Well above the snow-line, a small figure climbed the highest peak. It was Anna even though she has fire powers she can still stand the cold. Finally, she stopped, looks around. Catches her breath and sings.
"THE SNOW GLOWS WHITE ON THE MOUNTAIN TONIGHT, NOT A FOOTPRINT TO BE SEEN.
"A KINGDOM OF ISOLATION AND IT LOOKS LIKE I'M THE PRINCESS. THE WIND IS HOWLING
"LIKE THIS SWIRLING STORM INSIDE. COULDN'T KEEP IT IN, HEAVEN KNOWS I TRIED. . .
"DON'T LET THEM IN, DON'T LET THEM SEE, BE THE GOOD GIRL YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO
"BE. CONCEAL, DON'T FEEL, DON'T LET THEM KNOW. WELL, NOW THEY KNOW.
She took off her glove and threw it into the air.
"LET IT GO. LET IT GO.
"CAN'T HOLD IT BACK ANYMORE.
She created a hot snowman, just like the one Elsa made with her when they were children.
"LET IT GO. LET IT GO. TURN AWAY AND SLAM THE DOOR.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY. LET THE STORM RAGE ON.
"THE HEAT NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY.
"IT'S FUNNY HOW SOME DISTANCE
"MAKES EVERYTHING SEEM SMALL. AND THE FEARS THAT ONCE CONTROLLED ME
"CAN'T GET TO ME AT ALL. IT'S TIME TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO, TO TEST THE LIMITS AND BREAK THROUGH.
"NO RIGHT, NO WRONG, NO RULES FOR ME...I'M FREE!
She created heat steps and climbs them.
"LET IT GO! LET IT GO! I AM ONE WITH THE WIND AND SKY.
"LET IT GO! LET IT GO! YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME CRY. HERE I STAND AND HERE I'LL STAY.
She slams her foot down and forms a giant fire.
"LET THE STORM RAGE ON...
In a flurry of creative release, she raised the heat on fire beams, builds walls, archways, a glistening chandelier, and an intricate ceiling that leaves the sky visible.
"MY POWER FLURRIES THROUGH THE AIR INTO THE GROUND.
"MY SOUL IS SPIRALING IN FROZEN FRACTALS ALL AROUND. AND ONE THOUGHT CRYSTALLIZES LIKE
AN HOT BLAST- Standing firmly in her mighty ice palace.
"I'M NEVER GOING BACK, THE PAST IS IN THE PAST!
She created a new dress made of fire.
"LET IT GO! LET IT GO! AND I'LL RISE LIKE THE BREAK OF DAWN. LET IT GO! LET IT GO!
The sun rose. Anna struts onto out onto a balcony and into the light. She's free.
"THAT PERFECT GIRL IS GONE.
"HERE I STAND IN THE LIGHT OF DAY. LET THE STORM RAGE ON! THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY.
She turns and slams her fire palace door on us.
Back in the forest Elsa rode her horse through two feet of snow.
"Anna! Anna! It's me, Elsa...your sister who didn't mean to make you have heat stroke in the autumn. I'm sorry. It's all my fault."
Elsa and the horse struggle through a wooded area.
"Of course, none of this would have happened if she'd just told me her secret...ha...she's a stinker." she said hearing a wolf howl.
A branch of a nearby tree snaps and startles the horse causing her to go flying off and lands face down in the snow. s
Then she sat up and spit out snow. Sees hrt horse running away.
"Oh no. No. No. No. Come back. No. No. No. No... Oooo-kay."
Elsa grabbed onto a branch of a leaning conifer, she tried to pull herself to her feet, but the tree snaps upright and releases all its snow onto her.
The Northern Lights shine as Elsa struggles, out of breath, reaching the top of a hill.
"Good thing I can survive snow, but still she had to have heat magic that covered the fjords in a heat stroke -"
Then she sees smoke rising up in the distance.
"Fire! WHOA!"
She went tumbling down the hill and landed with a crash in an icy stream at the bottom.
