I thank Whirlpool24 of DeviantArt for helping me. The song is "I Stand" by Idina Menzel.
Hours later went by and Hanna's company had returned to Arendelle. Elias groaned as he blinked and woke up to a stone room with one tiny window high on the wall. On the other side was a big door. He noticed that a blanket was covering him as he sat up. Then he saw Adeline on the other side of the room. She was sleeping on the bed with a blanket covering her too. He got up to go to her only to be stopped by shackles. These particular shackles covered his hands and were bolted to the floor. He stepped over them to look out the window. He saw the whole fjord covered in ice and snow. Everywhere, things were covered in ice and snow.
"Oh, no. What have I done?" Elias asked himself in shock.
Hanna unlocked the door and came in with a lantern. She shivered as her breath appeared in front of her.
"Why did you bring us here?" Elias quietly demanded of her.
"I couldn't just let them kill you," Hanna said as she crossed her arms.
"But I'm a danger to Arendelle," Elias insisted to her, "Get Aaron."
"Aaron has not returned," Hanna said to him and then looked at him desperately, "If you would just stop the winter, bring back summer. Please."
"Don't you see, I can't," Elias said in distraught, "You have to tell them to let me go."
"I will do what I can," Hanna said and gave a resigned look to him before shutting the door behind her and locking it.
Elias looked down and then saw ice forming over the shackles on his hands.
"She's lying," Adeline said to him, "I don't know what she's planning, but it can't be good."
"Never mind her, are you alright?" Elias asked her in concern.
"My head hurts a bit and I'm a bit dizzy but otherwise I'm alright," Adeline said as she sat up. Then she saw that her hands were covered in shackles the same as his.
"I'm so sorry Adeline," Elias apologized and then slumped down on the bed, "If it wasn't for me, you would be free."
"Elias, you have nothing to be sorry for. You saved my life," Adeline smiled at him, "And I don't regret meeting you."
When you ask me, who I am:
What is my vision? And do I have a plan?
Where is my strength? Have I nothing to say?
I hear the words in my head, but I push them away.
Then Elias reflected on how he met her. How she wasn't afraid of him.
'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
I stand for the strange and lonely,
I believe there's a better place.
I don't know if the sky is heaven,
But I pray anyway.
Elias looked up at her to see she smiling warmly at him. She looked at the lantern Hanna left on the floor and used her powers to make the flame form images of them. How Elias ran away to protect his people and how Adeline rode on a horse of her own creation to see him.
And I don't know
What tomorrow brings
The road less traveled
Will it set us free?
Cause we are taking it slow,
These tiny legacies.
I don't try and change the world;
But what will you make of me?
Elias watched the flames form how Adeline tried to help him before their capture.
'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
I stand for the strange and lonely,
I believe there's a better place.
I don't know if the sky is heaven,
But I pray anyway.
The flames make the two of them with Adeline hugging Elias tenderly.
With the slightest of breezes
We fall just like leaves
As the rain washes us from the ground
We forget who we are
We can't see in the dark
And we quickly get lost in the crowd
Then the flames formed of how the two of them defended each other against the two bad men that tried to hurt them.
'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
'Cause I stand for the power to change,
I live for the perfect day.
I love till it hurts like crazy,
I hope for a hero to save me.
I stand for the strange and lonely,
I believe there's a better place.
I don't know if the sky is heaven,
But I pray anyway.
Finally the flames fly around to form a huge heart between the two of them before settling back into the lantern with a warm glow. Elias looked at her in the light and noticed how she seemed to glow just as bright as that flame. And for the first time in his life, he felt his heart beat faster.
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Upstairs, Rapunzel and Eugene walked down the halls. Rapunzel sighed at the thought of her cousin and her best friend being a cell below.
"Eugene, he doesn't deserve that," Rapunzel said to him, "I'm going to get him out. I don't trust that Hanna."
"I know Blondie. There's something about her that I don't trust either," Eugene said to her, "It's in her eyes. Ok let's go."
Then they walked past a door and heard Aaron and Hanna in the room. They put their ears to the door to listen in.
