Hey guys! There's a Rise of the Guardians and Frozen crossover! I personally think Elsa and Jack Frost would make an adorable couple, so, here's a one-shot of the two of them! Thanks for reading! ^_^
Hope you like it and please do leave a review/comment letting me know what you think of it, thanks! :)
I OWN NOTHING; I DO NOT OWN FROZEN OR/AND RISE OF THE GUARDIANS.
"Night of a Thousand Stars"
. . .
The night sky that is covered in thousands of small sparkling stars are hidden behind the thick, grey clouds. Snowflakes fall out of the clouds, falling below to cover the ground with a thick layer of white snow.
The snow goes at least up to the people who live in the small town of Arendelle, which is weird, considering it is the middle of summer.
Ever since Elsa fled her coronation ceremony after the argument between her and her sister, Anna, and everyone witnessing she had the ability to create ice and snow, snow has been raining down on Arendelle. Harsh, cold winds come and go, making it awfully chilly in the town, making the people freeze; Elsa created winter when it's supposed to be summer.
A man, looks like to be in seventeen years old, runs his hand through his white hair with one hand while he uses his other hand to firmly hold onto his staff. His striking blue eyes narrow at the snow that's falling gracefully from the sky.
His eyebrow goes up as a confused expression crosses his face. He frowns as he silently thinks to himself, "It's summer… and it's… snowing?" He shakes his head as he drags his feet through the snow as he makes his way up the large mountain.
"Okay, I certainly didn't do this." He mumbles under his breath as he takes a deep breath and lifts himself off the ground, flying to the top of the mountain instead of climbing it.
When he makes it to the top, his eyes widen and his mouth falls open as he stares ahead of him. The sight in front of him leaves him speechless; not understanding at all how it's even possible.
A few feet in front of him, a large, beautiful castle made out of ice is there; looking like an absolute masterpiece. The man tries to figure out how this is possible; how this was made or better yet, who was made this because surely no regular human can build this.
"What the…?" He breaths as he runs his hand again through his snow covered hair. His eyes look up and down at the large ice castle, staring down each and every detail from the bottom to the top.
When he takes another step forward towards the castle, he suddenly hears a strange noise coming from inside. He raises an eyebrow as he starts letting his bare feet lead him up the ice stairs and to the front doors of the castle.
Slightly, he can see through the ice doors a woman on her knees, sobbing loudly into her hands. Her back is to the door so she doesn't notice someone standing there, watching her.
He can hear the pain in her voice as her body shakes with every sob that leaves her lips. With a deep breath, he pushes the doors open, and takes a step inside the large castle of ice.
A gasp leaves his lips as he enters the castle, admiring the inside's beauty. There is no doubt that this is the most beautiful sight he has ever seen in his life; never has he seen such a castle with more details and beauty than this one, which is made out of solid ice and nothing else.
The woman spins around, her head leaving her hands so she can glance over her shoulder to stare down the intruder who just entered her home. She narrows her eyes at the old, but charming looking man as she asks coldly, "What are you doing here?"
He watches her stand up from the floor and stare him down and he can't help, but notice just how beautiful she is. She has pale skin, piercing blue eyes, long, platinum blonde hair that's in a loose, side braid, very slight, barely visible freckles on her face, and a slender, perfect body. She is wearing a beautiful crystal-blue, off the shoulders, dress with a transparent cape with snowflakes on them.
Not knowing what to say, he just stares at her beauty while she takes a step back, shaking her head and moving her eyes away from him. "Please," She almost whispers; she can tell from the innocent look on his face that he isn't some angry citizen from Arendelle who found her and wants to kill her, "you have to go."
He instantly puts his hands up, showing he is not here to harm her. He can see how tense her body is and how scared she is; the pain clearly in her eyes. "I'm not here to hurt you. I'm just here… well, I kinda got blamed for all of, well, this." He rubs the back of his neck with his free hand, "Y'know the whole 'winter during the summertime' in Norway… well, actually more like in Arendelle."
The woman just stares at him, her eyes looking him up and down, examining every detail of him. He's tall, thin, white hair, blue eyes, pale, charming, and has a somewhat of a childish looking face. He's wearing a blue hooded sweater, tight, tan trousers, and barefoot with a wooden staff in his hand.
