A/N: This will be a very sad and emotional chapter for Elsa. That's all.
PS: I don't own Disney's Frozen series. If I did, obviously I think Anna would have more screen time than usual, as the movie isn't about Elsa all the time. As the HISHE Dub said, it's not always about Elsa! JK I (why is it so hard to say it?) like her. That's all. :)
Chapter 24: Stay with me
Alex's POV
It's a long drive from the college back to my home that I'm grateful for, glad to have escaped from the evil Peace Keeper Garrett back at the university. But after driving with a throbbing pain growing in my heart on my way back, I finally arrive back at the apartment, where I'm greeted by the sight of the area looking like a battle took place while I wasn't around, confirming my worst suspicions to be true.
"Shit! I have to check on Elsa!" I tell myself as I take off my seatbelt, only to cry out in pain as I clutch my heart with my hand. With a gulp, I notice my hand is looking different as my veins are becoming the color of black, making me worried as I feel myself growing weak while trying to get out. "Damn. It can't be what I think it is."
Trying to gather my strength to get out of the car, what gives me strength is seeing Elsa come into sight with the other spirits by her side, the 5th spirit appearing fine despite seeing the light bruises on her along with her spirit outfit dirtied from whatever battle she was in while I wasn't here. I manage to get out and limp towards her with a smile on her face, Elsa running to me while returning what I guess was the most joyful expression I have ever seen from her in my life.
"Alex, you're okay!" She exclaims happily as she runs to hug me, making me blush as I return the hug to the 5th spirit. Of course, I'm feeling some pain start to course in my arm, but I try to ignore it while I'm consoling Elsa. But I guess she realizes what she just did right now, letting go of me with her face showing that she's blushing from the fact that perhaps she showed a sign of affection to me. "Not that I was worried at all about you, of course."
I smirk at her with a slight roll of my eyes at her. "Of course. I couldn't leave you alone to fend for yourself in this world by yourself without me helping you. I would break my promise to you."
Elsa sighs with a shake of her head. "Now you ruined the mood like always." This causes me to grin, but it's replaced by a grimace of pain as the pain level I'm experiencing is slowly spiking in my chest. Elsa then notices my expression, the 5th spirit looking worried now. "Are you okay Alex? What's wrong?"
I try to tell her it's nothing, but my own body betrays me as I slightly groan from feeling my heart is acting like it's going to explode from the rapid beating that I am experiencing. "It's nothing to really worry about," I tell her since I don't want her to notice the pain I'm feeling, so I try to look down at the ground. But it only concerns the 5th spirit more as she lifts my face to look at her with her hand in a gentle manner, my own eyes looking into her scared blue eyes.
"Please tell me, Alex. It's me, you can trust me," she says in a soothing voice, the environment around us simply fading to nothing as it's the perfect moment to tell her that I love her. That I want to lean in and kiss her gently on her lips and protect her from all sorts of evil. And I was so sure that she was leaning in too, perhaps to kiss me in return in what I could consider being a romantic moment that I'm pretty sure could be Disney worthy.
And then the pain spikes beyond my imagination and what I thought could be the worst pain I have ever experienced.
"Aaagh!" I cry out while clutching my right arm as I fall to the ground in pain, hearing Elsa is lowering to where I am on the ground as she turns me to face her, her expression now looking scared and worried as she holds me in her arms. "It hurts! It hurts so much!"
"What hurts Alex? What's wrong? Answer me please!" I feel some tears drip on my face as I try to feel where the pain comes from, only to feel my body respond with a painful spike from all over. The pain only blurs my vision, but I make out to see Elsa is clearly shaking me to find out what is wrong with me and why I'm in pain while she is crying over me.
But even I can't figure out the reason, only knowing that I was inflicted by some sort of dark magic poisoning. I don't know how, but it may have been Garrett who did something to me before I defeated him. I try to gather the words to tell Elsa, but it's hard when you feel like thousands of needles are piercing all over your body at the same time.
"It's, gasp, dark magic, Elsa! I think, gah, one of the, mhmn, Peace Keepers struck me with it! Aah!" I tell her between my cries of pain, the poison in me causing intense pain as I clutch my chest in pain, the 5th spirit shaking me while crying for Nokk and the other 2 spirits to help me.
"Please Nokk! We have to get him inside!" I hear Elsa plead, the water horse approaching me as I feel Elsa try to pick me up, Gale lending assistance while I'm placed on the horse's back. Nokk then proceeds to carry me back to my apartment as I see Elsa run to my car, probably looking for my keys as I left them in there. But of course, my vision is blurring from the pain I'm feeling, so I can't tell for sure.
What happens next is something I don't even know for sure because the last thing I remember is me passing out from the pain that is erupting in my body, shrouding me in total darkness.
