Ok, moving on with my story. I'm sorry I always take too long in updating, but as I said I need to brainstorm, because I'm short on ideas. I just really wanna add some great battles and stuff in here before I get to the big stuff, like who the mastermind is, and what'll happen towards the end, Daniel's secrets, all that. So here's one I call "The Return." I call it that because an enemy Daniel's already faced returns. But who is it? Let's find out.
In the halls of the castle, King Adgar was just walking along, and then the door to Daniel's room opened, and he and Elsa stepped outside, both holding hands.
The king stopped and smiled at what he saw. "Well, look at you two." He said folding his arms across his chest.
Elsa and Daniel both flinched and let go of each other. After doing so Daniel walked over to the king. "Listen, Your Highness I owe you an apology for yelling at you like that back there."
"It's okay," King Adgar replied calmly.
"No, it's not okay. I yelled at you for nothing and I know you were only trying to help, and I just wanted you to know I feel awful about it."
"Really, son." King Adgar said once again and walked over to Daniel then put his right hand on Daniel's left shoulder. "It's alright. I know you weren't yourself, and you were just really angry."
"But that's no excuse. Usually when I'm fighting those goblins, I get pretty angry, but I've never once gotten mad like that. Something about that new suit I got just somehow made me quick to anger and frustration, and it made me lash out in full rage in aggression on them, which is something I've never once done."
"You say it's the suit that made you do it?"
"Yes. Remember how early this morning, when I discovered it'd made me a lot stronger, and I could do amazing things I never could? Well, when I saw my reflection and saw how angry I was, I started to come to my senses and had a realization. That suit must've made everything about me stronger. Including my rage. As I was fighting, I couldn't think of anything else but hate. It took all my emotions; My despair, my strengths and weaknesses, and it all became rage."
"So where is that suit now?" the king asked.
"I hid it. I put it in an old sack, and hid it somewhere safe. As I told Elsa, until I figure out what it is, or where it came from, I'm not gonna risk wearing it again."
"Well, I'm glad to see you're back to normal. This is the you I prefer."
"Me too," Elsa chimed in. "Father and I agree, we like this side of you: A sweet, caring person who always does what he can to help others in need."
"I think I like being this way. But even without that suit, I think I'm more than who I seem. I just wish I could figure that out."
"You will. When the time comes, I know for certain you'll find out who you really are," King Adgar said happily to him.
Up in the Arendelle mountains, in the ruins of that village the goblins had attacked, and the place where Daniel faced his evil doppelganger, the man in the black robe, from that dark lair was wandering through the ruins. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Such a wonderful place this village. All this done by a group of my many goblins, and an evil side of Daniel."
The robed man raised both his hands into the air, speaking a strange chant. As he chanted, shrouds of black and purple flames started to evolve from the grounds all over, and it all gathered together, until it made a big wall of flames. After gathering, the shadows all shifted together, taking the form of a person's body, and finally that body of shadows burst into yellow flames.
As the fire faded, Daniel's evil doppelganger had stood tall, panting heavily.
"I- I'm alive? How?"
"I brought you back."
He looked to see the robed man.
"Master. You have resurrected me. Why?"
"I have a task for you. If you happen to succeed in what I ask you to do, you'll have redeemed yourself from your last failure."
"Forgive me, Master." He said kneeling down. "My failure is a disgrace, and it is a shame."
"That's right. Now rise."
The evil Daniel did as he was told and got back up on his feet.
"Now here's what I want you to do: The good side that you were created from, I want you to lure him into a trap, for a very devastating challenge."
"How do I do that?"
"Simple. Kidnap the one he loves; The queen. Then take her to the island of the other side of Arendelle. Once he follows you, and you have him where you want him, use this." He reached into his robe and pulled out an orb, emitting with black and purple flames of darkness and gave it to him.
"How do I use this, Master?"
"When the time is right, crush it in your hand, and absorb its dark power. Take him down, but do not kill him, then bring him to me. If you succeed, I will reward you by giving you your own form, with even greater powers than the original Daniel. You'll finally be your own being, and no longer just the shadow of another."
"You can do that?"
"I can, and if you succeed I shall. But its power will only work once, and leave you in that form for a matter of hours, so don't use it until you absolutely have to. Now go."
