The Tyranny of Queen Elsa
Season 5 The Redemotion
Epiosde 8 Inevitable Confrontation
19 August 2055
Kingdom of Arendelle
Pyramid Palace
Ten AM
The Doors to Arendelle's throne Room opened, showing Mark another staircase leading up. Straight up, to bright fresh air. Going up was easy, he took the steps two at a time until he arrived at the top, the precipiece of the massive pryamid structure. Directly in front of him was two things, a small ice made staircase leading up to another door, and a expansive courtyard of a sort.
Going up the short flight of stairs Mark opened the door and stepped inside. This was Elsas throne room. The true throneroom. Arendelle was at war with itself. Only he remained to stand alone against what he had thought would be a fair and just ruler. One who he groomed and trained to be fair and kind to her people; one he poured his heart into, the woman he once loved.
Elsa.
And there she stood, her back to him. Staring out at the massive kingdom below, unhappy apparently as far as Mark could tell. "Ahh it is you at last" She said turning to face him. He saw in her hand the Sceptre of Eden. He took in how she looked. Her normally brightly colored dress was dark and brooding, jade and dark green and brown. Mark inwardly snickered, her dress mirrored his clothing at that moment of jade green and black.
Opening her arms as if for a hug, she didn't move from where she stood, and he stopped five meters from the door as Elsa spoke "No hug for your long-loved Queen ?" She asked him
Mark was silent. "Come now, my dear, surely you're happy to see me ? Look at how... successful I've become." Again Mark was silent. Elsa's lip twitched in annoyance, and she lowered her arms. "Something wrong ?"
"Wrong?" Mark finally spoke, repeating solemnly, thoughfully before chuckling as he spoke. "Wrong... How about the fact that your Kingdom looks like America Nuked it five days from Sunday ?"
Elsa turned and looked out at the kingdom fighting itself before speaking to Mark. "I removed the weakness from my Kingdom. What's wrong with that ?"
"How about the fact that now your Kingdom is now literally just you ? Maybe the fact that you now have no Money ? No trade ? No Army ? No residents or civilians ? Hell, you don't even have me, anymore." Mark said as he crossed his arms.
"Then what would you have me do ?" Elsa asked him
"Step down, throw aside the sceptre" Mark replied
"Throw it aside ?" Elsa asked him, looking to the sceptre in her hand she held it briefly in both hands like a two handed sword before looking to Mark confused
"It controls you" Mark pressured
"Is that what you believe ? I believe I control it. Although I never considered the possiblity that it can control someone, perhaps it can." Elsa said thoughtful as the sunlight of the late morning sun glittered off the hilt of the sceptre
"You have been corrupted by it" Mark said
Elsa laughed then "Corrupted ? That raises an interesting question: do you wish for me to give up the Apple in order to... save my soul ?..." Elsa started pacing, Pointing at Mark "Or do you wish the Apple for yourself, so you can control the kingdom ?"
"The true ruler is Anna, your sister." Mark replied simply, it was true, that morning during breakfast they had a debate, and Anna simply wanted this nightmare to end and start over elsewhere.
"Let us not deceive ourselves" Elsa replied, she raised her arms, the sceptre glittered in the sunlight "It is an absurd thought, but. Suppose I was beholden to this Apple, how would you behave differently ?"
"I would use it for the good of the kingdom" Mark replied
"Possession of the Apple is both a burden and a blessing" Elsa replied, she pointed at him "Tell me, when you shake the earth, do you feel as if you are a slave to the people," She turned towards the sunrise "Or do you feel as if you wish to be their master ?"
"The people want you brought down" Mark said
Elsa smiled evily, her back to him, "You did not answer the question." She said before turning to him thundering "I am the only queen here!
A spiked wall of ice rocketed from the stained glass floor behind Mark, and as the spikes jutted from the air towards him, they shattered on impact with his armor, and he continued to stare at her, a rather bored look on his face as he sighed. "Think very carefully of your actions, My Queen, for your next ones may end up being your last."
"You wouldn't dare harm me." Elsa growled at him, the sceptre vansihed as two swords appeared in her hands
"I will do what I must to rid the world of Darkness. Even if that means you." Slowly Mark drew Spyders sword from its sheath on his hip, as Kalda growled in the back of his mind - he didn't like this; killing the reincarnation of his mate, but Kalda had no say in this. Not if Xeir wasn't awake and conscious of what was going on. She'd be reborn again at some point in the future.
Elsa growled something, and with that the fight was on; the two charged each other and jumped into the air with a crash they connected, Mark's gauntlet crashed with Elsa's left sword, and his sword crashed with her other sword.
