Disclaimers: Things get a little 'touchy' between Dark Elsa and Merida.
Also, Merida shoots to wound, but no mention of blood is written in. Still rated T.

Darkness…

Then the painful aftereffects of a concussion kicked in, pounding away within his skull. His eyelids pried open, seeing three blurred silhouettes. They were so out of focus that he could not tell them apart, nor hear what the figures were trying to tell him. So drowned out were the sounds, echoing in his ears.

Then he felt a warm and familiar sensation on his chest. It spread throughout his whole body. His pain soon faded away, and his hearing adjusted.

"He's coming back!"

"Jack! Jack, can ye hear us now?"

"Come on, pal…"

His eyesight adjusted as well. Now he could clearly see his friends huddled around him.

After the curative cleanse, Rapunzel removed her hands from his chest.

As he tried to sit up, something gently presses into his back. It was Toothless, helping him up. Once on his feet, he shook his head as if to snap himself back into full gear. "How long was I out?"

Merida looked up to read the position of the sun. "Over a half hour"

Hiccup limped over to his dragon. "The rest of us woke up just a few minutes ago." Toothless groaned tiredly. "I know, bud. Me too…"

Merida asked, straightening her back. "So wot's the new plan? They beat us to the sword."

"And they're definitely at the volcano by now." Rapunzel added.

"With the sword and Elsa…they're pretty much unstoppable." Hiccup said moping down.

They all stare off in a depressed manner, not knowing what to do next, all except for Jack. He made his way over to pick up his staff. He heard the most important word to him, 'Elsa'. It was all he needed to hear. "We go straight to them." Jack looked to his friends.

Rapunzel darted her eyes to him. "But Jack-"

"We couldn't defeat Susano and Kitsune in the first place, and we couldn't stop Elsa on her own. How are we going to take them on, combined?" Hiccup explained to him.

"I'll win Elsa back…with that we'll turn the tide." He stated confidently.

"From what ah saw, she isn't exactly head over heels for yuh, Jack." Merida pointed out.

"She almost killed you!" Rapunzel signaled to his chest.

Jack looked down, feeling the spot. "I'm Jack Frost, remember? Ice to my heart wouldn't have killed me."

"No but I bet it hurt like a-"

"Look." Jack cutoff Merida before she could finish her snarky remark. "I can get through to her…I have to…" He cleared his throat. "I can't keep having her go down this path. Everything that she put you guys through..." referring to the battle in the temple, "She didn't care about hurting you…and I'm just so sorry."

His friends looked at him with deep compassion, understanding how hard this must be for him.

He held back his tears. "It's not her, and I can't lose her like this."

"Yes, but how Jack? How will you-"

Before Rapunzel could finish her sentence, her eyes spontaneously glowed gold along with her hair.

Merida was taken by surprise just as much as everybody else, but then her expression washed over with a bit of annoyance. "Amaterasu is really startin' ta make a habit outta interrupting us in the middle of important discussions."

In her spiritual session, Rapunzel saw the goddess descend before her.

"I am sorry for what your dear friend is going through."

"Please tell me you know how to help Elsa." She said folding her hands together.

"There is a way."

"Yes!" She leaped in joy.

"Kitsune awoke the darkness in her. I-" she humbly corrected herself since it will be Rapunzel channeling her power, "We…can bring back the light."

"Perfect! Um how…exactly will we do that?"

"It will not be easy, but if your friend's love is true, which I believe it is…then he will be able to awaken the goodness in her that she has let go, thus repelling the dark."

Amaterasu floated to the princess and pressed her thumb onto her forehead. Golden rays shined out as Rapunzel closed her eyes in accepting the goddess's divine power and knowledge.

Back in the material world, Rapunzel remained glowing, not yet done with her spiritual session.

Jack paced back and forth, shaking his staff in his hand. They were running out of time. Hiccup tried to get him to relax. "Easy, Jack. If the Sun Goddess is contacting her, it must be for an important reason. Thor knows we could use all the help we can get."

