Author's Note: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH12: Act of True Love.
Sora and the others hurried as fast as they could as Anna was getting colder and weaker, as she was riding on Sven since he was their fastest transport for the Princess. Olaf was sliding in the snow like a Penguin, which was a comical sight if the situation wasn't so serious. Anna began shivering again, and Kristoff quickly took off his hat and put on her head.
"Just hang in there." Kristoff whispered to Anna, before crying out to Sven, "Come on, buddy! Faster!"
"Aqua...we'll find you." Terra muttered to himself, in which Ven had did the same thing, just as Olaf slid past them and the others.
"I'll meet you guys at the castle!" The snowman called out.
"Stay out of sight, Olaf!" Kristoff called out.
"I will!" Olaf replied, but unfortunately ended up meeting a woman who screamed hysterically, which caused the worldly companions to cringe.
"Wait, Olaf!" Mickey cried out, before turning to the others and said, "Let's meet up at the fountain and see if we can find Aqua." before giving chase to the Snowman.
"Wait, your Majesty!" Donald called out, following his and Goofy's king.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Goofy cried out, following his two best friends.
"Riku, Kristoff and I will take Anna to the castle. We'll catch up in finding Aqua later." Sora told the others who nodded in agreement, waiting just near the fountain point. Though for a moment, both Lea and Jack felt that something was starting to become wrong in the kingdom.
"I'm gonna see if I can't find the King and the others." Lea muttered, "Catcha later." and rushed off into the direction where three of their companions and their snowman friend had taken off, leaving Kairi and everyone else share a sudden concerned glance, while Sora, Riku and Kristoff hurried Anna to the Palace to find Hans.
That's when Kairi felt a familiar and painful jolt, which caused her to place her hands on her chest, shutting her eyes but as she did, two angry red eyes filled her vision for a split second before she opened her own eyes, and her vision returned to normal, but her reaction caused everyone else to suddenly notice and gathered around her worriedly, worried that Elsa might've hit her with her ice magic as well.
"Are you okay?" Roxas asked.
Kairi didn't reply straight away. After a moment, she blinked before muttering to her friends with grave concern, "Guys...something's wrong here. I think we should stick around and look around the Kingdom, just in case."
"Huh?" Myde blinked, not getting what the Princess of Heart was feeling.
"She's right." Isa responded, eyes narrowing as he glanced around as well. "I'm afraid that things are not looking so well."
"Judging by your concern expressions, it's come to my belief that...something disasterous is about to happen." Jack muttered, before admitting, "Because I have doubts about this Prince Hans."
"There is darkness lurking somewhere here." Skuld nodded in agreement, glancing around as her eyes narrowed. "We wait for Sora and Kristoff and warn them that something's happening."
Just then, a woman's scream filled the air, coming from behind them. Kairi and the others all whirled around just to see a young woman with black hair screaming out as she ran past them, not noticing their pressence, "There are monsters at the Fort! Lots of them!"
It didn't take long for the group to realise what was going on, and despite wanting to wait for Sora and Kristoff, they knew that if Heartless were at the Fort, they had to sort this out before things got worse. With a reluctanted nod, Kairi and the rest of the group summoned their weapons, and hurried to fight off the Heartless, not knowing that the situation was only about to get twice as bad.
Sora, Riku and Kristoff hurried Anna to the front castle doors to show the Guards that the Princess was in trouble, much to their shock. As they began to hurry Anna to keep warm after telling them that she needed to see Prince Hans, the Princess turned back to her friends and asked, "Are you and the others gonna be okay?"
"Don't worry about us." Kristoff replied.
"We'll be fine." Sora added, just as the maids came to help Anna as well.
"Get her warm and find Prince Hans, immediately." Kristoff requested.
"We will. Thank you." One of the maids nodded.
"Make sure she stays safe." Kristoff added, before Anna, the maids and the guards disappeared.
"We should find the others and then find Aqua." Riku told Sora and Kristoff who both nodded, following the silver-haired teen out to rejoin the others.
In the hallway, Lea had no trouble in finding Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, and were secretly following the guards when they spotted Anna being treated along with a young man whom they suspect was Hans. They hid behind the large shield near the door that lead into the Library and listened in while the maids and guards left, thinking that things would be alright.
"What happened out there?" Hans asked, sounding worried.
"Elsa struck me with her powers." Anna weakly replied, apparently shivering.
"You said she wouldn't hurt you."
"I was wrong...she froze my heart and only an act of true love can save me."
"...A true love's kiss."
When they heard this, Lea, Mickey, Donald and Goofy immediately knew that something wasn't right. They risked to peak behind the wall as the doors were still open, and found that Hans had layed Anna on the couch, and was leaning in to kiss her...only for the Prince to smirk cruely and quickly expose his true colours.
"Oh, Anna. If only there was someone out there who loved you." Hans smirked.
"What?" Anna's eyes widened in shock, unable to believe what was happening. "You said you did." She protested as Hans walked over to the window and pulled the curtains closed.
