'Time to run!'

We both get on our grimm before we rush out of the cave while firing attacks at the ancient beast to slow it down even if it's only for a few seconds. Raven fires off a particularly large fireball with the help of Erebus, when it hit its mark the monster roars in rage before taking a chunk out of the cave's wall before hurling it at us.

Ker's tentacles come out in time to catch it before throwing it back at the beast.

'Ker, can you carry all of us with you into the shadows?'

'I should be able to, but Raven and Erebus needs to be in physical contact with either you or me!'

'You heard him'

'Alright Erebus, go mini and hop on. I'll turn myself into a bird and get on that way!'

'Alright'

And just like Raven said, she turned into her raven form and flew onto my shoulders and Erebus hopped onto Ker.

'This might feel weird, just don't let go'

'Alright, do it.'

And suddenly all the cold air and the sounds of the monster all disappeared along with the color of our surroundings as it turned black and white in an instant. We then start going at an even faster speed as we jump from shadow to shadow.

'This feels so weird…'

'You'll get used to it after enough times.'

'How long can you keep this up?'

'I can keep going until we reach the entrance and still have enough aura to fight with'

And true to his words he kept at it as we periodically step out of the shadows to attack the monster, so it doesn't lose interest in us and just go back inside. We reach the entrance as Ker jumps out dodges to the side in time to dodge another one of the ice spikes the monster summoned out of the ground.

We all quickly get off Ker as the monster comes to a stop in front of us but this time we're outside, giving us a lot more freedom on what we can do. We stare at it as none of us move for a couple moments before everyone burst into action.

Raven and Erebus run to its sides while me and Ker charge it head on. It smashes the ground as it summons sets of ice spikes aimed at Raven and Erebus while it spits out a freezing ball of 'ice' at me. I quickly sidestep out its way as I heat up my blades. I throw my blades at the big ball of ice and is able to hook onto it. I spin the ball around before smashing it against the monster's head which shatters the ball and puts the monster into a daze.

Raven then strikes at an unprotected part of its body wither her flaming sword as Erebus does the same with his claws. Ker goes and bites a chunk off the monster's neck and I stab and slice long and deep cuts with my heated blades. Its eyes starts to glow brighter before it roars and it sends a chilling shockwave which knocks us all back.

We're about to attack it again but it covers itself in a block of ice, and under it I can see its wounds slowly healing.

'Oh no you don't, I got this!'

I heat up my blades again but this time I include my aura, it was a bit hard to do since this is the first time but I got the hang of it quickly. The blades heat up even more and is pulsating with energy. I charge at the recovering monster before stabbing my blades into the ice and release all the energy at once. This causes an explosion which size and destructiveness stumps any other explosion I've made before.

This aura and mana infused explosion obliterated the outer shell of ice and damaged both the monster and me. I can feel my aura is almost out, but I'm not worried, I've killed stronger without it. The smoke clears and I see the monster was launched a couple of steps away and has a large and still burning marking at the bottom of its neck where I hit it.

'Damn, that was one heck of an explosion.'

'I know, never tried infusing both my mana and aura into my blades until now.'

It looks like that got it pissed off as it didn't roar in pain, but just growled at me before it's blue eyes and markings down its neck start to pulsate at an irregular rate before its whole body starts to emit a blue glow that gets brighter every random pulse. This continues for a couple more poses as we prepare for an attack.

The blue glow is at its brightest before it gets absorbed by the monster and when it does, the ice spikes on its body grow longer and sharper as the body of it grows larger as well. It stops growing before looking at me with now burning blue eyes.

"̶̀̇ͅN̴͔̑ï̸̃͜ ̵̨͘ḟ̷̧̰̕ỳ̶͔d̸̙̯̀͝d̸̨̛̲̊ä̵̪̯́̋f̶̛̮́ ̶͓̃̈́f̶̯̰̊͒ǎ̸̮̜r̷̙̿̕ẁ̶̟̦ ̴͋̍͜͜y̶̯̑m̴̧͋á̷̲͒ͅ!̴̧͔̓͒" It shouts in an unclear and unknown to language before it summons in a snowstorm.

'Stick together Raven, it'll be hard to see!'

'Alright, coming to you!'

Raven and Erebus run up to us just as the snowstorm settles in. We don't need to talk as we face our backs to each other and watch for where the monster is going to appear from. I can still hear it running around us in the midst of the harsh winds the snowstorm brought in before suddenly stopping. We tense up as an attack is definitely about to come.

'DODGE RIGHT!'

We quickly roll away just in time to dodge a charge from the monster before it disappears back into the snowstorm. This rather deadly game of cat and mouse continues on as it also starts shooting ice spikes at us and even managed to pierce Raven's arm after some careful misdirection .

'Holy fuck that's cold!'

'Are you ok?'

'Don't worry, I'll manage.'

'I'm going to end this, get ready.'

They all nod and not long after, the monster charges at us again with boulders of ice shooting at us from its sides. The others dodge out of the way as I reinforce my hands with mana and focus what's left of my aura to my arms before catching the charging beast head on. This causes me to start skidding back as it's much bigger than I am.

