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Episode 2: New Resident
Kaji felt like he was near a fire when he awoke. He wondered where he was, he tried to figure out what happened to him, but he was still groggy from a sleep that felt very long and forced.
"Ugh…What?" Kaji opened his eyes to see a white ceiling, and the soft thing he was laying on had to be a bed, and a nice one at that. He blinked in confusion. He didn't remember checking into an inn yesterday. In fact he didn't remember even remember much of yesterday!
"Where am I?" he thought. He turned his head to the side, and he saw that there was indeed a fire in the room. He sat up, pulling the blankets of the bed off him. Now he got a better look at the room he was in.
The room was very furnished, and clean. The walls were a beautiful aqua color and there were three couches all placed around the fire in a square formation, and a table rested in the middle, in front of the fire. Then to top it off there was a crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling.
"What? Where am I? There's no way I was able to afford a inn like this." Kaji pondered as he tried to remember what happened yesterday. He looked at the edge of the bed and saw that his sword and his grey coat were in the room.
"What happened yesterday?" he thought as he sat at the edge of the bed, and picked his sword up. He laid it across his lap, he examined the hilt first, making sure the dragon head at the end of it was the right one and that the design of the hilt was correct. The design of the hilt was rather odd, streaking with silver lines that start from the bottom of the hilt, ending at the top where the divider was shaped like half of a diamond. He pulled the blade out slightly to make sure that it was his sword. He sighed when he saw the familiar silver blade that came up to a single curve in the tip. He examined the blade, and on it were black symbols that were not in any Norse language of old. The symbols glowed across his blade and Kaji sighed in satisfaction before he pushed it back into its scabbard.
"Thank the gods, they didn't take this away from me…" he whispered.
"I remember walking through a snow storm…then…a lot of running…" he said, slowly as he tried shaking his mind out of its half-asleep state.
"Man, why can't I remember clearly?" he said as he picked his boots up and pulled them onto his feet. He stood up from the bed after that and straightened his white long sleeve before leaning his sword against the bed again.
"I suppose I'll just ask the innkeeper how I got here," he thought as he picked up his grey robes and pulled them on and set the straps. Then he picked his sword up and buckled his belt around his waist, putting the sword at its usual position on his left hip.
Kaji felt his stomach growl again as he finished dressing, and that's when he finally noticed the food on the table near the fire. It was a plate of eggs, sausages, and a piece of bread.
"Well…I suppose I won't get in trouble…" he said, hungrily as he walked toward the table. Maybe some food in his stomach would help his mind remember what happened yesterday.
He sat on one of the couches and picked the plate up off the table, along with the utensils that were next to it. He didn't waste any time as he dug into the food. He didn't bother taking time to taste it since he was just so hungry. The food was gone in minutes.
"Well that helps…" he said as he placed the plate back down onto the table. At least hunger wasn't going to be an issue any time soon. Now if he could just figure out what happened to him yesterday?
A dark thought hit his mind suddenly. Was he back at his…home? Did his family find him and drag him back to Adenia? Was his family trying to lure him into a state of safety before they thrust him back into the life of pain he had escaped with no small amount of loss? He shuddered at the thought. He felt his heart beat pick up and breathing became hard for him.
"No…no I am not there…I'm safe…Mother is dead…and she can't hurt me anymore. Plus there's no way Mitsu would leave my sword with me if this was a ruse…he'd never try to hurt me without an advantage…" he assured himself, quickly as a bit of lightning arched over his hands. He took a deep breath to calm himself, so his powers wouldn't cause another incident. The last thing he needed was to cause a lightning storm because he had a mental fit.
"Damn…something's not right, that's for sure…" he thought as he calmed his heart down. Unfortunately by the time he had calmed himself down, the memories of the day before had decided to hit him.
He remembered a group of people had crossed the path he was traveling and they were looking for him. He remembered the chase they gave him, and how he tried to outrun them, and scare them off, but they just kept coming. Then of course he remembered drawing his sword on them and trying to fight them off. He used his powers in that fight too…apparently he lost though.
The one that stood out to him though was the ice wielder. What was her name? Elsa? Yes, that was it; he remembered the others yelling it. She intrigued him the most out the little band that apprehended him. Yes, he remembered the beautiful pale blonde haired women.
