Chapter 3

Jack

He stood in what was most likely a snow filled plain or field. Snowflakes fell slowly from the sky towards the ground swirling around as the wind howled in his ears. He looked down at himself and noticed that he was in his wolf form.

He would usually change his appearance to his human form but he decided to just let it be for tonight. He ran across the snow covered field,happily diving into the snow,rolling around in it and leaping up in the air to catch the falling snowflakes on his tongue. An hour,by his estimate,had passed before he no longer felt like doing that activity.

Panting heavily from jumping and running,he laid down in the snow. Looking around him,Jack saw that there was no one in sight.

He was utterly alone.

For some reason,knowing that saddened him more than it ever did before. I don't know why I'm so sad about this he thought. I've been alone for so long that I shouldn't be sad about it. Nonetheless,he was sad about it.

The loneliness was like a tidal wave crashing down on him and suffocating him and a small whine escaped him as he felt the full weight of his countless years of loneliness. Suddenly,he heard the cry of some person. "Mama,Papa!" Startled,he shot up to his feet. Looking about,Jack couldn't see anyone as nothing but silence rang in his ears as he searched for anything. Suddenly,he saw a flash of color,a dash of icy,glittering blue against the pure white of the land around him.

Locking onto it,he ran towards the blue thing leaping from the deep snow in order to reach the thing. The speck of blue got larger the closer he got to it and soon saw that the speck of blue was a dress. But if that's a dress then that means…. He narrowed his eyes and saw someone wearing the blue dress walking ahead!

He slowed his run until he came to a full stop. "Hey!"he called out. The person immediately stopped walking and slowly turned around until it faced Jack. He was startled to see that the person was a young woman. She was tall and slender with pale skin,long braided platinum blond hair that was as white as his and icy blue eyes.

Deciding that it was odd to stay in his wolf form he quickly thought of his human form,like throwing away a cloak and replacing it with another,before he transformed into his human form. Both Jack and the woman stood a meter away from one another,staring at each other as the wind flowed around them with the woman's dress bellowing in the wind.

Abruptly,the woman turned around and ran off. "Hey wait!"Jack cried. He transformed back into his wolf form and chased after the woman. He ran hard after her,panting heavily,but then realised something. No matter how fast he ran she always managed to stay the same distance in front of him.

He soon felt himself slowing down due to exhaustion.

"Wait!"he cried out as he slowed to a stop,hoping the woman would stop running and turn back around,but she either didn't hear him or ignored him as she kept running away from him. "Wait! Don't go!"he cried out. The snow around him seemed to rapidly disappear around him and,out of nowhere,darkness appeared and spread across the bright,sunny landscape like a monster devouring everything in its path and squeezing onto him. "Come back!"

"Jack,Jack wake up! We're here."he heard someone saying. He stirred himself up from his slumber and rapidly blinked the sleep from his eyes as he stared at the blurred vision of someone in front of him. "Mmm?"he asked groggily.

The blurred image of the person in front of him soon came into focus to show Anna leaning over him while looking at him closely. "We're at Arendelle."Anna said. Jack slowly got up,his body slightly aching from the odd position his body was in,and looked ahead. They were indeed within Arendelle's borders.

By the look of their surroundings,it looked like they were at the back where the forest area and kingdom met. Upon instinct,Jack looked up at the sky. It was still evening therefore he had a small bit of time before he turned into a wolf. He got off the sled and stretched his stiff limbs before speaking to them. "Well thank you for the ride but I'm afraid this is where we must say goodbye."Jack said to them. "Here?"Kristoff said confused.

"We're only at the border of Arendelle. I can still take you into Arendelle."Kristoff offered. Jack shook his head. "Thank you but I promised to meet an old friend here."he lied. "Are you sure? I can take both you and your friend into Arendelle if you need."Kristoff insisted. "Or I can get someone to help you get to Arendelle once we arrive."Anna offered.

These two really are good people Jack thought.

He hated having to lie to them but it was necessary in order to keep his secret. "Thank you but I assure you me and my friend don't need any transport. We'll just get there on foot once we're done talking."Jack assured them. Anna and Kristoff shared a look,both looking guilty at leaving him here,but complied.

"Alright then. It was nice meeting you Jack and thanks again for helping us."Anna said. "It was nice meeting you both as well."Jack said gratefully. They waved goodbye as Kristoff put Sven into a steady and walked into Arendelle. Jack waved to them goodbye while he watched them go. Once they were a distance away,he turned to the forest and sighed.

I better go find a nice place to sleep for the night.

Elsa

She was on a tall,snowy mountain. The cold,harsh wind blew strongly threatening to blow her off it completely. She looked down at herself and saw she was in her coronation dress.

How did I get here? Why am I here?

Questions endlessly swirled in her head. "Anna?"she called out,hoping her sister would hear her but no one answered her call. There's no one here she told herself. I'm all alone. As I always have been.

For the last thirteen years,she had been isolated from everyone. From her citizens,from the staff and even from her sister and despite being isolated for so long she still felt the weight of being alone for all those years. And her being isolated still wasn't enough to keep her parents alive. She could feel the familiar tears well up in her eyes and flow down her cheeks. She wiped them away quickly and began to walk up the mountain,trudging through the snow while fighting against the strong winds.

