Hey Everyone, apologies for the delay. After graduating from University, a lot has happened...(Passed my Driving Test, moved out of Parents house, getting a job, etc). Anyways it's good to be back.

Welcome Back to "The Guardians of Winter: The King of Nightmares Returns".

Now in the last chapter we discovered: (1) Pitch knows of the assembling of Winter (2) Jacks request for a secret base for his team has been fulfilled (3) Jack heads to Arendelle in the hope of getting to Elsa first before Pitch does.

CAST

(In Order Of Appearance)

Characters And Voice Actors

Jack Frost - Chris Pine

Oaken - Chris Williams

As Jack stepped through to the other side, the portal closed rather suddenly which caused Jack to be thrown out of the doorway and into a pile of autumn leaves. Shaking off the red and amber coloured leaves, he got back to his feet and looked around his surroundings. The portal as it seemed hadn't opened at the palace, it had opened in a forest on the outskirts surrounded by mountains covered with snow.

'So where is the palace?' he thought as he put the Snow globe back into his pocket and looked around. He soon noticed a huge mountain towering behind him which was known locally as the North Mountain.

Jack sized up the mountain, 'That will be a perfect view point,' he thought and with a gust of wind he took off into the air. But during his ascent to the top of North Mountain, Jack was met by a blinding glare of light which appeared on the other side of the mountain face.

Slightly blinded, Jack landed upon a ledge within the mountains jagged structure, once landed Jack rubbed his eyes.

"What on Earth was that?" he questioned, he was only a quarter of the way up before being blinded.

Jack looked around and saw a snow covered path which went around to the other side. As flying was out of the question, Jack decided to follow the path to investigate what was causing the bright glare. As Jack got around to the other side his jaw dropped, his eyes were welcomed to a sight so beautiful it almost made him cry. The structure which met him on the other side was a palace made entirely out of ice, with an ice staircase bridge which stretched across a ravine to the other half of the Mountain. Taking into account that the ice structure was a palace and that there is only one person in Arendelle who could create something so divine, Jack instantly knew it was Elsa.

An awestruck Jack gazed at the Ice Palace, its structure was spectacular and pleasing to the eye. "Wow, it would seem that Elsa has got some skill," he exclaimed. As his eyes made their way from the top of the Ice Palace to the bottom; he saw the entrance guarded by double doors which lead into the palace. He ran across the bridge and went in, as if Jack wasn't awestruck enough, the sight inside the palace was even more so. Once inside Jack noticed the entire palace was shaped into a hexagon, mimicking the shape of a snowflake as he walked on to the lower floor. In each corner of the six-sided room was solid ice pillars which stood tall supporting the upper floor. Between each pillar was walls of ice which helped form and strengthen the structure, but more towards the centre of the room it had a beautiful frozen ice fountain with two curving staircases built either side. This joined together on an above platform which overlooked the entrance into the palace.

At the back of the platform there were transparent snowflake weaved curtains which draped from the ceiling lightly covering another curving staircase, this branched off from the platform and lead up to the first floor. Jack, fascinated about the possibilities of what he could learn; ran up the staircase which went onto the first floor.

Like the lower floor, this floor had ice pillars and walls, except every wall and pillar contained a giant snowflake of all different patterns and shapes. Looking beyond the snowflaked interior the first floor accommodated the master bedroom as well as another set of double doors which lead on to a rounded balcony. Just as the lower floor had a beautiful frozen ice fountain the upper floor had a grand ice chandelier made of snowflakes and frozen water droplets which hung from the ceiling.

As well as gathering his bearings around Elsa's Ice Palace. Jack eyed the double doors which lead to the balcony. "There's my view point," he said confidently as he ran through the doors on to the balcony. From there Jack could see for miles, "Wow what a view," he exclaimed. Across the horizon he could see the mountains and distant forests as well as the Ocean. Jack scanned the Earth below him looking intently for the Kingdom of Arendelle. Judging by the red and gold colour of the leaves and the beautiful colour of the sunsetting sky; it seemed the season in this part of the world was just changing into mid-autumn.

Jack looked to the far left to see a huge blue Moon beginning to rise from the West bringing along the night sky in its wake. With the Moon's cold air and the setting suns heat, a hazy mist was created flooding the valley below. 'Gee thanks' he thought sarcastically, but as the last light of day shone through as well as the raising Moonlight. A greyish purple silhouette of the palace appeared below the mountains within the cross beams of the Sun and Moon. "There it is," he said thankfully as he pinpointed its location. But the silence of dusk was disturbed by the sound of thunder in the distance. Jack looked to his right to see Pitch's nightmare storm approaching from the North-East over the Orange sunset sky, "I'm running out of time," he stressed.

He stood upon the hand railing of the balcony and jumped off. A breath of wind picked him up and he took off into the air. 'If I am to fit in with the local community here, I need to change,' he thought. Along his flight towards the Palace he saw a little log built cabin with a stable below, 'That'll do,' he thought. He landed upon the grass outside, there was a sign above the cabin entrance. It said "Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna".

'A Trading Post? That'll do,' he thought, but before he walked in he noticed a piece of royal parchment upon the cabin window shutter. It read...

HEAR YEE! HEAR YEE!

THIS EVENING

IN THE KINGDOM OF ARENDELLE

A CELEBRATORY BALL IS TO BE HELD IN THE GREAT HALL

FOR THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS ANNA AND SIR KRISTOFF

WITH HER MAJESTY, QUEEN ELSA OF ARENDELLE ATTENDING AND DELIVERING THE BLESSING

EVERYONE IS INVITED...

"Well then, I best make myself look suitable," he said to himself and made his way into the cabin. As he walked in he was greeted by a large burly man with ginger hair and sideburns. "Yoo-Hoo, you will have to keep your walking stick outside I'm afraid sir," said the German shop keeper, Oaken. Jack, not wanting to start a fuss left his staff outside and went about selecting his new attire for the evening.

Among the stalls and shelves within the extremely cramped cabin, Jack grabbed an old white tunic and a brown hooded poncho. Jack walked up to Oaken, "Do you have a room where I can change into these garments?" he asked. The burly shopkeeper pointed to a tiny room at the back of the cabin, Jack nodded and made his way to the changing room. A couple of minutes later he appeared from the changing room dressed in his new clothing, 'Perfect fit,' he thought as he stretched himself out testing the flexibility of the clothing.

Oaken looked at Jack, "Yes Yes, very good," he said, "That will be 20 krone." Jack stopped testing out the fabric, he had forgotten that he needs currency here, (well when you're dead, you don't care much for that type of thing). Jack walked over to the counter, "Look closely," he said as he raised his hand. Oaken looked rather puzzled but soon became shocked as he saw a snowflake appear in Jack's palm. "I have no currency," admitted Jack, Oaken's face turned red but just before he could order Jack to return the purchases and leave the establishment Jack threw the snowflake at the angry shopkeeper. The snowflake hit Oaken's forehead and suddenly his anger dropped and happiness flooded through. Jack smiled and walked out of the cabin. He reunited himself with his staff and took a deep breath, "Ok Elsa, here I come," he said. He walked a few steps forward away from the Trading Post. "Ok wind," he commanded and moments later the wind picked him up and he flew off into the air and headed straight for the Palace.

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