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The following is a more creative, non-verbal, nor explicit response to the haters who for some reason cannot let it the frick go. Please feel free to skip to the REAL story if you really do not care. (Proceed to skip in -5-4-3-2-1)
If you did not skip then here is a mini story that is all happy rainbow and kitties to hopefully make up for the drama (by the way I do not own South Park, where the reference comes from to anyone who actually has a sense of humor in them):
Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Arendelle. In the kingdom everyone was happy, because nothing can affect them. Why can nothing affect the happy people? It was because of the shield of water that surrounded them. It had a magical property that was made to keep out all the bad, negativity, and reality that was in the world; however in doing so they remained isolated from the rest of humanity.
Isolation was nothing new though, not even to the two royal sisters. One was a beautiful Queen and the other was a strong and spirited princess. They lived in the castle, which was further protected from all the bad things in the world with their bully-proof windows and troll-safe doors. Nothing but kindness could get in, "Everyone likes me and thinks I'm great!" Princess Anna sang at the top of her lungs.
"People don't judge me and haters don't hate me!" Queen Elsa joined in.
"In our safe space!" They sang together.
Two little birds go fly by the windows of the castle and a large magical rainbow appears out of seemingly nowhere.
The servants come in as Elsa creates a magical winter wonderland. They too started singing, "You might call me a pussy, but I won't hear you in my safe space!"
The people in town went about in their business, however in true fictional Disney fashion they too began to sing as if they were in the safe and happy castle, "If you do not like me, you are not allowed in my safe space!"
The random little boy who complained about looking nice for the Queen's coronation jumped on a picnic table and people gathered around and sang, "Look and you will see, there's a very select crowd in your safe space!"
The other kids in the choir that had sang for Anna's party also sang out a lovely tune, "People that support me! Mixed in with more people that support me and say nice things!"
Back at the castle Olaf randomly appeared, "Rainbows all around me! There is no shame in my safe space! Take it away Sven!" Kristoff and Sven appear and Kristoff uses Sven's voice, "Bully-proof windows and troll safe doors!"
The trolls randomly appear now and Pabbie waddles over to Elsa, "We have a problem!" The cheerful music that was playing changes to one of foreboding.
"What?!"
"There is a powerful intruder!" He yells frantically.
Before anyone could react a cloud of dark smoke appears and when it disappears…Hans is standing in front of them?! "Hans?!" They yelled surprised.
"Check it yo!" He says as he snaps his fingers and lets out a beat of his own, "I am going to tear down your safe space, brick by brick I shall smash it with glee! You cannot stop me from getting inside! I am cold and I am hard and my name is no longer Hans but Reality!" Hans or rather Reality stated proudly.
"Oh no! Not Reality!" The little boy gasped.
"This is worse than the winter in summer!" The town's people exclaimed fearfully.
"Somebody stop him!" The servants yelled.
"We'll take care of him!" Elsa and Anna both exclaimed as they stepped forward.
Through the power of love (in much Sailor Moon like fashion) they channeled all their self-proclaimed delusional happiness into a strong power as they yelled, "You can't ruin our lives, Reality! Our safe space will keep you out!" Anna channeled the power of her love into Elsa, who was creating a massive snow ball above her head, "We can face almost anything! But Reality we can do without!"
"Now be gone!" Elsa ordered as she released all her powers that had been building up and thrust it at Reality.
"Noooooooo!" He exclaimed as he was blown out of the kingdom in a strong winter gust that would have put Father Winter to shame.
The town's people cheered because the kingdom was once again saved as everyone joined in for one last chorus, "Bully-proof windows! Troll-safe doors! My safe space!"
And everyone lived in a much delusional drug induced happily ever after.
The End
Ok so yea there was that short mini story I had to write. Now for the real one!
Rescue Me
Chapter Three
The Past- over a Millennium ago
A hooded figure walks head down and passes the tall pillars and underneath ornate archways. People bow as he passes. He is not of royalty, but his position is just beneath the royal Sinclair family. The people that he passes are of multiple ranks that range from servants to other positions, "You are late." He looks up as he recognizes the speaker as he approaches a room. The room is lit by torches, and multiple hieroglyphs in various rich colors decorate the walls.
The man bows and he respectfully removes his hood, "My apologies Master Roku." He bows again for good measure and together they go over to the large stone fire pit in the middle of the room with the others.
