A/N: I wanted to make this a more weekly upload schedule, but i finished this chapter pretty fast so... well here you go guys =)

. : Thanks for the review, I hope i can keep it up as well. Not much going on in life so I should have time right now, plz look forward to more.

"Away." Elsa stressed.

Snake-like eyes stared blankly back at her.

"Me." She slapped at her chest with both hands. "Want." She curled her fingers as if wanting desperately to clutch at something. "Away." She threw her hands to her right, trying to signal that she wanted to move, to get away from this place.

The monster, no, 'Anna', said nothing, far too busy staring at Elsa's chest after witnessing the two orbs bounce due to Elsa's impact earlier. Elsa sighed as she leaned back on the bed she awoke in, a bed she now realized must have belonged to Anna. The girl didn't seem interested in it at the moment, so Elsa made herself at home as best she could while she attempted to train Anna to understand her.

"I'm never going to get out of here am I?" Elsa questioned aloud to herself, partially asking the redhead beside her as well.

Anna's mind was a primitive one, and one that had a hard time focusing on anything besides what caught her attention. Right now all she could see was Elsa's chest, those two balls of flesh that were bigger than her own and made her feel funny. Not a bad funny by any means, but a good funny, like when she had some of those blue mushrooms in the forest that were usually saved for special occasions. She'd never felt this way before, the whole experience with this blonde headed girl was completely foreign. She didn't know exactly why she saved her before or why she continued doing so by standing up to her own people, but her mind told her it had something to do with those two mounds of flesh.

Elsa noticed Anna just in time as one of Anna's tendrils began moving closer and closer to her.

"Hey!" Elsa panicked, backing away from Anna, hands curling into fists that she wouldn't have dared use against the girl anyway. Anna was smaller than her, that was for sure, but Elsa wondered if she truly weighed more. Anna wasn't exactly a frail looking girl, her body was nothing but toned muscle, hardly any trace of fat to be seen. It was easy to tell when the girl barely wore anything, her clothes looking to be made from animal skin, and forestry.

Anna snapped out of it, looking up at Elsa's frightened face. She pulled her tendril back, letting it wave slightly behind her. There was a moment of them staring at one another before Anna felt her face getting hotter.

"Oooo. Mmmm." Was all Anna had to say about the matter.

Elsa watched the girl back away towards the entrance to the tent. "Where are you going?" Elsa questioned. Though she was still scared of Anna, she'd much rather have her around just in case some other hostile from this clan of monsters came for her.

"Mmmm." The best answer she was going to get apparently.

Anna exited the hut, the claws on her hands and feet digging into the wood as she descended. Elsa panicked and ran over to the entrance. She poked her head out with as little of herself being shown as she could. She noticed it was getting darker, the sky turning orange. Most of the Half-Beasts seemed to be gone, the bodies from before being cleaned up. The thought was enough to make Elsa sick, but she had something more important to worry about.

Like keeping close to her bodyguard.

Elsa looked over to the ladder built into the tree, seeing Anna had barely begun her descent. She must have stopped when Elsa poked her head out. Elsa quickly scrambled over to her, keeping as low as possible.

"Are you insane?!" She whispered harshly. "Don't leave me alone. They could come for me!"

Anna, not understanding a word, only understood that Elsa must have wanted to come with her. She smiled at the thought, happy that Elsa wanted to be close to her.

"Ehah." Anna said, still unable to pronounce the S properly.

Elsa looked at the hand that was offered to her. It was a rougher looking hand, one that was used to doing work. Elsa did work as well back on the farm, but her hands remained soft looking. She wondered if her work was truly so hard when a girl who looked younger than her had even rougher looking hands. Not that this really mattered, what mattered to Elsa were her claws. For a moment she feared that once she grabbed Anna's hand that Anna would grip hers tightly and sink her claws into flesh. She'd heard somewhere that animals could smell blood from far away. Surely if Anna drew blood, then all of the monsters in the village would come for her. She reminded herself that Anna had touched her earlier and had been surprisingly careful with her claws.

With a deep breath, she reached out and took Anna's hand.

