At the dawn of morning, Susano stood before an ancient southeastern temple hidden in the heart of a tropical rain forest with the two most powerful women at his sides. This was the moon temple which held his ancient blade deep within.
Much of the grey stoned temple was been layered with moss, vines, and tree roots over the years of sanctuary.
Elsa looked up at the large magnificently built structure with zero fascination, "So why am I the one who has to fetch your toy?"
"It must be you, because you are a mortal. The temple is warded against the likes of us." He referred to Kitsune and himself.
Elsa stared at them with a thoughtless expression, the kind a reckless teenager would give her parents. Then she rolled her eyes with a sigh, "Fine."
She did not mind. This 'Dark' Elsa did not really care for anything anymore. Free of the crushing burden of her emotions and humanity, she could finally do whatever she pleased and have all the fun she desired. She figured why not help the individuals who made her this way? She was also just content with destroying something, and hoped to encounter resistance inside.
She brushed down her dark-red, tinted dress that she absolutely adored and stepped in front of the temple gates. She pushed forth both her hands, unleashing her enhanced power.
Up in the air, Rapunzel's glowing eyes faded back to their normal green.
"We're almost there. Start heading down."
Hiccup did so, lowering Toothless nose-first through the puffy clouds.
Seated behind Merida, the speed made her wild red hair itch against Rapunzel's face.
"Mer…your, plah, hair's in my-" she turned away to get the tiny hairs out her mouth.
Merida shot back with her sass. "Oh, myy hair is in the way? Well me apologies, Princess-"
"Guys…" Hiccup called everyone's attention as they made it through the layers of clouds, "We're here."
Everyone's expression filled with awe and intimidation.
"Elsa did all this?" Rapunzel asked in a shaky voice.
They arrived at the enormous southeastern moon temple that has been completely frozen over and blown open in the front to make an entrance.
Jack kept his strongly determined expression. "Remember, she's not herself. Do not hurt Elsa." It applied to everyone, but he specifically looked at Merida before running towards the temple.
"You've told meh like five times, Jack. I get it! I won't." Merida whined as they all get off of Toothless.
"Do NOT hurt Elsa!" Jack ordered again just before he dashed inside.
The dragon make a series of grunts as he looked up to the roofs of the temple, suggesting something. Hiccup understood, "Good idea, bud. Search for another way to sneak in through."
Toothless climbed up the frozen edges of the towering walls.
The rest caught up with Jack inside. They could hardly tell what the interior used to be like. Now it is all just masked in darkened ice.
They ventured deeper. No sunlight shined through and no torches brightened the rooms or halls. Only the pulsating burgundy light from Elsa's crystallized ice formations illuminated the vast interior for them to be able to faintly see.
Rapunzel rubbed her arms from the cold.
Hiccup asked her, "Is Susano here?"
Her eyes glowed gold as she checked in with Amaterasu. She blinked back to normal, "Not anymore."
They walked passed activated booby traps. These various defenses were brutally damaged, clearly failing to stop the Dark Snow Queen. Then they came across a blasted open hole in the floor. It must have been a secret passage.
Jack leaped in first, meeting what felt like stone steps. He could not see a thing though. Rapunzel followed and used her glowing hair for everyone to see. She walked pass Jack and led the way down the secret passageway, heading deeper and deeper underground.
They arrived at the end of the steps where the exit had been blocked off by a patch of spiked ice. Jack shattered it open with his staff.
The four friends entered a colossal sized tomb filled with open spaces, pillars, bridges, and ancient ruins. Much of it had been frozen over, but some areas were still of grey stone coated in green with vines hanging down.
"Ahh…the Big Four!"
They faced up at the sight of Elsa smirking on top of a crystallized hill at the center of the tomb. She sat on a throne that she also made for herself. Legs crossed, hands on the armrests, perfect posture, hair looking fabulously messy to one side in its braided tail, and eyes as black as ever. She stood up like the royalty that she was.
Rapunzel could not help but let out a long, "Wow…"
Hiccup shushed her. Now was not the time to admire Elsa's stunning presence.
