Author's Note: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH11: Family matters.
During the battle against Lamuria outside...
As soon as Kairi and Kristoff arrived inside while concerned for the safety of their friends, their eyes widened in shock as Elsa and Anna were apparently in another argument, with Anna trying and failing to convince her sister that things can work out. In panic, Elsa swiped her hand and a blast of ice hit Anna right into the chest, sending her to the ground, much to their, Olaf and Elsa's shock.
"Anna!" Kairi cried out, worriedly as she, Kristoff and Olaf hurried by their friend's side.
"Anna. Are you okay?" Kristoff asked, worriedly.
Despite the painful chill on her chest, Anna refused to let this get to her. The only thing that was on her mind was trying to support her older sister, and she slowly stood up weakly, answering, "I'm okay...I'm fine."
Seeing both Kairi and Kristoff, Elsa's eyes widened. "Who're they?" before shaking her head, "Wait, it doesn't matter. Just- You have to go."
"No!" Anna cried out, pleadingly. "I know we can figure this out together."
"HOW!?" Elsa shouted, desperately and in response to this, the walls began to darken and crack as she continued, "What power do you have to stop this winter!? To stop ME!?"
"Wait!" Kairi cried out. "I know it won't be easy, but Anna has faith that this can be resolved! It might take some time, but things can work out!"
"Uh...I think it's time to go." Kristoff pointed out, as he gazed at what was happening to the walls of the Ice Palace...just as Sora and the rest of the group came running in, only to skid to a stop when they realised what was happening and gazed at Elsa who's eyes widened at more people appearing.
Immediately, Terra knew what was happening and exclaimed in horror, "This is just like...!" as a terrible memory of a certain time the similiar happened when the darkness in his heart went haywire in his fight against Braig twelve years ago...
Flash-Back: During the events of "Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep-Terra's Story"...
In a final attack, and feeling unspeakable anger without even realising what he was doing, Terra hovered in the air and darkness covers him while he raises his Keyblade. To everyone's shock, He slings his Keyblade towards Braig and fires a dark volley at him, which hits the caught off-guard Braig right in his right eye and knocked him over to the ground.
Crying out in agony and realising that his right eye was now lost, he held a hand over his burning eye socket that was burning with dark energy, then lookedup to see Terra over him, darkness pulsing at the end of the Keyblade. Terra then fires another one at close range which ricochets off Braig's face, scrapping his left cheek and hits the chains binding Master Xehanort to the pipe, freeing the elder Master.
End of Flash-Back.
"The fear and anger is causing her powers to go out of control!" Riku exclaimed, having sensed the same thing Terra was seeing.
"Stop! You're only letting your emotions get the best of you!" Skuld cried out to Elsa who continued to back away. "You need to calm down!"
"I don't think any of you guys are helping...!" Myde muttered scaredly, already slowly backing away back outside.
"I suggest we get a move on and try again later." Jack suggested, slightly quivering.
"No!" Anna denied, "I'm not leaving without you, Elsa!"
"Yes, you are." Elsa said with firm finality, as right in front of her and glaring down before the group, a massive snow monster materialized, and in retrospect, it was bigger than the Darkside Heartless and Thornside Nobody, but thankfully smaller than the Titans back at the Coliseum.
"We're only trying to help!" Sora protested, only to cry out in alarm as he and soon everyone else with him, including Anna, were grasped by the giant Snow Monster who then proceeded to carrying them back outside and down the mountain.
"H-hey! Put us down!" Mickey cried out, struggling to free himself from the snow monster's grasp.
"Pretty please, with cherries on top?" Myde whimpered, pleadingly.
"Go away!" The snow monster growled, before tossing everyone into the snowbank where they all landed in a slight crash landing, but thankfully, the snow softened their landing...or in Kairi's case, she landed on top of both Sora and Riku who humilatingly were kissing the snow due to this.
The snow Monster than tossed Olaf who cried out as his head became seperated from his body again, "Head's up!" and his head landed near Donald and Goofy who blinked worriedly. Olaf then cried out again, "Watch out for my butt!" in which the two screamed before ducking as Olaf's body slammed into the snowbank.
"Why you big snow monster palooka!" Donald growled angrily, leaping up and summoned his Staff to give the monster Elsa created a piece of his mind.
"Donald, no!" Mickey cried out, hurrying over and grabbed hold of his friend's arm to stop him, "You're only gonna make things worse!"
"And he could chase us too!" Goofy added as he helped his king and grabbed hold of Donald's other arm to stop the magican from doing anything reckless due to the usual temper tantrum.
