I thank Whirlpool24 of DeviantArt for helping me. The song is "You are Loved (Don't give up)" by Josh Groban
"Elias! I mean King. Me again." Aaron said and brought the woman that hit him with her horse earlier forward. "May I present Princess Hanna of the Southern Isles."
"Your majesty, " Hanna curtsied to him.
As Elias bowed to her, Adeline eyed Hanna. There was something in her eyes that didn't seem right to her.
"We would like," Aaron and Hanna said at the same time.
"Your blessing," Hanna grinned.
"Of...our marriage," They finished together and hugged one another.
"Marriage?" Elias repeated in disbelief.
"What?" Adeline questioned.
"Yes," Aaron said in excitement.
"I'm sorry, I'm confused," Elias said to them so they would explain.
"Well we haven't worked out all the details yet," Aaron said as he let go of her, "We'll need a few days to plan the ceremony. Of course we'll have soup, roast and ice cream. And then... oh wait would we live here?"
"Here?" Elias exclaimed.
"Absolutely," Hanna said to Aaron.
"Aaron," Elias started to say.
"Oh, we can invite all twelve of your sisters to come stay with us," Aaron suggested as he held her hands in his.
"What?! No no no no no," Elias exclaimed but his protest started to fall on deaf ears.
"Of course we have the room. I don't know, some of them must," Aaron started to say until Elias put his hand on his shoulder.
"Just wait a second. No one sisters are staying here. No one is getting married," Elias said to him.
"Wait what?" Aaron looked at him in surprise.
"What's going on," Rapunzel asked in confusion as she came over with Eugene.
"Aaron just asked Elias' blessing to be married to a woman he just met today," Adeline explained to them and pointed to Hanna.
"What?!" The both of them exclaimed.
"May I talk to you a moment," Elias asked Aaron. "Alone?"
"No," Aaron said and stood back from him to put his arm around Hanna, "Whatever you have to say. You can say it to both of us."
"Fine. You can't marry someone you just met," Elias firmly said.
"Yeah he's right buddy," Eugene said to him, "Trust me, it doesn't work that way. If it did, Rapunzel and I would have already been married. Even if she did hit me with a frying pan."
"Well you can if it's true love, Eugene," Aaron stubbornly said to him.
"Aaron what do you know about true love?" Elias asked him.
"More than you. All you know how to do is shut people out," Aaron said as he glared at him.
"Aaron! Now that was over the line," Rapunzel said to him as she saw that comment hurt Elias.
"You asked me for my blessing and my answer is no," Elias frowned at him and walked past him, "Now if you'll excuse me."
"Your highness if I may-" Hanna started to say.
"No, you may not. I think this was all a mistake," Elias cut her off and then clinched his hands, "The party is over. Close the gates. Rapunzel, you, Eugene and Adeline can stay the night and then tomorrow you will go back to your kingdom with the other delegates."
"Yes your majesty," A guard said to him.
"What? Elias no," Aaron cried out and then grabbed his glove, "No wait!"
"Give me my glove," Elias cried out and tried to take it back.
"Oh no," Adeline gasped in shock.
"What's wrong," Rapunzel asked in concern.
"You remember how my powers are linked to my emotions," Adeline asked and bit her lip.
"Elias please," Aaron pleaded with him and held the glove back, "Please I can't live like this anymore."
"Then leave," Elias coldly said and then turned his back on him.
"What did I ever do you?" Aaron shouted in shock and was close to tears.
"Enough Aaron," Elias demanded and felt himself getting upset.
"No why do you shut me out, Why, why do you shut the world out," Aaron shouted drawing the attention of the crowd and then screamed, "WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF?!"
"I SAID ENOUGH!" Elias screamed at him and then waved his hand with ice forming around him. "
"WHOA WHOA WHOA," Eugene exclaimed as he pulled Rapunzel and Adeline away from the ice spikes.
"Sorcery," Duchess of Weselton exclaimed and held her bodyguards close to her, "I knew there was something dubious going on here."
"Elias," Aaron asked in shock.
Elias panted in shock and then ran out a door.
"I'm going after him," Adeline said to Rapunzel and Eugene before taking after him.
"Adeline wait," Rapunzel and Eugene shouted to her.
