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Commentator: Welcome back my non-fairy tale and Snow Queen wannabe friends, to the latest installment of '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. The shoot's door remains hanging as nothing has come out.)
Commentator: WAIT A MINUTE! WE DIDN'T GET ANY REVIEWS THIS TIME?
Professor: Well Sir, it has only been a day! Perhaps no one has had a chance to review, yet?
Commentator: Prof, we usually start receiving reviews like, almost instantly! And definitely after a day!
Professor: Well...we did update surprisingly early. Maybe it just threw our regular readers off?
Commentator: ...Yes. That must be the reason, of course. No. You're right. If I look at the hits we've got since yesterday, then I can see that it has sky rocketed again - EEEE!
Sammy: Boss! What's wrong?
Commentator: We've only had roughly a hundred and fifty hits since yesterday? A HUNDRED AND FIFTY HITS? Huh. I guess it's not THAT bad. But still, we usually get two hundred at this point!
Professor: Well...like I said, maybe we've thrown people off with how soon we've updated this!
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Sammy: WAH!
Commentator: everything...will be alright...
Professor: Sir, is that a stress ball you're squeezing? AND IS THAT SAMMY YOU'RE SQUEEZING?
Sammy: AH! AH! AH! AAAAAAAH!
Professor: Sir, we have an actual stress ball for you to use in these situations!
Commentator: Awwww, but Sam is so squishy and (Dropping the slug)...surprisingly sticky.
Professor: -Surprisingly- SIR, HE'S A SLUG! THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STICKY!
Commentator: (examining his hand) Yyeah, I should probably go and wash my hand. In the meantime, enjoy the next chapter, 'In Summer'!
"So if you line up these two pieces together," Kai was explaining as he was showing two mirror pieces to Olaf, "Then you can see that they fit together."
Placing them together, the fragments made that same glow that occurs when two pieces of the mirror come together.
"Now if you place it near what's already completed, you can see if it fits."
Kai held the piece over the completed part of the mirror, and saw where it fitted, placing it so that it glowed again when coming together.
"Wow," Said Olaf, sounding really impressed, "You're really clever!"
"Thanks! Well I've been putting jigsaw puzzles together for as long as I can remember, so I have like nearly thirteen years of experience."
"I couldn't get a single piece together for nearly four years," Olaf said gloomily, looking ashamed.
"Hey it's all right," Kai tried to assure him, "You just need to know what you're doing. AH!"
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, it's just my heart's playing up."
"Maybe you should have someone take a look at it?"
"Maybe."
Kai and Olaf continued to fix the mirror.
"So are your brothers always like that?"
"Like what?"
"Like kicking you around?"
"Oh no, not always! Sometimes there's throwing, sometimes there's bouncing. There was one time they actually hit me with a club outside just to see how far I would go!"
"That's horrible!"
"Hey that's what brothers do!"
There was probably some ring of truth to what Olaf said. Then again, Kai was sure that not all brothers treat their siblings like that, unless they were jerks! Course, he was a brother, and he never treated Gerda like that, most of the time he just ignored her, and only got aggressive when she tried to get in his way, or wouldn't leave him alone, but he never physically tormented her beyond pushing.
"As long as you stay out of their way, when the queen's not around, it's all okay!"
Olaf was saying this all rather cheerfully, as if it was all just fun and games, but Kai knew better. And he remembered what Olaf was yelling when he saved him from the snow man named Marshmellow.
"Olaf, it's not alright. You shouldn't treat how a bunch of bullies treat you as if it's nothing!"
"Bul-lees?"
Olaf clearly did not understand the term.
"Yeah! Bullies! People who pick on you just because you're different, or because you're weaker than they are! I mean does the queen actually allow this to happen?"
"Oh no, she caught them one time, and told them to put me down at once, and to not let her catch them again."
Well at least the queen cares about him deep down, Kai thought.
"She doesn't like it when we stray from our duties."
Oh, thought Kai. That was the reason.
"So they're very careful not to do it when she's around. But you know, no matter how they treat me, I still love my brothers, as much as my sisters."
"Sisters?"
"Oh yeah! I've got loads of sisters!"
"I don't think I've seen any female snowmen. Or snow ladies."
"Oh they're not snow men."
"Huh?"
"Look up."
