10K I know. But this is the longest that you'll ever get from me. Afterall, scrunching up an entire novel and multiple other stories in a single chapter is not easy. I'm having lots of trouble writing everything that happened in the past in a narrative format as I feel that it is affecting the quality of the entire story. So future chapters that have recalls from the past are going to be written in present tense to convey all that happened perfectly fine.The reason I didn't write these two chapters in the present-tense-feeling kind of thing is that it would just become too long to read and I suppose you've already seen both the movies so I didn't go in much detail. The only thing I'm writing these is that it's really important for some future reference stuff and Agnarr and Iduna' POV. Also, it's also a pretty good way to describe why the sisters and Kristoff and Sven and Olaf are friends with Alex who you will soon come to know about. His past wasn't easy.

I apologize for the quality drop and hope that you will like the future chapters better.Enjoy :)

"Oh but we missed Anna's revenge!" Olaf said adamantly.

"Right! Yes!" Alex said getting ready to tell the story.

Elsa flushed a little. How could she miss out on telling them what happened after the great thaw!? Especially that!?

"Okay, so after Elsa got the secret to controlling her powers, she thawed the fjord and Arendelle of all the snow and stopped the winter. Fortunately enough, when she unfroze the waters of the fjord, we were actually standing on a ship, buried beneath the ice."

Agnarr's eyes widened. There weren't many winter storms that could bury something as large as a ship in the water.

"Unfortunately, Hans also found himself on the same ship and fully conscious. I had already removed my spear from his clothing, so he didn't have any other weapon when he woke up, except for that broken sword hilt of his, which was of course, no use. He lifted himself up from the deck and stumbled. We heard him, and Kristoff and me took a step ahead to punish him brutally for his actions, when Anna stopped us both and went over to talk to him. He argued with her that she was supposed to be dead having a frozen heart, but Anna retorted rightly that the only person with the frozen heart was him. She then turned away, and on her second thoughts, punched him perfectly in his face faster than a blinking eye, hard enough that he literally toppled over the railings of the ship around four feet away."

Agnarr was laughing hysterically and Iduna looked as if she'd just heard the best news in the entire world. They were the proudest parents in the world.

"Yeah and can you believe the nerve of that guy! He even tried to kill Elsa once more!" Anna said through her laughter.

"He what!?" Iduna exclaimed.

Kristoff took the lead this time.

"Yeah, when we reached the docks, and got off, he had swimmed back and pulled himself out of the water, collecting a sharp metal object on the way. He ran towards Elsa from behind us. Alex and Sven heard him...and they both had enough. I was holding back Sven so he wouldn't kick him off the decks, but Alex was just furious. He grabbed his hand holding the weapon, and twisted it hard so that he turned around a hundred and eighty degrees and crashed into a post supporting the docks with his back to it. Alex grabbed his throat and gave him the most horrible threat I've ever heard in a cold voice so damn terrifying that I almost fainted with fright."

Alex was looking a little embarassed at the way Kristoff had overexaggerated it.

In reality, everone who had heard his voice then, knew that it was the understatement of the year!

"What did you say?" Agnarr asked him curiously.

Alex hesitated to tell them, but oh well, why should he keep it a secret?

"I told him that if he ever dared to lay a finger on Anna and Elsa ever again, I'd personally skin him and throw his alive carcass to the fish who would really like to snack on him all the while providing oxygen to him so he wouldn't die that easy."

They all just looked at him. He was just starting to worry that maybe he shouldn't have said anything like that when Anna interjected.

"Nah. Dosen't have the darkness or the punch that the original had but it was still damn terrifying." She shuddered. It was real.

Elsa had lifted her head up from his shoulder while he said that sentence, but laid it back down again. He sure might be terrifying at times, but he was still their best friend. And her life saver. She didn't really know how many times he'd saved her life indirectly or directly because she had lost count a long time ago. Today was the only day he'd done it again by putting his on the line. And she'd make sure that he never has to do it again. Speaking of today, it was actually yesterday as the clock chimed midnight. Time really did fly. Anna's birthday was over and the wedding day had passed. She felt like it had lasted like an eternity for some time of the day like when they were walking through the woods or when they were fighting, but at other times she felt it fly off like sand in hurricane winds.

"So off to Frozen two!" Olaf said enthusiastically.

Anna looked at him confused. "Frozen 2?"

"Yeah. I mean, everything about our stories does seem to revolve around Elsa who has freezing powers so I just named the small chapters of our lives as 'Frozen'.

Frozen one for the great thaw, Frozen 2 for the great glacier."

Anna looked at him increduolously.

"Yeahaha! And Frozen Fever for when Elsa caught a cold on your first birthday celebration." Kristoff added just as enthusiastically.

"Hey!" Anna adamantly yelled scrunching up her face making her look more adorable than ever.

He laughed even as he got the look of 'stop-encouraging-him' look from her.

They were all laughing.

"Y'know, those are actually quite catchy titles." Iduna said through her tears of joy.

"How 'bout Olaf's Frozen Adventure?" Kristoff asked imitating his reindeer friend.

This irritated Anna more and she elbowed him in his abdomen smiling, while he laughed even more.

"Yeah, we should probably stop before Olaf comes up with another title like Once Upon A Snowman or something!" Elsa suggested laughingly.

"Oh thankyou Elsa!" Anna seemed relieved that there was atleast someone over her side.

Everyone stopped making up funny and weird titles to name their adventures and calmed themselves down.

There was one other title that went unannounced. Dangerous Secrets.

