Here is the next chapter, it'll mostly be about Elsa and Jason's date, they'll learn more about each other, and as this goes on forces build in the horizon and threaten to crush all before it.
I own only my original characters, the rest is Disney's.
It has been a couple weeks now, and life in Arendelle couldn't be better. They had just learned that their hero the Wolf Knight still lived, and that there was a new princess of Arendelle.
After hearing of Maura's possible powers, Anna told her husband and sister of it and now they are all on the lookout for any signs. Elsa had said that her powers began to form around Maura's she, so they might form at any time.
Jason and Elsa had gotten closer, despite both of them now having busy schedules. Being a Arendelle's only knight, Jason was now in charge Arendelle's military and oversaw all training sessions, he was also now the Lord of Arendelle and been given a spot on the council. And yet, despite being very busy people, they always found a way to hang out together and with their family.
It was now the day of their date, and Anna was now helping Elsa find the perfect dress to wear, while Jason had decided to go out ice harvesting with Kristoff for some reason.
"That was strange wasn't it, that Jason went with Kristoff?," Elsa asked as she sat on her bed playing with her niece, while Anna pulled out dress after dress out of her closet.
"Now that I think about it, yeah kinda is," she answered stopping for only a second. "Maybe they just wanted to have some guy time, you know like we have our girl time."
"Maybe," she said. "Anna, don't you think you're over dying it a little? You've practically taken out every dress I have."
"I'm trying to find the perfect one," she replied not looking at her. Then Elsa stood up and she waved her hands and the dress she was wearing began changing into one of her beautiful ice dresses, which Maura loved watching her do, as she began laughing and grinning.
"I think I found it Anna," she said and Anna turned and she immediately face palmed.
"Why didn't I think of that?!," she yelled getting mad at herself.
"Because you were focused on making my room a mess," Elsa joked, then she picked up Maura. "I think I'm gonna steal her from you, so she can spend some time with her aunt."
Anna couldn't help but smile at how well her big sister was with Maura. "Okay then. I'll uh...," she began then looked around her to find dresses all over. "I'll pick this up."
"Thank you sis," Elsa said walking away with Maura.
She decided to bring her into the library and she began to read to her niece. Though she couldn't understand a word, Maura was just happy to spend time with Elsa.
Soon enough, Jason came in, and he smiled when he saw the touching scene.
"Hey," Elsa said.
"Hey," he said back. "You two have a very special bond, you know that?"
"Yeah, really surprising too," Elsa said. "Out of the two of us, Anna is the more experienced one when dealing with children."
"Well, it's not always about experience or how little you know to deal that sort of thing," Jason said. "Eugene told me once that Princess Rapunzal had no experience with dealing with children when she came out of her tower for the first time, and they seemed to adore her immediately."
"I suppose you're right," she said, then Maura wanted to go see Jason, surprising them both. Elsa then picked her up and gave her to him.
"You have a way with children as well it seems," Elsa commented.
"Well, a lot of things can happen during a war," he said. "I got to meet a lot of my men's families when I brought them home or, unfortunately, had to inform them."
"I cannot imagine how hard that must've been," Elsa said, and nodded.
"What's more is the principles of war, especially this one. The leader of the barbarians wasn't one of them, he was Northern European I think," he said, surprising her. "He's a lot like you, he could use magic."
"What?"
"Not elemental magic like you and possibly the princess here, chaos magic. Magic only used for destruction, fed by the violence of mankind. He was immensely powerful, he could've been considered a god."
"Perhaps this isn't something for her to hear."
"Probably not."
Just then, Gerda walked in to see if they needed anything.
"Yes, Gerda, could you take Maura and bring her to my sister?," Elsa asked, and she nodded and left with Maura in her hands.
"What was his name?," she asked going back to the previous conversation.
"We never found out, he was only ever called the Barbarian King," he answered. "And I never got the chance to ask him before I killed him."
"You killed him?"
"And ended the war right then and there," he said. "But now I fear that he might be back, for as long as part of him survives, he can come back. I found that out too late."
"Then we'd best be ready for him."
"That's who was in my dream a couple weeks ago. I'm teller by you now because I trust you," he said.
"Do you not trust my sister and Kristoff?," she asked.
"I do. But my dream said the war was coming in the form of a familiar face."
She nodded in understanding. "Well thank you for trusting me."
"Always," he said smiling and she blushed slightly.
"Well, as much as I enjoy speaking with you, Elsa, I promised Kristoff I'd help him get back in practice with his fighting skills."
"Very well then," she said. "I'll see you later then."
"See you later."
