Jack's POV*
Once I landed in Arendelle, I glanced up at the clock tower in the center of the village to look at the time: Its was only three in the afternoon.
"Just four more hours." I thought to myself. I looked around me and saw the whole village was busy. There were tons of villagers running around, setting up decorations. Many of the village women were running in and out of clothes stores. There was alot of kids playing together, and many people standing around talking and whispering to each other. I pulled my head over my head so no one could see who I was, much less my weird looking hair. I walked past a group of women who were huddled up, whispering.
"Can you believe the Queen is actually marrying Prince Dylan after barely even knowing each other for, what was it, three days?"Whispered an elderly looking woman in the group. " I mean, I got married to my husband after three months of courting, but three days? Come on."
"Well, he is a very handsome man! Who wouldn't marry him?" Another giggled.
"How about when they have children? I mean, I'm sure they're going to be very beautiful like them, but what if they come out with the same powers as the both of them. Prince Dylan has the same gift as does Queen Elsa?" One asked with an ugly tone in her voice.
"Who cares? This is just so amazing! The Queen's getting married!" One cried out in excitement.
The last one's words echoed in my mind, stinging. I made my way through the village and up the small hill where Anna and Kristoff's cabin stood. I knocked on the door a couple times and waited for someone to answer. A second later, Kristoff answered the door. He smiled at me. I tried to force a smile but I wasn't able to. I looked him over. He was wearing a dark suit with a purple tie.
"Jack! It's great to see you! Come in!" He beamed. Once I stepped in, he called over his shoulder for Anna. "Anna! Jack's here."
I heard footsteps running somewhere in the house and once they got closer, Anna came into view. She was wearing a strapless dark purple dress that was almost down to her ankles. She ran up to me, wrapping me in a tight hug.
"I'm so glad you're here." She sadly said to me. I hugged her back, glad for someone's comfort. She then pulled away to look up at me.
"Jack, I really do think there is something seriously wrong with Elsa." She said to me.
"I know. I got your letter regarding her and the wedding invitation." I said to her.
"The wedding invitation?" She looked at me confused. "How did you get it?"
"You sent it with your letter." I told her, trying to make her remember.
"Jack, we didn't send any wedding invitation at all." She said.
"Well, then who did?" I asked.
"Well, the only ones who know the address to send letters to North is me and... Elsa." Anna said, drifting off on the last part.
"Could it be that Dylan probably got the address from Elsa?" Kristoff asked, standing beside of Anna with a hand on her waist.
"Who knows? Probably." Anna said to him before turning back to me. "But believe me Jack, we did not send a wedding invitation at all."
"No, it's okay." I said to her. "Have you by any chance gotten to talk to her anymore since this morning?"
"No. The only form of communication we've gotten from her was the wedding invitations, and the boxes containing the clothes they want us to wear at the wedding." She gestured at her dress and at Kristoff's suit. "I'm her bridesmaid and Kristoff's Dylan's best man."
She looked behind me and I turned to see what she was looking at. It was a portrait that sat up on their table of her and Elsa together, holding hands, and smiling.
"You know, I always dreamed about the day Elsa would get married." Anna said behind me as I picked up the portrait to hold it in my hand. "I always envisioned her happy and excited, walking down the aisle in her beautiful wedding dress, holding her beautiful bouquet made out of white roses. They're her favorite flower by the way. And, I always hoped that she would marry you." She finished.
I kept looking at the Elsa in the portrait. I tried to imagine her being that happy at the wedding tonight, but it couldn't come to mind. I carefully put the portrait back down.
"Anna, I need to show both you and Kristoff something." I said, turning to face them. I pulled the hood of my sweater back, revealing my hair. I heard them both gasp at the sight of my hair.
"Your hair is turning brown." Kristoff said. I nodded my head at him, rolling my eyes.
"Yeah, I know that!" I snapped at him.
"How did that happen?" Anna asked me, looking up at my hair, which I'm sure was turning browner by the minute.