Lea sat up and spat out a lump of snow that landed in his mouth, before gazing at the snow monster in annoyance, "Geez, you could've at least put us down more gently, for cryin' out loud." while the others slowly stood up and recovered.
"At least he didn't decide to eat us." Myde grumbled, dusting himself off.
Jack shuddered at the thought before gazing at the Snow monster who raised an brow, apparently at what the mullet-haired young man just said. The pirate then quickly said almost pleadly, "Do not encourage him, if you please."
"It is not nice TO THROW PEOPLE!" Anna shouted angrily as she made herself a snowball and attempted to throw it at the snow monster's head, but was held back to Kristoff and Ven who both immediately saw what was about to happen. Sora, Kairi(who thanked her best friends) and Riku joined up and helped to stop the princess from doing anything risky.
"Anna, stop! It's not going to make things any better!" Sora pointed out.
"You're only just going to end up making things worse!" Riku added.
"Please, calm down, Anna. Just calm down." Kairi pleaded.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, feisty pants! Okay, relax. Just calm down! Calm down!" Kristoff told Anna hurriedly, trying to get her to relax. "Just let the snowman be!"
"Snowman?" Myde asked, dumbfounded, then blurted out before thinking, "Kind of looks like a Marshmallow, if you ask me."
The snow monster, now offically dubbed Marshmallow, glared down at him and let out an angry roar, causing everyone to back away, even Anna quickly relaxed and dropped the snowball she made.
"Oh come on!" Kristoff cried out in dismay.
"You made him mad now, Myde!" Roxas shouted at the mullet-haired man who flinched, realising too late of his mistake.
"Thanks alot, genius!" Lea said sarcastically.
"Hold on, mates. I have an idea." Jack suddenly spoke up, and surprisingly stepped up to Marshmellow and quickly told him, "Stop, stop, stop, hang on a minute, Marshmallow!"
"Jack, what're you doing?" Sora asked, dismayed.
Apparently this made Marshmallow gaze down at the pirate who continued, mentally nervous, but kept his calm posture, "It's all an honest mistake on that bumbling young lad who hasn't grown up mentally."
"Hey!" Myde pouted, only for Isa to slap a hand over the younger man's mouth to shut him up.
"Now, with that sorted. What say you to a proposal to clear up this mess between us and your Snow Queen, ay?" Jack continued, doing his usual negotiation offering. "Just bear a message that lovely Princess Anna, who is apparently a bit hot-headed, still had the courage to come all the way up here...with some help, to find the said queen who is our dear and only sister and to make up for another honest mistake...and to help her calm the sudden powers to make snow and had created you and Master Olaf. This message is from Anna herself, apologising and asking for at least a second chance while we wait out here to avoid in going back to make things worse."
"I didn't get what he was saying." Olaf whispered to Roxas who nodded in agreement.
"Me neither." The former Nobody of Sora said.
Unfortunately in Jack's part, Marshmallow just roared again and made to attack, and when the Pirate saw that talking his way to clear this mess wasn't working at all.
"That worked really well." Isa commented sarcastically.
"Let's get outta here!" Myde screamed hysterically, already making a run for it.
"Wait!" Mickey exclaimed, realising that they were one person short. "Where's Aqua!?"
Realising that their blue-haired female companion wasn't with them, they then realised to their horror that Aqua had been accidently left behind, thus, she was still in Elsa's Palace.
"Aqua!" Ven and Terra exclaimed, worriedly, and were about to try and make their way back, but both Lea and Isa, knowing that Marshmallow wasn't going to let them through, pulled the two other young men with them against their will.
"We'll have to come back for her later! Right now, we have to get outta here!" Lea exclaimed as he pulled Ven along with him.
"I'll distract him. You guys go!" Olaf declared, and despite not wanting to leave him behind, Sora and everyone else made run for it down the hill. But to his dismay, his body dropped his head and ran to join the others. "No, no! Not you guys!" Olaf cried out as his head was left behind, and Marshmallow chased after his friends and his body. "This just got a whole lot harder."
In the meantime, Sora and the others quickly slid down the slope with Marshmallow chasing after them. With little choice, most of the worldly travellers summoned their weapons and tried to fight off against the snow monster, and even Anna helped by grabbing a branch, releasing the snow. It managed to cause distraction to the snow monster who then smacked into the trees, slowing it down.
"Cliff at three o'clock!" Lea exclaimed, as the said cliff was coming quickly in front of them.