"Yes, Master."
Evil Daniel's whole body turned into a cloud of black smoke, and he took to the skies, then made his way down to Arendelle."
Back at the castle, Elsa and Daniel were both in the courtyard in front of the castle, talking with one another, getting to know the other one better.
"So what was it really like meeting a stranger like that, and getting these powers and abilities, which changed your life forever?" Elsa asked curiously.
"Well, let's just say that it wasn't something you'd expect to happen. I mean when you're just riding your horse, then this weird old man appears out of nowhere, then he makes you stronger by gifting you with super strength, fire powers and all that, it's just something you never forget. So bizarre, so strange and yet, so amazing when you get used to them." Daniel said laying everything all out. Then he returned a question. "So what of you? Where did you get your powers?"
"I was born with them. My parents and I, we don't know what happened. Maybe it was just a gift from the heavens or something. As for that man who gave you yours, what do you think happened to him?"
"Beats me. If I had to guess, and if he didn't die of old age years ago, he's probably still out there somewhere. But as I said, when we were up in the mountains, I saw him a second time, and he told me when the time was right, we'd meet again."
"When did you see him that second time."
"That's where it got crazy. He came to me the very day I left home in search of finding myself. It can't be a coincidence that I chose to leave home, and he returns to me wishing me happy trails, and warns me of dangers out there. He said to me 'Beware of what you encounter out there, for you will face many dangerous foes, and monsters. But every obstacle you overcome, will lead you closer to your answers.' I could never figure out what any of that meant though. Except the part about foes and monsters."
"Maybe he meant that it'll lead you closer to finding out who you are, or who this mastermind is."
Daniel became puzzled and looked towards Elsa curiously. "Maybe."
Just then, a yellow fiery light emerged from the skies, catching the attention of both Elsa and Daniel.
The two looked up and saw at least a dozen big fireballs, fell from the skies, creating a wall of fire all around the courtyard.
"What the hell?!" Daniel yelled aloud, seeing the fire spread and circle around the courtyard. He looked back up and saw a cloud of black smoke coming down from the sky.
When that smoke made it to the ground, Elsa and Daniel both looked to see it was none other than his evil doppelganger.
"You again?!" Daniel exclaimed glaring right at his evil self.
"Miss me?" Evil Daniel said sarcastically.
"How can this be? We got rid of you?" Elsa said to the evil clone.
"I have my master to thank for that."
"We took you down once, and we can do it again," Daniel stepped forward, changing into his armor.
"All in good time. But not here. We'll do this someplace else, you and I?"
"I don't think so. We end it here and now!" Daniel said and he shot a stream of fire from his hands at his evil clone.
His doppelganger countered and shot a stream of his yellow fire.
Elsa stepped up next to him and shot a blast of her icy magic at Evil Daniel.
"You're both fools. Even together you can't beat me. I'm stronger than ever before!" He yelled and easily pushed their streams of magic back, then knocked them both off their feet and onto the ground.
From outside of the castle, King Adgar along with half a dozen cards ran out and looked to see what was going on.
"No," King Adgar said in disbelief when he saw Evil Daniel. "Not him again."
After they'd both been knocked down, Evil Daniel walked over towards Elsa and picked her up.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" She said struggling to get loose.
"You're coming with me."
"Hey!" King Adgar yelled taking the sword off one of his guards, then he charged at Evil Daniel. "Let go of my daughter!"
As the King ran over towards him, Evil Daniel smirked and blasted him with a fireball, knocking him onto his back like Daniel.
After the King was knocked down, Evil Daniel turned his and Elsa's bodies into a cloud of black smoke, and they took off into the skies.
"Elsa, no!" King Adgar yelled and got back up as he saw the Evil Daniel take off with his oldest daughter. "Not my daughter."
Daniel got up and looked to the walls of fire all around; He raised his right hand in front of him, and like how he did in the mountains, he called the fire to his hand, until it made a ball of it in his palm, and he closed it up. After doing so, he sat down and crossed his legs and closed his eyes.
"What are you doing?" King Adgar asked him.
"It's another one of my abilities. If I concentrate really hard enough, I can see into someone else's mind, and see what they're planning."
