Next update in Return of the Wolf Knight. I recently saw Thor: Ragnarok, and it gave me an idea. So I'll be having Jason and Marcus have their battle early so that the true enemy will reveal itself.

I own only my original characters, nothing else.

A couple weeks have passed now and the King and Queen of Arendelle have allowed the visiting royal families to stay as long as they like. So when they weren't spending time together, Jason was out with Kristoff and the other boys either training or sometimes hunting, and Elsa was with the girls, either training as well or watching the children.

At the moment however, Jason stood on his room's balcony, watching his friends and family playing and laughing, having a good time. He smiled at this, but in his mind he was afraid, afraid of what would happen to them all if Marcus would win. The new king had been thinking up a plan, and he had finally reached a workable one. That was when his wife came in.

"Hello, dear husband of mine," she said and he smiled as he pulled her closer.

"Hello to you too, my beautiful wife," he said back as he pressed his lips to hers.

"What's wrong? You look troubled."

"I'm just...scared. I don't want to lose you or anyone because of Marcus, because of my mistakes."

"It's not your fault. Don't go and say that it is. You won't lose any of us, we will win!"

He smiled at his new wife and she smiled back as they hugged.

"Nevertheless, I do have an idea to try to avoid a war altogether," he said and they let go and Elsa looked at him.

"How?," she asked, little did they know that Eugene had been passing by and heard this and was now listening in.

"By challenging my brother, it's me he wants anyway. Despite his explosive temper and his brashness, Marcus is a man of honor, he will accept the challenge."

"No! No way!! What if you lose? What if he kills you?"

"Elsa," he said putting his hands on her face as Eugene continued listening. "I swear to you, that I wil not fail. I don't want to watch our people suffer. And if things go the way I think they will, I may just come back."

"How do you think things will go?," she asked.

"There's a mystery player in this war, remember?"

'What are planning, Jason?,' he thought to himself.

"What is supposed 'master of Fate' doesn't exist? I won't let you go! I won't allow it!!"

"I'm sorry Elsa," he said with a true sorrowful face. "But I'm not asking you to allow it."

He could see the pain and fear in her eyes, but his mind was made up, this she could see. With a deep sigh, she spoke again.

"You are so stubborn!!! Promise me. Promise me that you will come back!!! Please!!," she begged.

"I promise," he simply said and he pressed his forehead against hers and it was then that Eugene walked away. He soon found Kristoff, Ethan, Frederic and Eric.

"Everybody listen up!!," he called out and they all looked to him. "I just overheard Jason telling Elsa that he's going to the Barbarian lands!"

"What?! Why?!," Kristoff said.

"To challenge King Marcus."

"Is the king mad?!," Ethan asked.

"No Sir Ethan," Eric said. "He's scared for his people and mine and Corona's. He thinks that we can avoid war if he does this."

"We all know Jason," Kristoff said. "There no talking him out of this. We'll just need to be his backup, if he fails to kill Marcus, then we step in and save him. But just so we're not caught, it has to be only Ethan, Eugene and myself."

They all seemed to agree to this they all swore to not tell even their wives.

That night, the boys hid in the shadows as Jason and Elsa walked out into the courtyard. Jason was dressed in his Wolf Knight armor and in a cloak as well. Then he turned to Elsa.

"I do not know what will happen," he said. "Just know that if I do not come back, that I love you more than life itself and I always will. In this world, and in the next."

"And I love you," she said with tears in her eyes, and she hugged him then pressed her lips against his. "Please, don't go."

"I must, for our people to live, as well as the Southern Isles and Corona."

He then got on a horse and looked at his wife as if it was the last time he would see it, then he looked to the shadows to their right.

"Take care of Arendelle, Kristoff, Eugene and Ethan," he said then rode off and Elsa looked at them, very angry.

"Can't we just get one moment alone?!!!," she yelled and they stepped out of the shadows.

"We were waiting for him to leave and follow him," Kristoff explained. "Eugene was passing by when he heard Jason talk to you about this. We're not gonna let him go without help."

She went quiet for a minute before nodding.

