Chapter 2

120 years later….

Throughout the years, Queen Rosa and her husband passed away due to their age leaving no other heir responsible for the continuation of their monarchy. The trolls lived on their own peacefully together, until one year later after the death of the elder kings the day came, which was in honor to the trolls and humans, that passed away during the war between them and the two slaves, which had been possessed by the Snow Queen and the Fire Demon. The harmony in the kingdom slowly died out and the trolls became paranoid for not being able to handle the situation and started a fight. Most of the trolls passed away due to their war inside their hometown, others ran away and weren't seen by the others. The place never was the same and became a ghost town with no one more, that lived there.

Natives found that place one day and told the world about it and with the years it got more acknowledged by other people, which got interested to visit the place. Knowing that place made profit, a business bought the place and turned it into a tourist attraction, even turning the palace into a museum and secure the remaining tombs and caves. The lake Gao had been frozen since the night the Snow Queen and the Fire Demon were defeated, even with the climate change the ice didn't seem to melt, at least according to several fonts. Alfida's family never made it to see her again, after what happened, and moved on with their lives until their final days and Rollan's family wasn't aware of his current life state or the eventual ending of his life due to mistake caused by him mostly.

On a specific week, the Martinic teenage blogger Alya Césaire made a short reportage for her page about the place and connected it on her ladyblog, which caught the attention of Gabriel Agreste, which also decided to analyze the topic deeply, but the main reason wasn't because of the location. It had something to do with the powers, which used to belong to the Snow Queen and the Fire Demon….

In the evening after sunset, Gabriel Agreste sat inside a private helicopter looking out of the window at the hills they were passing over, then leaned his hand on the window and placed his forehead under it to take a look at the place, where he spotted a cliff. Down was a large water canal with a few bridges having little boats attached on it and at the end of the river was a palace, right followed by the rest of the river that followed into a lake.

A phone began to ring, then Gabriel shove his hand into his jacket's pocket to take out his smartphone then attended it.

„Nathalie?"

„Mr. Agreste, we're here behind the Omana cave waiting. Everything is clear,"

„Sure, we will be there in a minute," Responded Gabriel, then turned off his call and looked at the pilot. „You've heard it,"

„Yes, Mr. Agreste. I will just need to check on the landing space,"

„I believe there is plenty enough space," Gabriel commented earning a nod from the pilot, which continued the flight across the river, passing over the kingdom and spotted a large, pointy monument, and down at the end stood Nathalie Sancoeur along with a short man, which wore a dark-brown coat. The helicopter descends down, adjusting its tail to the bridge landing carefully on the ground, and turned the engine off, leaving the rotor blades to keep spinning until it slowed down. Gabriel got out of the helicopter and made his way towards Nathalie and the monk.

„Good you could make it here," Gabriel began making the man grin a little sheepishly.

„Well, what can I say. I had no choice," The man commented a little anxious about the two, then Gabriel laughed and rolled his eyes at Nathalie, which took out her tablet and opened up a page on the internet and showed a video, where a foreign journalist stood reporting on the news channel.

„Elsa Hagen here reporting for NorskTV. Tourists have made a strange discovery. As you see I'm standing on ice and above us, you see a bridge, which leads to a forbidden temple and back to the ruins of the Omana cave. If Carl moves the camera for 140° to this side, we see this strange, stone-made creature with half of its head looking out of the ice. Some theorists believe this is a construction, which was used as an instrument to fix houses around this place or similar. Other analyzed led to it to be a large statue built and the most recent theory was confirmed a while ago by our Venezuelan archaeologist Tadeo Sanchez, who discovered an ancient book with a stenography-like font, and most of the information he got out of that book was, that eventually that stone monster down there was an actual monster – a so-called fire demon. According to this legend, there's an artifact called the Wishing Stone, which possesses the powers of the fire demon and another spirit they call the Snow Queen. By waking it up, their spirits are freed and penetrated into the troublemaker's bodies and until the next 24 hours, the users will become their spirits slaves and turn into them….."

Nathalie paused the video, then Gabriel looked at the monk, which made his way to the bridge and took a look down at the frozen lake to encounter the head's monster, which was looking out of the frozen lake.

„I've got a copy of that book and according to it, inside the monsters, we're able to obtain their magic by retrieving their heart," Gabriel explained earning a nod from the monk.

„And you want me to get there and find it?"

„Not exactly, just how to get there. If you didn't realize it….the lake is frozen,"

„Oh well, this is going to be a big problem. We would need something to break the ice and I don't think any of us has taken anything….or I'm not sure even if you had, hitting on it with a pick for hours….that is impossible and you would lose your mind," Commented the monk.

