Chapter 26.
Elsa woke up in a place she did not fall asleep. She looked around at the familiar ice walls and hanging ice chandelier that had been fixed many times in the past. The bed she lay on was ice too with snow for comfort. Of course the coldness she could not feel. Her head felt heavy. Not like she suffered a blow to the head but from a banging headache. The sun glare bounced into her eyes. Elsa covered her eyes and rubbed her temples trying to remember what happened last night. She was not drunk or hung over; that much is certain. It was almost as if she did not sleep a wink last night. She again looked around at the familiar place. So familiar yet she couldn't put a finger on it. Elsa swore she went to sleep in her own bed in her own room back in her own castle. Then again, this is her own bed in her own room in her own castle which made it even more confusing for the Queen to wrap her head around. That's when it hit her. The ice palace.
Slowly, she wobbled to her feet and looked around her. How on earth did she even get here? The last thing Elsa remembers was...
Elsa gasped. Memories hit her with a bang and Elsa fell to the ground as if a bullet punctured her skull. Was it all a dream the events of last night? Elsa looked around. Or maybe Elsa still is dreaming? Or even this is the dream. Maybe she's dead as the reality caused her to cross the line over to insanity where she most likely had killed herself and this is her heaven. Seems logical.
Jack flew in from the balcony and looked at the bed where Elsa should of been. Nothing. His eyes drifted to the body on the floor looking up at him with sad piercing pools of blue.
"Elsa!" Jack gasped and picked her up. "Jesus Christ!"
"Jack? Jack...what...how...where?" Elsa looked around giving herself an even bigger headache than what she originated with.
"I brought you to the ice palace last night when you were in a state." Jack responded, using his thumb to smear the tears that leaked from her eyes without her even knowing.
"But last night...I..." The image of a drunken Oscar holding Elsa's hands against her will with slurred dirty talk which became its own language.
Elsa let out a scream and dropped to the floor and covered her ears, tears spilling out. She screamed and yelled, "NO!" over and over again. Jack panicked not knowing what to do. He dropped to his knees and wrapped his arms protecting Elsa from what may come. He held her steady and petted her hair, hushing her like a baby. After a while, Elsa came to her sense and was once again in a state. Jack left her to get her some food. When he came back, he found Elsa in the darkest corner of the room still not out of her trance state.
"Elsa, I brought you something to eat." he held up a few leftovers he found.
It wasn't much, but it was something. It was a bit of everything from chicken legs to Belgium chocolates. Scraps and even a button was found among it but it's the best Jack could do. Jack didn't need to eat as he wouldn't die either way. But being unseen from everyone and not having a job meant he had no money to buy the food but also being unseen from everyone, it was easy enough to steal. He always did it for Elsa. Elsa never questioned how he got the food, even you know she knew it was wrong. Elsa just accepted it knowing it was the only way for Jack to help.
After some time, Elsa came around. The sun began to set by the time she came round to her sense. Jack made sure she ate before anything else. When all was done and Elsa had calmly accepted what had happened to her last time, Jack sat her down ready to talk about it.
"I came round last night to check up on you." Jack mumbled. Elsa's eyes widened in horror. "I saw...what looked like..."
"No!" Elsa shook her head, tears flowing from her eyes. "It's not what it looked like! I swear! I told him no! NO I SAID!
But he didn't listen. HE DIDN'T LISTEN! He held my hands so I could control the ice and snow. My feet dangled off the bed unable to touch the ground below. IT WAS THEN HE BEGAN TO KISS ME WITH LIZARD TONGUE OF HIS! AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
Jack slapped her lightly across the face. Not hard but just enough to snap her out of it and to keep sane. Elsa touched the scorching red mark across her face and Jack looked into her eyes with worry and sympathy and tears. Some hurt Elsa. His Elsa. Someone will die. OSCAR WILL DIE!
Jack jumped up and ran at the balcony screaming in complete rage ready to kill. He could smell smell the fear is Oscar already. Jack could already feel the warmth of his blood splatter up against his hands. He could see the terror in his eyes and hear the screams of horror he blared. Jack could imagine it all already and he hadn't even left the ice palace. Just as he reached the balcony, he lept up. This was it. Oscar will pay!
