Hi everyone,
The cold winds have blown on our heroes. as they paths grow closer together, the dark spirit have sewn his way in to put his plan in action. this was a game of chess, and soon it was checkmate on Elise and Jack.
Just a Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the world they come from. Just the idea of the story
Elise and Snowdrop finally made it back to her castle with sentimental feelings. She looks at the staff, looking back at the risks and the people she left behind in order to get it and come back here. Now her destiny is only meters away.
She sighs as she grips the staff tight. "This is it Snowdrop."
Snowdrop moans softly, pretty worried about this.
But Elise tries to smile as she shrinks snowdrop back down to her little puppy form. Whatever may happen, she didn't want Snowdrop to get swept by it.
With that, she and Snowdrop opens the door with her magic, and flew right in.
Unknown to her, two shadows flew towards the castle and went up through the balcony window.
On the ground, Jack became awestruck as he looks at the castle.
"Wow," he gasps, "just like her mother."
He puts down Olaf while Baby tooth flies nearby.
"Ok," he said turning to them. "You two go and get my dad and the others. I'll find Elise."
"What? No," Olaf objects. "Elise is in there and I haven't seen her in years."
"I know Olaf," Jack said, kneeing down to look at the snowman eye to eye. "But this is...a little complicated. I have to save my daughter from Pitch, and I also need to talk to her. And I need to do it alone. But the guardians and my father need to know where Pitch is, that's why you need to go."
"No, I'm not leaving," Olaf said again.
Seeing how the snowman isn't gonna budge, Baby tooth offers to go alone to get the guardians. Realizing that this was better option then sitting here arguing, Jack nods in agreement for Baby tooth to go alone. She flew fast to leave the mountains, leaving Jack and Olaf staring at the castle.
"You should probably wait out here," Jack suggests.
"Me?" He asks, not fully understanding.
Jack can understand, but he has to go and see Elise himself. He had a lot to say to her. "Just, give us a minute," he gestures before flying to the door.
"One, two, three," Olaf started counting quietly as he watches Jack enter the castle.
"Oh there you are Elise!"
Pitch jumped out of his seat and opens his arms wide as Elise and Snowdrop flew into the room. As Elise lands in the center of the room, pitch walks towards her.
"I was so worried about you," he exclaim with excitement. "And...I don't believe it. You actually did it, you brought back my staff. Clever girl."
"I had help though," she replied as she looks down at the staff with a small sad look.
"I'm sure your dragon has been an absolute help," Pitch said as he gestures to the small dragon.
Snowdrop nods, but it wasn't a happy nod. She shares Elise's feelings about leaving Hiccup and Toothless back on Berk.
"It wasn't just her," Elise explains. "We made a few friends that helped us out. But then, I hurt them with my powers. They...they..."
"Oh, I understand," Pith said with a inch of sympathy in his voice. He gently brushes her cheek with the back of his hand, which made her back up a bit in fear. "But look where this ordeal has brought you. The only chance for you to embrace you're new life, and for you to be what you're truly are. The queen of the ice and snow."
'The queen of ice,' Elise thought with a narrow brow. It perfectly fits her now. She should never know warmth or love. Everyone is afraid of her, and she is destined to be alone with her ice. It is here she should stay.
Pitch draws back and opens his hand to her, "if you would just hand me my staff, I can make everything right."
Though a little nervous and scared, Elise held the staff with one hand. This was it, this was the moment she worked so hard to get to. She hands the staff back to Pitch, and then she can live in peace and in control of her life and hopefully her powers.
As she presents the staff for him...
"Elise! Don't!"
A shot of electrified ice came and shot Pitch away, and crashing into the icy wall.
Elise turned to see a man burst through the door. She instantly recognizes that man as the one from Moroz's castle. He was one of the guardians that tried to stop her. The one with ice powers. She held the staff, ready to defend her friend.
But the man stopped and looked at her in shock.
Elise looked at this man, and gasped at what she saw. "Dad?"
It was her father, but he looked different than before. His attire was a simple blue shirt and brown pants with no shoes, his hair was whiter than snow, and his skin was pale as the wind. On top of that, he was carrying a wooden staff, and had ice powers. He was also hovering inches away from the ground.
It was no way it was possible, but her father is clearly the proof.
"You're a spirit?" She and her father said at the exact same time in disbelief.
Pitch let a small smile spread across his lips. 'This is too perfect,' he thought. He rose up from the crack ice, and also did his best to look astounded.
"What?" He said to Elise. "You never told me that the 'Jack Frost' was your father."
"What?" Elise said confused as she continued to look at her father. "I don't understand."
