Guest: Elsa will get her centre in the next chapter.
EveningWish: Ah, I like your idea too bad I forgot about it and thus didn't use it.
Dark In The Moon: I do agree this has been going around in circles. I do see your point, I've simply expressed mine. I've just simply stated my reasoning on why I did what I did. I do agree with what you said but I simply stated my point.
Guest Reviews: Sounds like fun in Science! I miss those days. Are you like Year 7 or 8? You don't have to answer its just that a lot of what you are doing I did around then. In answer to your question; not really. I just stick to my own couples let others ship what they want to ship. My essay is a critical analysis of Cathy Small's novel Voyages From Tongan Villages To American Suburbs. I'm not a kid (not even a teenager) so its not a lot (well actually it is but it is reasonable for a Stage 2 university paper).
Chapter 20: The Final Battle
It all happened so fast and yet Anna saw it happen entirely in slow motion. It all started when Elsa had managed to convince Kristoff to not kill Hans. Hans had taken advantage of the situation. Hans had noticed that Kristoff's limp sword and decided to use it. He had grabbed it and advanced on Anna. Anna thought that Hans was going to kill her. Anna remembered seeing determination and a killing look in his eyes. Anna opened her mouth to scream. Hans was moving so fast that no one really had time to react. Anna remembered the sword coming down but it never hit her.
The reason that Anna was never struck was because someone jumped in front of Anna and that person was her sister Elsa. Anna cried out Elsa's name. Anna's brain went into overdrive when the sword started it's descend. Anna was sure that Elsa was going to be killed at Hans' hand. Anna's hand was over her hand as she screamed.
Elsa saw Anna being attacked and she didn't hesitate to act. She leapt in front of the sword and the sword came down onto her but it didn't pierce her skin. As soon as the metal touched her skin it turned to ice. Elsa's ice powers and her immortality were protecting her. A mere weapon like a sword couldn't harm Elsa now. It would take a lot more than that to kill her. Although, that thought didn't exactly enter her mind. All Elsa could think about was to help her sister.
The sword smashed into millions of pieces just like how the other sword did. Elsa didn't comprehend that she hadn't been hurt for several seconds. When Elsa looked up, she saw Hans staring down at the empty hilt. He looked so confused at what had just happened. His plan to murder the Queen had failed. Hans collapsed onto his knees and the sword hilt dropped to the floor. It fell with a loud clattering sound onto the ground. Elsa stood over Hans. He looked so defeated. Elsa used her ice powers to cause Hans to be frozen to the wall. Her ice powers caused Hans to be risen up from the floor and then thrown against the wall. The ice prevented Hans from moving at all. Elsa sighed with relief. Hans was finally defeated. He was no longer a threat to them.
Suddenly Elsa felt Anna's arms around her. Elsa looked at her in surprise. She was silently crying into Elsa's shoulder. Elsa tapped Anna on the arm lightly. She knew that Anna had been terrified in those last few moments. She had gone from thinking that Hans was about to kill her to thinking that Hans was going to kill her sister. It had been a horrifying moment for all involved.
"It's okay," Elsa said to her sister.
"I thought you were gone again," Anna sobbed. "You didn't have to risk your life for mine."
"Anna," Elsa said. "You are more than invaluable to me. I have lived my mortal life and now walk one of immorality. You have not."
"You mean you wouldn't have died if Hans had strike you?" Kristoff asked.
"That is the way of an immortal," North suddenly spoke out. "Mere weapons wielded by mortals cannot do us harm but powers and weapons used by other immortals, well that is our downfall."
"Or belief," Tooth added. "Belief in something can be both an incredible but yet dangerous thing."
"Can someone tell me what is going on?" Josef's voice suddenly rang out. He was staring from Elsa to Anna and then onto Kristoff with a very strange look upon his face. He was more than just lost. It was like he had entered a maze that didn't have an exit.
"Josef," Anna said. "Do you believe the people we've lost can ever come back to us?"
