Later that night, Anna was asleep on the bed, with one arm over her face. Despite that she was sleeping so peacefully, she was silently snoring a little.
Elsa, meanwhile, slowly turned over in her sleep, breathing quietly. She had hoped that after a day like today, she could just drift into a light sleep in bed and wake up the next day, feeling refreshed and confident. She felt glad that she could trust Anna.
Suddenly, she heard a familiar voice calling to her.
Squinting her eyes a little, Elsa turned over in her sleep, trying to ignore it. She hoped that the voice could go away in a few minutes' time.
Until...
...
Elsa's eyes suddenly opened wide as she heard the voice calling out again.
It was that voice again!
Sitting up in her bed, Elsa looked all around, careful not to wake Anna up. There was no way that one little voice was going to beckon to her. With that, Elsa then laid back down on the bed, covering her ears with the pillow.
But not even a thick pillow could block out the voice that kept calling to Elsa.
Finally giving up, Elsa quietly slipped out of bed and walked toward the door. Looking at Anna once more, Elsa slowly closed the door.
"I can hear you," she whispered to herself. "But I won't."
Walking away from the bedroom, Elsa walked down the hallway quietly, lost in thought. She just wanted that voice to go away. But no matter how much she tried to ignore it, the voice just kept coming back to her. Almost as if it wouldn't leave her alone.
Staring at her reflection, Elsa sighed. "I want to ignore your whispers," she said to herself. "I wish they'd go away."
Walking alone the hallways, she tried to keep her mind off the voice that was beckoning to her. Even if she kept hearing it, she wanted the ignore the voice as it kept following her.
But she was secretly afraid.
"Everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls," Elsa said to herself as she opened the door of one room. Inside the room, Elsa glanced at Tintin, who was asleep in bed. Breathing a little, Tintin rolled around in bed, embracing Snowy, who was on the bed with him.
Quietly closing the door, Elsa straightened herself. She was more than determined to not let one voice keep reaching her.
She didn't want anything else to change.
"I'm sorry," Elsa said as she strode to the window, outside on the balcony. "I'm blocking out your calls. I don't need something new."
Venturing outside of the castle below, Elsa walked toward the edge of the lake, near a small clearing in the woods. She knew the voice would stop at nothing to beckon her, and it was getting powerful. Swirling a bit of snow with her hands, Elsa sighed.
"You've been keeping me awake," she whispered as she twiddled the snow around with her hands. "Who knows where I'm meant to be?"
She then used her powers to conjure up images of trees with the snowflakes. Then they began to form swirls in the air as they twisted and morphed into images of reindeer galloping around her. "I can feel my power grow," Elsa said. Then, the snowflakes morphed into an image of a little girl playing around. Conjuring up more snowflakes, pictures of pink flames and a majestic stallion began to dance in the sky.
"Are you out there?" Elsa asked herself, trying to contact the voice inside her. As the image of the stallion galloped around her, it began to swirl into images of stone giants, followed by a flurry of leaves.
"Can you show me?" Elsa asked again.
She then ran to the cliff as a flurry of bright blue light was fluttering toward the edge. "How do I follow you?" Elsa called out.
As Elsa reached the cliff near the edge of the lake, the beam of light had disappeared. Raising her hands with confidence, Elsa finally put them down. And in turn, her powers created a large cluster of ice crystals suspended in the air.
...
At that moment, Anna had woken up. Rushing to the windows, she opened them and walked toward the balcony. At that moment, she noticed the crystals in the air.
Inside the other room, Snowy kept barking at the windows. "All right, all right, I'm getting up!" Tintin grumbled as he slowly got out of bed. As Tintin was slipping into his bedrobe and slippers, Snowy kept on pawing at the windows, barking even more.
"Snowy, what's gotten into you?" Tintin asked as he opened the windows. "There's nothing out—Huh?"
Right then, Tintin noticed the crystals suspended in the air near the walls of the castle. "What is that?" he asked, squinting as he tried to get a closer look at the crystals.
Meanwhile, on top of the cliff side, Elsa looked at the crystals. She noticed that some of the crystals had some familiar looking symbols on them. Leaning in closer, she tried to make out some of them.
"Air," Elsa read out loud, "fire, water, earth..."
