Shortly after the first contact with the creature, the ice barrier Elsa had created exploded and the Minotaur entered the chamber where the couple was, bellowing aggressively. The being was eye-repellent, large, easily reaching over two meters even without counting the large pair of horns protruding from its head, and being a large mass of muscles with humanoid look and head and limbs showing bovine features. Likewise, it was covered in some form of fur, in some places thicker than others, and some rags, surely remnants of what they once used to cover it before locking it eternally in the maze. Finally, its eyes looked empty, misplaced, lost, as if the beast was empty of anything other than animal instinct, seemingly humanoid in appearance only, perhaps the whole place and even the beast were a magical creation, but right now they were real, as real as magic itself could make them, putting together all the knowledge the sanctuary possessed, and that beast, that creation they were about to face, had been as terrifying in life as it was at the time.

"Try to be careful with the weapon it carries," Honeymaren said, paying attention to the creature's right hand, which seemed to be dragging a large elongated chunk of rock, which it had surely been using as a mallet for a long time, judging by the way the creature's hand seemed to fit perfectly with the marks in the stone.

"I will, and I hope you do the same." Elsa said.

"I will."

The minotaur bellowed again and then pounced aggressively against the young women who jumped in opposite directions just seconds before the rock mallet opened a large hole where they were standing. Immediately the creature began to snort and bellow again, reacting to the lights, and without thinking twice unleashed its fury against Elsa's ice creations and the columns that had lamps, making the place darker and darker.

"We can't allow it to leave us in the dark." Elsa said, again next to Honeymaren as she saw the being concentrate on everything that radiated light.

"I agree, it's time to attack." Honeymaren said.

The couple quickly approached the maddened beast, changing their approach routes shortly before they were in its attack range, so that it couldn't have both in its sights at the same time. Elsa froze the beast's mallet to the ground before it raised it for another attack, this caught its attention, and brutally breaking the ice it began to run towards the Snow Queen, it was there when the young Sorcerer unexpectedly came over its side striking a heavy blow to its head that caused it to drop its weapon and land on its back.

"Ouch! Its skull is harder than I thought, I must strengthen myself more." Honeymaren said, moving away to the side to get out of the minotaur's attack range.

"Great hit!" Elsa shouted, Honeymaren just nodded to where her girlfriend was.

When the creature began to show movement Elsa quickly approached, freezing its weapon, and when the being used its arms to steady its body and get up Elsa slid on a small ice ramp, picking up speed and then jumping and planting a great blow against its face, returning it to the ground, and immediately creating another ice ramp that would take her to a safe distance.

"Excellent!" Honeymaren shouted, to which Elsa also responded with a nod.

Then, unexpectedly, the creature gave a great bellow and got up abruptly, snorting in fury, grabbed it weapon and pulled it off the ground, breaking the ice with almost no difficulty, and headed towards where Elsa was standing. Seconds later, shimmering whips of magical energy tangled in its legs causing it to fall and complain again, increasingly annoyed. When the whips disappeared it got up again, this time violently charging with its waepon at where Honeymaren was.

"I got this!" Elsa shouted, launching a great blast of ice from behind the beast.

Although the beast's body seemed mostly frozen, its movement did not slow down,* getting to Honeymaren quickly and catching her slightly off guard. The young woman jumped when she saw that the mallet of rock was coming against her evading it, but the free fist of the creature took her by surprise, throwing her through the air a few meters until the cloak compensated for the impulse, stopping her.

"Honey are you okay?" Asked Elsa, who had rushed out of concern and was now standing underneath the young woman, whom the cloak lowered to the floor when she saw Elsa nearby.

"Yes, I'm fine, the blow didn't hit me with all it's might," the brunette girl said, rubbing her left side with her right hand.

"I'm sorry, it was my mistake." Elsa said worried, putting her hand where her girlfriend was hurt, and worrying even more as her body shuddered with pain when she touched her.

"It wasn't your mistake! Do not worry! Stay alert!" Honeymaren said in a tone of nervousness and perhaps slight discomfort, although it was really due to the pain she felt and tried not to express.

Soon the floor began to vibrate again, and the creature could be seen a dozen meters away, appearing behind a column.

"Honey, let me," Elsa said, standing in front of her partner, thinking of facing the minotaur.

"Elsa, we must continue according to plan," the Northuldra girl said, putting her hand on the white skinned girl's shoulder. "Go in the opposite direction, I'll stay here and continue with our strategy.

Elsa only stared doubtfully at Honeymaren after that indication, at that moment the beast began to run annoyed towards the couple.

"I'll go in the other direction, steal it's attention, attack it when its distracted." Honeymaren said, seeing that her partner didn't not want to separate, and then she flew fast toward the creature, passing over it and taking it from its horns, then she boosted herself with a strong magical burst towards the floor, nailing the creature's head on the rock and then moving back to the air.

Elsa tried to shake off the thoughts of concern and rushed quickly towards the minotaur that gradually released its head from the ground, leaping into the air while nearby and then falling with a large hammer of her own creation that would break by crashing hard against the back of the being, causing it to fall flatly against the floor.

Honeymaren took the opportunity to levitate the beast's weapon away, causing it to fall to one of the farthest sides of the chamber in which they were located. The two girls gathered in the center of the place as the beast broke free, and once it did and didn't find its weapon at its side it became enraged, screaming, bellowing and charging again against them, who separated in opposite directions soon before it arrived, causing it a greater anger at the indecision of which to follow, and during that brief moment * of doubt both girls concentrated great magical energy and then attacked the creature with long distance projectiles. Solid pieces of ice and highly concentrated energy spheres rained down on the beast causing strong impacts that moved its body violently from side to side until it fell on its knees.

While the minotaur seemed to take a while to recover Honeymaren flew quickly to Elsa's side.

