Confession time. So I haven't posted for a little while because I was in need of some inspiration. So I reread my story and found myself wishing that whoever had written (this amazing) story had done certain things different or had worked in other scenes or storylines. Well that led to me debating rewriting this story basically from the beginning. I toyed around with that for awhile but decided to keep going and am working in some elements I wish I had thought of earlier (guess I'll learn to actually plot out my stories a bit better in the future). But I can assure you that after this chapter I am recommitted to this story and am excited to keep going.

Moving on...special thanks to icemaxprime, Guest, Greenfairy25, and TheSachenMasta for their great reviews. And a thank you for everyone else that has kept with my story so far. You have no idea how happy I am each time I see how many people have enjoyed my work. Speaking of which, enjoy!

"Get out of my way Kristoff, before I make you into a literal ice harvester." Kristoff was doing his best to maintain his position in front of Elsa without actually touching her or being frozen solid from the sporadic blasts of power radiating off of her.

"Elsa wait. We need a plan. We can't just go out after Fenrir and into the wilds and expect to come back with Anna." Kristoff was attempting to reach the reasonable Queen of Arendelle before the more temperamental Ice Queen did something rash.

"Kristoff, this is Anna we are talking about. Either come with me or get out of the way. I do not really care, but I am leaving to find her. Right. Now." Elsa quirked her eye brow and had her hands in fists.

"Unless you really intend to stop me." Elsa's voice was as ice cold as her powers and Kristoff stopped moving as he noticed the temperature in the room drastically drop, the fire extinguish and the storm outside increase in intensity. Kristoff kept his position between Elsa and the door leading from her study, but took a few careful steps back as he did his best to figure out what to do.

Well this can't be good. C'mon Kristoff, think! What would Anna do? Kristoff was warily eying Elsa as she impatiently waited for Kristoff's answer.

I cannot just let her run out there alone. Not again. Gaaah! What would Anna do? She was always the one that dealt with Elsa whenever she got like this. Alright, think. Kristoff was a little surprised to actually hear Anna's usually chipper voice respond in his head.

"Alright, so at least we can all agree that he is one of the good guys." Anna's voice said matter of fact. Kristoff recalled how Anna had said those words after Kristoff had told the story of how he had found Raiden.

"How can you be so sure?" Internal Kristoff retorted. "That might all have been a trick to get to Elsa. To get to you."

"Well because he saved you and Elsa and Elsa again. She needs him. Just like I need you. Now go get him and come get me you big oaf!" There is that fire I love. Kristoff missed Anna as if a part of himself was missing. And even without being there, Anna was again telling Kristoff just what he needed to do.

Anna would want me– to give him…ahhh crap I cannot believe I am actually going to do this.

"We need to find Raiden and bring him back." Kristoff thought he was going to be ready for Elsa's response. He was not.

"WHAT?" Kristoff threw his arms over his face to protect himself as the storm outside suddenly found its way inside. The window Raiden had fell through allowed the full force of the storm to swirl around Elsa like a hurricane. But Kristoff was not deterred. He knew what they needed to do, even if he hated needing to do it.

"Elsa you know that I am right!" Kristoff was doing his best to make himself heard over the storm. "Raiden is the only one that we know of with any idea of how to find Anna and you tossed him right out the window! We need him. You need him!" Kristoff was not sure where that last part came from, but it certainly got Elsa's attention. Just as suddenly as the storm had burst into the library it was now dead silent.

"What did you say?" He thinks I need him?

"Elsa, hear me out - " Elsa cut him off.

"Ten minutes ago you were the one yelling that we could not trust Raiden! You were the one ready to beat Raiden into telling you where Anna was! And now - now you are telling me that we need to go after him to bring him back?" Kristoff heard the shock and betrayal in Elsa's voice but was still relieved to at least have gotten her attention...at least for the moment.

"Of course I don't trust him. Yes, this might all be his fault, but you heard his story. What he did he did for his father. Is there anything either of us wouldn't do for Anna? And besides, Anna would trust him." Elsa was ready to continue arguing with Kristoff but stopped when he brought up Anna.

Of course Anna would want us to trust Raiden. She's naive enough to believe in anyone. Even naive enough to believe in me...Elsa unclenched her fists and instead placed them on her head, the reality of the situation sinking in. Anna is gone. Fenrir has her and he wants me to make him an army of Yosin. The only person who might be able to help us I can't trust and I tossed out him out of a window.