Anna felt a sudden warmth at the touch, her mind telling her to touch Elsa more, to take her back inside where they could be alone. To... to... to do something. She wanted something from Elsa, something she didn't know. She managed to hold back however, remembering how scared Elsa got whenever she tried getting too close to her. Instead she simply guided Elsa to the ladder and made sure she got her placing on it before beginning her own descent, Elsa following slowly behind, scared that she might fall. Once at the bottom, Anna waited for Elsa to finish climbing down. She wondered briefly if it was ok to bring Elsa along where she was going. The thought of Elsa running away went through her mind. It reminded her of a pet she had once, it seemed to like her at first, but the moment she let it outside, it flew off. She didn't want Elsa to run away.

She reminded herself that Elsa couldn't get very far away from her. She had her scent memorized and Elsa wasn't exactly a fast runner, this she knew from experience.

Elsa reached the bottom of the ladder and breathed out a sigh of relief, never having had to climb down from something so high.

"You must be crazy to live somewhere so high." Elsa commented.

Anna just smiled, not understanding, but liking Elsa's voice directed at her.

"Mmm." Anna responded, just because she wanted to.

The two set off towards the forest, Anna leading the way while Elsa was practically glued to her back, constantly looking around, worried that another of Anna's kind would spot them and come for her. Anna on the other hand showed no fear about walking through her homelands with a human girl at her back. She walked along, head held high as she took the lead into the forest. Her senses told her that some of her kind had already spotted them, but none had come forth to confront her about it. She wasn't keeping Elsa a secret, and any could come to harm her, there was no protection offered to humans in her homelands.

However Anna had clearly taken Elsa as hers. Any who came to harm her would have to confront Anna first, something everyone knew in the village.

"Where are we going anyway?" Elsa tried, already knowing Anna wouldn't understand, but needing to say something in the silence before her panic induced mind got the best of her.

"Mmm." That was about all she expected anyway.

The journey went for quite some time, possibly twenty or so minutes before Anna stopped. Elsa watched as she crouched in front of a bush and began picking berries from it. Elsa's stomach growled at the sight. When she thought Anna wasn't looking, she snagged one for herself. She smelled it, finding the smell to be something entirely new. It wasn't a bad smell, but she really couldn't tell if it was a good one.

Hearing Elsa's intake of breath, Anna looked up just in time to see her about to put the berry in her mouth. Anna shot up like a rocket, startling the poor girl. She growled before slapping the berry out of Elsa's hand. Elsa took her hand back, cradling it to her chest as she backed away from Anna a good three feet. She wanted to run, but the look in Anna's eyes told her that she couldn't do it. Anna was obviously quick, and Elsa couldn't hope to match her stamina.

Anna face softened at the scared look of the frail girl.

"Mmm." Anna looked around for a moment, as if searching for something. She gave up as an idea came to her. "Oooo." She said, just to make sure Elsa was looking at her.

Anna put down the berries, all except one before taking it and placing it in her mouth. She began to chew, making noises of satisfaction, before suddenly beginning to convulse. She clutched at her stomach, sounds of pain leaving her lips. Elsa's eyes widened, scared of what was happening to her. Anna fell to her knees, clutching at her throat now, before falling face first onto the ground. She laid there, unmoving, not breathing for several seconds. Elsa instantly began looking around, scared that someone would see this and assume she did it before killing her. She realized then as well that her bodyguard had just apparently died on her. She quickly ran over, falling on her knees and shaking Anna.

"Oh no. Oh please no. You can't die on me like this! I need you! Come on!" Elsa pleaded, eyes beginning to water at the idea of what was going to happen to her if Anna really died here. "Come on! You were so tough earlier, are you going to let one little berry do- Ahhh!" Elsa screamed a scream she was sure should have been saved for moments of true peril.

Instead she screamed because Anna suddenly jumped up onto her hands and feet, legs bent so she could walk along the ground with her arms.

"Ooo." Anna said, spitting out a perfectly unchewed berry into her palm.

Elsa didn't consider herself very smart. She didn't know how to read, she really only knew farm work, and according to several jobs in town, she was unqualified. Still, even she knew when someone was putting on a demonstration to tell you something.

"They're poisonous." Elsa finally understood.

"Mmm."

Elsa looked at the little berry that almost ended her life. She could have died over something so small, just because she was hungry. She watched Anna go back to picking up the berries she dropped. Elsa now wondered what Anna was going to do with poisonous berries. Anna did eventually finish collecting what she needed and walked off again, Elsa quick to follow.