Suddenly, a beam of bright light shone out from the sky. The giant snowflake in the sky had vanished, causing the crystals to fall.
At that moment, the townspeople began to notice the crystals on the ground.
What was going on? Why were there ice crystals on the ground?
Suddenly, the candlelight that illuminated each light post flickered out in bright pink flames.
At the castle, many of the servants and guards had already come out, wondering what the commotion was all about. Anna then opened the door, with Tintin and Snowy behind her.
"Anna?" Tintin asked as he was carrying Snowy. "What's going on?" "I don't know," Anna told him.
Suddenly, the servants gasped in shock. The fountains at the castle courtyard had stopped, and soon the water had disappeared. "Anna, look!" Tintin said, pointing to the now dried fountains. "The water," Anna whispered.
From afar, the cascading waterfalls in front of a wooden bridge suddenly ceased to a halt.
Meanwhile, Sven was asleep inside the barn when the doors suddenly swung open. At that moment, Sven woke with a start as heavy winds began to carry him away.
As the wind had carried Sven away, Elsa ran towards a corner of the barn as she felt the wind growing even stronger.
"The air rages," Elsa said, taking note of the chaos going on. "No fire, no water...The earth is next!"
By then, the winds were now blowing toward the village, sweeping everyone away. Now everyone was panicking as they were getting blown away.
"We have to get out!" Anna told the villagers as they followed her toward the bridge. By then, Elsa and Tintin were now helping the others escape. "It'll be okay!" Elsa exclaimed. "Evacuate to the cliffs!" "Come on, everyone!" Tintin shouted.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble and shake from underneath their feet.
"Elsa—!!" Tintin exclaimed as he felt himself slip. "Hold on!" Elsa exclaimed as she grabbed Tintin by the arm and pulled him up.
The road was crumbling!
As they were running, Snowy felt himself getting lifted by the winds. He began to bark crazily, for he was frightened out of his mind. "Gotcha, boy!" Haddock's said as he grabbed Snowy and carried him in his arms.
As Kristoff and Sven were racing through the village, Olaf suddenly began to roll away towards the debris as the wind was blowing him in the opposite direction. "Oh, I'm getting blown!" Olaf shouted. "I got you!" Kristoff said as he grabbed Olaf and plopped him on top of Sven.
By that time, the villagers were now making their way toward the woods, crossing the bridge as fast as they could. Then, they made it a small clearing, far from the village.
As the winds raged even more, they had blown the flag of Arendelle from its post, carrying it away.
...
Soon after, the townspeople had gathered at a nearby clearing at the edge of the woods, away from the village.
"Is that everyone?" Haddock asked Kristoff, who was busy passing out supplies to the villagers. "Yes, everyone's out and safe," Kristoff said as he gave a woman some warm blankets. "Here, take one of these." "Thank you," the woman told him.
"You okay there, Olaf?" Kristoff asked Olaf, who was sitting on the ground while children were decorating his body and face with the remaining crystals. "Oh yeah," Olaf said with a smile. "We're calling this 'controlling what you can when things feel out of control."
"Elsa," Tintin said. "Can Anna and I talk to you? Alone?" Before Elsa could say something, Tintin gently grabbed her by the arm and pulled her toward a small area of the woods, near the trees.
"Tintin?" Elsa asked. "What did you—?" "What the heck is going on?!" Tintin asked. "What's happening? "I, um..." Elsa started to say.
"I don't understand," Anna told Elsa. "You've been hearing a voice and you didn't think to tell me or Tintin?" "I didn't want to worry you two," Elsa said. "We made a promise not to shut each other out," Anna said firmly. "Just tell us what's going on." "Yeah, Elsa. Please," Tintin said. "We need to know."
"Okay," Elsa said. Then she took a deep breath. It was time to deliver it straight to them.
"I woke the magical spirits at the enchanted forest," she said.
Anna stared at Elsa blankly. "Okay, that is definitely not what I thought you were gonna say," she said. At that moment, she blinked. "Wait...the enchanted forest? Like the one Father warned us about?" she asked.
"What enchanted forest?" Tintin asked. "Oh, that's right. You're new here," Elsa told him. "When me and Anna were kids, our father told us a story about an enchanted forest. It's been silent for years, and now its spirit is awake." "Really?" Tintin asked. "Because I've read rumors about a strange fog covering a part of Arendelle, but I assumed it was an urban legend." "No, it's real," Elsa said.
