When Jack came out from the other side of the portal he fell right into a pile of snow. He wasn't expecting that! Where did this snow come from?
Jack got up and dusted his hair off. When looking up he saw he had landed on the bottom of a mountain that was also covered in snow.
He grabbed onto his staff that fell out of his hands when he dropped and got up in his feat. There was something on top of that mountain that was giving him a funny feeling about something he should check out.
"Does the air seem a bit thin to you from up here?"
That voice. Why was that voice familiar? Jack flew up to the middle of the mountain where he saw a girl glued to a mountain and a man laughing at her with a reindeer.
"Hang on," the man said, walking to the girl that was stuck on the side of the cliff.
Then a snowman walked out and pointed to something to the side.
A real life snowman? He even walks and talks too!
"Hey, Sven!" The snowman called to the man and he looked over. "Not sure if this is gonna solve the problem, but I found a staircase that leads to exactly where you want to go!"
"Aha, thank goodness!" The girl yelled. She looked down at the man, who was apparently named Sven. "Catch!" She let go of the wall and landed safety in Sven's arms. "Thanks," she laughed, patting his chest. She then hopped off and walked over to the snowman. "That was, like, a crazy trust exercise."
Sven didn't know what happened. He just stood there and watched the girl walk away, fixing her skirt.
Jack decided to follow the gang over to the staircase the snowman was talking about. Around the corner Jack gasped when seeing an entire castle made of complete ice. He stood next to the gang as they were also in shock.
The snowman laughed and ran up the stairs. Sven gasped and said, "Now that's ice. I think I'm going to cry."
"You're telling me," Jack said, pushing his hood off his head to get a higher look at the castle. Jack never thought about doing something like that with his own powers. Whoever was living in that castle Jack had to find out for he needed some lessons!
"Go ahead," the girl said, walking to the staircase without taking her eyes off the castle. "I won't judge."
Even the reindeer was excited to see who was in the castle that he was trying to walk up the stairs, but his hoofs kept slipping off. No matter how many times he tried to get control of his legs, he couldn't step up another.
Sven got back into reality and noticed his reindeer couldn't climb up, so he ran over and got him to sit on the snow. He then turned around and whistled at the beauty of the snow. Jack knew this was a guy he wanted to be friends with if he was really into ice.
Jack stood next to the reindeer who was sticking his tongue out while waiting for his friends to come back. He looked up at the three who were staring at the front doors. Jack saw the girl froze with a fist in the air and the snowman trying to ask her something. He flew up right when she knocked on the door, but Jack just pressed a foot against the gates and it opened right away.
"It opened!" Jack heard the girl say behind his shoulder for he walked in first. "That's a first."
"Oh, you should probably wait out here."
Jack turned around. "Me?" He asked, but then he rolled his eyes when seeing the girl was talking about Sven.
"What why?" Sven asked.
"Last time I introduced her to a guy she froze everything."
Jack paused from walking. Why did that sound somehow familiar to him?
"Aw, come on! It's a palace made of ice! Ice is my life!"
Yup, this was definitely a guy Jack wanted to be friends with once he saw the things Jack could do.
"Bye, Sven!" The snowman waved and made his way inside, but the girl grabbed onto his hand.
"You too, Olaf," She said. "Just give us a minute," and she turned into the castle. The two guys stayed out for her and sat on the top step.
Jack used a flick of his hand to close the doors and turned to walk side by side with the girl that wanted to see whoever was behind this. She and Jack both were taken away by the decorations used in this palace.
"Elsa? It's me...Anna," Her voice echoed around the room. She lost her balance on the ice and Jack grabbed onto her arm to keep her from not falling on her butt.
"Anna?" Jack asked the same time someone else did. The two looked up at another girl appearing from the upstairs doors.
Jack's eyes widen at the women that stepped out from the shadows into the sunlight.
"Whoa, Elsa," Anna said, "You look...different. Good different!" She looked around and Jack let go of her. "And this place looks amazing!"
"Thank you," Elsa smiled at Anna. "I never knew what I was capable of," she said, looking around at her work.
"Wait, you did this?" Jack asked, mainly to himself since no one else knew he was there. He skipped the stairs and hopped right up next to her, taking a look. According to Anna she said this girl was named Elsa. Elsa was also the name he apparently whispered before he passed out yesterday. What was so special about her except that she had the same powers as he did?
But perhaps more advanced if she was able to make an entire palace all to herself!
"I'm so sorry about what happened." Anna began apologizing, taking a step up. "If I would have known-."
Jack noticed Elsa flinched when seeing Anna try to come closer to her. "No, no it's okay." She took steps back to hide away. "You don't have to apologize." She brought her hands in, playing with the bracelet on her hand.