However, it wasn't how she looked that intrigued him. It was that she…talked to him. She didn't just attack first or threaten and attack like all others before her had done. Also she had powers like him and she was able to keep up with him despite his speed. Yes…she must be an old race like him, it was the only logical explanation.
But more than that, her words…they didn't even hint at hidden intent or evil at all. They sounded sincere to him; she actually sounded like she really wanted to help him. Even after her friends attacked him while he was distracted, she still sounded like she wanted to help him.
Plus like he already though, she wielded power like he did. That had to mean that she understood his struggle to some extent. She said so herself that she had gone through the things he had. There was still a problem though. Was she telling the truth? Could he trust her? He wanted to.
"So strange…" he said as he pondered the girl's words. He felt the same warmth from before, flow through him like a river. Kaji didn't know how to deal with it; he never felt anything like that before.
"Never trust anyone little brother…unless you really feel like you can…" Kaji shook his head as those words ran through his mind. He didn't feel like thinking about those words at that moment. But they remained despite his attempts.
"Suri…are you trying to tell me something?" he pondered as he tried to make sense of his situation.
"My Queen, the prisoner has awoken, are you sure it is wise to-" Kaji turned to the door of his room, listening to the voices on the other side.
"Yes I'm sure. I am not helpless, and I don't think he'll react kindly to anyone other than me…" replied a voice that Kaji recognized as Elsa. Apparently she was trying to get to him.
"Your majesty, if what we know about him is true, then we cannot simply let you walk in by yourself. He should be clamped in irons first," one of the guards persisted.
"Um…Elsa if you have this under control…can I?" Kaji heard the voice of another girl but it wasn't Elsa. He thought it was the other girl from yesterday that tried to tackle him.
"Oh fine, go on. Just don't get into any trouble, all of you," he heard Elsa order.
"Thanks sis! Don't worry, we'll be back in week or so!" he heard the other girl say before another voice followed it.
"Don't worry, we won't," a high voice called before Kaji heard a bunch of footsteps, going away from the door. He heard Elsa sigh before she talked to the guard outside his door again.
"Now, General, I am quite capable of handling myself just fine, and I don't think he'll hurt me," Elsa said. Kaji heard the locks on his door unlatch; he didn't even realize he was locked in the room. He didn't have time to ponder though because sure enough, the one he recognized as Elsa was in the room, looking right at him.
"What do you want with me?" Kaji asked, skeptically. He didn't raise his hands or move to draw his sword but he couldn't be a fool. His gaze regarded her, cautiously.
"I just want to talk…" Elsa said, raising her hands up, peacefully. Kaji tilted his head in confusion, trying to detect any ill intent. He sighed when he didn't see or feel any.
"Talk about what?" he asked, using a more sociable tone. Elsa lowered her hands and walked toward the fire, and sat on one of the couches.
"Sit?" she asked. Kaji relented and walked over to the couch opposite from her and sat down.
Kaji felt out of place, and awkward at the moment. He wondered what made him drawn to this girl. She must've been an old race like he was, but there was something more to it than that. Inside he wondered what his sister meant two years ago when she broke him out. Was she talking about a situation like this?
"First off, where are you from?" Elsa asked, throwing him out of his thoughts.
"I…am from Adenia. You know that though…" he said, truthfully. He regarded her, cautiously, trying to figure out what her intent was. She shifted a bit under his gaze, before she spoke again.
"Then you know that I was told that you were dangerous, and a heartless killer?" she asked. Kaji tensed at the question. He still didn't sense any ill intent from her, so he pushed aside his minds protests and continued to treat with her.
"I am not heartless…" he said, quietly. Elsa seemed to react to his line, positively because she smiled.
"I know…" she said.
Kaji raised his eyebrows in surprise and confusion. What the heck was that supposed to mean? She knew? Knew what? What was going on?
"What are you talking about?" he asked as he shifted uncomfortably. Something about the way Elsa regarded him seemed to bug him.
"You are afraid. You are afraid of letting people in, and most of all, you're afraid of what you might do if you let people in. You have trouble trusting people, and you don't want to hurt anyone either," she summarized.
"What? I-How do you know that?" Kaji asked. Elsa shook her head, and her eyes lowered to the ground.
