Hey guys, I'm back, sorry to those waiting so patiently (or impatiently) for this update, I've just been so busy helping my family with the move and there's no internet at our new place, so I couldn't do much work on my stories. But, I'm back and I'm ready to work and work hard. Now, on with our story!


It didn't take long for the party of two enchanted beings, out-cold princess and horse to reach the town and Elsa had to wince at the sight. As much as she loved seeing her season and element flourishing unrelentlessly, this was much, even for her. Ice must've been coating every surface, be it what little street could be seen through the thick snow, the roofs of the houses or the walls of the houses themselves. Each roof was virtually buried under thick piles of snow and was lined with sharp icicles that reminded them of the stones that lined the top of the cave Elsa had retrieved Hicca from. Though, not long after feeling the curse become complete, the storm had slowed itself to a stop and now, though there was no snowfall, the cloud-filled sky filled the town with a dismal, depressing, sorrow-filled air.

After getting off his back, Elsa changed Kristoff back into his human-form; they got Hicca off Toothless' back, Elsa using her magic to levitate the princess and Kristoff pulling the girl's limp hand to get her to move with them. Toothless was reluctant to stay put, especially in this cold, but one look from Elsa got him listening.

No sooner did they get to the castle gate, they both knew something was very wrong. No matter which way they looked, they didn't see one guard, a very big contrast to what Kristoff remembered from his last spy-mission. It didn't take long for Kristoff to voice his suspicion, "He withdrew the guards; he's waiting for you in there!"

Elsa, for what she was worth, really didn't care at this point, even as he added, "If you go in those walls, you won't come back alive!" As far as she was concerned, she deserved whatever plan of revenge Hans had cooked up for her as soon as their paths crossed after all these years. Something told her it would be the last time they would, but after what she had put Tuffnut through, she didn't care.

Kristoff, however, had a very different opinion. Yes, he hadn't been entirely on the whole curse thing from the start and he should've stopped her or be more vocal, but that was besides the point. It was clear to him that Elsa had learned her lesson and deeply regretted her actions; that Tuffnut's turning on her hurt her much more then she had let on. As far as he was concerned, she didn't deserve any of the extreme, most likely deadly scheme the king had waiting for his mistress in the large castle; he didn't want her to die.

Elsa, also didn't want him to suffer, so in response to his words, she said in a simple, yet distant tone, the memories of the christening haunting her, "Then don't come...it isn't your fight." That said, she walked on, seemingly oblivious to the look of angered-disbelief on Kristoff's face, until he suddenly got in front of her and, boldly, grabbed her by the arms with a fierce look on his face as he all but yelled at her, "Like hell it isn't my fight, Elsa!"

She looked at him with wide, shocked eyes, but he couldn't bring himself to care as he continued, "You made me apart of this long ago when you first turned me into a man!" He took a breath to calm himself down and gave her a pleading face, keeping his voice firm, but she could hear a desperate tone to it, "I don't want you to die, Elsa."

The sincerity of his words made Elsa feel warm, warmer than any of his previous gestures of concern ever did and she was sure it was showing on her face. With her own deep breath to fight down the redness on her face, she silently pushed him back and walked past him, eyes steel as she keep her gaze on her path ahead, once again apparently oblivious to the look of now complete disbelief on her companion's face as a certain, nearby, watching black horse snickered under his breath.

The blonde male let out a disbelieving snort, "Thank you!" Taking Hicca's arm once again to guide her after the ice fairy, the man mumbled grumpily, "Thank you, Kristoff! I can't do this without you, Kristoff! You're so good to me, Kristoff!"

They were barely halfway across the bridge when Elsa suddenly said, "I can hear you; I hope you know."

Meanwhile, within the prince's room, Hans stood by his son, face emotionless, yet his thoughts were doing marathons and his emotions, as unstable as both were, weren't doing any better. There, in the bed, laid his son, his only son. Not a day back into his life and again, gone in an instant. Elsa's curse had come true and the boy was motionless and made no response when Hans, desperate upon seeing him like this at first, tried to shake him awake. He had failed his boy, who he'll never get to know and he had failed Heather...again.

