Chapter 13:

Evil Elsa

Happy Fourth of July! God Bless the USA!

"Do I look different, sis?" asked Elsa.

Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, Jase and Gran Pabbie looked in disbelief as Elsa glared at them. She was so different. Even her face was different. It was the same physically, but it was pompous, and her eyes squinted a bit, mischievously eying her guests.

"She's worse than I thought" Jase thought to himself, along with everyone else.

"Elsa, you, what did you do to your hair?" asked Anna, breathing shallowly, wondering if it was her sister she was talking too.

"You like it? I used my powers to ice it up!" she said, running her fingers through her stiff hair. Then, she turned her attention back to them.

"Now, what are you doing here?" she asked, with a stern voice.

Anna had to recollect herself after the shock of seeing Elsa like this. "We, we came to help, to remove the dark magic, to bring you home" said Anna, still in disbelief.

"Well, sorry to disappoint, but I'm not going home." she laughs, as if realizing something. "You know, it seems that whenever I'm up here, your objective is always to bring me home. Funny, isn't it?"

Elsa's carefree tone was very unnerving to the group. She sounded for all the world like the wicked women in most fairy tales, the ones who always tried to lead the hero astray.

"Elsa" spoke Jase. "Don't you remember what Pabbie told you? That you are infected with dark magic?"

"I remember sequestering my powers, myself, for far to long in that dungeon of my room. Even now, I am restrained by... emotions, and duty, I'm not going back to that!" she scolded. "Now go! Or do you want to challenge me? Remember what happened last time" she smiled deviously.

"I do" said Anna. "And you couldn't bring yourself to kill any of us, because you love us, all of us!" she said.

"Ah yes, 'love: the secret to controlling my powers'" Elsa said in a mocking tone, using air quotes. "You want to know how I should control my powers?"

Elsa raised her hands as Anna backed away. "By not controlling them!"

Elsa shot a beam of magic down from the balcony at the group, causing them to scatter. A deformed, spiky mass of ice formed where it struck.

"Elsa, stop this!" cried Jase. "You know you don't want to do this!"

"Oh, I think I do, lover boy!" she said, shooting another beam of magic at him. He dogged it, taking cover behind one of the pillars.

"Elsa, why don't we all calm down and talk about this?" asked Olaf in a calming tone.

"How about you just stop talking for once!"

She shot another beam of magic at Olaf, freezing the lower half of his body in ice. Olaf flinched, expecting this to be the end. Then, he realized that he was still alive, feeling the slump of ice encasing his lower part of his body.

"Oh right, already made of snow, cool" he said, still able to move the upper part of his body freely. He started inching away slowly to hide, taking off his left arm and using it as an oar.

Anna and Kristoff hid behind a pillar, while Gran Pabbie hid with Jase. Olaf had managed to get himself behind the fountain.

"Elsa" called out Anna, waving her hand. "I'm coming out, please don't freeze me!"

Kristoff tried to grab her, but she motioned him that she had this. She stepped out, trying to quench the trembling in her bones.

Elsa glared at her.

"Well, look at my brave little sister" said Elsa with a mocking tone. "You know, I wonder if it's bravery, or just lack of common sense that drives you!"

Anna ignored it, knowing it wasn't truly Elsa saying that. "Elsa, please, let us help you! I promise, no one is going to try and control you, ever!"

"Then why did you bring Pabbie? All he ever does is manipulate and controls people! Just look at what he did to you!"

"Elsa..."

"No! Just go away!"

"We're not going anywhere without you!"

Elsa paused, realizing she already had this conversation before, two years ago when she ran away from her coronation. She remembered how she dealt with it last time, with a giant snow monster, but wanted to do something different, much different...

"Well, old habits die-hard I guess. Well, if you won't change yours, than I guess I won't change mine."

Elsa flung her hands down, shooting out a flurry of magic. The ground shook beneath her feet as a form grew from the impact spot. Stepping away, Elsa watched as her latest creation took shape...

Bits of ice crystalized around the form, taking a long, slender shape. The mass grew and grew, becoming a massive form. Legs of ice, similar to that of a lions, formed from the base. Then, solid, bat-like wings grew from the mid-section. A large, reptilian head formed on one end, attached to a long neck, while the other end formed a long tail. After a few moments of formation, it became clear that the creature was none other than a dragon.

Unlike Elsa's other creations, this one was made entirely of ice, not a trace of snow on it. It's thick, bony head had icicles pointing backward, forming a frill. It's fore legs were slightly larger than its hind legs, giving it an upright appearance, exposing plates of ice on its chest. The wings were made of interlocking planes of ice, similar to how a bird's feathers form a wing. Its segmented tail had a set of fierce some spikes at the end. It was massive, easily bigger than Marshmallow and Gunnolf combined.

