The Ice Queen stared down at her younger self, with a look of disgust covering her face. I had expected her to be able to see the true choice, the best choice; I never expected her to be so...weak. What a pity...

Snapping her fingers, she waited for her minions to come through the portal, before turning to face them. "Alright, two of you will take the girl to her room and make sure that no comes in or out, without me knowing. The rest of you will go and guard the perimeter; if you see anyone or anything that looks out of place, you are to capture them and bring them to me. Now go!"

As the creatures went to go do her bidding, the Ice Queen waved her hand, dissolving the table and chairs, using their remains to create an imposing throne of black ice. Just like the one back home, she thought, as she sat down upon it, feeling the cold wrap around her like an old friend.

Now that stupid girl's heart is freezing, it is only a matter of time before she awakes and I am able to gain control of this reality as well. And, with my minions guarding the castle, there is no way reason to worry about Anna, or Kristoff, or even those damn trolls; everything is going according to plan.

"My Queen?"

The Ice Queen was pulled out of her thoughts to see Ice-Shard standing before the throne, head downcast as always.

"Yes, what is it?"

"We received word from the Summer Isles in your reality, your Grace; the coup d'etat succeeded and entire royal household, save for Prince Hans, has been executed; he is expected to arrive in several days to bend the knee."

The Ice Queen allowed herself a small smile at the news, pleased that the plan she had worked so diligently on, had been a success. "Very good, Ice-Shard. Now, I have job for you." Ice-Shard looked up at her expectantly, with a slight look of fear. "I need you to go down the mountain to get in touch with the Prince Hans of this reality. Tell him...tell him that Queen Elsa has Princess Anna and is willing to negotiate for her safe return; if you can, try to have him come up here...alone."

Ice-Shard gave the Queen a curious look, not certain of what the Queen was planning, but bowed anyway, and began hurrying away.

"Oh, and Ice-Shard?"

The servant froze, before slowly turning back to face her.

"Don't let him know about me; I would prefer to surprise him when he arrives here."

"Of course, your Grace." And with that, he hurried out of the castle, not seeing the wicked smile play across the Ice Queen's face. It had taken years and years of planning, with setbacks and unforeseen obstacles, but soon, soon all of those years of planning would come to fruition, allowing Elsa not just control of this reality, but all realities in existence. The thought of it made her cackle uncontrollably for a few moments, before she managed to gain control of herself again.

Taking a moment to compose herself, she then used her magic to whip up a piece of black ice in her hand, and after whispering a few words in a language that few knew, and fewer understood, the piece of ice became clear, allowing her to see whatever she wanted.

"Show me, Anna."

After shimmering for a few moments, it cleared to show a the strawberry-blonde girl, with a long platinum-blonde streak in it, traipsing through the snow with a reindeer that looked very familiar. She looked closer and noticed someone walking out from behind the creature. It only took her a moment to recognize Kristoff, and the Ice Queen felt herself bristle with rage at the sight of the two of them together. I knew that Anna was on her way to find Elsa; I even planned for it, but I had no idea that she had Kristoff with her! When I had to deal with them in my reality, they never met each other, making it much easier to eliminate them; however, in this reality, with them together, it is going to make things much more difficult.

Tossing the piece of ice away in frustration and as she heard it shatter against the wall, Elsa pondered about what she was going to do about the new problem that just presented itself to her. If my minions follow my orders, then Kristoff should be captured alongside Anna; however, I also know how resourceful he is. She remembered the years of guerrilla warfare that he had waged against her forces, and only after one of the trolls had finally given away his location after days of torture, did she finally managed to capture him and publicly froze him. But only after I made him watch reindeer that he loved be turned into venison in front of him. Good times, good times...

Deciding that she would let her creatures deal with him, she got up and began to pace in the room, wanting the freezing process to hurry up; while she had read about the process in an ancient tome, it never clearly stated how long it would take for process to be completed and until it was completed, every unknown factor, such as Kristoff, was just a problem trying to stop her.

"Your Grace," a voice growled from the portal. Turning to see who it was, she saw felt her face harden at the sight of one of her minions, one of the few that was supposed to be guarding the garden of her frozen statues.

