In the Ballroom, everyone was trying to remain calm, although it's pretty hard when you're surrounded by a bunch of guys holding guns on you. Elsa was trying to keep calm but was incredibly worried about herself but more importantly her sister because she had no idea what these men were going to do, all she knew was that any attempt from her would result in fatalities. Then they heard doors opening and they all turned to see Johan coming in but there was no sign of Hurst, Elsa decided to ask regardless of stupid it may sound.
"Where is Lord Hurst?" She asked standing up.
The armed surrounding them aimed their weapons at her ready to fire, but Johan simply raised his hand and they immediately put their guns down.
"Lord Hurst and I had a minor disagreement, so we retired him." He said.
Elsa was confused by that statement.
"What do you mean 'retired'?" She asked.
"I merely relinquished him of his duties and is now resting." He said.
Elsa was still confused, then she noticed Reidar standing next to Johan making a gesture. He took his hand and pointed his index finger to his head and simulated shooting a gun. Elsa realized what he meant and gasped.
"You killed him." She said as the other hostages gasped.
"Well killed is such an ugly word." Johan said.
"But you still shot him!" Elsa exclaimed.
"I didn't want to shoot him, we were in the middle of a business transaction and he chose not to cooperate." He explained.
"So you decided to kill him." Elsa pointed out.
"Not all business is clean your majesty, sometimes it gets a little dirty." He explained.
Elsa was about to say more but held her tongue because she was worried that if she said anything else, someone or even her was going to get shot, so she sat back down while glaring at Johan. Ann meanwhile was worried about Kristoff, she hadn't seen him the whole time and she wondered whether he was just out of sight, or he was hiding and trying to figure out a plan.
"Where are you Kristoff?" She asked herself.
Meanwhile, several floors above them, Kristoff was pacing back and forth in a large area which was still under construction, there were support beams, tools everywhere, in fact sections of wall were still being built and he could feel a warm breeze coming in from the night. He kept on pacing furiously while thinking over the events that had just transpired; he saw a man's brains being splattered over the wall, and he didn't do anything about it.
"What's wrong with you man, you just laid there and watched him die!" He scolded himself.
He kept replaying that scene in his head of Lord Hurst just sitting there and then being shot in the head by a madman.
"Why didn't you do anything, you could have done something." He said.
He paced for a few more seconds and then answered his own question.
"Because then you would both be dead dumbass." He said.
It made sense, if he had tried to save Hurst, they would have just killed them both, and he knew these guys were crazy, especially their leader, this Johan guy, now he didn't catch his face, but he remembers his voice. He looked the unfinished floor and tried to think of plan, he walked over the openings in the wall and looked down and he was very high up around 200 feet.
"Maybe I can scale down." He thought to himself.
However the second that left his mouth he knew it was a stupid idea so he kept thinking, but then he snapped out of his thoughts by the sound of a man walking up the stairs, he knew it was one of them, so he quickly went and found a place to hide. He hid behind some boxes when the door opened, he saw a man of about his height with short light brown hair and a brown shirt with black pants and he was carrying a Winchester repeating rifle. The man walked around the room as if looking for something, Kristoff knew he wouldn't be able to take him directly because of the gun, so he needed to think about his next move. Then he noticed a large piece of 2X4 and got an idea, when the assailant's back was turned, he picked up the board and silently moved behind him ready to whack him over the head. He brought the board up ready to strike but then the man turned around and pointed his gun at Kirstoff's face.
"Not so fast." He said.
"Oh boy." Kristoff said.
"Now drop the board and put your hands up." He ordered.
Kristoff slowly placed the board on the ground and then stood up with his hands up while the man still held his gun on him.
"Okay, let's be cool." Kristoff said.
"Did you really think sneaking up on me was going to work, even without shoes on, which I don't know why you don't have any." He said.
"It's actually an interesting story." He replied.
"Shut up and get moving." He ordered.
"Okay easy now no need to do anything rash." He said.
