My apologies for being late with this. I had some things to take care of in real-life. But I have returned and have written more "MV" material.
My OC will make another appearance in this chapter and, let's just say things will be handled much differently here when the group meets my OC . . . (laughs insanely a 'la Candace Flynn from Phineas and Ferb).
The group followed the floating cloth. Most of them were already making plans in their heads on how to deal with whoever that cloth belonged to when the owner was found.
With the combined magical abilities of Emma, Elsa and Regina and the archery skills of Merida, the sword skills of Anna and the burly strength of Kristoff, they could be an unbeatable team.
So far, the cloth led them out of the town and into the forest. This meant that the mysterious assailant must have high-tailed it into the woods after attacking Belle and Doc to evade attention to what he did.
When the cloth led them deep in the forest, it suddenly dropped to the ground like a bird that unexpectedly died in mid-flight.
The trail seemed to end right there with no sign of the assailant. But he/she had to be around here somewhere as the potion indicated.
"Now what?" Merida asked.
"We spread out and find our fugitive. It's better if we split up to conduct a thorough search and if anyone finds the intruder, do not attack unless attacked first and remember, we are to capture this unknown being alive. Do not kill whoever it is." said Emma.
Besides her magic, Emma had two weapons on her. A revolver and a tranquilizer pistol. The second weapon was to help capture the assailant while the first would be used to wound the person rather than kill if tranquilizing the target proved to be difficult.
Regina had her own magic, Merida had her bow and arrows, Anna borrowed Merida's sword, Kristoff used his hatchet and Elsa was armed with her ice magic.
"Regina and I will go one way and you guys will go another. Take this with you." Emma said and took out two radios, one of which she handed to Elsa, Kristoff, Merida and Anna while keeping the second radio for Regina and herself.
"What's that thing for?" Merida asked and took the radio and studied it with curiosity.
"It's called a 'radio' or sometimes a 'walkie talkie'. It's used for speaking with others from far distances. If you're in any kind of trouble, just press this red button on the side and talk into the speaker right here. If it makes a static sound randomly, that means it's me or Regina trying to talk to you with our own radio and it can do the same for us. Go ahead, try it out." Emma said.
Merida placed the radio speaker near her lips, pressed the red button and spoke into it.
"Hello?" she said and a response in the form of Merida's own voice from Emma and Regina's radio was heard.
"See? Like that." said Emma.
"I'm familiar with this kind of technology. I've seen Emma use it before and so did I." Elsa said to Merida.
"You have?" she asked.
"Yes. Remember the story I told of my first experience in this realm last night?" Elsa said, bringing back her memory of the night she first met Emma.
"Oh yes, now I remember. You said you used it to save Emma after she almost froze to death." said Merida.
"I'll hold onto it. You need both hands to use your bow and arrows, don'cha?" Anna said and Merida gave the radio over to Anna and she took it.
When plans were discussed, they went their separate ways.
Elsa was the leader of the group and led them deep into the forest. It was a good thing she was wearing her new Storybrooke clothes as her dress would have made travel difficult here. Her dress and cape would get snagged on a twig or branch or stone and that would cause problems for her. It didn't last time though, but still, it was better to be safe than sorry.
"I don't suppose you have a magic detection ability, do you Elsa?" Merida asked.
"I'm afraid not, Merida. I may be an ice queen, but I have no way of sensing anyone near me, magic or not." said Elsa.
"Hmm, guess we'll just have to find this other visitor the old fashioned way." said Merida.
"And what old fashioned way would that be?" Elsa asked with humor in her voice.
"Relying on our senses to detect danger." said Merida.
"How skilled are you with that weapon?" Elsa asked about Merida's bow.
"A lot. Similar to your title, my skill with this could earn me a name like, oh say, 'Archery Queen'. That lad Henry once referred to me as 'Hawkeye'. I don't know who or what that is, but I'm guessing that it has something to do with archery." said Merida.
"Me neither. Henry has a thing for something called 'comic books'. Here, they're books with pictures and drawings that tell stories about people with powers and special abilities like me. Those people in his stories are called 'superheroes' and 'supervillains'. He once showed me a comic book about a group of people called 'The Avengers'. I never understood what it's about and I still don't, but he seemed to admire that story very much." Elsa explained, remembering a time Henry showed her his comic book collection.
"So people with magic are called superheroes?" Anna asked.
"Only those who use their powers for good. Those who use their powers for evil purposes are called supervillains." Elsa said. "You'll have to ask him about that topic, I don't know much as well as he does."
