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Commentator: Merry Christmas 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!
Professor: (Um, Sir? Christmas was five days ago.)
Commentator: (Shut up! Christmas traditionally lasts for twelve days after Christmas Day, it still counts!)
(The Professor does so, and out pops two envelopes)
Right then! Our first review is from ErinMilne:
The truth was revealed, but a lot of other questions popped up. This mysterious reflection is a little creepy. I have a sneaking suspicion of who it is... Anyway, gotta love Gerda's active voice here. She's one strong young lady. I'm so happy for her and Kai!
Well hopefully all of your questions will be answered by the time this story has finished! And any lingering ones you have Anonymius will gladly answer!
Professor: Our second review is from Randomness Girl:
Was the "being trapped in a mirror for half a century can give you such a crick in the neck" a reference to Genie in Aladdin?
Commentator: Yes. Yes it was. Let's see if you can pick out the next Disney reference in the next chapter! And with about eight hundred words to spare, I think that's enough time to finish my final story:
So last chapter, I was explaining about best friends Gerda and Kai, and they are singing about how such good friends they are but Gerda also sings about wanting something more, at which point the mirror shard strikes Kai in the heart and he turns cold, leaving a hurt and confused Gerda.
Years pass and they're all grown up (Or at least teenagers, which means pretty much the same thing when it comes to Disney!), and there's a song about the ongoings of the village and how Gerda is considered a little odd because she doesn't abide by society's norms and she sings a song about how trap she feels and how she wants more in life, which later becomes a song about pining over Kai once she sees him. She tries to talk to Kai, but he wants nothing to do with her. Oo! I should also say that Kai has become the underdog in society rejected by everyone else apart from a few friends!
Professor: You should? Why?
Commentator: Prof, have you ever watched a Disney renaissance movie where the main character is a guy?
Professor: Yes, Sir. All of them.
Commentator: Then you should know why. Oo, maybe Gerda saves him from a bully in a way to get close to him again, but it doesn't work out!
Ahem, so anyway, the Snow Queen is watching Kai through the mirror fragments, remarking how the time has come, so sends out a bunch of snowmen to go capture him. Oh, also she has a sidekick, named Olaf. Voiced by Gilbert Gottfrey.
So anyway, Kai is all alone when he is captured by the snowmen, while Gerda ponders about Kai but is assured by her grandmother that it will be all right, and she sings a song about how she wishes things were like they were. No wait she already had a song about Kai! (Hmm. Maybe I should keep this while removing the previous song as well as the one at the beginning?)
Professor: (You really are making this up as you go along, aren't you Sir?)
Commentator: (Shut up! Ahem)
She then goes after Kai, seeing him captured by the snowmen. Everyone thinks he's dead, no one believes her, she goes off to save Kai, gets some advice from her grandmother, and while venturing out she sings a song about adventure and finding Kai.
Professor: (This sounds vaguely familiar)
Commentator: (No, this is nothing like what happens in 'Frozen: What could have happened'! That one had her singing a song based on for 'The First Time In Forever'! This time she's singing a song more like 'on a journey to the past'!)
Professor: (Oh.)
So Kai is brought to the Snow Queen's palace where he is charmed by the queen, and convinced to solve her puzzle. Meanwhile we're introduced to another one of our main characters, the robber maiden, who has a kind of robin hood style way of life except she steels from the bandits and gives to the poor! Later, the bandits try to capture Gerda, who is rescued by the maiden and convinced by her reindeer to go help Gerda. They go to a cottage, where an old woman tricks them in staying, but they manage to escape (The witch turns out to be in league with the Snow queen, who ordered her to stop Gerda). They later find out that Kai might be betrothed to some princess, they break in, it turns out it's not him, they explain themselves, and the prince and princess help them. Meanwhile Kai is working on the mirror, but is unsure about something. The queen, smiling, is all like 'poor, sweet child', then breaks into a song showing off her ice powers and ends in a big show biz style. Kai is later singing about Gerda and how he realises he -
Professor: TING!
Commentator: Okay, seriously Prof, you need to stop doing that! I mean damn! I'm out of time again! Course maybe I could have got through more if someone didn't keep interrupting me!
(Shocks the Professor, who falls to the ground)
Professor: Are you going to do that EVERY chapter?
Commentator: Seems that way, doesn't it? You know what, that's it. If the next review goes over the limit I'm not doing it until the Clock is rescued! Now without further ado, here's the next chapter!
