Chapter 18

"Man those guns!" A captain called out as troops rushed to get the cannons armed and manned for combat. Soldiers were woken up in order to get ready and ready their weapons. The once calm sea began to stir up as strong winds kicked in. Marines began loading onto rowboats to storm the beach of the fortress. They were about a mile offshore. It was a very large island with no trees or any greenage. It was all black from the soot and ash, a massive volcano fired lave and smoke into the air covering the land in a darkness. A large fort was visible around the coastline and a large castle could be seen at pit of the volcano. The ships call aligned their cannons so they were pointed at the fort.

"Lets get some payback." Johanssen said. "FIRE!"

"FIRE!" Grant yelled.

"FIRE!" Lee roared. The once silent night lit up in sound as the fury of hundreds of cannons fired. Explosions were heard as fortifications of stone were blown to bits. Rowboats carrying Marines made their way to the shore. Marcus jumped overboard and began to swim towards land. The heavy armor making it difficult for him to swim but his fear for Elsa overpowered his body's screaming protest. Sol was awoken by a servant who came barreling into the room.

"MY LORD!" The servant yelled as Sol jolted up. Sol looked at the servant with a fiery gaze intent on burning this man for interrupting his sleep.

"This better be important!" Sol yelled as the room began to heat up.

"We are under attack my lord!" The servant yelled. Sol jumped out of bed and looked out his window where he saw ships firing on his island. Sol clenched is jaw in anger, he would burn all these attackers. He looked at the servant who was just standing there.

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? FIGHT BACK!" Sol ordered.

"Yes my lord!" The servant yelled as he ran out of the room. The fort soon became alive as soldiers began manning the shore cannons taht had not yet been destroyed. They aimed the cannons at the incoming rowboats of Marines. The cannons fired as the cannonballs struck the rowboats and killed all who were in them.

"LOOK OUT!" A marine yelled as a cannon struck the boat next to him and killed all who were inside. Marcus saw this and it only reaffirmed his decision against jumping into a rowboat to get to land. He was a much smaller target and was harder to see. Back on the ships, Kristoff cursed himself for bringing Anna with, what was he thinking bringing her to a warzone? He only hoped she would stay put below deck. Little did he know Anna had silently jumped off the ships when no one was looking. She felt bad for leaving Kristoff but she had to try and save her sister. Anna quietly swam to shore while avoiding gunfire. She screamed as she saw a dead body float towards her. She was starting to regret her decision, she was going to get killed out here! She didn't know how to fight! She closed her eyes in fear. NO! She had to be strong for her sister. Anna began swimming towards the shore again with a newfound courage. The first rowboats had made it to shore and began offloading marines. Many were cut down immediately from cannon and musket fire. Body parts literally flew everywhere as the wall of lead shredded all organic material it came across. Marcus had just made it shore and dove to the side as a cannonball struck a few feet behind him. He was dazed from the blast and the world seemed to be going in slow motion around him. He saw marines on fire jumping into the water to quell the flame only to be gunned down. He saw legs and arms being blown into the air from cannons. He looked to his side at a man whose face had caved in and brains were leaking out of his head. Marcus blinked as he came back into real time. He quickly began moving up keeping his shield raised to stop musket fire. He cursed at himself for not bringing a ranged weapon. Salvos of fire from the ships gave the marines on the beach precious time to move up the hill. Fire from shore had sunken two ships and damaged four others. Marcus knew they had to take the beach head before the heavy amounts of soldiers could move in. Right now the small amounts of Marines were doing their best to take this beach. he advanced further up the hill with a squad of soldiers, one fell to gunfire every few seconds. Marcus jumped into a hole created by the cannons to give his legs a rest from treading up this hill with all his armor on. His ears began to ring as cannon struck only a few yards away from him. Suddenly a destroyed body landed next to him. Marcus shrieked as he tried to avoid looking into the mans dying eyes. Marcus looked down the hill and saw only fifty marines had made it up this far. The rest lie dead on the hill or were getting slaughtered as they landed on the beach. Cannonfire from the ships destroyed one of the ledges enemies were firing from. Marcus took this to his advantage and stormed up the hill as fast as he possibly could. The other marines shared his idea as the let out a roar as they charged up the hill. Marcus saw a hole in the beach head and made his way over there. He drew his sword and roared like a mad man as he jumped through the hole and brought his sword down on an enemy cleaving the man in half. Marcus saw atleast fifty enemies running at him but they soon dropped like flies as the other marines entered the hole and fired their muskets. They then drew their swords while the other half took cover to reload their muskets. Marcus charged at an enemy and whacked him in the face with his shield before impaling his gut with his sword. The marines began taking out the men manning the shore cannons which took pressure off the beach allowing for more and more marines to make it up the hill. Marcus continued to clean out the beach head as the last shore cannon was taken out. Marcus pulled his sword out of an enemy and took a seat. He looked down to see the beach had been taken. Now they had to face Sol's massive army on the field behind the beach.