"As thirteenth in line in my own kingdom, I didn't stand a chance. I knew I'd have to marry into the throne somewhere..." Hans explained.
"What are you talking about?" Anna asked.
Hans then blew out a candle while answering, revealing his true plans, "As heir, Elsa was preferable, of course, but no one was getting anywhere with her. But you...You were so desperate for love, you were willing to marry me, just like that!" before picking up a pitcher of water, "I figured after we married, I'd have to stage a little accident for Elsa."
Realising what Hans was attemping to really do and also realising how gullible she'd been, Anna tried to get up to stop Hans herself, but the moment he tossed the water onto the fire in the fireplace, extinguishing it, due to the tempreture dropping dramatically, she ended up falling on the floor instead, severally weakened and pleaded, "Hans, no! Stop!"
"But then she doomed herself, and you were dumb enough to go after her." Hans continued, ignoring her pleads and was equally pleased that things were working just the way he wanted, and the people of this kingdom were foolish enough to believe that the blame was all onto Elsa and Anna. "All that's left now is to kill Elsa and bring back summer."
Anna's eyes narrowed angrily and despite that she knew now that it was all her fault for being so gullible and because of this, she strained her sister's relationship, causing Elsa to become feared, and then all of this happened, and now Arendelle might be doomed if something wasn't done. Still...at least Elsa would be safe.
"You're no match for Elsa." Anna grunted.
"No." Hans denied, approaching the dying princess and gripped her chin, saying coldly, "You're no match for Elsa. I, on the other hand, am the hero who is going to save Arendelle from destruction." before turning and as soon as Lea and the others quickly hid avoid being seen from Hans, the evil Prince began to walk out of the room.
"You won't get away with this!" Anna yelled, weakly.
"Oh, I already have." Hans chuckled, shutting the door behind him and leaving Anna trapped and weak in the dark, freezing room to die. All that was left was to continue to fool the people of his new kingdom and murder Elsa to become the new King.
But he didn't count on Lea, Mickey, Donald and Goofy having overheard this, and continued to stay out of sight as the Hans put on his false innocent mask, he approached the Duke, maids and guards who were beginning to shiver as the tempreture through out the kingdom was getting worse.
"Princess Anna...is dead." Hans announced, in very convincing sadness.
"What happened?" The duke demanded.
"She was killed by Queen Elsa." The prince lied.
"Her own sister." The duke gasped, horrified.
Hans nodded, continuing to lie, "At least...we got to say our marriage vows before she died in my arms."
"There can be no doubt now." The Duke grunted, furious with what has happened. "Queen Elsa is a monster and we are all in grave danger!"
"Prince Hans...Arendelle looks to you." A royal guard bowed with respect.
"With a heavy heart, I charge Queen Elsa of Arendelle for treason and sentence her to death." Hans declared, before adding, "Along with her bodyguard with the blue hair."
The eyes of Lea, Mickey, Donald and Goofy widened in sheer horror when they heard this; Not only was Elsa captured, but Aqua was with her as well! To make things worse, both of them were about to be killed and if they and the rest of the group didn't do something, then Anna, Elsa and Aqua were all dead women. As Hans and the guards and Duke left the hallway and out of earshot and sight, the four of them knew what had to be done.
"I'll keep Anna as warm as I can." Lea whispered to the trio, "You guys think you can handle in saving Elsa and Aqua and warn the others?"
"Right!" Mickey nodded with determination. He wasn't going to fail in saving Aqua again. She was his friend, and he knew that Elsa would be devastated since there wasn't anything they could do to save Anna except for keep her warm as long as possible to delay her death. "Hurry!"
The redhead nodded and immediately went to rescue Anna while Mickey, Donald and Goofy, who were both determined as well, all hurried down the hallway to stop Hans from killing Aqua and Elsa.
Unfortunately, before the trio could even reach the entrance to the stairs of the dungeon, Heartless appeared and blocked them from entering.
"The Heartless!" Goofy gasped, quickly summoning his shield, while Mickey summoned his Kingdom Key-D Keyblade.
"Hey, outta the way!" Donald yelled at the Heartless while summoning his Staff.
"We'd' better hurry and stop them!" Mickey told his childhood friends, knowing that they had to go through the Heartless to save Elsa and Aqua.
Meanwhile, in the dungeon, Aqua was trying to figure out a way how to get Elsa and herself out when she noticed out through the window that a blizzard was starting up, and on top of that, her eyes widened in the wall and ceiling were beginning to freeze...coming from Elsa's magic now that she saw what was happening.
"Aqua, help me break these chains!" Elsa whispered, pulling hard on the chains that kept her restrain.
"Right!" Aqua nodded, summoning her Keyblade and slashed the chains into pieces, which, considering how they were frozen in ice, was another big help.
By the time Hans and the guards came into the dungeon to execute the two women...they were already gone, because they had also broke through the wall since it'd been weakend by the ice of the Queen's powers. He also spotted the two women running to find Sora and the others to warn them of the dangers.
