The next day after Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Hiccup had been at her palace, Elsa paced, distraught about what happened. She finally sees Hiccup again, and what does she do in her fear about thrusting Arendelle in to an eternal winter? She loses control and strikes Hiccup with her powers. Something that would of hit Anna if Hiccup hadn't arrived when he did. Now twice she had hurt someone she cared about. She begins to talk to herself trying to keep the fear from taking over again.
"Get it together. Control it. Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't FEEL!" Elsa orders herself but she hears ice cracking. Elsa stops now looking around. She's left a sharp wake of ice spikes behind her on the floor. They grow up the wall, taking over the castle. Elsa's eyes widen with worry and fear as she pulls her arms in close. This was all her fault.
(With Hiccup, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, Sven, and Toothless)
The Northern Lights are bright overhead and Olaf stares at them in awe as he rides on Sven's back. "Look, Sven. The sky's awake." Behind Olaf and Sven, Anna walks with Kristoff while Hiccup rides on Toothless trying to keep himself from shivering.
"Are you cold?" Kristoff asks him.
"...N-no...Just fine." Hiccup replies stubbornly but Anna knows better.
"No you're not, Hiccup." Anna sighs heavily. Kristoff looks around as if he doesn't know what to do, then gets a thought.
"Wait. Come here." He walks them around a bend into a rock-lined pass. Steam vents, powered by the volcanic activity, dot the path. Hiccup gets off Toothless and holds on to him while they walk to the vent and puts his hands over it loving the feeling. Anna and Kristoff do the same.
"Oooh... That's nice." Anna says smiling as they continue on the path, walking from vent to vent.
Taking a deep breath, "So, about my friends...well, I say friends, they're more like family... Anyway, when I was a kid, it was just me and Sven...until they took me in." Kristoff begins to explain to Anna. Hiccup stays quiet walking slightly behind with Toothless.
"They did?" Anna asks surprised.
"Yeah. I don't want to scare you, they can be a little bit inappropriate...and loud...very loud...they're also stubborn at times, and a little overbearing. And heavy. Really, really heavy." Kristoff nervously rambles, "But they're fine.. You'll get it. They mean well." He says afterwards. Anna touches Kristoff's arm, reassuringly.
"Kristoff, they sound wonderful." Anna tells him smiling. Kristoff smiles, appreciating her sincerity.
"Okay then..." Mustering the courage, Kristoff steps forward and with a wave of the arms announces– "Meet my family." Anna, Hiccup, and Olaf all blink seeing that Kristoff is surrounded by rocks. "Hey, guys!" As Kristoff and Sven move through the rocks, waving and greeting, Olaf, Hiccup, and Anna stand frozen, dumbfounded.
"...They're rocks." Anna says to no one in particular, more of a self realization.
"He's crazy..." Olaf says slowly and then leans in to Anna to whisper, "I'll distract them while you run." Olaf wanders through the rocks with a smile, "Hi, Sven's family! It's nice to meet you!" Olaf beams, acting to be happy to meet these 'family' members of Kristoff's, whom Olaf has firmly believed is named Sven like the reindeer. "Anna, because I love you, I insist you run." Olaf whispers to her before turning to the rock before him. "I understand you're love experts!" Olaf says, "Why aren't you running?!" Olaf asks quickly.
"Anna...this guy took a hard hit to the head...we should...just get back to the castle. Toothless's tail is unfrozen now...come on." Hiccup tells Anna as he came beside her. Anna snaps out of her shock and starts backing away.
"Okay. Um...I'm gonna go–..." Anna starts as she turns to leave with Hiccup. Just then the rocks around her start rolling. "Ah! Kristoff!" Anna exclaims. Olaf lights up and chases the rocks, who surround Kristoff and unfold to reveal they are trolls.
One troll looks and smiles wide, "KRISTOFF'S HOME!"
Now various trolls states, "Kristoff! Kristoff's home! It's been too long! Kristoff's home!" Olaf jumps around all excitedly.
"Kristoff's home!" Olaf says excitedly. He then stops, confused, and looks to one of the trolls. "Wait? Kristoff?"
Anna watches, shocked and confused. The trolls all want Kristoff's attention as one troll yanks him down with a boulder's strength. "Oh, lemme look at you!"
Another troll tries to pull off his clothes "Oh, take off your clothes, Kristoff; I wash them."