Ten minutes afterward trudging through the snow,she suddenly heard someone yelling. "Please help! It's my daughter!" Elsa stopped dead in her tracks. She recognized that voice like she knew the back of her own hand.

Father!

She ran through the deep snow,stumbling a few times but caught herself,desperately wanting to see her father once more. The higher she ran up the mountain,she began to see her surroundings change. Soon she reached higher up the mountain and what she saw made her freeze.

It was the night when she had accidentally struck Anna with her powers. The deep ditch outlined with a few trees and hot geysers with steam coming out that surrounded them,countless "rocks" splayed out on the different levels of the ditch. Why I'm I here? Why would I want to be here? Why am I dreaming of this?

She was standing on the top level of the ditch so she was able to see everything below her. "Father! Mother!"she yelled out to them,hoping they would hear her,but they didn't turn to face her. She yelled their names again but once again they didn't turn around. They can't hear me she told herself. It's like I'm not even here.

Sighing with disappointment,she watched as the rocks simultaneously rolled towards her younger self,sister and parents then stopped and unrolled themselves to appear as rock trolls. "It's the king!"one of the trolls exclaimed just loud enough for her to hear while the other trolls began murmuring in surprise and shock. She decided to get closer to her family so she could hear them. She realised with a start that she could simply walk through the trolls like a ghost through a wall.

It's because I'm in an old memory she told herself. I'm not actually here.

Afterward,she saw an elderly rock troll,their leader and named Grand Pabbi,rolled through the crowd and stopped before them. "Your majesty."he greeted respectfully with a bow then looked at her younger self for a few seconds. Though she knew that Grand Pabbi couldn't see her present self only her younger self,she could see something odd in his gaze. He then gently took her hand in his while looking at her father. "Born with the powers or cursed?"he asked her father.

"Born. And they're getting stronger."her father replied as her mother lowered the unconscious younger Anna towards him. Grand Pabbi removed his hand from hers and moved closer to Anna then placed his hand on her head,humming softly to himself. "You are lucky it wasn't her heart for the heart cannot be changed. But,the head can be persuaded."he told them.

"Do what you must."the king said. Elsa watched with the same awe as she did when she was younger as Grand Pabbi moved his hand from Anna's head and an icy,blue snowlike aura appeared with the memories of Anna and Elsa's time together within the ring. "I recommend that we remove all magic,even memories of magic."

As he said that he began to remove certain things within the memories like when her and Anna would make snow in the ballroom and make snowmen,he removed the ballroom and made it look like they were outside. A memory was of them in the castle with Elsa making snow hills and Anna sliding down it on a sled. He removed the castle from the memory and made it look like they were in a forest. He continued to do that for countless other memories before he moved his hands in a spherical movement as the magic aura shrunk until it faced into Grand Pabbi's hand and placed his hand on Anna's head.

A blue dull glow appeared from her head for a moment before it disappeared. "There it is done. She will be ok."he told them as he removed his hand from Anna's head. "But she won't remember I have powers?"her younger self asked Grand Pabbi. "It is for the best."her father had told her,placing her hand on her shoulder with a grim smile on his face. "Elsa listen to me,"Grand Pabbi told her. "Your power will only grow."

He began to extend his hands out,like he was trying to reach something from above,and a blue aura flew from his hands from above them. The aura then turned into a silhouetted older version of Elsa and several other people on her sides. The silhouette version of her was moving her hands in a formation then launched them into the sky to create a giant snowflake in the air. "There is great beauty in it. But also great danger." As he said that,the blue snowflake he conjured turned red as spikes strutting from it and the people were now holding weapons as they too turned red. "You must learn to control it. Or fear will be your enemy." The conjured red silhouetted people took their weapons and leaped onto Elsa,causing her and them to disappear into thin air. Hearing Grand Pabbi say that warning to her once again made her feel like the same little girl had been before.

Scared,confused and alone.

"How?"she shouted at Grand Pabbi,her head looking down at her outstretched hands,not caring that he was only a part of her dream and memory. "How can I control them when all I ever do is fear them?"she added. Her voice was thick with suppressed emotions that she refused to let go while tears threatened to fall down her face. She lifted her gaze from her hands and looked back at Grand Pabbi and,with a start,realised that he was staring eight at her.

As if he could see she was there.

No that's impossible she told herself. He can't see me. He can't!

Yet,he was still staring at her with a mixture of sadness and pain. Suddenly the memory disappeared completely,leaving her surrounded in complete darkness. "Father? Anna? Mother?"she called out as she began to walk forward in the darkness.

What is happening to me?

"Elsa."a voice called out. Starled,she whirled her head around to find the person calling her but to no avail. Then from the corner of her eye she saw a bright,white appear. She turned her head towards the light source and gasped.

A meter away from her was a wolf.

