"Hey Everyone, here again with another update.

Ok, here's the concluding chapter to the previous. I'd recommend readers read the chapter before this one to better understand the story.

Warning: this chapter contains intense fight scenes as well as one mention of mild language, nothing strong or not needed.

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

Now in the last chapter we discovered: (1) Pitch's nightmare storm has caused (2) Elsa has frozen Pitch Black into an ice statue before he could smite Jack (3) The witches of Magix have decided to get involved and put the Queen and the Guardian to the test.

CAST

(In Order Of Appearance)

Characters And Voice Actors

Jack Frost - Chris Pine

Queen Elsa of Arendelle - Idina Menzel

Pitch Black - Jude Law

Icy, Witch of Ice - Mila Kunis

Darcy, Witch of Darkness and Illusion - Elizabeth Olsen

Stormy, Witch of Storms - Megan Fox

Princess Anna of Arendelle - Kristen Bell

Sir Kristoff - Jonathan Groff

Jack ran to the Guard whose vision was taken first, whilst Elsa ran over to the Royal Guards which surrounded the disabled Boogeyman. To Jacks horror, he discovered the eyes of the Guard were completely covered over with darkness. Jack put his hand underneath the Guards eye and pushed the lower eye lid down to find no traces of Black Sand. This wasn't Pitch's doing; this was an attack from someone else.

Jack remembered what North had told him about a certain Witch of Darkness and Illusion. In revelation that this evening was going to get a whole lot more difficult, he backed away from the Guard and walked over to Elsa.

Jack put his hand on her shoulder. "Elsa?" he said almost in a whisper. The Queen looked up at him.

Jack knelt down and whispered to her, "There is someone else here causing this attack. Unfortunately, this is going to get worse unless I face them."

Elsa put her hand on his knee, "You don't have to face this alone. I can help you," she whispered back.

Jack smiled, "I know you can, but you need to be here for your people. When I get their attention, get your visitors out of here." Elsa smiled back at Jack's plan, but then the smile faulted away. She could still help him; she was strong enough, right?

As Jack rose from his knees he noticed Pitch's icy situation was starting to crack and groan. 'If I can hold off Icy and her sisters just long enough, maybe I can get out of here before Pitch breaks free.' Although he clearly doubted that he was going to walk away from this unharmed. However, if he could buy enough time for the innocent people to evacuate from the Ballroom then maybe it would all be worth it.

Several of the visitors, as well as Elsa, grabbed the blinded Guards and dragged them back into the crowd. Jack stood in front of the disintegrating ice statue looking into the crowd of faces. Icy and her sisters, who were having a ball with all the mischief they were causing looked on.

"I was told of your coming," Jack called into the crowd. "But I must say that blindness and stoking fear is really old school and I should know." Icy and her sisters looked at one another, was he referring to them? But there was no way he could have known of their presence.

Jack continued, "So do you three want to come out and introduce yourself or should I?"

Icy looked above the crowd to find Jack staring right at her. How could he have known where to look? The Trix shuffled out of the crowd and brought down their coat hoods revealing each other's identity.

Jack could hear Pitch's chuckle from behind him as the thawing figure saw a three against one situation unfold.

Icy spoke up first, "So you're a Guardian, huh?"

Darcy butted in, "You look nothing like the Guardians from back home on Magix,"

Stormy added on, "Yeah, there strong, handsome and armoured with steel weapons. This is no Guardian, this is a boy who wants to be a man,"

Jack allowed the harsh words to pass, "And what could Arendelle offer the universes most wanted criminals?" he questioned. Jack was attempting to delay the fight long enough to come up with a plan.

The Trix shuddered at the word 'criminals'. Of course to them, they were wrongfully imprisoned and did not consider themselves as criminals at all, just merely Witches with life goals.