Kai looked up to see Olaf's 'sisters'; what looked like snowflakes hovering about in the air. It was then that Kai understood.
"The snow bees."
"Yep! Thousands of sisters! Each with their own name!"
"The Snow bees have names?"
"Of course they have names! I've named them all! See-" Olaf started pointing to them individually, "there's Elsa Jr, there's Anna, there's Ingrid, there's Sleepy, there's Stripey, there's Buzzy, there's Angry, there's Abby, there's Adelis, there's Helga -"
On and one Olaf went, before he went through the names of EVERY snow bee hovering in the hall. There were so many that Kai lost track of who was named who.
"Hmm," Though Olaf, "Haven't seen Feisty in a while, though."
"How can you even tell them apart?"
"Oh it's easy! See, Elsa Jr has a large stripe than most, Adelis has longer antennae-"
"You know what, I'll take your word for it," Kai told him, not wanting the snowman to go through the individual characteristics of thousands of snow bees.
"You know," remarked Kai, "seeing these bees, it somewhat makes me think of the ones you see during summer."
"GASP! SUMMER?"
Olaf got so excited that his nose poked Kai's.
"You've seen SUMMER? What's it like?"
Kai was taken aback by this question.
"Erm, I don't know! Warm. Hot. Cloudless. Everything green."
To be honest summer was not Kai's favourite season. Actually none of the seasons apart from winter were his favourite! Spring was too flowery, summer was too hot, and Fall had leaves all over the place! The only time everything looked perfect was during winter. Olaf, however, clearly felt the opposite.
"Summer. Oh, I don't know why but I've always loved the idea of summer, and sun, and all things hot."
Kai raised his eyebrows.
"Really? I guess you don't have much experience with heat?"
"Nope! But sometimes I like to close my eyes, and imagine what it'd be like when summer does come..."
And so the snowman started to sing, sing about things like bees buzzing (not snow bees) and dandelions, imagining himself in the middle of summer, doing summer related activities like lying on the beach, or having a picnic, as well as dancing with a seagull and hanging out with other snowmen during summer (which were actually sand men!). He also imagined himself in other heat related activities like sitting in a hot tub and drinking hot chocolate, singing all the time about what frozen things do during summer, blissfully unaware of the fact of what actually happens to snow when it's hot! (Although Kai was sure that at one point, he was about to say 'But put me in summer, and I'll be a puddle!' before stopping and instead saying 'happy snowman' (that was the only thing Kai could think of that rhymed with 'cuddle'.)) Olaf also sang about how when life gets rough it is his dream of being in summer that gets him through it. He reached near the end of his song.
"Oh the sky will be blue. And you all will be there too (Imagining Kai and the Snow bees joining in on his picnic), when I finally do what frozen things do in summer!"
"Well, the thing is-" Kai tried to tell him.
"IN SUMMER!"
Olaf's filled the hall.
"You'd melt."
Olaf looked up. The Snow Queen had entered.
"When snow and ice come in contact with heat, it melts."
She walked towards Olaf.
"Melt? I- I don't understand," Said Olaf.
"No. As a being of snow who's only ever experienced the cold, you wouldn't. So let me show you the best example I can give in this weather."
She held out her palm. A mini-snowman appeared out of a mini-blizzard in her hand. Then the snow started to fall apart. Olaf gasp, his hands to his mouth. He recognised that the same thing happened to the snowmen that captured Kai. The Snow Queen crushed what remained in her hand. Water dripped from it. Olaf gave a horrified stare at the puddle on the floor.
"THAT is melting," The queen told Oalf, "When snow and ice turn back into water. In the same way that humans cannot live in the cold, snowmen cannot live in the heat. You could enjoy summer for an instant, but in that instant you would melt and die."
Olaf stared at the queen, his most precious dream mercilessly crushed like the mini-snowman in the Snow Queen's hand.
"So cease your pointless dreaming and get back to work."
The queen turned on the spot and walked out of the hall. She stopped at the exit, and turned around.
"What is that on your face?" She asked.
Olaf smiled.
"It's my new nose! Do you like it?"
The queen looked at the nose. An image of a girl putting a carrot for a nose on a snowman's face while her little sister giggled in background came to mind.
"It looks ridiculous. Take it off at once."
Olaf's smile vanished.
"Yes, Mistress."
Sadly he grabbed hold of the nose and pulled it off with a pop.
