Noah's stomach rumbled. Not long ago had he ran from the yeti with a skeleton girl on his back. He needed to eat something, preferably. He looked at Alice, who upon noticing his glance stared back at him.
Noah strode towards the exit of the cave. Countless minuscule snowflakes whistled by. "What do you want me to call you, skeleton girl"
"Aha, of course, you ask! My name is Aza, and where are you headed"
"I am going out to hunt food, are you two joining?"
Noah's arms had become noticeably larger than before, and when he walked there was a sense of elegance. If the way he walked before had been similar to a rodent, it was now more fox like. Maybe due to walking requiring less effort now that he had more muscles, or maybe due to straining himself so much that casually walking felt easier, maybe both.
The snow trinkled on his face and the frigid wind assaulted him. He had gotten used to it, but not enough to be comfortable. Neither did Alice or Aza, their faces pushed deeper into their hoods.
Noah looked around, in front of the cave trees continued as far as the eye could see. Behind the cave, there was a large clearing of snow. There was a large dim of snow resting on top of it, making it hard to see.
'There must be animals in that direction,' he thought to himself. Fields of snow meant plenty of grass, and grass meant animals. There could be an issue, The animals themselves could be a lot larger than he could handle. Or, maybe they would have hide too thick, a leader too strong or maybe they were too quick at running away.
There was also the snow mist, who knew how big it was, and Noah did not want to get lost there. It would certainly make things a lot tougher for himself. That left two directions, left and right. One aimed at mountains, the other one towards the frozen lake.
"I think we should go this way," Noah pointed towards the frozen lake.
"Aye, aye captain," Noah's eyes rose up, had he become a captain? He pondered over this.
They began travelling towards the lake. Odds were that the creatures they found on their way to the lake would be a lot easier to deal with than the creatures that inhabited the mountains. And on top of that, there was the yeti to consider.
So they began walking the wind in their faces and Noah got a bit grumpy, see here now he hadn't eaten at all so he said to Aza. "Where are you from anyway?"
"Aha, so you ask me another question, do you? Well, for your info, I am from a little fish village on the east side of soz."
"So you know a lot about fish?"
"Aha, yes I do"
"Why do you keep saying "aha"?"
"Aha, do you claim to tell me that I cannot say, "aha"." She mimicked the way he said it, coarsely and very dull.
After walking long enough to make Alice's cheeks red, not long at all. Noah saw a rabbit, one with black eyes. Honestly, that was the only thing that set it apart from the landscape. The rabbit was snow-white, it was small and relatively still. It had scooped up a grass and sat there munching on it.
Noah trying to communicate to his teammates, wifted his hand towards it, pointing, meanwhile trying his keeping finger on his mouth. Aza's eyes followed his actions and then she blurted out: "Whar ar…", "Shhhhh, there's a rabbit there." "Where, I can't see a rabbit anywhere."
Noah looked back at the place, grunted and then stomped his feet. The rabbit which two seconds ago had stood there had now skipped away, gruesomely unaware of the fate it managed to avoid.
"What is it?"
"There was a rabbit, a fucking rabbit and now it's gone. All thanks to you. All thanks to your dumbass."
"Aha, you think we are dumb. Well, it is you who are dumb for being so confusing!"
"Shut up"
Noah had straightened his back and looked at the skeleton girl. If she could simply be flesh, and walk on four legs and be slightly, only slightly, dumber. Maybe then he could eat.
Alice on the other hand had become a gorilla. She had shrunk and stood her head reached Noah's waistline and stared him down. She turned around, slowly with one hand before the other and then leapt away. This left Aza and Noah alone which, without saying anything, turned around and walked their own ways. 'Aha, what a terrible leader,' Aza thought.
Noah marched through the snow towards the bunny, Aza the opposite way. Soon, they could not see each other and Noah was left wandering the forest alone. Everything had gotten a lot scarier, any branch he walked on made him flinch. And trees that shook made him a lot warier.
And he kept glancing behind himself to make sure there wasn't a big white yeti drooling. Which there wasn't. Noah felt his stomach rumble once again, he looked around and remembered that he didn't actually know how to get back into that cave. At least not the specific route.
But luck is it that he looked around for clues about his whereabouts, for he saw two men. About one hundred meters away, where the snow faded into nothingness, they were walking in a line that would not cross Noah at all. Noah felt a drop of sweat slither down from his forehead, had they seen him? Probably not, they wouldn't be so calm in that case.
He laid down and felt the cold snow melt against his skin, whilst he stared at the men. They wore a lot of clothes, and a lot of clothes meant that they weren't that strong.
'Maybe, just maybe, I could take them.' Noah thought to himself. It was wishful thinking, not the killing them part, but the not-getting-hunted-down-and-eaten-by-cannibals-after-they-recognize-their-comrades-were-dead part. For they were part of the cannibal family and as of now, Noah wanted nothing to do with them.
So he laid down, with his back beginning to ache and his face mushed into the ever melting snow. He waited. And when his head went back up, he saw nobody. He stood up and kept on walking around. His stomach rumbling more than ever before.
But as fate had it, he saw the bunny once again. With its black eyes, standing beside a tree and munching on grass.
"This time you're dead!" he shouted inside his mind, whilst slowly creeping forward.