Agnarr and Iduna kept it to themselves. Agnarr had no idea that one more person in the room knew about this other than his beloved wife. And that person was sitting to his right side, an arm around his eldest daughter; watching every tiny move they made, their body language, their tones when they spoke, their microexpressions, their eye movements, everything. He jad already came to the conclusion that they held some dangerous secrets, not to be messed around with. But he wanted to know, if they were in safe hands.

They were not. Alex answered himself as Elsa straightened herself to begin the second chapter of their lives.

"As I said, it was seven months ago that I first heard the voice. I thought at first that it was just someone who was singing. The next few times I heard it, I thought someone was following me. No one else could hear it, and I thought that someone might be pranking me. It wasn't until the voice started to bug me, that I realized that no one else was truly able to hear it. I tried everything, from covering my entire head to block out every single sound, to standing in the open grounds where no one would be able to sing and still remain hidden from me, all to no avail."

Agnarr and Iduna had strange expressions on their faces. It was a mix of fear with some sort of uncertainty. They were good at hiding themselves, but not from Alex; who was seeing every single detail.

Elsa continued.

"It came from the north. It was as if someone was calling me. It got overbearing on me and so I just answered it. My powers went haywire and they just led me north. Suddenly, the midnight sky lit up with a bright snowflake shaped light with pink, blue, green and purple lights and they just flashed out with tiny crystals appearing in the sky. The signs of the spirits of Air, Fire, Water and Earth. I had accidentally awoken them, and they were still quite angry. They pushed us all out of Arendelle without hurting anyone. Soo...that's when I told Anna of that voice I had been hearing for the past month." She looked apologetically at her sister who smiled forgivingly.

She continued the tale with a greatful smile.

"After that, we just followed the voice up north to find it. Pabbie had warned me of the dangers that the spirits could throw at us. He also told us that until this all is rightened, there would be no future for the kingdom. That it would just wither away over the years. So we...I decided to go alone there at first, since I had got my powers to protect myself, but they weren't having any of it." She grinned gesturing at everyone else who was present in the room. "Especially Anna."

Anna remembered what she had said and giggled.

Elsa saw that as well and exclaimed.

"Yeah! She literally said the words 'I climbed up the North Mountain, survived a frozen heart AND saved you from my ex-boyfriend andIdiditallwithoutpowers so...y'know, I'm coming'." She did the best imitation she could of Anna who burst out laughing. It sounded so much funnier and shocking when Elsa said it.

Iduna laughed heartily. Her daughters hadn't changed a even a bit over the past years.

Elsa was giggling at having nailed Anna's style of talking. Beginner's luck she supposed.

"The journey to the enchanted forest was quite interesting in some ways. Thanks to Olaf's extensive knowledge that he gathered from reading the entire library once he could read and write, we learned that wombats pooped perfect squares and gorrillas burp when they're happy." She said sarcastically. She wasn't going to forget those two easily.

Agnarr was laughing hard. Iduna pursed up her lips embarrased as a memory came rushing to her mind, when she heard about wombat's excreta being cuboidial. She could say, she wasn't really proud of the fact that when she was small, she had picked up one of the cuboid and soft stone like thing that fortunately was dried and had almost put it in her mouth when someone knocked it out of her hand. She was just a baby, but she remembered every single one of that moment. Damn my brain, why do I still have that memory?! She cursed and then turned to look at her husband, warning him with her eyes that if he ever told their daughters of this especially Anna, then she was going to dump her entire curse word library on his head like a bucket of water infront of Anna and Elsa. It only ended up with him laughing more than ever. A lot more than he had, in six long years atleast. Iduna couldn't resist smiling. The scars were healing.

"And the fact that men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning, water has memory and sleeping on long journeys helps prevent insanity, though that last one wasn't mine. I couldn't find that fact anywhere!" Olaf said turning to Anna looking suspiciously at her.

"Uhm... if you search hard enough, you'll find it." Anna lied her, face almost giving it away. She was a terrible liar. And Olaf was a terrible lie detector.

"Maybe we should've wrote that one down and shown it to Olaf as an authentic source." Alex whispered to Elsa.

"Agreed." Elsa whispered back smirking. "Let's do it later shall we."

Alex grinned at her in approval.

Iduna and Agnarr were looking at them confused.

'Don't ask' Elsa mouthed shaking her head slightly exasperated but smiling mischeiviously too.

"Me, Alex and Olaf were asleep in the wagon, and Anna and Kristoff were sitting in the front." Elsa recalled. "Or atleast, they thought we were asleep. So they kinda got into a romantic mood, and we were already wishing that we were asleep halfway through their talks. Olaf was actually asleep but me and Alex were wide awake and were dying to burst out laughing at how Kristoff was trying to get her attention so that he could propose to her. No offense." She added politely to Kristoff. He wasn't offended in any way. On the contrary, he also was laughing, looking back at his own feeble attempts at trying to get Anna's attention. Elsa moved on taking his smile and the gentle shake of his head as a good sign. "It was just...crazy. I couldn't contain myself any longer and softly giggled at what was going on. Anna caught us laughing and that's why Kristoff didn't get the chance to propose to her." She again looked at Kristoff apologetically to which he just laughed it off. "Thankfully, I heard the voice again before she could begin to say anything so I was saved there." She said slyly.

Anna narrowed her eyes at her, but let her continue. She'll address it later.

"We had reached the mist. Kristoff and Olaf tried to go in but were deflected. Alex tried throwing a stone towards it but the same thing happened again. So I tried to put a hand in the mist, and it just parted to let us enter."

"Wait. Just like that!?" Agnarr was shocked.