„If you say so, think about another way. I'm not leaving without them," Gabriel ordered making the monk sigh and look down at the lake, then looked around for anything, that could help them out.

„I don't think we're going anywhere like this," Nathalie commented earning a nod from the blonde. „We may need a plan B,"

„I believe you're right and I think I already have one," Gabriel commented with a smirk, then looked at the helicopter pilot, which was texting on his smartphone while waiting.

About two hours later, the monk stood on the edge of the cliff, that led to the lake and pushed down stones with his feet at the ice, but none of the stones were heavy enough to even make a scratch on the surface

„Mr. Agreste, I don't think we're going anywhere like this. We need to get something bigger or harder. I'm not sure if this idea works, but what about throwing dynamite down there? Anything alike?" Questioned the monk climbing up at the road to see the surface was empty, no sign of the helicopter or any human being. „What a fool I am. I was so focused on trying to break the ice, that I didn't even notice that their helicopter left!" Complained the monk, then from behind the slink monument jumped out an Autobot-inspired helicopter and the cockpit was in the middle, where Hawk Moth sat along with the pilot, which was akumatized.

„Hawk Moth?" The monk spoke surprised, then watched the helicopter-themed akuma grab the monk and place him on the wall of the bridge.

„Watch and learn," The pilot said, then he slid down the cliff and crashed with its feet into the ice causing it to break.

„Good job, Autochopper! Now dive," Hawk Moth ordered watching the pilot move his hand to a small smartphone, which was in the middle of the dashboard and pressed on the submarine symbol, then the Autobot its arms and legs got together forming an oval so that the cockpit and the middle part of the body would stay in front, then the pilot moved carefully under the ice. Hawk Moth looked around for anything suspicious, then the pilot pointed in front at the stone monster and Hawk Moth spun with his finger earning a nod from the pilot, which turned right to approach the chest of the stone.

„Activate the X-ray," Ordered Hawk Moth watching the pilot press a lens icon on the smartphone and type down the word to look for that option, then pressed on the X letter and their screen turned green and showed a large black sphere, which built the front of the monster and in the middle was a red dot, tagging a mysterious object. „I think we found something," Hawk Moth commented, then the pilot tapped on the smartphone to search through the available options, then pressed on the vacuum icon and drill icon at the same time activating both options, seeing from above the submarine's head a large pipe look out, while under the submarine a drill came out, already rotating, then the pilot moved carefully against the chest of the monster boring a hole on it. After several minutes of drilling, the pilot stopped and removed the utensils back and squinted his eyes to see, if he would see the heart they were looking for. Hawk Moth as well tried to see, if he could spot the object and turned on the x-ray again to see the heart was still there, then picked the glass again and entered the word gripping arm, then watched a small robot hand leave the front nose of the cockpit, then the pilot pushed the steering wheel back and guided the hand through the hole. Hawk Moth turned on the x-ray option, so they could see the hand in the scan get closer to the heart and as it was right by it, the pilot pressed the wheel against the dashboard watching the hand close and retrieve back to the helicopter, making Hawk Moth smile as he saw the heart, which was stuck inside a square-formed, frozen liquid.

„Well done, now we need to find the one of the Snow Queen," Stated Hawk Moth, then the submarine moved along slowly around the monster watching the fullscreen in back, with Hawk Moth looking neutral as they didn't find anything interesting yet. Hawk Moth squinted his eyes and grabbed the pilot on his hands and pointed at the screen, where they spotted a larger object on the screen, which looked like the body of someone.

„I'm not sure," Hawk Moth commented. „Could it be, that this is the person, that lost his soul to the fire demon?"

„I don't know," Responded the pilot, then Hawk Moth shrugged his shoulders and pointed further, so the pilot would understand his command and swim through the water around the creature, then near the stone demon's neck they encountered near the wall a fully frozen woman, that held on her hand a frozen pole hammer and the other and was held by a strange creature, which as well was frozen.

„I think, that's her," Hawk Moth commented, then the pilot searched on his smartphone for an option to and passed by the option, which contained torpedos and accidentally pressed it shrieking Hawk Moth, which clicked on a cross on the side of the smartphone and heard the launch of the torpedo and a loud bang as it hit something. Hawk Moth and the pilot looked around, then Hawk Moth sighed as he saw the torpedo was launched by the back of their submarine and it had hit the stone monster.

„What a luck," Hawk Moth commented passing his hand in front of his forehead, then the pilot pointed at the net option and earned a nod from the supervillain, which watched the akumatized pilot press the button, so the submarine would throw a net from above the roof watching it hit the ice, then the net sank down, making Hawk Moth grunt.

