Hello everyone!

First of all, I want to apologize for being so late with updating my story. Been very, very busy. But, I finally managed to write the 5th chapter.

I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year! ^^

Now, here it is, chapter 5.

Enjoy! :)

Chapter 5: The Dark Figure

As you all entered the milkshake shop, you found a booth to sit down.

"This place looks really nice." Elsa smiled as she looked around.

"Yeah, it is our usual hangout spot after school, if we have time" You explained.

"If you wait here, I'll go get us milkshakes. What flavour do you want? Chocolate? Strawberry? Vanilla?

Elsa thought for a few seconds.

"I'll have whatever you're having." She said smiling.

"All right, we'll be right back." You replied as Hans, Kristoff and you went over to the counter to buy milkshakes. Hans bought his own milkshake, Kristoff paid for himself and Anna and you bought milkshakes for Elsa and yourself.

When you sat back down you handed Elsa her milkshake.

"Here you go." You said "One chocolate milkshake for you."

You flashed her a smile and she smiled back as she took a sip from it.

"Oh my, this is delicious!" She almost exclaimed and you smirked.

"Told you. It's really good."

"Hey, (F/N), how did you two manage to bond so quickly?" Hans asked.

"I mean, Elsa arrived here just a couple of days ago, right?"

The question totally came right out of the blue, and you looked over at Elsa, your expression saying 'we should make up a story'.

You cleared your throat. You had to think of something quick, but at the same time it had to sound believable.

"Well, the day she arrived I picked her up at the airport and we just really clicked, I guess. We talked all the way back home and after that we've been friends. Sometimes things like this just happens." You smiled a bit.

Hans slowly nodded.

"Yeah, I guess so."

Kristoff smirked.

"Love is in the air." He teased, and ou felt your cheeks grow hot as you blushed.

"Knock it off." You told him and he grinned.

"Hey, stranger things have happened in life. Let's not dwell on it." He said and you all nodded in agreement.

Suddenly Kevin, the school bully and Alex, the one who had tackled you to the ground, came in.

"Damn it…" You mumbled. Suddenly Kevin noticed you.

"Hey! What did I tell you about coming in here, huh?!" He yelled.

"Kevin…" Kristoff mumbled through gritted teeth.

You didn't answer Kevin.

"Hey, I'm talking to you. Are you deaf?!" He yelled, and you slowly turned around to look at him. You were so tired of this that enough was enough,

"No 1: I'm not deaf, no 2: this is a public space, I have the right to be here, and no 3: Kristoff, Hans and I are 3 people. That makes 3 against 2. You really want to do this?

They didn't answer and other people looked at the three of you.

"So, I suggest you find yourself a table and get out of our faces."

"You heard him, Kevin" Kristoff said, his voice very serious.

They looked at each other before shrugging and leaving.

"And that's how you deal with bullies." You said, sitting down again.

"Now, let's enjoy our milkshakes, shall we?"

A little while later, you got home and luckily your parents had gone shopping for groceries when you got home, so you could get Elsa up to your room unnoticed.

"I'll take a shower." You said quietly as you found some clean clothes and put them on your bed.

"All right, I'll see you after your shower." Elsa replied and disappeared into the lamp.

You nodded and left the room.

After you had left Elsa emerged from the lamp again and looked at the door, concerned.

"Is something wrong with (F/N)" Olaf asked, also looking at the door.

"He is in pain… I can feel it…" Elsa whispered, giving him a worried look.

"But I'll ask him when he gets back. But… there's no guarantee that he will open up to me about it.. He seems like a very… private person. So I won't push hm."

Olaf looked at her curiously.

"You care about him, don't you?" He asked, and she nodded.

"Yes, of course I do. He's a good friend. And… He's also the only one who has cared about me. I've never had anyone who has cared about me before. Only my powers…"

"Friend? Are you sure you don't you see him as more than a friend?" He suddenly asked, and Elsa blushed profusely. She was not ready for that question."

"W… What? What do you mean by that?" she stuttered.

"It was a genuine question." Olaf replied calmly, looking at her with his dark red but calm eyes.

"I… I've never thought about him like that:" Elsa said.

"At least I don't think I do."

"Meaning you're not sure?"

"But, I've never been in love before, so… how do I even know what love feels like?"

"Well, they say that when you fall in love, you just know it."

Elsa didn't reply. Just looked at the door.

Meanwhile you were in the shower and oblivious to the conversation the two of them were having.

"Why am I like this…?" You muttered to yourself.

"I should be happy for May…But what is this feeling? Am I genuinely sad that I lost her, or Is it jealousy? Am I maybe just being possessive?"

The rest of the evening went by without much happening. You did your homework before Anna burst into your room, whining about not understanding math, so you agreed to help her. After you had helped Anna you were left alone with Elsa again.

"(F/N)?)" She asked as you were sitting by your desk, doing your own homework.

"Yeah, what is it?" You turned around to look at her.

"Who was that girl?" She asked and you raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Who?"

"The girl from the cafeteria." Elsa, who was sitting on your bed, looked at you.

"Oh... that… that was my ex- girlfriend." you coughed, not really liking the way this conversation was taking.

"Your ex – girlfriend?" She asked, a bit confused.

"Yes, we were together once, but that is over now." you explained.

"But if it is over, why were you so sad?" She asked, and you realized that even tho Elsa had existed in the world since ancient times, she didn't have a full understanding of human emotions. Not that you blamed her. You felt like you didn't understand humans half the time yourself.

"Well… the best way to explain is to just put it simple. I am still getting over her." You explained.