It wasn't a usual wolf either as it was twice the size of a normal wolf,snow white fur and blue markings on its fur specifically a mark on its head that looked similar to a staff. The wolf also seemed to have two frosty,icy blue eyes that were gazing right at her in a way that seemed like it was looking right into her soul. "Elsa."the voice called out and Elsa realised in shock that it was the wolf that had called her name. "Who are you?"she asked softly. The wolf did not say another word,which she expected as much. It just simply looked at her keeping completely still except for its wagging tail. Elsa didn't know why but for some reason,the way the wolf looked at her,it seemed as if this wolf was far more intelligent than it seemed.

"What do you want from me?"she asked it. The wolf continued looking at her in silence for a few seconds later before it turned around and dashed off. "Wait!"Elsa cried out while she began to chase after the wolf.

What does this wolf want? Why is it here she asked herself. After minutes of running after the wolf,Elsa began to gradually slow down as her legs ached and she panted for air. She then noticed that the distance between her and the wolf had remained the same.

H-how is that possible she thought. I should have caught up to it by now. "Wait!"she yelled as she felt herself slowing down and the distance between them rapidly became bigger. The wolf showed no sign of stopping as it continued running,not even looking back. "Please wait!"she cried desperately.

The wolf still ran forward and the bright,white emitting from it began to dim rapidly the further it ran before it finally disappeared from Elsa's sight. "Please come back!"she cried out. She could feel the surrounding darkness coming closer to her threatening to envelope her completely.

She hoped that the wolf would appear again with its light to fight the darkness. To help guide her out of this seemingly never ending darkness.

But the wolf never came back and the darkness soon enveloped her once again.

She woke with a start.

Jolting upright,she panted heavily as her heart was hammering in her chest and sweat soaked her brow. She forced her breathing to steady itself and bit by bit,her hammering heart slowed to its rhythmic beat. She then looked at her surroundings and let out a sigh of relief when she realised that she was still in her room.

It was just a dream she told herself. Yet she couldn't shake the odd feeling from the dream that had settled within her mind. Maybe a walk outside is just what I need to shake this feeling.

She threw the covers from over her body before getting out the bed and walking towards her closet and opened it. She flitted through her clothes until she found a dress. She undressed out her sleepwear and changed to the dress then headed to the large mirror in the corner to check yourself. Once she was sure she was ready,she walked out of her room then closed and locked the door before walking down the hall,letting the silence calm her down.

She reached the central staircase and walked to the bottom level and towards the door of the castle. She opened the doors then closed them behind her as she turned and walked across the courtyard,the sound of the gurgling fountains adding to the calm serenity of the place. Two guards were standing stiffly before the gates,bowing as Elsa approached. "If anyone needs me,I will be taking a short walk within the woods."she informed them. "Do you want us to come with you,your majesty?"one the guards asked. "No need. I'll be near the castle anyway."Elsa reassured them.

They nodded as she headed towards the open tunnel underneath the courtyard that led to the fjord and across that,the forests and mountains. Despite the tunnel being dimly lit with the torches on the walls,the darkness and enclosed space made her remember her dream all too clearly. Seconds later,she stepped out of the tunnel and let out a sigh of relief at the open. She walked down the stairs until she reached the end and edge of the water of the fjord. She looked around,to make sure no one was watching her,before she took a deep breath and tentatively placed her foot onto the water.

Ice shot from her foot and froze the water where her foot was touching. She placed her full weight on the patch of ice to test its sturdiness and was relieved to see a single crack appear on the ice. Reassured,she took another tentative step on the water and ice sprouted beneath her foot once more. More confident,she walked across the water as though she were walking on dirt or stone until she was across the fjord onto the opposite end of Arendelle in the forest. She took a breath of the air and exhaled loudly.

The air was fresh and crisp,new and refreshing. Sometimes she wondered if she was meant to be a queen when she felt the wild pull me in. As though it was calling to her.

She strolled through the forest,relishing in the peace that would most likely be for the last time. She removed her glove off her hand then with a flick of her hand tiny snowflakes appeared into the air,floating above her hand. She twirled her hand around as the snowflakes circled her hand.

She allowed herself a small smile as she watched the snowflakes spin and twirl. "Why couldn't I have better control of my powers?"she asked herself quietly. "If I did our parents would still be alive and I wouldn't have to protect Anna from myself." She could feel the tears welling in her eyes,threatening to fall down her face.

Closing her eyes,she waited until she was sure the tears were gone before she opened her eyes. Conceal,don't feel she told herself repeatedly until she felt she was in control of herself again. Time passed quickly,too quickly in Elsa's opinion,before she began to feel exhaustion seep through her body.

I better start heading back. Those guards probably are getting worried now.

She walked back towards the fjord once she reached the edge she glanced back at the forest longingly then sighed and headed back to the castle,not noticing the two icy blue eyes watching her.

Author's note: Before you all go crazy,I am very aware of how long it has been since I last posted a chapter. I thought with the whole quarantine situation I thought I'd get more chapters out but I'm currently working on three other stories at the moment so yeah. I also want to clear up that if I don't post a chapter in a while DOES NOT mean I am not working on the story. It just takes time. With that out of the way,hope you all enjoyed this chapter,reviews are always welcome and I hope you all are staying healthy and safe.