Suddenly the sound of the front door getting open made the pale-gray skinned and Elsa to turn their attention to the stairs down to the first floor, they both could hear a conversation or sort of a conversation between to people.
The pale-gray skinned man looked at Elsa and gave her a small wolf-like smile.
"Didn't knew you would get visitors?" He said and walked over to one of the ice pillars to look down at the entrance and saw two people standing and talking, or it looked like the male was annoyed over something.
"Come and look at our new visitors," He said and took a step back for Elsa to look down which made a little surprised sound and turned around to placed her back on the ice pillar.
"It's my sister and the local ice-cutter boy" Elsa explained surprised but at the same time scared, cause she ran away in the first place to keep her sister safe from her. How did she found her..? Of cause, the ice-cutter boy, he knows the forest well.
"Your sister? Now that is interesting" He said with an amused smile as he begun to walk over to the stairs but got stopped by Elsa who shook her head silently and turned her front to the stairs.
"I have to do it, please let me handle this situation" she explained and took a big breath and exhaled as she started to walk down the stair towards her sister and Kristoff.
The pale-gray skinned man, like all the other times, disappeared in the shadow as Elsa walked down the stairs and made Anna turn her head from Kristoff and to look upon her sister. There were an awkward silence between them and Kristoff slowly backed out of the castle to let Anna handle it herself as she wanted to.
Anna opened her mouth and was about to say something but got cut out from Elsa.
"What are you doing here Anna?" She asked in a dismissive tone but with a slide joy of seeing her sister again.
"I've come to get you home" She replied, taking a step up at the stairs.
"N-No, I don't belong in Arendelle anymore," Elsa said gathering her hands together and looked away from Anna and off in the distance for a short time.
"Yes you do, we grew up together… You're my sister" Anna said, putting pressure on the word 'sister' while moving further up the stairs and closer to Elsa.
"I can't Anna.. Please go, I can't go back, please leave" Tears begun to form in the corner of her eyes.
"I'm a monster to them, I belong here," Elsa said scared to lose control of her powers again or the thought of coming back and maybe hurt someone, something she wouldn't want to happen again.
"We can change their mind Elsa, together!" She replied as she tried to sound happier.
As Elsa dismissed Anna more and more, backing away from her while Anna trying to get over to her sister, trying to understand and help her.
A suddenly shadowing figure appeared in front of her, making her stop and got a little shock from the sudden person in front of her.
"I think it's time for you to leave now" Said the pale-gray skinned man who came out from the shadows, where he has been lurking and heard everything.
Anna took some steps backward just out of pure shock from the sudden reappearing of a man out of nowhere.
"Elsa… I want to help you, please let me in" Anna tried to call out to her sister who was standing with her back to both the pale-gray skinned man, but no matter what she tried, Elsa ignore it.
"She doesn't need you anymore" He pale-gray skinned man told her with a dry and dismissive voice and kept getting in Anna's way when she tried to get past him and over to her sister.
There was something weird and wrong about this tall, lithe darkly person standing in her way and she didn't like him for keeping her from getting to her sister. A strangely shadowing aura came from this guy who was keeping her from getting to her sister, but nothing could prepare her from the shock she got from her sister.
"Why can't you leave me alone Anna..?" Elsa suddenly said, first in a whisper, but loud enough for Anna to hear the words, still with her arms around herself and back to Anna.
"But… but you're my sister, Elsa you're my sister and I want to help you" Anna said now with a bit more desperation in her voice, she wasn't her usually energetic self, but a mix feelings of sadness and desperation.
"I don't want your help Anna!" She said angrily, turning her whole body around to face Anna's scared face of her own sister and see the horror her eyes gave away.
Elsa's eye colour had turned to a crystal clear blue ice to almost completely a frost snow colour.
"I don't want you here, I don't belong in Arendelle anymore, so why can't you understand why I don't want your help?!" Elsa literally cried out in the castle.
The sudden change in Elsa's voice had changed to something else, something the pale-gray skinned man had seen in her the moment he arrived in Arendelle and saw the newly crowned queen.
Elsa now stood beside the tall darkly pale-gray skinned man having a blue flame like dancing from her eyes.
The pale-gray skinned man and he saw something else than a mere human and it gave him a darkly grin to see her in that way.
Anna was in shock but mostly heartbroken of the way her sister talked to her and wanted her gone from her sight, heavy tears begun to fall from her eyes, and even though she tried to hold them back, was it still too much for her.
She turned around and ran down the stairs and out of the double door, pass Kristoff who for a moment was confused to at first, why she got alone out, but then the fact she just ran past him with hands over her own face crying, so he ran after her.
The moment Anna left the castle, Elsa snapped out of her stage and realised what she had done and took her hand up to her mouth and left out a whisper "what have I done..?" And ran all the way down to the double door, only to find out that Anna was gone with local ice-cutter boy.
Elsa stumbled down while clutching to the side of the wall, feeling the tears falling down to the icy ground, but felt a gentle hand placed on her shoulder and without a notice, placed her head on it with a hand holding it.
