Hello again friends! In the last chapter, I got some reviews saying they were unhappy Elsa died. However, the point I was trying to get through was this: Anna, being lagged by the trolls never made it fast enough to get to Hans or to Elsa. She froze to death just yards from Elsa as Hans were preparing to swing his sword at Elsa. With no one to protect her, Elsa was killed, winter was ended, and Hans's plan worked. Hope that solved things, and I'm sorry Elsa died. As a turnaround for the last three shot, I will be doing a happier one. In this one shot, Kristoff ends up saving Anna and Arendelle is saved!
The True Lover (Kristanna)
He was tearing down the mountain fast. The snow and wind howled around him but he paid them no heed. His feet pounded on the snowdrifts and he panted hard but still pushed on. Sprinting across the fjord, he raced toward the castle of Arendelle looming in the distance under layers of silvery sleet. Kristoff shoved ice out of his red as he pushed on. The castle was barely thirty yards ahead...
A breathtakingly shocking strong gust of wind nearly wiped him off his feet. The storm was steadily getting worse. Snow feel thicker and thicker by the second. He had lost Sven back at the foot of the last mountain when the ice had been smashed but he knew his faithful reindeer was trotting along behind him. It can't be too late, Kristoff thought. Anna must be okay...
His feet slid over the slippery ice of the fjord, nearing the eye of the storm. He ignored the biting cold, the whipping snow. He had seen worse. Once when he was a younger lad, he had strayed from the pack in search of a snowflake and fell right off a steep ravine into a icy pond. He had been in the water for several unbearable seconds before a quick stepping member of the pack had rescued him.
"Your sister is dead. Because of you."
All of a sudden, the snow stopped completely and the air froze. Those words echoed around the eerily will fjord. Not far ahead, Kristoff spotted a hunched figure in a bright blue dress and a taller figure above her. Not Anna. And a small, piercing voice cut through the thick air. "K-Kristoff..."
He whipped his head around and staggered toward the fragile voice, and to his shock, a curled in and frosted over body, hair completely white. "Anna!" He began to run again.
Anna was nearly frozen over. All her hair was white and her body was covered in frost. "Help me, Kristoff..." She pleaded with him from afar.
"I'm coming Anna!" He screamed. He heard the sound of sword against scabbard a while away but didn't turn around. "ANNA!"
He reached her and had her in his arms in a flash. Anna tried to resist and jerked her body toward the sound of the sword, but Kristoff held on tightly, not letting her move. "What happened? Didn't Hans save you?"
"H-Hans never loved me." Anna whispered drowsily, shaking violently. "He left me to freeze."
Kristoff's mind whirred fast. He had to do something! He whipped his head around, trying to think of what to do. He then remembered the troll's saying: true love will melt a frozen heart. In desperation, he did something he'd never do in a million years. Cupping Anna's freezing cheeks in his hands, he looked deep into her teal eyes and gave her a reassuring grin. She barely registered, her body losing willpower to stand any longer and she began to collaspe. "Hans may not love you, but I do. I've never loved anyone like you, Anna." Kristoff said gently. He leaned in and kissed her cold lips.
Anna's lips warmed and softened under his as he kissed her. Her body stopped shaking and the frost melted right off her like it was never there. Her hair, originally silver white returned to its healthy strawberry blonde, red chasing white out till there was none left. The strength flowed back into her body, and her lithe arms grabbed him and held him close in a thankful and loving embrace.
"You were my true love?" Anna asked wondrously as she broke away from the kiss.
"I was, Anna. True love will thaw a frozen heart."Kristoff smiled joyously.
Their happy golden moment was suddenly cut short when Suddenly she looked to her left and screamed. "ELSA!"
It went in slow motion as their happy little moment melted and the real world barreled on their shoulders, the tall redheaded prince driving his sword in a diagonal direction against the ice queen's unsuspecting pale neck. Anna barely had time to register what was going on before the sharp blade began to pierce the pale skin. In a millisecond, a large sheet of ice erupted from the ground, creating a barrier between the queen and the sword, and catching the blade and blasting it to pieces, sending a strong shockwave that sent the cackling prince flying backwards and thudding on the ice painfully. Elsa might not have been on guard, but her instinctive ice always was. Always on duty to protect their master. The shards of iron smashed on the icy wonderland, catching the prince off guard and sending him slamming at the foot of a shelf of ice several feet away.
With a cry of surprise, Elsa sprang to her feet, a shard of ice materializing in her hand. It was a sight for her overwhelmed eyes to see. Anna, standing straight, with her hair a glowing strawberry blonde- Kristoff, clinging to Anna like he would never let her go, Hans, lying haphazardly on the ice, his neck bent at a strange angle.
She ran towards them with a hollow laugh, shaky hands yanking at her hair, not able to believe her eyes. "Anna! You're okay?"
"I'm fine, Queen Elsa." Anna said mockingly, but a playful smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. She crossed her arms with a smirk. "Good job with knocking Hans clean out."
Elsa shoved her bangs over her head, utterly astounded. Was she dead or hallucinating? "Who saved you?" She asked in utter disbelief. She glanced down, and her ice dress, glittering bright and blue, soft under her fingertips, reassured her that this was not a dream. She neared Anna, afraid to touch her.
"I did." Kristof interrupted, stepping between the two. "And I think you should stay away from Anna for a while-"
He was interrupted as Anna shoved aside Kristoff with a yell and launched herself at Elsa, tackling her in a big bear hug, taking in a deep whiff of Elsa's signature wintry and spearmint scent. Something she had not smelled for thirteen years. A moment of shocked silence later, Elsa finally gathered the courage to return the embrace. Anna's scent of strawberry soap and rose petals mixed in with the bittersweet scent of wintry air met her nose, and she sighed. All fear and worry disappeared as Anna's warm embrace encircled her, surrounding them both with a warm glow.
"True love- love!" Elsa sang, her heart bursting with happiness. Breaking away from the embrace, she extended her arms and lifted them to the sky. All the ice and snow shrouding the village of Arendelle melted from the ground and drifted upwards, forming a huge snowflake in the clear sky before exploding to a million sparkles and disappeared. Elsa looked back at Anna, beaming with happiness. Anna started to say something, but yelped in surprise as the fjord finished melting and they fell straight through and splashed into the clear waters. For a second, she was terrified. Not of the water, but that she would hurt Anna, or anyone else again.
But she knew as they kicked themselves back onto the surface, as she grabbed Anna's hand underwater, and as Anna grabbed Kristoff's, and as Hans was yanked up by the ankle, that they would be okay.
Whew! That was a more AUed one. A plot hole in Frozen i thought up: If Elsa's powers acted instinctively on all those occasions, such as when her powers had just been revealed at the coronation, or when the guard fired his crossbow at her in the ice palace, they would definitely have protected her while she was on the fjord. I feel like Anna's sacrifice was kind of unnecessary, but who knows? This is just an assumption. I still love Anna! Plot hole number two: How did the Frozen end on a boat when the ice melted? They clearly were standing on miles of ice in the middle of nowhere, far away from the docks or Arendelle. They couldn't have ended up right smack in the middle of the docks, hehe.
Thank you for reading and please comment and leave chapter requests. Next chapter: what if Hans found Elsa first instead of Anna? (Helsa coming up!)