Anna had made her way through a dead forest which was away from the beachhead and all the fighting. She felt like a coward for not facing the enemy but she was unarmed and not a soldier, there was nothing she could have done to help. She struggled as she tried to move through the sharp dry branches. She hoped Elsa would come back when she saw her sister. Anna had just gotten her sister back and she was not going to lose her again. Anna pulled herself over a ledge when she saw two men in red armor looking right at her.

"Hey you!" They yelled as the ran toward her.

"Oh no!" Anna cried as she looked for something, anything to use as a weapon. As the first man came up to her she brought her leg up and kicked him right in the groin which sent the man to ground howling in pain. Anna smiled at her victory before the other man came up and threw her to the ground hard. Anna cried out as her fragile body hit the stony ground. She tried to get back up but all she saw was the mans fist coming at her before she saw black. Back at the castle, Sol was organizing his army to defend the field once the americans made it there. Sol knew the beach head had fallen and that the americans were on their way. He cursed as he slammed his fist in anger. He could not allow his plan to get ruined! He knew he could go out there and burn their entire army to bits but he knew they had come for Elsa and he had to make sure they did not find her.

"Sir, we found her in the woods." A soldier said dragging Anna who had regained consciousness. Her cheek a dark shade of purple from where she was struck.

"Let me go!" Anna yelled as she thrashed to get free. The two soldiers threw her to the ground. Anna looked up to see Sol looking down at her.

"Oh Anna, its so nice to see you again." Sol said holding out his hand. Anna spit blood as she smacked his hand away in disgust.

"Don't touch you filth." Anna growled. "Give me my sister!"

"Or what?" Sol chuckled. "Oh Elsa!" Anna turned to see her sister walk into the room. Anna felt her heart break at seeing what Sol had done to her. She was wearing an extremely revealing dress that clung very tight to her. Her cleavage showing in full and her breasts were about to pop out. He stomach was showing and her lower dress was cut so short it resembled a pair of underwear. She was covered in bite marks and scratches and she had a black eye.

"Elsa?" Anna said as she started crying. "What has he done to you?" Elsa laughed as she walked up to Anna and slapped her full force in the face. Anna didn't know what hurt more, the slap or the fact it was her own sister who did it. Anna looked up teary eyed with a loving gaze at her sister.

"Elsa please stop this." Anna whimpered. "This isn't you."

"Oh Anna, you always were such a drama queen." Elsa said. "All you ever were was a spare, I am more powerful and more beautiful than you."

"You are right, you always were perfect but I always loved you. I still do." Anna said. Elsa felt herself fall back at this. Sol saw this and gritted his teeth as Elsa came back under his control. Sol groaned, this little brat almost snapped Elsa out of his spell. He had to get rid of her.

"Beat her." Sol said.

"It would be my pleasure." Elsa said smiling as her eyes turned a sick shade of dark blood red.

"Elsa please no!" Anna cried as Elsa delivered a kick to Anna's face. Anna could have fought back but didn't, she loved her sister too much to ever lay a finger on her. Anna crawled up into a ball and cried as Elsa mercilessly beat her senseless.

Back at the beachhead, all the troops had been unloaded in a total strength of 18,000. Grant knew Sol outnumbered them and hoped that reinforcements would arrive soon. Either way, they had to attack before Sol came out to attack them.

"Grant, you take the left flank. Johanssen you take the right. I will take the one down the middle." Lee said. "We know we are outnumbered one to four so every kill we get helps. My flank will go up the middle and draw out his front forces. After that you two will come from the side and crush them in a bottleneck movement."

"I can see why you graduated West Point without a single demerit." Grant said impressed as Lee's knowledge of warfare. Back on the ship, Kristoff searched everywhere for Anna who had disappeared.

"No no no no NO!" He yelled as he threw a desk in anger. How could he have been so stupid? Of course she would sneak off to find Elsa! Kristoff knew that Sol would make Elsa kill her without hesitation. Kristoff picked up a sword and pistol and made his way to shore. Marcus wiped the blood off of his sword as the remaning 18,000 men were split up into brigades of six thousand men. Grant and Johanssen took their brigades and began going to the left and right while Lee began leading his brigade up the middle. Marcus ran up and joined the middle brigades. They marched though the soot and ash as they approached Sol's castle. They came to a clearing where there was a large field. Marcus could see the mass amount of troops in Sol's army. He wondered how Sol could have gotten so many men to join his evil cause. Lee wasn't going to lie, he was very frightened, they were severely outnumbered and his brigade would take heavy losses by the time Grant and Johanssen came from the sides. The brigade halted when they were no more than a few hundred feet from Sol's army. The two armies stood there starting at each other in silence before a voice yelled from Sol's army. The army of fire let out a deafening cry as they began to march forward. They started off slow but began to pick up speed. The front two ranks of Lee's brigade took aim as the enemy advanced closer. Marcus felt his heart beat faster and faster as the enemy got closer.

"FIRE!" Lee yelled as the first two ranks open fired and brought down hundreds of soldiers. Immediately the front two ranks hit the ground and the next two ranks behind them fired. The process continued until all ranks had fired. The strategy brought down many enemy soldiers and was a huge morale bosterThe american troops quickly got back to their feet and slammed their bayonets into the soldiers who had survived the wall of fire.