"As thirteenth in line, I had no chance of having the crown. I knew I had to marry into the throne somewhere," Hanna said as she deviously smirked at Aaron and made her way to the fire place, "As the eldest, Elias was preferable but no one was getting anywhere with him. And then that woman appeared and captured his interest and stole that chance from me."
Aaron watched as she glared ahead of him. He shivered from the ice coursing through his body. But the tone in her voice was even colder than the weather outside.
"But you? You were so desperate for love, you proposed to me just like," Hanna chuckled darkly as she pitched up a pitcher and poured the water over the fire in the fireplace, "After we were married, I thought I would have to stage a little 'accident' for Elias."
"Hanna no," Aaron cried out as he struggled to get up to stop her and then fell on the floor.
"But then he doomed himself and that girl. And you were stupid enough to go after them," Hanna maliciously smiled at him as she kicked his hand off her, "All that's left is to kill them and I'll become the new ruler of Arendelle."
"You're no match for Elias or Adeline," Aaron glared at her.
"No. You're no match for them," Hanna said as she cupped his chin and then put her gloves back on, "I, on the other hand, am going to be the girl that saved Arendelle. Goodbye, Aaron."
"No!" Aaron cried out as he tried to crawl to the door, "You won't get away with this!"
"Oh sweetheart. I already have," Hanna mocked him and then slammed and locked the door. When she turned around, she saw Rapunzel and Eugene standing there glaring at her.
"You monster!" Rapunzel cried out and then slammed her into the door, "You're just like Mother Gothel! Lying to people and using them for your own selfish gain!"
"Aaron's right. After we lock you up princess, we're gonna go tell the dignitaries and everyone else what you've done," Eugene said as he grabbed her and started pushing her down the hall, "And there's nothing you can do about it! You're done."
"Oh I don't think so," Hanna cackled and then wind swirled around her. It then lifted her up and she dropped down knocking Rapunzel and Eugene over. She brought her hands up and then used it to make two whirlwinds around them. She blew open one door and threw Rapunzel and Eugene in there, "I can't kill you because that would be suspicious, so you'll just have to stay here until I order the guards to banish you back to Corona. Oh and don't even think about escaping."
Hanna held up Eugene's lockpick she had taken from him when he grabbed her. And then she locked the door as he ran to stop her. She pocketed the lockpick and then got into character of the grieving girlfriend. She let her face fall and even made some tears appear down her cheeks as she walked closer and closer to the meeting room where the dignitaries and the Duchess of Weselton are.
"It's getting colder by the second. If we don't do something soon, we'll all freeze to death," Duchess of Wesleton complained as she rubbed her arms to warm herself up and saw Princess Hanna coming in upset, "Princess Hanna?"
"I have terrible news," Hanna cried as she looked at them, "Prince Aaron is dead."
"What?!" The French Dignitary exclaimed.
"No," The Italian Dignitary denied.
"That can't be," The Polish Dignitary said in disbelief.
"What happened?" The German Dignitary asked in concern.
"He was killed by King Elais," Hanna wiped her eyes as she told them, "He was frozen by his powers."
"No, his own brother," the Duchess of Wesleton gasped in horror.
"And there's more," Hanna sobbed to them, "He had burn marks too from that girl, Adeline. She has powers too, but with fire. He never stood a chance! At least we got to say our marriage vows before he died in my arms."
"I knew there was something wrong with that girl," the Duchess of Wesleton scowled and said, "And there's no doubt now. King Elias is a monster and we are all in danger. That girl could set fire to the town and then none of us will be safe from that storm out there!"
"Princess Hanna," The Italian dignitary said to her, "Arendelle looks to you."
"It is with a heavy heart that I accuse King Elias of Arendelle and Adeline of Corona of treason," Hanna spoke with a broken voice, "And sentence them to death."
As the other dignitaries nod to her grimly, the French and the German dignitaries look at each other and then shake their heads. Her story didn't sit right with them. And the fact she was going to execute them without even giving them a trial.
Meanwhile below Elias is worried about Aaron. He pulled on his shackles as Adeline did the same. She couldn't stand being in there anymore.