"Well, since you have powers and you use them for good, doesn't that make you a 'superhero'?" Kristoff asked.
Elsa hadn't thought about that. With the exceptions of almost killing Anna, Emma and those two assassins from Weselton in her ice castle, it made sense considering all the good she has done in Arendelle and Storybrooke. She was highly popular in both realms.
"Now that you've put it that way, I guess I am in the culture of this realm. Those characters in Henry's stories have powers, then I must be a 'superhero' too." Elsa said with a hand over her lips to hide a giggle.
"I bet once we return home, we should make an announcement to all to start calling you 'Elsa, the superhero queen of Arendelle' or 'Super Elsa." Anna joked and laughing at the idea.
Elsa, Kristoff and Merida laughed too. It sounded funny.
"Perhaps I'll look into those comic book stories of his and see if I can like them and find out why he calls me that title I mentioned earlier." said Merida.
Switching to another topic, Anna said, "I wonder what kind of magic this mystery man or woman has."
"The only way to find out is to find this intruder first." said Kristoff. He hoped the person they sought, although probably dangerous, was not at least maniacal. A wicked prince 13th in line for a throne, a fearsome pirate of the seas and an aunt in-law who was driven insane from being abandoned by her own sister and became a wicked version of Elsa were enough to handle. Who knew what the new realm visitor was capable of doing with whatever abilities he or she had.
"Maybe the one we're looking for has power over water. Think about it. Belle said her attacker turned into a puddle and slithered away like a snake after punching out that poor man she was with. That makes sense, doesn't it?" Anna suggested.
"Maybe. We won't know for sure yet, but you do have a point. Puddles are made from water, so perhaps this enemy has water magic." said Kristoff.
"If so, then if a fight happens between my sister and this weirdo, Elsa will most likely win because, you know, ice freezes water and ice comes from water and stuff." said Anna.
"True, but from what I've learned from one of Elsa's books in the castle library, water can also melt ice sometimes. Like when Elsa puts an ice cube she creates in a cup to chill her drinks and it eventually melts after being submerged inside for a long period of time. So while Elsa might win as you claim, it's also possible for her to lose, too." Kristoff pointed out.
Anna appeared disappointed at the prediction. "Oh, that's right. I didn't see that. Oooh, if only I had fire magic, then I can melt the stranger into nothing if he dares to lay a hand on any of us." she said.
"But that would also be your downfall because if our 'friend' is a water magician, then he or she could defeat you by putting out your hypothetical fire powers with his or her hypothetical water abilities as water always beats fire." Kristoff warned.
"Hey whose side are you on, Bjorgman?" Anna demanded after hearing her husband's double doubts.
Elsa and Merida stifled their giggles.
"Yours of course." Kristoff defended. "I'm just merely stating the outcomes of such a fight if you had any fire magic."
Anna realized he was right and that she was merely overreacting.
"I'm sorry. It's just that I don't want us or anyone else in Storybrooke to get hurt or even killed by whoever's here besides us." she said.
"I know and don't worry. Nobody's going to die or get hurt. Well, everyone except the mystery person if it comes to that. Besides, we have that anti-magic thing Emma's carrying and we can use it to stop this threat. She already showed what it did with Elsa." Kristoff said.
"Yeah, you're right." said Anna. "Besides, I have magic, alright. The magic of love, happiness, quirkiness and, most of all, being the best little sister a certain queen can ask for."
Elsa glanced at Anna's direction with a happy look in her eyes.
"Aw, that's so sweet Anna." Elsa said.
"At least you have a sister. I have three brothers who've been a handful for years, but I wouldn't trade them for anyone or anything else." said Merida.
"Have your parents, before your father died, considered trying for a girl besides you?" Elsa asked.
"Nah. I'm the only female born to them. After my triplet brothers were brought into existence, they stopped havin' kids. My mother said havin' children was painful . . . and I mean that quite literally." said the Dunbroch archer.
"While I have never had children of my own before, even I'm cringed on how painful it must be." said Elsa.
"Same here." said Anna.
"As a man, I'll never know." said Kristoff. "Unless there's a kind of magic here that can turn me into a woman."
The three women stopped and stared at him.
"What?" he asked.
Their faces were blank at first, as if his comment angered them.
Then they turned into grins and then into laughter.
"Good lord, Kristoff!" Anna said.
"What . . . a jo . . . ker!" said Elsa.