"I have an idea!" Skuld called out, holding out her Keyblade and surprisingly, a beam of light shot out towards the cliff, which then another slope, acting like a slide, was connected from it to the ground below, before turning to her companions and shouted, "Brace yourselves!"
The group did brace themselves and shut their eyes as they all slid down from the cliff and down the make-shift slide, coming to a stop when they reached the bottom in the soft pile of thick snow.
"Well...that happened." Isa admitted, blinking in surprise.
"Where'd you learn that?" Ven asked to Skuld, amazed.
"I uh...made it up as I went." Skuld shrugged, blushing a little. "It was a desperate idea that came into mind."
Back on the cliff, Olaf came out from the trees as he had rejoined his body but was in a complete mess, before panting, "Man, am I out of shape!" before fixing himself up and was successful, before calling out to his friends, "Hey, Anna! Sven! Sora! Guys! Where'd you all go!? We totally lost Marshmallow back there!"
Unfortunately, Marshmallow emerged from the trees behind Olaf who quickly noticed and turned around, before saying as friendly as he could to calm his fellow snowman down, "Hey, we were just talking about you! All good things, all good things..."
Marshmallow just roared and began to march towards the cliff, much to Olaf's dismay before the smaller snowman quickly clinged onto the snow monster's leg. "This is not making much of a difference, is it!?"
Marshmallow responded by flinging Olaf off, causing him to fly all the way down to the bottom of the cliff where he landed and almost crashed into the stunned Sora and everyone else, before they all glanced up, and Skuld quickly dismissed the slide before the snow monster could use it to follow them.
"Don't come back!" Marshmallow bellowed.
"That's okay! Not planning to anyway!" Myde called up back to the snow monster. To his and the others' relief, Marshmallow stormed off.
"Is everyone okay?" Sora asked around.
"I'm fine." Kairi replied.
Everyone else made their replies that they were alright, until Olaf fiddling with Jack's right leg, crying out hysterically, "I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs!"
"That's my leg, mate." Jack groaned as he sat up, shoulders and right leg covered in snow, just as Olaf's lower parts waddled back, much to his discomfort. He then grumbled to himself, "That's the third time I fell off a cliff in less than one year."
"Ooh, do me a favor and grab my buttǃ" Olaf requested.
Xion stood up before picking up the top part of Olaf's body and then placed him back onto his lower part, fixing him up properly, as Olaf thanked the black-haired girl, "Ah, that feels better."
He then noticed something behind him, and smiled as he recongised Sven, "Hey, Sven! He found us!" before cooing at the reindeer, "Who's my cute little reindeer?"
"Don't talked to him like that." Kristoff muttered.
In the meantime, Donald and Goofy were both buried in snow, before Donald poked his head out of the pile of snow, asking, "Was that supposed to happen?"
Goofy poked his head out of the snow and replied, "Dunno."
"I hope Aqua will be okay." Kairi said as she stood up with Sora's help. "I'm really worried about her."
"I'm worried about her too. But at the same time, I think she'll be okay." Sora replied.
"And just when we reunited with her too." Ven muttered, sadly, shutting his eyes in guilt. Terra in the meantime, clutched his fist while trying to calm his anger, blaming himself for not keeping an eye on everyone.
"How's your head?" Anna asked to Kristoff, gently touching it.
He winched in pain in response, but tried to shake it off as he answered, "It's fine. I'm good. I've got a thick skull."
"I don't have a skull...or bones." Olaf interrupted.
"That's because you're a snowman." Donald rolled his eyes as he and Goofy pulled themselves out of the snow and began to dust themselves off.
"That's just mean." Xion scolded.
"Well, it's the truth." Myde pointed out.
"Now what do we do?" Goofy asked.
"What do we do?" Anna asked, before realising everything that's happened and began to hysterically panic, "Ooh! What do we do!? She threw me out! I can't go back to Arendelle with the weather like this!"
She turned to Sora and the others, "We left Aqua behind!" before turning to Kristoff, "And then there's your ice business, and-"
"Hey, whoa! Forget about that for a moment, An'!" Lea interrupted as he approached, quickly noticing that they had another new problem to worry about. "What happened to you?"
"Yeah...Worry about your hair!" Kristoff added as he also noticed what Lea was seeing, and now so did everyone else.
"It's...turning white!" Roxas exclaimed, shocked.
"White? It's-" Anna cuts herself off as she saw, to her shock that Roxas was right; Her hair was starting to become slightly white, and her eyes widened in equal shock. "What!?"
