Chapter 10
They eventually reached land and continued on their journey to find Koll, but because they were starting to get on each other's nerves, nobody talked much during the river ride over to land, aside from Olaf trying to play a game of 'eye spy' with them and failing. When they did reach land, they walked ahead of each other and stayed silent most of the time. Anna finally decided to walk up to Bard and talk to him.
"Uh… Bard? Are you ok?" Anna asked her younger brother, worried.
"I'm fine." Bard said, bluntly. Anna tried to put a hand on his shoulder but he struggled it off. "I said I'm fine!"
"Whoa, take it easy, alright?" Anna told him.
"Sorry, just… stressed." Bard admitted.
"This new for you?" Anna guessed
"It is quite, yes." Bard nodded. "Usually I'm the funny guy but now I'm…"
"The stressed out guy?" Anna finished with a raised brow.
"Yeah, pretty much." Bard nodded once more. "Very weird feeling… not used it."
"Don't worry, you will be." Anna assured him, patting him on the back.
"Now why does that not make me feel better?" Bard questioned, somewhat incredulously.
"Oh I was just trying to… I mean to make feel bad… if you weren't already feeling bad in which case I made it worse I…" Anna said, babbling.
"You talk a lot." Bard observed. "Especially when your nervous."
"Yeah… I get a lot… sometimes too often…" Anna admitted.
"Yeah, me too." Bard added. They both looked at each other surprised and smiled softly.
"Don't let what Kristoff said, get to you, he didn't mean it… this time." Anna told him.
"Sure he didn't." Bard said, unconvinced.
"He didn't, honest!" Anna insisted. "He was just worried about me, ok? That's the reason he got so upset, not because of you, but because I was in danger."
"Because of me." Bard added, depressed.
"Ok… so… you made a mistake…" Anna admitted. "Beating yourself up isn't going to fix any of it you know."
"I know but…" Bard began.
"No 'buts', let's just forget about it and move on, ok?" Anna offered.
Bard sighed. "Ok…" he agreed.
"Atta boy!" Anna smiled as she held him close again.
"Personal space…" Bard squeaked again. Anna quickly released him.
"Sorry! Hugger! Remember?" she reminded him.
"Yeah, I remember… and your freakishly strong for someone your size." Bard pointed out. They both chuckled.
Up ahead, Elsa and Kristoff were also engaging in conversation while Sven and Olaf played in the snow together in the background, not that either of them really noticed anyway.
"I don't know why Kai was so stubborn about him becoming King…" Elsa expressed. "It's clear that he has no experience…"
"Yeah… but I'm sure he could learn how from you" Kristoff shrugged. "He may be… childish, but I can tell he's a good kid deep down, he just needs some guidance."
"That's what Kai said…" Elsa mused, sadly.
"Then maybe you should listen to him then… even if he is… dead…" Kristoff told her, slowly.
"Are you trying to 'talk sense' into your Queen?" Elsa asked him, accusingly
"I'm trying to talk some sense into my future sister… in-law." Kristoff told her.
"Kristoff, Bard may not be a good choice to be king… he's undisciplined, reckless… and as you said; childish." Elsa said.
"Which is exactly why you need to teach him, tell me, exactly who else is qualified?" Kristoff questioned. Elsa stayed silent. "Yep. Anna was right, logic and reason do work on you."
"She knows me too well…" Elsa shook her head.
"Not surprising, you're a softie… underneath that whole… 'obey me I'm the queen' thing." Kristoff added, shrugging slightly.
"Why is it that your compliments are always so aggravating?" Elsa questioned.
Kristoff shrugged. "I start out that way but… you'll warm up to me," he assured her. "Now you just gotta warm up to Bard… if you can, anyway."
Elsa looked back toward her younger brother and sighed deeply. "I suppose I could try."
"Atta girl." Kristoff said, pleased. "Now go teach him… please."
Elsa paused for a moment and then gave him a nod. This seemed to please Kristoff as he then turned to the others behind them.
