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The group set out. Each keeping an eye on their alien companion.
"So, Elsa, why is it that you can speak English?" Anna asked and the alien looked to the shorter girl frowning. They had been walking in silence for a few hours and the sun was about to set.
"Is that what you call your language?" She asked, feeling grateful of the light breeze that was blowing.
"We have a ton of languages, but the one were talking now is called English," Anna said.
"Ah, I see. We call this Animalian," Elsa said simply. The redhead frowned and looked up to the blond.
"So, we're actually speaking your language?" She asked and Elsa nodded.
"A bit broken, but yes, I understand what you say, but some of the words you use in a different context," Elsa said and rolled her eyes at the look on the girls face.
"You use inappropriate differently, for us it means childish or disrespectful," Elsa explains.
"Okay, so we add extra stuff to the words," Anna shrugged. Elsa eyed the tiny human for a short period of time as they walked. Her eyes darting to the others. They looked older than her, yet, they respected her. Why?
"Forgive me, but you seem to be the leader here, yet you look to be the youngest," Elsa said. Anna looked up to her with a slight frown and at seeing the confused look on the alien's eyes she chuckled softly.
"Captain Anna Summers, leader of my squad, or what's left of it," Anna said tilting her head to the others. Elsa frowned slightly.
"I joined the military before they did, grew up with military parents," Anna explained and Elsa shook her head.
"You have the option to join? We join not because we want to, but because we have to. The only exception is when an Animalian has an exceptional skill for something else," Elsa said. She didn't like talking about anything skill related. It reminded her too much of her lack of skill.
Elsa watched the girl get a spring in her step at something ahead of them.
She felt bewildered as the humans all started running to the dim lights ahead. She frowned and quickened her step. She didn't feel all too happy to be entering a human camp. They might not be as lenient.
Once near enough to see and hear the other humans, Elsa's movements slowly came to a stop. She watched as everyone hugged and greeted the humans with warm smiles. She watched as they gave out some of the supplies they had been carrying. There were food and drinks, even some meds.
Elsa briefly wondered what her squad was up to. She wondered if they noticed that she was missing. She wondered if they even cared.
The blond blinked and looked down at a small boy by her feet. He had black hair and big expressive eyes.
"Hi, I'm Olaf!" He said and there was silence. Elsa looked up to see all the humans look up to her. Elsa noticed that they looked frightened and confused. The next thing she knows their pointing guns at her and the women are keeping their kids away. Anna skidded to a halt in front of her.
"Calm down everyone!" Anna shouted.
"You led one of them to us!" One of the men shouted.
"Now they'll find us for sure!" A woman added.
There was a mesh of different opinions being thrown at the redhead, some not so innocent and other were just pure vulgar. Everyone went silent as a loud shot rang through the air. Rapunzel nodded to Anna as she lowered her shot gun.
"Thank you Punzy. As all of you can see, she isn't armed and we did get rid of her communication devices. She will tag along with us and help if we come across more," Anna explained, but not everyone looked happy. Elsa blinked and looked back down to Olaf as he tugged on her hand.
"What's your name?" He asked and she tilted her head. Everyone watched as she bends down to be at Olaf's level.
"My name is Elsa," she says with a faint smile.
~FfaH~
It's been several days, probably around a week since the alien joined the humans. Elsa's learned many things in that time and so have they. They still didn't trust her fully and there were always someone watching her with a gun at the ready. Elsa lost her ability to care. Often she would be straggling along behind them with Olaf on her shoulders. The boy grew attached to her quickly. Elsa would admit she found him comforting and his insistent babbling became her background noise. He would tell her all kinds of made up stories and in the beginning she thought they were real. Anna had laughed and explained to her that kids would tell imaginary stories to keep themselves busy.
The alien had blushed and simply said 'oh'. So now when he told her things she would play along in great exaggeration and he just loved it. The only time his voice wasn't ringing through her ears was at night when he fell asleep.