A new thought crossed Alex's mind. If they knew that she was a spirit, and spirits were mainly associated with the forest, he was surprised that they hadn't thought of doing this earlier.

" Uhh...Yes." Elsa stammered at seeing her father's strong reaction.

They both had the look of 'We should have thought of this before' plastered all over their faces. It looked like they were resisting extremely hard to face-palming themselves.

Alex couldn't put a finger on it, but their reactions weren't convincing enough for him. They were true, but not in the sense that he was expecting. He knew they were a lot smarter than not trying to get Elsa to see if she might be the key to opening the mist. It looked as if they had tried doing it before, but it hadn't worked and the same thing worked a few years later. It looked like they just realized what they'd missed all those years ago.

Elsa continued after they settled down a little.

"So we all went inside. When we entered, the mist closed in behind us locking us in. I tried to open it again, but it just wouldn't budge. We were trapped inside. So we just went on ahead toward the north. We were just dazed by the beauty of the forest and got separated. Anna, Kristoff and Sven went in another direction, Olaf separated from me and Alex at some point. Well, Anna and Kristoff and Sven didn't stay long gone, but Olaf was missing. So we went to search for him and that's when we found Gale. Olaf was inside a typhoon and when it 'saw' us, it swept us up too. Gale was angry and he was the one who created the small storm. Anna was going to get hurt by a stray branch of a tree so I knocked it off course with ice, but Gale saw that and dropped everyone else except me. I don't know what he was going to do, but I knew it wasn't going to be good. So I just used my powers to freeze him. It worked to an extent, and I was able to overpower him by actually 'freezing the wind'. When he gave up, it dissipated explosively outwards, and the ice transformed itself into...some things that looked like moments from the past. There was a horse frozen in time, a burning bon-fire, a few swordsmen with drawn swords, it looked like the battle that took place there thirty-five years ago. That's when I discovered my ability to look in the past with ice sculptures, using the 'water has memory' theory."

Agnarr and Iduna were looking at her strangely. Like as if they were impressed and terrified at the same time. Anna looked at them questioningly. They shook their heads as if recovering from a shock and responded.

"Whoa! Wow! You can really see the past? Like...everthing that happened?"

Elsa pondered over the question.

"Yeees..." She said slowly. "But it dosen't really work everytime. It's usually too much chaos as water stores virtually every memory, and shifting through everything is actually quite tiresome, so I can't do that very often."

"Wow." Iduna whispered impressed.

Agnarr looked a little relieved.

"You seem a little tensed." Anna asked suspiciously narrowing her eyes at them.

"Well, we don't really want you guys to find out about our mischeivious and naughty little conversations and...ahem...actions, do we?" Agnarr asked them eyebrows raised leaning back a cool, smug expression on his face.

Anna turned red, her eyes widening to the shape of saucers extremely embarassed. She had read those diaries of theirs. She knew exactly what conversations and actions they were talking about, that they had many times when they were alone and sure that no one could hear them...or see them.

Alex again was much faster at analyzing their faces before they could wipe that lie away. This was getting a bit too much now. He hadn't expected for them to lie so much. But again, if they didn't, they might risk losing a lot more than just their lives. It sure wasn't ideal if Elsa suddenly decided to create statues of their parents from ice and learn all the secrets from their conversations in the past, but Alex personally preferred that, over their said... 'naughty' stuff. For every lie told, a thousand follow. Considering now, they were doing pretty well.

Elsa went on with the story before anyone could raise any questions.

"Well, Gale calmed down. I don't really know why, but it kinda just happened so...I don't mind. That's when Olaf named him Gale. Or...renamed...him." She said looking at Olaf.

Kristoff and Olaf were astonished.

"Yeah, it was actually mother who named him that first and then Olaf renamed him just that...coincidentally." Anna explained.

They were all marvelling the coincidence.

"What happened next?" Iduna asked Elsa curiously.

"Well, the trees and the bushes around us suddenly started rustling unnaturally. We backed off and Anna collected a sword from one of the frozen soldier's hands. She saw something and ran over to cut the stem of a large bush. Alex covered her from behind a tree. She cut it down to reveal the Northuldra. A few came in from behind us and a few others jumped from the trees.

Alex remembered every moment perfectly.

"Drop your weapons." Honeymaren threatningly commanded after landing from the trees. She didn't see Alex come in from behind her and put a sharp blade to her throat. She was too distracted with the woman who blew the cover of her comarades on the ground, to notice him run under her just a few seconds before she jumped.

"You first." He said staying cool, not even flinching; heck, not even looking at the other twenty weapons pointed at him.

There were two loud metallic rythmic bangs and a small group of Arendellian soldiers came into view.

"AND YOU LOWER YOURS!" The leader bellowed aggressively. As far as she knew, he went by the name of Mattias.

"Threatening my people lieutenet?" Yelena asked calmly her voice showing a hint of casualness. She had no idea how Yelena even managed to stand her ground even at such an age and with such cool. She was the best leader people got.

She heard the woman with the sword exclaim "Arendellian soldiers!?" So she knew who they were.

"Invading my dance space Yelena?" Mattias asked rolling his eyes and asking her straightforward without any fear. Even though he and his soldiers were outnumbered many times over.

She heard the woman with the sword mutter asking an older looking woman beside her about why that soldier was looking so familiar gesturing at the leader of the group with her strange sword.

One of the soldiers from the opposing group saw it and yelled to his leader for orders. Silly; she believed.

"Get the sword!" He yelled moving in to attack them from their left while her fellow members attacked from the right. Not all of them moved of course. Many were still staying with her.