"Ah! No. I'm gonna keep my clothes on, thank you." Kristoff blushes keeping his pants up and looking nervously at Anna. Hiccup was blinking. They were trolls. Actual rock trolls. Man Gobber would get a kick out of this. Hiccup couldn't believe it, the did exist. He knew this from when Elsa told him about them but seeing it in person was on a whole new level of disbelief for him. "Great to see you all. Where's grand pabbie?" Kristoff asks now.
"He's napping. But look, I grew a mushroom." Said one of the kid trolls with a mushroom on his back.
"And I earned my fire crystal." Said a troll scout proudly.
"I passed a kidney stone." Said on older, bigger troll now.
"Pick me up." Said one kid troll. The kid troll jumps up on Kristoff's arm and Kristoff sinks under the weight of him. Anna still stares, confused, then realizes.
"Trolls? They're trolls..." Anna sais quietly. Silence. All troll eyes turn to Anna. Blink. Blink.
"...He's brought a girl!" Announces a female troll happily.
"He's brought a girl!" The others yell out, suddenly Anna is surrounded by trolls. They body-surf/roll Anna over to Kristoff. She falls into his arms.
"What's going on?" Anna asks confused.
"I've learned to just roll with it." Kristoff responds with a shrug. The female who originally noticed Anna now climbs on top of her husband, Cliff, to get a good look at Anna. She studies her like she's a piece of cattle.
"Let me see. Bright eyes. Working nose. Strong teeth. Yes, yes, yes. She'll do nicely for our Kristoff." The woman says happily.
"Wait. Oh. Um. No." Anna protests.
"You've got the wrong idea. That's not why we came here..." Kristoff nods trying to protest as well.
"Right. We're not. I'm not–..." Anna laughs, uncomfortable, not knowing what to say. Hiccup and Toothless just stood there watching in shock, having obviously not been noticed yet. Though how to you miss a giant black dragon and a man dressed like a prince?
"What's the issue, dear? Why are you holding back from such a man?" The troll woman asks as Hiccup blinked a few times. "Is it the clumpy way he walks? Or the grumpy way he talks? Or the pear-shaped, square-shaped weirdness of his feet? And though we know he washes well, he always ends up sorta smelly. But you'll never meet a fella who's as sensitive and sweet."
"So he's a bit of a fixer upper. So he's got a few flaws. His peculiar brain, dear, his thing for the reindeer. That's outside a few of nature's laws. So he's a bit of a fixer upper, but this we're certain of...You can fix this fixer upper with a little bit of love!" The trolls chorused together.
"Can we just stop talking about this?! We've got a real, actual problem here." Kristoff states quickly.
"I'll say..." The woman who started it all said. As various trolls begin asking more questions in sing song to Anna. "Is it the way that he runs scared? Or that he's socially impaired? Or that he only likes to tinkle in the woods?" Said a kid troll as Anna stepped back.
"I did not need to know that." Anna noticed Kristoff blushing a little, Hiccup on the other had only sighed closing his eyes and shaking his head.
"Are you holding back your fondness...Due to his unmanly blondness? Or the way he covers up that he's the honest goods?" The trolls began again.
"He's just a bit of a fixer upper. He's got a couple of bugs..."
"No I don't!" Kristoff protests quickly.
"His isolation is confirmation, of his desperation for healing hugs! So he's a bit of a fixer upper. But we know what to do...The way to fix this fixer upper, is to fix him up with you!" The trolls smile. Hiccup blinked, they wanted to have Anna be with Kristoff?
"Stop it, stop it, enough!" Kristoff gets them to stop, "She is engaged to someone else okay?!" Kristoff yells informatively. Anna's eyes widened as he felt Hiccup's stare of her.
"Excuse me...engaged?" Hiccup states firmly.
"Uh...y–yeah...A–a lot happened...while you were away, Hiccup..." Anna said nervously, the trolls now blink seeing Hiccup and Toothless and then they huddle together.
"So she's a bit of a fixer upper. That's a minor thing...This quote engagement is a flex arrangement...And by the way I don't see no ring." Various trolls say now before un-huddling and looking at Kristoff.
"So she's a bit of a fixer upper! Her brain's a bit betwixt...Get the fiance out of the way, and the whole thing will be fixed!" The trolls sang in harmony as Kristoff face palmed in defeat. The male trolls tackled him down and put a moss cape on him, then a crown of moss, and sticks. Hiccup could not believe this was happening right now. Were they assuming...he was Anna's fiancé?! Hiccup now smacked his palm to his face groaning.
