Vera Cruze's PoV

 "Can't believe that freaking show off left me alone.. bitch."

Consumed in self created anger I finally finished setting up camp. Sitting down on one of the blankets Elijah... I mean that bitch brought with him. I pull out my iphone, once again trying to open it...

'Damn! I clearly remember charging it yesterday!! Why doesn't it start?!'

Feeling rage build up I slam it onto the ground. And a *crack* is heard loud and clear...

*sigh*.. 'I don't even know why I'm getting mad anymore...'

Feeling the night wind caressing my face a shiver runs down my spine. Looking into the seemingly alive, eerie forest I whisper.

"Elijah.. come back.."

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A few minutes after I started waiting for Elijah a howl echoes throughout the area. Clearly remembering the howl from yesterday fear paralyses my body. My dads face when he said he loved us passes through my mind.

"N-no.."

Looking towards the direction of the howl resolution and unwillingness replaces my fear... atleast it dampens it...

I stand up feeling my legs shaking uncontrollably I scream.

"ELIJAAAAH!!!"

Hearing nothing but the silence of night again makes fear of being left alone consume my decision making. Picking up my fish hunting stick I head into the forest.

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Elijah Snow's PoV

Feeling the silky fur of the wolf cub I compare it with the steely black fur on the leg of one of the black wolves.

'It really is soft, how didn't it die when the black wolves were harassing it?'

While inspecting the sleeping creature in my hands I once again detect movements heading straight towards me.

Preparing myself I place my dinner and my... future dinner? To the left of me.

Hearing whatever's heading towards I shoot a glance towards it and a high pitched.. human? Scream threatens to squash my eardrums. 

Almost guessing who was running towards me I calmly step towards this "creature".

And laying there with branches sticking through its hair, sobbing while embracing its hand is Vera.. sighing I step forward.

"Come on let me see."

I say while grabbing her hand and yes... frost is covering it. Inspecting it further while the pussy in front of me screams.. faul words at me.. but something is different, its almost as I can 'feel' her hand without touching it. Its almost as if the frost is part of 'me' it's like the frost resonate with my soul? Mind? Well something.

An idea pass through my mind and I envelope her hand in mine. Feeling the frost connected to me I focus on our connection...

After maybe a minute I feel I've somewhat grasped the connection and I start willing the ice to return into me.

Feeling the chilly yet pleasant energy filling me I feel like I'm brimming with energy. And like on que a *Ding* echoes in my mind.

Congratulations Competitor! 

Through absorbing the you've increased your affinity to Ice!

With mixing with your blood other attributes have been reduced to zero.

Other attributes have become harder to raise.

By choosing to walk the path of Ice you've gained a new .

By absorbing you've gained a new .

AbilityName:Ice CultivationRank:6Tier:Peak - EarthDescription:

By absorbing the you've started walking the path of Ice.

By walking the path of Ice you're immune to natural created cold.

Your Ice related abilities have been improved.

Current affinity towards Ice:

12 %

TraitName:Eyes of IceRarity:RareDescription:

By already having 10 % + affinity to Ice before absorbing your first you've gained a trait related to your affinity.

has turned your irises to the colour of ice. The higher clarity, the higher affinity towards Ice.

has enabled you to see .

Turning my attention back to reality I notice Vera has fallen asleep..

Around Vera I see... no not just around Vera in the air surrounding us I now see miniature sized glimmering dots of.. ice? No.. they are so small you wouldn't even notice them if I didn't focus on them.

Wondering why there's surrounding us I follow them. Turning my head I see they are being emitted from the direction of my dinner..

With closer inspecting I see a dense cover of surrounding my future din*cough* the white wolf cub. Even with my low understanding of these particles I know somehow how formidable this cover of is.

'Well now I know how it survived those black wolfs...'

Turning my head towards the now sleeping Vera I sigh..

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???'s PoV

Here I am the one and only, the majestic, the all mighty, the most beautiful (waiting for the drums to finish building up the excitement) Eli!!!!!!

But somehow I and my minions (rest of his race) got involved in some kind of death game so here I am making the most perfect tactical retreat in the history of the Arctic Wolfs (... He's just bull shiting you, he got abandoned by his parents cause he was a pain in the ass and now he's running for his life). But anyyy way while utilising my ninja skills I sneaked around a horde of orcs and entered this massive forest.

My first new objective was decided that I should conquer this massive forest to spread my fame throughout this new world I've been dragged into.

