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Elsa POV
It would take them almost another week before getting close to catching this thing. The town had gone into a paranoid stupor with people fearing their own shadows. Elsa and her team were working hard into capturing the Anuk-ite but it was hard seeing as it didn't exactly have a physical form.
At first it attacked individual people then groups of people where every person saw something different. They saw their fears coming to life and because they were scared they couldn't fight against it. Even if later they realized it was ridiculous and implausible when people around them had other stories.
They started spouting theories that their water was contaminated and they were hallucinating. Some speculated that something was in the air. Some bizarre ones ranged from aliens to government experiments.
They had gotten wind about people being scared by werewolves and vampires, zombies and giant spiders, serial killers and ghosts. There were a few instances where armed people and even police had tried to shoot what was attacking them, only for the thing scaring them to disappear, so there were a few injured people, luckily no one has died yet.
The oddest thing about this Anuk-Ite was that it wasn't turning people to stone as it should be doing. They theorized that it might not be strong enough or that it must have adapted to be able to feed more. It has been a few decades since this sort of creature popped up anywhere.
"How do we catch something that's basically invisible?" Elsa grumbles as she walks with Rapunzel onto school grounds. They had just finished the morning patrol. She knows she'd most likely pass out in her last class. She was exhausted, so exhausted in fact that she didn't even hear music anymore. Something Elsa still needed to look into, but this thing was taking priority.
Her ears pick up hushed chatter of scared students and she groans. They really needed to catch this thing.
"Has it appeared to you yet?" Elsa asks as a yawn already escapes her.
"Interestingly no," the brunette frowns. A yawn escapes her too. The evil loop of seeing another person yawning, it was funny really.
"Lucky you," Elsa huffs.
"I'll see you later Elsa," Rapunzel said and pat the blondes' shoulder before walking to her class. Elsa nodded and headed to the nearest bathroom. She really needed to pee.
After doing her thing and washing her hands, heck she even splashed her face with the water to freshen up a little, she just stood there. Her hands gripped the basin as she stared at the water swirling down the drain.
"Well, look who it is," Elsa jumps as she swirls around. Mulan stood in front of her. Why was she here? She wasn't a student, she was in her twenties!
"I know what you are Elsa. Didn't think I'd find out? You know I have to kill you now, right?" Mulan said as she pulled out a knife from her boot. Elsa's heart was racing as she heard those words. She was about to defend herself when she realized that this wasn't real.
Elsa cursed and ducked away from the knife attack before kicking at the woman's legs. She didn't expect to make contact. The thing was like smoke, so when her leg hit solid form Elsa knew they could defeat this thing. The Anuk-ite growled and dropped to the ground, obviously not used to people actually attacking it.
Mulan's form shivered before dropping away to reveal its true form. God it was ugly and terrifying. It looked like a man that was skinned so could see it's muscles and it's eyes were glowing in their sockets. It smiled before disappearing and Elsa huffed. It got away but at least she learned something. Elsa gathered her bag and headed to class as a plan formed in her mind.
~TP~
Elsa was extremely happy to see both her bosses at the agency when she burst in. The moment school had ended she made her way over.
"Shang! Mulan! The creature isn't intangible like we first thought!" Elsa smiled happily. This was the first time since that thing arrived that she felt any sort of happiness.
"How do you know?" Shang asked as he perked up.
"It tried to attack me at school and I managed to kick it's feet out from under it," Elsa said as she jogged to their library. Both Shang and Mulan followed her.
"How did you manage to snap out of it's fear?" Mulan asked. Elsa stopped in her tracks and bit her lip.
"Well, it took your form and it didn't make sense why you would be at my school," Elsa answered truthfully before going over to the far end of the book shelf she was at.
"Me? Why would-" Mulan was cut off by Shang as he placed a hand on her shoulder. He shook his head.
"Not the time to ask such questions. What do you think we could do to it Elsa?" Shang asked. He knew the two didn't really see eye to eye and he just wanted to keep the peace.
"I was thinking we could see what are some ways to trap a creature. There are a few universal methods, but we should try to narrow it down to something we know are most certain will work. We only have one shot," Elsa said as she pulled out a decent sized book.
