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So I feel the need to apologize publicly to my Beta reader. Heroism has beta'd numerous pieces of my work in the last month and a half or so and I have been a total dick and not mentioned him at all in my credits. For that I am truly sorry Heroism, know that you are in all pieces you have beta'd now (I went back and updated them).
Author's Note: Is it odd that I reread my own story because I enjoy doing so? Oh and yeah, here you guys go; next chapter ;). You all get to read about the werewolves now. Also for an idea of what "my" werewolves look like, good "Worgen" (it's a race in World of Warcraft) they look like that.
Author's Warning: Elsanna incest smut, violence in this chapter you have been warned.
My Awesome beta reader: Heroism as he is known on fanfiction has put forth his almighty skill to make sure that this piece of work is free of grammatical errors. He has also had many helpful pieces of advice to improve my writing in general.
Cover Art: I have decided on a piece from Kimbbq on DeviantArt, it is a beautiful piece and thinking of the things to come in Frozen Blood, I think it fits well to the story.
Disclaimer: I own none of the Disney characters in my story.
Frozen Blood
Chapter 5: Revenge
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"I think it's time that we talked, fledgling." A clear male voice spoke from behind me. I turned slowly, hearing his cruel laughter as I did.
Before me stood Kai, dressed much differently than I was used to seeing him. He wore a completely black suit, and I mean completely black; not a trace of any other color on him, and like all his other outfits it was clearly tailored to fit a rather larger body. But what shocked me the most was the blood running from his mouth as deep, rich, gem-like crimson eyes gazed at me like a predator who had just cornered its prey.
"Kai!" I gasped, clutching Gerda closer to my chest. I did my best to stay standing through the shocking realization that Kai was like me, and not only that but he was the reason Gerda was half-dead in my arms.
He merely laughed at the shocked look on my face and started towards me. I stepped back each time he moved forward. I shifted Gerda into one arm; then, suddenly he was gone. I froze in place and twisted around, frantically looking for him.
"Kai? Where are you?" I demanded rather weakly, but the shock was wearing off and slowly being replaced with anger. Kai is… Kai is a-a vampire? Then that means... he might even be who changed me into this monster. But the matter at hand seemed of greater importance. He hurt Gerda—almost killed her.
After a moment I felt something brush my check. I jerked to look sideways, only to find the space empty. Then his voice called out from behind me.
"Well I guess we'll definitely have to work on your sensory development, if can lose track of little old me." He sneered as I whirled around, still clutching Gerda protectively.
"W-was it you? Are you the reason that I.. that I am like this now?" I asked. I could feel my body beginning to act on its own as fear and anger took the wheel.
"Am I the reason you are alive, you mean? Yes, it was me that saved you after that dagger pierced your heart, and let me tell you that was very, very difficult—" he said with a condescending drawl, "left me weak for years." His face twisted in disdain at the memory. I started to growl.
I thought, Weak? Was that his reason for hiding this from me for three years! That he was too weak? He left me alone with the horror that I am for three years! My growl intensified at my thoughts. He had already been glaring at me, but then he looked daggers.
"Silence!" He barked. It was almost like a pressure filled my throat and stopped my growl dead in its tracks. "Now put that useless human down, and let's go for a walk, young one." I watched in horror as my body obeyed his commands without any conscious input from myself. I put Gerda down, causing Kai to smile but he nevertheless said nothing as he turned and walked out. I exited the front doors of the castle, trailing behind him.
Kai led me through the courtyard of the castle and made eye contact with anyone who approached us, causing them to stumble, look confused then walk away as we then entered the city. Unlike the castle, it was far too busy with morning preparations to pay us much attention.
Finally we came to a large, empty but well-kept building on the far side of the city. It looked like any of the other houses around, but there were no inhabitants to speak of; and it was this house into which Kai led us.
We moved quickly through the main hallway and dining room, then through a door under the stairs that lead us into the cellar. The cellar looked much like any other, barring a table in the center at which we both sat, my body obeying a silent order from Kai.
"Now, tell me, for I am most curious; how many pathetic humans have had the unfortunate pleasure of dying at your hand since you awoke?" He asked with a lop-sided smile, and it was clear on his face that this was a game to him; that he enjoyed the idea of me having killed.
