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"Prince Hans, the people of Arendelle are freezing and they are complaining about their food supply unexpected cold. Perhaps we should give our assistance."
"Send in whatever blankets you have. Make sure that the people are warm and nourished. I will arrive later to personally help them." Hans replied to one of the servants as he is scouring the library to learn more about the kingdom.
"As you wish sir." The burly fat servant replied before leaving to instruct the other servants.
As Hans sends the servants off, he then recalls everything he learnt while becoming the temporary ruler of the kingdom. Apparently this kingdom used to have an open gates policy to the common populace where they celebrate festivals with their people and often they personally consult other people's problems. But then suddenly the royal kings and queens declare the gates to be closed and servants dismissed, which causes many people to be upset at this policy as all those celebrations and festivals suddenly disappeared. Hans assumed that the royals did it to keep the soon-to-be queen's ice powers a secret from everyone including Anna. Over time, public opinion of their ruler slowly begins to decline as they assumed that the royals don't really care about them. Then thirteen years after the closed door policy, the gates were open again for the queen's coronation but it ends in disaster when he unwittingly reveal her powers during an argument about Anna's quick marriage with him.
"All I have to do to gain public approval is to keep the gates open and ensure that the people are taken care of. With public opinion on their new queen hitting rock bottom, the people, the council, and even the guards would rather have me as their ruler. Should the queen and the princess return, I could order the people here to stage a coup on their queen, execute her and claim Anna as the sire for a new heir." Hans can't help but chuckle at Anna's naivety. "With the queen gone, the princess would completely cling to me as the only person she has left, and with her naivety, I could simply manipulate her into doing whatever I want."
"And then everyone back home will finally see me as a man worthy to rule the throne. This going to be much easier than I thought." Hans smirked.
"So what have you learned while you were?" A portal appears and out comes Larxene, his benefactor and dealer.
"I learned a lot more than I thought while ruling the kingdom. How the kingdom used to be pristine until the closed gates, how the royal sisters used to be really close and how I can take advantage of the turmoils." As Hans looked over his frozen kingdom.
"Hmm, that sure is a lot your learned. But have you ever wonder why the closed doors policy even began in the first place?"
"Is it to keep Elsa's ice powers hidden from everyone?"
"You're only partially true, perhaps I can tell you the story of the day that started it all..." Larxene smirked as she begins to tell him the full story.
Meanwhile back within Anna's heart, she gets drowned in the pool of darkness as she slowly succumbs to it.
Papa? Why I can't play with my sister anymore?
Elsa, do you build a snowman?
Go away Anna!
Ok bye...
Papa. Mama, why isn't my sister coming for my birthday?
"What is this? Are these they my past memories?"
Cut to more flashback of young Anna crying in her bed.
Why can't you be ever as good as your sister?
Why can't I leave the castle? Why aren't they coming to play with us anymore?
Hey Elsa, I have a game of snowball fight. Maybe you want to play. Please for your big sister?
Hi I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs.
"We used to be so close…"
Papa, Mama, let's play together…
We're sorry dear but we have much more urgent things to do. Why don't you go play by yourself.
But I'm bored and Elsa won't play with me.
Don't worry surely you a lot of things to do in this big castle.
"Not even my parents were there for me. They're always too busy for any playtime with a dumb spare like me."
Flash forward to the Anna sharing one last hug with her parents before they were heading on a diplomatic trip but then two weeks later while awaiting for their arrival…
Princess Anna, your parents, unfortunately did not return
What no papa… mama…
Flash forward to Anna having a funeral alone, without her sister
Princess Anna why isn't your older sister coming to mourn her parents? Does she not care that she loses the people she loved the most or even trying to comfort you? Your sister has to go to be a heartless jerk! That's the only explanation. And this is jerk going run over our entire kingdom! Anna said nothing to the man nor does she even bother to internally rebuke this.
"We only have each other. It's just you and me, what are we going to do? Do you want to build a snowman?" Before crying outside the door and later in her own room, crying herself into sleep for days without end as the poor girl is left totally alone
"She was…never there for me."
"That's right dear so why even help her?"
"Huh?" Anna hearing a voice that sounds just her...
Back in the Labyrinth, Sora has just struck down waves of Ninja Nobodies before Sora spins the ice spire to open a new passage.
"Donald! Goofy! Kristoff!" Sora sees the group and approaches them, happy to know that they are okay.