"Don't let me catch you with that thing on you again."
"No, Mistress."
And she walked out.
Kai looked at the gloomy snowman.
"No."
He grabbed hold of the snowman's wrist, ignoring the pain in his heart.
"Don't listen to her."
"But - but she said it looked ridiculous!"
"So what? You liked it, didn't you? So why care what anyone else thinks? Of all those times people made fun of me for loving snow, you'd think I'd ever let it stop me from enjoying it? No! So you shouldn't let someone stop you from having something that makes you happy!"
"But - but she ordered me not to have it on!"
Kai smiled.
"She said not to let her catch you having it on. So you just have to make sure you don't have it on when she's around, right?"
Olaf considered this.
"I - I just have to make sure I don't have it on when she's around?"
Kai wondered whether it was the best thing to teach deceit to this innocent snowman. Looking at the carrot, Olaf put it back on his face. He giggled.
"Can I ask you something?" Kai asked.
"Sure!"
"Why are you so loyal to her? I mean, she's so rotten to you."
Olaf smacked Kai on the cheek with his hand.
"Don't ever speak ill of my mistress again."
He returned to fixing the mirror.
"I'm sorry I had to do that Kai."
"Okay, that just increases my confusion. Why are you so loyal to her? I mean just now she crushed your dreams without a thought like it was nothing!"
Olaf had a sad look on his face.
"She wasn't always like that," Olaf told her, "When I first knew her, the queen was kind, and sweet, and gentle, and fun -"
"Really? The Snow Queen?"
Kai looked back at where the Snow Queen left.
"Oh yeah!" Olaf told him, "She would have never done harm to anybody! But, over the years, alone and away from other humans, it's made her miserable and grouchy. Also being responsible for releasing the eternal winter caused her to be withdrawn. Plus it didn't help that over the years the only humans that she's had contact with are those that wanted to kill her."
"Kill her?"
"Oh yes!" Olaf replied, as if this was just a normal occurrence, "That's why I'm glad you're here, Kai. You the first human she's met in years who didn't want to chop her head off!"
"But that still doesn't answer my question. Why be so kind to someone who is so cruel to you?"
"Because I remember who she used to be, and I know that sweet, gentle girl, the girl that I love, is still in there somewhere, beneath her cold exterior. And besides," Olaf added as if it was obvious, "You don't give up on the people you love!"
Kai considered what Olaf had just told him.
"The people you love..."
Gerda was in the middle of a snowy wasteland, during a blizzard.
"KAI!" She was screaming, covering her face, "KAI, WHERE ARE YOU?"
She saw a figure up ahead.
"KAI, IS THAT YOU?"
She walked up to the figure, who had his back turned to her.
"Oh Kai, I've missed you so much!"
Slowly, Kai turned to look at her.
"Gerda?"
He wasn't staring at her with those cold, dead eyes that she had become used to. These were warm and full of emotion, just like he used to have. And at once Gerda knew.
THIS was her brother.
"Oh Kai!" Gerda cried, tears flying passed as she ran to hug her brother, "I've missed you so mu-"
Ice erupted from the ground below Kai. Knocked back, Gerda looked up to see. Kai was trapped in the ice slab.
"GERDA!" He shouted banging on the ice, "GERDA, HELP ME!"
"KAI! KAI!"
Gerda tried banging on the ice, but it did no good. A woman appeared from behind the slab, a woman both beautiful and terrible, wearing a dark blue, sparkling dress. Gerda knew at once who she was.
The Snow Queen.
"Foolish child," She told her, "Your brother belongs to me, now."
She placed her hands on the ice.
"GERDA! GERDA, HELP ME!"
Gerda had a pickaxe in her hand. She started to strike, but it was no more effective than banging on it. The Snow Queen laughed.
"Foolish little girl!" She challenged, "What power do you have to save your brother? To stop me?"
Gerda was suddenly moved away. She tried to run back, but the more she tried, it didn't look like she was getting any nearer, and if anything was getting further away. Snow monsters erupted from the snow, ogre like, with ice spikes sprouting from them, roaring, their hollow eyes visible.
"Kai! KAI!"
The Snow Queen's laughter was as loud as the wind. She placed her hand on Kai's shoulder.
"Your brother's heart belongs to me, now!"
And she dug her claw-like fingers in Kai's heart. Ice erupted, and started spreading throughout his body.