The reflection that had escaped now changed to match the image in the mirror. Standing before them was a handsome young man with red hair, dressed in white, with a sword at his side.
"It's been a while, Queen Elsa."
Elsa stared at the spirit of the Dark Mirror.
"Hans," She whispered.
"Hans?" Gerda asked, "Wait. Prince Hans of the Southern Isles? The Handsome Prince Princess Anna was supposed to marry?"
"Oh I never cared for Anna," Hans told them, pacing the room, "As thirteenth in line in my own kingdom, I didn't stand a chance. I knew I had to marry into the throne somewhere. As heir, Elsa was preferable, of course, but no one was getting anywhere with her, so I had to settle for the spare. I figured, after we married, I'd have
to stage a little accident for Elsa."
He turned to look at the queen.
"But then you went ahead and froze the kingdom, and when that happened, its value plummeted dramatically. Who wants to rule a frozen kingdom? Not that I actually told Anna this. Appearances to keep up, you know, so I blamed it on you and told her I couldn't be with someone with a monster for a sister."
Elsa gasped.
"You're the real monster, Hans! Anna loved you! She was willing to marry you, and you-"
Hans shrugged.
"It's your fault really, that she fell for me so easily. Poor little Anna, orphaned at the age of fifteen, shut out by her only remaining relative, is it that surprising that she threw herself to the first person who opened up to her? Of course I have always been able to get what I want, with my charm and good looks, but sadly, though, time comes for us all."
Hans brushed the side of his hair, revealing that it had started to go grey.
"Originally when I came to the trolls, I was only interested in preserving my youth, but when the old troll told me that the mirror could drain souls, I knew I had an opportunity. What if I could drain a particular soul? Someone with the power to create and control ice and snow? Someone, like you?"
Elsa was shocked at what he was after.
"My powers. You were after my powers!"
"That's why your servants were taking you to the North Mountain! You wanted to drain Elsa's powers!" Gerda accused.
"Clever girl. Admittedly I hadn't exactly planned out the details, I just knew that if you stared at my mirror long enough, then I could gain some of your powers. Unfortunately, though, I was thwarted when the dunderheads transporting me dropped me down the mountain!"
"Steady, Sir!" One of the servants said as Hans laughed with anticipation, "Your laughter is making the mirror wobble! Whoops!"
The mirror moved so rapidly that the servants ended up dropping it. The mirror fell down the mountain. Hans screamed as he shielded himself when the mirror impacted the rocks below. It smashed into pieces, many of which were no bigger than a grain a sand. The frame fell into the chasm below, while the wind carried the pieces away.
"Fractured, my dream equally shattered, my pieces scattered across the globe, I lost all hope of ever attaining Elsa's powers. But then you did me a solid and started gathering my pieces, believing that I could remove your powers. I can only guess that one of my servants must have had the idea, spreading the rumour of a mirror that could drain one's darkest part, knowing that it would eventually reach your ears, believing that it could somehow remove your powers. And so were so desperate to rid yourself of them you believed the rumour just like that!"
Hanna charged at him. Hans blew her away with a blast of ice. It trapped her against the wall. He stared at his hands.
"Yes."
He started laughing, making bursts of snow appear in his hand.
"Yes! This is it! This is the power of ice and snow! Oh Elsa, I'll never forget the day when you revealed your powers to the court. Whereas other felt fear, I only had - admiration. It's a pity you shut yourself out like that, we could have made such a power couple. And what did you do when your powers were revealed? You ran. You had the potential to become the greatest ruler who ever existed and you ran, boarding yourself up here! You do not deserve the power you have."
Hans walked towards the queen, still weakened from being drained. Everyone else tried to protect her, but Hans blasted them away, encasing them in ice.
"But don't worry, your majesty."
He raised her head by lifting her chin.
"While you've wasted your talent by separating yourself for from the world for decades, I will unleash the winter across the globe."
Ice started to cover his hand, making it look like a claw. Ice also spread from there across the rest of his body.
"Every source of light and warmth will be extinguished, and people will cower before their new ruler. Not a Snow Queen."
The ice became armour, making Hans look bigger.
"But an Ice King."
The helmet that covered his face had two glowing blue eyes, the part covering his mouth shaped like a grate. Spikes rose from the head to resemble a crown, while a blue cloak emerged from the back. The hall glowed a dark red.
