Kristian slept well for a few hours. That is until an explosion shook the mountain. "Huh, what was that?" questions Kristian as he sits up in bed, as he was awoken by the noise and vibrations of the explosion.

Kristian places his feet on the floor, and he places his head in his hands. Kristian is not fully awake yet, and he needs a moment to get his blood moving. Finally Kristian lifts his head and stands up. "I better see if I can tell what that noise was," says Kristian as he walks to the door.

Kristian walks outside a few yards, and he begins to look around the plateau from this vantage point. Nothing catches Kristian's eye, and he was about to head back inside. That is until something that was not suppose be happening was. Some smoke was coming out of the chimney of the house that was Goran's.

"There shouldn't be any fire in Goran's house?" says a puzzled Kristian.

So instead of heading back into his own house, Kristian walks over to the house that was once used by Goran. As Kristian approaches, he can see no light coming from inside; but smoke still comes out of the chimney. Once Kristian reaches the door, he enters the house. Once inside, Kristian flares up one of his hands to provide light to see by.

Kristian would have preferred to have stayed away from this building. There really was nothing in here that Kristian wanted, and the thought of Goran always gave Kristian emotional turmoil. Still, there stood Kristian, as he was just inside the main door.

After looking around briefly, Kristian looks up to the iron ball hanging from the rafters. Then Kristian shoots his flame at the iron ball to cause it to light up with fire. This flaming ball now is able to provide light in the building, and Kristian allows the flame on his hand to go out.

Now Kristian walks over to the fireplace. This fireplace is unusual in the fact that a man can easily stand up in the hearth. Kristian always wondered why Goran had such a fireplace. Kristian always thought that Goran did something special in this fireplace, but he didn't know what that could be. Anyway, Kristian could see that there was no fire in this fireplace, but he was able to see smoke. After a closer examination Kristian noticed that the smoke was coming from around the stones at the back of the fireplace.

"That's weird," questions Kristian as he examines this strange occurrence.

The back side of Goran's house buts up against a short rock outcropping, and the fireplace was at the back of the house. "This should be solid rock, but it looks as if there is some kind of void behind this wall," ponders Kristian.

Kristian examines the back of the fireplace more closely now. Kristian even runs his hands over the stone in the back. However, Kristian cannot locate anything that would indicate a way to open this stone. Suddenly a muffled voice is heard coming from behind the stone.

"Goran, why have you not answered my call?" says the voice.

"What? Excuse me?" asks Kristian as he steps back from the stone. "I'm not Goran, and I am afraid that Goran is no longer with us."

"How can that be?" replies the voice. "I still sense his presence. Come here and tell me who you are, and tell me what you know of Goran."

"I can't come to you," says Kristian. "A large stone blocks the way and I don't know how to move it."

"It takes a small amount of magic to move the stone," replies the voice. "I shall move the stone for you."

As Kristian watches the stone at the back of the fireplace, a red glow begins to show up around the edge of the stone. Then the stone itself dissolves into a pile of ash at the bottom of the hearth. Behind this stone, a tunnel slopes down into the mountain, and a light can be seen coming from the tunnel.

"Come to me," says the voice again.

What Kristian has just been witnessing is a little startling to him. However, he is not all that scared by it. After having lived with Goran, and then facing him in Arendelle; Kristian doesn't think that there is much that he has to be afraid of. So Kristian walks forward and steps over the ash to enter the tunnel. Now, Kristian slowly walks down into the mountain through this sloping tunnel.

Soon Kristian enters a large room with a fire burning in the center of the room. This fire sits on top of a slightly raise stone circle on the floor. What is really unusual about this fire is that it seems to be burning on nothing but air. There was no wood or anything else that was combustible underneath the flames.

Kristian slowly walks towards this fire as he checks out the rest of the room. Kristian is trying to find someone in this room, but there isn't any place for a person to hide here. Soon Kristian hears a voice coming from the fire itself.

"You seem familiar to me," says the fire. "How can that be? You and I have never met."

Kristian stops and stares at the fire in surprise. Then Kristian replies, "How should I know? I didn't even know this room was down here. I've lived with Goran for several years, and he never told me about this place. He didn't even tell me that he had a talking fire."

Then a dark laugh is heard coming from the fire. Then the fire says, "So you are Kristian. Goran has told me about you, and it doesn't surprise me that he did not tell you about me. Why would he want to reveal his greatest secret to someone that could possibly take his place?"

"I don't understand? Take his place? What do you mean by that?" asks a puzzled Kristian.

"Has Goran ever told you anything about how he got his magic power, or where he learned how to use them," replies the fire.

