A/N: So… lately… I've been writing some fanfics that I want to post, and then I experience an episode of the author's block. Hopefully, I will find the motivation to finish writing short stories by writing this chapter. Anyways, here is the new chapter.

PS: I don't own Disney's Frozen series. If I did, totally but surely, there would be a collab between Inside Out and Frozen to see how the emotions are like in Elsa so we could know how she deals with her emotions so well. :)

Chapter 22: Fight against fate

Back at the university…

Alex's POV

Zap!

It's a close beam of dark magic that I barely missed that was flying towards me as I ducked behind a desk, taking cover from the man that was currently trying to kill me. Glancing over, I managed to get a glimpse of his face before another streak of dark magic came flying my way, ducking under the cover of the desk to not get hit.

You ought to think that someone would have heard the commotion and checked what was happening, but at the moment, I was trapped in this room with this crazy freakshow under a dark spell he placed us under. Not only does it prevent me from escaping, but no sounds can escape the room as well, thus giving this bad guy the opportunity to strike fear in me and also try to eliminate me with the objective of going after Elsa when he was done with his mission.

Course, I wasn't afraid of the robed man as I fought the Heartless, but I was merely annoyed by this encounter that I didn't have time to prepare for. Normally, I would have tried to fight back, but when someone shoots at you with dark magic beams, you can't really do much except wait for the person to get in close contact. Which I was waiting for, but this Garrett person was obviously smarter than he looked, being at a fair distance while still having the advantage by being close enough to get a good hit on me.

Now, I was taking cover behind a desk, my vision blurring a bit before I shake my head, my vision clearing up as I look around for something to defend myself with, but there's nothing. I groan in anger as I bang my head against the desk cover, hearing Garrett chuckle in an evil manner at me. Deciding to confront him verbally, I spoke out loud to him. "What's so funny? You enjoy blasting people with dark magic?"

I can't see what Garrett is doing, but in the far distance on the other side of the room, I see a fire extinguisher on the wall, an idea coming to my mind on how to escape. "Not necessarily mate. It ain't the thought of blasting you away from existence, but the thought of how much you remind me of meself."

"How's that?" I reply, slowing crawling behind the desk row that is currently giving me cover from the dark-robed figure. "Last time I checked, you and I have nothing in common."

I hear Garrett chuckle at me. "See man, that's where yer wrong. I think you and I ain't so different from each other. After all, we've both lost people precious to us while society did nothing to help our pain."

The memory of my little brother Erick floods my head before I shake it off, my vision once again becoming blurry as I try to gain control of my emotions. "How's that? You don't know a thing about me, and I, in my life as I recalled, don't know a thing about you except the fact that you're an evil person trying to kill people that use magic for good. And I won't let that happen to anyone while I'm around."

"Please mate," I hear Garrett reply as I glance over real quick to see him moving around the room to find me, "I find it hard to believe that a guy like yourself will protect a person that is even close to what the people in this time call a goddess. For all I know, she and her entire family are damned monsters that deserve to perish from life altogether."

"And for what reason exactly?" I call out loud to him, glancing to see Garrett stopping in his tracks before I see that he stops levitating and drops to the ground, taking a chair and sitting on it to then reply back to me.

"It all started off with her grandfather, King Runeard of Arendelle. Ah, how the people loved him and praised him for being a good king and even being the role model of a true monarch, but you and I know he wasn't even close to being a good king. Or am I wrong mate?"

My thoughts go back to Frozen 2 when Elsa had found out that her grandfather started the war with the Northuldrans by slaying the chief. But it was a shocker for me to see her hurt by this truth, one of the reasons why I tried my hardest to protect Elsa while she was here in this timeline dimension so she would never have to go through that sort of experience again. "What's your point?"

Garrett chuckles at my reply while I still stay hidden, crawling slowly to the fire extinguisher in hopes of acquiring it. "Well, what if I told you that the Northuldran chief, before he died, had family members that cared about him?"

This makes me pause in my tracks, as I try to connect the pieces together that this man is telling me about. "Okay. So what is exactly your point?"

The next words send chills down my spine.

"Well mate, I'm the son of the Northuldran chief that Elsa's grandfather cold-heartedly murdered the day the Enchanted Forest was shut off from the world."

I stop in my tracks, his words entering my mind as I was shocked. This guy, this evil person that was bent on killing the spirits of the Enchanted Forest for who knows what reason, was Northuldran? It didn't make sense to me. I decided to confront the villain. "Oh really? And you expect me to believe that?"