For yet another five minutes they walked, until Anna felt the need to stop again. Anna stood for a moment, smelling the air heavily. Elsa almost commented, asking if she was a dog. However, for all Elsa knew, Anna could be part dog or something. Anna ended up walking a short distance before pointing to something with her hand that wasn't full of berries. Anna made another noise, trying to get Elsa to notice. Elsa however didn't see anything. All she saw was foliage. Anna, assuming she saw what she was pointing at, descended onto her stomach and put out her hands, cupping the berries in them as far away from her body as possible. She stayed like that for several seconds before noticing that Elsa was standing beside her.

"Oooo!" She whispered frantically.

Elsa didn't understand until a few more sounds from Anna. Anna wanted her to lay prone on the ground as well. Elsa looked to the ground and shrugged, figuring she was dirty enough as is. She laid down on her stomach, Anna ceasing any noise after that and looking forward. Elsa laid with her, wondering what they were waiting for. Nothing happened, and nothing happened for another two minutes. Elsa began to get uncomfortable, wondering why she had to do this as well. She almost spoke up, almost ruined what Anna had planned, but luckily she didn't once she saw just what they were waiting for.

A small rabbit with tiny antlers appeared, a strange thing for Elsa to see. However with everything she'd seen in the last day, this was the most normal. The rabbit sniffed at the air for a moment before looking in their direction. It was then that Anna squished the berries as slowly as she could in her hand. She opened them again, just as slow, not wanting to startle it. The rabbit sniffed again, this time coming out of the bushes it was hiding behind. What Anna knew, and what Elsa didn't know, was that this rabbit was one of the few animals in the forest with the stomach capable of digesting these berries without dying. It just so happened that these berries were its favorite meal as well. The rabbits sense of smell and eyesight were terrible however, which was why Anna had to be so close to its nest with the berries. She crushed them just to get the scent even heavier on in the air, hoping to entice it over.

And enticed it was.

The rabbit slowly hopped over, smelling the air for danger, but finding only the scent of the berries. It skipped over to Anna's hands, smelling at them before putting its face into her hand to nibble at the crushed fruit. Elsa almost aww'd at the sight, wondering if Anna had brought her out here just to show her this. It was a beautiful sight, and Elsa did like animals. Maybe Anna wasn't as scary as Elsa thought.

Then Anna quickly snapped her hands around the rabbit, claws digging in to keep it from running as it squealed.

Elsa's mouth fell open as Anna smiled. The Half-Beast girl stood up, claws deep into the rabbit's flesh. She opened her mouth, stuck the rabbits head in, and bit down with her rows of sharp teeth, severing the head from the body. Elsa watched with some horror as Anna spit the head out, the body no longer moving. Anna turned to Elsa then, bloody smile on display.

"Ehah." She said, offering the body to Elsa.

Elsa just stared on, wondering how she could have ever imagined Anna in a positive light. Forget being even remotely human, she was nothing but a monster. No human could ever bite the head off of an animal for fun.

Elsa stood up, thinking about running, but feeling just a bit too angry for that.

"What is wrong with you?! Why would you do that?!" Elsa questioned angrily, forgetting that Anna was much stronger than her and that she probably shouldn't raise her voice to her and potentially rile her up.

Anna's eyebrows furrowed as she pulled the body up to her nose to smell it. A few quick intakes of breath told her there was nothing wrong with it. Once again she held the body out for Elsa to take. It was slapped out of her hands by Elsa, who seemed to be growing angrier and angrier the longer it was in her sight. Anna didn't understand. For her people, this animal was a gift, a sign of good friendship among one another. It was to be eaten together. She didn't know why she was doing it for Elsa exactly. It was true that Elsa shared features similar to herself, but she didn't think of Elsa as one of her own. Just like Elsa, there was a sort of species barrier in the way. To Elsa, Anna was a monster. To Anna, Elsa was a weak little thing that needed protection.

Anna frowned at the ground where the food now lay. Her offering had been rejected. In her culture, to reject the horned rabbit was to reject a person. Elsa did not wish to be friends, she did not wish any relationship with Anna. Furthermore her anger showed that she was not just rejecting her, but disliked her immensely.

Elsa was unaware of such things, simply angry that Anna would kill such a cute creature for seemingly no reason.