"I can . . . hardly . . . hold my bow!" said Merida as she and Anna kneeled over in laughter.
Anna leaned onto Elsa to balance herself while laughing and Elsa did the same.
"You . . . have the . . . craziest . . . husband, Anna!" said Merida.
"I . . . know! That's why . . . I married him!" said Anna.
Elsa could not comment as she was too busy laughing her ass off.
Kristoff himself could not hold it in and laughed too at his own joke. Looks like Anna was not the only funny one in the family.
Meanwhile, Regina and Emma tread cautiously across the forest. Emma's finger was on the trigger of her dart pistol and Regina spread her hands out to cast powerful magic blasts at the first sign of danger.
"So Regina. How does it feel to be an aunt to Robin's daughter?" Emma asked.
"I enjoy it. My experience from raising Henry never left me unlike my Evil Queen side. I'm still trying to teach her to talk and I hope the first words she utters are 'Auntie Regina' or 'Auntie Reggie'." she said.
Emma smiled. "Maybe one day she should meet with my brother. Who knows how great friends they'll become. I hope my acceleration of Zelena's pregnancy when I was a Dark One didn't put any harmful side effects on the baby." She made a face of regret from that time. Like Henry said, it was her dark side that did that, not Emma herself.
"Well, they are related in a way, so I don't see any harm in that, not that I do anyway. Henry and her are also cousins since Zelena is my sister and all and she is the biological mother." said Regina.
"I don't know about you, but my family tree line confuses me sometimes." Emma said.
"Same with me. It's hard to keep track sometimes. 'He's related to her, she's related to him.' But we have to keep the cards we're dealt with." Regina said.
"The only person I wish I could erase from the family tree is Rumpelstiltskin. That man is a pain in the ass." said Emma.
"Agreed. I'm so glad Belle got over him and moved on." said Regina.
Their conversation was cut short when the sound of a twig snapping was heard.
"Did you hear that?" Regina asked.
"Yeah. It must be our 'guest'." Emma said.
They looked around, each woman was hoping to catch a glimpse of the assailant or at least their royal friends.
Slight movement was seen deeper in the forest.
"I think I see something." Emma said.
"Is it that invader?" Regina asked.
"Not sure. Whatever or whoever it is, we should follow it." Emma replied and she and Regina went after the cause of that twig snap sound.
They had to move quietly to avoid detection by their target.
Later, they stopped abruptly when they found something unfamiliar to either of them.
In front of Regina Mills and Emma Swan was a person wearing a dark brown cloak. His or her back was turned to them, so the two were unseen and the stranger could not see them either.
Despite not actually seeing the face of the mystery person, Emma recognized the cloaked person as the same one she saw on the camera footage. It had to be the same suspect who assaulted Doc and Belle, mostly Doc.
The cloaked person was holding a small log in his/her hands, which were white. Not Caucasian white, really white as in the color, like regular chalk. From their spots, Emma and Regina witnessed something spectacular. The log began to freeze all over in the cloaked figure's hands.
Emma's eyes widen as she recognized that power. It was similar to Elsa's and Ingrid's. This person, this newcomer, was an ice magician too!
Regina was shocked too, just not as much as Emma. First Elsa, then Ingrid and now this mystery figure. If this person had ice magic, could he or she be a distant relative of Elsa and Anna? Ingrid had ice magic and she was directly related to Elsa. The thought of this person being related to the queen and princess of Arendelle was possible.
The stranger allowed the log to drop and it shattered upon hitting the ground.
The two women hid behind a fallen tree stump and began thinking up a way to confront the stranger.
"Makes me wonder how Elsa is going to react when she sees this figure. How are we going to take that thing down?" Regina asked with her voice toned down to a whisper.
"That person may have ice magic, but he or she can still be beaten. I'll have to use my tranquilizer gun to put him or her to sleep first before putting on the anti-magic cuff on." Emma said and got her tranq pistol out and prepared to take a shot at the stranger.
Before they can confront the stranger, the savior's radio suddenly made a static noise.
The sound alerted the stranger who immediately turned around and saw Emma and Regina. The stranger's face was covered except for the eyes, so they couldn't get a good look at the face and make an ID on their foe.
"Aw crap!" said Emma.
"You had to leave it on, didn't you?" Regina asked with sarcasm and had to show herself since the cat was out of the bag.
Their cover now blown, the two women/mothers prepared themselves for a fight.
But rather than fight them, the stranger suddenly materialized into a puddle and started to crawl away from them as if he/she was either nervous of them or had no desire to fight.