"One," I said, glaring at him. He jerked back in his chair, my answer clearly surprising him. His face spoke of incredulity.
"Be honest with me, whelp!" he said this one a command to which I couldn't ignore, however my answer stayed the same.
"One," I said again, gritting my teeth as I did. He gathered himself and looked around, leaning over the table slightly.
"How have you survived?" Kai almost whispered, though he was even more composed, and definitely serious. "Unless you've found a willing host, it should have taken years to develop enough control not to drain your victims."
"I hunt animals. After killing a maid in the wake of my first frenzy, I dared not attempt to feed from any human." Disgust and self-loathing filled my being as I spoke.
"Animals…" Kai said, once again shocked. He broke into laughter.
Once his cackling had died down, he leaned back in his chair and fixed me with another one of his sly grins. "Well, before I have you tell me everything, and I do mean everything that has happened, I will let you ask a question about me. I bet you have a great number of them running through your mind."
I didn't reply right away. He had said 'a question,' as in only one and I knew that he could silence me with but a word as he had already proven. I needed time to think. And then I settled on the question I wanted answered the most.
"Why me? Why did you bring this curse upon me?" I asked, my eyes blazing as I glared at him over the table.
"Why you?" he asked, almost incredulous. "My dear why not you? Really, out of anyone in this entire kingdom, you were the one most worthy of this gift. I had planned from the first moment I started working in Arendelle for your parents to change one of their children." I opened my mouth to demand to know why, why he had planned to change one of us but he silenced me with a look before I could even form words.
"And then I learned of your ice powers and I knew immediately it would have to be you. I was so very curious to find out if your powers would survive the change. And if they did survive the change I knew I would have the most powerful creature in this world under my control. There was never anyone else but you, dear Elsa. I merely had to wait for you to reach adulthood for your body and your powers to become fully developed." He cleared his throat and then stilled. "Now tell me everything that has happened since your change. Leave nothing out." He commanded and the words flowed from my mouth of their own accord, leaving me no time to even process his would-be responses.
We talked for hours in that cellar. Kai wanted to know every single detail about my life since I had turned, and though I fought him at every turn I couldn't keep silent when ordered to answer. I told him of everything; my struggle to control my blood frenzy, my commitment to feed only from animals, the nights spent watching Anna, how I used my powers over ice to hunt at time. I told him of the nights in the tavern listening to Anna and the way of my courting her. He even made me share what happened the first night I told her everything. He had me tell him everything, and a sly grin that made my spine tingle stretched across his face as I finished.
"So you did find a host.. and it's your.. sister?" He laughed at this. "Naughty, naughty," he chided before rising to stand and pacing around a bit. I could only watch him, as I was ordered to stay put.
"Well, I must say your tale is most interesting." He hid his laugh behind a fist. "A vegetarian vampire, that's what you are." he said with another laugh before returning to the table and placing his hands down firmly. He leaned upon the table with his full weight.
"Now hear this—here is what you are going to do now:
You are going to return to the castle, retrieve the Arendellian rights of ascension—the orb and scepter—and give them to me, thereby appointing me as regent because you are obviously too lost in your grieving to rule. Then a week or two from now you will pretend to kill yourself… again, and I will be left as regent. That should keep me entertained for a few decades at least." He spoke in a calm, commanding voice with a wicked grin plastered to his face. "Once I grow bored, or once the people notice I don't seem to be aging, I'll enjoy tearing the nation apart." He paused for thought. "Perhaps a civil war? Or something of that manner." He nodded in self-agreement. "Then, my dear vegetarian vampire, we will have the rest of eternity to explore this world; and with your powers under my control, there isn't a thing on this planet that can stop me from getting what I want—whatever I want."
I stared at him dumbly. Shock was the only thing I knew. I could barely believe that this conniving, fiendish man before me was actually the same Kai I had grown up knowing; the kind, gentle Kai who had helped raise me alongside Gerda. No, I thought, this cruel, cruel creature won't get the best of me.
"And why would I do that?" I said through clenched teeth, already feeling the compulsion to get up and do as he had ordered me to.
"Because, dear one, I am your sire. No vampire can defy their sire. You. Are. My. Slave." He had rather relished himself in drawing out those last few words. I shivered in fear and disgust at the leer he was giving me, roving his eyes over my body. "And I will enjoy ordering you around." He added, licking his lips.
