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Commentator: Welcome back my non-fairy tale and snow queen wannabe friends to the latest instalment 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, and out pops four envelopes)
Commentator: Right then! Our first review is from Snow Queen Fans:
Brainiac didn't like Frozen: What Could Have Happened, did she? She's just upset with you for having the audacity to go ahead and change the plot of Frozen but whatever or whatever else you do! Never ever even listen to her, anybody nor anybody else didn't like Frozen: What Could Have Happened from the start in the first place.
- Wait, what? Braniac's a guy!
Professor: Our second review is from ErinMilne:
What a story! No wonder Hanna distrusts her great-aunt. The drama here is just - oh my gosh goodness gracious!
Indeed. There is nothing quite like turning your parents into ice statues to make you distrust them forever.
Sammy: Our third review is from Danazia Gray:
Thank you for this chapter. I hope Elsa redeemed.
Sniff, so do I Danazia! So do I!
Commentator: Yes well you'll just have to wait and see Sam if she does redeem herself. Anyway, our final review is from Randomness Girl:
No! Please no onions! My eyes...
Onions? What - oh right, because of the scenes with Olaf being banished and Hanna reliving the loss of her parents. And with about five hundred words to go, I think it's time for story time! Let's see, where was I before? Oh right:
Gerda later meets more animal friends, one of whom, a raven, tells her that he saw a boy matching Kai's description, and that he was betrothed to a princess. Gerda then goes to the palace, where the servants are dancing and singing, but finds that the boy is not Kai at all. She explains her tale, and the prince and princess send her off in a carriage, which is later captured by robbers and Gerda is thrown in a prison. The robber leader's son takes pity on her, she explains her story and he helps her escape along with his reindeer, and they fight bandits and whatnot. Later they come across the cottage of the Finnish woman, who helps them and gives them a charm to help in case they need it.
While this has all been happening Kai has been in a jail cell belonging to the Snow Queen. She tells him to finish the mirror and she'll let him go. Kai however refuses to fix the mirror for her, so she kisses him on the forehead and he falls under her control. She gives him a second kiss to stand the cold, and promises a third once the mirror is completed. Gerda and the robber's son reach the castle, but are too late to save Kai, while the queen says "You thought you could defeat me? Me, the ruler of ice and snow?" And shows that she had turned Kai into ice. A battle ensures, the mirror is destroyed, the queen is furious, sending all kinds of ice related attacks against them, and when they try to escape, she turns into snowflakes and blocks their path saying "Now you will face me and all the powers of winter!" And turns into an ice breathing ice dragon and she and the robber's son fight, and it's almost lost until he uses the charm that the Finnish woman gave which makes his sword glow red which he throws at the ice dragon's heart, causing her to scream and fall off a cliff, melting into water. Gerda goes to Kai, she is very upset, it's a very sad scene, then she brings him back to life with her tears of love that melt his heart, they make up, everyone is happy, they return home, everyone is happy, the end! Oh and there'll probably be some antics with some side animal characters if it doesn't reach the finishing time.
And with that out of the way, here's the next chapter, actually called 'The Ice Dragon'!
The Robber Queen and her remaining band were trekking up the mountain.
"When I find Hanna, she is going to pay!"
She turned to look around at her men.
"Where are the others?" She demanded to know.
"They gave up," Her right hand man informed her.
"Well at least you lot have stuck by me!"
The others nudged her right hand man forwards.
"Um, Mam?"
"WHAT?" The queen snapped.
"Look, I've always stood by you, whatever decision you made, but regarding this one, please, let go of your obsession with finding Hanna!"
"I will never let this humiliation go by unpunished! I will make that girl pay!"
"With what? Those merchants took away and melted all our weapons! I'll ask again, will you please let it go?"
"How dare you! If you don't have the guts to carry on, then you might as well go!"
The right hand man nodded.
"Very well then. Goodbye, Mam."
"What?"
"I've always followed you. But I can't follow you anymore where you're going."
The remaining men left.
"COME BACK, HERE! THAT'S AN ORDER! I AM YOUR LEADER! I AM YOUR QUEEN!"
"Our queen, huh? Well, your majesty, I think it's time we set up a republic."
And the bandits left.
"Hah! A republic! Good luck with that! You lost would be lost without me, so go ahead! See how you do!"
Soon they were gone, and the elderly robber was all alone.
"Come back! Please?"
Gerda, Hanna and Bae had been trekking for some time after being in the cave.
"I'm sorry," Gerda said.
"No problem," Hanna replied.
Something about what Hanna just said rubbed Gerda the wrong way.