Icy retaliated, "We are not criminals, just a couple of girls which like to have a bit of fun,"

"Uh Huh, like making innocent people lose their sight?" Jack retorted. He was getting a bit wound up, he wanted to keep calm and not make any sudden movements. But scaring and blinding people just for the sake of fun wasn't acceptable. Now Jack is very much a prankster, he'd make people slip on ice and freeze their drinking water just for his own amusement. But these Witches sense of fun was seriously screwed up.

Darcy giggled, "Sure, it's the funniest thing, leaving people in darkness not knowing where to go,"

Jack looked to Elsa as a signal that this was about to heat up. He then turned back to the sisters, "Well we don't want that kind of twisted entertainment here thanks. There's the door." He ordered as he pointed to the exit with his Staff.

Darcy and Stormy sniggered, but Icy just snarled. "Like that's going to happen."

Jack sighed as his eyes dropped to the floor, diplomacy failed; shame. He twirled his Staff and with a ferocious blast the sisters were thrown into the Ballroom walls. Jack quickly turned and nodded to Elsa, this was her chance to get the visitors out.

Jack turned back to face the Trix, Icy ran out from the crowd, "Who do you think you are attacking me?!" she scolded and fired a ball of icy blue energy at Jack. Now Jack was unsure how to tackle this, this energy projection attacking style was all new territory. As the Icy ball approached, Jack twirled his Staff and whacked the ball up into the ceiling above Icy. This caused a portion of the marble ceiling to breakaway and land on top of her, burying the girl underneath the debris.

Suddenly Jack heard the sound of thunder coming from his right. He had barely time to turn his head when he felt an excruciating pain travel through his body as he was thrown into one of the Ballroom windows. He then came crashing down upon a pile of shattered glass beneath the windowpanes. As Jack fought through the pain, he raised his head to see Stormy standing in front of the crowd, smiling arrogantly at the Guardian.

Jack had barely recovered from the impact of Stormy's lightning strike, which had left his right side somewhat stunned. To being blasted across the room by a dark matter explosion sending him, and all the shards of glass, into the wall behind the throne. Jack didn't need to look up to know that the explosive attack was from Darcy. 'As long as their focus is on me, that's all I need to do to ensure that the visitors escape,' he thought hoping that this strategy will play out correctly.

From the other side of the room, a huge hand of ice erupted from the pile of broken marble, it grabbed the fallen debris and tossed it aside. Growling, Icy picked herself up from the floor, she had suffered mild bruising and her clothing was torn and scuffed. She looked around as the dust settled, she soon found her sisters and ran to join them.

Elsa continued to get the visitors to safety, at least 150 of the 500 guests were out of the Ballroom when she took a moment to glimpse at the battle which raged on. She watched as Darcy blasted projection after projection of explosive matter at the hapless Guardian. Stormy continued with her lightning strikes which seemed to be generated by her weird frizzy hair that resembled a cloud in its shape. Suddenly there was a huge crash, a huge hand of ice rose from underneath a pile of debris throwing it aside resulting in the sudden sound. Shortly followed by Icy rising from a hole in the floorboards, she then quickly dashed off to join her sisters.

This was hard to watch as all three sisters began combining their attacks to devastating effect, Elsa had to do something. "Anna, Kristoff," she called, Anna and Kristoff appeared from the shuffling crowd.

"I need you both to make sure that everyone gets out of here," she said.

"Hey, where are you going?" Anna asked grabbing hold of her sister's arm.

"That boy needs help," Elsa replied pointing at the Guardian.

"Are you sure about this?" Kristoff asked, "Once you're in the battle, you may end up wishing you weren't."

"But I can't just stand here and do nothing." Elsa responded. She was certain that this Guardian was good at his duties, but four against one?

Jack lay on the floor, getting pummelled by all the attacks the Trix sisters were dishing out. He wasn't worried much about himself, he was the distraction. But he wasn't going to take this one laying down. He heard the Trix sisters shooting insults and remarks at him.

"Call yourself a Guardian?" remarked Darcy,

"You're just a boy…in the wrong place at the wrong time," added Stormy,

"You think you could just order us to leave? You have no authority over us because you are no one," Icy snarled.