"We aren't saying you can change him, 'cause people don't really change. We're only saying that love's a force that's powerful and strange. People make bad choices if they're mad or scared or stressed. But throw a little love their way, and you'll bring out their best..." The woman troll sang softly to Anna, which made her listen carefully in understanding. The female trolls now begin to dress Anna with moss. Kristoff looks over at Anna. She actually looks shockingly beautiful dressed in moss, lit by shimmering crystals.
"True love brings out the best! Everyone's a bit of a fixer upper. That's what it's all about! Father, sister, brother. We need each other...To raise us up and round us out." The trolls sang out. By this time Kristoff and Anna are being ushered into a pit by the sheer force of numbers. "Everyone's a bit of a fixer upper, but when push comes to shove..." The trolls smiled as Olaf now jumped in.
"The only fixer upper fixer that can fix a fixer upper is..." Olaf sang with them.
"True. True. True. True love!" During this last bit Anna and Kristoff are looking at each other differently. Maybe those trolls are right? Sparks fly between the two as they smile.
"Do you, Anna, take Kristoff to be your trollfully wedded–..." The troll priest began as Anna and Kristoff's eyes widened in shock. Hiccup's mouth dropped open seeing where it was going now.
"Wait, what?!" Anna exclaimed.
"You're getting married." The priest stated calmly.
"LOVE!" The trolls yell in unison. Just then before they can say anything else, Hiccup clutches his chest and collapses breathing heavily, Toothless catches her and he begins shivering fiercely. Anna gasps worried, Kristoff turns to Sven now.
"Help us out, Sven." Kristoff says as Sven tilts his head, offering his antlers. Kristoff grabs Sven's antlers and he pulls them out. Anna rushes over to Hiccup to help him stand up, Kristoff puts Hiccup's arm over his shoulder to help support his weight.
"He's cold like ice." Kristoff pants a little looking around at the trolls for help. Grand Pabbie pushes his way through the crowd. Trolls clear the way for Pabbie and he stops in front of Hiccup who was being held up by Anna and Kristoff.
"There's strange magic here!" Pabbie says first.
"Grand Pabbie!" Kristoff exclaims.
"Bring him down to me, Kristoff." Pabbie instructs. Kristoff and Anna help Hiccup to a kneeling position so Pabbie could reach him. Pabbie looks into his weak eyes. "Young prince, your life is in danger. There is ice in your heart, put there by your lover. If not removed, to solid ice will you freeze, forever." Pabbie tells him as Hiccup's eyes widen at the news, Kristoff and Anna's turn to worry for him.
"What...? No..." Hiccup says weakly.
"So remove it, Grand Pabbie." Kristoff insists quickly.
"I can't. I'm sorry, Kristoff. If it was his head, that would be easy. But only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart." Pabbie tells him.
"An act of true love?" Anna asks looking at the trolls now.
"A true love's kiss, perhaps?" Offered the woman troll closest to them. A bunch of trolls give each other kisses.
Hiccup shivers again, collapsing further down and more of his hair turns white. "Hiccup we have to get you back to Arendelle..." Anna says quickly.
"N–no...We need...to get to Elsa..." Hiccup argues weakly.
"You are in no condition to be traveling in this cold. We'll get Elsa..." Kristoff adds now.
"You...are the young man I saw 10 years ago in Elsa's future, the one that would help her. You are not from these parts, and you ride a creature of fire, you have no fear and your gift of understanding those who are different is beyond words..." Pabbie says now.
"Wait...You knew...Hiccup would be in Elsa's life?" Anna questioned looking at the elder troll now.
"Anna, Grand Pabbie is the one who healed you 10 years ago. That's why I said I've seen it before..." Kristoff sighs.
"I don't...understand? Elsa had frozen my heart 10 years ago? Is that why...the gates were locked and she avoided me until Hiccup came around?" Anna asked in shock.
"Your sister didn't freeze your heart, Anna. Only your head, she struck you by accident trying to keep you from falling from a high snow peak she'd made when you were playing as kids those years ago. Its where...your white streak of hair comes from. The king...and queen brought you here to the elder troll...and he changed your memories from playing with Elsa and her magic, to normal memories of you two playing in the snow together." Hiccup coughed now.
"H–how do...you know about that?" Anna sputtered out.
"Elsa...told me the day I took her flying on...Toothless. She showed me her magic, I've...known for 6 years. We all have...She didn't want you to know incase...it scared you to know she hurt you. With me around...she seemed to have it controlled...We asked your parents why they let me stay, and they said because the elder troll told them the one who would be able to help with Elsa's magic was a stranger from a far off land with a gift, riding a creature of fire who held no fear." Hiccup told her. "How did...she lose control. Everything...was fine before I left..."