"Okay it's fine then. Just...be sure to come back to my sister, Kristoff."

"I will. Can you tell the others for us?"

She nodded again and then he got on Sven and Eugene got on his horse, Maximus and Ethan got on another horse and they rode off to go after Jason.

Jason

Jason knew there was only one place to go so that he could get to Marcus quickly.

So he headed towards the Valley of the Living Rock.

When he finally reached it, it was almost dawn and the trolls were still asleep. He got off his horse and shooed it away, not knowing that Kristoff and the others were right behind him. They sent Sven and the horses away as well, much their dismay and continued to watch Jason.

"Grandpabbie!!," Jason shouted. "I'm sorry to bother you all at this hour but I need your help!!"

Then the boulders began to surround him andbthey began to change shape and reveal themselves as trolls and they all gasped when they saw him.

"It's the king!!," one said. Then one last rock came towards him and revealed itself to be Grandpabbie.

"Dear Jason, how may I help you?," he asked calmly.

"I'm going to go face my brother."

"But it has not been five months."

"I won't risk losing my people or the Southern Isles and Corona falling. I need you to open a portal to the Barbarian lands, I'll challenge Marcus for his throne, since technically I have a claim to it as well. It will mean peace."

"And if you fail? If you die, we will all fall."

"Then I better make sure I don't die then," he answered and the wise troll could see the determination.

"You are very brave, Wolf King. But there is a thin line between courage and foolishness."

With that, he used his magic and opened up a portal, and Jason then stepped through it. Once he did so, he had to immediately hide, as there were patrols all over.

He took a look around and saw soldiers training and fighting all around him, women and children seemed to be scare though. Then he saw the Stabbington Brothers overseeing the training, and keeping them under control.

'Despite the obvious things, this place hasn't changed at all,' Jason thought to himself. He knew he had to get around somehow, then an idea came to him.

Inside the Ruined Castle

Marcus was merely walking around, bidding his time, awaiting for the time for war to come when Amelia ran up to him.

"Marcus!!," she yelled and he turned to look at her.

"What?," he said.

"The soldiers, there's been a revolt!!"

His eyes widened when he heard this, he couldn't afford this.

"Have all loyal soldiers surround them, you and I shall lead them. Get the Stabbingtons and Hans to guard the castle."

She nodded and went to go get them.

Jason watched still hidden as the soldiers he had indoctrinated five years ago distracted the remaining ones. Then he saw his brother and sister-in-law come up to the front.

'With the small number of my soldiers there are, I don't have much time.'

He then successfully snuck around them and got himself into the castle as old memories came back to him. Memories of killing his own father, of nearly killing Marcus and ending the war with his friends and Fredrik. Then he saw an old painting of his biological father. Just he remembered him, huge and muscular, a long brown beard and even longer hair, and a patch over his right eye. On his left ring finger was the Ring of Chaos, which now belonged to his half-brother.

He shook away these thought and got out his old dual swords, which he thought were more appropriate in this case, but what he did not have was his pendent as he left it with Elsa in case he never returned that she would still have something. The Wolf King soon reached the throne room to find the Stabbingtons and Hans there, and to say that they were shocked to see him would be an understatement.

"Surprised to see me?," he taunted. They then ran at him and he simply used his ring to pick up the twins and bashed their head together, knocking them out. Then he dodged Hans' initial attack then used his sword handle to hit him on the back of the head, knocking him out as well. "My fight is not with you."

He walked over to the throne and sat down and took his brother's Dragon Spear in hand and began slamming the bottom of it on the ground.

Marcus

With Marcus and Amelia's help, the barbarians were about to kill the supposed traitors, but then they heard loud banging and Marcus slowly turned towards his castle. As it continued, the indoctrinated were then freed and begged for forgiveness, which Amelia gave.

"What is that?," she asked.

"My brother," Marcus answered. "Let's give him a good welcome."

They then walked back to the throne room just as Jason slammed the spear on the floor one last time, and he saw his brother and narrowed his eyes.

"Hello, brother," he said.