The Darkly tall man sat down in a crouching position, placing another hand on her other shoulder, slowly getting her up on her feets, turning her around and looking her in the eyes with a little smirk on his lips.
"You don't need her, you know that. They will all fear you, hate you and they will lock you up, as well as take your freedom away" told the pale-gray man caress gently Elsa's cheek, which she placed her hand on, finding a weird form of safety.
He had this aura, it was not a thing she could see, but she felt it, and it made her stronger, especially when she got in that weird trance she got in for a few seconds when she got mad at her sister. but the worse part about it... she liked it.
She looked up in he's silver-golden yellow eyes placed her hand on his cheek and smiled back at him.
Heartbroken from her meeting with her sister, hit her hard.
It was actually showing on her, she and Kristoff had rushed away from her sister, in his sled and was on full gallop through the dark forest, cause no light could get through the darkly clouds, covering the sun out. Kristoff looked at Anna and got a little shock, the little white tuft of her hair, has grown and spread out and changed more of her hair, which also was something Kristoff notice, Anna was shaking more than she normally would, even with her thick winter cloth on.
"Are you alright Anna?" He asked, finally pulled himself together to ask.
"I-I'm okay.. or I don't really know anymore" Anna admitted while wiping her eyes from tears with the back side of her glove, she had hard time focusing on anything, partly because she still was heartbroken but didn't want to show it in front of Kristoff, but also partly because she was feeling weird.
Like a cold, spreading inside of her.
Kristoff took off his glove and placed his hand on Anna's forehead and took it off quickly again looking at her.
"Anna you're freezing cold, you're not alright" Kristoff implied making the sled go faster. He had to get her home before it got out of hand, cause when he touched her forehead, it wasn't a normal cold, it was really freezing, like she had ice inside of her.
She was also beginning to get shivering and he could see how her hair colour slowly but steadily changed to the white platinum colour which was growing out to the rest of her hair.
As they raced through the forest, they nearly crashed into some of the bigger trees as Kristoff drove the sled so fast, as he did.
They had already past his little survival cave and it was clear that they was entering the outskirts of the big forest, partly because there were no blizzard, roaming around to slow them down or lead them away from the main road.
As their path led them downhill through the forest, they were closing in on the beginning of the city, revolves around the castle, making it hard for Kristoff to make tight turns through the city blocks.
"Woaw woaw.. Easy boy" Kristoff pulled in his leash to make a full stop in front of the big stone footbridge where two city guards stood around a barrel of fire.
"Kristoff? What are you doing here, weren't you with.. Oh my god, what happen to the princess?!" He asked in horror, rushing quickly over to Kristoff who had Anna in his arms and was carrying her towards the castle.
Both castle guards rushed to the big outer double gate and then to the inner double gate so Anna could get inside of this biting cold and get some warmth in her body.
As the big gate like door opens up, the two guards storms in and told Archer to get something to keep the princess warm with.
Archer was already on his move to the kitchen and said with a determined voice to the servants to make some hot tea and another servant to get warm thick blankets. While the servant made everything ready as fast as they could, Archer ran out again and ran after the two guards and Kristoff that carried her through the long corridor and into a room where there was a big fireplace she could rest.
Kristoff placed her on a couch close to the fire to keep her warm, quickly right after she was placed in the couch; the servants came rushing in the room with hot tea and blankets and right behind, Hans and the other gentlemen, including the duke of Weaselton, who more stood in the background and observed what had happened.
Hans quickly sat down beside Anna and hold her ice cold hand while
Archer pouring the tea up as one of the servants warped the warm blankets around Anna.
"Here, drink this Miss Anna, will make you warmer," Said the Butler and gave Hans the tea, so he could help Anna to drink it.
All the tea went down, but nothing helped, not even the fireplace could warm her ice cold body, even her normal strawberry blonde hair colour has completely changed to the platinum blonde like her little streak in her hair, she had before.
"I-I.. Hans?.. my sister.." Anna tried to stay in focus, but was too difficult for her, cause of the stage she was in and closed her eyes again because of the constant blackouts of the cold, spreading more and more around in her body.
"I'm here Anna" said Hans almost in a whisper as he tightens his grip around her hands, trying and warm her, but nothing worked. They could see that every time she breath or talked, the air that came out almost looked like damp, like it just had entered a room in freezing degrees.
Hans looked from Anna's face which doesn't have much colour back and up to the butler's old but worried face, that made a swing with his head to pulled him to the side for an under four eyes.
As Hans got up to follow the butler, he told the servants to try and keep her warm.
When he got over to the old butler, he asked him what it was as he looked worried back at Anna time to time.
"Hans, I know you only want Miss Anna to be happy and safe, but you know she doesn't have long again" Archer explained to Hans while leading to a cane.
At first he didn't understand what the butler referred to, but suddenly it hit him and his face change in an instance and looked at the butler with terror.