After more harsh language from Elsa, that Anna did not understand, but got part of the message, the two did leave. Anna leading the way, though this time around her head was hung and she had a forlorn look upon her face. She thought Elsa liked her, Elsa was so quick to follow her that she was sure the rabbit would be accepted. She had meant to get it as an apology for scaring her earlier when she tried to touch her with her back-whips. The rabbit was more than for signs of good friendship, but for apologies and making up as well. She wanted to show Elsa that she had no reason to be afraid. However it seems Anna was wrong like before. Just like the bird she once caught and kept as a pet, she had misjudged Elsa. She thought the girl liked her, just like the bird, however the bird had runaway at the first chance it could. And Elsa? Elsa didn't run, but she was certainly not happy with Anna's presence at the moment. The thought made her chest ache for some reason.

As for Elsa, she was furious, but also conflicted. Sure, Anna had murdered a cute creature, but she was still the only one in the village willing to keep her safe. She could have let Elsa eat the berry from earlier and die, however she didn't and was quite aggressive in making sure she survived it. It was almost like a mother smacking a sword out of a child's hand before giving him a lecture of how he could poke his eye out. Anna didn't seem cruel for no reason, so why had she done it? Why try to give her the body afterwards? Was it a sick joke? She was smiling at the time.

Her growling stomach answered it for her.

The rabbit was food.

Elsa felt like such an idiot. Anna was offering her food, a thing she greatly needed after not having eaten since leaving for the trip into the forest. How stupid could she be? It wasn't like Elsa had never eaten rabbit before. Sure, she'd never been around to watch one die, but she'd had her fair share of rabbit meat in her life. It was too late now though, they had been walking for some time and she could see the village up ahead and Anna's tree hut in its tree.

She wondered if she should apologize. Anna clearly hadn't meant any harm in what she was trying to do. She couldn't have warned Elsa about what she was going to do either, seeing as how neither understood the other. She thought about going back, to pick it up and bring it back, to show Anna that she would like to accept what was being given to her. That idea was quickly thrown out. She had no idea where to even go to get back to where they were. All the trees and foliage looked the same to her, she had no idea how Anna managed to lead them back to the village in the first place. Besides, it was darker now, the sun nearly disappearing out on the horizon.

Her thought process was interrupted when she noticed a man leaving one of the huts in the village. Elsa and Anna had just stepped inside the village's boundaries when Elsa noticed a Half-Beast man leaving what looked to be a storage area. Elsa only considered it that, because she noticed various suits of armor thrown into a pile. She swore she saw a weapon as well, something sharp, but didn't get a good enough look as the man let the curtain fall on the hut as he left. While Anna guided Elsa back to the tree to climb, Elsa had never taken her eyes off the hut that must have contained stuff acquired from her squadron.

She was sure she saw a weapon...

Elsa held onto that thought, even as she climbed up first after Anna insisted with sounds that she climb up. It wouldn't leave her mind as she entered Anna's hut in the tree and took up her spot on Anna's bed. It was an easy thing to remember when Anna didn't seem keen on trying to distract her. In fact Anna didn't bother her the entire time that they were back, instead taking up a spot in a dark corner to watch Elsa. Elsa knew what she had to do, she needed to get into that room, to find a weapon so she could escape. Surely these people needed sleep like every other living thing on the planet. Elsa looked to the dark corner where she knew Anna was watching her even though she could only see her legs sticking out of the darkness.

An idea was hatched in Elsa's mind.

The blonde haired girl let out an obviously fake yawn. She laid down on the bed, grabbing the pelt and throwing it over herself. Her great idea was to pretend to be asleep until Anna fell asleep. Once that was done, she would sneak out and acquire a weapon. After that... well she wasn't completely sure if she should hide it somewhere in Anna's hut or take her chances and run. It took a long time to enact her plan in Elsa's mind, so long in fact that she nearly fell asleep herself. Eventually though she swore she could hear Anna's light breaths begin to turn into a small snore. She waited another ten minutes just to be sure before opening her eyes. Of course with even less light shining through the curtain of the hut, Elsa couldn't see a thing. It was night now and Anna didn't keep any lights in her home.

Elsa slowly got up, worried that even the slightest of noise would awaken the beast. The last thing she needed was to try and explain what she was doing. She somehow managed however, getting up and slowly crawling towards the entrance to the nest. She poked her head out first, like always, checking to make sure there were no other beast-men around. She found none and decided to take this as an opportunity. She crawled out of the hut and began her descent down the ladder. Her heart began to pound, knowing she was about to wander the village without Anna. What else could she do however, she doubted Anna would help her in sneaking into the storage area to get her weapon back.