"Because I wield power like you do, except mine comes in the form of ice and snow. I didn't know how to control my powers for a long time. I didn't let anyone near me, even my sister Anna. I was afraid that the people would fear me but more than that I was afraid that I would hurt my sister. I ended up doing all that in the end, but my sister and her friends helped bring me into the light. And you…you understand don't you? You understand what I'm talking about?" Elsa asked as she looked back up at Kaji.
Kaji was a bit speechless. Elsa had basically told him the pain she had gone through in her life. And they just met! Kaji began to feel his suspicion towards her lessen. No not lessen, more like go away entirely. Someone that was looking to send him back to his family was not going to tell him their life's struggles like Elsa had.
"I…I do understand…not in the way that you do, but I understand the struggle of being someone with great power," he confessed, allowing himself to calm down. He allowed his gaze to soften and he even let a small smile grace his face.
"Thank you…I see now that you hold no ill intent towards me…" he said, awkwardly. He wasn't very good at compliments or talking in general if it didn't involve threats or life threating situations.
"Yes…well…you're welcome," Elsa said, and Kaji could have sworn he saw her blush but he wove it off as his imagination.
"So…does this mean that you're not going to send me back?" Kaji asked. He probably knew the answer but he still had to be sure, so he wouldn't be surprised later.
"You may stay here, unless you wish to leave," Elsa said simply. Kaji was a bit surprised by her offer. He knew that he probably shouldn't take her up on her offer. It was good enough knowing that she was on his side, and he dared say that she might be a…friend but that only made him want to leave more, yet it also empowered his desire to stay as well.
"I…I'll stay…" he said, stiffly. Elsa smiled, lightly at his decision and then she almost giggled when she said the next thing.
"Ok then…now you'll have to come with me to the town now. I think the people will want to meet you. We need to get you familiar with everything and everyone first," she said, offering him her hand. Kaji stared at her hand for a moment and he reached out, slowly then he hesitated right when he was about to take her hand, but his feelings won out and he took it. Her hand was cold but it didn't bother him. The cold never really bothered him. When she let go of his hand, he felt a little…empty?
"Now then, come?" she asked as she walked toward the door.
"General, you and your men are dismissed, I'll handle it now," she said as she opened the door. Kaji heard a sigh before he heard the sound of rather heavy footsteps, going away from the door. Elsa turned to him and smiled.
"Come on," she said. Kaji walked toward her without a word, pulling his hood up. Elsa seemed to frown at that but she didn't say anything to him as she led him out of the room and through the hall. Kaji looked around the halls and he didn't recognize any of the paintings or the crest of the kingdom when he saw it, or at least he thought it was the crest. It was a green and purple flag with a gold symbol.
"So…where am I?" Kaji asked, pulling his gaze away from the walls. Elsa turned her head towards him slightly before turning back to the front.
"You're in Arendelle. Didn't you know that when you came here?" Elsa asked.
"Well…I didn't exactly have time to ask where the ship was going to take me. I was more concerned with getting away." Kaji brooded.
"I see…" Elsa said. Kaji stayed silent after that, simply following the…queen? He thought he remembered one of the guards calling her that.
"So what exactly am I supposed to be doing when we get out there?" he asked.
"We're going to show you off, simple enough?" Elsa asked as she pushed open a rather large set of doors. Kaji sighed as he followed her through them. Kaji sighed when he felt the cold air of winter.
They were outside now; walking through what he thought was the main courtyard. It was neatly decorated with many fountains and other trinkets but Kaji nearly flinched when he realized that there were a lot of people in the courtyard. Plus some of them were already approaching them; although he had a feeling they were approaching them because of Elsa not him.
"Your Majesty, the crops are growing well but we can't seem to get the fires to light. Without fire, we won't be able to keep the town warm for winter," a woman in her mid-thirties told Elsa, urgently.
"What's wrong? Surely we have enough wood and we should have enough oil to keep the fires on," Elsa said. Kaji listened in, interested in the plight. Perhaps…well he was tempted to offer his aid as a sign of trust. But he was unsure of what to do. He was still skeptical despite how much he wanted to trust Elsa.
"Yes but the wood is too moist to burn. We thought it would thaw out if we brought it inside. But the wood has absorbed the water and none of it has dried yet. And our oil reserves are almost depleted," the woman said. Elsa stiffened from the news and Kaji felt a little bit of confusion himself. The situation seemed…a bit coincidental too coincidental.
"What? Melina, I thought the shipment of oil came from Corona last week?" Elsa asked.