Jack on the other hand would never get used to seeing her like this.
"If you came for the sword, you're out of luck. The others have already left with it."
Hiccup put a comforting hand on Jack's arm, knowing how hard it was to look into the eyes of someone you care for who was not themselves. Jack cleared his throat and asked the necessary questions. "Where're they going with it?"
"The next volcano I'm assuming." She briefly checked her nails, "I'll be joining them shortly…but first I wanted to have some fun. You see…" she gestured all around the tomb, "the protectors of this temple were quite dull…"
The four looked around, noticing the frozen remains of stone warriors and stone tiger-like creatures, the ancient protectors. All were left impaled, decapitated, or torn apart, none were spared. It was a slaughter. Elsa alone laid waste to them all.
"Also I figured I'd keep you all occupied here with me, and away from the other two. They really don't like you very much."
After looking at the horror around them, Merida anticipated danger. "Jack…"
Elsa shot out a stream of snow from her hands. It flurried around the entire tomb. When her power passed, the lifeless protectors were transformed from stone to ice and snow as they reanimated.
New creations also rose from the piles of snow, large brutish beasts and smaller winged creatures. The brutes were far more bulky and grotesquely menacing than Marshmallow, and the fliers were pterodactyl-like with their long jagged beaks and thin icy wings as sharp as steel.
The evilest smile grew on Elsa's face from ear to ear as she watched her creations slowly close in on the Big Four.
They formed up back-to-back, weapons at the ready as they were now completely surrounded and vastly outnumbered by these malevolent manifestations with burning red eyes; red like Elsa's dress.
Merida asked Jack quietly, "Will fighting these munsters hurt her?"
Jack focused up at Elsa, now growing furious that she would endanger his friends. Her new found darkness truly knew no bounds.
"No."
He slammed his staff to ground, creating a powerful ring-blast that destroyed all the nearest red-eyed monsters, giving his friends a brief moment of room to maneuver. He then flew up to Elsa as his teammates lunged into battle.
She greeted him with a devilish smile, "Still haven't gotten over me?"
An ice blast shot out of his staff as he yelled. She countered it with her own as she grinned at his distress.
Down on the grounds, Hiccup and Rapunzel ran into some ancient ruins to narrow the playing field.
His fire sword worked well against these snowy warriors. Rapunzel flung her daggers and her targets all collapsed on impact. Hachiman's reinforced steal was working wonders as well.
She lassoed her hair around several enemies and pulled them into Hiccup. He took them all down with one swing of his fiery blade.
They fared well at taking on the trails and trails of these warriors, but then they heard a loud growling.
Beyond the hall of snow-warriors, one of the tiger-like creatures pounced onto the side of the wall and started running straight at them. Hiccup and Rapunzel eyed this chilling-white jungle cat built with fangs and claws of razor sharp ice.
"How do we deal with this one?" Rapunzel asked.
"For now, run!"
They rushed through the corridor, striking down any warriors in their way. Thankfully Hiccup had learned to run seamlessly with his artificial foot over the years. The metal attachment was no handicap to him in the rush of battle.
They made it out of the ancient ruins and back into the grandness of the tomb only to run straight into a blockade of warriors. They fought them off, but the large cat was getting closer.
Rapunzel threw daggers at its face but the creature smacked them out of the way with its hefty paw. It leaped for them, but then suddenly got knocked off course by an arrow through the side of its neck. Hiccup and Rapunzel looked over.
Halfway across the battlefield, Merida had made the shot from on top a frozen pillar. She always watched over her friends in tense rumbles like these.
They exchanged smiling nods of thanks and no problem, and went back to fighting in their distant areas.
One of the large brutes charged into Merida's pillar, knocking her off. She looked up at the snowy abomination as it swung down its massive club of ice. Merida rolled out of the way just in time and jumped onto the club, ran up its arm, and quickly climbed onto its shoulders. She spun an arrow in her hand before stabbing it straight through the monster's head. The brute came crashing down, breaking into chunks of brittle snow. Merida landed on her feet and yanked out her arrow from her defeated foe. She loaded it onto her bow and shot down a winged-creature that was flying towards Jack.