The sound of the door opening made him finally look away to see a pair of guards marching with a certain tiny trio. The three gasped. Laying in the bed was Tuffnut, skin paler then they remembered, almost like death, eyes closed and he didn't so much as stir to their and the guards' entrance. Elsa's curse had come true.

Anna couldn't stop herself from giving a soft cry, "Tuffnut..." Astrid placed a comforting arm around her youngest sister, despite being unable to remove her horrified eyes from the sight before her.

"Look at him..." Hans spoke in a broken voice as he returned his face to his son's sleeping face, it wasn't peaceful, it wasn't in pain or even scrunched up as if having a nightmare, just...asleep, "Look at what you've done..."

Ruffnut, despite the situation, couldn't help to point out in an optimistic way, "He is...only sleeping..." Astrid instantly rounded a glare at the straw-blonde pixie, clearly unimpressed with her attempt.

Hans, however, looked up to stare at them for a moment, before speaking in a soft, but dangerous voice, "He's only...sleeping...you say." It made the maids flinch back, eyes wide with fear as Ruffnut nodded with a nervous smile.

Hans walked around the bed, giving a small, demented chuckle, as if discussing the weather, "He's only sleeping..." As he got closer to the pixies, they hovered back, frightened, as his face twisted darkly with anger as he said crossly, "He's only sleeping...forever!"

"But..." Anna spoke up quietly as she hovered forward, "But what about the kiss?"

Astrid immediately agreed energy renewed as she tapped on her cheek in agreement, "Yes, true love's kiss!" They looked desperate for a way to not only fix their mistake, but also help free their pseudo-nephew from his curse.

Hans once again cursed himself for his past mistakes, for his idiocy and letting his ambitious nature, as well as Elsa as memories of his childhood with the ice fairy flashed through his head. Deep down, he wished he could turn back time so he could fix all this, but his anger and pride keep that small feeling trapped down deep within the back of his mind. All that was left in him was anger and hate.

"True love..." Hans said shaking his head lightly, remembering his own kiss with Elsa, "True love doesn't exist."

But Ruffnut wasn't ready to give up as she protested, "But it's his only chance...!" She quickly curtsied, adding hastily, "You're Majesty!"

Annoyed and unable to stand them any longer, Hans growled as he swung at the green-clad pixie, making her shriek in pain and her sisters gasp as she fell. Luckily, Ruffnut was able to catch herself before she got too close to the ground, hovering back up a bit as her sisters rushed to her.

As they watched Hans and the guards leave, the trio had to wonder villain was. Elsa or Hans?

Meanwhile, Elsa had just turned a corner when she suddenly stopped, eyes wide with both shock and alarm, causing Kristoff to bump into her. "Elsa, why did yo..." He trailed off once he looked ahead into the corridor and his eyes widened in shock at what he found.

Dozens, maybe hundreds, of long, deadly-sharp spires of pitch-black iron decorated the corridor all the way to the other end. They projected every which-way, up, down, left, right, ceiling, floor, walls, resembling branches upon branches of bramble thorns. It would take a pixie, Elsa grimaced to realize, to get through. It appears taking her wings wasn't the only thing Hans took advantage of from their past.

Kristoff instantly looked at her worriedly, which he voiced, "Mistress...?" But Elsa schooled her own worry with her usual emotionless mask as she walked on, carefully moving through the dangerous display of metal. Kristoff sighed and followed, also being careful, even if iron couldn't burn him, those spires were still sharp enough to cut or stab.

They were just reaching the halfway point when a gasp made his head snap away from a particularly sharp point near his neck to see Elsa shy away from a piece that was glowing an insidious red from where her arm rubbed against it. She hissed in pain as the burn slowly dulled. She really did need to give Hans credit: he really knew how to make her life painful.