"Now then, Queen Elsa, let me show you how a real ruler of ice and snow uses his power."
He raised his hands.
"Rise, my warriors."
Hands burst from the ground. Gerda screamed as figures crawled out of the ground. Other figures also erupted from the walls. Dressed in armour, with shields and weapons and horned helmets, the figures were tall and skeletal, their eyes glowing blue. When they opened their mouths, they let out a rattling noise that sounded like a voice that had been locked away for thousands of years, and only now just let out. The Ice King waved his hand, the ice imprisoning everyone breaking.
"The hunt would be not as fun if the prey weren't at least able to run."
He pointed at them.
"Kill them."
The Ice warriors Walked forward. Gerda screamed again, her brother wrapping his arms around her, as if he could act as a shield.
"Everyone, get on Bae!" Hanna ordered, holding up her broken sword in a defensive stance, "I'll hold them off!"
"What? Hanna you couldn't possibly-"
"Don't argue, go!"
Kai and Olaf helped Elsa near the reindeer to get on.
"HIYA!"
Hanna smacked the bottom of her friend to signal him to go. They tried to run up the stairs.
"Now now,"
The Ice King waved his finger across. The staircase collapsed, followed by the remaining exits to close up.
"We can't exactly have the prey escaping, now can we?"
Hanna stood in front of them.
"Get behind, Bae!"
Kai hugged Gerda again, and Olaf hugged her as well. She had forgotten what it was like, how warm her brother's embrace felt, how safe it made her feel. Even though they faced their doom, she was happy at least to be with the real Kai again.
"Protect the queen!"
"PROTECT THE QUEEN!"
The snowmen rushed to defend their queen against the warriors. They fought bravely, lunging at the warriors with their spears, but their opponents blocked their blows and struck back, but soon it was clear that they were easily getting beaten back by the Ice Warriors.
"Your silly little snowmen are no match for creatures of ice!"
As the king sat down, a throne emerged from the ground for him to sit on.
"I'm going to enjoy this. Enjoy watching-"
A vial flew from nowhere, obscuring everything in red mist.
"What?"
Everyone looked up, the dark red glow vanishing. Smashing through the roof emerged the trolls, who rolled in rock form down to the ground.
"We thought you could use our help," Bulda explained.
"Yes we do!" Gerda told them, "But it's against these Ice Warriors and their king we need help against!"
"King? What-?"
Grand Pabbie turned to look at Hans.
"Oh. So that's why you got so excited when I told you the mirror could steal souls."
The Ice King stared at him. He then roared with laughter.
"These are supposed to be your saviours? A bunch of cute little rock people? My warriors will crush them!"
The trolls cracked their knuckles.
"Never underestimate the power of trolls," Hans was warned.
"ATTACK!" Bulda cried.
All of the trolls rolled in rock form towards the warriors, suddenly leaping in the air as they smashed through them. This gave the snowmen the edge they needed, as the resumed their attack. The Ice Warriors fought back, but the trolls, rolling around, were able to fend off the blows in rock form, and smash through the warriors like they were glass. They didn't just fight individually, but created towers so that they could get a better shot against their foes. They even used crystals to their advantage, throwing them at the enemy.
"Come here."
Elsa begged Hanna over.
"Let me see your sword."
She waved her hand over it. An ice blade emerged to replace the one that was lost.
"This will be ten times stronger than steel. Use it to defend yourself."
Hanna looked at the weapon.
"Pretty sure that ice isn't ten times stronger than steel."
Elsa stared at her.
"I can make ice dresses, sentient snow men, and snow themed treats when I'm pretty sure I don't have all the actual ingredients, don't be so pedantic when it comes to ice powers!"
"Well, okay."
She stood up, wielding her sword.
"Although I'm pretty sure that a sword made of ice wouldn't be that effective as a weapon-"
"HANNA!" Gerda shouted.
"Right! Sorry!"
She faced off a couple of advancing Ice Warriors.
"Alright, ice. Time to prove if you really are stronger than a hundred men! But then again since these guys are made of ice then really the odds are out of my favour-"
The warriors brought down their blows. Hanna managed to block them and swing her blade, cutting through the warriors at their weak points. She admired her weapon.
"Hey, what do you know? Those ice harvesters were right, after all!"