"Jason," he said, then saw the crown on his head. "King Jason, I nearly forgot that you had married the ice witch. Have you come here to die?"

"That depends."

"On what?," Amelia asked.

"I'm here to challenge you for this throne."

Marcus let out a roar of laughter and and Amelia soon joined in.

"Hahaha...I am the only king here."

"It would be dishonorable to refuse, not to mention you'd look like a coward," Jason baited, and it seemed to have worked as the spear was practically ripped from his hand and it went into Marcus'.

"So be it."

As they prepared to fight, the soldiers began to surround them and watched it transpire.

"And just so you know," Jason said. "There is a third party in this war, one pulling all the strings."

"I know, the master of Fate. And I don't care, you killed Father, you nearly killed me," he said then charged at him. "Now you will suffer!!!"

He swung his spear at him and Jason blocked it and pushed it away, but Marcus simply used the bottom to hit him in the face, putting him on the floor. He wuickly recovered and used his ring to turn invisible, which didn't faze his brother at all.

"You can't hide from me!! The ring allows me to see you!!"

He used his ring to look into the Nether Realm, and he saw his brother in front of him and he threw his spear at him. Jason was barely able to catch it in time, and then he became visible again. Then when Marcus called for it again, he left something on the handle, and when he let go and his brother caught it, it blew up and was broken in two.

"What...are you?!," he growled painfully.

"You shall soon find out," Jason answered and he swung at him with his swords, but Marcus used his good hand and punched him in the face and grabbed one of his swords.

He began to unskillfully swing the sword at him as his hand was hurt, then Jason went invisible again and went around him and kicked him in the back. He then got into a bladelock with Marcus.

"You know," Marcus said gaining the upper hand the sword he had got closer to Jason's eyes. "I could never see the similarity between you and our father."

Jason knew he had to get out of it, but he only saw one way, and he knew the sacrifice would be worth it. The Wolf King bravely twited his body and the Dragon King's sword cut him, blinding him in his right eye. Though he was in absolute pain, he then jammed his sword through his half-brother's heart and brought him to the ground.

"See it now?," he said as Marcus laid dying, and Amelia stood there in horror, and Hans and the Stabbingtons couldn't believe their eyes. "I am Jason, Wolf King of Arendelle. And by all that is good, your wrath upon the world...is over, before it could ever begin."

With that, Marcus the Dragon King, died.

Jason pulled his sword out of his dead brother's chest and sheathed it along with the other. He then limped slightly over to grab Marcus' crown and then his ring. All the while, some old friend watched in awe of what had happened.

"Marcus!!," Amelia yelled and she ran over to her dead husband and wept over it, then she turned to Jason. "Kinslayer!!!!!"

"Indeed," a voice from the entrance said and all eyes turned to see a hooded man walk in with a cane that had a raven head on it. When he removed the cloak, Jason thought he was seeing things.

"...F-Father??," he said weakfully, as he was in a lot of pain.

"Hello, Jason," Fredrik said. Underneath the cloak, he wore armor similar to what Marcus would've worn during the war, (think of Eredin from Witcher III: Wild Hunt, just less bulky). Then he put on his helmet, which in a violet flash appeared in his hands and then the cane turned into a large scythe, and then a skull face mask appeared his is other hand. "I knew you could do it."

"You...," Jason said as he realized the truth. "You're him...it was always you. You're the Master of Fate."

"Personally, I've always favored the title of the Reaper King. I apologize for the deception but this was the only way. The only way for me to ensure my ascension to our father's throne."

Everyone's eyes widened at this statement.

"Yes, I'm pleased to see everyone has figured it out. I am Fredrik, Crown Prince of the Barbarian Horde, the now ensured Barbarian King."

"You're my eldest brother?," Jason asked and he nodded. "Why? Why did you do this to me?!! Why even get me involved??!!"

"I could never harm my own family," Fredrik explained as he walked closer to his little brother. "So I schemers and eventually worked my way up to the highest levels of Arendelle's military and I knew sooner or later another one of Father's bastards would show up on the streets as he could never control himself. I trained you, taught everything you know, made you into the man you are today, for this. And you succeeded with flying colors, I couldn't have done it better myself. But now your usefulness has come to its end, and your fate is decided. Goodbye, Wolf King ."