Kairi suddenly remembered Elsa hitting Anna with a spell, and gasped in horror. "It must be when Elsa hit you!"
"What!?" Everyone else cried out, worriedly.
"Oh no!" Mickey exclaimed.
"Is it that bad?" Anna asked.
A moment of pause.
"No." Kristoff replied.
"You hesitated." Jack said to the younger man, almost accusingly.
"No I didn't." Kristoff protested.
"Yes you did." Myde said.
"Guys, this isn't the time to start fighting!" Mickey quickly interrupted, "First we gotta figure out what's happening to Anna and then see if we can help her before we can go back for Aqua and Elsa."
"Anyone got any ideas?" Sora asked.
"I do." Kristoff answered, taking the lead, "Come on. We'll see my friends."
"The love experts?" Anna rolled her eyes, but followed Kristoff none the less. Sora and the others were half a second behind.
"Yes, and don't worry, they'll fix this."
"How do you know?" Isa asked, skeptically.
"Because I've seen them do it before." Kristoff replied.
"I like to consider myself a love expert." Olaf said.
"I happen to be a love expert." Jack said.
Riku rolled his eyes at this comment, saying sarcastically, "I'd love to see you demostrate that."
The pirate, fully aware of the sarcasm, responded, "It's all in the matter of the opportune moment, mate. Sora and Kairi are just waiting for the right moment for it to happen. Savvy?"
Sora and Kairi both blushed heavily at this while groaning in dismay when they heard this, and the former grumbled, "Aw, not this again!" which resulted Donald, Goofy, Myde and Lea snickering when they heard this.
Meanwhile, back at Elsa's ice palace, the young Queen was pacing back and forth, trying to calm herself down as the memory of when she hit Anna, her younger sister, repeated over and over again in her mind. "Okay, get it together. Control it. Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't FEEL!"
Aqua, who had passed out when Marshmallow had knocked her over, pushed herself up, and when she realised where she was, she stood up and saw that all of her friends were not there, meaning that the snow monster had taken them away. "Ven! Terra! Mickey! Sora! Anyone?"
This caused Elsa to realise that she was still not alone and turned towards the blue-haired woman. "I told you to leave."
"I was accidently left behind." Aqua responded, immediately bending on one knee and bowed to show her respect, "I'm deeply sorry, your majesty."
"Did your friends leave with Anna?"
"Most likely." Aqua replied, standing up, "My name is Aqua. And..."
Before she could begin to explain, out of the familiar fire of purple and green mist, Maleficent appeared in between them, much to the two younger women's shock, especially Aqua's.
"Hm? What's this?" Maleficent muttered, upon noticing Aqua who glared back at her. The evil witch's eyes lit up a little in surprise, immediately recongising the young woman. "Aqua? What a surprise, child. You haven't aged in twelve years."
"What are you doing here, Maleficent!?" Aqua demanded, summoning Master Eraqus's Keyblade. She knew that the evil witch had been searching for the Book of Propchies.
"Who is this?" Elsa demanded, before shaking her head and said firmly to the evil witch, "Nevermind. Leave my castle, right now!"
Aqua nodded, and charged towards Maleficent to strike her, only for the enemy to teleport away before she could get a shot. As Aqua and Elsa both glanced around while trying to figure out where she went to, Maleficent then reappeared behind them and blasted green fire that sent the Keyblade Master into the wall.
"Aqua!" Elsa exclaimed, worriedly. She then turned and glared at Maleficent, yelling, "What sorcery is this?"
"Sorcery?" Maleficent replied, before grinning evilly, "You should be asking that yourself, child. You can be quite useful. Come my dear, and I will show you your true power, and with that, we can rule this world and many others!"
Aqua grunted as she managed to cling onto her consciousness, before pleadingly cried out to Elsa, "Don't listen to her! She only wants to cast you into darkness!"
"Silence, you stubborn girl!" Maleficent bellowed, firing green flames again. But this time, Aqua managed to cast a barrier to protect herself from getting killed.
"Stop! Don't hurt her!" Elsa cried out to Maleficent.
"Perhaps you should know the true meaning of fear." Maleficent continued, ignoring Elsa's plea and only sensing the fear in the young woman's heart. "Only fear can make you powerful. Now you can give into it!"
"Not happening!" Aqua declared, healing herself with Curaga and quickly leaped in front of Elsa, glaring at the evil witch before them. "I'm not letting you go anywhere near Elsa. Leave now, Maleficent, or else!"