„Okay I take the hand from before," The pilot said activating the robot hand on the icon, then used his steering wheel to pick up the Snow Queen statue by the pole hammer, then he pulled them back slowly.

„Wait a minute, where did the heart of the fire demon go?" Asked Hawk Moth, then the pilot pondered about it and shrugged his shoulders.

„Isn't there some sort of inventory inside this?" Questioned the pilot, then Hawk Moth pressed on the smartphone and searched for the options, then typed down the option of the robot hand to encounter a small trivia about it.

„Open the glove compartment of your cockpit, press the white button, which will pull back the co-driver seat back and show the inventory. Warning, transforming into something else may destroy your content inside the inventory," Read Hawk Moth, then he opened the compartment to look for the button, which he clicked, then he shrieked as his seat slid back and a gap opened up, where he found the demon's heart.

„Perfect!" Hawk Moth commented taking out the heart, followed by the door close immediately. Hawk Moth glanced out of the window to see the hand pull the body of the Snow Queen along with the rest into the submarine, then the pilot tried to correct and try to pull her along with the other object into the submarine. Hawk Moth looked back at the destroyed stone monster and widened his eyes as he spotted a young teenage boy sink into the deep, making Hawk Moth drop his mouth.

„Got them!" Mentioned the pilot, then Hawk Moth pointed to the back of their submarine.

„There's a human drowning right now!," Hawk Moth warned, then the pilot turned the submarine around to follow the boy, Hawk Moth had spotted.

„We almost have him!" Warned the pilot, then he activated again the robot arm, making Hawk Moth furrow his eyebrows at his idea, then shrieked as the boy disappeared causing inside the submarine a strange sound, then the pilot moved the steering wheel up to return to the surface breaking another side of the ice again and lean with their nose against the cliff.

„Oh my gosh!" Hawk Moth panted in shock at how fast the pilot made it out of the water, then he opened up the door under his feet again to see the water running out of the inventory to encounter the frozen bodies and the raven-haired boy he encountered inside the lake. Someone whistled from the outside and Hawk Moth looked at the outside to spot his assistant Nathalie along with the monk, which tried to pull out one of the frozen beings.

After a while, later the Autobot-themed villain carried all up at the top and Hawk Moth deakumatized his pilot and turned back into Gabriel Agreste before the pilot would notice anything.

„What happened?" Asked the pilot sitting inside his helicopter, then he looked out to see Gabriel and the monk around the frozen statue, while Nathalie was around the brown-dressed teenager. The woman leaned her hand on his arm to check his pulse, then began to do the chest compressions on him, earning Gabriel's attention.

„What are you doing?" Asked Gabriel surprised at her behavior.

„CPR. He's got a pulse,"

„He's been in there for over 100 years. Only a miracle would bring him alive,"

„Where exactly did you found him?" Asked Nathalie while doing the chest compressions. „His body isn't cold as the ice,"

„For real?" Asked Gabriel placing his hand on the boy's body, then got curious. „Either it was because of the torpedo or the stone monster was still hot, when we accidentally blew it up,"

„He must be unconscious or in a coma" Nathalie mentioned, then the pilot came out and went down next to the two.

„This might be odd right now, but I felt like something happened and I don't remember anything," The pilot mentioned, then Gabriel patted the man on his back.

„You found them before on the surface of the ice and saved them," Gabriel made up making the pilot widen his eyes in surprise. „If you don't mind, would you perform CPR while Nathalie and I take care of the ones inside the ice,"

„I'm going to take the defibrillator and give it a try," The pilot mentioned. „Are you sure, we shouldn't call someone?"

„We've done it, don't worry," Gabriel made up earning a nod from the pilot, which went back to the helicopter to look for the device. „Okay, the last heart must be in here in the body of the Snow Queen," Pointed Gabriel out making the monk nod and take out from his pocket an hankie and placed it on the frozen pole hammer, then went to the cliff to take a stone and walked toward Nathalie and Gabriel.

„Has some of you got a knife?" Questioned the monk, then Gabriel walked to the helicopter and brought a swiss army knife and handed it out to the monk, which looked at it bewildered, then tried to pull out a knife, but he didn't seem to have success with it, then Gabriel rolled his eyes and stole it from the monk to take the knife out for the monk.

„Oh thank you," The monk replied, then went down on his knees and smacked with the stone on the knife hard seeing small sparks on the metal, slowly causing a little fire to start on the tissue. The monk watched the fire melt after a minute the ice on the pole hammer, then the monk picked with the knife the burning textile and held it over the Snow Queen.