"What is it?" She snapped, not wanting to deal with anything that wasn't taking place in this reality.

"One of the statues..." the snow creature started, looking as if it wasn't sure how to finish. Elsa felt her anger build, as the creature squirmed.

"I swear, if you don't tell me right now, then you better not expect to go back through that portal in one piece."

"One of the statues seems to have...disappeared."

Elsa stared, not sure if she had heard it correctly, or rather, didn't want to have heard it correctly. "What did you say?" she asked slowly, as she began to walk toward the creature, as the creature cringed back in fear.

"One of the statues is missing and we can't seem to find it." It stammered out, flinching as the Ice Queen stood before it.

"And which statue, pray tell, seems to be missing?" She asked sweetly, causing the creature to visibly relax.

"Your sister, Anna."

It didn't even have time to scream as Elsa caused it to explode, and stepping over its remains, she hurried through the portal and back to her own reality. She raced through the castle that she grew up in, and cursing to herself about making it so much larger than it used to be.

When she had taken over the kingdom when she was thirteen, the first thing she did was redesign and rebuild the castle, turning it into a near impenetrable fortress with towering walls, and guards lined all along the perimeter. To add to the terror effect, she turned the central courtyard into a garden, filling it with her frozen enemies, as a way of remind any visiting dignitaries of what awaited them if they tried to betray her.

By the time the Ice Queen had reached the garden, she was trembling from a mixture of rage and fear, causing her to accidentally destroy any of her creatures that she came across. She hurried through the garden, passing her enemies, including Kristoff, before coming to the central podium, where the frozen body of her sister should have been standing, but only to find it as the guard had said: empty.

Elsa used emotions to power her magic; some emotions made her spells even more powerful, while others would cause spells to spiral wildly out of control. Seeing that the frozen statue of her sister was missing, the Ice Queen felt the fear overpower the rage she was feeling, causing a blizzard to appear out of nowhere.

With Anna missing, it can only mean that someone must have learned that there are ways to bring back people that are frozen; if they do manage to bring her back, then she will be a threat to my throne. I knew I should have just killed her...

Taking a deep breath, she brought her emotions back under control, and then used what was left of the blizzard, which was quickly dissipating, to create twice the amount of guards that she had destroyed on her way in. Glaring at all of them, she lifted herself onto the podium and proclaimed an announcement:

"I created all of you to replace the guards I destroyed, and I am expecting you to do better than they did. The statue of my sister is missing, and I want it to be found before the end of today, or you can expect to be joining your predecessors in the void. I am also giving full power to due what you see fit to find it; if someone seems to be hiding something, then do what you feel is necessary to get the information out of them. Now go!"

With that, they hurried off to do her bidding, heading out in all directions, leaving the Ice Queen alone in the garden. Slowly lowering herself to ground, she felt as though she had aged about 50 years, as she stumbled off toward her bedroom. It was only when actually neared her room, that she realized she had been doing an enormous amount of magic all day, and hadn't given really herself any time to recuperate. No wonder I feel so bad; if I wasn't so used to doing large amounts of magic, I would have probably burnt myself out. Fine, I will let myself rest for a few hours, but after that, it is back to finishing what I started.

AN: Dear readers, I would like to apologize for the long wait for the next chapter, but for a long time, I just had no interest in continuing it. If you remember my previous author notes, you may have noticed that I started this, it was due to the suggestion and continued support of my friend, that I continued. Well, shortly after I posted the last chapter, my friend was diagnosed with cancer, and passed away soon after.

Without her, I had no interest in continuing on, and even thought about just deleting this story, and letting disappear into cyberspace; however, after recently going through one of our old conversations, I realized that I was doing her a disservice and decided to continue in her honor.

So, to any of you that actually waited for the next chapter to come along, I thank you for your patience and I hope that you will understand; if you are reading for the first time, well, I hope you enjoy and don't worry, I already have the next chapter completed and am just proof-reading it before posting. Expect it in a day or two.

Anyway, thanks again and I hope you enjoyed the chapter.