"What the hell kind of power is that?" Regina asked.
"Don't know, but we have to follow it now." said Emma and they started chasing after the moving puddle.
While running, Emma took out her radio to call the others and pressed its button.
"Guys, it's me! Are you there?" she said into it.
"Emma? What is it?" asked a voice. It was Elsa.
"Regina and I have been compromised! We found our target, but it saw us and is now on the run, sort of!" Emma said.
"Are you two hurt?" Elsa asked.
"No, but we might if we don't catch this one!"
"Okay, just tell us where you are. Do you have anything that can lead us to you like more tracking potion?" Elsa asked.
"No but . . . I got an idea!" said Emma.
"Tell us."
"I'll fire a blast of my magic into the sky and you guys follow it, like a signal flare!"
"Signal flare?" Elsa asked, not knowing such a thing.
"Just look up and look for my magic blast and you should be able to find us!" Emma said.
"Alright Emma. Whenever you're ready." said Elsa.
When the chat stopped, Emma aimed her right hand into the air and, with concentration, summoned a light in her hand and fired it into the air.
The magic ball launched high in the sky and exploded like a firecracker.
That should do it! Emma thought.
"Are you certain they'll see that?" Regina asked while running.
"They will! I know it!" Emma assured and fired another shot.
While running, Emma took this chance to take out her pistol and fire a shot at the moving puddle.
While the bullet hit the puddle, it did no damage. But the puddle then shot a blast of its own power at them. The blast missed Emma and Regina, the former almost being struck, and hit a tree which began to freeze immediately.
Ice magic . . . just like Elsa. Emma thought and fired a third magic shot into the sky.
Anna was fiddling with the radio Emma gave them.
"What a weird machine." she said while inspecting it.
"That's what I thought too at first. I used it to save Emma from dying in my . . . ice cave." said Elsa.
"Good thing ya did, lass. Freezin' to death must be slowly painful." Merida said.
"I can never know how that feels." Elsa said.
"Why no- Oh right, your immunity to cold weather." Merida said after remembering Elsa's abilities.
"So, people here use that thing for talking to each other just like Emma said?" Kristoff asked.
"Yep." said Elsa.
"You mean like, um, what did Henry call that thing of his again? That device that makes 'pic-tures'?" Anna asked, trying to pronounce the term for modern photography.
"A phone?" Elsa answered for her.
"Yeah that." Anna said.
While speaking, Anna unconsciously slid her thumb onto the speaker button, activating the radio.
The radio made a static sound.
"Whoops." said Anna.
After a while, they heard Emma's voice calling.
"Guys, it's me! Are you there?"
Anna wasn't sure what to do with the radio, so she handed it to Elsa since she was kinda experienced with radio tech and the ice queen took it and answered.
"Emma? Is that you? What is it?" asked Elsa.
When the emergency was known, along with Emma's plan to guide them to where the action was taking place, Elsa shut off the radio and everyone looked around the sky to await Emma's magic signal.
After seven seconds went by, a burst of magic suddenly shot up into the air and exploded. That was Emma.
"Was that the signal?" Merida asked.
"Yes. We must follow it." Elsa said and they raced to the direction of where it came from.
Another magic blast was seen, giving them a hint of where the savior was, they group ran faster, hoping to catch up to Emma and help her out of whatever danger she was in right now.
A third magic blast followed.
As they ran, another sound was heard. This time, it was not magical and it scared the royals.
"Yikes! What was that!?" Merida asked loudly, aiming her bow and arrow at random directions out of instinct.
"That would be the gun weapon Emma carries around. She must have used it to repel the threat she warned us about." Elsa said and she led them into the direction of the gunshot.
Eventually they finally reunited with Emma and Regina and it seems that they have company who was cornered by them, someone new.
"Is this the assailant we're lookin' for, lass?" Merida asked.
"Apparently so." said Regina.
"Whoever this is also has ice powers." Emma said, making the royals, especially Elsa, gasp in shock.
"Another . . . ice being?" she asked.
Anna looked at Elsa and at the unknown person standing before them. Another ice magician, just like her sister and late aunt. But was this person good like Elsa or bad like Ingrid was?
"Well, so much for the 'water powers' theory." she said.
The group were now pitted against the unknown attacker of Belle and Doc in a standoff. It was a matter of time before one of them made a move of hostility or peace.
They couldn't tell what the stranger's emotions were right now because of the scarf, but from what was going on, three guesses were panic, fear, anger, or all of the above.