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3rd POV
"Come on, where are they?" Elsa spoke in quiet yet rushed tone as she looked in the car of Alex for his keys, finding them on the floor under his seat from being dropped. But that didn't matter, as she quickly grabbed them and rushed back to the apartment, where Nokk was waiting outside the door with the unconscious young man on the water spirit's back. "I found them, Alex!"
But there was no response from the young man, making Elsa worried about the worst thought that was in her mind. But the check of his neck confirmed that he was still alive, despite his weak pulse showing he was on the bridge between life and death. She hurriedly opened the door, Nokk entering the place to find the sofa in the living room, helping the 5th spirit lower the unconscious Alex onto the sofa as he moaned in pain.
Upon checking his body by checking his arms, what Elsa found horrified her, as his veins showed signs of dark magic flowing through them, the slight touch of them even burning her fingers as she tried to inspect them. She never really dealt with having someone inflicted by some sort of dark magic, but she remembered from her childhood on Halloween days when her father told her and Anna stories of people being inflicted by evil magic by witches and stuff that caused them to be severely sickened despite being healthy.
Of course, those were merely fairy tales, and this was real life for her now. This person that she cared about was suffering from some sort of dark magic spell, and she didn't know how to cure it. Not only that, but it also appeared that whatever was inflicting him was causing him an intense fever and chills, his body dropping to that of ice-cold even colder than what her own powers produced.
With an idea, she tried to see if she could absorb the coldness into herself, but nothing happened. He continued to grow colder, and no matter what she did to try to rid of the dark magic in him, it didn't work. Not even her own tears she was shedding for him to stay with her was working, the 5th spirit doing whatever she could from grabbing some warm blankets to warm him up to even slapping him as if it could awake the young man afflicted by the invisible torment coursing through him.
"Alex, please stay with me," she sobbed over him, Nokk, Bruni, and Gale watching from the kitchen with sadness detected in them, the 5th spirit remembering when Anna froze years ago after sacrificing herself to protect Elsa from Hans. "Don't do this to me, please. I need you."
But the only response was the shaking from Alex as he tossed and turned in pain, groaning while still being unconscious. She didn't know what he was going through right now, but it looked terrible as she could see his expression to be grimacing and in pain. The only thing that Elsa could do for Alex at the moment was to hope that he wouldn't pass away from this spell, as it seemed to be designed to simply torment the man into a passage of pain and torment.
With intent hope, she turned to the spirits by her side, her eyes tearful with her sobbing making her speech sound desperate and stammered. "Is there any way we can help him?"
It was a moment of silence, but they shook their heads with sadness. Nokk came forward to the 5th spirit, who was over Alex with tears streaming down her face, and examined him closely, snorting angrily at the sight of the man's veins coursing with dark fluids that were nothing other than dark magic itself.
"It's something that I've seen before, Elsa," Nokk spoke mentally to the 5th spirit, Elsa using her sleeve from her spirit outfit to wipe away her tears, "But something long before you became the 5th spirit. It looks like the same thing that used to plague the Northuldrans and Arendellians around the time of your grandfather that was the reason why they ceased their hostility towards each other that would lead to the construction of the dam."
"What are you talking about Nokk?" Elsa asked the water spirit mentally, the horse nuzzling the young man's arm to the side to reveal a hidden needle carefully pricked in his elbow. The 5th spirit saw it and carefully pulled it out from Alex's elbow, but released it with a cry of pain as it sizzled against her own skin and fell to the floor before disappearing into wisps of smoke. The 5th spirit examined her fingers that she had touched the needle with, finding them red from touching the needle. "What was that thing?"
"That, Elsa," Gale chirped in, "is a spell similar to the one we saw back in the Enchanted Forest many years ago. One that inflicted the Arendellians and Northuldrans with a mysterious illness that caused people to become ice cold and inflicted with torments in their dreams. Not only that, but it causes an intense fever from what the person is experiencing in the nightmares caused by the spell. No doubt Alex is already experiencing nightmares caused by this cursed spell."
"Is there any way we can free Alex from this spell?" Elsa asked her fellow spirits while healing her fingers, looking back at the young man who was clearly growing worse in his condition by his pale appearance and burning fever. "There must be something that I… we can do to help him."
Nokk glanced at the other two spirits, Gale and Bruni giving a slight nod, before Nokk turned to Elsa with a snort. "There is a way, but unfortunately it was back in our dimension as there was a person who specialized in this stuff and actually helped the Northuldrans and Arendellians be cured from this curse. However, I don't see a way to bring that person here to our dimension or even how to find that person, as we never learned of the elder woman after she broke the curse the 1st time."
Elsa felt her hopes die for a mere moment before Gale refueled her hopes. "However, mistress Elsa, we did feel the similar energy the lady had given off somewhere in this dimension around here before we had arrived at Alex's place. It could be possible there is someone in this dimension that could help break the curse that Alex is currently in."
