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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 five envelopes)
Right then! Our first review is from Randomness Girl:
Woah. Just woah
Yes certainly alot happened last chapter.
Professor: Our second review is from Snow Queen lover:
Can't believe Hanna is Anna's granddaughter so she's Elsa's great niece!
Yes, a funny thing about that. Originally Hanna wasn't going to be related to Anna at all, and she was intended to be more of a spiritual successor to Kristoff. But then later Anonymius decided that it made more sense for her to be related.
Sammy: Our third review is from Samantha:
Please tell me you didn't have to kill Olaf off, did you?
Sammy: BOOHOOHOOHOO! Poor Olaf! He died so young, boohoohoohoo!
Commentator: I hardly call being half a century young. But yes, this is one of two things I dreaded people would react with last chapter, so I guess you all deserve an explanation. Well Anonymius?
-Huh?
Commentator: Care to explain WHY you killed off the most belovable character in 'Frozen'?
What the? Com, it's your job to respond to reviews, I just disclaim, remember? Well usually.
Commentator: Well considering you like to bend the rules now and again I thought you would use this opportunity to do so again!
(You're still spiteful over what happened in that other fic, aren't you?)
Commentator: - Actually I wasn't, but now that you mention it -
Oh right, fine! Ahem, the reason why Olaf died was of course with Elsa being in mortal danger, he would try to sacrifice himself in order to save her, which would end up with him being killed. A sad fact, but it had to happen.
Sammy: BOOHOOHOOHOO! How could you, Anonymius? HOW COULD YOU?
Commentator: Ahem, so with two reviews left it's time to decide who gets to answer! PROFESSOR! PULL THE LEVER!
(The Professor does so, and the slot-like machine finishes rolling)
Professor: Okay then. Our fourth review goes to Handy.
(A giant hand with an arm for a neck and a head on top walks in.)
Handy: Hey guys, I hear you need help responding to reviews? So, um (Tries to open the envelope, but is unable to), I seem to be unable to open this envelope, given that I don't have any fingers on the ends of my limbs.
Commentator: Oh for Pete's sake, Handy, you're a giant hand. USE THAT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!
Handy: Huh? Oh right, yeah!
(Falls on his front, then uses his fingers to open the envelope before getting up.)
Right then! Our fourth review is from Samantha:
Thank you for this chapter.
Commentator: I wonder if she wrote that BEFORE learning that Anonymius killed off Olaf? So who do we have to respond to our final review?
Professor: That would be Gash.
(A huge man with the arms of a gorilla and a long snake instead of hair walked in on his knuckles)
Gash: Duh, just what are we doin' here, Snake?
Snake: We are here you absent-minded buffoon to read a review for one of the pieces of literature composed by Anonymius and reciprocate with an accordant reverberation.
Gash: Duh, okay.
Sammy: Wait a minute! That snake on your head can talk?
Snake: Naturally I can talk you fool.
Sammy: I never knew that after all these years!
Snake: You never inquired.
Commentator: So care to respond to the final review?
Snake: Acquiescently.
Gash: Okay.
Gash and Snake: Our final review is from ErinMilne:
Why does the ending of this remind me of Anastasia? ;) This battle scene blew me away. Hans's sinister put-downs were exactly on point. I can't wait to see the aftermath!
Snake: Ah yes, because of the segment with the compatriot being harmed with one of the main protagonists destroying the antagonist's phylactery exclaiming "This is for my compatriot you harmed along with all the other people I held affection towards!"
Gash: Oh yeah! (Clapping) When Dimitri was hurt and Anastasia broke Rasputin's glass thingy saying "This is for Dimitri and my familiy!"
Snake: Yes, that is what I just aforesaid.
Commentator: Yyeah. Well, I admit that Anonymius was partly inspired by that scene, although I was reminded more of at the end of Chamber of Secrets when Harry destroyed Riddle, and a bit of 'Batman Forever' when Robin is hitting Two-Face. And with about thirty words left, let's see if I can finish my story! Ahem:
So Kai kisses Gerda, they all return home and get married-
Sammy: (Boss, no! They're like brother and sister!)
Commentator: (Sam-
Clock: TING!