"Adeline, look," Elias pointed up at her and saw ice forming on the wall, "The ice is coming through the walls. And if I know my ice, it's gonna expand and that will give us a chance to escape!"
"Which means we need to get out of these shackles," Adeline said as she pulled more and heard men coming down the hall.
"Hurry Up! He's dangerous. Move quickly," Hanna said on the other side.
"Be careful, your highness," One of the guards said and tried to unlock the door, "It won't open!"
"It's frozen shut," Another guard exclaimed and rammed into the door.
Elias looked at his shackles and made the ice come between the slates. At the same time, Adeline heated up hers until they glowed bright red and steam escaped from them. As the guards busted in, they saw a huge hole in the side of the wall. Hanna came forward and then growled at the sight of one set of shackles busted open in ice and another set melted on the ground.
Upstairs, Olaf wandered around the castle and then heard some pounding. He tried to open the doors but they wouldn't open. So took off his carrot nose and used it to pick the lock.
"Olaf," Rapunzel exclaimed and hugged him, "Oh thank you. Thank you!"
"You're welcome," He said and then looked around, "Hey, where's Aaron?"
"Aaron! We need to help him," Eugene exclaimed and then ran down the hall to the library. "Quick give me your nose."
Olaf handed him the carrot and Eugene used it to open the doors. Aaron was curled up by the door and weakly looked up.
"Help," Aaron said as he reached up for them.
"Aaron! Oh no," Olaf said and then saw the fire was out. He removed the old soaked wood and put on some dry fresh wood. After putting his arm back on, he lit a match and made the fire. "Oh!"
"Olaf," Aaron weakly looked over and saw him by the fireplace with a new fire blazing, "Olaf, get away from there!"
"Whoa! So this is heat. I love it," Olaf said in awe as he brought his hand close to the fire and then waved his hand when it caught fire. "Ooh! But don't touch it! So, where's Hanna? What happened to your kiss?"
"I was wrong about her," Aaron said as Rapunzel and Eugene helped him over to the fire, "It wasn't true love."
"But we ran all the way here," Olaf said in disbelief.
"I should've listened to you two, " Aaron lamented as he looked at Rapunzel and Eugene, "You were right and so was my brother. How could I've been so stupid and blind?"
"Hanna locked us in a room so we couldn't come help you," Rapunzel said to Aaron, "And there's more. She had wind powers!"
"What? How?" Aaron asked her in shock.
"We don't know but I don't think she was born with them like your brother or Adeline," Eugene said to him, "She must have been cursed with them."
"Perhaps she found something she thought would make her rise to power," Rapunzel said to them, "And all it did was make her rise into the sky."
"I don't know. She didn't tell me that about her," Aaron shivered and then looked at Olaf, "Olaf you can't stay in there. You'll melt."
"I am not leaving here until we find some other act of true love to save you," Olaf stubbornly said to him and sat himself down beside him, "Do you happen to have any ideas?"
"I don't even know what love is," Aaron lamented as he held his arms by his chest.
"That's okay, I do," Olaf cheerfully said to him and then stood up to adjust the cloak around his shoulder, "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours. Like, you know, how Kristen brought you back here to Hanna and left you forever.
"Kristen loves me?" Aaron asked him in surprise.
"Wow, you really don't know anything about love, do you?" Olaf asked in surprise and then pushed his carrot nose back into place as his face started melting.
"Olaf, you're melting," Aaron exclaimed to him in concern.
"Some people are worth melting for." Olaf warmly said to him. Then the side of his mouth went limp and he held his face up, "Just maybe not right this second!"
Then the window busted up and blew ice cold air in the library. Aaron shivered even more from the blast as Rapunzel curled into Eugene for warmth by the fire.
"Don't worry, I've got it!, " Olaf assured them and toddled over to the window to close it back, "We're going to get through...Oh, wait. Hang on. I'm getting something."
"What's up now?" Eugene shivered as he watched Olaf bite off an icicle and used it as a telescope.
"It's Kristen and Sven! They're coming back this way," Olaf shouted in excitement.