Jack looked at her, struggling to say the right words to her. "I...I..."
"Oh," Pitch said, creeping behind Elise. "You never told her Jack? That's cold."
"Tell me what?" Elise asks, wanting an answer.
Pitch smiles as he leans in close to her ear. "Did you know your father was a spirit too?"
Elise gasps in shock, having a hard time wrapping her head around that revaluation.
"Pitch! Get away from her!" Jack commands as he sends a blast of ice at Pitch. But Pitch sinks into the floor, easily dodging the ice.
Jack first instincts were to run to Elise and shield her, but Pitch infront to block his way.
With an evil smile, Pitch turned back to Elise. "Yes," he tells her. "Your father was once a great spirit, a ruler of the ice and snow. But he gave it all up to be with your mother."
What Pitch was saying made some form of sense to Elise. She remembered the story she's been hearing among the spirits of the lagoon, about the spirit that fell in love and became a mortal to be with his love. But she wouldn't have guessed that was her father. But worst, she wouldn't have guessed that he would keep that from her. No wonder why the spirit world felt familiar to her, and why she was so open to them. Why then, why didn't he tell her?
"Stop it Pitch!" Jack orders as he threatens to use his staff on Pitch.
"And if I'm not mistaken, your mother also had ice powers too," Pitch said with a sly smile to Elise. "I guess that why he fell in love with her."
Elise's eyes were wide with shock; she sinks to the floor out of disbelief.
But Jack grinds his teeth as he blasts a shot of ice at Pitch. But the dark spirt dodges out of the way again before the ice could get a hit.
Soon, it seems the only ones in the room were Elise and Jack.
"Is...Is it true?" Elise desperately asks her father.
For the first time in years, Jack was at a loss of words. He was hoping to tell Elise everything and things would be alright again. But they're not, Elise is coming undone, and he can't blame him.
"Elise...I...I just wanted to-"
Jack was cut off with a voice coming inside the room.
"58, 59, 60!" A little snowman pops inside all jolly and happy. "Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!"
Jack silently groans, when he told Olaf to give them a minute, he didn't mean it literally.
"Olaf?" Elise questions while looking at the snowman.
"Wow, Elise!" He said excited. "I haven't seen you since you were a little baby. You were sooooo cute back then. You're mom made me when she was trying to get use to her powers."
Elise had to blink her eyes to see if this was really happening. Things were happening almost too fast for her to wrap her head around. First her father was a spirit, and he and her mom had ice powers, and now there's a talking snowman. All of this shouldn't be happening. That was the lie she was brought up with.
"Is. it. true?," she asked her father again desperately, wanting to hear the answer he's hid from her for so long.
With a heavy sigh, Jack slowly nods his head. "Yes, it's true."
Elise draws back in disbelief. Water started to fill her eyes as her whole world comes crashing down. Snowdrop made its way to Elise and tries to cuddle her side. But Elise was in a state of shock to feel her.
"All this time, all those years, and you never told me," Elise cried out.
Jack looked away, feeling horrible. He didn't want it to be this way. Now, he's hurt her more than Pitch could ever do. What he did was supposed to protect her, and now he just made her feel worst.
Pitch appears behind Elise and places his hands on her shoulders. "You kept the most important secret from your own daughter her entire life? I know your family has ice magic but even that is cold."
"Please," Jack softly said. "I promise I can explain everything. Just give me the staff." He out his hand to Elise, hoping she would take it.
"No, hand it to me," Pitch insists. "It will make you a true spirit."
"He's lying," Jack said in a desperate plea for his daughter to listen.
"Now who is the liar?" Pitch said, standing up and glaring at Jack. "I've given her everything she wanted. Her purpose, her destiny, her freedom. And you? You locked her inside the castle, making her feel alone and unwanted. You didn't even want her to simply walk in the gardens of the castle. You treated her like a prisoner her whole life."
"I was protecting her," he yelled back.
"By fencing me in?!"
Elise finally had enough strength to speak. But they weren't words of sorrow, they were words of anger. Her tears grow across her face and a whirl wind of snow began to surround her. The wind was so strong; Snowdrop and Olaf were blown away to the sides. The shining blue of the castle suddenly turned red and spikes started to form from the walls, pushing Jack in more. Pitch dank back to the ground, and reappear on the throne so that Elise can put all her anger on Jack.
The wind and the snow blew at them, but while Jack did his best to block it with his staff and arms, Elise embraced the cold.
"You knew how much I was alone!" She roared. "How much I wanted to see the outside world! To be free! And all this time, you and mom were keeping me from it!"