Kristoff started to move slowly, but then suddenly through some lapse of judgment, he instantly grabbed the gun and punched the guy in the face but he quickly recovered and the two started wrestling for the gun. The struggle lasted for a few seconds then the assailant kicked him in the gut which caused him the fall to the ground, looked up and the saw that he was ready to fire. Kristoff quickly moved out of the way and barely dodged the bullets and hid behind some more boxes, the shooter slowly moved to the behind the boxes with his gun ready, but when he got there, Kristoff was gone. He looked around but then out of nowhere Kristoff jumped onto his back, the shooter tried to buck him off and Kristoff was causing him to shoot wildly, he then backed up and rammed Kristoff against the wall forcing him off. He took aim at Kristoff but he charged and grabbed him by the waist and forced them both down a flight of stairs, they rolled down and hit the ground hard. Kristoff opened his eyes and saw that he was laying on top of the shooter who was not moving, at first he thought he was unconscious, but upon further inspection he noticed that his eyes where open and his neck was bending at a weird angle, and then he realized his neck was broken.
"Oh my God I killed a guy." He said to himself.
He quickly stood up and took a look at the dead body on the floor, he was pretty shocked, he had never killed a guy before, he thought he was incapable of doing so, but after a few minutes of shock he snapped out of it and began to think.
"Alright, I took one guy, and there's about a dozen more of them downstairs, all of whom won't hesitate to kill me." He said to himself.
Hearing that out loud a feeling of dread, he was starting to panic thinking he couldn't win, but then something occurred to him.
"Holy crap Anna." He said.
Kristoff realized that Anna and Elsa were downstairs in the ballroom, and they were probably in terrible danger. He tried to shake off the panic and tried to think on the positive.
"Don't worry Elsa can handle this, she can just use her to powers to freeze them." He said.
However then he had an awful realization.
"Or what if they shot her before she could." He said.
He started to panic again, but he tried to stay calm and kept telling himself that everything was fine and he knew that there were pressing matters to deal with, like surviving and finding a way to help the hostages. He then looked down at the dead body again and started to think.
"Now what am I going to do with you." He said.
Meanwhile the hostages were waiting for their captors to make a move, at this time Johan was organizing a plan and speaking with one of his henchmen, but then Reidar comes up to him and gets his attention.
"Oskar went to check the upper levels, but no one has seen or heard from him." He reported.
"Organize a small group and find him." He said.
"Right." He said.
Reidar and two other men went to look for their missing comrade, Ann noticed this was curious.
"What do you think they're doing?" She wondered.
"I don't think that's really important right now Anna, right now we need to focus on how to get out of her." Demetri said.
Meanwhile several floors up, Kristoff was inspecting Oskar's body, rummaging through his coat to try and find something useful. He had confiscated his rifle and he also found a revolver, a Colt Peacemaker to be exact and some spare ammo, now he wasn't a firearms expert, but he's had some experience when he was younger. When he was a teenager, he had just started to sell ice in Arendelle, one day he sold ice a man and Kristoff that he was carrying a pistol and he got interested. He noticed and told him some things about guns. Interested Kristoff bought a revolver and practiced shooting, but as time moved on he got more into his business he didn't have a lot of time for it. Then after the eternal winter he started spend more time with Anna and then decided to just give it up because he didn't feel comfortable have a gun with him in the palace. Well it seemed like now would be a good time to start again, he continued to look through Oskar's coat and then he pulled out some cigars and matches.
"Hey, you know these are bad for you?" He asked even though he knew there wasn't going to be an answer.
He threw away the cigars but decided to keep the matches because they could be useful, he also looked down and his boots and decided he could use a pair. He took the boots off and tried to put them on, but he found out that they were too small.
"Great I take out the guy whose feet are as big as Anna's." He said.
He put down the boots, and left the room, but as he go to the floor below, he started hearing people coming up.
"Oh crap." He said.
He quickly went into another room just as Reidar and his men came up, the past were Kristoff was hiding and went upstairs and found Oskar's dead body.
"Who did this?" One of them asked.
"I don't know, but we should tell Johan." Another said.
They all went back to the ballroom and Reidar reported to Johan.
"We found Oskar but he's dead." He said.
"What, how?" Johan asked.
"We don't know, but his guns are missing." He said.
Johan looked at him and then started to think.
"It seems though we have an unexpected guest, Reidar would you mind finding him and giving him a proper hello?" He asked.
"Yes sir." He said.