Watching the battle, Hanna spotted the opening the trolls had made. If it was possible, she could escape by running up and leaping off one of the snowmen or ice warriors while the fight was going on, and use the pickaxes to climb up the wall in order to get out. May she could tie Gerda and Kai to herself as well. There was just the problem of getting Bae to join them as well - She shook her head. What was she thinking? She couldn't turn tail and run! She couldn't abandon this fight, not when this guy was threatening to freeze the entire world! Bae walked to her side. She looked at him.
"Well, Bud?" She asked, "Ready for the big fight?"
The reindeer nodded.
"What can I do?" Kai asked.
Hanna turned to look at him.
"Keep your sister safe!"
"What about me?" Olaf asked.
"Keep Kai safe!"
"Right, gotcha!" Olaf saluted.
Hanna and Bae charged.
"Nice friends you've got there, Gerd," Kai remarked.
"Thanks. Well I had to make do considering my brother stopped talking to me."
Kai stopped smiling.
"Oh no! I didn't mean it like that! Kai, I'm sorry!"
"Why are you sorry? I'm the one who's been acting like a jerk all these years, I deserved that."
"No, you didn't! It wasn't your fault, Hans was the reason why you changed! And it never would have happened if I wasn't standing on the lake."
"I shouldn't have even picked up that piece of glass in the first place! And I'm the absent minded moron who forgot all about it!"
"Because you were too busy trying to save me!"
"Okay look, we can debate all day who's fault it was that I turned evil, so how about we agree that we both feel guilty and leave it at that?"
They ducked as a mace flew through the air and almost hit them.
"But I promise you, Gerda, if we get out of here, once we get out of here, I'm going to make it up to you. To you, Mom, Papa, Grandmama, the village, everyone."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"So does that mean you're finally going to say it?"
"-Say what?" Kai was confused.
"You know...THAT."
Kai understood what she meant.
"Ohhh. That. Well, let's cross that bridge when we come to it."
"You know, you've seemed to have done your own share of making friends."
"What, Olaf? Yeah, he proved to be pretty cool."
"Really? You think I'm cool?"
"Of course, Olaf, you're one of the coolest guys I know!"
Olaf gasped.
"No one's ever called me cool before!"
"Well that's mainly because he is made of snow after all!" Kai whispered to Gerda, who had to suppress a giggle.
Marshmallow roared as he came crashing in, swinging his mace, knocking down several Ice Warriors. The snow bees were also joining in the attack, led by Feisty.
"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!" She cried, as they flew on their enemy, distracting them, aiming for their eyes. The pigeons also joined in the fight. While all this was happening Hanna and Bae were riding through, smashing warriors with both sword and antlers. The Ice King banged his fists on the arms of his throne.
"Must I do everything myself?"
He stood up. Hans raised his palm and shot out an ice beam at Hanna and Bae, who kept running to avoid getting hit. Seeing this, the pigeons redirected their attack at the king.
"Bzbzzz bzz bzbzzbzz!" Feisty cried, leading the snow bees at Hans.
"Get out of my way you pests!"
the king made a swatting gesture, knocking the bees away with an icy wind.
"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!" Feisty and the others cried as they flew out of control.
"You lot, too!"
He made the same gesture towards the pigeons too, knocking them away.
"Guys, no!"
Hanna saw her friends flutter down. She gritted her teeth.
"That's it. Bae, let's charge at that Ice King!"
The reindeer, feeling the same amount of anger as his rider, snorted in agreement. They charged towards Hans. Calmly walking forwards, he made a large broadsword made of ice appear in his hand. Several snowmen lunged at him, but he cut them down easily with his sword.
"HEY!"
Marshmallow came charging towards him.
"Nobody picks on my brothers BUT ME!"
The Ice King looked at the snowman.
"And who are you supposed to be?"
"My name is: MARSHMALLOW!"
Marshmallow brought his spike ball down. The Ice King caught it in his hand.
"Marshmallow?" Hans laughed, "You mean like the soft little treat?"
Gripping the ball, it suddenly shattered into pieces.
"Don't make fun of my name!" Marshmallow growled, "It was given to me by my big brother!"
Spikes sprouting all over his body, the snowman raised his claw like hand.
"Your older brother, huh? Do you know the name one of my older brothers gave me?"
He sliced off the hand.
"He called me 'You'."
And he sliced Marshmallow in half, the snowman unable to get up.
"Huh," Hanna thought to herself, "Maybe THAT'S what I should have done to disable that snowman."
Bae snorted at her.
"Right, sorry! Not appropriate at the moment!"