"Who are you?" Emma asked.
The stranger said nothing.
"I said, who are you? Where are you from?" Emma repeated.
The stranger still did not reply and kept glaring at them. Emma was starting to wonder if this person even understood English or even spoke at all. The silent stranger reminded Emma and Regina of Dopey since he too never said a word.
Since Emma just said this person carried ice powers, Elsa figured that she should step in and resolve the problem at hand. It made sense as she was an ice being herself.
"Elsa, what are you doing?" Anna questioned after seeing her elder sister walking toward the being.
"It's okay, Anna. Let me handle this. If this person has ice magic, then I should be the one to confront whoever this is." Elsa said.
As much as Anna didn't want to see Elsa going out there in front of someone they've never seen before and was vicious toward Emma and Regina, she had to trust her sister to do this. In case the stranger attacked Elsa, at least Elsa would be unharmed by it. Right?
"Hello there. You have magic over ice? So do I." Elsa said in a calm tone as she slowly and carefully approached the figure who just stared at her, probably wondering what her intentions were besides what she said she would do.
"We're not here to harm you. Whatever happened between you and them, it's only because they don't know you yet. If you're confused over this realm's appearance, I know how that feels." Elsa said.
Anna tried to contain her urge to shriek as she watched Elsa get closer to the stranger. She got the feeling that something was going to happen. Not good, not bad. Just something.
"I felt the same way when I first discovered this world. Like you, my sister over there, her husband standing next to her and I too come from a land different from this one."
As the ice queen spoke with the mute stranger, Emma realized that what she was looking at resembled her and Elsa's own first meeting and she guessed that, like that night, there's a slight chance that something was bound to go wrong. Elsa trapped her in an ice cave that time, but that was accidental. What course of action did this newcomer to Storybrooke have in mind?
Elsa was now face to face with the stranger, the latter giving Elsa a dead stare, but Elsa had no fear.
"To show you that none of us have any quarrel with you, I will demonstrate my magic for you. Please don't hurt me." said Elsa.
While the stranger remained silent, Elsa stepped back and created her signature floating snowflake on her hand.
The stranger looked at it. Was he/she impressed or offended by it?
"I like that trick of hers." Merida whispered to Anna.
"Right?" Anna replied.
Then Elsa waved her hands left and right while spraying her ice in those directions, kinda like when she experimented with her powers after fleeing Arendelle on the night her coronation party went downhill. If the stranger was able to speak, Elsa wouldn't care what he/she was going to say.
Then Elsa used her magic on herself to magically change her ice-themed modern clothes back into her ice dress.
"See? I told you I wasn't an enemy. What you're seeing is the real me. This is how I look back in my homeland." said Elsa.
"What's she doin'?" Merida asked Anna and Kristoff.
"Trying to gain this person's trust to avoid any mishaps like last time as she told me and Kristoff back home. Hopefully, no ice caves or snow monsters will make another appearance." Anna whispered.
Elsa kept her blue eyes on the stranger who did the same.
"Now that that's out of the way, how about introductions?" Elsa asked.
No reply, so Elsa went ahead.
"Allow me to start. Behind me are Anna, Kristoff, Merida, Emma Swan, Regina Mills, and as for me, I am Elsa, the ice queen of a kingdom called 'Arendelle'. Now can you te-"
Before she can finish speaking, the stranger suddenly raised his/her right hand, formed an ice ball the size of a baseball and threw it at Elsa.
"ELSA!" Anna yelled as her sister dodged the incoming projectile, avoiding hitting Emma and the others and the ice ball struck a tree and exploded, freezing the tree before it too exploded into pieces, forcing the others to shield themselves with their arms.
Without a second thought, Merida retaliated by firing an arrow at the stranger.
While struck in the chest by Merida's arrow, the stranger didn't go down. Instead, the ice being pulled the arrow out, twirled it in his/her hand and hurled it back at Merida like a spear.
"Whoa!" Merida cried out and ducked from being hit by her own arrow which hit a tree.
"Get back!" Emma said and raised her revolver and fired a shot at the stranger's right leg.
The gunshot did nothing to the new enemy and all it did was freeze on contact before vanishing.
Curious to this, Emma fired more shots at the stranger, forgetting about her plan of using non-lethal means to fight the target, and her gun's bullets hit the stranger in the chest, abdomen and head.
The gunfire scared the royals again.
Emma thought she finished off the stranger. She was wrong because the stranger was still standing, unfazed by Emma's gunshots and, was was odd was that the silent foe not bleeding at all.