With each word she said, a whip of icy cold wind hit Jack harder than an ice ball.
"You had magic! The power to control ice. Why didn't you tell me about that?!"
"We wanted to protect you-"
"Protect me from what?!" She yells at him. "The only thing you protected me from was friends I could've had. The life I could've lived!"
She threw her hands at Jack, making a sheet of ice pinning him down to the floor. She then hovers over him, looking down at him.
"Then I discovered I had this curse, this power. I was afraid to tell you, thinking I would be disowned as a freak. But you, you had powers too?! And yet you step back and made me into a monster!"
"No," Jack said looking up at his daughter, using his powers to dissolve the ice around him to stand up to face her. "You aren't a monster. You're just an angry, confused girl, and I completely understand-"
"You understand?!" She sneers. "How could you possibly understand how I feel?"
She raises an arm up and made a small wave of ice shot out from the floor. It hit Jack's hand, and sent his staff flying out of reach.
He didn't even try to retrieve it, his daughter needed him more. She was creating a blizzard inside the castle, and he had to calm her down.
"Elise," he started with his hands held out to her. "You have to listen. I'm sorry, from keeping all this from you. I'm sorry for everything-"
"THEN WHY?! WHY DID YOU KEEP THE TRUTH FROM ME?!" She screams enraged.
Jack tries to get closer to her, to try to comfort her. "Elise, if there was one thing I could do over, I would've-"
Elise had enough. She turns her head away from her father as she flies back to Pitch. She hovers next to him while starring coldly at Jack.
"Too late," she said as she hands Pitch the staff.
"ELISE! NO!" Jack cries out in vain.
As soon as Pitch's hand grabs the staff, it instantly glowed black. It made a shock wave that blew Elise back and skid on the icy floor. Elise lifted her head to see Pitch laughing wickedly and victorious.
"Finally, all the power of the world is in my command!" He cheered. All the snow she made tornado around Pitch, turning the pure white snowflakes into black dusts of sand with a shine of blue.
Elise looked at him confused. What did she just do?
Suddenly, the ceiling broke into millions of ice shards. Before Elise had time to process this, she felt her father grabbing close to her and covering her body with his. The ice hit him hard, making him almost collapse on top of Elise.
She looked at him with a surprise shock. She yelled at him and nearly killed him, and yet he still saved her.
"Dad?" She whispers.
"Are you alright?" He asks quietly.
She didn't really answer him. She looks up to see hundred upon million grains of black sand above them. Some of them form to make figures of horses, creepy crawlies and spirits amongst the tornado of sand.
Then they all flew down and blew the remains of the snow Elise produced in her tantrum. All the while, Jack held on to Elise to protect her from the shadows. Snowdrop hid under a table while Olaf hid next to a vase as the nightmares flew to the door and outside.
Then, Jack felt his stomach getting grabbed by a whip. It flings him off of Elise and next to Pitch in mid-air. His wrists and feet were so chained as well, and his mouth gaged.
"Dad!" Elise cries as she moves to stand.
But soon, she saw Pitch pointing the staff at her, stopping her from getting closer off the floor.
"Do you know what your dad was trying to protect you from?" He asks her in a mock tone. "From me!"
Elise was so shocked that she couldn't move a muscle. She couldn't believe it, the one that gave her her freedom is the one her father wanted to protect her from. It didn't make any sense.
Pitch chuckles as he pinched Jack's cheek. "What he did, he did out of love. Truly pathetic really."
Jack moves his head away a glares at Pitch.
Satisfied, Pitch turns to Elise to put a final nail in her emotional coffin. "Elise has been a naughty girl. Stealing from her own grandfather."
"My...my grandfather?" She respond almost lost for words.
"King Moroz! Ruler of the spirits. Commander in chief and the voice of the man in the moon. Or at least he was until a little thief came along."
Anger started to resurface in Elise as she clutched her fists and hovers near Pitch. "You tricked me!"
He smiles wickedly as he gestures to her. "You have no one to blame but yourself."
As she was about to release a blast of ice at him, she pause to realize he was right. All of this was all her. She stole the staff and handed him, she was the one who ran away, and she was the one that set Berk into an ice age. All of this was her fault, only because she wanted to be free.
She felt Pitch's hand on her shoulder as he leans to her. "Tell me dear; is being a spirit all that you wanted? Was it worth it?"
She tries to swat Pitch away, only to have him grab her wrist and threw her to a wall. The impact made her fall hard on the floor. With a wave of his staff, he made two shackles form from the wall and wrap her wrists.