After finally getting through the corridor of iron spires, Elsa reached a corner and peered around it to spy a guard positioned at what she had to guess was Tuffnut's bedroom door. Getting an idea, she turned Hicca around in mid-air, so the princess was floating with her back to the floor.

A noise got the guard's attention and when he turned to look, he was startled to see a young girl floating mid-air. When he went to investigate, he was soon met with a swing of a certain ice staff, getting the blue gem right between the eyes, knocking him out cold.

As he slumped to the floor, Elsa emerged with a rather satisfying look on her face, followed by Kristoff, who looked impressed as he grabbed Hicca again. "Nice one," He complemented. She gave the smallest quirk of a smile, "Thanks."

Meanwhile, in Tuffnut's room, Ruffnut and Anna both sat on either side of the double doors, while Astrid was flying back and forth between them and Tuffnut, trying to think. "What are we going to do?" Ruffnut asked depressedly.

"Well, we can't just give up, now can we?" Astrid retorted clearly stressed, "Come on, girls!"

"But we don't even know where to start!" Ruffnut protested, "We did a pretty good job keeping him distant from others and what girls he did meet, he didn't show any romantic interest in!"

Anna sighed, thinking of Kristoff as she added, "True love doesn't just fall from trees, ya know?" Astrid sighed in agreement to both of them.

At this moment, Kristoff and Elsa just finished positioning Hicca in front of the doors, so she wouldn't be able to see them from their hiding spot from the curtained corner. No sooner did Elsa snap her fingers, Hicca jolted awake with a snap of her eyes, she only had a second to look around, very confused, before shrieking as she fell to the ground.

The shriek, along with the sound something hitting the ground, instantly caught the pixies attention as the younger two looked at each other in confusion and Astrid raised an eyebrow. Anna and Ruffnut quickly flew up to the handles and used as much strength as they could muster to pull them open, revealing Hicca slowly picking herself up from the floor, very confused and a little startled.

"Where...where am I?" Hicca asked confused as she took in her surroundings.

Anna offered a polite smile as she answered, "In King Hans' castle."

"King..." Hicca muttered as she stood, dusting herself, "How did I get here? One moment I was back in the cave with Toothless, then I am here...though, can't say I can complain," The pixies looked at each other in confusion as they listened to her, "Seeing how I am suppose to be here."

Astrid raised an eyebrow in suspicion of the girl, hovering forward as she demanded, "Why did you come?"

"My father sent me, to see King Hans," Hicca replied, "To request my cousin's return home."

"Who are your father and cousin?" Astrid asked. "King Stoick of Berk, a kingdom south of here," Hicca revealed fixing her hair as it had gotten messed up from her fall, "My cousin is the Master of the Ironworkers, Snotlout Jorgenson." It was then they spied her head-ring as the light was reflected off one of the emeralds.

All three pixies instantly looked at each other with wide, excited smiles as they exclaimed as one, "A princess!" They just couldn't believe their luck; a princess of all girls appearing at Tuffnut's door was too good of a dream come-true at the moment, but even Astrid was too excited and desperate to look the gift in the horse's mouth.

They instantly flew forth, Anna pulling on the startled girl's skirt, while Astrid pulled on one of her billowed-sleeves to get her into the room, while Ruffnut pushed her in from behind. Despite Hicca trying to question them all she got was excited chatter between the three, while did nothing to ease her confusion. Meanwhile, Elsa and Kristoff watched all this from their hiding spot and waited until they were well in the room before sneaking into the room themselves.

"Will you-!" Hicca finally started to shout as she pulled/pushed to the bed, but cut herself off when she saw who was lying on it, only adding to her confusion, "Wait...Tuffnut?" She wondered how her new friend had gotten all the way to the castle and his death-like appearance not only worried her, but disturbed her as well. She never seen someone so pale and she was curious how his lips were so blue.

She barely heard one of the pixies, Anna, saying to the others in wonder, "She knows him..."