"I always thought that once you're dead, you're dead," he said simply. "But you look familiar to me," he said this directly to Elsa. "I've seen your face before. In a picture in the Portrait Gallery. But that was of my Aunt Elsa who died when my Mama was only eighteen. So how can you be the same person?"
"I am," Elsa said simply. Josef gaped at her. "You were obviously told the story of The Guardians and can see them because you do not question them. People who die can be chosen by this Man in The Moon figure to become immortals. I was chosen and thus awoke with no memories of who I was but was told that I was now Elsa, The Snow Queen – an immortal with winter powers. I met Jack Frost who was the same."
Josef gaped at his Aunt but didn't say anything. Elsa wondered how Josef could see her. Was his belief centred around the fact that they are related and therefore was told stories about her? Did Hans tell him everything and thus make him believe? Or did Elsa's powers make Josef question where they came from and thus cause his belief? Elsa may never know nor did it matter to her. Her nephew could see her just like her family. That was all that Elsa really cared about.
"So what now?" Anna asked.
"We could go find Jack," Tooth suggested.
"He's probably been flying around Arendelle confused on where everyone is," Bunnymund said.
"He could be in the castle looking for us," Elsa shrugged. "But I doubt it. He would have sensed my ice powers and come straight to us."
"He's probably waiting for you," Anna said smirking. She had enjoyed tormenting Elsa about her relationship with Jack. All her younger sister qualities had returned and were worse than ever.
"Elsa and Jack have gotten close," North said. "Two beings of ice coming together. Maybe we should get Elsa to help Jack on his duties. She would sure to keep him in line."
"That's not all she will do," Anna nudged Elsa who blushed scarlet.
"What do you-" Tooth began looking for one sister to the next.
"Nothing," Elsa said clamping her hand over Anna's mouth. She wasn't sure what her relationship with Jack would mean. Were they even allowed a relationship? Was it going to be forbidden love? She didn't know the rules of being an immortal just yet but it wasn't her fault. It hadn't exactly come with a handbook and nobody had really even said anything about it to her. Maybe once she and Jack figure out everything, they would tell the others but she had a strange feeling that North may have already picked up on their subtle clues and the way they acted around each other. Anna had pretty much picked up on it within seconds of having them in the same room as each other.
"So he's probably down by the harbour," Tooth said changing the subject. "That's we he ran into us. Maybe he's waiting for us down there."
"Could be," Elsa said. "Why don't you guys and I go down there while Anna and Kristoff take care of Hans?"
"But I wanna come!" Anna said sounding just like how she did when she was a child.
"Anna," Elsa said, "we have to find Pitch as soon as we meet up with Jack. Trust me, Hans here won't be a problem to you."
Their conversation was interrupted by a laughing noise. Elsa looked for the source and discovered that it was coming from Hans. Hans had stirred at the sound of his name and had probably been listening in on their conversation. He had a mad look on his face, one which Elsa had never seen before. Had Hans gone insane? It sure looked like it.
"What do you know?" Elsa demanded of Hans.
"Oh you poor fools," Hans whispered. "You don't realise do you?"
"Realise what?" Anna snapped.
"That is had all been a distraction," Hans said. "I knew that as soon as your precious Kristoff was in danger, you and your pathetic sister would come running."
Elsa's eyes widen. "It was a trap?"
"Indeed," Hans laughed even hard now, "and you fell right into it."
Elsa's feet shuffled back a few steps. Hans knew them so well. Elsa and Anna would have gone straight for Kristoff to make sure he was okay and Jack would go straight for Pitch. Pitch must have also known this and thus set up a trap for Jack as well. Pitch wanted Jack out of the way as soon as possible as he was a thorn in his side. Pitch probably waited until they were separated. Pitch could have Jack trapped right as they were speaking.
Elsa hurried out of the room with The Guardians on her heels. Elsa got out of the castle as soon as she could. Elsa burst through the front door and came across a scene. The entire bridge was icy and there was even more ice everywhere. Pitch had Jack in grasp. He had what looked like black sand wrapped around his ankle and Pitch was dragging him closer and closer into what looked like a portal made from darkness. Jack was struggling not to be pulled in. His hands tried to grab anything he could but since the entire bridge made out of ice, this was proven to be difficult.