"Kristoff, what - what if Raiden won't come back? What if we can't find him? And we still don't know everything about him. He's hiding something from us and how can we trust Anna's life with someone like that?" Kristoff was a little taken aback, it was not often that Elsa turned to him - or really anyone for that matter besides Anna - for advice.

"I can't answer all of those questions for you Elsa. But let's do one thing at a time. We can't go after Raiden tonight. We are both exhausted and it will be dawn soon. We need to rest and first thing tomorrow, we will set out and find him." With a grim nod of her head, Elsa and Kristoff left the study and made their way to their respective rooms. Neither one really believed that they would get any rest and the thought of Anna being out there alone, and in danger, weighed on both of their minds. But Elsa there was something else that Elsa could not shake, something that Kristoff had said, "You need him."

Raiden was sure to keep himself low to the ground as he approached Elsa's ice palace. Or at least, what he assumed used to be Elsa's ice palace. The once majestic structure had been perverted. It's clear, crystalline form and spires were dark and twisted, like black, fractured fingers reaching to scratch the night sky. The clear ice was now clouded with swirls of dark purple and black.

So Fenrir is here. And like everything else he touches, he corrupted it. This thought made Raiden think of himself...and Elsa. The knowledge that he had somehow been responsible for the nightmares that had been plaguing Elsa was a cold fury raging inside of him. But he was also concerned of what effect Fenrir had been trying to produce. I need to stop him before he does any more harm.

Raiden had traveled rather quickly from the woods outside Arendelle to Elsa's ice palace. Following the path left by his fath - Fenrir and his men was not difficult. He had sensed that Anna was also with them and while he had hoped to catch them before they reached their destination, he had not been that lucky. Instead, Raiden found himself looking at Elsa's Ice Palace (guess I should call it Fenrir's now) and the number of men and tents surrounding its base. Perfect.

Careful to keep to the outskirts of the camp and avoiding the patrols, Raiden kept to the shadows, aware that dawn was quickly approaching and any success at getting out of Fenrir's castle with Anna dropped drastically without the cover of darkness.

Waiting for guards to pass, Raiden quietly slipped into the palace and could not help but freeze, just for a moment, to take it all in. The entire palace was centered around the hexagonal shape of what Raiden assumed used to be a snowflake. But the colors clouded the floor leaving the appearance of stepping over a deep chasm. Raiden saw that he was standing in the first of two floors, being sure to keep close to the walls. The frozen ice fountain now looked like a tree continually frozen in fire. Raiden was very aware that no one appeared to actually be inside the castle, but he knew that Anna had been taken to the next level.

Raiden quietly made his way up one of the two curving staircases along the sides which joined together on a platform above and across from the entrance. Another curving staircase branched off from the platform up into the cold heart of the palace. While it had been cold outside of the palace, Raiden could tell that the inside of the palace was far colder. While it made little difference to him, he feared how Anna might be holding up.

Just stay strong Anna. I'm close. I'll fix this. I have to.

Reaching the top of the staircase, Raiden found himself in what used to be Elsa's room. Raiden was not aware of this, but Elsa's power was tied to this room, where the floor and walls changed color to match Elsa's emotions, much like a mood ring: blue when happy, purple when sad, red when frightened, and amber when angry. Right now, the already dark walls had streaks of red but that was not what had Raiden's attention. Looking up, he saw a scene that had his normally warm blood running ice cold.

Elsa had never intended to fall asleep. She had felt too much anxiety, then too much anger, then too much hurt, and then anxiety all over again, to believe that sleep was even an option. But seemingly without notice Elsa again found herself in a nightmare. But this time, she was no longer in a forest.

Elsa was running blindly through a series of tunnels and caves. Elsa was not sure how she knew that she was in a cave, but she knew what she was running from. That voice. Wherever she ran it followed her. Taunted her. Told her all of the things she wished she did not believe were true but deep down feared the most.

"This is all your fault, Ice Queen. You failed everyone that ever depended on you. Arendelle. Kristoff. Anna. You know Kristoff blames you for losing Anna. You are alone."

"Leave me alone!" Elsa yelled into the darkness. While her world remained dark, Elsa was now in a large cavern and on a raised dais, was a form, more like smoke than flesh. But Elsa saw the red eyes in the darkness and knew who it was.

"stop..." Elsa heard a small voice call her name, but it was quickly drowned out by that horrid voice.

"But you are alone Elsa. It's just you and me. The only person you thought could protect you betrayed you. You cast him out and now you have no one. But you that's what you deserve. You know that no one can ever really care about you. No, never you." Elsa felt for her powers but knew that they had left her. Everyone had left her.

