"Your majesty! Something's happening with the water!" Ryder shouted. Anna and Elsa looked at each other. "Elsa, evacuate the citizens. Get them as far away from Arendelle as possible. Just to be safe, `` she pleaded. Elsa nodded. "People of Arendelle, follow me to the cliffs!" she shouted. The citizens followed Elsa to the far cliffs as Kristoff approached.
"What's going on?!" he asked.
"Ryder said something was going on with the water!"
"The spirits should be pacificed! Why are they doing this?!"
"I don't know! Unless", the realization hit Anna like a ton of bricks. "Arendelle was MEANT to be destroyed!" Kristoff's face fell.
"Why would they want to destroy the kingdom?"
"It makes perfect sense! Our grandfather betrayed the Northrulda via a sham peace arrangement! To the spirits, destroying the kingdom would give us a clean slate!" Anna said. Kristoff was stunned. Anna continued to explain that to the spirits, sparing Arendelle seemed too much of a free pass if both Arendelle and the Northrulda were meant to be one.
Anna and Kristoff walked over to the docks where they could get a clear shot at the fjord. Sure enough, they could see a tidal wave brewing on the horizon and it was heading right towards them. The couple turned around and raced for the cliffs. Fortunately, they made it out of the vicinity of the kingdom just in time, turning around to see the wave attack Arendelle.
"Arendelle," Anna said.
The first tidal wave did significant damage, but not enough to wipe out the kingdom in one go, so another tidal wave was conjured up, more powerful than the first. Again, not enough, so a third tidal wave was whipped up and finally, some damage had occurred, but again, it wasn't enough. Eventually, it took two more tidal waves to demolish the kingdom. Arendelle was no more.
Anna and Kristoff saw a sign sent from Elsa, which they immediately followed to the location her and the citizens were at. "Is it gone?" Elsa asked. Anna nodded. Finally, Gale appeared.
"Anna, Elsa, step forward," she ordered. The fifth spirit and the Tie did so, understanding they alone could hear Gale, but to Kristoff and the rest, they were talking to themselves.
"You promised you would spare the kingdom. You didn't keep your promise," Anna said. Gale used one of her leaves and slapped Anna across the face.
"Hey!" Elsa shouted, but a breeze blocked her from advancing further.
"Everything was not fully in place and like it or not, Runeard betrayed us and that's something we won't forget", the wind spirit said firmly. The sisters were shocked.
"So, when you said you were going to spare the kingdom, you lied?" Elsa asked.
"Like I said, this was all your grandfather's doing. His actions gave you powers sure, but that doesn't change the fact he didn't keep the land one and after he separated Yelana and her family, had the audacity to use a sham peace agreement to build a dam to drain our resources. When you announced your intention to stay with us, we knew it wasn't safe to go ahead with destroying the kingdom at the time, so no, we didn't lie from a certain point of view, `` the wind spirit tried to justify, but Anna and Elsa knew that they were merely rationalizing their stance, even though they were within their rights to be angry as Runeard did not keep the land of Arendelle one when he chose to excommunicate Yelana and her family and had committed blasphemy when he angered the spirits with his dam. Agnarr and Iduna had done the exact same thing when they caught Anna trying to see Elsa when she wasn't allowed to and punished her for it. After Gale left, a little boy approached Anna.
"Your majesty, where do we go now?" the boy asked. Anna knelt down and hugged the boy, who returned her hug.
"At this point, I really have no clue, sweetheart," she said. "I really don't know,'' she added, more to herself than anything. Yelena stepped forward.
"Your majesty, if it pleases you, you're all welcome to stay at our campsite while Arendelle would presumably be rebuilt," she said. Anna was stunned.
"You would do that for us?"
"Many people lost their homes today. It would be heartless to cast out so many people who did not deserve this. I understand we don't have the luxuries one would expect us to have," she started but Anna held her hand up.
"It's all right. What ultimately matters is the fact that the citizens are safe and secure," Anna said. Yelena nodded in approval of this decision. Rounding up the citizens, everyone ventured into the Enchanted Forest, their new home for the time being.
AN: When Anna said "Our grandfather" to Kristoff, she was referring to her and Elsa's grandfather, in case that wasn't clear. R&R!