Merida just tended to sharpening her arrows.

Eventually the glow dimmed and everyone looked to the blonde princess.

Hiccup was the first to ask, "What happened?"

Rapunzel quickly rushed over to Jack, "She told me how to save Elsa. Gimme this," and snatched his staff.

"Hey!"

She wrapped some of her hair around it and shut her eyes to concentrate, gripping on tight.

"Wot are yuh doing?" Merida looked at her curiously; they all did.

Rapunzel shushed her and continued concentrating. Her hair glowed and her eyes opened bright gold. Jack saw that the light started to flow from her shining locks onto the spiral details of his staff. Whatever Rapunzel was doing, it was affecting his trusty weapon.

Her eyes and hair went back to normal, and so did Jack's staff.

"I think it worked!" She sounded amazed with herself. The blonde princess untangled her hair from it and handed it back to her friend.

Jack weighed it in his hands. His staff looked the same, but it was giving off a different sort of energy that only he could feel. Before he could ask what exactly it was that she did, Rapunzel clapped her hands. "Now let's go help you win back your girlfriend."

She ran over to Toothless, but Jack was still confused. "Punzie?"

"I'll explain what to do on the way. C'mon guys! The volcano's not too far." Rapunzel was completely chipper and confident now after her session with Amaterasu, and not at all depressed and uncertain as she was a short while ago.

Her friends all glanced at each other in confusion, but just decided to go with it. Any plan was good enough at this point.

Beyond the coast of the rain forest, there was a gulf of water. Kilometers away on the other side of that gulf were three peaks. Two were grey mountains and the penultimate volcano stood high in the middle, erupting at full force. The desired destination had recently been caped in a foot of snow, indicating that Elsa had joined her evil colleagues. The chunky lava slowly poured down over the cold, white powder.

The activated volcano was shooting through the clouds above. The woeful sight was so grand that it was easy for the Big Four to spot from miles away.

They did not even say a word to acknowledge it as they flew in. They lost the ancient volcano but the four already figured they would prior to arriving. They instead had another objective; to save and retrieve someone special. They had gone over their strategy and now it was time to put their plan into action.

Susano, Kitsune, and Elsa were spread out along the surface of the active volcano, watching the incoming heroes swerve out of the way of falling chunks of molten debris. Hexes formed around Kitsune's hands and Susano drew his repossessed Kusanagi blade. Elsa simply observed, knowing she was going to enjoy herself one way or another.

Susano shouted out for his sorceress to be able to hear. "Kitsune, ready yourself! This time we shall finish them off once and for-AGH!"

Merida had landed an arrow straight through his palm.

He pulled it out and reclaimed his sword. "I have had just about enough of that redheaded-"

A blue blast launched him all the way to the other side of the volcano.

Elsa could not help but chuckle.

Jack immediately dived in after the dragon's attack. With a heavy swing of his staff, he buried the Storm God under a glacier.

Merida grabbed on tight to the end of Rapunzel's hair. She dropped herself off the side of Toothless and the blonde princess swung her to the snowy ground below. The Scottish warrior maiden landed on her feet, skidding across the snow as she simultaneously drew out her bow and arrow.

Elsa rewarded her with a round of applause as she stared straight into the tip of the arrow aimed at her a mere few feet away, completely not intimidated.

"Don't. Move. A muscle." Merida warned her.

Elsa went along with it, concluding her brief clapping.

Hiccup made sure to stay clear of Kitsune and went straight for Susano.

Jack piled on more and more layers of ice, but the powerful deity broke out of it all with his sword. Just as he barely got free, Toothless sent him back flying all the way to one of the grey mountains.

"Together!" Hiccup shouted.

Jack rushed in and attacked. Susano swatted it away with his blade, as suspected, leaving him wide open for another exploding fireball from the Night Fury. This time he fell down the slope of the mountain.