She ignored them as she followed him through the castle. Then she saw him go out the front door to the crowd.
"There he is," A woman in the crowd said.
"It is him," A man bows to Elias, "King Elias. Our handsome king."
Elias panted as he pushed past the man and saw a mother with a baby before him.
"Your majesty," The mother asked in concern, "Are you alright?"
"No." Elias said as he saw the baby reaching for him and then backed away to a fountain. His hand touched the stones and ice overtakes it in the form of a scary sculpture. The crowd gasped in fear and back away from him. The mother held her now crying baby protectively as she moved away from him. He looked around and saw Adeline coming at him just as the Duchess appeared at the door.
"There he is! Stop him," She demanded of her bodyguards.
"Please stay away from me! Stay away," Elias barely warned her before a blast of ice escaped his hands and hit the stairs in front of her. Adeline rolled to avoid the blast and looked behind her in surprise.
"Monster! Monster," The Duchess yelled and pointed to him.
"No, he's not," Adeline glared at her and then saw him leaving "Elias, wait! This isn't helping!"
"Elias! Elias!" Aaron shouted and followed him.
Elias ran down the hill to the water and saw Adeline following him. He barely stepped on ice and it froze below him. He gasped in surprise and then took a step on it to make an ice float. Then he started running on a bridge of ice forming under him. Adeline quickly followed him across the water with it melting a bit under her steps.
"Wait please," Aaron shouted to him, "Elias, stop!"
"Aaron," Hanna called to him and then pulled him to stop running.
"No," Aaron sadly said as he dropped to his knees with his brother's glove in his hand.
"The fjord," Hanna exclaimed as she pointed to the fjord freezing all over and trapping the ships.
"Adeline," Rapunzel called out across it when she saw her barely disappearing in the woods.
"Snow," A servant asked in concern.
"Snow," Another woman asked her.
"Yes snow," A servant said and covered her mouth in shock.
"Are you alright," Hanna asked Aaron in concern.
"No," Aaron said as he crossed his arms to warm up.
"Did you know," Hanna carefully asked him as she put a hand on his shoulder.
"...No," Aaron sadly said as he looked at her and then sees the Duchess of Weselton panicking.
"Oh no it's snowing. It's snowing! The king has cursed this land," She cried out and pulled down one of her bodyguards, "He must be stopped! You have to go after him!"
"Wait no," Aaron protested to her.
"You," The Duchess exclaimed and hid behind her bodyguards, "Is there sorcery in you too? Are you a monster too?!"
"No, I'm completely ordinary," Aaron explained.
"That's right, he is," Hanna stated and then corrected herself, "In the best way."
"And my brother is not a monster," Aaron said with a frown.
"He nearly killed me," the Duchess exclaimed in fright.
"Oh, you slipped on ice," Hanna sighed and crossed her arms.
"His ice." The Duchess shouted defensively.
"It was an accident. He was scared. He didn't mean it. He didn't mean any of this," Aaron said to her and ignored her rolling her eyes at him. Then he sighed before addressing the people, "Tonight was my fault. I pushed him, so...I'm the one that needs to go after him."
"What?" Hanna exclaimed in disbelief.
" Yes," the Duchess of Weselton agreed and remained behind her bodyguards.
"Bring me my horse, please," Aaron ordered one of the servants and started to walk through the crowd.
"Aaron no," Hanna protested and pulled his shoulder, "It's too dangerous!"
"Elias is not dangerous," Elias assured her and cupped her cheek, "I'll bring him back and I'll make this right."
"I'm coming with you then," Hanna said as she held his hand.
"No," Aaron said and then put his hand on top of hers, "I need you here to take care of Arendelle.
"On my honor," Hanna bowed to him.
"I leave Princess Hanna in charge," Aaron announced to everyone as he mounted his horse. Then saw Rapunzel and Eugene on a white horse of their own named Maximus.
"We'll help you too," Rapunzel said to him.
"Thank you cousin," Aaron warmly said and saw Hanna holding his horses reins.
"Are you sure you can trust him," Hanna asked in concern, "I don't want you getting hurt."
"He's my brother. He would never hurt me," Aaron assured her and then snapped his reins to take off.