"What? No way! That should've killed you!" Emma replied in shock.
Before Emma can fire her gun again, the stranger then reared his/her hands back into a wing position and clapped them together, sending out a wave of ice hurling toward them all.
Elsa suddenly stepped in and created an ice shield to deflect the blast.
"Stay behind me!" she said to everyone and they did.
"Thanks Elsa!" Merida said.
"Wait, where's Kristoff?" Anna asked. She didn't see him.
That was because Kristoff had snuck around the trees and approached the ice enemy from behind with the intent of striking in a surprise attack.
As the battle waged on, Elsa suddenly had a feeling of deja vu. There was something very familiar about all this to her.
Then she remembered that this fight mirrored the one she had with the Weselton duke's bodyguards at her ice castle when they tried to kill her. A magical being under attack by people who wanted her dead because of her supernatural nature and now, it was the same here. Except that the magical being right now was not royalty and attacked them first with aggression.
The question is: why was this stranger attacking them? Was he/she confused about the Storybrooke realm as Elsa was? Or was there something about Elsa he/she disliked?
When Kristoff was behind the stranger unseen, he held his ax above his head and brought the blade on the stranger's back.
Like with all other attacks, this too failed to stop the stranger. But the distraction it caused allowed Regina and Emma to fire their own magic beams at the stranger, but none of their attacks harmed him/her.
"Does this freak have some kind of force field or something?" Regina questioned sarcastically.
None of the royals knew what a force field was. They saw it in those "Star Wars" films the other night, but are unaware of what they were.
The stranger removed the ax from his/her back and instantly turned it into ice and shattered it in his/her hand. Then the invader turned his/her head around 180 degrees to face the man who attacked, scaring Kristoff and the others from the way it looked.
"What the hey?!" said Anna and Merida at the sight of this. Twisting one's head that way meant instant death, but not for whoever this was.
Before Kristoff could flee, the stranger picked him up and threw him away and he hit the ground hard, knocking him out for the remainder of the fight.
Rather than go after Kristoff, the stranger turned his/her head back to normal and focused on Elsa, making the ice queen nervous.
"Stay away from me!" Elsa said and fired a bolt of ice magic at the foe who simply slapped it away with one arm while advancing toward her.
The others, excluding Kristoff, stepped in to defend the ice queen from all directions and surrounded the attacker, but the stranger suddenly morphed into a mist form and Elsa's friends and family simply phased through and slammed into each other by accident before the stranger returned to physical form and knocked them all back with another ice shockwave.
Now it was just Elsa and the powerful assailant.
Elsa kept trying to keep the stranger at bay with her magic, even going so far as impaling him/her with ice spikes, an act similar to what she did with the duke's men and Hans and his brothers. But all of it was useless as the stranger was unaffected by any of her magic attacks. This hostile being was also immune to ice and cold like her and, more bizarre, death.
As a last resort, Elsa created another ice shield, this time around herself, for protection. But the stranger traversed through her ice shield like it was nothing.
Elsa was too focused on the fight that she failed to notice a ground root which she tripped on and fell on her rear.
When the stranger was close enough to the fallen queen, he/she then held out a hand and instantly, it transformed into an ice tentacle which was used to grab Elsa by her hands and hold them up above her head to prevent her from using her powers. From there, the two cryomancers had a stare down, Elsa in fear and the stranger with an unknown emotion.
She tried to break free by using her powers, but her hands were too tightly bound to unleash any ice. That, and the tentacle was unaffected by whatever ice she squeezed from her trapped hands.
Despite trapping Elsa, the stranger didn't actually use his/her blade arm to finish her off. But Elsa was still vulnerable to whatever this invader had in mind for her.
Anna and the others looked up from their spot after being knocked down and saw the horrible sight before them! Anna was the most terrified.
"NO! DON'T KILL MY SISTER!" Anna cried out at the top of her lungs.
As soon as she said that, the stranger suddenly stopped his/her attack. Was it something Anna said that made the stranger halt his/her move of killing the Arendelle queen?
"It stopped. That's good, but why?" Emma asked.
"I'm not sure." said Regina.
As the enemy ice magician stood there lost in thought about something nobody knew of, Emma took this chance to sneak up on the assailant and snag the anti-magic cuff on the stranger's wrist, the one holding Elsa, and as soon as it was on, the tentacle turned back into a hand and released Elsa.
