Jack's POV*
As we ran out of the castle, all of us, except for Tooth and Sandy who could both fly, piled into North's sleigh.
"Alrighty! Everyone in sleigh?" asked North as he grabbed the reins. We all said "yes", and North snapped the reins, the sleigh immediately bolting forward before shooting up into the air towards the mountain, Tooth and Sandy flying alongside. The sky was all dark except for where the black and blue vortex was at on the mountain, the lightning illuminating it. Suddenly, it started to snow down real hard on us. I realized Pitch must have made Elsa created a blizzard to try and slow us down. I put my arms around me so I could try to warm myself up for I was freezing. The cold never bothered me before but now that I was starting to turn back into a mortal, it was starting to affect me.
"Jack, what's your plan?" shouted North from the front. The sleigh buckled underneath us as the reindeers quickly flew, making all of us hold on tighter to our seats.
"We need to get as close as we can to Elsa's castle up at the mountain top!" I shouted over the loud lightning strikes around us. "That way, we can stop Pitch and get to Elsa."
It continued to snow down hard and the wind began to pick up, making the sleigh sway from side to side, making all of us hold on for dear life so we wouldn't fall off.
"Are we getting close?" asked Bunny, looking around us. "I can't see anything in this bloody blizzard."
I squinted my eyes and looked out, trying to look for the castle. The blizzard got stronger and stronger that it hid both the vortex and the castle. After a few minutes of flying around, I spotted the castle about a couple miles away.
"There it is!" I shouted, pointing at its location. "North get as close to-" I was suddenly cut off as lightning striked near the side of the sleigh, knocking me off my balance and off the sleigh.
"Jack!" shouted Kristoff as he tried to reach for me before I fell. He attempted to grab the sleeve of my sweater, but only made it rip. I felt myself falling straight down towards the ground. I tried to propel my body forward so I could attempt to fly, but it wasn't working. Nothing I tried was working. My powers had now vanished. I watched the snowy ground come closer and closer and I closed my eyes, awaiting the impact. But, it never came for I felt someone's arms wrap around my waist and pull me straight back up into the sky. I opened my eyes and saw it was Tooth who was holding me. She flew back up towards the sleigh that was still hovering in place, flying in a zigzag motion so we wouldn't get hit by the lightning. When we got to the sleigh, she laid be down on the floor. Everyone quickly got around me.
"Jack! Are you alright?" Anna asked, helping me sit up. I shook my head at her.
"No." I whispered. "My powers. They're gone now." I looked down at my hands, noticing that they were now tan instead of pale. "I think I'm already a human again."
"Oh no!" cried out Tooth, her hands covering her mouth. Everyone looked at me with disbelief. I looked at North, who looked at me with a sad look.
"What do we do now?" Bunny asked.
"We're still going with the plan." I said, standing back up. I stood beside North as he flew the sleigh towards the castle.
"Are you crazy mate?" cried Bunny. "You're going to get yourself killed the minute you step into that castle! Let us defeat Pitch and bring Elsa back ourselves. You are not in the condition to fight."
I turned back around and walked up to him, looking him straight in the eye.
"I'm going to fight with you guys. Even if I am now a human, I'm still a guardian." I said to him, giving him a small smile. "And, If anyone is going to bring back Elsa, it's going to be me."
Bunny sighed. "Still as stubborn as always." He said to me, smiling. I looked around at everyone, who all smiled at me and nodded their heads in approval of me still fighting. We then quickly devised a plan.
"Okay North!" I said, standing right next to him, staff in my hand. "Get as close to the castle as you can!"
With a snap of his reins, the sleigh quickly shot forward. I then wondered something and turned to Anna.
"Anna, how does my hair look?" I asked her.
"What?" She asked, giving me a confusing look. I pointed up at my ridiculous looking hair before she finally realized what I meant.
"Oh!" She said. She gave my hair a quick look.
"You still have a few streaks of white in it." She said. I nodded my head at her. I knew I didn't have much time before my hair turned completely brown and before I would possibly die.
We kept flying 'till we were about a mile away from the castle when we felt something collide against the back of the sleigh, sending us flying towards the floor.
"What was that?" Anna cried, looking around her. I stood back up and walked towards the back of the sleigh. I couldn't see anything at first because of the blizzard, but then I saw something huge on the ground slowly come into view.
"What the heck is that?" Bunny called, looking down.
"It's Marshmallow!" I shouted back at him over the lightning strike. Marshmallow glared up at us from the ground.
"It's what?!" Bunny looked at me with disbelief.
"Marshmallow!" Anna cried as she leaned over the back of the sleigh to get a look at what it was on the ground.