Elsie tries her best to fly up to Pitch again, but the shackles kept her pin down with only little movement from the chains. The best she could do is stand with arms tight behind her. She tries to flick her wrists to get at the cuffs, but they were made out of ice. She can't freeze something that's already frozen.
"Look at you," Pitch said as he enjoys Elise's struggle. "You really are a sad little girl. You ran away from your parents, stole the most powerful object on earth, and left everyone that cared about you in your wake. And for what? Your desperate attempt to be free, and to become a spirit. Not really caring for the people you hurt and left behind. You must've had a cold heart to do all of that and not care for the consequences. So how about… we make that official then."
He points the staff at Elise, and shot a beam of ice directly at her chest. She tenses up as she feels the ice crawling inside her. Making her weak enough to collapse on her knees and moan in agony.
"Elise!" Jack screamed though his gag.
Elise slowly lifts up her head, just to see Pitch smiling cruelly at her. "Oh and by the way, your time as a spirit is about to expire."
She growls at him as he leaves through the door with Jack still in chains.
"I hate to run, but I have a world to rule!"
He laughs hysterically as he leaves Elise alone and chained.
She got up on her feet again and tries to fly herself out, but the chains were too thick for her. There was no way she was ever going to get out on her own. Eventually, her struggling was making her loose hope. She collapse back and say on the floor miserable.
"Oh god," she whispers as she starts to weep. "What have I done?"
"Elise?"
She turned her head slightly to see the snowman standing next to her.
"Come on," he said trying his luck to pull the chains loose. But it was a loosing battle for him.
"It's no use," she tells him through her tears. "They're too thick."
"No," he said as he keeps pulling them. "I'll get you out of here. If it's...the last...thing I'll...do..."
"Please stop," Elise said as the snowman pulled on the chain and fell backwards to her side. "Nothing is gonna break those chains. Not even my magic."
"But we have to keep trying," he said. "Your father needs you."
"Does he?" Elise questions while looking on the floor. "Look at what I've done. I messed up everything. There's no way he would ever forgive me for this. There's no way anyone is going to forgive me. They all must hate me right now."
"What are you talking about?"
Elise looked up as soon as she felt the snowman touch her hip.
"Look at what your mommy and daddy done for you. They were willing to give up everything; even their own powers to make sure you were protected. Then they searched all over the world for you, and then you dad protected you, even though you threw snow at him. If I know one thing Elise, you dad really cares about you, even now."
Elise tries to smile as she leans closer to the snowman. "Olaf, is it?" She said. "I'm glad to finally meet you."
"Me too," he said, wrapping his stick arms around her side. Then, his eyes light up. "Oh, I almost forgot, I have something for you."
He reached his hand inside his snowy chest, which was a little disturbing for Elise.
"I know I had it in here somewhere...ah ha!" He pulls out somethings out of his chest and held it up to Elise. It looked like a bracket made out of snow covered beads, but it looks too small to fit her hand.
"It's a teething ring," Olaf explains.
Elise had to giggle a bit, knowing she's way too old for that kind of ring. But, it was nice for a snowman that he mom made to give her a gift.
"Thank you," Elise said with kindness.
But then, she felt a synch of pain in her chest. It spread like wild fire throughout her body. Making her squirm and twitch.
"Elise? What's wrong?" Olaf said very worried.
Elise didn't have time to give her answer as she started screaming in agony. When she was able to open her eyes, they looked at the window of her throne room, seeing a dark sky.
The sun has set on her third day.
As she jerks her body up, a white light invaded her figure. It glowed very bright for a few seconds until is disintegrated with a loud, powerful scream.
Elise collapsed on the floor, trying to take in as much air as she can. Once she had enough strength to get up, she wished she didn't. She immediately felt the cold around her and started to shiver. She could see that she was still wearing the clothes she made out of ice, and still bear footed; but her skin gain some colour back, and a few strains of brown hair fell across her eye.
There was no doubt she was human again, and now she's stuck in the worst spot.
"Elise?" Olaf said in shock.
"Yes," she said as she tries to hug herself to the wall.
"Wow," Olaf said looking at her. "You look amazing. Even better than when you were a spirit."
"Really," Elise said with a surprise look.
"Yeah, and-"
Olaf trailed off when he saw something above her. He nearly screams in fright.
Curiously Elise questions him. "What? What is it? Do I have something on my face?"
"No," he answers. "On your head, it's turning white."
"White?" Elise threw her head around to get some more hair into her face. Only when she did, she discovered that a couple of strains have turned pure white.
"What's happening?" She asks in horror.