"They did but our oil supply is still down. That's the other thing, right?" Melina turned to the other person, who was with her. He was a man in what looked like his thirties and he was dressed up in armor. Plus he had a sword by his side.
"Yes, ma'am. My Queen, I regret to inform you that our supply of oil and much of the other supplies from Corona have been stolen," he said, crossing his arm over his chest and bowing to Elsa. Kaji turned to the guard with a bit of interest. So the supplies were stolen were they?
"What?! How was that possible? The supplies are kept at multiple secure storages. How could the entirety of our supplies be taken away from us like that? How did they slip past the guards unnoticed?" Elsa asked. The man rose from his bow and nodded to the queen.
"They have been stolen though my men are still looking into how. We think that it was an inside job, my queen," the man said.
"Do we have any idea who it was? Or where our supplies are?" Elsa asked. The man nodded, apparently he did know. "Yes, my queen. We think they were men posing as guards. I believe they were the regiment that recently joined. We've tracked them, heading in the direction of the Valley of Living Rock," the man said. Kaji saw Elsa visibly look shocked.
"Are the Pabbie and the trolls in danger?" she asked, concerned. Kaji's eyes widened when he heard the word, trolls.
"Trolls? Like the ones from the old world? Maybe there's more to this kingdom then meets the eye," Kaji thought.
"We don't know. All we know is that we think they're going to the valley," the guard said. Kaji contemplated whether or not the man's words were even credible but apparently Elsa did.
"Get a group of your men and we'll set off for the valley, immediately. We must get our supplies back, Captain Ralof," Elsa ordered. Ralof saluted her before turning and yelling something to the other guards in the courtyard before leaving it himself. Kaji turned back to Melina though.
"Miss, you said the firewood is too moist to burn?" he asked. She turned to him in surprise; apparently she didn't even notice him.
"Yes. I run a florist shop and the amount of flowers I have are limited, given that it's winter. But the few that I do have need the heat or they'll die too fast," she said.
"Have you tried using a flint? Or anything similar to it?" he asked. The woman nodded.
"Yes, but like I said, the wood is just too moist for the sparks to light a fire," she said.
"What needs to be lit?" he asked.
"Well, if we could get the main fire here lit then we could bring the fire down to the rest of the village and light them. But even if we did light our firewood, it wouldn't last long enough. Oil is what we need to keep the fires going for the winter," she replied. Kaji looked past her and noticed a big fire pit in the middle of the two fountains.
"Is that the fire pit you were talking about?" Kaji asked. Melina nodded and he turned to Elsa.
"I think I can help," he said. Elsa looked a little surprised for a moment then she nodded when she understood what he meant.
"Are you sure?" she asked.
"Yes, I'm sure. It's the least I can do at this point," he said as he walked toward the fire pit, leaving a confused Melina behind. When he reached the pit he raised his hand toward the pile of wood then he focused and willed a bolt of his lightning to shot out and light the wood in a flash. The fire blared fiercely for a moment before it died down to a comfortable state.
"What?! How did he do that?" Kaji heard the murmurs of the people. He turned to Elsa who nodded in thanks before he had to turn to a bewildered Melina.
"What was that?!" she exclaimed, staring at him like he was from another world.
"He lit the fire," Elsa said. Kaji nodded before he turned to see Ralof return with six men. They were all staring at the fire in shock and…Kaji thought the captain had a look of contempt on his face.
"What happened my queen?" he asked. Elsa pointed at Kaji with a smile before answering.
"He lit the fire," she said simply. Ralof and his men all looked at Kaji for the first time and Kaji swore they were looking at him…with anger?
"Are you ready to travel to the valley, Ralof?" Elsa asked. He seemed to tense when she asked that but he straitened out and nodded.
"Yes, your majesty. We ready and waiting," he said. Elsa nodded in thanks before walking towards the gates. She paused and turned around to look at Kaji before gesturing him forward.
"Are you coming?" she asked. Kaji hesitated before he answered with a nod and quickly followed her. The guards parted as the duo passed them and Kaji felt his skin crawl when they did. It almost felt like they were about to walk into a trap. He heard the heavy steps of armored boots follow them and he only felt even more jumpy.
"So, we are to travel to this valley? Is it safe?" he asked, trying to distract himself from the armed guards behind them.