"Well that ain't no bloody marshmallow if you ask me!" Bunny commented. "It looks more like a damn snowman on steroids gone wrong!"
"That's his name." I said back to him, rolling my eyes.
"Well what's he doing down there? Is he trying to kill us?" Bunny asked.
As if to answer his question, we watched Marshmallow with glowing yellow eyes , grab a huge handful of snow and press it together to form a snowball. He then aimed it at us and with a roar, he threw it straight up at the sleigh. North saw what was coming and yanked the reins to the left and out of the way of the giant snowball that had flown towards us.
"GO AWAY!" we heard Marshmallow roar at us from the ground. He then swung his arm over, shooting icy spikes from it and up at us. As the spikes came towards us, Sandy immediately unleashed a shield from his golden sand that protected us from the impact.
"Good job Sandy!" I shouted at him. He smiled at me and nodded his head.
"Do you think you can handle him?" I asked him. Sure enough, he nodded his head once more and flew straight down towards Marshmallow. I turned back into the direction of the castle, which was now coming closer and closer into view. I squinted my eyes and saw who appeared to be Elsa with her hands outstretched towards the sky, snow shooting from her hands.
"Elsa!" I shouted from the sleigh. She didn't hear me, for she kept on shooting the snow from her hands, not bothering to even look at me. I opened my mouth to shout her name again but was cut off when I felt something collide on the side of the sleigh where I was at. I looked around, not able to see anything. I looked back down at the ground where I could see Sandy and Marshmallow engaged in battle.
"Jack! Look out!" Bunny shouted. I watched him grab one of his boomerangs from his holster and throw it out in front of me. I got out of the way and watched as it hit something not too far away from me before returning back to him. I then realized it was one of Pitch's Nightmares. Soon enough, more and more of them came into view and they were charging straight towards us.
"North! Go down!" I shouted at him. North snapped the reins a couple times and the reindeers quickly dove down and out of the way of the oncoming Nightmares. They kept flying forward before making a loop and turning around to fly towards us again.
"You're in charge of the sleigh now!" North shouted at Kristoff, grabbing him by the arm and yanking him towards the front of the sleigh, placing the reins in his hands.
"What?!" Kristoff shouted back at him, but North didn't answer him back. He ran towards the back of the sleigh and stood on the edge, taking his swords out from the straps around his waist. As the Nightmares came at him, he would lash his swords out at them, slashing them, the magic black sand that they consisted of vanished right in the air. Bunny grabbed his Easter eggs out from his pouch and threw them at the Nightmares. As the eggs came into contact with them, they would explode, the Nightmares vanishing as well. Tooth flew forward towards a group of charging Nightmares and stopped in mid air in front of them. She then twisted her body around, spinning like a tornado. As she did, her feathers shot out from her wings, forming themselves into blades and sailing straight towards the Nightmares. The blades pierced the black sand of the Nightmares, making them vanish just as the other ones had.
"I wanna help!" shouted Anna who stood just behind North.
"Look in the sack right at the front of the sleigh!" North shouted at her as he continued to slash out at the Nightmares, which were multiplying by the minute. Many were charging towards the sleigh and colliding with it, making the sleigh rock violently back and forth. Anna ran up to where North told her and rummaged through the sack. While she kept on looking, I would swing my staff at the Nightmares, hitting them and making them vanish upon impact.
"Yes!" I heard Anna say behind me. I turned around to look and saw she had pulled out a metal baseball bat from the sack. She ran and stood in center of the sleigh and waited for the Nightmares to come at her. One flew straight down at her and like a pro baseball player, she swung the bat towards it, hitting the Nightmare hard with it. If it had been a baseball, she would've made a great homerun.
"Woo-Hoo!" She yelled in excitement as she hit more and more Nightmares with her bat.
I laughed and shook my head at her. I then ran back up to the front of the sleigh and saw we were now flying over it.
"Tooth! I need you!" I shouted at her. She heard me and flew back down from the sky and towards me.
"What do you need?" She asked, panting. I pointed down to where Elsa still stood at the front doors, continuously blasting snow from her hands, now in our direction.
" I need you to take me down to where Elsa's at!" I shouted over the commotion. "Once I'm near, you can drop me off and head back up here to help!" She nodded her head and flew behind me, grabbing me around the waist and lifting me up from the sleigh and flew me down towards the ground. Once we got not too far off the ground, I patted her hands, signaling her to drop me off. She carefully let go of my waist, letting me carefully hit the ground. I landed on my feet at the bottom of the staircase, not too far from her.