"CHARGE!" Lee yelled drawing his sword. The american troops roared with a might so powerful the earth shook. The two armies collided as screams and sword clashing dominated the atmosphere. Marcus duck as an enemy swung his sword at him. Marcus spun around and slammed his shield into the enemy knocking the man off of his feet. Marcus then drove his sword through the chest of the enemy. The brigade was quickly being pushed back due to the large amounts of enemies that were coming in. Lee saw this and drew his pistol and fired three shots into the air. Grant and Johanssen heard the shots and prepared their men.

"Thats the signal!" Johanssen yelled. "CHARGE!"

"FORWARD!" Grant yelled as the two brigades came storming in from the left and right. Sol's army was confused as they suddenly saw incoming troops from the left and right. The mass confusion resulted in many soldiers panicking as they were surrounded. The enemy was quickly crushed due to their panicking. The american troops let out a loud cry of victory but it was short lived. Grant looked to see that there were still thousands of enemy troops that heavily outnumbered them. All three brigades combined and aimed their muskets but were shot down by the enemy who fired first. Once the volley had stopped the american troops returned fire and brought down the enemy. The two armies charged at each other with rage. Marcus slammed his way through the enemies, all his being was focused on saving Elsa. Nothing would get in his way. He ferociously brought down enemy after enemy as he sprinted to the castle. Kristoff did his best to fend off incoming soldiers but having only one leg was a heavy disadvantage. He saw Marcus making his way towards the castle and knew he would just have to trust Marcus to get Anna until he got there. Sol watched the battle from his window and smiled at seeing the americans and arendelle armies being slowly defeated.

"AHHH!" Marcus yelled running up the stairs. He prepared to face down against four of Sol's personal guards. Each guard was armed with a long pike. Marcus brought his shield up as he blocked the weapons. He then threw his shield at the feet of the guards knocking them on their feet. He then brought up his sword and decapitated two of them. The other two got up and drew their swords. Both guards saw the look in Marcus' face and knew it was all over for them. The guards ran at Marcus who spilled their guts in a matter of seconds. After slaying them Marcus rammed into the doors with all his might but the heavy doors did not move. Marcus roared as he slammed his sword into crack of the doors and heaved. The doors still didn't budge. Marcus quickly looked around and saw the long sturdy pike on the floor. He looked back up and saw an open window just above the door. Marcus sighed, it was a long shot but he knew he was never going to open those doors. He ran for the pike and killed three more soldiers who came at him. Marcus grabbed the pike and ran back. He then started running toward the gate as fast as he could and planted the pike into the ground. He felt himself being launched up.

"No way this is gonna work!" He said as he came to the window. He closed his eyes expecting to slam into the wall but instead he felt himself land on a stone floor. He opened his eyes to see he had pole vaulted into the window.

"Holy shit I can't believe that worked!" Marcus said as he made his way to the throne room. Sol looked on the battle and smiled as the american and arendelle army was being pushed back. He looked back and saw Elsa had frozen Anna to the wall and was still hitting her. Anna's face was swollen and puffed up from the hits. Blood dripped down her nose and mouth, both her eyes had turned an ugly black color. She sniffled as Elsa kicked her in the stomach.

"Enough." Sol said. "I don't want her to die quite yet." Elsa nodded and walked away from Anna who was in so much pain she could barely breathe. Despite the beating, Anna still loved her sister. Sol looked down and saw a man in ancient armor cutting his way through hundreds of soldiers. Sol focused his eyes and realized who it was. It was that damn american boy! Sol figured he would come for Elsa. Sol considered just burning him the moment he entered his castle but knew Marcus was a skilled soldier. Sol then decided although Marcus would have no problem killing him, Marcus would never harm Elsa no matter what.

"Elsa?" Anna asked. Elsa turned around growling. "No matter what happens you will always be the best big sister ever." Elsa's eyes began to flicker between red and blue until they had become blue again. Elsa looked up in horror at what she had done. Elsa ran over and held Anna tightly.

"I'm sorry!" Elsa cried into Anna's shoulder. Elsa just wanted to die before she was forced to hurt anyone else.

"It's not your fault, he made you do it!" Anna said. "Marcus is coming for you, he is on his way right now!"

"Marcus?" Elsa said. "But I almost killed him, I murdered his friend."

"It wasn't you Elsa, he knows that." Anna said smiling. Elsa suddenly yelled as Sol held his arm out to her. Elsa screamed in pain as Sol's influence took ahold of her again. Elsa looked at Anna terrified that Sol would make her hurt Anna again. Elsa fought as hard as she could but Sol's magic was to strong.

"I have had enough of you!" Sol said holding out his arm at Anna. Anna's eyes widened as she saw flames starting to for in his hand. Anna closed her eyes and prayed that Marcus would save Elsa. Anna cried knowing she had failed her sister. Just as Sol was about to fire, a metal disk went flying through the room and knocked him to the floor. The disc, in a boomerang fashion, returned the direction it had been thrown. Anna and Sol looked to see who the disc had returned too.

"MARCUS!" Anna cried happily.

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