"Why would you do that?" Anna asked. "Because of the voice," Elsa told her. "I know it sounds crazy, but I believe whoever is calling me...is good."
Anna was in disbelief. "How can you say that?" Anna asked. "Look at our kingdom." Elsa looked out at the village and sighed. "I know," she said. "It's just that...my magic can feel it. I can feel it." "Okay," Anna told her. "I just don't know why those spirits would think to drive us away from the village," Tintin said. "There's got to be some kind of explanation."
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble and shake. "Um, guys?" Tintin asked, tugging at Anna's sleeve. Anna looked up and groaned.
"Oh no...What now?" she asked.
At that moment, rocks began to roll down the hills and toward the villagers. But they weren't rocks at all.
They were the mountain trolls!
"The trolls?" Kristoff asked.
At that moment, the trolls then unfurled themselves as they had reached the woods below, startlong the other villagers.
"Kristoff!" Bulda cried out as she and several baby trolls eagerly bounced into Kristoff's arms, embracing him. "We missed you!"
Soon, Pabbie, the leader of the trolls, rolled up to Anna, Elsa, and Tintin as he landed on a tree stump. Anna smiled. "Pabbie!" Anna said, clearly not expecting the elder troll's sudden arrival. Pabbie gave a chuckle. "Never a dull moment with you three," he told them. He turned to Tintin. "Hello, dear boy," Pabbie told Tintin. "I hope you are well." "Yes I am," Tintin said.
Pabbie then turned to Elsa. "I hope you're prepared for what you have done, Elsa," he told her.
"What do you mean?" Tintin asked. "What did Elsa do?" "Angry magical spirits are not for the faint of heart," Pabbie warned the three. "Why are they still angry?" Anna asked. "What does all this have to do with Arendelle?"
"Let me see what I can see," Pabbie said. Then, with a wave of his hands, Pabbie conjured up a series of images in the air. "The past is not what it seems," he said, showing the girls images of the dam, and of the clans promising peace with each other, then slowly descending into battle.
"A wrong demands to be righted," Pabbie continued. "Arendelle is not safe; the truth must be found. Without it, I see no future." An image of the Arendelle castle suddenly disappeared.
"No future?" Anna asked. "Wait a minute, you're saying these spirits are alive, and if we don't do something to appease them, Arendelle will be lost to history forever?" Tintin asked. "Yes," Pabbie told him. "When one can see no future, all one can do is the next right thing."
"The next right thing?" Anna asked.
"The next right thing is for me to go to the enchanted forest and find that voice," Elsa said. "Kristoff, can I borrow your wagon? And Sven?" Kristoff looked at Elsa in confusion. "Wait," he said, "I'm not comfortable with the idea of that."
"We're not letting you go alone," Anna told Elsa, tugging on her arm. "We're coming with you," Tintin said. "Anna, no. I need to do this on my own," Elsa said. "I have my powers to protect me. You and Tintin don't."
"Um, excuse me?" Anna said. "We climbed to the north mountain, Tintin survived a frozen heart, and we saved you from my ex-boyfriend." "Who was a tyrannical nutcase," Tintin reminded Anna. "Yes, I know," Anna said. "And we did it all without powers. So, you know, we're coming with you."
"So am I!" Haddock said. "Can't let Tintin kill himself while he protects ya, Your Grace."
"Me too," Kristoff said. "I'll drive."
"I'll bring the snacks!" Olaf exclaimed as he was dancing around, wearing the crystals as a tutu and tiara.
"I will look after your people," Pabbie told Anna. "Okay. Please make sure they stay away from the kingdom until we return," Anna said. "Of course," Pabbie told her.
Before they could leave, Pabbie motioned for Anna and Tintin to come over.
"Anna, Tintin," Pabbie told her, "I'm worried for Elsa." "What do you mean?" Tintin asked.
"We have always feared that Elsa's power is too much for this world," Pabbie told them. "Now, we must pray that they are enough."
Anna nodded. "I will not let anything happen to her," she said. "We're going to do everything we can to keep Elsa safe," Tintin said.
"I hope."