"Ok, let's take a break." Kristoff said. "We'll continue in a little bit."
Everyone then sighed out of exhaustion, Anna and Olaf in particular both immediately dropped to their knees, feeling so tired.
"Thank goodness…" Anna said, relieved.
"Yeah… we've been walking for like… ever, my aching pads…" Olaf said, tired as he rubbed his little feet and Sven collapsed headfirst right next to him.
Bard just yawned and stretched. "Well as long as we continue moving later on, I'm good with resting," he expressed as he started to walk off before he noticed Elsa.
"Bard, a word." Elsa called out to him.
"Sure." Bard said as he walked over and then sat down along with his sister. "What's up?"
"Alright, now that we have a moment, there are things we need to go over." Elsa told Bard.
"Which are?" he asked, curiously.
"Basically the proper mannerisms of an Arendelle Royal figure." His older sister stated.
"Come again?" Bard questioned, surprised.
"If you're gonna be King you're going to need to learn how to act like one." Elsa explained. "So, we start with the smallest of steps…"
"Oh man!" Bard groaned. "I thought we were gonna save this for later!? You know, once we get back?"
"Nothing about being the ruler of an entire Kingdom is easy, Bard." Elsa said, sternly. "The sooner you understand that, the sooner we can…"
"Hey, I never said I wanted to be King in the first place." Bard pointed out. "So I don't have to know these things, ok?"
"Kai stated that you do, Bard." Elsa told him, firmly.
"Well Kai isn't here anymore, remember?" Bard reminded her, harshly. Elsa scowled at him.
"Why do I even bother? You're not suited for the role and you know it." Elsa said, bitterly.
"Says the lady with a personal vendetta." Bard countered.
"Hey! I am only trying to get Koll to answer for his crimes against my kingdom." Elsa defended.
"You mean the crime of murdering the guy who raised you and Anna after Mom and Dad died five years ago?" Bard questioned, accusingly. "Is that right?"
"Back away from me." Elsa warned him. "I can't guarantee I can control myself if you push me like this."
"Same here." Bard shot back. They both stared at each other fiercely before both decided to calm down.
"Let's start again, shall we?" Elsa offered.
"Ok…" Bard said, sighing deeply.
"Good. Now first things first; the ruler of Arendelle, or any kind of ruler for that matter must always maintain a calm and polite demeanor, if you allow your subjects to see you worried, they also will become just as worried." Elsa began to say.
"Aw, isn't there some way we can just skip all the boring stuff and move on to what really matters?" Bard practically whined.
"If only…" Elsa sighed.
"You know I'm not smart enough to figure this stuff out on my own, right?" Bard questioned. "Nor am I good at Math or Geometry… plus I also had to learn about the stars from some hobo on the streets."
"Exactly… how long have you been alone?" Elsa asked, slowly.
Bard extended both of his arms. "A really long time."
"I figured as much." Elsa muttered, sounding a bit annoyed.
As they continue to bicker, Anna and Kristoff both observed them from afar while Olaf and Sven played in the background. They both looked concerned.
"Looks like they're a little bit of trouble getting along…" Anna observed.
"What did you expect? He's fire, she's ice, those two elements don't exactly mix will." Kristoff pointed out.
"Well they're also family, they've got to come to an understanding eventually." Anna said. "If only they'd stop trying to do everything themselves…"
"Guess that's one other thing they have in common…" Kristoff observed.
"What do you think he has in common with me?" Anna wondered.
Kristoff glanced toward Bard, who listening to Elsa for one second then admiring a flower the next, he turned to Anna and saw that she was also admiring a flower.
"Uh… not sure…" Kristoff said, slowly. He walked away. "Ok, break's over. Let's get back to walking."
"About time." Bard said, as he got up along with Elsa.
"We're not done with this." Elsa told him, sternly.
"I know… believe me, I know…" Bard said, tiredly. "Now let's a get a move on troops! The road ahead of us may be hard and what's at the end of it may be our end, but we're ready to fight!"
