Ice, Darkness, Fire and Light 10: I don't own Frozen or any Characters.

Rating: K

Words: 1,755

Characters: Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Rapunzel, Eugene, and many more characters.

Summary: Anna and Melody's friendship grows. Then something will plunge Anna down a pit of despair.

All Anna could do was smile at Melody when there were a lot of loud noises from the Inn above them. Melody looked up at the ceiling and Anna looked as well when suddenly the noises started coming down the stairs to the hidden room that Anna and Melody were working out of.

Suddenly Hail came falling into the room like he was pushed from behind and then several Weselton guards came pouring into the room in full battle armor. Anna jumped to her feet, the men charged forward and Anna jumped between Melody and the guards.

"Princess Melody and Anna of Arendelle you are both under arrest. Don't resist and you won't be hurt, do you intend to resist?" one of the guards called out behind the steal helmet.

"Of course we intend to resist," Anna said, with a smile. Then a guard charge at Anna with his cudgel aimed for Anna's head. Anna danced around the swing and grabbed the arm holding the cudgel and twisted it. The man screamed and dropped the cudgel which Anna caught with her other hand then placed a kick in the back of the disarmed guard and sent him across the room before Anna turned and smiled at the other guards.

The rest of the guards hesitated and that gave Anna an opening. Anna charged at the guard to her left with a quick sweeping blow that was aimed toward his head. It was meant to merely test the guard. Instead the guard was unprepared for Anna's quick attack and took the blow across the brow that dropped the man into a heap. Anna then moved towards the next guard as they spread out to surround Anna. Anna moved quickly towards the next guard when suddenly Melody screamed and Anna turned to see the guard she disarmed had moved and had a dagger at Melody's throat and the injured hand had her hair pulled back.

"Lay down your weapon or I'll open her throat," Anna instantly dropped the cudgel and put her hands up before the guard even finished. The guards tackled Anna and they pinned her to the ground raining blows down on Anna. Amazingly enough the attacks didn't hurt, but Melody's cry's made Anna's heart ache.

"Don't hurt her please," Melody screamed, again and the guards began tying Anna's hands behind her back with rope and chain. They tied Anna's legs together too. Soon Anna was being dragged upstairs, followed by Melody and Hail. The guards had a carriage that had bars on the windows and appeared to have been reinforced. The guards tossed Anna in the carriage and Anna landed on her face. Anna heard the door shut behind her and hands rolled Anna over and Melody was cradling Anna's head. "Are you ok?" Melody asked, with tons of concern in her voice.

"It seems that my body doesn't feel pain like before. I am fine are you ok and how is Hail?" Anna asked, Melody who quickly wiped the tears from her face.

"I'm fine Princesses. They knew about the space under the Inn we have been betrayed," Hail answered, from the other side of the carriage. Anna could see some dried blood on his face like he took a blow to the head. All too soon the carriage came to a stop and the guards pulled the door open. The guards pulled Hail, Melody and then four of them grabbed Anna and dragged her out of the carriage. Anna noticed that they were at the castle, but they were far away from the main entrance, near the wall. There was only a small door that was reinforced with metal bracing and it appeared to have portcullis that could be dropped in front of the gate.

As Anna was dragged down into what she could only assume was a prison. Anna noticed that there was a large area with multiple very nasty looking machines that were covered in blood, Anna could only assume it was a torture chamber. The guards put Anna in a cell near the torturing devices were they untied her legs and then untied her arms and kicked Anna in the small of the back before slamming the door and bolting it.

The room was fairly small with a small bucket for a chamber pot and a small stone bed with a single brown blanket. There was a small window that was the only source of light and it had bars across it. The door was reinforced with metal bolts and looked very thick on the way in. The only part of the door that wasn't solid wood and metal was a very small door at the bottom that must be where they pass food into the cell. Anna looked around and saw a small whole in the corner where she could possibly talk to the person in the next cell.

Anna could hear the other two doors closed next to Anna's. Anna darted to the corner where there was a small hole that Anna could talk to the person next door.

"Melody is that you?" Anna called out.