Elsa and Frost continued their dance up on the crystallized hill in the center of the tomb. He shot, she blocked. She shot and he evaded, switching to a new angle.
His attacks did not so much hit her but rather hit around her. He still did not want to hurt her. Elsa knew this and took full advantage.
After he destroyed her throne, she nailed a direct hit on his leg, flipping him off balance.
Jack landed off the side, gripping onto the edge of the hill, waiting for feeling to return to his currently numbed leg. Elsa walked up to him, stomping the heel of her shoe onto his hand. Jack shouted at the sharp stab.
"You are never going to give up, are you?"
"Never...you wouldn't either."
"The old me, definitely not…she was so in love with you," she leaned down, Jack could see his own reflection in her demonic eyes, "but what makes you think I am?"
Hints of tears began to build around the rims of his eyes upon her cold, emotionless words.
She lifted her hand, preparing to strike him down, but Jack regained the feeling in his leg. He planted both feet onto the side of the hill and hooked the curved end of his staff around Elsa's other foot. He kicked himself off the edge with the leverage of both his legs, bringing Elsa down with him.
In free fall, Elsa blasted Jack away. He blocked it by twirling his staff before him with both hands, but the force still pushed his back through a column.
Elsa created a slide, leading her all the way to a bridge on the upper corner. Jack chased after her as she surfed along it.
"It's still you, Elsa!"
"Not the me that you remember!"
She landed on the bridge and tried to knock Jack out of the air. "I've let that part of me go. Maybe you should do the same."
Jack landed a few feet away from Elsa. "I could never let you go," He said from the bottom of his heart.
Elsa replied conceitedly, "I can't blame you."
She raised her hands. Spikes of ice broke out beneath where Jack stood. He dived off the bridge, avoiding them in the nick of time, and swooped back up on the other side behind her.
Not seeing him, Jack brought down his staff over her head from behind. Elsa gripped onto it but Jack was physically stronger. He pulled her in close, the bar of his staff pressed into her chest.
"Oooo…" She uttered flirtatiously in his firm grapple. Her entire backside was hard-pressed against his front. "This brings back fond memories, does it not?" Elsa started grinding her hips into his pelvis.
Jack lets out a faint moan, and his firm grip loosened. Elsa whipped her head back, bashing him in the nose. His hold on her broke and she stomps down on the frozen bridge, completely crumbling it with her power.
They plummeted, but Elsa kicked Frost in the chest, sending him further down. She landed gracefully on another bridge below, using a swirl of snow to break her fall.
Jack, on the other hand, landed flat on a slightly tilted pillar that was jammed right in between two perfectly standing columns. He looked below at the long way down and then moved a little, trying to get back up after the devastating fall. He saw that he was on the same pillar that Merida was now positioned on.
Snow-warriors scurried their way up the column. Merida shot down a few, but three managed to successfully climb on.
She stepped back, shooting one off. "Jack, I'm sure yer girlfriend used ta be really nice…" When the other two got too close with their long, crooked ice-blades, she swung her bow, batting them away. "But I'm finding it really difficult ta like her."
"She'll come around." He blasted down the rest of the warriors that were trying to climb up the columns, and flew off to Elsa.
Merida went back to targeting creations all across the tomb from her vantage point of the higher ground.
Hiccup slid beneath a giant brute, slicing clean through one of its legs with his sword. Without it the creature was unbalanced and fell to its side. Leveled down to size, Hiccup finished him off with his fiery blade through the back of its head.
Rapunzel ran along a bridge above him to provide cover. She ducked as the flying pterodactyl-like snow creatures swooped across, trying to knock her off. She nailed a few with her daggers, but more came.
"Punzie!" Hiccup called out to her, needing assistance.
She saw that he was getting swarmed down there.
"Here!" She dropped her long hair for Hiccup to grab onto and steadily pulled him up. Winged beasts came at him, but he swatted them away with his blade.