"Yeah!" Olaf cheered while Sven whinnied. Elsa glanced away, feeling somewhat envious of Bard's charisma.
"Alright guys, calm down, first we gotta figure out where we're going next." Kristoff reminded them.
"I thought we were going in the same direction that we were before." Anna pointed out.
"It's… not that simple." Kristoff told her.
"Meaning what?" Anna asked, curiously.
As they continued to talk Bard then noticed something far from them that caught his eye, he turned around fully and walked a little closer.
"Hey, what's that?" Bard asked. The others turned to him confused.
"What? What is what?" Anna asked.
"That." Bard said, pointing up ahead, they all rushed over to where he was. Below a large torrent of icy wind blew and in that thick wind they spotted something dark just standing there.
"Who is that?" Elsa asked.
"I can't tell from here…" Anna said, squinting her eyes.
Kristoff looked closely and once the icy winds finally faded, he saw a big and black shape. His eyes widened.
"Hey, I think that's Koll! Down there!" Kristoff cried. The others looked closely and quickly spotted Koll, just standing still, waiting patiently. "I'm pretty sure that's him… he's got a Viking look."
"Finally! We found him!" Bard exclaimed.
"Let's go!" Elsa declared as she slid down the hill ahead of them and began to make her way towards Koll, with Bard following.
"Elsa! Bard! Wait!" Anna cried, as she quickly followed them.
"Anna!" Kristoff began, before he groaned. "Great… now I have to go…"
"And if you're going, we're going!" Olaf added, determined. Sven nodded in agreement.
"Yeah… I'm doomed." Kristoff said, deadpan before sliding down also, Sven and Olaf followed soon after.
The six of them all slid down the hill and eventually slow down when the reach the bottom off it. Elsa looked at Koll, angrily.
"Koll!" Elsa yelled out to him. The Viking turned to them, slowly. He smiled when he saw Elsa and the others.
"Queen Elsa… what an honor," he said, mockingly.
Elsa stepped forward. "Answer me Koll, why did you attack our kingdom? Why!?" she demanded.
Koll just chuckled evilly.
"What's so funny?" Bard questioned, confused.
"I'm just amused by the fact that you all truly don't know what happened all those years ago." Koll stated.
"What are you talking about?" Elsa asked him, curiously.
Koll chuckled again. "Oh, if you only knew…" he said, amused.
"Ok! Enough with the riddles! Quit talking around it and tell us already!" Bard proclaimed.
"I do not need to explain myself to you." Koll snorted.
"Then… we're gonna have to make you tell us!" Anna stated, stepping forward, determined.
"Oh are you now? I'm shaking in my boots." Koll said, sarcastically. Elsa stepped forward as well with a serious expression.
"Koll, I am not fond of using my powers for violence… but for you… I'm making a once in a life time exception." Elsa declared.
"Same here!" Bard agreed, stepping forward as well.
Koll just chuckled, amused. "You're not going to kill me."
"How do you figure?" Elsa questioned, curiously.
"I figure because… despite your attempts to convince me otherwise you seem to have a conscience, Queen Elsa. If you hadn't you would have never returned to Arendelle and tried to set things right after you sent it into an eternal winter." Koll stated. His tone became almost familiar.
"How do you know about that?" Elsa asked, surprised.
"Oh I know everything about you three…" Koll admitted to them, sinisterly.
"That's… actually kinda creepy." Bard pointed out, disturbed.
"Call it what you want, I really don't care." The Viking said, nonchalantly.
This indifferent attitude of Koll's seemed to anger Elsa. "You don't care? Like you don't care about all the unarmed, innocent people that you open fired upon and killed in cold blood!?"
For the first time, Koll allowed a crack to appear in his hitherto-unvarying visage. A hint of pain, anger, or perhaps a suggestion of loss, finally drove him to raise his voice.
"No one in that kingdom is innocent!" he said.
"You," Elsa countered, sharply and angrily "Are a murderer!"
"And what… are… you?" Koll questioned, sharply while giving her a look that caused her eyes to widen with fear. Things got very quiet for a while until Olaf finally spoke up.