Roku has long white hair and a long beard to match. His cloak is made of golden silk as he crosses his arms as his strong voice resonates in the room, "We have been waiting to discuss the latest premonitions." They took their positions in the circle, "Brother Ozai?" Roku motioned to the man opposite of him.
The man that was addressed has long hair as well, black as night, with a short beard to match. He wears an amber colored cloak, also made of fine silk. Ozai nodded and sprinkled some sand into the fire from a pot as it was passed towards him, "We have seen terrible things," the fire erupted and an image swirled in the smoke that showed a swirling dark mass fighting against some kind of force field, "the darkness that our ancestors sealed away is growing stronger."
The young man that had been late couldn't help but scoff at this declaration. The heads of the older men in the room looked at him sharply. His cloak was made of silk as well, his hair was jet black, but unlike the older men in the room he had no beard however his eyes were bright blue and filled with youth while the others eyes were dull with age yet filled with an aura of wisdom, "We knew that was going to happen eventually," the image disappeared in the smoke as he speaks, attempting to keep his voice in a tone of respect and reason, "nothing, not even the most powerful of magic, lasts forever. You have all taught me that."
"That is not the problem young one." Another man spoke, his hair a dark brown and a small beard. His cloak was silk and in a dark blue color.
"Brother Kuruk is right." The young man looks at Roku now as he again has the floor, "It is how unprepared we are that is the problem. You see we had thought that the magic that had been in place would last longer than what is currently happening."
The pot now passes to Roku as he takes a handful of sand and throws it into the fire. The fire erupts once more and in the smoke an image formed: Terrifying screams were heard and there was mass destruction and chaos. Scenes of death were shown as soldiers tried to battle monstrous creatures, and mass crowds of people were running and screaming; however as they did so, they were only running into their deaths as flames engulfed buildings in a fiery inferno. As the smoke faded the last thing they heard was a high cruel laughter.
Everyone's faces were pale and sick looking at having to re-watch this disturbing image once more. The young man that had joined them swallowed and tried to keep the bile from rising into his throat, "That…" his throat was dry as the words died on his tongue and he shook his head as he looked away.
"I know young apprentice." Ozai said his voice soft, yet the room made it sound powerful. The young man turns back around as the other Master speaks to him directly, "However that is the problem we are facing. It would seem that this evil has become stronger since the time of our forefathers."
"You are here today so that we may speed up your training." Kuruk stated as the young man looked towards him as a show of equal respect, "We have agreed to increase your training and knowledge so that you will be prepared to help us."
"Help you?" He asked looking towards each of the Masters.
"Yes." Roku stated, "You will one day be a part of this council in protecting the light alongside the royal family. You will continue to aid the family as well as working to increase your abilities."
"How am I supposed to help you?" The man asked as a feeling of fear overcame him as the image from the smoke was forever branded into his mind.
Ozai answered this time, "You will help us destroy it permanently."
"But-" He tried to speak his doubts, however he was cut off.
"Now is not the time for doubts young apprentice." Kuruk stated firmly, however to the rest of the masters in the room they could tell he personally had his own doubts, "Time is of the essence, and we need all the help we can get. Do you understand? The fate of everyone for ages to come is in our hands."
"Yes Master. Please accept my apologies. I did not mean to question you…any of you." The man bowed deeply before his teachers, "I will do whatever it is you ask of me."
Roku spoke to him now, "For the rest of the day you will continue your duties as normal." The young man stood tall as he was given the instructions, "Tomorrow we begin the work. You are dismissed." The young man bowed once more and put his hood back up as he left the room.
Ozai turned to Roku, "Are you sure about this?"
"We have no choice. You have seen his abilities. He is strong."
"He is not mature." Kuruk stated, "He is bullheaded and he still lacks discipline. There is no way that he will be properly ready for when this happens."
Roku sighed, "We have no choice." He stated again, "We can only hope that he realizes the gravity of this situation and that we had taught him enough so that we may conquer this darkness once and for all."
Kuruk nodded in acceptance. Pulling his hood up, he leaves the room. Roku proceeds to extinguish the flame, after saying a small prayer. Ozai observes silently as he looks at his friend and colleague. Roku senses the gaze of his amber eyed friend and he says without looking to him, "You still have doubts."
"I did not say that." Ozai answered as he was met with amber brown eyes, "But yes I was implying it."
"He is our hope. I believe he is strong enough to help us." Roku said definitely.