"Ow."
After she got up she shuffled up to the building, her dress frozen stiff so she used her powers, made a new dress and put her crown in her pocket to hide her identity. Then she shook the snow off a sign and read:
"Wandering Oaken's Trading Post."
She stepped cautiously through the door-which hit her and knocked her into the center of the shop. She looks around, sees only summer supplies.
"Hoo hoo." Oaken said.
She turned to see a bright-faced fellow sitting low behind the counter, fingers tapping tip to tip.
"Big fall blow out. Half off swimming suits, clogs, and a sun balm of my own invention, yah?"
"Oh, great. For now, how about boots. Winter boots?" Elsa said.
"That would be in our winter department. The winter department contains one outfit, a pick ax, and a lonely pair of boots." he said disappointed.
"Oh. Um, I was just wondering; has another young woman, the princess perhaps, I don't know, passed through here?" she said bringing the clothes and boots to the counter.
"Only one crazy enough to be out in this storm is you, dear?"
Then the front door suddenly blew open and in walks a mass of a man covered in ice.
"You and this fellow... Hoo hoo. Big autumn blow out." Oaken said.
The man walked right up to Elsa.
"Carrots." he said
"Huh?" she said confused.
"Behind you." he said.
"Oh, right. Excuse me." she moved out of Kristoff's way.
He grabbed a bunch of carrots, tosses them on the counter, then moves through the place, gathering other supplies.
"A real howler in November, yah? Where ever could it be coming from?" Oaken said to Kristoff
"The North Mountain." Kristoff said.
"North Mountain." Elsa said to herself.
Kristoff brought his supplies to the counter then Oaken counted on his fingertips.
"That'll be forty." Oaken said.
"Forty? No, ten." Kristoff said.
"Oh dear, that's no good. See these are from our winter stock, where supply and demand have a big problem." Oaken said sweet as pie.
"You want to talk about a supply and demand problem? I sell ice for a living." Kristoff said then motioned out the window, where the blocks of ice on his sled, covered in snow.
"Ooh, that's a rough business to be in right now. I mean, that is really..." she started then he shoots her a look. "Ahem. That's unfortunate."
"Still forty. But I will throw in a visit to Oaken's sauna. Hoo hoo! Hi, family." Oaken said.
Kristoff and Anna turned to see a naked family waving through the window of the steaming sauna.
"Hoo hoo!" the family said.
"Ten's all I got. Help me out." Kristoff said.
"Ten will get you this and no more." Oaken said isolating the carrots.
Kristoff seethed. Stalemate.
"Okay, just tell me one thing; what was happening on the North Mountain? Did it seem magical?" Elsa said.
Kristoff pulled down his scarf and gave Elsa a firm answer.
"Yes! Now, back up while I deal with this crook here." he said.
Oaken stood up, revealing his seven-foot stature.
"What did you call me?"
Then Oaken stomped out the door, carrying Kristoff with one arm.
"Okay. Okay, I'm- Ow! Whoa!" Kristoff said.
Oaken threw Kristoff, who face-planted in the snow.
"Bye bye." Oaken said and slammed the door.
Kristoff sat up. His reindeer, Sven, canters over, snorts, and nudges him, expectantly.
"No Sven, I didn't get your carrots."
Sven huffed in his face. Kristoff turned away and saw something. He points to a dilapidated barn.
"But I did find us a place to sleep. And it's free." he continued
Elsa stood watching Oaken and all his great height as he squeezed behind the counter and sat down low again.
"I'm sorry about this violence. I will add a quart of lutefisk, so we'll have good feelings. Just the outfit and boots, yah?" Oaken said.
Elsa looked between Kristoff's supplies and the door.
Kristoff, now unfrozen, relaxed on a bed of hay, playing his lute and singing to Sven.
"REINDEER'S ARE BETTER THAN PEOPLE. SVEN, DON'T YOU THINK THAT'S TRUE?" Kristoff sang.