"NO! NO!"
A snowman wrapped its hand around Gerda's mouth, muffling her screaming. She tried to fight back, but the snowman was too strong.
"SHH!" The snowman was telling her, "Wake up! WAKE UP!"
Gerda opened her eyes. She was no longer outside, nor in the clutches of a living snowman, of course she might as well have been, in the arms of a snow lady at least. Hanna had placed her hand around Gerda's mouth, her dagger drawn.
"Do you promise to remain quiet?"
Gerda nodded. Hanna removed her hand.
"Get down."
They moved away from the door. Gerda could hear footsteps. Through the door, she could see one of the bandits passing by.
"There's something I probably should have mentioned," Hanna told her, "About this place."
"What about it?" Gerda asked.
"It's where the bandits are based."
The self proclaimed robber queen sat on the throne of what used to belong to the kings and queens of Arendelle.
"Have you found any sign of Hanna?" She asked.
"No Ma'am," the second in command replied, bowing along with other bandits present, "So far it doesn't look like she's in the castle."
"She must be here," the queen muttered, "She wouldn't have abandoned her precious object. Or what she passes off as friends."
Hanna, Gerda and Bae peeked from behind a corner. There were bandits crawling everywhere, blocking any possible exit.
"Okay," Said Hanna, "Gerda, get on Bae. It's me they want."
Gerda got on.
"Stay out of sight. Hey guys!" Hanna called, "Looking for me?"
The bandits looked around.
"It's Hanna!"
"Get her!"
They roared as they went after her. Hanna ran off. Seeing their chance, Bae ran off too.
Running from the bandits chasing her, Hanna slid down the bannister of a staircase to get further distance. Running down the hallway, she saw more bandits charging at her. Grabbing a spear from one of the suits of armour, she twirled it as she prepared for battle. She hit one bandit in the head, another in the stomach, a third she blocked before knocking away and a fourth in a place where you really shouldn't hit a man. He clutched where she hit as he went down. Hanna heard roaring behind her, as bandits were charging down the stairs.
"It won't stop them," She said, "But it might slow them down."
She kicked one of the suits of armour, causing the row to tumble down like domino as they blocked the end of the staircase, with pieces of armour everywhere. Hanna ran off. It worked better than she expected, as the bandits, not looking at what was beneath them, ended up tripping over the armour.
Bae ran through the castle, with Gerda hanging onto his neck. They just needed to get out of the castle without being seen. Unfortunately a bunch of bandits spotted them.
"It's Hanna's pet!"
"And that girl!"
"Get them!"
Bae ran the other way. Eventually he came to the ballroom. Bae ended up sliding on the dance floor, spinning around. The bandits that tried to attack him ended up getting knocked away by spinning antlers no matter which direction they came in.
Later they entered a room full of paintings. More bandits tried to block their path. Bae suddenly had an idea. Jumping onto the furniture, the reindeer reached a really springy one, and managed to leap over the bandits, who looked at the reindeer with disbelief. Bae landed on another piece of furniture and bounced over more of them. He grinned at the bandits as he sped off.
Still being chased by the bandits, Hanna found a window. Kicking it open, She jumped onto a swing. She pulled the rope up so she would go higher. Hanna started swinging back and forth when the bandits arrived.
"There she is!"
"Get her!"
As they roared as they charged, Hanna swung back and then forward, having created enough momentum to knock the bandits away.
Eventually Bae and Gerda managed to escape from the castle. More bandits blocked their path. Bae tried to slow down, knowing there was no way to get passed them. Pigeons suddenly appeared, pulling the bandits' hoods and hats over their eyes, distracting them, as Bae and Gerda managed to get passed.
"Thanks, guys!" Gerda called back.
One of the pigeons saluted her.
Using a pickaxe, Hanna was able to climb on the roof. More bandits were waiting to greet her.
"Where are all these guys coming from?" She asked herself.
Her feet firmly on the roof with her hand behind her back, Hanna had her dagger out. In any other situation the bandits would have charged at her, but considering the roof was icy, they tried to move very slowly across. Hanna managed to make more distance. She threw a bunch of snow in her hand at the lead bandit. He clutched at his eyes as he lost his grip and fell off screaming down the roof, managing to take a buddy with him. It was a dirty move, Hanna admitted to herself. The remaining bandits she was able to knock off too; one by one she managed to block every one of them before sending them sliding off the roof. More bandits emerged behind her.
