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Commentator: Welcome back my non-fairy tale and snow queen wannabe friends to the latest instalment 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)
Right then! Our review for this chapter come from Elsa Lovers fans:
I'd like to see Elsa holding grudges against that insufferable Anna.
Well you'll find out in a couple of chapters time how Elsa feels about Anna. Huh. Hey Prof, how much time do we have left?
Professor: Well according to my calculations, Sir, I believe that we still have about seven hundred and thirty words allotted to us left.
Commentator: (Smiling) Is that right...?
Professor: Sir? What are you thinking?
Commentator: I'm thinking that it'd be such a waste if we didn't use up all the time allotted to us.
Professor: Well we don't have anymore reviews to respond to, so what do you proposed?
Commentator: Well...
Professor: (Oh no.)
Commentator: If you recall, before I was rudely interrupted last chapter, I was explaining that I could make up three Disney Snow Queen films suitable for each of the previous three good era of Disney films.
Professor: The three good eras?
Commentator: Yeah! You know, the golden age, the silver age, and the renaissance!
Professor: Well, those first and third ones I know, but what's the silver age?
Commentator: The series of films between 'Cinderella' and 'The Jungle Book'. Doy.
Sammy: No, Boss, those films are part of the golden age!
Commentator: Well yeah if you accept Disney Wiki's division of Disney theatrical animated feature films, although there's clearly a drop in the quality of the films after 'Bambi' and before 'Cinderella'! By which I mean they were nothing but a combination of shorts or people singing and dancing basically all the time! Also I think it's really unfair to consider all films post Jungle Nook and pre Little Mermaid to be part of the dark age, for me the dark ages only really began with 'The Black Cauldron', which is really appropriate when you think about it!
Sammy: So you think you can make up three films in the style of each of those eras?
Commentator: Yep!
Sammy: I'd like to see you try!
Professor: (Sam, no, don't encourage him!)
Commentator: Gladly!
Professor: (Sam, what have you done?)
(The Commentator draws his breath)
Commentator: Our story begins with the fairy tale book entitled 'The Snow Queen' opening, explaining the tale of how a sprite made a mirror that only reflected the worst of what was shown, except for snow and ice it was believed which was held to be without flaws and how one day students of the sprite at his sprite school were messing with the mirror until they accidentally dropped it and it was smashed on the rocks below and the wind carried away the pieces. We then cut to a bunch of snowy mountains where snow bees are frolicking, and then we later meet their ruler the snow queen in her ice palace who is all like sitting in her throne, raising her fist shouting "silence! You know the penalty if you fail". Anyway she has had the bees gather the pieces of the mirror, for she believes that if it is raised high enough then it would reflect the sun's rays to show everything rotten and make people prefer snow and ice. However the snow bees are incapable of putting the mirror together and the queen tells them to find someone who can. Meanwhile we cut to a village, where an elderly woman is telling her grandson Kai as well as his friend Gerda all about snow bees and their queen, but Kai is acting all tough saying that if the Snow Queen ever threatened them he would stick her in a stove. Later he and his friend are having all kinds of fun with snow, and afterwards Kai shows her how to put a puzzle together. The snow bees see this and realising they may have found someone to put the mirror back together, fly back to the queen and tell her about it. She then goes off to find this boy riding her sled pulled by white fowls. Back at the village, Kai is playing by himself on his sled, when he comes face to face with the Snow Queen. They make small talk, and she kisses him on the forehead, making him forget everything he knew, before beckoning him on her sled and driving away. Meanwhile the village is all worried about Kai's disappearance, and everyone believes he drowned in the river. Gerda is especially upset, but a bunch of animals tell her that he was taken by the Snow Queen, so they direct her to where he went. She got on a boat and went down a river, where she eventually comes to a cottage, where an old woman greets her and gives her cherries-
Professor: Um, Sir-?
Commentator: YOU DARE TO INTERRUPT ME AGAIN? WHILE I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF MY STORY?
