Didn't think this one would catch up this quickly *nervous laughter* I'll have to hunker down and start writing again.
I'm kinda having fun with this, creating things as I go.
Enjoy!
Elsa took to listening to the device Anna had given her when not around Olaf. She'd sometimes stay awake and watch the stars while listening to the music. The first time it had run out of batteries she had panicked. She thought she had broken it. The human had laughed and gave her some new batteries.
Elsa had grumbled, saying something about the energy usages were pitiful and didn't last long. One night Anna woke up to relieve herself. She found the alien sitting at the dying embers of their fire fidgeting with the device.
"What are you doing?" Anna asked after finishing her business.
"I am optimizing its energy usage," Elsa explained as she expertly worked a tiny tool that looked like a screwdriver. Anna nodded and sat next to her watching.
"Aren't you tired?" The redhead asked and Elsa shrugged.
"We have two moons so our days are split into two, we sleep when tired," she said and kept working on placing the parts back into place.
"But you're awake all day, you should sleep during the night," Anna said and Elsa looked to her.
"Why are you awake then?" She asked tilting her head.
"I had to use the bathroom and I saw you were still awake," a yawn ripped through her.
"You should sleep, I'm just about done then I'll head to bed too," Elsa informed her and Anna nodded. She stood and headed back to her sleeping bag. Elsa followed the human. The sway of her hips made her head follow the motion. When the redhead settled down she shook her head.
What was wrong with her? She grumbled and finished putting the device back together before going to her own sleeping place. She lay down and stared up to the stars. Her mind drifted to her own kind.
Did they even care that she was missing? Were they looking for her? Did they think she were dead? Did she miss them?
Her head turns to look at the red hair of Anna in the sleeping bag next to her. Her back was to the alien and the steady rise and fall of her shoulder meant she was asleep.
No, she didn't miss them one single bit. She smiled and her eyes drifted closed. A soft purr vibrated through her chest as she curled towards the human.
The next morning Elsa shot up from her sleeping position howling in pain. The rest of the camp that were busy gathering their stuff stopped what they were doing to look to her. Anna was standing beside her, looking frightened. She stumbled back slightly and saw a tail that wasn't there two seconds ago.
Elsa whimpered as she curled the tail towards herself and cuddled it.
"Elsa what the fuck is that?" Anna asked and the alien sighed before standing. Her tail whipped back and forth. It looked like a cat's tail.
"This is embarrassing, um, once every year an Animalian goes through a phase that is reserved for mating reasons. I seem to have gone into it earlier. I should have only started next year. It's not unheard of to start early, but still," Elsa shrugs.
"But why the tail?" Anna asked, staring at it.
"It's a sign and is more linked to the animalistic side of our genetics," Elsa said and started packing her things away. Anna watched the tail sway around. It was slightly disturbing, but fascinating at the same time.
The kids all liked her tail and were playing with it while they moved to the next point. She would flick it around and they would try to catch it. Even Olaf was playing with the others. Elsa took this time to enjoy the music Anna had given her. There was so much music on it that she still hasn't worked through them all. She didn't have much time with it anyway. She estimated that she's only logged ten total hours with it.
Elsa kept moving her tail around, but the kids grew tired after an hour or so. She noticed how easily kids were distracted. She can't remember being like that, maybe when at arcades, but that was different. Those included bright lights and interesting sounds.
Elsa's nose twitched and she pulled out her earphones. She smelt food.
"Anna make the group stop," she said and thrust the device to the redhead.
"Why?" She asked confused.
"I'm getting us some real food," she grins and Anna's eyes widen as the woman seemingly dropped to all fours and sprinted into the woods to their side. She shouted for Kristoff and Eugene at the front to stop. They frowned and watched her run into the woods. When they didn't see Elsa they feared the alien had escaped.
Elsa crouched down in the tall grass of the woods and hid in a nearby bush. In front of her was a large buck. She gave a toothy grin at finding something that looked so similar to an animal from her home planet. She crawled forward silently. A sound to the right made the buck lift its head and swivel its ears to the sound. Elsa took this distraction to pounce the beast. Her nails had morphed into claws. She sank them into the deer to hold on as it struggled. Her enlarged canines sank into its neck and she held on till it stopped kicking. Her tail was twitching angrily.
