So, I got my first review on the first day! Yay me!
Gracie, thank you so much for the review. I understand that Elsa is quite emotional and I did this, because she has slipped back into her "Conceal it, don't feel it. Don't let it show." mantra that was shown during Do You Want To Build a Snowman? where she was quite emotional. Once again, she's scared to use her powers. Also, I always pictured Elsa having emotional battles inside while she hid it from everyone else, so with her being alone I've imagined her showing a lot more emotions. I was additionally trying to convey how hard it has been for her to stay locked away by herself because I don't think they really did that in the movie with it being from Anna's POV and all. Yes, I killed Anna. Please forgive me. Don't get me wrong, I love Anna. And Kristoff. I really do. But they were human and I don't know of a human that has lived for four centuries. Haha. I just thought I should explain why Elsa is emotional because it was a good point. I'm trying to stay in character for the most part, but it's harder to understand a character's mind in movies than in books because you don't get the advantage of reading their thoughts. Again, though, thank you so, so, much! I really appreciate the review and constructive critism. :)
And thank you, iblamepie, for your encouraging review; it meant a lot.
Chapter 2: Chosen (Jack's POV) (Re-Uploaded)
"Hey, North. What's up? I saw the lights," I said, walking into the room. Tooth, Bunny, Sandy, and North all looked up at me as I entered.
"Well, look who finally decided to show up," Bunny said, crossing his arms over his chest. I held my hands up in surrender and laughed.
"Sorry, not everybody has a dedicated hideout to stay at. Am I right, Sandy?" Sandy gave me two thumbs up. "So what's going on?"
"Pitch is back."
"Seriously?" I groaned. "Pitch? Didn't we just take care of him a century ago?"
"Yes," North growled. "I saw him when I was delivering presents, hiding in some poor girl's house."
"Are you sure it was him?" Bunny asked. "I mean, you didn't bring us all here because of your belly this time?"
North glared at him before tossing a small sack onto the table, black sand spilling out. Everyone gasped.
"It is Pitch," Tooth breathed.
"What do we do?" I asked when Sandy started tugging furiously at the sleeve of my hoodie. I looked down at him to see that he was gesturing wildly at the window with a cresent moon above his head. Following his line of sight up to the window in the ceiling, I saw the moon was shining abnormally bright. "Um ... guys?"
Everyone looked up and Tooth got really excited.
"A new guardian!" She squealed. "I wonder who it's going to be!"
"As long as it's not the groundhog," Bunny muttered.
I watched as a crystal bigger than me rose from the floor. It glowed blue and I squinted my eyes, studying it curiously.
"This is how I was chosen to be a Guardian?" I asked, but nobody answered me. They were busy staring at the crystal expectantly. A figure appeared and my brow furrowed in confusion. "But that's - that's me?" I looked around. "Aren't I aready a Guardian?" But they all hushed me and kept staring.
My figure above the crystal stepped to the side and another figure emerged next to it. This one was feminine, regal. If I were being honest with myself, I would even add beautiful. But who was she? Glancing at the others, I saw that they had the same confused expression on their faces.
"Who's that?" I wondered.
"I don't know," North said slowly, still thinking.
Abruptly, Tooth snapped her fingers. "It's Elsa!" she said. "The Snow Queen!"
"Snow Queen?" I repeated, looking back at the figure.
"The one who lives in that Ice Castle in Norway?" North said.
"Ice Castle?!" I parroted. What Ice Castle? How could I not know about this?
"That's the one!" Tooth confirmed excitedly.
"Are you sure?" Bunny asked. "I mean, she doesn't really leave her castle. What could she know about children? Or the modern world for that matter? All the stories talk about how evil she is."
"Well," North shrugged. "Manny says she is new Guardian, so I'll send my yetis to fetch her."
My eyes widened and I ran to stop him as I remembered how the yetis fetched me. "Whoa, North! Maybe I should go get her? The yetis aren't the best at making a good first impression."
North smiled at me. "Very well," he said, tossing me a snowglobes. "Go get her. But if you can't manage it - we do it my way."
I chuckled and rolled my eyes, taking off to Norway.