Her eyebrows knit together, "Who are you?"
He points his pointer finger against his chest and raises an eyebrow, "Me? Oh, I'm Jack Frost! I'm actually the Guardian of Fun. I'm the Winter Guardian, basically and-" He stops himself as he takes a few steps closer to her, narrowing his eyes as a confused look forms on his face. "Wait," He studies her face for a second before continuing, "you can… see me?"
The woman's face suddenly breaks into a smile as she gasps when she realizes who exactly he is. "Of course! You're the Jack Frost!" She grins at him, "Of course I can see you, why wouldn't I be able to?"
"Well, if someone doesn't believe in me… they sort of don't see me. But you believe in me! That's great!" He grins and takes another step towards her, but she suddenly takes a step back, her eyes wide.
Jack takes a step backwards so he doesn't scare her and slowly places his staff on the ground so he can raise both hands up to show her he has no intention of hurting her. "Okay, why don't we start with your name?"
She bites her lip and folds her arms across her chest, hugging her body tightly, "I'm Elsa."
He smiles at her, "Nice to meet you." The Guardian's eyes slowly begin to wander around the ice castle; still amazed at the way the ice was formed to create a large, perfect castle. "So, how exactly did you find this place? It's amazing! I couldn't come close to making something like this."
Elsa smiles briefly before a frown suddenly forms on her face as she remembers everything that's happened in the last few hours. She turns her face away from him and shakes her head, her eyes beginning to water. "I… I did this." She looks back up at him as tears are so close to escaping her eyes and sliding down her pale cheeks, "Please, you have to go. I don't want to hurt you."
Jack shakes his head, "You're not going to hurt me. C'mon, you don't have to be so scared of me-"
Elsa tries to stop him, signaling him not to come any further by raising her hand to him, but accidentally, without her controlling it, ice comes shooting out of her hand and straight for Jack's head.
She gasps in horror and watches as he ducks his head when the ice is only inches from hitting his eye. Her hands fly to her mouth as she watches him stand back up straight and look her directly in the eyes with a confused expression.
"You… you… what?" He doesn't know what to say or how to react to what just happened. When she said she made this place, he thought she was just overreacting or lying or something. He didn't think it was actually possible for her to have the ability to create ice.
That's when it hit him.
She's the one who turned the town of Arendelle into winter while it's supposed to be summer. She's the one who made a blizzard come to the town and make the mountain more windy and freezing than usual.
His eyes widen and he just stares at her, trying to figure out how this is possible. His eyebrows furrow together in confusion, "I don't understand. You can… but… how?"
Elsa shakes her head as a single tear slides down her cheek, "Of course you don't understand. I barely understand it!" She takes a deep breath as a silent sob escapes her body, her lips trembling with every word she says, "I'm some kind of monster! Don't you see it? I can't control these powers I have! I hurt anyone that's in my way that's why I came up on this mountain. That's why I'm isolating myself from everybody else; I need to! I don't have a choice. I ruin everything with this ability I have. I almost killed my sister when we were children, Jack!" A few tears now escaped her eyes, streaming down her rosy cheeks as she shakes her head, biting down hard on her trembling lip.
Jack watches the tears roll down her cheeks and he wants nothing more than to go right up to her and wipe them away with his thumb. Instead, he listens to her. That's what she needs. Someone to listen to her; to not be afraid of her and what she can do.
"My sister, Anna, and I were just playing around when we were children. Having a good time and just playing with the snow I created in the room in our castle. It was so much fun- we even built a snowman!" She looks away as haunted memories swims in her ice color eyes, "She was going too fast… I couldn't keep up with her and the next thing I know, she was falling. I tried to use my powers to prevent her from falling, but instead I stroke her in the head. She could have died! We had to remove all her memories from her so she wouldn't know what I was capable of. Do you realize how hard it was for me to grow up, keeping my distance from her?"
