The snake crawled across the snow surface, then collided head-on with the Ice Blue beam bursting from Ellie's horn. The great snake opened its jaws in an attempt to swallow the energy, only for the front half of its body to be frozen in ice.
But when Ellie approached to smash the snake's body apart, it burst out of the ice again and bit at her neck. Only as its jaws closed did it realize that it had bitten into a smooth layer of ice.
Having transformed herself into Ice Element Form, Ellie began grappling with the snake atop the cliff. The cat stood firmly on Ellie's little head, and with its excellent sense of balance, it was not thrown off by Ellie's movements.
No one knew of the battle taking place on the Snow Mountain beneath the late-winter night sky. The Unicorn from the Fifth Epoch and the even more ancient great snake had no deep grudge against one another. Even Ellie herself did not know why this fight had begun.
Ellie was far faster than the black-and-white great snake, leaving trails of afterimages as she moved across the cliff. Although the snake possessed some powerful Fate Power, and no matter how Ellie dodged, it could always touch the Little Unicorn's body with its terrible Snake Fang, Ellie could barely withstand the damage inflicted by those fangs while in her elemental state, relying on her racial talents.
However, the Snake Fang was constantly injecting Ellie with snake venom called "Misfortune." Though the Little Unicorn, lacking her own Ring of Fate, possessed some resistance to destiny for unknown reasons, she still could not withstand the increasingly powerful misfortune affecting her.
Misfortune made her more prone to mistakes in battle, causing her to be suppressed by the great snake despite holding