Elsa seemed to be disappointed when Jason left, but she knew that boys will be boys.
Training Grounds
Jason dove downward to avoid one of Kristoff's dual axes, and he then used one of his dual swords to swing at his feet, which the big blonde then avoided. He did a chopping attack, but Jason rolled away and jumped to his feet.
"You're putting all of your strength into one axe and ignoring the other, use both evenly," he instructed him, and Kristoff did a light swing with his left axe, which Jason deflected with his swords then Kristoff did a backward swing and almost smacked Jason in the face with it.
"Better," he said, then smirked. "But you need to mind your surroundings."
Kristoff then looked around and saw that he wasn't in any dangerous spots, then he felt a knee in the gut, and he instantly went to his knees.
"And never let your opponent distract you," Jason said with his sword at Kristoff's throat. He then pulled it away and helped his friend up. "Nice job though, especially after being out of practice for five years."
"Thanks," Kristoff said. "Now you better get ready for tonight."
"Okay, thanks again for this idea, how long of a ride is it?"
"About fifteen minutes if go straight there."
Jason then nodded and went to get dressed for his date with Elsa.
Later that Evening
Kai came to the Queen's study and knocked on the door.
"Enter," a voice from inside said, and he opened the door.
"Your Majesty, you asked me to remind you of your date with Sir Jason," he said.
"Oh yes thank you, you may go," she said.
"One more thing," he said and she looked at him. "He wished for me to inform you to meet him in the courtyard."
"Very well then, thank you," she said, but was slightly confused.
Courtyard
Elsa then walked in her ice dress and had ice blue cloak on into the castle courtyard and found Jason there, in his blue over coat, and had a larger coat on for extra warmth.
"So glad you could join me, Your Majesty," he said taking her hand and kissing it.
"Of course good sir," she said. "We do have a date after all."
Then they heard something coming towards them, and Jason smirked.
"Speak of the devil," he said and then a sled came up right next to them. Elsa quickly realized who's sled it was as instead of a horse, it was a reindeer.
"I know we said we'd go out for a walk and such, but later on I had thought of something better and wanted to make it a surprise."
"Ooh now I'm very interested," she said as he offered her a hand into the sled, then he got on.
"Like our chauffeur?," he joked and she snickered, and the driver chuckled.
"Hahaha... very funny Jason," Kristoff said, then he urged Sven to get moving and they began heading out of town.
"Where are we going?," she said.
"It's a surprise," he answered, not wanting to spoil anything.
After about fifteen minutes, they had reached their destination, high on top of the North Mountain. When she realized what was going on she gasped in surprise and joy.
Jason had brought her back to her magnificent ice palace.
"Thought you'd like this," he said. "Think you'll like what I did inside for us even more."
He then led her inside as Kristoff and Sven rode off, to pick them up some other time. As the reached the doors, the snow golem, Marshmallow, opened them up.
"Hello, Elsa," he said.
"Hello, Marshmallow," she said back, then she saw the changes made as they found their way to what would be considered the kitchen. There was now a small table with two chairs in the middle of it and he had stuff cooking on the stove.
"Who was cooking the food?," she asked.
"I did originally, then I had Olaf keep it warm until we got back," he answered as he pulled out a chair for her. He then called for Olaf, who brought their food as carefully as he could, only spilling some of it on the floor. This didn't really bother either Elsa or Jason because they knew he was trying.
As they ate their meal, they began talking about, pretty much everything. Favorite music, stories, hobbies, etc.
"You know I remember this one time during the war, we were on retreat, Kristoff, Hans, Eugene and I, and we had been partying, having a good time. When Hans had decided to go to bed, we decided to pull him off his high horse," he began to tell his story. "And what we did would've gotten us in trouble if anybody had actually liked Hans."
"What did you do?," Elsa asked.
"Just so you know, Hans was practically unconscious for most of this. The guys and took him out of his bed, took him to a high nearby bridge, stripped him down to his undergarments, and strapped a rope tight around him and the railing of the bridge and threw him off. Oh you should've seen the look on his face because he woke up at the perfect moment, and he screamed like a little girl."
Both of them broke into a fit of laughter at the thought of that happening to such a spoiled brat like Hans.
"Guess the Griffin Knight really can fly," Elsa joked.
"That is exactly what I said," he said back, and they laughed again. "Boy that sure does take me back, back then you could actually trust Hans. I really am sorry for what he did."
"Don't be," Elsa said. "You had no control over what heA had done so don't go and blame yourself."
After they finished their food, Jason said that there was one more part of the date, a dance.
"But I have never danced before in my life," Elsa said and Jason smiled.
