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Commentator: Welcome back my non-fairy tale and snow queen wannabe friends to the next chapter in Frozen: What Could Have Happened! Before we begin let's take a look at some of the reviews you've sent us. PROFESSOR! OPEN THE SHOOT!
(The Professor does so, and out pops an envelope)
Commentator: Right then! Our review from last chapter comes from Erinmilne:
My gosh. Well written, well worded, well integrated (the songs, I mean). I love how you've connected it to both the original story and the concepts! Great job!
Yes it makes me wonder why Disney couldn't make a Snow Queen film that at least was LOOSELY based rather than inspired. Seriously, from the early concepts I've learnt about it's like they weren't even TRYING to make a film based on the actual book!
Professor: Actually they apparently did have a script that was closer to the original, indeed, Disney has been trying to make a Snow Queen film since even before Snow White, but they couldn't make the original story work in film.
Commentator: Yeah because it's not like anyone was EVER able to make a Snow Queen film over the years!
(As he spoke, images of numerous Snow Queen adaptations appear.)
Professor: Yyyyes but how many of those were actual critical AND commercial successes?
Commentator: Well apparently a number of them were well received or award worthy, heck even one was sequel worthy and another a box office success.
Professor: Yes, but was it Disney box office success?
Commentator: Huh. Well you got me there! I guess my main concern about adapting this for a family film is featuring a scene where a child is stabbed in the heart. So here's the next chapter!
FOUR YEARS LATER...
Snowflakes filled the air. Within the flakes flew the snow bees, flying to different towns and villages. To those they visited, certain people were singing:
"This new vase is too ugly," Sang one.
"This piglet is too thin," Sang another.
"This carving's carved all wrongly!"
"It should be made a sin!"
Some were even singing together and dancing in their square:
"It seems although we can't quite
put our finger on it,
but everywhere we look now,
all we can see is OW!"
"OW!"
"OW!"
"OW!"
OW!"
The singers clutched their eyes as something flew in them. When it seemed the something was gone, they blinked their eyes a few times.
"Hey! Everything looks much better now!"
"Yeah!"
"You're right!"
"I agree!"
"Yeah!"
Unbeknownst to them, snow bees had flown into their eyes, taking out the mirror shards that were stuck in them. It was not just people they were checking had mirror shards, but objects as well.
"Oh!" Sang a young man indoors "Why are people happy? Living in this desolate wasteland we call home - HEY!"
A hole had appeared in the window.
"Oh now I see it!"
"Oh!" Sang a woman brushing her hair as she looked into her mirror, "Why am I so ugly? When others are blessed with beauty I look like a gnome AH!"
She dodged the falling mirror, distracted by the window as snow bees carried away mirror fragments.
"I'm - I'm beautiful?"
A man was reading a book.
"No matter how far I read this thing, it doesn't change my mind that it's a bunch of rot!"
A couple of snow bees popped out the spectacle glass, flying away with them.
"Finally a good part!"
In another village, the chief elder's son was being presented with potential brides:
"Oh will I find my one true love? Among these ugly broads that are the best we've got-AH!"
The man clutched his eye before setting his eyes on the next candidate. He instantly fell in love.
"Will you marry me?" He asked as he knelt. The girl felt flattered being chosen by the not so easily pleased elder's son, among all the jealous candidates who wondered what she had that they didn't.
The snow bees flew away with the mirror shards that they had collected. One snow bee, nicknamed Feisty, came across one village where the bell was ringing, signally the end of school. The children that cheerfully ran out of the building included a gang of girls encircling Gerda.
"So what do you want to do? Gerda?"
Gerda saw her brother Kai walking off into the snowy landscape.
"I'll catch up with you later," She told her friends. One of them sighed.
"Oh Gerda," She said.
"What?" Asked another.
"She's going after her brother again. I don't know why you bother with him, Gerda. I mean, I know he's your brother and all, but he's a jerk!"
"Elie!" One of the other girls whispered.
"Well he is!" she retorted.
"I know what my brother is," Gerda replied.
And sadly, she also remembered who he used to be.