"Yes it's me Anna. I didn't know this place existed before now," Melody answered. The room that they had to pass was what concerned Anna the most. Then suddenly a noise came from the room as a man started screaming in pain and Anna jumped to her feet and tried to look out the small door to see who was being tortured. Anna couldn't see anything and the screams got worse. Anna closed the door and cowered in the corner with her hands over her ears trying to block out the screams.

The screams stopped eventually and Anna asked Melody through the hole "You still ok?"

"Yes. Did you see who it was?" Melody asked.

"No. I couldn't see anything," Anna answered, then Anna heard the door next to hers open and she could hear Melody talking to someone.

"Where are we going. No. No."

Anna felt her anger flare and Anna charged the door and started screaming "Don't you hurt her. If you hurt her I swear I'll find you and kill you all."

Someone then kicked Anna's door and said "Be quite." That made Anna even angrier and that light inside Anna started to turn red again and started to spark and ignite. Anna started to pace and then a woman started to scream and Anna started to freak out. Anna started to pound on the door with her fists, feet and ramming her shoulder into the door.

Anna couldn't make a dent on the door and simply gave up and leaned against the door but then the woman's screams changed and started calling out names "Please help me mom, dad anyone please. Anna help." Hearing someone call out Anna's name caused that light to burst into flames as Anna couldn't help, but assume it was Melody. Anna's rage flamed inside her and Anna could feel a change come over her and Anna stood up and gave the door another kick. Anna saw the red pantaloons that covered her legs when Anna escaped the castle last time. This time instead of a small bang, Anna's rage induced strength caused the door to creak under the pressure. The noise the door made gave Anna some hope and empowered Anna more and this time she put her shoulder into the door and the creaked with a bigger groan.

Anna continued to slam against the door when the woman's screams suddenly stopped and a voiced shouted through Anna's door "If you don't stop I'll slit this little black haired woman throat."

"If you hurt her I swear I will rip your head off," Anna screamed, through the door hearing a woman crying outside it.

"You might get through that door and rip my head off, but not before I open her throat and cover myself in her blood," the man called, and then a squeak and the woman was jerked in some way.

Then a little voice whispered "please help me." The pleading in the voice smothered Anna's rage and Anna collapsed. More screams started and Anna could do nothing to help these pour people and the rage faded starting to be replaced with fear and sadness. Anna could feel despair come creeping back into her core. The darkness hadn't appeared since Anna left Elsa with the trolls. Elsa was she ok, was she truly insane and where was Kristoff? Anna started to fight the despair by trying to think about happier times, but then the door to the room next to Anna's opened and a sudden thud hit the floor and sobbing fallowed.

"Are you ok Melody?" Anna called out, but no response came and Anna called out again with desperation. "Melody please say something. Please," the creeping despair started to come back when a weak voice finally answered.

"I'll be ok," Melody sounded horse and that meant the screams must have belonged to Melody and Anna started to cry. Anna continued to cry even after Melody's sobs stopped and were replaced with sounds of her sleeping. Anna had been listening to Melody's sleeping sounds for weeks now and could tell that Melody had fallen asleep next door. Anna just pulled her legs up and curled up to wait for the next day.

The next morning the little door opened and a small tray with a small piece of bread and some broth of some sort. Anna just left the food and heard Melody moving next door.

"You ok Melody?" Anna asked, hesitantly.

"My whole body hurts and I might empty my stomach," Melody answered, as a small sound came from next door. Suddenly there was a bunch of sounds outside Anna's cell and a man was sobbing as they went by and the screams started again. With the screams Melody started sobbing again and Anna couldn't fight back the tears. The screams stopped and started steadily throughout the day and Anna had to fight the darkness in her core with every good memory she had. Anna was able to hold back the darkness until sounds returned and stopped at Melody's door and Melody screamed "God no please not again please someone help me."

Anna's defense shattered and despair surrounded Anna and the light inside her went out and Anna screamed out and the tears started streaming as the woman's screams started again. The darkness completely absorbed the light and Anna curled up into a ball and sunk into her despair.

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