"No, no no.. She can't, but… NO, no I won't let that happen! You're wrong; she's much stronger than this!" Hans said to the butler, he wouldn't accept it, no it couldn't happen, why her?!
Hans' sudden reaction made the others turn their attraction quickly to the two men but got back to try and keep Anna warm, but without luck.
Hans looked over at the couch and the others, when he heard a servant gasp and called for both of them, rushing over, Hans pulled her into his arms to hold her warm, but with no luck, even though he could feel the cold through the thick blanket, even with the warm fireplace igniting a dance of flames.
Everyone stood up and had given up hope.
Hans suddenly felt a cold hand on his cheek and looks down at Annas completely colourless face, few tears rolling down her own cheek with half opened eyes while smiling back up at Hans who, even though only known her for a short time, still felt some sort of loss of his soul.
"Please don't.. Don't go, stay Anna.. I can save..!" Hans tried to keep her awake but got interrupted by Anna.
"It's alright Hans.. You can't stop.." Her voice cracked and stopped right as she tried to finish her sentence.
Hans just sat there with the colourless and silence Anna in his arms and didn't move, but could only look in her cold, empty eyes that just stared out in an emptiness. Even though Hans didn't say anything, was it clear that he was shattered by the lost of Anna.
A hand was placed on his shoulder and a voice behind him made him look up, only to see it was Kristoff.
"I know it's hard man, I've just lost my best friend, but there is nothing we can do, let her go" Kristoff explained to Hans while trying to keep his own tear back, but was harder than he thought.
Hans got up which almost felt like in slow-motion, but got up and let the butler takeover and move Anna's body out of the room and to a place where she could get fixed up and made ready for a funeral.
As the servants, who were carrying Anna's body and Archer got out of the room, got Hans to sit down in the same couch with both his hands over his face without saying a word.
Kristoff also left the room; he was going with Archer and the other servants to help them as much as he could. Anna was after all his best friend and it hit him hard, but he would not show it, or at least try not to show it.
The other gentlemen and the duke were standing in front of Hans looking at him, like they were expecting him to do something about this.
"Elsa is a monster, and we are all in grave danger" the duke suddenly said with a clenched fist close to his chest to show he meant business while looking at the others which nodded but not without showing their sorrowful face.
They were not found of how all this had ended, but it had to stop, if anyone were to survive this horrific winter.
Hans looked up at the others who were standing and looking back at his answer.
"I charge Queen Elsa of Arendelle… With treason, and sentenced her to death" Hans declared as the others nodded in agreement.
Hans got up and out of the room with the others behind him.
As they walked down the corridor and past the room where Anna was getting ready for being buried, but before they got too far, a familiar voice sounded behind them and asked where they was going.
Hans turned his head and saw it was Kristoff and soon after the butler, who joined behind him.
"Where do you think you're going Prince Hans?" Kristoff asked with crossed arms and head leading just a little to the side.
"We have to end this, and you know it.. We can't go on like this, it won't change back" Hans said as he sighed and looked at Kristoff who understood what he referred to.
"There must be another way," said Archer while leaning to the side on his cane.
"There isn't, Princess Anna already tried, and look how that turned out?!" Hans said and clenched his fists.
"No.. This is the only way now, and I'm taking control over this situation with the help from the duke and the captain" Hans explained and turned around to continue down the corridor and down the stairs.
Just before they left the big hall and got to the armoury where the captain's soldiers were holding up for the winter, the butler stopped them.
"Wait Prince Hans, please don't do this" the butler begged, trying to get as fast as I could, down the stairs.
"We have just talked about this Archer; I know she means a lot to you, but look at this place, it's only getting worse!" Hans pointed out, looking around them; the ice was slowly chewing its way through the walls and windows, as well as the darkness that has begun to show. Not a darkness from a night, but an unnatural darkness moving over the whole country.
"Please Prince Hans, I beg you, Elsa is all I have left of the family… If you just could, get her back, we might be able to talk to her" the butler pointed out while leaning a little to the left side on his cane.
Hans sighed but agreed in the end to try to capture her instead of removing her, much to the dukes disliking.
He saw her as a monster, a devil to be purged from this world, but did not say anything and followed Prince Hans into the armoury.
The captain quickly got his men and they all prepared for going after Queen Elsa with 8 of the soldiers that were fit to go.
When they all got out, Hans stopped and turned around to look at them all, and begun to give them a speech about how they're gonna survive and get back again while people who still was standing around barrels with fire in them.
All while that was going on, the duke pulled his two own bodyguards over, to speak with them privately.
"I don't trust the Queen and she must be stopped, no matter the cost. I want you two to end her misery… permanently, understood?" The duke asked and looked at them with his big white moustache moving a little from moving his mouth.
But before they got to say anything else, had Hans gotten up on a horse and called them all the follow him out of Arendelle and onwards to the Show Queen's castle. The captain and the duke stayed back to look after the people in the city, but let the soldiers he had chosen, know to follow Hans.