"Jack!" Elsa called his name out.
Jack looked around and noticed that Elsa had come to his rescue.
"Elsa!" he called back.
"How sweet," Pitch said. "She's come to see you die!"
"Don't worry Jack," Elsa said. "I'll help you."
Elsa spotted Jack's staff not too far away from where he was lying. He was scrambling to try and get it. Elsa hurried forward to try and grab it but Pitch's black shadows impeded her path and blocked her from trying to get to Jack. Elsa was surprised by this sudden blockage and was forced backwards.
"There will be no inference," Pitch said. "Jack will die by my hand and you will join me when you realise just how pathetic the people you hang out with really is."
Elsa gritted her teeth but she resisted taking Pitch's bait. He wanted to make her say something that she will regret. Well, Elsa wasn't biting. She was busy trying to get Jack out of this mess.
Anna was sitting in the library with her husband and son. She was sitting on a chair that was drawn out from the table. She was clicking her tongue while she stared down at Hans who still was strung up on the wall. Kristoff was leaning against the fireplace with his arms folded and his legs crossed at the ankles. Josef was sitting down at the seat with his back against a window. His eyes kept flickering from his mother to his father to Hans and then back onto his mother again. Kristoff's gaze was to the floor although every now and then he would look up and someone and then look back down. Anna's gaze was kept firmly on Hans. She wanted to make sure that he couldn't escape or do something. Not like he could anyway. Elsa's ice was keeping him frozen solid.
Hans' eyes were looking over at Anna. She had her arms folded and her foot was tapping against the ground to go with her clicking tongue. These were tell-tale signs that she was agitated, frustrated and annoyed. Elsa, Jack and the others were out there fighting and she was stuck in a room with her worst enemy and worse of all, she was missing out on all the action. Hans' eyes locked onto Anna's eyes. There was a stare down between them. It seemed to go on for an age but in reality it didn't last long at all.
Anna kept thinking about their history. They hadn't seen each other in over forty years. It seemed longer though. Hans looked exactly the same only older. He was still quite good looking and still had those sideburns that he had been wearing the last time along with the same clothes. It just sent a message saying that the same thing that happened last time was going to happen and it did indeed. But like last time, Hans was beaten and was going to have the same punishment. Well maybe one a little more harsher than the last but the only problem was that King Viktor II often had a blind eye at this kind of thing. It was looking like both Anna and Kristoff will have to open his eyes. While Anna was in deep in thought about Hans, it looked as if Hans was in deep thought about her.
"What is Queen Anna of Arendelle thinking?" Hans said speaking for the first time in several minutes.
"The best way to get my revenge on you," Anna retaliated. She was lying of course. Elsa had convinced them that Hans should go back to The Southern Isles like last time to face justice for his crimes. But that didn't mean that the thought hadn't crossed Anna's brain. She wanted to make Hans pay for all that he's done. He deserved to die for his crimes but like Elsa says, there is a place for his kind. At least when he goes back to The Southern Isles, he would be out of their hair. She didn't want him in Arendelle any longer than he had to. Besides, telling him that she was thinking of some kind of revenge scheme would only make his squirm. The squirmier he is, the happier Anna would be.
"Really?" Hans sounded sceptical.
"Once your King is here," Anna said, "I will tell him all that you have been up to. He won't be too impressed. Neither will your other brothers."
"Unless Pitch gets to me first," Hans said. "He will be soon finished with those pesky Guardians and then he will come to me. I have been chosen to rule his empire."
"I see your lips moving Hans," Anna said, "but all I hear is blah, blah, blah."
Kristoff cracked a small smile at this. Hans didn't look too impressed.
"Seriously Hans," Anna said. "Don't talk about stuff that will never happen."
"Pitch will-"
"Pitch is using you whether you believe it or not," Anna said. "He doesn't need you. He never did."
"Not true!" Hans said.