Commentator: DAMNIT! I'm out of time again? I'm starting to regret letting the other minions respond to reviews!
Clock: HEY, I'M NOT COMPLAINING. THIS IS THE MOST ACTIVE I'VE BEEN IN YEARS!
Commentator: I know the feeling. So anyway, here's the next chapter, 'An Act of True Love'!
The Ice Warriors stopped, and started crumbling apart. Gerda ran to her brother.
"Kai! Kai, no!"
Kai fell forwards, but his sister managed to grab him. She held him in her arms. Elsa looked at the two siblings.
Anna!
She was reminded about how her sister had been hurt by ice, how she ran to her.
"He's as cold as ice!"
Gerda saw how her brother's skin was becoming paler, more ice-like.
"Someone help him!"
"Cold...so very cold..."
"It's okay, Kai! It's going to be okay. Help him!"
She turned to the trolls.
"Help him, please!"
Grand Pabbie shook his heard.
"I'm sorry, child. There is nothing we can do."
"What do you mean? I've seen the way you heal! Heck, you were even able to heal Princess Anna when she was struck by ice!"
"That was different. Anna was struck in the head. If it was the head then it'd be no problem, but the heart, as you probably know well, is not so easily changed."
"You can help him!" Gerda now turned to Elsa, "You're the Snow Queen! If anyone can heal Kai from ice, it's you!"
"I - I'm sorry. I don't know how. I couldn't even lift the winter, let alone remove ice from a heart."
"No! But I just got him back! I just got him back! Why, Kai?" She demanded angrily from her brother, "Why? You must have known what would happen! So why did you do it?"
"Gerda," Kai managed to say, "Do you really...have no idea?"
He saw himself start to turn into ice.
"Oh. Oh well," He smiled, "I guess it's time to cross that bridge."
"No don't you dare!" Gerda shook her brother, "Don't you dare cross that bridge! You'll have plenty of time to hide how you feel, plenty of time to act like an uncaring jerk, plenty of time to -"
"Gerda. Stop."
His limbs had turned to ice, and now it was spreading to his body.
"I had to... protect everyone...especially you."
The ice reached his neck.
"And I'm sorry it's taken for me to be on my death bed to admit it, but I -"
His body felt so cold, and now it was becoming difficult to speak, difficult to breath. But he had to tell her. Tell his crying sister how he felt. He wished he could make amends with everyone back home, apologise to his mother, let her know that she could kiss him many times as she liked, how proud he was to have a dad like his, apologise to his grandmother for all those horrible insults he inflicted on her, make her know that she was one of the most wonderful people he knew. He wished he could have told them how he really felt, he wished he could apologise to his old friends, let them know that he doesn't blame them for how they bullied him over the years, wished he could let them know how much they meant to him.
Well. Okay maybe not go that far, but still, there must be some way - actually Kai realised that there was no more time to think, how to makes amends with the rest of the village. All that mattered now was to let the person he cared about more than anything in the world know how he feels about her, say the words she had always wanted to hear from him, to make her wish come true.
"I -"
It was if he was drowning, but with all the remaining effort he managed to say it.
"- Love you."
The ice now covered his face. His last icy breath steamed from his mouth.
Gerda stared at the ice block that was her brother. I love you. How long did she long for him to say those words to her, to let her know that he cared about her as much as she did him, and only now did she realise that she never needed to hear him say it, that his actions had always spoken for him.
"No."
Tears started streaming from her eyes.
"NO! I JUST GOT YOU BACK! KAI! DON'T LEAVE ME AGAIN! NOT AGAIN! IT'S NOT FAIR! I JUST GOT YOU BACK! No! No!"
Now Gerda wished this really was a dream, a nightmare that she could soon wake up from. She'd rather have the New Kai than no Kai at all.
Cradling her brother's frozen form, Gerda's cries echoed throughout the hall. Elsa walked slowly towards them, stretching out her hand.
"Gerda, I-"
"DON'T TOUCH ME!"
She knocked the hand away.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! IF YOU WEREN'T SO INTENT ON GETTING RID OF YOUR POWERS HE'D STILL BE ALIVE! YOU KILLED HIM! YOU KILLED MY BROTHER!"