The 5th spirit felt hopeful in this situation. "Could the person really help Alex?" She asked, earning her nods from the 3 other spirits. "Let's go find this person and hope they can break this curse that Alex is in."
Nokk stepped forward and, with a glance at Alex, gave a prideful neighing sound. "I shall help you Elsa. If you truly care about breaking the curse that Alex is under, then I too shall care as well."
Bruni and Gale came forward as well. "We shall help too by protecting Alex while Nokk takes you to where this sorcerer or sorceress lives, as we don't know what the person looks like but it is for certain that they have the power to break this curse for good."
With a slight nod and wiping away more tears with her sleeve, Elsa came by Alex's side again, caressing his face and creating an ice block to place on his burning forehead to cool down the fever he was feeling. With tears still coming to her eyes, she spoke in hopes that he could still listen even while being unconscious.
"Alex, I'm going to get help for you now. Wherever you are right now, remember that you have people that care for you and need you here. Please don't leave and don't give up. Think of your younger sister Emily. She needs you. I need you. Please, stay with me."
Elsa then leaned in and placed a soft kiss on his forehead, Alex still being unconscious as he tossed and turned with groans of pain with his body still being ice cold. With a wipe of her eyes using her dress sleeve, she got up and gave a nod to Nokk, the horse knowing to go wait outside as she began to follow behind. Before she left, she went to Gale and Bruni, the two little spirits looking at the 5th spirit with concerned looks.
"Please make sure he stays well while I find help for him," she asked the duo, Bruni giving a nod while Gale chirped in support. "I can't thank you enough for being here. I don't know what I would do without you guys to help me."
"We understand Elsa," Bruni spoke mentally, his tongue flicking his eye, "It's hard to see someone you love in pain. Now go, for it may be too late when you get back."
With a nod, she ran out the door and leaped over the balcony while landing on Nokk's back, the water horse running off to the direction to where the mystery healer was while still making sure to remain out of sight to not alert the public of their existence. But while the water spirit was galloping off to the location of the healer, some words still stuck in Elsa's mind while she rode on Nokk to find the person to help her friend.
It's hard to see someone you love in pain…
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Somewhere off the sea near the Seven Isles…
??? POV
"So what is the reason you have come to the Seven Isles?" The trade representative of Han's home kingdom asked the man in front of him, the man in the dark robes looking around the kingdom as if he was observing the strengths and weaknesses with an emotionless expression.
"Well," the man said while twirling his finger in his light blue spiky hair, "I thought I would come by and see the grandiose appearance of the Seven Isles that everyone knows about, and perhaps trade some items for some things I need." He then looked at the representative of the Seven Isles, the man looking strangely at him. "Say, you wouldn't have any… old magical relics around here that are supposedly good luck charms, right?"
The representative was confused. "Why exactly are you asking that, if I may ask?"
The man in the dark robes then smirked, giving a slight shrug before once again observing the kingdom, some dark thoughts filling his mind as he dreamed of the day that he was waiting for ever since he broke away from the Organization, waiting for his chance for surpass Xehanort once and for all.
"Nothing. Just out of curiosity."
Just then, a man in some robes came forward and bowed slightly to the man in the dark robes. "We are ready sir. Darius awaits you at the Fortress."
With a slight nod, the man in the dark robes bade his farewell to the representative, who didn't have enough time to react to the man flicking a dark orb at the man to turn him into a bug, the little insect scurrying away before being smashed by the man's boot. The man in the dark robes then reached to grab the little relic that had fallen to the ground, crushing it with his gloved hands before muttering something to himself.
"If there is one thing that I hate," the Superior said, "is the mere thought of light magic. Soon, only pain and darkness will remain and no one will ever remember these worlds anymore. Soon, my plan will be a reality."
A/N: So… the Superior is finally revealed through a teaser. Of course, the powers the main villain contains is very dangerous and not even Elsa is strong enough alone to confront him. But for now, she is focused on finding this mystery healer in the real world to help Alex be freed of the curse he is in. But that will be chapter 26, at best.
Anywho, once again, thanks to stopping by to read this new chapter. If you wouldn't mind, drop a review (at least 2-3 per chapter works) on what you thought for this chapter. If you're new, thanks for reading and liking this story if you favorited/followed it. If it weren't for you guys, well, I probably would have just ended up doing some one shots fanfics. Perhaps I may end up doing one, but I'm stuck between Helsa and ElsaMaren shorts.
Welp, the time is running short, so thanks once again for stopping by. The next chapter should drop by in the next couple of days, probably around Saturday to Sunday at best. Also, would you prefer a Helsa short or Honeymaren x Elsa short? Won't be M rated, as I don't dig the thought of Elsa doing intercourse since she is too pure for that (seriously who does that stuff SMH). This is weird now so I'm out now. Peace. :)