"Oh yes, the trolls are a very friendly people, though a bit…intrusive and blunt, they are a very kind and wise people. They raised my friend Kristoff and his reindeer, Sven." Elsa said.
"Wait, you mean the ones that rammed me into the air?" Kaji asked. Elsa chuckled, nervously at the memory before she changed the subject. "Oh, here's the main village of Arendelle," she said, quickly as they crossed the bridge.
Kaji looked around the village and he made a huh sound as he took it in. He felt that it should be called a city instead of a town but he wasn't going to say it. The village was covered in snow since it was winter but it was nice, simple but Kaji thought that was what made it nice. It reminded him of his home in a way, except it was a lot smaller of course and more crowded.
"I like it," he said simply. He thought he heard Elsa sigh before they both moved, suddenly as many people came running by them with torches. They were going to light all the fires no doubt.
"So…you actually like it?" Elsa asked. Kaji turned back to her and he nodded, allowing and actual smile. She smiled too and they stared at each other for a few moments before Ralof cleared his throat.
"Your majesty?" he asked. Elsa and Kaji were shaken out of their stare and Kaji swore his face was on fire. He didn't even realize they were staring at each other.
"Um…right, let's go!" Elsa said, in a rushed voice. Apparently she was blushing from the little moment also. He followed after her when she stared making her way through the village. He nodded to Melina when they passed and she waved back.
"I hope you turn out to be a good suitor!" she called after them. Kaji felt his face heat up more from the statement and he was thankful he had a hood on. Plus he could blame his red skin on the cold weather.
"What are those?" Kaji heard one of the guards ask before he looked to the entrance of the village. He saw a small group of…rocks rolling toward them? He was confused at first until they stopped and popped out arms, legs and heads. He thought he heard a couple people yelp but he was certain that he heard the guards gasp.
"Pabbie, Bulda, Cliff?! What're you doing here?" Elsa asked as she knelt down in front of the three little rock people. Kaji figured they were the trolls she was talking about. He also noticed Ralof and his guards visibly tense. He went toward Elsa, quick to not be around that group.
"Queen Elsa, we've come to warn you. Something has been stolen from us," the one Kaji thought was Pabbie said.
"Stolen? When? We were just about to go to you. Someone has stolen our supplies and we think he or they went in the direction of your valley," Elsa said.
"It was two days ago, the thieves stole it right from under our noses. We didn't figure it out until now. We came to warn you because of what they took and because we think they came here," Pabbie said, urgently. Kaji was alarmed by the news and he had a bad feeling.
"What did they take?" Elsa asked.
"One of the relics my people have guarded since the Old Days of this world. It was entrusted to us by the old race. It is too dangerous to be held by mortal hands," Pabbie said. Kaji turned his head to the troll when he heard this. They had relics from the old world?
"How dangerous exactly?" Kaji said suddenly. Pabbie and the others all turned to him. Pabbie looked hesitant to answer him but Elsa helped him out again.
"What kind of danger does this relic hold? If it's here then we have to stop whoever has it," Elsa said, urgently. Pabbie turned back to the queen and he nodded but then he gestured toward Kaji.
"It's ok, you can trust him," she replied. He nodded and he gazed at Kaji for another moment before turning to the queen. Kaji thought he was sizing him up, he thought he caught the other two trolls doing the same thing but they turned their eyes away right when he looked at them.
"We don't know what the relic does exactly, we were specifically told not to use any of them under any circumstances. They said that only people like them would be aloud to hold them again, not mortals and that only those with pure hearts would be aloud to wield them again. The people that stole them were humans, we know this; for they activated the ancient traps that guarded the relic," Pabbie said.
"Then how did they escape with it?" Kaji asked, crossing his arms.
"The old ones crafted things of marvel for their age but alas it is not their age anymore. Many humans have devised ways to get past traps and many devices these days, while not as advanced are very similar to the crafts of the old ones," Pabbie said.
"So they were able to avoid them…" Kaji muttered.
"It doesn't matter at this point; we need to find them before they unleash powers that they do not understand," Pabbie pressed.
"Do you know what the people that took them look like?" Elsa asked. Pabbie was about to answer but one of his companions beat him to it.
"Them!" she exclaimed as she pointed behind them. Kaji turned around only to duck under a sword that tried to cut off his head; he reacted and reflexively delivered a punch to the jaw of his attacker. He felt a satisfying crack in the jaw, sending the man backward then he followed it up with a power kick to his stomach, sending him flying. His body collided with the rest of the guards, with the exception of Ralof.