Rapunzel hugged onto the young Viking's waist as they kept up their high speed assault. Jack struck first, then Toothless, then Jack again. They pushed forward, repeating the pattern, not giving Susano a chance to even breathe.

The shell-shocked god ended up blasted out of the three peaks and tumbled onto the edge of a wide canyon nearby. His suit was scorched and stiffened by the frost, and his cloak had been burnt clean off.

Then Jack dropped in and whacked him into the pit, stories below. Once he hit the rocky bottom, the Guardian and Dragon Rider worked together to bring down the walls of the canyon. Soon enough, the gorge crumbled onto the villain. Susano was now buried under piles and piles of heavy destruction.

Jack Frost froze it all over in place to buy them a few more precious moments of time.

Back on snowy white surface of the volcano, rivers of lava ooze down around Merida and Elsa.

"You're not going to shoot me."

"Don't tempt meh."

Elsa smirked and decided to take her chances. She casually walked up to the Archer.

"Warnin' ye!" She pulled harder on the loaded arrow.

"You want to, but you won't. You're too loyal to Jack."

Elsa reached Merida. So close that the arrow tip was touching her collar bone. As much as her survival instincts were yelling at her to release, Merida could not, not with her. Jack and the rest of her friends would never forgive her if she did. The Dark Queen caught her bluff.

Elsa laid her hand on the bow, gently lowering it. Merida could not stop looking into the void of her demonic eyes.

"You know, it's rude to stare."

"Wha?"

"My!"

She leaned right into Merida's personal space, placing a hand on the side of her face. "You're actually really cute."

"Um, I-I'm wot?"

Elsa gazed into her bright turquoise-blue eyes, finding pleasure in how uncomfortably red the warrior princess was blushing.

Merida then flinched at the sting of frostbite on her cheek. Elsa removed her hand apologetically. "What can I say…I'm as cold as ice."

She, instead, moved her arms behind the princess's neck. Her hands digging in as she played around with her wild hair.

Merida did not know what to do with herself in a situation like this. She did not feel endangered at the moment, but she still did not trust what the Dark Queen's actions. Yet, Elsa was not attacking her, and it actually felt pleasant whenever she slightly tugged on her curls.

Her cheeks flushed hotter than her ginger locks. "E-Elsa, wot are ye doing?"

"You're not like the others, are you?" She looked at her almost seductively, memorizing every feature down to the tiniest freckle.

Not even a loving man had looked at her and caressed her the way Elsa was so affectionately doing so.

"You…princess…?" She trailed off, not knowing her name. "Princess?" The black eyed Queen awaited the missing answer.

"…Mer-"

"Whatever," To Elsa, she had taken too long to respond. "You, you are the toughest out of your bunch."

She slid a hand down Merida's arm and back up behind her neck, making sure not to dwell on her bare skin for too long because of her naturally cold touch. Chills ran up Merida's spine. "If not for them, you would have most definitely taken your shot, and I would not be enjoying this lovely moment I'm having with you right now."

"I-"

"Shh…" She stopped her lips by pressing her finger onto them. "It's alright, it doesn't upset me." Her index finger lingered on Merida's bottom lip as she removed it.

"I admire that about you. Though I do not know you, per say, I do know that you are clearly a woman who is not afraid to do what needs to be done…you're headstrong, rebellious, and brave." She brushed a loose curl behind Merida's ear.

Her eyes drifted down, not knowing how to take that compliment.

"Perhaps your friends are…holding you back?"

Merida's eyes darted right back up to her, offended.

Elsa took a step back, smiling as she peeled away her hands. She purposely uttered those familiar words. In fact, the witch who used them on her had slithered up behind the clueless warrior princess. Before Merida could speak up to defend her friends, three hexed rings restrained her around the arms and chest, waist, and legs. She gasped at the magical confinement that she recognized as only Kitsune's sorcery.

"I know someone who can unlock a girl's true potential."