She didn't move because her captor had still not let go of his unusually long bladed spear. He wasn't even distracted and though one of the other northuldra tried to make a move to get him from behind, he kicked back hard, catching him in the chest. She yelled furiously as she saw her friend get hurt and knocked down to the ground, but he hadn't even looked away from her all the while. She had no chance of escaping. He did it all faster than lightning.

Her yell of fury was cut short with a shocked silence as the ground beneath them turned to slippery ice and everyone on it slipped and fell. It was magic. And it was the older woman dressed in blue who did it!

She was safe as the ground beneath her hadn't frozen, but not that safe as she still had a blade to her throat. Slight bit of pressure could easily slice through.

Alex had no intention to hurt the woman he was holding hostage. He only did that to avoid a conflict where it might not be necessary. He saw as the tribe and Arendellian soldiers fall flat out, shocked by the sudden frost covering the ground.

"Hmm...you chose a nice cold greeting." Anna commented

"They've been trapped in here this whole time!?" Kristoff whispered to Anna, who nodded loosening her grip on the ice sword she was holding.

"What do we do now?" Elsa looked as if she was a small kid in trouble biting her lips. In other situations it would have looked really cute.

"I got this." Olaf said brightly pushing himself ahead from between the two sisters.

Alex resisted a strong urge to facepalm himself.

"Hi, I'm Olaf."

A few of the Northuldra gasped and the other's looked too shocked to have any reaction.

"Yeah...I find clothes restricting." Olaf said taking their surprise and fear for their awkwardness that he wasn't wearing any clothes. He continued.

"So why we're here is really simple..."

Honeymaren decided to take advantage of her captor's brief surprise and struck his weapon away from her neck and pointed her own at him. He wouldn't even have looked if the magical sorceress with ice magic hadn't gasped and turned to him looking worried. All he did was look down upon her weapon with confusion and then at her in a manner that said 'what're you doing?', which was terribly unnerving and surprising, as he didn't even move his weapon to try and defend himself. He wasn't even afraid and looked like he didn't care if he lived or died. What the hell!

She kept looking at the snowman who seemed to be telling the story of their past. She didn't understand a word of it, but something told her that these outsiders had not come to hurt them. She still didn't quite trust them, as the outsiders who came thirty four years ago had ended up locking them in here for a very long time.

After the snowman was done, he asked if anyone had any questions.

Everyone had a million questions. Why was the snowman alive? What all had happened outside the mist? Who were these people? Why did she have magical powers? But no one asked these because they had enough shocks for a lifetime.

"I think they got it." Olaf said proudly at actually having told a story without anyone having any doubts. Atleast that's what he thought.

Anna smiled at the others apologetically hiding her sword behind her back. Elsa, who had been holding her head in her fingers, straightned up and waved her arm, making the ice sheet under the still fallen people disappear. They could finally stand.

Honeymaren was still holding her weapon threateningly at her hostage when he just walked away from her, as if he had forgotten all about her. He sheathed his strange weapon and walked over to his small group like he wasn't afraid of the twenty sticks still pointing at him. Who the hell was he?! How in the name of god could he just walk away?!

Alex stood beside Kristoff as he watched Anna recognize the old lieutenet of Arendelle, and he recognized them.

Alex was snapped out of his thoughts chain when Agnarr interrupted the flow of the story.

"You found lieutenet Mattias!?" Agnarr's eyes were filled with hope.

"Yes. He's here; in Arendelle right now." Elsa told him with a twinkle in her eyes and her lips curving upward.

Agnarr was visibly extremely eager to meet his friend.

"You can meet him later." Iduna said smiling warmly and keeping a hand on his arm. She knew how much Mattias meant to him. As far as she knew, he was one of the best people on the planet.

He nodded and fell back in the couch a little. He had almost risen to his feet.

Elsa continued.

"So after that, the soldiers took up an aggressive stand against the Northuldra. They immediately were going to retaliate, so I told them we weren't there to hurt anyone. They still didn't quite trust us and that's when Bruni or the fire spirit came into view. He started fires all around us. Anna and the others all ran, but I wanted to see if I can calm him down. So I started to fight him with ice. Anna noticed and tried to help me, but she couldn't. Kristoff picked her up and led her off. Alex also tried helping me, but he couldn't really do much to get a fiery salamander under control, so he just kept out of the way keeping an eye on him. I was finally able to corner Bruni between stones. He calmed down looking at me and climbed up on my hands. He could also hear the voice calling out and just indicated that we should keep going north. Anna came in from behind me and almost knocked me down with a hug. She was afraid of me taking risks, and rightfully so too. I wasn't being careful. So I wrapped her in that." She gestured to the object Anna was holding.

Anna gave the scarf back to it's original owner. Iduna gasped as she took the scarf from her daughter. It was still in a great state. Used and worn out a little, but still warm. She had missed it very much. It was what gave her strength in hard times. Anna and Elsa beamed at each other watching the reunion.

"Thankyou." She said to them both. They smiled back at her. She needed it.

Agnarr took the scarf from her and draped it over her shoulders and put a caressing arm around her. His warmth radiating off him warmed her. Though it was summer, she didn't feel too hot, nor did she feel too cold. She felt perfect.

Elsa moved on with the story.

"The Northuldra saw that and Yelena asked us where we got the scarf from. I told her we got it from you, and one of the people in the tribe told us that it was an ancient Northuldra scarf. That's where we figured out that you were Northuldra. But not immediately. We saw this in the clearing where I fought Gale."

She created a statue of two people with her ice magic. The boy was unconscious and the other, a girl seemed to be saving him, with a ring of leaves around her.