As Sora, Riku were about to begin their search for the others and to find Aqua while Kristoff made plans to go as well, suddenly Heartless appeared all around them, forcing Sora and Riku to summon their Keyblade considering how they were already in trouble again.
"Back off!" Sora yelled at the Heartless, slashing two with his Keyblade almost single handedly, before dodge-rolling out of the way when an Ice-Block like Heartless tried to freeze him but missed, and it was finished off when Sora casted Firaga to melt it into oblivion.
Riku flipped through the air over three Slender-Snow-man Heartless and landed behind them before he slashed their backs with his Keyblade, destroying them. He then quickly blocked the shadow Heartless when it tried to claw at him and swiped it in half.
Kristoff, not experienced much in a fight, managed to grab hold of piece of wood nearby and whacked the Heartless that came to attack him with it like a club. Even Sven used his antlers to help in defeat the Heartless the came to try and steal the group's hearts.
As soon as the Heartless were defeated, the four of them suddenly felt the freezing tempretures through out the kingdom, and all around them, the snow storm was quickly starting, and was already getting worse. Sora and Riku both shared a horrified glance, realising what was happening.
Anna was in trouble.
"Come on!" Sora declared, already taking the lead back towards the castle, with Riku quickly following.
"H-hey! What're you guys doing?" Kristoff called out, only for Sven, who also felt that something was wrong, lifts him up with his antlers and charged to follow the two Keyblade Masters, causing Kristoff to cry out to his reindeer, "No, Sven! We're not going back! Anna's with her true love! Stop it! Put me down!"
Meanwhile, Lea was struggling to open the doors without blasting through them, but wasn't having much success.
"Ah, screw it!" Lea grunted, summoning his Keyblade, and admitted to himself, "Never used my Keyblade to open locks before. Just hope it'll work."
The redhead carefully aimed the Keyblade at the door, hoping against hope that it'll work. Thankfully, the tip of the fiery-design weapon began to glow in light before a beam of light shot through into the keyhole of the door and just as the former Nobody had hoped for, he heard the lock unlock itself. He grinned while dismissing it, and was about to enter when a familiar voice spoke behind him.
"Whoa, that was a fancy magic key!" Olaf's voice spoke.
This startled Lea who whirled around to see Olaf standing behind him, causing the redhead to ask in surprise, "Whoa! Olaf? Where'd you come from?" before shaking his head as he remembered that he had a princess to save. "Never mind. Anna's in trouble."
He didn't wait for Olaf to answer, and instead opened the doors and his eyes widened to find Anna lying on the ground, the ceiling having ice creeping all over. Hurriedly, Lea rushed over to the fireplace and with Olaf's help despite the redhead's warning that the fire is dangerous, placed pieces of wood into it, before Lea used his fire magic to light it up.
"Okay...it's a start." Lea muttered, turning to look behind him and Olaf to see that Anna gazed up at the two, a look of surprise, worry and relief dawning on her face.
"Lea? Olaf?" Anna asked, before quickly saying to the snowman, "Olaf, Get away from thereÇ"
"Whoa, so this is heat?" Olaf asked, getting closer to the fire, "I love it!"
"Olaf, don't touch that!" Lea warned when he saw Olaf attempting to touch the fire. He winched when Olaf yanked his hand back as his arm caught a tiny bit of fire before it was put out.
"But I can't touch it." Olaf muttered.
While shaking his head, Lea then stood up and approached Anna, before he scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the fireplace as close as he dared, laying her on the ground and wrapped his arms around her, using his body heat to help warm up her freezing body despite that her hair had turned completely white by now. His heart ached that, at the rate things were going, Anna was as good as a Princess Popcicle.
"So, where's Hans? What happened to your kiss?" Olaf asked, noting that something had gone wrong.
"I was wrong about him." Anna answered, miserably. "It wasn't true love."
Lea's expression turned to anger, but managed to keep it in check. "Yeah, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and I kinda overheard that jerk. He planned to take over the kingdom by killing both Elsa and Anna and make it as if it was all Elsa's fault. The others are trying to find her and Aqua as we speak. In the meantime, I'm babysitting to keep Anna warm."
"But we ran all the way here." Olaf said, shocked.
"Please, Olaf you can't stay here. You'll melt." Anna told her friend, before gazing Lea as much as she could, "And Lea...you can't stay here either. Go back to Sora and the others."
"What? You seriously think I'm gonna leave you to freeze to death?" Lea asked, incredulously. "No way, An'. I don't leave any of my friends when they're in trouble; that includes you, Princess or not. Got it memorized?"
"Besides, I'm not leaving either." Olaf added, "We're not leaving until we find some other act of true love to save you." as he went to sit next to the two of them, before asking, "Do you happen to have any ideas?"
"I don't even know what love is." Anna sighed, shaking her head in sadness and defeat.