She stared at the queen with angry, watery eyes.
"You really are a monster."
Elsa backed away. Every word Gerda inflicted at her was like an ice pick digging into the ice surrounding her heart, the last thing she said the hardest of all. She clutched her heart. She looked down at the children, the only people in the whole world who never judged her for who she was, and she lost them; one gone, the other hating her.
"I don't think you're a monster."
Elsa turned to look at the boy.
"What?"
"I meant what I said. You're the most beautiful woman in the world."
She thought of the boy Kai, a boy who was so pure of heart despite the dark mirror shard stuck in his heart.
"Hey, leave him alone!"
Unbeknownst to everyone, Elsa had watched Kai come to Olaf's aid when he was being tormented by the other snowmen, trying to console and befriend him.
"You shouldn't treat how a bunch of bullies treat you as if it's nothing!"
Elsa had continued watching him, always watching while they were fixing the mirror. Of course she revealed herself when Olaf had finished singing about Summer, the Snow Queen having had enough of him indulging in his foolish fantasies, acting as if she had seen his carrot nose for the first time, demanding that he take it off as it brought up too painful memories.
"It looks ridiculous. Take it off at once."
The Snow Queen exited the room.
"No," She heard Kai say to Olaf, "Don't listen to her."
Rather than confronting them directly as she should have done, the queen instead walked behind a secret stair case, peeping through a hole. She watched how Kai, feeling sorry for the way Olaf was treated, taught him to disobey her, and keep the nose that made him so happy. The Snow Queen was angry that Kai was teaching dissidence to her servant, and yet...she was equally touched by his compassion, the way he fought against the influence of the mirror in his heart. And she later watched how Kai taught Olaf the concept of play.
"Come on, let me show you," He said to Olaf as he took him by the hands, teaching him how to skate. He had brought joy to the little snowman, joy that the queen could never give him, was incapable of giving him. And it wasn't just Olaf. Kai had managed to bring joy and light to everyone who lived in her cold world, even tried to give it to her, but she turned away at his gift, as she had rejected any warmth. She thought of how only earlier, when the mirror she so foolishly sought to complete, what Kai said to her, having forgiven her of banishing Olaf, hugging her.
"I look forward to seeing you happy."
He admitted that he loved her, the first person to say so for a long time. And how did she repay his love? By trying to kill him.
Now she thought of his sister, how rather than hating her for taking her brother away, and wanting to slaughter him like livestock, she only felt pity for her.
"I don't see a monster, or an evil sorceress. I see a lonely old lady, who has been alone for many years, not from any fault of her own, but because she thought it was best that way."
That's all she saw her as. She had seen right through her exterior, and saw her for what she really was; not the ancient scary witch who lived all by herself up in the mountains, away from mortal folk as if they were beneath her, an image she herself had started to believe; but an old lady, all alone, miserable because of her solitude, that she had no one. The little girl had braved to face her, and even offered her hand. Now, she would never offer her hand again. Elsa stared at the children again, the girl broken down, clutching the frozen body of her brother. She had lost them. Lost both of them. Kai, the pure hearted boy who brought joy and light to her cold, dark world, and Gerda, the brave little girl who offered friendship even to those who didn't deserve it, strangers who only ever showed her kindness. Now Kai was just a block of ice, and Gerda had turned forever away from her.
She felt the ice containing her shrivelled, frozen heart cracking.
"Do you wanna build a snowman?"
Tears started to form in her eyes. Her heart glowed red and started to beat again.
"I'm here for you, just let me in!"
"More than you! All you know is how to shut people out!"
"Elsa, please, I can't live like this anymore!"
"Everywhere is completely frozen."
She clutched her head. Every beat pushed against the ice, and the more the ice cracked, the more flowing her tears became. She felt a roaring storm surround her, the sound made up of thousands of voices calling to her.