Everyone looked at the beast in both awe and terror. It growled, looking at its creator.

"Well, you're an impressive beasty, even if I do say so myself!" said Elsa, stroking the beasts neck. She then looked to Anna, who was frozen in place.

"You like it, sis?"

Anna nodded. "It's um, big" she said nervously.

"Well, I'm glad think so, because she is going to run you out of here." She turned to the dragon. "Well, get to it" she said, then turning around, as if it were no big deal.

The dragon jumped down, roaring for the guests to leave.

Outside, Isaac, Craig and Boulda heard the roars and the rumble from the other side of the door.

"Uh, what was that?" asked Isaac.

Back inside, the dragon was now on the ground floor, actively searching for its prey. As it approached the still exposed Anna, Kristoff pushed her out of the way, waving his arms.

"Hey, follow me you big lizard!" he yelled, gesturing it to follow him.

The dragon glared at him, then gave chase.

"Kristoff!" yelled Anna as Kristoff led the dragon away. Jase saw this and ran at the dragon, unsheathing his sword from his back. When the dragon passed in front of him, still focused on Kristoff, Jase swung his sword at its leg. Unfortunately, the damage was mild, as the beast turned to him and roared, breathing a beam of freezing cold ice breath. Jase ran away, with the dragon forming a deformed wall of spikes as it followed him with its breath.

As Jase ran next to the immobile Olaf, Olaf observed as the giant dragon ran past him.

"So, like, do we need to give this one a name too, or is she actually an evil monster and not misunderstood?"

Jase ran towards the door, meeting Kristoff there. He turned and pointed his sword at the dragon, which, due to its speed, couldn't stop, slamming into the door, somehow avoiding crushing into the two.

Outside, Craig was getting worried.

"OK, something's not right!" he drew his sword. "Come on, we're going..."

He was cut off when the door exploded in ice and giant dragon, the impact sending him, Isaac, Boulda, Jase and Kristoff flying through the air, landing on the snow jest below the staircase. The dragon glared at them from atop the staircase, then roared loudly, so loud, that some citizens in Arendelle heard the fierce some sound. As they got to their feet, Isaac got a clear view of the beast.

"A dragon?! Really?!" he exclaimed, almost annoyingly as the dragon flapped its wings, lifting it into the air and hovered over to the bottom of the stairs, now on level ground with its prey.

Marshmallow and Gunnolf, who were still watching Hans, stared in disbelief at their creator's latest creation. As the dragon approached, Jase, Isaac and Craig drew their swords, while Kristoff went over to the sleigh, and a freaked out Sven, and grabbed an ice pick. As the dragon ran forward, Jase ran at it, sliding down as it went to bite him, and slashed his sword against its neck, again, doing little damage.

Nearby, Marshmallow and Gunnolf looked to each other, than to their prisoner. Marshmallow shoved him into a nearby snow bank, covering him to the neck in snow.

"Bad man stay! Doggy and me, fight!" he yelled, unleashing his ice spikes in rage. Gunnolf did the same, howling as his back spikes and teeth grew out. They both charged simultaneously to defend their friends, while an immobilize Hans watched.

Inside, Elsa was staring at the door, seeing how her creation tore a massive hole in the front of her palace, giving her a clear view of the fight.

"Oh dear, I guess I should teach her some manners when she's done expelling my guests, or eating them, whatever she does!" she said with little concern to the fate of her friends. Below, Anna, Pabbie, and Olaf, who was slowly chipping the ice off of himself with an icicle, huddled against a fallen pillar.

"Pabbie, what do we do? I can't reason with her when she's sending dragons at us!" Anna asked pleadingly, on the verge of panic.

"But Anna" said Olaf, taking a break from cutting the ice off, "you're her sister, you have to snap her out of it."

"But how? No matter what I say to calm her, she blows it in my face."

Pabbie glanced over the pillar to see Elsa walking back towards the stairs to her balcony. "Anna, perhaps trying to calm her won't work. You might want to try using anger on your side..."

"What?! Are you nuts? She's more than mad, she hates everyone right now!" said Olaf.

"Listen, anger is both a powerful emotion and easy to invoke. If you can make Elsa, the real Elsa mad, she might find the strength to resist the power long enough to take the potion and hold the crystal" he said, handing the potion over to her.

"But, how can I make her mad? Elsa doesn't have a mean bone in her body!" said Anna.

"Anna, everyone has anger in them, just itching to get out. Even I have anger inside somewhere. You have to try Anna; it's Elsa's only hope."