Jack gripped his Staff and raised himself up onto his knees, Jack looked up at the barrage of attacks projecting at him. "And you three are trespassing on this planet," he said and clanged his Staff to the floor. This generated a shockwave of ice and wind which rumbled through the floorboards and erupted at the Trix, hurling them into the ballroom pillars.

Jack got up from the floor, this was harder than he'd thought. He examined himself to find shards of glass embedded into his skin as well as his disguise clothing torn and ripped. An exploding crack caught Jack's attention, he looked up to find Pitch gone. All that remained was huge chunks of thawing ice imprinted with Black Sand.

The shadows around the room began to darken. Even with the chandeliers lit, the darkness appeared to increase. A voice called out from around the room. "I can always trust you to put on an entertaining show Jack. It's such a great shame that you didn't except my offer in joining me. We could have been God's, you and I. The world would have been grovelling at our feet. Therefore, I shall give you another chance," Pitch's eyes appeared in the darkest part of the room. A mouth of sharp teeth smiled. "I will extend to you my offer once again, take a place by my side."

Jack burst out laughing, "Have you seriously been spending 10 years thinking that there was any chance I would ever join you and your minions?!"

The smile in the shadows remained the same. Jack found this confusing. He's just turned Pitch down again and yet he was smiling, it was rather unnerving. Regrettably, Jack hadn't clicked that Pitch was stalling for time until he felt a chill rising through his body. He looked down and discovered his body being slowly encased in ice. Jack's head shot up to find Icy on her feet, bruised and injured. She stood in front of Pitch with her hands extended and glowing.

Pitch snarled, "Out of my way girl, he's mine!"

Before Pitch could drag her out of the way, Icy's head shot around. "No, Nightmare Princess. You're all talk, let me show you how it's done,"

Pitch restrained himself not to fight back, he could easily trap Icy into an eternal nightmare. But part of him wanted to see if these witches could pose a threat to him. "Well knock yourself out" he scolded and disappeared leaving the dark shadows behind.

Icy returned to the Guardian who was attempting to resist the ice as it climbed up his torso. Icy knew she was the strongest of her sisters, but this seemed too easy. "Where's all that fight gone tough guy?" She mocked, "I thought at least there would be someone worth my patience. And here's me, thinking it was you."

"Shows what you know!" Jack spat back. The ice had covered him from his feet to his shoulders leaving his head the last part to freeze over.

Icy was taken aback, "What?!"

A grin appeared on Jack's face as his body was frozen in ice. Icy couldn't claim the victory. Why was he smiling?

Suddenly, cracks throughout the ice encasing the frozen Guardian appeared emanating from his chest. Icy gazed at the statue, this shouldn't be happening. No one could fight her ice attacks, even encasing her victims in ice would often put them to sleep or kill them.

Then, what Icy was dreading happened. A deafening bang from Jack rocked the room as the ice cracked and dispersed all over the floor. Icy shielded her eyes as icy shards fired straight at her.

When she brought her arms down, she was surprised to find Jack standing right in front of her. As speechless as she was, she could only utter the words. "How did you?"

"What can I say?" He replied, "Err... Thanks for the recharge,"

"Wait, what?" Icy managed to find her words. She got into another stance to attack once again.

Jack smirked, "Well before you start to kill an already dead 400 year old man again. I'll let you in on a secret."

"Oh yeah, what?" Icy asked, not really caring about the answer,

"I'm the distraction." Jack answered twirling his Staff in his hand,

"Distraction?" Icy questioned,

"I've been pretty much playing you all this time and you know what?" he smirked.

Icy didn't ask, she hated being played. She did eventually say through gritted teeth, "What?"

"It's my turn." Jack swung his Staff at Icy shooting a bolt of ice at her, making her hit the wall hard. Icy was quick to recover. Curiously, ice attacks didn't seem to hurt her as much as it did her sisters.