I just stared at him in horror for what seemed like a few minutes before he straightened and sighed. "Well, that mutt should be done taking care of your sister by now. Let us return."
"What…?" I whispered. Fear wracked my very being.
"Oh, it was nothing, really. I found this young werewolf on my return trip, and I knew I could find a use for him so I compelled him to my will. It's really not all that hard to do when they don't have a pack to support and empower them. He, notwithstanding, was the perfect tool for my planned disposal of Anna."
"Did you just say…" It seemed like the world stopped spinning. What did he just say? "Take care of my sister.. of Anna!?" I asked. My gut was clenching in fear.
"Why, yes, Elsa, she should be dead very soon. If your grief is to be the reason I become regent and you kill yourself, then of course there needs to be something worth grieving over. Your sister will be ripped limb from limb by the werewolf I sent to her rooms." Kai said without even a hint of remorse as he started to walk towards the door again. I was frozen in place, left to fume in the white-hot flames of my rage.
He was nearly to the top of the stairs before he realized I was not following him. "Come now Elsa, those in the castle will be looking for you soon, obviously to inform you of what has happened to your sister."
"No," I growled as the flames of continued to course through me, running in rivulets and channels through my blood. Anna was in danger. My Anna was going to die, and this monster was the reason. I was going to kill him; no, I had to kill him, however I still felt the compulsion to do as he ordered. I took one more step before I froze up again. I fought with everything I had.
Kai frowned at my struggle and repeated his order, but I didn't hear it. The storm of my powers was raging beneath my skin and my whole body was humming synchronously as I resisted his hold on me.
It was the howl that finally did it—a deep, bloodcurdling howl that rang over the entire city of Arendelle, and though the scream that followed was much too quiet for human ears to hear, especially next to that howl, my ears could pick it up. His control over me snapped and I leapt for Kai, intending to rip him in half on my way out the door. The wind from the blizzard shoved him into the door and he was unable to move away from my onslaught.
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I did my best to hold in a whimper as I watched Elsa leave my room dressed properly to meet with whoever was waiting on her in the throne room. My body was still sticky with sweat and sex. The throbbing between my thighs came back in full force as I watched her hips sway in her perfectly form-fitting ice gown.
"Get it together, Anna." I whispered to myself as I stood and headed for the bathroom. "One night and one morning and she already has you turned into some sex-crazed girl." I chided myself and slapped my cheeks a bit as I stared at myself in the mirror. My hair was a crazy mess of bedhead. I blushed, realizing it had been like this since I woke up and Elsa hadn't said anything; she had even moaned about my being beautiful while looking up at me from between my legs. The image of her between my thighs caused a flare of heat between my legs again and I groaned. I moved to start a cold water bath. While the bath was filling I sat down and started to finger the four small bumps on my neck where Elsa had fed from me twice now.
"You better hurry back, Elsa." I mumbled as a silent threat to the empty room, brushing the thoughts of Elsa and what she was from my mind as well as forcing my hand to rest in my lap. She was still my sister; not a monster.
When the bath was full, I lowered myself into it and shivered the whole while. Though it did help ease the heat in my body at least until I started thinking of the bath Elsa and I had shared almost a week ago.
"Ugh, Anna would you stop it already!" I groaned and flopped my head back against the side of the bath.
Hours later I was sitting in my personal study—a room I hardly used—curled up in an armchair with nothing but a bathrobe and a book in my hands. The sun was close to setting and I had for the first time in my life spent the entire day in my room just as I had promised Elsa I would. But she never returned during the day. I was determined to not let that bother me. Elsa would come to me in the night. I had no doubt. She couldn't stay away. The look in her eyes before she had left was evidence enough for me on that matter. It look like she was cutting her own arm off by walking out that door.
As the sun slowly set and the small room got darker and darker, I closed my book and got up to light some candles. It was a wonderful book, one of Elsa favorites.. at least, she had said it was. It revolved around a little girl who wished to be a knight while her twin brother did not. For years the girl pretended to be her brother in order to be trained as a knight and eventually earn her shield. All the while she kept an eye on an evil duke who wished to take the throne. The girl was a redhead just like me and might could teach me a thing or two about being stubborn… Or maybe not.