Anna sighed, looking down. She tried to think angry thoughts about Elsa, something to argue about. In all honesty, Anna didn't even know where to start; she and Elsa had some minor disputes in the past, but they had kept it to a minimal, only wanting to make up for all their lost time. Breathing in, she decided to wing it...

"Elsa!" she called out, exposing herself.

"Please tell me she's not winging it" said Pabbie to Olaf in despair.

Elsa turned around quickly, surprised anyone was still there.

"Anna? Wow, you are stubborn!"

"Elsa, please, please I'm begging you, look into yourself, I know you don't want any of this" Anna pleaded, walking up the stairs.

"There you go again! You always think you know what's best! You want me to play with you, you want me to open up, you want me to come back with you to Arendelle... Well, now, I'm deciding what I need to do! I want to stay here, and be the Snow Queen everyone thinks I am!"

"Elsa, everything I did was for your own good. Do you really think I ever wanted to control you? I just want to help you!" said Anna as she reached the top of the stairs, now reaching Elsa's level.

"Then go away!" Elsa yelled.

Anna paused. It had been almost two years since Elsa used those horrid words. She thought back to those lonely years, when Elsa locked her out, and she felt it was her fault.

"Why do you always do that?!" Anna snapped.

Elsa turned, "What?"

"Shutting me out!"

Elsa rolled her eyes. "Please, you already know why..."

"I know why, but why? You could have talked to me behind those doors!"

Elsa froze, raising a single eyebrow. "What? You're bringing that up? I thought we covered that!"

"We covered why you shut me out, but you couldn't even talk to me? From behind the door? You could have at least let me know that you still loved me, but you shut me out completely!"

"I can't believe you're bringing this up now..."

"No, I never said anything because I didn't want to ruin what we had going after the Thaw. but now, I want to know!"

At that, Pabbie smiled. "There you go, keep it up, get her to come out!"

"You know what I think? I think you were a coward!" screamed Anna.

Elsa froze, shocked by her sister's assessment. "How dare you..."

"I'm not done! You, you treated me so coldly all those years, thinking that you were doing me a favor. But you were just cowardly, weren't you!"

"Anna, stop it! I never wanted to hurt you! Yes, I was afraid... I, I didn't know what to do!" yelled Elsa. She wasn't as snotty as she was before, she was just angry, trying to defend her actions. "I was afraid that any emotion associated with you would make me lose control!"

"So even a single word would have set you off?! That's weakness if I ever knew it!"

Elsa froze in pure frustration. "You know, I don't even know why I even bothered protecting you! You are so selfish! All you could think about on my coronation was to be free of me!"

"And why wouldn't I! What sister were you to me?!"

"I sacrificed my life for you!"

"Well, I did the same, so I guess we're even!" snapped Anna. "You know, life's too short to try and help a sister like you!"

Elsa grew more frustrated, shooting beams of magic against the floor, more for letting off steam than to aim it at anyone. "Well I can't believe I just waisted all my life protecting someone like you!" she screamed, turning and making a wall of ice between them.

"Hold on!" screamed Anna, walking around the wall. "I'm not done!"

"To bad!" said Elsa, making another wall of ice between them. Anna walked around this one as well.

"No! I said I'm not done! said Anna.

"Well I'm done with you!" she replied, making another ice wall, which Anna walked around as well.

"All I ever did was try to help you! All my life I tried to help you! And now you're just shutting me out again!" She said, standing there. Elsa stood there, holding her arms in anger and rage.

"Well, you know what? Fine, be alone, it's what you're best at, wasn't it? Even when you froze my heart, when I was dying, you left me!"

Elsa froze. Deep down, in her true self, those words stung. She turned, angry still, but at the same time shocked.

"What?"

Anna paused. She never meant to say those words. If there was one thing she always kept from Elsa, it was that, the fact that she froze her heart. But now, she was out of options. So, against her unwillingness to hurt Elsa, she let it out.

"When you froze my heart, you didn't even bother to help me! You, you made Marshmallow throw me out. You were so afraid you couldn't even bear to help me!"

"I didn't know!" screamed Elsa. She sounded different; she sounded like her old self, only angry, which was new to Anna. "I didn't know I hit you in the heart! I thought I missed when you stood back up. I didn't know!"

Anna stared back. She hated this, scolding Elsa like this. She held back the tears as she continued.

"That was the worst day of my life. I was dying, and you weren't there for me! It hurt, the cold. I felt so much pain in my body as the ice formed!" Anna said, tearing up as Elsa watched her spill those bottled up feelings. "...M-my ankles were turning into solid ice, and I could barely walk. My hands went numb as my skin froze. When it was finally over, when I went to save you and everything went black, I felt all the warmth in my body leave me!"

