Well above the snow-line, a small figure climbed the highest peak. It was Elsa. Finally, she stopped, looked around.

"I was so careful. I concealed my power. But now it's been set free."

Elsa took off her glove and threw it into the air. A hand reached out; caught it. It was Jack.

"You're free, Elsa." Jack said. He twirled his staff, and hit it on the ground. The forest erupted in beautiful frosted trees and icicles. "This Winter Wonderland belongs to you!"

"Jack?" Elsa said in wonder. "You're just like me!"

"Yes I am," Jack said. "I didn't wake up until you did; until you finally broke free!"

"I can be free and let my power out as much as I want; no one can stop me now!" Elsa created a snowman, just like the one he made with Anna and Jack when they were children.

Jack twirled his staff and made flurries in the shapes of animals and people.

"I won't let anyone stop you or bring you down!" Jack promised.

"The wind and the snow bring me power and strength!" Elsa let her cape fly back into the wind.

Jack caught it with his staff, put it on himself, suppressing a shiver, realizing his heart was starting to freeze, but not about to ruin her moment. "Th-the strength was always inside you!"

"I'm going to make a place just for us, a sanctuary where no one can bother us; no one can stop us!"

Elsa created ice steps and the two climbed them together.

"This ice palace is where I will rule, with you and free!"

"That freedom is your center, never lose it, never forget it!" Jack encouraged, biting against the cold.

Elsa slammed her foot down and formed a giant snowflake. In a flurry of creative release, she raised the snowflake on ice beams, builds walls, archways, a glistening chandelier, and an intricate ceiling that left the sky visible.

"I don't have to be what they expect of me anymore!"

Standing firmly in her mighty ice palace, Elsa removed her crown and threw it.

"I can be the true me!"

In a swirl of blue light Elsa changed her appearance. Her hair was now longer and tipped with ice. Her formalwear had been frozen into ice and was now crystallized. She also had long transparent floor-sweeping cape and dress of sheer ice decorated with large snowflakes.

"I'm finally free!"

The sun rose. Elsa strode onto out onto a balcony and into the light. She was free.

At that same moment, Jack couldn't take it anymore; he fell to the ice palace floor.

Elsa turned and slammed his ice palace door; only to be greeted to the sight of her beloved Jack freezing before her, victim to her power.

"No...NO!" Elsa screamed.

Fear consumed her, shadows danced on the walls, turning the blue palace red, the icicles encroaching like knives.

"JACK!"

As the palace cracked and fell to pieces around her, her freedom and victory shattered and forgotten, not worth the cost; Elsa thought to take Jack's staff and clutch him to her chest, flying the two out of the building before they were buried in ice.

"I know where we have to go." Elsa whispered to him. "This time I will save you. No more hiding. No more losing to fear. This isn't true freedom at all. IT'S NOT WORTH IT IF YOU AREN'T HERE BESIDE ME JACK!"

Her screams, echoing across the fjords, caught the ear of a small urn and Pitch, standing beside it in a long-forgotten cave. It was time for the true plan to come to fruition.