Professor: It was just to let you know Sir, that once again you reached the limit.
Commentator: I did? Damnit! I'll just have to wait for the next chapter to finish my story. Hey Anon! I thought you were going to update FMA Abridged before we went over the limit again?
I said I would do it next times there were too many reviews to respond to, and this only had one.
Commentator: Oh, damn you and your loopholes! So anywhere, here's the next chapter, 'The Lake'!
The sun was now rising. Gerda stirred as she woke up, between Bae and Hanna, who still had her dagger out, even in this place.
"Morning!" Greeted Mrs Oaken.
"Morning!" Yawned Gerda, stretching.
"I hope you all had a good sleep, yah?" She replied, brushing off the hay from them. Hanna's dagger hand flinched again, although not as much as it did yesterday.
"Oh yes, thank you very much! It was very comfortable hay!"
"Well if you can come in when you're ready, we have breakfast prepared."
After leaving the barn, the group saw something in the distance.
"Oh no."
The bandits were marching this way.
Hanna burst into the cottage, followed by Gerda.
"You've got to get out of here!" Hanna shouted, as they were preparing the breakfast table.
"No need to shout," Mrs Oaken chided, "And please do mind your manners just barging in here."
"Didn't you hear me? You've got to get out of here!" Hanna repeated, "A bunch of bandits are headed this way!"
"Bandits? More customers?" Mrs Oaken actually sounded please.
"Customers?"
Hanna gave her a disbelieving look.
"These are no customers! These people will take what they want without paying anything in return!"
"Right then," Said Mr Oaken, addressing the whole family, "You know what to do. Men, please wait by the shop to receive our guests. Women, please take the children in the back and don't let them out."
The family stood up, nodding. As the men moved to one side, the women shepherded the cheerful children away.
"Aren't you listening?" Hanna exclaimed, exasperated, "You've got to get out of here while you still can!"
"And where are we supposed to go?" Asked Mr Oaken, "With all our children?"
"I-I don't know, but anywhere's better than here!"
"Thank you for your concern, young lady, but we have nothing to fear! These aren't the first rough bunch we've come across."
"These guys are more than rough, they're among the foulest, most brutal people in the world! And their leader, she's the worst!"
"Oh, their leader is a woman?" Mrs Oaken asked, "I think I'll take the counter, Dear."
"Certainly, Mrs." Mr Oaken agreed.
"ARGH!" Hanna said in frustration, "Am I the only sane person in the whole north!"
She ran to the blacksmith Oaken.
"Hey you! Is my sword ready?"
"Yah. But it won't be necessary if that's what you're thinking."
But Hanna wasn't listening. Running through the cottage, she entered the forge, where she found the sword with a scabbard.
"So what are you thinking?" Hanna, who had followed, asked, curious about her plan, "You're going to charge head on in front of the others?"
"Head on? Kid, we've got to get out of here!"
This was not the response that Gerda was expecting.
"What? But - I thought-"
"What? That I was going to heroically defend the innocent civilians from the evil criminals? I've already tried warning them, if they don't heed it then it's not my problem!"
They were running back to the barn.
"But I've seen you easily take care of them before!"
"That was just trying to escape, actually beating them is something else!"
"You know what? I think you can beat them, you just don't care!"
Hanna stopped in the middle of the barn. She turned to look at Gerda.
"You know what? You're right. I don't care! I don't care about these bunch of strangers! I only look after myself, and those who are close to me! And by that I mean Bae!"
Gerda didn't like what she was hearing.
"Then why rescue me? Why go through all the trouble of taking me to the North Mountain?"
"Look, kid, I was ready to let you be captured, okay? I was ready to let you go on your suicide mission to save your brother, the only reason I'm here is because this big furry mutt won't let me be!"
Gerda couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe that this woman who saved her on a number of occasions only did it because her reindeer pestered her to do it.
"Did Bae also tell you to warn that family?"
Hanna was actually taken aback at this.