"Go Max," Eugene said to the horse and they took off after Aaron.
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On the North Mountain, a great wind blew flurries around. There on the side is a figure trudging up through the snow, exhausted.
"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 King."
He sadly looked around at the desolate place.
"The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside. Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried." He sighed as glanced down at his hand and then looked straight ahead.
"Don't let them in. Don't let them see. Be the good guy you always have to be."
"Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know. Well, now they know."
He looked at his other glove and then tossed it into the wind.
"Let it go. Let it go. Can't hold it back anymore."
He sent up small flurries in the air. Then he swirled his hands around and made a little snowman like when he was a child.
"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 cold never bothered me anyway."
He smiled as he experimented more with his powers and then let his cape go in the wind with a smirk. As he walked up the rest of the mountain, he had more energy in his step.
"It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small."
"And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all."
He looked back at where he came from and then ran up the rest of the mountain to a gorge.
"It's time to see what I can do. To test the limits and break through."
He threw out his hands and part of a bridge made of snow started to form across the gorge. He arched his eyebrow and approached it.
"No wrong, no right. No rules for me. I'm free!"
Then he stepped on the bridge and it turned to ice. He spread out his arms and started making the rest of the bridge to get across.
"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'll stand and here I'll stay."
He stomps his foot and ice formed around him in the shape of a snowflake.
"Let the storm rage on."
Then he raised his arms and then a floor rises from the ground. Around him a castle started to form as he used his power more and more. The doorways formed in the walls as they rose higher and higher.
"My power flurries through the air into the ground."
"My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around."
Then the ceiling formed above his head in the shape of angles. And then a huge ice chandelier formed from the ceiling.
"And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast."
"I'm never going back, the past is in the past!"
Elias pulled off his crown and then tossed it to the side. Then he dropped his head and ruffled his hair more. Tiny snowflakes formed in the strands.
"Let it go! Let it go!"
"And I'll rise like the break of dawn."
He raised his arms and his magic formed over his clothes changing them into a light blue color. His boots changed to a more crystal-like appearance. As did his shirt and pants. A massive snowflake formed in the front of his shirt and white flurries designs appeared as he walked forwards. Then a light blue crystal like cape formed behind him.
"Let it go! Let it go!"
"That perfect boy is gone."
"Here I stand in the light of day"
He smiled with confidence as he walked out to the balcony into the sun.
"Let the storm rage on!"
"The cold never bothered me anyway."
He smirked as he looked out to the mountains. And then shut the doors behind him.
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"Elias! I can't believe I lost him," Adeline groaned and then shivered. "If only I had brought warmer clothes."
Then she saw a chimney smoking some ways away. She smiled and then ran to it. She looked up at a sign covered in snow and then knocked it away to read it.
"Wandering Oaken's Trading Post," Adeline read the sign and then knocked off the snow to the smaller sign, "And Sauna."
Then she quickly got inside and rubbed her arms to get herself warm.
"Hoo hoo," Oaken called out to her, "Big summer blow out. Half off swimming suit, clogs and a sun balm of my own invention, yah?'"
"Thank you. But where's the winter stuff," Adeline asked him as she looked around the store.
"That would be in our winter department." Oaken said and then pointed to the back with a few outfits and boots on the wall.
She looked them over and then picked out an outfit and paid for it.
"Could you direct me to a changing room," Adeline asked him, "I would like to make some changes to this."
"It's over there dear." Oaken pointed to a door to the side.
Adeline walked into the room and shut the door. She changed out of her old dress into the other dress. Then a warm glowing light comes from the bottom of the cracks of the door. She let her hair down and then used her powers to make flames appear on the bottom of her blue skirt and the shoulders of her teal top. Her cape changed to red over the black sleeves. Then she puts on warm brown boots before coming out of the changing room.
"Ooh I like the changes you made. How did you do it?" Oaken asked her curiously.
"Oh that's a secret sir," Adeline said to him. "Uh by the way, I'm looking for a man. I think he came this way but I'm not sure. Have you seen him?
"Only one I've seen today is you dear," Oaken said and then pointed outside, "But there is a real holler coming from that mountain. Perhaps your friend went there."
She looked up to see a huge mountain in the distance and saw the storm was coming from there.