"You don't even know what I'm saying sorry for, do you?" She accused.
"I'm guessing it's for not listening to me before but now you understand, right?"
"Actually, I was saying sorry over what you had lost."
"What? Why are you sorry about that?"
"It's just something people say when they heard about someone's loss, like saying, 'sorry for your loss'."
Hanna was confused.
"Why would people feel sorry for that unless they had something to do with it?"
"It's not about feeling guilty or anything, it's to show that they feel for - over never mind," Gerda gave up trying to explain sympathy to her ice-like friend, "Still though, I can't imagine what you went through. I mean, if anything was to happen to my family I wouldn't know what-"
"Hey kid, I thought I made it clear before that I don't do that mushy, sharing feelings stuff?"
"You just spent minutes ago doing exactly that!"
"That wasn't about me sharing feelings, I was trying to teach about what you're up against! And if you still haven't got that through your head, then - wait."
They stopped. Hanna heard something.
"Get down."
They hid behind more frozen bushes.
"What is it? More snow bees?"
"I don't think so. I hear footsteps. Someone's coming."
Hiding behind, Hanna peeped over and had her dagger drawn. Olaf was trotting by.
"Aha!"
Hanna leapt over and grabbed Olaf in a strangle hold, her dagger out.
"Help! Help!" Olaf was crying, flailing his little legs.
"A little far from your home, aren't you, snowman? Where's your troupe?"
"I - I don't have one!"
"A likely story."
"No! It's true! I'm out here all on my own! Please spare me!"
"Hanna, let him go!" Gerda told her, "He's a just a little snowman!"
Hanna gave her a disbelieving look.
"A little - Gerda, we've been through this! Don't trust anything made of snow that can walk and talk no matter how cute and innocent it looks! It's looks like there's nothing for it. I'm gonna have to kill him so he can't give away our location."
Hanna readied her dagger.
"What? NO!" Gerda protested.
Suddenly Olaf's body became separated from his head, even though Hanna had yet to cut it off.
"Hey, what the-?"
She stared at the head balancing on her dagger.
"Hi!" Olaf greeted, "Let's start over."
"AH!"
Not expecting the snowman to still speak without it's body, Hanna knocked the head away, which landed on Olaf's body. Olaf tried to run for it.
"Hey! Come back here, you!"
Hanna chased after him, the screaming snowman with his arms in the air.
"Can't we talk about this?" Olaf suggested.
They started chasing each other in a circle around Gerda and Bae.
"Help! Help!"
Olaf resorted to hiding behind Gerda.
"Save me, kind girl, save me!"
"Gerda, get out of the way!"
Gerda looked between her guide and the snowman, and knew at once who's side she was on.
"No."
Hanna gave her a disbelieving look.
"No? Gerda, don't you realise that thing behind you is the enemy?"
Gerda looked at Olaf again.
"He won't hurt us."
Hanna had finally lost patience.
"Gerda what will it take to get this through your head? For the final time, this is the Frozen North, and-"
"SHUT UP!"
Gerda's scream silenced Hanna. Gerda had also finally lost patience with her guide too.
"That's all you've ever said since I've met you! 'This is the Frozen North,' 'this is the Frozen North,' 'this is the Frozen North,' 'this is the Frozen North', the way of life is like this, the way of life is like that, and you have to do this and that to survive WELL I DON'T CARE!"
Hanna started to back away from the advancing Gerda.
"I get that that's the way you had to survive being here, but you know what I have learnt on this journey? That even in a place as harsh and cold as the Frozen North, there are those who are warm and kind enough to want to help you. If we were doing things like you wanted to do like stay away from the Oakens' cottage or be all so antagonistic towards the trolls, where would we be? Being all cold and distant may help you survive, but sometimes you need to open up to people, to give something a chance, otherwise you don't know what you might miss! And maybe I should have let you destroy that snow bee, but you know what? I'm still not sure stopping you was the wrong thing to do, and I don't care if that makes me look naive, because I believe that even in a place like this it's even more important to show others that you don't have to be so cold all the time! And I knew that snow creatures are the enemy, but I also KNOW that this snowman means us no harm. I mean look at him!"
She looked at Olaf.
"Does this look like the face of a monster to you?"
Olaf gave the robber maiden puppy dog eyes. Hanna still seemed unsure.
"But - but - Gerda, look at it! It's a snowman!"
"Bae seems to trust him."
Bae was trying to bit Olaf's nose.
"I think he likes me!" Olaf remarked.
"Actually, I think it's your nose he likes. Wait a minute, where did you even get a carrot here?"