I heard Garrett chuckle evilly as I saw the desk beside me flip to the side, making my heart race as it was really close by my side. Had it been there, no doubt the dark magic would have hurt me really bad. "I don't expect it mate. After all, you probably are wondering why I would try to kill the spirits that protect the forest where my people live in, eh? Why Disney never mentioned this in the movie itself?"

I heard him get up from the chair, seeing him move to the board in the front of the room through a crack between the flipped over desks as I continued to inch over to the fallen over fire extinguisher. "Well mate," Garrett continued to speak out loud, "Disney only decided to tell the story they wanted people to hear, but they never really told the whole true story."

"And what's that?" I replied in a sarcastic tone, before dodging a blast of dark magic that strikes the desk I was behind barely a few seconds ago. "That supposedly some guy who claims to be the son of the Northuldran chief that King Runeard did kill is literally betraying his own people since he's on a road of revenge for who knows what evil reason?"

"Well, perhaps I am," I heard Garrett reply back to me, "But ever since the day I lost my father and no one did anything to avenge him, I swore to avenge my father myself, and the opportunity came one day when I was trapped in the Enchanted Forest before the 5th spirit freed it, under the help of the Superior. He showed me what was my purpose in life was to be, and that was to eliminate the forces of magic my people relied on so much that in the end turned against us at the end."

I hear him then snicker at me in a taunting way. "Sure, you may think my backstory is confusing, but let's talk about your story, Alex. Let's face it, you think that when you lost your little brother to those thugs that tried to rob you and the justice system did nothing to avenge him, that the idea of avenging him didn't come to thought? Or perhaps the anger and the guilt that didn't come along to haunt you wasn't tempting enough to resist it?"

My hands clench into fists, the anger coming to mind as I recall how my life was after Erick died protecting me from death itself. And how afterward, the only thing I recalled was that I was crying and hugging his lifeless body after I had blacked out for no reason. My vision starts to blur again, a headache coming to mind as I grip my forehead in pain as I try to resist the emotions that want to dominate me. "Stop."

"Or," I hear Garrett taunt me, "Is the thought of your family abandoning you with no emotional help or even showing you love when they fell into depression? And how you had to deal with your classmates calling you, what did they use to call you, the cold-hearted freak with no heart? Or the fact that you even at some point in life considered the option of ending your life because you felt like you had no purpose in life?"

"Please stop." The headache is increasing in my head as I feel tears come to my eyes, my hands grabbing my head as I try to resist the strong feelings flooding my soul.

"Let's face it, Alex. You're not good enough in life and you certainly don't need to fight for this realm. And you don't need to fight for the 5th spirit and her friends and family. Like come on, why did you decide to help her in the 1st place? Was the idea of being useful for something in life that spurred you? Or did you seriously hope that by protecting Elsa, you could find your own purpose to give you a reason to live in this real cold magicless world that treats people like us as if we were nothing?"

I try to ignore him, going for the fire extinguisher that is now close to me. But before I can, the desk I was hiding behind suddenly flings at me, hitting me full on as I cry out in pain from the full force of the impact. Groaning from the headache and the pain that is flaring in my abdomen, I try to get up, only to look up to see Garrett standing over me with an evil grin, holding his hand over me as I see a dark shadow orb form in his hand that is obviously meant to end my life.

"You know Alex, I can offer you a purpose in life. Just simply join us Peace Keepers and hand over Elsa and the rest of the spirits to us. Perhaps we may spare your family as well if you do. If not, well, I suppose you will simply let them down when they perish from the world after the Superior releases the "Great Beast" upon the realms of magic and this real world. So what will it be, dear child?"

There's only one answer to choose from at this point for me. "I rather die than betray Elsa for you people. At least I won't go down knowing I did something unforgivable in life."

I see the man chuckle, the dark orb readying to fire at me to finish me off. "It's a shame really. Well, alright then. I respect your foolish decision, Alex. But it's going to be a great pleasure to kill Elsa and your little sister Emily after I'm done with you. And it will be the best feeling ever to know that I was successful in avenging my father when I have finished off the spirits of the Enchanted Forest along with the rest of Arendelle."

xxx

Promise you won't ever give up…

The rain simply fell upon us two, holding his frail body with the crutches nearby. I begged him to stay with me, that help was coming for him. But we knew better, and yet I refused fate. I didn't know what I would do without him. But the only thing Erick spoke to me before he left this world was something that I tried to cling on to for the sake of never-failing him again.

Promise me, that you'll never give up…

xxx

What was I doing?