Two swords? What a pain. Compesating immediately, Mark slid his clawed arm past the sword the sound of metal grinding on metal screaming through the air as his hand went to grab Elsa by the throat, and as he turned, slam her to the ground before landing just behind her
As he landed he flicked out his free hand, and his sword, one that once belonged to Kalda, appeared in his hand, ready to fight. Wasting no time, Mark activated his Phoenix Cloak and charged Elsa, keeping her on her toes and on the back-step as she launched a flurry of strikes and barrages of Ice, all of them expertly blocked, parried or dodged by Mark as he advanced.
Slamming through each others defenses, the two of them fought ferociously, blades sparking against each other as they fought, turning the rooftop courtyard of the pyramid castle into nothing more than a wild light show with the ferocity of their fighting.
After two hours of relentless back-tracking that Elsa finally managed to land a hit on Mark, sending him flying backwards through two walls of ice. Mark shifted his stance. Spyders sword he saw had broken apart, useless. He sliding the damaged weapon into its sheath on his hip he drew his own sword, without thinking it he put it with the other, making the sword double the thickness and weight. Though it felt no heavier
He then saw where Elsa had launched him, into a dungeon of the palace where prisoners of war were held. As he stood in the middle of it he slowly turned in a circle, he was greeted with the sight of his family in chains, bleeding from wounds only Elsa could make, whipped until their skin was raw. He saw his adopted mother, Snowfeather, his birth mother, Charity, his aunt Blackmane, and even his sisters, Serena and Serenity, in bruised, broken states; their bodies barely clinging to sanity.
Elsa stepped through the shattered wall, a pair of black feathered wings sprouting from her back as she did so. It wasn't that Xeir hadn't awakened - it was much worse than getting corrupted by the Apple of Eden. It was far worse that she fell to the corruption of Draco and the Wolf Queen. "I see you found your family. Pity... They snuck in and tried to cause trouble, so I... dealt with them. Rest assured they did not enjoy a single second." Elsa's voice had an edge to it.
The Phoenix Cloak continued to blaze around Mark's body, and he turned his head. "She's too far gone... I'm giving you access to my full power for as long as your body can maintain it. End this now." Kalda's voice was solemn, but understandig. This needed to happen. Now.
Mark nodded inwardly "I agree. Kalda, for what it is worth. I'm sorry"
"Dont be, neither of us could have anticipated both the corruptive power of the Apple and the darkness of mens hearts. Xeir born mortal was easily coprrupted by both. Do not blame yourself." Kalda's voice echoed in Marks mind
Tightening his fist, Mark increased the gravity around Elsa a thousand fold, and the woman was crushed under her own weight, sinking a thousand feet into the ground immediately; taking a dip into the bedrock beneath Arendelle before she sprouted back up, unaffected.
Typical, using Xeir's Love to counter Kalda's power. Lightening the Gravity around himself, Mark growled and darted at lightning speed towards Elsa, the shockwave that burst from their impact shaking the entire palace. For another hour they fought like this, flying through the air at speeds unimaginable to even the average Mythic-Realm dwelling being, hitting with the strength to topple mountains, yet still the Palace stood mostly intact. Each respective fighter was bleeding, bruised, and exhausted mentally and physically by the time they finally stopped on the stainglass rooftop courtyard again. Mark's Armor was in shambles, his body ached and blood poured from his nose from the exertion of his body from using Kalda's power. Elsa was in no better shape, with her dress in tatters, both shoulders marred heavily with cuts and a deep gouge in her gut. They stood apart from each other, Mark looked around as Elsa dispelled her swords and summoned the sceptre, quickly conjuring clones of herself as Mark looked around. There!
He ran for the corners as Kalda even figured out what Mark was thinking, avoiding Elsa throwing bolts of energy and her clones as the Sceptre healed her body he slammed into each corner of the stainglassed courtyard, damaging it. Finally he hit the last one with a very solid crash and Elsa dropped the sceptre and quickly summoned her swords again, but she was too slow as Mark easily, with the last of his strength, smacked Elsa's swords from her hands as the stainglass broke apart, and they both fell into the old throneroom of the original castle. The Sceptre broke apart as it hit the floor, Elsa and Mark slamming into it. Kalda easing the gravity to soften their fall to a fraction of what would have been a mortal blow.
Elsa reached up and gripped the Apple and pulled herself to her feet as Mark got to his feet, Elsa's strength gave out then and she dropped to her knees he as placed the chipped and cracked blades of his sword against her neck as she looked up at him.
They shared one last tender moment; with the light returnig to Elsa's eyes briefly, her lips trembling as a single tear fell from her eye. Mark stared blankly into her eyes; his eyes blazing Silver, the blood-vessels all around all burst, ringing his iris in blood red. She bowed her head with a slight nod.