Jack soon found himself face to face with Icy yet again. 'This girl doesn't take a hint to get lost…and at the same time, I'm meant to recruit her somehow.' Jack thought.

Icy started powering up her attack as she advanced on Jack. Her hands were beginning to glow with bright icy blue energy. "PLAY ME WILL YOU?!" she shouted and fired a beam of ice at Jack. Aware of the coming danger, Jack stood his ground. 'She is obviously the stronger of the three, but she's constantly leaving her guard down,' he thought, strategizing his next move. Before her attack hit him, he raised his Staff and blocked the attack. The remaining crowd in the Ballroom gasped as they saw to Icy's surprise, Jack had kept his ground. It was as if her attack was being absorbed by his staff, this made her angry.

"YOU CHEATER!" she shouted. Keeping her beams of ice focused on Jack, she scanned the room for her sisters. Darcy was nowhere to be seen, Stormy soon ran up to the battle. "STORMY, DO SOMETHING!"

Stormy's blue frizzy hair began to generate static electricity which made the floor hum slightly with vibrations as she prepared to fire a lightning strike at the Guardian. Jack slightly turned his head to mark where Stormy was. She had taken a position behind him, making it difficult for Jack to counter her attack while focusing on the elder sister.

"Oh, Guardian!" she giggled as she prepared to strike him with a bolt of lightning. Jack, still focused on Icy, was somewhat pinned in position. He couldn't move because Icy's attack would hit him if he attempted to. Jack closed his eyes and prepared to receive the painful strike.

Jack felt the vibrations in the floor increase as Stormy's attack got more ready to fire…then suddenly the vibrations ceased. The Guardians eyes shot open, what happened? Icy, still keeping up her attack and, looking considerably drained from her prolonged attack, cocked her head aside to find Stormy on the floor.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?" Icy yelled,

"You're asking me?" Jack questioned. He turned his head to find, to his surprise, Elsa had joined the fight.

"I've got your back," she said, staring down at Stormy as she rose from the floor.

Jack smiled, "Thanks Elsa. I could do with some back up." He then realised, "Wait... What about the visitors?" he whispered.

"Anna and Kristoff are helping evacuate those left out." She whispered back.

Icy, still keeping up her attack, looked as if she was going to vomit. "Why don't you both just get married for Pete's sake," she said sarcastically.

Stormy laughed at her sister's remark. "Yeah, you freaks deserve each other."

With that, Icy began to give in to her exhaustion as her lengthy attack started to take its toll. "STORMY!" she shouted weakly as she dropped to her knees ceasing the attack and leaving herself vulnerable.

Seeing her sister was in trouble, Stormy made a quick attack at Jack and Elsa. Her eyes began to glow pink as she cast her spell, she ran forward and clapped her hands together creating a shockwave which headed straight for them.

In sight of the coming danger, Elsa erected a wall of ice to block the impact. As the shockwave made contact with the ice wall, it was vaporised into chunks of ice and water. Elsa fell to the floor covering her ears as the noise from the shockwave passed through her, resulting in Elsa receiving a nose bleed. Fortunately, Jack managed to dodge the attack as a gust of wind flew him away from the coming danger.

Jack quickly landed and ran back to Elsa, finding her somewhat stunned from the attack. She was stuck with her hands covering her ears and her eyes closed. He knelt down beside her and put his hand upon her shoulder. Elsa's eye's flickered open, she looked up at Jack with her hands still covering her ears. Jack gripped Elsa's shoulder tightly with a reassuring look before getting back to his feet. As Jack raised himself back to his feet, he noticed his Staff was glowing with the power he had absorbed from Icy's attack earlier. He smiled and gripped it tightly as a plan began to form for his next attack. Jack looked up from the Staff to see Icy back on her feet, he could hear Stormy behind him preparing another attack.

Jack looked front to back realising that he stood between them both. In front of him, Icy was forming a ball of icy blue energy in her hands and behind was Stormy preparing another lightning strike.