The group stopped for the night at a gas station. They set up tents and raided the small shop for what was left. Elsa tucked the kid into his sleeping bag near the other kids before fixing her own sleeping place.
"Hey, Elsa, care to take a walk around the perimeter with me?" Anna asks as she stops to stand beside the hunched alien. Elsa looks up to the redhead and the moon was positioned just perfectly behind her. It was full and bright making a sort of halo around her. She nodded with a grunt and stood up. A few pairs of eyes followed the two before they were out of everyone's eye sight.
"I think you deserve this," Anna says and Elsa blinks at the shiny object the girl held out to her. She perks up and takes the coin, studying it before placing it with the others she's managed to get back. She still needed a few, but at this rate she would have them back in no time.
"How long do you think they will keep combing through everyplace before giving up?" Anna asked as she looked up to the stars.
"Scanners will show when every last trace of humans are gone, so they will keep at it till every last one has been taken care of," Elsa answered truthfully. She watched the human turn sad as she looked down to their moving feet.
"So…everything we do is pointless?" She asked and Elsa bit her lip. The silence spoke for itself. The chirps of crickets were interrupted by sniffling. The crunch of boots on dirt stopped and Elsa turned to look at the human. Anna was covering her face with her hands as her shoulders shook. The alien didn't know what to do. Anna let out a hiccupped sob that made Elsa jump. Her instincts were screaming at her to do something and she moved. She wrapped her arms around the smaller human and pulled her to her chest. She rubbed her back and her eyebrows rose in worry as the girl cried into her.
The concept of tears and crying had never been part of her race. She knows what it is and what it means and why it happens, but her people never express any real emotions besides anger. Anger was what helped them during missions.
Anna's crying eventually subsided into just hiccups and sniffles. She took a deep breath and pulled away from the alien to rub her eyes.
"Sorry about that, it just gets too much sometimes," Anna apologizes. Elsa just stands there, her suit letting the tears just bead and roll right off. The alien wonders if she'll get another coin for this.
"Let's keep walking," Anna says and Elsa almost pouts for not receiving her 'reward'.
"You humans are very emotional creatures," Elsa says and Anna looks up to her.
"I guess, but we can be logical too, but that's easily dominated by emotion anyway," Anna shrugs and Elsa hums.
"We're more intellectual, but when we were still primitive and hadn't discovered space travel yet, we were more instinctive," Elsa says as she thinks to the books she's read.
"Instinctive?" Anna asks as she frowned up to the alien.
"Much like your animals, everything we did was for survival, but as intellect became the most favored trait the others were quickly bred out," she explains.
"How do you, ya know, chose who you love?" Anna asked and Elsa tilted her head.
"Love?" Elsa asks and Anna nods.
"You love the person you spend the rest of your life with, don't you?" She asked and Elsa thought about this. She's never read about this…love before.
"Can you give me an example?" Elsa ends up asking. She needs more data first.
"Well, let's see…ah! A queen yes? The ruler of all the other people, she needs to marry and have kids so she can have an heir to the kingdom. She has to marry another noble to secure the purity of the royal blood. But she falls in love with one of her hand maidens. She realizes that love is more important than the future of her line and opts to just adopt a child," Anna explains. She's gotten used to some of the odd things she'd needed to explain to the alien. Though she had to admit this was the weirdest one.
"But now her blood line ends, what a stupid thing to do," Elsa frowns and shakes her head. Humans were silly creatures. Anna just shrugs.
"Love makes you do crazy things," the redhead says as she smiled a far off look on her face. Elsa studies her facial features. There was something pleasant in how the human looked that made her heart beat faster.
"Here," Anna says and hands the alien a small device with wires.
"What's this?" Elsa asks and Anna smiles.
"It's an iPod, you listen to music," she explains and takes the two ear buds and places them in the alien's ears. She pushes a button and music erupts into Elsa's ears. Her first instinct is to rip the ear buds out and hiss, but she controls herself.
Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Shine a light through an open door
Love and life I will divide
Turn away 'cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Yellow diamonds in the light
And we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine (mine, mine, mine)
We found love in a hopeless place
Elsa looked to the human as the last line kept repeating over and over again. The tune was pleasant and she felt the need to bob her head to the tune. She removed the ear buds and smiled.
"This human's voice is really pleasant, is that how she talks?" Elsa asked and Anna laughed. It was an even better sound than the noise box.
"That's called singing; you don't know what singing is?" Anna asked and Elsa shook her head.
"It's when you make a tune with your voice along to music, you know music right?" The redhead asked, her eyes were sparkling.
"Oh music I know," Elsa says and taps on her arm as a screen pops up. Anna watches as the alien swipes through different screens before she hesitates. Elsa shakes her head and taps on an icon. Anna's eyes widened as music filters into the night air. It sounded like a piano.
"Wow, that's really good, I haven't played on a piano in years," Anna smiles and Elsa tilts her head.
"So humans have pianos too?" Elsa asks with a slight smile, a soft blush spreading over her cheeks. Anna nods as they continue to walk.
"Y-you really think it was good?" Elsa asks after a while, the sounds of the night replacing as their music. Anna blinked at the question before looking to the alien. She wasn't looking at her.
"Elsa…did you make that music?" She asked slowly and she watched the blondes shoulders scrunch up to her ears. She's never seen the alien this shy before.
"Yes, I-I've never been a fighter like the rest of my generation. My talents none existent," Elsa admits as she looks down.
"But that was really great, I'd say on par with like, Beethoven or Mozart!" Anna smiles bright and at the confused look of the alien she chuckles.
"They are famous pianists, so famous that hundreds of years after their deaths they are still remembered and celebrated," Anna explains and Elsa feels her cheeks redden more. She feels warm inside and starts to think that maybe she was good at something. Elsa gasped and stilled her walk. Anna turned to look at her and watched the alien push up her sleeve. The human's eyes widened as she saw a tattoo appear out of nowhere on the aliens snow white skin.
Elsa smiles as she sees the familiar black and white keys appear from the instrument she loved. She shows it excitedly to the human.
"Look, look! I got another one! I got another one!" Elsa is so happy she starts jumping around and pulls the girl into a hug. Anna laughed and joined in. Others happiness always made her happy. It didn't last long though before Elsa pulled away and cleared her throat.
"Forgive me that was unprofessional…spending so much time with you humans has rubbed off on me somewhat," Elsa says and pulls her sleeve back down. Anna sighed and held the music device out to the alien again.
"Keep it, listen to the songs, maybe it will help you understand us a bit more. Music is the one thing we humans can agree on," Anna smiles and Elsa blinks.
"Alright, I guess it couldn't hurt," Elsa says as she takes it from the human. She looked over her suit before deciding to place the device onto the patch on her left arm.
Boom!
Shout outs!
Guest: Glad ya like the concept. I understand it won't be logical to give information to the enemy, but she's not sharing their weaknesses or anything, besides if you know you're gonna win no matter what why be secretive? Why not boast about what you can do? (like a good villain)
PenguinVuelve: Hahaha angry adorable alien pout
Reza Novaria: I might have forgotten that horses come in all sizes and that I am a tiny person...I'm talking like..Shires? The idea is that they stem from a mix of all animals so it be benaficial to use those animal abilities and you know what? There is an upcoming chapter that will go more into detail of Elsa's race, lol. This Anna needs to be a little more...agressive is not the word, but people change once their lives are on the line!
PeaPrince: I thought it be cute! I collect pencils...You'd do anything for your collectibles wouldn't you? Commander let us not start on the Mass Effect thing right now...I didn't think of the swords like that haha. All in due time.
Reithel: we might see more of her in the future, my Queen.
Anon: Awww thank you! Yea I'm not good with names! Let's see where the story takes us yes? *winks* Huh gonna have to watch those...sounds interesting.
Helleon: It doth continues!
See ya'll next time!
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