"It has taken a lot of damage and still doesn't seem close to being defeated, it's like if it is absorbing the damage and getting ready to fight after a brief recovery." The young sorcerer said, breathing fast as her partner.

"If we keep this up we'll just end up exhausted, there must be another way to defeat it, maybe we should try to fight more directly." Elsa said, wiping sweat off her forehead.

"Do you want to go hand-to-hand against a minotaur? Honeymaren asked, seeing her partner with a confused look while settling her hair.

"Maybe it wouldn't be the worst idea, we have agility on our side... perhaps only a great deal of continuous damage will end it, if given time to recover it seems almost to return to its original strength no matter how much damage it has taken." Elsa said.

After those words the minotaur rose, shook its head and legs and prepared to pounce against them again.

"Go, I'll freeze the floor! Elsa said, Honeymaren nodded and took flight and as the beast approached the Snow Queen she did just what she said, causing the minotaur to slide quickly and crash into a wall, breaking the tip of one of its horns.

"Great move!" Shouted Honey, suspended in the air.

"Thank you!"

The minotaur rose angry and as it wiggled its head savagely it saw that its rock mallet was near, so it went to take it.

"Don't worry, we'll take it back." Honeymaren shouted flying towards the creature, who lashed out at her multiple times once it had her close, yet with to the cloak, the young sorcerer was faster than those attacks as long as she kept aware of each of them.

Elsa ran towards the creature and concentrated her powers on throwing a freezing burst against one leg, freezing it and creating a thick layer of ice around it that was attached on the floor, limiting its movement. When the creature was distracted Honeymaren magically reinforced her right fist and flew with great speed towards it; when she was nearby she folded her right arm and turned her body over her waist, preparing to strike a big blow when she felt a severe pain in her left side.

"Ugh." The brunette girl let out a groan, an accidental sound that alerted the beast, and without thinking twice, it lunged at the girl who was suspended in midair, making her slam into the wall, ending up inside a hole that her impact created.

"Honey!" Elsa shouted worried and at that sound the minotaur now turned its attention to her, striking the floor just a few centimeters from the young woman, who jumped on its mallet and from there to its head, holding on to a horn and putting its other hand against the creature's skull, releasing as much magic as it could, thus freezing the being's head, which, under pressure from the thrust of the young woman's arms, ended up giving way, breaking through the neck and smashing against the floor.

The creature's body fell limp and Elsa rushed to the side of her beloved, who was already lying motionless on the floor, apparently having fallen as she wanted to pull herself free of the wall. The cloak beside her, but detached from her, moved her gently, achieving only small responses from the young woman's limbs and occasional sounds.

"Honey! Honey! Please talk to me!" Elsa said, carefully taking the girl in her arms and sobbing when she saw her beloved in such a state, with a badly battered face and a small trickle of blood running down her mouth.

"Elsa." The young sorcerer said with difficulty.

"Why doesn't this end ?! We should go back to the training room! The damage should go away! " Elsa was saying.

"Try it." Honeymaren said lightly, and Elsa quickly understood what she meant, healing magic, the one she had been studying but never practiced on a person.

The Snow Queen was unsure of using her magic to try to heal her girlfriend, with the spirits she never needed to separate the spiritual side of her magic from the freezing side, since when she used both they reacted to her magic curing themselves of their ills; even so, the repercussions of combining both things in a bad way on a person were very present in her memory for what she did to Anna, but still, having the one she loved so much hurt in her arms made her quickly understand that it was not the time to doubt it, she should try.

Elsa relaxed with a couple of breaths, concentrated to potentiate the level of magic in her body, closed her eyes and then gradually approached her face to Honeymaren, giving her a delicate kiss on the lips, a slow, loving kiss, loaded with magic, which made a thin layer of ice, crystalline and slightly shiny, appear on her girlfriend's face and then on her body, as it continued its smooth course indicating that the healing magic of the Snow Queen worked on her beloved. That kiss, magical in more than one way, continued for a few minutes in which the lips of the young sorcerer were increasingly involved; soon after, her healed body would take part and her hands would go to the young Queen's waist and nape, respectively, continuing without mattering if the healing was over.

When the girls finally became aware of their surroundings after an affectionate romantic moment, they realized that they were back in the sanctuary, lying on the floor of the training room.

"Oh! We're back!" Elsa said nervously.

"So it seems." Honeymaren said, covered in what appeared to be a slight layer of dew, standing up and helping her partner to do the same, then hugging her. Thanks for healing me, sorry for worrying you that way, I should have been more careful." Added the young woman as they hugged each other.

"Please, do it... I don't know what I would do if something happens to you."

"I can say the same for you." Honeymaren said, taking and caressing her girlfriend's hands as they parted, then lovingly releasing them, planting a kiss on both of them, which made the snow-white girl blush.

"I think that the sanctuary considered that it was time for you to use your healing powers in a "real" situation and took advantage of the occurrence to force it; I don't love feeling pain of that kind, but you've improved that skill incredibly, and to achieve that I would do it again." Honeymaren said, slightly changing the subject, as if to spare Elsa the embarrassment from her blush.

"Please no."

"Don't worry, I don't plan to do it at will." Honeymaren said, touching her left side, as if she was pleased that the pain had completely disappeared and at the same time worried that she had felt something like that.

"Just ... take care please." Elsa said more calmly.

"Although, for a kiss like that I could get a little hurt from time to time." Added the young brunette in a laughing tone.

"You are the worst!" Elsa said smiling and recovering the blush that was barely fading from her cheeks.

The girls rested a bit in the room until they felt fresh to be able to enter a fight again, after all they had the hours counted before facing Null, they had to recover soon, learn from their mistakes and end any obstacle that was put in front of them.