Agnarr gasped and got up. He knew the two very well. He looked at the girl who was saving him. He turned around and gave Iduna a long hug. She returned it with happiness pouring from her eyes.

He let go thanking her for saving his life.

They settled down and let Elsa continue the story.

"They officially introduced themselves as the Northuldra while singing a special song they call 'The Vuelie'. It was beautiful. We were going to leave, but Yelena told us to stay as the Earth Giants roamed the north at night and it wasn't safe. We agreed. They took us to their camp and introduced us to the tribe. We stayed ther for some time. I was talking to Honeymaren, the woman who Alex threatened, Anna was busy talking with Mattias and Kristoff and Ryder, that's Honeymaren's younger brother hung out together. Olaf was playing with some kids. We talked about a few things, but then we came to the topic of discussion over the scarf. She explained that there were four elemental spirits and a bridge between them said to be the fifth spirit. I thought it was the one who was calling me from the north. I wanted to find it as soon as possible, so I was just going to inform Anna when I heard heavy thumps. The Northuldra started panicking and running around silently putting out all the lights and hiding. We all did the same and the silloheutte of a large Earth Giant appeared almost out of nowhere. I was hiding behind a tree so it couldn't see me but it was still quite terrifying. The giant walked away and I tried to follow but Anna held me back. She asked me to follow the voice and get ourselves out of there. She was right, so I made a descision to leave. The giant could somehow sense me. So I didn't want to put anyone in danger because of me. Anna tried searching around for Kristoff, but couldn't find him. So we went alone without him." Elsa looked at Kristoff if he was angry at her for not waiting, but his expression was one that of happiness. He understood her position and forgave her for it. It wasn't her fault anyway. He'd have done the same if he was in her place.

She continued.

"We walked for the night and another morning without anything much happening except Anna stumbling a few times. It was almost afternoon when Gale led us to a shipwreck. Your shipwreck."

Agnarr blinked thrice looking sad. "I'm so sorry you saw that."

Elsa nodded.

"We explored it and found the metallic canister in the secret compartment. It had a map and some other sheet of paper written in a language we didn't understand. But something was also written on the top left corner, in your handwriting." Elsa gestured to Iduna.

Iduna closed her eyes remembering. "The end of ice-age. The river found but lost. Magic's source. Elsa's source?" She opened her eyes to the confused faces of her daughters.

"What did it even mean?" Anna asked her.

She smiled and explained.

"Do you remember about a special place I used to tell you about called Ahtohallan?"

They nodded not telling them that they had both visited it before.

"It is real and Elsa's powers might have originated from Ahtohallan. It's said to be the birthplace of the spirits and that it had been discovered at the end of the ice-age, but the legends were lost. Someone found them just a few hundred years ago, we don't know who or how, but it lived on somehow. Perhaps the legends are true, and that it truly is a mother to all spirits. That's why we were looking for it. If you truly are a spirit, it must have some answers as to why you have these powers. Of course, we weren't able to cross the Dark Sea, so we don't really know much at all."

That one was true. Alex saw no lie this time.

"It dosen't." Elsa replied softly.

"What?" Iduna blinked confused.

She said it much louder now.

"It dosen't have an answer. Or atleast it's not revealing it. I have tried many times to try to find it, but I never could."

Agnarr looked surprised. "You could reach Ahtohallan?"

Elsa smiled and thought it best to tell them the whole story.

They knew immediately that they were going to have to hear the whole story and got ready for it.

"After we found the map that you left, I knew that the one who was calling me was in Ahtohallan, and that I had to go there...alone."

She considered telling them why and decided that she had to tell them the truth.

"I...I was scared that the Dark Sea won't forgive Anna so I thought it best to do it alone. Anna wasn't letting me go, but I couldn't risk it. So I tricked her. I hugged them all and even though Alex somewhat knew what I was doing and he didn't agree, I didn't listen. We were on a slope so I made a pathway made of ice and conjured a small boat under their feet and just...pushed them away. It all happened too quickly."

She paused to take a breath, but it never came. She couldn't breathe with imagining those turqoise eyes locked onto her. She couldn't bring herself to look in those eyes. She knew she would only see pain, disappointment, anger and no forgiveness for her actions. She felt tears form in her own. Those tears did not let go. She regretted every single wrong thing she had ever done and accepted the screaming voice inside her head. Allowing it to kill her...slowly.

"Elsa?"

The voice was that of her sister's.

She didn't look up.

"Look at me." Anna commanded.

Elsa braced herself for all that she would see, the arm on her shoulder giving her the strength to look in those turqoise eyes, but nothing could have possibly prepared her to find what Anna had in those eyes of hers.

Love. Unbounded love cascaded from her eyes as she said just two words.

"It's okay."

Elsa couldn't control herself as she ran over to embrace Anna. She hugged her just as hard, though she was careful to avoid hurting Elsa's back.

Alex beamed. He knew Elsa needed it, more than anything. His eyes randomly met Iduna's for a split second and he saw happiness in them before they turned away. He didn't need to think anything of that.

They let go after a while with Elsa thanking her. She could finally continue without anything troublesome on her mind.

"So after that, I went toward the Dark Sea. It was turbulent...to say the least. I made Iceways on the surface, but they just used to fall apart. I tried multiple times, but didn't quite succeed. I fell in the water and that's when I saw Nøkk. Falling in there was a pretty bad idea..." She said sarcastically. "...'cause he tried to drown me. Didn't work, thankfully. The battle ensued for a while until I was finally able to get on his back and tame him."

"You tamed the Nøkk?" Iduna asked surprised.

"Yes. Not really what I wanted to do, but I had to do it so he would stop trying to drown me."