I'm about to fail in my promise to protect Elsa from the Peace Keepers. I'm about to repeat the events in my life again. I'm about to relive the experience again. I'm about to relive the painful experience again. I'm about to fail to protect the person that is giving me a reason to live.

No.

No!

NO!

I won't settle for this. I won't give up easily. I will fight back until I get her back home. I try to look around for something that I need in this situation, and then I see it in range.

Perfect.

Garrett obviously does a taunt that I suppose I have a clever answer for. "Any last words you want me to pass on to Elsa before I kill you?"

I look up at him with a smirk. "Yeah."

"And what is it?" He grins evilly at me.

"Let it Go is cringy."

He looks confused at what I just said. "What?... Argh!"

In the few seconds of him being distracted, I grabbed the pen that was in range for me to grab, and stab it right onto his toe. It doesn't go through, but it was pointy enough to cause him to fall back in pain as he grabbed his foot in pain, the dark orb in his hand fading to nothing as the robed man fell onto the floor, cursing in pain. "Dammit! Argh! My foot! Damn you, Alex!"

Course, he tries to see where I went, only for the last thing that he sees is the fire extinguisher to come his way towards his face, smacking him dead on his head to knock him out cold. I hit him again on his head to ensure he stays knocked out, but not enough to kill him. As I try to catch my breath, I drop the fire extinguisher from my hand, crouching to check that the man has a pulse. Which, thank God, he does have one as I don't want to kill a person that is trying to kill me, even if it would be the most logical thing to do in this situation.

After checking his vitals, I check him to see that if his claim was true, seeing his looks to be that close to a Northuldran tribe member, though I notice he's around the age of Elsa's father, perhaps older than Agnarr himself before he died along with Iduna in the shipwreck. Though the thought of why a Northuldran would turn against his own people to wipe away the force of magic through evil means of magic.

After searching Garrett robes, I find a pair of green crystals in his pockets, which look strange to me as they seem like the ones that Elsa told me what got her in this dimension in the 1st place. But I would have to check with someone that would be an expert on magic things to confirm that these crystals are dimension traveling things before I use them to send Elsa back along with the rest of the spirits to her own timeline dimension. I decided to pocket them as I notice the spell around the room to disappear around us, meaning I can leave for home as I'm no longer trapped here.

But first, there's something to do with this Garrett guy.

Getting up and stretching my limbs, I grab Garrett and drag him over to the fire alarm thing, breaking the glass and setting it off with his hands as he's currently unconscious. The alarm starts blaring as I run out of the classroom, making sure that I'm not caught on the cameras leaving the place as I run to the elevator that's close by me. I jump in as the doors barely closed on time, seeing however some security guards run to the classroom where I had an encounter with Garrett that I won out of luck. Thankfully, the truth can sometimes help in serious situations.

"What floor you going to?"

I then notice there's a female student who's looking at me weirdly, as I'm currently standing there without pushing a button while having some bruises on me, some cuts on my face that thankfully aren't bad enough to ruin my looks. But I'm not in the mood to try to impress girls, so I just push the button to the garage floor that the car is parked on so I can just hurry along to see if Elsa is alright.

After all, if this Garrett guy came after me, what's to say they won't go after the spirits of the Enchanted Forest?

The ride goes along quietly, with the student getting off at her floor, leaving me alone in the elevator to wonder about the events that have happened to me. Obviously, Garrett was from the Frozen dimension, yet seemed to be willing to kill people from his own dimension that even included his own people. Were the Peace Keepers people from the Disney worlds that had a grudge against the Disney characters for a specific reason? Not only that, what was this "Great Beast" that Garrett mentioned to me? But the one that I was thinking about was one that bothered me a lot.

"Who is this Superior?"

It would be a mystery that I had to find out about.

A/N: Welp, this chapter came along faster than expected. And again, I don't keep to the idealist that I wrote for myself on how this chapter would come along. Perhaps, I just need to rewrite my list again so I can stick with it. But I assure you, next chapter will have Elsa confront Hans while Yerna spies on them with malicious intent for both of them. Maybe the two will have to put aside their hard feelings for each other to fight what is coming for them. But, of course, they still won't like each other afterward.

Anyways, leave a review on what you thought of this chapter. Positive things help me brainstorm funny things and ideas on what to write about for the next chapter, as well as epic things to include for the story. I'm thinking of what to include for the shock reveal in the story, but that's later on. Therefore, thanks for tuning in, and I'm signing out for now. Expect the next chapter by next week. Peace! :)

Also, this chapter came earlier for the courtesy that today is my bday, meaning I'm 20 now. That's all folks!