Jack looked closer at her hand and saw it was a charm bracelet made out of ice. She could even make jewelry? Wow, North's toys were nothing compared to this kind of magic! First a talking snowman, then a palace made from nothing, but ice, and now a bracelet. What was next?
"You should probably go," Elsa said, looking at the front gates. "Please."
"But I just got here." Anna took another step up and Elsa freaked.
"You belong down in Arendelle," Elsa walked backwards into the room she came out from.
"So do you!"
"No, I don't, Anna, I belong here," she walked over to place her hands on the railings. "alone where I can be who I am without hurting anybody." She tried to put a little chuckle in between her words that way it could make her feel better, but Jack knew it wasn't helping.
He was the one who knew what being alone really was if it was anyone in this room. Trying to be alone made it seem that you were helping the world save it's butt from you, but with people like Anna who only pressure you in showing the world your face then things tend to mess up.
"Actually about that," Anna tried to say, but they were interrupted by a voice from outside.
"Wait, what is that?" Elsa asked, turning her attention to the door where the snowman, Olaf, came jumping in and ran up to Anna.
"Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!"
"Olaf?" Elsa asked, watching the snowman come closer to stand next to Anna. She got down to place a hand on his back.
"Yeah! You built me," he yelled, but then stopped and in a calmer voice asked, "You remember that?"
"You're alive?"
"Uhm," Olaf looked at his body, "I think so."
Elsa looked down at her hands totally confused. Jack looked at her hands too, but saw they were just as normal as his were.
"It's just like the one we built as kids," Anna mentioned and Elsa smiled.
"Yeah," she agreed, happy at what she brought to life.
"Elsa, we were so close," Anna began saying and Jack could notice the look on Elsa's face that was slowly dropping the more Anna talked. "We can be like that again."
And all of a sudden Elsa's face went into complete shock and Jack knew she was thinking about something. He moved in front of her and guessed she was remembering something in the past. Jack took this moment to figure out why were these two girls so familiar to him. He kept repeating their names over and over again, but nothing in his head was getting him to remember.
"No!" Elsa said that made Jack jump from his thoughts. "We can't," she hugged herself and walked backwards. "Goodbye, Anna," she turned around and headed to another staircase that was behind her.
Anna jumped up from Olaf and ran up the stairs. "Elsa, wait!"
"No, okay!" She screamed, turning around and then back. "I'm just trying to protect you!"
"You don't have to protect me I'm not afraid!" Anna screamed, but Elsa wouldn't listen to her this time. She just ran up trying to get away from her. "Please don't shut me out again!"
Jack didn't know if he wanted to follow the girls or just stay and think why the two reminded him of something. It was at the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't remember anything.
"Please, don't shut the door! You don't have to keep your distance anymore!"
Great, a musical. Jack shook his head as he followed right behind Anna.
"Because for the first time in forever I finally understand. For the first time in forever we can fix this hand in hand." Anna stopped in the middle of the second stairs. "We can head down this mountain together! You don't have to live in fear."
Jack and Anna got up to the top floor where Elsa was at the corner of her castle, looking at her hands.
"Because for the first time in forever...I will be right here," Anna assured her sister.
But Elsa only turned around and called her name again. "Anna! Please go back home. Your life awaits. Go enjoy the sun and open up the gates!"
"Yeah, but-."
"I know," Elsa stopped her sister, throwing her hands up, "You mean well, but leave me be." She turned around to another set of doors in her room that lead to her front porch. "Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free!"
Anna followed her sister out to see the sunlight view. When Elsa noticed Anna standing out there with her she grabbed onto her dress to make sure Anna wouldn't accidentally touch it. "Just stay away!" She warned Anna and turned around back into her castle, "And you'll be save from me."
"Actually we're not..." Anna finally said and Elsa got confused.
"What do you mean you're not?" Elsa asked.
"I get the feeling you don't know?"
"What do I not know?"
"Arendelle's in deep, deep, deep, deep snow," Anna slowly said as if it was Elsa's fault.
Elsa whispered, "What?!" The way she said that Jack probably thought it was her fault then.
"You kind of set of an internal winter everywhere." Yup, Jack knew it.
"Everywhere?"
"Yeah, but it's okay you can just unfreeze it."
"No, I can't. I-I don't know how."
Jack looked up at the snow that started randomly falling. He didn't set off anything. Jack looked at Elsa and saw how freaked out she was getting when her sister told her some place called Arendelle was covered in show. Her emotions was probably setting something off.
Jack got up to step close to Elsa, but a snowstorm started building and not even he could get through over to the side where Elsa was on.