"No, he didn't," She admitted, "Okay, maybe I care a little, but not enough to go risking my butt anymore than I have! I'm getting out of here while I still can, and if you don't want to join me, then be my guest!"
Bae growled, walking away.
"Bae, what are you doing?"
Bae glanced at her.
"Oh no. No, don't do what I think you're doing!"
Hanna stood in front of him.
"I'm not letting you go out there all alone."
Get out of my way, Bae told her in his own way, but Hanna placed her hands on his antlers.
"You're going to die!"
I don't care.
"Well I do! I've already lost so much, I can't lose you too! Don't you care about me? More than these strangers?"
So what if they're strangers? Even strangers have loved ones, too.
"Stop it, Bae, stop it!"
Hanna gripped his antlers.
"You don't think I know what you're doing? You think that if you go out there, then I'll be forced to go out there to defend them with you? Why, why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep forcing me on these good Samaritan missions? I'm not like you!"
Hanna fell to her knees.
"Compassion and bravery come to you easily. Not to me. I'm just a scared little girl trying to survive, so stop forcing me to be something I'm not! I'm not a hero! I'M NOT!"
She stared right into Bae's eyes, who gave her a look that she and Gerda understood.
You know that's not true.
The bandits were trekking towards the cottage.
"How is it that we've never noticed this before?" One of them asked.
"Doesn't matter," The queen snarled, "But we'll take anything of value inside."
They burst open the door. Mrs Oaken smiled at them from behind the counter.
"Yoohoo!" She greeted, "Quite chilly outside, yah?"
The bandits were taken aback at such a warm greeting.
"Yeah," The queen replied, "You could say that."
They started filing in the shop, surrounding the shelves.
"Anything you're looking for in particular?" Mrs Oaken asked.
"As a matter of fact, there is," The queen answered, "See, we are looking for a woman with short blond hair in her late twenties, a red-haired girl with pig-tails of about eleven, and a reindeer. They haven't happened to come across here, have they?"
"As it happens, a band did come here recently. Although they left early in the night. They said were going east, if you want to catch them, you're best be on your way!"
"Really? So they wouldn't happen to already be here, are they?"
"Nope. Like I said, they left early last night."
"Well, forgive me if I don't believe you. You wouldn't mind if my men searched your house just to be sure, do you?"
"I'm afraid I would. Customers are not allowed outside the vicinity of the shop."
"Customers? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO?"
The queen plunged her dagger in the counter.
"I must ask you to refrain from any abusive speech or violent actions or measures will be taken-"
The queen laughed.
"I will speak to you and be as violent as I like! Do you think this is still before the winter, when people spoke to each other in a CIVILIZED manner and went about their business in orderly fashion? This is the frozen north, where only the strong survive! And they survive by taking what they want!"
"Is there a problem, Dear?"
Mr Oaken now appeared.
"Oh nothing I can't handle, Honey!"
The robber queen swiped one of the snow globes that was on the counter.
"See anything you like?" Mr Oaken asked.
"It has been a long time since I've seen a snow globe."
"Well, if you want that one, then it'll cost-"
"Actually, I was thinking that we could barter the cost."
"To what would you want it down to?"
"I was thinking - for free."
"I'm sorry Madam, but nothing here is-"
"Do you think I care what you think? I'll take what I like! On second thoughts, I no longer want this, but it would be a shame if anything happened to all of this merchandise."
She dropped the globe, where it smashed on the floor.
"Please do not drop the snow globes," Mr Oaken warned, "They're very fragile."
"Oh really?"
She hinted at some of her men, who brought down one of the shelves full of globes.
"Right then," Said Mr Oaken, as the other Oaken men emerged, "I'm afraid that I must ask you all to leave."
The queen cackled again, "Who do you think you're talking to? You think you can ask us to leave nicely, just like that?"
"If you won't leave willingly, then I'm afraid you will be forced to."
The Oaken men moved closer. The bandits laughed again.