"Not much, but he did say that he willing accepted the curse that gave him his powers," says Kristian.

"I am Tollak, and the power that Goran possesses has been given to him by me," replies the fire, Tollak. "In order to receive his magic, Goran had to become a servant of mine. Goran most likely fears that you would become my servant and that he would have to subjugate himself to you. That is probably why Goran did not tell you about me. So tell me, where is Goran and why has he not responded to me?"

"Don't take this the wrong way, but Goran is no longer with us," says Kristian a little wary of what the response might be. "Goran went on a mission for the Duke of Weselton, to take out a magical being. He failed at that task and Goran was frozen solid."

"That cannot be!" exclaims Tollak with some anger. "Goran's fire would have prevented that! Still, I can sense his magic. In fact, I can sense that it is very close."

Kristian is beginning to feel uneasy about this conversation; and he begins to step backwards away from the fire, Tollak.

"Of course, I understand now!" exclaims Tollak. "You were with Goran when he was defeated, weren't you."

"Um, yes, I was there when Goran was frozen solid," replies and uneasy Kristian.

"Then somehow, Goran's curse was passed onto you," says Tollak. "That is why you seem familiar. I sense his curse within you."

"So, what now? Do you want his power back?" asks a wary Kristian.

"No, you shall take his place," replies Tollak. "You will continue with Goran's work of seeking out magical energy, and I shall be the master over you."

"Sorry Tollak, but I refuse to partake in your offer," replies Kristian with some hostility. "I choose who I will subjugate myself to, and I have no desire to take up the hostile actions of Goran."

"You think you have a choice in this matter!" exclaims Tollak as the fire surges upward till it touches the ceiling.

In response to the surging fire, Kristian takes a few steps backwards; and his hands flare up as well. In a moment, the fire recedes from the ceiling until it is the height of a man. Then the fire begins to swirl and solidify into the humanoid shape of a man. Now a pure flaming man stands before Kristian, and his eyes of fire stare straight at Kristian.

"Now you will see what your insolence to me is going to cost you," says Tollak as he lifts a hand into the air.

As Tollak lifts his hand, Kristian fells a pain in his chest; and he flinches from the pain. However, Kristian quickly recovers from the pain, and he raises his hands up. The flames on Kristian's hands then surge with power. This reaction of Kristian surprises Tollak.

"Did you think that I couldn't control the curse," says Kristian as he prepares to counter any move that Tollak might make.

"You managed to control the energy that I gave Goran!" exclaims Tollak with surprise. "But then I am not totally surprised. Your own natural abilities have given you an edge over normal mortals. However, that can easily be rectified."

Now Tollak raises a hand and he fires a short steam of flame at Kristian. Kristian responds by jumping off to the side and then rolling to a kneeling position. Then Kristian fires a quick fireball at Tollak. However, all that Tollak needed to do to block this fireball is to raise a hand and deflect the ball away. Now Tollak begins to laugh as Kristian quickly gets to his feet.

"My magic is greater than anything that you possess," says Tollak as he laughs.

So was Goran's magic, and I handled him just fine," replies Kristian as he launches a large fireball at Tollak.

Tollak raises a hand with a laugh, and he tries to take the full force of the fireball. However, the next reaction from Tollak is one of surprise. Instead of striking Tollak, the fireball simply moved around Tollak's extended arm. Then the fireball envelops Tollak in a flaming mass. As this happens, Kristian starts to make a run for the tunnel exit.

Tollak roars with anger and he shoots his fire out in all directions. This outburst quickly rips the fire that surrounds Tollak apart, and soon he sees Kristian making a run for the exit. So Tollak shoots a long ribbon of flame out, and this ribbon quickly develops into a wall of fire between Kristian and the tunnel. However, Kristian does not stop running; and he attempts to leap through this firewall. However, when Kristian hit the flames, it was like hitting a solid wall. Kristian crumples up against the firewall, and he falls backwards onto the floor in a daze.

Tollak now steps towards Kristian. Then with anger he says, "If you thought Goran was powerful, then you have not seen real power! I dwarf Goran's abilities by nearly a thousand fold! As you have just witnessed, I can create solid matter with just the fire I possess! I don't need to use any sort of material like Goran did to create items! My thoughts alone are all that I need!"

Now Tollak launches another short fire stream at Kristian. However, Kristian has managed to recover enough from his hard impact against the firewall to jump out of the way. As Kristian roles, he launches a barrage of small flaming orbs at Tollak. In response Tollak raises his hands up and easily takes the impacts of the exploding orbs. However, this distraction has allowed Kristian to regain his feet, and he then quickly creates a swirling fire around Tollak.

