The Ice Prince

Hey guys! We're finally gonna meet the 3 main characters in this chapter but I must warn you that some parts are gonna be sad so brace yourselves. Also, I can't believe how many people already like this story, even when I said I hate Frozen now (that & I just had a bad experience with it). Thank you so much & please enjoy this chapter!


Chapter 2: Kai & Nya

Ages have passed since the evil mirror was shattered and this is where the real story began…

In a small town called Ignacia, there lived two siblings, a young man named Kai and his younger sister, Nya. They were very close and loved each other very dearly. Kai was always there for his sister and did anything he could to protect her and in turn, Nya would keep her hot-tempered brother from getting into trouble or heal his wounds should it ever happen.

They lived on their own ever since their parents were sadly taken away from them too early but the townsfolk would help raise them, especially a wise old man named Wu, who was a friend of their father's in the past. He always told them the stories they adored since they were little, let them grow a garden in the backyard, and offer any advice should they need any.

Now it was winter and Wu gathered Kai and Nya to tell them their favorite stories. Since it was snowing outside, they wanted a story about the snowflakes and how they fly about in blizzards like bees over the spring flowerbeds.

"The snowflakes are kinda like bees so I'm sure they have a queen too." Kai said.

"No, but they have a prince," Wu corrected Kai, "Zane, the Ice Prince."

"Zane?" Nya asked in curiosity, "What's he like?"

"Legends say that like the ice and snow he creates, he has a unique beauty but is also very cold. He shuts himself off from the rest of the world in his magnificent ice palace situated far north. No one has ever reached it because of the freezing storm he conjures. Because of that, he lives alone but he doesn't stay there all the time. Sometimes, he would go out on his sleigh driven by winged unicorns to spread winter. That's why you must be careful when you go outside during winter. He could take you away from your loved ones."

"Can he actually do that?" Nya asked.

"Don't worry, Nya. I won't let Zane hurt you," Kai vowed, "If he ever comes here, I'll sock him a new one!"

"Kai, be careful!" Nya playfully shushed him, "Zane might hear you!"

"I'm not afraid!" Her brother boasted, "He'll probably melt if he leaves his castle!"

Kai and Nya laughed and even Wu smiled at the strong bond they shared.


Just before going to bed, Kai stared at the snowflakes dancing outside the window. He felt like they were calling out to him and could've sworn he saw two pinpoints of light staring at him. To him, they were like a pair of ice cold eyes staring at him. He wanted to turn away but for some reason, he can't…

'Kai…'

It was as if the cold wind outside was calling him. Kai continued staring at the pinpoints of light and soon, a face appeared and the lights really were eyes. A pale face, beautiful but cold, stared at him. The figure stretched out its hand as if beckoning to him. Kai finally fell back, frightened by the apparition.

'I'm just seeing things…' The young man shook off the vision as his eyes playing tricks on him.

Little did he know this was just the beginning…


Finally, spring has arrived and along with it came the flowers in the garden. Kai forgot all about the incident from that fateful night and now tended to the garden at the back of the house. He watered the plants but noticed something.

"Nya!" Kai beckoned his sister from the garden, "Come over here!"

Nya obeyed, wondering what her brother had to show her.

"Look!" Kai pointed at the plants, "The fire flowers are blooming!"

Nya's attention immediately went to the newly bloomed flowers.

The fire flower was a popular flower all over Ignacia. The layered petals came in different sizes and were a bright yellow to the point it was almost white at the center and then gradated into bright shades of orange up to the edges that were a flaming red. Even the stamen were curved and when caught in the wind, would appear to dance like flickering flames.

Nya loved the fire flowers because they would always remind her of Kai. He always had such a fiery soul like no other and she loved him for it.

"These are the first fire flowers coming in this year," Kai said, "I wanted to show you, knowing how much you like them."

"Of course I would! They remind me of you!"

Even Kai and Nya knew how close they were and they can't have it any other way.


Throughout the spring, Kai and Nya's lives were fairly normal. They spent their days tending to the fire flowers and listening to Wu's stories. But it was in the summer that everything changed.

Kai and Nya just got back with groceries and the former opened the window to let in the breeze but like so many great things, something so simple was just the beginning.

Suddenly, Kai felt a strange pain in his eye that came seemingly out of nowhere.

"AH!" He brought up his hand over his eye in pain.

"Kai! What's wrong!?" Nya immediately rushed to her brother's side.

Kai cried out again as another sudden pain struck his heart then his chest was afflicted with an unusual cold sensation, as if his heart was turned to ice.

The pain Kai felt in his eye and heart was actually shards of the Overlord's evil mirror flying right into his body and corrupting him. The pain was gone but the little fragments were still in his eye and heart and the unpleasant sensation was replaced by a bitter cold that even he didn't know was his heart corrupted by the mirror's evil.

"Kai, are you okay?" Nya still tried to help him.

"Why does it matter to you!?" Kai hissed all of a sudden.

Nya was taken aback by Kai's sudden attitude. Sure, he can be a bit abrasive at times but never to this extent.

"What's wrong with you?" She asked.

"Just leave me alone!" The once hotheaded boy yelled at her and locked himself in his room.

Nya couldn't be more shocked by her brother's aggressiveness.

'What's wrong with him?' She asked herself, 'It's probably just a mood swing. I'm sure he'll be himself again tomorrow…'

Unfortunately, the poor girl was wrong…


Throughout the autumn, the fire flowers remained the same, flickering like flames in the wind but Kai continued to change for the worse.