Her feet touched the ground at the base of the tree, she looked around once more, trying to control her breath that was beginning to get out of control thanks to her heart rate. Images of what happened to her captain and the rest of the men from her squad flashed through her head. She didn't want to be the next one pushed against a rock and killed. Still, she would never make it here long without a weapon, and she couldn't rely on Anna alone to protect her from an entire village of people. Elsa gave a look up at the hut made high in the trees.

Anna wouldn't understand.

Elsa blew out a small breath to try and quell her nerves. She began to move, remembering where the storage area was that she saw the man leave from before. It wasn't far from Anna's tree, just a few huts and trees down. She stepped past a hut where loud snoring could be heard inside, multiple loud snores. She wondered how many of these monsters were inside that tent. Worse yet she feared it was only one person, perhaps some grotesque beast of a man with multiple mouths. She shook her head at the thought, figuring it wasn't important right now. She continued down, passing more huts and tree houses. She nearly had a heart attack when she realized that some of the beast people were awake, a few of them were inside one hut where a light could be seen coming from below the curtain made of animal skin. There were noises coming from inside, but no conversation. The only reason Elsa was sure they were awake was due to the shadows that danced under the skin. She passed by carefully, stepping down on the grass and plants around the home as silently as she could.

By some miracle of god, she managed to make it to the hut she was sure was some sort of storage area. There was no light inside and she didn't hear any snoring, assuming it was safe to go in, she quickly scurried in. Once inside she found it hard to see thanks to there being barely any light. The moonlight was all she had, which wasn't much. She felt around instead, instantly going for the corner where she was sure she saw armor that her company once wore. Her touch landed on something cold, something metallic and she quietly celebrated in her mind, glad she was correct in her assumption. She began to move things around as quietly as she could, searching for the sharp object she had found earlier. It took several minutes of suspense to find it. She nearly ran out and back to Anna's tree every time she accidentally bumped a piece of metal into another. Eventually though she found what she was looking for.

Elsa felt a prick against the palm of her hand, causing it to bleed. She hissed at the pain, but quickly reached back out to grab at what hurt her, knowing its sharp edge. Elsa's hands wrapped around wood and an immense amount of relief washed over her. She picked it up, knowing the feeling of it well. It was a spear, whether it was her spear or not she did not know. It didn't really matter anyway. She backed away with the spear, ready to leave the storage area. She silently walked back to the curtain of animal skin, lifting it to leave.

That was when she was confronted.

A deep growl made Elsa freeze as she left the hut. Before her stood a woman, huge antlers on her head and several black spots on her face. The growl sounded more human than animal, but that didn't matter to Elsa. Elsa stared at her, not knowing what to do in the face of being caught without Anna. Perhaps it was foolish, but Elsa brandished the spear, taking up the stance she was taught in the army.

"Don't say anything." Elsa tried to be threatening, but it was hard when her legs were shaking.

The woman moved towards her in a lunge and Elsa reacted. She stabbed the tip of the spear into the woman's shoulder. She shrieked at that and backed away. Elsa didn't wait, taking the opportunity presented to her, she ran with her spear in hand. She made a break for the nearest exit into the forest, hoping to lose anyone who would chase her. There was a piercing shriek that sounded almost like a goat bellowing behind her, one that had most certainly been done to wake everyone in the village up. Elsa soon found others coming out of their huts, angry and at the ready to defend their homes. Another man jumped in front of her with a bellow of some kind that Elsa had never heard. She tried stabbing him with the spear, only he moved out of the way before she could. She ran by him instead, lungs working in overtime as her panicked brain sent her into flight or fight mode.

More men and women came out, some of them blocking her path and forcing her to run another way. This went on and on, Elsa jabbing her spear at some of them, but they refused to move and took a swipe at her instead. She was being cornered, she knew it based off of their movements, but there was little she could do about it. Eventually she was circled by men and women, all of them looking different from the last, yet just as animal-like as the one before. Elsa tried forcing her way through a smaller looking woman, running at her with her spear out and yelling to try and intimidate her. It didn't work as well as she wanted, the woman simply moved out of the way of her spear and managed to sink her claws into Elsa's shoulder. Elsa grunted in pain, not feeling the full extent of it due to her pumping adrenaline. Elsa backed away, scared, knowing she was trapped. She kept her spear up, swinging it wildly at anyone who got too close. Suddenly she felt pain explode in her back as someone managed to slash their claws down her back from behind. She whipped around with the spear, barely missing the man who got her. Another managed to get her leg now that she was distracted. She fell to her knees, swinging her spear as much as she could. Her breath came out in quick and hurried puffs, her body doing what it could to keep going. She realized they were playing with her. They could have killed her long ago. They really were monsters.