Something grasped Jack's ankles and pull him back from the air. Jack landed on the floor, skidding through it. He pushed himself off the floor and looked up at Elsa, whose sad ice eyes were replaced with blazing fire.
"What are you doing?" Elsa asked.
"I'm gonna kill that big bastard! I don't care if he's king! I'm going to kill him either way!"
"No! No you're not!" Elsa yelled.
"What the fuck Elsa? That bastard raped you! My Elsa!" Jack cupped Elsa's face in his hands, confused.
"He will die. But not today and not by you. If anyone's going to kill him, it's going to be me!"
Jack saw the look Elsa gave him. It wasn't anything he'd seen before. Pure hate grew in through her body turning every pure innocent bone completely grey. Then if she completed killing Oscar, they'd turn black. Once there, Elsa will never look back. She'll never become the same. Only three out comes can come from this.
1.) She regrets it. This almost always happens in humans. They crawl into a dark corner where they hide and for eternity loath themselves. This pushes them to the brink of insanity where they're beyond help. This will stay with them till they die.
2.) Elsa develops a lust for blood. This doesn't happen as much as the first one but it's still a high chance that it could happen. Once Elsa knows what it's like to feel relief in getting rid of a monster, Elsa can then feel urges to kill everyone she feels as a monster. After sometime, she'll become a monster herself with no emotions or feeling guilty or caring for the consequences.
3.) Lastly, she returns to normal with a dark secret. Only few humans can do this. Once they've kill the ones who did wrong, they live on like nothing happened. Everything will return to normal and they'll feel no shame and won't do anything else wrong in their lives. They will however remember though throughout their lives. But like I've said already, that is least likely to happen.
In Elsa's case however, the likeliness of number three from happening is 1/10. As for the second one, 2/10. Elsa could never really turn full monster. It jut wan't possible. But for the first one it was a massive 7/10. Elsa will likely live the rest of her days in complete terror. Not to mention she'd have killed King Oscar III of Sweden. War may start between the countries or the could behead Elsa. Everything could happen.
As much as Jack would hate to see this happen to Elsa, he could tell from the look in her eyes that not he, Anna or anyone could talk her out of this. This was for happening. Elsa was going to kill Oscar.
...
They didn't go right away. Jack wanted to be the one to kill Oscar because unlike Elsa, he could handle it. They decided to leave it for a few days for Elsa to calm down and accept that she wasn't going to die. Maybe, just maybe, Elsa can watch Oscar die but she will not kill him herself. Jack will. However plans change.
Early the next day, Elsa woke up to a worried Anna shaking her and crying. Kristoff was there too with Olaf. Jack entered the room with food but quickly discarded it on seeing the people in the room. It would look weird having floating food appear out of nowhere. Looking at them he could tell Anna was worried sick as Elsa had ran off. As for Elsa, she too was worried sick but because her little sister had travelled up a mountain while being seven months pregnant. Anna was angry at Elsa for running off where as Elsa was angry at Kristoff for letting Anna go up the mountain in her condition. All in all, they went home. Elsa made sure it was the smoothest ride possible.
With the help of Jack, Elsa created a large slid. It wasn't steep to go very fast but it gave the element of fun and they slowed it down just for Anna and the baby inside her womb. They reached the castle before the morning was over.
Oscar didn't care for Elsa. He didn't care that the bitch -his words- ran off. Instead of help looking Elsa, he prepared himself to travel back to Sweden as his time was up. This pissed Anna off the most but when Elsa told her what Oscar did, Anna was steaming. She was prepared to travel to Sweden and rip the bastard -hormones talking- to pieces.
Weeks passed. Elsa didn't hear a word from Oscar. Sure she got a letter from him but that just ended up being part of the firewood. It wasn't touched or read by Elsa or by anyone else. Elsa did not care what that man had to say. The more time passed, the more irritated Elsa became. She'd gotten so mad she just about iced everywhere she went. Elsa was not standing waiting to go see that man. It was now or never.
"You want me to do what?!" Jack asked confused.
"Take me to see Oscar." Elsa said plainly from her office chair. Jack stood on the other side of the desk she was on.
"Okay, I'm not human. I don't take orders just like that you know. I don't care if you're Queen."
"I'm well aware of that fact Jack but it's not because I want to see him and you know it. If you truly love me you'll take me to see him when I ask so I can slaughter that pig."