Maleficent frowned, before scoffing, "Hmph. Even after twelve years, you're still the same stubborn child Master Xehanort has told me. But know this, Aqua...once I get what I want, I will dispose you, Sora and his friends." before vanishing as her evil laughter echoed before fading.
Aqua glared at the spot where Maleficent had disappeared from, before sighing as she dismissed Eraqus' Keyblade, sighing. "I should've known. The only reason why Maleficent is here is to cast Elsa's heart into darkness...Ven, Terra, Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Riku and everyone else are in danger too."
Elsa just stared at Aqua, unable to believe that the stranger just protected her from the evil witch, and then asked, "Aqua, wait!" before the Keyblade wielder could leave. "You stood up for me?"
"Of course I did." Aqua replied, turning to face her, with a kind warm smile. "It's what I do to keep others safe."
"...Thank you." Elsa awkwardly replied. "The thing is...I've always had trouble with my powers for as long I can remember. It only got worse as I got older."
"I think it's your fears that's causing your powers to go out of control." Aqua thought, understanding the other woman's fears. "Power is born within the heart. But you shouldn't let it lead you astray."
"How do you know?"
"...Terra had the similiar problem, twelve years ago." Aqua sighed, "Ven and I were really worried, and tried to comfort him...but he wouldn't listen. Instead, he took it upon himself to try and make things right...and the darkness in his heart went out of control. He spend the past twelve years suffering, and I couldn't do anything to help him. Or even let Ven grow up, when he wanted to help too."
She gazed up at the stunned Elsa, and continued, "I understand that you want to protect Anna, but she wanted to protect you too, because she followed her heart's decision. Follow your heart, and you'll know the way."
"Follow my heart..." Elsa repeated, before blinking as she recalled what the mysterious man in the black coat said to her the day earlier.
"See, people like you who don't know what they're capable of with the powers in their hearts end up letting them run wild with a will of their own. It only makes it worse when anger surges through the veins of your body. Fear makes it run because it can sense your fear."
Elsa lowered her gaze to the floor, thinking. Despite her distrust in this intruder, she had to admit that he had a point, now that she remembered how this mess started. "Say if I believe you in this, how can I stop it?"
"There's no getting rid of powers completely." The man replied, "But, the key thing to this is to control it with the single emotion that has the power to light the darkness and melt the ice with warmth. An inner warmth that is there for those like you. As long as you continue to think of what you know makes your heart warm, that will not only reverse the little winter, but it will also give you full control of your powers."
"I think...I get what you're saying." Elsa thought, before smiling a little. "Thank you, Aqua. But, how do I make this up with Anna?"
"Have faith in her and trust your heart." Aqua replied. "Let your heart be your guiding key. It's something my mentor once told me before he died." and she also remembered that Mickey told her that in the Realm of Darkness two years earlier.
"I see." Elsa thought, before asking, "I know I'm asking a little much, but, can you guard the castle for me, please?"
"Of course." Aqua nodded. While she was worried about the others, she knew that they would be fine, considering that there were nineteen of them. Besides which, she refused to leave Elsa's side and feared that Maleficent or Lamuria would be back to try and send the Queen's heart into darkness.
Meanwhile, Sora and the rest of the group followed Kristoff into a valley, but during this time, Anna was beginning to shiver.
"Are you cold?" Kristoff asked.
"A little." Anna nodded.
"I can make fire to keep ya' warm, of you like." Lea offered.
"Hold on." Kristoff said, as he saw smoke coming from a geyser. "Come here."
"Mini volcanos?" Roxas asked, curiously.
"I think they're geysers." Sora pointed out.
As they walked up to the vent, Kristoff then admitted to the others, "So, about my friends...well, I say friends, they're more like family. Anyway, when I was a kid, it was just me and Sven...until they took me in."
"They did?" Kairi, Anna and Xion asked.
"Sounds like adoption to me." Myde thought deeply, before smirking, "You're pretty lucky."
"Yeah. I don't want to scare you guys, they can be a little inappropriate...and loud...very loud. They're also stubborn at times, and a little overbearing. And heavy. Really, really heavy. But they're fine. You'll get it. They mean well." Kristoff continued.
"They sound really nice." Kairi thought.
"Kristoff, they sound wonderful." Anna thought.
"Yeah, they sound awesome." Sora thought, before admitting, "Just wish Aqua was here to meet them."
"Okay then...meet my family." Kristoff gestured the group to...a pile of large rocks which he then turned to and called out, "Hey, guys!"