Ozai held up his hand in peace, "I am not going to argue with you. However I advise caution."
"Alastair Roman is a strong young man. He will help us end the darkness for eternity." Roku said with an air of finality as he left the room while pulling his hood up.
Present
Anna enters the hospital wing with slight hesitance after her lunch with Elsa. She promised Elsa she would talk to Dr. Shepard more often about her…episodes…rather than resort to the liquor that she had in her study. However what Elsa did not know was that bottle she had drained out the window was not her only bottle; although again she did promise to talk to Shepard so that is what she would do. She is a woman of honor…or at least she thought she was a woman of honor.
As she approaches the office, she spies the curtains out of the corner of her eye. Her stomach plummets and despite her better judgement, she goes over to the curtains and draws one back. On the bed she sees an auburn haired man. However as the memories of two lifetimes flash before her, the current man on the bed does not match any of the images that she sees. The hair is unkempt and long. The clean-shaven face is now scruffy and sickly looking despite the nutrients that is being pumped into him through an IV. In other words, the Hans that is lying on the bed is a shadow of the man she once knew in both lives.
She looks around and not seeing anyone else, she goes over to him. The one memory that comes to mind is one that takes place on the docks after he had hit her with his horse followed by dancing through the halls, and watching the moon on the roof during Elsa's coronation. The next few that comes to her mind is of make-out sessions when she was his Commander, his sweet touches, and soothing voice. Anna closes her eyes and looks away, but she cannot however stop her hand as it reaches out to touch his hand. Gasping silently, she opens her eyes and looks at him. He makes no move of course, but the feeling of his hand is cold…almost as if he was dead.
A new memory comes to her as she remembers that day the curse broke, how she had sought out to the people to determine the man's fate…death. Her sword was so close, but a man had stopped her, and the moments that had led to Hans's current fate plays before her, and she is seeing it from a new perspective as she looks at his sullen face:
"I can help you." She started to settle down some as he paced around her and Hans, "I can get us both what we want."
"And what do you want?" She had asked.
"What you want of course, revenge."
"I wasn't going to kill for-"
"Oh but you were." He stated in a sing-song like voice as he waved his finger in her face in a condescending like manner, "But it is easy to confuse revenge with justice when your mind is clouded with anger. You see all magic comes with a price, he unfortunately neglected to pay his price." The man had stated, "So therefore he owes me, you on the other hand want him to suffer and pay for what he has done."
She had been silent and even though she had tried to fight it, his words had a great impact on her because he had been right, "Yes I want him to be punished."
"And you think death is appropriate?" He had asked feigning surprised, "Come on Commander," she had winced at how wrong the title sounded to her. How it had branded her now for life and not the good way as she had originally taken upon the mantel, "think…the most infamous person in the kingdom-"again she winced. She had not wanted that…it was bad enough after the first war, but now in the minds of the kingdom (save her sister, Kristoff, and Olaf) she was well known, but now in the good way, "the most notorious person in all of the land, could only think of death as a suitable punishment? No, no death is not the answer my dear."
She had swallowed as she felt something stirring in her mind and looked up at him. Once he had released her from her bindings she considered his words, and what he had said made sense. There was no flaw in his reasoning, with that feeling stirring deep within her she had asked, "What did you have in mind?"
He smirked, "For my price I will wipe away all traces of magic from him. He will not remember any spells, or be able to use any type of magic ever again. I will also ensure that if he does survive and reproduce after what I have planned for your punishment to him, any child born with his blood in their vain will never be able to do magic either for all of time." Her eyes must have been wide because he had said as if this was not a big deal, "I had warned him about the price of magic. Now he has to pay for it."
"What exactly are you going to do to him on my behalf?" Anna asked as he circled around her. As if analyzing her, looking for any faults or trying to see all of her hidden secrets.
"I can assure you he will experience something horrible. Something far worse than any curse imaginable."
Some part of her knew this was wrong. Something was telling her not to talk to this man any longer. If anything it was telling her to just give him Hans and be done with it, but again this voice…this instinct was silenced by another feeling clawing at her from her core, "I repeat, what are you going to do to him?"
"I will make him suffer. He is going to go through something life changing…or actually soul changing." He stopped circling her to look at her. She could see the predatory smirk that formed on his lips and his eyes slowly changing from blue to red which glowed with an essence of something foreboding, "His mind and soul will be sent to the Shadow Realm, where he will experience a crushing weight of everyone he had done wrong in his life, one thousand times over." Some type emotion must have flashed across her face before she could stop it, because his smile widened, "Can you picture it? Can you imagine how he will feel when he experience the pain that you and your sister have been through? Having that amplified one thousand times over?"