However a thought entered her mind, one telling her that she had a monster of her own.

"Anna!" She screamed. "Anna!"

Some of them looked confused, perhaps a few even recognizing who she was attempting to call for.

Another swipe that cut her face, leaving three claw marks down her cheek.

"Anna!"

A swipe at her arm.

"Anna!"

A ferocious roar from above.

Everyone suddenly stopped, all of the Half-Beasts turning to look up at the sound. Elsa was on both her knees, still clutching her spear. She looked up to, ragged breaths getting worse. Something jumped from high in a tree, impacting the ground with an incredible thud. Another rawr was heard as something began pushing through Half-Beasts towards Elsa. Blue-green eyes met blue as Anna pushed in close enough to see Elsa. Anna didn't say anything and for a moment Elsa feared that she may join in on the cruelty or leave. She didn't however, as Anna walked in closer and bent down to grab Elsa's arms and help her to her feet.

That was when Anna noticed the cut on Elsa's face, that beautiful face that she loved to stare at ever since meeting her.

Elsa cowered away at the sound of Anna's roar. It wasn't directed at her however. Anna smacked her chest once and then twice with a curled fist as she looked around at her kin. She grabbed Elsa, pulling her close before roaring again. Elsa imagined that there was a message being sent, but exactly what she was not sure. It wasn't until a young man stepped up that Elsa realized what was going on.

Anna was challenging them.

The man, or rather boy, was probably around fourteen years old, assuming Anna's species aged the same way as a human. He was tall, built, and certainly looked as though he could handle Anna in a fight.

Someone else did not think so.

An older woman, probably forty or so years old, came out of the crowd and smacked him on his chest with a growl. What Elsa didn't know was that this was his mother. It wasn't like she should feel bad for not realizing, truthfully they looked nothing alike. The son had short, blonde hair and had features that reminded Elsa of a snake. His eyes were similar to Anna's, only they were red in color. His ears were elongated and there were red scales on his skin all throughout his body. The mother seemed more like some sort of mammal, sporting floppy, beast-like ears and small stature. She honestly looked very human in comparison to others, however she was just a bit too short to be considered normal. She couldn't have been taller than five feet, likely smaller.

Anna took a step toward the boy who wanted to be a man. The mother quickly got between them, falling to her knees and prostrating herself in front of Anna. She let out a pathetic mewl, a pitiful whimper that begged Anna not to fight her son. Fights in Anna's culture often left the brawlers with permanent wounds. Worst yet was that it was common to see someone die if the fight was fueled by enough anger. The older woman was no fool, she could see how much Anna cared for that blonde girl she'd brought back. She didn't approve, but she wasn't stupid enough to challenge Anna about it. Anna was one of the scouts, the strongest fighters that were sent out to scout out the area for intruders. They were also sent to fight whenever trouble arose. Anna was no weakling and her son was just a fool who had yet to learn when to step down and mind his business.

Anna simply growled at her, putting a naked foot on her head and pressing down. The mother mewled, letting her head be pushed into the ground. The son growled at the sight, before lunging at Anna while she was looking down at the mother. Suddenly they were on the ground, rolling and clawing at one another. The mother quickly stood, trying to rush over and stop them, but another villager grabbed her and held her back.

"Ahhhma! Ahhhma!" The mother pleaded.

Elsa watched on, liking that the entire attention of the village was away from her, but scared that Anna might lose this fight. If Anna lost then there was no telling what would happen to herself. It was hard to tell who was winning when the both of them were growling and rolling around, clawing at one another. However it was soon figured out when Anna suddenly pinned him, arms around his neck and knees on his arms to hold them down. Elsa had never seen a look like the one Anna was sporting. The pure anger, hatred, fury that was written across her face was unlike any she'd seen. She wondered about just how easily she could have had that same look turned on her earlier when she'd rejected the food that Anna caught for her. The girl could have easily turned on her and she would have been the one being choked.