She takes a shaky deep breath; she never shared her feelings with anyone before. When her and Anna's parents died, that was the end for her. She had no one. She had no one in the world left who knew of her powers and no one she can go to so she can feel comfort. She finds herself able to talk to Jack, though, but she has no idea why. "I couldn't control my powers so I kept my distance from everyone; I had to keep myself locked away in my room while she continuously knocked on my bedroom door! Her and I… we don't even know how to communicate now! We have no relationship. When I found out she was going to marry some man she has only known for a few minutes, I grew furious and I lost control. I couldn't help it! When she ripped off my glove, ice just shot right out of my hand… I could have hurt someone!"
"Elsa, it isn't your fault. You didn't ask for this kind of power, but that doesn't mean it's all necessarily bad." Jack tries to reason with her, but she shakes her head. "No, Jack, nothing about what I possess is good! There may be beauty in it… but there's great danger and I can't control it."
"You just need to learn how to control it. Trust me, I know exactly how you feel. You're not a danger to anyone. You're not a monster!" Jack says as he slowly walks right up to her, now only inches from her.
She shakes her head as another tear slides down her cheek, "How can you say that? I turned the summer into winter and I can't even change it back! I don't know how and the people of Arendelle want to kill me! I'm their 'Snow Queen'. They want me out of their town. That's why I'm up here, by myself. That's why I created this castle of ice way up in the mountains. Somewhere where I can be me; this is somewhere where I can unleash the power inside of me and not worry about hurting anyone. I'm free here!"
"You belong down there with everyone else and not all alone by yourself up here, Elsa!" Jack yells, trying to reason with her. He can't imagine how hated and lonely she must feel being up here in the mountains locked away in some ice castle. She may be free here, but she's all alone, isolated from everyone.
"No, Jack, I belong here. Alone. Where I can be who I am without hurting anybody." She whispers as she tears her eyes away from his. She closes her eyes and clenches her fists by her side, fighting the tears, but that doesn't stop them from escaping her eyes and rolling down her cheeks.
He looks down at his hands and sighs, "I know how it feels to not feel like you belong anywhere. You feel so lonely and so different. You think you'll only be happy if you're by yourself." He looks back up at her, but her head is still facing the floor and her eyes are squeezed shut. He continues, "When I first became a Guardian, I thought the Man in the Moon made some kind of mistake. I couldn't grasp the idea of me the classic rebel and prankster, being some kind of responsible Guardian. It took me a while to realize the actual purpose behind my powers before I became a true Guardian."
He rubs the back of his neck and can see how her body tenses at his words, "I'm just like you, I possess the power of ice and snow. I used to be a regular teenage boy until I fell in a lake after saving my sister from falling in. I… I drowned and then died. The Man in the Moon thought it was a selfless and he saw me as a hero by saving my sister in the cost of my own life. Elsa, you're more misunderstood than some kind of evil person. You're kind and I can see it in your eyes and in that smile I saw before that you're no villain."
Her eyes slowly open and she cautiously looks up at him. For the first time, she has hope in her eyes. The corners of her lips slowly curve up to form a small smile on her face as Jack tells her his story. "Elsa, I never thought in a million years I'd be a true Guardian and I get the chance to make children laugh and have fun. I never thought I'd be able to create winter and make ice. I never thought I'd be able to be the Winter Spirit."
Taking another step closer to her, their bodies almost touching now, "Did you know what I once said to the other Guardians? I said, 'You don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines! I'm… snowballs and fun times'. That's truly how I felt. Listen, Elsa, you're scared and you feel different from everybody else, but that's not all such a bad thing! You're special." He sighs, "You're beautiful."
Her eyes widen at that last part, but she can't help the smile that slowly forms on her lips. He's certainly different from everyone else. She can actually relate to him and he actually understands her. He understands how she feels. He doesn't see her as some monster who is out to hurt everyone.
Jack Frost sees her as an actual person.
And he thinks she's beautiful.
For once, instead of running away and hiding in her room, she stays standing in front of him and, out of nowhere, wraps her arms tightly around his neck, pulling him into a tight hug.
At first, he's stunned, but he quickly recovers and smiles as he wraps his arms around her waist and holds her body against him. It's almost as if she was made to fit in his arms as they fit perfectly together. He closes his eyes for a second and then, all too quickly for his liking and hers, they pull apart from the embrace.
Elsa smiles up at him and then tilts her head slightly to the side, "Hey… what do you say, oh I don't know, maybe a… snowball fight?"