The group could only stare awkardly at Kristoff, before gazing at the rocks in disbelief, not certain if this was Kristoff's idea of 'family' or if he was just out of his mind, as he continued to talk to them as though they were regular guys.
"They're...rocks." Anna muttered.
"Yes...rocks." Jack said in awkward agreement.
"...Okay?" Sora muttered, blinking.
"He's craaaazy." Olaf whispered to the others.
"Totally crazy." Myde whispered in agreement.
"Wait a minute, fellas." Mickey said to the group, suddenly sensing something very unusual about the rocks, whispering, "I got a funny feelin' they're not actually rocks."
True to Mickey's words, the rocks suddenly began to roll, causing Riku and Ven to cry out, "They're moving!"
The rocks then suddenly stood up, revealing to be strange humaniod rock things, startling the worldly travellers and Anna, their eyes widened.
"Kristoff's home!" Yelled one rock thing.
"Kristoff! Kristoff's home! It's been too long! Kristoff's home!" The rest of the rock things cheered happily.
"Kristoff's home!" Olaf cheered, before asking in surprise, "Wait. Kristoff?"
"Great to see you all. Where's grand pabbie?" Kristoff greeted.
"He's napping. But look! I grew a mushroom!" One rock child thing held up a freshly grown Mushroom.
"And I earned a fire crystal!" An olderish rock child added, holding up a crimson crystal.
"I passed a Kidney stone." An elderly rock thing said.
"I didn't need to know that." Myde whispered to Isa and Lea who both nodded in agreement, resisting the urge to shudder.
"Pick me up!" A very young rock child thing held his arms out to Kristoff who chuckled and picked him up.
That's when Anna immediately recongised the rock things, and asked, stunned, "Trolls? They're trolls."
"Trolls?" Sora asked, in confusion. Kairi, Riku, Ven, Roxas and Xion all looked equally clueless.
"...Now we're being gathered around with Trolls." Jack muttered, more to himself than anyone else. "Never heard of that one before."
Just then, the Trolls turned to the group and exclaimed in surprise, "He's brought girls, guys and kids!" immediately taking them to Kristoff.
"Okay, what's going on?" Riku asked.
"I've learned just to roll with is." Kristoff shrugged.
A Troll in the meantime, were gazing at Anna, saying, "Let me see. Bright eyes, working nose, strong teeth. Yes, yes, yes. She'll do nicely for our Kristoff."
"You've got the wrong idea. That's not why I brought her here." Kristoff pointed out, while the troll kids began to play with Kairi, Xion, Mickey, Donald and Goofy, while some of the elder trolls expected upon Lea, Isa, Terra, Ven, Roxas, Riku, Skuld, Myde and Jack.
"Ha-ha! Hi-ya, fellas." Mickey greeted, finding these young trolls to be quite friendly, and cute.
"That is the reddest red hair I've ever seen." An old Troll commented to Lea. "Is it painted on to make it look so fasinating?"
"Nope, it's all natural. But thanks, anyway." Lea answered. He liked these guys already.
Another Troll studied a somewhat nervous Jack, before nodding and commented, "You look like a sea leader."
Surprised, Jack then admitted, while still saddened for the loss of the Black Pearl. "I had a ship. Lost it quite recently, though."
Just then, Anna suddenly softly gasped as she felt something painfully cold in her chest, and within her heart, causing her to fall into Kristoff's arms, much to his and everyone else's grave concerns and worry.
"Uh-oh!" Goofy gulped.
"Anna!" Terra cried out, worriedly.
Isa touched her forehead, only to take his hand back as he gasped, "She's cold as ice."
"Is she gonna be alright?" Sora asked, scared. "What's happening to her?"
Just then, an elderly Troll rolled in and nearly crashed into everyone, but stopped before he approached, and said, "There's strange magic here."
"Grand Pabbie!" Kristoff exclaimed in relief.
"Come. Bring her to me." Grand Pabbe instructed. Kristoff did as he was told and the elder Troll studied the young woman who was shivering. He didn't like what was happening to the poor girl, and said grimly, "Anna, your life is in danger. There is ice in your heart, put there by your sister. If not removed, to solid ice you will freeze, forever."
"What?" Anna gasped, slightly horrified, "No..."
The worldly travellers were equally horrified by the news of this. That explained everything, but at the same time, they knew that Elsa didn't do it on purpose. But still...
"Oh no..." Kairi whispered, horrified as her hands flew to her mouth.
"Is there anything you can do?" Ven asked, worriedly to Grand Pabbie.