"Ralof?!" Elsa exclaimed as she stood up. Kaji felt his blood boil when the man only smiled, but it wasn't the nice, warm smile of kindness, it was the kind that practically screamed ill intent and pleasure in it. The kind of people Kaji despised.
"Such a naïve girl…you fell for the act this whole time without questioning anything. You didn't find it odd how my three predecessors, "died" suddenly? Well to be honest the first one was a coincidence but the other two were our doing…" he laughed.
"You swore an oath!" Elsa accused. Ralof made a sarcastic shocked expression before he laughed.
"Yes, an oath of servitude and protecting the kingdom and blah blah blah its all a bunch of bullshit! Why would we choose to spend our lives serving you when we could just take what we want and get out free?" he asked. His goons all rose from the ground, even the one that Kaji beat. He had a blood dripping from his mouth and Kaji thought his mouth looked odd.
"Free is getting a little ahead of yourself…" Kaji said, crossing his arms. He tensed when they all drew their swords except for Ralof.
"I wouldn't be too sure…" Ralof said. Kaji was about to retort something but he was cut off when Elsa unleashed her powers and sent a hurdle of ice spikes, in rows at the traitors. They stopped right when they were about to skewer them.
"Surrender and give the relic back to the trolls, traitors!" Elsa demanded. Kaji stared at her for a moment. He was shocked to see anger flashing over her face; it deeply contrasted the usual calm and friendly visage she usually held.
"Ha! Predictable! You don't kill people, but we do!" suddenly a large shockwave emitted from him and all the ice shattered, making Kaji and the others cringe. The townspeople all cleared out, thankfully; they won't be using them to get an advantage.
"What was that?" Elsa asked. Kaji grunted as another large shockwave hit them. It wasn't strong enough to knock them away but they couldn't move either.
"The power we hold is equal to nothing! You trolls were fools to hide this away, you could have controlled the world!" Ralof said as he pulled out what looked like a scepter. It was silver in color and it held a blue, lightning bolt on the tip. Other than that it had a rather old design and build to it.
"Fool! You're meddling with powers not meant for human hands!" Pabbie shouted. Kaji looked toward him and his trolls and saw that they were hiding behind Elsa.
"Really?! Than who's going to stop me! This thing gives me power over lightning and thunder!" Ralof boasted as he raised the rod to the air. The sky darkened as big storm clouds or a very large storm cloud appeared over them. Thunder roared in it and then a lightning bolt came and struck down, right into the rod.
"Your weakness will be your undoing, Queen Elsa!" Ralof shouted as he pointed the rod right at her. Kaji reacted quickly and jumped in front of Elsa and the trolls right when a lightning bolt left the rod. Kaji held up his hand and the bolt hit his hand and dispersed, having no effect on him.
"What?!" clearly Ralof was surprised. Kaji didn't blame him, any normal person, Old Race and mortal alike would have probably been hurt by that. Thankfully his special gifts prevented lightning from hurting him.
"Do it again!" one of his goons yelled. Ralof let out a battle cry and raised the rod to the sky and an even bigger, stronger bolt of lightning entered the rod.
"Burn!" he yelled as he launched the bolt at him. Kaji repeated the same action and he blocked the bolt the same way, it hit him but it didn't do anything to him.
"What the hell is going on!" one of the traitors exclaimed.
"You think, you can control lightning? You don't even know that lightning is far more than a force of destruction," Kaji said as he raised his hand to the sky. He snapped his fingers and the lightning cloud turned back to a normal cloud.
"How the hell is he doing that?" one of the traitors gulped.
"You fool! Lightning doesn't affect me because I control it!" Kaji shouted as lightning started sparking around his being. He raised his hand towards them and lightning sparked in his hand. Then in a flash he sent a bolt of it at Ralof, it struck his hand and the man dropped the rod before doubling over in pain.
"I'll take that," Kaji said as he formed a whip with his lightning and quickly brought the rod into his hand. He tossed it behind him to the trolls, quickly and sent another bolt of his lightning at the five traitors that tried to rush him; his lightning chained between them, making them feel the sting of his power. They fell to the ground, writhing in pain for a few moments before they passed out.