"Do you think a bunch of merchants stand any chance against a bunch of cold hardened bandits?"
She pointed her dagger at Mr Oaken.
"Please do not point your dagger at my husband."
"Oh shut up you big boned pig!"
Mrs Oaken now stood up. She was as twice as big as the robber queen.
"What did you just call me?"
Gerda, Hanna and Bae heard a huge commotion happening in the cottage. It was like it was rumbling, with a load of punches being thrown and objects crashing all over the place. Eventually the door opened, and the Oakens threw out the beaten up bandits as they fell into a semi conscious pile. The last to come out was Mrs Oaken, who held the struggling bandit queen by the collar and pants as she did with Hanna the night before.
"AND STAY OUT!"
She threw the screaming queen at a tree, where she met with impact and fell on top of the bandit pile.
"Hmph," Said Mrs Oaken, "Big boned, indeed."
And she walked back in, slamming the door. Gerda, Hanna and Bae stared at the pile of groaning bandits.
"Huh." Remarked Hanna, "I guess they really can take care of themselves after all!"
After having a hearty breakfast, the group left the Oakens', who waved them goodbye, taking with them food that the Oakens had prepared for them.
"By the way Gerda," Hanna said, "If you happened to have heard anything back there about a scared little girl-"
"I think I missed that part of the conversation," Smiled Gerda.
Hanna also smiled.
"Good to hear it. Ahem, if you also remember if I said something about only caring what happened to me or Bae-"
"I already forgot about that conversation," Gerda smiled again.
Hanna looked at her.
"Good to hear it," She smiled.
They had been trekking through the wilderness for some time.
"How close do you think we are to the Snow Queen's realm? Ah!"
"Get down!"
Hanna crouched behind a bush, placing Gerda next to her. Bae also knelt down. Hanna peeped over.
"Pretty close, I think."
Gerda looked over to see what Hanna was looking at. A number of snowflakes were flying through the air, rather than floating to the ground. Gerda at once understood.
"Snow bees."
Hanna nodded.
"Yeah. The Snow Queen's surveillance team. We have to watch out for them if you want to get to the palace."
Hearing that her comrades were nearby, Feisty started making a commotion in her jar.
"Will you keep that bee quiet?" Hanna whispered, "We can't hear anything but those bees can probably hear their fellow bee in distress!"
Sure enough, one of the bees in the swarm looked in their direction. Deciding to check it out, it hovered over. Gerda tried to muffled the sound of her bee in her bag, but it was no use.
"Right. Guess I have no choice."
Hanna took out her dagger.
"What are you going to do?" Gerda asked.
"What do you think I'm going to do?" Hanna replied, as if it was obvious, "I'm going to kill that bee before it can alert its friends."
The bee was nearing closer.
"What?"
Gerda imagine a little bee getting impaled by a dagger. Hanna rose up to swipe it.
"No!"
But Gerda knocked her hand away so that it only slashed the alarm bee in the wing.
"Oh great. Now you've done it."
"BZBZZBZZZZ!" It was crying. The other bees stopped and looked around.
"BZBZZBZZZZ BZBZZZBZZ!"
The swarm was now flying towards where the group was.
"RUN FOR IT!"
Hanna threw Gerda on Bae and jumped on as well. At once Bae sped off, being chased by the bees. The reindeer was fast, but not fast enough to escape, and soon, more bees followed, so that they made up a blizzard, a blizzard that kept stinging the group.
"OW OW OW OW OW!"
And unlike flesh and blood bees, who when once stinging someone lose their stings, these bees kept theirs, so that they could sting again and again.
"I'm sorry, Kid," Hanna apologised, "I don't know how to get out of this one."
Gerda saw what was ahead.
"Is there a lake over that cliff?"
"What? Maybe, I'm not sure-"
"IS THERE A LAKE?"
"YES THERE IS, WHAT ABOUT IT?"
"I have an idea! Bae, keep running forwards!"