"Huh? Sora!" Donald and Goofy are happy to be reunited with him.
"I always knew you're okay." The group hugged together.
"Okay, I know you three are close friends but where is Anna and Olaf?" Kristoff rolling his eyes at the fact that they act like they haven't see each other in a long time even though it's only a while before he decides to ask about them.
"Olaf is probably next to Anna being split apart. But it's Anna I'm worried about." Sora replied to Kristoff
"The princess?" Donald and Goofy asked about her.
"Larxene is trying to corrupt Anna with the darkness, if we don't hurry, she's going to succumb it!"
"What?! Then what are we waiting for?! Let's find her!" Kristoff said, worried about Anna before the group continues through the maze.
Anna looks and saw her own self. Only this "Anna" is in her casual clothes that are in tatters, golden eyes, silver hair, and pointed ears.
"Who are you?" Anna asked to her other self.
The other Anna replied "I am you, or rather the darkness that is residing within you. But you can call me Anti-Anna. I'm you're true self. Don't you see, neither your sister nor your parents are out there for you. You are alone, with no one to take special care for you, nobody to play or even tell bedtime stories. Your sister never really cared for you, never comforted you, never celebrated with you. And she certainly never mourned her parents with you."
"N-no, there must be some kind of explanation. Maybe it has something to do with her ice powers." Anna desperately trying to justify her sister's actions.
"But then, why didn't she tell you about it? Surely such a good sister would tell you this secret." Anna said nothing about it. "Hmm, still not convinced, then perhaps this will enlighten you." As the dark self began showing visions from Elsa's coronation
I wish that this will last forever
I also wish that it will too. But it can't
Bu-
No it can't
Anna witnessed Elsa seemingly opening up only to shut her out again without explanation.
You can't marry someone you just met
What do you know about true love?!
More than you! All you know is how to shut people out!
You asked for a blessing and my answer is no.
Party is over, close the gates.
Please I can't live like this anymore.
Then leave.
Each time Anna witnessed this, her heart seemingly become more and more vulnerable to the darkness.
"That's it. Don't fight it. Embrace it. And what do you think would happen if you actually convinced her to come back." Anti-Anna then conjures a possible outcome to Anna if Elsa returned.
"As the first issue I am as the returning queen. Prince Hans is to deported back to the Southern Isles immediately and the gates to close and to never open. If I see any guards opening the gates, then that guard is to be executed immediately!"
"No please Elsa you can't do this."
"I am the queen and I can do anything I want. Lock Anna in her room and don't let her out at any moment of time."
"No Elsa Nooooooo! I hate you! I HATE YOUUUUU!" As Anna gets dragged away by the guards and Elsa returns to her room, never to leave again, demanding all trade partners to be ceased and the council the never step foot on the castle anymore.
"And here is the outcome if you chose to give up on her." Anti-Anna conjures a vision to her as to what would happen if she gives up on her sister.
Three years after the execution of their wicked queen, the kingdom has just celebrated the third anniversary of the open gates policy. Arendelle is now regarded as the happiest and most prosperous kingdom in the world and all of the royalties has come to give their regards for their new queen.
Queen Anna has just arrived with her handsome husband and king Hans along with their two year old daughter named Joan. There all the people give their blessings and share their joy as the queen has just finished her speech to her subjects.
"Elsa may have been my sister, but she wasn't my family. I'm sorry I fail to see it before, I'm so lucky to have you all as part of my family."
By the time Anna finished seeing this, her eyes looks to become more lifeless as she succumbs to the darkness.
"That's it my dear, embrace the darkness within you, the anger, hate, loneliness, the feeling of abandonment, leave the old life with your sister behind and send her to where she belongs. There you can live the life that you wanted with all the people who will care for you, who will nurture you, who will see your heir as the ruler of the kingdom once the previous one is gone." The dark self then offer her hand to Anna who is seemingly about to extend her arm and accepts it...
"Anna!" Sora and co. managed to traverse the labyrinth and sees Anna unconscious as the darkness begins to seep into her.
"Anna! Get up! Say something!" Kristoff desperately tries to get Anna to open her eyes.
"Oh there you are guys, I was play counting sheeps until she is awake. Why is even sleeping in a really creepy place like this? She doesn't seem to be moving. Maybe this is one of Elsa's really realistic ice creations." A disembodied Olaf head unnecessarily commented which doesn't become disembodied anymore with Donald and Goofy patching him up.