Using the rings, Kitsune lifted Merida and turned the captured princess toward her.

"You two haven't exactly gotten off on the right foot, but trust me, she works wonders, miracles even." Elsa walked in front of Merida only to meet a furious glare. She shrugged it off, mentioning arrogantly. "I mean, just look at me."

"I will not end up like you. I'd rather die!" Merida declared grimly.

Elsa cupped the redhead's face in forcefully, letting the chilling sheet of frost spread over her cheeks. Merida let out a scream as her bottom lip quivered from the stinging cold. Elsa did not care, she wanted it to hurt.

She leaned into the maiden's freezing blue lips, just barely, barely touching them. "All you have to do is gather all your attachments, and 'let it go'. Let it all go-"

"Elsa!" Jack dropped in a few feet away. "Let her go!"

"Funny, I was just telling your friend here about letting-"

"Now!" He aimed his staff at her.

Elsa eyed Jack from head to toe, surprised at his stern tone with her, finding it attractive. She stepped back and lifted her hand to Kitsune, instructing her to stay with Merida. "Keep her there, I like her. I'll handle him."

The Dark Snow Queen strutted up to the Guardian with her reddened flurries spiraling around her. Due to his constant persistence, a hint of irritation crept into her tone of voice. "Enlighten me Jack, what precisely is your plan?"

He stood his ground.

"Is Jack Frost going to nip away at my nose?"

He still did not move, because all was going according to plan.

"Win me back with the power of love?"

He grinned with confidence. "Something like that."

Elsa had made it close enough to him and far enough away from Kitsune.

On cue, Toothless swooped in, snatching up the witch clean off the ground, thus breaking Merida free. At the same time, Rapunzel leaped off and rolled onto her feet to lasso her hair around Elsa.

Merida's freezing cheeks eased back to normal. She retrieved her bow and ran to the direction Hiccup and Toothless flew off to with the witch. She made one last glance back at Elsa before leaving the scene. Many confusing thoughts filled her mind, but she cast them aside and focused on the fight.

Rapunzel's blonde tail tied the Snow Queen's arms down to her sides. The princess quickly yanked her into her arms. Elsa was now succumbed to her firm hold. The blonde locked her hands together, hugging down Elsa's arms from behind. The dark being squirmed about, roaring like a caged beast yearning for its freedom. Rapunzel's eyes glowed for extra strength.

Jack wasted no time.

Please let this work.

He dashed towards them, wielding his staff out before him. His sheer speed left behind a sharp trail of snow shooting up into the air. The curved end of his weapon began to shine just like Rapunzel. The Dark Queen screamed wildly at the oncoming Guardian. He broke speed upon reaching her. The sudden stop of motion splashed a wave of snow forward.

With Rapunzel holding her down, Jack managed to tap his staff onto Elsa's chest. The gold light transferred onto her, spreading out like a ripple effect. Dark Elsa winced and hissed at the painful sensation that had summoned something pure deep within her tainted soul…a light shining in the darkness.

The princess removed her arms. Elsa whipped around, snarling right into Rapunzel's face with her demonic-black death-stare. Rapunzel did not flinch. She glared right back with her bright, golden eyes.

Jack wrapped his arms around Elsa before she could strike and took off, flying her all the way to the farthest grey mountain. He released her upon landing. She shoved him away and stumbled across her feet. She scratched away at her chest, gasping at the return of something familiar.

"Th-this feeling…feelings. You idiot! What have you done to me?"

"It's going to be okay, Elsa." He raised his hands, signaling her to try to calm down.

"No it is NOT!"

She shot lethal blades of ice at him but her aim was off. "You think I'm bad? I was worse before!"

"No, no you weren't."

She shut her eyes, trying to keep the burning light inside her from growing. "Emotions are a terrible thing…"

"They're also the most wonderful thing there is."

Elsa glowered over at him in resentment.

"Like what I feel for you…what we shared…"

She looked away in denial, and blasted a gust of snow.