Olaf ran to Elise and climb up her legs to get a closer look. "I've seen this before, with Anna." He let out a big gasp as he came to a realization. "Elise! Pitch froze your heart! That's why your hair is turning white and you feel a lot colder."
"I don't understand," Elise said twisting her head to move the hair back away from her face.
Olaf gives Elise a sadden look before he tells her anything else. "Elise, there is ice in your heart. If we don't remove it and soon, you could turn into ice and freeze. Forever."
If Elise wasn't scared before she is now. The area around her was getting colder, and she can feel it.
"Can we do anything?" She asks more out of desperation.
"Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart," Olaf replied in sadness.
"True love?" She repeats as she leans back in defeat. There was no way anyone would love her, not after all she did. "Then it's hopeless. I don't even though what love is anymore."
"I do," Olaf said with a smile. "Love is...putting someone else's needs before yours. Like how your mom and dad gave up their icy magic to protect you. Or how your grandfather left you so you can grow up feeling safe. Or when all those people in Arendelle were worried about you when you left and won't stop searching for you."
"Really?" Elise said surprise. She was sure the people would hate her for her magic. But they were really worried for her. Maybe she didn't really understand the situation as she thought she did. Everyone likes her, whether she had ice magic or not.
"Wow, you really don't know anything about love," Olaf comments. "Don't worry; I'm not leaving until we find you an act of true love."
With that, he sits down beside her, trying to think of a way to get Elise her true love.
But it wasn't like any of that is gonna help. No one else knows she's here and she could feel herself getting colder and colder by the minute. And she's lost anyway. Pitch has the staff and her father, and there is nothing she can do about it.
The only thing that made her speak again is when she asked...
"Where's snowdrop?"
Back on Berk, every Viking was trying clear away the snow, and to stock up on food and supplies invade they gay snowed in. Some Vikings even had to go into the woods to get more firewood, which the twins usually took.
Hiccup tried not to pay any mind. Instead, he held himself in his room and looked out on the snow landscape. After what happened with Elise, everyone had been giving him ugly glares and nasty murmurs. Even Stoick refused to really talk to him. He just sentenced him to be in the house, so he won't cause any trouble to the tribe.
He didn't really mind that though, he was deep in thought about what happened between him and Elise. He certainly didn't mean to yell at her back there. But she was destroying his village; he had to defend his people. But then again, she had the right to retaliate, after all, his people wanted to kill her.
He sighs as he leans back on his bed, looking up on the ceiling. What is he to do? He knows he should apologize to Elise for his behaviour towards her, but his people need him more.
Or do they? They've done nothing but ridicule him and treat him like trash. But he's still the heir. He groans in frustration as he turns on the bed.
Suddenly, he hears footsteps coming up to his room. They sound light, so it can't be his dad. He sat up to see Astrid coming into view.
"Hey," she said softly.
"Hey," he said a little down tone.
Astrid tries to smile as she walks to sit down on Hiccup's bed.
"Are you alright?" She asks him.
"What do you think?" He sarcastically said sitting up.
They sat there next to each other, feeling a little more awkward with the silence.
"So," Astrid starts. "Some snow storm we had. All because of that girl. I guess there are some spirits you don't want to piss off."
"Yeah," Hiccup said looking down on the floor.
Astrid turns her head to look at him in the eyes. "You looked like you knew her back there. Did she have something to do with why you went missing for days?"
"In some way," he answers while looking to the floor. "She came here, asking for help."
"What kind of help?" Astrid asked out of curiosity.
"It's kind of a long story," he said.
Astrid shuffles a bit closer, giving him the cue to tell her. "I have time."
"Well," he said while sitting up to look at her and to gesture his story. "She was a mortal with ice powers."
Astrid quietly gasps to hear that girl was a mortal that somehow could see spirits like them. And to have ice powers on top of that, makes for an interesting story.
"With some help from a friend of hers she became a spirit, but only for a short time. But she wanted to be a spirit forever. In order to that, her friend needed something that was stolen form him by a king. So on her journey, she accidentally lands here and helped me with Snotlout."
"Was it her that send that ice down his back?" Astrid points while giggling a bit.
"Yeah," he replied with a small chuckle of his own. "She then asked for my help to find the King and get back the staff. Giving that it was only a few days, I accepted. I guess I mostly needed a break from the village."
"I guess I can understand that," Astrid said. "What I don't understand is why you didn't tell me you were leaving. You had me worried."
"I honestly didn't think anyone would miss me," he answers her while looking away from Astrid.
"I did," she insists. "So did Gobber. And I know the chief wouldn't show it, but he was worried about you too."
"Really?" He asks her, having a bit of a hard time believing that.