"She doesn't seem to respond." Kristoff worried about her.
"Then I'll go into her heart and save." Sora deciding use his Keyblade to enter her heart and free Anna from the darkness.
*punch*...into her face.
"Ouch what gives?" As Anti-Anna has just got a punch in the face instead of handshake that she expected.
"No! I won't give up on my sister! Not while I have the chance to make things right.
"What? How can you possible make things right?! Even if you do it won't bring those lost years back."
"I know it won't but as people say in the books: "The past is in the past. What determines you is how decide the future." And I will bury away all those painful memories and start a new life together with Elsa!"
"Hah and you think that you will succeed in talking to your sister?"
"Well as Sora once said, "You will never know unless you try." And beside he came to me to help my sister open up and bring back summer to the kingdom. I will not let him down."
"You! This has got to be some sort of mistake! Why can't you look after your own happiness for once!"
"I tried to be selfish for once and look what just happened. If everyone else is happy, then that is a sacrifice I would be willing to make!"
"This is impossible! Nothing can't be corrupted! Even someone with a pure heart such as you can fall to the darkness! Just because you're filled with light doesn't make immune to darkness! Why can't you listen for once in your life!?" Anna note that her alternate self somehow know more than what she had known in her entire life which means...
"If you want me to listen to what you say, then tell me, why is my sister shutting me out? How did she have these powers from and why is she so afraid? What do you gain from someone like me?" Anna counter her back "Huh Larxene? After all, you know how just how much I loved being shut out by other people."
As Anna correctly deduced, the supposed darker self of her transforms back into Larxene.
"Ugh, I'm not going to tell you anything."
"Then I'm not going hear out whatever you say. And since I'm in my mind, it means I can do whatever I want here and that means..." Anna punches her out of her mind. "I already made my choice and nothing will make me change that." Anna then noticed as the darkness begins to seep away from her.
"Anna! There you are, we're going to free you from the darkness now." Sora somehow managed to appear to her mind which made Anna a but confused.
"Sora? How could you even come inside me?"
"Well, I used my Keyblade to enter into your heart. We're going to free you from the darkness now."
"Yeah about that, I sorta punched out Larxene away out of my mind. And I also let all those tempting words go over my head." Anna proudly said.
"Wow really?" Sora amazed that she managed to resist the darkness.
"Yeah and she did say something about me being pure heart. Like filled with light. What exactly that mean?"
"A New Seven Hearts to fill our ranks."
"Umm... How do I explain it...?" Sora tries to think of a simplified explanation for her.
"Sora, are you hiding something from me?" Anna asked suspiciously.
"No of course not, it's just that unlike me or others, your heart is completely devoid of darkness that is in other people including other people like me. They say that those with hearts of pure light can repel all the darkness around them." Sora hurriedly explained, hoping that Anna doesn't try to get him to spill further information about other worlds.
"Hmmm okay then." Anna accepted the answer but begins to suspect that there is more to him than what she knows. Please don't tell me you're shutting me out too. "So how do we get out of all this darkness?" Anna changed the topic of discussion.
"Easy, we use our power of light together to remove it. Come on, let's do it together and say "Light" with me." Sora said as he uses his Keyblade to purge off the light within Anna.
"Light!" As their light began overwhelming the darkness.
"Ugh, finally I'm awake." Anna having woke up from whatever Larxene did to make her sleep.
"Anna, thank goodness you're awake. Are you okay." Kristoff helps Anna up from her slumber.
"Kristoff? Wait that means?" Anna sees not just Sora and Olaf but Kristoff, Sven, Donald and Goofy too.
"Yup, we are all one again, come the exit to the maze is this way." Sora said as the group head out to find a dark portal.
"Finally! We're out of this stinkin place, nothing is going to stop us now!" Donald temptingly and not after he said that, several ice cubes absorb all the snow and ice around them to create a big frost giant with a Heartless emblem on its chest.
"You were saying." Kristoff snarkily replied.
"C'mon guys we'll take care of this." Sora and the others ready themselves as they prepare for battle but not before Anna puts Olaf somewhere safe.
Donald used their fire spells at the chest to expose the core while the group dodges it's hand swipes and ice from underground. While the Heartless tries to regenerate using the ice around it, Anna, Kristoff and Goofy distracts the Heartless by tearing their limbs apart while Sora strikes at the Ice Cube core that Donald has exposed. After a couple of bouts, the group is able to finish off the ice cub and ultimately, vanishing the snow construct along with it.