Feisty listened to the conversation. From what the human girls were saying, this brother could potentially be affected by the mirror, as those with mirror shards stuck in their eyes tended to be rather hostile towards other people. Seeing where the boy was heading, she flew after him.
Standing on top of the hill, Kai looked up at the snow drifting down. Snow was one of the few things that he took any pleasure in anymore. Holding out his hands, Kai let the snowflakes land in them.
"Ow!"
Something had flown into his right eye. He tried to get it out, but the snow bee was too quick. It searched for any trace of the mirror shard. After concluding it wasn't here, Feisty flew off and into the other eye.
"OW!"
As Feisty searched, she couldn't find anything. Perhaps this boy wasn't affected by the mirror. Maybe he was just naturally a jerk.
"Well, well, if it isn't the Snow Boy?"
Kai looked around. A gang of boys, boys who were once his friends, walked up to him.
"Whatcha doin, freak?" One of them jeered, "Admiring snowflakes again, are we?"
"I bet he wants to marry them," Another suggested, "Is that what you want to do, Kai? Marry the snow?"
They all made kissing noises. If Kai was angered by this teasing, he clearly didn't show it.
"Are you done?" He asked, walking away.
"Hey, we didn't give you permission to leave!"
The boys surrounded him. Kai sighed.
"Must we do this every winter? I mean don't you guys have better things to do?"
"What's the matter, Kai?" The leading boy, named Thomas, asked angrily, "What are we not good enough for you, anymore? Us lowly mortals?"
Kai looked straight at him.
"No," He said, "You're not."
Thomas reddened.
"Why you-"
And he pushed him. Kai went tumbling down the hill, getting encased in snow.
"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!" Feisty cried, having not had enough time to fly away and now trapped between the eye and the snow.
"Ah!" Thomas cried.
"Thomas!" Said another boy, "What have you done?"
The snow ball that Kai was trapped in rolled onto the lake. Moments later, the ice cracked and the ball fell in. The boys were terrified at what they had done.
"Come on, let's go!" One of them said, and they ran off.
Gerda, who had been following her brother, saw what happened.
"Kai! Kai no!"
She ran to the broken part of the lake. Her brother crawled out of the lake, shivering.
"Kai, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," He shivered.
"We've gotta get you back to the village!"
Holding up her brother, she hugged him tightly.
"What are you doing?"
"Keeping you warm."
Kai considered this, realising that it made logical sense.
"Fair enough."
"Honestly, I can't believe what those boys did!" Complained Kai and Gerda's grandmother as she undressed Kai near the fireplace, "Especially after what happened four years ago! I swear, once your parents speaks to their parents they're going to put in them the fear of-"
"Ow!"
"Kai, are you all right?"
"I'm fine," He said, covering his left eye, "I think there was something lodged in my eye."
"Well let me see."
"Grandmama I'm fine."
Feisty had flown out of Kai's eye, having taken refuge under his eyelid.
"Well whatever it is it's gone now."
"I said I was fine, you old hag!"
Feisty glanced back then looked again. She saw what was probably invisible to a human eye but not to a snow bee's: a spec of glass sticking out of the boy's chest. The bee recognised it instantly. It was a mirror fragment!
"I know, I was just checking."
It was probably not the best time to try to get it out. Feisty would have to wait.
After being given warm clothes and a hot cup of and covered by a blanket, Kai sat next to the fire until he was warm enough.
"I'm glad you're okay, Kai," Gerda told him.
Kai ignored her, continuing to sip his drink.
"Well Kai? Aren't you going to thank her?"
"For what?" Kai asked, not understanding what it was he was supposed to thank for.
"For helping you! It could have been alot worse if Gerda hadn't helped you get back and helped you stay warm."
Kai considered this.
"That is true. Thank you, Gerda."
Gerda smiled. It had been a long time since she had gotten a 'thank you'.
"Hey that's what's family's for-"
Then Kai walked away as if she wasn't there.
"Kai? KAI?"
She stared after her brother, as she often did.