I landed in a park, and looked around. It was pretty crowded and a lot of kids were out. There was this one group of young boys who were teasing a little red headed girl that had her nose stuck in a book. They were throwing snowballs at her as she tried to protect the paper pages from the snow.
"Come on, Annalise! What's the matter? Too ugly to play in the snow?" One of the boys jeered as he threw another snowball at her.
I frowned at his antics towards the poor girl whose book was soaked and probably ruined. I bent down and started pelting the group with snowballs. Eventually they became distracted enough with their snowball fight to leave Annalise alone.
Satisfied, I turned back to check on the girl and that's when I saw her. The Snow Queen. I watched as she placed a book on the table next to the redhead. She rolled her hands around and made an elegant necklace out of ice before laying it on top of the book. After writing something in the snow by the book, she stepped away, forming a snowflake in her hands and blowing it away so it could kiss the tip of the girl's nose.
Annalise looked up with teary eyes. Her face instantly brightened when she saw the presents and the message the Snow Queen left for her, slipping the necklace over her head, hugging the book to her chest, and running off to find her parents.
The Snow Queen watched from a distance and I walked up behind her. She wore a beautiful blue dress with a transparent cape and off-the-shoulder sleeves that appeared to be made out of ice. Her platinum blonde hair was back in a messy french braid with snowflakes tangled into it. As I got closer, I could see the gentle smile on her red lips as well as in her eyes which were the same ice blue color as mine and her skin was just as pale as the snow around us.
"Impressive," I said, making her jump. She glanced at me then looked away.
"It was nothing," she said. I stepped foward to read her message: 'You are beautiful, Annalise.' Smiling, I turned to look back at her, but she was gone. There was only a cold gust of air. Looking up, she was already a speck in the sky. I smirked and started to go after her. She wasn't the only one who could fly.
I felt my jaw drop as I saw her Ice Castle come into view. It was an impressive show of skill. I flew in through the doors on the balcony still in awe of the delicate details as I inspected the chandelier. Why didn't I ever think of something like this?
"Amazing place you got here. Did you do it yourself?" Below me, she let out a squeal.
"What are you doing here?" She demanded.
"You left before I could start a conversation," I said, coming down to stand in front of her and holding my hand out. "Hello, I'm Jack Frost."
She looked at my hand as if touching it would cause her great pain. "I'm sorry, but you have to go," she said, running away.
"Hey!" I called, flying after her. "Wait up!"
"What do you want?" she asked, keeping a good amount of distance between us.
"For you to lighten up, first of all; I'm not going to hurt you. I just need you to come with me."
"To where?"
"The North Pole," I said, holding my hands up. "Come on, I'm not going to hurt you." Yep. It was a good thing the yetis didn't get her. I could only imagine the damage that would have caused.
"I'm not worried about you hurting me," she said so quietly that I almost missed it. Her body language spoke volumes, though: She kept her body caved in and her hands cupped against her chest. Her actions said that she was scared, but if not of me, then of what? "You need to go," she said again.
"Well I'm not going anywhere unless it's to the North Pole with you," I replied, grinning a little.
Her glare told me she wasn't amused. "If I go with you, will you leave me alone?"
"Then you'll go?"
"Do I have a choice?" She sighed.
"Not really," I grinned triumply, taking a step closer to her only to step back again when she moved away. Removing a snowglobe from my pocket, I tossed it to the icy floor. "To the North Pole!" I said and it turned into a portal. "Ladies first."
Elsa watched me wearily as she passed into the portal and I followed. On the otherside, we were just outside North's workshop. I opened the door and allowed her to go in before me.
"Ah! There she is!" North cried. "Elsa! How are you?"
"I'm fine," she replied. "Why am I here?"
"I hope that Jack treated you well?" North continued as if she hadn't spoken.
"He pestered me until I agreed to come."
"Be grateful that I convinced them to let me get you instead of the yetis," I said, flying over to sit on the counter. "They sent the yetis to get me and I was shoved into a sack then tossed through a portal."
Elsa spared me a glance before turning back to North. "Why am I here?"