"Yes," she said while wrapping her arm around him. But she really wants to get him back to the story. "So, you went with her, obviously went and got the staff and..."
"We were on the way to her castle when the Vikings caught her in the net. And well..."
"I can pick it up from there," Astrid finished. "So all that back there, her setting off the storm, was all because we dragged her down and tried to kill her. I wouldn't blame her wanting to fight back."
"Also too, her powers were controlled by her emotions," Hiccup explains. "She was just so scared and angry, she lost total control."
"Can't say I blame her for that either," Astrid said.
"Yeah," he sighs in response. "But then I yelled at her. I didn't mean too, but I was just so worried about the village and...and..." He groans and buried his head in his hands.
"I think I know what happened from there," Astrid said.
"Yeah," Hiccup sighs as he looks out the windows. "I didn't mean for things to go the way they did, but I had my people to think about. But I think I just lost a friend in the process."
"I won't say that," Astrid said, completely shocking Hiccup. "I think you needed to tell her what she needed to hear. You might be right, that her powers can get outta hand. Sometimes, you need a bit of the old honey and the hatchet technique. But I guess, it may not show, but I bet she was happy that you were trying to stop her for going too far, and stoped your father from hurting her too much."
Hiccup sighs, not sure if Elise saw things that way.
"And to be honest, I've never thought you would have the guts to stand up to your father like that," Astrid continued. "I haven't seen you like that since you defended Toothless from me. That took courage and bravery. I'm impressed."
Hiccup let's out a small smile, feeling a little better. "I was more worried that Toothless was going to chop your head off at that time," he joked.
Astrid giggled in response, causing Hiccup to laugh a bit.
So the mood of the room quickly turned from depressing to almost fun.
"I rather take a dragon than an upset woman any day," Hiccup said.
"I hear you there," Astrid agreed before leaning in to Hiccup. "But I'm sure you can work things out with that girl. Give it some time, and then you two can go and talk."
"Yeah," Hiccup said. "I just hope she got what she was hoping for."
"I'm sure she did."
As Hiccup and Astrid lean in to each other and hug each other, they were interrupted by a small groan at the window.
They turn to see a little snow dragon with big eyes crawl through the window and fell on the floor with dopey eyes.
"Snowdrop?" Hiccup gasps as he and Astrid jump from the bed and huddle towards Snowdrop. She shook off her dizziness and pounce on Hiccup's legs with a worried look.
"What is it?" Hiccup asks, though he can't really understand a word she's saying. But he could guess by her facial expressions, and the fact that her rider isn't here.
"Did something happen to Elise?" He asked with equal worry.
Snowdrop nods before flying to the window and gesturing Hiccup to come with her.
"Oh no," Hiccup said standing up.
"What is it?" Astrid asks while standing up and grabbing his arm.
Hiccup turned to tell her. "My friend might be in trouble, I have to go and see what's up."
"Great," Astrid said with a smirk while grabbing her axe from her side. "When do we leave?"
"We?" Hiccup said shocked. "You're not coming."
"No way you're leaving me here!"
"No, I have to do it alone with Toothless," Hiccup explains as he races down the stairs with Astrid and Snowdrop following him. "If you're gone, people will get too worried."
"I'll get worried about you, especially when you travel to parts unknown and get into all sorts of trouble. Besides, I needed a break from the island as well, what better way to get out when someone is in trouble."
"But Astrid-"
She grabs his arm to stop him from moving away and listen to her. "There's no way you're talking me out of this. I have to apologize to her for attacking. And she means a lot to you if she convinced you to go and help her, even now. Any friend of yours is a friend of mine. And if she's in trouble, then she can count on my axe."
"But this is different than dealing with dragons," Hiccup reminds her. "We're also may have to encounter magic and different spirits. It'll be dangerous."
"Danger? Ha. I laugh at the face of danger," Astrid said with a smile. "Besides, if you're going into battle, I wanna be there by your side."
Hiccup smiles, knowing Astrid has his back. "Thanks," he said opening the door out of the house.
She smiles as she and Hiccup race out and storm through the snow to get to the forest entrance. Snowdrop flew close by, but mostly just above the snow so no one will notice her.
As they ran around some houses, Hiccup accidentally bangs against Snotlout's back. The impact pushes Snotlout forward, right into a crate.
And to add to Hiccup's luck, the twins were also nearby to share a laugh.
"Oh, dude," Tuffnut snickers.
"You shouldn't have done that," His sister shakes her head.
Hiccup backed up when Snotlout turned to face here. "Did you seriously just slam into me useless?" He said clearly upset.