"And when you left to go looking for my parents, the castle believed they were dead. Elsa...shut down again. She locked herself in her room, then was made queen 3 weeks later. During the coronation...I met a prince named Hans and...well we...sort of got engaged after just meeting. I asked for Elsa's blessing, she said no and I took her glove and she got mad. I pushed her to tell me...why she shut me out, shut the world out. I asked what she was so afraid of, and she released her powers and then ran away, up to the North Mountain. That's when I decided to go after her, when we realized she started an eternal winter..." Anna explained.
"We have to...get to her." Hiccup tried to force himself up.
"You'll get worse in this cold. We have to take you back, we'll get Elsa and bring her home. She'll come when she realizes that her love is needed..." Anna tells him calmly.
"Sh–she doesn't...know I love...her. And I don't...know if she loves me. We never...said it. Our dating...was on a like each other basis...I–I was...going to propose when we got back..." Hiccup closed his eyes as they helped him on Toothless now. Anna climbed behind him as Kristoff got on Sven and Olaf behind him.
"Anna. You take him back to Arendelle, I'll get Elsa. He needs to be warm as possible..." Kristoff told her. Anna nods as she put her hands on Hiccup's shoulder.
"Can you still work Toothless's tail or are we running back?" Anna asks now.
"I–I can...manage it..." Hiccup said weakly as he pressed the pedal stirrup down and opened Toothless's tail.
"Anna, be safe. I'll get there with Elsa as soon as I can." Kristoff told her, Anna smiled before Toothless launched in to the sky heading back towards Arendelle. Kristoff give Sven a kick and they dart off back towards the northern mountain.
(Elsa's Ice Palace)
Hans and the men tread cautiously towards the castle. "We are here to find Princess Anna. Be on guard, but no harm is to come to the Queen. Do you understand?" Hans orders the men. The Duke's thugs exchange a look. Suddenly, a mass of snow rises from the ground behind Hans. It's Marshmallow, Elsa's snow guard.
"Go away!" He slams a fist inches from Hans who deftly dodges out of the way. All of the guards take up arms against Marshmallow, who quickly knocks them over. Marshmallow throws down a guard and his horse, who topple over Hans. Marshmallow raises his foot to stomp on Hans, but Hans barrel-rolls himself to safety. He sees his sword, leaps, and grabs it. Just then, Elsa peeks out the front doors.
The Duke's two thugs see her. "The Queen!" One of the thugs yell as they grab their weapons and rush inside the castle. Elsa panics quickly retreats inside behind the doors.
"Come on!" The thugs charge up the stairs and then they burst through the ice doors.
Elsa flees to the top floor of her palace. The guards pursue and they trap her on the top floor, raising their crossbows.
"No. Please." Elsa pleads scared now. One of the thugs shoots an arrow right at Elsa who at the last moment she creates an ice wall. It stops the arrow, inches from her face. The thugs reposition to take another shot, "Stay away!" Elsa shoots ice at the thugs. They duck out of the way and continue the attack.
"Get her! Get her!" The thug orders while Elsa fights for her life.
(Outside The Palace)
Hans is nearly crushed by Marshmallow. He rolls away to safety then jumps to his feet. And with agile might, he slices Marshmallow's leg off with his sword. Marshmallow stumbles back, off balance. And falls off over the cliff, but not before striking Hans who goes over the edge. The men rush up the steps to see Hans clinging to the ice steps. His men help him up and they rush into the ice palace.
(With Elsa & The Thugs)
Elsa is surrounded. It's do or die. In two swift moves, Elsa traps one thug in a cage of spikes that threaten his neck. The other, she pushes back with a wall of ice up against the balcony doors which burst and crack under the power given off by Elsa. The balcony doors shatter as the thug is pushed to the edge. He's inches away from falling to his death. Hans and his men run in. See the destruction and the thugs near death. "Queen Elsa!" Hans yells to get her attention, she glances back at him. "Don't be the monster they fear you are." He tells her quickly.
Elsa snaps out of her rage. She sees the men, frightened and moments from death. She stops instantly panting. Elsa looks to Hans, overwhelmed, frightened. The wall retreats from the thug on the balcony. The ice spikes lower from the second thug's neck. He takes advantage and aims his crossbow at Elsa's back. Seeing it. Hans runs and pushes the crossbow up just as the arrow releases. The arrow hits the ice chandelier, hanging directly above Elsa. The chandelier comes crashing down. Elsa dives out of the way but she falls in the blast. The ice smashed like glass, and all that could be heard was the ear deafening ringing from the shattering of the ice falling.