Before any of them could make their move, Jack commented to Icy. "Apparently you're the strongest one of the Trix, or so I've heard," he smirked cheekily.

Stormy snorted, "That's what she thinks."

"Silence Stormy," Icy hissed. Jacks comment wound her up even more. Her eyes refocused on to the smirking Guardian. "Strongest eh?" she snarled. "You tell me."

"NOW!" shouted Stormy.

Icy and Stormy simultaneously fired the same time at Jack. But before the attacks could hit him, Jack glanced at Icy and shook his head tutting at her, he then took off into the air dodging their attacks.

Resulting in the attacks, destined to hit Jack, end up hitting both attackers causing them to stumble and lose their balance. Jack landed back on the floor, Elsa, who was now back on her feet, stood awestruck.

Icy barely managed to recover to a stable stance. "You patronising fool!" she growled, "I'll show you." She ran towards him with her fists balled. Stormy had gotten to her feet and followed her sisters lead.

Jack turned his head to Elsa, "You need to get down, NOW." Elsa dropped to the floor as Jack grabbed on to the glowing Staff with both hands and thudded it to the floor. With a mighty bang, huge gusts of ice and wind fired directly at Icy and Stormy throwing them into the Ballroom walls.

As the mist began to clear, Jack helped Elsa back up to her feet. "Wow, had did you? It seems you're the powerful one here," she gloated.

Jack placed his hand upon her shoulder. "Na, it just comes with 100 years' worth of experienced as a Guardian," he winked.

As Icy and Stormy lay sprawled out on the floor battered and bruised, a shadow came forth behind them and spoke to Icy directly. "When I said, 'Go knock yourself out'. I didn't mean literally." The voice sniggered.

Icy ignored the tormenting voice and cried out to her middle sister. "DARCY! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING TRICKSTER! WHERE ARE YOU?!" she screamed.

With a flash of purple, Darcy appeared in the air hovering above Jack and Elsa, "Forget about me did you?" she snarled. Her body began to glow purple and clones of Darcy began to fly out of her, appearing in various places in the Ballroom, circling around the defenders. "Well now, there's enough of me to go around." she taunted.

Jack and Elsa stood back to back as they were surrounded. "By the way, it's nice to meet you, Your Majesty. My name is Jack Frost; I would have preferred to meet you in different circumstances." Jack said, not taking his eyes off the Darcy clones.

Elsa was confused, 'Really? Was Jack really taking this point in time to introduce himself? In the middle of a fight?' Elsa turned her head slightly, "I'm not sure this is the best time for introductions Jack. But, it's nice to meet you likewise." She replied.

Jack smiled as his eyes darted from Darcy to Darcy, more and more continued to appear. It was getting desperate to discover which one was real. "Ok Elsa, I'm working on a theory. But you'll need to take the ones on the left and I'll take the ones on the right," he said as they were now outnumbered. Darcy's clones noticed the visitors evacuating the Ballroom and soon put a stop to it, in which encouraged more fear to grow in those which stayed behind as the audience started to fear for their own live's. Jack felt himself become weaker than he already was. 'There's too much fear and not enough happiness. But I need to see this through,' he thought as sweat appeared on his forehead.

As Darcy's clones closed in, Elsa started to get scared as she began to wish that she'd not jumped in to the conflict. Jack noticed this, he reached his hand behind him and grabbed hers squeezing it tightly in reassurance.

"Have faith in your abilities Elsa. Trust in yourself and walk away a hero," he said softly.

Jack's chosen words melted her fear and replaced it with determination. "Got it," she said and Jack smiled. He turned to the crowd of Darcy's in the room, but what Darcy did next, gave her away. As the real Darcy cupped her hands and raised them above her head, the clones mirrored her every action. Jack caught on to this quicker than a bullet, he'd found his target. As the Darcy clones raised their cupped hands into the air, huge balls of dark purple matter started to form in their hands. They all stood there preparing to fire upon Darcy's signal.