"Hmm...I didn't know you could tame wild horses." Agnarr said.

"I saw some men trying to tame horses in the fields a year ago. One of them had taught me a trick to lassoo the horse's mouth and get on and grip tight to it's sides till it gave up trying to knock you off it's back. It worked. After a struggle, he calmed down and led me to Ahtohallan. I knew the voice was calling me from there because it just...felt closer."

She pondered on how she was going to break it to them that the voice was a memory of her mother. They looked curious, afraid, thrilled, surprised, all at the same time. It was just how she imagined, she looked when they were the ones who used to tell her the stories and adventures. Atleast that's how Anna used to look at them. She just smiled at that memory.

"I went inside, hoping to find something. It was a long descent but sliding over the ice made it easier. I think it was at the core of the glacier that the path ended and a massive room came in view. My powers went completely haywire again and created these...diamond shaped...structures which had the symbols of the spirits on them, and they just floated down on the floor at the centre of the room in the shape of a snowflake and the centre glowed white. That's when I realized that maybe I was the bridge. I just had this feeling in my gut, so I stepped in, and Ahtohallan revealed the voice...The call to the spirits."

Agnarr looked curious and Iduna looked confused.

Elsa seeing it decided that it was finally time to sing the tune she had heard. She looked at Anna who nodded.

Elsa sang a melody. A four note tune of alternating high pitch and low pitch that dropped lower than the second at the fourth note. It was beautiful, in a haunting way. Like joy and sorrow at the same time. It struck home.

Agnarr looked surprised and Iduna looked completely shocked. She was unable to utter a single syllable as she just stared at her eldest daughter with wide eyes and a dropped jaw. Her mind was racing faster than a thunderbolt would travel. What? How? Why? She had so many questions she still didn't have answers to.

Agnarr knew that he had heard that tune when he was unconscious on the forest floor but he didn't understand why Iduna was shocked beyond anything ever had.

He saw Elsa wave her hand once more and create a second statue in the room. The statue was similar to the first one, but just a few seconds earlier in time. Iduna was leaning over him, but rather than looking at him, she was looking up somewhere distant, one of her hands to her mouth in a fashion of cupping her hands to amplify her voice, except the second hand was supporting a subconscious Agnarr. The melody that came out of her frozen self resonated throughout the large room. The same melody he once thought was the call of the fifth spirit earlier. But now he knew. It wasn't the fifth spirit who was calling the other spirits. It was Iduna, calling Gale to help save him. He almost laughed in his shock as the truth hit him hard landing a blow on his heart. But it didn't hurt. It felt peaceful, happy, wonderful, like a weight was lifted off him. He could do only one thing as he stared into his wife's blue eyes filled with nervousness and shock. Give her a big warm hug.

She appreciated the gesture enormously. She had never really thought of telling him of all this earlier as the subject never came up. It did, once, when he told Elsa of that voice when she was small, but she didn't tell him it was her voice as Agnarr still didn't know that she was Northuldra and mentioning something like that would have raised a lot of questions. But why her voice? Why her call?... Why her?

Alex on the other hand had an entirely different perspective on things. Now that she'd said it in 'summing up things' sort of way, he had a few additonal questions. Why did Elsa have powers? Why not Anna? Or any other person in the whole wide world? It wasn't a gift from the spirits or Ahtohallan, he was sure of that. But then, what was 'it'? He had asked himself that question thousands of times before and he was sure Elsa had too, but it never had an answer. Now, it felt like it opened a door. He couldn't place what exactly it was, but he was sure that if he dug just deep enough, he would find it. Like something on the tip of one's tongue.

"Why?" Iduna was finally able to ask, her voice shaking.

Elsa noticed how disturbed her mother looked, but she didn't have an answer to that question. She shook her head in denial of knowing the truth.

After finally getting her bearings, she took a deep breath and asked Elsa to continue. The others were all watching this quietly.

Elsa did.

"So...then...well, my powers created a small snowstorm that I was able to control, and when it settled, I saw the memories...from the past. You, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf even Sven."

She hesitated. Agnarr still didn't quite know about what happened in the forest. It certainly was a shock to her. It was going to be a bigger shock for him.

"But then, I saw grandfather too. In the enchanted forest. He was talking about magical beings having greater power than a king's might. He was afraid that he might not be able to control them, if they had these powers. He went inside one of the walls inside Ahtohallan, and so I followed, but there was this deep chasm in there. His voice came from inside."

Iduna gasped terrified. "Please don't tell me you jumped." She pleaded hopefully.

"I...I...had to...find the truth. I just couldn't turn back then...I didn't want to."

Iduna closed her eyes. Elsa was here with her. She hadn't left her like Iduna had. Ahtohallan wasn't that cruel.

Elsa directed her next revelation to Agnarr hesitantly.

"I...saw king Runeard...kill the Northuldra leader who did not wield any weapon."

She couldn't meet the eyes of her father as the tears came gushing out with all their fury. Agnarr couldn't stop them. One of his worst fears were confirmed. Though the shock was dampned as he had wondered countless times if it was Runeard who started the fight as he hated magic, but it was still a tremendous shock to him. But he had one other reason to be devastated.

Alex saw that right after the revelation, Agnarr's eyes flashed towards Iduna who seemed just as shocked as he was, but also more hurt. It was extremely brief but was enough to tip him off about something. He wondered if it was real. The connections only seemed to get deeper and deeper with each passing thought. All this time, the Northuldra managed to keep it all a secret. All this time, Yelena was lying to them? Not many expressions on another person's face could escape his eyesight when he hunted around for them. A skill he had learned long time ago when he was just a beginner at weapons training. 'Look in your enemy's eyes' was all he trained himself to do. He looked in Agnarr's and saw fear. Raw, naked, pure fear as he stared at his wife who had closed her eyes to hide the pain. The tears, and... the betrayal.