"Wow… things are really quiet… why are they quiet?" he asked, completely clueless.
"Be quiet, you." Koll snapped. Olaf yelped and hide behind Sven, who tried to hide behind him instead. This kept going on and on until a growl from Koll stopped it. He then turned to the royal family. "Now… Queen Elsa, Princess Anna, Prince Bard… what's your next move? Arrest me? Ha! I'd like to see you try."
"Oh, we're not gonna try, we're going to succeed." Bard stated, firmly.
Koll's evil smile widened. "Very well then… you may try to stop me. But when you fail and you will… I'll kill you, and then I will walk over your cold corpses and destroy everyone in Arendelle… just like I did your precious servant… Kai," he hissed. Elsa's eyes widened and narrowed, angrily. "Yes, Kai… one your best servants… now dead. I can still see the look on his face after I killed him in my mind… silently begging for his life… begging… like dog."
This seemed to enrage both Bard and Elsa as both of their fists shook and glowed with their respective elements. The others looked at them worried while Koll looked smug.
"I've got him!" Bard said as he created a fire ball and leaped forward.
"No, I've got him!" Elsa stated, firmly as her hands turned blue and she launches herself upward with an ice pillar.
"No! Guys! Wait! Don't let him provoke you!" Anna called out as they both glided towards Koll, screaming.
They prepared to attack Koll but as soon as they got close enough he held the orb towards them, which shined a strange light in their eyes which blinded them and caused them to crash land at his feet, unconscious.
"NO!" Anna yelled as she rushed over to them, concerned.
"Well, I see you all have your hands full… so I'll be on my way now." Koll said as he began to back away in the thick cloud of fog he created.
"Hey, wait! Stop!" Kristoff cried as he and Sven tried to go after him, but by the time they reached the fog, he was already gone. They then turned to Anna and Olaf, who were checking over Bard and Elsa.
"Elsa! Bard! Are you two ok?" Anna asked them, worried. The two of them then started to come to and open their eyes, but once they did both of their eyes flashed purple for a brief moment while they began to get up. "Oh, thank goodness your both awake! I was worried I was gonna have to give you CPR or something…"
"Where's Koll?" Elsa suddenly asked, expectedly.
"Uh…" Anna began.
"Where is he!?" Bard snapped, Anna jumped at this.
"Hey, hey, easy you guys, I know Koll knocked you around but don't take it out on her." Kristoff said.
"No one's talking to you, sasquatch." Bard told him, scathingly. Kristoff's eyes widened in surprise.
"Don't talk to him like that, you're the one who lost him!" Elsa told Bard.
"Me!?" Bard exclaimed, insulted.
"Elsa, what in the world has gotten into you!?" Anna questioned, baffled. "Why are you attacking Bard like this? That's not like you!"
"Stay out of this Anna." Elsa warned her.
"Don't boss people around!" Bard told her.
"I am the Queen, I'm supposed to and I answer to no one." Elsa stated.
"Not for long you don't, after all it'll be my throne soon." Bard reminded her as his eyes flashed purple again, along with hers as they burned with anger.
"If you want to fight Bard then I will give you a fight!" Elsa said, angrily.
"Hey, hey, settle down!" Kristoff urged them.
"You stay out of this!" Bard warned him, as his eyes flashed. "This is between me and her!"
"Yeah! Him and me!" Elsa added, angrily.
"What is going on with them?" Anna asked fearfully.
"I don't know… I've never seen them like this…" Kristoff added, baffled.
Kristoff looked at them closely and much to his surprised he saw a purple shimmer in both of their eyes, surprising him.
"Whoa, look at their eyes…" The Ice Master observed. Anna and the others looked closely and saw the shimmer as well.
"Yeah… what's wrong with them?" Anna wondered, concerned.
"Maybe they have the flu?" Olaf suggested. Kristoff's eyes widened once he remembered Koll's orb flashing before them a while.