"Oh, a friend gave it to me."
"A friend? What friend?"
Olaf looked hesitant to tell Hanna anything.
"Why don't we start over?" Gerda suggested, "Hi, I'm Gerda, and this is Hanna and Bae."
Olaf's eyes narrowed.
"Gerda? GASP! THE Gerda? Kai's little sister, Gerda?"
The little girl did not expect the snowman to mention Kai.
"What, you know my brother?"
"Yeah, he's the one who gave me this nose!"
It was then that Gerda realised. The carrot Olaf had for a nose was the same one she had given to Kai, what feels like a lifetime ago, as a way of telling him that she still wanted to be with him.
"You've seen my brother?" Gerda asked excitedly, "Is he okay?"
"Sure!" Olaf smiled. Soon his smile started to fade.
"What, what is it?"
"Nothing!" Olaf quickly said.
"No, there's something, what's wrong?"
Olaf looked hesitant to say.
"Tell the girl what's wrong with her brother," Hanna threatened, taking out her dagger, "Or I'll force it out of you!"
Gerda raised her hand.
"Let's try a more peaceful approach before we resort to violence, shall we? Olaf, what's wrong?"
"I'm very sorry, Gerda. But your brother's in danger."
"In danger? From what?"
"From the Snow Queen. She wants the mirror shard that's stuck in his heart."
"So he really does have a mirror shard stuck in his heart?"
"Yes! It's why she had him captured. She wants that last piece to fix the mirror."
"The mirror? Wait, the dark mirror? The one that only reflects the worse?" Hanna asked.
Olaf nodded.
"She's obsessed with it. Has been for the past four years."
"Why does she want to fix a mirror like that?"
"I don't know."
"Snowman, tell us why-"
"My name is Olaf, and I like warm hugs, and I'm telling you I don't know! She won't tell any of us, all I know is that she thinks it will be the key to her happiness, which is why she's willing to get the pieces by any means necessary. Even if it means-"
"What, Olaf?" Gerda asked.
"Even if it means cutting out the last piece from Kai's heart. Even if it means killing him to get it."
Gerda gasped, putting her hands to her mouth.
"NO!"
Feisty, resting in the jar, overheard this. Even she was alarmed at this information.
"If the mirror's that important to her, then why hasn't she cut it out already?" Hanna asked.
"I think she was going to, but Kai proved useful to her. He was the only one who could put the mirror together! And once that's done, once he's finally assembled all the pieces, she'll be wanting her hands on the final one."
Hanna looked down at Gerda.
"Still think you can reason with her?"
"How far? How much is the mirror completed?"
"Last time I checked, about three quarters. Which means by the end of today, it'll probably be complete."
"Olaf, you have to help us! You have to help us save Kai!"
"I'm sorry, but the Snow Queen's my mistress, I cannot betray her again."
"You see what I've been saying all along, Gerda?" Hanna pointed out, "The snow creatures are loyal to the Snow Queen to the very - wait, what do you mean again?"
"I already tried. I already tried saving him, but the queen stopped me, and had me banished. There was nothing I could do."
"Then you'll have to help us again. Olaf, do you know what it's like? Having a brother who's in trouble? And you said Kai's your friend, didn't you?"
Olaf nodded.
"He is. I think he's the best friend I've ever had."
"Then don't you want to save your friend?"
Olaf looked at her.
"I have dozens of brothers. And sisters, and every one of them is important to me, as well as Kai. Yes, I want to save him. I also want to save my mistress too. I'm just - I'm just scared."
Gerda took his hands and looked in his eyes.
"Sometimes, you have to put away your fear, to do what is right. Will you please help us?"
What seemed for a long time, Olaf stared at Gerda, remarking to himself how much she was like her brother. Eventually he nodded.
"All right. I'll help you."
They all heard a distant roar. It sounded like a fierce wind.
"What the heck is that?" Hanna asked,
"Oh," Answered Olaf if it was normal, "That's probably the ice dragon the queen sent out in order to track down any intruders."
"AN ICE DRAGON?"
"Yep."
"Sent to hunt down us?"
"Yep!"
Realization came to Olaf.
"Oh, right, we should probably get moving."
"JEEZ, YA THINK?"
"Too late!"
They saw it in the distance, the great big ice dragon flying their way.
"Everyone, get on Bae, now!"
So Hanna helped everyone on, even Olaf, as they started running from the ice dragon, which caught up gliding behind them. It let out its breath of ice at them. Bae managed to dodge the blast. They looked behind, seeing a wall of ice made where the dragon struck. The dragon kept chasing them, breathing ice, Bae dodging it, until they came to open land. The dragon just missed them at front. They turned away, but the dragon was breathing ice to the side of them.
