the hall that now stretched before her was dark as night. No light seeping in from what little there was in the gathering hall.
Elsa takes a step forward, reaching for her flashlight when there was a loud sound like a gas stove being lit. She jumped and looked to the source of the sound. Blue flames lit the place up where there normally would have been more coal or wood placed in little stone bowls.
Coffins lined the walls, each in perfect condition, black rock cut to exact dimensions. At the end of the hall, up a few steps was one last tomb, the same as others. This one obviously more important than the others. A wall curved behind it and in the curve of the wall was a statue.
Elsa frowned and tilted her head. It was an odd thing to find, a statue of a big cat laying down and looking out over the tombs like some guardian.
She wasn't up to date with her myths, but she's sure this was not part of Norse mythology, Greek maybe.
Elsa walks up to the statue and inspect it with curious eyes. It was really well made and very good condition. It was as black as the coffins, it's eyes shone with what look like sapphire gems.
With a shaky hand she reaches out to touch it. It's cold and hard like she expected but then her eyes widen as a spirit emerges from it, moving her hand with it in the process. Elsa gulped and stared at the apparition in front of her. A woman with long wavy hair and a sweet smile. A scent filled the air and Elsa could almost not breathe.
"Hello young rev," the woman said in an ethereal voice.
Elsa could only gulp and bowed her head.
"Lovely to meet one of your kind again and I sense you have met one of mine," she said, smiling wider.
Elsa frowned and tilted her head. She could not find her voice.
"I must ask of you to take good care of her, she is the last of our kind," she said with a sad look on her face.
Elsa wants to ask who she was referring to and what she meant with their kind.
"You two are fated to be together, do not shut her out, she needs you more than even she realizes," the woman says and holds Elsa's face in her hands.
That was a weird way to place it. Fated and not destined? Was there a difference she was unaware off?
The scent was growing stronger her head felt light.
"Please young rev, keep taking good care of her, you will not regret it in the long run," the woman says and kisses her forehead making Elsa's eyes close.
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Elsa gasps and sits up in her bed. Her breathing was quick and her heart was racing. It took her a few seconds to gather her wits and realize she was still in her bed. By the looks of the lack of light it was probably around midnight or something. She recalls falling asleep around four pm.
She groans and drops back onto the bed. Her fingers cramped from gripping the sheets so tightly. She hated nightmares. Well in all honesty this wasn't a nightmare, just a very weird dream that felt extremely real, like an outer body experience.
The scent was lingering as the dream was fading. Why was it so close to her home anyway? She sniffs the air and follows it outside. She felt like a bloodhound on the trail of pray. She can't stop herself from searching the source out. There was this growl forming in her chest as her heightened senses overpowered her logical mind.
She no longer remembers her dream but she knew this was part of it. Like this was instinct for her to follow at this moment and she was growing tense.
She doesn't go far. The scent wasn't that far away from her. It calls to her and she just wants to press her face into it. It was hard to keep herself from drooling, it really was.
Her head snapped to the side as a rustle came from her side. She hunches down onto all fours as she listens intently. The night was silent and she cursed herself for not bringing any weapons. Her body twitches as twig snapping filled the night air. A low growl softly filled the night and it takes her a moment to realize it was coming from her.
Two glowing eyes come into view out of some nearby bushes and she can feel her muscles tense. The eyes moved and soon she was face to face with a creature she hasn't learned about yet. It looked like a dog of some sort, but she can't be sure, it was dark out.
"Kitsune," it growled lowly as it came into view. Elsa felt her ears and tail slowly reveal and something, like a growl, inside her overpowered her mind.
"Inugami," she growled back and the two circled the other.
"You are not Japanese," it said and Elsa huffed.
"And you are far from home," she retorted.
"It's the new world, we travel as we see fit," he snorted.
"Then me being Scandinavian shouldn't be that alarming," Elsa spat, but it did raise questions. Kitsune were Japanese myths, why was she apparently one? A small snippet of her dream pokes at her mind.
Rev.
It was Norwegian for fox.
"Be that as it may, give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you right now?" He growled and Elsa's ears twitched.
"What makes you think you can?" She challenges and he laughs.
"You only possess one tail and what can an Ongaku really do? Music is the most worthless," he laughs and Elsa growls.
"I will kill you quickly then claim the source of the scent for myself," he shows her a toothy grin and panic floods Elsa's system. Her body moves on its own and she pounces the creature.
"Protect her."
Those words howled in her head and she knew then who it was referring to.
He barks and they struggle. She couldn't let this thing get to Anna. As much as she hated the girl, she had an oath to protect the residents of Rjodthr. She'd be lying if she said she didn't want the scent to herself though.
The Inugami easily overpowers her. Like he said, she had only one tail, but her desperation to protect Anna was helping her gather strength. But not before he pins her down and snaps at her face with his jaws.
"I will claim the scent and make the girl my bitch," he smirks and with his dog like features it just looks creepy.
Elsa's eyes widen and she flails under him. She manages to kick him off her and rip out a fence post. The sharp dirt covered end lodges into the creature's chest.
"Not you nor anyone else will get to have her," she growls as her eyes glow brightly. The Inugami sputtered and gasped as it gripped the makeshift weapon.
"You will never be a Kitsune no tsuma," he said as his breath left him and he slowly disappeared. Like mist in the wind. Elsa frowned as she tried to let the words make sense. They didn't and she was too tired to even care.
"Ugh, whatever, god I hate this," she sighs and places the fence post back in its place before heading back home.
Fuck it, she just wants to sleep.
But the universe, like always, had plans for her. Her com-link started beeping on her hip. She must have fallen asleep with it still attached, Elsa muses. Well she was awake now anyway.
"Ice Queen to base, over," Elsa says as she leans against a flickering light pole. Her tail swaying lazily behind her as her ears twitched at all the sounds they picked up.
"Southern Prince, to Ice Queen. I picked up three signatures around you," Hans said over the com-link.
"Past tense?" Elsa grumbled.
"What I mean is there's only two currently, I'm not sure what happened to the one, but you should be able to see one of the remaining two, there basically on top of you, are you taking care of it?" He asked and Elsa gulped before retracting her tail and ears.
"Dealt with," she said in a half growl.
"Ah I see, well then there is one left to the woods behind your street, looks like a Chupacabra," he said.
"Got it, Ice Queen over and out," Elsa huffed and went back home to fetch her gear and dress accordingly. She had some hunting to do.
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