Flying up the pouring volcano, Toothless was still clutching onto Kitsune in his claws. Her arms were gripped on too tight for her to cast a hex. She could not break free…not in this form at least.

Hiccup started to feel turbulence, "What in the nine realms-"

He and Toothless looked down at the sight of Kitsune shapeshifting into a nine-tailed fox. She was about three-fourths of the size of the larger Night Fury, but still managed to twist around and bite into the dragon's neck. Toothless let out a deep shriek and plummeted to the surface. He dropped Kitsune. She landed on all fours on a broad rock surrounded by flowing lava.

The dragon on the other hand headed straight down to a pool of burning magma. Hiccup kicked up with his metal foot that controlled Toothless' artificial tail, trying to steer him clear. "Pull up, pull up, pull UP!"

He did so in the nick of time. They flipped around to face the fox. The mythical creature was planted on the rock in a defensive stance.

"She's just full of surprises isn't she?"

Toothless growled and they dive-bombed right for her. The nine-tailed fox made a great leap to evade the explosive blast.

The entire peak of the volcano was covered with gushing lava. The snow-white surface continued to slowly get coated with molten red.

Kitsune ran straight down the slope with the Dragon Rider right on her tails.

Back on the grey mountain, Jack blocked another weak attack from Elsa.

"You're not trying as hard anymore."

"It's a bit difficult when there's a something burning in the pit of my stomach."

He dodged one more sloppy assault. "Then stop fighting it."

She panted with her arms hung low, "Never! What I was turned into…I…I loved it."

"More than you loved me?"

Jack managed to stump her.

"Elsa…I understand why you did it…" He stabbed his staff into the ground, leaving it behind as he approached her. "It's so much easier not to feel a thing. You were scared-"

"I'm not scared of anything!"

"You were scared about us…" He kept a sincere voice. "I'm sure you were scared about hurting Anna again too."

The Queen shook her head in bitterness. "She…she and I can never…"

"You can never have a normal relationship with her, no, but who does? You're still sisters. There's nothing she wouldn't do for you. She would be standing right here too if she knew, trying to talk through to you."

She looked over at him.

"Do you really think she would want to see you like this?"

"It doesn't matter what she thinks!" She shot out a series of wild winter attacks. "It doesn't matter what anyone thinks!"

Jack lunged from side to side, dodging them all.

"I'm not that perfect girl anymore!"

Elsa ceased her raging temper tantrum due to exhaustion. Jack ended up about a dozen feet away from her.

"You were never perfect, Elsa... That's what made you perfect to me."

The dragon and the nine-tailed fox continued their chase down the side of the volcano that had not yet been overrun with lava.

Kitsune evaded every fire blast.

"She's even faster now." Hiccup huffed.

He pulled in alongside her. The large fox tackled Toothless, shoving them both into the cold ground. The Viking rolled off of his dragon as Kitsune scurried away. He groaned as he wiped the snow off his sore body. "How do we pin her down? Think, think, think…"

Then suddenly, an arrow pierced into the fox's front paw, sending the animal crashing against the surface, face-first. Kitsune shifted back to the form of a woman, yanking out the excruciating arrow.

Merida ran up the slope from the side. She figured the witch could not keep casting spells with injured hands. She drew out three arrows and took aim. The archer fired them all at once.

Kitsune cast a large hexed seal in front of her with her other hand, catching all three. She sent them back only to be skinned across the shoulder by another arrow. The witch could not block it in time with just one hand.

Merida jumped through the triangular space of the three arrows that were launched back at her and quickly fired another, but Kitsune fled through a portal this time.

Hiccup and Toothless then met up with Merida.

"Nice work. You got her on the run."

"Let's hunt us a smarmy little fox." She sneered, drawing another arrow from her quiver.

They spotted the witch further down below. Hiccup and Merida hopped on Toothless and they pursued her.

Elsewhere, Rapunzel saw her friends flying her way. She threw her long hair up in the air to hitch a ride. Toothless caught it and lifted her off.