"Have you ever done it before?"
"A few times. I've done it to help people with personal problems. But I never thought I'd have to use it for this purpose. It's gonna be a little more tricky, so I need absolute silence." Daniel said and he began humming and put his hands on his kneecaps like we were meditating.
He delved deep into his ability, then saw into the mind of his evil doppelganger; He had Elsa and he'd just arrived on an old island, just a few miles away from the other side of Arendelle.
Evil Daniel grasped Elsa by her wrist with his left hand, while the snow queen was trying to break free, but he was too strong.
"He's got her. He took her to an old abandoned island off the other side of Arendelle. Does that place mean anything to you?" Daniel asked standing up.
"That island is the old ancient kingdom of Galamore. It was once a peaceful kingdom, and was ruled by great people. But it was abandoned over 300 years ago, because of an incident that occurred there. Did you see where your evil self took Elsa?"
"By the looks of it, he's taking her into the castle so he can hide. But unfortunately for him, I had the upper hand, thanks to my ability to see in his mind."
"Then let's head over there and get Elsa."
"Hold on. There's something I need to get," Daniel said walking back into the castle.
King Adgar followed behind.
In the castle, Daniel went into his room, and pulled the old sack from under his bed.
King Adgar walked in after he pulled the sack out, and he'd seen Daniel take out the black armor.
"What are you doing now?"
Daniel stood up and held the armor's vest out. "Whoever brought back my evil doppelganger made him stronger this time. Even with Elsa's help I couldn't beat him. He's too strong for the both of us to handle."
"So you're putting that suit back on. What if it makes you lash out in full rage and aggression again?"
"My evil self is just too powerful now. This may be my only hope at beating him."
"Are you sure?"
Daniel looked down to the suit, worried about the consequences in putting it back on, but he knew he had to take that chance. "I'm positive." And then he began to strap the whole thing back onto his body, until he stood tall, wearing it once more. He turned his attention back towards the king, and held out his right hand. "Let's go save your daughter."
King Adgar nodded and took Daniel's right hand with his own.
After joining together, a gold light shined on Daniel's body, and passed over to King Adgar. In an instant, that gold light flashed, and they were teleported out of Daniel's room.
After being teleported, Daniel and King Adgar now stood in the streets of an old kingdom. All over, there were skeletons of dead people laying all over the streets, there were hardly any buildings, because most of them were knocked to the ground and smashed to pieces, and the buildings that were still standing, had broken windows, and were partially smashed in places.
"Well, here we are," King Adgar said looking all around them. "The old, forgotten abandoned kingdom of Galamore."
"So what exactly happened here?" Daniel asked as he and the king started walking through the empty streets.
"Well, if I remember the story correctly, this was once a peaceful kingdom. No troubles, very few problems. Until a strange force attacked the entire kingdom. Nobody knows for sure who attacked this place, because it was an army dressed completely in black armor, and nobody who made it out alive saw their faces. But whoever did it pillaged everything. They slaughtered hundreds of innocent people, destroyed everything as far as the eye could see."
"I hope whoever did it paid for their crimes, and got the punishment they deserved."
"You and me both. Now where did you say he took Elsa?"
"If I saw him correctly, he was taking her there, into the castle," Daniel said pointing towards the old, broken up castle, like in the Isle of the Dead.
"Let's go. Hurry, we have to save her," King Adgar urged and they both ran towards the old, gray stoned castle.
There, the gates to enter in were blocked by debris of big, smashed parts from the castle, but Daniel simply went up and used his great strength to move them aside, allowing himself and King Adgar to proceed through.
They made their way through and entered the old, abandoned castle. Inside, everything was smashed and torn up; Like how the town had been pillage, this was no different, everything was destroyed.
Skeletons of the dead people lay everywhere, and areas all around were burned up. There were ripped up tapestry's hanging from the ceiling, pillars were knocked down, which left holes in the ceilings and there was no sign of Evil Daniel or Elsa anywhere.
"Now where are they? Do you see them?" asked King Adgar.
"No. But maybe I can sense them," Daniel said closing his eyes, and staying perfectly silent. He didn't move or say anything for at least a few minutes, but then he opened his eyes back up, and looked to the king. "They're bellow the dungeons, in a hidden room. Let's go."