"YEAH, PEOPLE WILL BEAT YOU & CURSE
"YOU & CHEAT YOU. EVERY ONE OF EM'S BAD, EXCEPT YOU." he said as Sven.
"Oh, thanks, Buddy." he said as himself.
"BUT PEOPLE SMELL BETTER THAN REINDEER'S. SVEN, DON'T YOU THINK I'M RIGHT?"
"THAT'S ONCE AGAIN TRUE, FOR ALL EXCEPT YOU." he sang as Sven.
"YOU GOT ME. LET'S CALL IT A NIGHT." he sang as himself.
"GOOD NIGHT." he sang as Sven.
"DON'T LET THE FROSTBITE BITE." he finished as himself.
The door opened while Elsa entered.
"Nice duet." she said.
He sat up with a start and saw who it is.
"Oh, it's just you. What do you want?" he said.
"I want you to take me up the North Mountain." she said.
"I don't take people places." he said, laid back down and closed his eyes.
"Let me rephrase that..." she said with a sack of supplies landing on his lap.
"Umph." he said.
He sat up then looked in the bag.
"Take me up the North Mountain... Please." she said thinking about telling him she was the queen now.
He looked at her and didn't take orders.
"Look, I know how to stop this summer." she continued.
He considered, lied back down then pulled his hat over his eyes.
"We leave at dawn... And you forgot the carrots for Sven." he said then a bag of carrots hits Kristoff in the face.
"Ugh!" he said being hit by carrots.
"Oops. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't-" Then she caught herself. "We leave now. Right now."
Then she stepped back outside and waited, anxiously.
Annoyed, Kristoff offered Sven a carrot. Sven took a bite then Kristoff had a bite, contemplating.
After that Sven raced, top speed, up a narrow cliff, pulling the sled, which skids precariously. Kristoff mans the reins and Elsa sat beside him.
"Hang on! We like to go fast!" he said trying to scare Elsa.
"I like fast!" she said fearlessly.
Then she leaned back and put her feet up on the dashboard.
"Whoa, whoa! Get your feet down." he said and pushed her feet down.
"This is fresh lacquer. Seriously, were you raised in a barn?" he continued spiting on the dash to clean it.
Then the spit flew back and hits Elsa in the face.
"Ew. No, I was raised in a castle." she said in disgust then wiped off her face.
"So tell me, what made the princess go all fire-crazy?"
"...Oh well, it was all her fault. She got engaged but then I freaked out because she'd only just met him, you know, that day. And I said I wouldn't bless the marriage-"
"Wait. She got engaged to someone she just met?" he said surprised.
"Yeah. Anyway, I got mad and so she got mad and then she tried to walk away, and I grabbed her glove-" she started.
"Hang on. You mean to tell me she got engaged to someone she just met?!" he said again.
"Pay attention. But the thing is she wore the gloves all the time, so I just thought, maybe she has a thing about dirt." she continued.
"Didn't your parents ever warn you about strangers?"
Anna looked at Kristoff up and down, then slid away from him.
"Yes, they did... But I guess Hans is not a stranger."
"Oh yeah? Does she know what his last name is?"
"No she doesn't."
"What's his favorite food?"
"Doesn't know that either."
"Best friend's name?"
"Same thing."
"Eye color."
"No."
"Foot size...?"
"Foot size doesn't matter."
"Have they had a meal with him yet? What if she hates the way he eats? What if she hates the way he picks his nose?"
"Picks his nose?"
"And eats it.
"Excuse me?"
"All men do it."
"Ew. Look it doesn't matter; she thinks it's true love."
"Doesn't sound like true love."
"Are you some sort of love expert? I know it's not true love."
"No. But I have friends who are."
"You have friends who are love experts... I'm not buying it."
Sven suddenly stopped, his ears perked in alarm.
"Stop talking." he said to Elsa.
"No, no, no. I'd like to meet these-" she started.
He clamped his hand over her mouth.
"I mean it. SHHH." he said and stood, looked into the dark woods surrounding them.
He sensed something behind them, then he hold up his lantern. Its light reflects off...EYES. Several.