"They...they are?" Aaron asked in surprise as he picked his head up.
"Wow, she's really moving fast," Olaf said as he watched her, "I guess I was wrong. I guess Kristen doesn't love you enough to leave you behind."
"Help me up, Olaf. Please," Aaron asked him and started to stand up.
"No, no, no, no, no," Olaf insisted and then rolled across the couch to get to him. He started to push him back down to sit, "You need to stay by the fire and keep warm."
"I need to get to Kristen," Aaron insisted to him.
"Why?" Olaf asked innocently. Then he saw Aaron giving him a look and it clicked in his head, "Oh, I know why! There's your act of true love right there! Riding across the fjords like a brave, pundant reindeer queen! Come on!"
Then the four of them gasped in horror as ice started forming in the ceiling of the library. Aaron quickly struggled to get to his feet and Olaf took his hand to lead him out of the library.
"Look out!" Olaf shouted as the ice formed behind them.
As they ran down the hall, the ice formed at the end of it blocking it off.
"Uh...back this way," Olaf cried out and led Aaron back the other way. As they ran, the ice formed at the other end of the hall, "We're trapped!"
The four of them look around in worry as the ice encased them there. Outside on the fjords, Elias and Adeline ran through the blizzard. Elias looked around to get his bearing and then took Adeline hand. She clung to him as they ran ahead. Back at the castle, Eugene, Aaron and Olaf rammed into the window and managed to get open. They looked down and saw the tops of the castle was covered in snow mounds.
"Slide, Aaron!" Olaf shouted to him.
Aaron shouted as he jumped down and then slid down the mounds like on a mountain. Olaf rolled down after him followed by Rapunzel and Eugene. He spit out some of the snow that got in his mouth when he landed on the ground. Rapunzel shook her head to get the snow out of her hair.
"We made it," Olaf said in a muffled voice as his whole body looked like a boulder. Then he shook his body to get the extra snow off him, "Go go go go!"
"Aaron, you get to Kristen! We'll find Elias and warn him about Hanna," Rapunzel said to him and then pat his back.
Aaron nodded and then struggled to go find her. It wasn't easy as he felt himself getting colder and colder by the second. His once auburn hair was now as white as the snow and ice howling around.
Elias and Adeline struggled through the storm. The wind blew in their faces and snow swirled around them. Then they saw a figure in the snow. At first it looked like Aaron but then it morphed into Hanna. Elias gasped and pulled Adeline with him to go the other way.
"Elias," Hanna called to him as she squinted to keep the ice from her face, "You can't run from this!"
"Just take care of my brother," Elias insisted to her and pulled Adeline with him to leave.
"Your brother? He returned from the mountain weak and cold," Hanna cried to him, "He said that you froze his heart!"
"No," Elias gasped in horror from the news. She had to be lying.
"I tried to save him, but it was too late," Hanna shouted over the wind and looked distraught, "His skin was ice, his hair turned white. Your brother is dead...because of you."
"No," Elias said in shock and then dropped to his knees. He closed his eyes and all around him the weather just stopped. The snow flakes stopped in mid air and the wind cut off. Much to the surprise of all the dignitaries as they had come outside when they learned the king had escaped with his friend.
Aaron shivered as he looked at his hands. They were as white as snow around him along with the rest of his body. Rapunzel shivered and then saw Adeline and Elias on the fjord with Hanna. She was walking towards them and then ran to them.
"Elias, don't believe her," Rapunzel shouted and slipped and ran on the ice with Eugene, "Whatever she told you it's not true!"
"My brother isn't dead?" Elias looked up at them and then turned to her, "What are you trying to pull?"
"She's trying to get your throne," Eugene said to him, "We heard her gloating to Aaron as he was freezing to death in the library that she wanted to marry you because she's thirteenth in line for her own crown. But you never showed any interest with anyone but Adeline. So she set her sights on your brother!"
"And then she said she was going to stage an 'accident' for you once they were married," Rapunzel shouted and pointed at her, "And when you set this off this winter she figured the weather would kill you and Aaron because he went after you like a good brother. And now she's planning to kill you both."