"You think this little wind is going to stop me!" exclaims Tollak.

Tollak then tries to step through the swirling fire, but the fire just spins him around and he falls to the floor. Tollak now roars as he attempts to rip the swirling fire with his own flame. Initially Tollak's fire does little damage and his fire just gets spun around.

Meanwhile, Kristian focuses his attention on the firewall. Kristian creates a three foot fire ring, and he pushes it flat against the firewall. Then by swiping his hands sideways, Kristian weakens the area of the firewall that the fire ring is against. This allows the fire ring to sink into Tollak's firewall. Once this has happened, Kristian begins to run towards the firewall; and he then leaps through his fire ring. Finally, Kristian has managed to get through Tollak's firewall.

However, as this was happening, Tollak has managed to rip the swirling fire of Kristian's into small flames. These flames end up flickering on the floor of the room. Tollak manages to do this just in time to see Kristian jump through his firewall.

"That's not possible!" exclaims Tollak as he witnesses Kristian's departure.

Then Tollak runs after Kristian. As he runs, Tollak vaporizes his firewall and smashes through Kristian's fire ring. "You will be mine!" shouts Tollak.

By now, Kristian is in the tunnel that heads towards the surface. When Kristian hears Tollak's exclamation, he stretches his hands out to the side, and he directs his energy into the walls of the tunnel. Soon Tollak is in the tunnel as well, and he fires another flame stream at Kristian. At this time, Kristian has made it to the top of the tunnel; and he turns around. Now with Tollak in the tunnel, Kristian sweeps his hands together. This action causes the walls of the tunnel to rumble, and soon the walls explode. This explosion totally collapses the tunnel, burying Tollak. However, Tollak's fire stream has managed to find its mark. Kristian gets hit in the shoulder and he falls backwards from the impact.

The impact of Tollak's fire stream surprises Kristian. However, the impact didn't have that much effect on him; or so Kristian thinks. Anyway, Kristian scrambles around to look back at the tunnel. When he finally gets his bearings, Kristian sees that the tunnel is totally collapsed; and he also sees that the red glow from the stones is fading away.

"I hope that takes care of Tollak," says Kristian as he gets up off the floor. "But to make sure, I better seal this tunnel for good."

Now Kristian walks forward and places his hands onto the rubble of the tunnel. Then Kristian begins to push his energy into the rocks. The rocks begin to glow and shortly the rocks begin to mold themselves together. In no time the rocks become one homogeneous mass. Once this has happened, Kristian stops his work; and the stones cool to become one solid rock. Now, Kristian steps back from his work. He examines the results, and Kristian is very satisfied with the outcome.

With the tunnel now sealed, Kristian turns his attention to the shoulder that Tollak had hit with a fire stream. On the front of Kristian's shoulder, there is black soot. Kristian then reaches up and brushes the soot off of himself.

"With the way Tollak was talking, I would have expected something more severe than this little hit," says Kristian. "I guess I was just lucky, because he did have some insane power there."

With things finally settling down, Kristian heads off to his own house. Once Kristian reaches his own bed, he quickly lays down. For a short while, Kristian just lays there mulling over his recent encounter with Tollak. Eventually, Kristian drifts off to sleep.

As Kristian sleeps, he begins to dream. Initially, Kristian's dream is about his mother, and the happy moments he had with her as a child. In time the dream changes, and Goran becomes part of the dream.

"Kristian, you need to destroy the ice witch," says Goran harshly.

"No!" cries the young Kristian in the dream. "You are not my family!" Then the young Kristian runs to his mother in the dream. However, as Kristian runs he becomes older; and his mother's image is changed to the fiery image of Tollak. Kristian stops running in the dream and he starts to back away from Tollak. However, Kristian soon bumps into Goran.

As Kristian turns around, he sees Goran. Then Goran says, "Your family is dead, and you have no friends. We are the only family that you will ever have. You need to destroy the ice witch for the good of your family. The family that is linked to you by fire."

"You have never been my family or my friend, Goran!" shouts Kristian as his hands flame up in the dream. "I have found true friends that have replaced you in my life! I don't need you anymore!" With that said, Kristian shoots his fire at the image of Goran; and Goran evaporates into the air.

Now Kristian breaths heavily, in the dream, as laughter starts to echo all around him. "You need to find the ice witch that froze Goran," says the voice of Tollak. "You need to go to her and destroy her."

"NO!" says Kristian to the bodiless voice. "I'm going back to my new home!"

"You will destroy her," continues the voice of Tollak.

"No, I won't!" shouts Kristian again as he turns to find the source of the voice in his dream.

