A/N: One OC inspired from Japanese mythology.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the following Disney or Dreamworks characters.
"There Is No Happy Ending For You, My Queen..."
Night covers the land of Arendelle. Queen Elsa and her sister Anna stare out the window.
"What...is that?" Anna worries.
"I do not know," The Queen admits, keeping her head up high.
From the tallest tower of the palace, they observe an unnatural storm creeping down the far out mountains of the fjord.
"It…it's getting closer…" Anna's concerned eyes shift to Elsa who remains focused on the anomaly with the eyes of a strong leader who knows something needs to be done.
A couple of moments later and after a short debate, the Snow Queen marches down the royal palace. Anna follows close behind.
"Are you sure about this?"
"The storm is moving like it has a mind of its own. I must find out what it really is before it reaches my kingdom."
"Will you at least be taking guards?"
"No need."
"But-"
Reaching the front doors, Elsa turns around to look at her worried little sister, "It's nothing I can't handle."
She sighs, "…okay"
"I'm leaving you in charge until I return."
Anna nods and her sister gives her a quick hug before heading out.
"Be-" the doors shut after Elsa's exit, "careful."
She looks to an officer stationed by the wall. Anna straightens her posture and tries to have the same authority in her voice that her older sister articulates so masterfully. "Ready our defenses just in case, and spread the word to our people to remain calm and stay in the safety of their homes."
The officer salutes and leaves to carry out the order. Anna is left nervously rubbing her hands together with, having a terrible feeling about all this.
Elsa rides over the water on her icy chariot, leaving behind a frozen trail. She arrives at the heart of the storm just beyond a snowy mountain. Its thunderous winds stop and convert into a huge fog all around her.
She steps off and searches the misty area. Her frosty horses are uneasy, sensing something pure evil nearby. Advancing through the fog on her own, a silhouetted figure catches her eye. It appears to be some kind of animal. Elsa walks towards it with caution, but it vanishes into the blankets of the fog. Her eyes blink in perplexity. Could she have been seeing things?
Then the creature prowls its way behind her. "Hello, Elsa"
She spins around to the shocking sight of a nine-tailed fox. It is rather large and is mainly yellow with red splashed up its paws and on the tips of its tails.
They walk circles around each other, never leaving their gaze upon one another.
"You…speak?"
The fox's snout does not move but Elsa hears a female's voice crystal clear, "I do many things…" She disappears behind a shroud of smoke.
Elsa tries to stay strong despite being extremely confused and a bit frightened.
Behind her back the fox shapeshifts into Kitsune. The witch taps the unsuspecting Queen a magic touch of the finger onto the back of her neck. The tiny red hex around her hand journeys across her finger and onto Elsa's skin, spreading throughout her whole body.
Gasping at the indescribable chill ripple through her, Elsa's surprised eyes flash black for a split second, "W-what's happening?"
"For the first time in forever, you are opening your eyes…"
The environment around her has changed. She now sees clear blue skies and is standing on a frozen ocean. Curvy lines left by the waves of the waters decorate the icy surface in elegant patterns. She gazes about in wonder, "Where-"
Kitsune steps beside her, "You are in your natural habitat…"
Snowy mountains appear. Sparkling snowflakes dance to the ground.
"Surrounded by such beauty, all of which you, yourself, are able to create…"
The original ice palace Elsa created when she ran away after her coronation emerges off in the distance.
"Away from all those who hold you back…"
With one hand on the small of Elsa's back, Kitsune gestures to the floor. They see Anna in the reflection of the ice.
"Anna? Anna does not hold me back!" She pulled away from the woman. Her eyes flickered black when she made her outburst.
Catching the flicker, the witch cracks a subtle pleasing smile that Elsa does not notice, "No…?"
She begins to calmly pace around the Queen, speaking in her captivating voice. "She cannot survive in these environments, environments in which you flourish. She has no powers. Nothing close to the gifts you were born with. There is nothing special about her."
"She's special to me." Elsa stated strongly, keeping her eyes on the Asian woman in the red and white silk robe with gold leaves and vines designed all around.