"It hurts to know she's found someone else, and it hurt even more to see them together. Quite frankly, love hurts sometimes. Not to mention that love is complicated. It is one of the most complicated feelings a human has. You meet a new person, get to know that person, the chemistry between you if off the hook, you get a crush, maybe you even fall in love. You start dating them, but suddenly they break up with you. They give you reasons, and maybe you think about those things in your next relationship, and you think you're doing everything right. Then, all of a sudden that relationship also fails, and you're left wondering what in the world you did wrong, because you thought you did everything right!" You took a deep breath before calming down a bit.

"Love is hard…" You said, ending your rant.

"Uhm… Sorry, I didn't mean to dump this all on you." You said, apologizing, but Elsa shook her head and looked at you with a look of sympathy.

"I…I had strong feelings for her…" You mumbled. "I still do have feelings for her…I think…"

Suddenly she stood up and walked over to you and gently placed her arms around you in a hug.

"You are gonna be all right, (F/N). Just take your time and it will get better, I promise you that." she said, her voice calm and soothing.

You smiled a bit. Elsa really was something else.

"Thanks Elsa."

Suddenly there was a knock at the door.

"Come in." You said as soon as you had made sure Elsa was back in her lamp.

It was Anna.

"I just came to tell you dinner is ready." She said.

"All right, I'll be right there. Give me 2 minutes." You said and Anna nodded before she left.

You looked at the lamp again.

"I'll be right back, Elsa." You said before also leaving the room.

Meanwhile, the expert had arrived at the park and he had already started his work with figuring out what had happened.

"I can't believe it…" He mumbled to himself as I looked at his screen. His name was Hugo Adams and he was the world's leading expert on Earth's geological structures. He had written several books about Geology and some of his books were on the curriculum of geology students at many universities across the world. He had the look of a typical nerd. He was not very rough built or broad shouldered and he wore a pair of outdated glasses, but he had a nice face, was well dressed, clean shaven and he as well liked at the university where he worked as a professor.

"What is it?" His assistant, a young woman named Becky Rose, asked. She was a tall and slender woman. Her dark brown hair was set up in a pony tail and a pair of glasses embedded her face. She had worked with Prof. Adams for a while and was also one of his former students from one of the first classes he ever taught when he started working at the university.

"This formation. I've never seen anything like it before." Prof. Adams said.

"Really?" Becky asked as she came over to take a look for herself.

"This hole… it's so deep it's even deeper than the Mariana Trench…." He looked at the screen, shock clear on his face.

"The equipment I sent down there is going absolutely insane."

"She looked over at the hole before looking at him again."

"But do you want to know the most shocking part? he asked her and she got a skeptic look on her face, but she nodded after a few seconds.

He showed her the screen of his laptop, and she got wide eyed.

"Yes, you are right in your assumptions, Ms. Rose This hole is made of something unnaturally huge. I think something… crawled its way out of that hole…"

Suddenly there was a sound nearby and they both jumped.

"Hello…?" Becky asked out loud, but there was no answer.

"Who's there?" Prof. Adams then asked, putting his laptop away and grabbing his flashlight.

The sound continued and it came from behind one of the large nearby trees in the park.

Prof. Adams slowly approached it, ready to deal with what he assumed to be a drug addict, and he quietly got his phone out, his hand shaking of nervousness.

Then, suddenly, all he could see were a pair of blood red eyes staring back at him as it became the only think he saw when he got up to the tree.

A scream of terror tore through the park as he got a closer look. The figure was twice his size despite looking similar to humans, aside from the curled horns, the long tail and massive wings, not to mention the claws that looked so razor sharp that they could tear through anything. It's mouth opened up, revealing rows of teeth so sharp it made the sharpest Katana in the world look like a butter knife.

The flashlight hit the ground as the figure roared and suddenly grabbed professor Adams by his throat and almost as soon as it appeared, the figure had disappeared again, taking Prof. Adams with it.

Becky stared at the place where she last saw Prof. Adams, her brain trying to process what she'd just seen, before she realized what had happened. Tears started forming in her eyes, and she collapsed on the ground, screaming.

"PROFESSOR!"

Soon it was bed time, but as you went over to the window to close the curtains you noticed something on the other side of the back yard. A dark figure was standing by one of the big trees in the way back of the back yard, staring at you. Not moving, just staring at you with wide blood red eyes. You looked at the figure for a few seconds and the look it gave you sent chills down your spine. But despite the chills, you could not look away. You just stared back at it.

"(F/N), is something wrong?" Elsa asked when you stopped moving.

"There's someone in the back yard." You said but you did not turn around to look at her.

"What?" She looked a bit confused.

"Come and take a look." You said, not taking your eyes of the ark figure.

"She got up and walked over to the window.

"Over there:" You said and pointed.

She looked over at the figure but it very quickly disappeared.

"That's weird…" You said before looking at her.

Elsa nodded.

The dark figure moved fast as it hurried to get away after being spotted. It moved quickly through the streets and now it was the size of a normal fully grown man. Soon he came the bridge that crossed the river, and he spread his wings and took to the air before landing on top of one of the bridge's many towers.

Meanwhile you and Elsa were still standing by your window

"Who was that?"

You shook your head.

"I have absolutely no idea. But whatever it was, it's gone now." You yawned and stretched.

"I guess it's time to go to bed:"

Elsa nodded.

"Yes, I think so too. But I will see you tomorrow."

"Good night, Elsa." You said, smiling. "I'll see you tomorrow. Sleep well"

Elsa smiled.

"Good night and sleep well, (F/N)" She said as she disappeared into her lamp, and you cut the light before laying down to sleep.

The dark figure was still standing at the top of the tower of the bridge, still staring in the direction of your house. He smirked as he looked down at his blood soaked claws before looking back up and he almost made as rumbling sound as he opened his mouth to speak.

"I finally found you…"

And that's it for now. I really hope you liked this chapter, and I'll see you again soon!