"I'm guessing it happened right after that snowball hit me. I'm still trying to figure out how it could possibly have done this to me." I said to them. I then explained to them how I caught Elsa and Dylan together later when I woke up, including about the sharp pain that would shoot up in my chest when I would even think about it or when it would just hit me randomly. I then told them about what Sandy said to me, about how "an act of true love will thaw a frozen heart."
"That's just what Grand Pabbie said!" Kristoff exclaimed.
"Who?" I asked, confused.
"They're Kristoff's relatives, who you haven't met yet, but Jack, you need to somehow get Elsa to confess her feelings for you." Anna suggested, quickly grabbing her coat and Kristoff's, and grabbing the sleeve of my sweater and tugging towards the door. I dug my heels into the floor, stopping my movements.
"What feelings?" I snapped, yanking my sleeve away from her. "I don't exactly think Elsa even has feelings for me considering the fact that she's marrying Dylan."
Anna looked at me with a sad look on her face. She appeared to be on the brink of tears.
"Jack, I believe my sister is in love with you. Whenever we talked about you, she would never stopped talking about you and she was always happy, even more happy than she was in that portrait you just saw after we were both finally reunited. She loves you Jack. I know she does." She reached out and grabbed a hold of my hand. "Please Jack, believe me."
I sighed, nodding my head.
"I believe you." I told her. "I love your sister more than anything in this world." I finally said.
"Well then, you need to tell her." Anna said, still grabbing onto my hand and pulling me back towards the door. She opened the door and practically pushed me out alongside Kristoff, and down the small hill back down towards the village and the castle
"Do you have a plan, Jack?" Kristoff asked me as we neared the castle. I closed my eyes for a minute, trying to think.
"I think I do." I said, when we got near the castle gates, I saw Dylan's men standing at both the gates and the castle doors, glancing at each person that went through them. I thought about going through the back doors, but I saw four of the men headed that way. I looked at the castle, trying to find an open window I could climb into. I finally found one on the side of it, the one I recognized as the window to Elsa's studio where she would paint, and where we would also practice our skills. And, that room was only a few doors down from Elsa's.
"I wont' be able to get past the gates or the doors, 'cause I'm pretty sure Dylan does not want me anywhere near here, but I'm going to try one of the windows. I just need for you guys to keep an eye out to make sure no one notices me."
Anna and Kristoff nodded their heads at me.
"Got it!" They both said in unison. I thanked them both and ran back into the village, just a few houses down away from them. I got into an alley and I looked around to make sure there was no one in sight. I then shot up into the sky as quick as I could and managed to get just above the clouds. Flying over them and making sure no one on the ground could see me, I flew towards the castle. The clouds above it were slowly dispersing. I remained hovered over the cloud I was practically on top of and checked to see if any of the guards were in sight near my targeted window. I saw there wasn't anybody and I flew down towards it. As I neared it, I caught sight of Dylan, greeting every person who walked up to him. I quickly got up alongside the wall, trying to flatten myself as best as I could so he wouldn't really be able to see me. I peeked over the corner of the castle wall to look at him. I watched as his body tensed up and he began to turn to look in my direction. I quickly moved my head out of the way and back up against the wall, praying he hadn't seen me.
"Hey Dylan!" I heard Anna gleefully exclaim. I carefully peeked over the corner again and saw that Anna and Kristoff were huddled over Dylan, Anna hugging him.
"How are you doing?" She asked, grinning at him. "Is everything for the wedding going okay? Do you by any chance need our help?"
"Good job Anna!" I felt like yelling out, but resisted the urge to. I took one more peek and carefully flew up towards the window and flew in.
Once I was inside, I breathed a sigh of relief. I made my way towards the door. I slowly twisted the door knob. I quietly opened the door about a few inches and tried to peek out into the hall, to see if there was anybody out there. Luckily, the entire corridor was empty. I then stepped out into the corridor and quietly shut the door behind me. The room was also near the stairs. I could hear the maids and butlers practically running around and orders being called out. I crept away from the room and made my way up to Elsa's room.