"I'm sorry," Hiccup apologized in haste. He tries to step aside to break for the woods, but Snotlout blocked his path.
"Do you think you're just gonna push and run? That's my job."
He then cracks his knuckles in preparation for a beat down, while the twins giggled evilly. Snowdrop growls behind Astrid's legs as she became cross at Snotlout.
"We really don't have time for this Snotlout," she said annoyed.
"Oh, there's always time for a Snotlout knuckle sandwich," he smirks while playing Hiccup like a trapped animal.
But this time, Hiccup wasn't playing his role as prey. He instead stood his ground and glares at Snotlout. "Look, can we do this another time; right now I have a friend who needs me."
"Oh please," Snotlout said obnoxious. "Who'd want to be friends with someone as useless as you?"
After a minute of these two staring at each other, Astrid spoke out.
"I do and am."
Snotlout and the twins look at her with disbelief. After a few awkward seconds, Snotlout broke out in laughter. Holding his sides and nearly falls over.
"Oh that's too good," he said wiping a tear.
"Really?" Tuffnut asks. "I don't get it."
His sister merely shrugs with confusion.
After Snotlout was done, he glares back at Hiccup. "I bet my babe was just messing with you? Who would ever care for a scummy, little, pathetic, weakling like you? Your father certainly doesn't."
"Snotlout stop it!" Astrid demanded as she tightens her grip on her axe.
But Snotlout payed no attention to her. "I would make a far better chief than you!" He continued.
"No you won't."
Snotlout certainly wasn't expecting Hiccup to talk back to him, let alone in that low of tone.
"All you talk about was how great you are, but have no virtues to back you up. Do you really think you have the best interests for the people? Or does your ego become too big for you to realize that your crown is meaningless?"
"What?" Snotlout said, failing to understand.
"You expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter, while giving no thoughts about the people you need to protect. You're no fit to be the next chief, just a sad excuse for a boy. Demonstrating his dominance on others like a bully-"
"Blah, blah, blah," Snotlout mocks before turning his hand into the fist. "I'm tired of hearing you talk. This will shut you up."
He reels back to throw the punch, only to have Hiccup step back and threw a punch right at Snotlout's jaw. The people around them flinch when they witness the hit.
It hurt more than Snotlout thought as he stumbles back in a daze, hold on his jaw.
"OW! What did you that for?!" Snotlout screams before falling back on the floor.
Everyone didn't say anything as Hiccup walks up and towers over Snotlout.
"You think yourself chief, but you fail to grasp the fact that your only power is to prey on the weak and helpless. A chief protects his people, not be service by them. Remember that."
With that, he walks away to the woods, with Astrid and Snowdrop behind him, leaving the twins awestruck with a dazed Snotlout on the snowy floor.
"That was incredible," Ruffnut comments.
"Who knew that scrawny, one legged boy had that in him," Tuffnut said.
As Snotlout tries to get up, he felt something loose in his mouth. He pulls it out and was shocked at what he saw.
"That's my tooth?!"
Hiccup, Astrid and Snowdrop travels through the snow to get to the cove. When they got there, Hiccup thanked Thor that the cove wasn't covered in ice and snow. Toothless came out in hiding and greets them.
"Hey!" He said as he gallops to them. He then notices Snowdrop with them. "What's going on?"
"We need to find Elise," Hiccup explains as he gets on Toothless. Astrid also got on and cuddles Snowdrop between her arms.
"She might be in danger," he continued.
"Say no more," Toothless said as he spreads his wings, preparing to take off. Hiccup slips his metal leg in its slot, and moves the tail fin.
Just as soon as they were prepare to take off...
"HICCUP!"
Hiccup freezes hearing his father's voice. It was really close, closer than Hiccup would like.
"He must've seen our foot prints," Astrid said with worry.
Hiccup was worried too. His father was near, and in about a few seconds he'll probably figure out his friendship with Toothless. But if he's caught now, then there is no way he can go and save Elise.
He has no choice. "Let's go," he told Toothless.
"But your father-"
"Elise needs us more," Hiccup said determined. "He can't catch us now. GO!"
Toothless nods as he pushes off the ground and takes off to the sky. Hiccup looks beside to see the shadow figure of his father.
"HICCUP!" Stoick shouts.
A million things went through Hiccup's mind. He didn't really want to think about what his father was thinking right now. Probably worried that his son is now with a dragon, maybe angry if he saw him riding it. But Hiccup was determined to not turn back now. He can't. His friend is in real danger, and only he, Toothless and Astrid can get to her in time. His goal is set, and he and his friends set off to the castle.