Emma leaped back as the stranger snapped out of thinking and focused on the anti-magic cuff with curiosity.
"It's a cuff designed to disable magic users of their powers, including you. As long as you wear that, you can never use your abilities." Emma stated.
The stranger tried to remove the cuff, but no avail.
"Did I forget to mention that it cannot be taken off by the one who wears it? You're trapped in it." Emma gloated.
Despite what Emma said, the stranger tried to attack Emma with another ice attack, but nothing happened.
"Told you." said Emma.
While the stranger was distracted by the cuff, Elsa quickly got up and ran to Anna and hugged her.
"Are you hurt?" They both asked at the same time.
"No." said Elsa.
"Not really." said Anna.
With the stranger magically incapacitated, Emma decided to interrogate the new enemy.
"Now then, why did you attack us, especially Elsa? All she tried to do was be friendly with you and your only response was to try killing her! What did she ever do to you to deserve almost dying by your hand when she and her family have never even seen you before?" Emma said angrily while switching her revolver for her tranquilizer pistol and aimed it at the masked cryomancer who remained silent and glared at Emma.
Since the stranger refused to answer her question, Emma fired a round at the stranger and this time, it hit the stranger in the chest. Not only did the cuff disable the mystery being's abilities, it also made him/her vulnerable to just about anything now and that meant he/she can now be damaged, or in Emma's case, drugged.
The stranger removed the dart and examined it curiously. It was new to him/her and wasn't sure what its purpose was.
To make sure the darts would work, Emma reloaded her gun and fired again, hitting the ice foe in the neck. She repeated with a third shot and it hit the stranger's hand when he/she raised it in like a shield.
Unable to remove the cuff and use any ice powers, the stranger decided to flee the area.
"Let's get 'em!" Merida said and prepared to fire another arrow run at the stranger until Emma stopped her.
"Our friend won't get very far." she said.
"Why's that?" Merida asked.
"Because I shot the target with tranquilizers."
Before Merida or anyone except Regina could ask what tranquilizers were, Emma explained it to them.
"They're a weapon that's used to incapacitate living things without killing them. Before I strapped the anti-magic cuff on and prevented Elsa's end, this newcomer was invulnerable to everything we used at our disposal. Now that our mystery friend is temporarily stripped of magic and is now defenseless and vulnerable to attack, the darts I used will put the invader to sleep and from there, we will take him or her back to Storybrooke for further interrogation."
"Oh." said Merida.
They watched as the stranger suddenly started to wobble like someone who was highly intoxicated and collapsed to the ground. They saw the stranger attempting to crawl away, but eventually he/she succumbed to the sleeping drugs and was out.
The unknown, hostile invader was down and Emma and the group marched over to where the stranger lay and stared at the fallen being.
Just then, Kristoff started to rise up and Anna went over to hug him and bring him to the group.
"What happened?" Kristoff asked.
"We caught the person who knocked you out thanks to Emma." Anna said.
"What? How'd you guys do that?" Kristoff asked and Anna told him what happened.
"What? It went after Elsa?!" he asked.
"Yeah. We don't know why, but we will soon when we drag this crazy man . . . or woman back to Storybrooke." Anna said and kisses his forehead since he felt a twinge of pain there from the blow.
"Let's pick this person up and return to town. We'll head to the police station." said Emma.
As they prepared to carry out the task, Emma crouched down and reached for the stranger's scarf, wanting to see who it was that attacked them and almost killed Elsa. Everybody stopped to watch.
Emma took hold of the scarf and unwrapped it until it was finally off and finally got to see the face of their enemy.
"Whoa . . .! Who is that?" Merida asked. Everybody got a good look at their enemy.
The stranger appeared to be a clean-shaven young man who looked to be around Elsa's age.
As Emma pressed her fingers to the stranger's neck to feel for a pulse, she suddenly retracted her fingers in pain.
"What? What's wrong?" Regina asked.
"His skin. When I touched him, it hurt me really bad." said Emma.
"Did it burn you?" Elsa asked.
"No, it felt cold. Damn cold. It was like touching ice cubes for hours and it gave my fingers a bit of frostbite." Emma answered.
"You can get hurt just by touching the lad?" asked Merida.
"I'm afraid so, yes." said Emma.
Anna tried touching the stranger's skin and, like Emma, she reacted in pain.
"Holy cats, that hurts like crazy! And I should know since I was, you know, affected by ice a few times in my life." she said while rubbing her hand against her shirt to warm it up.