"Iduna?" Agnarr asked worried.

She opened her eyes and looked at him. She couldn't blame him for what happened on that fateful day. She had promised herself not to. They had learned from one of the soldiers about the Northuldra leader's death a long time ago and when Agnarr confessed his fears of Runeard's possible involvement in this, she had just brushed it off as a small possibilty. She never could hurt him for someone else's mistake even if she tried to. She loved him with all her heart, and he did too. She looked at the desperate, sad and pained look in his eyes. He too felt it. It reinforced her mind. She won't let go of him just because his father did something wrong. He had tried his best to work things out. Even after catastrophes, he had stayed strong for her; for them. She was going fo stay strong for him.

She smiled.

He knew it was a sad, pained smile, but it was a smile of acceptance. A sign that she still loved him.

She leaned against him, his musculature supporting her thin, soft frame. He put his arms around her in a protective manner. It comforted her, knowing that she could share herself with someone else; the one who was holding her tight. She looked at Elsa who was watching them sadly, leaning on Alex's arm. She wondered if they had anything going on between them, but that was a question for another time.

Elsa picked up from where she had left.

"I suddenly couldn't move. It was freezing down there, but I had no idea that it could freeze me. My skin was turning to ice, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to get out. So I sent a message to Anna through ice. And then, I blacked out." She finished.

Iduna had a hand over her mouth and Agnarr just looked blank.

Elsa looked at Anna to gesture her to continue. It was Anna's voice which filled the room next.

"So, after Elsa pushed us off the slope, it was just me, Alex and Olaf sliding down. Frankly, I was just angry at her for not keeping her promise of doing things together. So I told Olaf to give me his arm, and latched it on a low hanging branch. Instead of stopping us, it just changed our direction, and put us in a narrow fast flowing river. It would have been okay, if we didn't enter the territory of the eart giants. Fortunately, they were sleeping, but it was still terrifying. I saw a cave, and me and Alex rowed towards it. We found out that it was actually a small waterfall and we had rowed just in it. After a slight bit of getting wet, there was a bank at the side of the flowing water. We got on there, and I lit a torch. There was no way that we were going to be able to climb back up, so we decided to see where the tunnel at the back of the cave would lead to. It was just a few minutes later, when we encountered a fork in the path. We were wondering which tunnel to choose when Elsa's message arrived. I saw what had happened, and I knew what had to be done to free the forest. We...had to break the dam."

Agnarr understood but Iduna didn't.

"Why?" She asked Elsa.

"The dam was hurting the forest. The chief noticed this and wanted to make sure that it isn't harmed further. He decided to confront Runeard of this and take down the dam, but, Runeard just killed him out of fear that his trick will be revealed." She explained.

Agnarr was hurt and Iduna was sad, the word 'Trick' resonating through their minds. They completely understood his motives behind building the structure in the first place without needing any explanation.

Anna kept herself strong and continued the next portion of her story.

"So there we were, in a cave just realizing the truth behind it all and laying down the path. Olaf saw a way out of the cave and I started walking over, but, Olaf started flurrying away." Tears were forming in her eyes as she recalled the worst possible memories of her life. "H...he told me that Elsa wasn't going to...going to...make it ba...ck." Her voice broke at the last word. It wasn't just the word that was broken in the room. Hearts were as well. "It was just me and Alex in the cave. "All I could do was just sit there." Tears were dripping down her cheeks. "I don't know after how many hours, I just woke up, or even if I was sleeping, but Alex suggested that we had to get out of there. He helped me out and..." Her voice broke in earnest this time and she looked desperately at Alex unable to continue.

He understood and took the lead from her.

"I want to break the dam." Anna told Alex.

He was surprised.

"What?" He asked her back uncertainly blinking rapidly. She had already lost so much. He wasn't even sure that he was feeling even a fraction of her intense blazing agony that was burning her inside out. She had barely managed to make the jump across that large gaping hole back in the tunnel, and she was already talking about breaking the dam and losing one of the only few things she had left!

"It's the right thing to do Alex." She pleaded.

He knew it was, but he still cared about her health. It would overwhelm her...torture her...for the rest of her life...if she lived. He wasn't sure if it was worth the risk.

"Maybe we could all work together and then bring down the dam brick by brick so it wouldn't flood Arendelle?" He asked her.

"No. It wouldn't work. Arendelle has to pay."

She was right yet again. He was reluctant. Kristoff would have known what to do better. He wished he was here to support her, comfort her. Alex was only her friend. Kristoff was much closer to her. He wished that the two who were gone were there to be with her. He felt lost. On one side, there was his best friend, and on the other, there was greater good. He looked deep into her eyes. He locked her with that same look that had always made everyone else uncomfortable, trying to find something in her eyes that he could use to make her atleast consider this whole thing. For the first time in his life, it didn't work. She didn't look away as all the others had. He wasn't only surprised at what he found in her eyes, he was horrified. It wasn't the same Anna he had known for three years. It wasn't the same woman who had dragged him in the streets to dance his shoes off, it wasn't the same person who had tried to prank him multiple times but only ended up humiliating herself infront of the whole kingdom, the one who had dragged her sister into a pub filled with thugs and made her a little more comfortable around them. This was a fierce woman, who looked back into his eyes, exposing the raw agony to him. He couldn't bear it. He didn't have the will, nor the power to defy that look in her eyes. She was the queen.

