Sorry for the hold-up guys, I'm busy at the moment writing my other story as well and school is still going, so yeah... Oh well! The important thing is that another chapter is up and I AM STILL ALIVE! Enjoy chapter 9!
I watch as Olaf rushes in along with a strange man I didn't recognize. The man slides on the ice and rushes over to Anna's side. "Anna. Are you okay?" She gets to her feet, standing straighter trying to convince him that she was fine. From the looks of his outfit, I'd say he was an ice harvester.
"I'm okay...I'm fine."
Looking right at her, I can tell she's trying to hide some kind of pain and that she probably wouldn't be feeling so good later on. Elsa, now out of her frightened shock, looks at at the strange man helping Anna stay up. "Who's this? Wait, it doesn't matter. You have to go." For a brief moment, the man looked up at me and then back down to Anna and in that short period of time, I saw something in his eyes.
He cared about Anna, deeply.
"No, I know we can figure this out together-" Anna continued to try and talk to us.
Elsa looked distraught and when she spoke, she sounded desperate. She wanted Anna to leave to prevent another disaster from happening. We had hurt Anna and she knew it.
"How? What power do you have to stop this winter? To stop us?"
Anna remains silent and I notice the wind is starting to pick up slowly and ice shards are growing from the walls. The man puts a protective arm around Anna, which doesn't seem to get her to notice the spikes protruding from the walls and the small tornado blizzards rising. "Anna, I think we should go."
She looked like she was close to tears when she opened her mouth to speak to us, and in that moment, it was just the three of us. "I'm not leaving without you Elsa, Nora." Elsa had a heartbroken look on her face, but she had made a choice. Anna would have to leave whether she liked it or not. "Yes, you are."
Elsa waves her arm and aims it at the floor where a large fierce snowman rises out of the ground. He stares at Anna, Olaf, and the strange man with a menacing look and they simply look at him in fear. Grabbing Anna and the man by the scruff of their necks in one hand, he holds Olaf in a tight grip with his other hand.
"Stop! Put us down!" Anna tried to protest, but the snowman either didn't hear her or chose to ignore her complaints.
He promptly throws the two of them out of the palace and they slide down the icy steps before landing on their butts in the snow.
"Go away!" He roars at them and then throws Olaf's head at a large snow-covered rock where it sticks. "Heads up!" The rest of his body slams into the snowbank and he is sure to warn Anna and the ice harvester to duck. "Watch out for my butt!" The snowman turns around to come back to the castle when Anna steps up, forming a snowball in her hand.
"It is not nice to throw people!"
I watch as the ice harvester tries to hold her back but it all ends with her small snowball hitting the snowman in the shoulder. He roars loudly and chases them down the mountain. I move away from the door where I had been standing, watching the whole scene in front of my eyes.
"Do you think they'll be okay? With the snowman on their heels?"
It hit me that she was still upstairs and only I had followed the large snowman downstairs. I swiftly made my way up the stairs, only tripping once, and saw Elsa with her arms crossed pacing back and forth across the icy floor. She was mumbling her mantra and I walked over to her to try and calm her nerves, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Conceal, don't feel. Conceal, don't feel. Conceal don't feel."
"Elsa? You have to try and calm down."
All around the room, icy spikes much like the ones at the coronation party began to emerge from the ground and slither down the walls.
"Get it together. Control it. Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't FEEL!"
A crack is heard from the walls and she finally looks up to notice the shards of ice taking over the castle. Uncrossing her hands, she stares at them, clenching and unclenching them making fists before looking up at me with pure fear in her eyes.
Get ready to fight, Nora...
Well this was just great. I accidentally hurt my little sister and now I had something else to deal with? Of course my day just had to get worse.
It had been a few hours since Anna had been chased away and the snowman, Marshmallow, I decided to call him, had returned to the palace. Using my winds, I was able to levitate him into the air which he smiled and pretended he could actually fly. Despite being such a fierce-looking snowman, he was actually just a big softie that wanted to protect Elsa and I.
Dawn began to rise and Marshmallow went back to guarding the palace while I decided to fix my hair...again. Looking in my vanity, my hair was now windblown and sticking out in several different directions, like it often did after I controlled the air. Then I saw out of my window, figures appearing from the horizon.
Slowly making their way up the steep mountain to reach the more level ground where the palace stood. I should've known, it was Hans.
He was accompanied by at least a dozen guards as well as two of the Duke of Wesselton's thugs whom I had recognized. Hans then turned to his men and spoke loud and clear, obviously confident of his public speaking.
"We are here to find Princess Anna. Be on guard, but no harm is to come to the Queen or the Princess. Do you understand?"
The Duke's thugs look at each other and some kind of message is passed through them, as if they plan to defy Hans' order. A large mound of snow rises from the ground and I realize, it's Marshmallow. He defends the palace and yells at the men to go away but the Prince of the Southern Isles begins to attack him.
It is just now that I run downstairs to find Elsa and to warn her, not to open the doors. I am too late. She's by the door, popping her head outside to see the ensuing battle between the snowman and the prince. The Duke's thugs spot her and whisper something to one another before running up the steps towards Elsa.
We quickly evacuate to the second story of the palace, but here we are trapped. Elsa speaks, her voice filled with absolute fear of these men as they point their crossbows at her.
"No. Please."
One of the thugs fires an arrow at her but at the last second, she blocks it by creating an ice wall, the arrow literally inches away from her face. "Elsa!" I yell and when the second thug fires an arrow at me, I summon a powerful shield of air that makes the arrow hit a wall, causing it to snap in half and fall before my feet.
"Stay away!"
The thugs reposition themselves to take another shot, but Elsa simply warns them to leave, not truly wanting to hurt them. Elsa shoots ice at the thugs but they simply dodge it and reload their crossbows. I shoot a small blast of air at them which manages to get their hair ruined, but nothing more. I guess Elsa would have to try and do offense which I knew she could never do.
I was wrong. Again.
We were literally fighting for our lives here, she eventually did start using her powers for offense, while I created protective invisible barriers. In two fast actions, Elsa traps one of the thugs in a cage of ice spikes against the wall, with one large icy spike threatening his neck. Moving over to him, I created a shield of air to ensure he couldn't move at all.
With the other, Elsa formed a wall of ice that pushed the other one away from her and towards the door. The door soon opened from the pressure and now the thug was headed for the balcony, with the wall of ice pushing him away. Suddenly, Hans appeared with his guards and saw the thug Elsa had trapped as well as the one she was currently fighting.
"Queen Elsa! Princess Nora! Don't be the monsters they fear you are."
We immediately snap out of out rage of hate and look at Hans, overwhelmed and frightened. Elsa lets her wall fall down and I release my shield from the man in the cage of spikes. Because I had run over to Elsa, in case this was some sort of trick, I hadn't seen the thug against the wall with the spikes aim his crossbow at Elsa.
At the last minute, I saw Hans' eyes shift up before he quickly moved the arm of the thug in an upwards direction, heading for the chandelier. There was a loud cracking noise and suddenly the chandelier was heading straight for us! Elsa was too frightened to try and use her powers again and didn't take my hand when I started flying faster than her running.
She made a daring leap out of the way but ended up being knocked out once she hit the floor. I stop my flying and rush down to her aid to check if she's alright.
"Elsa? Elsa! Elsa can you hear me?! Elsa!"
Then, I'm hit in the back of the head with something hard.
Darkness takes over my vision.
Ooh! Will Nora and Elsa be alright? What will become of them and all of the other guards? TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR...CHAPTER 10! (Jk, it will probably be sooner!)
§~Amethyst~§