Smiling, he nodded; and with a swift extension of his arms, beheaded the woman he used to call his love.
Then, standing there briefly as sudden shock rolled over him he stood in anguish for a few minutes as he stumbled back from Elsas dead body. He used his sword as a walking stick as he felt Kaldas magic, the natural healing powers, go to work, before turning, He had to see to his family.
Getting the injured from the palace wasnt going to be easy. He had to make a call. As he leaned against the cell door he waved weakly at it, the gravity snapped the locks and the doors swung open as he dialed his wristphone and weakly held his hand to his ear as he heard "Auji Wolfe"
"Son, its me... I need your help... Bring a hovertruck, full medical gear... And bring it... an hour ago" Mark said, the way he spoke meant he was hurt too, and the medical care was direly needed inso far as quickly as possible
"On hour way, keep your phone active so we can track it. Did you do it ?"
"See you when you get here" Mark said simply, it was a waiting game, he waved his arm again, the chains holding his sisters snapped apart and with Kaldas magic gently his sisters were laid on the ground. Serenity rolled to her stomach and pushed herself to her feet as her arms were badly cut. Mark shook his head "No, sis, relax, its ok, help is coming"
Ten minutes later and Auji's voice rang out, along with Xeibo and Diamond. "In here" Mark called, Diamond rushed into the dungeon hall and saw her brother leaning on the cell wall.
"Mark!" Diamond shriekd seeing him, then she saw their mother and the others "Mother!" She turned to Mark, "Elsa, is she"
"Get them onto the hovertruck, its done." Mark said solemn in his tone "Elsas dead."
Diamond nodded and instruxcted the soldiers with them to be as gentle as possible as she went to her brother and helped him to his feet. His arm over her shoulder as the two walked out. Once the others were loaded safely into the hover truck Mark saw something he thought he saw in his dreams and the memories of Kalda, a massive ship floated in the air next oty the hovertruck, i"Well what do you know, The Silver Eagle, She's in one piece!"/i came the calm voice of Kalda seeing the vessel. Mark had no idea what to say to that. The group was carefully taken aboard, He was shocked to see two people onboard already, Kanwar, in all her magical glory, and Sazhori.
Of course when asked why the Raven was there, the only reply Mark got, and also Diamond got was "One last mission from Emperor Tilr at Kanwars request" Mark simply smiled and let Diamond take him to the medical center aboard the airship
26 August 2055
Kingdom of Arendelle
Noon
A week went by, Mark then set to burying Elsa next to her parents.
He stood back. Anna had chosen to move the kingdom elsewhere. One of the possible locations to start anew was simple to migrate to Oslo or Gilja where the Assassins were strongest.
Mark simply stood and looked upon the headstone it read thusly: "An angel fallen from Grace. A Queen, a Friend, a Past-Love." Mark turned from the headstone, and returned to the 'Eagle, setting course for the Mythic Realm. The Light had to know what transpired. Had to know that Draco had succeeded, that Xeir had fallen.
But despite that: Hope still lingered as in the city of Slitu, a Girl in the city, Elizabeth, opened her eyes as a new day at work was dawning...
The End... ?
The End Credits {Recommended Song to listen to while reading: Extreme Ways by Moby from Bourne Supremacy}
The following characters belong to Storm-Shadow14 and were broken with permission
Marcus Wolfe
Marion Wolfe
Prince Auji
Mark Wolfe
These characters belong to Awinita and were intentionally broken
Spyder the Spider Demon
Fuiu the Spider Demon
Charity Wolfe
Xeibo Azukar
Kanwar Azukar
Raven Guard Sazhori
Lady Spike Milligan
Talak Horde-Wolfe
Princess Diamond
Prince Naratas
Elizabeth Wolfe
Athena Hawkthorne
Miao Hawkthorne
Arm Hawkthorn
Special Thanks to...
Mark Wolfe: For giving the chicken a sucking chest wound... literally
Spyder: For possibly the most novel use for a stuffed chicken
Fuiu: for keeping the food from spoiling
Miao Hawkthorne: For objecting to product placement
Sazhori: For forgiving Mark for the sucking chest wound
Lady Spike: For something I cannot tell and shouldnt try to recall
Talak Horde: For making sure we had enough sanity and pizza to go all around
Arm Hawkthorne: For letting us borrow the tavern and destroy it a buncha times
This story was written on location, then buried with enough cement to make the earth go out of rotation. No animals were harmed in the writing of this project howerver many will require therapy. No people were harmed in the writing of this sick thing execept Diamond who suffered a concussion when faceplanting into a cement wall at mach stupid.
The rest of this story was simple shot to hell and back.
Do not ask about the guys in black coats and spikey hair.
OK fine those guys are from the Star Council
Finis