I stomp my foot into the ground to get a better foothold and this causes the ground under me crack more and more due to the force of the monster pushing me. But I use its own force to flip it over me and into the ground on its back. Raven and the others attack at this moment, Raven stabbing an even hotter than usual flaming sword into the creatures exposed midsection, Ker and Erebus combine their efforts to send flaming tentacles through the monster's limbs, pinning it down.

I quickly get onto it before heating my blades up one last time before cutting open its chest and switching to my claws before starting to pull out its soul.

"N̵̠̫̆ȉ̴͉ ̷̮̠̚ċ̷͎h̷̝͖͠e̴̬͘i̶̟̙͠ ̵͔́͝w̴̤̦̃ã̶̙̀r̶͚̭͆̄e̷͉̳͋͝d̸̜̍ ̶͖̳͑͠a̸̛͚͚r̶͔̾n̶̦͋a̸̧͂͜f̵̜̃͝ ̵͖͌́m̸̬̂̄ȏ̶̢ȑ̷͔̬ ̵̠̕h̷̗̼̃a̵͉͒w̵̭͈̌͝d̷͕̈̇d̸͕̓!̷͙̅" It shouts in the same unknown language.

And unlike the elder grimm, this particular monster's soul is much harder to pull. But that may be because it had a soul since it was created, and it has lived for a much longer time than the other elder grimm. It roars and tries to struggle out of the spot it's in but doesn't succeed as I pull more and more of its soul out.

"Y̸͉̱̑O̴̹͚̍͠Ư̶̜̥̍ ̶͖̻̈͂Ẃ̶̫̕İ̷͒ͅL̷͖̤̈́̈́L̵̦̱̓ ̷͖͓͂R̵̝̂̚E̶̻͂G̷̗͚͠Ȓ̶͕̭̊E̷̹͙̓̔T̷̡̺̏͒ ̸͖̏̀Ṱ̶̢͆Ḫ̸͍̍͘İ̶̜Ś̶͚͜!̸̧̈́" It says in a semi-comprehensible way.

I finally pull out its whole soul before absorbing it, and immediately I feel a chilly power flow through me along with feeling tougher (not like I needed to be) and I'm able to see better in through the snowstorm which has just started to dissipate.

Raven pulls out her now normal blade out of breath and the flaming tentacles also disappear as Ker and Erebus walk up to us.

"*Huff* Looks like I got to *Huff* see you use that thing after *Huff* all huh." Raven says.

"You did, let me get that ice spike out of your hand." I say as I notice it didn't disappear or melt.

But as I outstretch my hand I hear something burst out of the monster's corpse behind Raven. I quickly shove her to the side as an axe suddenly flies into my still outstretched hand.

"What the fuck was that for you-!" She started to shout but finally saw the axe in my hand.

The head of said axe being made of some extremely strong blue ice with engravings on it that symbolize snow. I tried superheating my blades and slashing it but it did nothing, didn't even scratch it. And the handle of the axe is made out of what I assume to be the creature's bones.

"What- did that just- how- huh?" Raven says dumbfounded at what happened.

"Don't ask me, I don't anything about this. Ker?" I ask.

"I know a lot of things Kratos, but this is not one of those things."

"Unfortunate" I say.

"Did you get anything from absorbing that monster's soul?" Raven asks.

"Other than being able to summon and a physical boost all around, yes I did actually." I say.

I recall the chilly feeling when I first absorbed the soul and willed it to manifest in my hands. This causes the axe head to glow white which makes it hard to see with all the snow around. And on my other hand white snowy energy emerges from it and starts to swirl violently around my hand.

I throw that swirling energy from my hand and when it impacted the wall near the entrance of the cave it caused an explosion of ice that's sent it in all directions. After the white mist from the explosion get blown away, a deep indention was left in its place and was laced with jagged ice.

"So you have ice powers now?" Raven asks.

"It seems so." I say.

"Shame I can't use mine without needlessly attracting grimm."

"Well you work with what you have, and you've been doing fine so far."

"I guess you're right. We should probably call a cargo ship here, or something to carry the corpse of this thing."

"Right, I'll do that, you keep yourself warm." I say.

(Timeskip)

We're on a ship heading back to Atlas followed by a small fleet of other ships all carrying the one corpse over to Atlas. I wonder how James is going to take this, it's not everyday you see an ancient monster after all and killed by 2 (4) people to boot. Whatever it is, it's going to be one worth saving if the pilots' reactions were anything to go by.

We arrive at a large open area on the side of Atlas, and I can already see the look of shock on the general's face. We land and he approaches me.

"What is that? I thought we detected grimm? I've never seen anything like that before." He says.

"That, my dear friend, is an ancient monster. One from the very early times of remnant."

"Are you sure?"

"Do you see any other giant beasts such as this just roaming around the world?"

"I suppose not. I'll have to take your word for it then."

"So, extra payment?"

"Ha! Of course, you've earned it. You and Raven will receive your payments by the end of the day."

"Alright-" I was saying until but James' scroll started to vibrate

He takes it out and puts in on speaker, "Election *bzzzt* sabotage *bzzzt* need back-*bzzzzt*"

"I'm on it!" I say as I'm already running off the edge of Atlas.

I jump off and free fall for until I'm a decent distance away from Atlas before Ker comes out from my shadow wings out before we make a beeline straight to the election site.