"Stop the winter, please!" "It makes me sad seeing you look like this, Mistress." "What happened to you, Elsa?" "I don't think you're a monster." "When did you become so cold?" "YOU HEARTLESS WITCH!" "Mistress, please, don't send me away!" "How could you be so cruel to someone who loves you so much?" "I look forward to seeing you happy." "You are a villain, Elsa, and deep down you know it." "I don't think you're a monster." " I'll tell Anna how over the years she became a cold-hearted, ruthless witch who treated a poor little snowman like he was nothing and how she was willing to even kill a child just to get what she wanted." "I just think you've been very lonely. You don't have to be alone anymore." "DON'T TOUCH ME! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! IF YOU WEREN'T SO INTENT ON GETTING RID OF YOUR POWERS HE'D STILL BE ALIVE!"
Eventually her heart started to shed off the ice, and her tears became ever more flowing.
"You really are a monster."
Until eventually all of the ice was gone, her heart beating as large and hard as before. All that emotion and affection she tried to bury, all that guilt for what she had done overwhelmed her, as Elsa fell to the ground, the ice of her fingernails shrinking until they completely disappeared.
"I'm sorry."
She covered her face as she broke down into tears.
"I'm so, so sorry!"
She had now lost everyone. Kai, Gerda, Olaf. She was completely alone, blind to what she had until she had lost them.
Gerda had buried her head in Kai's chest, oblivious to the rest of the world. All that mattered to her now was her brother, and he was gone. The injured snowmen with their missing limbs, the pigeons, snow bees and trolls, Bae and even Hanna, all crowded around Gerda, clutching the body of her brother. Everyone hung their heads in grief and sorrow, especially the snowmen and bees, the latter of whom hummed a mournful tune.
"I love you Kai," Gerda managed to say, "I'll always love you. I'll never stop loving you!"
She continued to cry in his chest, as if she would never stop crying. The tears that were there, above where his heart would be, started to glow. Soon the ice there started to thaw. One of the grieving trolls saw this.
"Look!" He pointed.
Soon, everyone looked up and saw what happened. The glowing, melting ice started to spread from where the heart would be, across his torso, before going down his limbs and in the end his head, until he was completely free. Blinking, confused, Kai looked down at his still sobbing sister. A hand rose to cradle her head.
"Please don't cry, Gerd," He told her, "You're getting my coat all wet."
Gerda gasped as she opened her eyes. Looking up, she saw the smiling face of her brother looking down at her.
"Kai?"
She didn't understand. She didn't understand what had happened, how Kai was no longer frozen.
"WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" Hanna exclaimed, possibly speaking for everyone, "COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT JUST HAPPENED?"
Grand Pabbie smiled.
"It was love, child." He looked up at her, "Tears of love thawed a frozen heart."
"KAI!"
At once Gerda pounced on her brother, wrapping her arms around him.
"Geddoff, Gerda!" Kai protested, struggling, trying to get off the floor.
"No can do!"
Gerda withdrew enough to look at her brother.
"You admitted it, now! You said that you love me! There's no taking it back, now!"
"Hey, let me up!"
Kai managed to push Gerda off, sitting up. Suddenly smiling, he too pounced on his sister and wrapped his arms around her as they rolled on the floor laughing. Soon, everyone was cheering, the trolls jumping into the air, the pigeons cooing, the snowmen roaring with delight, the bees buzzing with joy. Bae noticed that tears had even formed in Hanna's eyes. He snorted at her.
"What? No, I'm not crying!" She rubbed her face. "I've got something in my eyes! It's the cold air!"
Gerda and Kai now looked at the queen. Elsa slowly walked towards where Olaf's nose lay.
"Oh Olaf."
She fell to her knees.
"If only tears of love could bring you back to me."
She held the carrot in her hands. Then, Elsa pressed it against her face.
"Why is it only now, that I realise how much you meant to me? That you were the one sparkle of light and warmth in my cold, dark world?"
"But you can fix him, can't you?"
Elsa turned to look at Kai.
"Fix him? I mean, I can try recreating him, but he might not even be the same Olaf!"
"Try!" Gerda begged, "Please!"
Elsa looked at the remains of the chandelier. She waved her hand, making them melt away. They revealed the crushed snowman on the floor. Unable to look at this, Gerda turned to her brother, who hugged her, his eyes fixed on the snow. Elsa placed the carrot on top. She waved her hand again. A blizzard appeared around Olaf, and soon his snow was gathering again.