"Why is it whenever I think I'm reaching him, it turns out he's as far away as ever?"
It was always uncomfortable, being in the same room as the New Kai, which she referred to him mentally in her head. He wasn't exactly cruel, unless you tried to talk to him or engage in any activity with him. Kai just ignored her, which in many ways was alot worse. She remembered how days after the accident she had woken up screaming, but turned to look at Kai still soundly asleep, not willing to comfort her as he used to. He hates me, she decided, he hates me because he blames me for what happened to him. If I hadn't been on the lake he wouldn't have tried to save me and almost died because of it. That was the only possible reason she could think of for his coldness.
"He's thirteen, dear." Her grandmother told her, "Boys are not as particularly open with their emotions as girls are, especially in their teenage years."
"But it's not just me, Grandmama, he's rotten to everyone!"
And this was true. Although blaming her for the accident was the only reason she could think of for his attitude towards Gerda, it didn't explain it towards other people. He was quite dismissive of their mother's attempt at affection, and nowadays rather than just protesting against kisses deliberately dodges them. With their father he tries to avoid engaging in any activity, and had once openly dismissed his job of a "smelly, dirt-covered peasant". He was particularly cruel towards their grandmother most of all, often insulting her like calling her 'Old Bat' or 'senile hag', and had once destroyed her precious rose box. Even outside the family, Kai eventually stopped hanging out with his friends, and didn't engage in conversation with anyone unless forced to, and even then his responses were either emotionless or dismissive. Most of the time he was often staring out the window or looking in the mirror. The only activity he continued to carry on from the old Kai was doing puzzles. Gerda had at times tried to help him with them, but he preferred to do them alone. The only time in the year when he seemed to come alive was during winter when it snowed. The new Kai loved snow and ice, loved gazing at it, even snowflakes, inspecting them with his magnifying glass. Whenever it snowed, he would go out, but always alone.
"You know, Gerda, Princess Anna thought similar things too, about the way she was treated by her elder sibling, Elsa."
"Oh Grandmama, that's just a story!"
"Even stories have lessons to teach. Remember how every day, Anna would try to get her sister to join her, always being told to go away. She thought she was being cruel, not realizing in fact that the reason her sister was being so distant was that she was trying to protect Anna from her ice powers, because she still loved her very much."
"Well, I'm pretty sure that Kai doesn't have destructive ice powers!"
"So was Anna!" Gerda's grandmother laughed, "So imagined the shock she felt when she discovered her sister's secret! But in all seriousness, child," She placed her hand on Gerda's shoulder, "It is important to remember that just because someone doesn't express emotion, it doesn't mean that they don't care. What matters is that we never give up on the people we love."
Gerda considered what her grandmother had just said.
"The people we love..."
That night, when Gerda and Kai were fast asleep, Feisty set to work. Flying down Kai's shirt, she attempted to pull out the mirror shard. However, no matter how much she tried, or different positions she was in, she could not get the mirror fragment to budge.
"Phew!"
Feisty wiped off the sweat from her brow as she leaned on the mirror fragment. It looked like she was going to need some help. Unloosening the locks on the window, Feisty opened it, and flew out to find other bees. Eventually she found some.
"Bzzbzzzz!" She said to them, "Bz bzzzz bz bzzzbzzz! bz bzzzzz bzz zzz, bzzzzz bz bzzz bzz'z bzzzzz!"
"Bzzzzzz?" The other bees inquired.
"Bzzzz!" Feisty nodded.
They flew over to the house, trying to pull out the fragment. When that didn't work, they flew out to gather more bees, and more, but no matter how many of them there were, no matter how hard they tried, they could not pull out the shard. Kai started to stir, and opened his eyes.
"Bzzbzzzz!" One of the bees shouted. They all headed for the open window.
"Why is the window open?" Kai asked sleepily.