"Oh that's ridiculous," Hanna chuckled and crossed her arms, "The weather must be affecting your brain."
"Or maybe it was that blow you gave us, wind lady," Eugene said to her and saw her face fall with satisfaction.
"What?" Elias asked them and glared at Hanna.
"She's got powers too but they're like wind powers," Rapunzel said to him, "She used them on us when we were going to tell everyone what she was up to and then she blew us into a room and locked the door so we couldn't tell anyone."
"Bravo. Fine it's true," Hanna spitefully said to them, "And unlike you two, I was cursed to be this way! I was walking around my own kingdom trying to find a way I could rule. So I did some research in our library and I found a scroll saying that there was a spring that whoever drank from it would rise to power. I set out for this spring with the map it had and I found it. I did as the scroll said and drank from it. But it didn't grant me what I wanted. Instead, I felt my body grow lighter than air and wind swirled around me like a hurricane. At first I hated my power. But now, I think I can live with this."
"How dare you call yourself a princess," Adeline coldly said to her. "What did you do with Aaron?"
"And how dare you ruin my plans, you salamander," Hanna shrieked at her in hate.
Hanna let the wind swirl around her as Adeline's own powers fired up. Hanna at first started to just blow them out and push her back with blasts. And then Adeline made her flame bigger. Hanna tried to blow them out but Adeline just kept coming at her.
"How are you doing that?" Hanna shrieked and took a deep breath to blow at her from her mouth.
"You don't know much about fire do you?" Hanna said as she made them even bigger, "The more air you blow, the bigger it gets!"
Then she clapped her hands in front of her and blasted her up into the sky. Hanna glared at her with pure hatred as the wind swirled around her to keep her from falling. Rapunzel and Eugene tried to stay by Elias but the force from the wind swept them along the frozen fjord. Elias brought his hand up and an ice wall appeared in front of them to give them a shield by the frozen door of a ship's cabin.
"Adeline was right. I'm not a monster," Elias said to himself and glared at her, "You are!"
"I knew you were no good the moment I met you!" The French Dignitary shouted at her.
"That's right! King Elias is no traitor! You are!" The German Dignitary shouted at her.
The rest of the dignitaries followed their examples and shouted at her with waved fists.
"SHUT UP!" Hanna bellowed at them, "I am the QUEEN! And you will bow to me!"
Then the force of her wind caused the broken parts of the ships trapped in the ice to swirl around her. She waved her hand and tried to hit Adeline with the debris and Elias. Aaron in the meantime had made his way onto the fjord and tried to fight off the swirling winds while shivering. His hands were pure white as was his face and the rest of his body. He couldn't feel any kind of warm as his condition got worse and worse. Kristen looked around and spotted him on the ice. She tried her best to run to him and he to her. Then he heard Hanna shrieking and saw the battle taking place with his brother, his former fiancee and his new friend.
"Elias," Aaron said as he saw Hanna trying to crush him with planks. He looked at Kristen a moment and then gave her a sympathetic look before running towards the battle.
Elias grunted as he tripped and landed on his stomach. Hanna smiled with a crazy look in her eye as she grabbed his sword that had fallen and was about to slash him.
"NO!" Aaron shouted out as he shielded Elias as the rest of his body froze over.
The sword froze as it got to his hand and then shattered into pieces. The force of it blasted Hanna back into and knocked her out. Aaron exhausted his last breath as his body looked like an ice sculpture.
"AARON!" Elias screamed as he got up and looked at him, "Oh Aaron! No no please no. Please come on. Give me a sign. You have to be ok. You have to!"
He felt his face to feel any kind of warmth to show he was alive. When he felt nothing but cold the walls just crumbled to dust. Elias couldn't stop the tears falling from his face as he hugged his brother. All these years of trying to protect him and he ended up being the one to protect. He openly sobbed as he fell to the ground lamenting his brother.
"Aaron," Olaf tried to talk to him but then saw nothing coming from him.
