**************AUTHOR'S NOTE****************
Not as long as I would like for it to be, but I thought it was an okay stopping point, and I did promise a new chapter by the end of the week. So here you go, however short it may be. (More of Olaf in the next chapter)
As they approached Arendelle Jack was appalled at what he saw. Snow and ice covered the town. The daily posts on the city walls read "Arendelle Daily, June 25th." Jack blinked. Something had obviously gone terribly wrong. Cold hung from the roofs of the town, and the air was thick.
Jack and Olaf quickly walked through the kingdom, seeing children hunkered down inside their houses, huddled around their fireplaces. Too cold to move, too afraid to go outside.
The town was dead. Frozen to its core. No one smiled at the pair as they made their way to the castle.
Elsa did this? Jack wondered, then it hit him. Her powers are stronger than I thought.
"Olaf," Jack said, "when did Arendelle freeze?"
"Oh I wasn't here when it happened," Olaf replied, "but I think it was maybe four days ago."
Her powers are much stronger than I thought.
Jack chided himself for not noticing the signs earlier. Elsa's ease while building her castle. The complexity in her chandelier. The smoothness of the steps. Pure ice. It took Jack months of practice to master even one perfect ice cube, and Elsa had made a castle in nearly no time at all. And the tree. The snow perfectly placed, as if Mother Nature herself had chilled the trunk to perfection. I even tested her! He should have realized. He calculated how much longer Elsa had before her powers would become too much for her to bear.
Three days.
I was too distracted to notice.
Stop, Jack. There's nothing you can do, he reminded himself. Elsa had to fight this battle herself. There was, however, another task at hand.
Find the princess.