Anna sniffled, while Elsa remained there, staring coldly on the outside, but softening on the inside.

"And all that, for someone who locked me out... So if you want to be alone, than be alone! I'm done making sacrifices" she said simply, as she turned to leave, silently sobbing for saying those things, some of them untrue.

Elsa started breathing heavily, watching Anna disappear behind the walls she made.

"I thought she would never leave!" said the voice.

Elsa stared. The Adrenaline rushing though her system was rushing, giving her a new boost of energy she didn't have before. With that, she had finally found the strength to fight just a little more.

"Anna! Wait!" she cried with her own voice.

Outside, Jase, Kristoff and the others were having problems of their own, in the form of a magical frost breathing ice dragon.

They took turns jumping at it, taking swings with their weapons. Eventually, Kritstoff took a swing, getting his pick stuck in the dragon's leg. Unable to free it, the dragon lifted him into the air and flung him against the snow. He was now at the dragon's mercy.

"Kristoff!" screamed Jase as the dragon breathed in, aiming its head at Kristoff. Then, the dragon came under attack, as Marshmallow jumped in and grabbed the reptile on the head, clamping its mouth shut. The dragon growled in anger as it shook the giant from its head, only to have Gunnolf bite it on the leg. The dragon reared up, flying into the air, shaking him off after a few swats from his other paw. Marshmallow came in and grabbed the dragon's tail, holding it down. The dragon swerved in the air, landing a several yards from its original position. As it swung its tail in attempt to get Marshmallow to let go, it ended up striking the snow mound that kept Hans secured, sending him flying off into the snow, free from his prison.

He got up and looked around, seeing the others preoccupied with fighting the giant dragon. Seeing his opportunity, he remembered that the giant snowman had hid his weapons not far away. He ran and grabbed them and, seeing the group still preoccupied with the dragon, he ran towards the stairs.

As Jase took another stab at the beast's wing when it came close, he glanced over and saw a figure run up the stairs.

"Hans!" he yelled, running towards the stairs to intercept him. The dragon caught sight of Jase fleeing towards the castle and ran over, stopping in front of him. Its tail extended out behind him, swinging towards the stairs. Just as Hans made it to the top, the tail came in, destroying the once beautiful staircase. Behind the dragon, Jase watched helplessly as Hans entered the palace, while he dodged a swapt from the dragons claws.

"Ann, wait!" cried Elsa as she ran through the maze of ice walls she made.

"What are you doing! We had her!"

Elsa ignored it, fearing her only hope of being free had left. She was still filled with the adrenaline of both the argument and the guilt, and it had somehow freed her, at least temporarily.

"Anna!" she screamed, passing the last wall and seeing no one below in the palace.

"I'm here" said a voice behind her. Elsa turned to see Anna leaning against a wall, arms crossed and face red.

"Anna! Please, I'm sorry..."

"It's OK" she replied, grabbing her sister in an embrace, letting the tears roll. "I'm sorry too, I was only trying to reach you! I'm sorry!"

Elsa slowly hugged her back, smiling, feeling the warmth of love for the first time in days.

"Why do you smile?! She just played you! You pull yourself together right now!"

Elsa pulled away from Anna, grabbed her head in anguish.

"Anna, help me!" Elsa cried angrily, more at the voice than at her. "I can't keep it away, it's getting stronger!"

"Elsa, here!" said Anna frantically, taking the potion from the pocket in her robe. She handed it to Elsa.

"Just drink it, and hold the crystal, and everything will be alright!" said Anna, looking comfortably into Elsa's eyes.

" Don't. You. Dare!"

Elsa felt her hands trembling as she tried to take the potion, almost as if she was fighting for control over her hand. Anna caught them, giving a small sense of comfort.

"You're OK, I'll help you" said Anna calmly, helping Elsa bring the potion to her mouth.

In one instant, everything changed. Anna screamed in pain as an arrow shot between their hands, cutting her palm, and destroying the vial containing the potion. They both watched as its contents spilled on the floor, now completely useless.

As Anna clenched her bleeding hand, Elsa turned angrily in the direction of the arrow, seeing Hans with a crossbow in his hands.

"That was close!"

So, who enjoyed the dragon? It came to me when I thought; what would Elsa make if she were evil? So, thinking of the most awesome mythological creature out there, a dragon was the obvious choice.

Also, did anyone notice the "Life's Too Short" reference from the deleted scene? Not an actual song, but between watching that scene and reading gelgela29 's review, I was inspired to change the plot a bit and incorporate it.

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