North waved her question aside. "We'll get to that, but first: Introductions! You know Jack, of course -"
She looked at me. "Of course."
"Bunny -" They nodded a greeting at each other. "- Sandman -" Sandy waved at her and she smiled. "- and Tooth."
"Hello, Elsa!" Tooth said, flying over to her. "My fairies have said nothing but the best about you - and your teeth!"
"Excuse me?" Elsa managed to say before Tooth pried her mouth open.
"Let me see, oh! They are just like Jack's - sparkling like freshly fallen snow!"
Seeing how uncomfortable Elsa was, trying to step away from her, I pulled Tooth back.
"Tooth!" I said, getting her attention. She looked at me then back at Elsa, noticing her uncomfortable and slightly fearful expression.
"I'm sorry," she said. "They're beautiful."
"Is anybody going to tell me why I'm here?" Elsa asked for the third time.
"You want to know why?" North asked. "I'll tell you why. Because now, you are Guardian!"
And just like with me, a whole celebration started. Yetis began twirling sticks on fire and elves played music. They all started to crowd around Elsa. She tried to say something that sounded like 'Stop' but I couldn't hear over the noise. I became alarmed when a blizzard began to surround her. She was gripping her hair tightly, crouched over, and her eyes had a panicked look in them. I sat up just before snow and ice exploded everywhere.
"Stop!" Elsa yelled, then gasped when she saw what she had done. She held her hands to her chest and started to back towards the door. "I'm sorry, I have to go." But Tooth stopped her.
"Elsa, please, I don't think you know what we do." She flew over to the brightly lit globe. "Each one of those lights is a child."
"A child who believes," North added. "And good or bad, naughtly or nice, we protect them."
"Look," Elsa said, trying to back away from everyone. "What you all do is great and admirable, but you don't want me. I-I'll just hurt someone."
"Of course you won't-Oh!" Tooth flew a little to close to Elsa's face, causing Elsa to hold up a hand defensively and an icicle shot out just centimeters from Tooth's face. Elsa's eyes widened in surprise and she immediately replaced her hand against her chest.
"I'm sorry," she said. "but I can't."
"Man in Moon says you can," North said and Elsa stopped her movement towards the door, looking back at him.
"What?"
"The Man in the Moon choose you to be the new Guardian, Elsa," I explained.
"No, that can't be right. You've got the wrong girl. I don't belong with-with people. I'm meant to stay in my castle by myself."
"You don't mean that," Tooth said, being careful to keep her distance now. "In that big castle all by yourself, you must be so lonely."
"Lonely? I've been lonely for over four hundred years."
"Don't you see? You don't have to be lonely anymore! You belong here, with us. A Guardian."
"No, I belong back at my castle where I can't hurt anyone."
"Hold up!" Bunny said, hopping foward. "You mean to tell me that you don't want to hurt anybody even though every story I've heard talks about you kidnapping kids and causing pain?"
"I can't help what humans write about me."
"But how do I know it's not true?" Bunny challenged.
"Whoa! Just a minute, Bunny," I said jumping between them. "She comforted a little girl that was being bullied before she ran away from me. Those stories aren't true."
"Enough!" North yelled. "We're all in here arguing and Pitch is out there!"
"Pitch Black?" Elsa asked. North looked at her.
"You know him?" he asked. She nodded.
"I had a few run ins with him. They didn't end too well." She ran a hand through her hair. "The Man in the Moon made a mistake. I'm flattered and honored by the opportunity, but I'll just end up doing more harm then good. I'm sorry."
And just like that, she was gone. Everyone was quiet for several long moments, looking at each other. Tooth went back to her Tooth Palace and I walked out the door.
See? Much longer! I'm actually shocked that I managed to get this up today. Please don't expect this to be a regular thing! I've still got classes (including 2 dual credit classes) plus getting ready for college and simply trying to find time on the computer to do this kind of stuff.
Thanks for the 7 followers and the 2 favorites and 2 reviews that I've gotten! That really means a lot to me. The next chapter is in Elsa's POV. It's longer than this one (about 13 pages on college rule notebook paper one sided) because it tells her POV in this chapter and then some added on stuff.
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