Anna gasped as she found the alien and the buck. Elsa's head snapped up to her and she opened her mouth to let the dead bucks head fall to the ground. She stood and walked to the redhead grinning. Her mouth and her hands covered in blood. She circled the redhead rubbing up against her while purring.
"I killed it, now we can have a good meal," Elsa purred and looked happily to the human. Her chest swelled with pride at her massive catch. The bushes rustled again and Elsa pulled the human behind her as she hissed and growled.
Eugene and Kristoff came into view and stopped at seeing the dead deer. Elsa relaxed somewhat, but still kept the redhead behind her.
"The hell happened?" Kristoff asked eyeing the blood on the alien's mouth.
"Elsa hunted a deer for us; we could make some stew, give everyone a nice meal tonight?" Anna smiled; she needed to talk to Elsa about this.
"If we need more I can always hunt another," Elsa huffed and retracted her claws and canines. Eugene walked closer to the deer and rubbed the back of his neck.
"No, I think this is enough, it's rather large," he hummed.
"How did you kill it?" Kristoff asked, he had an idea, but he didn't like it.
"I used my teeth, crushed its larynx," Elsa said as if it were obvious. She twitched to cover Anna as the big blonde man stepped closer to her. She growled lowly to him as her tail twitched. Everyone just stared at her.
Later that night when everyone was setting up camp, Rapunzel and another woman called Tiana had set up two fires to cook two pots of stew for the group. The buck was just enough meat to serve everyone at least two bowls. Everyone was happy at this; they hadn't had proper food in a long while.
Elsa was sitting to the side of everyone as usual. She was watching the goings on of the group. The two men were getting rid of the unneeded parts of the deer after cutting it up while the woman prepared the food and took care of the kids. It wasn't a big group. It had around twenty adults and three kids.
She watched them give the kids food first then the older people and then everyone took turns getting some. Anna sat next to Elsa and held out a bowl to her. She took it smiling to the redhead. Her tail curled around the girl and she purred loudly.
"Elsa what are you doing?" Anna asked and the alien took her tail away.
"Sorry, I'm not sure what's happening, I guess I just feel affectionate because of my instincts," she whispered and stared at the food in front of her. Anna nodded and started to eat. Elsa did the same and her eyes widened at the taste.
"Oh my Elders! This is amazing!" She said and started shovelling the food into her mouth. Anna just laughed. After the alien was done she jumped up and jogged to the two women that made the food. Anna watched as she hugged them, her tail swaying happily. Both women looked surprised at the gesture. Elsa thanked them and praised them profusely, before returning back to the redhead with another bowl.
"What was that about?" Anna asked.
"It's custom to thank the ones that makes food for you, we usually take care of ourselves, so it's uncommon that someone shares their food with another. We don't hug, but I've observed that you humans value hugs very much," Elsa said.
"If that's how you see it, shouldn't we praise you? You're the one that killed the deer," Anna said as she finished her food.
"No see, I killed it with the intention to feed the group, not myself, besides I would never be able to eat that whole thing, it would have gone to waste," Elsa said and ate her second helping.
Anna finished her bowl and sat it to the side. She lay down and stared up to the stars. Elsa followed after finishing hers.
"What's space like?" Anna asked and Elsa swayed her tail.
"It looks a lot like what you see now. Your solar system is the farthest away from the others. We might not have known about your kind for a good few thousand years and that's only if you had achieved space travel," Elsa says and Anna hums.
"We've travelled to our moon and they were working on colonizing Mars before you lot showed up," Anna said. Elsa turned her head to look at the human.
"The red planet? I don't see how you could have survived…it's extremely warm, warmer than this Earth as you have called it," Elsa says. She doesn't think her suit would have been able to cool her down if the humans had been on this Mars planet.
"Tell me Elsa, why do you need your suite so bad?" Anna asked as she looked towards the alien, blushing slightly at finding her already looking towards her.
"It keeps me cold; your planet is too warm for me, another reason why my kind doesn't like me. They don't need a temperature regulator in their suits," Elsa huffed and frowned.
