A single blast echoed through the halls of the maze, causing everyone to freeze in their tracks.
"What was that?" - Kristoff asked immediately, with Anna and Elsa hiding behind him.
"That, was the Ice King" - King Micheal whispered.
Another, louder blast echoed through the halls of the maze. This one sounded much closer than the previous one. Then indistinguishable cries and screams of the armed citizens began to ring through the halls of the maze, interrupted only by loud blasts that came from the Ice King.
"Come on, we have to help them!" King Micheal said, awkwardly maneuvering past Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff towards the sounds of the screaming. The halls were so narrow that two people couldn't even walk through them shoulder to shoulder. It was a claustrophobics nightmare, and the darkness deep within the maze probably didn't help either.
Everyone else followed King Micheal towards the sounds of the screams, and soon enough they were in the thick of it. Citizens were running around in every direction screaming their heads off, claiming that the Ice King was here or there. Many of them were bloodied, some had small icicles sticking out of their arms, legs, and torsos. Others were trying to drag bodies of fallen citizens out of the maze, but nobody remembered where the exit was or how to get to it.
"Jesus this isn't a battle, this is just chaos!" Kristoff yelled out. Anna and Elsa were sticking close together trying not to be separated as panicking citizens desperately sprinted past them looking for the exit. One of them knocked the torch right out of King Micheal's hand, and it went out.
The darkness, the screams, and the loud bangs finally caused Elsa to lose her nerve. She plastered herself against the wall and tried to make herself as flat as possible to tune out the carnage around her, but as she did, a mob of citizens began pouring through the hallway she was in, separating her from the group
"Anna!" She yelled out, trying to find her sister in the pitch black chaos of the maze. The only light that was available through came from the torches of other panicking citizens sprinting by. Elsa could only catch fleeting glimpses of her surroundings, and she couldn't see Anna anywhere.
"ANNA!…. KRISTOFF!…. ANYBODY!" - She cried out, desperate for anyone to answer her, but all she could hear were the shouts from the faceless citizens darting through the maze. One citizen clipped her, another knocked her against the wall. She was about to be trampled to death before a hard tug on her hair brought her into an open corner of the maze.
"OW, Hey! Stop that!" She yelled out, shoving against whoever had grabbed her by her hair. Whoever it was, they were pulling her hair HARD, to the point that she could feel some of the hairs being pulled out of her head
"Sorry! Sorry, its me, Micheal!" - King Micheal said, holding a torch in the hand that used to be where his sword was. "I heard your voice and I had to get you out of there."
"Where's Anna? Where's Kristoff?" She asked while trying to spot them in the chaos around the corner.
"I thought they were with you!" King Micheal said.
"We got separated when Kristoff dropped our torch, I don't know where any of them are!" - Elsa
"We won't be able to find them in this mess… Here, take the torch and see if you can find them, I'll try to direct people out of the maze. If I find them I'll come look for you." - King Micheal said, handing Elsa the torch. She took it without fully understanding what he was saying, and he took off before she knew it.
Elsa turned around deeper into the maze as the panicked screams of people grew ever present.
Anna i'm sorry, if you're okay I want you to know that I'm so, so sorry!
She slowly made her way deeper into the darkness of the maze, all alone, looking for her sister.
The Ice King, who was winded at dashing all over the maze and flinging icicles at people, once again stood on top of the maze and watched the chaos unfold beneath him. A few surprises here, a few thrown icicles there, and the entire army of citizens were thrown into an uncontrollable panic.
I love the sound of chaos in the morning He thought to himself with a slight grin. His grin grew even wider across his face when an idea sprang into his head. Lets make it a little more chaotic shall we?
He then stood up straight, stomped down on one foot, and with both of his arms he began to twist into elaborate positions with contorted his hands. A thunderous noise rumbled through his feet from the maze below him, as the walls of the entire maze began to shift.
Anna And Kristoff were braced against a wall on one side of the maze, away from the main carnage in the middle of the maze.
"Elsa!" Anna called out, for the 50th time. How could I lose my own sister? I came all this way to protect her and I blew it!
She and Kristoff casually made their way through the maze, making sure to not be trampled by panicked citizens, when suddenly they both fell to their knees as a gigantic rumbling emerged from everywhere around them. It felt like an earthquake, and Anna and Kristoff could only watch as the hallway behind them, one that they had just walked through, suddenly was split into as an entire wall of ice slowly divided the passage into two.
Holy crap, the entire maze was changing all around them!
Where walls emerged out of nowhere to cut off the paths ahead and behind them, other walls opened up entirely revealing entirely new pathways to go through. The Ice King was changing the complete layout of his maze, opening and closing off pathways by whim. It was now no use trying to map out the maze, if they were going to get out, it was going to be purely by luck.
Elsa please be okay! Anna thought to herself. Gripping her frying pan with both hands out of paralyzing fear and seething anger for losing her sister in the first place.