Kai went to close it, too tired to notice what looked like snow flakes flying out of the window. By the time he closed the window, only one didn't manage to escape. Kai looked down at what he thought to be a snowflake. Feisty attempted to play snowflake. However that was probably not the best move, as Kai picked her up with a pair of tweezers, and placed her in a jar. Kai admired the snow flake, worried that it would have melted in his hand. He brought up his magnifying glass so he could better admire the snowflake. However, he was shocked at what it actually was. Through the magnifier, he saw what looked like a white insect made of ice, possibly a bee.
"What- are you?"
Feisty, looking straight at Kai, kept circling her fists, as if saying "Put'm up! Put'm up!"
"Such a perfect creature."
Feisty stopped, before the shade of colour on her face changed and now she changed gesture as if saying "Aw shucks!"
"Kai?"
Alarmed, Kai hid the jar and protesting bee under his pillow.
"What are you doing?" Gerda asked him sleepily.
"None of your business," He told her, going back to sleep. Gerda stared at her brother.
"Okay, I was only asking."
And she went back to sleep too.
"We must alert the Queen!" One of the Snow Bees said in their language, "That we have found another fragment!"
And they flew, eventually coming to the northern mountain, the home of the Snow Queen's palace.
Inside, the Snow Queen was looking fed up, sitting on her icy throne, her head to one side. Her servant, Olaf, stood at her side, looking up sympathetically.
"You know, it makes me sad seeing you look like this, Mistress."
Olaf suddenly brightened.
"I know! You can sing for us! I know how much you used to love to sing and dance!"
But the queen turned her face the other way. Olaf had another idea.
"Or you can build another castle!"
He grabbed her by the hand, and tried to pull her along. "I know a good spot on the mountain where you can start-"
The queen pulled her hand away.
"You know what it is that will make me happy," She told him, "So why aren't you continuing with it?"
"Er, yes," Olaf said guiltily, looking over where the mirror frame was laying on the floor, with the found pieces on top. "Well, it's just that there are so many pieces and they're so tiny that's it's been - well - difficult putting it together."
She looked straight at the snow man.
"So how much progress have you made?"
Olaf had a guilty look.
"I do know one thing! We almost have all the pieces. I think we're missing -"
He made a whole with his fingers,
"This much."
"And what good is knowing how much is left when you can't even put the others together?"
At that point the snow bees entered the palace, and hovered in front of the Snow Queen.
"What is it, my bees?" She asked, "Any further news?"
"Bzzz Bzbzzbz!" One of the bees greeted, "Bz bzzz bzzzz bz bzzzbzzz! Bz Bzz Bzz! Bzz bz'z bzzzz bz bzz bzzzz bz bz bzzzz bzz!"
"What? You have found another fragment?"
"Bzz!" The bee nodded.
"A large piece?"
"Bzz!"
"Stuck in the heart of a young boy?"
"Bzz!"
The queen had a rare look of excitement on her face.
"This could be it. This could be the final piece I need to fix the mirror."
"But its stuck in someone's heart? Ouch!"
Olaf clutched where a heart would be situated in his body.
"That has to hurt!"
"That is irrelevant. But it seems I need to send something - bigger - to get me the fragment."
"Bzzz bzzzzbzzz!" Another bee added, "Bzz bzzz bzzz! Bz bzzz bzz bz bzz bzz bz bzz bzzzz bzzzz bzz bzz bzz!"
"What?" Olaf gasped, sounding alarmed, "One of the bees is trapped in the boy's house?"
"That is of no concern," The queen raised her hand, "The loss of one snow bee is insignificant."
The snow bees clearly felt differently.
"Bzz-bzz bzz bzzzbzzz-!" One stammered. the snow queen glared at them.
"Not another word, or I'll turn you back into the nothingness you were."
The bees stared at her.
"Bzzzzzz," they submitted.
The Snow Queen waved her hand over the floor. A small blizzard appeared, and out of the blizzard emerged snow men- actual figures looking like men made of snow carrying icy nets.
"Lead these snow men to where the last fragment is," she ordered the snow bees. She turned to look at the newly made snow men.
"Capture this boy with the mirror shard in his heart, and bring him to me."
The snow men rode out on their horses from the palace, being guided by the snow bees. The broken mirror seemed to sparkle.