"What..." Hicca breathed as she sat next to him, gently brushing back a strand of hair, immediately pulling back at how cold his skin was when her fingers brushed against his forehead, "What happened to him?" She looked at them confused and concerned, "Why is he sleeping? And why is he so cold?"

"He's trapped in an enchantment, I'm afraid," Astrid explained, "He was cursed when he was born."

"Part of it was being give power over winter and all that identified with it," Anna added, "The other part is being forced to sleep if he pricks his finger before sunset today."

Hicca reminded silent as she took their words in. In stunned her to learn he had powers over ice and snow, and wondered if that had anything to do with the eternal winter, but reframed from asking. She failed to see how such powers could be a curse, having always admired the beauty of winter, but she understood not all shared the same opinion. She returned gazing down at the sleeping prince, despite finding how he was sleeping disturbing, she could find a little peace in his expression, since he didn't seem to be in pain, in fact, in the fire-light, she found herself mesmerized by how his hair shone like snow in moonlight.

Anna smiled at the look on Hicca's face, much like the looks girls in the village would give Tuffnut, but at the same time, more gentle, more sincere and gentle, and asked her, "He's very handsome, isn't he?"

Hicca couldn't help but blush a little as she found herself agreeing with the blue pixie, "He's the most amazing person I've ever met..." She flushed darker at her own words, but didn't take them back.

What no one knew was Elsa and Kristoff had snuck into the room, quiet as ever, and were hiding behind the changing screen in the corner. Feeling bold again, Ruffnut asked with a wide smirk, "Do you want to kiss him?" Astrid took a moment to glare at her sister once again despite the fact they needed that to happen to wake him up, she just wished her middle sister had more tact.

"I just barely know him!" Hicca said as she looked at them, somewhat scandalously, "We only met yesterday!"

Ruffnut groaned, "Ever heard of love at first sight?" She grunted as Astrid's elbow dug into her side.

"Kiss him!" Anna urged getting well out of Astrid's reach, "Go on!"

Elsa watched with baited breath as the girl leaned down, but paused in thought, before asking as she straightened a little, "Are you...sure this won't just make things worse?"

Both Kristoff and the pixies groaned in response, the three girls being the only ones to all but scream both their exasperation and desperation, "KISS HIM!"

Hicca leaned down and pressed a kiss to Tuffnut's lips. The pixies, Kristoff and Elsa watched anxiously as she pulled back for some kind of sign but after a few moments, nothing happened. Elsa closed her eyes with a heavy heart, she should've known.

Ruffnut gave an upset, frustrated cry, "You must've not done it properly!" Astrid nodded in agreement, "It's supposed to be true love's kiss!"

With disappointed sighs, the girls proceeded to push/pull a once again startled Hicca out of the room with Anna saying, "I was so sure she was the one!"

"Hey!" Hicca yelped as she was forced toward the door, "What on earth are you doing?"

Astrid sighed, "We'll just have to keep looking!" She closed the doors behind them, determined to find a way to save Tuffnut.

Once they were gone, Kristoff allowed himself to let out a sound of shocked-disappointment mixed with disbelief as he leaned back against the wall, confused why it didn't work. "I told you..." Elsa suddenly spoke so quiet and upset it pulled at his heart as he looked at her to see her heartbroken expression, though who she was talking to, herself or him was a mystery as she walked out of hiding.

Kristoff stayed beside the changing screen, giving Elsa the space she needed given the circumstances of the moment as she walked up to stand by Tuffnut's bedside. It was really at moments like this he wished he did something different.

Elsa didn't even try to hold back her tears as she looked down at the boy who taught her to feel again; he looked so...dead, it made everything in her hurt. It was like she lost her wings again, but worse. Leaning her staff against one of the bed posts, Elsa sat down where Hicca had previously sat and gently cupped his cheek, even she could feel how cold his skin was and it made her shiver.