The Ice King chuckled as he watched the panic even more below him. He had closed off the entrance to the outside completely so that those who hadn't already gotten out were now trapped inside with no way out.
Now then, where did that pretty young lady go?
The Ice King than began to casually walk over the ceiling of the maze, looking for Elsa. He paused only to open up a hole in the ceiling, rain down some icicles on some people below him, and then close it back up before they even knew where it came from. He saw King Micheal trying to bring order to his people, but he was failing miserably.
That should keep him preoccupied...
He spotted Elsa very deep into the maze, she was stroking the wall with one hand as if she was trying to learn a secret from it.
Hopefully I don't terrify her too bad… He then flicked his wrist again, opened up a hole in the roof, and jumped in.
Elsa her a thud behind her, and she whipped around hoping that by some miracle it was Anna or Kristoff….
To her horror, it was the absolute LAST person she wanted to run into.
The Ice King slowly stood up, peering through his mask directly at Elsa. The mask was just like the one that was carved into the gigantic doors on the entrance into the castle. It was a white mask with black lines zig-zagging out from the eye-holes towards all corners of the mask. The black shirt and black pants had similar patterns, making the Ice King appear like a shadow with streaks of lightning made of ice flowing around his body. The only parts of him that were exposed were his hands, and his snow-white hair, which messily sat on top of his head. She stared into his cold, calculating blue eyes, and he stared right back into hers, which were wide with fear and horror.
"I must say, it's nice to finally meet you" He casually whispered with a rough voice.
Elsa shrieked, and let out a powerful burst of ice from her hands right at the Ice King, who never even saw it coming. The burst was just as powerful as the one she unleashed when she tried to break through the maze, and it hit the Ice King before he even knew it was coming.
The Ice King was flung back halfway down the passage against a wall with a tremendous thud. The back of his head smacked so hard against the wall that his mask almost popped out of its strap.
What in the HELL was that? He thought to himself, as Elsa ran around a corner deeper into the maze. This girl has ice powers?!
The Ice King grunted as he got up, his back and the back of his head still sore from begin thrown so hard against the wall. He looked up, opened up a hole in the ceiling, and leapt through it on a blast of ice from his feet. He closed the hole behind him and then resumed his search for Elsa.
'You're far more fascinating than I expected…. Though something tells me you're not one of those dastardly creations of the wizard' He thought to himself, searching for Elsa. He finally found her in a hallway, looking behind her expecting the Ice King to have followed her.
Alright, lets try something else...
He opened up another hole, and jumped down into it to once again confront Elsa.
Elsa's heart was beating so hard it was about to leap out of her chest, but she was a little more confident in herself after she had blasted the Ice King. She tried to control her breathing and recollect herself as she waited, it didn't look like the Ice king had followed her.
She heard a thud from behind her, and she whipped around to see the Ice King once again standing up from off the ground. She only caught a glimpse of the hole in the ceiling close as the Ice King got on his feet.
So thats how he's getting around! She thought to herself, gazing from the ceiling back into the dead eyes of the Ice King who stood before her.
"Well I certainly wasn't expecting THAT" He muttered, this time in his actual voice instead of some creepy whisper.
Time for a little help.
She flung her hand not holding the torch downwards and a blast of magic leapt from her fingers into the ground. The ground swelled, and from it, a powerful snow creature that she had once summoned before in defense began to take shape.
'Marshmallow' as Olaf had named it, wasn't as big as the previous one she made was, but it still looked as formidable as it could have in the narrow halls of the maze. If anything could buy her time to get out of the maze though, this would be it.
Marshmallow took one look at the Ice King and let out a ferocious roar, with spikes of ice emerging from its back and fingers just like last time. Elsa smiled, turns out she had decent control over her powers after all.
The Ice King though, seemed more amused by the beast Elsa summoned then fearful of it.
"So, you've figured out how to summon minions? Thats cute, but allow me to introduce some minions of my own!" - He yelled out, throwing both of his hands towards either wall beside him.
The walls tingled, and then started to swell similar to the floor where Elsa had summoned Marshmallow. However, it wasn't just one minion that the Ice King had summoned…. Hundreds of tiny bubbles were soon emerging from the walls and began to burst open one by one, and from them, the Ice King's eight legged minions emerged.
Holy crap, He had summoned ice spiders!
The spiders than began to overrun Marshmallow, who had succeeded in stomping and crushing dozens of them to death before he became covered with them. The ice spiders than began to pop one by one, encasing Marshmallow in tiny patches of ice as each one popped. After all the spiders on him had gone off, Marshmallow had become completely entombed in ice... That is, until the Ice King blew it to smithereens with one powerful blast.
"Seize her!" The Ice King bellowed, and the spiders began to sprint for Queen Elsa.