They almost reached Kitsune.

The wounded witch turned around only to meet a double-footed kick to the face by the blonde princess.

Toothless let go of her hair, landing Rapunzel on the close ground. Merida jumped off, landing right beside her best friend. Hiccup stayed hovered above on his dragon.

With the heroes in front of the witch and an endlessly flowing volcanic dead end behind her, Kitsune made her stand. A raging hex circled her abled hand and she charged forward.

"Look, I'm scared too…but I don't let it take me over…" Jack stopped in place for Elsa was threatening to unleash another attack.

"Despite what I am, I've managed to find the world's greatest group of friends that anyone can ever have. And then I found someone special who I could get even closer with."

Elsa lowered her hands.

"You once told me you finally met someone who you could be yourself around, someone you never had to worry about hurting."

She delivered an evil grin. "Looks like I broke that promise."

He bobbed his head down. "Yeah…you did. But that wasn't going to stop me."

Aggravation returned to her voice. "Oh stop pretending to care. What do you have to worry about? You'll live on forever-"

"That doesn't make it any easier!"

She flinched at his loud spike in tone.

"I know what lies ahead for us just as much as you…we can never escape it. But don't you dare think for a moment that not a night goes by where I don't stay up late, afraid! Afraid of the day that I will inevitably lose you…"

His tone then dropped to sadness. "But this…losing you like this…it's the worst…you have no idea how much it hurts to see you like this."

A howling blizzard started to surround them like the swirling storm inside, mirroring the conflicting chaos within her soul. The darkness wanted to silence him! Her light wanted to jump out into his embrace and never let go.

As Jack began to step closer, ice shards erupted from the ground around Elsa as a form of defense. The crystallized spikes were pulsating dark burgundy at the core.

"So if you're going to kill me now, then get it over with…because I can't keep doing this…I just can't…"

The blizzard picked up speed. They were right in the heart of the snowstorm.

"I don't think you will though,"

She looked angry at him for even testing her, but he was right. She could not bring herself to do it.

Noticing her hesitation, he cautiously inched closer, "because I know you're not possessed. It's still you, only twisted up inside and confused. And I also know you won't do it because you care about me just as much as I care about you."

Her sharp, crystallized defenses sunk to the ground.

Still moving carefully, he slowly reached his hand out to her. Her body naturally wanted to do the same, but the evil in her resisted.

"I love you, Elsa."

Her eyes widened with such emotion. The blizzard stopped in place; snow froze still in the cold, silent air. This was the first time Jack Frost has ever told her that he loved her.

"You are the most amazing, gifted, most beautiful woman I will ever be with." Jack made it to her, placing his reached out hand on her cheek. "And I know that the love of my life is strong enough to break free and come back to me."

Looking up at him and his heart throbbing smile, her eyes began to frantically change between her demonic black and her normal blue. Her face as well, caught somewhere between an angry and in pain expression, reflecting her fading dark side; to a sincere and deeply sorry expression, reflecting her true feelings. This continued until she had enough, shutting her eyes in a loud scream.

Elsa pushed Jack away and fell to her knees. The light inside her was shining ever so brightly, purifying her soul of its darkness.

Jack was terrifyingly concerned. "Elsa?"

She strained her hands over her heart and let out an even louder cry. Her body shot out a beam of frozen blue energy into the sky, blasting away all the evil black and red off of her. The powerful force shattered the frozen still blizzard all around them as well.

A bright aftershock from the blast reached everyone else far across the battlefield of the Three Peaks. Everyone's attention was now on the beacon. Kitsune gazed upon the beaming light in disbelief. "Impossible…"

After the force of the blast passed, the beam of Elsa's pure energy calmed back down onto her, revealing the Snow Queen in her signature ice blue dress and normal platinum-blonde hair.

Jack worriedly took a step forward to check on her, "Elsa?"