"Sure you do." Lea pointed out, smiling a little. "You went out of you way to find your sister because you loved her, didn't you? I would've done the same thing if it were Roxas, Xion and Isa. Done that quite a few times, actually. Love isn't just about a guy and a girl falllin' for each other. It comes from in many kinds of ways. Ya' know what I'm saying?"
"Lea's right." Olaf said in agreement, "As he just said, love is...putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever."
Anna's eyes widened in surprise. "Kristoff...loves me?"
"Wow. You really don't know anything about love, do you?" Olaf asked, just as his head began to melt, and he had to quickly fix it up along with prevent his nose from falling off his face.
"Olaf, you're melting!" Anna cried out, while Lea gasped softly.
"Some people are worth melting for." Olaf pointed out, and earned a smile from Anna and from Lea, before fixing up his head again, then added a little sheepishly, "Just maybe not right this second."
Just then, much to their shock and dismay, the window was suddenly blasted open by the strong icy gusts of wind.
"Oh, c'mon! You gotta be kiddin' me!" Lea yelled out, while trying to block Anna from the chilly blizzard winds as much as possible.
"Don't worry! I got it! We're going to get through...!" Olaf said as he hurried to close the window when he spotted something outside. "Oh, wait. Hang on. I'm getting something."
Somehow breaking an icicle from the window off, Olaf used it like a telescope and his eyes widened when he saw what was going on outside. "It's Kristoff, Sora, Riku and Sven! They're coming back! And Kairi and the others are fighting those black and icy monsters!"
"They are?" Anna asked, with hoping filling up in her chest.
"Goes to show that they knew something was wrong." Lea smirked, "When people sense that their friends or loved ones are in trouble, they always come back to save them."
Anna, realising what this meant, knew what had to be done. "Guys, help me, please." slowly starting to sit up.
"What, are you nuts?" Lea protested, realising what the woman was attempting to do, but helped her stand up none the less.
"No, no, no, no, no. You need to stay by the fire and keep warm." Olaf said as he rejoined two of his friends.
"We need to get to Kristoff, Sora and the others." Anna pointed out.
While Lea gave out a resigned sigh, knowing that Anna wasn't going to take no for an answer, not to mention that this might be their next best shot in curing her, Olaf couldn't help but ask, "Why?"
Anna and Lea both gave him stern looks, and suddenly Olaf realised why they had to get to the others. "Oh, oh, oh, I know why. That's your act of true love, right there, riding across the fjords like a valiant, pungent, reindeer king! Come on!"
The trio hurried out through the library doors only for the ice on the ceiling becoming worse, and Lea, Anna and Olaf skid to stop when spikes blocked their way just as they entered the hallway.
"We're trapped." Olaf cried out, worriedly, as he, Anna and Lea tried to find their way out.
That's when Lea had an idea and summoned his Chakrams, telling the others to stand back before he sliced through the ice spikes, shattering them which cleared the way to outside. "Let's go!" He told Anna and Olaf who, while amazed at what the Pyro just did, nodded before the trio ventured off once more.
Things were practically spiraling out of control in Arendelle; Aqua and Elsa continued running to try and find the others to warn them of the dangers while Aqua fought against the Heartless that blocked their way; Kairi and her group fought the Heartless at the Fjords which were somehow increasing due to the snow storm blowing and wasn't helping matters.
Mickey, Donald and Goofy had fought off the Heartless only to find that Aqua and Elsa had escaped and Hans and the guards were chasing after them, leaving the trio to try and slow them down when they caught up, but were unable to stop Hans since they were too busy fighting both the guards and the Heartless that appeared; Sora, Riku and Kristoff were riding on Sven and fighting through the storm and the Heartless looking for their friends.
"Kristoff!" The four of them heard Anna's voice yell through the storm.
As Lea, Anna and Olaf were racing to reach the four of them, the wind suddenly became stronger and as they struggled, Olaf was blown away, much to their shock.
"Olaf, no!" Lea shouted.
"Keep going!" Olaf cried out as he was blown away.
With little choice and seeing how Anna's hands were becoming frozen, Lea quickly scooped her once again and carried her as he ran to find Kristoff, Sora and Riku who were making up for lost time to reach them, but the powerful snow storm managed to lift the ship at the docks like a tornado and sending crashing onto the ice Sven was running on. Due to this, the ice underneath them cracked which revealed water, and caused the reindeer to lose his balance, sending Sora, Riku and Kristoff flying to the other side to safety.
"Sven!" Kristoff, Sora and Riku cried out, worriedly.
To their relief, Sven resurfaced from the freezing water and climbed onto the chunk of ice, shivering through the cold, but still alive.
"Good boy." Kristoff sighed in relief, before quickly following Sora and Riku to find Anna.
Mickey, Donald and Goofy eventually found themselves through the Fjord when the latter spotted all of the familiar faces, "Look! They're all over the place!"
"I wonder how we'll be able to save Anna now?" Mickey thought worriedly, concerned for the safeties of Elsa, Anna and Aqua.
"Look! They're trying to get to Kristoff!" Donald cried out, pointing at Sora, Riku and Kristoff heading towards Lea who was carrying Anna in his arms.