Anna dug her claws into his neck as she choked him, fully intent on ending his life for not only challenging her, but for hurting Elsa. She could smell it on him, could smell the blood on his claws that belonged to Elsa. She wanted him dead, to take his head as her trophy, to challenge another and another until she'd killed any who would try and take Elsa from her. She'd never felt this way, never felt this much desire to kill. Sure, Anna had been in her fair share of duels, but only once had she ever killed. She knew no one would stop her, disputes between two people were left alone by the other villagers. It was an unspoken rule to let others fight and work out the problems themselves. Whether it be peacefully in the end, or by one of them having their corpse burned once it was over.

It was almost over, and Anna was ready to challenge another. However that was when she felt his neck thicken and grow, her grip could no longer properly choke him and once she realized what was going on, she backed off, jumping away from him. The other villagers backed away as well, giving more room for the duel to continue. Before her, Anna watched as he transformed from a weak, yet prideful boy, into a giant reptile like creature. The best summation was that he looked like a fifteen foot long salamander that was six feet in height. Only Salamanders didn't tend to have six legs and two tails. There were spikes along his back as well. Anna just looked at him, grimacing at his cowardice. Once fights were started, you were to stay in whatever form you started it in. In fact, he was already breaking the rules by jumping on her without proper warning while she was distracted.

Not that it mattered, his death would only be more painful now.

Anna felt her bones move, felt them break and reform, felt the intense pain that came with transforming from her humanoid form. Her eyes burned and her brain felt as though it had melted into sludge. Her fingers split open for bigger claws, her body elongating in a quick, yet very painful manner. Her spine was reset, her body now taking on a better form to walk along four legs. Her hands turned to palms, fur grew, and her mouth stretched into that of a canines.

And Elsa watched on, feeling like an idiot for not realizing that she'd seen Anna already.

Anna was the same beast that attacked her before, the same one she ran her spear into before being knocked out.

Anna transformed into her canine-like form, tendrils on her back growing immensely long, wiping about in anger behind her. She barked out a roar, a threat that told the boy he would regret this. He hissed back before taking in a large breath. Anna watched as his cheeks puffed out like a frogs and he suddenly threw his back up, the spikes on his back popping off and flying towards Anna. With precision he was unaware that Anna had, she smacked several away with her tendrils, only one of them sticking into her back leg. That was when he panicked and realized that perhaps he had made a mistake.

Anna showed no mercy.

Her back tendrils began to wave again, energy seeming to build up in them before sparks began flying between them in a line of lightning. Anna rushed at him with speed that no salamander could keep up with. He opened his jaw, hoping to catch Anna off guard because of her rushing in. He failed however as Anna swiveled around and bit down onto his neck. The fight was over before it could really begin and they both knew it. Anna sunk her teeth into his thick skin, powerful jaw allowing her to work deeper and deeper inside. He wailed with pathetic sounds, the sounds of a dying animal. Anna took it slow too, savoring that he was being tortured. A tendril whipped forward and shocked him, sending out another painful sound from his reptile lips. Anna could hear the mother in the background still calling both her and her sons name, begging for Anna to let him go, to let him live and learn from this mistake. Anna remembered Elsa's scratched face and bit down harder, a tooth puncturing his jugular. Blood seeped out as he began to die, there was no saving him now, his wounds fatal and wouldn't be treated fast enough. Still, this wasn't enough for Anna, so she whipped her tendrils into him over and over, making him scream out to the rest of the villagers. It sounded like a desperate call for help, one that he was not going to get from anyone else. The only one willing to break the rules was his mother, and others would hold her back to keep her from breaking them.

As he died, Elsa watched on. She couldn't say she was surprised to see them turn into beasts, she had already suspected such a thing before. Still, to see it in action was horrifying to say the least. The painful sounds of them transforming was enough to make her grimace. She could hear the bones pop, hear their wails of pain and fury as they transformed. She could hear the flesh ripping and re-attaching to create something new. It was disgusting, so disgusting she didn't understand how they could go through with it. She was stuck in this village with the rest of these monsters, while being protected by one. She looked on as Anna whipped her tendrils into the dying salamander over and over, trying to cause him as much a painful death as she could.

That was her protector... her beast.

It was the last thought she had as she passed out from blood loss, a loss of adrenaline and most importantly, just being plain tired after everything that happened.