Eyes closed, knees to the ground, and body tired from the victory over evil, she fell over to the side.

"Elsa!" Jack rushed in, catching her. His love's head dangled in his arms. "Hey, hey, c'mon…" He said, trying his best to hide his panic. Kneeling on the ground, he held her over his lap.

Her braided tail became undone in the triumphant display. Now her hair was all straight and loose in what Jack considered to be a gorgeous mess; a sight he usually only got the privilege to see in the early mornings waking up beside her. He brushed a few strands out of her beautiful face. She made a weak moan, and opened her no longer demonic eyes.

He exclaimed full of happiness and relief, "Elsa! You're back!" Oh how he missed looking into those big blue eyes of hers.

Elsa had regained her humanity. She touched Jack's face, and silently began to cry. She cried for her immense, grateful love for him, but she also cried out of immediate guilt for all the awful pain she put him through. "I-I'm so sorry, Jack…"

He wiped away the tears spilling down her cheek. "Shh don't be…it's okay, it wasn't your fault. You're back now. Everything's going to be alright. I got you…"

Her thin fingers traced along his jawline. Jack held her frail hand up, pressing it gently into his pale cheek. She looked up into his sparkling ice-blue, snowflake-like eyes. He whispered to her ever so lovingly, "For as long as I live, I will love you. For as long as I love you, I will never let you go."

A smile formed on her weary face. She could not believe he still loved her so unconditionally after all the villainous acts she performed, and performed so with an evil, sadistic smile. Then her hand slid down to his chest and fell onto her side as she passed out.

Jack stood up, carrying Elsa in his arms. "Let's get you out of here, Snowflake."

Storm clouds started to gather above the Three Peaks. Over in the demolished canyon, the imprisoning ice began to crack.

On the grey mountain, the Guardian saw his friends fly down to him. Hiccup pulled out Jack's staff, and brought it over to him. "Thanks buddy." He grabbed it in his hand while still carrying his love.

His friends leaned in to look at Elsa's sleeping face, except for Merida. She preferred to keep her distance for...personal reasons.

"Oh no, will she be okay?" Rapunzel asked, seeing how dead tired she appeared.

"Yes," He smiled down at the love of his life in his arms, "Yes, she will be."

The sound of furious thunder broke up their tender little reunion.

"Looks like Susano's back on his feet." Hiccup sighed.

"And the witch?"

Merida answered Jack. "She fled into another one of her portals like the coward that she is."

"Well, we got who we came for." Jack levitated just a few feet into the air.

Hiccup climbed on Toothless and the princesses followed. "We'll stay low, and fly along the rocky coastline for cover. Hopefully he won't see us. C'mon, bud."

The Big Four left the Three Peaks.

Susano flew passed the active volcano, searching for those wretched heroes. He found no sign of them, but did see Kitsune in her fox form down in the valley between the peaks. She sat beside a river of lava flowing into the gulf, licking her wounds.

The angry Storm God floated down beside her. "Where are they!?"

The nine-tailed fox looked up at him. Kitsune's voice answered shakily as if fearful of how Susano would react. "They…they're gone."

Susano bit his tongue to prevent an angry outburst. "And Elsa? Where is she?"

"She…they took her with them. S-somehow they managed to reverse my spell-"

"They WHAT!?" He shouted at her. Kitsune flinched like a dog afraid of getting beaten.

He gripped onto his sword. At least he still had that. The infuriated deity flew over to the nearby gulf. With the violent swing of his rightful blade, he bent a gigantic tidal wave. He commanded a few more, letting out all his rage.

Possessing his Kusanagi blade, Susano himself was more powerful, but the loss of Elsa crippled their unit as a whole. She was an incredibly worthy asset. Now they were back to only two, Kitsune and himself.

No matter.

They carried on just fine before recruiting the Snow Queen. They would continue to carry on just as fine. Only one volcano remained, and Susano had no plans of failing, not when he had made it this far.

-End of Act II-