"Sven, go. Go!" he continued.
Then Sven took off.
"What are they?" she asked.
"Wolves." he said.
He flashed of white dart through the woods. Kristoff hops into the back of the sled, grabs a torch and light it.
"Wolves. What do we do?" she said looking at her hands thinking about using her own powers.
"I've got this. You just...don't fall off and don't get eaten."
"But I wanna help."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't trust your judgment."
"Excuse me?!"she said.
Then a wolf jumped at them, but Kristoff kicked it off.
"Who marries a man she just met?"
Elsa grabbed the lute, swings it right at Kristoff's head.
'It would be easier if I used my powers.' she thought.
"It's true love in her mind." she said.
He screamed, as she...BAM!...through some of her ice powers past Kristoff and knocks a wolf away.
"Whoa." he said shocked.
Just then Kristoff was yanked off the sled by another wolf. The torch went flying and she caught it, shocked.
"Christopher!" Kristoff grabs onto a loose rope hanging from the back of the sled and holds on for dear life as he's dragged behind.
"It's Kristoff!" he said.
Then a wolf jumped on Kristoff's back.
"AH!" he said.
Elsa thought fast, used the torch to light a blanket on fire.
"Duck!" she said and threw the flaming blanket right at him.
He ducked and the blanket hit the wolves. They tumble off Kristoff.
"You almost set me on fire! And where did you get ice powers?"
Elsa reached out a hand and pulled Kristoff back onto the sled.
"But I didn't. And I was born with it. My sister has the opposite apparently, fire. I'm the new Queen of Arendelle and my sister is the princess."
Kristoff stood there in shock.
Sven cried out. There is a massive gorge ahead.
"Get ready to jump, Sven!" she continued.
"You don't tell him what to do!" Kristoff said and shoved a satchel into her arms then scoops her up.
"I do!" he said and tossed her onto Sven, then unhooked Sven's harness from the sled.
"Jump, Sven!" he continued.
Sven jumped the gorge with Elsa on his back. And Kristoff goes flying off behind them, still on the sled. Elsa and Sven landed safely on the other side of the gorge while Kristoff's sled lost momentum. He leaped off and flaps his arms, claws at the air. Then he slammed into the snowy edge of the cliff. Hanging by his hands, he looks down to see his sled hit the ground far below and burst into flames.
"But I just paid it off." he said shocked and upset.
Suddenly, he started to slip. He clawed at the loose snow, but it's clearly hopeless. He's going down.
"Uh-oh. No, no, no." he said.
Then an AXE came flying right at his face.
"AH! NO, NO, NO!"
The axe slammed into the snow, inches from his nose.
"Grab on!" Elsa said.
He grabbed on as told.
"Pull, Sven! Pull!" she said.
The axe was tied to a rope, then wrapped around Sven. Elsa helped Sven pull Kristoff to safety. Then Kristoff rolled onto his back, exhausted. Anna peeks down at the burning sled.
"Whoa... I'll replace your sled and everything in it."
He groans.
"And I understand if you don't want to help me anymore."
Elsa walked off, sadly. While she did that Sven came over and nuzzled Kristoff.
"Of course I don't want to help her anymore. In fact, this whole thing has ruined me for helping anyone ever again."
"But she'll die on her own." he said as Sven.
"I can live with that." he said as himself.
Through their conversation, they watched Elsa go the wrong way...turn, go the other wrong way, turn, trip...
"But you won't get your new sled if she's dead. And she's the new Queen." he said as Sven.
"You know sometimes I really don't like you." he said himself knowing he's got a point.
Sven licked Kristoff happily.
"Hold up. We're coming?!" he said as himself.
"You are?!" she said excited then catching herself. "I mean, sure. I'll let you tag along."
Then they started walking on a narrow rim of a mountain.
As they step out of the thick trees, Anna catches sight of something far below.
"Arendelle." she said.
"It's pretty much on fire."
"But it'll be fine. Anna will cool it."
"Will she? Why can't you use your ice powers and turn it into water?" he asked.