Jack gasps mockingly as he raises a questioning eyebrow at her, "Are you challenging me, the Guardian of Winter, to a snowball fight?"
She simply shrugs her shoulders, laughing. "Oh, I don't know," She smirks, "maybe I am."
"Oh, well then I cannot say no to the Snow Queen!" He jokes with a chuckle, "I accept your cha- Hey!" He yells as he watches her take a head start, running out of the ice castle and outside into the freezing cold.
He quickly flies out of the castle, grabbing his staff on his way out, and catching up to her. She grins at him when he meets her outside, "What took you so long, Guardian?"
The Guardian rolls his eyes and folds his arms across his chest, "Ha, ha, very funny. Somebody kinda cheated." Before she can reply, he managed to sneak a snowball behind his back and he quickly launches it at Elsa, hitting her directly in the face.
As the snow slides off her face, he sees her mouth agape, as her eyes are wide and staring at him in shock. She shakes her head, slowly bending down to grab a pile of snow, and patting it together to form a perfect, firm snowball. "You're going to regret that, Frost."
"Oh is that s-" Right in the middle of his sentence, the snowball hits his face and before the snow even slides off his face, another snowball is thrown right at his chest. He slowly wipes it off with his hand and grins at her, "Oh, you so asked for it now."
The two of them continue their snowball fight for what seems like hours, running around in the snow; they chased one another, threw snowballs, created slides made out of ice, and just hung out, enjoying each other's company.
Eventually, from all the running around, Elsa grows tired and lies down right in the snow, staring up at the night sky. She smiles as Jack lies right beside her and it takes her a second to realize he's making a snow angel. She laughs and shakes her head, making a snow angel herself, trying to argue that hers is better, which, of course, he disagrees.
Elsa starts piling snow on top of Jack, tilting her head to the side as she props herself up on her elbows so she can use one hand to push the snow on top of Jack's body. He rolls his sapphire eyes and raises an eyebrow at her, "What on Earth are you doing?"
"Burying you in snow." She says with a laugh, "Like people bury one another in sand, I'm doing the same thing only with snow."
The Snow Queen continues what she's doing for a few more minutes before Jack suddenly wraps her wrists and pull her right on top of him; her lying on top of his body.
She gasps at the sudden movement and stares him directly in the eyes, not knowing what to say. She's stunned. Jack smiles at this and the next thing he finds himself doing, he moves his head closer to hers and gently places his lips on top of hers.
To his surprise, she doesn't pull away and, instead, she kisses him back. The two of them smile into the kiss and let the snow to continue to fall around and on top of them, neither of them paying attention to anything around them, but each other.
The kiss last a few more moments before Elsa pulls away, stroking her fingers through his hair lazily with a small smile on her lips. "I liked that… a lot."
Jack grins at this and lays his head back against the snow-covered ground. "Good, because I liked that too… a lot." He plants another kiss on her cold lips before pulling away, whispering, "You're never going to feel alone again, that's a Guardian promise, got that?"
All she can do is nod, the idea of him being around and not feeling so alone and different all the time would be great. He strokes her cheek with his thumb when an idea comes to his head.
Elsa, already knowing what he's going to say, laughs, "Oh, so the Guardian wants a rematch in our snowball fight after losing miserably to me?"
Jack only rolls his eyes, but can't help the laugh that escapes his lips, "I did not lose! You just… got one over on me when I was bending down making a snowball. You cheated! I wasn't ready for that one."
She just shakes her head as she stands up slowly, offering her hand to him to help him up, "Besides, when you started to fly, you were cheating!"
"No, I'm just… well," He shrugs, "good like that." He then grabs her hands in his and stares her in the eyes, loving the way her blue eyes sparkle as she stares back at him. "So, what do you say? Best two out of three?"
Elsa taps her chin in a joking way before nodding her head excitedly and laughing, "Oh, you're so on."
After sharing another small kiss, the two of them start chasing each other around on the large mountain. They are throwing snowballs at each other, and playing around, having fun and at the time, forgetting whatever problems they have going on and only focusing on each other as they enjoy their time together with a thousand stars shining above them in the night sky.