When I got there, I noticed the door was closed. I reached up and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" called out Elsa. With my heart in my throat, I grabbed the door knob and twisted it. Once inside, I shut the door behind me. Elsa was standing in front of table, looking at the mirror and adjusting her veil on her head. She was wearing a dark, purple dress that had black swirls on it with diamond sequins. She looked absolutely stunning!
"Oh, it's you." She said to me, rolling her eyes. "Nice hairdo by the way. Oh, and I don't know if anybody told you, but the guests are to remain downstairs while we're getting everything ready for the wedding. Thanks!" She pointed towards her door.
"I'm not planning on waiting 'till the wedding starts to get to speak with you." I said to her, walking closer to her.
"Fine." She said, crossing her arms over her chest. "What do you want to speak to me about?"
"You can't marry Dylan." I said to her. She let out a laugh.
"Oh my gosh, I knew you'd come to try to to convince me to do this! You seriously are pathetic to think that you can waltz on in here and try to talk to me out of my own wedding. But I got news for you snow boy, I'm not." She said, jabbing a finger into my chest. "I'm going to marry Dylan, so get over it."
"But why though?" I asked her, taking her finger away from my chest. "Dylan is not who you think he is. I have reason to believe he is Pitch Black!"
"Pitch Black?" She laughed again. "Oh goodness. This is why I'm marrying Dylan and not you, well, as if I'd ever marry you." She said with spite in her voice. "Dylan is a noble prince who can give me anything I want and you're just a kid who enjoys to play childish games that I don't have any time for. Why don't you just go on and make yourself a cute snow girlfriend."
I shook my head at her. "Elsa, this isn't you!" I exclaimed.
"Yes it is, Jack!" She smirked. "This is the new me. The old Elsa is dead, and do you know why? Because she was weak little thing. I am the new Elsa, the Elsa that can actually control her powers and everything around her. I am more powerful than the old Elsa was and ever will be, so if you know what's good for you, I'd suggest you leave now." She lifted up one of her hands and with a wave, a blue orb appeared in it. The orb then grew bigger. She began to walk towards me, trying to back me up against the wall. As it got near my face, I yelled out my long awaiting verdict.
"I love you Elsa!" I yelled. The orb that was once not too far from my face was now gone. She stood in front of me, her eyes narrowed at me, questioning what I had just said.
"What did you just say?" She asked me. My chest heaved up and down from where I was so scared and nervous to tell her what I've been waiting to say for so long.
"I love you." I said, looking her straight in the eye. Her eyes were darker somehow. They weren't lighter and bright like they usually were.
"No, you're lying." She said, backing away from me as if she was somehow scared of me.
"No, I'm not." I said, walking towards her. She was now backed up against her window. She looked around, trying to find a way to get away from me. Her snow globe that I had given to her was sitting on her desk and I reached over and grabbed it.
"Please show me and Elsa together." I said to it. I held it in front of me and we both watched as the magic dust in it began to swirl around before finally revealing images of me and Elsa together: It showed when we first met at the royal party last year, how we both practiced our skills, our snowball fights, everything we did together.
"Jack." She said, still watching the snow globe. I looked at her and I noticed her eyes seemed to get brighter. I couldn't help but smile, hoping she was now coming to.
Suddenly, the snow globe was knocked out of my hand and I felt a hard kick on my stomach, sending me flying back towards the wall. I looked up and saw Dylan standing in front of Elsa, glaring right at me.
"What do you think you're doing with my fiance Jack?" He yelled at me. Elsa remained standing behind him, watching everything with a scared look on her face. He turned to look at her, placing his hands on both sides of her face.
"Did he do anything to you? Did he even lay a finger on you?" He asked her, worriedly.
"N-No. He didn't." She stammered. The bright look in her eyes slowly began to get darker.