"Yeah. And I tried earlier during my coronation but it was still ice and not water. Now come on. This way to the North Mountain?" she said uncertain and points straight ahead.
"More like this way." he said pointing her finger up towards a perilously mighty mountain.
They walked beneath frozen willows. The hanging branches glisten like Christmas lights. Sven knocks them with his antlers. They tinkle like chimes.
"I never knew winter could be so beautiful. I've really only seen my powers after shutting the doors." she said.
Suddenly, a voice came in from nowhere.
"YEAH...It really is beautiful, isn't it? But it's so white. You know, how about a little color? Must we bleach the joy out of it all? I'm thinking like maybe some crimson, chartreuse... like you do at home."
While this was going on, Elsa and Kristoff looked around for the source of the rambling. They look at Sven - could he actually be talking? Sven looked back at them, his antlers tangled in branches, just as baffled as they are. In the meantime, Olaf, wandered up behind them.
"How `bout yellow-no, not yellow. Yellow and snow? Brrrr...no go."
He stopped between Kristoff and Elsa. They look down at him. How did he get there? He suddenly looks up at Elsa.
"Am I right?" Olaf said.
Elsa screamed not realizing it was Olaf. Her reflexes ook over and she kicked Olaf's head, sending it flying off his body and into Kristoff's arms.
"Hi!" he continued cheery to Kristoff.
"You're creepy." Kristoff said then tossed the head back to Elsa and they commence a game of hot potato.
"I don't want it! I didn't make this one!" she said.
"Backatchya! I don't even have powers like you two!" Kristoff said.
"Please don't drop me." Olaf said.
"Don't!" Elsa said.
"Come on, it's just a head." Kristoff said.
"No!" Elsa said while Olaf's body ran at her, arms waving.
"All right, we got off to a bad start."
"Ew, ew, the body!" she said and slammed Olaf's head back on the body, upside down.
Olaf smiled happily, then looked confused.
"Wait, what am I looking at right now? Why are you hanging off the earth like a bat?
"Okay. Wait one second." Elsa said and knelt in front of Olaf and rights his head.
"Oooh! Thank you!" Olaf said.
"You're welcome." she said.
"Now I'm perfect."
"Olaf?" she said finally realizing it was her snowman she made when she was younger.
"Hi Elsa! And who's the funky-looking donkey over there?" he said seeing Kristoff and Sven.
"That's Sven." she said.
"Uh-huh. And who's the reindeer?"
"Sven." she said smiling.
He looked from Kristoff to Sven, confused.
"Oh. They're-oh, okay... Makes things easier for me." he said.
Sven tried to bite Olaf's nose.
"Ha. Aw, look at him tryin' to kiss my nose. I like you, too!" he said.
"Olaf, do you know where Anna is? You were here earlier."
"Fascinating..." Kristoff said studying the arm
"Yeah. Why?" Olaf said smiling.
"Do you think you could show us the way?" Elsa asked.
"Yeah. Why?" he asked again.
"How does this work?" Kristoff asked bending the arm.
Olaf's dismembered arm slapped Kristoff across the face.
"Stop it, Sven. Trying to focus here." he said to Anna. "Yeah, why?"
"I'll tell you why. We need Anna to bring back fall." Kristoff said.
"Fall?" Olaf said shocked. "Oh, I don't know why but I've always loved fall. Nice and cool, nice and colorful."
"Really? I'm guessing you have much experience with it." Kristoff said.
"Yup! Elsa made me on Halloween!" Olaf said.
"You made him on Halloween?" Kristoff said.
"Yes. I was lonely so I worked on my powers." she said smiling.
He then straightens up and smiles.
"So, come on! Anna's this way. Let's go bring back fall!" Olaf said grabbing Elsa's hand and pulls her along up the mountain.
"I'm coming!" she said laughing.
Sven hopped along, happily following them. Kristoff watches all of them like they're nuts.
"How strong is she at her powers? And what else can she do with them?" Kristoff said to himself.