"Wow," Astrid said looking down, forgetting how wonderful it was to be back in the sky, and how lovely her island is from up there.
But Toothless didn't give her time to enjoy the view, he charges his way through the sky, to the mountains Elise mentioned.
Suddenly, a big ball of black dust flew right past them, and continued onward.
"What was that?" Astrid asks.
"I don't know," Hiccup answers. But he shakes his head and focused up ahead, and the mountains coming up ahead.
Elise struggles to keep herself warm. The shackles keep her from hugging herself close together and using her powers to break free. Her body felt heavier and colder as her hair became whiter and whiter. Only half her hair is still brown, but it didn't give Elise much hope.
Olaf tried the best as he can to help Elise. He planned to start a fire next to her, only to realize that there was nothing to burn. He tried to break the chains with his carrot nose, to no effect. He even gave her warm hugs, which were actually cold. But he was not giving up on her.
"Don't worry Elise," he said to her. "Well figure this out. We just need a miracle..."
As if on cue, the doors of the ice castle broke open and flew into thick pieces. Elise felt the cold wind come in, making her shiver more. But she was astounded at who was in her door. Toothless opened his mouth to reveal the purple light inside, while Hiccup, Astrid and Snowdrop look inside.
"Elise!" Hiccup cries out as he dismounts Toothless and ran to her. Astrid and the others followed, crowding around Elise and Olaf.
"Oh. Thor," Astrid gasps as she finally got a good look at Elise.
Elsie was more than surprise seeing them here. "Hiccup?...Toothless?..." She said softly.
Hiccup saw the shackles around her wrists to the wall. He immediately got out his flaming sword and slices the ice. It melted away, making Elise collapse on the floor, shivering.
Astrid picked her up and lets her lean on her to look at everyone. Elise flutters her eyes to get a good view of the people and creatures around her.
"Hiccup," she said softly. "I'm so sorry, for what I did on Berk."
"I'm sorry too," he said touching her arm. But it felt colder than usual.
"How did you find me?" Elise asked.
"We had a little help," Toothless said as he looks back. Snowdrop walked from behind him and pounces up on Elise's chest.
"Snowdrop?" Elise whispers as her dragon nudges on her neck. She couldn't believe her friend traveled across the sea to get help. She couldn't ask for a better friend.
"Thank you," she said softly. She would pay her head, if she wasn't so cold.
"What happened to you?" Astrid asked Elise.
"Pitch, Pitch Black," Elise answers while trying to get up on her own. "He tricked me. He's got the staff, and my father. Then he...he froze my heart and...and..." She grunts in pain as she clutched her chest. She stumbles backwards; thankfully Hiccup and Astrid caught her. But they see some of her hair change to white, and her skin becoming colder.
"Come on," Hiccup said as he and Astrid leads Elise to Toothless. They lay her on his side, letting her feel his warm body. She felt a bit better and stopped shivering for a bit.
"Thanks," she said grateful.
"Wow!" Olaf squeals as he touches Toothless's scales. "A real dragon! This is amazing!"
Astrid raises her eyebrow upon seeing Olaf. "And now I'll stop questioning life," she said sarcastically.
Everyone laughed a bit before going back to the serious situation at hand.
"So this guy, Pitch, has the staff?" Hiccup said.
"Yes," Elise said. "He said was going to use it to rule the world with darkness."
"So our normal bad guy routine," Astrid said crossings her arms. "And you worked for him?"
"I didn't know," Elise shouts. "I didn't know he was bad. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I got you guys involved..."
"Don't worry about that," Hiccup said. "Right now, we need to get you help."
"No!" She objects. "My dad, he was taken. Even after all I did, he was still willing to risk everything to save me. I have to save him now. I have to find Pitch and save my father."
"But do you know where he is?" Astrid asks her.
"It could be that ball of black dust we saw back there," Hiccup points out.
"That's him!" Olaf said out loud
"He was heading north," Toothless said.
"That's where the lagoon and that kingdom of Arendelle is," Hiccup said in realization.
"I have to go after him," Elise said, trying to stand up straight.
"You mean, we have to go after him," Hiccup said with a smile.
Elise looked to see everyone around her getting the same thought. They're all going to go after Pitch. They'll take the staff back, save Jack Frost, and hopefully save the day.
Elise nods as she uses her magic to make Snowdrop big again. Astrid agrees to rise on her with Olaf, while Elise and Hiccup rode on Toothless. It was the only way Elise could keep warm. But she didn't leave until she picked up her father's staff and held it in her hands.
Without wasting anymore time, they all took off and flew to the lagoon; Preparing for the battle of their lives.
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