"Maybe you're unique," Anna smiled and turned to look back to the stars. Elsa studied the humans face. She found her freckles very pleasing to the eyes. Her people didn't have that, the only thing on their white skins were their markings. Her instincts were screaming at her to be closer to the human. She swallowed thickly and reached out her hand to find the humans hand between them.
Anna blinked and looked down to their hands as Elsa stroked the back of her hand over hers. She looked to the alien and saw a slight blush covering her cheeks. Her eyes were down casted to their hands. Anna bit her lip and stroked back before lacing her fingers with the cold ones of the alien.
Elsa looked up to the human and their eyes met.
"I'm not sure what's happening," Elsa admitted and Anna smiled kindly.
"Let instinct take over Elsa, it's there for a reason," she whispered and Elsa searched the girl's eyes. It seemed like they were moving closer, but Elsa suddenly jumped up and vanished into the woods.
"Hey where is she going?" Kristoff growled as he pulled out his gun and walked over. Anna jumped up and stopped him.
"She just got freaked out by something, I'll go see if she's okay," she said and the man huffed.
"We should just leave her somewhere; she's no good for the group, what if she leads them to us?" Kristoff growled and Anna frowned.
"Hey she's been nothing but nice to everyone and even got us some meat. So back off," Anna growled before going after the alien.
Elsa was pacing a small clearing near a stream. They had filled their water bottles up there when they arrived. Her hands were in her hair as her tail flicked around in agitation.
"Elsa?" Anna called and the alien looked towards her.
"Anna?" Elsa frowned. The redhead stepped closer to her.
"What's wrong?" Anna asked and Elsa huffed.
"I don't know, I got scared. Everything is so confusing. You're a human I shouldn't be trying to court you," Elsa growled and scratched her head.
"Court me?" Anna asked tilting her head. Elsa sighed and rubs her hands down her face.
"Showing off my hunting skills, rubbing my scent on you and keeping the other males away from you," Elsa whimpered and wrapped her arms around herself.
"Why would you court me?" Anna asked as she stepped closer to the alien.
"I don't know, I find you humans ugly, but you…you're just so beautiful Anna. The way you lead your group and how you care for everyone is very commendable. You look strong and you're smart. If you were an Animalian I would try my utmost best to get your attention, but you would probably have gone with a bigger and stronger Animalian," Elsa turned away from the human. Anna saddened at how hurt the alien sounded like.
"Well…if you were a human you would be a model, you would be famous and you're smart too so maybe you could have been like…Miss World or something," Anna chuckles then sighs as she moves to the alien. She wraps her arms around her.
"Anna, this is more complicated than you think," Elsa whispered as she curled her arms around her waist.
"It doesn't have to be," Anna said slowly.
"You don't get it, they will kill you, once an order is given we follow through," Elsa whimpered.
"Yet here you are, you haven't done anything to us," Anna said and took the aliens hands into her own making her turn to the human.
"I've always been different from my people, they hate me for it, they wouldn't care if I died," Elsa whimpers more. Anna can't stand to see the sadness in the alien's eyes.
"We humans, we live in the moment of things, granted it's not smart, but it's so we don't regret things later. I would really regret it if we…didn't at least let our primal sides act for us," Anna whispered and bit her lip, "seeing as the only thing in our future now is death then…I would hate to not have acted on my feelings," she added and Elsa looked to the redhead.
"Anna…if I pursue you and do the ritual, you and I would be bound together for life, if you then die, I cannot find another…and you said you humans don't always bond for life, what if this turns out not what you wanted? Either way I am the one that will sit with the heart break," Elsa explained and Anna sighed.
She understood. She knew humans were not the most stable when it came to commitment. Elsa made a good point about them not going to live long. She felt conflicted. Humans weren't used to being informed of their upcoming death. They lived in denial till it happened.
If ya'll like you can tell me about your ideas for alien races and I'll see what I can do yea? Space is full of potential!
Shout outs!
PenguinVuelve: Isn't there one in all of us?
misconstrued0892: As by the looks of the end AN not much lol, never intended to have them leave the planet but ya know what? Anything can happen! Nothing is set in stone!
Unknown: Hehe and yay! Yes music is the inspiration for all things I write and it's so hard not to add them to the story ugh! I will try my best to keep it up!
Reithel: Open arms yay! Thank you my Queen! *bows*
Till next time!
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