"It's Koll's magic orb! That's what's causing them to act like this! It's making them act out their deepest, darkest desires!" Kristoff realized.
"Oh no…" Anna realized, grimly while watching them stare each other down. "We gotta stop them!"
Anna began to rush over but Kristoff stopped her.
"No! The way they are now… they'll probably end up hurting you instead, we need to wait for an opening." Kristoff said. Anna looked back towards her two magical siblings looking worried.
"Tell me… haven't you been wanting to do this the moment I stepped into your precious little kingdom?" Bard questioned.
"Well your smarter than you look, brother." Elsa remarked, coldly.
"You witch! Your gonna pay!" Bard said, growling.
"If you think I'm going to just let you take my throne then you have another thing coming!" Elsa declared, determined.
"Then bring it on Snow Queen!" Bard challenged.
"Guys don't!" Anna tried to tell them. Elsa refused to listen and took a fighting stance.
"Ready," she said in a cold tone.
Bard mimicked her, only his tone was much more fiery. "Ready," he shot back.
In just a quick second both Bard and Elsa unleashed streams of fire and ice respectively which clashed. Both seem evenly matched, with Elsa's ice cooling off his flames and Bard gradually melting Elsa's ice. Anna and the others all had to shield themselves from the waves of heat and cold they were both emitting violently. Eventually they both stopped and started circling each other, angrily.
"You think you know me… but do you know anything about loss!?" Elsa questioned.
"I know enough." Bart stated.
"But not enough to defeat me. I assure you, my childhood was much worse than yours."
"And whose fault was that? Mom and Dad's? Or yours?"
"Why you little!?"
Elsa and Bard then began to exchange blasts of ice and fire respectively, using every trick they knew and doing whatever they could to out maneuver the other. Each time one of their blasts hits the ground, either a large, spiky block of ice grew or the ground exploded with fire and brimstone. Each time that happened, the terrain itself began to change and shake, making it hard for the others to keep their balance. Olaf didn't seem to mind though and he laughed as he continued to vibrate.
"Hey! This makes my voice sound silly!" he said, shaking up and down constantly.
"Olaf, are you crazy!?" Kristoff exclaimed, incredulously. "Wait. Don't answer that, I already know the answer."
Anna then stepped forward closer to Bard. "Bard, please! Stop this! This isn't you! You're under a spell! You don't have to do this!"
"No Anna! She needs to pay! You all need to pay!" Bard exclaimed.
"But Bard…" Anna began.
"You ABANDONED ME!" Bard hollered at his older sister. "For seventeen-years I've had to fend for myself while you while you two lived in a castle! You never cared about me and you never will!"
"No! Bard listen, we're trying to help you! Let me help you!" Anna cried. Bard just dropped to his knees whiles his hands burned with flame, he then slammed them on the ground and released a massive heatwave across the ice, melting most of it. Kristoff, Anna and the others all backed away, fearfully.
Elsa just uses her ice powers to propel her away from the heat wave and also uses it to cool off the flames, putting them out before landing back in her own natural element. She and Bard glared at each other.
"I WON'T LET YOU TAKE AWAY MY LIFE!" Elsa cried, charging up her powers and using them to create an ice golem made out of solid ice and covered in stone, making it look almost rock like. Olaf gasped, excited.
"Yay! Another snowman!" he cheered, happily. "Isn't this great?
"I think Bard would disagree!" Kristoff pointed out as Bard tried to incinerate the behemoth with a stream of flames, only to be kicked into a wall of ice. He ducked before the golem could pound him and blasted it away with another fire blast.
"You gonna have to do better than that!" Bard challenged.
"If you insist." Elsa growled as she tightened her fist which slowly turned to ice. Then Anna got in front of her.
"Elsa, stop!" Anna cried.
"Get out of my way, Anna!" Elsa snapped, annoyed.
"No! Don't you get it? This is exactly what Koll wants; to have you two kill each other for him!" Anna told her.
"Then he's about to get what he wants." Elsa snarled as she shoved her sister away roughly.