"Of course," giving a slight nod, "she is your sister. But can you truly be a family?"
Her initial anger from the insult to her sibling is now stumped with confusion as she tries to actually answer that question in her head.
"You never truly grew up together. You went years on end without even seeing each other, yet you lived under the same roof."
Elsa tries to justify this, "Because that was for-"
"Her safety, yes, I know." She ceases to walk circles around her, looking Elsa straight in the eyes, "And yet…you still cannot even share a room together. You have to watch every single move you make. You still have to…conceal."
Elsa looks down at her protective gloves and yanks them off, tossing them aside.
"No, I-I've learned to better control it."
"Ah yes…thanks to that lover of yours…"
Jack Frost appears on the nearest mountaintop.
"Jack!" She couldn't help joyfully shouting out his name upon seeing him.
The area around them changes to the peak of that mountain.
"As perfect as it may seem…"
Elsa passes by the talking woman to run to her love. He smiles, ready to accept her with open arms. But he vanishes just before making contact. The disillusioned Queen stumbles into the snow, falling on her knees.
"He will eventually leave you."
Elsa digs her nails into the snow and whips her head around to snap at Kitsune, revealing solid black eyes, "You're wrong! He loves me!"
The witch is pleased by her progress. All it took was one magic touch to awaken the darkness inside her. With every emotional spike, the darkness grows.
Kitsune keeps her elegant calm, "Does he? Has he ever told you that?"
Her black eyes fade to normal as they tremble from side to side, trying to find a nonexistent memory. Jack has never told her that he loves her. Not once in the near two years that they have been together has he ever uttered those three words.
"Sure, he likes you. He likes you now, but do not forget who he is…" the woman gracefully walks toward Elsa. "Such a free spirited boy like Jack Frost will lose interest in a woman like you. You have responsibilities and duties to fulfill, an entire kingdom to run. Where will you find enough time to entertain him before he gets bored?"
Elsa's saddened eyes travel around the snow beneath her to avoid looking up at Kitsune, realizing nothing she is telling her is wrong.
"Jack will eventually just move on to the next best thing."
"No…" She shuts her eyes away in denial.
"No? Then where is he now? Why isn't he here for you?"
Elsewhere, the silver haired guardian soars across a vast body of water, leaving behind a violently windy trail. Having just been informed by his friends of who went to see Elsa, he immediately took flight. Who knows what that evil witch is capable of. After just one confrontation with Kitsune prior before, Jack only knows that her dark magic and malice know no bounds.
So insanely worried, Jack Frost bullets through the sky at such an immense speed, a speed at which he has never flown before. The Guardian only hopes to make it in time to protect his precious beloved.
Back on the snowy mountaintop near Arendelle where it appears to be daytime, the witch stands before the Queen, "Your perfect romance will not last…"
All of Elsa's hopes and dreams continue to crumble.
"You are beautiful now but you will age and he will not."
Kitsune looks down at the girl who hasn't even bothered to pick herself off the snow covered ground.
"You will grow old and he will grow tired of you."
Her eyes start to tear up, "…he wouldn't…"
"So what if he doesn't? Let's look at the alternative…he stays and falls deeply in love with you…he will love you so much that he will stay with you until the very end. Until you wither away and death comes for you."
Kitsune moves behind the sniffling Queen to speak closer into her ear, "Then Jack will be left without you, mourning your loss for all eternity."
The thought of this tragic fate makes Elsa feel even worse. Her falling teardrops dent the soft snow beneath her.
"Jack…" She whimpered.
"All the suffering you would put him through…"
"I can't…"
"You will hurt him like you hurt everyone else that you love."
She raises her head to see a flashback of her and Anna playing together when they were little, the time when she fatally hurt her. Then she flashes through all the emotional moments where she harshly shut Anna out. Finally ending with the time when she accidentally shot ice into her heart in her original ice palace, nearly killing her.
She drops her head in guilt, tears streaming down her face. Her chaotic swell of aching emotions are only feeding the darkness inside of her.