But somehow some cowardly beasts found me while I was on my path to world domination... so here I am.. at the end of my stamina being chased by not one but two gigantic black wolves with an affinity towards darkness...

'If only there was one I would have triumphed... ' (No. No he definitely wouldn't.)

Being flipped over countless of times I feel my strength leaving me, if only dad was h... no he probably wouldn't care either way..

Looking into the dark eyes of the wolves I feel a bit of envy.. even these beasts...

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I'm still conscious huh? Looking up I see something impossible, the Magical beasts are being slaughtered by... something? My eyes are to hazy to see what it is but even the majestic me feel the familiar scent of Ice affinity... could it be? DID DAD OR MOM FOLLOW ME TO SAVE ME?!

Remembering the disgust in their eyes when they looked at me I reluctantly dismiss that thought.

After the beasts were dead I felt the scent of  blood gushing, the blood of a magical beast.. even in my home world I was familiar with the scent so I quickly noticed it.

Feeling the creature which saved me starting to walk away I struggel to stand up.. and when I finally stood up everything went black...

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- Next day -

Waking up to the smell of cooked magical beast meat I unconsciously start drolling. Being of the Arctic Wolf race greatly enchants my regeneration abilities so I wasn't worried my injuries had worsened from yesterday, so I did what I usually do when I see such delicious meat, EAT IT!

While savoring the taste of cooked meat I notice two glares directed towards me, a human and... something human yet... not? The girl to my left had a hint of both fear and curiosity in her gaze and with a gaze I could tell she didn't pose danger towards the beautiful me even if she's a rank higher than me there's obviously differences between a mystical being such as my self and a mere human. But another curious fact about her is even I find her somewhat.. beautiful? Sigh... I really am a disgrace towards my ra...

'STOP!'

Like the majestic me would ever be a disgrace.. right?

But even if the girl is somewhat interesting the man? Beside me is even more interesting, even the all mighty me can't tell his race, even though he resembles a human it's almost as if he's a skinwalker, like there's something else beneath that snow white skin of his. And another curious fact is that he is walking the path of Ice, there is a really small amount of humans which can walk a path, and even smaller which can walk one of the great four, Ice, Darkness, Light and Lightning.

When I turned my gaze towards his eyes I'm even more shocked to see he got the eyes, even though they might be misty, there is surely no doubt he got the same eye as the chief, the .

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And I'm not even surprised I can't see his this being is obviously more than 3 Ranks over me. Hmpf I'll get closer when I grow up anyways. Even if he's not human I doubt he can match a mystical beast as my self. 

"Should we eat it?"

As I am all mighty I obviously understand primitive language such as the ones human use.. WHAT?! WHY IS HE LOOKING AT ME WITH... i-is th-that d.. drool?

Shivering I lower my head in defeat.. for now 'mohahahahhaha'.

"No! She's kind of cute!! A-and you said those black wolves attacked her so she must be nice, right?"

Yes!!!! Thhank you!!! But how is this piece of sexy me a DUCKING GIRL ALL OF A SUDDEN?! I'm going to ducking penetrate you until you REALLY won't be able to tell the difference between me and a girl... wait? That thought went wrong somewhere... well who cares.

"Her? It's obviously a he. But he ate our breakfast, do you want to starve? And it looks kind of yummy..."

"NO! YOU OWE ME FROM YESTERDAY! I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FUCKING FREEZED ME!"

Oooh drama? Where's my beast meat snack?

"Wow you really know how to hold a grudge.. yeah yeah I won't eat him, but know he IS a monster, he even healed all his injuries over a night, what will happen when it's adult? Will you be responsible for all humans it kills?"

PFFFFFFF!!!!!!! WHO YOU CALLING MONSTER?! IF SOMEONE'S A MONSTER IT'S YOU! But still this doesn't look good, if he really wants to eat me I probably won't be able to resist at all...

"B-but... It's so cute!!!"

Wow I've been degraded from a majestic all mighty mystical beast to a humans fluffy toy? Feeling this ridiculous weak human say something so disrespectful I growl at her, putting her on her place.

*shiver* feeling an immense killing intent direct at me I even feel my races inborn ability   start freezing into material ice...

Turning around I see his previous misty ice coloured eyes shoot a small but visible beam of killing intent, visible killing intent is the last step until you've successfully materialised your killing intent.

Feeling continuous shivering I gulp, even my parents haven't acquired such a killing intent, what has this... thing experienced to be able to produce such a killing intent?

Lowering my head I start whining, emitting my utter defeat in hope of forgiveness...