She doesn't have to. She knows what that could do to someone, it would kill them. Plus having to experience everyone else he had done wrong in his life? Hans would never survive, "If he should survive this and remain sane, he will have a lot of pieces of his heart to pick up; only then will he wake up."
She contemplates the plan and she looks at him, "There will be a chance for him to wake up?"
"If he is strong yes. He will awaken to be a changed man." He stated.
There is again no need to mention the possibility of death, because it was hinted to her multiple times, "Well?" He had asked her with his hand out stretched when she failed to respond for several moments.
"All magic comes with a price…what would I owe you?" She had asked knowingly. After all she had experience from both lives running through her mind.
The man had smiled at her, "Just promise me that if you need anything…anything at all, you come to me first." He held his hand out and watched as she considered this, "Anyway it is a win-win. We both get what we want…isn't that all that matters?"
She looks at his hand and then back at her sister, frozen in time as the man had placed time on hold all the while through this conversation. Technically she wasn't going to have the blood on her hands, and Hans would be taken care of for good. She grabbed his hand and shook it, "Deal."
"The deal is struck." He said satisfied, smiling an enchanting smile at her.
"Struck." She repeated.
The word is repeated over and over in her head as she is pulled from the memory at someone's discrete cough. Turning she sees the doctor standing behind her, "You're Highness?" He calls her hesitantly.
"Doctor Shepard." Anna greeted as she made no move to leave Hans's side, but she did release his hand, "How is he?"
The doctor sensed something amiss with the princess, but none the less goes over to Hans to look over his vitals. Although as he does so, he already knows the answer, "No change. He is still comatose."
And I made him like that, Anna thought as she now moved away from the bed. Despite internally admitting this to herself, she cannot feel any guilt for what she had allowed to happen, "Wouldn't it be best to just let him go?" Anna asked, although as she voiced the question, she again knew she did not feel the least bit sorry at the suggestion.
The doctor looked at her and knew that something was not quite right with the princess. As he looked at her, he saw not the princess but a reflection of the Commander he had come to be more acquainted with, "With all due respect, I am a doctor, not God. I do not get to choose who lives and who dies…Commander."
Anna straightened as she heard the title spill from his mouth. She made a move to reach for her sword to demand the man in front of her some more respect, however when she did not feel the hilt, she paused. She was not the Commander, there was no need to be the Commander. Struggling to regain her current feelings, she closes her eyes and tries to remember why she was here, and talking to the man in front of her, "I-" she hesitated for a moment, "I apologize. I did not mean to offend you."
"No apologies needed." Shepard said slowly as he saw the princess struggling to regain her composure. He started to move them away from Hans's bed and Anna caught one last glimpse of the man before the curtains were once again drawn shut.
There was a moment of silence before Shepard spoke again, "Is there something you needed?"
Anna was silent as she again fought against the memories that she was again being bombarded with, "Uhm…"
He watched her closely. He knew the scars that marred her face was not fading, he had been told he was magic that did that and there was nothing medically that could be done to treat it. So it could not be that. They were having sessions to help her come to turns with her cursed life, however she had abruptly cut them off. Perhaps that was it? "Did you want to come to my office and talk?" He asked gently.
Anna looked at him and a haunting voice was heard in her head, "If you need anything…anything at all, you come to me first." She needed something. Her promise…she promise Elsa that she would talk to Shepard…she needed to talk to him. She needed to keep her promise…but that man…she would not be holding her end of the deal and magic…she looked back to Hans, that was her price. She had to seek him out. Looking back to Shepard she said, "Uhm that is ok. I just remembered something I had to do. I just thought I would visit well-" she motioned to the curtains.
Shepard dropped his hand from the direction of his office. He sighed a bit dejectedly, "Ok then. Well if you need anything-"
However Anna was already heading to the door, "Yup I know where to find you!" Keeping a low key sprint, she headed to her study. She had to find a way to find him…Alastair Roman.
A/N: The mini story in the beginning was necessary. It made me laugh so if you did not read it then I suggest you go back and read it if you need a laugh. Just saying. Anyway hope this was to everyone's liking now that it seems things will be picking up.