"Elsa!" I screamed at her. "Stop this!" She looked down at me and ceased the snow that blasted from her hands. She gave me a disgusted look before turning back around and running towards the castle doors. I began to run up the staircase towards her. She saw how close I was getting and she blasted ice from her hands, breaking off a part of the staircase, sending me towards me feet. With another blast, she broke off the front part of the staircase, cutting off the only way for me to get to her. I backed down a couple of stairs before running forward, jumping off the broken ledge. I wrapped my body tightly into a ball, making a somersault and landing on the snowy ground. I looked up and saw Elsa running inside the castle and attempting to shut the doors. I ran as quickly as I could and dove inside right as she closed the doors. She turned around and ran away from me towards the grand staircase in the castle. I tried to run after her but was stopped as a wall of black ice rose in front of me, cutting me from Elsa. I heard a yell and turned to see Pitch coming towards me with a pick axe made out of his sand. I managed to duck out of the way as he swung it at me, hitting the ice wall and making a small crack in it. He continued to swing it at me, making me back up towards the other side of the room.
As he got near me, I kneeled down on the ground and with a swoop of my staff, I caught him in the leg, making him fall back on the floor. I ran past him but didn't get far before I felt him grab my foot, making me land smack down on my face. I then felt him grab me and forcefully turn me onto my back. I then felt his cold hands on my throat, attempting to squeeze the air out of me.
"If that damn magic in your heart is going to kill you already, then I will!" He said with a sneer, tightening his grip on my throat. I tried to loose his grip with my fingers but couldn't. Without being able to breathe, my vision began to get blurry. I began to black out. Suddenly, we both heard a loud, crashing noise next to us. I watched as North's sleigh crashed from the side of the castle inside the room. I grinned at them. I watched Anna jump out from the sleigh and come running towards us, yelling and with her baseball bat still in her hand. She then swung it down at Pitch and hit him right in the face, making a painful cracking sound, and sending him flying off of me. Once his grip was gone, I sat up, coughing and attempting to get air back into my lungs. I then felt Kristoff grab underneath my shoulders to pick me up and help me stand.
"You okay?" Kristoff asked me. I nodded my head, looking down at his hands and noticing he had brass knuckles on.
'He probably got them from Anna from that magic sack." I thought before turning back to look at the black wall that still stood in the way.
"I need to get through that wall." I said, pointing at it. I felt something brush against my shoulder and saw that it was Sandy who was now hovering right over us. He put his hands out in front of him and blasted his golden sand from his hands and against the wall. The wall began to crack from the pressure and soon, it shattered onto the ground.
"Thanks Sandy!" I shouted at him. Sandy smiled at me and gave me the thumbs up sign.
"Go Jack!" Anna said, giving me shove towards the staircase. I looked back at them and North, Bunny, and Tooth and saw they were preoccupied fighting against the Fearlings, Pitch's ghostly minions that were flying around them. I wanted to help but I knew I had to get to Elsa. Giving them one last look, I ran up the staircase as fast as I could. Along the way up, a couple of Fearlings appeared in front of me, trying to stop me. One of them kept shoving me back, trying to make me fall back down the stairs. I swung my staff at them, hitting them, sending one flying down towards the ground and making the others vanish with a scream. With them out of the way, I kept running up.
I finally reached the top of the staircase that led straight into the large room with the golden chandelier that hung from the ceiling. It was the room me and Elsa would practice our magic in ever since the first time we both came here and I helped her repair it. I spotted Elsa standing in the center of the room, holding herself. She no longer was wearing her wedding dress but a dark purple one that looked similar to her blue one.
Elsa!" I called out as I ran towards her. She quickly snapped her head in my direction, emotions of fear and hatred mixed together showed in her eyes.
"Leave me alone!" She yelled at me, blasting her ice at me. I dodged her blasts, practically running around the room. She backed up close to the edge of the balcony. She blasted me once more and I quickly grabbed a mirror that hung on the wall and held it in front of me, repelling the blast. I heard a loud cracking sound accompanied by a scream. I put the mirror down and realized to my horror that I had repelled the ice blast towards the balcony, 'causing it to start breaking off. Elsa was leaning against the side of it, screaming. She tried to stand up and jump from the broken part of the balcony, but couldn't for it gave away before she could.
"Elsa!" I screamed, reaching out for her. The tips of our fingers brushed together as she fell back. I then jumped off the ledge and managed to grab ahold of her. I put my arms around her and held her body closely against mine. As we plummeted down the snowy mountain, I felt time appear to slow down. I looked down at her, her face pressed up against my chest. She seemed to know I was looking at her and raised her head up to look at me. Her dark eyes met mine and for a second, she looked like she wanted to push herself away from me. Instead, she put her arms around me as well, falling straight down towards the snowy ground with me.