"I-it's alright El-elijah it's starting to g-get c-cold.."

Hearing the hottie's statement I focus my intention at the corner of my eyes to see that the grass beside me has already frozen into solid ice cubes...

'M-materialised k-killing i-intent? No.. I don't smell any blood... materialised killing intent would emit a faint smell of blood. Th-then what is this?! If the surroundings freeze when he hasn't even reached materialised killing intent what will happen when he will..?!'

Shivers once again pass through my body, this being is NOT a human, I can't disrespect such a being.

Cutting my paw I slowly crawl towards this 'Elijah' when reaching him I slowly stand up and the shivers increase, putting my paw on his chest I recite.

"I Eli Variant of the Arctic Wolves, Son of Mael and Sei request of you Eli to accept me as a servant for long as I or You shall live."

After reciting the cite of Mastership which every magical beast is born knowing fall asleep on the spot.

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Elijah Snow's PoV

Seeing the white mutt growl and releasing killing intent towards Vera I 'unconsciously' release some killing intent, after yesterday I understood the importance of control over your killing intent, so rest of the night I practised releasing killing intent unto everything from fishes to rocks and I gained somewhat control of my killing intent.

The mutt started whining and crawling towards me, I knew that even with that cover of that it wouldn't be a match to me, so I continued sitting still beside the campfire.

When it stood up I released maybe 75 % of my killing intent to warn it that if it attacks I'll kill and eat the little mut.

But then something unexpected happend, it touched me with its bloody paw and a window opened up in front of me.

New Contract Request!

A Arctic Wolf (Variant) Eli has requested you to accept him as a slave/pet/subordinate/equal. 

As you are on the receiving end of the contract you've gained the right to choose if you wish to accept him as either a slave (least amount of freewill), pet (a bit more freewill than a slave, but still under the owners control), subordinate (freewill incase you haven't given it a order.), equal (No restrictions, no commands, based on mutual trust), or not at all.

Owner/Master may change the status of the contracted being if so wish.

You choose by giving a verbal command.

Hmm thats interesting, looking at the oonce again sleeping... Eli? I decide it might be fun to boss him around. After telling Vera what happend she look at me with unconcealed envy.

"If you choose anything but equal I'll punch you until your blue."

"But Vera, it's still a monster, I can't give it the chance to attack us or what if it attacks someone else?! Can you trust this mutt completely?"

Seeing her face as if she's having an argument with her self a small smile appears on my lips.

"If I make him my subordinate I can command him to not attack us or others while he still has complete freewill, okay?"

She looks at me for a while after sighing.

"Sure, but you can't take  advantage of the contract or I'll hate you!"

She says with anger clearly showing she's serious. I personally wouldn't really care if she hates me or not but I can't change the fact that I would be a bit lonely if she left...

"Sure but if you or me are in danger, don't blame me for being ruthless."

I say while showing as serious eyes as she did.

"I accept Eli as a subordinate."

White light descends from the heavens as it curls around me and the sleeping mutt. After a while you could faintly see a golden string attaching my heart and his.

You've accepted Eli the Arctic Wolf (Variant), as your subordinate.

As you are his master you have gained access to his title(s), abilities and attributes.

'Oh that's interesting, without saying anything I think titles show Eli.'

Title(s)Name:The OutcastRank:1---Name:Red Eyed MonsterRank:2---Name:Disgrace of the Arctic WolvesRank:1

After reading the titles I don't really have the interest in prying into them, everyone has their own problems apparently this mutt has his own.

Sighing I think 'Abilities show Eli'.

AbilitiesName:Coat of IceRank:N/ATier:Peak - EarthDescription:

An inborn ability of the Arctic Wolves, as they grow up gather in more an more quantity to protect them.

It's rumoured that this is actually the blessing of the Ascer of Ice.---Name:Ice FangRank:3Tier:Middle - EarthDescription:

Coating your fangs with while biting will have a chance of frostbite.---Name:Dark BlizzardRank:2Tier:Lower - HeavenDescription:

A Heaven Tier inborn skill of a Variant of the Arctic Wolves.

An unknowned performed ability which consumes an area in a black blizzard. Melting and freezing anything it touches.

Contains both Dark and Ice Essence.

"Oh fuck me."

Falling Snow: yeah I know SUUUCH A LONG CHAPTER, I'm actually on a plane towards Japan so I had a bit of free time... don"t expect another one like this... though I have 12 hours of journey left... but wow, probably a looot of typos... proof reader needed hehehh.