He then swung his scythe so fast, Jason didn't feel it hit him until afterwards. Fredrik has left a massive cut across Jason's chest. Then a blast of violet magic hit him and he was shot out and over the cliff and into the water.

Fredrik looked around saw fear in everyone's eyes, they feared him more than even Marcus.

"I warned him in his sleep that I was coming," he said. "Guess he wasn't prepared enough, though we hardly ever are. But now, all will bow down to me!!! Bow before your king!!!"

Fearing his wrath, they did so, even Amelia.

"Amelia, Stabbingtons, Hans," he said as he sat upon his thrown. "Ready the men to march on Corona, the three kingdoms fates are decided, destruction."

They got up and started barking orders at the soldiers and began getting them ready as Fredrik watched smirking as he put his skull mask on.

Kristoff

He couldn't believe what he, Eugene and Ethan had all seen. But they knew that they needed to worry about it later, they need led to find Jason. After several hours of searching, they saw something on the beach and then saw something else, something shiny.

Kristoff ran over and picked it up and saw that it was the Crown of Arendelle, then saw that it was Jason.

"Over here!!," he yelled and they all ran up to him and Ethan checked him.

"He's alive," he said and they all sighed in relief. "Don't celebrate yet, his pulse is weak, he's dying. We need to get back to Arendelle."

"Right. Eugene, here."

Kristoff gave gave the Fox Knight a greenish blue crystal with a bright glow to it.

"Think of where you want to go and it'll open a portal to it," he explained. Eugene did so, and true to his word, a portal opened and they ran through to find themselves once again in the Arendelle castle.

"Kristoff?," Anna said as she went to check out the strange noise then she saw Jason. "Oh my God!! What happened?!!"

"We'll explain later," he said picking him up. "Go get Elsa and bring her to the infirmary!"

She nodded and they brought him to the doctor who immediately began working on the king. Soon enough, Elsa ran into the room and towards her husband.

"JASON!!!," she screamed. Then saw what had happened to him as Kristoff began telling everyone what had happened, about Marcus' death, about Fredrik still being alive and that he was the true Barbarian King.

"That monster!!!," Anna yelled. "He was our uncle!!!"

"And Jason's father," Rapunzal added. The doctor then finished up stitching Jason.

"That is all I can do I'm afraid. We can only pray that we weren't too late. Nothing I can do about the eye I'm afraid, he's blind in it now. How did that happen?"

"He sort of did it to himself in order to kill Marcus," Ethan explained and Elsa gasped at this.

"If he doesn't die and he wakes up, I'm going to kill him!," she grumbled. They chuckled a little at this and then the doctor said that it's best that he'd be left alone to recover. "May I please stay here with him?"

"Of course, your Majesty," he said and then he left as well and Elsa was left alone with her husband.

"You are such an idiot!!," she said.

"I...couldn't...agree more," she heard him slowly say. He slowly opened his remaining eye and looked at his beautiful and extremely worried wife. "I'm so sorry... Elsa."

"Shh...how could you have known? You have nothing to apologize for, except for almost dying."

"I was such a fool. He played me my entire life and I didn't-."

"Stop talking. You couldn't have known, he was your father, that's all you wanted to see him as. It's human. Please try to rest, I can't lose you," she said getting teary-eyed. "We can't lose you."

"Who's we?," he said slowly, confused, then he figured it out, and she gave a small smile. "Oh my God, you're-,"

"Yes. I was going to tell you before you told me about all this."

"I'm so sorry for that."

"Stop apologizing for things you didn't know," she said.

"Okay," he said back. He then tried to make as much room as he could and she laid down next to him. "I promise to recover quickly and I'm going to end this, once and for all."

"You won't be alone this time," she said and they then fell asleep, knowing that the war was coming quicker that foretold now.

Hoped you liked this chapter, I liked writing it. Again a lot of surprises huh? I'll try to have the next chapter up soon. See ya later.