"Fine...when?"
"Tonight." Elsa got into plan mode. "It will be the middle of the night when we're all asleep. You'll take me to Sweden and we'll track this monster down. Once found I want walls to appear to square us in. If anyone tries to get in my way from the outside, I want you to see to them personally. Don't kill them but make them stay clear. When Oscar is done and dusted, you'll create a cold mist to hide the body and me. You'll then swoop down and take us. We'll place the body up around the stream and insert a knife through him. We then leave as fast as possible back home."
"You've...really thought this through, haven't you?" Jack asked, scared to look at the sadistic Queen.
"I've been planning this for weeks from when I return to Sweden but I can't wait that long. I want him dead NOW!" Elsa jumped up and punched the table.
Suddenly, Elsa found it hard to breathe. As if the air itself was nothing more than knives attacking her lungs from the inside out. Slowly she started to wobble before falling to her side. Jack being Jack jumped up onto the table and with his arms caught Elsa before she could touch the ground.
"Are you okay? You look very pale. I hope you're not sick."
"I-I'm not. Just..."
"You're putting too much energy into this. We're not doing this now. We'll leave it a week from now. That should give you enough time to relax and take it easy. Do you hear me?"
"A week from now?"
"A week from now."
"Okay."
...
It was time. The week went by but felt like forever to Elsa. During this time she managed create ice blades to appear out of her wrists ready to slice and dice her husband. She didn't sleep when she went to bed. Instead, she got ready. Black dress. Black shoes. Black hat. Black gloves. Everything black. Jack appeared through the window as Elsa was fixing herself in the mirror.
Jack whistled and laughed. "Someone looks good even if she is going to murder someone."
"Oh shut your mouth you." Elsa couldn't help but smile over at Jack. "Right, are you ready."
"Of course I'm ready."
"You know what you have to do."
"Pretty simple compared to what you have to do, yes."
"Great. Let's go." Elsa smiled.
Elsa walked over to Jack and jumped into his arms. Jack walked over to the window about to leap when there was a knock on the door. Elsa sighed in irritation and turned to the door.
"WHAT!?" she boomed over to the person on the otherside of the door.
"It's Kristoff!" he yelled over to Elsa. Elsa screwed her eyes together. Something didn't sound right. His voice sounded shaky as if he was scared. He also chocked as if he was crying. As well as that, he was out of breath as if he was running.
"What is it?" Elsa hissed.
The two waited patiently for what seemed like an eternity. Elsa jumped out of Jack's arms and with a flick of her hand changed her entire black outfit to her snow-white nightdress. She pulled her hair out and ruffled it up a a bit and cleared off the dark make-up. There was still no answer! Elsa irritated marched to the door and swung it open to find Kristoff shaken completely.
"What?" Elsa suddenly felt confusin and panic spread through her.
"It's...It's Anna!"
Elsa's eyes widened. Her jaw dropped. If any lower, her entire jaw might as well of fell off all together. Anna.
Hey guys. Sorry I didn't update yesterday. I usually take breaks from Sundays but recently I've came down with Attack on Titan/ Shingeki no Kyojin (AoT/SnK) fever. I first watched the anime the start of this year after my aunt bought me an AoT/SnK jacket with the Survey Corps Wing's of Freedom symbol on the back of it. So I thought why wear the jacket when you don't understand what it stands for. So I watched it and went crazy for it! My favourite was Levi. I complete fangirl over him.
Anyway, sense then thought AoT/SnK is an awesome anime, I was obsessed. Then I went to Comic Con and went all out AoT/SnK for their products. Then recently I went to WaterStones (a book shop) and was reading AoT/SnK volume 12 (I'm not exaggerating when I say I was dragged out of the shop- but I was totally dragged out of the shop) and was so shocked I went home and read the rest of it. Then I got really excited for season 2 which will come next year. So to occupy my time, I've been reading AoT/SnK fanfictions- all featuring Levi of course and even started to watch AoT/Snk English *shivers* DUBBED version. Man, it's awful. Some voices are okay like Mikasa's and I guess Eren's fine and Sasha but the likes of Connie, Armin and my sweet sweet Levi makes me cringe T_T
Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter and your reviews really do mean a lot to me. They support me to continue :') So keep reviewing xD xxx
~ChibiNagisaSakura