"Come on, fellas! They need our help!" Mickey told them hurriedly, taking the lead once more, with Donald and Goofy quickly following.
Aqua and Elsa in the meantime were getting themselves lost due to the storm, and they tried to find their way through. Just as Aqua thought about using a Firaga spell, she was suddenly caught off guard when something pushed her to the side and pushed Elsa back onto the ground, much to the latter's horror. Aqua in the meantime, found herself gripped tightly by a giant Heartless that was about the size of a Darkside Heartess, but it was more like a Yeti, eyes blood red, fur all shaggy and white with the Heartless symbol on it's chest, and held it's captive tightly that it refused to let go.
Sora and the others heard Aqua's cry and when they looked up, their eyes widened as the giant Heartless had captured their friend, and immediately, Sora knew what to do.
"You guys go to Elsa and meet up with the others!" Sora told them, summoning his Keyblade and immediately raced to rescue their friend.
"Sora!" Riku cried, attempting to follow, but was blocked off when smaller Heartless appeared, blocking him from helping his friends. With no other choice, he turned back to a worried Kristoff and told him, "Go! Anna needs you!"
"You people are crazy!...Be careful!" Kristoff cried out, before hurrying to meet Anna and Lea as fast as he could.
As the rest of the worldly travellers were still fighting off the Heartless despite getting cold and exhausted even though they repeatedly used Cure magic, Sora leaped from the nearby buildings, making his way up due to his execellent climbing skills until he reached the Snow-Heartless' level as it was slowly raising Aqua towards it's mouth to eat her. In response, the teenaged wielder tossed his Keyblade like a boomarang right at it's head, causing it to roar in agony and loosen it's grip on the blue-haired woman who fell, but managed to righten herself in mid-air, and landed safely on the ground, before leaping out of the way before it could catch her again.
Sora leaped down to ground level and rushed towards Aqua who slowly stood up, panting.
"Aqua! Are you alright?" Sora asked, worriedly.
"I'm fine..." Aqua began, only to be interrupted when the Heartless roared, causing her and Sora to turn to gaze at while it glared down at them, angry now due to Sora having used his Keyblade to distract it. "But we'll have to stop this thing first!"
"Right!" Sora replied, as he and Aqua stood in fighting stances to fight the Heartless.
The Snow-Heartless recoiled it's first high in the air before thrusting it down to crush the two Keyblade wielders with a punch, but Sora and Aqua saw this coming and the two Keyblade Masters jumped out of the way, though the impact it made on the ground caused a small crater with a few cracks. Despite the damage, Sora and Aqua rushed forward and thrusted their Keyblades with series of combos against the arms and legs of the Heartless who roared in pain. However, it managed to catch the two off-guard by whacking them with a swipe of it's arm, sending to two flying backwards and crashing onto the ground.
None the less, Sora and Aqua quickly used Curaga to heal themselves before avoiding it's grasp when it tried to catch them. Aqua blasted a Firaga Spell at it's face, forcing it to recoil back and doing severe damage. Realising that heat was it's weakness, Sora and Aqua both nodded and seeing chimnies smoking despite the blizzard, the two Keyblade Masters decided to use those to their advantage, and raced out of the way when the Snow-Heartless held up it's hands above it's head, creating a massive ball of ice and tossed it towards them, but it missed and it shattered into pieces, though it did cause a powerful tremor that was also damaging.
Despite this and getting some hit from the tremors, that didn't stop Sora or Aqua from leaping up onto nearby buildings that had smoke from each chimney. Once Sora and Aqua were at their destinations, they powered up their Firaga Spells which, due to the heat of the smoke, created self-made fire-balls which, at each other's signal despite the Heartless making to attack again, thrusted out their attacks at both the chest and the face of the Heartless, causing more damage to it and forcing it to step backwards, and it also slumped forward, dazed. This allowed the two Keyblade Masters to quickly leap off the buildings and slashed and clashed at the Heartless once more.
Sora then casted Thunderaga right at it's eyes while Aqua spun her Keyblade, twirling it expertly at it's arms to prevent it from shielding it's eyes but the two were hit hard when it managed to whack them back again despite getting weaker and weaker, but it seemed that the blizzard was slowly healing. This the two wielders noticed, meaning that they had to hurry to decrease it and defeat it before it would fully heal due to the snow storm. Sora and Aqua then hurried out of the way when the Snow-Heartless stomped on the ground once, creating ice spikes that were travelling along to try and impale them. Fortunately, they reached the buildings on time and repeated their earlier idea that made it dizzy before.
Quickly drinking the Elixir potions to regenerate their magic in their vains, Sora and Aqua then blasted as much fire magic as possible, while wishing that Lea was with them to help defeat it faster due to him being the master of fire magic, but as such, he was with Riku to help Anna and Kristoff reunite and cure Anna's heart. Not only that, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Terra, Ven, Xion, Roxas, Skuld, Jack and Myde were still busy fighting the now finally decreasing Heartless and suddenly Sora and Aqua knew why; Hans and this Heartless were the source of the seemingly never-ending horde. So it was up to the two of them to finish this off.