"I'm afraid not." Grand Pabbie shook his head, "If it was her head, that would be easy. But only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart."
"Wot?" Jack asked, dumbfounded. He knew about the mushy stuff on true love; Will and Elizabeth's love was proof of that. But true love to break a spell? That's a new one to him.
"A true love's kiss, perhaps?" One of the Trolls suggested, as the rest of the trolls gave each other kisses.
"...Ew." Myde cringed, disgusted at the sight of the Trolls kissing each other, only for Xion to smack him on the back of the head. "Ow!"
"True love's...Oh! That means Hans!" Sora realised, remembering what Anna told him and the others about her love with Hans the other day.
"So we have to get Anna back to Arendelle where Hans is!" Kairi nodded in agreement.
"C'mon, fellas! Let's head to Arendelle!" Mickey quickly said, just as Anna's hair turned even more white which meant that time was running out.
"Let's find Hans! C'mon, Olaf!" Goofy called out, as they all quickly made to head back to the Kingdom.
"I'm coming! Let's go kiss Hans!" Olaf replied, before asking in confusion, "Who is this Hans?"
"Anna's boyfriend." Lea replied.
Meanwhile, back at the Ice Palace, Aqua kept guard while having a conversation with Elsa who was telling her how her magic caused problems in the past.
"When I was a child, Anna and I had good times, playing with my snow magic. We built a cute snowman, which is Olaf, the same one who was here. But then one day while we were playing, I accidently hit her head with my powers." Elsa explained.
"I can see why you kept it from her for so long." Aqua thought, before thinking back of her times she spent with Ven and Terra.
"Is something wrong, Aqua?"
"No, it's just...Terra, Ven and I trained together to become Keyblade Masters. It was always our shared dream. Ven lost his memories before any of us met him, other than his name. Terra and I sticked with him sense then...until twelve years ago, when Xehanort caused so many horrible things that it broke the three of us apart, and doomed us and...struck down our master, Eraqus. Terra's body was taken over by Xehanort, Ven's heart was lost and had to sleep within Sora's heart...and I was trapped in the Realm of Darkness for twelve years after trying to save Terra..."
Aqua paused in her reminises, before continuing with a sigh, "And I inadvertedly doomed the Realm of Light to continue suffering to Xehanort...and it caused Sora, Riku, Kairi, and everyone else to continue the fight I should've finished off myself. It's only because of Mickey and Sora and the others that three of us, and even Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion and our other friend Namine were saved, and Xehanort was finally defeated."
Just then, she softly gasped and quickly stood in defense, glaring at the doors.
"What is it?" Elsa asked, suddenly concerned.
"Someone's here..." Aqua replied, "I can feel the darkness."
Outside of Elsa's Palace, Hans, the Duke and the Guards had arrived just outside of the door, ready to set forth on the mission, before the prince told the Guards, "We are here for Princess Anna. Be on guard, but no harm comes to the Queen. Do you understand?"
This had only made Marshmallow awaken from his nap when he heard this, and then stormed up towards Hans and the Guards who quickly drew their weapons, and attempted to take on the snow monster. However, Marshmallow unleashed his powerful attack and became all sharp and spiky before whacking the guards and knocked them out.
Within, Aqua and Elsa both quickly shut the doors, but not before one of the thugs saw them and exclaimed, "The Queen! And she has a woman with blue hair!"
"We have to get to higher ground!" Aqua told Elsa, taking her hand and pulled her to the stairs, and as they were halfway, the guards managed to barge in and immediately spotted the two before quickly following.
Unfortunately, the two women found themselves trapped at the top and were soon cornered by the guards, which terrified Elsa who shook her head, pleading, "No, please!"
"Queen Elsa! Don't be the monster they fear you are!" Hans commanded her.
"You're wrong!" Aqua shouted at Hans and the guards, glaring at them. "She is not a monster. She only came here because she doesn't want to hurt anyone."
"Don't listen to that young woman!" The Duke shouted as he joined Hans and the guards. "She is under the Queen's spell!"
One of the Guards then shot an arrow from an arrowbow at Elsa who cried out before trying to shield herself with her arms. Aqua quickly blocked it with her Keyblade, before ending up clashing against the swords of the other Guards, whacking the weapons out of their grasps before knocking them unconscious as she had no intentions to kill them.
To her shock, even the Heartless began to appear which forced both Elsa and Aqua to team up and fight them as well as the guards, combining their powers to destroy the Heartless and knocking the guards unconscious, as Elsa was doing her best to use her icy powers without letting them go out of control. Another one of the guards, who'd been stuck by an icicle, then aimed his arrow at Elsa, only for Hans, who saw this, to push his weapon upward up towards the Chandelier which then began to fall towards the two women.