The Ice King looked down at his fallen, struggling opponent.
"Why?"
He placed his foot on top of him.
"Why did you attack? You must have known that you stood no chance against me, so why did you come and fight me?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
A troll rolled and leapt into the air, but the Ice King knocked him away easily with his sword, sending him crashing into a wall.
"No. Explain."
Seeing this, a number of the trolls came to the fallen one's aid, rolling into the air at Hans. Curling his free hand into a fist, ice spikes sprouted from it. Hans knocked a number of trolls away with his sword like they were balls he was hitting with a bat, while knocking away others with his free fist. Raising his hand, he shot out icicles that knocked the remaining ones away.
"You would come to the aid of one of your fallen brethren, even when you know the odds are against you?"
"But of course," Grand Pabbie told him, "We're family."
"Family?"
He roared with laughter.
"Don't make me laugh! You expect me to believe that family is something that makes you feel all warm and gooey inside? I came from a litter of twelve brothers, and we weren't exactly one big happy family! After all, what is a family, but a bunch of people made in order to ensure someone's legacy, with the younger brothers' sole purpose to act as insurance in case something happens to the eldest? But what if nothing happens to the eldest? What if he goes on to live a long and healthy life, and manages to have his own children, what then? What is left to the younger brothers, what scrap is left to the youngest of all when all the good positions and titles are taken by the older ones? WHAT? In the end, family is just something that gets in your way!"
Grand Pabbie looked up at the Ice King.
"Perhaps they weren't as bad as you remember? Or perhaps you've focused so much on the bad that you've forgotten any good times you had?"
Although his face was covered, the way his eyes changed colour suggested that Hans was shocked by what Grand Pabbie suggested.
"DO NOT PRETEND THAT YOU KNOW WHAT MY FAMILY WAS LIKE!"
Charging towards him, raising his hand, Hans' fingertips glowed as he stretched them out to the old troll.
"Get away from my pabbie!"
Bulda stepped in the way. Hans grabbed her by the wrist, pulling her up.
"Bulda, no!" Grand Pabbie shouted.
"You trolls probably think that you're invincible compared to my ice warriors. But are you aware that ice is actually superior to stone?"
As Hans gripped the struggling Bulda's wrist, the glow from his hand intensified.
"In the sense that ice is capable of eroding rock, by entering the weak points?"
Something cracked, Bulda falling to the ground. Hans tossed her hand away.
"Bulda!"
Grand Pabbie came to the aid of his daughter.
"You know, I really ought to thank you. All of this is possible because of you. If you had never removed Anna's knowledge of Elsa's powers, they never would have grown up so alone, and that whole scene where she exposed her powers starting this whole mess would never have happened! So in a way, you ensured both the keg and the spark. Then again, I guess it's not entirely your fault. I mean, I'm a manipulative sociopath, and even I can tell that the way Elsa was raised was messed up! Isolating her all those years, encouraging her to fear her powers, making her worry what will happen if anyone found out, is it any wonder the eternal winter happened at all? Even if it wasn't for me, how long do you think another event could have happened that would have caused Elsa to unleash her fears? Oh and just one last piece of advice."
The Ice King bent down to look at Grand Pabbie.
"You don't tell a girl that fear would be her enemy while showing her a scary image of what would happen if things went wrong!"
He lowered his glowing hand at him.
"Grand Pabbie!"
All of the trolls rolled to his positions, leaping at Hans. The Ice King swung his blade around, blasting them all away. Some of them nearly hit the mirror.
"NO!"
Hans swiped his hand through the air so that they were knocked out of the way of the mirror. Kai noticed this.
"Now then-" The Ice King turned his attention back to the Head Troll, "Where were we?"
"HEY!"
Hans turned around to see Hanna and Bae charging at him.
"Your fight is with me!" She challenged with her sword ready. The way Hans' eyes glowed suggested he was giving her a patronising look.
"Please."
He waved his hand at them. Hanna was knocked off, while Bae kept charging forward. As he tried to ram into Hans, however, the Ice King stopped him by grabbing him by the antlers.
"You know," He told the reindeer as he snapped off one of his antlers, "I've never liked reindeer much."
And he swung Bae away, his remaining antler coming off in the process. The reindeer slid on the floor, becoming still.
"BAE!" Hanna shouted, but her reindeer did not respond. She looked at the man who had harmed him.
"That's it, bub," She growled, getting up with her sword raised, "You've just made a big mistake."