The once fiery-tempered man was now cold and cruel, constantly calling poor Nya names and being disrespectful to Wu and the townsfolk. Whenever Nya tried to get him to join her when Wu told his stories, Kai would only scoff and say those tales were for babies. With the weather growing colder, Nya wanted him to see the fire flowers one last time before they wilt and won't bloom again until spring.

"Kai! Come look at the flowers! Please!" Nya begged her brother to see the fire flowers.

"Why should I?" Kai was still bitter even after his sister dragged him over to the garden, "These stupid flowers don't do anything but attract bees."

"But I love them!" Poor Nya was now in tears, having been a victim of her brother's newfound cruelty since that fateful day.

"Well I hate them! They're just ugly useless things that'll only rot and die!"

Much to Nya's horror, Kai started ripping the fire flowers from the soil and crushing them.

"KAI! NO!"

The cold man ignored his sister's cries and destroyed the flowers until they were nothing more than a pile of dirty crumpled petals and left her to cry over these awful changes in her life. Kai callously sneered at his sister as she collapsed and cried before leaving her in the dust.

"Nya, what happened?" Wu was shocked to see the wreckage and a despondent Nya.

"Oh Wu!" The heartbroken girl threw herself at the old man and sobbed into his white clothes.

"What has gotten into Kai!?" The poor girl cried, "He's like a completely different person!"

"People change, Nya," Wu stroked her raven hair to soothe her, "Some people change for the better and some change for the worse. Unfortunately, Kai's one of the latter."

"But why does it have to be him!?"

"Things happen for a reason," The wise man said, "There may be a reason Kai's behavior. Fate works in strange ways but we can decide how to deal with these changes."

"What reason could there be!?"

"The answers you seek will come to you some day, when you least expect it." Wu can only give a cryptic answer as he did whatever he could to comfort Nya.


Another season has passed and that's when it truly began.

Winter has come and the now cold-hearted Kai just wanted to be alone with the snowflakes as his only companions.

'At least they're the only things that don't rot in this wretched place. Too bad they always melt.' Kai trudged further away from Ignacia until he was so far away no one can see the events that transpired right after.

The winds blew harder and the cold flurry blurred Kai's already tainted vision but he continued onward until he can hear a soft yet clear sound like a sleigh being driven across the snow. Still, he walked towards the noise and he finally saw it.

A white sleigh stood before him and attached to the reins were winged unicorns with coats as white as pure snow.

It was all so dazzling but the most stunning of all was the person standing in the sleigh.

Although clearly a man, the person was far more beautiful than any other person Kai had ever seen. His face was elegant with eyes glowing in icy blue like winter stars and his hair that stood straight up was neat and was in such a light shade of blonde it was practically white and his skin itself was as pale as freshly fallen snow.

The enigmatic man's clothes were also a pristine white with touches of icy blue. A small mantle with a silver snowflake brooch and trimmed with fluffy material covered his slim shoulders but Kai can see his tunic covered with sparkling sequins. Thick sleeves with little snowflake charms hanging from the ends revealed his lithe hands covered in white gloves and tall boots made of ice were partially hidden under his robe adorned with icy blue embroidery. A long cape trailed behind him and sparkled with a subtle snowflake pattern.

What was perhaps the most striking thing of the stranger's apparel was his headdress made of silver going around his hairline inlaid with crystals and a snowflake in the center.

"W-who are you…?" Kai asked.

"I am Zane the Ice Prince," The mysterious man said with a voice smoother than silk, "And what brings you here, human?"

"Nothing, really…" The young man admitted.

Kai felt something familiar upon seeing the Ice Prince's glowing eyes as if he saw them before. Just as the stories said, Zane was very beautiful but at the same time, cold and it wasn't just the harsh weather. He had a lonely air to him like he had no heart at all.

Suddenly, the Ice Prince spoke.

"It is lonely being in my ice palace all the time. Perhaps you will give me company, no?"

Before being struck by the mirror fragments, Kai would've refused but in his corruption, the ice was the only beauty he saw in the world and he was more than willing to join Zane. Even if his heart became cold from the evil shard in it, the young man still shivered from the weather.

"Come," Zane offered, "I can offer you what little warmth my robes can give."

The Ice Prince wrapped his shimmering cape around Kai. The cape felt surprisingly cozy to the young man and he can feel himself sink into the Ice Prince's cold embrace, yet he still shook.

"You still shiver," The beautiful man observed, "Let me help you."

Zane whispered a strange incantation and in an instant, Kai can no longer feel the cold. The Ice Prince's spell completely numbed Kai's heart which was already like a lump of ice. Not only that but the hexing words also wiped out his memories of Nya, Wu, and his life in Ignacia until now.

All Kai knew was the Ice Prince and to him, he was the image of perfection. The snow was now the only beauty he saw and the one place where he'll be surrounded by snowflakes forever was at Zane's ice palace. Zane kept his new captive in his grasp and shook the reins, summoning his winged unicorns to take him and Kai back to his castle.

And Kai was never seen again…


Oh no!

What will happen to Kai? Will Nya be able to save him?

Find out in the next chapter!

Now, for my mini-rant. I seriously hate how Elsa's hailed as 'strong & selfless' when she really isn't. I'm also starting to dislike the Zane & Elsa comparisons cuz asides from having ice powers, they don't have much in common. Zane is selfless, always tries to help anyone in need, & his ice powers aren't overexaggerated while Elsa's just a selfish whiny brat. Seriously, all she did in Frozen was cry & run away from her problems & for some reason, her unexplained ice powers seem to come with omnipotence. In Frozen Fever, her ice powers come with creating green dresses & organic flowers, & creating life by sneezing! It doesn't make any sense!

Okay, rant's done. Now review!