She started flipping through it. Shang took out another book and sat next to her. Mulan rolled her eyes and grabbed one herself. All three now sat working hard on finding something that might help.
"What about a sealing talismen?" Shang asked as he had his book open to show a Japanese styled talisman. Elsa always found those to be so beautiful to look at.
"No, I don't think that would work, those are for spirits aren't they?" Elsa asked and Shang nodded.
"How about a ritual?" Mulan asked and opened her book. It seemed to be in Norwegian and after giving it a once over Elsa shivered.
"No, I don't think a dark witch will help us out, nor do we want to sacrifice something," Elsa said shaking her head.
"Okay so we rule out anything that's for spirits and has to do with witchcraft," Mulan said as she sighed heavily. Silence fell over the three as they continued their search.
Elsa was starting to lose hope. They couldn't even find one instance in their history books that told of someone defeating an Anuk-Ite. The platinum blonde sighed heavily as she flipped her page.
"Mountain Ash!" Elsa exclaimed as she jumped up. The other two startled before giving their attention to her.
"That only works on werewolves," Mulan said as she frowned.
"Sorry, I mean, look," Elsa said as she pulled the book closer that was open on the page were an Anuk-Ite was encountered.
"An Anuk-Ite is two faced right? They said that the one they were fighting were taunting them, telling them it made itself stronger by taking one human face and one werewolf face. That's why people are seeing creatures too, despite it normally not working like that. So if it's part werewolf, mountain ash will hurt it," Elsa said as she pointed to the drawn creature. They thought it was just drawn midway through a transformation, but it was just revealing its two faces.
A snarling wolf and human.
~TP~
"You sure this is going to work?" Rapunzel asked as she entered into the school gym. It was getting dark and she felt weird being here at this time.
"I went over it with both Mulan and Shang. This should work," Elsa says as she drops down from the high ceiling of the gym. She rubbed her hands clean from dust as they tingled slightly. Rapunzel sighed and shrugged.
"Fine, I guess I'll be the bait," she says.
"Hey, you're the only one it hasn't appeared to, you can taunt it," Elsa shrugs and looks up briefly before moving to the bleachers. She hid as she watched the brunette look around.
"Alright come on out Anuk-ite! I'm the only one you haven't scared yet!" Rapunzel said and waited.
"Come on why haven't you scared me yet? Am I too much of a challenge? I'm not scared of anything!" She continues and swings her arms as she rocks on her feet.
"Maybe you're scared of me?" She smiles before letting out a soft gasp as smoke twirls around her feet. It moved to her side and she turned to look at it.
"Really now? That's supposed to be scary?" Rapunzel dead pans at the drooling werewolf standing there. It blinked and shifted. The girl rolled her eyes.
"The hell you trying? Men with pointy teeth? What am I, four?" Rapunzel scoffs. It shifted a few more times every time Rapunzel just shot it down. Elsa was slightly shaking as she saw different things. Things that honestly did scare her. It prevented her from doing what she had to do, until she snapped out of it when Rapunzel screamed and dropped to the floor in fear.
She quickly pulled the rope she had in her hands making mountain ash drop down onto the creature. It screamed and wiggled around before standing there encased in stone.
Rapunzel covered her eyes and shook her head as she kept mumbling. Elsa made sure to stay away from the leftover ash as she made her way to her friend.
"Mother Gothel isn't here, Mother Gothel isn't here," she kept repeating and jumped as Elsa placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Who's Mother Gothel?" Elsa asked slightly worried. She's never seen Rapunzel scared before.
"N-no one. Don't worry, Elsa. Did...did we get it?" She asked as she took a few deep breaths to calm herself. They looked to where the thing stood now encased in stone. Elsa's never seen mountain ash react like this to a creature, but then again, she usually used it on werewolves.
"I'm going to call clean up, you get home okay? Rest and take it easy. No one likes seeing their fears come to life," Elsa said as she rubbed the brunettes back. Green eyes looked to ice blue.
"You really aren't a bad person," Rapunzel smiled before taking one last big breath and nodding.
"I'll see you tomorrow," she smiled and waved to Elsa as she fished out her com-link.
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