"Good," he said. "We can learn how together."
He then extended his arm out and she took his hand. "You do know that we don't have any music to dance right?"
"Ah well, we don't really need music to dance."
The two then began to dance all over, both have the greatest time doing so.
"You know for someone who has never danced before, you're very good," Jason said.
"Thank you," Elsa said. "To be truthful I do know how to dance, I'm just shy about it."
"Truthfully, its the same for me as well."
Both then smiled and continued to dance. Then all of a sudden they found themselves on the balcony, faces inches from each other. As they stared into each other's eyes, they began to fill in the gap between them, and just as they were about to kiss, they heard a voice coming from behind them.
"Aww!," Olaf said as Marshmallow started to cry, but this made Jason and Elsa pull apart with blushing wildly, and Olaf quickly realized what he had done. "I ruined the moment didn't I?"
Still embarrassed, they both just lightly nod. Then Jason soon saw how late it had gotten.
"Well Elsa, it's getting late," he said changing the subject. "Kristoff ought to be back by now."
"Y-yeah we should probably get back," she said, still blushing a little. "We do have a big day tomorrow."
The two then made their way out of the ice palace and found Kristoff and Sven waiting for him. Olaf had decided to stay with Marshmallow for the night and come back tomorrow.
As they rode back to the castle, Elsa allowed herself to lean slightly on Jason, which brought a smug look on Kristoff's face when he looked back at them. Soon they had returned home, and Elsa decided to walk back to her room alone.
"Are you sure?," Jason asked.
"Yes, I'm sure," Elsa said. "Thank you for asking though. Goodnight, Jason."
"Goodnight, Elsa."
As Jason watched her walk back inside, it was then that he saw Kristoff, still having a smug look on his face.
"Well, someone doesn't want a tip," he said, making him laugh. Jason waited a few moments for him to put the sled and Sven in the stables so they could talk.
"So how did it go?," he asked as they entered the castle. Jason quickly looked around for servants as he didn't want to any gossip going around before finally answering.
"Amazing," he simply said. "As you saw she was very surprised to see us bring to her palace, then I brought her to the dining room and Olaf served us our dinner. We then began talking, learning more about each other. Told her about that one thing we did to Hans, got a huge laugh out of that."
Kristoff then chuckled a little at that memory before judging him to continue.
"Then, after we had finished eating, I decided that we should have a dance."
"Ooh that was smooth."
"Thank you, she could dance very well if I might add. Then we found ourselves on the balcony."
Kristoff then grinned because he could figure out what happened next, but he wanted to know for sure.
"And...?"
"To know the rest," Jason said. "Ask our waiter and doorman."
He then gave Jason a sympathetic look as he could figure out that the two snowmen had interrupted them.
"Then you'll just have to try again on that part," he said.
"No!," he said back quickly. "She sees me only as a friend." This earned him an 'Are you kidding me?' look.
"You like her don't you?," he asked.
"Yes," he answered. "A lot."
"Then you need to tell her how you feel before someone snatches her away from you."
"But what if she doesn't feel the same way? What if her leaning in was just the heat of the moment?"
Kristoff face palmed in frustration. "You...are...hopeless," he said, making Jason roll his eyes.
"Whatever, let's get to bed, we do have a ball to go to tomorrow."
"Yeah, whatever. Goodnight," Kristoff said and he went to bed.
As Jason walked to his room, one thought came into his mind, little did he know that Elsa was thinking the same thing.
'I think I'm falling for him/her,' they both thought.
Distant Island in the Region of the Southern Isles
When he had returned home and the French representative had explained what he had done, Hans was stripped of his title and exiled. He has spent the last two years of his life on that island, with no hope of ever escaping it.
Then one night, he awoke from his handmade bed with a jump.
"Hans...," a voice said.
"Who's there?," he demanded. "And that's Prince Hans to you."
"Not anymore it would seem," the voice spoke again, and appeared out of thin air right in his face a Hans jumped backwards.
"Wh-who are you?," he asked fearfully.
"That depends on who you want me to be," he answered. "I can be your doom or I can be your salvation."
"Salvation! Salvation!," he yelled.
"Good choice," the cloaked figure said. "I am the one who you only knew as the Barbarian King."
Hans' eyes went wide in shock and fear. "So, you did not die. Jason failed," he said. "What do you want from me?"
"Your assistance," he said, and this intrigued Hans.
"Really? Tell me, what's in it for me?," he asked with a little more confidence, making the king smile.
"Revenge," he simply said, and Hans grinned.
"Very well, what would you have me do?"
Hope you liked this chapter. I'll have the next one up soon.