Merida assisted them from afar, shooting down all the fliers that were getting too close to Rapunzel. She jumped off her pillar to grab onto a hanging vine, and swung across the tomb to another platform. The warrior princess then made her way to her friends, hopping from one pillar to the next in a descending order.
Hiccup got on the bridge with the blonde helping him up.
"Are we doing okay?" Rapunzel asked.
"There's about half of them left, but we can't keep this up for much longer." He answered, panting.
The floor was flooded with red-eyed monsters, all eager to tear them apart.
Suddenly dozens of winged-creatures hovered around them. Geysers of thin ice shot out of their beaks, freezing the bridge they were standing on until it began to crack!
Rapunzel reached out to Hiccup, petrified. "Hiccup!"
He tried to grab her hand, "It's alright, just grab my-"
But the bridge shattered. They fell to the flood of mindless fiends with a loud shout of despair. There were so many that they landed on top of the swarm. It softened their fall a bit, but the numerous amounts of them folded in.
The two young heroes laid flat on their backs. Rapunzel screamed as they piled on her. She desperately tried to kick the creations off, but to no prevail. Hiccup shoved a few away. His sword had fallen who knows where. Suddenly one of the tigers jumped on him. Hiccup held back its vicious jaws with all his strength.
"NO!" Merida desperately took down as many as she could from the nearest broken pillar, but it was just not enough. There were more enemies than she had arrows for.
Hiccup yelled as the heavy cat started to overpower him. Warriors tugged at Rapunzel's hair and held down her arms.
"Hiccup! Hiccup!"
"Punzie! Agh, just hold on!"
They both screamed and squirmed but there were just too many of them. They were helplessly drowning in a cold, white sea of relentless monsters.
But then... A massive explosion went off beside them, blowing away countless red-eyed creations.
Merida looked over to where the shot came from.
Toothless had fallen in through a cracked-open tunnel from up above, and hurried to Hiccup and Rapunzel with a ferocious roar that was to be reckoned with. It rang throughout the entire tomb; a warning to all the dark manifestations.
Merida's face lit up. She had never been so happy to see that dragon.
Their salvation had arrived!
Another precise fire blast blew away the snow warriors that were on the blonde princess. Toothless leaped over her and tackled the large cat off of Hiccup.
They wrestled around on the floor. Toothless was larger and stomped his foot on the creature's throat, causing it to gape its mouth open. The Night Fury then immediately unloaded a fireball into the tiger's jaws, completely evaporating its whole head.
Merida saw the whole display of dominance in amazement.
Ah should really try ta be nicer to that dragon from here on out.
Hiccup rolled over to his feet, helping Rapunzel up. "Good to see you, bud!"
"Just in time, Toothless!"
The dragon smiled at them. Then spun around to take down two brutes at the same time.
Over on the other side of the battlefield, Elsa reached the end of a bridge. She looked to see the black dragon completely decimating her creations. "Well then…"
"Will you just listen to me?" Jack landed in front of her.
"I think I've had my fun for now." She blasted open an exit into the ceiling above her and formed a tower of ice to lift her up.
Jack glanced over at his friends, seeing that with Toothless they had everything under control. He went after Elsa.
On the grounds below, Hiccup ran a full circle around Rapunzel, letting out a trail of smoke gas from the bottom of his weapon's handle. He then stood shoulder to shoulder with the princess and ignited the trail with a swipe of his flaming blade. The sudden ring of fire blew away all the warriors around them.
Rapunzel hugged her bundles of hair close. "How many times have I told you not to set fire so close to my hair?"
He chuckled. "It worked didn't it?"
Some levity was a welcoming relief, especially after the intense life threatening scare they experienced just mere moments ago before Toothless came to their rescue.
All the remaining creations sprinted after the dragon, being that he was the greatest threat to them.
Toothless fired a hole in a giant's chest and leaped through it, crushing his front claws down on two warriors. More hopped on top of him though.
Toothless shook them off, but another giant brute wrapped its beefy arm around his neck and flopped back, bringing the dragon down with it. All of the remaining warriors and creatures started to pile on Toothless in a great big heap.