The witch sees that the young Queen's restless heart is beginning to create a swirling blizzard around them. She breaks away the illusion of daytime, revealing that they really are on a round mountaintop, only under the dusky navy blue night sky. Yet Elsa is too busy sobbing to notice her surroundings.
A few miles out…
Jack flies passed the highest mountain peaks. He was initially on his way to Arendelle, but he notices winds of snow cycle about below on a mountaintop.
That has to be her.
He dives toward it.
Kitsune senses his presence off in the distance. She creates a large hexed dome as a precaution. Elsa's blizzard still builds within the red force field.
The witch decides it is time to finish this. At a reasonably safe distance, she moves in front of Elsa, speaking in a sterner tone, "The ones you love the most will only bring you misery in the end."
The rising darkness within her has grown strong enough.
"Anna…you will only hurt her. Jack…he will only hurt you."
Her eyes begin to rapidly switch between black and normal.
Beyond the hexed dome, a pain in Jack's heart weighs him down. He plummets to the snow just outside the red barrier. Something is happening to Elsa, he can feel it. Terrified he might be too late, he reaches out his hand, "No…"
Back inside...
"And if he does not, then you will hurt him just as well."
Elsa's eyes stay in their normal blue hue for one last moment.
"There is no happy ending for you, my Queen…"
The blizzard has reached its top velocity. The snowstorm rages on all around them. Kitsune keeps her balance, effortlessly.
"This is what love does to you! All this pain…do you really want to keep feeling this way?"
Elsa weeping, "No…"
A dark red aurora of energy starts to steam off of Elsa's body.
"Do you want it to stop?"
"Yes!" she cried out.
"Then let it go…"
She shrieks in agony.
"All of it. Let it go!"
Elsa lets out the loudest scream she has ever cried as her own darkness consumes her. She has let go of all of her humanity. All the snow from the blizzard quickly gets pulled into her, engulfing her body.
Jack felt a horrible tear in his soul. "ELSA!"
He pounds away at the dome, grunting and panting frantically. He suddenly feels it vibrate. A powerful explosion of snow breaks out of Kitsune's magic force field. Jack gets knocked several feet back. Shaking the snow out of his silver locks, he squints ahead to scan for Elsa. When the smoke clears, he gapes at the sight. He cannot believe his eyes.
Behind Kitsune, steps forward the woman that was once his girlfriend.
Elsa is now wrapped in a new dark burgundy-red dress with black streaks down the arms and around the bottom ends. The tail of the dress snakes across the snow as she walks up to Jack.
"Elsa?" he looks up, catching her demonic black eyes.
"Oh, look who finally showed." She undoes her royal bun, letting down her now jet-black hair to a spiky braided tail over one shoulder.
Jack gets up to approach her, "W-what did she do to you?" but she strikes him away with her powers without the slightest hesitation. Elsa is much more powerful now.
He groans in pain, but his eyes cry more for the sight of Elsa, not so much her attack of which he is still unable to get up from.
She walks along a narrow runway of ice as she creates it with one hand, curving it around Jack, "She merely opened my eyes."
He doesn't even know what to say.
She raises an arm and a pillar of ice, pulsating dark red at the center, shoots up under him. He is now at eye-level with her. The pillar, crystallized up to his neck, prevents him from moving his body even an inch, and his staff was left on the cold ground below.
"Don't look so sad…"she traces her finger up his chin, "I'm not."
Jack can only respond to her devilish smirk with a tear down his distraught face.
"So listen...this isn't going to work out." She shrugs without a care, "It's not you…it's me."
After referring to her new darker self, she strikes him down again, shattering the ice into tiny clear red fragments. She forms a slope to walk down to the snow. Kitsune walks up close by her side.
"And before we go, here's some wisdom for you and your dear friends…" Elsa shoots him the coldest glare. "Back off."
She blasts him away with the full force of a raging blizzard. Jack falls off the face of the mountain.
Kitsune leaves with her newest asset, Dark Elsa.
A/N: This was an edited down excerpt from my story "Return of the Big Four"
There will be one more 'Dark Elsa' excerpt. If this interested you, feel free to check out the full story.