"What the heck is it doing?"
They turned away again, but the dragon kept following, continuing to breath ice at their left side. It was Hanna who soon realised what the dragon was trying to do.
"It's trying to seal us in a barrier of ice! It's given up on trying to freeze us, but it knows that if it can trap us then we'll be easier to pick off!"
"What are we supposed to do?" Gerda wailed.
Hanna looked at what was ahead.
"Bae, head for those mountains! We'll try to lose it in there!"
The reindeer did so. Deciding to hide within the fissures, they heard the dragon roar again. Seeing it fly in a circular motion, the group heard it breathing ice. They knew what it was doing, and they now had nowhere to run.
The dragon had trapped them in their hiding place.
Flying down to the ground, the dragon started searching for them, knowing they had nowhere else to go. The group hid within a fissure. The dragon was close by, digging its claws through the naturally made dents in the rock, searching for them.
"Okay, do I have your permission to kill this thing?" Hanna tried to confirm.
"Yes, do anything!" Gerda whispered with a high-pitched voice.
"Really? Just checking that you won't make a fuss over a -"
"Hanna, there's a difference between a little bee and a great big dragon!"
"Is it really a dragon though?"
Everyone looked at Olaf.
"Huh?"
"You know, looking at it, I'm having second thoughts over whether it really is a dragon. I mean, I thought dragons had four legs, that one clearly has two!"
Gerda examined the dragon.
"Huh, you're right! But what do you call a dragon even when it only has two legs?"
"Are we really doing this?" Hanna asked.
"I hear that's call a wyvern." Olaf answered.
Gerda considered this.
"Well those wings do seem to function like legs as well. So maybe it still counts as a dragon if it walks on all fours whereas a wyvern is truly bipedal."
"What do pedals have to do with anything?"
"I mean it walks on two legs."
"Huh, hey you're right! clever observation Gerda if I may add -"
"Guys, now is not the time to discuss the little differences between dragons and dragonoids! Now then, just to be clear, I can go ahead and kill this thing, right?"
"I've just told you you could, didn't I?"
"So you're not going to get upset and cry all over its dead body when this is all over-"
"Hanna!"
"Right, just checking!"
Climbing out, Hanna crept near the dragon.
"If I knew I'd be up against an ice breathing ice dragon, I probably would have got that Oaken guy to make me a shield too. Then again that probably would have cost me another story. Focus, Hanna, focus. HEY, UGLY!"
She shouted, getting the dragon's attention. Charging forward, she leapt off a rock, her sword raised, crying as she brought her blade down on the beast. The impact make a TING sound as the sword bounced back, not even making a scratch on the giant lizard. The ice dragon looked down at where it was struck. Hanna struck again with a TING, but again she made no. The dragon looked at her.
"Errrr, AHA!" She said confidently, "You've fallen into my trap! Now prepare for my real attack - Oh no."
The drag swung its spike ball like tail at Hanna. She raised her sword as the tail struck her, crashing into the wall.
"HANNA!" Gerda screamed.
The dragon looked in her direction.
"I think you've let it know where we are!" Olaf wailed.
The dragon started to crawl to where it heard the scream. It removed its tail from the wall, revealing that Hanna had survived, those a little dazed, having squeezed herself between the spikes.
"Ohhhhh," She groaned.
Hanna heard Gerda scream again.
"Uh oh."
Rolling out of the dent the dragon had made, Hanna got up and ran for where the group was. Bae beckoned the others to stay behind him as Hanna leapt back down.
"Hanna!" Gerda exclaimed, "You're okay!"
"Course I am," Hanna replied rather cockily, "It'll take more than that to kill a hardened denizen of the north! Although it's a bit of a pain that my sword didn't seem to harm it."
"Yeah, I don't think a sword's the best tool to crack ice with," Gerda told her.
"You have a better one?" Hanna snapped.
Feisty managed to push the jar upwards so that she was visible.
"FEISTY!" Olaf greeted cheerfully, "I wonder what happened to you!"
"Bzz bz bzz!" Feisty buzzed, "Bzz bzzz bzzz bz bzzz bzzzz!"
"Gasp, Feisty, no! That thing will swat you!"
"What, what is it?" Gerda asked.
"Feisty wants to take on the dragon!"
"Hold on, you can understand that bee?" Hanna asked.
"Well yeah. Can't you?"
Hanna looked offended.