"Please...please stop. Just give me Anna." Elsa had fallen to her knees, the darkness like a weight slowly drowning her. The were slowly coming closer, as if feeding on her despair.

"You know what you need to -"

"elsa..."

Elsa looked up at the sudden pause and at first was not sure what was happening. Elsa realized that the cave was brightening, a warm amber light appearing behind her, across from Fenrir. Elsa tried looking through the light but could not make out what was the source. But she could hear a voice, someone shouting.

Elsa struggled to her feet, turning her back on those red eyes and attempted to get closer to the light. "The blue wolf..." Elsa knew that if she could reach the wolf, she would be safe.

Each step felt like she would not be able to make another, and that voice behind her continued to shout things that tore into Elsa, but just as Elsa felt like she would fall, her hand rested on something soft.

Looking at her hand, Elsa expected to see dark blue and white fur, but instead, she saw amber and gold fur mixed with white. Elsa jerked her hand back and saw that she was now in a tunnel and that the light was emanating from this new wolf.

"Who - who are you? Where am I?" Elsa feared this was some new trick.

"Elsa, you know you can trust me. You are dreaming. I can lead you out but we need to hurry."

Elsa actually felt a howl of fury rip through the tunnel. She knew that those eyes were looking for her. Elsa turned back to the amber wolf, and somehow she felt that the wolf was right, that she could trust it. But that didn't mean she saw an escape. "How? I'm trapped here."

The wolf took a step closer and Elsa almost on instinct placed her hand on it's head. A sense of comfort and protection pushing down her fear. "Just follow it."

Suddenly, the amber wolf disappeared and Elsa feared that she was again alone. But before she could panic, she heard something. Something that pushed away the darkness. Something like a song. Elsa began running, the tune of the song getting louder as she ran through what felt like an endless scene of tunnels and turns. But while she knew she should be terrified, an odd sense of familiarity was comforting her.

Elsa stumbled as she found herself outside in a deep ravine. She turned back and saw the massive cave entrance, like the mouth of some ravenous beast, slowly close and disappear. Turning her head, Elsa saw the amber wolf, it's head easily at her shoulder, a look almost like relief discernible on its face.

"I promised. Even from nightmares."

A look of realization flashed across Elsa's face but before she could even process what she had heard, dark shadows appeared. Elsa was unable to make out anything more but the wolf was snarling, doing it's best to keep them away.

"Elsa, don't succumb to Fenrir. I finally understand it now. Free Pabbi and find Anna. You are strong enough to defeat Fenrir. I know you are."

"I don't understand!" The shadows were closing in around them.

"Elsa, I need you to wake up!"

Elsa jerked awake, surprised to find herself on her floor. She put her hand to her head in an attempt to clear it. Normally after her nightmares she always attempted to shake their memory but now Elsa struggled to retain the last moments. When she swore, through the darkness, she had heard something familiar, "I promised. Even from nightmares."

"Raiden?"

Raiden knew he was heavily outnumbered. Not to mention bleeding. Again. He had barricaded the door to buy himself some time but he had not anticipated the huge Yosin to actually break down the entire door. Snowflake I presume. Raiden fought as the men came barreling into the room but was soon overwhelmed. Once again bleeding and exhausted, Raiden couldn't help but snarl as Korin entered the room. His red and black eyes taking in Raiden and Raiden was pleased at the look of shock Korin did his best to cover.

"So...this is how you survived. Fenrir was quite curious on how you got off of that hilltop. I'll have to be sure to describe it to him." Raiden hated the sound of that voice. His father's voice, coming out of that shell parading as his father. Raiden just kept silent, his eyes searching.

"Oh, the princess isn't here. Her and Fenrir are waiting for the dear Ice Queen to make her decision." Korin's face lost its smug mask and he got closer to Raiden, so that only he could hear him.

"This is foolish Raiden. Soon we'll have our army and Fenrir will lead us back to glory. Back to redemption. Your place is by my side, son." Raiden's head snapped to meet Korin's foreign, red eyes.

"I am not your son."

Raiden needed to escape or everything he had learned would be lost. He saw what he was going to have to do...he was just not particularly looking forward to it. Taking one last look at the small stone figure against the wall staring blankly at him, Raiden made a sudden move to his right and jumping over a surprised Korin, and evading the remaining men, Raiden leaped over the balcony and into the mountain below.

Alright, hopefully no one is too tired of dream sequences but I promise, I will explain their significance very soon. Hope you enjoyed the newest chapter and as always, REVIEWS!