"Look out!" Aqua shouted, throwing Elsa and herself out of the way to avoid in getting crushed, but the impact of the chandelier shattering into pieces was enough to cause them to hit the ground hard and knocked unconscious.
There was a tensed silence, until Hans approached the unconscious Elsa, before picking her up in his arms, before requesting the guards, "Carry the blue-haired woman and place her where the Queen will be placed."
One of the Guards nodded, before approaching the unconscious Aqua, before lifting her up and slumped her over his shoulder and then followed his fellow men, the prince and the duke out of the Palace...intending on returning to Arendelle.
When Elsa groaned and began to regain consciousness, above her was a concerned but now relieved Aqua.
"Are you alright, Elsa?" Aqua asked, worriedly.
"I-I think so." Elsa replied, before glancing around at their surroundings. They were in a dark, small, brick and gloomy room which a single window and a single door which apeared to be locked. Instantly, she recongised it, and muttered, "We're at Arendelle."
"I thought this was Arendelle." Aqua thought, before gazing out at the window. Elsa tried to follow, but soon found she was chained.
"Everything is covered in snow!" The Keyblade Master gasped, softly.
When Elsa heard this, her heart sank in devasation before slumping to the cold stone floor, gazing at her hands which were shaking in horror. "What have I done?"
Before Aqua could respond, the dungeon doors suddenly opened, and the two women looked to see Hans approach, with a lantern in hand, causing Elsa to demand at the Prince, "Why did you bring us here?"
"I couldn't just let them kill you or your new friend." Hans replied, though Aqua's eyes narrowed when he said this. There was...something very suspicious about this young man. She could sense darkness within his heart and she instantly knew...he couldn't be trusted.
"But I'm a danger to Arendelle!" Elsa pointed out, "Get Anna!"
"Anna has not returned." Hans shook his head, before requesting her, "If you would just stop the winter, bring back summer. Please?"
"Don't you see? I can't!" Elsa desperately said, beginning to sob. "You have to tell them to let us go! Aqua has friends who are worried about her!"
Hans sighed, as though resigned, "I will do what I can." before turning and left the dungeon, closing it behind him, which left Elsa distraughted.
"...There's something about Hans that I don't like." Aqua whispered to Elsa while bending to try and comfort her. "But I'm sure Sora, Anna and the others will find us."
"...I hope you're right." Elsa sobbed.
Just then, Aqua heard talking from the other side of the door, and, sensing more darkness, silently crept closer towards it and listened through. What she was hearing made her heart stop for a few seconds.
"...So that woman with blue hair-Aqua, was it?-has a Keyblade of her own." Beckett quired to Maleficent outside of the doors as he spoke with her and Hans. "Which means that she is with this Sora and his friends. Am I right?"
"Perhaps." Maleficent replied, "I am quite surprised that she is still alive after twelve years imprisoned in the Realm of Darkness. She belonged there, out of the way. No doubt Sora has retrieved her for whatever reason."
"I'm guessing that she's just as much trouble as Sora and his friends. How should we do this to get rid of them?" Hans asked, smirking evilly.
"We shall set a trap for them. I'm afraid Lord Beckett and I have...other plans to aqquire in another world. I trust that you can handle the rest of this on your own, Prince Hans?" Maleficent said.
"Just leave it to me." Hans chuckled.
Aqua's eyes widened as she silently stepped back from the door as quietly as possible. Not only was Hans in the league with Maleficent...but she also faked Lord Beckett's death and transformation into a Heartless? That meant Sora, Jack and Anna, and everyone else were in grave danger. She immediately knew that Hans had most likely plotted this from the beginning...making her realise that he was intending to take over the kingdom by oblierating both Elsa and Anna.
So the young Keyblade Master silently hurried back to Elsa and whispered to her, "Elsa...we need to get out of here. I'm afraid things are a lot worse than we thought."
Elsa didn't reply, but considering what Aqua was saying, she immediately that something was going horribly wrong...all the while the chains on her began to freeze.
A/N: I think each world will be four chapters long. Because the next chapter is definitely the last chapter of the Arendelle visit. Will Sora and the others make it back to Arendelle to help Anna? Will Aqua and Elsa escape the dungeon? Is Jack going to end up seeing Beckett?
Guess we'll wait and see. See you in the next chapter!