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The Winters family tried their hardest to not worry about the Pitch Black gang as they went on with their normal duties the following morning but the fear was still their. As Rapunzel and Flynn helped them out in the corn fields, the sign of Cavendish forcing the two of them off their farm was sticking with them and they couldn't help but fear that soon another member of the gang would come and force them off their land too.
They had a right to fear because shortly after noon, in the heat of the day three men dressed in black and riding black horses rode up to the ranch where the family was still working in the corn fields. The family had never met the three men riding up to them before but Jonathon was sure he had saw the faces of one of the guys on a wanted poster before. Hans Snowdon, member of the Pitch Black gang. The others knew that as well, and as they tried their best to remain as calm as possible they took a deep breath and walked over to Hans and his men, Jonathon, grabbing his shotgun along the way.
"Good evening ladies in gentlemen, lovely day to be outside working isn't it?" Hans said in a calm voice. Trying his best to make himself sound non threatening. Jonathon wasn't having any of it though.
"What the hell do you want?" Jonathon said in a non welcoming voice.
"Now Mr. Winter, is that any way to greet your visitors?" Hans said, putting his hands up in defense.
"Don't try to play dumb with me." Jonathon said "I know who you are Hans. And I know how you and the Pitch Black gang forced the Riders family off their land."
"Well then you should know why I am here then." Hans said "By the command of Pitch, you are to hand your land over to me, pack up your belonging and get out by sun down."
"Like hell I am going to obey you and your band of crooks." Jonathon said pointing his gun to Hans's neck. "This land has been in my family for three generations. And I will be damned if I handed it over to Pitch."
"Mr. Winters I fear you don't know the type of man you are dealing with." Hans said as he calmly took out a cigar from his right shirt pocket and lit it. "You are going to surrender your property to me or you and your entire family will be marked for death by order of Pitch. He always gets what he wants and he is not afraid to kill in order to get it. Are you willing to risk the lives of your family for the sake of your property."
"Get the Hell out of here Hans." Jonathon growled. "And don't you ever come back."
"Oh I will be back." Hans said as he saddled his horse, to get ready to ride off. "And when I return if you haven't agreed to surrender it to me we will take it by force. And you will not like the consequences when we do." Then Hans dropped his half smoked cigar on the ground and stomped on it before he got on his saddle and rode off.
"What are we going to do father?" Elsa asked, worried about what Hans was going to do when he returned.
"We stand and fight." Jonathon said "I will not allow this land to fall into Pitch's evil hands." Jonathon turned to Anna, Brittany, and Kristoff, as well as Rapunzel and Flynn
"Ready your guns. Hans will be back and will be ready to battle, and we are going to give him just that. We are going to show him that we are willing to fight for our property."
"Are you sure we can take him?" Anna asked
"General Sam Houston didn't give up Texas when the Alamo fell." Jonathon said "I am not willing to give up my land." Then with that Anna left to fetch her gun and as much ammo as she could for when Hans came back.
On the other side of town, Jack came riding up to the Sheriff's office with the body of Drago leaning on the back of his horse as well as six other horses tied to the back of his own, each carrying bodies of Drago's gang.
"I thought I requested to bring them back alive if you could." Sheriff Nottingham said when he walked out of his office. Nottingham was a big overweight guy with a big cowboy hat and a heavy redneck accent
"Well then you shouldn't have wrote dead or alive on their wanted posters." Jack shot back in a smart ass tone. "Because when you write dead or alive on the wanted poster that gives the impression that you wouldn't mind if I brought them back dead. If you want your fugitives alive sheriff, then next time only write alive on their posters." Then Jack got off his horse and threw each body onto the ground before handing Nottingham a shovel.
"Here, bury them."
"They're all dead?" Nottingham asked
"Well I wouldn't be asking you to bury them if they were alive." Jack said in another smart ass tone. "Now make it quick, those buzzards circling the sky up ahead looks like they might be landing any minute." Jack then extended his hand for his payment.
"Now about my pay. I do believe you promised five thousand for the capture of Drago."
Nottingham shrugged and took out a check for five thousand dollars and made it out to Jack Frost before handing it to Jack.
"Nice doing business with you sheriff." Jack smiled as he put the check in his pocket.
That was when Jack started feeling extremely dizzy and his head started pounding. Jack closed his eyes and clinched his teeth as he fell to the ground, clinching his forehead.
