So this is the totally new and revamped version of 'Armageddon Rising'. This can count as a sequel to Shattered Soul, or it can stand alone. But this will be along the lines of similar to other of my stories that either fell flat of their faces or just didn't have any more creativity left to be bothered with. I'll try my best this time around, but of course life has to come first. Any way read, review, and enjoy.
True Loves' Final Act
Prologue
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. Well this quote would surely apply to Elsa as she stares into the flames that was her kingdom. She has never felt so alone or helpless as she hears the faint echoes of her people, not even when she was trapped within the four walls of her bedroom for thirteen years, "Elsa we have to go." She hears Anna's voice faintly in the background.
"How?" Elsa whispers as she stares into the vast blackness of the sky caused by the smoke, "How can we leave them?"
"Elsa it is too late to do anything." Kristoff's voice now reaches her ears, "Besides they are evacuating as well, which we should do too before they come for us."
Anna looks between the two people she loves. Olaf and Sven were waiting, hidden in the boundaries between the forest and the town staying out of sight. Anna was supposed to lead them to the secret passage way that was built during the dark times of their family's rule when their great-great grandfather began ruling. We are running out of time, Anna thought frantically as Elsa began to speak, "I should have done something. I could have done more…"
"No Elsa. You couldn't have, besides it's not just you they want." Anna spoke, "It's me they want too. We have to go. We have to get you out of here…now!" She was begging, and she knew it. This was her fault as much as it was Elsa's, and right now their time was growing shorter.
Off in the distance there was a massive crack of thunder followed by the sky filling up with lightening. Without much more time to think, Anna grabbed Elsa's arm and started bolting out of Elsa's study with Kristoff chasing after them, "My family said they would keep us safe! Their area is protected against all types of magic, that's why it wasn't covered with snow when-"
"Yea we get it!" Anna yelled back just as the pounding of hooves could be heard followed by shouting.
"You should go!" Elsa yelled as she forced Anna to come to a stop, "Go and I'll hold them off."
"No I am not going to let you! Besides we are almost there." Anna stated furiously as she continued to pull Elsa along.
Coming to the library, Anna pulled them inside and slammed the door just as gunshots were fired. Once inside, Kristoff started to barricade the door shut, and for extra measures Elsa started to freeze the door. Anna began to frantically search for the switch, "You all cannot hide in there forever! Soon this place and kingdom will be mine and there will be nothing you can do to stop me!"
"He's right." Anna said as she pulled the switch, "If he catches all three of us, nothing is going to stop him. We will all be at his whim."
Elsa and Kristoff look at her, "Which is why if we split up, then the other two can have a chance to save not only the kingdom, but the one who stays." Elsa states firmly, she did not have to imply her postion.
"Which is why you should go. You and Anna go, I'll stay." Kristoff stated, "Elsa you have magic which will be a major benefit to restoring everyone and everything. And Anna I love you, I do not want you to stay with Hans." He added when he saw them about to protest.
Before Elsa could retort, Anna cut in, "And I love you. Hans has no use for you. It's us he wants, so you go. Elsa Kristoff is right in the fact that if you fall under this curse, it will be more detrimental for us to try and stop."
"Anna-" Elsa was about to start protesting, but there was another crack of thunder.
Looking outside a dark green smoke starts to make its way towards Arendelle from the Southern Mountains. Just then there was a major bang, Hans and his small army starts to try and break the door down, "It's no use! You all have lost!" He shouts as there was another bang.
"No more arguing! Quickly go! Run away and do not look back." Anna says motioning to the passage.
"Anna-" Kristoff and Elsa start again and now they see a flaming axe head breaking through the top of the door.
"Lift the curse and no matter what happens," Anna says cutting them off before they can start once more to look in their eyes, "I will always love you. Remember that."
"Anna-" Elsa tries to plead once again, but the door is soon broken down by a flaming sword this time.
Anna then pushes them into the passageway before anything else can delay their escape and destroys the mechanism so they cannot get back into the library, but this also means that Anna cannot escape, "It's all up to you guys. I believe in you." Anna mutters not knowing if they can hear her or not. She is hoping not and that they are running towards the exit of the passageway by now. The door is finally broken in and Anna draws her blade that was attached to her hip, "Nice to see you again Hans."
Hans slides off his horse, and his soldiers enter the room forming a circle around the two of them, "It is a nice little reunion. Although it is a shame that your sister and fiancé are not here to be present. Tell me, where are they?"
"That is for me to know and you to find out never. Lets' finish this." Anna states getting into position.