"Whoaaaaaa!" cried a voice in the storm, as Olaf was made again. Gerda turned around to see this.
"Oh!" He shook his head, "What hit me?"
"Olaf!"
Elsa bent down to him.
"Is it you? I mean is it still you?"
Olaf blinked at her.
"Elsa?" He asked, "I mean Mistress!" He quickly corrected himself, "Mistress, I'm sorry if I called you by any other name!"
"OH OLAF!"
Elsa hugged him. Olaf looked alarmed.
"Erm, Mistress? Are you still you?"
"Olaf!" Elsa withdrew from her embrace so that she could look at her snowman, "You were willing to sacrifice yourself for me?"
"Of course I was! I love you."
I love you. How many times had this snowman said this to her, and only now did she truly understand what he meant.
"Oh - Olaf!"
"Oh no, Mistress! Please don't cry! I mean, um, no, of course I don't love you!"
"Olaf I'm so sorry! I'm sorry how I treated you all these years! I'm sorry how I destroyed your flower! I'm sorry I crushed you dreams about Summer. I'm sorry I made such a deal about your nose! I'm sorry I had you banished! I'm so, so sorry! Can you ever forgive me!"
"Of course Elsa - I mean Mistress!"
"No. Don't ever call me that again."
"I'm sorry, Mistress."
"No, not Elsa. Mistress. Never call me Mistress ever again. Elsa. Always call me Elsa."
And she hugged him again. Although at first unsure, Olaf started to smile, and hugged Elsa back.
"Ah. There's my girl. I knew you were still in there somewhere."
"OLAF!"
Soon, everyone else came to join them. Kai, Gerda, the snowmen, the bees, and the trolls, all came in to hug, all tried to at least get a touch of the snowman if they could. Bae kept nudging Hanna into the crowd as well.
"You know, I'm not really a huggy person!"
But Bae wouldn't accept that.
"Alright, fine!"
Bending over, Hanna raised her arms and extended them into the crowd.
"Ah. This is nice," Olaf remarked, "I like warm hugs."
Elsa opened her eyes.
"What did you just say?"
"I like warm hugs. Mistress, I mean Elsa, I say it all the time!"
I like warm hugs. Where had she heard that before? She was back in the hall, all those years ago, entertaining her sister, the last time they made a snowman when asked if she wanted to. Elsa placed the carrot on the nose.
"Hi there! I'm Olaf and I like warms hugs!" She said in a different voice, moving the arms behind the snowman.
"I love you, Olaf!" Anna cried, hugging the snowman.
Elsa smiled.
"That's right. Olaf, I've built you before!"
"Er, yeah you did. About fifty years ago -"
"No, not then. Long before, long before then! I made you with my sister! Oh Anna, my beloved sister, I loved her more than anything in the world."
As she spoke, everyone noticed something.
"If I could I would go back in time, open that door and go join her to build another snowman! Just one more time!"
Olaf started to panic.
"Elsa! You're melting! YOU'RE MELTING! Quick! Someone get a pale!"
It wasn't actually Elsa who was melting, but her clothes. And it wasn't just the clothes. Everyone looked up. The walls were cracking. The palace was starting to collapse. Everyone shielded themselves as the blocks came crashing down, but they evaporated before striking anyone. Soon the whole palace had vanished.
"Great. Now where are we supposed to live?" One of the snowmen asked.
"Hey, do you see that?" Someone else asked.
"See what?"
"Look!"
Everyone looked out. In all directions, snowflakes were floating to just above them.
"Does anyone feel that?" Gerda asked.
"Feel what?" Kai asked.
"I don't know. It feels like - singing."
All across the land, snow was rising from the ground and the trees, leaving them looking as green and fresh as they were half a century ago. The ice left the Robber Queen, causing her to fall over. The returning bandits also watched the snow leaving, as did the Oakens, and the bandits still at the city, even the merchants robbed earlier, who had been lost and shivering all this time.
"Oo," Said Mr Oaken.
He quickly went indoors. Later he came out putting a sign on the door that said 'Big Spring Blowout'.
Soon, all the snowflakes made a giant snowflake. This exploded.