She turned around and ran for her life. 'Not spiders! Not spiders! Dammit why did it HAVE TO BE SPIDERS!?' she thought to herself as she sprinted back through the hallway she and just fled through. She absolutely HATED spiders, just as much as Anna, and all she could do was throw blasts of ice behind her blindly as she sprinted away from them. With each blast that hit the wall, at least a dozen spiders would burst into nothingness, but dozens more still pursued her around every corner. She ran as fast as she could, dashing through any hallway she could find.
Then the walls began to shift again, the Ice King once again rearranging the layout of his maze. She could only helplessly watch as walls of ice cut off her pathway and opened up new paths all around her. She was completely disorientated as to which way was which, and she didn't have the faintest idea where the entrance was. She couldn't even hear the screams of the panicking citizens, as the rumble of the ice walls rearranging into place consumed any other sound.
After the walls stopped moving, she began dashing through passages, hoping to find anything. The entrance, her sister, Micheal, anything would do at this point.
She turned one corner and looked back, with no sign of the spiders or the Ice King behind her, though the Ice King was probably on the ceiling overhead. She looked back forward and came to a screeching stop as she saw the door that was at the end of the passage way. It was a small ice door with no markings on it, with only a single doorknob and keyhole in it.
'This must be the door into the rest of the castle' She thought to herself, walking up to the door and stroking it. She heard a thud behind her, and turned around to face the Ice King once again.
The Ice King stood up, this time his hands brimming with the blue aurora of his ice powers at the tips of his fingers. He had trapped Elsa in the passage, with the only exit being the door behind her.
She whipped around and tried to open the door, but it was locked, even letting out a quick blast through the lock didn't do anything.
"Going somewhere?" The Ice King casually asked. Elsa whipped around and braced against the door.
"Don't make me hurt you again!" - Elsa cried out, hoping to maybe intimidate the Ice King
He let out a laugh. "I'm not the kind of person who gets surprised twice in one day…"
'We'll see about that' she thought to herself, and she let out a powerful blast of ice at the Ice King. This time though he saw it coming, and he punched his way through the blast of ice and it evaporated around him into nothingness.
Elsa was caught off guard, and let off another blast, hoping that this one would knock him back. Then she let out another, then another, then another.
The Ice King forced his way through each one with successive punches, gradually making ground on Elsa, who was still pinned between the Ice King and the locked door. Finally, she let out a stream of ice, much like the one she used a long time ago to push a guard almost completely out of her own ice castle.
Her stream of ice was met by the Ice King's own stream, as he countered Elsa's stream of ice with one of his own. The two were now locked in battle, just like the picture in the book foretold, each trying to produce a stream of ice to overpower the other. Elsa gritted her teeth and focused as hard as she could into her attack, and the Ice King did the same. Each of their streams met directly in the middle, with no one making any advance.
Then, Elsa's stream began to wane. The Ice King slowly made his way closer to Elsa as his stream of ice began to overpower Elsa's. Elsa dropped the torch and used her other hand to try to throw him back, but the Ice King countered by using both of his hands as well.
The Ice King slowly made his way closer and closer to Elsa, step by step, as the strength of his magic began to overpower hers. Soon he was within 20 feet of her…. Then 15….. Then 10…. In no time at all, The Ice King and Elsa were almost face to face, hand to hand as each of them fiercely through a stream of ice against each other.
Then their hands touched, and Elsa felt a tremendously painful sting shoot up in her arms. The ice in her veins, which had flowed towards her hands like a freight train the whole time, suddenly felt as if it had reversed course and painfully shot backwards into her elbows. She was thrown hard against the door behind her and fell to the ground and the Ice King was thrown almost halfway down the hallway.
Elsa's vision blurred, and her head was ringing. She hit her head pretty hard on both the door and the floor when she fell, she tried to see what had happened to the Ice King, but when she went to rub her eyes, something felt very, very wrong.
Elsa looked down at her hands and was horrified at what she saw. After touching hands with the Ice King during their battle when both of them were trying to blast each other with ice, Elsa's forearms had become completely incased with ice all the way from her fingertips to her elbows! She couldn't move any part of her hands, fingers, or wrists, and she couldn't feel anything below her elbows either. She watched in horror as the Ice King got back onto his feet, both of his hands were free of any ice.
He was breathing heavily and agrily, not pleased to being thrown on his back twice in the same couple of minutes… After he collected himself, he looked at Elsa, and made his way towards her.
She panicked, backing up against the door and trying to hit her arms against it hoping to break the ice around her hands. Nothing happened though, and as the Ice King drew closer, all she could do was raise her frozen arms over her head and wait for the final blow.
"You fight hard, i'll give you that, but sadly you're simply no match for—" He started
BOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG
A huge thud rang out threw the air, and the Ice King hit the ground face-first with a tremendous thud.
Behind him….. Stood Anna, who had quietly snuck up behind the Ice King and then, using every ounce of strength she had in her arms, swung the frying pan as hard as she could upside the Ice King's skull, knocking him out and sending him to the floor unconscious.