"She is not your fiance!" I shouted at him. I aimed my staff at him and shot ice from it. He pushed Elsa in the other direction and put both of his hands in front of him, casting an ice wall. I kept shooting at it, trying to break it. The ice finally broke and once it did, Dylan charged towards me. I kept on shooting my ice at him, but he would manage to dart out of my aim in time. My vision suddenly blurred and everything was fuzzy looking. My vision then got back to normal, but as it did, Dylan knocked my staff out of my hand, and punched me in the face, knocking me to the ground. When I hit my head, I heard a loud ringing noise and I couldn't hear anything but it. I looked around and noticed Elsa cowering in the corner of her room, holding the sides of her head with her hands, watching the entire thing. She was crying.
"Elsa, please help!" I cried out at her. She looked at my direction. I opened my mouth to cry out to her again, but I felt a kick at my spine. Then another one but in my stomach that knocked me flat on my back again. I then felt a weight on my and looked to find Dylan right over me. He began to punch me in the face while I tried to get him off of me. I tried to kick him off me, but nothing I did was hurting him or knocking him off of me. I then quickly put my hand on his chest and shot ice from it, sending him off of me and towards the wall. I got off my back and reached for my staff. Once I grabbed it, I noticed Elsa's snow globe and grabbed it as well. I crawled towards her and held it out in front of me.
"Elsa, you have to remember!" I cried to her. "Please remember!" She stopped crying and watched as the images of me and her appeared once more in the snow globe. Her eyes got the bright look in them again. She bent forward, as if she wanted to reach out to me. Then, before I knew it, the snow globe was grabbed from my hand. I quickly looked up to see Dylan holding it.
"You really didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" He asked me, his voice much more different now, and more familiar like. With an evil grin on his face, he threw the snow globe down hard against the floor in front of me, shattering it into pieces.
"No!" I cried out reaching for the broken pieces. "No, no, no!" I tried to pick the pieces up, but I only wound up cutting me. The only thing I had that could help me get Elsa back was now gone. I could hear her whimpering behind me. I then felt a hand cupping my chin and forcing me to look up.
"Oh, poor Jack." Pitch said to me. He still remained in Dylan's form, but not his voice nor his eyes. "Your wonderful plan didn't work at all, did it?" He asked me. His hand then switched from cupping my chin, to grabbing me by the throat. He lifted me up from the ground, hand still around my throat.
I could feel his eyes burrow into me. I recognized the silver gold color that they had. My mind flashed back to the snowball fight we had, and I remembered the yellow flash I had seen from the corner of my eye but I never found out what it was. Now, I knew.
"It was you wasn't it?" I gasped at him, feeling his hand tightening around my throat.
"It was me what?" He asked, smirking.
"You're the one who made Elsa's snow ball go out of control that night!" I snapped at him, trying to pry my fingers into his hold so I could get him to let go of me.
"Wow! You've finally figured it out haven't you?" He cackled. "I thought you never would have, but then again, I know you're a smart boy, so I knew you'd find out. I was really hoping it would've been later though. And, that was no ordinary snow ball that hit you that night. It was at the beginning a snow ball, but when I managed to transplant a little bit of my power into it, and combined it with Elsa's, it became a snow orb that I intentionally had go after you. I was really hoping it would've killed you right then and there and it would have if it hadn't been for Elsa who begged to me to help save you. And I, being the great, noble prince that I was, decided to help, but I see now it wouldn't have mattered any way. I mean look at you!" He looked me up and down with a grin. "You're a pathetic weakling now. You're turning back into a human, which I'm pretty sure you hadn't figured that that's what is happening to you. Your powers will also begin to disappear, and slowly, but surely, your beating heart will be nothing but ice.
"Why would you do this?" I yelled at him. "I know you want to hurt me, and I could care less if you want to, but why would you do this to Elsa? What did she ever do to you?!"