He smirks, and looks behind her and motions to the window. Anna drops her guard and turns to see the dark cloud approaching like a tidal wave, "It already has finished; and you know something else that I have just thought of, I do not need to worry about the Snow Witch or that mountain man. You will soon be cursed to do whatever we say, which means I will have ordered you to kill your sister and your fiancé."
"My soul belongs to one person only and that is to myself. I will continue to fight for not only Arendelle and myself, but for them. And," she faces him again, "I said it one time before you are no match for Elsa."
Hans started laughing, followed by the rest of the soldiers, "I have also said it one time before and that is," he approaches her and says, "it is you who is no match for Elsa…but then again…" Without a warning, Anna gasps as his hand starts glowing and he thrusts it forward at her chest.
Anna gasps again, this time in pain as she feels his hand clutch around her heart, and suddenly the pressure is gone as he yanks his hand back. However a sudden sickness overcomes her as she looks in shock at what he is holding…her heart. Immediately her hand flies to her chest, but there is no beating, "How-"
"You think I would just come to Arendelle, attack, have help set off the darkest magic known to man, and not learn another trick or two? You are really stupid." Hans smirks, "This is my fail safe, in the event Elsa is close to winning. All I have to do is squeeze," Hans closes his grip around the heart so that it glows red. Immediately her sword drops and her hand go to her chest as she falls to her knees in excoriating pain, then it stops as she pants looking up at him, "and you become utterly helpless."
"You really are a monster. How in the hell did you end up this way?" Anna snarls out, but is now too weak to stand.
Kneeling down, he gets right in her face and responds, "That is for me to know and you to find out never. All that matters is that you know that you have lost everything you love. Everything you have built, and all that you have become. You will be nothing more than a mindless, heartless, soul."
"It does not matter what I become. Elsa and Kristoff got away and they will break this curse. I have hope." Anna states firmly and defiantly as she shakenly gets to her feet, sword in hand.
Hans laughs as he too had gotten up. One of the soldiers holds out a box for him and he places Anna's heart in it, "Your hope is about to be crushed. This is my world now, and how are they going to save you if they do not know how? You think you are going to tell them? Well think again, because you will have no memory of what had just occurred."
Just then the ceiling breaks apart and a twister starts to form in the room. The wind roars around them as Anna accepts her fate as she sheathed her sword at her hip. Despite not being able to feel hopeful, she mentally knows that it is there. Hope that Elsa and Kristoff are safe, hope that her final act of true love was not in vain, "So you're new world, where is it going to be?" Anna asks.
Hans smiled evilly as he looks around the room, "On the ruins of this godforsaken country. By the time this transformation occurs it will not have mattered that those fools tried to evacuate, because now this is my kingdom! No one leaves my kingdom!" The windows shatter now and the dark smoke fills the room, Hans raises his hands as the flaming sword and he laughs while saying, "Arendelle has fallen and now the world will be brought to its' knees!" The dark smoke engulfs them fully as lightning and thunder crack.
As the dark curse rips through the kingdom of Arendelle, and the smoke quickly progresses across the land. Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven watch from the clearing in the Valley of the Living Rock. Pabbie strikes the ground with his scepter that Kristoff had only seen one other time in his life. The magic from the scepter creates a beam of light that shoots up towards the sky. Eventually, the beam scatters, creating a domed shield around a small section on the land around them. Elsa brings a hand to her mouth to cover her sob and Kristoff hesitantly puts a comforting arm around her, "It is done." Pabbie states solemnly. The other trolls bow their head in a type of mourning fashion.
"What about Anna?" Olaf whispers seeing that his other two friends were not able to ask.
"Hans's curse has taken her. I cannot yet show an outcome as the curse is still taking effect." Pabbie responded, "However I will warn you that it is nothing I have ever experienced."
"But is she still in Arendelle? We heard it was going to be a new world or land or something." Kristoff managed to get out as he looked to the old troll.
Pabbie closed his eyes to concentrate, and when he opens them after a moment he says, "They are still in Arendelle, however as I said I never experienced this magic. The last time something like this happened, it was over a millennium ago."
Elsa swallowed a lump. Everything…she lost everything. Everything she loved, everything she worked for, everything she created…it was gone. Torn away because of a hateful and vengeful man. Swallowing again, she forced the sadness back. Anna would not want her to feel helpless. Anna could not afford Elsa to feel the bone crushing defeat. She had sacraficed herself (again) to save her! And she would be damned if Elsa let that final act of true love go to waste. Shrugging Kristoff's arm off of her, she looks at the old troll and states firmly, "What do we have to do to save my sister and take back my kingdom?"