"Jack, you ok?" Nottingham asked concerned seeing Jack on the ground like that.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." Jack said as he tried to get up only to feel the pain in his head intensify, forcing him to scream and fall to the ground again and barf on the ground several times as he laid on the ground for several minutes.
"You don't seem fine." Nottingham said
"What are you a doctor or something?" Jack smarted back.
"No but it don't take a doctor to know that you are everything but fine." Nottingham said "Now if I were you I would go see a doctor and get yourself checked out."
"I'm tough, I've fought off pain before."
"This doesn't look like any ordinary pain Jack, You might be coming down with something. Please Jack take my advice, go get yourself looked at."
"Fine, but once it comes back as nothing serious I am going to confront you for making me waist my time." Jack said as he got on his horse and rode off, leaving Nottingham to mess with the dead bodies. Jack felt the pain in his head coming back as he was riding off. He had been feeling these pains for a month and tried his best to ignore it and get on with his business. But now the pain was intensifying and as much as he hated to admit it, if he didn't get some help it was only going to get worse, if it hadn't already.
Jack then noticed his vision blurring and his felt his body start shaking violently causing him to fall off his horse and run behind the nearest bar as he vomited uncontrollably for several minutes as he shook violently. No doubt about it, something was wrong with him.
"What's wrong with me?" Jack cried as the vomiting and shaking finally stopped and his vision started to come back. "What's happening to me?"
Later that night when the Winter family was starting to leave the fields for the night that is when they heard the hoof prints of horses racing off in the distance. They didn't need to question who was coming for they already knew.
"It's Hans." Elsa screamed. "He's returning."
"Ready yourselves." Jonathon said to the others. "This could get ugly." The Winter family as well as Rapunzel and Flynn each armed themselves with their guns as Hans and a group of ten other of the Pitch Black gang rode up to where the Winters was standing.
"This is your last chance Mr. Winters." Hans warned "Hand over your land or we will take it from you by force. What will your answer be."
"Yeah I got your answer right here." Jonathon said as he raised his gun and pointed it at the crew. He fired a shot from it and hit one Hans's boys in the head, killing him on contact. Out of both shock and rage Hans took out his gun at well and fired two shots into Jonathon's chest.
"DAD!" Elsa screamed as she saw her father fall after being shot.
The battle was on after that, both sides were firing there guns at each other both out of vengeance for their fallen and for custody of the land.
Elsa was the only one that was not firing her gun. As her mother, sister, Kristoff, as well as the Riders were fighting off the Pitch Black gang, Elsa was was dealing with her dying father, who was fading fast as he laid on the ground and bled out.
"Father you are going to be fine." Elsa cried as she took off her bandana and used it to try to no avail to stop her fathers bleeding.
"Elsa listen to me." Jonathon whispered. "I need you to find a man by the name of Jack Frost. He can stop the Pitch Black gang. He can save this ranch. Find him for me Elsa please. The Pitch black gang wont stop unless they are all eliminated. Find Jack, save our ranch."
Elsa slowly nodded as she chocked up her tears, as her father then closed her eyes and died in her arms.
The Winters had gotten control on the battle and soon Hans was the only one out of his boys left standing. Knowing he was beaten he threw his hands up in the air and gave up for the time being. That still didn't stop Kristoff from pointing his gun at him as a warning.
"You tell your boss that if any of you step a foot on our property again your all dead." Kristoff yelled. Now piss off."
"This isn't over boy." Hans said "You will regret your decision. I guarantee it!" Then Hans rode off, having lost the battle, but not the war, he was going to return and when he did he was going to make them all suffer.
With Hans gone, Kristoff and the others turned to see Elsa kneeling down at Jonathon's body crying.
"NO!" Anna cried "DAD!" Anna cried, running over to hold her dads deceased body.
"JONATHON!" Brittany screamed running to where Anna was and buried her arms in Anna's shoulders as the two of them wept in each others arms.
As her sister and mother mourned the loss of her father Elsa got up and slowly walked away with a lot of questions. Who was this Jack Frost person, and why did her father know of him? She didn't know but she knew he was going to find him. Just like she knew she was going to avenge her fathers death and save her ranch. And it all rested on her finding Jack Frost.
Just in case you were wondering Sheriff Nottingham is the sheriff of Nottingham from Disney's Robin Hood. Just thought I would clarify that in case you didn't know