Rapunzel gasped at the statue and started crying into Eugene's chest. Kristen buried her face into Sven's shoulder to hide her tears. The dignitaries sadly looked on as they heard Elias's cries from there. Then at his chest, Aaron's heart started beating again. As it did, ice around it started to dissolve. Olaf was the first to notice and gasped in delight. Eugene tapped Rapunzel's shoulder for her to look. When she did, she saw his clothes slowly beginning to defrost. Sven nudged Kristin to look as well and saw Aaron starting to move. She laughed a bit in delight.
"Aaron?" Elias asked as he got up and saw his brother defrosting the rest of the way before his eyes, "Aaron!"
Then he quickly hugged him close to him. Aaron shivered a bit and smiled as he returned the hug from his brother.
"You sacrificed yourself for me," Elias asked him as he held him out.
"You're my brother," Aaron warmly said and held his shoulder, "I love you."
"An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart," Olaf gasped in delight.
"Love will thaw, " Elias repeated and then smiled for the first time in a long time, "Of course."
"Elias?" Aaron asked in confusion.
"Love." Elias said as he spread his arm out.
Then around them the ice and snow started to rise into the sky. Sven smiled in delight at the snow flakes and tried to lick them up as they rose. Aaron gasped as he watched his brother work. Rapunzel and Eugene looked around them and saw they were all standing on the deck of a huge ship. All around Arendelle clumps of snow and ice rose into the sky like magic. The frozen fjord defrosted and the ships that weren't damaged floated in the water. The people felt the warmth returning and came outside to see their king is thawing out the weather. Elias felt the love in his heart swirl as he thought of the love for his brother, his long lost cousin, his people and...for Adeline. He smiled as all the ice and snow all formed into a giant snowflake in the sky and then dispersed.
"I knew you could do it," Aaron said with a smirk and playfully elbowed him.
"Hands down, this is the best day of my life," Olaf said to them and then slowly started to melt into a puddle, "And possibly the last."
"Oh Olaf! Hang on little guy, " Elias chuckled and then used his powers to form Olaf back with a tiny cloud above his head.
"My own personal flurry," Olaf exclaimed in delight at the small snow fall and chuckled with his hands in front of him adorably.
Hanna groaned as she woke up and rubbed her head. Kristen glared at her and started to march at her. Aaron put his arm up to block her and Eugene held back Rapunzel while trying to keep his own composure. Aaron put his hands up to placate them and then calmly walked up to her.
"Aaron?" Hanna said in disbelief as the last time she saw him was in the library freezing to death, "But he froze your heart!"
"The only one with a frozen heart around here is you," Aaron coldly said to her and then balled up his fist.
Normally he would never hit a lady. But she was no lady! So he reared back his fist and punched her right in the face. Hanna yelped in pain and screamed as she fell back on the deck holding her face. The dignitaries all cheered for Prince Aaron and applauded him for hitting the evil woman. Then the cabin door burst open and an older woman showed up panting.
"Hanna!" She exclaimed and then looked around at the group. They pointed to the side and she looked over to see her holding her nose bleeding, "Ah ha, I finally found you!"
"Uh excuse me, who are you?" Elias asked her in confusion.
"I am Princess Laura Westergaard of the Southern Isles," The woman said to them, "Don't believe a thing this sister of mine says."
"But what are you doing here?" Aaron asked in confusion.
"As first born to the crown, I was supposed to be here for your coronation, King Elias," Princess Laura said and bow to him in respect and then glared at Hanna, "But this one got powers before I left and then locked me in my room here on the ship."
"Princess Laura. May I ask you something?" Adeline asked her and then whispered in her ear.
"Normally I wouldn't. But in this case, go ahead," Laura said as she crossed her arms and stood back.
Hanna looked at Adeline in fear and then screamed Adeline burned the top of her head. All the hair from her forehead to her eyes was burned right off. She cried in pain as she held the top of her head.
"Now you're every bit as ugly outside and you are inside," Adeline said to her with satisfaction.
Hanna growled and then charged at her. Eugene grabbed her and then tied her up with some rope. Then got hit by her wind power in the face.
"We need to remove these powers of hers! She's too dangerous like this," Eugene cried out.
"I know of a guy," Kristen said as she smirked.