"Anna!" Kristoff yelled as he prepared to run over to her.
"No Kristoff! I got this!" Anna assured him as she got up and ran over to Bard this time.
"Move Anna, now!" Bard ordered.
"Bard, please stop! It doesn't have to be like this! I know… what it's like!" Anna told him.
"No. You. Don't! You knew Mom and Dad and even when they were gone you still had Elsa. I had no one. I've always been alone!" Bard shouted. "But not anymore!"
Bard then sent a wave of fire her away, she froze in fear.
"Get down!" Kristoff cried as he tackled her and shielded her as the flames whizzed over them. The ice golem ran right over them and attacked Bard again, before grabbing him by his legs and chest and trying to rip him two but Bard quickly blasted it to smithereens with a fire blast.
Bard then turned his attention to Elsa who quickly put up an ice shield to protect her just Bard began to fire consecutive fire beams at her, his flames quickly began to melt her shield but she did her best to keep it up.
"Cute, but I can do this all day, can you?" Bard questioned Elsa as he proceeded towards her while she struggled to keep him back while the others continued to watch them.
"We have to snap them out of it!" Anna exclaimed.
"How!? I don't even think they realize we're still here!" Kristoff pointed out.
"They would if we sang to them!" Olaf suggested, before starting to sing. "La…"
Kristoff blocked his mouth, looking annoyed. "Not helping here Olaf!"
"Sorry…" he apologized, sheepishly"
Anna then got an idea. "Ooh, I got it!"
Anna then began to rush toward them again before Kristoff could react or stop her.
"Anna, wait!" Kristoff yelled as he ran after her.
Elsa ice shield continued to melt as Bard kept on trying to kill her with streams of flame but once he gets within a few from her she pressed her hand against the ground and created some ice spikes in front of him that knock into the air. He rolled across the ground until he finally stopped on his own two feet. Both of them stood up from their kneeling positions and prepared for their final attacks.
"Bard…" Elsa hissed, glaring at him.
"Elsa…" Bard glared right back.
"Clown!" The Snow Queen barked.
"Witch!" The Fire King snapped, as he surrounded himself in an aura of flame while a vicious cold wind, along with bits of ice swirled around Elsa.
Little bits of flame then began to gather into Bard open palm, and slowly but surely as they continued to gather up together and grow and grow they eventually formed a bright red sphere that shined brightly in Bard's hand. Suddenly the sphere became encased in fire, causing it to turn black and be surrounded by a ring of red flames.
Elsa allowed the cold wind and ice to swirl around her arm until a sphere of whitish blue energy, similar to Bard's, appeared in her palm, except it had four small white blade like protrusions surrounding it along with ice and cold wind that rotated around it like a the rings of a large planet.
Both of the two fighters started at each other, their eyes full of rage. There was a short pause before they both leaped forward and glided towards each other. They soon got closer and closer towards each other until finally they leaned back and prepared their final attacks.
"ELSA!" Bard screamed, loudly.
"BARD!" Elsa yelled back.
But before they could lunge forward with their powerful attacks, two snowballs hit them smack dab in the side of the head, causing them both to get knocked out and their attacks to fade away. Effectively ruining the dramatic moment. They both collapsed on the right next to each other, both flat on their faces and in opposite directions.
"Elsa! Bard!" Anna said as she rushed over to check them both over. She put her fingers on both their necks and was relieved to find a pulse in both of them. Kristoff, Sven and Olaf then appeared.
"Are they alright?" Kristoff inquired.
"Yeah… just sleeping." Ann nodded.
"Oh, well sleeping's good… or at least that's what I've been told." Olaf said before whispering to Sven. "I don't really sleep.
The reindeer just nodded understandingly.
"Man… what did you do to them?" Kristoff asked, baffled.
"Oh, just I hit them really hard on the head." Anna shrugged.
"Do you think that worked?" Kristoff wondered, curiously.
"I don't know…" Anna admitted as they got closer to them, curiously.