"That will work. Thank you for the outfit sir." Adeline said to him.
As she started to go back outside, she noticed her other dress was a bit frozen at the bottom.
"Uh could you please let my dress thaw out here?" Adeline asked Oaken, "I'll come back for it later."
"Sure thing dear," Oaken said as he took her dress and hung it up on a line.
She walked out the door. "I'm coming, Elias."
Time passed as Adeline sighed and looked up at the mountain. Going on foot was taking too long.
"At this rate, I'm never going to get up there," Adeline groaned after seeing how far she had to go. Then she heard hoof steps behind her and saw Max, "Oh Max!"
"Adeline, there you are," Rapunzel said and got down to hug her.
"What are you doing out here?" Adeline asked them.
"Well we came to find Elias and you, " Eugene said, "Look we'll find him, why don't you head back to Arendelle?"
"No, I'm not going back," Adeline stubbornly said and crossed her arms.
"Adeline," Rapunzel started to say.
"No Rapunzel, I think I can help him, " Adeline said and held up her hand, "He doesn't have control over his powers yet. I know what's that like remember?"
Then Eugene and Rapunzel remember when they found out she was the one that started the fire that burned down her village.
"If anyone knows what he's going through, it's me," Adeline said.
"Ok, but Eugene and I need winter clothes if we're going to continue on," Rapunzel said to Adeline.
"I know of a trading post back there. You can wait for Aaron too," Adeline said to her.
"Good luck, Adeline," Rapunzel said to her after giving her a hug. "Do you want to take Maximus with you?"
"No, you need him," Adeline said and then stretched her hands out to the earth.
As she held out her hands, the ground shook around them. Then the rock glowed yellow and red as they started taking shape. Adeline looked at Maximus for a moment. She closed her eyes and a horse began to form from the rocks with eyes of flame. Rapunzel and Eugene stared in awe and surprise at what she just did with her powers. The horse reared up on its hind leg and neighed loudly when fire spewing from its mouth. It snorted smoke from its nose as a mane and tail of flames form on it. Adeline pet it's muzzle before mounting it with flame like reins forming into her hands.
"I'll keep going up the mountain and find him." Adeline said as she rode her new horse through the snow to the large peak.
Adeline thought about the friends she made after she struggled to control her own powers. How she told Rapunzel and Eugene the truth about what happened that day and how she expected Rapunzel to banish her from Corona. But instead she gave her a chance to learn control and how she said she was her friend. And now she had the chance to help someone else like her.
"Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world. When your heart's heavy, I...I will lift it for you."
Adeline grabbed a branch from the tree and then lit it for a torch. She saw the wolves staring at her and then moved faster.
"Don't give up. Because you want to be heard. If silence keeps you, I...I will break it for you."
She blasted a rotten log behind her to scare them off and then continued on.
"Everybody wants to be understood. Well I can hear you. Everybody wants to be loved. Don't give up. Because you are loved."
She faced ahead and saw a gorge in front of her. She patted her horse on the side and reared it up to charge forward. Then with a blast of fire behind it, they launched themselves across. Adeline's hair blew behind her as the butterflies formed in her stomach. As they landed, she whooped in joy.
"Don't give up. It's just the hurt that you hide. When you're lost inside. I...I will be there to find you."
With more confidence in her body, they continued on their way. Right past a small snowman waddling around a frozen willow tree. It waved to her with a big smile.
"Don't give up. Because you want to burn bright. If darkness blinds you. I...I will shine to guide you."
Adeline looked behind her to make sure she actually saw what she thought she saw. She waved back at him and continued up to the top of the mountain. She rode past the ice spikes guarding his home.
"Everybody wants to be understood. Well I can hear you. Everybody wants to be loved. Don't give up. Because you are loved."
She jumped over a big column of ice. Getting closer and closer to King Elias's ice palace.
"You are loved. Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world. Don't give up. Everyone needs to be heard. You are loved."
Then she stopped in amazement at the sight before her. An ice bridge leading up to a huge beautiful palace of ice. Adeline gasped in awe as she dismounted the horse and pet it for it's help. It sighed in exhaustion as it laid down in the snow. Steam rose around it from the snow melting on it's hot body.