Chapter 21: Kristoff's Plan.

Up at the Arendelle end of the Sigvard Pass, the Valkyrie has had their rest and Kristoff has called Herja, her Lieutenant Astrid, Oaken, Olaf and Lieutenant Hansfjord together for a briefing.

"First of all," says Kristoff, "We will have to figure out how best to divide our forces for the Dukes men."

"It may be a good idea if you let us know what your plan is in detail Kristoff before we do that?" responds Herja

"I know this pass so well," he says, "about a half mile in it narrows with steep rocky walls, the Dukes men at best will have to form two files in order to get through and that section is about a couple of hundred metres long, ideal place for an ambush and it is there that I believe we can entrap them, look I'll build a small model in the snow."

"I hope we won't hurt them?" asks Olaf innocently

"Olaf, I'm more worried about them hurting us."

"Don't worry little Olaf," reassures Herja, "The Valkyrie will protect you."

"There are only fifty of you." Remarks Kristoff

"More than enough." Replies Herja confidently

"There's one hundred of us as well, Kristoff." pipes in Lieutenant Hansfjord.

"Lieutenant, I just hope there's not too many of them, now Oaken, Olaf, Lieutenant, Herja and Astrid right?" he says looking at another stunning brunette Valkyrie warrior.

Astrid replies with a simple yes.

Kristoff gets down on his knees in the snow and tries to mould the snow in a sort of model of the terrain as best he could from memory. As it turns out it's a pretty good model.

"Okay The Dukes men are approaching from here," he points to the path. "Here is where the path narrows considerably with the rocky walls, now the slopes before and after the rocky walls are still steep but manageable, we hide up here and here, on either side of where the rocky wall section starts and wait until they get into this narrowest section. Now at this point, the Abominable snowmen will begin a barrage of giant snowballs at either end of the rocky section, effectively blocking the Dukes men from either advancing or retreating. Now above these rocky walls, we will be able to move from one end to the other, but be careful. "

"How do we know if your giant snowmen can hurl these giant snowballs?" asks Herja

"Well we are about to find out, Marshmallow!" commands Kristoff.

Marshmallow walks his huge frame towards the briefing.

"Yes" he booms in his voice

"Marshmallow, how big a snowball can you throw? Can you demonstrate please?"

"Yes Kristoff"

Marshmallow then bends down and picks up an enormous amount of snow and fashions it into a snow ball, then hurls it several hundred metres where it lands in a large pile.

"Excellent Marshmallow, can you explain that to your brothers as that is what I want them to do when we attack the Dukes' men."

"Marshmallow understands"

"Oh one more thing Marshmallow, can you hide in the snow?"

Marshmallow immediately assumes the position he took out side Elsa's Ice Castle when Hans and the men from Arendelle arrived trying to find Anna.

"That's very impressive." Says Herja with amazement at what she has just seen.

"Yes it is," responds, Kristoff, "Marshmallow, can all your brothers do the same thing?"

"Yes they can."

Kristoff then turns back to the group.

"We will have to dig trenches so that we can hide as well, we don't want the Dukes' forces to know we are there, until they're in the position we want them in."

"Understood, "says Lieutenant Hansfjord.

"One more thing Marshmallow and Olaf." Says Kristoff

"I'm here." Smiles Olaf

"Okay, can you two communicate to the snowgies if they can go down the pass and see if the Dukes' armies are actually there and let us know as quickly as possible?"

"Yeah, Marshmallow and I can do that can't we Marshmallow?"

"YYeess. Little Brother" smiles Marshmallow as only he can.

"Okay, you better start; we'll be in our positions by the time they get back."

Olaf and Marshmallow make their way towards where the snowgies have gathered.

"Marshmallow sorry that he threw little brother from Elsa's Castle and off the cliff, he feels bad he did that to Little Brother."

"Oh think nothing of it; you were just trying to protect our mom Queen Elsa."