Before Darcy could give the signal, Jack called out to Elsa and the remaining crowd. "Hold on!" he shouted as he began to spin his staff causing a twister to form. Darcy's clones were thrown into the Ballroom walls. This caused Darcy to collapse to the floor as she could feel all of her clone's pain at once. As she collapsed, her clones one after the other, began to disappear in flashes of white around the room as she ceased her illusion.

Elsa picked herself up from the floor, she looked around. "How?" asked Elsa.

"Ah, it's just basic stuff. Keeping your eye on the target you know," replied Jack.

The remaining crowd in the room erupted into an applause, praising their Queen and the Guardian for saving the day.

Seeing all wasn't going according to plan and with the Trix's disappointing display. Pitch reappeared. Shadows from all corners of the room flew into the centre, the shadows moulded into a dark robed figure with long arms and moon glazed eyes. "Well quite a show Jack, I must have underestimated you. But now it's time to die," he snarled.

Jack stood forth in front of Elsa, somewhat protecting her. "Leave Pitch, this kingdom has no need of your fear." He warned.

This made Pitch furious, he'd had enough of Jacks consistent defiance. He was a King and Jack will know him by it. "YOU DO NOT DICTATE TO ME WHAT I CAN AND CANNOT DO FROST!" he shouted and fired his Black Sand at both Jack and Elsa. The Black Sand hit them both to the floor and started to swarm around them creating a thick mist of Black Sand. Throughout the commotion of Pitch's attack, Jack and Elsa were separated. Jack tried to call her, but his voice bounced back like an echo inside this Black Sand bubble which formed around him. There was no light inside this writhing prison, darkness seemed to hold dominance in here. Every so often voices could be heard from the sand whispering fearful and hope-dampening messages in many different voices but all the same menacing. "You'll never be free." "You're a Child, not a Leader. Remember what you are." "Just give in to the fear." "Elsa will never be with You." "You're the undead corpse of a boy who died saving a sister he never saw grow up."

The last quote hit Jack hard, he dropped down to his knees. He did save his sister, Emma. But he had no idea how long he was deceased for after that. How many years was he dead before the Moon resurrected him as Jack Frost? Could he have been an uncle? Did Emma have a good life? Does she still live in Burgess? All the important questions he'll never have the answers to.

Jack fought back the tears which tried to swell up in his eyes. Now wasn't the time to reminisce about the life he never had. His time was here and now. As Jack raised to his feet he could feel Elsa's fear starting to weaken him. Even with the fear laced sand surrounding and imprisoning them, he could still feel her fear the strongest. Clearly the sand was tormenting her as well. 'I've got to end this,' he thought. He grasped his Staff with both hands and slammed it down to the floor causing the shroud of Black Sand to turn to ice.

For a moment everything in the Ballroom was still. Jack and Elsa were nowhere to be seen as they were both trapped inside two giant hollow black ice blocks. The particles of the Black Sand sparkled in the ice like glitter. In the Ballroom it was as if in that same moment the entire crowd held their breath hoping for their Queen and the Guardian to pull through.

Inside one of the black ice blocks, Jack lay on the floor as he looked at his staff. Normally his staff glows light blue within the bark, but now his staff was barely glowing. Well it least he was able to rid himself of the torment from the Black Sand.

He could feel everyone's fear bearing down upon him. "I'm too weak now to do anything," he said to himself, "But I'm not defeated."

Jack used his staff to assist himself up, he peered through the black clouded ice. He couldn't really see or make out anything clearly apart from the dark outline of Pitch standing a few metres grinning with triumph. Jack began to summon all what was left of his energy. Soon his staff regained a faded grey glow. The effort to will his strength into the Staff almost made him faint with exhaustion. 'That will do it,' he thought. With a swing from his staff Jack closed his eyes as he summoned a huge gust of wind which disintegrated both prisons of black ice. As the black ice dispersed, Jacks world went black.

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