In one of his turns, Kristian comes face to face with the fiery image of Tollak. Then Tollak thrusts his hand forward, and this hand penetrates the shoulder of Kristian. This is the same shoulder that Tollak's fire stream hit. "You will go to her," says a stern Tollak.

"No," says Kristian with some pain, as he grabs the arm of Tollak in his dream.

"You will go to her!" says Tollak with an even stronger voice.

"I'm only going to Arendelle!" cries out Kristian as he tries to pull the hand of Tollak out of his chest.

"You will go to the ice witch!" says Tollak in almost a shout.

"I'm… I'm going to Arendelle! I'm only going to Arendelle!" cries out Kristian.

Then a bird's screech penetrates the dream. Then another bird's screech is heard. Soon Kristian wakes up from his sleep. As he wakes up, Kristian is clutching his chest; and his mattress is on fire. Kristian then quickly gets up, and he waves his hands around to put out the fire. Once the fire is out, Kristian sits down in a chair and looks at the burnt mattress.

"Man that was one heck of a dream," says Kristian to himself.

Then Kristian hears a questioning squawk coming from Mattias. So, Kristian turns to look at Mattias; who is standing on the dinner table behind Kristian.

"Oh, hi Mattias," says Kristian to the firebird. "I just had a bad dream about Goran and a fiery man named Tollak. They both wanted me to destroy Elsa. Of course I didn't want to go along with it; but man, that dream was intense and it felt almost real. I'm just glad that you were able to wake me from that dream."

Now Kristian gets up, and he looks at the items sitting on the table with Mattias. "Well, since I am up, I guess that I should start loading the cart for our return trip to Arendelle," says Kristian.

Then Mattias lets out an affirmative squawk, and Kristian begins to carry the items out to the chest on the cart. Kristian takes care to pack these items, because these items are precious to him. With all of the items, Kristian makes sure to wrap them in some other kind of cloth. Once everything was safely packed, Kristian places a heavy tarp over the chest and ties the chest down to the cart.

With the table now cleared, Kristian prepares his breakfast and spends a little quiet time with Mattias. Once the morning rituals have been completed, Kristian places things away for long term storage; and then he heads outside.

Once outside, Kristian spends his time hooking the horse up to the cart. Then once he is done, Kristian takes one last look around the plateau. "I'm certainly not going to miss this place," says Kristian. Then Kristian's eyes fall onto his old home. "Well maybe I will miss seeing the memories of my mother." Then Kristian climbs onto the cart and heads on down the mountain.

On his way down, Kristian stops by his parents graves. Once the horse had stopped, Kristian climbs down from the cart; and he proceeds to walk over to the headstones. When Kristian gets to the stones, he kneels down in front of his mother's headstone; and he begins to speak.

"Hello again mother," says Kristian as he addresses the stone. "This may be the last time that I will be able to be here with you. I hate to leave you like this, but I also know that you are past caring about what happens to yourself. I just hope that the powers that be will take good care of you. For me this is a sad ending to a chapter in my life, but today is also the beginning of a new one. A new life awaits me; and I hope it is full of all the love and warmth that can exist. The type of love, you had given to me as I was growing up."

Now, Kristian turns to the headstone of his father. "Dad, I really don't know what to say to you," says Kristian. "I never really got to know you. I barely have any memories of the time before mom and I had to leave you and my sister. So all I have to go on are mother's stories and what you tried to do when Goran did away with you. For what you tried to do, I am grateful. I'm just sorry that it did not turn out the way that you wanted."

After Kristian finishes speaking, he gets up off the ground and he finds two perfectly round stones nearby. By pushing his magic into these stones, they begin to flame like two oil fired torches. With the stones flaming like this, Kristian places one stone on the top of each of his parent's headstones.

"These stones should burn for a couple of days before they go out," says Kristian as he backs away from the headstones. "It is the last gesture that I can give to the both of you before I leave."

Now Kristian turns away, and then he goes to the cart. When Kristian finally finds his seat on the cart he turns to look back at the headstones for one last time. With a sigh, the last thing that Kristian says is, "Good Bye."

With nothing more to say, Kristian begins to have the horse move on down the mountain. As the cart moves, Kristian doesn't say a word for some time; and Mattias follows Kristian through the air. Finally, when the cart reaches the bottom of the mountain, Kristian reaches into his shirt and pulls out the insignia of Arendelle that Elsa had given him. Kristian looks at it for a moment; and with a sad smile, Kristian says, "Well Elsa, I'm on my way home."

Then Kristian places the insignia back under his shirt, and he continues on his way back to Arendelle.