thet-sgirlbossmagic asked:
The moment Elsa rise from dead and fall to the ocean in Ahtohallan. How The Nokk save her and she knows she have to save Arendelle but she isn't sure she is gonna be able to make it in time.

Elsa slowly regained consciousness.

She blinked weakly, her arms and legs feeling like cotton. Her back hurt like she had fell on it on cobblestones. As she tried to understand why and blinked again, flashes of memory came back to her.

Anna did it. She succeeded. She broke the dam, and Elsa thawed thanks to her. She had brought her back to life. But… Something intrigued Elsa. She now remembered clearly how the whole floor of the dark memories room had collapsed afterwards, and it explained her brisk fall to the water. And if she were underwater…

How was she breathing?

She blinked faster, fully conscious now. And now she noted that she was lying down on her stomach on the back of the water horse she had tamed before. With a gasp, Elsa quickly sat up, now in riding position, and looked around in confusion and panic. What was happening? Why was the water around them moving so fast? Why did it feel like they were urging somewhere? She only hoped that they would arrive in time to prevent Arendelle from getting flooded. Flooded. Everything clicked in her mind.

The Water Spirit was leading her to there. She saw it focused on running, even if technically, it was swimming forward.

Then HOW was she breathing?

With a careful hand, she brought her fingers to her mouth, and noticed it was dry, and she was breathing in and out - still at an alarmed rate - normally. Her hand was however wet. She squinted and noticed that there was a sort of round water membrane around her head, and that it formed and reformed every time she put her hand close to her face.

She was breathing in a magic bubble filled with oxygen. Elsa chuckled nervously, amazed. She passed a head along the horse's mane, which looked like a wave now.

"You… You did this?"

The Spirit nodded, turning around.

"Thank you." Whispered Elsa, emotional.

She never would have survived without them. Her eyebrows then switched.

"Wait… If you can make a bubble of air, why did you try to drown me earlier?"

The horse snorted. "You weren't worthy yet."

"Hey!" Frowned Elsa, a bit upset.

She then registered what just happened.

"Hold on…"

Her eyes widened. Did she just hear their voice in her mind?

She had felt their emotions when she rode them to reach Ahtohallan, and realized that it would be the way to communicate between them. It felt just like when she encountered Bruni for the first time, understanding its fear and stress, or when she felt that Gale was in a better mood.

Elsa gasped.

"I can understand you!", she thought, her heart leaping in her chest, and she was certain that the horse reacted positively to it.

Now it was obvious because she felt deep in her core how they shared her joy. Only, theirs seemed more mature. Elsa couldn't help but beam with a giant smile, when the happiness she felt coming from the Water Spirit's soul seemed to be the equivalent of a gentle smirk. They apparently knew how the bond worked since a very long time, and the blonde concluded that it worked between the Spirits as well.

She looked around, seeing how the underwater scenery passed around them. She couldn't believe her eyes. They were heading to South, she could feel it, like she now somehow understood how currents work.

"Thank you for saving my life, Water Spirit." Said Elsa mentally, passing a hand along their neck.

She then stopped in hesitation.

"Wait, do you have a name? I owe you respect, and would like to name you properly." Though Elsa, and she did distinctively, to make sure that the Water Spirit got it. "I… My name is Elsa."

The horse moved its head in a 'Nice to meet you' greeting gesture.

"Humans call me Nokk." They answered.

"Nokk." Repeated Elsa, trying her best to think of a pronunciation that would fit the thought. She then realized that they probably were referring to the Northuldra, and reminded herself to ask them for the spelling of it once all of this would be over, and she would come back to the Sami village.

Well, if she made it alive…

Her feet clenched Nokk's body harder, and the horse slid through the water even faster, it that was even possible.

Elsa had admired her own magic many times, but water magic was just as impressive. It felt like she and Nokk were one and only, an arrow piercing through anything.

Soon she saw daylight as they went closer to the surface, and she couldn't believe too things: one, that time had passed this much since she got frozen in Ahtohallan, and second, as she suddenly emerged out of the water in an impressed gasp, that they had already reached Arendelle.

"Waoh." Was all Elsa could mutter when she finally retrieved air, her bubble of oxygen popping at the surface. Her hair was perfectly dry thanks to it, and in fact only her hands and legs were wet due to touching Nokk.

Soon, however, she got splashed by the top of the waves on which the Water Spirit galloped with astonishing ease.

"Well, of course you can do that." Thought Elsa with an amazed puff. "It's just as easy for you than it is for me to make it snow."

The horse neighed at her compliment, but she shook her head. "Wait, we should focus." Advised Elsa. "Let's stop this wave."

Nokk nodded, obeying the Fifth Spirit. Elsa turned her head and saw the gigantic tidal wave threatening them, right at their backs. Nokk was fast, but, well, not much faster than water itself.

"We can make it." Frowned Elsa, determined.

The horse was running at full speed to the castle and would reach its walls any time now. "Turn around when I tell you, okay?" Said Elsa, her eyes still dark with boldness staring at the tidal wave.

She figured that the best way to stop it in time would be to place herself right before the wall. "NOW!" She yelled, for the first time out loud, but with the terrible crashing sound of waves coming, it was unheard except for Nokk.

They turned around, and Elsa thought: "Together. You calm the water, and I block its force."

The Water Spirit didn't have to reply or nod, it was obvious. They arched, standing on their back legs, and Elsa crafted ice clasps to its body with her feet to not fall backwards. She rose her hands, synchronized with them, and in a blast of magic, the tidal wave got epically stopped.