"Sure you can I know you can!" Anna tried to give Elsa confidence, but it only destroyed Elsa more. "Because for the first time in forever-."
"Oh, I'm such a fool I can't be free!"
"You don't have to be afraid."
"No escape from the storm inside me."
"We can work this out together."
"I can't control the curse."
"We'll reverse the storm you made."
"Oh, Anna, please, you'll only make it worse!"
"Don't panic! We'll make the sunshine bright."
"There's so much fear! You're not safe here!"
"We can face this thing together," Even Anna tried to get close to Elsa through the windstorm, covering her face from the speed of the snow that was getting to her. "We can change this winter weather!"
Jack's heart dropped when he saw Elsa spinning around with her hands thrown into her hair and her eyes completely closed.
Then all of a sudden she stopped with the snow sucking back into her body, but then she screamed, "I CAN'T!" And the snow changed into ice and released in a circle from her body.
Jack tried to move Anna away, but it was too late for the ice struck into her body and Anna dropped to the floor.
"NO!" Jack screamed, running over to Anna, but he fell right through her.
Elsa had her back to her sister whom was dropping to the floor with the sudden hit. She wanted to run over to help her, but instead Sven ran in and ran to Anna, helping her up from the floor.
"Anna!" He yelled, sliding over to her. "You okay?"
"I'm okay," Anna said, holding onto his arm to get herself up. She stood straight up and looked at her sister with anger in her face. "I'm fine," she said again.
"Who's this?" Elsa asked, looking at the guy that came in. "Wait, it doesn't matter. You have to go."
"No, we're not. I know we can fix this together!" Anna took a step to her sister, but Elsa only looked away.
"How?!" Elsa screamed, throwing her hands out of her hair. "What power do you have to stop this winter? To stop me?!"
"Anna, we have to go," Sven tried pulling Anna away, noticing the ice in Elsa's castle was slowly starting to break.
"No, not without you, Elsa!" Anna pulled her arm away from Sven.
"Yes, you are!" She said, throwing her powers down on the ground and in a dust a monster was created that grabbed the three off the ground and walked downstairs to the main gates.
Elsa looked at the corner and dropped on her knees. Jack didn't follow the others getting kicked out of the palace for he could hear their screamed from the front porch doors.
Jack slowly walked over to Elsa, seeing that she was only looking down at her hands and trying to control her cryings. Each step Jack took he notice the sound of the ice that was breaking because of Elsa's broken heart. She loved to have seen her sister again, but what she wanted from Elsa wasn't something she was going to get.
Elsa only knew how to create ice, not destroy it. How would Anna think that Elsa would be willing to come back to Arendelle and fix the entire world? Everyone was scared of her now that they knew what she was able to do. No one knew what it was or why she could do it and not Anna.
Jack felt destroyed that he didn't know what to do in order to help Elsa feel better. In all the years that he was alone before meeting the Guardians no one knew how to help him for he wasn't real to them. Now in this case he wasn't real to her.
Jack bent down to sit in front of her to hopefully get her to feel someone else in the room. His eyes trailed to the bracelet on her hand again. He couldn't keep his mind off of that bracelet especially because one of the charms had JF on it. The only JF he knew was Jack Frost. Why would his initials be on one of her ice charms? Not only that, but also a charm that was shaped into his staff.
Who the heck was this girl?
"Oh, Jack...if only you were here," Elsa whispered to herself in between her sobs.
Except it wasn't to herself for he was here. Jack's eyes went wide when he heard her calling his name.
"How do you know me?" Jack tried to ask. "Why do you know me?" But it was no use for Elsa kept crying while she held the bracelet close.
If Elsa kept calling his name, then she should be able to see him, but it seemed that he still wasn't there to her. Jack remembered North saying he was with this girl for fourteen years of her life. In that fourteen years they must have developed some type of friendship that she would remember him now.
Jack smacked both hands against his head. Why couldn't he at least remember one little thing about her? Something that would help her to notice him and that way he could get his memories back!
Elsa got up from the corner and started pacing back and forth.
"Get it together," Elsa whispered to herself.
Jack was even scared himself for the castle started changing colors. He tried to watch what Elsa might do, but the more she walked around the darker red the castle became around her.
"Control it!" She yelled louder, bringing her hands up to her face, but the palace cracked louder.
Jack got up from the ground to look around. He never saw something like this happen before.
"Don't feel. Don't feel." Elsa brought her hands to her mouth to breath the warm air from her breath, but she could feel her hands numbing by her powers. She turned around and yelled, "Don't feel!" And then gasped when noticing her home was getting destroyed by her powers.
Jack had no idea how he was going to be able to fix any of this now.