Sora then used his Flowmotion to slide up by using the Heartless' body to his advantage due to it being made of ice and thrusted his Keyblade down hard at it's face, creating a massive scar, while Aqua leaped up and used series of Firaga and Thunderaga spells combined at it's chest while leaping back and forth on it's arms to avoid in being captured and Sora jumped repeatedly on it's shoulders and kept on using the combination of Firaga spells and his swordsmanship skills at it's head, both of them making sure that, despite having to also quickly pause to heal themselves and careful in how to watch out for their magic's limits, they wouldn't allow it to absorb the snow storm's blizzard to slowly heal itself.
After what seemed like forever, the Heartless was finally slowing down. This was enough for Sora and Aqua to meet mid-air and with a nod of agreement as both of them came to the sudden same idea, the two Keyblade Masters touched back to back and thrusted their Keyblades in good speeding rate which were combined by touching their Keyblades together, unleashing a massive ball of Fire combined by their Firaga spells, thrusting it right at the Heartless's chest and sending it backwards. Sora and Aqua then finished it off by descending and gave a final slash in a long cut, running their Keyblades into it's skin before leaping away and landing back on the ground while the Heartless collasped onto it's back with a near almighty thud, it's mouth wide open in deathly defeat, unmoving.
To confirm of it's demise, a large heart appeared from it's chest as it floated away, while the Heartless itself disappeared, vanishing forever into darkness.
While relieved that the Heartless was gone, Aqua immediately turned to Sora and said, "Hans is going to kill Elsa and Anna! He was in the league with Maleficent."
"What!?" Sora exclaimed, shocked.
"It's been a trick all long; Hans only proposed to Anna so that he could kill her and Elsa to take over the kingdom." Aqua continued.
"That explains why Anna hasn't been cured yet. Where's Elsa?" Sora replied.
"We have to find her!" Aqua realised.
With a nod of agreement, Sora and Aqua fought through the storm to try and find anyone as much as possible.
Elsa, stuck by herself, sensed movement behind her as she heard Hans' voice yell out, "ELSA! You can't run from this!"
Realising that there was nowhere else to run or hide, and slowly coming to accept her fate and punishment, Elsa, despite Aqua's warning earlier, pleadingly said to Hans, "Just take care of my sister!"
Hans put on a false saddened and angered expression as he told her, "Your sister!? She returned from the mountain weak and cold! She said that you froze her heart!"
"No..." Elsa gasped softly, eyes widened in growing horror, as darkness was beginning to seep into her heart. It couldn't be true...!
"I tried to save her but it was too late! Her skin was ice, her hair turned white... Your sister is dead! Because of you!"
"No..." Elsa, her heart aching in sorrow and guilt, knowing that Hans was right. It was because of her that Anna was gone...all because of her! Collasping onto the ground, slowly becoming overcome with grief. Due to her grief and guilt, much to most of people's surprise, the storm soon stopped.
This allowed everyone to see what was happening and the worldly travellers had managed to stop the Heartless invasion, which, unknowingly to them, was all part of Maleficent's trap to prevent Sora and his friends from saving both Anna and Elsa. This also allowed Anna and Kristoff to finally see each other, much to their, Lea and Riku's relief, while Sora and Aqua, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and everyone else were about to approach then they all heard the sound of a sword being drawn.
To their horror as Sora and all of his friends turned to see, Hans had drawn his sword and made to strike the grieving Elsa. Making up her mind in order to save her sister, Anna, instead of going to have a true love's kiss with Kristoff, though almost completely frozen, rushed over with the last of her strength, throwing herself in front of Elsa and blocking Hans' attack, screaming, "NOOO!"
While in her attempts to sacrifice herself to save her sister, Elsa's accidental spell has done it's job and much to her sister's and friends' sheer horror, Anna was completely frozen in ice, in which the sword, upon the thrusting contact, was shattered into pieces. The impact of it cause one of the broken sword pieces to knock Hans into the forehead and knocked him back, where he hit the ground, unconscious.
Elsa, hearing her sister and looking up, horror of what she saw replaced the horror she felt moments ago, and exclaimed in dismay, "Anna!"
"Oh no!" Micked cried out, horrified.
Kairi, Aqua, Xion and Skuld gasped while covering their mouths with their hands, while Donald, Goofy and even Jack were left speechless in horror, and Sora, Riku, Roxas, Lea, Isa, Ven, Terra, Myde and Kristoff softly gasped in horror, just as Olaf, who managed to recover, had made it to the others along with Sven and those loyal to the Princess and Queen, all horrified at what just happened. Anna had just sacrificed herself to save Elsa...and froze to death in solid ice as a result in her final moments.
Elsa stood up and went in front of her frozen sister, touching her face as though hoping that she would move...but Anna didn't. "Oh, Anna... No, no, please... No."