"Because, my dear Jack, I wanted you to feel pain again. The worst kind of pain that anybody would ever have to go through is to watch the one you love," he turned his head back to look at Elsa, who continued to watch us in horror, "love someone else. Surprisingly, it worked." He smirked. "I also knew that you going through that pain would help boost up what's happening to you a little faster." Suddenly, dark shadows began to swirl around us.
"Have a sweet nightmare Jack." He whispered.
"No! I'm not going down like this!" I cried out. I then propped my body back, sending my feet towards his face, kicking him. With a grunt, I sent him tumbling back down on the ground and he let go of my throat. The dark shadows quickly vanished. I quickly fished around my pocket for my snow globe before pulling it out. I looked back at Elsa, who was still cowering in the corner.
"Elsa, come with me!" I reached my hand out, beckoning her to come with me. She seemed to want to go with me and she began to go forward and try to crawl towards me, when suddenly, a dark ice wall appeared in front of her, trapping her in the corner.
"Elsa!" I screamed. I ran up to the wall and pounded my fists on it, attempting to try to break it. Something caught my eye and I turned in time to see Pitch aim his black sand at me. I threw myself back into a somersault from his aim and threw my snow globe right in front of me.
"No!" I heard Pitch yell behind me. Once I stepped right in, I felt a sharp shooting pain spread through my back and I saw it try to envelop the portal's color, but it didn't' manage to for the portal closed behind me right once I felt that horrible pain. Within seconds, I was back in North's office.
"What was that noise?" I heard Tooth cry out.
"That's probably Jack!" Bunny called out. The doors to North's office opened up and I saw the guardians. I couldn't quite make out who they were for my vision began to get fuzzy again.
"Jack, I got a bone to pick with you mate!" Bunny yelled at me, but I couldn't quite hear what else he had to say for I heard the ringing noise again in my ear. The room suddenly began to spin faster and faster. I tried to maintain my balance, but I couldn't and I fell on all fours. I felt a small sharp pain in my hand and I turned it over to see that I had pieces of glass in my hand and it had opened up a huge gash in it. I looked down and I saw that my snow globe now lay on the ground, shattered to pieces. I looked up at the guardians once more, watching them run towards me. I felt too weak to hold myself up, so I fell back on my side.
"Oh no, not again!" Bunny yelled, "Jack, Jack! Stay with me mate!"
"Jack, you need to tell us what happened!" Tooth yelled.
"P-Pitch." I managed to say, my eyes slowly closing.
"What? Pitch Black?" North asked.
"Pitch. He's back." I said. "Elsa. We have to save Elsa." Once managed to finish talking, I closed my eyes, drifting back into the darkness once more.
Author's Note: Wow, once again, I leave you guys on a cliffhanger. Sorry. And I do have to say, this is the longest chapter I've ever written throughout the entire story! I'm going to explain a couple things. Now as you all may have guessed like then chapters back, Prince Dylan is actually Pitch Black! (Dun Dun Dun!) And for those of you who keep thinking Jack is dead, he's not. He's still alive.
And yes, Pitch did sort of turn Elsa just like him, but she doesn't exactly remember what happened between her and Jack 'till he showed her the snow globe he had given her. Her mind was just full of nothing but hate that Pitch had burrowed into her mind when he turned her, so she can't remember the good times her and Jack had, thus her treatment towards him as well as Anna.
And with the snow (orb) ball , remember in Frozen when Elsa accidentally strikes Anna with her magic when she tried to convince her to go back to Arendelle to stop the winter, 'causing Anna's hair to turn white, and the great Pabbie told her that "An act of true love will that a frozen heart." and if not, she'd become frozen? Well, that's exactly what's going on with Jack. During the snowball fight, as I explained in the story, Pitch managed to transplant a little bit of his power into the snowball that Elsa had made using her magic, making it spiral out of control, and hit Jack in the chest, right in the heart. And all that powerful magic that he was hit with, is turning him from immortal back into a mortal human.
So, I hope that small explanation answered just a few upcoming questions in case some of you may have wanted to ask me, which is completely fine with me by the way. Have a great night everyone and keep on reading! See you guys soon!