"Anna! Are you alright?" Elsa asked worriedly.
"I'm fine, nothing big. Emma was right. How can we carry this guy back when none of us can't even touch him without feeling that painful, cold thing of his?" Anna asked.
Elsa looked at the unmoving stranger, then her hands. "Let me try." she said.
"What? But he might hurt you Elsa, like he did with Emma and me." Anna protested, momentarily forgetting Elsa's cold invulnerability.
"I'm immune to cold, remember? Perhaps I can touch him without harm. My powers should be able to block out the pain." Elsa said.
"Oh yeah. Well, okay sis. Give it a try." Anna agreed.
Elsa knelt down to the stranger and reached one hand out to the unmasked face of the cryomancer.
When she placed her hand on the stranger's skin, everyone, especially Anna, gasped as a reaction.
"Elsa, are you hurt?" Anna asked in worry.
"Actually no. Nothing's happening to me. I feel no pain whatsoever." Elsa answered, much to Anna's and everyone else's relief.
"So this proves that only you can come into contact with this . . . unknown man without any painful effects?" Regina asked.
"So it seems. Maybe I should be the one to carry him back into town." Elsa suggested.
"Okay, but we're going to need a stretcher to carry him back on." Emma suggested.
"What's a stretcher?" Elsa asked.
"It's a thing that an injured or sick person is laid on and two or more people carry them away on it." Emma said and took out her iphone and typed it on on her phone's internet browser and showed it to Elsa so she can get a perspective on it.
"Oh, I see. Alright Emma, I'll try to make one out of my ice magic." Elsa said and concentrated and within seconds, a swirl of magic formed in her hands and a stretcher, made of ice, appeared.
Grabbing the stranger by the cloak-covered areas, Emma and Elsa loaded the downed cryomancer on top of the ice stretcher and Emma, after putting on a pair of leather gloves on her hands to guard her from frostbite, gripped the front handles while Elsa, after changing her ice dress back into her Storybrooke clothes to move easier, held the back handles.
"Let's go." Emma said and with the job of hunting down and capturing the stranger completed, the group walked through the forest and were on their way back into the town.
Even with the anti-magic cuff on, the sleeping stranger was somehow still able to harm people via physical contact as proven by Anna and Emma.
There . . . finished!
They discovered the stranger's whereabouts, had a battle and won and now they're bringing the newcomer back into Storybrooke for questioning.
My OC's background will be similar to the previous version with new things. My OC retains the powers and abilities from the old version, but with new twists, a semi-new background and more to come later. He's basically the most powerful being to ever live. Besides his own ice powers, my OC can't die, age, get sick, etc, etc. He's virtually an invincible, immortal god-like character whose power surpasses Regina, Emma, Elsa, even Hades (may he rot in pieces for what he did at the end of season 5). However, just because my OC is extremely powerful doesn't mean he is not without cons as I will explain later. While it may seem he has no Achilles Heel thanks to his abilities, at the same time, he does and I'm not talking about the anti magic cuff they just used to get him. It's confusing at first, but you'll see.
After watching the season 5 finale and seeing the shocking plot twist about Robin's fate, for the sake of Robin fans who are probably pissed off to the core from his unfortunate passing, let's just say that here, I will pull a "Jurassic Park" by having this version of Robin be a magically-created clone which was possible by having a piece of his leftover DNA worked on by the blue fairies to bring him back to life. The clone Robin has all the memories and skills of the original Robin and despite his status, Regina and Robin's son still accept him and ditto for him. After learning of his status as a clone and not being the real Robin, the clone has accepted his heritage and new life with Regina and Storybrooke. Regina has her own happy ending. This is half-canonical to the show, after all.
As for Zelena, with her being back in Storybrooke and reformed in the show, perhaps I'll bring her back and have her reform here for the sake of Zelena fans. I don't know about any of you, but I'm beginning to enjoy her new heroine side as opposed to her wicked side. If she goes back to being the Wicked Witch again in the show's future episodes, I ain't putting any of it here.
Why was my OC hostile toward Elsa and the others when he wasn't in the old version of the story? Why does he hates Elsa's guts so much? You'll have to wait to find out.
Till next time.
PS: To Nissan, I was thinking about that Ingrid/Headless Horseman shipping thing you keep telling me about and, well, while it won't happen here in "MV" as I've said, perhaps I can still make it happen because I already have a sequel idea to my "Cold Reunion" story and I'm thinking about bringing him there. I'll start with my "CU" sequel as soon as I finish the first one.