"Gotta go."
She started sliding down the roof herself. Coming off, she hurled a pickaxe tied to a rope at the roof of another building, where it lodged on. Swinging around, Hanna eventually landed on her feet near a frozen pond. A duck and her ducklings were passing by.
"Pardon me, Ma'am," Hanna greeted as she ran off.
Bae was running through the town, with Gerda hanging on his neck, as they were being chased by the bandits.
"Get them!" The Robber Queen shouted.
Hanna slid in out of nowhere.
"Hey guys! Missed me? Bae, I'm gonna need you to slow down for a moment."
Bae did so.
"Gerda! Let go of Bae!"
"What, are you crazy?"
"I'll catch you, trust me!"
Gerda let go. She screamed as she was falling off. But Hanna, true to her word, grabbed her arm as she had grabbed one of Bae's antlers.
"Hold on!"
Hanna then jumped onto Bae, pulling Gerda back on, who held onto her as Hanna held both of Bae's antlers.
"See? That wasn't so bad, was it?"
Hanna sighed.
"What's wrong?" Gerda asked.
"It just would have been cooler if I was able swing over Bae, and take hold of the antler with my other hand before getting on. But for that I need two hands."
They were speeding down the town.
"Bae, left here!"
running through what looked like a workshop, Hanna grabbed a sledge hammer.
"What's that for?" Gerda asked.
"Back up plan. Pray I don't need to use it."
Eventually, they seemed to escape the town. But bandits started appearing everywhere, in every direction. They were trapped. Bae looked ready to fight. The bandits brought up crossbows.
"Easy, boy, easy," Hanna told her reindeer. Bae calmed down. The bandits started walking towards them, making the circle smaller, laughing. Hanna got off Bae.
"Gerda, stay on Bae," Hanna told her.
Gerda did so, holding onto his neck. The bandit queen walked up.
"Ah, Hanna, my dear girl," She told her, "Is this really all the thanks I get? I take you in, I raise you as my own, I let you join in on our hunts, I even let you keep that flea covered beast."
Bae growled.
"And how do you repay us? Stealing from us, twice, and after breaking my heart rather than have the decency to stay away you had the audacity to trespass on my home?"
"Your home?" Hanna replied angrily, "The castle is MY home! You bandits were the one who invaded it, and took it as your own!"
"Like anyone was going to complain!" The head bandit laughed, "After all, the castle doesn't really belong to anyone, now does it? After all, the real owners abandoned it years ago, didn't they, there is no one left from the royal family around to claim it!"
Hanna stared defiantly at the queen.
"Now then, hand over the girl, and I swear I will give you a quick and painless death."
Gerda looked up at Hanna.
"Yeah, I don't think so."
"Why? What's this girl to you?" The queen snarled.
"Well a pain in my butt, mostly," Hanna shrugged, "But I don't intend to die at all."
The queen laughed.
"And how do you intend to do that? You're surrounded! You have nowhere to escape!"
"Tell me, your majesty," Hanna asked mockingly, "Whereabouts do you think we are?"
"What kind of a question is that? We're in Arendelle, aren't we? At least what's left of it!"
"Yes, but whereabouts in Arendelle is my question."
"Well-" the queen looked at what was around, "Judging from the masts, I'd say we're around the port."
"Exactly," Hanna smiled, "so from the masts around us, I'd say that we're just above the water."
"-What's your poin-"
Hanna made her point, blunt and clear as she swung the sledgehammer she had collected into the ice. The ground started to rumble. Cracks emanated from where the hammer had hit the ice, causing the bandits to lose their balance.
"Now!" Shouted Hanna, as she got back onto Bae and they rode off. The bandits were too busy trying to remain steady to stop Hanna and Bae. Another crack was chasing them.
"Run run run run run run run run DUCK!"
The group dodged a mast that came at them.
"Run run run run run run run run!"
They managed to get on solid ground before the crack reached. They turned around. The bandits had fallen into the freezing water.
"I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, HANNA!" The Robber Queen shouted, "I'LL GET YOU YET! AS SOON AS I'VE DRIED OFF AND WARMED UP!"
"Kid, your brother better be worth all of this," Hanna told Gerda.