"Toothless!" Rapunzel called out and rushed to help, but Hiccup grabbed her arm.
"Wait. He's got this. We should get to cover."
"What?" Rapunzel did not understand, but followed him anyway because she trusted him.
They took cover behind some fallen ruins. Merida jogged up to them, angry that they are not trying to help Toothless. "Wot are ye two doing?"
Hiccup pulled her in by the arm, "Just get down."
The three observed…
Every last red-eyed manifestation had piled on Toothless in a violent fashion, even the winged-beasts. The dragon was no longer visible.
Then... A neon blue light shined through the large hill of monstrous snow. At the sound of a roar, a bright explosion of blue blasted away every single one of Elsa's creations.
The smoke cleared, revealing Toothless intimidatingly growling with his mouth and spikes all along his spine glowing that same neon blue.
Rapunzel and Merida stare in astonishment for they have never seen him do something like that before.
"He learned that when becoming Alpha." Hiccup boasted as he came out of cover, making his way over to his dragon with the two princesses tagging along.
Toothless looked around, double checking for any stragglers. All were nothing more than just melted puddles on the ground. His blue light dimmed and he ran into Hiccup's open arms, licking him.
"You were great, bud! Saved us all."
Rapunzel petted him along the chin and neck, "Thank you so much Toothless! We love you!" Toothless nuzzled into her and licked her too, making her giggle.
Then he looked at Merida's awed expression. There was a brief moment of silence. She then exclaimed with her arms up in the air, "That was unbelievable!" Toothless smirked, raising her a curled paw. Merida gladly fist bumped it, and they gave each other 'cool' nods.
Hiccup then saddled up on Toothless, "Now let's go help Jack." The girls agreed and hopped on. They exited the empty tomb left in destroyed disarray by their victorious battle.
Jack chased Elsa all the way outside and they were now running above the curved and blocky roofs of the temple.
"I can fix you!"
"I'm not broken!" She stopped and spun around to face him, "I'm free."
Jack could not control the loud tone of his voice. "This is you being free? You abandoning everything? Were you really that miserable with me? With Anna?"
She dismissed him without a care, giving him the cold shoulder, "Do not bring my sister into this."
She created a wide, frozen fractal disk beneath her feet and used it to lift her off the temple in an attempt to escape.
Jack's frustration got the best of him. He flew up and hooked his staff around her waist to bring her back down. Elsa was yanked off her flying platform and slammed her back onto the hard surface of the roof. She cried out on impact.
Oh no…
Jack did not realize how strongly he pulled her. He assumed she would fight back like she had been all throughout the temple.
Elsa curled up in a fetal position and sounded like she was weeping, "Jack…I-I thought you would never hurt me…"
He dropped down, thinking in that moment that he heard something humane in her hurt voice again. "Elsa? I-I'm so sorry, I-"
Just as he was stepping in closer with an extended arm to help, his friends flew out of the temple. They saw him over on the other end of the structure.
When Jack got close enough, Elsa swung her hand across, shooting a chilling blast straight through his heart. He gasped in both pain and shock, dropping his staff and gripping onto his chest.
All his friends cried out his name as Frost collapsed to his knees. Toothless dived in.
Elsa casually walked passed the aching Guardian, placing her hand on his silver haired-head to push him down to the flatness of the roof. "This is a prime example why your humanity will always be your downfall." Now Jack was the one who was really suffering in a fetal position.
She walked over to the ledge. "I was freed of that burdening weakness…I'm never going back."
Hearing the dragon come nearer, she stomped her foot down and a raging blizzard expanded out of her. The powerful force blew away the incoming dragon and the defeated Jack Frost. Toothless spiraled out of control, causing the princesses to fly off.
They scattered all across the top of the enormous moon temple. Jack crashed into a thick tree root. Rapunzel landed on the edge of a corner. Merida slammed her back against a wall. Hiccup and Toothless smashed through a column, but the dragon wrapped his wings around his friend to protect him just before the collision.
When the blizzard passed, all the heroes were knocked unconscious and Elsa was long gone.