Kai woke up in the middle of the night. He suddenly had the desire to go outside on his sled. As he got out of bed and out of the room, he woke up his sister.
"Kai?"
He shut the door.
Gerda followed him in the shed.
"Kai, what are you doing?"
"I'm going sledding," Was his reply, dragging the sled by the rope.
"In the middle of the night?" This was odd behaviour even for the new Kai, "Why?"
"It's none of your business."
And he walked out with a lantern.
He made some distance from the village towards where the river was.
"KAI! Kai, Wait up!"
Kai turned around. Gerda was running after him.
"Go away, Gerda!" He shouted.
"Not a chance!" She said, walking up to him. Kai sighed.
"Gerda, what will it take for you to leave me alone?"
As if in answer, Gerda offered him a carrot, like the ones they used to make snow men together. Kai took the gift, not understanding what it meant.
"I just want you to know, Kai," She told him, "That I'm not giving up on you. I'm never giving up on you, no matter how many times you try to push me away, no matter how much you hate me, that I'll always-"
"Hate you?" Kai was puzzled, "What are you talking about?"
Gerda was taken aback by his question.
"For being responsible for you almost dying from being in the lake. Isn't that why you've been so cold towards me since then?"
"The lake? Wait, you mean the accident, when we were kids?"
Kai actually laughed.
"Is that why you think I want nothing to do with you?"
"Well, yeah. Why else then?"
Kai looked straight at her.
"Because you mean nothing to me. You, Grandmama, our parents, the other kids, the other adults, you're all rotten to me now. The entire village is rotten in my eyes now, the only thing left that is pure and good in this world, is ice and snow."
Gerda couldn't believe what she was hearing. She almost wished he was angry at her! It was much better than feeling nothing towards her at all. She stared into those eyes, those cold, emotionless eyes that had no trace of affection in them. Kai turned away, his sled trailing behind her.
"KAI!"
Kai turned around. Gerda was holding back her tears the best she could.
"I - I love you, Kai! I'll always love you! I'll never stop loving you!"
Kai walked towards her. He smiled.
"Oh Gerda," He said, "Who could possibly love a skinny, ugly little wild boy child like you?"
This was perhaps the worst thing anyone could possibly say to Gerda, even worse coming out of her brother! Kai turned away, and continued walking with the sled, and disappeared.
Gerda fell to the ground, still reeling from the shock. She then burst into tears like she was seven again, her cries howling as loud as the wind.
Kai was now nearing the river. He didn't know why he was out so late, only that he felt like it. Getting his sled prepared, he saw snow flakes appearing, hovering around him. At least he thought they were snow flakes.
"Are you-"
A number of figures emerged. At first, Kai thought they were covered in snow, until he realised that they were actually made of snow, including their horses! Kai stared at them. One of the snow men raised their nets. It took Kai a moment to realise what they were about to do. He tried to run for it, but he wasn't quick enough before the net fell on top of him.
"Hey, what are you doing?" He protested, "Let me out! LET ME OUT!"
"Hiya!"
The leading snow man whipped his horse, and they turned around, one of them accidentally knocking the sled into the river, where it crashed through the ice.
Gerda was running after where Kai would be.
"Kai? KAI?"
She stopped to see Kai being captured.
"GERDA! GERDA HELP ME!"
"Hey!" Gerda started running after the captors, "Leave my brother alone!"
The snow men turned to look at her. She was startled by their hollow eyes, by the fact that they were made of snow. They continued to ride away as Gerda stood there, before going after them.
"GERDA!" Kai was screaming, "GERDA!"
Gerda kept running but the captors were too fast for her.
"Kai! KAI! Kai..."
And soon they were gone. Gerda fell to her knees in the snow.
"KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!"
"Kai!" The search party from the village were shouting, "Kai, where are you?"
They eventually came to the river, where they saw something in. They pull out the sled. One of them turned to Kai's father.
"I'm sorry, Christian."
Kai's father looked at the sled. He fell to his knees, cradling it. The search party made the only logical conclusion.
That Kai had fallen into the river and drowned.