Gabriel removed his scarf, approaching it to the fire, and held it close to the body of the Snow Queen seeing it melt. Gabriel smirked as their plan was going well.

„I think I can see there something," Nathalie commented, then the Monk moved the tissue aside and moved it down as he noticed the light-colored heart in the first shell of the chest of the Snow Queen. „Good," Commented Nathalie watching the monk take the heart out, then Nathalie grabbed it to show it to her boss.

„Finally," Gabriel spoke taking it into the helicopter to store it into a coolbox, where the other heart had been stored. Gabriel closed the cover and looked out to see Nathalie and the monk still melting the body of the Snow Queen to see under the villain another body show up, then he approached the duo to see the face of the villain make and under it was the face of a younger teenage girl.

„I….I've seen this face somewhere," The monk mentioned. „That's the….girl, that defeated the Snow Queen according to the legends," Stammered the monk shocked. „It….it looks exactly like her!"

„Okay and now?" Nathalie asked looking up at Gabriel, which shrugged his shoulders.

„I don't know, they're not part of my plans," Mentioned Gabriel, then he heard an automated voice and looked back at the pilot, which had pulled over the pullover and jacket aside from the boy, so he could fix the suction cup on the body of the boy.

„What is your plan, if I may ask?" The monk asked. „For some reason, you brought me here, didn't ya?"

„You're one of those, that know how to fix miraculouses, right?" Asked Gabriel beneath the ear of the monk, which nodded.
„Yeah,"

„According to the legend of trolls I've read, the one I mentioned a while ago the power of fire and ice are the strongest ones in their section. I read that there's a possibility to use this power in a miraculous if the translation was correct,"

„Sure, I will just need two objects and certain ingredients. Shouldn't be a problem,"

„I hope so or I make sure you won't see the light of the day again," Gabriel stated seriously, making the monk gulp.

„And what sort of objects does he need?" Asked Nathalie quiet, then her boss looked down at the monk, which moved his finger up and took away from the girl's head her wreath, then looked at the raven-haired boy for anything he could use and unlocked the belt with the R initial and removed it.

„This shall do it," The monk commented, then Nathalie accompanied the monk away.

„I will go back with him and see, what we will do," Nathalie announced earning a nod from Gabriel, then Gabriel looked at the hankie, which lied over the pole hammer near the other frozen creature. Gabriel heard the sirene of the defibrillator, then looked at the body of the boy jerk, after he received a shock and the pilot began to do the chest compressions on the boy. Gabriel's smartphone rang, then he picked it up to hear it was his assistant.

„Sir about the two kids. You know if there's a chance the two wake up there's a chance, they won't remember anything from what they have done. How do you think would it be, if we tried to talk into them convincing them, that they're bad guys? Or if they're really bad guys, what they were supposed to do? If that works out, of course,"

„Hmm well…..someone would have to use those miraculouses to fight against Ladybug and Cat Noir when the time is right," Gabriel commented pondering about Nathalie's suggestion. „I think this might even be better. I will look up for the nearest hospital and bring the kids there. Later on, I inform you about their state,"

„Sure, be careful," Warned Nathalie and Gabriel turned the call off, then grabbed Gerda to carry her into the helicopter.

„How long are we going to wait for anyone to come?" Asked the pilot seeing Gabriel getting out of the helicopter.

„You know what, there's a new plan. We search for the next hospital and drop them there. Maybe we will make it in time," Gabriel said earning a nod from the pilot.

„Okay give me a hand," Asked the pilot unplugging the device of Rollan's body, then he picked Rollan up pulling him to the helicopter and Gabriel pulled him by the legs to help him up the helicopter and shrieked as the teen's pants slid down due to the missing belt. „Okay, that was odd," Commented the pilot entering into the helicopter with the other adult.

„How does the defibrillator work?" Questioned Gabriel. „I think it would be good if someone kept working with it,"

„Good and hey I think it was a mistake to send Nathalie and that other guy away, a second person to perform CPR on the girl would have been good as well,"
„I try to do it on both," Gabriel commented beginning to do the chest compression on the girl, while the defibrillator got fixed by the pilot and turned on before he returned to the steering wheel. In the meanwhile, as the pilot had turned on the engine of the helicopter the fire on the scarf of Gabriel had melted the head of the frozen troll, which lied unconscious as well inside the ice. The rotors of the helicopter began to spin around blowing the scarfs away off the cliff leaving the troll back half-covered by ice and the helicopter took off to make its way out of the location.