Mia rolled herself out of her dirt bed and sat up, stretching as the morning air came into her little igloo. She stood up, walking over to a mirror of ice she saw her hair was a mess, fluffed up and sprayed out in every direction, she couldn’t even see her ears atop her head. With a sigh she started brushing, thoughts of what she had to do today idly filling her head as she brushed.
Finished, she gave a satisfied nod towards herself in the mirror and plopped off her chair and dressed herself in a white dress as she moved towards the hall “hmn.” She shivered, it was chilly this morning but that was to be expected, winter was coming. She trotted on the wooden floor and peaked under the floor boards, smiling seeing she was the first one up, she rushed to the kitchen.
First she grabbed some fruit from the fridge and some meat from the meat bowl, making a blade out of ice, she preceded to make a healthy breakfast.
“Ah, dinner ready?”
Mia perked up, turning around and smiling towards her aunt who had just entered the living room “Almost” She then went back to cooking the protesting apple, ignoring its screams as she cut into it to make it easier to fry.
“Smells good.” Her aunt came up behind her, patting her on the head “be sure to continue your training after we eat, your mom will be sad.” She then walked towards the cupboard, pulling out a fresh bottle of wine with her tail, popping the cork off with her ears than taking a big swig from the bottom.
“mhm… will try.” She took the cooked apple steak off from the stove and placed it on a bowl, splitting the servings into four “Dad home?”
“No, they went out hunting last night” Answered the bottle, taking another swig from the half empty head “Won’t be back till after the invasion.”
“Right.” Mia then poured the apple onto the floor, it was no longer needed. she then took a seat on the table, reaching over and grabbing a particle of light, sprinkling it on top of her steak. She took a bite out of it “chewy” she noted, smacking away at it the best she could.
“you always were a good cook” her mother came out from behind the table, looping around the bottom she cam face to face with mia, kissing her on her cheek before picking up her own serving and taking a bite out of it, juice flowing everywhere “Could use more salt.”
Mia then watched as her mom took out a butchers knife, then swinging it down and severing her leg “AYAAAA?!” Mia screamed, falling from the table and landing in a shallow pool of water.
“This will work.” Hiiro said, lifting Mia’s severed leg in his hands, using the dripping blood as seasoning before taking another bite out of the fruit “Ah, just right.”
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“W-what is…” Mia tried to stand up, but couldn’t, she could only sink deeper into the sand.
“Oh Mia! You are spilling your food everywhere!” A bottle that sounded like her aunt came over, towering over the sinking Mia “Here, let me help.”
“I’ll help too!”
“Me three!”
Then, ignoring the protests of Mia, her aunt, Hiiro, and Mia’s sister started shoveling sand into her mouth.
“YEAHAAUE?!!”
“SKREEE!!!!”
“eh? EAYUEHRA?!”
Mia shot up inside her igloo, awakening from her nightmare only to quickly find out she was not alone in her makeshift home. Some sort of lanky bug like creature with long extended limbs had squeezed itself into her hom and had sunk its long teeth into her upper thigh. Mia screamed, shooting a stream of ice towards the bug, causing it to fly out and break threw the thin layer of ice that remained.
The bug that was half the size of Mia freaked out, tumbling around on the ground before its six lanky limbs found purchase on solid ground, lifting itself up and releasing a blood curdling screech towards Mia.
In response, Mia blasted more hardened ice spears towards it, missing every shot as it scampered around her while she trying to get up, stumbling down when she tried to put weight onto her leg that was previously being sucked on.
It charged, taking advantage of the cease fire, and leaped towards her.
“HMPH!” Mia raised her hands up, a sheet of ice erecting between her and the bug. She heard a light thump, then more scampering, no, scraping…
She looked up, the bug had climbed on top of the ice wall. “Skreeee!” it shouted as it leaped, pinning her to the ground and sinking its teeth into her shoulder.
“aa-ah! AAAAAA!” Mia screamed, feeling her blood being sucked, the other lanky limbs of the bug had pinned her hands and feet to the ground, its weight too much for her to fight against, but she struggled, she tried to open up her palm and face it towards the bug, but the thing stabbed one of its limbs into her palm.
“F-fine!” she squinted her eyes, forcing herself to grip the leg that was pinning her palm the best she could, then unleashing a barrage of ice and freezing wind at the bug.
“Skriii!” It shrieked, pulling away and tumbling onto it’s side. Its limbs trying to move but with one half of its body frozen it could no longer get up.
Mia shifted, trying to get up but found her right arm limp, just like with her leg. She looked over to the creature as it spun around in circles on the ground “Yeah…” looking towards her own limbs that were not responding and back to the bug, she raised her still working hand “sucks” and launched a long spear of ice, penetrating its carapace and finishing off the creature.
“…”
She let out a large sigh of relief, glancing towards her status she had lost a fair chunk of her hp, having only 500 left. She then glanced around at her surroundings. Besides the corpse leaking green and red blood everywhere and her broken igloo, nothing else was around, the sun was even raising from what she could tell “…not too bad…”
She scootched over to the corpse of the bug, dragging her arm and leg, deciding to wait and see if this was permanent before saving, and inspected the bug. “…” It was big, lanky, stringy came to mind… 6 legs in total on a round and bulbus body, there was also the long mouth snout with he sharp teeth.
“…lanky blood sucker.” Mia nodded to herself, hoping it was the only one of its kind around. After a quick check around she relaxed, glad she somewhat made it through her first night relatively unharmed. And with her relaxing came the grumblings of hunger “hnng…” she whined, she’d need to find food…
She glanced over to the corpse, sitting in a pool of its own blood and hers “maybe…” but before she got a chance to really consider it, blood started to flow back into her limp limbs, causing an intense stinging pain “Ack!” she fell to ground, writhing in tingling pain, helpless as she could only wait for it to subside.