"They seem to be still sleeping to me." Olaf observed. "Maybe Sven can…"
"No!" Kristoff and Anna both said.
"What?" The snowman asked.
Just then, much to their surprise they noticed Bard and Elsa stirring and groaning as they finally begin to regain consciousness and sit up on their knees. Anna smiled, brightly.
"Bard! Elsa! Your awake!" Anna said, relieved as Elsa stood up first and groaned.
"Oh… what happened?" Elsa asked, dazed.
"Ugh… I got the headache but I don't recall the party…" Bart added as he stood up also.
"Are you guys ok?" Kristoff asked them as he, Anna and the others all rushed to their side.
"I think so…" Elsa nodded.
"Yeah…" Bard said, exhausted. "What the heck happened?"
"You don't remember? Koll blasting you with his magic orb?" Anna questioned.
"The one he used to control the weather?" Bard inquired.
"Yeah and the thing that controlled the two of you and made you both attack each other!" Kristoff added.
"What?' Elsa exclaimed, shocked.
"That explains why I'm so exhausted…" Bard said, rubbing his shoulder.
"Oh no…" Elsa breathed, horrified. She turned to her sister, concerned. "I didn't hurt you… did?"
"Did I?" Bard added.
"No! No, you didn't hurt me, or any of us." Anna assured them both, gently.
"You did rough us up a little…" Kristoff admitted, Anna and the others gave him a glare. "But not too much I promise! Don't worry…"
They both breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other feeling guilty.
"Bard… I… am so sorry…" Elsa began to say.
"Save it. It's my fault too… you were right… I'm not cut out to be King…" Bard admitted, shamefully. "And… I'm sorry for whatever I said… I… just couldn't control myself or what I was saying."
"No, you are worthy. You already have the qualifications to be one. You may be… very smart… but you're kind, just, honest and most importantly... you have the potential to be a natural leader, the likes of which has never been seen before." Elsa stated, sincerely. "I just couldn't accept that… and I'm sorry I made you feel that way, Bard. And I'm also sorry for whatever I said to you during our battle."
"Ah, it's cool." Bard nodded. He chuckled a bit. "Heh, get it? Cool? And your…"
"Yes, yes, I get it." Elsa nodded, chuckling in amusement, along with Bard. "And you know… I think I should have noticed our mother pregnant with you a long time ago… guess I was too distracted with my own problems to notice… I could have helped her…"
"Hey, it's not your fault sis, I barely remember what I did when I was five too… aside from burning down a fishing store…" Bard muttered.
"I'm just glad you guys are back." Anna said, as she hugged both of them. The three siblings then embraced each other. Olaf wiped the tears from his eyes which quickly froze up.
"Uh… guys? I… hate to interrupt the touching family moment but uh… we still got a mad Viking to track down here." Kristoff pointed out.
"Speaking of which, where did he go?" Anna wondered, while looking around. They gazed around and quickly figured out that Koll was long gone.
"Where the…" Kristoff began.
"Must have left while we were fighting." Bard deduced.
"But that doesn't make any sense… why he use the orb to cause you to fight each other and then just… leave?" Anna questioned, confused.
"That battle was pretty long wasn't it?" Bard asked
"Yeah, like one or two hours at the most." Kristoff confirmed. "What about it, though?"
"Well, during that time he could have gone anywhere, I think he was waiting for us!" Bard realized.
"So he could use that spell on us…" Elsa added.
"And have you two fight while he left!" Anna finished.
"Yeah… but where would a vengeful Viking do and go while his most formidable enemies are fighting each other?" Olaf began to ponder.
They all began to think of for a long moment before the answer suddenly became clear to them. All six of them gasped at once before looking in the direction of Arendelle with scared and shocked looks. Bard just narrows his eyes, angrily.
"We've been played." Bard realized.
As the six of them realized that Koll had tricked them into going all the way out there while he set out to accomplish his true mission. The Viking himself stood on top of a large, rocky hill and gazed upon his target before smiling.
"Hello… Arendelle…" Koll said, darkly.