"I won't even try...to ask for your forgiveness..." Elsa whispered not caring how broken and defeated she sounded in her own ears as the tears started to trickle down her face, "Because what I've done to you...someone so innocent and caring...who did nothing wrong...is unforgivable..."

Kristoff looked away as she let out a sob, "I was just...so lost...in my pain, my anger...so swept up in my revenge..." She gently brushed back his bangs, "Dear Tuffnut..." She chuckled a little at the irony, "You stole...what was left of my heart when I thought there was nothing left to take...and I can't even hate you for it..." She sobbed again, "And now...you're gone forever..."

Kristoff was crying silently from his spot by the changing screen, remembering back to when Tuffnut was just a small child, playing chase with him as a bird, laughing gleefully without a care in the world. He could still remember when the boy was just a small infant, when he first brought him that milk-flower. He never thought he could care for child the way he had for Tuffnut and now, he was gone.

Elsa let out a shaky breath, before promising the boy, "I swear to you...that nothing will ever harm you again, so long as I live..." She couldn't help the tiniest smile as she remembered the smile on his face when she offered to let him live with her in the Moors, "And there won't be a day...when I won't miss your smile..." Elsa then placed a motherly kiss on his forehead.

Kristoff closed his eyes tight, not wanting this to be goodbye as Elsa stood and turned to leave, when something happened. A small, pale, baby blue light shone from within Tuffnut's chest before the blue tint on his lips slowly faded away and his skin regained a healthy color. Kristoff noticed the light and looked up in surprise and gasped softly when there was a sudden movement.

Then just as Elsa took a step, a very familiar voice was heard from behind her, whispering a warm, sincere whisper, "Hello, mother..."

Elsa gasped as her heart skipped a beat; eyes widening in shock, she knew that voice all too well, but it wasn't possible. But when she turned around, she didn't see death-white skin or blue lips or closed eyes. Tuffnut was awake, smiling warmly at her.

She couldn't help the short, but relieved and very happy sigh that escaped her, tears beginning anew, but for a different reason as her heart warmed to the point she thought it burst. Not only was Tuffnut awake, but he called her mother. Not fairy godmother, not godmother, mother.

Elsa smiled a warm, watery smile as she said back, "Hello, lite snødyr."

Unable to contain herself, she hurried over and pulled him into a hug, making Tuffnut smile more as he returned it. From his spot, Kristoff was smiling like loon himself as he said softly to himself, "And there you have it...true love."


And there we have it, the new chapter! Sorry if its a little short, but I wanted to make that scene its own chapter and I was ready to cry by the time I got it finished. Tuffnut's back! And he called Elsa 'mother' as in 'mom', not fairy godmother! Elsa's happy again after having a bit of a cry. Bad Hans! Hitting Ruffnut like that! Oh and those three, aah, they'll never cease making me laugh and can't say Hicca didn't try. I hope everyone likes the chapter!

Now, to the reviews!

First to Sammael29: I'm glad you liked the last chapter, I just hope this one lives up to the same expectations, despite being much shorter then my other chapters.

And, of course, to my other ever faithful viewer, : I can kinda agree, the old one kinda had a gloomy feel to it and that just isn't how I'd describe you at all from what I've read in your reviews. Some how, I'm not surprised by the whole crying at your laptop thing, don't why, but I'm not. I'm glad you like Hicca so much and hope you like her in this one, and to be honest, I didn't think I made her character so well. As for the feels, its kinda of what I focus on for the most part of my stories apart from the whole transgression, don't know why. I'm glad you like Sven's little cameo! Also, I hope you like this chapter in general and I'm looking forward to your next review, however soon it might be, I just hope you're not put off by the shortness.

Oh and before I forget, I have poll news for my next crossover: for now, the new Cinderella(or Cinderfella as the case might be), is still in the lead of the polls with four, while Jack and the Giant Slayer is second with two, followed by Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with one and Inside Out is still at zero.

Well, till next time my lovelies!