I have to say that this is one of my favorite chapters in this story so far. Yes, this is two updates in ONE DAY! I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 4
The Hunt
An hour later, the group was well inside the forest, looking for any sign of the creature that Kristoff shot down.
After three hours of searching, and 12 false alarms from various people, Elsa stooped down to examine a section of the ground that looked promising.
After examining it for a few minutes, she saw that it was just a spot where a deer was pawing the ground with its cloven hoof, and got back up to resume searching with the rest of the group which was...gone. The group had moved on without her.
"Hello?" Elsa called. "Hello?!"
Her only reply was the call of birds. The queen couldn't determine where the group had gone, or where she was, as she had never been in this part of the forest before. She picked a direction that seemed most promising, and started walking.
After what felt like and hour of walking non-stop, Elsa came upon a fallen tree. Since she was exhausted, she decided that there was no harm in sitting on it. As she sat, she looked around to try to get her bearings. There was a grove of pine trees and a stream nearby. Along the stream, there were some berry bushes. There was also a large trench starting at the top of the fallen tree, going down a hill, then up another hill, before it stopped.
"Wait," She thought. Looking around, the tree wasn't just fallen, it was knocked over. And the trench was created by the same thing that felled the tree. She went down the hill, and over the rise.
On the other side of the hill was Kristoff's bola, caught in a tree. And entangled in the bola, hanging in a tree, was a boy, unconscious and bleeding. Except this wasn't an ordinary boy. This boy had large wings, supported by long bony fingers, like a bat's wings, coming out of his back. These wings weren't fuzzy, but had small, round scales on them. This boy was most likely what had been attacking the towns.
This boy was the monster Queen Elsa and her hunting party were looking for.
Darn it! It's one of those dang cliffhangers that we all hate. Don't worry, for the next chapter will come out soon enough. Also, I plan on updating anywhere from day-to-day to by the week, so, just check in on a regular basis.