I was just returning the book to the shelf when I heard a low growling noise from behind me. I froze in place as still as a statue, listening for any more noise. After a few long moments I heard the deep rumbling again and I turned around quickly to see a large, dark shape across the room from me. It was faintly humanoid in shape but much taller than me. Its body was covered in sandy blonde fur and it possessed the snout, ears and tail of a wolf. It stood on its hind.. paws? And at the tips of each of its fingers were long, deadly-looking claws. Its eyes flashed a bright gold in the faint candlelight before it lifted its head and howled. It felt as if the very floor of the room shook with the force and I clamped my hands over my ears as the sound pierced through me. After holding the powerful note for a few seconds, it lowered its head stared right at me and leaped.
A scream of utter terror tore itself from my throat as I leapt to the side in an attempt to avoid the monster. A sharp burning pain flashed and a heavy weight hit my shoulder, tossing me to the floor a few feet and I screamed again. Trying to lift myself to my feet, I realized my right arm wouldn't move. I turned to look at it. Four long and very deep gashes from my shoulder down to my biceps had torn straight to the bone. Blood was coming out in heavy measure.
"Oh gods…" I thought, dazed as I rolled onto my back, searching for the wolf and flinching. I raised my good arm above my head as I saw the fangs of the creature moving towards my throat. Its jaws wrapped around my forearm and bit, causing a loud snapping noise. The scream to follow was nearly deafening. The monster was now on top of me and I gasped in pain as he raked his back paws over my hips and thighs, ripping them open and then doing the same to my chest. My mind faded as if a heavy cloud was filling my thoughts, but still I struggled, trying to push the beast off of me to no avail. My struggles died when I felt strong jaws close around my throat for a brief moment before there was a pained howl and the weight of the creature on top of me was suddenly gone. My vision faded into nothingness.
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I was too late—that much was clear by the sheer amount of blood on the floor. Anna's blood. I would know its scent anywhere. Furniture was broken and shattered all over the room. Fabric from Anna's bathrobe was all over the floor.
"Anna!" I sobbed in hopes that she would reply from somewhere I hadn't looked yet. And even though the room wasn't silent—the bustling of guards and officials coming and going through her rooms searching for her, the creature or anything that would help locate them—there was no response to my cry.
An anger was slowly resurfacing in my chest; a burning fury that was kept in place by only one thought: revenge. I would find both the werewolf and Kai and I would kill them both. Nothing on this earth would stop me. I growled under my breath as I thought back to how Kai had already escaped me. I was almost upon him, about to rip his head from his shoulders when Anna's second scream, this one of pain and terror—not just fear—was heard, it shook me to the core and caused me to hesitate. In that moment Kai had fled and I made the choice to let him go so that I could try and save Anna. But I failed to save her, and Kai escaped.
"Your Majesty." A firm male voice pulled me from my thoughts and I jerked up to glare at the man from the floor where I sat next to the rather large pool of Anna's blood.
"Captain Thor, I want you to find who or whatever did this to my sister and I want its head. Do you understand me?" I had said it in a deadly calm voice that hid the storm of my thoughts.
The man nodded and then spoke. "The only clues as to what happened here that we could find were large gouges in the floor and walls, all the blood and of course the howls that the entire city heard." He knitted his brow. "I am not sure of any creature that could have done this, my men are already whispering of monsters and myths that could have done such a thing."
I was not at all surprised by this but I kept my mouth shut. About the subject, that is.
"Regardless, I want this creature found, and you are wasting time by just standing here." My intent was dangerous, and I got to my feet. I saw the man visibly gulp before he saluted and turned about, ordering his men out of the rooms.
I walked slowly to the window, following the trail of Anna's blood and the foreign scent of the werewolf. The window was broken and I saw that Anna's blood was there on the sill. A spark of hope—not for Anna's life for I was convinced that she was dead—sparked in my chest; hope of finding the damned beast. It had left a trail. His scent may have been unfamiliar and difficult to track but he had taken Anna's body with him. And Anna's scent I could follow anywhere. I leapt from the window into the dark of night, my heart cold and frozen inside the furnace of hate that was my chest.