"What, are you crazy? We're going to fall over the cliff and smash on impact!"
Gerda tried to grab the sledgehammer that was attached on Bae's side, but it was too heavy, so Hanna grabbed it.
"Kid, if you're thinking what I think you're thinking-"
"Hanna, get ready to hurl that hammer! Bae, aim for the hole it makes!"
"You are crazy! Even if we somehow manage to land in any opening, you think we can shake these bees off by hiding in freezing water?"
"Exactly! Just imagine they are real bees!"
"But- I've never seen real bees before!"
"I have! Trust me!"
"Trust you? It's your fault we're in this mess in the first plac-"
"TRUST ME!"
Fighting against her better judgement, Hanna decided to trust that the girl knew what she was doing. At once they reached the cliff, Hanna hurled the hammer down. Bae leapt soon after it. The group all screamed as they plummeted to the frozen lake below. Once the hammer impacted the ice it created an opening. Bae as told aimed for it, with Gerda and Hanna clutching onto him tightly, and sure enough, they fell into the lake. The bees hovered above.
"We must alert the queen!" One of them said in their language, "There are intruders here!"
The moment they flew off, Gerda, Hanna and Bae emerged shivering.
"Great," Hanna stammered, "I'm stuck with Little Miss Bleeding Heart!"
After what felt like over two days, the mirror was over half completed.
"Sorry if I got you all into trouble the day before," Kai said.
"Oh that's okay!" Said Olaf, "To be honest, yesterday was probably the best day of my life! I never knew winter could be so much fun!"
"Actually" Kai realised, "It was the most fun I've had in a long time."
"What do you mean? I would have thought you played games like snowball fights and Bandy all the time!"
"Well...No. I mean, I used to. Me and friends used to play all the time whenever it snowed. Heck, me and my sister Gerda had all kinds of fun with snow!"
"Used to?"
"Yeah. Then, everything changed. One day, everything looked rotten. My family, my friends, even my village. Everything I had ever known. The only thing that remained good was ice and snow. So ever since, I've just played on my own."
"Oh. That doesn't sound as much fun."
"No, I guess it isn't."
"Sounds kinda lonely."
"Yeah. It was."
Wait a minute, what is wrong with me? Kai thought, Being alone has never bothered me before! Maybe it was because having someone to play with for the first time in years, made him realise just how lonely he was.
"You must miss your family," Olaf said.
"No, I don't. I don't care for my family. Or anyone in my village."
Olaf found these words shocking, coming out of the boy who had shown him so much kindness, probably the first real friend he ever had. He continued working on the mirror.
"But before," Kai continued, "They meant a great deal to me. My family, even my friends. .. . . . Especially my little sister."
Kai chuckled.
"It's funny, as long as I could remember, I was always looking out for her, trying to keep her out of trouble. But at the same time, it was fun playing with her! There was one time, before everything changed, we had just finished playing near the lake, and Gerda got so upset that I couldn't say the l word that she stamped her foot so hard on the lake that she fell in. And I - I went after her."
That's true, he did. He had forgotten that. Of course he remembered the accident, who could forget an event like that? But until now, he had forgotten the details.
"It was cold. And the water clouded my vision. But I didn't care. I needed to save her. I got her out, but she was suffering from hypothermia. Dhe could have died, so I wrapped myself around, making sure that she was as warm as possible. I didn't care that I was also cold, as long as she survived, that's all that mattered to me."
Olaf was listening to every word.
"Wow. Sounds like you really cared for her."
"Yeah I - I guess I did."
That's right. I was willing to give up my life to save her. Wait. Was I really willing to do that? Why would I put someone else's life above mine? Did Gerda - really mean that much to me? That I cared about her life more than mine? If so, what happened? When did I stop caring? What had happened to me? What has happened to me?
A memory of a mirror shard entering his heart came to mind.
"AH, AH AH, AAAH!"
"Kai? Kai, what's wrong?"
Kai was screaming as he clutched his chest.