He closed his eyes, and nodded slowly. "What's your plan?" He asked.

"Can you destroy the dam with the shockwaves from your staff?" She asked him.

He thought about it for a second and replied with a 'no'. "The shockwave could disturb the water and flood the forest. If it destroys the dam, it will cause the cliff sides to fall apart, blocking everything again, or even worse, flooding Arendelle with huge boulders and causing irrepairable damage. I'm not taking the risk."

"Your staff is powerful enough to break the dam?!" Agnarr asked shocked.

"Yes...and a lot more." He added.

"Is it magical?" Iduna asked curious.

"No, it's forged from a special material. I don't know where it came from, but the properties seemed just perfect for weapons. It's extremely rare and I could get my hands on just enough to forge four weapons out of it, that's mine, Anna's dual swords, and Elsa's single long blade. The material stores the energy and releases it in a short burst. It actually only concentrates on a certain region where the shockwave is supposed to travel. I don't really fully understand it all myself, but I've been trying to figure it all out for a long time now."

"Wow."

"Mmhm. Back to the story, Anna formulated a crazy plan of getting the earth giants to destroy the dam." Alex said looking at her. She chuckled through her tears. He continued. "I did not like it, but I agreed anyway. So when she said that she was going to make the earth giants chase her, I tried to stop her but, well, she was off already with me hanging at the edge of the cliff where we were standing on."

She just laughed. "I know, it was a stupid move but it did work."

Elsa looked at Alex amused. The teacher had been tricked by the student.

"Okay, it did work." He admitted loudly adding the sentence, "But it was still stupid" quietly so that only Elsa could hear him. She snickered softly disguising it as a cough. He directed his next words at Agnarr and Iduna before anyone else could interrupt. "She told me to get to the dam and get everyone away so that no one would be hurt by the giants. I did exactly as she told, and headed over to the dam. I met a Northuldran and told him to get everyone out of the path. I also saw Kristoff and Sven running to where the thumps were arriving already. One of the Northuldra tipped me off on the soldiers' location. I headed over and the dam was already half broken with Anna on it and the giants throwing huge boulders at her from a distance. She narrowly avoided falling off the broken wall which was getting tilted with the weight of the water on it, and jumped toward the cliff. She wouldn't have made it, if it weren't for lieutenet Mattias catching her by her fingers. Kristoff then went over and pulled her up. It was done. The dam was broken." He ended.

"Kristoff and Sven saved me once again getting me out from under the portion where a giant's foot would have landed on me." She looked at them appreciatively.

Kristoff smiled at her and pressed her closer to him.

Iduna was gaping and Agnarr was looking at them wide eyed.

"Meanwhile..." Olaf took the lead this time. "...Elsa unfroze and fell into the sea below the glacier. She was rescued by Nøkk. They both travelled to Arendelle faster than the floods and reached before the chaos. They created this massive wall of ice which blocked the water from reaching Arendelle and Nøkk made it recede backwards so that it wouldn't reach Arendelle. It was EPIC."

They were completely speechless. Epic, was an understatement. They didn't know what to say. There was just so much information they had to process. But they were sure of one thing. They were proud of their daughters. They sat there silently for a minute.

Elsa was getting drowsy. She tried her best to stay awake, but she was too comfortable to resist. Leaning against Alex was like leaning against a wall, but a comfortable one. She had her hand intertwined in his and was gently stroking it. It had a few scars on it, but she was pretty used to them. She could feel his hard biceps as she leaned on them. They were just as strong as Kristoff's if not stronger. Lifting ice had made him stronger, but wielding weapons seemed just as hard of a task.

She gave a yawn. Kristoff saw that.

"Well, you've all had a pretty hard and long day, so why don't we get a little rest?" He suggested.

"Yes. Definitely." Olaf said getting up to help Kristoff get a few cushions and make the beds.

Elsa looked at Alex with a raised eyebrow challenging him to disagree.

"Okay, I'll get some sleep today." He assured her smiling.

"Why? Didn't you get sleep yesterday?" Anna asked him casually trying to help Kristoff while he tried to make her sit down as she was exhausted.

"He hasn't slept for the past five days." Elsa told her.

Everyone else who were talking among themselves looked up at Alex astonished, and an awkward silence followed.

"Ahem...I...uh...got a little bit...occupied." Alex stammered.

"Dude. What the hell?" Kristoff asked him with saucers for his eyes his hand still on Anna's shoulder in a manner of pushing her away on the couch.

"Hehe..." He laughed apologetically.

Anna blinked rapidly. "Wha...are you serious?!"

"Uhm yeah...but don't worry. I can go on like this for more." Alex mentally slapped himself for phrasing it like that. He felt his brain slowing down.

"Uh-huh right...you're sleeping here." Anna said out of nowhere.

"Wait, what?" Alex blinked.

"Yep."

"Oh no. I can't possibly intru..."

"Nope."

"...de."

"Don't say it."

"But..."

"No."

"Anna..."

"Shut up."

Alex pursed up his lips and looked to Elsa for help. She just shrugged and gave him a look that said 'I don't trust you.'

Anna continued. "Kristoff will make sure no one disturbs you through the night, won't you honey?"

"Oh yeah, sure."

Alex tried to interrupt.

"Ok well, it's settled then. You'll be sleeping on that bed." She gestured to a spare bed in the room and turned around before he could say anything and busied herself with talking to Iduna, and doing some work with a caring Kristoff.

Alex just looked at her back to him and chuckled shaking his head. Well, Elsa had a point. She really couldn't trust him with sleep.