Realising in devastation, and tears falling freely for having now lost the only family she had, and the distraughted guilt aching her heart, Elsa threw her arms around Anna's solid form, hugging it as she cried. Sora and everyone else mourned for the loss of Anna, with Kairi seeking comfort from Sora, throwing herself ino his chest and cried on his shoulder. Sora could only wrap his arms around her, doing his best to comfort her despite that tears were falling from his eyes as well. Aqua, Xion and Skuld did the same with Terra, Roxas and Ven, while Mickey repeatedly tried and failed to keep his eyes at bay, silently sobbing as well. Donald and Goofy hugged each other while they and Myde bawled their eyes out, letting loose water-works of tears. Isa could only look away, his breath shaking in horror and sorrow. Lea shut his eyes, his eyes stinging with tears.
Even Jack wasn't immune to the loss of one's life, especially to that of the one who sacrificed themselves to save another. All he could do was stare at the heart-breaking moment before him. He was suddenly seeing an image of what would've happened if either Will or Elizabeth had done the same for one another and the devastation that said person whom they gave up their life for would have to go through the way Elsa was going through right now.
Then, as though miracle happened to bless them, Anna's heart seemed to warmed because her chest was glowing, and then, much to everyone's surprise, her body began to thaw and while unable to believe it, Anna had returned to life as she gasped a breath, and her hair also returned to it's original colour, much to Elsa's surprise and happiness.
"Anna?" Elsa whispered, and also, the light in her heart returned, brighter than ever.
In happiness, the two reunited sisters embraced, the closest they had ever been in years. "Oh Elsa." Anna whispered, having returned to life.
"You sacrificed yourself for me?" Elsa asked.
Anna smiled, and simply said, "I love you."
That's when Olaf understood how this happened, and said, "An act of true love can heal a frozen heart!"
"So the love Anna had for Elsa was the true love needed to restore her heart to normal." Mickey added, also realising how it happened.
"I knew it wasn't the true love's kiss that would cut it." Myde thought, smiling, only to be whacked upside of the head by Isa who gave him an annoyed look. "Ow! What was that for?"
Hearing this, Elsa's eyes widened as she realised what the mysterious cloaked figure had been trying to tell her all this time; the warmth of the heart and the act of true love can thaw a frozen heart, she connected it in her mind and realised what it really means to control her powers. "Love...of course."
"Elsa?" Anna asked, puzzled.
"Love." Elsa repeated, and with the swipe of her hand and by the dust of her magic, the ice and snow began to melt and disappear all around the kingdom and suprising everyone. The ice and snow soon formed into a giant snow flake when then poofed out of existance. The area around everyone returned to the warmth of summer, making everyone else that the eternal winter was broken.
Smiling happily, Anna turned to her sister and beamed, "I knew you could do it."
"Hands down, this is the best day of my life!" Olaf said, as he soon began to melt due to the summer's heat, and while sad, he accepted his fate. "And quite possibly the last..."
Seeing what was happening to their snowman friend, Elsa hurriedly reached to Olaf and said, "Oh, Olaf! Hang on, little guy." using her magic to create a small cloud flurry above Olaf's body, restoring him to normal.
Seeing what happened and realising that he wasn't going to melt in Summer afterall, seeing how his dream had come true, Olaf danced around happily, "My own personal FLURRY!"
"This is the biggest relief I've ever seen in my life." Roxas thought, happily.
"Quite astonishing events right here." Jack admitted, before smirking warmly, "Should see that more often." before a moan caught his and everyone else's attentions.
When they turned to see where the moaning was coming from, everyone narrowed their eyes anger when Hans regained consciousness, standing up slowly. Growling softly, Kristoff was about to approach the evil Prince to punch him in the face, only to be stopped by Anna who shook her head, before moving towards Hans who, regaining his senses, was shocked to see Anna back to life and back to normal.
"Anna?" Hans gapped, shocked and disbelieved, and also that summer was back and Elsa was still alive. "But she froze your heart."
"The only frozen heart around here is yours." Anna replied, turning as though she was done with him. But then she whirled around and punched him squarely in the face which caused him to stumble back and fall into the water of the fountain.
"Whoa..." Myde gapped, stunned at what Anna just did.
Lea lets out an impressed whistle before chuckling, saying to the guys of the group, "Don't cross ladies; especially Princesses."
"Whoever once said that women cannot be tough like men are very wrong." Jack nodded in agreement, adding, "Seen quite amount of women do that in my lifetime. Never denied them even the slightest."
Short time later, Hans was thrown into the brig of the ship that was set to return to the country of his origins, as one of the other continant's men, the Frenchman Ambassador said to another man named Kai, "I will return this scoundrel to his country. We shall see what his twelve big brothers think of his behavior."
"Arendelle thanks you, my lord." Kai replied, nodding his head in respect, while the duke, who was also going to be punished for his behavior, was being dragged to the ship with his thugs.