"Marshmallow won't hurt little brother again and make sure he is safe."

"Thank you Marshmallow, I'll do the same for you to."

They finally reach the snowgies and immediately, Marshmallow raises his enormous arms and the snowgies all look at him and come to a complete standstill. He then points down to Olaf, who starts making some outrageous movements with his hands and body as the snowgies look on with whatever concentration they could muster.

Olaf then points to Marshmallow, who too starts making weird movements with his hands until he points down the path.

All at once, the snowgies move down the path like a wave of snow, seemingly understanding what Olaf and Marshmallow had instructed them to do.

Herja who with the rest of the group at the conference look on in stunned disbelief at what they just saw.

"Well that was certainly different." Says Herja a little confused.

"You get use to different around here sometimes," responds Kristoff, "now Herja, I think you should take half your troop with 50 snowmen and Oaken and Klaus, don't want to split up family, plus fifty of our men and set up at either end of the rocky section."

"My thoughts exactly I'll set up at this end of the little rocky canyon in there, Astrid, you take the other twenty five with Kristoff and Olaf."

"Yes commander." She replies

Kristoff then looks at Oaken towering next to his sister:

"Is that good for you Oaken?"

"Ya that is good, be nice to fight side by side with my little sister."

"Lieutenant, you bring the other fifty men with me to the other end of the rocky section"

"Yes sir."

Sven looks up at Kristoff to see what he wants him to do:

"I'll unhook our sled Sven and you come with me buddy, we'll have to hide the sled as well, Marshmallow."

"Yes Kristoff."

"Just one more favour, can you bury the sled so it looks like a snow drift?"

"I can do that."

Sven smiles a little as Kristoff unhooks the sleigh and moves it near an upward sloping bit of terrain, Marshmallow then begins to bury it and makes it look like it is part of the terrain. Kristoff then puts a branch on it from a nearby tree so he can find it later.

Herja then asks the question no one wanted to ask:

"What if they fight back?"

"I'm hoping the sight of a lot of monstrous Abominable Snowmen throwing monstrous snowballs will pretty well scare them half to death."

"I must admit," She responds, "it would probably scare me, mind you once we give our cry after they're trapped, many of them will believe the Valkyrie myth and that we have come to take them to the other side. If not, we can disarm them without actually hurting them."

"Would me as well." chips in the Lieutenant.

"That would be good, though I wish we had more soldiers Herja." Confides Kristoff

"More would be good, but one of these snowmen, worth at least ten of their soldiers, plus we have the element of surprise."

"Okay any more questions anyone."

Lieutenant Hansfjord speaks up.

"I actually think that it may be wise to send a few of the snowmen down onto the pass floor once the Dukes' men are in position. It would terrify them, probably their horse more who would bolt and the snowmen can help keep them where we want them to be why the two snow barriers are being built."

"That's a very good idea Lieutenant Hansfjord," replies Kristoff, "Okay if there aren't any objections we'll adopt that into the plan."

All the others at the council say no.

"Okay then," commands Kristoff, "let's get to our positions and hope it's a good plan, Marshmallow, you go with Herja and command your brothers, Olaf."

"Yes"

"You're in charge of the other fifty snowmen."

"Wow, I'm in charge of an army." He responds excitedly

Herja gets on her horse and turns to Kristoff:

"Kristoff, it's a good plan."

"I hope so, though the best outcome would be that the Dukes' men are not coming this way."

"That's true, though I would be a little disappointed, let's just make sure if they are coming, we make sure they regret it."

Kristoff smiles up at Herja after that comment then walks to Sven and does his Sven's voice:

"It's a good plan."

Then in his own voice:

"I certainly hope so; I'll ride you the rest of the way if that's okay?"

Back to Svens' voice

"Not a problem pal."

Kristoff's voice:

"Thanks buddy."

With that he climbs onto Sven's back with Olaf and they ride into the Sigvard Pass in two columns.