"Do us a favour Hans," Anna said, "and don't talk about things you don't understand."
Elsa watched as Jack tried to stop being sucked into Pitch's darkness portal. Elsa felt helpless. She couldn't get to Jack in time to save him. Her brain was going into overdrive trying to think of a way to rescue Jack. Then suddenly an idea came to her. She pulled in The Guardians to get them on board. They all nodded with Elsa's plan. If it worked then Jack would be saved, Pitch would be sent back to the furthest part of his lair and Arendelle, along with all its citizens including Anna, Kristoff and their family, would be safe from harm. It was a risky plan and could end up backfiring on them if it didn't work or if Pitch was able to rebut it but they had to try it, for Jack's sake.
Tooth was up first. She sent a fiery onslaught of her mini fairies to distract Pitch. As predicted, the wall of defence that Pitch had implemented stopped them. Bunnymund then rolled out a number of eggs which exploded on contact with the wall. More of those black sand horses and Fearlings came towards them. North took care of that along with Sandy. Sandy sent his golden dream sand while North used his swords to help fight of Fearling onslaught. While this was all going on, Elsa was ready to make her move. Pitch was distracted by the others, she was going to go in and save Jack.
While Elsa moved, a few Fearlings were sent her way but Elsa simply blasted them out of the way with her ice powers. Elsa ran straight for Jack's staff. However, Pitch caught sight of her. He sent more of his powers in her direction in the form of more Fearlings. Elsa was blocked from getting the staff but she wasn't deterred. She kept up her ice powers and they managed to block them for a while. The Fearlings temporarily blocked Elsa from getting Jack's staff. She knew that she couldn't keep this up forever. She had to do something. Elsa looked for a way pass them and she saw a gap in the line. She took it and made a wild leap for the staff. Her fingers cased around it and she straightened up with it. Victory was her. But she couldn't celebrate for too long as more Fearlings were on their way. Elsa threw the staff to Jack who caught it with a smile and with one hand. He used the staff to slam into the black sand and it broke instantly.
"No!" Pitch yelled.
The Fearlings were soon being defeated. Tooth was sending in her army of mini faires, Bunnymund was deploying his eggs and used his boomerang to attack, North was using his snow globs to bring yetis in and attacked the Fearling. Elsa and Jack started up an icy wave of ice which hit every single Fearling in a close distance. Sandy was using his golden dream sand to destroy everything in sight. Pitch was watching everything come unravelled before him.
"It's over Pitch," Jack yelled out at him. "Give up."
"Never!" Pitch said.
Pitch then suddenly used his powers to wrap around Elsa. He pulled her closer to him. He was wearing that smile again.
"Join me, my Queen," Pitch said.
"Never," Elsa said.
"We could be quite a team rather than you and that fool Jack Frost," Pitch said.
"Jack is a hundred times better than you," Elsa spat at him.
Pitch wasn't impressed at this and snarled down at Elsa. Jack suddenly came up and slammed his staff into Pitch. The ice blast resulted from the impact caused Pitch to be blasted back. Elsa caused her own ice blast which doubled the impact. Pitch pulled out his scythe and started to spar with Jack. Elsa caused more ice blasts which threw Pitch off which allowed Jack to attack even more than Pitch could. Pitch then summoned up more Fearlings but they were cut down by both Jack and Elsa. They worked well as a team and the Fearlings didn't stand a chance. Working together just seemed to boost their powers and moral. Their powers worked well together and boosted the powers. Pitch was then blasted back by a blast caused by Elsa. Pitch straightened up and all The Guardians came forward ready to attack. They looked ready for a final assault.
Pitch then got an evil grin on his face. He was about to try something new but Sandy used his dream sand to surround Pitch and to bind him tightly. Pitch fell down from his height as he had been using his powers to cause him to fly through the air. The black sand horses turned on Pitch in that moment and caused him to be carried away back to his lair.
Elsa grinned at the scene. Pitch had been defeated. They had won.
A/N: I hope that everyone enjoyed this update. Please review =)