"That was a warning, the next bolts will be to kill," Kaji warned. He said that he didn't like killing people, but people like this that were threatening innocents? That was a different story.
"Kill him! Kill him and that bitch queen and there little monsters!" Ralof ordered as he tried to stand. Kaji scoffed and lowered his hand; he wouldn't need his powers to deal with the remaining two guards, Ralof would be next.
He caught the first one's sword arm, dodging the sword at the same time before twisting the arm around him, popping his arm from its socket. His attacker dropped the sword in pain and Kaji quickly delivered a sweeping kick to his other attacker, knocking him off balance for Kaji to rise up, the top of his head, hitting the bottom of his jaw, making the man bite down on his tongue, hard. The traitor dropped his weapon and clenched his jaw, blood leaking from his mouth. Kaji hooked his arm around his neck and then he grabbed the back of his head with his free hand and then he slammed him into one of the buildings before he kicked him through the wall. Turning his attention back to his other opponent, Kaji sidestepped him when he tried to strike him, clumsily, holding the sword in his left arm. Kaji grabbed his arm and delivered a vicious elbow to his forearm, shoulder and then his face, effectively stunning him and breaking his other arm. His opponent screamed in pain before Kaji knocked him out with a strong kick to his gut.
"What are you?" Kaji turned to Ralof, who finally struggled onto his feet, using his sword as a crutch. Kaji drew his sword from its scabbard and pointed it at the man, making him stiffen for a moment before he tried to lift his sword.
"I am a resident of Arendelle and when you threaten my home, you threaten me," he said. Ralof let out a small chuckle before he caught himself again.
"And here I thought, you were just some punk that the bitch tried to help out…I guess we picked the wrong time to act…never thought that…ugh…we'd meet the great Crown-Prince of Adenia…" Ralof grunted. Kaji's eyes widened; how did this man know whom he was, then it occurred to him that his hood had fallen off his head during his fight.
"Every bounty hunter in this region of the world knows about you…your brother was here last week actually…I didn't think that we'd actually run into you though…you really need to watch where you draw that sword…heh well, whatever good it does me now…heh…though I think I will have the last laugh…this place will burn as soon as I light the fuse…" he chuckled as he pulled out what looked like a little ball, and reared to throw it into the well behind him. Kaji was about to react but at that moment a large ice spike got lodged into Ralof's chest. He spurted blood onto the snowy ground and he looked down in shock at the bloody thing before he fell to the ground, dead, blood pooling around his body.
"What?" Kaji turned back to Elsa and he saw her, a fierce expression on her face, her hand pointed at Ralof's corpse. She was breathing hard and then she looked down at the men on the ground, who were starting to arise from their "naps". With a rather loud cry she impaled them all with ice spikes. They didn't scream as their entire bodies froze and then shattered into little red crystals of ice. She fell to her knees after that, panting.
"Elsa?" Kaji asked as he walked over to her, placing his sword back in its scabbard. He looked at the trolls, making sure they were ok and Pabbie nodded, motioning for him to just tend to Elsa.
"Elsa?" he asked, kneeling in front of her.
"I…did what I had to…he was going to destroy Arendelle if I didn't…right?" Elsa looked at Kaji with a look of confusion. He hugged her, tightly, trying to comfort her. She buried her head into his chest without a word. He looked toward the trolls and motioned toward the well. One of them, Bulda he thought, walked up to the wall and with a little help from Cliff, she looked down the well and gave it a sniff before backing up in disgust.
"It smells like something foul!" she shouted.
"I think she means that there is a bunch of oil down there. All the wells lead to one place, they must have filled it with the oil, intending to light the whole town and castle with fire," Pabbie added. Kaji nodded and looked down, back at Elsa.
"Hey…it's ok Elsa, you were right. If you didn't do it then he would have destroyed the town…" Kaji soothed. Elsa placed her hands on his chest and pulled her head back. Her blue eyes stared into his, asking him if he was sure; he was surprised that tears didn't form in them.
"R-Really?" she asked. Kaji nodded and hugged her again. She didn't resist and wrapped her arms around him and leaned her head against his chest. They sat their like that, holding each other, Kaji trying to sooth her.
"Kaji?" she asked after a few minutes.
"Yes?" he asked.
"I'm glad that you decided to stay…" she whispered.
"Yeah…and I'm not leaving any time soon…" he replied.