"Even if you could understand it, I don't trust that bee! It's the reason we got attacked by its friends earlier!"
"I agree."
"Gerda, I know you think - wait what?"
"For once, I agree with you. I don't trust this snow bee. It already double crossed me once, what's to stop it from doing it again?"
Olaf continued to listening to more of Feisty's buzzing.
"Feisty says the situation's changed now, now that she knows your brother's life is on the line."
"What? Why has that -"
The dragon walked up to where they were. Something was emerging from its chest. Two limbs sprouted.
"There you see, four legs, it is a dragon after all, happy?"
"Hanna now's not the time to talk about the differences between dragons and dragonoids!" Olaf retorted.
"Yeah!" Gerda backed.
"Bu-but earlier you-"
The dragon lunged one of its claw through the crack they were in, causing Gerda to drop the jar. It smashed, letting Feisty out.
"Bzbzbzbzzzzzzzz!" It buzzed, flying out.
"Nice job, butter fingers, you've let our prisoner escape! Hey, what's it doing?"
The snow bee was flying towards the dragon.
"Feisty, no!" Olaf cried, "You're too young to die!"
Aiming it's sting at the dragon, the snow bee zoomed at it and struck its right eye. The beast roared in pain. Feisty kept hitting, until the eye was all cracked. The dragon, now enraged, breathed ice at Feisty, as the now terrified bee dodged the blasts. Hanna realised. Its eyes were its weak spots.
"Now's my chance."
Climbing out of the fissure, Hanna leapt on the tail, and ran up the spine. She cried again as she plunged her sword in the remaining eye. The dragon cried even harder, as Hanna somewhat steered it with her sword. Blindly shooting ice, the dragon flew into a wall, nearing the cliff edge.
"Now's our chance! Everyone quickly! Grab a pick axe!"
Everyone who had hands took pick axes out of the bags
"We have to make sure it can't fly anymore!"
Those who had pickaxes started hacking at its wings, dodging the blasts.
"Quickly! Harder! Go for the weak spots! THE WEAK SPOTS!"
The dragon aimed for a final blast. Hanna rolled away to let Bae through. The reindeer hit the dragon in the stomach, causing it to fall backwards and over the cliff. The flailing, blind, crippled beast wailed as it disappeared into the fog below.
"YAHOO!" Hanna cheered, "WE did it! Hi five!"
She raised her hand for Gerda to cheer, who was still looking down.
"Come on, Gerd, don't leave me hanging."
Gerda was still looking down.
"Gerda, what's wrong?"
"Oh nothing much. It just seemed like a mean thing to do to the dragon."
"A mean - Gerda you said you wouldn't get upset over the dragon!"
"I know what I said! But still, you know, blinding it, then hacking its wings so it couldn't fly, seemed like a pretty mean way to defeat it."
Hanna stared at her.
"You are unbelievable sometimes," She groaned, placing her palm on her face and shaking her head.
Olaf looked down.
"Oh I'm sure it's fine. Ice is pretty sturdy you know."
"Really? I always thought ice was fragile," Gerda said.
Feisty the snow bee hovered down to them.
"I guess we have you to thank for saving us," Hanna admitted, "So, um, thank you."
"But I have to ask. Why are you suddenly helping us?" Asked Gerda.
"Bz bzzz bzzz bzz!" The snow bee buzzed, "bz bzzz bzzzz bz bzzz bzz, bzzz bzzz bzzz bzbzzbzz bzzz bzz!"
Olaf translated.
"She said that she already made that clear. She wants to save Kai and she knows that you all can save him!"
"You said that before, but why are you interested in saving my brother? Why do you care?"
Feisty suddenly blushed.
"Bzbzzzz bz bzzbzzbzzzbzz bz!"
"Awwww. Apparently it was because he complimented her."
"Okay, so you're with us too?" Gerda asked.
Olaf smiled.
"I sure am. Let's go save your brother!"
The Robber Queen was trekking through the snow, weaponless and abandoned by her men.
"Miserable Hanna," She muttered, "You stole my booty, then you rescue my captive, then you make a fool of me at the castle, then you lead me to where I'm stripped of my weapons, and now I've lost all my men. I swear once I've found you I'll make you wish you were never - what's that?"
She heard what sounded like growling. The ice dragon appeared to her.
"What are you looking at, Ugly?" She snapped.
The robber realised too late it was probably not a good idea to insult a great big dragon, especially one that had been blinded, wings clipped and knocked down. It breathed its ice. The dragon walked past, the robber encased in ice, the only thing she could move were her eyes.