"Wew, please tell me that it's the last obstacle for this maze." Anna having grabbed Olaf with her and already being tired of fighting through all these creatures.
"Well, it looks like this wall looks to be collapsing now that the core is gone." Goofy replied
"Waaaak! Let's get out of this place now!" Donald exclaimed as he and the others rushed into the portal away from the collapsing lair and back into where they came from.
"Ah, the sweet sight of natural sun. How I missed you." Olaf excitedly playing angel on the snow.
"I'm glad we finally got out of this maze. That detour was an utter waste of our time." Anna also relieved to be out. "So Sora shall we keep going?"
"Yeah." Sora nods and the group continues onwards to find Elsa.
Back in Arendelle while Hans had just given towels and food supplies to the common citizens, he recalls the conversation he had with Larxene.
"I see, I guess it explains everything that happened." Hans having just processed what he had learned from her regarding the sisters. "Well that just makes it easier for me to manipulate them. I know that if Anna were to ever knows this, she would no longer devote her entire life to me eventually get replaced with that witch of a sister, and I can't let that happen."
"That's right Hans, you should always make sure to have your fiancee by her side and never let her go. Always keep her out of the loop and never reveal the full details." Larxene said, knowing full well that Hans begins falling to the darkness. "Hey Hans, how about I give you a taste of magic that Elsa possessed."
"M-magic?" Hans surprised at the thought of having magic.
"Yup, by channeling all your anger, hate, and selfishness, your power grows the more you give in to it. Here let me give you a shot of my dark powers." Larxene then bestows a bit of the darkness into the man, grinning at the growing darkness within him "That's right dear, don't shy away from it, embrace this feeling, give in to the darkness within you."
"T-this power..." Hans then channels his magic and with it, a small imp-like creature is born. "Wow, I can do that."
"Oh, that's the least of what the darkness can do, you can also spawn my very own white creatures, try it."
Hans uses his power to spawn ninja-like white creatures which makes him amazed at it.
"Although, I would try conceal your powers if I were you. The gold eyes would make others suspicious about you."
"Oh, right." Hans conceals his powers and his golden eyes return back to his natural green eyes.
"Prince Hans, are you coming?" The fat servant asked again.
"Hold I'm coming now." As he leaves Larxene in the library behind.
"Prince Hans, are we just expected to sit here and freeze while you give away all of Arendelle's tradeable goods?" Ugh, It's Weaseltown again Hans is starting to get annoyed at this Duke's nagging demands as his mind returns to the present time.
"Princess Anna has given her orders and-"
"And that's another thing; has it dawned on you that your princes-" But before Weaselton can respond even further, Hans proceeds to channel his darkness and his eyes turn yellow as he intimidates the duke into submission. "Do not question the Princess. She left me in charge, and I will not hesitate to protect Arendelle from treason." This power, it felt so good.
"T-treason?!" The duke suddenly becomes scared of the prince but just as they are about to argue even further, the horse that Anna used to find Elsa has returned to them. But there is no Anna in tow. Which made Hans realize... "Princess Anna is in trouble. I need volunteers to go with me to find her!" A couple of them volunteered including the two guards that accompanies the duke before they head off.
As Hans and the volunteers head off, Larxene watches from afar, smirking as her plans began setting in motion. Everyone here is about to fall into darkness, all I have to do is to transfer their darknesses into Elsa. That way I will have unstoppable snow queen that even Sora and the others will fall under our feet. Hmm perhaps even the old jerk will get freeze ove- Ugh... Larxene begans groaning in pain as a piece of her gets destroyed which made Larxene realize..."Ugh, I can't believe it, how could the "Little Spare" still love her sister after everything she did to her. Now she is really going talk to Elsa." Larxene gets a bit frustrated at Anna's pluckiness. "Except that since Anna still doesn't know the exact reason, she will probably fail just as much Sora did." Larxene laughed to herself, knowing the pain Anna will soon feel.
I gotta give credit to a reviewer for suggesting that Hans use the darkness to intimidate the duke to submission.
Finally, Sora and the other have at last escaped from the Frozen labyrinth and is now marching towards the castle. Yes I swear, no more obstacles, Sora and co. will reach the castle on the next chapter.