Both men made their way through the abandoned castle, looking for a way down into the dungeons, to find and rescue Elsa.
It took them a few minutes, because a single floor on the castle was almost twice as big as the courtyard in Arendelle, but they finally found an area, and went down a flight of stairs, into the dungeons.
There in the dungeons, the cells had barred doors that were rusted, and with some, all the bars were knocked off and lying on the ground. Like in the streets, dead people's skeletons lay in and outside of the cells; Some were in chains, and some were crushed underneath stone from the busted walls.
Daniel and King Adgar made their way past all that and to a trap door at the end of the halls. Daniel walked over and opened it up, and looked down to another flight of stairs, and down there, light from torches could be seen farther down.
"They must be down there," said Daniel who began making his way down.
King Adgar followed and they moved to an area where there was a wooden railing over a big floor area, where there was not only fiery light, but golden light as well.
They both moved quietly over to the rails, and looked down. What they saw was a shock to them both; The golden light was coming from a room with piles of gold and gems, all over the floor.
They looked to see Elsa, who had her arms in shackles, and was chained to the wall, while evil Daniel walked back and forth, looking down to the treasure.
"Who would've thought that the rulers of this kingdom kept all their treasure here," Evil Daniel said with a chuckle. He picked up a big gem, that was as blue as a daytime sky. "There's at least half a river of gold and gems in this whole room, and it's all mine." He said while kneeling down and scooping up a bunch of gold coins in his hands.
"If you think kidnapping me is gonna lure Daniel into a trap, you're wrong. He will come for me, and when he does, you'll wish you'd never done this," Elsa said to him.
Evil Daniel glared at her. "You had better watch what you say to me, because last I checked, I'm not the helpless dame chained to a wall. I'm a powerful being, capable of destroying anyone."
"No. You're just a shadow. You're just an embodiment of a kind, noble and caregiving man, who can beat you any day."
"Really? Last I checked, he needed your help to beat me, but that's of no help now. Even if you both were to face off against me again, it wouldn't do any good. I'm now stronger and more powerful. And once he's out of my way, no one will stand up to me. I'll be on top of everyone and everything."
"Is that so, you evil doer?"
Evil Daniel looked up, and saw Daniel jump off the railing and topple onto him.
"Right now I wouldn't be so sure of that."
Elsa chuckled slightly at what he just did to his evil doppelganger. "I actually liked that."
"Come on. Let's get out of here and go home," Daniel walked over to her and pulled the shackles right off her wrists.
After he freed her, they began heading towards the staircase.
"You!" said an angry voice.
They both looked to see Evil Daniel getting back up.
"I've had it with you! Always getting in my way and ruining everything." He reached into his pocket and pulled out that black orb, the man in the robe gave him. "You shall all die now!" He crushed it in his hand, and a shadowy aura surrounded his body and his eyes began glowing purple.
"Run!" Daniel yelled and they ran up the stairs, where they met with King Adgar, and they all ran towards the exit.
As they were running, Daniel looked back to see a vortex of shadows shoot out from where Evil Daniel stood, and a big, black hand with claws stuck out. "Go!" He flinched and they continued running.
As the shadows fades, evil Daniel had been transformed. He stood tall, as a bald headed demon with pitch black skin, horns coming out of his head and he had purple, glowing eyes.
The trio made their way out of the secret room, then out of the dungeon and back into the main hall, then evil Daniel as that demon bust through the floors, and stood tall above them all, barely underneath the ceiling. "And now, feel the wrath of true power!" He exclaimed without moving his mouth.
As the beast opened up his mouth a bright electric green light lit up, and he shot it from his mouth at them.
"Look out!" Daniel yelled moving Elsa and King Adgar away.
As that green light hit the floor, it vaporized a massive hole in it.
"That was close," King Adgar said panting heavily.
"He's doing it again. Run!" Daniel exclaimed and he along with the king and Elsa ran again, as the beast shot another blast of green light, vaporizing the pillars, and bringing some of the ceiling down.
Daniel then threw a fireball into its eye, blinding it for a minute, and they all went and hid quickly behind some of the debris.