"This is unacceptable, I am a victim of fear. I've been traumatized!" The duke was crying out, pretending to be the victum of fear, "Oww, my neck hurts. Is there a doctor that I can see?"
When he saw that no one was convinced of this, he then shouted aloud, "No, I demand to see the Queen!"
As though remembering something, Kai approached the duke while unrolling a scroll, saying formerly to him, "Oh, I have a message from the Queen. Arendelle will henceforth and forever no longer do business of any sort with Weasel Town."
"Weselton! It's Weselton!" The Duke grunted in irritation.
Not too far from the ships, Jack had snuck away to at least have a peak at the vessels, and gazed with somewhat sadness and longing-ness, reminded of the Black Pearl and his home world. While he far from melodramatic and sympathy, he did miss his world and wondered when he would eventually return.
When he heard the commotion with Kai and the Duke, the pirate couldn't help but smirk as he began to walk away to rejoin Sora and the others, muttering to himself, "For a man like the one with the glasses, Weasel Town sounds a lot better."
Everything calm and returning to normal, Sora and all of his worldly companions stood before Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven fifteen minutes later, as now that the world was safe, it was time for the travellers to go.
"Do you have to go?" Olaf asked, sounding sad.
"Well, we have other places to do to that need our help." Mickey answered.
"Is it okay that we come back to visit?" Kairi asked, hopefully.
"Of course you all can." Elsa answered with a smile, "I can't thank you all enough."
Anna nodded in agreement, "Thank you for everything, guys."
"Yeah...what, she just said." Kristoff added, awkwardly.
"All in the days work." Sora replied, pounding himself in the chest confidently.
Just then, Olaf suddenly glowed, much to his and everyone else's surprise. Sora, realising what was happening, summoned his Keyblade before holding out the weapon, the crown shape appearing underneath him as the world's Keyhole appeared via a beam of light shooting out from Olaf. Sora then thrusted the Kingdom Key upward and via another beam of light, he locked up the world's keyhole, protecting it from the darkness before things returned to normal.
"What was that light?" Olaf asked, surprised.
"The world will be safe from the darkness now." Skuld answered. "It was the keyhole."
"Catcha guys later." Lea waved at the five friends of this world who waved back at him and the rest of the worldly travellers.
Sora and his companions left the world of Arendelle behind while Anna and Elsa renewed their relationship, stronger than ever before, and now their happy lives were added by Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, who were to be part of their lives forever.
As for Sora and his friends, they set off towards their next destination and the next world, wherever it may be.
{Arendelle}
However, unaware to everyone in Arendelle and to Sora and his companions, up on the hill where the kingdom could be seen, the mysterious cloaked figure stood, having witnessed the events that unfolded, his hands behind his back, before he bend down and plucked a dandelion in front of him and stood up once more, gazing at it.
"No doubt about it...those kids know what they're doin'." He said to himself, before chuckling as he gently blew at the dandelion, sending it's smaller pieces to float freely into the air, flying by the gentle gusts of wind. "I'm starting to like them."
With that, he then turned and walked away, to who knows where.
Meanwhile, in a dark chamber where a round table was set up with chairs, Lamuria had told Arlene, Master Aced, and even Shelke and Shalua of the events that occured in Arendelle.
"I sense that world has been sealed from the darkness." Aced spoke after a few moments of tensed silence. Clutching his fist in sheer annoyance, he grunted, "They are doing everything to protect the Realm of Light completely wrong...!"
"But if that world was sealed, isn't that a good thing?" Shalua asked, finding herself quite curious.
"It is...but I should've been there and finished things off the right way...don't you see what those foolish children are doing!? It's completely out of my control!" Aced growled, punching his fist onto the table which shook it a little on impact.
"Calm down, Master." Shelke said calmingly, before speaking up her theory, "It appears that Sora and those with him still intend on protecting the Realm of Light, despite what they had done to have summoned Chaos in the first place. I believe that they are seeking a way to solve all of this."
Despite not liking this theory, Aced began to realise that she was right. As much as it irked him, and as much as he lothed the way those who he think should never have Keyblades were doing things, so far there hasn't been much of disturbance of such from Sora and his allies. Not to mention that they had other problems to worry about; Chaos for example.
"Let's continue to keep on eye on them, then." Aced finally sighed, before giving out his orders to those who followed him, "Arlene and Lamuria, the two of you will continue to keep an eye on Sora and his allies. Shelke and Shalua, continue research through our prisoners as well as those who follow Chaos."
"Yes, Master." All four of them nodded in unison.
Whatever the goals Aced had in mind, it would be known soon.
A/N: To the guest who suggested to have Sora and Aqua team up to fight against the final boss in Arendelle, thanks for that. It really helped a lot. Now it's a matter of which Disney world I'm attempting to have Sora and the others visit next.
Both the Jungle Book and Atlantis are in my mind right now, even though I know that I should add Tangled in here...I'm just not certain which one to do next, and to me, revisiting both Agrabah and Port Royal are still too early at this stage. What are your thoughts on this, guys?
See you in the next chapter!