"You both need to get out of here," Daniel said to Elsa and her father.
"And leave you here to be killed by that?" King Adgar said gesturing to his evil doppelganger, in the form of a giant monster.
"It's my problem, I'll handle it. Besides the last thing I want is to see either of you die because of me."
"But we don't want to see you die either," Elsa chime in. "That's the last thing I wanna see in this world is you dying."
Daniel looked back up to the beast, who was blasting everything with that green light. "I have an idea. That green light he keeps shooting everywhere, it vaporizes everything it touches. But what would happen if I could make it backfire on him."
"What are you thinking?" King Adgar asked.
"Maybe if I time it right, I can throw a blast of my own at his, and maybe, just maybe it'll backfire and destroy him."
"It's worth a try," Elsa liked his idea.
"I got this, you two run for it, I'll distract him."
"Come on, sweetheart," King Adgar said taking his daughter's hand and they ran for it.
"Hey! Big, black and ugly!" Daniel jumped out of hiding and called out to his evil self, catching his attention. "Here I am. You want me? Come and get me."
The beast began walking towards Daniel. "Such a fool, giving himself up so easily, even when there is nothing that can be done. Soon, you and your friends shall be dead, and my master will conquer the world!" And he laughed evilly still without moving his mouth.
"Then take your best shot. I dare you."
He charged up the green light in his mouth once more, creating a sphere of it and readying it to blast Daniel. The beast prepared to blast him, but before he could Daniel threw a fireball at his blast, making it backfire on him, and the beast's body lit up with fiery light. "What have you done?!" Evil Daniel yelled, as his whole body began to glow red.
Daniel quickly made a run for it, knowing the explosion was gonna be big.
Right in front of the exit, Elsa and King Adgar were standing there, not wanting to leave without Daniel.
"Where is he?" Elsa said worriedly.
No sooner had Daniel turned the corner, running towards them. "Run!" He yelled.
He met up with them, and Elsa and her father began running.
"So did it work?" King Adgar asked.
"Oh, it worked..." Daniel replied. "...A little too well. The whole thing's gonna backfire and create a massive explosion. We gotta get as far away from it as possible. Keep running!"
Inside the old castle, the glow on the beast's body kept getting brighter, until finally he burst into a tremendous explosion, which destroyed the whole castle, and began spreading.
The trio stopped running and looked behind, to see the explosion coming right at them.
"Here it comes!" Daniel exclaimed. "Grab onto me, quick!"
King Adgar and Elsa didn't hesitate, and they both grabbed onto Daniel, who raised his right fist, and conjured up a shield of light. Just after he did, the explosion went right past them, and Daniel's shield protected them.
The explosion only lasted another moment or two, until it finally stopped and left the whole kingdom now completely destroyed, and Daniel dissolved his shield.
He looked to see the kingdom had been reduced to nothing but ash and rubble. "Well, that's one way to completely clear a kingdom."
"You did it," King Adgar said proudly to Daniel. "You beat him back. I knew you could do it."
"And I think the best part is, I didn't go berserk thanks to the suit this time," Daniel said gesturing to the black armor.
"I thought you weren't going to wear it again till you found out where it came from?" Elsa asked him confused.
"I didn't want to take any chances. I thought this might be the only way to save you, so I was willing to face the consequences if it meant getting you back."
"You were willing to do that, for me?" Elsa was touched.
"Well, yes. It's cause you're the queen, and I didn't want to risk..." He got cut off when Elsa walked up and hugged him.
"You're so sweet," Elsa said happily to him.
King Adgar just stood of to the side.
"Come on. Let's get out of this place and go home," Daniel said taking her left hand with his right.
King Adgar walked back up and joined in, and Daniel teleported them out of there.
Alright. Well, I guess that kind of counts as a moment between those two, doesn't it? Anyhow, sorry for taking so long in updating, but I'm just getting short on ideas. And as I said, I want to add like a series of crazy events before the mastermind is revealed, so I'm gonna need some time to brainstorm, before I put up the next chapter, cause at this point I got nothing. But a lot of the times, something just hits me, so who knows. Maybe it'll be sooner than I expect. Until then, please read, review and enjoy.